Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-07-10
Virginia.

The Norfolk Yirginian gives the peo-
pie of its State some plain and sound
advice. 1t says:
Virginia has long been near to be des-
troyed with the dry rot of conceit, mar
row and provincial and local conceit.
The war brought us somewhat out of it
by teaching us that there are other brave
men, good soldiers, devoted patriots, be-
side us of Virginia. Not soldier of us
but learned to respect the Louisiana bri-
gades and their reckless rush; none but
praised the superb soldiership of the
Texans; none but loved the steady. un-
firing troops of North Carolina; none
but rejoiced in the spirit of the soldiers
Maryland sent us. We
learned, too, to respect the men of the
North, and in all directions our knowl-
edge was widened, and our conceit
shrank or changed into its nobler form
of self-respect and self-reliance. But
since the war we tend to fall back to the
old modes of thought; Of our contempor-
aries once buried we have made ances-
tors and demigods and we narrow our
patheon down to Virginia's dimensions.
Pride of race and of country
is noble and great, and no man, least Of
all Virginian, denies it, But it should
bring forth other fruit than idle self
praise, show itself by other proof than
contempt of our neighbors and ignorant.
false estimate of ourselves.
We call the Yankee mean and his thrift
knavery; yet where among ourselves is
the spirit which north of us has covered
the land with libraries and public halls,
with colleges and museums, with hospi-
tails and observatories and public parks?
Again, we grid at the shallow
knowledge of the Northern people. Yet
where are our historians, poets, scholars.
chroniclers; where are our historical
societies? The truth is that we do not
compare ourselves rightly with our neigh
bors. The credit side of the balance in
make up is fully written out; the
debit side We leave blank and call the
error virtue. OF all the many
good deeds done, and all the noble lives
lived in Virginia, we are in danger to
forget few, nor to fail in the memory of
past that WAS often glorious; but Vir-
ginia of to-day has lesson to learn-a
lesson she has not known. She has to
cultivate that public spirit once at the
root of her greatness, once hard by the
fountain of her fame; the public spirit
Of Washington, creating the canal, pro.
jecting the water way through the
great Dismal, and founding Washington
College; the public spirit Of Madison, la
boring to erect on the shores of Chesa-
peake great Virginia port; of Giles.
abandoning his seat st Washington to
sit in the capitol of Virginia; of Jeffer-
son. finding time in the midst of thous-
and labors to invent new forms of the
pillow, to import the rice plant and the
tomato, to write bis notes on Virginia,
which, still, alas remain alone, and
found that great University which was
the darling of his age and shall be the
monument of his fame.
In letter to the Arizona Miner We
find the following account of the shoot
ing scrape at Mineral Park formerly al
luded to-:
On Sunday, June 18th, about half pas,
two o'clock, serious difficulty tool
place at Mineral Park, between D. A
Mayendorff and DR.. Joseph Lesasne. L
was shooting scrape. Mr.. Mayendorf
shot first and fred three shots, one o.
them taking effect in the stomach of DR.
Lesesne. just below the right ribs. Thu
Doctor fired twice-neither of the shot
hitting his adversary. Medical aid wal
called. and DR.. Reese extracted the ball
1t is difficult to say whether Doctor lie
sesne Will recover or not, but be is doinl
we'll at present. Judge Tweed held tn
examination Of Mr.. Mayendorff. yester
day, on the charge OF Assault with in
tent to commit murder" There is con
siderable feeling in this communit.
about this most lameDtable affair. Ate
very full review of the testimony, tn
Judge held the defendant to bail in tn
sum of $500.
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