BENEFIT FOR THE SANTA BARBARA SUFFERERS. - Let everybody bear in mind that the Mechanics' Fair will be continued on Monday, day and evening, for the express benefit of the sufferers in the Southern counties. It is of course understood by the holders of season tickets, that the exhibition of Monday is not included in the regular season. Their tickets expired by limitation on Saturday night. There will be no free list -- nary dead head. Dr. Woods generously contributes the entire proceeds of his Napa Soda sales for the day, and Mr. Halstead, the cider man, whose receipts have averaged one hundred dollars per diem, during the Fair, will divide his sales of that day between the two Orphan Asylums and the Relief Committee. Turn out, everybody. Remember they are your own fellow citizens who are calling for your aid.
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IMPORTANT ARREST. - U. S. Marshal Rand brought down on last evening's boat, a speculating chap named Patrick Doyle alias Patrick McCoy alias William McCoy, whom he captured at Benicia, by virtue of a warrant received from New York per steamer Golden Age. Doyle or McCoy, or whatever his name is, has been engaged in circulating U. S. currency notes altered from five dollars to fifty dollars. He left New York on the 3d of May, by the steamer Champion, and will leave San Francisco for New York again on the 13th of October. He came but to please himself, and will return to please his captor. The Grand Jury of the District of New York have already indicted him. There are several in the gang who have been engaged in this business of altering notes, and Government has been for months engaged in ferreting the matter out. Captain Rand has this weakness, (which many a scamp wishes he hadn't,) he can't help catching these fellows when he gets after them. It's his peculiarity.
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LAST NIGHT OF THE FAIR. - There were more people at the Fair last night, by far, than ever visited it at one time before -- there was scarcely a space in the building, large enough to hold a man, left unoccupied. An auction sale of articles donated to the Sanitary Commission was held, and the following sums realized: The superb portrait of Rev. Thomas Starr King, by Mrs. Gibbons, brought $100; cigar vase, made by blind boy, $2; two tidies, $1 apiece; silver mounted horse hair bridle, made by Pimos Indians, $6; machilla of saddle used by Colonel Lauder on the wagon road expedition, $10; California squirrel skin buggy robe, $10; Chinese lantern, $5; Japanese lily, $5; miniature frigate, $10; two small pictures, $6; cake of beeswax, $1; one dozen cans fruit, $6; copper and silver bar, worth $116.44 not sold, highest bid $110; two town coal, $6.25 a ton. We estimate the value of the articles sold at $395 -- say $400 in round numbers; they brought only $201.50.
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