OBSCENE INFORMATION. - Since the obscene picture tempest has been lashing the public prints to a fury, Mr. Joseph Isaacs has been published so frequently as a sort of wholesale "importer" of this class of merchandise that we have been asked time and again whether obscene pictures were legitimate articles of importation or not, and whether they were knowingly permitted to pass through the Custom House. We answer, the trash comes through the Custom House in vast quantities, but not by consent of the officers. It is smuggled, ergo, besides being a wholesale dealer in vulgar engravings, Mr. Isaacs adds the profession of a smuggler to the other graces of his character. Mr. Miller, the appraiser, detected a lot of obscene goods undergoing the smuggling process through the Custom House lately, and destroyed them.
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ON A PLEASURE TRIP. - Marsh, of the Occidental Hotel, and Skinner, Clerk of the Stockton steamer Cornelia, left on Wednesday last on a pleasure excursion to the mountains and elsewhere. [By referring to the recent editions of the Dictionary, it will be seen that "elsewhere" is a term sometimes used to denote a place or places where they keep truck to drink, and all that sort of thing.] They will visit Stockton, Copperopolis, the Big Trees, Yo-Semite Valley, Virginia City, all the mines on the several roads they travel, and returning, will tarry a few days at Oakland and other watering places. They will need a good deal of water by that time in case they do not drink any while their pleasure trip is under way. They expect to be gone ten or twelve days.
(transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.)
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