Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-04-16


II the gentlemen on the Barbary
Coast would only so in for robbery
and murder with a little more regu-
larity, how much easier it would make
the duties of a correspondent. But
they either glut the market with crime
or else take a most unreasonable re-
cess; and as they are at present having
a long vacation, my letter tonight
will be as devoid of bloodshed as one
of Wordsworth's pastoral poems. |
wish it was possible to make some
arrangements with them-say a nice
homicide ON Monday morning, or a
good burglary on Wednesday night;
something out of the ordinary run, so
that one could always depend on hav-
ing at least two spicy paragraphs;
but | am afraid they wouldn't keep to
terms even if l did make a bargain,
but get drunk and forget business, or
do it in such a bungling manner as to
bring down the lynx-eyed officers Of
the law. 1t must be the acme Of bliss
to edit a newspaper in Gold Hill or
Virginia City. You can always re-
serve a half column for the regular
average Of mangled miners; and If the
| companies should be so i~nconsiderate
as to neglect the t~ri-weekly sacrifice,
| deaths can be manufacturd and the
| outside world be zone the wiser. Then
| IL the extraordinary fictitious slaughter
provoked too much inquiry, the news
| could be varied by caving in the 500
foot level, or striking it rich in the
Belzebub; in fact, the field for scnsa-
ton is only limited by the moral scru-
pies of the writer.
A Clerical Raid.
We had the fearful announcement
per telegraph the other day that $50
clerical impecuniosities of the NJ. f.
Church South had arranged with the
railroad companies to be conveyed to
San Francisco and back for half fare.
What have we done to merit such q
punishment? Why should we be sim
gled out for this locust raid, when
there is Chicago so much nearer, so
much more in need of spiritual advice,
and-just as likely to benefit by 1t.
OF course ten per cent. of them will
rush into print with thrilling narra-
tives of hair-breadth escapes, wondrous
adventures and multitudinous CONVEX
sions. They will accept our hospital
ity, eat our dinners, drink Il wine,
reyel in our luscious fruits, pay surrep-
| titious visits to the theaters, beg our
| choicest specimens, and then mourn
| and weep and pray over the upright
| eousness of the land. Fancy fifteen
new books about California, carefully
compiled in ten days, presenting ma,
ture reasons for everything and insipid
nonsense about nothing. If the appeal
of n long-suffering community ayaileth
much, there will be n terrible smash
OH that overland line about the time
the c~lericalities are OH their way here.
A p~rovidential interference Of that
kind is the only thing that will teach
them to stop at home and mind their
own business.
Lady Franklin.
By yesterdays Panama steamerthere
arrived a lady whose life is the center
Of a century's tragedy. A lady whose
constancy and devotion will be the
theme of future Homers, and far
eclipse the fame Of tabled Penelope.
A cruel rlmor started some months
ago by q city paper, that q waif had
drifted ashore near San Diego, contain
ing some memento Of the Arctic heroes,
reached her at Rio Janeiro, and so she
hastens to San Francisco; distance,
fatigue, age, all forgotten, in the wild
hope that the sea may have revealed
one of Its sorrowful secrets. Poor
lady! eighty years old, twenty years
desolate, still clinging with q heart
sick longing to the idea that earth or
ocean will yet tell the mysteries of the
past. Not in this world will you meet
him. On those other brighter shores,
where the brave, the good and the pure
look down with loving sorrow on our
| sins and frailties, he waits the moment,
not long to be delayed, when deaths
kindly hand shall draw you to him,
never more to part.
Oneida Survivors.
Other heroes, too, San Francisco held
last night in her keeping. Forty-iiye
bronzed and bearded men, saved from
the wreck of the oneids, forty-five
sons, husbands and brothers, Oh their
way home, to be clasped by joy-weep-
ing mothers, wives and sisters forty
five living witnesses Of mans inhu-
manity to his fellow man. No pen OF
mine shall write one sentence against
Captain Eyre; no'tongue Of mine shall
speak one word against him. II he Is
guilty his crime Is too awful for human
Vengeance, and it were better to leave
him to his conscience aud his God.
1t il Il subject Of general remark thai
OH Friday last, while the nation was
mourning the burial of the great Gen.
eral, not 4 flag in San Francisco was
hoisted at half-mast, with the solitary
execution of the British C~onsulate's'
Altogether this city has shown very
little sympathy, and does not appear
to understand the loss sustained by oui
country. The night after Thomas
death one of the military companie.
1.-THE Huzzars) had the exceeding bad
taste to give a grand ball. This is
stale news, but 1t has not been noticed
before, and it ought to have drawn
forth spyere comment. But enough OF
death and mourning, let me tell you
of the
J~e[icrsonian banquet,
These Jetrersonians. under the pre-
tense of celebrating the birthday of a
wise statesman, have an annual meet
ing for the purpose Of lamenting the
degeneracy of the times, and indulg'
ing in a civil growl over the hard fate
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