Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-12-30

The Boilers FaRdango at virginia
The boilers who, filled with holy horror
and disgust at the duphcity and "tergiv-
ersation" of mankind rs exhibited at the
late County Convention, left that body
and hoisted the flag of rebellion, met last
night at the Court House, in Virginia,
and showed an admiring world how the
thing could and should be "done on the
square" They elected a President and
twenty Vice Presidents, with which mod
crate number of officers they proceeded
| TO business. When it is recollected that the
charge of packing" was the excuse made
by the boilers for leaving the regular Con-
vention, the proceedings last night read
rather fi,nnilv. The very first move was
the selection of sixteen delegates to be
kicked out of the Carson Convention.
This selection, instead of being left to the
Intelligent Masses" had already been cut
and dried by committee appointed by
another chairman of another meeting on
a previous occasion. The report Of that
committee was adopted and the delegates
declared elected, with one exception-AIr.
Warnock, the chief of the boilers, having
been BY some means left out i'll the wet,
his name being substituted for that of Mr..
Meagher. \ Committee on Resolutions
was next appointed by the Chair" and
! then another committee was "appomted
/ BY the Chair" to 'Selcct names for the
different Offices" then the president was
authorized to appoint five persons from
Gold Hill to appoint five other persons
from Gold Hill to represent Gold Hill on
that nominating committee.
Such were the proceedings had in this
spontaneous uprising of an outraged and
inSulted constituency" last night at Viz
sinia, as we find them reported in the or
gan of the boilers. They talk about
packing" "cutting and drying" estates,
and all that kind of worn out political
gag and claptrapS! Let any man of COM
mon sense read the account of the meet
ing as given in either of the morning pa
pcrs, and say for himself if there ever was
since political trickcry was first invented
more completely cut and dried affair
The Enterprise treats the matter with the
ridicule the farce deserves; the tmio'
talks about it revcrcntly, as though it had
been really an expression of public Scnti'
mcnt. They agree, however, as to the
proceedings had, and the synopsis which
we have given above is the sum and sub
stance of what was there done and thu
manner of its doing.
The "large number of citizens" who
were present was estimated at two hun
drcd, not filing the Court Room i'll which
it was held. The idea of State Convcn'
ton paving the least attention to the pro-
cccdings of such body, held under such
circumstances, and conducted in such {
manner, Is too absurd to be entertained foi
a moment. The movers of it themselves
have no such expectation. They arr
simply set of disappointed seekers after
offices, which the regular Convention re-
fused to give them, and like dogs in the
manger they only seek petty revenge
by endeavoring to create such stir and
feeling against the regularly nominated
ticket as will swell the vote against the
Constitution, aud thus defeat those fol
whom a preference was shown in thu
regularly organized Convention Of thu
Union Party. Their organ and theil
speakers talk about political machinery
and political hacks!' Read the pro-
ceedings of that nameless performance
which took place last night. See whc
were the speakers, and who the prime
movers and directors of the whole affair
Why, their names are fairly worn out a:
connected with every species of political
wire working, corruption and rottcnness
for years and years gone by. There wa:
not a speech made there last night, bu
had been made by the same party ever!
year, in some shape or form, since thu
speaker arrived at the age Of puberty. i
may be that the system of Conventions l.
bad one, and admits of too much o
schcming and plotting by political trick
Sters and were there any other manner
of arriving at the true sentiments of thu
people, than by the customary one of pr
mary meetings and the election of dele
gates to the regularly called Conventions
it would be well to discard the Conven
ton system. But when abandoning thu
Convention system throws the dcStinieS o
the people into the hands of such an ar
rangcment as that of last night, we prcfe
the Convention way of doing business.
CoNPLIMENrARY.-The Nevada Tran
script pays the following neat tribute tt
the worth of Mrs. Cutler of the Sierri
Seminary at Carson: 1--WE have received
the first circular of the Sierra Seminary
an institution of learning established a
Carson City, Nevada Territory, of which
Mrs. Z. G.. Cutler, the celebrated elocu
zionist and vocalist, is one of the princi
pals. We know nothing Of the prospect
of the new seminary. 1t is in prope
hands to make first-rate institution, pro