Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-14
Nevada Socially.

Nevada Socially.
Ne reader of the newSpaperS-and all
Califuraiau<. except those who ache to
get on iurieS read thcm-has failed to OBJ
serve thar the Territory of Nevada Is
being sadly >candalized of late by brutal
murders. ducl>, prize fights. assaults with
concealed and mconccalcd weapons,
shooting in the streets, and scores OF other
methods of violence in which the most
brutal prevail. We do not allude to the
subject to throw Slrr upon our sister,
50 rich in silver. and 50 hopeful of be-
coming a State very soon, for, California
walked through the same bloody path,
and suffered from precisely the same con-
dition of affairs even years after she had
become Il State, and had States reputa-
ton to support. One noticeable thing IN
the disgraccful record of Nevada crime,
i the fact that most of those who are
bringing this infamy upon the WaShoe
and Esmcralda settlements are Califor-
mans. Here they kept the peace, there
they break it. Here they behaved with
tolcrablc dcccncv. there they throw off all
restraint, and 90 about armed with sin
shooters. rifles and bowie knives, seeking
TO hit themselves for the gallowS. Here
they were oycrShadowed b. more reputa-
bic men. and kept their distance; there
they loom up rutians undiSgui>ed, eager
for the potOricty that crime gives them.
Here they were coerced into deccncy;
there they suffer no coercion. and shame
the land they have left, as well as the new
one they infe>t. Why Is this: Is there
ANYTHING in the air of a country that is
bottomcd on the stuff that dollars are
made If TO develop brutality, as some TO
this dav hold that there Is over California
an atmosphere imprcgnatcd with some
subtle poison that breeds divorces: Ger
tainlv not. The causes are not secret; a
little reflection brings them all to light.
Society m Nevada lacks yet to con-
siderable degree the conservative influence
of pure, COED women. Males are far in
excess there It i what is dcnominatcd
at the West lie Societv-the family is
still wanting. Men live III restaurants
and sleep in hunks. They feed on whisky,
and thar diet causes rowdyiSm Us natural
ly A. turtle soup lays fat on an aldcrman'S 5
ribs.
Again, the great body of the cmigrantS
to Nevada, whatever they profess, go with
the firm determination TO return again so
soon as their pile is large enough to war
rant it. They abhor land which has no
shadows but such as the mountains cast
"a land whose stock vegetation is sage
brush; whose water Is Surcharged with
alkalieS; whose climate is series of
ruShes from torrid to frigid, from burning
summer to freezing winter. They love 1t
for its feet, its lOdes, the gray argentiter-
OuS rock which paves> the streets and is
the dirt of the land. These things for
which they do esteem it have already
attracted busy multitude, and will con-
tinue to attract them for years to come
Among the multih3des will be some Of
that sensible sort who remember that y ew
England was not good land to look
upon when the PuritanS found it, vet by
virtue of their earnest, God-fearing prin-
cipleS they made it lead, in the opinion Of
the world, all the settlements of America
\ permanent population in Nevada Ter
ritOrv Will weave shadows in with the
fierce sunshine of its summers, temper the
severity of its winters, soften its water,
adorn its landscape, make it instead of a
desert panorama of beauty, framed
within sublime mountains. a permanent
population Of people, who live in tami-
lies, is the social want of Nevada, and
she will get it by persisting in her loyalty,
by early admission as State, by Liberal
civil laws and stringent criminal ones, by
taking as lightly as is feasible real estate,
and doing all that is possible to secure
good titles to that kind of property, so
that men Will be induced to buy it, take
up homesteads and set down their stakes
for life.
Being no State as vet, only Territory,
Nevada lacks good police system and
those minute municipal and local laws
that makethe obtainance of justice speedy
and cheap. Her first political want is a
State government, and it is gratifying to
believe that this want will early be met
and satisfied. Then she wants carefully
drawn charters fer their cities, town Or
CARNATIONS, and the not costly but perfect
machinery of the American system which
makes the school district the fountain of
power. She wants churches to be gener-
ously supported By her people, and
schools freer than C California's, maintained
entirely at the public expense, not only
to ensure the intelligence of the genera
ton that will rule there in less than a
score of years, but to reflect their imme-
diate and conservative influence on the
men who to-day control affairs there.
Take the male population of any model
village in Central New York or Nassa-
chusetts, and transport it bodily to new,
rough, uninhabited land, give them
enough to busy them, provide them
means to make money rapidly and yet
about third the number will forget
the orderly, industrious habits of their
ancestors, turn roughs, take to whisky,
gamble, shoot each other in the streets,
make themselves ridiculous dueling, or
strip to the waist and pummel each other