Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-12
aoNrEmpTTpLE RAscALITY.

irving their yaLler uaInnueSa W 0SPN
ciate the washoe country in the esoma-
ton of as much of the world as they can
influence. BY denouncing the country as
humbug, glorying in its financial ae-
preston, and conveying the inamaaon'
in broad terms, that its people are not
much less than pack Of swindlers.
From lying. the next step IN the grada-
ton of crime, is generally stealing, and 1t
now becomes our province to record the
first sneaking step toward larceny made
by these lying California defamers OF
Washoe. The Secretaries of two we'll
known mining companies have been, du-
ring the past week, compelled to post
pone sales of delinquent stock. on account
of their San Francisco stockholders hay-
ing made, through agents here, sneaking,
swindling tenders of grssn6aeks to the
amount of their assessments due. The
washoe stockholders have paid their as
sessments in coin. The secretaries, SUI
perintendents and other agents of the COM
panies, have made their contrasts and en-
ployed their men upon coin basis. Their
honor stands pledged with the miners and
other creditors Of the company, with
whom those contracts have been made,
and that faith has been pledged upon the
g. -. .L.s ~, h,,,,.,- of n Halifnrnian
should be at least as sacred as that Of the
Washoeite whose name is synonymous
with rascal in the dictionary Of |" the
Bay" These companies are deeply in
debt for work faithfully done and mate
rails honestly and uusringly furnished AT
the order and under the eye Of the COM
panies' proper agents. Their creditors in
washoe are also indebted to the mer-
chants in San Francisco, whom they have
calculated to pay, as they contracted to
do, in gold and silver coin. They, miners
and all have waited upon the companies
during all, the long delay which the law
allows between the levy of assessments
and the day of sale of delinquent stock.
The miners have "run their face upon
the strength of the amounts due from the
companies; their creditors-the boarding
house keeper and the merchant-have
waited patiently for the miners to receive
that pay, and thus through every link of
the chain Of receipt and payment, that
ends at last in the pocket Of the San Fran
cisco merchant. And to glorious end
and contamination they have waited
The day arrives, when each and all expect
to receive from the Secretaries their re-
spective Just dues, when they are met by
these agents of the companies, who With
shame on their faces, and the mortified air
of dishonored men, inform them that the
San Francisco stockholders have rendered
them, at par, greezbGeks, worth forty cents
on the dollar 1t is unnecessary to state,
for everybody knows the glaring fact,
that one dollar and sixty cents per day
viii not put food in the miners belly and
coarse shirts on his back; vet such is the
pay which these paltry San Francisco
rascals, who pirate about honesty, offer
the men whom they have solemnly con-
tracted with for four dollars in coin and
who, on the faith Of that promise, have
toiled away their weary months in the
dark, damp, poisonous, perilous bowels of
their mines. 1t is the miners to whom
the most of the indebtedness of these COM
panies is directly due. 1t IS these toilers,
but in-paid at the best upon whom this
rascally swindle directly falls, and with
terrible force. AS we said at the outset,
the Secretaries have, under the eircum-
stances Of this greenbaok tender, post
poned the sales, thus putting off the evil
hour, in hope that more honest course
viii suggest itself to the swindling San
Francisco gang. We don't expect any
thing of the kind. There never was any
thing apparent in any acts Of the "mer-
chant princes" lawyers and judges of the
/" Bay City" to-day bankrup: and to-
morrow talking millions. that ever gave
us an exalted opinion of their
honor. We expect to see them
carry out their theiving programme. We
expect to see the Secretaries compelled to
pay OF the miners in greenbacks, and then
we expect to see such another hell raised
In these mountains, as thatthe sound there
Of viii make another earthquake at the
Bay. We caution these San Francisco
gentlemen to beware for although their
persons are out of harms way their pro-
perty is not, and such another wreck and
ruination as viii be made Of mines aud
mills in this Territory if the miners are
thus swindled and wronged. was never
vet seen or heard Of. Leaving this aspect
of the thing for a moment let US take an
other glance at the subject. We have the
names Of these greenback swindlers in our
possession. They have sought to CLOAK
their rascality under cover of agents, the
Express company and the like, who are
merely authorized to make the tender and
are not supposed to know their principals
We know them. We can give their names
TO those of orr citizens who are indebted
at San Francisco. To the course these
thieves arepursuing there is but one prac-
ticable defense, and that is retaliation.
Where they owe hundreds Of dollars in
assessments, our merchants owe them
thousands of dollars for goods. Deal with
them with their own yardstick and mea-
sure, let their standard ofhonesty be yours
in your dealings with them; let the sauce
with which they dress our goose be hber-
ally poured upon their gander, and see
who will get sick of the dainty dish first.