Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-20
TOPICS OF THE DAY.


hearin." Those dry times find a parallel
in the present. The newS-makers are
taking a rest on this side of the continent,
and those who are making history" on
the Eastern shores, have no means of
speedy communication with us OF the Oc-
cident. That break in the telegraph is
the most serious matter of the kind that
has ever taken place upon the line. Fire
and food have conSpired against the wires
and poles at point where repairs cannot
be speedily effected. This misfortune
gives an opportunity for the enemies of
the nation TO fabricate rumors Of disaster,
and the enemies Of the telegraph TO con-
coct all manner Of evil reports and inju-
rious surmises. As q specimen Of the
latter species of vindictveneSs we find in a
San Francisco paper which has q chronic
row with the Telegraph Company, and
hates everybody connected with it as the
devil hates holy water. the following ma
levolent and nonsenSical theory of the
break.
I'VE will afford the desired information in re-
lStion to the frequent and mysterious epitep'ic
fits OF the wires When crea; battles are i'm
pending or in progress, gold, AZ the East, rises
and falls as the Federal arms advance or retreat
Gold is the Thermometer that indicates the rise
and fall of national credit. These momentous
hours are she golden times of mcuey-brokerS anu
greenbsck hucksterS il san Francisco. who have
IN understanding with the Telegraph Company.
Il is then essential 10 procure an nirmity Of the
telegraph-to have the wires down. Thou
sands Of dollars fortunes may De made in day,
if the wires are down and it will pay the green
back spectators TO have the wires dowu-Or.
what i all the same, 10 have them in the con.
dition of non contractors. They could even nj,
ford 10 pay the Telegraph Company to keep the
wires down several days, at an expense OF nj.
teen or twenty thousand dollars; for, by report
ing an extrayacant advance in gold, and having
the wires down q half million dollars could be
realized q; the expense Of the honest business
men of san Francisco.
1.-THE wires were down al day yesterday and
last night. They will probably stay down
some days longer. A bill 10 amend Telegraph
Act is before Congress, and if the wires were not
down certain information could be cOmmuai-
Gated from this side. II might probably pay the
Telegraph Company and the Associated Press 4
hundred thousand dollars 70 keep the wires
down until the adjournment ~ Congress.
Thus, in our opinion. the psople of San Fran
cisco are hoodwinked and robbed by an odiouS
MONOPOLY IL would not be surprising ii, some
time or other the wires We're down through the
direct agency ola Plundered and enraSed com.
mRnity."
We copy the above balderdash as a
sample of the lengths to which "envy,
hatred and malice will carry bad tenn
pered man. The writer knew that there
was not an atom of truth or reason in
what he was saying. He was merely
venting his spleen upon the company be-
cause it refuses 20 transact business for
that particular paper upon that papers
own terms, and because those papers
which have better contract with the tele-
graph than he can obtain. refuse to admit
him to partnership. So much for the
telegraph. We can't get any news BY it
and must even do without it.
Next to the war, which we can't hear
about, comes hard times" which we
can hear too much about, without the aid
of the wives. Times are hard, and
money is scarce, and corn is dollar
bushel, and brother Johns dead ETC.,
ETC., forms the universal and disagreeable
staple of conversation along this gulch,
from the wood-yards at Dayton to Cedar
Hill, with the extensions. We have got
so much money that we don't appear to
notice it (sarkastikle), but we hear so
much about it on the streets that we con-
slider the rumor of hard times" as emit
tied to a considerable more credit than q
Baltimore telegram in the Pi~te. The
new banking operations about to be start
ed in California, of which considerable
has been said heretofore, and concerning
which more will be found, both among
our news matter and in our advertising
columns to-day, give promise of a very
decided "let up" on the strain of the big
purse strings. Several millions of gold
currency will be turned loose upon the
western coast in about ten days, and a
very considerable portion Of it will soon
find its way across the mountains. Those
who are wise in such matters say that this
influx of capital viii give an impetus to
every species of trade and industry among
us. The mines which have been lying
idle for weeks past will resume operations
once more, and the crowds of idle men
who have been so long occupied in games
of throw-off seven-up, and short strings
of billiards, will have chance to go to
work and pay off their whisky bills. So
mote it be.
The panic in the mining share market,
which knocked stocks down so low that
any short of Gould s Curry, or Ophir,
could not be found with deep sea line,
has passed away, leaving behind only that
shakiness and trembling of the knees
which is the regular consequence of big
scare. The tendency of all substantial
stocks has been steadily upwards during
the past week, and many a good promis-
ing mine, which had been squashed hatter
than pancake, and would not sell for
assessments two weeks ago, has begun to
cut figure again in the market, and the
faces Of the holders are not as long by a
foot or two. We have within the week
been able to chronicle, from our own OBJ
servation, several rich strikes in prospect
ing claims in this and the neighboring
districts, and men who have stock in such
mines have a more hopeful and cheerful
look than they have worn for weeks past.
The tightness of the money market pre-
vents very extensive and vigorous prose-
cution of prospecting work. but, as we
have said, that viii soon be remedied.
The paying claims are steadily taking out
huge quantities of rich ore; but they have
-. lo;,c, chat steadily durinO the Ivhola