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California Correspondence

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Day
15
Month
December
Year
1871
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Public Domain
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Sax FBAHOISCO, Xov. 27. "ONE MOKE UNFOIUU.VATE." Friesd Toxd : - Did you over think how niany insano people thoro aro out of asylums? Ëvidenco now being elioitod in this city i oalyulated to convinco ono tkat wo meet orazy peoplo at ovory turn in our walk. But tho abovo heading refera partioularly to acase just dcvelnped in Contra Costa county, A Mra. Sïïiwv.vs a fow weeks sinca uroso front the dinnor table at which woro seatod her husband and Lis brother, walked to a closet sitúate bohind the husband, piekod up a Hliot guu and blowod tho top of tho brothor'e lioad off. AUstood high in tho community. The brothor had been living for soine timo in the family. No quarrel or unploasantnoss was knowu to havo arisen among tho memborg. After the shooting, her husband askod her what sho did it for, and sho said (and always afterward repoated thu sainu story) that tho docoased had twico tried to outrago her porson when tho husbaud was absent, that she had rafraiuod frora ppeaking of it least hor husband sliould ki.ll his brothor, but she had broodod over tho matter till she could stand it no longor, so sus had killed hiiu herself, and was guid of it. Tho shooting was douo four days after tho last attempted violatiou of her persou, if auy suoh attuxupt was ever msd and duiiug tliat time nothing unusual had beou noticol in hei niauncr, and no ono supposed sho harbored any but the most kindly feolings toward lier brotherin-law. This woniiin has just been triod and ac()uitted on tho ground that she was insane. Tho details of thu trial havo uot yot como to hand, but the verdict bas taken people in this city by surprise, as no whispor of her in.-miity had ever beforo beeu hoard. Upou inquiry of a gentleman who was present during a part of tho trial, I learn that tho jury did not believo a word of her story, but treated it all as tho machinations of a disordored brain. This may be so, but as yet it is diffionlt to seo what should load to such a conclusión. If tho conclusión is correct, it ouly goes to show how liablo wo aro to fall at auy uioiuont, at tho hands of somo of tho compauions arouud us of whosc sanity wo havo no doubt till tho fatal blow is srivon. 1I0W IT 13 DONE. It ia not a mattor of surprise that rnany pooplo in tho East regard California as a barbarous placo, but uiany Califurniaas wondor how wo gut such a reputation. It roquiros but Httle observation to find out. AYo aru uot coutuut with boaating of all tbo good qualitiü of pcoplo and couutry, wj ara always ijarudiug büfore tho wovld, iu tho most scnsational foria, uot oiüy f uil dotails of all tho evil thinga that aro dono by tho mojt mixud and coamupolitan peoplo ou earth, but also of all thu uvild that tho " siuartiea " auiong us can iniagiuo. A looal roportor ia without honor hora, if ho oauuot roport a sousutiou ovory day, and if ho finda himsolf unublo to givu ono fouudud on faet, he sits down and writoa out, with woadcrful minutoness, all tho dutaik of a horrible orinio, the soonu of which la in bia own braiu. Purhapa by some dovioo he will uxposu tho flotiou üf it, bo that people hora uuderstand aud only laugh at it ; but by tolügraph or othurwla it travols oast, aud whon it gota into tho yapora thoro, the inaoouraoiea that tondod to oxposo it hore, aro oorruotud, and it goos out to tho world as a voritablo truth, and all tho people wo&der at tho barbarity of California. I oncloao you a sauiplo, out from thU niorning'a Sacramento Reporter of thu kind of sonBational writing. Now supposo this had ooino to you iu tho ordinary courae, you would soo through it at once ; but Bupposo that for its wit ur something ulbo, you oouoludod to publiah it, aud tho printer should givo only tho iiütiul of tho givou uamo of tho viotiin, you would havo tho wholo of old Washtontw ruisiug its hauda ia holy horror at tho dupruvity of tho boya iu Sacramento. IN8UBANCE AOAIN. Sincc my last it has transpired that the Paoifio Insuranoo Company " whistlod bat'oro it got out of tho woods." It has how coasod to issuo any muro polioies until it gots squarod up aad fiiuLi whuru it sUiuda. Tho ooiupany ia ooinposod of our hoaviost mea, aud our pooplo still foei coufldont that it will pay its Io3ses in full, but whothor it goos on aftor that is moro doubtfiü. MORE IX8ANITY. Our Probtito Goiirt has boen busy for ton days past, aidod by a full jury, in trying to find out ■whothor IIoRACK LLawes, tho patrón of Prof. Evans, w.is sano at tho timo of making his will. Tlio will was oxocutod oarly in March last, and tho groat man - groat in his own estimatiou - diod a fow days after. Tho trial is not yct ovor, and as tho vordiots of petit jurios aro provorbial for uncortaiuty, it will not do to say what the vurdiot in this caso will bo. Bat ouo tbing is cortain, thoro aro uottwolvo nu u otf that jury, in tho State, who havo not already decidod that ho was tho craziest man who ovor diod out of i lumitic asyluin, and tho ineanost ono who ovor diod out of a penitentiary ; unlosa it may bo mos who havo not road tho ovidcnco. I think ox-Mayor lIiHtKtMAX will teil you that II.vwes has not bccn sano for tho last üfteen years. Tlie details of tho evidenco aro too volumineus for a weokly papor, bat if tho mails havo dono thoir duty Dr. LEW1TT eau give you the fii.ll roport, as it has boon forwarded regularly io him, and will be found of much interest to both lawyers nnd doctors. As soon as the trial ia ovor Iho jjrooeedinga and evidence will be published in bonk fomi, when I will forward a oopy to tho University Library. ïho old uian was ivorth noarly millioii dollars. In .Ufo lio pinchcd hitusolf and fiunily to the vory rorgo of actual suffjring - to save monoj1) BÉbnsed his wife in a most shanieful man ner, went cray Opofl the subject; among otllcr things, of tho futuro greatness oí his son wliom he sont to Europe in ohargO of Prof. Evans, and who so far haa not picvi'.l himself a youth of oxtraordinaiy promisc ; at his death made a tolorublo provisión for the son, but attorapted tg OUt the balance of the family off with. 9 pittance, and to leave tho Ihllk of hls property to found institutious whiclj wore uot to bc brought iuto being for a lnuuln il yenrs, nnd then only upon condition that otlior pooplo sliould give sis or eight times as much as ho liad given towairis them, or in default thereof thö property Bfaonid revert to tho heirs of hia sou. The t-unily prefur that tho reversio should fake placo now ratlier than a hun- dred years honco. His idea sooms to havo been, and I know from conversations with liini, that such was his intention, that ho would lay tho corner stotiO of a mugnificent institution, that other should build tho edifico, and then tho Whole stiinA through all coming ages a monument to the meniory of tho Ilon. HoEACB BaVks, íí man who did not hositato to proclaim tliat he was greatcr than Jestis (Muist, and bolieved that a thousanil years heneo all other man would ackuowledgo that as a fact. THE WEATIIER. The windows of heavon havo oponed at last, and the groteful ealth drinks up the laughiiij; rain with a zest that makes all the pooplo glad. Within the last forty eight hours, about two inchos of wator havo tallen, nnd even whilo it falls, tho happy l'iirmers start their ploughs, and facc3 whicli throo days sineo looked gloomy and desjjondont are now as siniling as the mom. ASN A11B0H HOY IN IXCK. ScvüimI homliix have inado good fortunes within a few months past on Crown Puint Stock, aftd I nu crydibly infornied tlint among othors JIM .Si.im;i;ili.a.sd has pooketetl a hundred thousand dollars in that way. l'orhaps his excellency may not relisli being calk-d a boy just now, but I know of no man who can botter enjoy a fortune, and there aro nono who would bettyr liko to seo him have it than his and your friond Caulos.

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