Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-02-06
LETTER FROM
fcorrespOndence Of the Gold HIN News.l

Va aNS
centre date. The Senate is one of the
best looking and best behaved bodies 1t
has ever been my fortune to form a
close acquaintance with. Moro than a
third of the members are over six feet
high; but their boots and heads do not
bear that reciprocal relation, that COM
pensatory relation, perhaps, should
have said, which has passed into a
popular saying concerning n prominent
official in our State. may say tnat
there is not q man in the Senate who
talks for the mere purpose OF being
heard or being reported. When nave
have said this | have covered the COM
mon sense compliment as 1t IS COM
monty understood.
Ny acquaintance with the Assembly
is comparatively limited; but it is on
record that that body dispatches BUSH
ness with remarkable rapidly. After
over sixty days session there remain
not q dozen bills on general file in
either house. Itmay be submitted with
safety that this is q first rate showing
for the industry and ready compre-
hension Of the working majority in both
branches of the Legislature.
This is expected to be a particularly
lively week in the session. The Sunday
law and the question OF reducing rail-
road fare on the Dutch Flat route come
up for discussion in tho Assembly IN a
few days. The Sunday law repeating
bill will probably pass the Assembly
and be defeated in the Senate. There
is not much hope for the passage Of the
bill reducing the rate of fare on
the Dutch Flat Railroad. The peo-
pie all along the line, and on
the borden Of the road to the
width of its land section privilege,
have petitioned almost unanimously or
a reduction of fares, but the voice OF
the people may not prevail against the
arguments" Of Crocker 4 Company.
The new Democratic newspaper here is
daily printing on its editorial page long
communications from the Croker and
| Stanford family, showing how neces-
sary it is, this is the substance Of it):
That the people Of the State Of Nevada
should continue to pay twenty dollars
for a roll over the Sierra Nevada during
the next four years TO come. All T! only
four wears to come If the fare is not
reduced this session, there is very slight
f! probability Of its being reduced for the
| next ten years to come; q statement OBJ
viously true for many reasons. How
ever, there will be some strong speeches
made in the Assemblythis week against
the continued permission Of the extor,
tomato railroad rates; and even Cog.
gins, a Union member from Sacramento,
assures me that this Legislature rh
pull down the fare fifty per cent. lie,
us hope that the sanguiue Quaker is in
spired in this prophecy. The Dutch
Flat Company have, in addition to theii
contributions to the Democratic daily In
this place, employed an ex-rebel Cap
tain to superinteud their flood forti6ca'
ton works on the American River. By
the way, i. must occur to you to wonder
how the Sacramento Onion likes 'tht
"tadpole" Camden and Amboy monopo'
" in this State for contributing to
new daily in this city? 1t is disagree
able to the Saints.
Vaudeville and Belden are respec.
lively Democratic and Union leaders il
the Senate ; and Steele, of S~iskiyou, ant
Dwinelle, Of Alameda, are respectively
the Democratic and Union leaders in thu
Assembly. Smart men. No airs abou
either n Of them. Talk right to thu
point, and when they get through, sit
down. Dwinelle and Steele gave Soma
tor Stewart a decidedly caustic going
over on his National Mining School bill
As California contributes o very large
share of the bullion tax which William
proposed to appropriate or make q show
Of a%ppropriating in o lump, Steele anc
Dwinelle thought it NO wrong for the
California Legislature to have a wore
to say on the subject. Steele's remark:
were particularly rasping. He thought
he had a right to express some indigna'
ton when Stewart, without consultation
with the California Senators, jumped the
whole bullion tax Of the United State:
for q grand electioneering sham pro
gramme. He intimated that Stewart
did not expect to get his bill through
this session but would come back &c
Nevada next Summer and tell the PEG
pie of Virginia that he would put thu
bill through next Winter, and locate thu
National Mining School in our Metropo
lis, and then tell .he same story abou'
location to the people OF Carson, ant
then tell Aurora people that the Schoo
would be located there, and then tel
the people at Austin, and at Belmont
and ut Unionville, and at Stone Il Gates
Crossing, and at Ragtown respectively
that they should have the Mining Schoo
right in tho midst Of them, if-if-if-i
they belonged to Gideon's Band, ant
would send in legislators to r~e-elect him
to the United States Senate. Perhap:
some people may. criticisc Mr.. Steele ii
not speakiugin perfect good taste wher
he dubbed ourillustrious sage-brush ora
tor n "cross-road politician" Others
again, think that Williams ward meet
ing speeches in San Francisco, during
the last California canvass, credit hin
under the above title, considering the
literary character and logical effect ant
local circumstance Of those harangues
Il, is reported here that if the Rev
Mr.. Hill, of this place, is not elected
Bishop Of Oregon BY the E~piscopa
House of Bishops, he will soon be elected
to the b~ishopric of Nevada. He is 9
faithful pastor and an able preacher
and will unquestionably do u great dea.
to Immediately revive and largely build
up his denomination in the Silver State.
Rev. Mr.. Lathrop is now acknowledged
to be the leading pulpit orator of the
Episcopal church in San Francisco ant
on this coast. / attended his church
several times, in San Francisco, during
the last two months, and have invaria'
bly, found it crowded, even in the mos
Indictment weather, and Mt night as vel
I. as in the morning. His church are erect
ing n Sunday school chapel.
The Roman Catholic Council Of Bish'
ops, which assembled at Baltimore in
1866, in advising the Head Of theil
Church as to the selection Of Bishop:
for new dioceses in this country, named
the Rev. Father Manoguc, of Virgins
city, for the Bishopric Of Utah and Col.