The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-03-06
MCGARRAHAN--AN NEWSPAPER Romance

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A small, anx ious faced, courageous Irish
man, tie sufferer, rather than the enactor of
an almost epic history, is Billy McGarrahan.
| He began life with genius for good luck
and fistcutfs. He ran for the English Par
lament, and made vigorous contest for his
SEAT DENY ing the consistency of the PaTlia-
mentary laws. Beaten, he came TO this
country with capital, bought possessions
nearly twenty years ago on the Pacific Coast,
and became fionrishing merchant. A large
| section of land that he owned south OF San
Francisco was seized BY squat'eIs. Then a
mining company, called the New Idria, be-
gan to get rich out of its bowels, helped by
| san Francisco bank. When McGarrahan
| applied for his land, sanatters, bankers,
and mining company alike entered into col
| fusion to defeat him. He spent his fortune,
| holding desperately on, working like bea-
yer for his estates. living in harrow little
, rooms almost in sght of fortune, almost in
| danger of hunger.
| His LAWYER had been John Hickman, of
PENNSYLVANIA, ex AntiNebraska Congress
man. In the Senate, Senator Morton, De-
leving in the justice of McGarralan's
claim, aud moved by sympathy, is wing TO
get justice foI the brave fellow, out tho Pa
cific- a,ors are impudeut as Parasuayan
dictator. CONFESS called Fes>enden false
hood the nther day. Fe>senden put verbal
skewer right through Conness' conscience.
Upcn the claim l do not know ANYTHING
worth expressing, bit it lo.ks as if poor
devil was being robbed and prosecuted, and
that Is the growing sentiment of Congress.
The United States is not interested in the
claim to the amount of Mexican bit, but it
is a subject for Congressional inference. The
House of Representatives has decided for
McGarrahan. If he carries the Senate he
will be no longer poor but undismayed sup
plant, hut p Prince, like Mrs. Gaines, who,
often baffied, hung to her right by the eye
lids, and KEEP. the cry of Henry V. sounding
"DIEU EFT MON DKoIT."
Mrs. Gaines has built in New York, right
opposite the gates Of the Central Park, on
Fifth avenue, the only specimen Of the
French chateau architecture of the time of
Francis l, to be seen south of Quebec. Had
she given up her claim one day sooner than
she did, she might now have been a Great
ure in rags, wandering between charity and
suicide. AS it is, she is a princess on Fifth
avenue, whose polished window-panes reflect
the gorgeous cavalcade in the street, and
show the glow of her comfortable freight to
make the mendicants without look up very
wistfully. So, poor forfunefghter, Billy
McGarrahan is to leave children who shall
preside at town meetings and head the list
of festival balls, or look forward into the
hope to drive them forth. This CITY is full!
of hopes, of claims, of ihgerers. Heavens!
what word has that word " claim be-
come to me since l have dwelt in Washing
ton A word full Of dreams and jewels,
acres and silks, long, luxurious voyages in
foreign lands, and daughters married to per-
petual intellect. And yet word tied down
to an unpaid tavern bill, the misery of beg
cling a loan, Of waiting for a draft, tina
Groom of shrill landlady sending up her
account, the ever half dread of a crushed as
snranee and the vision dispelled which
alone, makes life endurable This is the
word " claim "a word between the Christ
ian's immortal hope and the beggar's teri
bic plea.
saw a man Yesterday with wild eye.
He was dressed like banker. Somebody
cried to him
They passed your claim :"
"No they have just beat me five votes"
He showed 4 set of white teeth, laughing |
but his eye was fun of drunkenness. l
looked into lis laugh and shuddered. 1t was
the laugh of son who cries to his father ::
- Leave your house forever ? Yes With |
pleasure, and forever" Recklessness Of
despair, smile of outer darkness; the hope
Of that smile is tumbling through worlds of
space, like Satan.
g Hurled headlong flaming from the ether
eal sky"