Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-10-18

TO insist on tho rcmonctization Of ell.
yer. We are gravely informed that
resumption Of specie payments 10 impos-
sible while gold IL the standard. but the
great disaster and tho loss must follow on
tho fruitless attempt TO resume. whereas
on the contrary. numerous and plentiful
blessings will pour into our laps II silver
IL remonetized. Tho dreamy conscious
ncss that facts as generally accepted do
not bear out their assumptions seems to
have fitted across the minds Of the COM
mission. and the opinion Is ventured that
the total quantities Of gold In tho West
ern world are much exaggerated In the
average estimates OF statisticans, 1t Ia
evident that an entire set Of new facts and
figures will have 10 DO created a. to the
finances Of the word In general before lax
ing steps TO usher In the silver millennium.
Fraud In She Pestenice Department..
8r. LOUIS. Oct. l7.-About three weeks
ago Auditor McGrcw. Of the Postofice
Department at Washington. detected.
through q new system Of keeping accounts
inaugurated by himself. . swindling oper-
alton which has been going ON for years
BY or through the c~onnivsnce OF an em.
ploye Of the department. named o'Rrien.
and by which Il was thought the depart
ment had been robbed OF $40 1000. y. ID.
Lilley. Deputy Auditor Of the department,
was dispatched 10 this city. where he has
since been engaged. with Chief Agent y.
W. Schaunts and his corps OF detectives,
In working up the case. The populations
were all made at points remote from this
city. IN the West and Southwest, and Mr.
Lilley's mission has been . successful
that he left for Warrington tonight with
over $40, 900 recovered from various per-
sons who have been In collision with
O'Drien.
The Presidents Programme.
NEW YoRK. Oct. 1s.-The Heraid''
Washington special asserts that Hayes is
without . party in either House, and he
desires TO have It 80. All expressions
made In conversation by members OF the
Administration confirm this somewhat
startling view, and make II appear that
the Presidents theory Is that he shall
execute tho laws. but that he will
hUsoiuboiy ftitsiu ttohi tho ite't etSAAps
10 influence the action Of Congress or Of any
member Of II on any subject; that no will
make appointments and removals where
the good Of the public service requires II,
but leave the question 0f confirmation
absolutely to the Senate without the
slightest attempt TO influence ~anybody's
conclusion. The same correspondent thinks
that Harlan's nomination Ia n blow Of
Bristow. and that Blaine, Conkling and
others are ehuckling over what they re-
gard o. Bristow's defeat.
New York Politics.
NEW YoRx. Oct. is.-Tho anti.Tammany
party last night nominated J. II. Brady
for Judge Of the Supreme Court, and APP
pointed . committee to confer with all the
organizations opposed to Tammany Hall.
with reference TO the selection OF candi-
dates for the county ticket. The hepub-
licans this evening also nominated Brady.
The Cost OF n "iIeraid" Personal.
NEW YoRK. Oct. is.-Mrs. Ph9be Rob.
ertson recovered $4,000 In the Superior
Court to-day. from J. q. Bennett, for q
libel. which consisted Of . personal adver.
tisement which was inserted In tho Herald
by some enemy Of Mrs. Robertson.