Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-08-19
Our San Francisco Correspondence.
SAN FRANc1sco, August III, ls65.

/ don't wish to be considered as putting my
self forward to dictate to you regarding your
editorial Of Saturday last, that you have fallen
into some errors, regarding. an officer and a
gentleman whose acquaintance and friend
ship highly value, and I ask permission to
correct them. Irefer to your remarks con-
corning General Mason, now commander of
the District Of Arizona. You charge that
he, while Provost Marshal, induced the Fed
eral Government Tor the War Department
thereof to suspend recruiting in this Depart
ment. Now, l have been quite familiar with
the conduct Of military matters on this coast,
and understood at the time that the order
was given that the whole recruiting system
was dried up throughout the United States
on q given day, by orders from the War De-
partment, and therefore that no special effort
was made or required to close it on this coast.
That he has been compelled to call for more
troops for Arizona is not his fault. His de-
partment or district was in 4 complete state
Of anarchy when he entered it, and but a por-
ton Of the troops promised him when he
took command have been sent forward. l
know from personal experience that there
was but q single choice offered our. people
with regard to Arizona /; conquer the Apaches
ut once, or abandon the territory, and in call
ing for more troops, he has done his duty as
an officer and a soldier. To add to the diff.
culties Of his position, the Navnjoes, who had
been gathered upon q reservation at the
Bosque Rodondo, on the Pecas, by General
Carlton, have broken loose again, abandon
ing the reservation and taking to the war
path and every white settler from the Rio
Grande to the Colorado is at their mercy.
What then could he do but call for more
troops? He has now too many to be muir
dered by the Indians, and too few to fight
them in such a manner rs to put an end to
further outbreaks. Again, he has not OBJ
tanned the Sixth Regiment G. ", as stated;
that regiment has been ordered to Fort
Churchill. The second has been sent there,
not the sixth. The difficulties in your State
are lamentable, but they are not worse than
those in Arizona, il indeed they are to be-
compared with them at all ; and the chances
of complication on our Southern borders,
growing out Of the French invasion Of Next
CO, arc quite serious enough to cali for a
large force there, even il the Indians were
not numbering men, women and children,
unfortunately. As to contractors, / know
nothing of the amount or extent OF their OPP
| e~rations in that district; but this / do know,
that General Mason is q n officer who has
served his country faithfully on the battle.
| fields Of the Union, and has hitherto stood
above the suspicion Of any act calculated to
soil the honor Of the soldier and the man. /
have made bold to say this much, presuming
| that you might not be so we'll acquainted
with the facts rs myself, not from any idea
that you would wilfully misrepresent them, II
YOU knew just how matters stood.
HOW THINGS CAN DE DONE.
The Saranac is off on a cruise after the
Shenandoah at last, and may possibly effect
some good, but l doubt it. The time which
has elapsed since the pirate destroyed the
whaling fleet in the Artic is quite sufficient
to enable him to reach the other side Of the
| Pacific, and sell out in a neutral" port.
The speed with which the Saranac was fitted
| out for the cruise, shows what might have
been done had 4 vessel capable Of whipping
the skulking thief been ready in port when
the news first reached us. She arrived from
Acapulco on Friday, went directly to Mare
Island, and was upon the dry dock before
night, was repaired, reftted, :coaled, proyis-
toned, furnished with ammunition, and back
here ready for sea before daylight Monday,
and was outside the Heads the moment that
it was light enough. to rQn out the Golden
Gate. The Shawnee, which recently arrived
ut Acapulco from New York, is reported also
on n cruise in search Of the pirate, and we
are also told that the Devastation, the fastest
of the English Pacific feet, is also in pur-
suit, the commander Of the fleet, Admiral
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capture her at all hazards, and treat her rs n
pirate, not 4 "war vessel Of the Confederate
States Of America" rs she has been hitherto
| f~acetiously termed by our English cruisers.
It may be that John Bull has suddenly come
to the conclusion that it is about time that he
| did something to put an end to the operations
which he himself set on foot, but which only
tend nov TO run up a bill which he will be
called upon to settle in cash sooner or later,
and is really in earnest this time. Ihopc so.
WHAT'S II MATTER?
Speculations as to the cause Of the present
~stagnation in business of almost every de-
~scription in the Pacific States are not uncom-
mon; in fact l may say that such specula-
tons have about supplanted all other kinds
of speculation. Good advice is always OBJ
| ldluuOlC ia QuulAkAiASo " uAD VIVA - AN
is starving and can get nothing more whole
some for an empty stomach, and it is a
blamed poor man indeed who cannot specu-
late on the causes Of his and the %country's
~impecuniosity. All my mining speculations
have failed, lamentably failed | may say, but
l am still able to speculate on the causes Of
the present condition Of things; they can't
put me so high that / Am not able to COM
mand capital enough for that. One philoso-
| pher will ascribe all our troubles to our
course on the currency question, another de-
clares that high prices for labor are what
lplay the mischief, one lays it to one thing,
| another to another thing, and so it goes.
| Nv theory is that the mines are not "worked
out" that the farming business is n played
out that gold coin is not entirely out Of date,
and that whatever the effect Of our course on
the currency question may have been the
greatest evil which afflicts the people Of the
Pacific States to-day is the general dispo-
sition to indulge in the popular game Of
~"FRREzg-oUT."
Opposition is the life Of trade" the world
over, as the people of this country are bound
to discover to their cost, at an early date, if
they have not already done so. The fact is
that We have gone on the theory Of centrali-
zation and concentration until every business
in the country Il allude only to the Pacific
slope) is in the hands Of a combined mo-
nopoly, which devotes its energies, not to
giving the public the largest possible amount
Of accommodation for its money, but to
"freezing out" and crushing all opposition.
A firm or a company which starts in any
business and prospers at it, is never content
until all opposition is annihilated and all
rivals are crushed. We have but one Steam
boat Company in California waters, on Tele-
graph Company, and one Express Company,
and nearly every other business is monopo.
lized in like manner, So far from individual
enterprise being fostered and encouraged, it
seems to be the universal rule to regard every
young man who manifests business energy
and enterprise enough to start ii. upon any
| kind Of business for himself, as an interloper,
n mischief maker, al enemy to society and
the material interests Of the community, \
wild animal too dangerous to allowed, to run
at large and only fit to be knocked on the
head and put out Of existence as quickly rs
noss;hla -Jnatnod nf receiving natrOnape and