Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-11-23
PLURALITY.

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One Of the queersst coaceits or mo-
uomanias of the present day is the
desire peculiar to certain men
for %eternally representing and speaking
Of themselves plurally-tryiug to make
themselves out to be something, moro
than one individual when, literally
speaking, they are decidedly more sin.
gulsr than plural. 1t is always pardon
able On the part of unmarried ladies or
gentlemen to desire a plural condition,
and the editorial I" We has been 10 use
so long that the harmless idea may
claim legitimacy through proscriptive
right, but when a man tries to repre-
sent himself a, the local embodiment of
a whole Institution or sndeavors to pass
his own poor self or as an associa-
ton composed Of several different per-
sons, he becomes mor whimsically
ridiculous than honest, and even his
sanity may well be doubted.
For instance, we have heard Of a man
who fondly imsgines himself whole
editorial corps large association
Of ladies and gentlemen running u huge
" blanket sheet" newspaper, dedicated
to moral reform, general and super
natural intelligence, the good Of man
and womankind, and the improvement
Of the world generally. He is a mild
hammered, bsnignant man, with a heart
full Of pity for the woes Of the wsrld
and sorrow for the wicksduess of his
fellow man, or woman. He is pregnant
with latent waggery, genial wit, and
like George Francis Train, is ambitious
and highly DESTROYS of distinguishing
himself somehow above the common
run Of humanity. His ovsrwesning de-
sire to be q great reformer, comes upon
him periodically-about once every two
years-and while the disease has pos
session of him no can do more writing
and bore printers and readers worse
than any other MAJ. In this particular
respect he is a phenomenon. He is pos.
sessed Of no mean degree of talent, add
when tho wild theoretical disease passes
away and he gradually SINNERS down
from tho high standard Of feroeiously
rigid morality aud perfection to which
he has Yainly ,trivsn to elevate the rest
of the world, then he becomes the good,
sensible, we'll meaning, honest and use
full citizen, which il his normal condi'
ton, and the sphere in which his Gre
ator evidently designed him to move.
His poor little crucibls is too small to
ASSAY the rest of mankind 10, and he
does not even appreciate his W stand
ard Of true moral ineusss, although
regulated by himself. He sees only the
defects OF others, oblivious of his own,
and rsfreshingly blind to his own faults,
ho vaiuly seeks to eradicate the blem-
ishes he faucie, he sees in others. After
all, just let him lay aside his queer
plural IDEAS Of himself and Of his won
derfnl earthly mission, and he is a
pretty GOOD sort Of a man.
In snap moral contrast with him is
tho /, who, fer instance, represents
and imagiues himself to be a great tun-
mel company, and sees in the future a
crandly brilliant career Of wealth and
high Importance in the world through
the success Of his projected achieve
meuts. He works for himself, and all
| his earnest efforts are more for the ben
eft Of himself and his W private
purse than anybody or anything else.
His representing himself as y whole
company Is not entirely on i~diosyucrocy
by any means; there is too much meth
cd aud design in it for madness. He
certainly does evinco an overweening
desire to represent and control every
thing, hence his deliberate assumption
that he is the company, the ruling and
controlling power. He tries, however
to conceal the true state Of the case,
and would not have outsiders know the
deep game he is playing if he could
help it, but he cannot. Sounder headed
men than he simply leok upon him with
wonder at the degree and quality of his
audacity, and are net to be caught as
fishes in his net, or deluded by his plu'
raj represeuta,ions-his dur!icity. He,
however, finds pieaty Of dupes, for the
American people arc foad of being hum
plugged, and carried away by tho appa-
rent feasibility and Importance of his
great tunnel project, they swallow the
gild.d bait, company" tunael and
all, reckless as to whether they are IL
able to get nauseatcd or not. All /! well;
"rira Ia ~humbug;" yet those very in
stances which we cite, although highly
ridiculous, whimsically so, are no worse
or more ridiculous than other whims
and fancie. observable in ons's walk
through tho world. 1t takes all sorts
Of people to make up the population 10
any community, and variety is said to
be tho spice Of life.
CONGRESS will be asked to authorize
the use Of II national vessel to transport
articles for exhibition to a national eI-
hibi;iou, which will be opened on the
18th of April next, in the city OF Cor
dova, in the Argentine Confederation.
The consumption of American msnufac-