Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-20
"TIT FOR TAT

Under such head San Franciscan,
who signs his communication "H."
comes back on this paper in Wednesdays
Alta. He makes the following extract
from the News his text:
'swe have the names Of these greeneack
sNindlers in our possession. ihey nave
sought 20 cloak their rascality under cover Oh
AGENTS. the express company, and the ike,
who are merely authorized 10 make the ten
der, and are supposed not TO know their prin-
cipals. We know them. We can give their
names. To the course these thieves are pur-
suing there is but one practical defence, and
that il retaliation. Deal with them with
their own yard-stiek and measure let their
standard OF honesty beyours in your dealings
yrith them let the sauce with which they
dresS our roose be literally poured upon
their eandeT, and see who will get sick Of the
dainty dish first"
To which, in the YOU'RE another "
STYLE of retort he comes at us as follows:
Admirably indignant! Yet Washoe
stockholders, who pay their assessments
here, for mines being worked in Neveda Ter
ritory, we're the frst to send down grsenbae6s
for their dues.
The first gTeenbaek trick was performed by
two well known lawyers of Virginia City,
who held back such payment, BY their agent,
until within few hours Of the sale Of dehn-
quent stock, so that no postponement eou't
take place, unless the company took the
chances Of \ law suit, which would, undouot-
inely, have been conducted by themselves.
What is most presumptuous on the part OIL
the NEWS is, to advise retaliation on the
t. 49, ~ n fayc rasFaily stock
holders, Consistency, thou art Jewel,
and the gem has found It's way into Nevada
Territory. The result of this first sending
sreenbacks down from Washoe to pay assess
ments, is now seen in the new leyies made by
mining trustees, who levy i: payable IN
United States currency. Think again, good
News; think again. b.
All of which " important, if true," ale
cations, we publish with pleasure, not
being able, however, to see that the asso-
citation of two well-known lawyers Of
Virginia City" in the swindle, modifes
the rascality of III and his crew OF
Jeremy Diddlers to any considerable ex-
tent. 1t may be true and it may not. A
man who pays debts in deprecated cur
rency, nasties his reputation so badly IN
the estimation Of honorable men, that his
naked word is not quite as good as q
Chinaman's, and we are not bound to at
tach any credibility to his statements.
Men of a low standard of morality are,
however, often admitted to give States
evidence against their confederates, and
we will admit " H" 1--WE know the other
seven letters of his name) to the stand in
this instance. The mass of the people of
this Territory are people who pay their
debts in coin, work hard for living, and
expect those for whom they labor to treat
them with common honesty. They have
& profound contempt, not to say hatred,
of those who, taking advantage Of the diff
ference in the value Of two kinds of cur
rency, swindle their creditors out of sixty
cents on the dollar. They will be glad to
learn, even through the dubious evidence
of "peaching" sharper, who among the
"lawyers of Virgins" they are that pay
their debts in greenbacks. Let " H fur
nish those names either to US or TO the
Alta. and we will publish them in con-
junction with the full name of him who
so modestly signs his name "H." Such
people are important characters, in GER
tain sense, and the working men of Ne
vada Territory, and those who honestly
fulfil their solemn contracts viii be glad
to know who they are that take advan-
tage Of the loop-hOles of the law, to fur
Their schemes of fraud and rascahty.