Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-10
THE ENTERPRISE ON FOREIGN
AFFAIR."

In yesterday mornings telegrapnic
summary of foreign news, appeared the
following paragraph:
LONDON, April s-2P N.-The feel
ing Of distrust has increased to a war
panic. Government has sent several
ships Of war to adjust the claims arising
out Of the seizure Of the Tornado.
Upon which our ponderous-hesded
morning contemporary, over the Divide,
discourses, as follows, in yesterdays
issue:
"There are vague intimstions in our
dispatches this morning Of hostilities
between England and France. They
consist of New York street rumors to
that effect, and Of a dispatch from Lon
don, dated yesterday afternoon, stating
that the feeling Of distrust has increased
to a war panic and that several British
wal vessels have been sent to adjust the
claims arising out Of the seizure of the
Tornado. Where or when the Tornado
was seized we are left to conjecture.
The telegraph line has been down for
three or four days, and the record OF
events during that time is imperfectly
brought up in the dispatches received
last night; consequently it is not impro-
bable that the seizure may have occur
red within that period"
This morning, it recurs to the subject
in the same state Of bewilderment and
conjecture. The awful fight which the
Enterprise has, Of late, wsged with the
Legislature at Carson, has, for the time,
formed the one single idea which the
Uranium ofits organ-grinderis capable Of
containing. As with all small intellects,
his personal squabbles have so filed his
mind, to the exclusion Of all other mat
tiers, that everything outside of the i'm
mediate circle Of self, is beyond his
reach, and when he runs against an
item of foreign news, like the operative
in Dickens story of I" Hard Times" be
finds it "a muddle, all a muddls.'
uWhere or when the Tornado was
SEIZED" says this intelligent scribe,
"we are left to conjecture" but a glim-
merirg Of light recurs to break in upon
his ~befogged brain, and he adds, the
telegraph line has been down for three
or four days; consequently, it is not
improbable that the seizure may have
occurred within that period" Shade
of the immortal Rip Van Wrinkle! hear
the drowsy %speculations Of thy worthy
descendant and feel proud Of him!
As we always feel charitable enough
to help our neighbor out of any bad fix
into which its ignorance or stupidity
may lead it, we will inform it that the
| Tornado, q British built vessel, under
British %colors, and with a British crew,
sailed from a British port, %ostensibly on
merchant service; but the Spanish Con-
sui at Leith, having reason to suspect
that she had been sold into the Chilean
service as a vessel Of war, communicated
his suspicious to the Spanish authori-
ties, who, acting upon his information,
siezed and condemned the vessel and
imprisoned her crew. This seizure was
made as recently as the 9th Of August,
1866. So much for the "where and
when" of the matter which has so puz-
zled the wits Of the Enterprise man
The parties who sent the vessel to sea
insisting that she was a bona tide mer-
chant vessel, on a legitimate voyage, as
shown by her Custom House papers,
the sworn statements Of ownership, the
evidence of the crew, and their shipping
articles, invoked the interference of the
British Government, which has made a
demand upon the Spanish authorities
for Naturalization to the owners of the
vessel and the crew, and, if we may
believe the telegraph report, has backed
up the demand by a naval force. So
much for the state Of the quarrel and
the parties to it. Will the wise Onontio
who dozes over the foreign department
Of the Enterprise tell US how he construes
these proceedings into a cause of quarrel
and proIimate war between England and
France? 1t rather gets Us. Wake up,
S~marty-rub your eyes, and try to get
up q little closer with the news Of the
day.