The Nevada journal., 1852-10-15


assay office being thus summarily re,
fused coin in the country sufficient for
the requirements of commerce and
there never caa or will bo until the
Branch of the mint which has been
authorized to be established at San
Francisco, shall be put in operation
The supply Of American and foreign
coin, meagrs as it is, is subject to a
drainage frem eur commeI &c with China
the Sandwich Islands, and tho adjacent
states of Mexico and South America,
and by passengers returning to the
states of the Atlantic. 1t meets with
little replenishment from these sources
and can only be increased, therefore, by
direct importations Of specia, at cost
certainly Of net less than per cent.
and this too by . community which i,
making shipments of gold dust by ev-
cry steamer, to pay off its indebtedne SIS
abroad. We do not believe that the
object Of the amendment te the civil
and diplomatic bill, by which tho is
sues of the assay Office were stopped ms
receipts for public dues was understood
inCongress beyond its moverand the few
in his confidence and we propose to
submit the grounds Of this belief.
| When the bill tie establish the Lrancb
mint at San Francisco was under dis
cussion in the House of Representatives.
one of the Representatives of this state
in that body made direct assault on
the United States assay office. and Of.
fered an amendment to the bill to abol-
sh that institution. He was met at
the very outset of his crusade by one Of
his own party, MIR. Geo w Jones, of
Tennessee, a prominent member Of the
committee Of ways and means, and on
the vote on his own amendments found
himself the leader of mere corporal 5
guard In view Of this, there is no
doubt in our mind that if the measure
which has formed the subject Of this
article, had been brought forward as an
independent proposition, to stand or fall
on its own merits, instead of being
cunningly showed into tho omnibus"
the conveyance alike of saints and sin
ners. it would have been promptly and
decisiysly rejected. To eoncluds other
wise is to conclude, what we are unwil.
ling to admit, that the majority in Con-
gress is made up Of men of merc than
ordinary stupidity and injustice"
The Transcript, with al. the insinccr-
ity that ever distinguishes it when poll
teal matters are in question, attempts
to cast an imputation upon the Sesrsta-
ry Of tho Treasury for the most obvious
discharge Of his duty. An executive
officer has no power to set aside the de-
srces Of Congress, or to refuse to exc
cute them, no matter what his opinion
Of their effset-and that the amend
ment has been but literally fulfilled, no
one reading it can doubt. We can but
deplorc that the interests of our state
are SO illy-reprosented in Congress-that
our wants are turned into inssrume ents
of refined torture. Before heaven. ws
trust the power so long abused by demo
Gratis will be soon lodged in better
hands. The establishment of an assay
Office instead Of mint was the work Of
democrats, and now, without wal ting to
create tho mint, when the state has
been ed to rely on the assay Office, de-
mocrats have stricken it down, and left
US without any circulating medium that
we can use in payment Of dues, and
consequently obliged US to obtain goods
rs ct armis, or by u disregard Of instruct
tions by the collector, subj.cting him
to pecaniary loss, and locofoco persecu-
tion, or else we may starve and 20 ma
ksd. The issuance of such law re-
sembles those freaks Of will by which
the old pasha ruled Bagdad, forbiddirs
now the pursuit of watsr-carrying for
three days, and then another branch of
business, merely to witness it's effects on
ono happy, INDEPENDENT fellow, whose
versatility enabled him to surmount
difficulties that filed the city with dis
may, But this idle play with the ne
ecssities Of our state, must recoil on the
authors Voters will remember in No
vember who are chargeabls with vir-
tual prohibition Of importations into the
state, at this moment, when our own re-
sources are undeveloped, and our only
dependence for subsistence and all the
necsssariss of life, is on our importations.
The enormous price now paid BY you.
miners, for fsur, must be doubled in
short time, if this democratic Ian is en-
forced, and by you teamsters and horse
keepers, for We have now no coin to pay
duties, and without that payment,
no -four or feed can bo imported, and so
with all kinds Of goods. Rsmemb er
this when next You vote for Representa-