Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-08-26
SATURDAY NIGHT.

there is a rest and comfort and benedic-
ton on this season Of the week. We are
not so far lost TO the influences and graces
of home Christian civilization as to have
forgotten the excellence of the Saturday
night quiesness and cheer, or to have fail
ed to re-establish the customs that lent
the charm and peace of old to this Sunday
eve, as far as we are privileged with
opportunity of so doing. Blessings
on the mar who invented sleep"
exclaimed the steadfast retainer Of Don
Quixote; Praise 10 the Lord for
the day of rest in seven," is the tribute
that comes from every heart and home
where even ordinary appreciation Of the
gifts OF goodness dwells and has express
sion. Many of the labors of region
Of country are Of that character which re-
quire continuous prosecution; and such
work is tolerated the same as blast-fur-
naces are permitted to keep up their
heat" in New England. But outside of
toll absolutely required in continuous
progress, we think as little is done in
Nevada as in California, and exception
ally beyond that to transgress the moral
habit of blue-law Connecticut.
Our population are proverbially great
newspaper and periodical readers; and
Saturday night witnesses large sales at
Burrall's, and other news depots, of the
principal literary journals and popular
magazines of the day. When we inform
our readers that Harper's has over twen-
ty-6ve hundred regular monthly pur-
chascrs in Storey and Lyon and Washoc
counties, as per returns published from
the American News Office, at New York
City, We shall afford some distinct idea of
the enormous amount of first-class modern
literature absorbed" in "Washoe"-
as Eastern folks persist in naming our
land. And most OF this edition is bought
from the retailers on this night, and nc .
of the reading is done on Sunday. Over
two hundred copies of the Atlantic I"
are taken here and in Virginia City /; and
nearly one hundred Eclectics - Il
monthly compilation of the best articles
from standard English periodicals-arC
regularly purchased in our county. This
indicates, furthermore, a decidedly high
tone OF capacity, taste and reflection in a
fair proportion Of the reading classes. o!
the Ledgcrs" and Mercurys," Of New
York and San Francisco publication, and
of the sporting journals from the Bay, the
East, and England. we have no data for
notice, beyond the fact that we see piles
Of them on our several News agents
counters after the arrival Of every steamer
and soon they disappear. Our professcd-
ly literary Sunday morning contemporaries,
Of Virginia, might gather further statistics
on this subject, and take the benefit of an
elaboration of our article! The increase
in the Sunday circulation of the Union
and Enterprise, since they commenced de-
voting a couple of pages to literary matter,
might form ar interesting and significant
item connected with this theme. That
they have made q hit by this special char
acter of Sunday publication We feel conf
dent, from the fact that missing own
exchange frequently we have been told
that there was no copy TO spare from
either Office on application for the COM
pletion Of our file. We expect it would
be well for US to urn Literary" Of O
Saturday night; if we happened to pos,
sess the peculiar advantages for such a
~sixth-day surface as are possessed and
enjoyed by the Virginia dailies
You would be surprised to note the ia.
miliarity OF hundreds of our miners with
the leading works of late issue-travels,
poems and political and metaphysical trea-
ties. Of course, from Harper's Monthly
and the Pictorials they have the leading
novels Of the day, as they are doled out
from month to month ; but a little shelf
beside the clock, or n private bureau
drawer, or Il small trunk Carefully locked
against children's a~ccess), and not unfre-
quently a neat bookcase, contain volumns
of silver and golden worth. You will not
be so much surprised, perhaps, TO see
there Lyell and Hitchcock and Hugh
Miller, with various popular treaties on
mining and m~ineralogy; but you will
wonder, as did We, 10 find Emerson and
Whipple and Giles, for we'll thumbed es-
sayis,s, and the larger histories Of England
and America and the travels" of
Taylor, and Spike and Vambery. And
these collections are common they are
under roofs that you might be apt to think
covered the poorest style of human exist
ence. And above all, you will notice in
nearly every habi,ation that Book of
Books, that great charter of right and
justice and redemption, the prime promo
ter and upholder of civilization and civil
freedom, as well as instructor in the Path
to Heaven-the Holy Bible. So mote
it be.
All u churches arc well attended in
the morning Of Sunday, if the weather is
not positively Indictment. In Virginia the
congregations at the Methodist Episcopal
and at the two Catholic churches are about
equal. The neat and beautiful Episcopal
edi6cc is filled to its capacity-which :
far toe small for the requirements of those
who desire to worship by the ritual Of
that denomination. The Baptists and
Presbyterians have meetings in the Court
House, with IN average attendance of