Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-16
LIBERALITY.

Hinder the above caption, We find an
article in the S. +. Bulletin of Tuesday last,
which is particularly seasonaole' and
which is as forcible in its application to
this Territory as to California where it was
written: more so, in fact, in proportion as
the spirit of which it speaks is manifested
here to a greater degree than in that State
independently of the standing claim which
the soldiers OF the Union have upon the
pockets of civilians, there is at the present
time perfect army of emiSsaries Of one
society or another raiding throughout the
land, each armed with some species of IT.
resisuble demand upon the finances OF the
citizen. The following extract from the
B,.Hstin's article sketches the matter of In
truthful and forcible style!
a speciraen Californian, the very soul Of lib
.ralitv il in our eve rs we write. By judclouS
nunpiur process. and the collation. OF several
fae,s gathered incidentally from oenehciaries, We
have discovered how deeply his hOeraIity has
been sounded during the past week He has
good heart his monthly contribution. When he
heard how every dollar given TO the Christian
Commission was converted into comfort for some
wounded or dying soldier, he shielded out 70 that
as If there were other object OF charitable Con
,idera,ion in existence. The Freedmen, starving
N the unused air of liberty. touched his heart and
empted his pocket Luckily it soon filled again,
and be remembered the orphan, the worse than
orphan and the unprotected female in our city.
The plates passed round IN church and he eased
his conscience with deposit Of gold for the poor
Of bis own communion were in need. He paid
his quarterly pew which is no tribe in these
DAYS He pledged himself 10 4 monthly subscriP-
lion 10 aid church struggling 10 strike its roots
low enough TO support itself Father Gallagher
wanted money for something and he pad II be-
cause with his liberal habits II Is easier 20 give
than 10 be teased He gave something for sun
powder 10 celebrate Lincoln denomination with,
for nothing but gunPowder could give sufficient
expressiou to his jOy-and was not careful TO
stipulate for a Vice Presidency or . chance to
speak at the celebration meeting One day of
the week he gave 10 acting as intelligence ONCE,
10 find places for company of nswly-arrived
strangers consigned to him by an old Eastern
friend. Last OF all came an agent begging tri-
e for still another enterprise so dear 20 his heart
shat Il shocked him greatly 20 remember that his
givings had already exhausted his receipts for
she month. He had inherited prejudice against
mortsagiuS his house TO raise pocket money, and
realized on his Gould and Curry stock without a
sacrifice frighrful TO contemplate In this emer-
gency q happy thought occurred TO him. He
agreed TO assign over 20 the last beggar all his per
sonal and real, productive and unproductivs. di
yidend- paving and aSseSsable property on the
sole condition that the assignee pay his trlhing
board bills and continue in his name the gifts il
10 his custom 70 make to all needy persons, char.
table societies and objects worthy Of bensvoleuee
The proposition was not accepted at once, but i
Il should be, he proposes to suggest II 10 NJ;
friends. and he is sure that some of them Will
fnd II quite as profitable as agreeable
The foregoing is home picture, recog-
nized at once by every citizen; for no class
of the community is exempt from the per-
tinacious opportunities of the benevolent
hishwaymen who bid US stand and deliver
on every day of the week. The multifa-
nous objects for which We are daily called
upon to pungle, are, almost without ex-
ception, praiseworthy, and the committees
who do the hard and thankless work Of
collecting are generally actuated by the
noblest motives; but these facts make the
constant drain none the less eXhaustng.
These heavy and constant demands upon
the purses of the people, are being made
at a time when to respond'to them as one
would wish is more difficult and oppres-
sive than at any former period of the coun-
try's history. The scarcity of ready money
was never so universally felt and appre-
ciated as at present, and it is unfortunate
that the exigencies of the nation should
have produced both the suffering and the
comparative inability to alleviate it. In
der these circumstances, it is as well that
the citizen should carefully weigh the
comparative merits Of the different objects
for which these constant demands are
made upon his resources, select that par
ticular one which he deems most merito-
nous, aid and sustain that to the extent
that his circumstances will justify, and
arm himself with fortitude sufficient to
answer other applicants with that most
difficult word, No"