The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-01-01
FI3HTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY
EIGHT.


sensation:-as if we had realized dream
OF caught up with the future that we used e
peer into SO curiously and doubtingly wher
We we're younger and the world" was al
before US. The events which fill up Time
strike us naturally enough-perhaps with sur
prise or what not but to actually arrive at q
r,eriod which we have long looked for
ward to as a not impossible part of that eter.
ni.y which we know we must enter into one
day or another, is the realization of so much
Of degree of longevity as to startle US. The
mystery of the yet to be clears itself up
aud what was the fathomless Beyond is
stripped of the romance which anticipation
invests it with. The sun is as warm the
frost as cold; the sky as blue the stars as
bright ; the clouds as sombre; the storm as
cheerless, and the winds as rude as in the
tale that is told" Were not the past and
TIE future of long bye-gone ages and peoples
like those which we have passed through and
achieved. And yet, is not the still Future
a. fathomless and deeply shrouded in
mystery ~ if We were but Just wakened into
life F.. And who shall lift the inscrutible
veil.
We are passing through the most remark
able decade of years that any Americans
have ever experienced since the Revolutionary
Fathers achieved the independence of the
colonies. With the year 1860 began series
vt occurrences which have tried the manhood
NJ this nation as none ever dreamed it would
I've tried. The exigencies of war coming
Upon a people to whom perfect peace was
life long habit, tested our strength, integrity
aud courage to the utmost; and the perplex-
ties of an anomalous peace have taxed the
legislative powers of the peoples Representa-
sives 10 a degree which has demanded the
..xercise of the highest patience and most
Conscientious endeavour. The year tina. is
inst finished is without parallel in this re-
gard. Whatever of virtue there may be in
tae Demccratical form of government was
never SO tried and tested before. Within the
q Happy New Year" which is before us
comes to be finally settled the question of the
t,vand result. The steadfastness of the
american people; the ultimate verdict of the |
war; the settlement, for many years to come,
Of the nature and limits Of our nationality
l,sv far the genius Of Progress is to be re-
tognized a. an attribute of this system of
all these are of the problems,
the working out of which is to devolve upon
u. a. part of our unavoidable duty. There
fre it is to be considered that the year upon
which we enter to-day-the eighth since our
. ID trouble began-is to be freighted with
matters of the pro!oundest moment, to Crap
pc with which every man who feels the spark
" patriotism within him must be prepared
tn labor with diligence, ardor and unceasing
Nevada has prospered, and by the outgiv-
ing Of her mines has presented good and
gratifying account of herself. Coupled with
tae general prosperity of the State, Ormsby
county has given proof of steady and
.ealthful gain in financial matters and is,
,-day, rejoicing in an augmented solvency,
shile the people who have made their homes
within its limits are blessed with substance,
.,ritt, and an average immunity from extreme
poverty that will bear favorable comparison
sirh other and apparently more favored COM
nulities.
The disasters which have befallen some of I
II neighbors from food and tempest are
;reat and grievous to be borne. In the ma
'rity of instances, however, they have fallen c
pom such as are comparatively able to meet
nd repair them and the ill wind which has 5
,read so much distress promises to make
ar food-visited neighbors of Empire busily r
lrrounded by millwrights and laborers dur !,
< the coming Summer. Moreover, we e
.nnot help entertaining the idea that the a
,arly illustration of the superiority of the i
tscerville Route as way of expeditions and t
liable mountain transit, will, sooner or
tier. make it m after of interest for capital
.ts to invest suticiency of means in the {
Valley Railroad to secure its ex- C
.nsion to and within the limits of this State {
is needless to urge the necessity for this b
val route to the Central Pacific Railway. 5
We shall see reasons for blessing the storms
December, 81, if they furnish the needed |,
rsuments to induce the completion of the S
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