Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-11-29

50 IN Que COURSE comes tue uoIniuS auo
the evening paper. By many they are
undoubtedly supposed to make their dur
nal appearance, like the luminary named,
through natural causes-come Of them
selves as it were. There is, however, a
class of the human family that knows
different story from that, altogether. The
column or columns of editorial matter
that greets the eye of the reader each day
as he opens his paper, may not be re-
markable for any great amount of bril-
liancy Of talent or profundity of wisdom
but it has to be written, nevertheless.
A great proportion of the reading matter
may be selections from cotemporaneous
journals. But these journals have to be
examined and closely scanned, and the
selections made with reference to their
probable interest to the community for
whom the editor has to cater. AL this
requires head-work." The local col
umns may be found to possess little of
interest. If so, the fault is with the times
and the community, not of the reporter.
1t costs that almost unknown individual
as many weary steps and as much dill
gent search to find out that nothing
worth recording has happened on bis beat
as it does to find material for long col
umns of knowing accidents by food and
field" So with the editor in his sane
tum. When times are stirring, when
events are heaping one upon another, and
all the town is agog with exciting topics,
it is no trick at all for the professional
ink-slinger to rattle off two or three col
umns of his notions about matters and
things. But there are times Of drouth in
the sanctum as well as elsewhere-times
when the good burghers walk sleepily
around with their hands in their pockets,
and when the stereotyped query of
" what's the news ;" meets with a shrug
of ennui, but no response. Such a
time creates a drouth in the sanctum,
and at such time is the tripod an unen-
viable seat. The citizen hungry for that
gossip which is not floating upon the
streets, neither in the bar-rooms nor the
Rialtos where merchants do most congre-
gate, seeks it in his paper and when that
is "dry" the citizen curseth thereat and
perchance damneth the editor. 1t is well.
The editor is used to anathema even as
the cells to skinning alive. 1t is upon
such an evil day that We have fallen.
There IS drouth of stirring topics, and
the editor is writing against time and
space. Themes political are not exhaust
ed quite, but the people have had their
fifty or sixty plates of that kind Of liver
and their appetite pals thereon, and their
bowels yearn for change of diet. We
fed the people for many months with
sound political doctrine; we taught them
the way they should go-and they went
it with perfect rush. At least very
fine majority of them did, and those that
didn't wish they had. The country is
safe and the people know it ; SO that there
is no use of enlargins on that subject.
War news is the only topic that would
rouse the people from their present apa-
thy, but for few days past the storm has
shut down on the telegraph. We might,
perhaps, indulge in speculations on pro-
liabilities, but people are so full of self
conceit that they think they can guess as
we'll as ourselves. There is little stir
about our county affairs, but that is hard
ly sufficient to fill the editorial bill. We
search in vain the columns of our cotem-
poraries to find something to coincide or
to quarrel with. Those of our own
State and California are suffering from
the same drouth that parches US. Those
from the East are still filed with politi-
cal fulminations and representations of
results of the election which at the
date of latest numbers received was still
some ten or twelve days in future. Now
that the turmoil, excitement and anxiety
of the campaign is over and the result
known, t9 pick up one of those papers
and glance over its contents, is horrible
in the first degree. 1t gives us the blues.
We lie back in our chair and scratch our
head for q theme and get nothing but
dandruff. " We are perple1ed but not in
despair as the Scripture says, but in the
words of Webster, " Through the darkness
of the present we see the brightness of the
future like the sun IN Heaven" The
storm will soon have passed; the light
ming will fash US good news from Sher-
man; the Legislature will soon meet;
there win be measures to approve and
measures p find fault with, and all the
editors will be as happy as clam at high
water, and as busy as the devil in gale