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Hoyle's Games, complete, and may be seen at this office.

Our friend Charley Poole was complaining bitterly the other morning of the muddy quality of the water brought him for his daily ablutions, when he was consoled by a remark of "Phoenix " that he was probably a descendant of old Pool of Bethesda, mentioned in the Scriptures, and that the angel that used to come down and trouble" his ancestor's water still continued his attentions to the family.

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"THERE'S MANY A SLIP 'TWEEN THE CUP AND THE LIP." Proverbs liii, 14.-It was my intention to have devoted about two columns of this journal, this week, to an exposition of the nefarious scheme of the "Water Front Extension," at San Francisco, and the abuse of the gubernatorial power that has been exercised in the matter of the "State Printing during the past year.

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But I have been deterred from doing all this by two good and sufficient reasons. In the first place, I can find but one man in the county who ever intended to vote for Bigler, and I have labored with him to prove the errors of opinion into which he has fallen, to that extent that, partly from the effects of the Fiesta at San Luis Rey (where, as a matter of

course, he became excessively inebriated), and partly from agitation of mind produced by my arguments, he has fallen into a violent fit of sickness, from which his physician thinks he can not possibly recover before the day of election. And, secondly, I have a horrible misgiving that the editor de facto will return before this edition has gone to press, in which case, coming down on me from San Francisco, "like a young giant refreshed with new wine," and finding (what he would consider) such abominable heresy in his columns, he would doubtless knock the whole matter into pi, and perhaps, in the extremity of his wrath, inflict some grievous bodily injury on me, all of which would be intensely disagreeable. Moved by these considerations, therefore, I shall let John Bigler entirely alone, and in case of his reelection, shall make a great merit of having done so, and apply to him immediately for a commission as Notary Public.

The great event of the past week has been the FIESTA at San Luis Rey.-Many of our citizens attended, and a very large number of native Californians and Indians collected from the various ranchos in the vicinity. High mass was celebrated in the old church on Thursday morning, an Indian baby was baptized, another nearly killed by being run over by an excited individual on an excited horse, and that day and the following were passed in witnessing the

absurd efforts of some twenty natives to annoy a number of tame bulls with the tips of their horns cut off. This great national amusement, ironically termed bull-fighting, consists in waving a serape, or handkerchief, in front of the bull until he is sufficiently annoyed to run after his tormentor, when that individual gets out of his way with great precipitation. The nights were passed in an equally intellectual manner.

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The "Phoenix Ticket" generally appears to give general satisfaction. It was merely put forward suggestively, and, not being the result of a clique or convention, the public are at perfect liberty to make such alterations or erasures as they may think proper. I hope it may meet with a strong support on the day of election; but should it meet with defeat, I shall endeavor to bear the inevitable mortification that must result with my usual equanimity.

Like unto the great Napoleon after the battle of Waterloo, or the magnanimous Boggs after his defeat in the gubernatorial campaign of Missouri, I shall fold my arms with tranquillity, and say either "C'est fini," or "Oh, shaw, I know'd it!"

Though this is but my second bow to a San Diego audience, I presume it to be my last appearance and valedictory, for the editor will doubtless arrive be

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fore another week elapses-the gun will be removed from my trembling grasp, and the Herald will resume its great aims and heavy firing, and I hope will discharge its debt to the public with accuracy and precision. Meanwhile, "The Lord be with you."

"BE VIRTUOUS AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY."

We have received for publication an article signed "LEONIDAS," from the pen of an old and esteemed friend of ours, intended to counteract the effect of our leader last week, which we should publish were it not for its length and the rather strong style in which it is written. Many of the principal points of "Leonidas's" opposition are removed in this issue of the paper, and we doubt if it would serve any useful purpose to publish extracts from his letter, or if he would be pleased with our doing so.

He winds up by exhorting the Democrats "to keep together" (we hope they will; it would give us unfeigned regret to see any man explode or fall to pieces), and by calling us, indirectly, “a rabid Whig."

In this, "Leonidas," you are mistaken. Our ideas on political matters are precisely those of the lamented Joseph Bowers, who when running for the office of in the State of · was asked by the committee," Mr. Bowers, what are your politics?" To which he replied, "Gentlemen, I have

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