The Nevada journal., 1858-02-19
For the Nevads Journal.
CHEROKEE, Feb. Is, 1858.

MR. EDITOR For twenty four hours
the storm has swept the hills without
cess htion, and already the call for water
is all Bated. 1t is with US in abundance.
But little washing has yet beeh done,
and consequently but little orc taken oit.
Cum mings & Co. took out last week,
s340 Another company, $500 No
others have yet had water, but for the :
remainder of the season there will bea
full supply. Wilder & Co., and Logan
& Co, have opened the bed of Shady
Creek at heavy expense of capital
and many weary months of labor They
are now realizing handsome profits on
the investment. Wilder & Co. cleaned
up from their first washing, twelve DAYS
nth two men, S4OG. We have only e
wanted water, which we now have, to = ~
enable us to show balance sheet large
ly in our favor. The knowledge of this
fact has alarmed some of our wise heads,
who, deeming riches curse, have set
themselves diligently at work to devise 49,
ways and means by which to drive the
evil from this ridge. In casting about =
for the most feasible means, they sagely '.
concluded that nothing would so effec- -
tually secure the direct end as heavily g ::
in,. ease taxation. But how is this to Z.
be accomplished ? 1t is true that the g
county is already burdened with heavy
debt. but Slight extra tax would soon
pay this, and we should still be BURDEN 10
ed with our surplus funds. All they -
have it now! Divide the county. This -'
will treble taxes at once and enable us
to live In llessed poverty for years to '-.'--
come. Some malicious persons have '-
the temerity to intimate that scheming
polit'c clans are at the bottom Of the
movement, hoping thereby to increase z
their own chanres of holding at some
future time, the paying Offices of county :
clerk, sheriff, &c. This, Of course; is
slander. .
Our debating club is yet in existence, -
although Buchanan's population of 3
squatter sovereignty made some of the -
prominent members tremble in their 49,
boots. We have also occasionally 2. -
spelling school, at which the youth e1- ..
hibit their skill i'll photography, aftef -
which the exercises are closed" by = e.
reading and defamation. SAM. - :.
The story that Randolph; who
quarter of century ago insulted Gene
Il i
office under this Administration, haf =.
been going the rounds of the opposition .s-
papers A great matter that, to be
sure 4 rash and wicked act of twenty
or thirty years ago to debar man from
the privilege of earning his bread, al =
though no one regrets the act half as J.
much as the poor fellow himself If -
the old hero could speak from the grave, =.
he would not allow his friends to yindi- 80
cate his memory by prosecuting an old HT'@
man for a rash and foolish act of youth. l. !. 2
One of the thousand words of repen-. -;
tance Randolph has uttered would have
made the great jackson his friend and
protector.
Randolph was given temporary en- = 2
ployment, it is said, out of charity. This
clarnor was raised AMI hs
was discharged. General jackson him.
self would have despised such clamor;
for, it is said Randolph has made no -
secret of his deep regret for the act. :: -
LouisriUe Democrat 49, =.
We heartily endorse that. General ~-,.,
Jackson himself would have despised
such a clamor," but President Buchanan
has been mean and cowardly enough to =
yield to 1T. He caused the poor, gray- - s.
haired veteran to be dismissed from the. -.p:f.
public service, thus taking from him tho - =
only means. of supporting himself and
his wife aud children-and all on
account of rash act committed more
than quarter of a century ago and eter
since bitterly repented Of. ~.
The Louisville Democrat, in its critic ~
isms, direct and indirect, upon the acts
of the Buchanan Administration, exhib-
its more nerve than we have been - p
TO give it credit for.-Loai,- =
nile Jouraul
~ The vigor and bitterness Of the
Southern Democratic opposition TO
Douglas show no sign of abatement ID.
Its surgcs, crimson with wrath, sweep.
day after day, through the columns Of
the press. aud dash in huge pillows at
the foot of the Little Giant The red
food is rising each hour. The stoutest
hearts of he wisest Democrats tremblo
lest the party shall be speedily engulfed -l"s.
in the fiery wave. f>f, -s. =
T.. al. H. 4 L.