Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-20

The cloud swept by and the beam returned;
But the weary child was slumbering now,
And Needed il not, though IL glowed and burned
Like a crown of fame on his baby brow.
And thought: All babe thou art not alone
In thy 6ootless quest for a tieeting toy
For we all are babes, little wiser grown,
In our chase for some idl!'and transient joy.
We are graspine at sunbenms day by day,
And get but our toll for our weary pains,
For ever some clOudlet obscures the ray,
And naught in the sordid grasp remains.
But when the lures Of our youth depart, .
And our empty striyings are all forgot,
Then down in some nook Of the peaceful heart,
The sunbeam glows when we seek it not. .
VAST Armies and their Movements.
There have been vast armies and grand
movements in ancient times. Here is q
record of some of them: ......-
Sennacherib, the Bible tells us, lost in a
single night $4,000 by the destroying
angel.
The City of Thebes had hundred gates,
and could send out at each gate 10000
fighting men and 200 chariots, in all
1000, 900 men and 10000 chariots. -
The army of Terrah, King Of Ethiopia,
consisted of ], ,O00, 900 men and 300 chari-
OTIS of war. -....
Sesostris, King of Egypt led against
his enemies 100000 men, $4,000 cavalry
and 81 scythe-armed chariots-1,49l be-
fore Christ.
Hamilcar went from Carthage and land
ed near Palermo. He had fleet of 1000
ships and 5000 small vessels, and land
force of 100000 men. At the battle in
which he was defeated there were 100000
slain.
Minus, the Assyrian King, about 2,2O0
years before Christ, led against the Bac-
trines an army of 100000 horses, and
10000 chariots armed with scythes.
Semiramis employed 100000 men in
building Babylon. She took 10000
prisoners at the Indus, and sunk 1000
boats.
A short time after the taking of Baby
lon, the forces of Cyrus consisted of 900,
900 foot, 100000 horses, and 1000
chariots. ... .....
An army of Cambyses, $4,000 strong,
was buried up in the desert sands of Africa
by the south wind.
When Xerxes arrived at Thermopyla,
his land and sea forces amounted to D.
5l4,6lO, exclusive of servants, eunuchs,
women, suffers, etc., in all numbering
5,2S2, ,220. So say Herodoms, Plutarch
and Isocrates.
The army of Artaxerxes, before the bat
tie of Cunaxa, amounted to 100000.
Ten thousand horses and 100000 foot
fell on the fatal field of 1ssus.
When Jerusalem was taken by Titus,
I,lO0, 900 persisted in various ways.
The army of Tamerlane is said TO have
amounted to 1000, 900, and that of his
antagonist, Bajazet, to 100000.
The COMING STRuGGLE.-The "com-
ing events cast their shadows before
them." While the reelection of Mr..
Lincoln may be set down as foregone
conclusion, it will not be amiss for oil
true patriots to keep vigilant watch
canvass well the man9uvrings Of all sci
fish men that class who are always for
the Government" but when the trial test
comes, it is found that they meant naught
but peace and prosperity to themselves
when blood and precious life, and trea-
sure, was needed it meant somebody
else." 1t is those who have been the
most prosperous-in pecuniary point OF
view-since the war began, who should
now take the lead in sustaining the nomi-
nations made by the Baltimore Conven-
ton; on the contrary, large percentage
of those who have been favored most, are
to be found with their tongues between
their teeth" attending to their own bu-
siness"-their policy is, to take no decid-
ed stend, while their success leads Others
into the same channel. While positive
demonstration is their province, we re-
ceive at their hands a neutral or negative
influence, in return for the hundreds Of
thousands of dollars which is being lavish.
ed upon them by the Government. In Cal
ifornia there are swarms of contractors
aye, o large majority of men from the Sc
cession and Copperhead ranks, who we'll
nigh control her politics. Doubtful men
have been most successful in this portion
of the State, and until recently they have
been the recipients of the spoils, either di-
rectly or indirectly, since the day the
q" California Column was organized un-
der General Carleton to great extent il
is yet continued here-every dollar is
hurled at the head of true loyalty. The
same practices have been indulged in in
San Francisco and elsewhere where troops
have been stationed. The evidences oi
that which has been permitted in the
above mentioned particulars was shown
forth in the preliminaries, throughout the
State, for holding the late State and Dis.
trict Conventions the fact was fully dis
closed by the action of said conventions
that mischief had been at work - thai
Copperheads are well organized, and that
they have secured the services of a sort o.
non-committal Unionmen, who have held
rank as such, to apply the entering wedge
create an opening for. the admission o.
all, if possible, BY next Fall. To divide
the vote of California for President al
nearly equal as possible, is the Copper.
head programme for the coming struggle
such was the plan for rebellion, and it wa:
carried out. ..--..,
We do not wish TO be understood thai
VIC UtLlGNG LlldL ~ - tiiO 2uCo VA tAoAIoAs
and Copperheads to secede, at this latt
day, and go with the South, or that the
"new effort" really means the re-inaug.
uration of the old Democratic party
in California; but that it is a movement
for Pacific Republic, having secret equal
ity in the Union ranks, with Copperheadi
and traitors, aided by foreign capitalists
The turning point is to be upon the cleo
ton of State Governor in 1865, and un'
less the lessons taught at the recent con,
ventions are remembered by the loya
masses, the Union organization will, a
the time specified, fall at the feet of money
kings-to make place and position fol
those only who have fattened upon Gov
eminent spoils.-Los An0ekes Netos.
AN old sailor said he supposed tha
dancing girls wore their dresses at hal
mast, as a mark of respect to departed
modesty. s.. d gsg.aa =
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