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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24
MORE ABOUT RAILROADS.

Railroads, when FIRST proposed, were,
as it may be remembered, held to be as
impracticable as aerial navigation is
now considered. The remarks made by
members of the English Parliament
when the bill incorporating the Liver
pool and Manchester Railroad was be-
fore them, are given in the lives Of
George Stephenson and other locomo-
tive builders, but the views expressed
in the United States are not so well
known. In the year 1927, Mr.. Joseph
7. Buckingham, a prominent and able
editor, wrote in the Boston Courier as
follows:
"Alcibiades, or some other great map
Of antiquity, it is said, cut of his dogs
tail, that qWid nune, might not become
extinct from want Of excitement. Some
such motive, no doubt, moved n or
two of our natural aud experimental
philosophers to get up the project of a
railroad from Boston to Albany ! a pro.
ject which every ono knows, who knows
the simplest rule in arithmetic, to be
impracticabls but at an expense little
less than the market value of the whole
territory Of Massachusetts,, and which,
if practicable, every person Of common
sense knows would be as useless rs g
railroad from Boston to the moon
The leading editors of Massachusetts,
entertained similar opinions, but il
eight years that State had ll3 miles o
railway, and now has 1925 miles o
railroads, the whole territory being
only 1900 square miles. The value o
the real and personal property in 1856
, was S493, 573, 700, chiefly attributable
to the prosperity caused by railroads.
D The financial statistics given by tn
| New York Herald will give an idea o
the vast traffic carried on by city rail
roads. The amount Of capital invested
in them is Sl7, SOC, 900, represented b.
shares calling for double that sum
The passenger traffic Of Eve of them
viz: Broadway and Seventh avenue
Eighth avenue, Second avenue, Thir'
avenue and Fourth avenue, will, it i
estimated, amount to sc, SOC, 900 person
~.
transported during the year endini
= September 80, 1869 the other cit
railroads will exceed 10000, 900 per
sous, so that there will be an aggregat
of about 100, oOO, 900 passengers. TIL
! traffic on all the street railways j
nearly six times that Of tho steam car
in the entire State Of New York, an
the cost Of operating and m%aintainin
them amounts to ovcr$5,oOo ,oOOa year
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

TIE LIFE OF MAN. Life is dual. II
has its inner being and its outward EN-.
bodiments an inner essence and an
outward manifestation. This principle
of life, duality, is eminently an attribute
Of man.. Not only has he two natures
a physical body and an indwelling regal
soul-but each has its inner life aud its
outer life. Within the cells and tissues
OF the body there dwclls n secret al
chemist and builder, controlling all its
vital processes and building in Won
drous perfection. So the soul has its
dual existence. Its inner capability is
one Of thinking, feeling, willing and
ENJOYING; its outer manifestation Is
one Of influence and achievement.
These two existencss are distinguished
in their. moral respect by the terms
character and conduct. Character is
the iudwelling principle Of the moral
life I; conduct tho course Of that life in
its outward, visible flow. Character is
the fountaion ; conduct the out1owing
stream. But this is not the whole
truth. Character is not merely tho
principle of life I; it is also its result, its
creation. The roots of what we are
run back under the soil Of all our past
life, and touch every past thought, emo
ton and experience. What we are in
feeling, impulse and purpose, is the
fruit Of every preceding hours wrestling
with truth, of.erery past se%lf.denial, Of
every self.conquest. Within us is every
hours patient instruction Of parent and
teacher, every word of good counsel,
every reproof, every admonition. They
are all here /; if not in actual fruit, in
blossom or bud, or fruit-bearing power.
Mans real influence flows from his in
ner life indwelling character is the
source of his power and success. His
tory tells Of persons whose presence, by
virtue of a secret pureness Of essence,
was aromatic to the ssnses. The con-
ceit of the historian has more Of truth
than fancy. The aroma OF mans
life is %perceptible to the senses of
the soul. The face, tho voice, the man
ner, speak the
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

The Detroit Free Press wants modern
improvements worked into school read.
iue.books, and offers the following MS a
sample OF the sort that would be up
to the spirit Of the age:
"Here'is a man. He is a fireman.
He belongs to No. 10. If you are a
good boy, you will some day be an angel
like that fireman. 1t lisa dangerous
thing to be a fireman. They sometimes
get their heads broken.
"Do you see that small boy He is a
good boy and supports his mother by
selling newspapers. His father don't
have TO work any more now.
"Here is the picture of a young
widow. See how sad ; she looks. Her
husband could not pay her d~ry-goods
bill, and so he-died. Do you think
she will get another man? She will try
hard.
"Here is the face of a reporter. See
how joyful he looks. He has just heard
that a a cut his W throat, and he
is going for the item. Should you like
to be a reporter, and get licked on dark
nights, and see dead persons, and
climb up four pairs of stairs?"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24
WRECKS OF THE WAR TO BE
RAISED,


During the var there we're lost on the
Southern coast, and in the inland rivers
of tho insurreetionary States, a great
number of vessels. OF the blockaded
ports numerous would.be blockade
runners were stranded, and their bulls
and engines left on the beach until the
end of hostilities. Suags and torpedoes
buried many a goodly steam craft be-
Meath the surface of harbors and rivers.
The steam machinery thus submerged
was probably worth millions of dollars
ia the summer of 1865. All this sunken
wealth was the u%udisputed property OF
the Government, but, strange to say, no
efforts were made to recover any portion
of it. After a delay of five years the
War and Navy Departments have trans
ferred to the Treasury Bureau the power
10 contract for tho recovery Of thi:
wrecked armada. Mr.. Boutwell,, being
busy with the reduction of the debt, has
transferred his authority in this toe
long deferred matter to the Division o.
Captured and Abandoned Property
sub.department in the Treasury Office
It would be interesting to know why ir'
years have been permitted to elaps'
before any action was taken in Thu
matter. The property in question ha'
deteriorated considerably through thi'
procrastination. The action Of thu
water has corroded the machinery Of
the beach and in the rivers. Five year
is a long time to prepare tie faintes
preliminaries for the rescue OF sub
merged wood and metal. The sunkel
wrecks, worth millions in 1865, have
by tho long delay, been reduced in valn
probably to thousands. Why the Nav
Department did not act sooner in 'hi
business does not appear, but it woul
certainly be interesting to know.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

AN International Celtic Congress is
to be held On September 10th, at Brest.
The circular announces hat the object
of the Congress is "to maintain and
encourage the study Of the language,
literature, customs and history of the
Celtic races, and create n bond Of union
between the men who take IN interest
in those questions in France, Great
Britain and elsewhere"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

GENERAL BUTLER CoNiSa.-A gentle
man in Sacramento has received n letter
from Benjamin F. Butler, stating that
he expected to leave Charlestown, Mass.'
on the 18th of August, on his way 10
California, to visit the Geysers, Big
Trees and other points Of interest in
that State.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

The WHOLE Story IN A NUTSHELL
The Chattanooga Republican, tells the
whole story of the Tennessee election
when it says: "The r~esult-Stokes got
defeated, and the Democracy, like q fat
SOW over a slop bucket, cafumixed on
both sides, and is now ready to guzzle
up the slop."
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

The friends of Republican Senators
feel somewhat indignant that General
Buffers constituents claim his election
to the United States Senate on the
ground that he is the only man capable
of coping with Andrew Johnson, should
he be returned from Tennessee.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

A LABOR CoSGaEss, composed oil
delegates representing a number Of
Trades Unions, is now in session in
Philadelphia. Its sessions will prob
ably prove interesting, aud, perhaps,
important in their bearing upon the
industry and politics Of the country.
The exact nature Of the objects aimed
at, and the strength Of the movement,
will be better understood after the Con-
grsss has had an opportunity to give
free expression to its views.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

THE total amount Of the assessments
for campaign purposes which the Demo-
Gratis of San Francisco have levied on
their nominees is SIS, 900! For wha,
can the Democrats of that city use so
much money in q municipal election,
unless they intend to ~perpetrate a large
ameaut of vote-buying and other cor
ruption?
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

RoBBsRy.-Some six or seven rooms
at the Wisconsin Hotel, Grass valley,
were entered lately and robbed Of about
$40. A stranger called at the hotel and
asked for a room, which was shown him :
He did not appear next morning, and as
be had not occupied the bed tits believ-
ed that he was the thief.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

PoslrIoS OF THE PREsIDENr.-There is
good reason for stating that President
Grant has expressed himself favorNbly
to Governor Walker, if not actually com
mitted himself to the policy Of that
wing of the Republicans in Virginia.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

SENATOR YATES is said to have been hor-
ri6ed at the recent Philadelphia 6re.-Boston
Post.
As forty thousand barrels Of whisky
were destroyed by the fire, it is no won
der that the Democratic party Of the
nation seems "down in the mouth"
Yates is a Republican, and he is the
only one we have heard Of who was
horrifed."
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

TnE Democratic press are already a,
loggerheads on the subject Of Chinese
immigration. The New York World,
some time since, came out in an article
claiming that the Democratic press
favored it. But the ink was scarcely
dry before the Albany Argus denied it.
Since then the Cincinnati Enquirer has
Endorsed the position Of the Argus. The
Chicago Times sides with the World in
the contest.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

HxxRY WARD BEEcHSn was among the
guests at the gold DON the other day.
He was received with applause and
called on for a speech. He answered
by inviting the brokers to attend Ply
mouth church, Sunday morning.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

SOME bright youth has discovered
that the match between the Harvard
and Oxford crews, on the slst Of
August, will be one of the last rows
of summer
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

OSE of the principa. causes Of the
mutiny at Sing Sing, it is alleged, was
an unqualified demand by the convicts
for a plentiful supply Of ice water
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24
FORENOON STOCK REPORT.
DAILY ny II. n. rL.oo . co, GOLD II,

San Francisco. August q.
SIS Yellow Jacket, $yn1i9HG149X 8 56JO;
leo oycrman, SIS b 30IS2@SlN0S3X b 30; %
Bclcher, $50 s 39aO019H "a Confidence, $50 8
3O69i030: $40 American, $271i02s; % Alpha,
$l7% 30 Occidental. $lS s SO1S: lis 0pnir,
$eOG2OY(ta0 : 30 100 Segregated Belcher, S1a;
tuck, $1Ss: 1888 Chollar- Potosi. S2O0l9a \ 800
I9%619I62Ox 80; 100 Crown Point. $50
30X@:pH = 30; 165 Hale & Norcross, Sl22 30
@l2lG12GGl1TG1lJG112H 3 a1llS b 30: 2IG
Savage, $52fL52 3 3D153GL3 b 10; 20 Sierra
Nevada, Ss7S0SI 30 Julla. 81: 80 Gold Hill
Quartz Mill, $3GG3iGS5 b 80; 60 Hidden
Treasure. Blk.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

IT is suggested that only Chinese la
borers should be employed duricg the
heated term, for the reason that they
are coolies.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24
NEW TO-DAY.
Canadian Relief society.

A REGULAR SEMI.MoNTHLY MEETING
N OF the above Society will be held at their
Hall. on South c street, Virginia. this CTUES.
DAY. evening. August 81. at N O'Clock. All
members Of the Society arc earnestly requested
to he in attendance. A cordial invitation to all
Canadians Is also extended.
A. c. HAY, President.
au2ilt A, J, Mcdonnell, Secretary,
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24
Pioneer steam Tow Line
FOR

A Ill GOODS SENT WITH DISPATCH.
~ Vessel leaves daily from jackson street
wharf. Country merchants ordering goods by
this line get freight at very low rates. js4-Sm
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24
School Notice.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT TILE
IN Board OF School Examiners Of Storey
County will hold q meeting on MONDAY, the
Both day OF August, at the First Ward School.
house, IN Virginia City, for the Examination OF
Applicants desiring to teach school In Storey
County. BY order OF the Board.
d.. 81. GEIGER.
Virginia City, August %, 1869.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24
Fire in Rochester, New York.

ROCHESTER,, August 22.-The old
Rochester House Block, on Exchange
street, occupied as q planning mill aud
sash factory, n totally destroyed by
fro this afternoon, together with nearly
a million feet of lumber in the ad-
joining yard. Tho aggregate loss by
the building and stock was Sl00, 900.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

Of naturalization term from five to three
wears was adopted. The Congress then
adjourned,
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24
WHITE PINE :

At any Of our offices. and forward the sam with
dispaicn at LOW RATES.
Mark goods care Woodruff & Ennor. Fast
Freight, and send Steamer Receipts TO Sacra-
mcnto Office.
OFFICES-2ai Clay street. San Francisco /:
20 J street. Sacramento, aud SO South G street,
Virginia City.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24

New York, August 22.-G. Churchill,
Treasurer of the Lincoln Monument
Fund, publishes u letter to-day in which
he states that q contract was made with
II. X. Brown, the celebrated sculptor,
author of the Washington Monument in
Union Square, in this city, and that he
has already finished a plaster cast Of
the late President, which was accepted
by the committee and sent to the foun-
dry to be cast into bronze. Mr.. Brown
Inns been paid 500 on ~accoont. The
balance of the fund, Sll, 1000, has been
invested in five.twenty bonds.
The American Flint Glass Works at
Brooklyn were damaged by fire yester-
day to the amount of S55, 900.
1t is announced that n new and in
creased freighting tariff goes into effect
to day, the ruinous competition between
roads leading west having Terminated
by compromisc,
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-24
National Labor Congress.

PHILADELPHIA, August 22.-Thc Labor
Congress elected Richard Trevillock
President; A. T. Cavis, of Washington,
First Vice President; Conrad Kecnn, of
New York, Second Vice President; J.H.
Watts, Of Philadelphia, Recording
Secretary; and a. G. Phelps, of New
Haven, Conn, Treasurer. The new
officers were installed, and appropri-
ately addressed the Congress. A.. G.
Cameron, Of Illinois, and G.. II. Hucker.
of New York, were elected delegates to
the European Natioual Labor Congress.
to be held in Switzerland. Cincinnati
was elected rs tho place for holding The
next Convention. The Committee on
new political party reported that they
were unable TO agree, and by request
were continued till the next year. A
resolution of sympathy with the Cuban
revolutionists and the Irish patriots and
the oppressed millions Of Europe was
adopted. A resolution for the reduction
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-10
LABOR MOVEMENTS.
THE PLATE PRINTERS STRIKE.

The strike Of the Plate Printers is still in
progress and there indications OF speedy settle
meut Of the difficulty The hold daily meetings at
No IS sevenths where information given relative 20
the movement Last evening 6 meeting Of the Plate
Printers Union was held at No. CO East Broadway. at
which about 10 members present. The evening
was for tho most part consumed IN discussing
tho strike. Light new members we're al
read from the Secretaries OF the Philadelphia
aud Washington Plate Printers' Unions In which the
writers urged the stand by their resolution and
ANNOUNCED that their respective unions prepared 10
furnish all the money at their command The Secretary
several hundred dollars would DO forwarded 10 New
York n aid Of the strike and $50 were applied for
WASHINGTON a. which he an a1',, qPSn n
assertions made by New-YOrk BankNote Company,
that the authorities In Washington were not disposed 10
hurry up the work now IN the hands OF this committee
was false aud that the contrary the authorizes
continually pressing the company 20 perform the work
great need Those members OF the Union who are at
work paying their assessments cheerfuy and one OF
the members OF the Union during the debate last evening"
stated that several members Of the Union had
expressed their willingness TO pay half their weeks
salary necessary TO and the movement on motion, II
was decided that hereafter the members OF the Union at
work. shall pay TO Committee on strike whatever per
eeutage OF their wages said Committee shall deem neees
sry 10 carry on the strike The following resolution was
Ri the members o. the u1io9 10 the employ o.
the Bank Note Co.. who refused to usn ias men 10 Their
seou 2b Ju be laid over to be investigated By Tie Ba11ess
About Is printers are now at work in the establishment
on strike several OF whom the strikers claim are men
WHO have served apprenticeship at the trade. IL
h even asserted that Of the new hands was once ar
rested for being engaged I'm cOunterfcting transaction,
and that he escaped States Prison by turning States evil
dence. - q.
At n special meeting of the Cooperative
RniIdipg Lot Association Mr.. Richard Van Anden
elected TO MI "A vacancy In the Board OF Directors Tho
Association will purchase another tract OF 800 lots
IN NeyyJersey Tonight a meeting for the purpose OF
revising the Constitution and Bylaws VIII be held
The Brooklyn Coopers have elected a dele
gate 10 represent the Association to the Centa Body oil
'poDp
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-10
THE CHICAGO EPISCOPAL WAR.

The Cheney Ecclesiastical Court, in Chicago,
has published It's solemn protest. against the action VI
the Superior Court In that city and puts upon record
declaration of itsrightss as follows:
l. That civil courts, SUCH cannot and ought not 70
interfere by prohibition injunction with courts spirit
ual and ecclesiastical, Ia any manner whatever.
g. That courts spiritual ecclesiastical IN all thclr
proceeding governed not by canon only. bur py
and that in matters spiritual or ecclesns
teal derives its origin from the and prevails
to the extent, that common law" does IN civl
matters.
g. The civil courts as such. cannot and ought not to
exercise revsory powers proceedings in
spiritual ecclesiastical In order 20 set aside their
verdcts their decisions and that IA Az eXer
else OF right OF inquiry that exist IN respect 10
civil property interests after final decision had IN
the civil bound by such construction and
such Interpretation spiritual courts may determine and
SETTLE
That civil courts nterpOse TO effect relief only in
cases OF damage or injury ensuing from acts OF which
such courts can properly take cOgniZance; that and
prospective right Of employment q clergyman, aud
consequent salary, does not constitute such case.
The right OF minister TO employment and salary f. nOs
absolute like the ownership OF property or chaite
but conditional one; ali such right IL limited and qna
ned by conditions lying outside OF and beyond the jurs
dctiOn Of civil tribunal OF the land and these cOnd1
lions merely the fact OF his being mlnser but
that he is such " In regular standing" e. II he into
civil court and ask relief from oppression or protection
from wrong, he must 20 there "with clean hands"
g. The undersigned claim that they an Ecclesaso
Court duly constituted by canon and usage IN tho
Protestant Episcopal Church-that proceeding in
of "siInpe discipline" properly brought within
jurisdiction by competent authority and that neither
In the original inception Of the case involving inquiry
into the grounds OF presentment the IL
gence which will preclude the accused fair and Inn
partial trial.