The Nevada Democrat., 1858-02-10

cred, such as will, when we make further ae-
QUESTION Of territory, spread at once ever 1t
diffusing the American sentiment, and extend
ing the area Of American principles.
''Oflcial Tyrany and Abuse OF POwcr--sac-
rifice OF a Great Mining Co..
A correspondent of the s. H. Bulletin, signing
himself &C." writing from Grass Valley, under
ihc above startling head, complains that the
property Of the Helvstia and Lafayette Mining
Co., was sacrificed, because the Sheriff refused
to publish the sales in that widely circulated
sheet, the Grass Valley Telegraph. He says
Some Of the attorneys the attaching creditors feeling
that the interest of their clients would promoted there
by requested the Sheriff TO advertise through the paper
OF the township in which the property located viz the
Grass Valley Telegraph To this reasonable request that
official gave most positive refusal The advertisements
made in his official organ, the Nevada DemOrd-a
paper which has circulation in Grass Valley and which
is sought by those who desire information about that
| place.
Now 1t il is matter of fact, that portion
of the sales spoken Of were advertised in the
Telegraph, and some in the Journal AS the ex-
ccutions were all against the same company, ev-
cry advantage was secured, which could have
been, had the sales all been published in the TEL
egraph. The property was advertised and put
up for sale three times it was bid off twice by
parties interested, who failed to pay for it, and
the Sheriff had no alternative but to put 1t up
again, and sell it for what it would bring in the
market. We have not, it is true, q large circu,
lation in Grass Valley but "the attorneys for
the attaching creditors" are among our subscri-
bers, and we are confident, that there was not
person interested in the property, who was not
perfectly aware when it was to be sold. The
writer says be has reason to believe that had
the property been advertised in the Grass Val
ley paper, the attention of many capitalists in
San Francisco, would have been excited, ard
some would have attended the sale. He seems
to intimate that the Telegraph has much larger
circulation in San Francisco than the Democrat,
which is not the fact &c" would like to have
it understood that he had money, and would
have bought the property himself, had he known
when it was to have been sold, and that he was
ignorant Of that fact because the advertisements
were not published in the Telegraph. If such is
the case, we advise him to subscribe at once for
all the county papers, in order that he may not
miss another such an opportunity for investing
his loose change. We venture to say, however,
that &C." has net money enough to buy coffee
mill, to say nothing Of quartz mill.
We have but little to say in answer to the
writer's TRADE against what he terms the Sher-
iffs "ofieial organ" The Democrat has been
conducted according to the ideas Of its propris-
tors, and neither the Sheriff, or any other c0un-
ty officer, has ever attempted to control its COL
umns We have on all occasions expressed our
own opinions and no one but ourselves is re-
sponsible fer whatever may appear in our col
umns The Democrat is not the organ of any
man, nor is it the organ Of the Democratic par.
ty any farther than the party choose to make it
their organ.
Frem remark Of the Bulletins correspond
snt, We should Judge that he had at soms time Of
his life, dabbled in the Newspaper business, and
that, like great many other "outEiders," he
had not been very successful Perhaps the pub
lie failed to appreciate his talents. He says
that = newspaper, unless sustained or fed from
the public crib, must be neutral. This may be
the writer's experience in newspaperdom, but
our experience is directly the reverse. It mat
ters but little what the politics of paper may
be, it will receive about the same amount Of
support from the community in general. A
knowledge of the business is of much more ser
vice in sustaining q newspaper, than being on
the popular side of politics. Fer The first four
years after the Democrat as started, we got but
very little official patronage. 1t was then d-
vided between the Journal and Telegraph We
never complained Of this, nor did we employ
lettsr-writsrs to complain for us. We have
never toadied around the Democratic officers
much less the late Know Nothing officers. for
official pap but have contented ourselves with
such patronage as we got in the legitimate line
Of cur business. Yet no sooner are the Sher-
IFS sales published in the Democrat, than few
decsysd politicians, who represent the fag-ends
Of Know Nothingism and Black Republicsnism,
characterize it as an outrage"
The Grass Valley lstter-writer ought to have
added one sentence more to his communication
He should have said IS il customary with the
BuLIetias correspondents, that the Democrat was
. "aw aud order" paper. and violently" op-
posed the Vigilance COMMITTEES. This would
have put the finishing touch to bis production.
It is wonder he forgot il.