Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-18
&AHrHRs AND THfNas,

64NNO I2lNSS
The paste-eot and scissors are at all
times indispensable adjtncts at the edito-
rial table. but there has not been time
for months past when those valuable aids
have been in such active requisition as to-
day. We can generally manage to rustic
up some sort of topic of public interest or
conversation upon which to obtrude our
opinion, but there appears, to-day, to be
an utter stagnation of public talk. Our
citizens who are not busy at work, are sit
ting quietly and meditatively in the shade,
chewing the cud of fancy, smoking the
pine of meditation. or quafing the lager
of le,hargy. We hear no noisy and angry
discussions upon the currency question;
the reduction of wages excitement" ap-
pears to have died away the ''raid" Az
zle has ceased to excite interest or alarm,
and the State Government question seems
TO trouble the head of nobody. There is
a very slight interest manifested in certain
quarters concerning the approaching NOM
nation OF Delegate to Congress but
we have heard of no aspirants for the
office. 1t is barely possible, however, that
General Almon Hovey might be induced
to accept the position, inasmuch as the re-
fusal Of any Office in the gift of the people
"or any other man" is not at all in his
line. The only desire that we have heard
expressed among those with whom we
have conversed upon the topic, has been,
anybody but Judge Mott" should be
sent to represent the Territory. He has
proven worse than nobody at all, and the
idea of returning him again will not begin
to do. About this question, however, as
well as every other of political nature,
there is a general apathy among the Peo-
pie. The only theme, among citizens who
take the trouble to talk at all, is the "hard
times for money" This is a point
that touches everybody, and although
all agree upon the main point, that money
is unprecedentedly non-comeatabie, yet
there is none to point out the way to bet
ter the condition of things, or to fix a
probable date for the "good time coming"
There is any quantity Of good rock being
taken out of the paying mines, the mills
keep laundering and screaming with their
usual uproar, the shipments of bullion
continue after the old style; but the busy
crowds that ere-while filed our streets
have changed their base, and the place
that knew them this spring won't be likely
to know them again this summer. That
their exodus is a matter of much regret,
we are BY no means certain. They were
chiefly class who had no money TO spend
for the benefit of the country, and for
whose labor in developing its resources
there was no demand. Those whose in
terests are permanent in the land, appear
to be laboring under no Encouragement.
Those mines in which the owners ever
had any confidence are either being stead
ily driven forward toward development,
or have suspended operations merely tenn
porarily, with the determination to pro-
coed again, as soon as an easier money
market, to which all look forward with
confidence, shall enable them to do so.
The commercial papers at the Bay give US
more cheerful views Of the condition of
financial affairs, and although mining Sc
curides do not rank very high in the mar
ket at present, we have reason to hope for
change which will give operations an
impetus before any great lapse Of time.
The confidence which our citizens feel of
this eventual improvement, is visible on
every hand, in the erection of new and
substantial buildings and the improvement
of property generally. The times have
been rough, and may continue so for
brief season to come, but those who are
able to weather the storm will ere long
find themselves surrounded by more
regular and substantial state of things,
more desirable than the fictitious, inflated
condition of seeming prosperity which
have marked the past days of excitement
and wildcat speculation. So mote it be.