Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-11-11

which were driving her mad, exclaimed
with choking ~apcents: "0hs God! what
skaH I dol Glse metins 70 think How
con I eyer faceJny mother again And
the girls left the Court room, followed
closely by the young men alluded to, %
20 where a.lfe Of shame pnutterable and
death too horrible TO think upon surely
awaits them. Oh! mother, far away IN
your New England village, had death en-
tered your household and carried away
the darling Q fsyour heart, you would havel
wept indeed ). for such sorrow there is
consolation to be found. Hope springs
anew above the grave OF the loved and
lost, and the night Of sorrow is broken by
the rays Of heavenly light which foretell
'the joy which comefh with the morrow"
But a deeper grief, a sorrow which admits
of no amelioration is yours. The hope OF
your heart Is dead forever the. darkness
of a sepulchre which must be eternal en-
shrouds it; the gate is closed, andno white
winged Angel Of the Resurrection shall
come to roll the stone away Saint, nor
preacher, nor missionary am /, but I tell
you that while I have seen death in all its
forms without shrinking or unmanly fear,
the sight of that helpless girl, moaning in
hopeless anguish, loathing the life before
her, ~shuddering at tho future, weeping
oyer the past, too good as yet for the COM
pany Of the vile wretches among which
she is thrown, and fallen toe low to dare
to attempt a return 10 the paths Of vir-
tue, shocked, grieyed, unnamed me.
Twenty years of newspaper life ought to
have familiarized me with such scenes and
rendered me callous to.:all such feelings
and sentiments, but they have not, and I
thank God for-it,N Sheer at me, oh world
ling, and call me /" milksop "f you will ;
the love a sainted mother bore me is still
dearer to me, after all the lapse of years,
than the approbatiUuuf~such as you.
THE T TUNNEL. s E..Fsb
The prospectus for the Sutro Tunneling
Company has been circulated freely in
this city within the past ten days, but so
far the response has been. I believe, not
quite equal to the expectations Of the pro-
%jectors of the enterprise, the only visible
effect being a depression Of all stocks
based upon ground on the Comstock lead.
It is understood, however, that New York
is to be the principal place of operation,
and that from that direction the capital
must come to carry the immense enter
prise to q successful termination. It is
rumored that an agent Of the company is
to leave for the East in a few days to
bring the matter before Eastern capitalists
with a view of inducing them to invest.
CASE OF UNUTrHaARLg HORROR.
The most horrible case which has, with
in my knowledge, ever been heard in the
Police Court, came before 1t to-day. We
ronica Collins, wife OF John Collins, to
whom she was married in May last, came
into Court with q little child in her arms
to prosecute her own father on the charge
of incest. Her testimony was clear and
positive. She stated that last Autumn
her father, who now lives with a second
wife, sent for herself and sister from Eng
land and took them TO his own house to
reside. In December last he sent his wife,
with her younger sister and a child by the
second wife, to see their friends across the
bay, desiring Veronica to remain at home
to keep house. In the evening he took
her out to the Belle Union Melodeon-the,
vilest of the vile dens Of the city, known
as melodeons-and on his return home
forced her to drink some three or four
glasses of liquor when she became par
TALLY intoxicated, and then, in spite Of
her exertions, repeatedly violated her per-
son. She stated that the criminal init
macy thus commenced continued until
after she made the acquaintance of Col
Inns. whom she: subsequently married.
Some Ave months after the marriage with
Collins, she gave birth to the child, which
she swears is that of her own father.
Other witnesses in part corroborate the
girls testimony, and the only defence
made by the father, was to endeavor to
throw a doubt upon the fact Of her being
his own daughter, and to introduce a
| physician who testified that she applied
to him some months since to know what
her condition was, and on being told, as
| serted that she had been seduced by q
young man., under the promise Of marri-
age. The fact of her being the defendants
daughter is undoubten-she is the perfect
| picture of him, in features and complexion
and her story wasso straight and cir
| cumstantial as to carry conviction Of truth
with it. She is about eighteen years Of
age, and her husband, who was in Court,
is about twice that age. The case was
taken under advisement, and the father
was locked up below, while the poor de-
graded girl, with the fruit of her shame
and guilt in her arms, went weeping away
to her deserted home, For one, I thank
God that these people are not Americana!
.sAHBKvr SMASH UP. n'8
A perfect panic was created at the in
tersection of Bush andMontgomery streets,
to-day, by q double carriage team, belong
ing to DR.. Behrens,. running at full speed
into a street car, which it smashed into
flinders. One horse was ruined, one lady
had her thigh broken, several ladies faint
ed, and a number were slightly injured,
yet strange to say nobody was killed out
right, although the animals were driven
by the force Of the collision directly into
the car, and driver animals and car pas
sengers were mixed together in utter con-
fusion. 1t was an .unlucky, and yet,
withal, a lucky smash up.
.sr Adios,. Ilbu. s..1 AMIGO.