Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-08
SAN FRANCISCO CORRESPOND
ENCE.
General Kittrsll's Rene Speech.
THE HUB sxcURsIONIsTS At THE BAY.
MOE BRUTALITY.

Macauley, one of the most honorable OF
men, used to say that no man ought to &C
cept Office until he had first disarmed sus-
picion by securing the means to render
him independent Of either party patronage
or official power. This was the guiding
principle of his life, and not till hJ had by
his literary labors, NO less than by his econ
omy while in the Indian service, with the
addition of a legacy OF a few thousand
pounds, derived from q pasernal relative,
secured himself q certain competence, did
he care to accept the official preferences
frequently rendered Tim No such pure
and exalted consideration ever restrain,
much less Undue the average American cit
izen. To him, office, no matter how small
or poorly paid it may be, is the ultima
thule of his ambition; and to acquire it he
hesitates not to avail himself of every des-
picable little mean subterfuge resorted to
by men Of his class to secure him the COW
eted position. But happily for our coun-
g1y all OF its ofice-seekers are not always
actuated by motives of personal considera-
ton. To this class, no doubt, belongs
General r. Kittrell, who the other day, in
his usually eloquent and bland manner told
his wondering Hub auditors at Reno, or
somewhere else in the vicinity, that he
neither wanted, nor would he accept Office.
Surely the General has not already steeled
his mind against harboring or yielding to
the irresistible force Of purely patriotic i'm
| pulses. Martyrdom is by no means an en-
viable doom. but surely the Generals De-
mocracy is not of that milk and water sort,
which, if occasion required, would shrink
from the honor and responsibility OF up
holding it in an official capacity. The Gen.
eral is the Demosthenes of the Nevada
stump, as well as one Of the ablest MEM
beers of the Nevada bar, and he must have
greatly changed in sentiment and feeling
when he allowed himself to make the adj
mission he is reported to have made. To
say that he recognized his fellow colored
citizen as a man and a brother, might have
passed unmentioned, but to include the
Chinaman in his universal brotherhood's
embrace, was, / think, a piece of buncombe
on the part Of John, the feigning of a maw-
kish sentiment of humanitarianism which
his entire political record declares to be at
war with his feelings. This, and his other
admission, if he is reported correctly, that
he would not again accept office, may yet
result in his future qualification and polit-
ical disadvantage. How unselfish the e
eral must have appeared to his gratified
auditors from the Athens of America as he
| proclaimed himself the brother of the poor
despised Mongol. But talk is cheap, and
so the General administered q most nause-
ating dose of taffy to the Hub representa-
tives, who composedly swallowed it.
The latter, to Western notions, present a
strange assemblage of specialized striplings,
attenuated spinsters, wrinkled danes, and
stunted in stature shoddyites. That they
represent the moneybags of the Hub there
is no doubt but there is a doubt that they
truly represent the educated and cultured
of that center of the universe. If they do,
or If they may be taken as a fair sample of
the man and w~omanhood of that section of
Uncle Sans ranch, then am 1 a believer in
the utter degeneracy of these scions of the
Pilgrim Fathers, whom ancient ~chroniclers
tell US we're fair and comedy to look upon.
That the majority of the young bloods of
this perigrinating, sightseeing party are
hopelessly enamored of English costuming
as seen in English country life, and as is
typifed in the tout ensemble of the Eng
lish tourist, it. is only necessary to get a
glance at them to be entirely convinced.
Short, stumpy coats, OF the jockey pattern;
dangerously tight pants; lo~w-crowned hats.
of the Derby style, and shoes admirably
adapted to the wants of the webfoot coun-
tTy THESE, Wltu tut lutNltdDlc nuoit, udIo-
wood pipe, and short, stout hand-stick,
constitute the exterior accoutrements of
the male portion of our Eastern visitors.
They go about the city in squads, doing
every place and every thing worth seeing.
To-day many of them took a peep at the
interior of our Stock Exchanges noted
the modus operandi of our brokers, and
expressed some surprise at being informed
that the c~ongregated femininity occupying
the galleries varied the loneliness and mo-
notony of their lives by buying and selling
vicariously, as do men, the mining securi-
ties dealt in there. Evidently every thing
here appears new and strange to them, and
so different from what prevails in their New
England homes.
The wires nave long since told you of
the shooting of Charley De Young, who
was buried last Sunday in the Odd Fellows
cemetery. His funeral was a large and re-
spectacle ne. The cortege was viewed by
thousands of both sexes, hundreds of whom
represented the worst type of the male sand
lotter, by whom the murdered journalist
was cordially hated. This feeling was, l
regret to say, strikingly and brutally ex-
empliied by the latter element on the night
of the tragedy, by the gratifed cheers with
which they greeted the news Of his tragic
death. Never before was there, l might
say, SO tamely witnessed in any community
in the world an exhibition of feeling so bar
barous, or which so strongly exempliied
the degradation to which the brutal pas
sions Of the rabble are at times capable OF
leading them. De Young had so many en-
emies among the rank and file of the masses
of this cosmopolitan city, that it would be
extremely hazardous to fasten the guilt OF
so dastardly and atrocious an act upon any
class of its citizens, as did the Alta, by
saving that they were not Americans. In
vidious granny. BAXTER