Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-08

violence and 0lO01, the thought OF which Will
make our children shudder for many years to
come. Two thirds Of the malcontents at least,
| are men who never worked on steamship, or
any where else, and who are just as ready to
| lend hand in one riot as another. The mis-
chievous teachings Of class Of agrarians who
interlard all their harangues and "leading
articles" with catch words and phrases, such
as "the rights OF labor must be respected"
"the heartless expressions Of capital, and
| all that sort of stuff, have produced their
legitimate results in this community, as they
have done elsewhere before, and as a conse-
quence we have the satisfaction of knowing
that we have in our midst an element as COM
bustible as gunpowder, and are walking over
amagazine which may explode at any moment.
! Thank Heaven though we are now ready for
whatever may come, and surprise is now
| out of the question. The Provost Guard has
| been strongly reinforced, our police with the
"specials appointed recently, are now being
| drilled daily, in marching and the handling Of
arms, will reach nearly three hundred-al-
| though for obvious reasons the City papers
are silent on this fact-and we have not only
| Il large military force stationed at convenient
distances from the city, and ready to be
hurled on mob at half hours notice, but
| all preparations have been made for placing
| the city under martial law, on the first symp-
toms Of riot beyond the control Of the police.
| The rioters arrested, have succeeded partially
| through deliberate perjury, and partially
! through the utter incompetency OF the as
| sistant District Attorney, in escaping the
Just punishment of their crimes, but the next
outbreak will be handled without gloves, you
may depend upon it, for the police have
learned lesson which they will assuredly
profit by. The sailing of the next steamer
for Panama, will probably be the occasion
next seized on by the rioters for demonstra-
tipn, if another is made at all, as have no
reason to doubt that there will be.
THEATRICAL.
The Metropolitan and the Opera House
still.remain closed, and only the minor thea
tres and the Academy of Music are doing
anything. At the Academy, the Richings,
Wheatleigh, and the Opera House dramatic
| company, combined, are doing fine busi-
| ness, having had paying houses all the week,
and presenting bill each night which was
really worthy of public patronage. The old
American Theatre, with Mrs. Leighton as the
star, and mixed dramatic and minstrel
troupe, under Walter Bray's management,
running at low prices $50 and 25 eents), is
doing good business; and the Ministries at
the Eureka still draw paying houses nightly.
On Saturday night the Opera House will be
re-opened, with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kean
as stars (ably supported) in the legitamate
drama line, and we shall have new but brief
sensation. The Legitimate" is played out
in California, and our people would go for a
few nights to see Forrest or any other big
star, in Hamlet-not to see Hamlet himself,
were he to visit the earth, 81. c. the glimpses
Of the moon" in proper person.
hear from China that the elder ThorneS,
with their son Henry, have cleared all the
expenses Of their trip in five nights perform
ance at Shanghai, aod are still doing well.
The whereabouts of Charles Thorne, Jr. is
still matter of anxious inquiry among nu-
merous parties in San Francisco.
HE, SHE, OF it:
saw Zoyara last night, riding the frey
untamed steed" around the saw-dust ring in
male apparel, while the entire canvas was
crowded to its utmost capacity by the elite
of San Francisco, who had crowded there to
witness the "chaste and beautiful perform
ance." Between you and me, must admit
that, so lar as could see, Zoyara is as good
man as She is woman-and if asked, "ls
Zoyara mas or female:" l should reply,
unhesitatingly, al think it is" Further
more, this deponant sayeth not.
BETTER BORN LUCKY THAN SMART.
Any fool can blunder into fortune, but it
takes 9e'liuS to jump at the truth intuitively.
We had high old horse race at the Bay
View Park on Tuesday, and went out there.
Money was there in abundance, and went
in with the rest. The pacing mare, Un-
known" was the favorite at the start, and
won the first heat; but the manner in which
FILLMORE" the trotter, won the second heat
convinced meas it did all other judges
that he was the horse to bet on, and as saw
all the knowing ones go four to one on him
did likewise, and showed up $40, which | had
Just got from an appreciative friend over the
mountains, against $40 staked BY my weak
eyed and unposted friend Stiggers, OF the
Aha, on the mare. Now mark the fate OF
genius Stiggers knows no more about the
points Of horse than do about flying, or a
COW does Of Hardee's Tactics, yet the fool
won nv money, not through judgment or
"horse sense" but because Fillmore chose to
break on the last heat and let the mare pass
him. Woe is me that was bad break for
the house Of Amigo. But there is some con-
ISOLATION in the knowledge Of the fact that all
my friends, who "knew what they were
about" we're in the same boat, so to speak;
the $4,000 lost on the last heat being all
won by ignoramuses through sheer luck.
"sicR is life"
BLOWING Up.
For some weeks past everything has shown
a tendency to blow up and explode at the
shortest notice, or more properly speaking,
no notice at all. Steamboats, 90 off like
rockets, donkey engines on the wharyes ex.
plode land leave no trace behind" and last
night bath house followed the fashion, going
into flinders in no time. Nobody killed. So
common has this thing become that it is with
the utmost difficulty that can induce nv
horse to 20 around corner grocery where
they sell lightning whiskey, lest it might 20
off and blow us sky high; and my washer
woman struck to-day because my wife would
not take the clothes off the stove and bring
them to her, she, the aforesaid washerwoman,
insisting that the stove was liable to explode
at any moment, and that she was not going
to risk her life every moment for So per day.
wouldn't be surprised to see this great
globe itself" go off with pop like a cham
payne cork some OF these days; in fact, it
would be just my luck to have it do so, and
leave me busted capitalists, for have re-
Gently laid myself open to such disaster BY
d HOuoc duu lOI III OdhlduuI
the first time in my life becoming real
estate holder. Let her rip! I am getting
used to such things anyhow, and can stand it
as long as the next man.
SAVED FROM FATE WORSE THAN DEATH.
some weeks since sent you an account
of the discovery of a regularly organized So
ciety at the East for the purpose of abduct-
ing young girls for the purpose Of prostitu-
ton. A circumstance fully proving the truth
of these statements came to light in this city
recently. On one Of the Panama steamers a
few weeks since, two ladies who were COM
ing out here as school teachers, made the &C.
quaintance Of girl, only II years Of age,
and as beautiful as an angel, who occupied
a state-room by herself and seemed to have
no friends on board. On inquiry, they learn
ed from her, that she had been enticed
away from the house of her parents in Bos.
ton, by party who was to meet her here,
the allurements Of travel in company with
refined female friends, and the promise of
speedy return to her parents being held out
To her q Inducements n foke tho raeh sta,o