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on any subject. Be that as it may, it must be confessed, if true, that he has kept his mouth shut to a better purpose for his own interests than most of us can claim, for all our blowing. Slow as stocks are, they have managed this week to catch ONE BIG FISH In their net, and leave him floundering in the mud of the "slough of despond. General Frisbie, ex-lord of the manor of Vallejo, and a kind of father of that ambitious but disappointed city, has come to grief, and in consequence, the Vallejo Savings Bank, of which he was President, has followed in his footsteps, and shut upshop for the time being. The depositors, however, seem to have had an idea of the way in which the General was going, and many of them had fled from the wrath to come, and withdrawn their deposits, so the chances are that no one will be much hurt. WOMAN'S MINING BUREAU. Talking about stocks reminds me that the lady speculators, whose name is legion, have grown tired of ambling about in the crowd on California street, a la curb-stone broker, and propose to have head-quarters of their own, where they can hear the news of the street, fix their back hair, discuss the state of the market, adjust their pull -backs, and make themselves generally at home. To this end they have incorporated the "Woman's Mining Bureau," and propose to run in connection with it a woman's stock-broking office, after the manner of Woodhull, Claflin & Co., of fragrant memory. What jobs the dear creatures will put up on 2 confiding public and each other, when they get that thing running smoothly. The venerable Mother Swift, whose silvered locks are a feature of California street, is the reputed maternal ancestor of this promising bantling, and the men of the street do say that the blessed old lady is about as shrewd a manipulator as any of themselves, and has on sundry and divers occasions "scooped" her feminine confreres with as much sang froid and aplomb as ever Jim Keene or Billy Sharon exhibited. Look out for fun when the doors of that Bureau open. CROOKED WHISKY. After a second trial of several weeks, the crooked whisky case of the United States vs. Charles Jost, of the Antioch Distillery, has again come to an end. Verdict for the defendant, as might have been expected-at least that's what the revenue agents who worked up the case say, and they growl bitterly over the alleged fact that the ring has again got away with them in their efforts to bring offenders to justice. and talk not loudly, but strongly of "sell out" on the part of prosecuting officers, suppression and destruction of documentary evidence, etc. One thing seems certain, that in the face of pretty strong criminating testimony, Jost again goes scot free, and it is an open question what influences have been at work to compass that result. POLITICAL. Politics are boiling as usual, without anything of special interest. The veterans tried hard the other evening to get an expression of opinion from General Sherman when they serenaded him at the Palace Hotel; but the old soldier dodged all that, and managed to send the boys away in pretty good humor, without saying anything to commit himself. ETC. The weather is getting a little mixed. We had a lively shower this morning, enough to lay the dust pretty thoroughly; quite a blessing in this dirt-ridden city, where a sprinkling cart is the eighth wonder of the world. The prophets say we are to have early rains, so please take notice, and make your prepW. arations accordingly. EFFECT OF TEA ON SKIN. you drop few drops of strong tea upon a piece of iron knife blade for instance the