Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-06-14
FEARFUL AND WONDERFUL.

Inc people VI lIIG dSAAAS SOSASS "a S--N
United States, more familiar with that
species of the genus homo yclept the
"Greaser" have not been wont to regard
that nation with that awe and dread
which a weak and timid people regard
powerful and warlike neighbor. The
idea of being invaded, conquered and an
nexed by that tobacco colored Republic
OF Empire, or whatever form of Govern
ment may, for the time being, hold the
seals of State in the Halls of the Monte
zumas, has not hitherto haunted the day.
dreams, nor disturbed the night visions
of the people of California. The neigh
boring kingdoms of Kamehameha or Po-
mare have held about equal rank in the
American estimates of warlike power,
with the land of the cactus and the snake
beloved and protected by Ne,tstrG Sonora
de Ia Guadalupe. The boot of invasion
has hitherto been upon the leg Of the
Yankee, and the name of the .flibustero
has, 10. these many years bugaboo to
brighten Aztec babes and greasers OF
larger growth withal. This ancient state
of things, it would appear, has got to
incontinentally " dry" and it is the watch.
man on the lofty height of Telegraph Hill
who is to keep his eye peeled for "long,
low, black, rakish' looking schooners,"
crowded with fibuSters of variegated
hue, from that of the saddle to that of the
boot, armed with macheteS and hint-lock
horse pistols. Caraho! but things have
Topped! lone must so abroad to hear
news from home" quoth the ancient adage.
We never should have heard of all these
woes that are to come upon us, had not
the San Francisco Bulletin wisely kept
correspondent at the Court Of Berlin in
the Kingdom of Prussia. Dutch courage
is a big thing in fight, and has helped
many man of faint heart to stand up
manfully in a contest where his show was
dismal. but we never dreamed that so in
finitesimal an infusion of TeutoniSm as
has been instilled into the veins of mise
rable Mexico by the establishment O Of
the bogus Empire of Macmillan, could
have stimulated here up to the fighting
point. Even the correspondent, who
thus puts us on our guard against this
suddenly dangerous neighbor, seems to
place no confidence in the fighting quail
ties of the Aztec population, but hints
that it is French Expedition" that we
are to fear an expedition of French arm
ed forces, under the flag of Macmillan.
Here is what the correspondent at Berlin
says about the matter:
Its easy to be seen why the European sys.
TEN OF legitimacy is more dangerous 10 Califor-
MA and sll the southern republics which former
" were spanish colonies, than to the other parts
of America. II Macmillan aScends the throne Of
the MonteZuma by the so-called right of leSit
rnRcy the former republic Of Mexico Is usurpa
ton, and consequently all her treaties are null
and void. All the provinces, all the countries,
which At the beginning of this century belonged
20 New Spain or the Vice Royalty of Mexico, will
be called upon return to the obedience of their
legitimate sovereign and If they should not
come in peaceably, they will be constrained by
the power Of arms TO acknowledge their master
bv divine righi-their master by the donation Of
Pope Alexander VI. You Californians may look
to that in time. Beware, for French expedition
NAV coustrain you to the obedience Of your cody
master, the Emperor Macmillan l."
The foregoing ought, probably, be suff-
Gent to put every soul in California,
from San Diego to Siskyou," in frenzy
of terror and excitement, but so blindly
infatuated are the American people with
sense of their perfect ability to fog any
force that all Europe, Asia, Africa and
Schleswig Holstein can send to invade
their soil, that it is a good two to one bet
that the fear ofan invasion and gobbling up
by the Greaso-Deutsche Empire, will not
induce the San Francisco Supervisors to
appoint single extra policeman, or hurry
up the Comanche single minute. While
the people of California will duly appre-
ciate the purity of the motives of the cor
respondents warning" their comment
thereon will be summed up in the scorn-
full expression" Gas -