Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-25
The Latest Farce.

When the law, whether common law oil
| the enactment Of the Legislature of the
State, ceases to afford protection to life
and safety to property, it becomes no,
only a nullity but a nuisance. The pro-
fession of an advocate is one as sacred to q
man of honor as the holy calling of a
! priest, for the attorney is ever master Of
| his clients secrets. While the attorney
confines his efforts to the legitimate prac-
tice of the law, and by his legal researches
and forensic labors, succeeds in establish
ing the innocence Of his client, he is a
public b~enefactor. If he 90 beyond the
strict pale of his profession and attempt
to gain suits by having, as has too often
been the case in this State, the lear Of the
Court" he becomes at once a plague sore
and a breeder Of pestilence.
1t will be remembered that the gang OF
robbers and thieves who stopped n Of
McLane s Co.'s stages on the road to
Virginia City were being pursued by
Sheriff Staples, when one of the party,
Poole by name, turned and shot the officer
dead. Poole now lies in the Ell Dorado
county Jail, awaiting the execution of the
extreme penalty Of the law, which he is
to suffer in about twenty days. The
balance of the party were set at liberty by
Judge Mckee, at San Jose, last Monday,
in accordance with a demurrer filed by the
attorney for the defendants, in which was
yet forth that their alleged offense was
against the United States Government.
L..fn C,akn Hoort nod ~ ,nr;e
diction over the case! "A Daniel come
TO Judgment" The ~cut-throats became
free men. and no attempt to arrest them
has since been made.
In what way had they; committed crime
against the National Government alone :
Because, says the ~apologist, they were
soldiers Of the Confederate army, and held
their commissions from Captain ~1ngraham.
C. s. A., who was authorized BY the rebel
authorities at Richmond to raise troops
for guerrilla service in California. Who
was Captain Ingraham, and whence did
he Gomez No reliable person has seen
such a man, nor is his name to be found
on any hotel register in this State. The
documents might have been written and
formally issued from the War Department
at Richmond, but there was no good proof
of the fact. They were evidently forgcries,
no difficult work for such hands. But
granting that they were commissioned as
Confederate guerrillas, does that place
them on a footing with regular soldiersi
Bushwhackers have not received much
formality of treatment at the hands Of our
Generals in the war. The law for them
has been the short shift Of a long rope.
But the Confederate government never
had a de facto existence, until recognized
by the District Court at San Jose, last
week. England sold all the shells, mus
kets and quinine the rebels could pay for,
and a good deal they could not. Louis
Napoleon occasionally gave Slidell a nod
OF; recognition, but withheld IL from the
Confederacy. But not a word OF recogni-
ton did the rebels ever get, save as bel
ligerents. Now. when Grant has choked
rebellion to death six months ago, and the
country breashes free, q California Judge
virtually recognizes the Confederacy,-
Sacramento Bee.