CALIFORNIA BRANCH OF THE U.S. SANITARY COMMISSION. - Attention is directed to this advertisement in another column. Communications and remittances are to be addressed to the office, 240 Montgomery street, southeast corner of Pine. We would like, in order to benefit the commission, to give publicity to the names of contributors to the Fund; but on applying for the list, recently, were all but peremptorily refused. The individual who attends to the business of receiving and recording the subscriptions is either too lazy or too disobliging for the position. He prefers his own case to the interests of the Commission.
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AFLOAT AGAIN. - After months of pumping, digging, and doctoring, the old Aquila is once more righted up and afloat in water deep enough for her to swim in. At present she lies near the pier at the foot of Main street, but will be towed very shortly to the dock at Mare Island, where she will be put in order to go out once more on the billowy ocean.
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A WRECKING PARTY IN LUCK. - A few days since, we noticed the discharge of T. J. L. Smiley upon the indictments against him for capturing the treasure of the Golden Gate. We now learn that the civil suit of Lodye, Agent for the Underwriters, claiming the treasure, has also been settled by compromise, upon terms that leave Mr. S. [Smiley] in the quiet possession of a large amount of the treasure-trove. Marshal Rand having assumed the responsibility of substituting the freedom of the city for the narrow confines of a jail, Mr. Smiley, during his arrest, has moved about at his pleasure, attended by a Deputy of the Marshal, which courtesy will doubtless meet its due reward at the hands of the fortunate wrecker.
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MARINE NONDESCRIPT. - Robinson, at the corner of Washington and Davis streets, has among his collection of curiosities a sea monster, which may be a fish or it may be what Robinson calls it, a sea dragon. In its form it seems to unite opposites, reminding one of a hybrid between the mermaid and eel. The creature is about four feet in length, having a formidable cat-like head, with fangs that don't look the least bit friendly. The body is smaller than the head, and extends back about a foot, where the tail commences rather abruptly, and tapers almost to a point, the whole continuation resembling in a measure a respectable eel. A dorsal fin, or membrane, extends from the back part of the head to the tip of the tail. The color of the beast is a mottled brown and grey, and it is said to be the first of its species ever seen on this coast. It was caught on Thursday night, we believe in the Bay, and looks as if he would be an ugly looking customer to make a raid on bathers.
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CONTEMPT OF COURT. - A young man named Charles Coyle was apprehended a day or two since for some trivial offence, and admitted to bail for his appearance in the Police Court on Thursday. Thursday came around in the course of human events, but Coyle didn't appear. His bail was forfeited, and a bench warrant issued, upon which he was brought in again before Judge Shepheard yesterday. He gave as his excuse for not appearing on Thursday, that a Mr. McCarthy told him that the matter had been settled, and it was unnecessary for him to go to the Court. McCarthy denied having told him so. At all events, the Judge fined him twenty-five dollars for disobeying the order of the Court, and notified those interested generally, that if parties would settle their difficulties out of Court, after having instituted a prosecution, they must pay for it; and persons under an order of Court have no business to listen to and act upon what another party tells them.
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ANOTHER PAWNBROKER IN TROUBLE. - Simon Lewis, a pawnbroker, was in the Police Court again yesterday, on a charge of charging more than the lawful rate of interest for money advanced on a watch and chain, which were pawned with him by Adolph Warren. The penalty attached to the offence by law is the forfeiture of treble and value of the articles pledged, to the pledgor. The case is still pending.
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