Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-26
rr1osAr1oN PREVENTED.


n.. little remarkable that IN Califor-
nj. the leading commercial" journals
have perss,ently deprecated home inter
e,ts and prospects. II there is . cry OF
great gold or silver discoveries at DIS
t.nce. then these journals are loud in their
volume of noise toward helping the crazy
emigration that commences. A fat adver-
tisemeut from one or two steamship COM
panies seems to have wonderful effect in
opening their minds to conclusion favor
able to Frazer or Salmon or Boise river.
But announce the finding Of petroleum in
Sonoma county, and they pshaw, and ridi-
cule. The leading journals Of California
have never aided-rather retarded-the
growth in population and material de.
velopment of the Golden Commonwealth.
The truth Of this assertion will be pro-
foundly recognized and felt BY those
who have been to the East, on a visit
home, and have received the steamer
papers that there came to our hand. A
carefully gathered batch Of crimes, great
and petty, itemized in q style indicative Of
affection and thankfulness to the perpe-
traitors for the "object Of interest" thus
afforded, and giving text and scope for
editorial moralizins in another column
these constituted the disgusting body and
bulk Of the chief records of current events
as prepared for readers in the Atlantic
States. The Bulletin of San Francisco, as
q domestic paper, did once employ a very
competent young man by the name OF
Camp to travel through certain parts Of
California, and write descriptive cor
respondence. But they did not transfer
one-half of his really valuable letters to
their steamer edition; and they got so far
behind hand in the publication OF his
writing. even in their daily issue. that he
went down from the mountains and quit
the employment. The Sacramento Union
yearly publishes batch Of calendar items,
choking into one vast nonpareil edition
minute of all the Grim cons that have come
to its nose during the preceding year, with
q close detailed recital of the utterly in
significant occurrences that make up the
great ineident-ife in the city which is
principally known from the fact Of the
existence and issuance there Of that publ
cation. The Aha of San Francisco, very
rarely had good agricultural editorial
when its Napa editor was alive; since he
was killed it has no editorial on that or
any other subject that is worth the reading.
Many q time have we heard intelligent Cali
fornians state that after glancing at their
they have been careful to destroy
it, burn it; their decent regard for the
of their adopted State inducing
them to do this act. Then their attention
and judgment was for the first time imme-
diately brought to the character Of these
publications, as injurious to every interest
Of healthy immigration; and they Temem-
bered with regret how thoughtlessly they
had practiced the habit of sending home
.hese same +" steamers during their resi-
lence in the Pacific States. A distin-
yuished gentleman of San Francisco once
.old US of the remarks made BY his pa
rents and slsters-who must have been,
from his ability. intelligent
persons, and who had been regular and
readers of the Seni-monthly
papers he had mailed to them-which will
illustrate the effect of these records Of
events and prospects in California And.
mind you, this was in 1859. The well
coming kun of our friend congratulated
him upon his safety from the bullet and
bludgeon of the assassin and foot-pad
during the past six years-ths time Of his
residence in the metropolitan city OF the
coast! And when he came to speak OF
localities, the principal points in the State
were found to be familiar, as associated
with reported series Of horrible attroci-
first made known to the deliv-
cred wandereri What is to be specially
of in this connection is the
lack of journalistic attention to home ma
terial enterprise and developments, by
way of recording and Of fifty commenting
upon the rich productiveness of the coun.
Try. The fact that the leading journals Of
California have not been printed literally
in a mining neighborhood has undoubted-
ly been one great explanation Of the de-
ficiency lamented. They have been mostly
given to what are pompously termed
" commercial reviews Remuneration Of
prices Of salt, -four and sour portland
even these quoted enormously, or to suit
the little exchange of mushroom mer-
chants. n .... ...-.
We claim that the files Of the journals
of Nevada will contrast very favorably
with California papers in the particular
here dwelt upon. But we have lesson
to learn from our own remissness, in
like direction, if we eandidly reflect. At
least it so seems to us; and on such
conviction we shall-with all due credit
to and respect for our elder associates, and
all proper self-esteem-submit some sug-
gestions, by and by. .a-...
PERPEcrLY SATIsPIHD.-By Q private
Sow, Povtraaa Monroe. we are