Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-15

and of course the benefit, which would be
incalculable, would inure to the whole hu-
man race. The idea was good one, as any
disinterested person could see with half an
eve. But, unfortunately, the distinguished
Senator had q lot of boys on his plantation
who refused to see the benevolent features Of
the plan, and entertained a prejudice against
cotton seeds as a steady diet. Chemical
analysis showed that cotton seed contained q
large amount of nutritiye properties and sub
stances, and the good Of humanity required
that the experiment should be made on a
large scale. It teas made on q large scale,
and half a dozen or a dozen likely field hands
died under the combined effects Of prejudice
and the laxative properties Of cotton seed on
bowels not used to Il. The experiment had
to be abandoned in the end, and for its fail
ure Horace Greeley and others denounced
our friend the Senator as a monster and q
murderer. Had the experiment succeeded,
he would have gone down to posterity as a
benefactor Of his race, or at least Of the col
ored race. SIGH is life! Philosopher Grid
ley, late Pound Master, who tried to educate
the people Of San Francisco into the belief
that dog fed pork was the thing for a fancy
roast or a family fry, has just met the same
ungrateful treatment at the hands OF his fel,
low citizens. Last Monday night the Board
Of Supervisors made him "tartlc" BY declar-
ing his Office vacant, and then made short
work Of electing 81. Short, Jr.,' Pound
Master in his place. Is not this enough to
discourage missionary enterprise n dlsin-
terested philanthropy the world over That
is the way | put it up, and respectfully de-
cline hereafter all offers to become q martyr
for the benefit Of IN fellow men and pos
terity. Hang my fellow men, and let poster
ity take care of itself, say /.
FIVE OF A TRADE.
The Board of Supervisors did another
smart thing last Monday night. They cstab-
lished a Board of Health and elected fire
physicians, to.wit: Drs. Powell, Henry,
Elliott, Stillman and Whitney. Now each
one Of these five physicians eutertains the
same friendly feeling for the other four that
the devil does for holy water, and how har-
m%oniously they will work together for the
public good l leave you to imagine. 1t IS
delightful to see brethren dwelling together
in unity. Ny brethren Of the press aItoGys
tocre up to that sort of thing.
POLITICS.
l expected to have had something startling
to tell you this week in the political line, but
you see the fact is, I havn't yet been able to
see any of the different aspirants to the Sen
atorial toga; and rs none Of them have ex-
pressed a willingness to see me, I am not
yet able to name my man therefore we will
let that matter pass for the present.
ADJUSTMENTS.
The Opera languishes, only very moderate
houses rcwarding the perseverance Of Man
agcr Mcguire and the artistic efforts Of the
company. We have had a surfeit Of Opera
Of late.
Whcatleigh, at his beautiful little theater,
the Eureka, on Montgomery street, is doing
q handsome, and I am heartily glad TO be able
to say, a paying business at last. This week
Pauline, or the Mysteries of the Chateau
de Burcy," and the capital farce Of JEFF. in
Hoops, or the Confederacy in the Last Ditch"
have possession Of the boards and are draw
ing well. The first is admirably put upon
tho stage and powerfully cast, and the hits in
the last, and the tableaux at the close, are
very effective.
At Maguire's the dramatization Of Tenny-
sons "Enoch Arden was produced on
Monday, the decentralization being the
work Of q Bohemian of this city, who has
long had an itching for histrionic fame.
EnOch Arden in its natural state is about as
stupid as anything the Poet Laureate ever
wrote, and the dramatist, in adapting it to
the stage, and changing it from dreary verse
to drcary prose, did not lose sight Of the dis.
characteristics Of the work.
At the Olympic they are playing "The
Woman Of the World," and il I was a woman
OF the world instead Of q man Of the world, l
would 60 and see it and take my friends but
l amt, and consequently / can tell you moth
ing about it. The Woman Of the World is
not in my way.
Ut IT DID NOT CONE OPT.
l wrote you last week that I should attend
the great Chinese dinner rendered by the
six Companies" to our distinguished
guests from the East, and would send you n
full account Of what took place there ; but
the dinner having been unayoidably post
poned until their return from their trip to the
North, no account will be forthcoming at
present. 1t is very disagreeable to be thus
put off, when ones appetite for fancy dishes
has become intensely sh%arpened, and ones
clearinghouse keeper will insist upon max
ing remarks in your hearing about the great
expense Of furnishing the table," the "im-
mediate danger of n famine" etc., etc., look
ing you right in the eye all the time, as
she meant you and nobody else, but
it can't be helped, and l must for the present
my bird's-nest soup only in imagina-
ton, "in my minds eye, Horatio," as old
Billy used to remark BILLY Shaks., I mean,
Of ~course). We'll, it is to be the biggest thing
Of the season when it does come there is
consolation in this thought, ut any
rate. Adios. AMIGO.