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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28

INTERESTING EXPERIMENT WITH SHOT
AND IRoN PLATBs.-A private letter
from an officer Of the gunboat Essex, in
Red river, published in the Cincinnati
Commercial, gives this account of an inter-
esting series of experiments at Fort de
Russy: Some experiments were tried with
the nine-inch guns of the Essex on
the iron casemated battery of Fort de
Russy, prior to its destruction, to test its
power of resistance and the strength of
the guns. The writer says: "Our nine
inch pierced the iron and twenty inches of
wood, throwing the bars ofiron all around.
Some ofthe pieces ofiron were thrown up
ward some sixty feet. One piece about
ten feet long came down endways with
such force that it run plumb through q
log four feet in circumference. Nobody
could possibly have stood behind the case
mate, the conclusion was so tremendous,
and the splinters would have killed them.
We then tried the hundred-pounders,
with the same effect. We threw our solid
shot against it, and in the same hole
planted shell, which exploded, throwing
up the iron for ten feet all around. After
we had experimental till the captain was
satisfied that the place was not impregna-
bic, as the rebels thought we set fire to it
and burned the remaining timbers.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28

The APPROACH TO CHATTANOOGA
We give the following poetic and beauti-
full abstract from letter of Bayard Tay-
lor concerning the approach to Chatta-
nooga: "A glorious region for painter
and poet whatever plowmen may make
it. At last, threading needles eye of a
tunnel, We begin to get into broader
ground, and the Tennessee bears us COM
pany. Six miles from the Hawks Nest
we pass the clustered villiges of General
Wards brigade One-Hundred-and
fifth Illinois is there, and has one of the
most beautiful and tastefully adorned
camps l ever saw. Triumphal arches Of
evergreens-broad, clean, avenues, rustic
seats-altogether it would make an ex-
quisite page for some new edition of rural
architecture. We wind around the angle
of the mountain wall of Lookout; camps
glittering on the hills everywhere in the
morning sun, umuli of red earth, with
sentinels passing to and fro; regiments
checkering the low grounds; engines
backing and filing; great storehouses,
showing new in their fresh planed wood /;
forts dumb, but not dead the whole land
scape alive with crowds and caravans !;
and there, in the middle of it all, like a
rusty hatchet buried in the live oak that
grew around it, lies Chattanooga.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28

BoARD.-It is impossible now to get
any kind of a respectable boarding house
for less than five dollars week for males
and four dollars for females. Two young
working women, who have been boarding
in house at the west side of the city for
several years, had the price of board lately
raised from two to three dollars. Yester-
day their landlord informed them that he
should further raise the price of board to
four dollars per week. As this would
take the whole of their weekly earnings,
these poor girls are compelled to look for
cheaper, and of course less respectable
place. AS it was they had only one dol
lar week to find clothing, etc., but with
the rise proposed they would have moth
ing left.-N. Y. Sun, April 2lR. ,
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AInhnmn and ,hs union.

The cause of the Union still lives in Al
ALBANIA. A large meeting was held in
Huntsville, Alabama, recently. Speeches
were made by Hon. ]. Clemens and Judge
Humphreys, andresolutions adopted urg-
ing Convention for the purpose of fadopt-
ing some mode for the restoration of peace
and the rights and liberties of the people.
Mr.. Clemens's speech is SO matterful and
significant that we give it in full:
"This is an adjourned meeting from
that held at this place on Saturday last, of
which the country people did not have
sufficient notice to attend. The object OF
the meeting was explained at the Saturday
meeting. will re-state it for the benefit
of those who were not then present. The
object of the meeting is the restoration OF
civil government-to bring us law and
order-to secure peace.
We were hurried into revolution against
our earnest protest. This people were
for the Union. Madison county gave
1900 majority against secession, yet we
were carried away without support. We
had no arms. Buchanan was in the
Presidential chair. The day has at last
come, thank God, when we can say that
we take shelter under the stars and
stripes. n.
We propose to call upon the Governor
of the State to convene a Convention for
the purpose of resembling the act of &C.
cession. How far the Governor will pay
respect to our action l cannot say. To be
candid, I think he will pay it none. In
calling upon him we avoid the charge OF
precipitancy, and follow the constitutional
method. After that we have right to
call upon our inherent rights-to act for
ourselves. We have right to assemble
in our capacity as citizens, and re-establish
civil government for ourselves.
Falsehood, fraud and crime took us
out of the Union. They told us that Sc
cession was necessary to save slavery.
During the ten years preceding the re-
bellion, the State of Alabama had not lost
ten slaves a year. We had a rebellion,
and the consequence now is that there is
not a man in the State of Alabama who
can say that he has the title to niger.
Not all of us have title to anything.
The practical result is emancipation. Cot
ton they said, was King-would secure us
recognition and independence. The re-
suit is, Confederate money is worth five
cents on the dollar. They said that civil
liberty and State Rights would be secure
by secession. The first act Of the Confed-
crate Congress deprived the people OF the
right to select their own President. II a
man owned twenty negroes he was ex-
cused from military duty. If a man had
ten starving children he was not. The
man who owned the negroes could stay at
home with his wealth; the man with
starving children must leave them and go
to the battlefield. You and may have
some fears of the success of the Confeder-
acy. Thank God there is now no pros
pect of success" -
Judge Humphreys, one of the ablest
men in the State, was equally decided.
He declared that slavery was dead and by
the hand of the South.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28

A PAINTERS BILL TO CHURCH.
Somebody has sent to the Troy Times the
following curious extracts from Scotch
newspaper of 1907. Copy of a painters
bill presented to the vestry for work done
in our church: ITO filing up chink
in the Red Sea, and repairing the dama-
ges to Pharaoh's hosts. To a new pair Of
hands for Daniel in the lions den, new
set of teeth for the ioness. To repairing
Nebuchadnezzar's beard. To cleaning
the whales belly, vanishing Jonah's face,
and mending his left arm. To new shirt
for Joseph's garment. To sheet anchor,
jury mast, and long boat for Noah's
Ark. To giving blush to the cheek Of
Eve on presenting the apple to Adam.
To painting a new city in the land ofNod.
To cleaning the garden of Eden after
Adams expulsion. To making bride
to the Good Samaritan's horse and mend
ing one of his legs. To putting new
handle to Moses basket and fitting the
bullrushes. To adding more fuel to the
fire in Nebuehadnezzar' furnace.
Received payment, d. q.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28
Tr,n ,xn SILVER M1Sr IN MANI

LEAD AND SILVER MINE IN NAME
Some years ago lead mine was discov-
cred in the upper part of Maine, but moth
ing was done with it, and we now take
pleasure in noticing, by copy Of re-
port before us, that two shafts have been
sunk through one of the veins, one hun
dred and ninety-four feet and one hun
dred and fifteen feet respectively, con-
nected by level ninety feet below the
surface, and at the bottom of the deepest
shaft levels have also been driven, eighty
FIVE feet east and thirty feet west. A
cross-cut is also being driven from the
lower level to strike vein that shows it.
self on the surface about one hundred and
twenty feet further north, in which there
are also traces of lead. Only about three
hundred tons of this ore have been got
out at present, although it is evident that
very little stopping has been done, fur
ther very large quantity could be got out
of the present workings. 1t appears,
however, that as the mine is only in its in
fancy the proprietors wish to extend their
underground operations and more fully
develop their works, and only take sufi-
cient ore out of their present workings to
keep their machinery going. A thirty
horse engine is fixed, which works the
pump to keep the mine clear of water, as
well as a stamp head for crushing the ore;
rollers for further reducing it, and then a
sieve and cutler mill to prepare it for being
washed. All these are fixed, and also the
necessary cuddles, for washing and dress
ing the ore. As they also intend to smelt
their own ore, building has been erected
for that purpose, with chimney for four
furnaces, only one of which has, however,
as vet been fixed. From an assay made
by Professor George H. Cook, on the ore
in different States, he found from ten oun-
ces to twenty-eight ounces of silver to the
ton $4,000 pounds) Of lead; and at two
different trials of the cinder, which yielded
eight per cent. of loud, forty-Gght ounces
of silver to the ton of lead was found. In
England the mean average of silver pro-
duce of the lead ores during six years end
ing December 1859, varied from nine to
twelve ounces of silver in each ton 2,240
pounds) of lead, to thirteen in Glamorg-
anshire, and to thirty-fve ounces in Corn
wall, and forty in Devonshire.-Cin. r.
R. Record, AprH l4th.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28

The following mysterious extract Is
taken from the New York correspondence
of the Boston Journal: There is q small
room in the Astor House, on the lower
floor, around which clusters quite as much
interest as any room in the nation, ex-
cent the Presidents room in the White
House. It's occupant-and he has held
the room for many years-is quiet AMI
apparently unobtrusive man, moving
about the corridors with cat-ike step,
rarely speaking to any one, being rarely
spoken to, and of so quiet and subdued q
mein that his presence wonld not be no.
ticed by stranger. He comes and goes
almost without obseryation-passing away
in the evening train and fitting back with
the early morning light. Few men Of inn
portance Of rank, in civil OF military life,
pass through New York without visiting
this room. 1t is the headquarters Of the
conservative element of the land, without
regard to party. Fremont does not visit
il, but Mcclellan does. Butler did not
call in his recent passage through New
York, but Governor Seymour is quite at
home in the Chambers. The plan for the
reorganization Of the rebel States, and the
conservative plan for conducting the next
Presidential campaign, are here mapped out
and perfected Influences that sgitate
Congress and the State Legislature, and
knock into pi the schemes Of politicians,
can be traced to tflis little chamber which
is the New York home OF Thuriow
Weed" 1e "a
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28


No human being can be isolated and
self-sustained. The strongest and bravest
and most hopeful, yet acknowledged and
unacknowledged to themselves, are mon
uments ofhungry soul yearnings for com
panionship and sympathy. For the want
Of this, what wrecks of humanity lie
strewn about us. Youth wasued for
mocking semblance of friendship. Adrift
at the mercy of chance, for the want of a
grasp of firm true hand, and kindly
loving heart to counsel. 1t is affecting to
see how strong is this yearning, SO fatal to
its possessor if not guided rightly, such
life anchor, if safely placed. Friendless!
What a tragedy may be hidden in that one
little word. None to labor for; none to
love or smile with; none to care whether
we lose or win in life's struggle. A kind
word or smile, coming to such q one un-
expectedly at such crisis of life, how
often has it been the plank Of the drown
ing man, lacking which he surely must
have perished. these, surely, we must
bestow as we pass those less favored than
ourselves, whose souls are waiting for our
sympathetic recognition. Faany Fern.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28

A SLAvEHoLpRR's ADVICE TO HIS
SLAyEs.-Mr. McClurg, the member OF
Congress from Missouri who attacked
Gen. Frank Blair in Congress, SO merci-
lessly the other day, has given permission
to four Of his slaves to go into the army,
securing to each ofthem whatever COM
uensation he himself may be entitled to as
s slayeowner, and stipulating that in case
of the death of the men, their wives and
children shall receive the money. He has
also written a letter to his "yellow man"
.Caswell, in which this passage occurs:
i" Make your own choice. Kyou go into
the army, let me hear from you often.
Make peace with your God, and you need
not fear death. Be temperate; save your
earnings. If you ever fight, fight with
desperation, and never surrender. Enroll
your name as Caswell McClurg, and try
to give honor to it. In the army, give
your idle hours in learning to read and
write"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28

GENERAL GRANT AND HIS CIGAR.-A
private letter from Lieutenant James
Hutchinson, of the Veteran Reserve Corps,
and formerly of the Thirteenth New York
Volunteers, furnishes little incident in
which Gen. Grant was one of the actors.
Lieutenant Hutchinson, is stationed in
Washington, and was on duty as an Off
Ger of the day at the War Department.
An order was in force which forbade
smoking in the building, and the sentries
were instructed to enforce it. 1t so hap
pened that among those who called to see
General Halleck, was Lieutenant General
Grant, who approached the door conf
IDENTIFY, cigar in mouth, expecting doubt
less to pass without question; but the
veteran soldier on guard knew his duty
better. Bringing his piece down to a
charge, he barred the General out, and in
formed him, respectfully, that he could not
go in and keep his cigar. The Lieutenant
General is too good disciplinarian to dis
pute such point, so he yielded. threw
the obnoxious weed away, and went in.
After his departure an order came from
General Halleck resembling the order
about smoking, so far as it affected army
officers.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28

OLD GORDON AND HIS LADDIBs.-John
Gordon, who died few years ago, near
Turriff, Banfshire, Scotland, was reputed
to have attained the remarkable age of l32
years. Most travellers in that part called
at his cottage, and among the visitors one
day, about the close of harvest, was
young Englishman, who coming up to the
door of the cottage, accosted venerable
looking man, knitting hose, with $50,
my old friend, can you see to knit at your
advanced period Of lifes One hundred
and thirty-two is, truly, rare age "
Plague take the man! it'll be my grand
father ye're seeking. I'm only seventy
three. Yen find him round the corner O
the hous'." On turning round the cor.
ner, the stranger encountered debihtated
old man, whose whitened locks bore tes-
timony to his having long passed the mer-
idian of life, and whom the stranger at
once concluded to be John Gordon him
self. /" You seem wonderfully fresh, my
good sir, for so old man! doubt not
you have experienced many yicissitudes
in the course of your very long life J"
"Whats your wull, sir !" inquired the
person addressed, whose sense of hearing
was somewhat impaired, The observation
was repeated. "O'll, yen be wanting
my father, I reckon; he's i the yaird
there" The stranger now entered the
garden. where he at last found the venera-
Bile old man busily employed in digging
potatoes, and humming "The Battle Of
Harland." II have had some difficulty
in finding you, friend, as I have success
sively encountered your grandson and son,
both of them ! mistook as you indeed,
they seem as old as yourself. Yet labor
is rather hard for one at your advanced
age" at is" replied John; "but I'm
thankful that I'm able fort, as the kaddies,
puir things, are no very stout now."
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28

"Ws CAN ALL EARN OUR OWN LIVING,
FATHER" was the remark made in a fam
lily by one of several young ladies, a short
time since. "That is right my daughter" 4"
was the reply of the parent, that fact
regard as the point of triumph in your ed
ucation. Able and willing are the two
words which, when the occasion comes, il
come it shall, will insure you success, and
win dicate the principle that women should
be educated for business and usefulness
as well as for ornament and attractiye-
ness. Never fear to work for your sup
port when necessity shall come, nor fail
to encourage others in SO doing, though
you may claim an exemption through the
efforts ofothers."
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28

JOSH BILLINGS on SHANaHIs.-The
shanghi reuster IL gentle, and speaks in
forrin tung. He IL bilt on piles like
Sandy Hill crane. Ifhe had bin blt with
4 legs, he wud resembul the peruvian
lama. He IL not game animil, but quite
often Gums off sekund best in ruff and
tumble fite; like the injuns they cant
stand siyilization, and are fast disappear.
ing. Tha roost on the ground similar tew
the mud turkle. Tha oftin go to sleep
standing, and sumtimes pitch over, and
when tina dew, they enter the ground like
q pick-axe. There food consis ov korn in
the ear. Tha crow like jackass, troubled
with bronekeetucks. Tha will eat az
mutch to onst az = district skule master,
and ginerally sit down rite oph tew keep
from tipping over. Tha are dredful un-
handy tew cook, yu hey tu bile one eend
ov them to time, yu kant git them awl
intu a potash kittle tu onst. The fema1
reuster lays an egg az kokernut, and il
sick fur week afterwards, and when she
matches out litter ov young shanghis she
has tew brood them standin, and then
kant hver but 8 oy them, the rest standin
round on the outside, like boys aroun a
cirkus tent, gittn peep under the kan
yass whenever tina can. The man who
fust brought the breed intu the kuntry ort
tew own them awl an be obliged tew feed
them on grasshoppers, caught bi hand. I
never owned but one and he got choked
to deth by kink in clothes line, but not
until he had swallowed Is feet ov it. Not
eny shanghi for me, if yu pleze; wud
rather bord a travelling kulporter, and az
fur eating one, give me billed owl rare
dun, or turkee buzzard roasted hole,
and stuffed with pair of injun rubber
butes, but not emmy shanghi for me, not
shanghi !-P -Poughke
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28

The STRAsBuRG CLocK.-The clock is
struck in this way The dial is some
twenty feet from the floor, on each side Of
which is cherub or little boy, with q
mallet, and over the dial is small bell ;
the cherub on the left strikes the first
quarter, that on theright the second quar-
ter. Some fifty feet above the dial, in a
large niche, is huge figure of Time, bell
in his left, scythe in his right hand. In
front stands figure of "a young man with
a mallet, who strikes the third quarter, on
the bell in the hand of Time, and then
turns, and then glides with slow step,
round behind Time, comes out an old man
with mallet, and places himself in front.
As the hour of twelve comes, the old man
raises his mallet and deliberately strikes
twelve tunes on the bell, that echoes
through the building, and is heard all
around the region of the church. The old
man glides slowly behind Father Time,
and the young man comes on ready to
perform his part as the time comes round
again. Soon as the old man has struck
twelve and disappeared, another set Of
machinery is set in motion, some twenty
feet higher still. 1t is thus There is a
high cross with the image of Christ on it.
The instant twelve is struck, one of the
apostles walks out from behind, comes in
front, turns, facing the cross, bows, and
walks on around to his place. Ashe does
so another comes out in 'front.' turns, bows,
and passes in. So twelve apostles, figures
as large as life, walk around, bow, and
pass on. As the last appears, an enor-
nous cock, perched on the pinacle Of the
clock, slowly flaps his wings, stretches
forth his neck, and crows three times, SO
loud as 70 be heard outside the church for
some distance, and so naturally as to be
mistaken for real cock. Then all is as
silent as death. No wonder this clock is
the admiration of Europe. 1t was made
in 1871, and has performed these mechan-
ical wonders ever since, except about fifty
wears, when it stood out for repair.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28

A well-primed lover of the bottle, who
had lost his way, reeled into teetotal
grocery and hiccupped: "Mr. -, do
you-keep-a-anything-good to take
heres" "Yes," replied the temperance
shop-keeper, 1--WE have excellent cold
water-the best thing you can have"
We'll, know it." was the reply "there
is no one thing that's done so much for
navigation as that"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-28

san Francisco Gold and silver Mining
Company. WaShoe Lode. Gold Hi! District, y. t.
Notice hereby given that al meeting OF the Board
OF Trustees OF said company. held the 2bth day Of
April, lS6I an assessment OF one Dollar per share
WAS levied upon the capital stock OF said company
PAYABLE on the 3ISt day OF May, lS6l In United
States gold co!n TO the Secretary. 20 Jno Sygren
Superintendent. AZ the mine
ANY stock upOn which the said assessment shall re-
main unpaid on Tuesday. the 3lSt day OF May, lS6t
will De advertised on that day as delinquent. anu
unless payment shall b. made before, Will be sold on
Monday, the ljth day Of June, l>6i 10 pay the de
Quenr assessment. together with costs Of advertiS
ing and expenses OT the sale. By Orer OF the BoSrd
oi Trustees E.V. JOICE. Sec'y
Once Ne. corner Washington and Battery streets.
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The FIRST ENGLISH AcTREss.-Now,
the resumption of the old practice of "wo-
mems parts being represented by men in
the habits of women" gave offense, and
this is assigned as reason in the first pa
tents accorded to Killigrew and ravenant,
why those managers were authorized to
employ actresses to represent all female
characters. Killigrew was the first to
avail himself of the privilege. 1t was
time. Some of the Rhodes "boys" were
men past forty, who frisked it as wenches
of fifteen; even real kings were kept wait
ing because theatrical queens had not yet
shaved; when they did appear they look
ed like "the guard disguised" and when
the prompter called "Desdemona"- en-
ter Giant! Who the lady is who first
trod the stage as professional actress is
not known, but that she belonged to Kill
igrew's company is certain. The char.
acter she assumed was Desdemona, and
she was introduced by prologue written
for the occasion by Thomas Jordan. 1t
can hardly be supposed that she was too
modest to reveal her name, and that Of
Anne Marshall has been suggested, as also
that of Margaret Hughes. On the Sd of
January, 1861, Beaumont. & Fletcher
"Beggars Bush" was performed at Kill.
CREWS theatre, sit being very well done"
says Pepy, "and here was the first time
that ever 1 saw women come upon the
stage" Davanent did not bring forward
his actresses before the end of June, 1861,
when he produced the second part of the
" Siege Of Rhodes" with Mrs. Daven-
port as Roxalana and Mrs. Saunderson as
Ianthe; both these ladies, with Mrs. Da-
vies and Mrs. Long, boarded in Dayen-
ants house. Killigrew abused his pryil-
ege to employ ladies. In 1861 his COM
edy, the "Parson's Wedding" wherein
the plague is made comic incident Of,
connected with unexampled proaigacy,
was acted, I" 1 am told" are Pepy's words
"by nothing but women, at the Kings
house."-Dr. DorGn.