Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-22

case: Only yesterday we saw brute-the
name is weak TO express his nature-pum-
melting an unfortunate dray horse that had
fallen, hopelessly entangled in the harness,
while crowd, among whom were two police
men, stood evidently admiring the perform
ance of the drunken fend. Numbering
man might be pardonable under certain cir
cumstances, but tiaying alive here and the
torrents Of an orthodox hot place hereafter
would be slight punishment for biped capa-
bic Of striking a child or ill-treating dumb
animal.
Now the cat is out of the bag. Now
our readers know exactly who the disgust
ing, cowardly, contemplate brute is that
We have been talking about, and of whom
We propose to say few words more be-
fore we have done. Our readers under
stand US thoroughly by this time; and we
are well assured that this paper will
scarcely meet the eye of man or woman
in Gold Hill, whose blood has not re-
peatedly boiled with fierce indignation at
the brutality which they are daily forced
to witness upon the main thoroughfare Of
this town. Harnessed to heavy wagons,
laden with tons Of quartz, hundreds Of
teams daily pass the windows of our
Office, and from q forced observation Of
many months We are firm in the conclu-
sion that the tesmster who does not justly
come within the brute" category is the
wide and scarce exception, the black
swan. the white crow, the four-leafed
clover. the "Wha, is It." For US to re-
peat the instances Of wanton, useless,
malignant cruelty which have been enact
ed q thousand times before our unwillin.
eyes, would but be merely repeating whas
has been seen by every man and woman
in town who has walked the street or
looked out of the window within the past
six months. The lash Of the "black
snake" whip, the legitimate weapon of
the teamster, is cruel thing enough in
its way. and when wantonly and uselessly
used upon an animal already doing its
best, ought to be snatched out Of the
hands and laid across the back Of the
wretch who misuses it. But the whip
and the " kick which excited the wrath
! of the New York editor, are Gods own
sweet mercy compared with the brutal
fortunes which are daily inflicted on our
streets upon willing and striving beasts
taxed beyond their strength. Not the
! lash, but the butt Of the whip, clubs,
stones, shovels and even picks, We have, a
| thousand times, seen horses and mules
beaten with, until the wretched animals
would in agony and despair lie down, and
submit motionless to the torture. The in
human brute on two legs would then be
compelled to unharneSs the animal and
take his pick and shovel and "dig out"
| which he could have saved a half-hour by
doing in the first place. Do the owners
of these teams see this outrageous and
useless cruelty and are they forced to
permi, il: Are there no men with human
| hearts who can drive a four or six-horse
| team: Is the spirit of coward and a
devil an indispensable qualification for a
quartz-teamster Is the calling so low
! and degraded that He'll must be raked
with a fine-toothed comb, to get men with
hearts black and hellish enough to accept
the situation: One would suppose so to
see these scenes which are enacted before
our eyes daily. If one citizen of the town
has spoken to US upon this subject, there
have at least a hundred and fifty done so.
They have asked US "Is there no law to
prevent this shocking brutality" and
we have answered them There is a
law to punish it, not only here, but
in every other civilized community"
! There are hundreds of our citizens who
know of the existence Of such law, but
what is everybody's business is nobody's
business" and no citizen is very anxious
to become public prosecutor and bring
upon himself the hatred of one of these
human brutes and his friends. So the out
rage is suffered to continue. There are
those, however, whose duty it is, by La,c,
to put a stop to the practice wherever it
occurs in their view; those persons are
our police. Their salary is based upon
the wild hypothesis that they are to be of
some use to the public. As mere orna-
ments they are worth something, but it is
not worth hundred and fifty dollars a
month just to look pretty. If drunken
man lies on the sidewalk or kicks up .
row In groggery, he is snatched bald
headed before Judge Hall and fined, or
put to work on the highway, so quick that
It makes his head swim. The drunken
man has committed an offense against the
majesty of the law but no more 80 than
the brute who with pick, and shovel and
club and rock, beats and maltreats a dumb
animal causelessly and uselessly. 1t is a,
much the duty Of the officer to arrest for
the one crime as for the other; and If q
few of these mule murderers were prompt:
ly taken before Judge Hall, and fined and
imprisoned to the full extent of the law, /.
would teach them wholesome lesson,
and place big score to the credit of his
Honor, against his final account on the
day when he shall be arraigned before the
Court of Last Resort.