California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants, Volumen2

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T.C. Newby, 1856
 

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Página 252 - The same phenomenon troubles also an English visitor. The hotels of Sacramento, Marysville, and like places, he notes in his journal, "are bad schools for children ; some now running wild, not more than six or seven years of age, are already very conversant with the cigar, and with the oaths so frequently used by the American in common parlance. . . . Two of these children came into the 'gentlemen's parlour...
Página 11 - ... language that places blasphemy .... as a light offense, comparatively." The road to Placerville was the best over which Huntley had gone ; for about twentyfive miles of it lay across plains and the remainder was a "gradual ascent, each mountain increasing in magnitude, till, through the forest of straggling oaks and pines mingled together, the heights over Placerville
Página 177 - After an exchange of three ineffectual shots, between the Hon. William M. Gwin and Hon. JW McCorkle, the friends of the respective parties having discovered that their principals were fighting under a misapprehension of facts, mutually explained to their respective principals in what the misapprehension consisted ; whereupon Dr.
Página 258 - ... enough, but now has become very low indeed. The evenings in these parlours of the hotels are passed by the CalifornianAmerican in winter, by sitting round a stove, upon which as many as can, rest their feet ; the whole engage themselves in keeping up an independent discharge of the infusion of tobacco, which is largely, and with much industry, produced by nine hundred and ninety-nine Americans out of one thousand — this is not an exaggerated proportion : very little conversation goes on, and...
Página 1 - A specimen of mountain habits is given in the papers today [May 12, 1852]. 'A man named Clock shot his wife at French Creek, on the eleventh; upon inquiry it was found that both were at the time intoxicated. The jury said, " 'Tain't the gentleman's fault — 'tis the liquor!
Página 3 - He refused to have his eyes bandaged, and directed the six executioners to stand close and make sure work of it. At the word he received three balls into his breast, and died instantly. A physician claimed the head, as he had made a bargain with the man for it before he was shot, and quietly pulling out a bowie-knife, whacked off the head, and placing it in a sack, marched off with it. A shallow grave was then dug, and the headless trunk tumbled into it. The unfortunate man was from Illinois, where...
Página 4 - How prominently conspicuous is the civilization of the United States, both in the execution and its details, combined with the editor's style of description. It is absurd to say that a people possessed of natural good principle and feeling could, by having transferred themselves to another country, instantly become so lost to all humanity and decency. The very editor seems to enjoy the brutal conduct of the doctor, very appropriately named 'Slaughter.
Página 257 - Still unable to leave Marysville, the plains being under water, and this last night's rain has again filled the barroom of the hotel, and what is much worse is the fact of this inundation driving the barroom society into what is called 'the gentlemen's parlour'; this said parlour was always disagreeable enough, but now has become very low indeed. "The evenings in these parlours of the hotels are passed by the Californian-American in winter, by sitting round a stove, upon which as many as can, rest...

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