Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-08-02
ENGLISH LORDS.

who Is travelling IN 1ufoPe, ana VINO
e Just now, is rusticating in England, write.
/ as follows concerning the English Lords
There is something about the title o
r lord which creates in US Americans a Ger.
, tain awe, and which leads US to picture tc
ourselves a sort Of superior humanity,
, both in character and in exterior appear.
, ance. A real live lord is the subject Of
keen curiosity to IN American who has
!, never seen one. We imagine him to be O
modernized crusader, a being bedecked
with diamonds and mantles, having upon
his head a coronet perhaps, and over his
knightly shoulders a cape of ermine. as in
days of old. But, alas ! the modern gen.
Grafton Of nobility have sadly fallen, in
externals at least, from those romantic per-
sonages we read Of in Scott ard Dumas.
The imagination is shocked, though,
perhaps. the Judgment is not, by paying
a visit to the House of Lords. Asfor me,
l confess l could not rest in peace in Len
don till l had seen this assembly, which,
in my Ignorance, I had come to regard as
something especially wonderful to behold.
Now, if q foreigner wishes to see well the
sights which are best worth seeing in a
strange land, he has got TO Danish all feel
ings Of modesty and conjunction. I'm
less he pushes vigorously about, without
the least regard to difidence, ne is sure to
miss what he will regret all his life. I
have studied the character Of my own
countrymen in vain if I I'm wrong in say
ing, that if anybody can find out and eX-
perience everything worth his trouble bet
ter than another. it is an American. l
believe that Americans see more in less
time, everywhere in Europe, than any
other nation. This is PREDATORY to saying,
that I found there was no such thing as
getting a sight at the lords assembled but
by permission of one of their number, and
as l had not the advantage Of an ~acquain-
lance with any being so awful, / was con-
strained to make bold to hazard q note to
one of them, making known to him my
wishes.
My landlord came into my room one
morning with distended eyes and mouth,
and looking at me with q sort Of wonder.
He handed me a large square note, with !:
seal covering half its back, which repre-
sented the arms Of q real peer. I must
surely be an aristocrat in disguise to be
the recipient of such an honor, he evil
IDENTIFY thought. The thought Of my
daring to address a lord to whom l was
unknown. never entered his honest, rev.
erential British pate. On opening it l
found a very polite notc-proving that
some lords at least hold the rank likewise
(Which we think better) of gentlemen-and
a permit to visit the Lords gallery, as
| follows:
The Doorkeeper of the House Of Lords
will permit Mr.. -, Of America, to enter
the gallery, on May Sd. FITzwILLIAM.
My landlord saw, to his establishment,
q new phase Of American characterize
could not comprehend such audacity.
But We are all sovereigns in America"
said l, a principle which a British mind
like his was slow to accept. I betook
myself to Westminster with somewhat
different feelings than I had had in visit
ing the House Of Commons. In the latter
House l expected to see, what I did see, Il
motley assembly of individuals represent
ing every class, trade and interest, Of
British society who had been chosen to
their positions for reasons personal to
themselves. I was now to behold men
born to greatness; men educated to be
legislators ; and men whose conspicuous
merit had placed them on an equality Of
rank with the descendants of kings.
JEwErr & SHEPARD CoMPANY.-We
Yesterday paid q visit to this ~Company's
claim, in American Flat, and were very
agreeabiy surprised ut the extent and char
acter of the operations we found going on
there. The claim, which consists of 1000
feet, located on the same ledge and adjoin-
ing the New Oregon, on the southwest,
has been lying idle since last fall, until the
first Of last month, when operations were
resumed. Last summer q great amount
of work was done by the Company; q
shaft was sunk to the depth of $50 feet,
from which divers drifts were run from
different levels, and the ledge was opened
at several places. The appearance, size
and quality Of the ledge was such as to
inspire great confidence in its ultimate
value and productiveness, and the strik-
ing Of it caused much excitement among
Stock Brokers and miners. Last autumn,
before the stock panic came on, this Com
pany had several tons Of their rock
crushed at Shearman's mill, in Silver City,
which yielded at the rate of S32 per ton.
The first of last month the mine was
placed under the superintendent OF Mr..
A. J. Gould, who set to work with aforce
of men to put the mine in good order and
continue the prospecting which was so
successfully carried on last summer. The
shaft which is four by eight feet in size in
the clear, is timbered substantially with
3-inch timbers, except a short distance at
the top where 2-inch planks have been
used. 1t has been sunk in good, solid
ground, and was found this summer to be
az plumb and secure as when it was being
used last year. There being several feet
of water in the bottom, Mr.. Gould COM
menced work in n drift at the depth OF 2l0
feet, which he has enlarged and substan-
tally timbered. This drift runs about
40 feet in q south of west direction, then
turns and runs a very nearly south course
about 30 feet further, where 1t cuts the
ledge, which runs in q little north OF east
and south Of west line, very nearly paral'
lei with the hill, and which at this depth
dips to the southeast at IN angle of about
fifty degrees from the perpendicular.
Last summer drifts were run in different
directions from the main drift, leaving
quite a large chamber which was untim-
bered. During the past Winter while the
mine was being unworked this chamber
caved in considerably. That has all been
remedied by Mr.. Gould, who has cleared
on. the debris and securely timbered the
unsupported spot. He had just commence
ed to work the ledge when we visited the
mine, and had started a drift towards the
northeast. He was also making prepare
tons to raise up on the pay streak, n
to run a drift along the ledge towards the
southwest. The ledge at this depth is al
together about twelve feet wide. The
paw streak, or that which the Superin-
tendcnt thinks will pay for taking out