Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-03-07
THE EVENING NEWS.
The Notary Question in Nevada Ter
ritory..A Petition.
CARSON, February u, 1884.
To His Excellency James w. Nye, Governor

CARSON, February IL, 1884.
To His Excellency James w. Nye, Governor
of Nevada Territory:
SIR Your petitioner always prays-your
petitioner always lives in hope-he has no.
thing else to live on! No wonder What
this petition lacks in names is made up in
the body of the petition itself. aspired to
be one Of the "eighteen" of Storey county.
have mania for ofice-Tve always had.
1t keeps me poor, and as l have been accus-
toned to poverty for fifteen years, ! wish to
remain poor. Prosperity would drive me
mad refer you to Captain NJ, Sheriff H.,
Tom B., and as many more as your Excel
lency might demand. must confess, how
ever, that am one of the Sons of Temper
ance. had to do it--that's failing Of
mine. This is the only petition from Storey
county where the petitioner expresses his
own weakness, which almost makes the Pc
titioner meritorious. Now, if l should ap-
peal to your heart, to your well known gene
rosity, and all that-if should tell you that
If should tell you that was born in the
Seventh Ward, New York city No. "a East
Broadway-that my hip is out Of joint, and
has been since l was seven years of age
that it was set right divers times, but, like
my i'll luck, it always flew back again- this
alone, Governor, should get you "on the
hip," and sends me of 10 FHginfa with
"hip, hip, hurrah !" Then, again, I'm an
old Forty-niner, and heavy creditor and
heavier debtor.
1 might tell you that speak and write
foreign Languages correctly, and that in Sto-
rev county there are many of our adopted
citizens who need your assistance through
me, in a notarial way, as it were. Then,
was student of law and leisure, with Bark
Snither, No. = Beekman street, New York.
You may have known him; he was pillar
of Trinity Church, rector; he passed
around the plate ; he was shining pillar.
You should have known what pillar he
was-my God The Smither family, unlike
the Button family, was in luck, his father
drew $8,9O8 in Georgia lottery, which sent
river" Now, my father, Lewis s., was rich
before I was born, and I thought would al
ways remain so but, like most good men,
his money "petered out" and that left me in
an unenviable position; at that time l could
not stand poverty no more than I can at pre-
sent prosperity. Then I could tell you that
am not /" bronzed," that am in favor of
the emancipation proclamation, but did not
swallow the pill so easily as an old othce-
seeker ought. God save me from hypocrisy.
We were both DEM Gratis Once-there, again,
have touched chord in your heart in uni
son once with mine, but now, long time
tangled and out Of tune" Then. again,
am sick; am troubled with "feet on the
BRAIN" I am trying to cure it by taking
Doctor Wildcats assessment powders; his
terms are cash. 1 think he must be quack
or he would credit. I have forgotten who it
was that introduced me to your Excellency,
in the summer of 1861 at the Willows. You
were listening to the execution of El Misere,
from Verdfs "Trontore." You was affect
ed, so was /. looked at you and set you
down for fine, intelligent and benevolent
old gentleman. You, and you alone can
convince me that l was mistaken. l may
digress, but please not forget this is petit
ton. ran for office in Silver City. was
defeated, but {" not muchly." l tried the
usual means. l got in debt to the whole
town and forgot that the whole town was in
debt to me. thought of Don Caesar eBa-
zan and his creditors, and the spokes Of the
royal chariot wheels, but did not know
that a Democrat could tbe beaten by
party never before in power-a party I'M
fedged, as it were. Your Excellency, Unjust
bid you good morning, hoping that you will
not forget me among the Eighteen" l
remain, your poor, honest, wandering, Bo-
hemian friend and supplicant.
A. BRASS BUTTON.