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2 JANUARY 7 & 14, 1857 NEVADA DEMOCRAT
is opened, but where are the lawyers, the litigants, the jurors, and the witnesses? One is preparing an
affidavit for a continuance, another is hunting up his witnesses, a third is on his last string at a game of
billiards, the last is sawing off a game of “old sledge” for the toddies, and every one is ready to swear that
ten o’clock has come an hour earlier than it ever did before since time began to move. But, exclaims one,
“his Honor’s watch is too fast—mine wants three minutes to ten now.” Another declares that he came
directly from the jeweller’s and that when he left there it lacked just ten minutes of the hour by Charley’s
huge regulator. A third opens with an equally plausible apology and begins to wax eloquent when he is
suddenly brought up standing by an order from the bench which never fails to calm the troubled waters:
“Mr. Clerk, enter a fine of five dollars against each of these delinquents.”
Well now, gentlemen! seriously speaking, it is simply absurd to suppose that Judge Searls can so
regulate his chronometer as to correspond precisely with every old turnip in the country, and I can devise
but one remedy for the evil and that is—a Court House Bell.
Let us prepare a subscription paper—purchase a bell immediately—place it upon the new Court
House—have it rung by the Sheriff every morning about ten minutes before the opening of the Court, and
there will be no further difficulty. A mere trifle from each of our citizens will effect the object, and surely
no one will decline making a small contribution in the matter of such great public utility and convenience.
ARRIVALS.—The steamer John L. Stephens on her last trip brought out quite an accession to the
permanent population of Nevada. Among the number are Messrs. A. Hagadorn, P. Henry, and J. W.
Barker, each of whom, during an absence of several months, has illustrated the precept that “it is not good
for man to be alone,” and has returned to our city accompanied by a lovely bride, wooed and won beneath
the vine-clad bowers of the east. we extend to our friends a cordial welcome, and wish them each a long
life of unclouded happiness.
[List of Letters in the Nevada City Post Office on Jan. 1, 1857.]
. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1857.
David C. Broderick.
The news of the nomination of Mr. Broderick by the Democratic caucus on Thursday evening last,
and his election to the office of U.S. Senator by the Legislature on Saturday, was received by his
numerous friends with the liveliest feelings of satisfaction. . . .
Perhaps no man in the state has been so constantly slandered and vilified as has Mr. Broderick, and
with so little cause. To this abuse, in a great measure, does he owe his present elevation. His enemies have
never pretended to bring against him a single specific charge, which in the least tended to impeach his
integrity. They have contented themselves by applying to him such epithets as “shoulder-striker,”
“hound,” &c., when in reality, a more quiet, gentlemanly and unassuming man lived not in the State. . . .
Of Mr. Broderick’s early life we know but little, and for even that we are principally indebted to his
enemies, who have thought they could degrade him by dwelling upon his humble origin, and the
contaminating influences by which he was surrounded in his youth. He was left an orphan at an early age,
and for many years supported a widowed mother and a younger brother by his own labor. He served an
apprenticeship, and worked some years at a mechanical trade, and it is said that he kept a public house for
a short time in New York. He was always temperate in his habits, and the leisure hours of his youth were
spent in study. In every respect he is a self-made man, and his career affords an example well worthy of
imitation.