The Nevada journal., 1853-09-30
Pacific Railroad.

In another column will be found the call OF
the Executive committee of San Francisco for
a State Convention on this great matter to be
held at San Francisco On the Sd mot 4th) inst
and of a large number of citizens of this county
for meeting to be held on Saturday next. at
o'clock, P. NJ, in this city, to appoint delegates
to the same. We suggest that all persons who
can attend the state convention be present at
the primary meeting, and give in their names,
and that they be accredited as delegates.
We infer from the signs of the times that the
great and absorbing question Of our domestic
policy during the next session of Congress will
be the subject of railroad to the Pacific. If no
trouble arises in our foreign relations to divide
the opinions and action of the leading minds OF
the nation, this project of the railroad connect
ing the Atlantic with this new tier Of states
that are springing up this side of the Rocky
mountains, will be adopted and commenced.
The great object of all patriots should be to
keep it from becoming a mere party question.
fall parties will but unite in the matter it can
easily be accomplished. California should set
the example Of an undivided front.
We have not space to consider, at this time,
the propriety and expediency of the Govern
ment engaging directly in the construction of
such work. We will say, however, that if, as
is contended by many influential journals and
politicians, it is true, that the history of the
past shows our democratic republican Govern
ment cannot engage in such q work, without
squandering millions Of money, then has our
Government failed for one Of the great objects
and ends for which Government is instituted
and there is much danger that there will be
found in it, in process of time, other weak points
which may obige the people to change its char
acter. In Europe, these great works are exc
cuted in a cheaper and better manner by the
Government than by chartered companies or
private individuals and they can be here, if
our people are wise and patriotic enough stead
lily and constantly to place them under the con-
troll of men Of honesty and ability.
BSE~ The Telegraph says there are eighteen
stage arrivals and departures from Grass Valley
daily. Can't cypher it out though we have
some such that G. V. don't have.
B25~ The parties alluded to in the following
from the Transcript are well-known in this
city. The justice of the remarks are questioned
by some with how much reason we are not
able to fully Judge.
DIVORCE Applications for divorce
continue as numerous as ever. The grounds
upon which they are generally applied for are
cruelty, intemperance, or neglect to support the
wife, There are undoubtedly many cases where
the real cause of the application is far from the
one given, where it was suggested by the sedu-
Ger, who could promise the deuded wife richer
living gayer dresses or more splendid iewery
than the husband could furnish her In such a
case the law can easily be made subservient to
the wishes of the party who desire to use it. A
push an occasional SPREE or failure to pro-
vide an expensive maintenance, can easily be
construed by little magnifying, into abuse,
intemperance or neglect. A case of divorce
however in which were really juStifable grounds
of application, occurred some days since. A
husband with uncommonly good talents for
supporting family, not only spent every dollar
that he could earn himself at the gaming table,
but took all that she had made and saved with
in the last three years, (she had been very
successfully amounting to some $1,000, and
squandered it away in the same manner. By
the advice of the father of her husband, who
considered his son incorrigible, she obtained
divorce and left the country for the East No
wonder that the keepers of gaming houses be-
come rich men.