Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-08
ALL THE SAME, JOHN.

The editor Of the PGcerriRe Ne,cs is
Solomon. He is philosopher, of the order
of Plato. He reasoneth well. There is an
old saving that mo news is good news.
based, we suppose, on the other provero, that
dad news travels fast" The Hangtown
man, however, improves upon the old thing,
and with him all kinds OF news are good
news to him. On Tuesday last he received
an erroneous dispatch TO the effect that Gov.
Low had vetoed the act giving aid to the Cen
trail Pacific Railroad the road that the Hang
towners, and they that own the Ala CGhfor-
niG do utterly detest and curse roundly TN
der the name of Dutch Flat" Great was
the JOY Of the editor Of the Ne,rs, who did
then and there "toss high his ready cap IN
air, and lifted up mis- voice in servile shouts
Of admiration of the honesty and profound
sagacity Of Governor Low. Bully, bully,
bully boy with the glass eve" was Governor
Low; "a Daniel come to judgment-aye,
second Daniel" But no man knoweth what
a day or an hour may bring forth, and there
is no use trying to guess. You can't come
within forty rows Of apple trees. Behold .
"the next day comes frost and nips the
shoot no; the next day comes dispatch
which saws IL tcas NOT that Bill that Governor
Low had vetoed, but an entirely different
concern, altogether That disgusting Gov
ernor had approved the Dutch Flat" in
fanny, and the horse in question was alto
gether of different color! Here was
mess; and here is where the philosophy
comes in. A mere ordinary editor would
have naturally weakened on the turn, and
naturally INDUCED in unmanly grief, or swore
like pirate, and even perhaps have taken to
strong drink. Not so Of the Placerrille
Ne,cs. No, shade of gloom or disappoins-
ment dims the serenity OF his philosophic
phiz. Au contrG,re the news is bully! It's
Jus, the identical cheese and the editor
proves to the people Of his forlorn village
that Governor Lows approval was just the
thing needed TO knock Dutch Fla" end
WAYS. This is the "how" in which ne
proves it:
Our conclusions yesterday 20 the fate Of
Stanford Croker & Co.'S swindlins Railroad
bill, though based upon information which proved
10 De slightly inaccurate are yet III the main cor
rect. Il Is true Governor Low gave the Act ms
signature but he did il under protest that the
measure was clearly Unconstitutional rather
queer proceeding the part Of ;he Governor,
but none the less advantageous on tina. account
10 the interests of she taxpayers Of the state.
For IL ia plain tina; he gave the bill his approval,
solely for the purpose of allowing it 70 so be-
fore the Supreme Court and his sigma
ture is valueless except tor that purpose.
The Governor, though man Of strong common
Ienss is no lawyer and from information we have
~ hand we feel certain that he knew the opinion
Of at least portion Of the supreme Judges before
he decided upon the bill, and shat his decision was
IN accordance with such opinion. should this
prove TO be the caSe-anl Ex-Governor Stanford
has as much acknowledged it TO be so-the
Central Pacific Railroad bill! is no; worth the
paper upon which il IS written, and the unparA'
lelrd attempt of Dutch Fla; TO pile up an over
whelninS debt for an Already tax'burdened people
Is an iSnomnious failure.
The deadest thing in the world TO bet
your life on" is that that editor is lineal
descendant Of Mark Tapley. He can "be
iolly" 1t all times and under all circumstan-
ces, and "the sings and arrows Of out
rageous fortune" would trouble him no more
than 4 mosquito-bite would a rhinoceros.
The happy idea Of the Governor killing the
bill BY approving it, and letting it so at some
hypothetical future period TO the Supreme
Court, there TO receive 4 second killing and
final burial; killing it by inches, gradually,
as it were, instead Of smashing the life out Of
it at once is big thing" Nobody would
ever have viewed il in tina, light, ii that editor
had not found it out. He has got another
big advantage over others Of the editorial fra
ternity; an advantage which, if he would
turn to shrewd account, he could make a
good thing ola good deal better than run
ming that little one-horse paper Of his. He
knows to a dead moral certainty" how the
Judges Of the Supreme Court are going to
decide case on appeal, even before the suit
has been commenced in the Court below !,
Tha: gift is one which great legal minds, and
most influential LAWYERS and politicians have
long sighed for in vain. To such, however,
the Supreme Judges have ever refused to in
innate what their views might be, on subjects
likely 10 come before them for adjudication.
Lucky editor, to have thus penetrated the
secrets of the woolsack, and thrice happy the
people TO possess within the corporate limits
Of Hangtown an oracle to whom the yelled
ones Of Delphi were not worthy to hold
candle