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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19
THE NEW MOUNTAIN RAILROAD
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The Plumas Union, Of the latest date,
contains q lengthy article on the pro-
jected Railroad across the Sierras, BY
the Beckworth Pass route, from which
we extract the ~subjoiued. The "pass"
is 5000 feet lower than the Central
Pacific; the steepest grade is only 90
feet to the mile, and not over q feet OF
snow on any part Of the route during
any portion Of the winter months. It
is remarkable that so good q railroad
route across the Sierras should have
been first traversed at SO early a day a.
was the Beckworth Pass-only less re-
markable than that the Central Pacific
Company should have ignored both it
and the Plscerville route, for their
snow defyiug break towards the UNI
NIT. Let the people Of northern Cali
fornia 60 ahead energetically with their
full surveys Of the Feather River route,
and see to it that their district Congress
man and the new United States Senator
from California are not the creatures OF
the Dutch Flat Company, and they need
have no appreheusions but that even
tually, yes, speedily, the new route will
receive due helpful notice from the Ma
ton and from Nevada. The monopoly
will develop Its greed more and more,
and render the call Of the people in
favor Of a rival road emphatic and i'm
perative.
Read tho following from the Plumas
Union, of the l4th:
Articles Of incorporation, under the
name Of the Oroville and Virginia City
Railroad Company, have been adopted
by a number of our citizens, with a
view to the location Of a railroad upon
the Feather river and Beckworth. Pass
route. The recent wagon road survey
has demonstrated a route for such q
road up the North Fork, possessing adj
vsntages beyond the most sanguine e1-
pectations Of the best friends Of the
enterprise. The route, we are informed,
will reach Virginia City from Oroville
in l55 miles. II will reach an altitude
of only $500 feet, and from all prelimi-
nary observations made, will not have o
grade of over so feet to the mile on the
whole route.
Better than all, and which fact can be
sttested by hundreds Of our citizens,
snow never falls on any portion Of the
route to a greater depth than two to
two and one-half feet. Quincy is on
the line Of the proposed road, and is
only 3,l27 feet above the level of the
sea, and it is q notorious fact that the
road from here to Virginia City, via
Beckworth Pass, is open all the year.
With the Vallejo and Marysville, and
the Northern California Railroads point
ing directly to such q route across the
Sierra Nevadas, with q base so near the
centre of commerce on the Pacific, we
expect to see this new enterprise com-
mand the attention of railroad interests
of our whole State. Tho company just
organized, we are informed, will COM
mence Immediately the survey, location
and mapping of the proposed route, and
it will not be long before the public will
be presented with an array Of facts upon
this subject which will challenge the
attention of all to this route, and lead
the way to such public and private &C
ton of our people as will give to US such
a railroad as the country demands.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

A VARIATIoS.-S. B. AItell says he
did not say precisely what has been at
tributed to him by the telegraphic syn
opsis Of . portion Of his st. Patrick's
day Grafton, in San Francisco. BE in
diss' a letter to the AmadOr Ledger to
explain his meaning. He wishes it dis
tinetly understood that he did not say
that the man who demanded freedom
for Irishmsn and not for negroes and
Cinnamon, was not q true man, but what
he did say was that "men who would
claim it for negroes and Cinnamon, and
not eoncsde it to Irishmen, were not
true to their principles; were unworthy
to be followed"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

THE TRADE WITH CALIFoRsIA.-The
shipments of domestic and foreign mer-
chandize from the port of New York to
San Francisco in the last quarter OF
1866, amounted, as we learn from the
report of the Director Of Statistics, to
Sll, 744, GA, Of which S~2,7l9,250 was
foreign and the remainder domestic pro-
duce. The largest single item was
wearing apparel, amounting to S2,47l,-
1876, but Of manufactures Of cotton the
aggregate was SO, lO7 500. Of foreign
merchandise shipped the bulk was fancy
goods and silks, these two items being
1889, 100 and $l,ll7, 800 respectively,
while all the other shipments Of foreign
goods amounted to only S52,35O. San
Francisco receives its wines, liquors,
teas, spices, etc., mostly direct. or
shipments hither from California, treas
ure is the greatest item, but the receipts
of wool, hides, etc., are very considers
ble-quite enough, we judge to place
the balance of trade in favor Of Califor-
nia.-NeW York paper.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

EMIGRATION TO THE WEsr.-Some time
ago we alluded to the fact that a propo-
sition was made and carried in the Mis-.
souri, Legislature to encourage emigra-
ton to that State, by affording emigrants
landing at Now York every facility and
pecuniary aid to reach that locality.
Agents will reside in the eastern cities,
whose business it will be to look after
the interests Of their State. The char
acter and prices of land will constantly
be KEEP. before the e~migrant, and the
routes easiest travelled to the West will
be so advertised as to attract and ecu
immense emigration Of useful people to
certain localities. The success which
has crowned the efforts Of Missouri in
this business has aroused other Western
States to the adoption Of oven moro
vigorous measures in the same direction.
Iowa, Kansas and.Arkansas are specially
exhibiting q zeal in this matter from
which other Western States may in
turn learn something. Kansas at once
appropriated 100000 to this work.
There is no doubt Of the wisdom and
the policy Of these movements. They
are calculated to benefit other States
besides the Western, because as this
emigration concentrates on the vast,
untitled portions Of the Western domain,
new interests will be created, new mar
ksss opened, and enlarged wealth DO
made to circulate sll over the country!
Instead of the emigrants crowdiug the
large Eastern cities, where three out OF
FIVE decline into pauperage, the idea OF
them at once to the West par
of a business prudence and a hu-
which deserve the approval OF
all good citizens.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19
l~,s,au.tion sn ths Iri,h.

Under the above head the Mariposs
Nail thus takes the Sacramento Union
to task for its anti-Irish and pro-Chinese
proclivities:
iiBecause Democratic papers have
generally taken the side Of the white Ia
borers since the question was recently
raised in San Francisco, as to stopping
Chinese immigration to this State, va
rious papers which advocate the right
Of Congress to demolish States at its
pleasure, to destroy the right Of trial by
jury and the benefit of the writ Of ha-
beas corpus, have taken the side Of the
Chinese, and not only this, but the Sac
ramento Union goes further, and threat
ems retaliation upon the Irish. What
have the Irish to do with this question
any more than the native American, the
German, the French or the Italian Ia
borer2 It Is q question which comes
home to every white man who has be-
como or has declared his intention to
become q citizen of this country. The
question is whether we will prefer white
laborers from Europe who compose diff
ferent branches of the great Caucasian
race, or shall We encourage Chinese i'm
migrants, q people whose morals, hab-
its, language and religion are so dissim-
liar to our own, and repugnant to our
taste, that We never can and never ought
to amalgamate with them.
While we are opposed to mob violence
and in favor Of giving the Chinese who
are here all the protection the law allows
them, yet we are in favor also of stop
ping, by legal means, the further influx
of this people to our shores. We don't
consider this q political question, but
emphatically Of self-preservation to the
white laborers of this State. Here are
the sentiments of the Sacramento Union,
which evidently loves a Chiuaman better
than an Irishman. It says:
"How many years have elapsed since
the public journals of the Atlantic cities
contained advertisements for help, with
the bitter addition: "No Irish need ap-
ply"2 How much indignant %eloquence
was then expended on account of this
and other attempts TO proscrioe n
element of our population on account
of the accident of birth? The feeling Of
hostility to the Irish was engendered by
their clannishness in politics, their han
kering for Offices, which most Of them
were incompetent to fill, and their intol-
Grant spirit in dealing with other classes
Of society. Now, what has been may
be again; that is to say, prescription by
Irishmen may again provoke the pro-
scription Of Irishmen. ***** The
Chinese are here, will remain here, and
will be employed wherever their, labor
may be turned to account. Neither
violence in San Francisco nor voting in
Sacramento can alter the fact. But
those who make themselves conspicuous
in the crusade may suffer from the reac-
ton"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19
WHAT THE COUNTRY MOST
MERIDA.

The domain of modern civilization is
called Christendom. To tell wherein
our estate differs from that Of the an
clients might nil a volume, but the
characteristic is given in this name.
Our age believes in human brotherhood
and Christian charities. Our laws pre-
suppose equal rights, and personal re-
sp~onsibility. Our civilization enthrones
the ideas of conscience, duty, humanity.
Legal order on such principles alone
makes material progress possible, pro-
tects and fosters labor and invites uni
versal improvement. The movement
for liberty and the establishment and
the maintenance of free government are
due to men and to. classes Of men Of
strong moral convictions, not to say re-
ligious inspirations. Such men have
wrestled with tyraunies Of all kinds, and
toiled to learn and diffuse truth as we'll
as to be themselves mentally and morally
free. To them We almost every
thing We boast Of. Doubtless what the
country now most needs is an increase
of the number and the power Of such
men. The vitality Of virtue has its
roots deeper than conventional morality,
and from these deeper roots flows the
life-sap Of our civilization. Tho pro-
valence Of ertravagance, official corrup-
ton, crime and vice, is tho familiar
complaint on all hands. Perfdy
plunged US in war, and perfdy now pro-
longs the curse Of treason. Legal
remedies are difficult or uncertain for
much Of this mass Of ill, and for the
rest Of it so vain that they are often
abandoned in despair. Healing for the
too prevalent moral deterioration 10
plainly what Is most Of all needed. 1t
is needed not less for our national well
fare than social security. II car only
como from the source Of Whatever 10
best In the civilization Of C~hristendom.
In q word, II is not alone to legislators
and the schools Of learning, nor to tho
inspirations of art, that the people must
look for elevation and prosperity. The
sincere teachers and friends Of religion
must come to the rescue. Their efforts,
and the deepening and spreading oftheir
best convictions are what, above all
things else, our country now chiefly
\
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

The ACTING VICE PRrslDESr.-lt Is
remarked by a contemporary that the Sc
lection of Mr.. Wade to be President OF
the Senate, was made in view ofa con-
tingency, for the first time in the his
tory of the Government-that growing
out ofthe possibility Of his becoming
President by virtue of his Office. He is
the forty-second Senator elected Presi-
dent of the Senate pro tsmpore, and he
will succeed John Langdon, Richard
Henry Lee, Theodore Sedgwick, William
H. Crawford, James Barbour, Nathaniel
Macon, William R. King, Solomon Foot
and other prominent men. Mr.. Wade
was born in Massachusetts, in the first
yoar of the present century, and went,
when twenty-one, to Ohio, where he ed
ucated himselfas a lawyer.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19
SUPPRESSED TEsrlMoSY.-The cha

SUPPRESSED TEsTIMoSY.-The chair
man of the Congressional Committee
that had in charge the investigation Of
the conduct of Collector Smythe, Of New
York city, in the House of Represents
tives on the 18th Of March, is reported
to have said the following:
"The only part of Mr.. Smythc's tes-
timony suppressed was the answer to q
question as to whether he had ever made
presents to the families Of Senators,
that answer being, yes, sir; | once
gave Senator Patterson's lady forty cts.
worth of candy He (Mr. Hurlburd)
had thought that So impertinent, so flip
pant, SO mean, that he had directed the
reporter not to take down that answer"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

TIE Salt Lake Vedstss Of April 10th,
has q leading editorial, bitterly denoun-
cling the military management Of the
Department Of the Plains. No protec-
ton whatever is afforded the immi-
grants or settlers under this new regi-
men, says the Hsdette. We do not sup
pose many immigrants have started to
cross the. Plains this season, but we pre-
sumo that the way frontier settlers are
''allowed to be murdered" is q good in
dicstiou Of the protection likely to be
shielded BY the the troops during the
coming Summer. 1t will come down to
Tom. Tenants proposition yet.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

TEE high prices Of frsights to and
from San Francisco tell heavily on the
interior. It was anticipated that the
Pacific Railroad would cheaper trans.
portatiop as we'll as save time to the
interior merchant; but it is not materi-
ally so. The charge of eight dollars.a
ton on the ride Of fifty miles and four on
the steamboat, is heavy compared with
the prices paid for carrying freight from
San Francisco 10 Oregon, or to New
York. During the winter goods have
been taken to Oregon and produce
brought back at the rate of one dollar q
ton, while the average price paid per
ton to New York has not exceeded the
cost of getting goods from San Fran
cisco to Nevada City.-Nspoda (Cal.)
Gazette.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

A "BrrUDDLED" individual with more
money than brains, went into a jewelry
store in Galveston, Texas, lately, bought
an elegantly silver-platcd c~ream.jug, pu,
in some pebble stones, tied down the
cover, fastened the machine to the tail
of a 'tyaller dorg," and sent him yelp-
ing down the street. "Polly Ann +"
would have been distanced the first
block. The clerks declare that it is q
long while since silver ware "went off"
so fast. The perpetrator of this feat
seemed to enjoy it hugely.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

THE Daily Nevada (Cal.) Gazette, Of
April 18th, says that to get anything
from San Francisco costs more than the
San Franciscaus pay to get the same
thing from Liverpool, New York or Cal
cutta; and when the Pacific Railroad Ia
finished, if the anne proportional rates
are maintained as now, nothing but
gold, silk, or some other valuable COM
modify, could 60 through and have any
thing left over and above the charges Of
transportation.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

Arm HIx.-The Boston correspond
emit OF the Sacramento Union says that
MRS. (Vinesnt) Wilson, one Of the bes.
OLD women on the stage, and a valued
msmbsr Of the Museum stock company,
viii start for your State in July, in pur-
suit OF her husband, who elopsd some
time ago with a well-kuown actress.
The two have been playing in several
cities on the Pacific coast. What she
purposes to do with the fugitive, II sb.
catches him, she does not state" We
believe that the clipping husband is now
sfiancsd to Kate Denim, who Il, playing
ct Sacramento, !
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

New ISyrSrIoS.-The San Francisco
Times says that a gentleman in that city
has just completed a working model OF
. machine for preparing bread for the
oven. The model is imperfect, but the
machine is said to be constructed on
principles which insures its success as
. lAbor-ssver. He is preparing to have
. perfect machine made after the plan
Of the model, and 9 description of it will
then be given.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

TEE Te,pass says the Railroad Com.
psny have already paid, or are soon to
pay, Sl6,OOO into the State Treasury, in
the form Of cash down, for necessary
State stamps. Without the mine-taI, i,
is becoming daily more evident that q
Just and economical administration
would report a surplus Of many thou
sands in the State Treasury on January
/. 1869,
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

TILrlRs AMT ExouaH.-The filters
having failed to please tho least modest
Of the gay Partisan damsels, they pro-
pose to inaugurate a new fashion. Short
skirts, without c~rinoline, to reach just
below the knee, jeweled gsrters, fancy
stockings and high-heeled boots, they
say, will exhibit the lovely creatures to
the best advantage.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

HERE is a story about the North Ger
man elections: A coachman Of Stettin
was asked by his wife which Of the can
didates he had voted for. ~ don't
know" was tho reply, ''as the voting
was secret" On being pressed to ex-
plain what he meant by secret voting,
he added that each voter had got his
voting paper in asealed envelope, which
he had put into the voting urn without
reading its contents.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

DrvoRcs.-Alice Kingsbury has com.
menced suit in the county of Ell Dorado,
Cal, against her husband for divorce,
mss Kingsbury, like many fine actress,
60, seems to have been unfortunate in
her matrimonial alliance.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

REAL ESTATE in San Francisco is still
on tho rise. Land way out on the Sar
Bruno road, sold on Monday last, fol
$3.50 an acre; while a 20 foot front lo'
on Oregon street, near Davis, sold fol
ST.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

"LlGIrIXLrE DRAMA" must have q
hard time Of it in Sacramento. The
Union, noticing the playing of Arrah-
ns-Pogus on Monday evening, says:
The Irish drama was minus the striking
effects Of the last act and the barn-door
jig. The water under the stage pre-
vented the working Of the machinery.
Beautiful slough Of despond is ..Sacra-
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

A CORRESPONDENT from Calville, Lin
coin county, says that there will be a
brisk trade up the Colorado river this
season. The Salt Lake Daily Telegraph
prophecies q great rush of freighting
from and to Calville, by Mormon pat
ronape
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

TIE Mormons had q great jubilee
during the entire week before last. The
burden Of the reported discourses was
Praise God we are not as other peoples
are. The goodness Of polygamy was
extensively dilated upon.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

Rev. FATHER KELLEY, of the Catholic
Church, for some time a resident Of
Carson, started for M~srysville, Cali,
fornia, on Monday, the occasion of his
call there being the death Of the resi-
dent priest.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

TouR OF IxsPxcrIoS.-It is stated that
General Halleck and Brigadier-G General
Allen will soon start for Arizona On the
steamer Pacific, on q our of inspection
through that country.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

CANNED fruits and vegetables, and the
manufacture Of all culinary implements,
kitchen utensils, are exempted from
Federal tar, under the recently amend
ed Revenue Law.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

THE St. Joseph Herald reports scenes
of extraordinary distress in that city
A lady of the Relief Committee lately
discovered, while on an examining tour,
several families without food or fuel,
In another street six families were with.
out fuel and but sparsely supplied with
provisions.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

Strawberries are coming into the
San Francisco market by the hundred
pounds at 0 batch. Two weeks hence,
il 10 said the market will be stocked
with them.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

NEW RAILRoAD.-The Alto says a
company has been organized to build q
railroad from Amador Valley to Mar
tinez, q distance Of twenty-five miles,
by way Of Danville, Alamo, Walnut and
Pacheco and 500 per mile (tsn per cent.
of tho capital stock) has been paid in.
The right of way will be obtained with
out cost, and the people along the route
are willing to do all they can to help
the road. The ground is so favorable
that an offer has been made TO build the
road, and stock it with n locomotive,
two freight cars and twenty passenger
cars, for $4,000 per mile.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

A CHrxrsz thief was recently convict
ed, in San Francisco, on the testimony
Of Q deaf and dumb man.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

TIE New York Tribune calls loudly
for protection to paper manufacturer
in this country, while it buys every
sheet Of its using in Germany.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

TEE General Government will soon
take of all it, tax on proceeds of mines
Secretary Mccullough recommending
that such be tho action Of Congress.
And here, in Nevada, we have a State
Law imposing a tax on mine proceeds J
A tax, too, on property which Ross
Browne and Mccullough say q State
cannot rightfully tax at all, and which
the Federal Government ought not to
tax
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

The income tax has been amended so
as to impose no per centage on any rev.
enue under $1,000 per year.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

A New YORK fashionable authority
states that the immense shell combs,
such as were worn fifty years ago, are
to supersede the waterfall.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19

QusHS VIcroRIA is engaged in writing
q book-supposed to be a memoir ofthe
late Prince Consort.