Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-02-04

Congress, or otherwise, be allowed
greater compensation than is now allowed
by law, in consideration Of the heavy ex-
penSe necessarily incurred in carrying on
the this coast. His bondsmen will to-day
make good the deficiency, say about
$2S,00o, and Mr.. Patch will then sire
sign" At present, Mr.. Downs, the
Special Agent of the Department, who
discovered the discrepancy In MIR. Fatchs
accounts, has charge Of the otnce, ana
will run the machine until new man is
appointed by the authorities at Washing
ton. There seems no reason to douOt
that the default on the part of Mr.. Patch
is the result Of unfortunate speculanons
in greenbacks, carried on for some tune
the temptation to take advantage OF a fall
ing market and sell the Legal lenders
paid in on taxes to the brokers and refund
them at the end of the month at lower
figure, having proved too strong for ms
scruples. While the market was falling
it was not easy to discover the fraud es-
pecially as the books were balanced at the
end of every month, and the cash MADE TO
tally exactly with the amount due the
Government, but when the reaction TOOK
place, and gold declined, SO that Legal
Tenders could only be bought at heavy
advance. Patch "went to the wall. EXT
Patch. ......I ...
'.-..-..- WORSE TO CONE.
The story of this defalcstion is likely to
soon be eclipsed by others of greater i'm
portance, if rumors-which am inclined
to credit-are to be believed. 1t is limited
that Patch was only dabbler in the
business into which other officers launch
ed out at wholesale, and that bigger dis
closures are soon to come. QUEEN sdoef
THE LATEST HORROR.
The shooting Of Belgian artist, MI
Lonneux, by the lunatic Schmidt, and the
immediate suicide of the latter, at the
William Tell House, on Bush street. yes
terday, walked up the town for a moment
from its lethargy, and gave the quid '''lcs
pleasurable sensation. It was horrible
affair, but has been made more so by the
efforts of sensation-itemizers. who had too
good a chance to spread themselves, to
allow q few dry facts to stand in their
way. The story can be told in a few
words. Schmidt came back from Mexico,
whittier he had gone as many other fools
are now going, with Aattering ideas of the
beauty of the country, healthfulness Of the
climate, benefcence of the Government,
federation of political and religious opin-
ions, etc., etc., on the John L. Stephens,
on the 2lst of January. He was nearly
out of money, and disappointed in his ex-
pectations, but showed no signs Of dis
ordered mind until yesterday, when he
walked down stairs into the reading
room and saloon, went up to Lonneux,
who was reading the Alta at q table,
placed a pistol to his back and fred, in
fiicting a mortal wound. He then drew
another pistol and shot himself through
his heart-as the post norton examination
showed. After this he went up to his room
and stabbed himself with dirk knife be-
fore dying. 1t was all the effect of a
sudden impulse Of insanity = nothing
more.
THE GwIN-FRENcH PLOT.
There are no new developments as yet
in the French-Secesh plot to establish a
bastard French and secession colony in
New Mexico, and detach that part of the
Republic or Empire from the remainder,
of which / wrote last week. The Demo-
cratic Press, speaking as it claims, er ca
thedro, declares that the stakes are all set
and everything going on finely, while the
Eco, which has been heretofore the Napo-
leonic organ on the Pacific coast, denies
the story in toto. No one here, however,
doubts that the arrangement has been
made as stated, and that we must be pre-
pared for new complications which will
arise out of the new order, or disorder, Of
things. Quite a number of secession ia
miles from SonomA, Petaluma, Napa,
and other counties, are preparing to leave,
and others will soon follow. A number
went on the John L. Stephens yesterday.
Among the passengers was Bayerque, Of
the old firm of Phoebe s. Bayerque, French
capitalists and spectators, who have been
for years engaged in large financial opera
tons in San Francisco. Bayerque is not
an American citizen, and it is shrewdly
suspected that the "bene6t of his health
is not his only object in visiting Mexico.
We shall hear more when the Stephens
returns.
AUsGBsPIgLT. ... I'll.
The windows of the bookstores and
fancy goods shops are filling up with
valentines, as usual this season. but the
custom of sending these missives has been
run in the ground in past years, and SER
want girls and school children, are now
about the only parties who indulge in it.
The practice was a silly and extravagant
one at best, and / am glad to see it done
away with. A few years since, hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of these
missives passed through the New York
post office on the l4th of February; now
the average daily business is hardly in
creased on this account.
g.. THE DANIrEs IN NOTION.
The Sickles reception movement has, as
I predicted, run into mere farce of po-
litcal Aunkeyism, and will be anything
but the grand popular demonstration it
should have been, if any reception was
given at all. The list of members of the
Committee shows the names of nearly all
the big-little men in town; but we look
in vain for those of considerable number
Of any of the leading citizens. The dis
charged soldiers Of the California regi-
ments are to hold meeting this evening
to see If they can agree to participate, but
no spirit is shown in the matter; and if
the reception proves brilliant success I
shall be happily disappointed. y
Adios, AAtaok