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NEVADA TRANSCRIPT MARCH 4 & 5, 1863 39
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1863
COURT HOUSE WALL AND FENCE.—The workmen were engaged yesterday in marking out the
line of the proposed wall and fence about the Court House. As we understand the proposition, the Court
House is to be surrounded by a nice solid wall five feet high on the outside and surmounted by an iron
fence three feet high. The yard is to be smoothed off and planted with shade trees. [This description is at
variance with the first announcement, which called for a 3 foot high stone wall and five to six foot high
iron top.]
TO CONTRACTORS!
BIDS will be received by the Board of Supervisors of Nevada County, until Monday, March 9th, 1863, for the
building of a Stone Wall around the Court House Lot. For information concerning the same, apply to
JOS. WORRELL, Nevada.
MELODEONS.—The Assembly has passed an anti-Melodeon, anti-hurdygurdy bill, which opens
thus:
“Every person who shall cause, or employ, any female to dance, promenade, or otherwise
exhibit herself for hire, drink, or gain, in any melodeon, drinking saloon, dance cellar, ball
room, public garden, public highway, or in any place whatever, where there is connected
therewith, in any manner, the sale or use, as a beverage, of any spirituous, vinous or malt
liquors; and every person who shall allow any dancing, promenading, or exhibition, as herein
mentioned, in any place under his control or supervision, where two or more persons are
assembled together,” etc.
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1863
PAY OF CALIFORNIA SOLDIERS.—The case of soldiers stationed on this coast, compelled
to receive their thirteen dollars a month in greenbacks worth but little more than half price, is one of
extreme hardship, and calls for the prompt attention of our State Legislature. Other States, even those
who have felt the effects of war severely, have made provision for the extra pay of their citizens fighting
for the perpetuity of free institutions. . .. We should take into consideration the fact that the soldier is
perfectly helpless in his distresses. Once enlisted and his money expended, he must rely upon his wages
for comforts. If these do not suffice, he must remain in want, for he is confined to this post and must obey
orders at any cost to his health. The rigors of military law visit him whenever he attempts to supply his
needs in an irregular way. We trust the Legislature will not adjourn without imposing a special tax on the
people for military purposes. A tax might be levied of ten cents or more on the hundred dollars, a part of
the proceeds of which to be used to put the State in a position of defense and the remainder to be paid to
the soldiers to increase their wages.
Greenbacks are quoted at 60 cents in San Francisco.
STATE OF WASHOE.—The Virginia City Union states that Nevada Territory materializes the old
fable of the giant writhing and mangled beneath the weight of a volcanic mountain—a very Sampson in
the toils of the Philistines. The scrawny child has matured into vigorous and glowing manhood. It is full
time to break its fetters. Wherefore we say, let preliminary measures be at once adopted for forming the
thirty-fifth State of the Union—the rich, prosperous and loyal State of Washoe!