Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-11

out OF the newspapers J" torSooth. Mou'
est Fitch, retiring Fitch, innocent Fitch !;
who ever heard of such self-abnegatlon
Filthy, that modesty dodge doesn't suit
your style. Better drop it. ...,. F..
FEARFUL DEPRAvITY.
If there is any country on earth where
children, girls especially, need the con-
slant watching and unceasing care of q
parent, it is California. The revelations
in regard to depravity in our Public
Schools, nearly year since, astonished
and Mortified the public, and probably did
much good in putting parents on their
guard but l am inclined to think that
not more than the halt was then told, and
that the highest toned private schools in
the country have to some degree been
penetrated by influences of which even
the Preceptors have but faint idea, and
the parents none at all. A few days since
a young man was arrested by the police
for some triting offense, and on his person
were found dagnereotypes of quite num-
Der of young ladies, pupils in female
Seminary, of high repute, in attitudes and
positions which l cannot describe. The
originals of those pictures are readily
recognizable, and it is suspected that the
artist is female, whose gallery has been
extensively patronized BY those thought
less girls, who perhaps never dreamed
that the indecent pictures thus taken, as
they thought in sport, would be copied
and sold to the base brutes who stand
around street corners, watching their OPP
portunities, night and day, to hunt down
and rum the victims thus thrown in their
power. 1t is impossible to trace out the
guilty parties in this instance, but sooner
or later they will fall into the clutches Of
the law, or better still, into the hands OF
some indignant parent, and then 1 trust
they may get the full measure of their de-
serts. The idea of such dangers hedging
about the pathway of the rising genera
ton at every step, is enough to sicken
every parents heart, and make the con-
temptation of death as an escape from
beastly degradation almost welcome, and
comparatively desirable.
SADLY BACKWARD.
The weather, up to date, has been sadly
backward, and the farmers, whose hopes
of a glorious harvest the coming season
had been raised to the highest pitch dur
ing the plentiful rains, are now as glum,
silent and down-spirited as ever. There
has been an almost unbroken succession
of cold, raw winds and heavy frosts,
which have dried up the grasses and
young grain, and turned the whole face of
the country from a living green to the
sickly, pallid brown which it wore before
the rains. Of course there is ample time
for change for the better long before the
hot weather commences, but the expert
ence of the last two seasons has disheart-
ened the farmers, and they are more easily
alarmed and discouraged nowadays than
in former times. This state of affairs ex-
lists in all the Bay counties, as l am in
formed by those who have recently tray
eled through them. Around Los Ange-
les, and throughout the southern counties,
the appearance of things is far more en-
couraging. Meantime, the supply Of beef
is almost exhausted, and it takes a square
dollar to purchase steak large enough to
make meal for family Of five or six
persons, and -four, through an internal
combination of spectators who are fore
stalling the market with view of squeez-
ing the last dime out of the profit, is $l6
per barrel.
WANT OF WORK. -
From everyday observation, l am salts
fed that there are now more unemployed
persons in San Francisco than ever before,
and that the amount of suffering for the
necessaries and comforts of life is not only
large but constantly increasing. The
town is full of men who are out Of work
and out of means to provide for their
daily wants. 1t is easy enough to say to
them, go into the country and go to
work !" but it takes money to get single
man even into the country, and to reach
the mining districts with family, while
rates of fare remain as they are, requires
almost a small fortune, leaving out OF
consideration the chances of man find
ing no employment Immediately on his
arrival up country. Of course this state
of affairs must come to an end sooner or
later, but people cannot live on hope
alone, it requires something in the shape
of bread and meat to satisfy the cravings
of the stomach. The various Trades
Unions of San Francisco have, I think,
overdone their work, and in their anxiety
to maintain high wages, have so far cur
tailed business and checked enterprise that
there is far less work to be done at any
price than there would otherwise have
been. may be wrong in this idea, but l
think the facts will bear me out, and that
the end of the present state of things is
fast approaching. Certain it is that the
labor strikes for higher wages and exclu-
sive rules and regulations, within the past
year, have all resulted more or less disas-
trously to the working men who engaged
in them, and employers no longer submit
at once to the demands made upon them.
Last week the walters at the leading hotels
struck-in two cases without even pre-
liminary notice to their employers-and
the result was complete failure, every
man losing his situation. l do not speak
of this to exult over their mlsfortunes or
show that they were entirely in the wrong,
but merely as an indication of the tend
ency of such matters at the present time.
Dr.. 80 THE ewIN HUNBuo. --.-'
People here begin to incline to. the be-
lief that the yarn about the Northern
Mexican Vice Royalty of his illustrious
Highness, the Duke de Gwin, is blk,
and that somebody has been sold: We
have no later direct news from Mexico, or
elsewhere, on the subject, and as l find
the following in yesterdays Cay, ! am
forced to the conclusion that the lllustri-
Gus Peter Funk, if he really sent agents
here at all, must be very hard up or ne
would have furnished them with az least
enough funds to pay their washing and
advertising bills:
Henry AlfonS Frimont, who has Iateiy oeen
advertising Mexican Colonization Agency, re