Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-01
THE PUBLIC Discomfort.

have arrived. except in the limited num-
Der of claims which are taking out pay
rock, is almost universally attributed to
the position of suits in the District Court.
Hundreds of suits are there lying in abey-
ance, until the decision of which, parties
are unwilling to risk further expendi-
ture upon the Irrigated claims, or are tied
up, and prohibited from doing so by in
junction. The Judge of this District, be-
| ing an invalid, has been unable to dis
charge the duties of his Office, and of those
to whom he could apply for assistance,
one has more business in his own dis
trict than he can well attend to, and the
other has, justly or unjustly, lost the con-
fdence of the community, to an extent
that renders his occupancy of the bench
rather an unwelcome usurpation than
otherwise. The recent report Of the Grand
Jury has had an effect upon the public
mind, quite the reverse of cheering. The
people have, through an utter disregard OF
the requirements of law. been for long
time kept in darkness and ignorance of the
financial condition of the county and the
conduct of the officers of the country.
After a long and weary session and
close and thorough investigation OF affairs
the Grand Jury have come before the peo-
pie with report, that tells them that they
have for months past been deliberately
and outraseously swindled by those Off
Gals who have had the control of affairs
in their hands. Certain parties, all of
whose names have not yet TRANSFERRED,
have been indicted, but the damage is not
repaired. The doors of the Court House
are locked, and the indicted swindlers
will walk around the streets with
their hands in their breeches pockets,
iingling, in the ears of the plundered
people, their stolen gains, and the people
can whistle an accompaniment. People
will talk" and the old story that judges
can be bought cheap in this Territory has
been told so often, so loudly, and for so
long, that people believe it, and rogues act
upon that hypothesis. This is decidedly
bad state of things-bad to believe, bad to
admit, and worse because it is true, (not
the corruption story, but the state Of
opinion.) This murmuring and grumbling
is generally low, but sometimes wakes
pretty loud, and the people and the organs
of the people use unpleasant words, such
as Republication, which is bad, and others
that we shall not repeat at this time, which
are worse. The Enterprise of this morn
ing talks about this matter at very con-
siderable length; and although We do not
agree with our contemporary in all his
views, yet in the remarks made in the fol-
lowing extract we very fully concur:
at is time the people, whose faith and
hope and trust have been outraged, should
speak their resentment and denunciation in
thunder tones. Say to the authorities at
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that we are disguised with their Judicial
puppet-show; that we want no Judges whose
purchase price is the debated question Of the
town, and whose efficiency is destroyed by
this prostitution of their characters, if not by
their own actions; that we want Judges who
do not make the public convenience subser-
Went to their own interest-men who will
not prorogue an important session OF Court
to attend to their own private affairs or pleas
ures. Tell every county and municipal OH
Ger that the Law prescribes manner in which
they shall perform their duties, and provides
penalties for violations thereof; that any Of.
Tense which will render them liable to the
prescription of the law will be prosecuted
to the utmost penalty. And more: tell them
in your capacity Of electors that every man
who shall have discharged his official duties
in an eauivocal manner, though he may not
have offended so far as to incur legal pen
atty, may never more hope TO come before the
community as a candidate, except to meet
with stigmatizing defeat, wherewith the COM
munity can repay former unfaithfulness. The
power rests with the people, and the fault is
theirs if they do not exercise for their own
good"
What are you going to do about it =
is the question that always arises on these
occasions, and it is always much easier to
find fault than to devise remedy. So
far as the Judiciary are concerned, the
people have no power in themselves to
remedy any existing evil, although, like
the clown in the circus, they may have
good deal to say" The authorities at
Washington select and furnish our Judges,
and is to Washington that we must look
for any changes in the Judicial De-
partment of our government. A very
general expression of dissatisfaction from
the bar of the Territory might have sal
utary effect; but any man with half an
eye can see that such a raid upon the
bench would be very unpleasant and
decidedly self-sacrifcing movement on
the part of any lawyer. So far as the
other officials of the county, whose acts
have been shown by the report, TO have
been unwise or unjust, the people can set
tie the matter on election day, which is
still some time ahead. If at that election,
they succeed in lettering themselves it
will only be for the future, and will not
remedy the evils of the past.
The great, grand growl, about the scar
city of money which arises from the whole
mass of the community isprobably caused
by matters and conditions beyond any
control of the people, and the remedy for
which must be wrought out by time and
circumstances, and which cannot be has
tened by any action Of our own. We
must grin and bear it.
DIFFERENCE OF OPrNIoS.-The follow
ing extracts from two of our exchanges
are striking exempliication of the re-
markable extent to which two great