Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-05-21

resulted in the severe and perhaps fatal
beating of Sergeant Morse, and the killing
of Private Charles Miller by Capt. knight.
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH NO
BIL1TY.
What q contrast the London papers fur
nish between the character and conduct OF
Mr.. Peabody and Lord Aberdeen. The
former an American. educated in a district
school. the architect Of his own fortune,
pushes his way as a London banker to
such wealth and such a position that he
can do and does acts Of muniicence so
great as to shame even the hereditary
princes Of Great Britain, and such as the
Queen, in her letter to him. ~pronounces
wholly without parallel" in the history
OF the gigantic charities Of the British ma.
ton. Hearing that he is about to revisit
his native lend. the Queen Of England
sends him an autograph letter, desires to
present him her likeness, and would have
conferred a baronetcy upon him but that
he declined il. The London Times de-
votes Q whole leader TO the discussion
Of his noble acts ! behalf Of the London
poor.
On the other hand, contrast with this
the title Of Lord Aberdeen trailed in the
dirt, as was pointed u the other day, by
an heir to it, who is leading a half vsgrans
life BY going about the world in disguise,
wasting his time, hi, money and his op-
p~or,unisies. And yet, for Fifty years and
more. from 1902 to 1854, one Of the own
ers Of that title stood foremost among the
great men Of the worlds history in almost
every respect. Now the heir Of the family
honors, fond Of low companions and full
Of low tastes, instead of living to elevate
the poor like a Peabody, lives only to
weary, brighten. and disgust his friends
by sq~uandering time and money in unbe-
coming designations that corrupt them.
Such contrasts, we should hope, are not
very common in q world like this. But
when they do occur. it is well to trace the
cause that produce them. At least we
may learn the value Of our American sys-
TEN Of common-school education, where
even the poorest may be so educated that
they may take their places among the
highest Of any land, and afford even to
refnse outward honors in the conscious
wealth Of living for higher purposes, and
leaving a name which, unadorned by
titles, carries with it the remembrance of
wholly unprecedented" acts Of good
ness.
We might have expected the descend
ants Of so able, refined, well-educated and
distinguished a man as Lord Aberdeen to
succeed in better educating a family than
that they should come TO have such tastes
as those we have described. How has i,
i, all happened: we naturally ask. Is il,
not because, propped up entails in heredi-
,sry ease and greatness, which they cannot
forfei, by any idleness and dissipation, the
nobility Of England lose those habits OF
care and self. preservation which alone can
render family merit secure and prolonged:
The worthy and ambitious poor boy grows
up with the feeling that he has his future
character and fortune to make by indus
try. energy and intelligence; hence he Gull
tiva.es these. The young noble grows up
feeling tina, wealth and high position are
his without effort, and so he begins life
without ambition, and is as likely to fall as
to rise. All men should feel that they
mus, depend upon Themselves for success
or they will never succeed.
Blu. the most important matter here is,
tina, the American system leads men to
feel that there is no security for the pro-
eress Of each except by the progressive
education of all. The strength and civili-
zation Of society is to be measured not by
the top but bottom strata. So long as
whole classes lie degraded, depraved, igno-
rant, and uncared for, the highest classes,
however wealthy, or propped up in heredt-
tary honors, never can be secure. Revo-
lu,ions will threaten and growl, and the
children Of the highest may descend to the
lowest. /, is only by eleva,inS the lowest
through education and care, that civiliza-
ton is to be extended, and families pre-
served from degradation. There is that
sca,,ers,h and ye, increaseth, and there is
,h,, which w~ithholdeth more than is meet,
and i. ,endeth to poverty" There are
noblemen in London whose estates pro-
dues them from W to three millions Of
dollars annually, and they add field to
8eld, and increase or ~squander their rent
rolls. Blu, such an act as this of Mr.. Pea
body'si, "wholly unprecedented, because
the mobiles there scarcely ever think OF or
hope for the elevation of the poor as is
customary here. They do not dread hav-
ing vas, masses Of low vicious and unedu-
Gated families, never rising to breathe the
pure air Of education and religion. Those
masses Of the uncared.for poor will yet be
the downfall Of the English monarchy.
NEARLY all the post-ofices in Texas are
in charge Of females. Il works so well