Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-26
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hope to lower him in the estimation OF
the people, and raise their own master
and creditor to position. 1t is well, it is
natural, it is laudable for men to wolk
for their own interest so that in the effort
they do no wrong to the community nor
to any individual citizen. The interests
of the Enterprise and those of Driscoll are
identical in the present. contest. Bust
ness relations of grave Importance exist
between the parties, and the Enterprise is
strongly interested in the election of
Mr.. Driscon to the Office of County Clerk.
If chosen to the position to which he
aspires, that individual can throw n vast
amount of profitable business into the
hands Of the Ents,priss, in the prosperity
of which establishment he, as its creditor,
is very directly interested. For the En-
terprise to work for the election of Mr..
Driscoll is very proper and correct. 1t
does not, however, justify resort to false
and slanderous accusations, which, if be-
ieved by the public, would not only have
tendency to defeat Mr.. Tozer politically,
but to degrade and ruin him as private
citizen. The Enterprise does not see it in
that light, and unscrupulously brings
charges of old-time fraud and corruption
against Mr.. Tozer, which would fully JUS
iify that gentleman in inAicting sound per-
sonal chastisement upon the author. On
Wednesday the paper contained garbled
distorted statement (based upon mi"Ori-
tn repor@ concerning certain acts or omis-
sions of Mr.. Tozer while acting as Secre-
tary of the Senate of California. The
effect of that statement has been utterly
destroyed by the extracts made in the
News and PiUte of yesterday and the
Union of this morning, from that very
minority report, and the entirely excul-
patory report of the majority Of the same
committee. 1t is further rebuked by the
published card of Messrs. De Long and
Burbank, which still stands in our adver-
Using columns. The malicious sheet
drops the subject with faint and spirit
less growl this morning, and starts off on
another SANDER about the transportation
of arms to this Territory, by Mr.. Tozer,
in the Pi-Ute war. We will give YER
sion of that story, which so far from mill
tating against Mr.. Tozer's character, re-
fleets honor upon him as public spirited,
energetic friend of the then residents of
this Territory. Our version of the story
has this advantage over that of our cotem-
porary, that ours is true and his is false.
At the time of the Indian outbreak, Mr..
T. was in San Francisco. The news of
the defeat and massacre of Henry Mere
dith's party, and the alarm of the whole
Territory was telegraphed to Governor
Downey, of California, and an urgent de-
mand made for arms, ammunition and
men. All San Francisco was in an up
roar of excitement and alarm. At late
hour in the night, Gov. Downey, obtain
ed a requisition from General Clark upon
the arsenal at Benicia for 500 stand of
arms (minie-riAes6 5000 rounds of
ammunition and ball, and infantry accou-
trements for FIVE hundred men,
This reauisition was put into the hands
Of Charles W. Tozer by Governor Dow
new, with orders to have those arms and
munitions in Nevada Territory without
loss of moment. The hour was late, no
regular steamer would leave until the next
afternoon at four o'clock, and Mr.. Tozer
had no money, nor could he be furnished
with any from the public treasury of
California. Without a moments heslta-
ton he chartered the steam-tug Columbia,
and while that boat was firing up, he sue
ceeded in borrowing among his friends
several hundred dollars to meet his neces-
sary expenses. At daylight next morn
ing he was at the wharf in Benicia, and
received the arms. At that time the
mountains were covered with snow and
the roads were impossible for wagons.
Mr.. 7. obtained pack-mules, and in two
days and half from San Francisco de-
livered the arms and munitions to the
United States Marshal at Carson. Mer-
chants and others who were engaged in
transportation at that time. know that. the
price of packing was then from twenty to
thirty cents per pound. Under the urgent
circumstances of the case, Mr.. T. was
compelled to- pay twenty-eight cents per
pound for the $4,000 pounds which those
arms, munitions and aecoutrements
weighed. These were the weapons which
were used to equip the expedition of sew
eral hundred men who, under the COM
mand of Col. Jack Hayes, chastised the
Indians at Pyramid Lake.
One year after this, Mr.. Tozer's ac-
counts were passed upon by the Board of
Examiners of the State of California, con-
sisting of Governor Downey, Attorney
General Williams and the Secretary of
State, Johnson Price, and they allowed
him sum ezactly equal to the amount paid
out of his oc'a pocket, aOithOstt interestn A
bill for his personal services on the occa-
sion and the interest on the sum ad-
vsneed was rejected! We have told this
story just as the facts occurred. For the
truth of the statements made we refer to
Hon. Thos. II. Williams, the then Attor-
ney General of California, and now resi-
dent of Virginia-not a political friend of
Mr.. Tozer, by long odds.
If there be anything in the above cir
cumstance otherwise than creditable to