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12 JANUARY 8, 1858 NEVADA JOURNAL
city government, four-fifths of all the property in the city would be represented on it immediately. We
learn a memorial to the assembled wisdom will be gotten up at an early moment by the citizens and
tax-payers, asking to be relived of their burthens. Some eight or nine months since the people of the city
were called on to pay a tax of one per cent. on the assessed valuation of their property, and a poll tax of
one dollar. According to the amount of property returned by the Assessor as proper to be taxed and the
number of votes polled at the spring election, full eight thousand dollars should have been collected in the
aggregate from tax-payers. We are now called upon for the like amount again, a tax of one per cent.
having been found necessary by the authorities. Taking the amount collected in licenses, fines &c., in
addition to the poll and property tax and the city government may well be considered rather a burthen,
especially when it is considered the expense of keeping it up falls on a very few individuals.
It is proper in this connection to suggest that the people, before praying for a repeal of the city
government, deliberate well upon the course proper for them to take. It is time they for once determine
upon something with which they can be content. We have been through every phase of government in the
few short years of an existence as a place of trade. First, there was a city charter providing for a mayor
and the other paraphernalia of an expensive municipal government. That soon became unpopular and was
abolished, leaving a debt of several thousand dollars unpaid to this day. Next followed no government at
all. Private individuals contributed to keep up a watch for a time. That process soon became distasteful,
especial[l]y when it was found that some would never contribute a dollar so long as they were certain
others were interested enough to keep up a night watch which must necessarily guard the whole town—
the property of others as well as their employers. Then came a town organization under a general
incorporation law. That law being declared unconstitutional, a special act was procured incorporating the
city. Under this we have lived little less than two years, and again we are in a ferment for a change. Let us
deliberate well this time what is the proper course to pursue. If we are prepared for a return to private
enterprise, so be it, but let the whole matter be weighed well before acting. We offer our column{[s] to the
discussion of the question.
DOWNIEVILLE IN ASHES.—The prosperous little town of Downieville was almost totally
destroyed by fire on Friday evening last. Loss estimated at about $500,000. The fire occurring when the
country round about the scene of disaster is covered with snow, aggravates the hardships of the
unfortunate. A subscription amounting to upwards of $400 was raised in this place on Saturday and
forwarded the same evening in charge of Judge Searls and L. Williamson, Esq., to the sufferers.
GAS.—The gas apparatus went into operation for the first time on Tuesday evening, supplying a
few burners for a short time. For some reason the gas was not of good quality and gave little light or
satisfaction. It will be all right by and by.
Mrs. Clara Hall has commenced a suit in the District Court against her husband, Charles R. Hall, for
divorce from the bonds of matrimony.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LIBRARY.—Upon a recent reception of an accession to the Sunday School
Library of the Brick Church, we took occasion to spend an hour among the children’s books. It is
gratifying to see so many really valuable works prepared for the young of the present day, yet, the sight of
a library like the one we visited is apt to fill us with regrets that our youth should have been denied such
rich advantages. But a few years ago Sunday School Libraries were poor in volumes and poorer in the
adaptation of matter to the comprehension of the minds of children. Latterly authors have not deemed it