DR. BELLOWS' ADDRESS LAST EVENING. -- The audience attracted by anticipations of Dr. Bellows' Address upon the working and condition of the Sanitary Commission completely filled Platt's Hall last night. Of course much was expected form this eloquent pleader in the cause of humanity, and, of course also, they were not disappointed. The subject and its advocate are worthy of each other. The Doctor informed his audience that with a view of making the Commission still more efficient and general in its appeal and approach to the people of the entire State, it had been decided to reorganize it, changing its character from that of a city to a State organization. Mayor Coon had tendered his resignation as President of the local Commission, and that position would be taken by Governor Low, who, appropriately, will act as President of the California Branch of the Commission. Dr. Bellows proposes that each person throughout the State contribute monthly ten cents. This small amount paid for each man, woman and child, can be afforded without much trouble by all that dwell here, and would add a very handsome increase to the twenty-five thousand dollars contributed monthly by this city. It would amount to fifty thousand dollars per month. How much suffering that amount would alleviate; how many lives of heroes it would save. The proposition should be met and made a blessed reality.
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A DRUNKEN DUODECEMIVIRATE. -- There were twelve subjects yesterday morning before his Honor Judge Shepheard; some because they couldn't walk straight, and some because they couldn't talk straight; some because they couldn't walk at all, and others because they talked too much -- all the fault of whiskey.
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AFTER HER AGAIN. -- A Montgomery street merchant, of the firm of G. W. Congling & Co., appeared yesterday as prosecuting witness against Lucy Adler, for picking up little things about the store, to wit: Two pairs of shoes. This is the second dilemma Lucy has got mixed up in, within the past few days for nipping.
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MORE OF THE FINE ARTS AND POLITE LITERATURE. -- A man named Martin Princeton, one of the active propagandists of an equivocal school of morals, was yesterday examined before Judge Shepheard for exhibiting an obscene picture to a female, in a saloon at the corner of Kearny and Pacific streets. A young man named George Williams was taken up as an accomplice, but the prosecution was not sustained as to him, Princeton was held to appear this morning for sentence.
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THE CAMANCHE. -- Persons who have not visited the Camanche, that rising hope and comfort to our people, during the past two weeks, would doubtless be surprised to find her shelf so far advanced. Ten streaks of her hull are up, and apparently as many men and boys as can work to advantage are engaged, making things literally ring again. The sound of many hammers "closing rivets up," is almost deafening. How many forges there are employed in beating rivets and iron plates, we can only guess at. The work seems progressing by regular system, and very rapidly. But one cannot have any adequate idea of the countless blows necessary to build such an iron kraken, unless he stand for awhile fairly within the sound of the swinging hammers and mauls. The ship begins to show her great proportions, and the beehive-like activity that prevails about her gives assurance of her speedy completion.
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"BILLY THE BOATMAN.". -- Wm. McDonnell, or, as he has been familiarly called by his friends in this city for the last fifteen years, "Bill the Boatman," is an old New York Whitehall boatman; it is his trade and he commenced the learning of it at the age of fifteen years -- a long time ago -- at the above named place. In early days he emigrated to California, and, in '49, resumed his vocation here, (his headquarters then being on Montgomery street,) which he has steadily pursued to the present day. He is no jayhawker, but is esteemed by his numerous friends as an honorable and upright man, pursuing his legitimate business. The majority of these friends only know him by his "pet name," and consequently Billy feels annoyed when he sees such items as the following in the papers: "William H. Bourne, alias 'Billy the Boatman,' who was dismissed from the Special Police, a year or so ago, for some of his many acts of outrageous brutality, was in the calaboose again last night, for being drunk and outrageously disorderly;" especially as Bourne is not a boatman at all, and not entitled to the alias. He wishes it understood that he is "no such a man."
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FRUITERERS FINED. -- The cases of a number of sidewalk fruit vendors were disposed of yesterday, in Police Court. Martin Welch was fined five dollars; the other poor creatures, in consideration of the peculiar hardship of their cases, were passed over lightly -- the small fine of one dollar being imposed. But their street trade is in violation of an ordinance and must cease. They may beg -- that don't violate any ordinance.
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