The Nevada journal., 1859-02-18
INSANE AsYLuM.-Our LEGISLATORS

INSANE ASYLUM. Our Legislators
have forgotten one favor it is not yet
too late to appreciate. They have
failed to furnish us with the reports
from the State Asylum for the Insane.
Having had some experience in the way
affairs at that Institution have been
managed in times past. it would have
been just to our hand to examine
into the way BUSINESS is managed there
at the present time. Scoundrelism of
the deepest dye was found practised by
a former Superintendent, and rumor
says the present chief of the Institution
is no better than he should be. We
hope the committee now investigating
the affairs of the Asylum will be inAu-
enced by no wine dinners and wheed-
ling old women, as is the custom, else
we may expect the usual white-washing
of the da:k deeds perpetrated in the
name and under the guise of humanity
We have received from some one a
circular review of the Trustees Report
which gives an idea that the only insti-
tuition the State should be proud of, is
grossly mismanaged.
q The Washington States makes
the following cogent remarks upon the
mail communications between California
and her sister States. There is much
truth in the remarks of the States, which
will come home to our brethren in the
East with more force, perhaps, than TO
us who are desirons of seeing the coun-
try between the eastern and western
portlous of the Union settled up as fast
as possible, which stage lines assist ma
terially to do.
"Why is it that the government of the
United States is to pay for carrying the
mail upon five routes between New
York and San Francisco, one of which
must prove shorter than the others, and
thus supercede them, we cannot imagine
Why, when all these routes are compel.
ing for passengers and mail contracts, a
Senator from the State most interested
in speed of communication, should re-
strict the mail time by law to twenty
four and twenty-five days, is still more
inexplicable.
The United States want the shortest
and most certain mail-route. The peo-
pie of California want the quickest mail
time. Why perpetuate existing n onop-
olies, and prolong the existing impedi-
ments to intercourse
We cannot see how the reasoning of
Senator Gwin supports his theory of
mail service. He says the government
now pays certain sums foi the transpor-
tation of the mail, yet he thinks that if
the government would encourage the di.
vision of the travel now enjoyed by one
route, in monopoly, among several COM
petitors, each rival would carry the mail
at less than half it now receives. That
is: the Panama route takes all the pas
scngers to California, and charges the
government little less than S1,OOO.OOO
mail pay. Mr.. Gwin proposes to "dis-
tribute" the travel between four lines of
travel, and yet thinks the Panama ill.,
terest would be content with one-fourth
of the passengers, and one-third of the
mail pay
We are averse to such experiments.
Let the government employ some route
which has the ability to take the whole
California mail vi hout delay or failure.
in the shortest space of time. Let it
employ that line, whether Panama,
Nicaragua, Tehuantepec, or the over
land, which can give security to fulfil
its engagements, ard thus let the Treas
ury be relieved from the charges which
Senator Gwin has shown to be excess
ive-nearly two millions of dollars -
An army stretched across the continent
to protect five passenger coach =
Half a dozen contracts to carry the mail
between New York and San Francisco
Each of these mails coming in at each
others heels, loaded with stale newspa-
pers and letters over due.
1hese things are, Id The present or IN
any state of the treasury, preposterous.
Even g,ld may be made to cost too
much, and schemes which perpetuate
expenses and delay intercourse between
the distant members of the confeGeracy,
will incur the condemnation of the coun-
try"
DEEP SNow.-We learn that the snow
was Line feet deep at Skillmau's mill.
Alpha, Yesterday morning. AS If snow