THE POST OFFICE, SAN FRANCISCO, IN GOLD RUSH DAYS A faithful representation of the crowds daily applying at that office for mail Drawn by H. F. Cox; litho. by Wm. Endicott & Co., New York, 1849-52 ten June 6th, after receipt of his message from Rio. She reported the local news of Port Gibson, going on to say: We are all glad you went by the way of Cape Horn as the overland route is sickly. A great many who started to go that way are dead. The cholera, that dreadrull scourge of mankind is raging here in our cities to a fearfull extent. Henry H. Treat of Palmyra died of cholera on board a steamboat on the Rio Grand River in Mexico on his way to California. Gen Worth and Dan Marble have both died of it. Sixty new cases reported this morning in New York, ten deaths. Great fears are entertained here that it will git among the miners in California and sweep them off like rotten sheep. If you should be taken with it take three table spoonsfull of the best French brandy and forty drops of laudanum, mix it well and drink it. Rub your body with brandy and hot flannel cloth, if you are not better in one hour take a tablespoonful of castor oil, one of brandy, ten drops of laudanum. It wiU throw you into a sound sleep. You will wake well. This is practised in India with success. There has been a great riot at the Astor Place theatre in New York. It 12