Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-04

nave SUFFERED season OI depressing
quiet within the past two weeks, and
speaking of that fact, reminds me Of a
terrible
DANGER AHEAD.
For months past we have been suffer-
ing the demoralizing effects of success to
the fullest extent, and so accustomed
have we become to reading the reports Of
glorious Union victories and the capture
of one stronghold of the rebellion after
another, that our people are becoming
demoralized - utterly demoralized. If
they pick up their morning paper and
find no account of a bloody battle, and at
least 200 cannon taken and 5000 men
killed, they get up from the breakfast
table with dyspepsia and vote the paper
of no account whatever. This is all very
well while it lasts, but remember, my boy,
there is nothing but Richmond and few
indifferent places left to capture, and we
must husband our resources. When
those places are taken, what are we going
to do for light reading to accompany our
morning coffee, mullins and ham and
eggs: That is the danger ahead, my boy.
That is the skeleton in the house to-day.
I cannot get over the idea that a foreign
war, or fearful increase in the line Of
domestic difficulties and private assaults
and batteries, will result from the neces-
sity of providing some outlet for the blood
thirsty appetite for excitemcnts which has
been engendered in the bosoms of our
people. We had too much of the other
kind of luck at the outset of the war, but
the tide has so long been turned to full
food in our favor, that there will be a
fearful reaction when it comes. Fancy
an inebriate, accustomed to his hourly
doses of lightning brandy, until he is on
the verge of deliriuns tremenS, suddenly
Frustrated by sickness and his entire sup
ply of stimulating fluid cut off in an in
slant, and you have some idea of the re-
action and depression which must follow
the termination of the war, and the com
plete cessation of the reports of victories
and grand events, on which we, as peo-
pie, have fed increasingly for year or
more past. You may think there is moth
ing in this idea, but if you reflect over it
for moment, believe you will agree
with me. We shall be obliged to take to
whisky, a Donnybrook Fair style of
popular amusements, or boring for lie "
with perfect looseness, to enable us to
work off our surplus steam, if we are not
allowed to pitch into France or England,
or both together, when this war is over.
Heaven knows am as anxious to see the
war ended honorably, and the Union
speedily restored, as any man can be;
but as prudent man should do, look
ahead for breakers, which must be
avoided.
THE TOWN ON A BENDER.
Whatever may be said against Samuel
Brannan, socially or otherwise, nobody
can deny the fact that he is whole-souled
in his devotion to the Union. The news
of Charleston's evacuation, and the prob
able capture of Wilmington, took the town
slightly by surprise, as although antici-
pated for months, it was not looked for so
soon, and we did not expect such an ava
lanche of good news all at once. The
merchants were busy with other matters,
and as no time was to be lost, Sam. "went
it Alone" and got up a regular celebration
on his own hook. His fine stone front
building, at the northeast corner of Mont
gomery and California, another of similar
character where his office is located, and a
third at the northeast corner Of Sacra-
mento and Montgomery, were all illumin-
ated from ground TO top. bontires were
kindled in front of each, rockets, Roman
candles. Chinese bombs, colored fires, ETC.,
were set off by wholesale, and the cheer
ing crowd occasionally took drink at the
generous patriots expense. After time
somebody suggested salute, and in few
minutes Bluxome's battery of l2-pounderS
were banging away as if in regular en-
in Montgomery street, plate
glass and the common article all coming
coming down in showers together at every
shot. The bill for glazing, since presented
to the enthusiastic Samuel, would make
poorer patriots head swim; but he can
afford it, and the town enjoyed the fun,
rough as it was. To crown all, it is re-
ported that Sam. offered to burn any or
all of his buildings, and treat the town to
a bonfire on scale commensurate with
the magnitude and importance of our ma
tional successes. The crowd, however,
thought that possibly demonstration of
the kind might be distasteful to other
property-holders, and the fact that Several
frst-class liquor saloons situated in the
district threatened, possibly pleaded some
what in favor of letting the buildings
stand. met Mark Twain and a number
of other old newspaper men that evening,
and I am sorry to say that some of them
appeared to me to be intoxicated with ex-
element. As it might be considered in
vidlous to come down to individuals, /
will not mention names.
THE MEXICAN MIDDLE.
The steamer John L. Stephens arrived
from Mazatlan on Monday, but, contrary
to general expectations, brought no news
whatever of Gwin or the operations of his
allies, the French, in the interior of
Mexico. Some six thousand mongrels,
wearing the French uniform, are still
cooped up in Mazatlan and its environs,
waiting for reinforcements to enable them
to proceed to Guymas and disperse or
drive into the interior the Liberal forces
under Pesquiera, now drilling and organ
izing at that point. They get shot from
the Liberals whenever they venture out
side of their Notifications, and in return,
burn down helpless villages and shoot I'M
armed prisoners in retaliation" The
war that these mercenary cut-throats are
now waging on the helpless Mexicans is
disgrace, not to civilization but to hu-
mainly. 1t has not a single excuse or
palliation in any shape whatever. 1t is
simply murder, robbery and pillage, cold
blooded, cowardly, and so utterly unpro-
voked that even a pretext for declaration
of war against Mexico has not yet been
favored by Napoleon or his advisers. All