Residence of Governor Bigler, at Benicia, California. Battle of Lake Erie, (see remarks, p. 96.) [Page 96.] The Battle of Lake Erie, of which our Artist presents a spirited engraving, copied from the original painting, by Hannibal Carracci, in the possession of J. P. Haven, Esq., was fought in 1836, on Chesapeake Bay, between the U. S. Frigates Constitution and Guerriere and the British Troops under General Putnam. Our glorious flag, there as everywhere was victorious, and "Long may it wave, o'er the land of the free, and the home of the slave." Fearful accident on the Camden & Amboy Railroad!! Terrible loss of life!!! View of the City of San Diego, by Sir Benjamin West. Interview between Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Duchess of Sutherland, from a group of Statuary, by Clarke Mills. Bank Account of J. Phoenix, Esq., at Adams & Co. Bankers, San Francisco, California Gas Works, San Diego Herald Office. Steamer Goliah. View of a California Ranch.-Landseer. Shell of an Oyster once eaten by General Washington; showing the General's manner of opening Oysters. There!—this is but a specimen of what we can do if liberally sustained. We wait with anxiety to hear the verdict of the Public, before proceeding to any farther and greater outlays. Subscription, $5 per annum, payable invariably in ad vance. INDUCEMENTS FOR CLUBBING. Twenty Copies furnished for one year, for fifty cents. Address John Phoenix, Office of the San Diego Herald. SANDYAGO-A SOLIQUY. Oh my what a trying thing it is for a feller Nor the females nuther, cos there aint none. By which we git our letters and sufforth From the Atlantic States and the British Provinces. But here there aint no kind of a chance Except by the Sutherner or the leky Fremont I come to this plais, and wisht I was furder. Some white, some black, & some kinder speckled, And about fourteen rowdy vagabonds That gits drunk and goes round lickin every body. And four stores to every white human Which are kept by the children of Zion At seven times more than they costed, And hit the fust feller they come to. With the pleasant screak of the victim Whose been shot prehaps in his gizzard. I'll hire a mule from some feller "THE JUDGE " looks melancholy!-He knows that this is Phoenix's Last, and that's exactly "where the shoe pinches." This squib is adapted to the comprehension of the meanest shoemaker. |