Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-14
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PASSo ASSp SAie HOAAu oSS6s
compiler of the Associated Press forwards
to the Pacific coast in answer to demands
for ns.cs. The Union Of this morning
thinks our comments strange 1t says;
mTha information is of q character that
.,r,d ~, he communicated officially for some
s;n,s vet. and that il Is always the case that
,ra obta,n our FIRST information OF all impor-
ANT of;cial action of the Government in the
same indefinite form in which this has reach
ed us. It's the shrewd guessing Of cores
pondents which always foreshadows these
great events. II they possessed positive
knowledge Of the facts il would be contra
band news until authorized BY the Govern
mens censors Of the telegraph and press"
Is that sos The Government, accord
ing to the showing of our cotemporary, is
en- ass. 1t has not the capacity to con-
duct business requiring secresy, except in
such bungling manner that the "shrewd
guessers," known as "the Worlds spe
cial," and "the HeralTs special" can clap
their sharp eyes to the hole in the grind
stone and 10! while the Government
thinks it is playing Old Smarty, the whole
Pacific coast is reading all about its Sc
cret plans, in the Geographic columns of
the daily press. Dropping all generaG-
ties and combining our remarks to the case
under consideration, 1.-THE "peace" dis
patch of yesterday how stands the mat
ter +: That news, if true, was either con-
traband or it was not. If the fact of such
negotiations being pending was matter
that the Government desired to be kept
secret, it probably had some good and
sufficient reason for that secresy, and In
all probability took some pains to pre-
serve the secret; and it must be concluded
that some scoundrel or fool in the conf
dence of the Government has betrayed
and systematically does betray that conf
dence. The specials" must have wormed
out the secret. and in utter disregard OF
the wishes of the government have shouted
the " contraband news" to all the nations
of the earth; and we, the papers of the
Pacific States, all protesting the soundest
loyalty, le giving aid and comfort to the
enemy, and throwing s.umbling-blocks IN
the way of the Government, BY daily
giving publicity to those things which
"could not be officially communicated for
some time vet" This is exactly what we
have been doing for years, if the hypothe-
sis of our contemporary is true. We don't
believe a word of that hypothesis. The
Government may be engaged in such ne
gotiations as the dispatch speaks OF, and
it NAV not. We don't believe that the
"speeials know anything about it. We
consider it the sheerest guess-work, doing
harm to the Government, if be "shrewd-
"" near the truth, and keeping the public
mind at fever heat, whether it be true
or false. As to the generally prophetic
character which the Union ascrlbes to this
guess-work of the specials, that is all
humbug. Taking all the miscellaneous
and contradictory guess-work together, 1t
would be impossible for any event to
occur, which the mind could conceive, OF
which prophecy" could not be found
in some of the papers within the past six
months. Every possible contingency has
been prophesied by these specials and
some of them must necessarily occur
They are like the "prophesies OF the
New York Herald, which have been the
laughing stock of the nation for the last
twenty years. 1t may be asked, why, II
we don't like the news, do we continue to
publish it. Our reply is, that we desire
to give our readers the latest intelligence
that can be obtained, and there being but
one source of information, we are COM
PEELED to take such as is sent to us.
If we can't get wheat We have to
take chaff; if we can't get boiled
eggs we must drink the broth. Our
readers expect US to publish the latest
Eastern dispatches, and we do so, and the
consequence is, that we daily receive pay
| for, and publish lot of balderdash guess
work of the New York ''specials," which
are worth just as much as the guess-work
of Doton, of the Union, Dan DeQuille OF
the Enterprise, or Harrington, of the News.
| We have about dozen startling rumors"
per diem, an average of six of which, are
contradicted within three days afterwards.
We have no very strong hope of an abate-
ment of the nuisance complained OF, but
we have felt it as duty to ourselves to
enter a full disclaimer of any completely
in this constant humbugging of the
people.