Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-02-10
The Bold Mountalneer Of Nevada.

lFr0m the Now lOfK sun, Jan. zatn.l
And so we are to lose Jim Nye !
Lose him from the Senate, from the
stump, from the politics Of the country
In which he has been for SO many years
a butterfly, u busy bee, and n bird OF
freedom; and II recent Washington
rumors are true, from the country
itself. For they say he goes to China.
He Is to succeed the other Pacific
coast fellow-Low or some such name,
who has been there four years and Is
ready to rotate-as Minister. Not a
minister of the gospel-though Nye
would be quite handy at that, rs a
great many good people who have list
ened to his fervid oratory can testify
but Minister Extraordinary, or Pleni-
potentiary, or Resident, or something
| Of that sort.
We shall miss Nye. We could have
better spared a better man. 1t seems
a pity he should have to 60, and that
he should give place in going to Jones,
whoever lie may be. Jones, as we
read In the press, Is a person who in
his cups proclalms that he has ''bought
up the whole id Legislature" An
offensive creature Of Nevada who talks
In this re%prehensible manner under the
influence of the flowing bowl Is not q
statesman who can make Nye's place
good anywhere. But his remark dis
closes character. It Is base, sordid,
unstatesmanlike. Nye, to be sure,
made a similar suggestion some dozen
years ago, when Connecticut was hay
ing q close e~lsction-to the effect that
we (meaning the Republican partly
would "buy up the damned State"
But NYE was speaking In a political
and patriotic, not n personal sense.
His proposition was to buy up the
State for a great party. Jones bought
up q Legislature for his own individual
use and behoof. without knowing
Jones, we venture to say on the strength
of this remark that he Is al unpleas-
ant person, to behold whom In the
seat Of tho lamented Nye will be to
the bereaved Senate a constant irrita-
ton and pain.
Nyc was a bold mountaineer. Not
one OF the millions Of American citi.
zens who have been subjected to his
dizzy e~loqucnce can ever forget his
glowing and beautiful description Of
his mountain home beyond the set
ting SUM-" On all their minds and
memories no Is painted BY his own
master hand In colors from his own
unequaled palette, a rapt and rotund
seraph spanning the Sierras against
the background Of the western sky.
For a man who had spent so little
time In a State, and that mostly In u
transient way mt a hotel, and the State
one that hasn't q green spot tue size
OF q Mexican dollar In its whole ex-
tent-the love Of Nye for his noun
tain home was something beyond hu-
MIN comprehension.
And Nye had a twinkle In his eye
that we have no idea Jones has. For
aught we know Jones may be cross
eyed !; he seems to have moral strabis-
mus, II not physical. What a wretched
carIcature 1t will be to have such a
man sitting in Nye's place. Moreover,
no doubt Jones swears. All citizens
of that inhospitable cline swear. They
are obliged to by the thinness of the
air. But no man can swear like Nye.
He does 1t 20 flueutly-it just flows
into his conversation without n ripple.
That will be missed too. And then to
think while Jones Is shocking Senators
with jagged profanity, Nye Is doing 1t
with his old smoothness and ease ut
Hong Kong or lien Tsin In broken
Chinese.
Does Jones drink, we wonder. Nye
never does. Except when he Is OH the
stump and is urged to by deacons and
that kind of men who are anxious
about his throat. The Senate will
miss his example. Then, too, In the
matter of draw poker, a Jones pre-
tend to make his place good? He
ieludes himself If he thinks so. For
Nye IL a man who has played with
and Grant, and isn't afraid of
/ four flush. This, however. was not
The Nye who played euchre with All
Sin. That was Bill. This Is Jim. (,
But II he ever should get a chance TO
1T down at a little game Of draw with
he Mandarins he will be very likely f.;
o show them some points. {
What Is our loss Is China's gain ; but
he whole country will sigh as 1t says ! /!
arewell to this bold mountaineer.
shall we ever look upon his like again?