Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-02-20

How long? Right in a thickly settled
part of New England, this superstition
takes Judgement. Chow long?"
Lest you be delicate about the precise
terms in which to frame your answer,
we will furnish you with the only char
ter of response that in truth could be
made. From ten to twenty hours after
their little spree might those Chiefs be-
hold the face of nature with an earthly
eye. Of course they'd have o jury trial.
A jury composed of turkey-target rifle
men. The first jury that would sit on
their case their carcases would be q
coroner's jury)-to make the affair all
proper, civilized" christian etc.
The transaction closing the tragedy
would be subject for thorough, hearty
congratulation in pulpit next Sunday,
and over the pork and beans and brown
bread of that Sundays dinner. You
know this would be SO, brother Yank.
"Mercy! In Minnesota, in Kansas,
Nebraska, in Ntrdda, there would be
land isl more ENERGY" extended to In
dian murderers than they would, under
circumstances given, experience at the
hands of a Massachusetts, community,
pick it out where you will. Why then
do you B~ostonites send us the moral,
protesting war-hoop when we ask for
the only sort of protection against In
dams that is effectual2
We want determination do wei
Yes. Even Tom Tenants resolution
slightly changed-suits the case. Let's
look at one point in the proposition
offered by Tom. There is asked the
withdrawal of the military authorities.
That's good. The military has been OF
very little service, comparatively, on
the Plains. Almost of no account what
ever in Nevada. Not but what soldiers
have been brave, and line and field off,
GERS generally Jealous; but headquar-
tiers" have had no private ranches to
~irripate on the Overland route-unless
il might be there was one exception in
the immediate vicinity of Great Salt
Lake City. "Headluarters" havn't
had any private mines in Humboldt
county, Nevada. There is where the
Humboldt people made a mistake. If
Senator Hutchins, instead Of introduce
ing or fighting for a requesting resolu-
ton of determination" had induced
his constituents to find or buy a good
mine and present it to Colonel Dunn, or
some one more or less in headquarters
authority than he, we should have had
q strong force in Nevada of United
States troops. And we advise, now, il
there is any land available for ranching
purposes near the source of Reese River,
aud it is desirable to have a "camp "
there, that such ranch land be located
and donated by the State, if possible, to
General Brute or General Belly, with
the request that it be guarded
irrigated, fructiied, made to blossom
as d rose, etc., etc.
Yes, the time may come, during this
wear, when Tom Tenants resolution
will be practically carried out, on the
Plains. Horce Greeley and Schuyler
Colfax may tell the people of the East
that they crossed the Plains and were
not murdered-a true story; but when
they argue thence a whole decalogue OF
utter %forbearence from retaliation on
the Injnns in kind, they make, in the
estimation of our experienced folks, and
according to the records Of their an
cestors as we'll as ours, great asses Of
themselves. Greater fools, if not mean
er men, in this, are they, than Bro.
Yank, of Boston; for they have heard
the facts authenticity related which
they were so fortunate as not to witness;
they know Of the character and dis
position and doings Of the savages, from
which, happily, they did not suffer in
their trans-continental journey.