The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-03-10

, This is said to be the first winter in which
t native American workmen have been know
to seek voluntarily the protection of thu
stationhouses for themselves and families.
More than one hundred and fifty weekly
journals are published in this city, seven
eighths of which hardly any New Yorker
ever heard of. Most Of them are for outside
circulation.
Nineteen unsuccessful attempts at suicide
have been made in this city during the pres
ent week.
Highway robberies in broad daylight in the
most populous thoroughfares continue almost
of daily occurrence. The latest is that OF
an errand boy, fifteen years old, who was
knocked down in street leading to Wall,
and robbed of $500 while on his way to
bank
The Evening Post and the Journal Of
Commerce are reported to have cleared
$4,000 and $4,000 respectively, last
year.
Some of the Broadway landlords estimate
that at present rates it costs s. 10 per day
to feed man at their tables, presuming he
eats three meals.
The present week has been an easy one for
the critics. Scarcely any changes have been
made in the programmes Of the various
places of amusement, and of the few changes
that have been made there is little to be said
in the nature of criticism. After the opera
closes we shall have quite a musical famine
There is reason to believe that much of the
so-called news from the Capital is manufac-
tured in the interest Of the gold gamblers,
and that prominent politicians are occasion
ally interested in shaping this news to make
it answer their purpose in the gold room.
When they 90 "long" the Washington ru-
mors become threatening, but when they sell
outand go"short," affairs present much more
pacific aspect, and the long and the short of
it is that otherwise respectable men in Wall
street and at Washington make scoundrels
and liars of themselves several times a week |
in order that they may cheat in the demoral-
izing game Of speculation. Gold is now in
fuenced more by political than commercial
or financial causes, and hence there is a wide |
field of speculation to run riot in.
The prospects of the enactment Of an in
ternational copyright law are improving
daily. Should the bill pass it will be death to
American magazine publishers, who fill up
about two-thirds of their pages with selected
foreign miscellany-which costs them no.
thing. Only the balance is made up of origi-
nal native productions, which are principally
paid for at the rate of four or five dollars per
page of printed matter. In justice to the
literary men of the country, such a law should
De Immediately passed without unnecessary
lelay. A majority of the House Library
Committee will report upon the measure
avorably.
General Howard is endeavoring to find
employment for two Thousand negroes now
tut of employment in the District OF Column
ia.
1t should not be forgotten that the rate OF
postage on letters weighing less than half an
unce TO Grea. Britain and Ireland was re-
uced to II cents on the lst of January
repayment is optional, and the rate is six
ence sterling if it is collected at its destina-
ion. On newspapers not exceeding four {
unces in weight the postage is cents, which
lust be prepaid.
The recent cold weather has rendered the I
ity of Washington both isolated and ice |.
lated. Fast travellers have gone from Fort
Washington to the Metropolis on the ice, :
nd there is enough of the same material =
lied up at the Falls Of the Potomac, to re-
ice the heart of the ice-philosopher Prof. "
gassiz-when not excited on his other hob. NJ
of fishes. This is of.fh-aU. al
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