| Show ITEMS OF california NEWS bg br g gen george georfe wright ca commanding mm anding the department of the pacific pacifies on anthe the 71 dinst issued from his headquarters at san fran ischa cisco a pro iro ahro proclamation gla gia cla mation matlon to the citizens of the pacific coast appealing to their patriotism their devotion to the union their immunity f rom r the ibe horrors of civil war desolating homes and aud causing the wallings wailing 8 of widows and orphans to be heard in loud and agonizing tones as incentives to the assumption of a bold and determined stand against the uprisings of treason in california ile he bays says the fact that there ther e are avowed traitors in fit that section of country who are doing all in their power to involve the people in civil war must not be disguised 0 lie ile utters a solemn warning a to all persons thus thug disposed in the vici vicinity niky of 0 owens river rive r werey t Wlate st dates continuing their ai depre elre lations dat ions and the settlers were fleeing f for fon 0 safety the savages had said that the white man roan should not settle in that country they are said to be concentrated in almost liable mountain fastnesses fast nesses union leagues are being formed throughout the state in opposition to other secret combinations bi hostile to republicanism and the administration but professing devotion to the union and constitution in the investigations of the mint frauds frauda in san franc Frane francico francieco leco by the government agent mr imn i brown there are acme amusing as veil well weh as startling disclosures disclosure s in the mony or of denio a managing employee of the mint jhb is represented as a wag but of unquestioned questioned honesty in his department he had bad during the past year worked into bullion and notwithstanding his urgent demands deminds for the appointment of honest men about him stevens steves Ste vens vess the superintendent who bad bai had bad the appointing power persisted inthe in the employment of men of known dishonesty denio testified that one thomas finnerty was sometimes intoxicate but he did not consider him principally objectionable on that account because calise when drunk he be kept away from the mint stevens plan he further affirmed was to secure the beai best pay and least work by the worst men stevens brother an admitted I 1 erb erab A cile or lunatic was kept in an important place p lace bills for nitre ditre and other articles used in the mint were constantly allowed at fifty per cent above the market rates super numer aries for whom there was no use were I 1 employed coin was not promptly issued to I 1 depositors for the reason that men employed J in that department were walking about the streets when they ought to have been at their busi busl bustness business hiess fiess these and many other grievances had bad existed so long and become so notorious and unbearable arabe that a reversion was finally i affected culminating in the late removal of the entire posse by the administrative guillotine the sacrifice was highly relished no doubt I 1 by our california neighbors who rightly con eldered that they had ben tortured long enough by the insolent fraud mania so f fatally prevalent on the atlantic side of the continent conti neilt nellt I 1 hey bey have cause to congratulate themselves in possessing the power to prevail with the washington authorities so much as to have their petitions respected and affirmatively answered 1 in addition to the above we are informed by a washington dispatch daled the ath fujan judan that the entre ent ra delegat oa or of federal officeholders office holders bolders in san sam feancisco Fian cisco have been finally removed that ex congressman F F low has been appointed collector of the port and robt D swain superintendent in of the mint vice J R stevens Ste vens veng re 1 ar moved no ved the question is incidental here I 1 will the newly appointed incumbents prove themselves more honest and efficient in the administration of their several official bunc tiong than their obnoxious predecessors we are not advised as to whether the new federal appointees were made in accordance with personal recommendations from authorized sources on the pacific or whether they are of the imported stripe but it if no better status of affairs is attained than those resulting from some of the frequently recurring changes of commanding generals in the army the hopes of our california co temporaries are almost certain of busta long iOng ing a crushing disappointment |
