The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1867.

but two properties to my knowledge situated on the
Hill seeking capital in your city, and both are
centrally located in the rich belt. The Fuller
has produced several thousand dollars over all
expenses incurred, and will either, with or with-
out the aid they seek, resume labour soon, and,
with that mine to work, means to pay. General
Page has the title to what is known as the Irvine
property, situated between the Manhattan mines
and Diana, consisting of three veins, Washington
Irvine, Irvine No. 2, and Eaglet. The first is a
very large vein, but being located early in 1863 the
developments on it were prosecuted on the ridge,
instead of the slope by au incline, no levels having
been run from it. The ore will produce about $4O
per ton, with no culling, and there is no doubt that

a level less than 100 feet on either side would de-
velope very rich ore. A few feet below lies the No.
2, from which large assays have been obtained,
proving conclusively that the veins are not excep-
tions to the general rule on the hill. The Eaglet is
still below, and has produced ore working $lBO per
ton. Since Page started, it is found that one of our
mines producing rich ore iu quantity is working on
one of these, and the owner has been approached
for the purpose of purchasing, but his title being
with Page he can do nothing. These mines are
admirably situated for a straight shaft, which would
also cut the Savage and Morgan and Muncey Mines
between the last two veins, and will be about the
last opportunity for a shaft location in the rich belt.
Lander Hill is now produeing ore faster than our
present capacity for reduction. It is thought the
Manhattan can be fully supplied with ore from their
own mines and the Great Eastern. The Timoke
runs one and the Diana another, leaving all the
others to the California. The Boston Mill, if al.
terations were made reducing expense of mill, could
be kept constantly full, and before spring both the
Midas and Keystone might be added to the list.
There is some talk of starting the New York and
Lander Mill and Mine, but my impression is
they will not do much ; their mine is really good,
but their mill is not considered a mill here.

The Centenary Mill started up a few days since.
J. M. Dawley went out to start it ; he informs me
that it is a fine mill, and everything works beauti-
fully. The Hot Creek Mill is doing a fine business,
with plenty of ore.

Colonel Buel is with us once more, looking finely.
In his report to the Paris Committee he states that
our cabinet was by far the best in Europe ; that
scientific men were so well pleased with it that a
great many expressed their intention of coming to
the locality where it was found. Buel will return to
Europe and open several offices in the large cities,
with the view to interest capitalists in the mines of
Eastern Nevada. His cabinet contains ore from
nearly all the different districts, and, when taken in
connection with the map, will give a fair idea of
the extent of country filled with rich veins. True,
mining has ceased to be a speculation, and needs
only good judgment to become remunerative, and
more so than almost any other branch of legitimate
business. To prove this assertion, I have requested
and obtained a few facts regarding one of the veins
on Lander-hill, and take the figures below from the
" agent's books." I allude to the Florida Mine of
the New York and Austin Silver Mining Company.
When Major Sherman took charge of this property
it was not more promising than any of the thou-
sand and one others in the country ; but he used, as
part of the capital, energy, perseverance, and sound
sense. During one year, ending July 31st of the
present year, the total expenses of the mine, in-
cluding everything, were $84,104 37. In that
time, from a non-productive razor-blade, he ex-
tracted and shipped to the company bullion to
the amount of $77,446 11, leaving a balance of
$6,658 26 against the mine. Then he developed
the mine in levels, drifts, and inclines, to the extent
of at least 1,000 feet, which cost and is to-day
worth $lO per foot, or $40,000. The buildings,
office, machinery, &e.., actual real estate—tax-
able property of the company—are worth, at a low
estimate (I consider it very low, indeed), $lB,OOO,
making a total of $58,000 in round numbers. Now,
deduct from this the SG,OOO, and we find that the
company have realised a clear profit of $52,000 ;
and to-day, in place of the undeveloped " razor-
blade," they have a developed mine of immense
value, proven to be so beyond a pera lventure. I
may in a future letter carry this on from July to
date and include their other property—some twenty-
five other mines now being developed by the Sher-
man and Barns shafts ; their new and powerful
machinery lately purchased, and other real estate
which they will possess, even should the mine go
no further (which is absurd), there is ore in sight
sufficient to produce at a fair estimate $lOO,OOO.
This mine, taken without connection with the
other company's property and outside business,
so to speak, has paid upward of 40 per cent. on the
working capital expended. Yet many claim
that mining is not a legitimate business, but at
the best a hazardous, adventurous speculation. I
would assure all such of their mistake. Secure a
man to manage your mine who has experience and
good judgment, and you will succeed if it is in the
mine ; if it is not there, you will soon be told so,
and if you desire to continue searching where it is
not, one of the first things you will find will be your
agent's resignation, and couched in terms unmis-
takable. A practical, experienced miner can no more
mine not worth the trial than
a line of ferry-boats on the
vatatenmdeprtbtilot dceovuelldopreuna
Merrimack River, expecting to realise immense
profits. . _

_
Our bullion shipment for the past month was
$164,000, and if it does not reach $300,000 in
November the fault will be the lack of milling
facilities.

I cannot imagine why the Midas Mill is allowed
to remain in statu quo, as it could now be run at a
profit, and must be next year, or another will be
erected by its side. The Keystone is still closed
up, but will probably be started as soon as General
Page returns, either by him or by other parties.
The streets are blocked up to-day with freight
teams loaded with full supplies, machinery, &c. This
will last another month.

The Chase Mine has got a suit for title on hand,
the Julian Company claiming it.
Buel North Star has not resumed labour yet, and
will probably lie idle, merely keeping out the water
for several weeks to come. J. R. Murphy informs
me that he has purchased the California Mill. He
is doing good work ou a lot of Florida just through
and of Savage now going through the batteries.
Ware Mill-is being moved to New Pass District to
work gold ores. Centenary Mill is running raw or
second-class ores at present, but have men at work
erecting furnaces; as soon as completed they will
begin on their first-class. The present ore assays
(pulp) from ,6O to $BO. The machinery for Big
Smoky Mill is all here, and work will now be carried
on vigorously. Belmont Mills is going ahead
slowly. Overland Mail of late is running regularly
in about fourteen days from here to New York.
E. S. Davis, Register of United States Land Office,
arrived last night. A mill is being moved from
Arizona to Columbus District. The Silver Peak
Company are at work again, and will now be per-
manent.

The First National Bank to-clay declare their
quarterly dividend.
' The Trespass of Inyo County, California,
of September 30th, has the following :
" Mr. Bus'', a reliable gentleman, who has just
returned from the Lone Pine District, gives the
following description of the mines :—' The lodes
are bold in outcroppings, and lie north and south,
pitching to the east as sunk upon. The widths of
the ledges vary from 9ft. to 15ft. on the surface,
with a rich vein in most of them from gin. to 2ft
in width. The Mexicans, by whom the country is
principally located, work the rich vein only, smelt-
ing the ores in adobe furnaces, and leaving the
balance of the ledge (which by mill process will pay
at least $l5O per ton) a mass of refuse quartz; or,
they will gather, perhaps, three cords of wood, and
build a pile, composed of alternate layers of dry
pine and ore, when it will be set on fire and in a few
hours be reduced to a smouldering mass, from
which will be taken from 700 to 900 pounds of
metal. This metal will in turn be taken to the
adobe furnaces, and there refined, in due Aztec
style, to bullion, which will in turn bear refining at
the hands of competent assayers. The general cha-

ratter of the ore is galena and antimonial silver; the
whole formation of the lodes seeming to consist of a
succession of metallic boulders, until a depth of
18 to 30 feet is reached, when the casings be-
come perfect and vein matter becomes fused into a
solid ledge. On the ledges, particularly at the
Cerro Gordo camp, a large amount of labour has
been expended, and several shafts have been sunk,
some as deep as 45 ft. ; but most of the work is
done in the regular Mexican style—an excavation
from which ten tons of ore has been taken, being ten
times the size that necessity requires. All of
the ore worked in the district, so far, has been by
smelting process, although two or three aras-
tras have been constructed, and are in operation
ten miles from the mines, and giving good re-
turns of the ore. Following are returns from ore of
several mines which Mr. Bush saw worked : Saturn
ore, 901 b., 41oz. bullion ; Bueno (Good Luck
Co.), 100 lb. ore, 18oz. ; Mexican, 100 lb. ore,
40oz. ; San Judas, 3001 b. ore, 51oz. We were
also shown some ore from the Union mine,
the rich vein in which is 2ft. in width, which was
taken from the ledge at the depth of 30ft, and
which is almost a pure mass of silver. The mines
above mentioned are prominent for their richness, yet
there are hundreds of ledges along the mountain
that assay from $lOO to poo per ton. Some of
the more intelligent of the Mexicans resolved to
try some of the ore by mill process, and accordingly
about three weeks since 7,200 lbs. of ore from the
St. Lucas lode were packed to the Kearsarge mill—
a distance of 45 miles—and there worked under the
supervision of Mr. Low. ThAt quantity of ore
returned by mill process 116 lbs. of bullion, which
Mr. Bush saw ; and after paying all expenses for
transportation, milling, and mining, returned a net
profit per ton of $l9O. These statements can be
relied upon as correct, notwithstanding the seem-
ing impossibility of so rich ore being found on the
surface."

The Manhattan mill when in full work broke the
shaft, which has checked progress. We learn that
the accident will quickly be repaired, and the mill

resume work.

WHAT • SHALL WE DO WITH THE

INDIANS?

(From the Nero York Nation.)

It is plain that something must be done with the
Indians, and that it must be something different
from anything yet done. We must have peace by
some means. The frontiers must rest in security
and the highways to the Pacific must be unob-
structed. But peace involves one of two things—
either the extermination of the Indian or his subjec-
tion to law and habits of industry. Extermination
is a word easily said ; but to put it in execution will
cost untold millions of money and a life for a life.
Let it be remembered that the Indians number
nearly 300,000, and it has cost $70,000 per head to
kill those we have put out of the way. To many
minds the work of their regeneration is an equally
desperate and hopeless undertaking ; but those who
are more intimately acquainted with the luestion
are able to prove the contrary. The civilisation of
the Indian is the easiest and cheapest as well as the
only honourable means of securing peace.
But if we expect to civilise the Indian, it must
be attempted by more rational methods than we
have heretofore used. Is it reasonable to expect re-
covery from disease, or a healthy growth, unless the
causes of the disease are removed and the conditions
of life supplied? Now the prime conditions of true
social order and personal well-being are wanting in
Indian society. The first condition is LAW to protect
person and property, to restrain crime, encourage
industry, and favour such prosperity as will give
the Indian more interest in peace than in war..
No community can develope material prospe-
rity, social order, or individual character with-
out the protection of life and the fruits of labour.
Indians are no exception to this rule, or they would
be our superiors. It is a well-known fact that the
Indians have no Government worthy the name.
What they have is not sufficient to secure justice
between man and man, nor does it even attempt it.
The tribes of the Indian Territory are a partial ex-
ception. Nor is this state of anarchy. altogether
the fault of the Indians ; it has been perpetuated
and made worse by the action of our own Govern-
ment. In many respects the relations of our Go-
vernment to them have made their advance in civi-
lisation harder instead of easier. What wonder
that they have not made greater progress ? Some-
thing has been done by private citizens for their
advancement, and it has been successful enough to
prove that better thingS may be expected under bet-
ter conditions. But tl* is not a work for private
citizens alone. The United States Government
can only supply social order by law, and until this
is done benevolent efforts are as water poured out on
the sand. What the Indians most need is the exten-
sion of our laws over them. We are responsible for
not having done it befOre. And the law must be
brought home to each individual. It must surround
every man for his personal protection and restraint.
It may seem needless to say this, but all our talk
and action in the past has only regarded general
justice and has amounted to nothing. We have
gone no further than to try and control the interna-
tional intercourse of Indians and whites, andthis in a
most general way. We have not thought of controlling,
or allowing any control of, Indians among themselves.
But there can be no prosperity where each man is not
defended against his neighbour, nor can the law
have any restraining power unless it at the same
time creates an interest in itself by the protection it
affords. There is no great diffieulty in carrying this
plan into effect. We only need to treat Indians like
men, treat them as we do ourselves, putting on them
the same responsibilities, letting them sue and be
sued, and taxing them as fast as they settle down
and have anything to tax. The times are ripe for
this movement. Experience has convinced us that
the theory on which our Indian affairs have been
administered is wrong. We have conceded a tribal
sovereignty to them which has had no existence in
fact, and which, had it originally existed, was of
late years impossible, in view of the sovereignty of
the United States. On this ground we have made
treaties with them as foreign nations. And much
of our inconsistent and seemingly treacherous deal-
ing with them has been more the necessary result of
this vicious theory than of wilful wickedness. Not
that the latter has been wanting, however. Again,
our Government is itself purified of the false idea'
of State sovereignty, which has doubtless counte-
nanced the same error in regard to the Indian tribal
governments. There is now a consciousness of sove-
reignty in the nation which is ready to assert its power
in behalf of the general welfare ; and the progress
of the nation in -regard to the recognition of
human rights, the exaltation of manhood for
its own sake, irrespective of race, colour, or posi-
tion, opens the way to this work, while the methods
and agencies developed by the necessities of the
freedmen solve the question of ways and means.
But are the Indians ready for it ? Will they
submit to the government of our laws ? Is it pos-
sible to get the wild Comanches or the terrible
Sioux to come under the control of law, assume the
habits and occupations of civilised life, and appeal
for redress of injuries to a court of justice instead
of to the war-club ? We think it is. The Indians
arc now, in large numbers, ready 'and anxious for
the protection and order which our laws would
bring ; and those who are now wildest and
most intractable are not beyond reach. They
will be ready as soon as we. In proof of
this, look at the Sioux nation ; it is the most
numerous body of Indians on the Continent,
and covers all lands, we may say, between the
Pacific Railroad and the British line, and from the
western border of lowa and Minnesota to the
Rocky Mountains. It has many different tribes,
going under all sorts of names; some of them the
fiercest and most dreaded Indians of the plains,
and others as peaceable and tractable as the very
best. What makes the difference? Simply this :
some of these tribes or bands have for fifty or sixty
years been planting, more or less, and have been
greatly affected by their semi-agricultural life ; the
others are of the same stock, but their life is more
roving, and in consequence wilder. But this
change has all been produced in little more
than half a century, and the same cause
has been working changes of late years among
the Indians of the plains, driven by scarcity of

game to depend more on the fruits of the farm. Its
results may as yet be imperceptible to the distant
observer, but careful study of the facts proves that
none of these Indians are unchangeable as to habits
of life or even personal characteristics. The Co-
manches are often mentioned as the eminent types
of incorrigible Wildness ; but it is a fact that previ-
ous to the war of the rebellion a large number of
them had settled down on a reservation. When we
look at the poor inducements they had to do so, we
wonder they did it ; but if they did it then, will
they not do the same when protection, order,
prosperity, and life shall be their inducement—
in fact, and not in words? The truth is the
Indians have always been more ready than we.
Our work has been one of continual repres-
sion. When the State Constitution of Min-
nesota was adopted in 1857, it was expected from
its wording that educated Indians, able to read
and write their own language, and having a know-
ledge of the constitution of the State, would be
admitted to citizenship and the ballot. At least they
believed it, and the prospect gave a wonderful im-
pulse to their labours in the school-room and in the
field. They were preparing to live like men. But
such a thing could not be thought of by their
white brethren ; and in the act of denying
citizenship to the Indians in 1857-8 the State of
Minnesota threw away the opportunity of prevent-
ing the terrible massacres of 1862. Had law been
permitted to reign among the Sioux in 1858, when
they were anxious for it, the massacres of 1862
would have been impossible. This very summer the
Indians in North-eastern Nebraska and Dakota have
been restrained by the United States agents by force
from going forth into the harvest-fields around,
where their labour was wanted, and where they
might have earned bread for their families. It takes
the strong hand of Government to push them back
into barbarism. Who is it that is not ready for
civilisation ?

Mscellaneous News.

(From the Anylo-American Times.)

George Wilkes returned to New York in the
Russia, and in the November 2 issue of the Spirit an-
nounces the fact. The Spirit will return to the discussion
of politics on the broad basis of truth, neither it nor its
editor being the property of any party. The next number
is to contain an article expressive of the opinion that the
Republican party of New York State and City deserve to
be defeated, as a warning never again to abuse a political
success, by attempting fo subvert religious and household
liberties, a thousand times more important than the ascen-
dancy of any political party.
The Hon. Ben. Wade, when compelled to retire
from the Senate, will seek a place in the House of Repre-
sentatives, and it is expected that he will be elected for the
district now represented by General Garfield.

Dr. Sam. Bard, editor of the Atlanta daily New
Era has stated that the publication of the conversation
between General Gzani and himself was unauthorised by
him, and erroneous in several particulars.
General Sheridan arrived at Portland, Maine,
Oct. 28, after short halts at Salem, Newburyport, Ports-
mouth, and other places. Preparations were made for a
grand reception at Portsmouth, but he was obliged to
disappoint the people. Ho was received by a salute of
artillery and the ringing of church bells.

Charles P. Bayard, a stockbroker of Philadelphia,
has failed for a large sum, but it is thought his creditors
will be ultimately paid.
Senator Henderson, of the Indian Peace Cain-
mission, who, at the recent council, explained to the Indians
the objects and desires of the Government, left Medicine
Lodge Creek for Fort Louis on the 25th October.

President Woolsey, of Yale College, desires to
contradict the prevalent report of sickness among the stu-
dents is Yale College. Dr. Hubbard, of tho Medical Col-
lege, says, so far as he can ascertain, not over a half
dozen cases of serious illness have occurred among the
students, and the town is remarkably healthy. There is
no thought of suspending the college exercises.

A paragraph is going the rounds of the American
press that Mr. M'Millau, the London publisher, had stated
that if there had been an international copyright treaty be-
tween England and the United States during the last
twenty years, Mr. Longfellow would have received under
it forty thousand pounds sterling, equivalent to more than
5250,000 of our present currency.
The funeral of the late ex-Governor Andrew
took place on Saturday, the 2d inst. The State authorities
of Massachusetts and the civic authorities of Boston at-
tended the ceremony.
General Fitz John Porter asks for a court of
inquiry, not a new court-martial, to receive the additional
testimony he is prepared to offer, and to report to the Pre-
sident the action they deem advisable.

Senator Frelingbuyseu is stumping New Jersey
in the interest of tho Republicans.

Mr. Vallandigham has been nominated United
States Senator from Ohio. Two-thirds of the Democratic
members of the Ohio Legislature are said to favour his
election.

Franklin Townsend has been elected President of
the National State Bank of Albany, New York, in place of
Rufus H. King, doceasod. Mr. Townsend has been Vice-
President of the institution for nine years. Mr. J. Howard
King was unanmously elected Vice-President in place of
Mr. Townsend, elected President.

General Lersundi will shortly leave Madrid for
Cuba, to enter upon the post of Captain-General of that
island.

It appears that complaints have been made at
Washington against Mr. Adams, the American Minister
at St. James's, for not urging on the British Government
the release of Nagle and Warren. A correspondent of the
Standard tells the story of Colonel St. Leger Glenfoll, an
Englishman, who took service in the Confederate Army,
who was captured in the United States as a rebel emissary
to release Confederate prisoners, and to burn the City of Chi-
cago. He was tried by a military commission and condemned
to death, a sentence commuted to imprisonment for life in the
Dry Tortugas. It was on a mission somewhat similar that
Warren and Nagle were bound, and it would as little be-
come the American Minister to interfere for the protection
of conspirators endeavouring to excite a rebellion unless
there was something unfair in the trial, as it would become
the British Minister at Washington to interfere with the
due execution of the United States' laws.

General Pope had ordered the Alabama Conven-
tion to assemble on the sth inst.

On Monday morning last Mr. John Doyle, 60
years of age, who carried on the business of a cotton
dealer in Liverpool, committed suicide by jumping from
his bedroom window into the street, a depth of between
20 and 30 feet. He fell upon his head, and death was al-
most instantaneous,
_ _

T. Ross Browne; to whose Report we alluded to
in a late number, has returned from California to Wash-
ington, with his collection of mining statistics, gathered
on his extensive tour through the States and Territo.ries
of the Pacific Coast, and is now at work on his official re-
port, which will embody so much information connected
with the mining interest that it ought largely to be circu-
lated in Europe.

Deasey has arrived at New York, and on the
31st ult. was serenaded by his Fenian friends. He crossed
in the City of Paris, embarking at Liverpool, and he was
assisted by Kelly, who carried his luggage as a porter.

Colonel Weyde, a Russian officer, has invented
an apparatus for throwing light on objects under water.
it will be useful in discovering submarine mines or
torpedos, and in facilitating the recovery of sunken ships.
Ono or two companies aro being organised for the re-
covery of vessels which have gone down along the coast,
and this invention which, the Pall Mall Gazette has picked
out of a German magazine, may aid them in tho
operation.

An artisan named Pitman spoke at the Conser-
vative dinner at the Crystal Palace last Monday in a strain
more surprising than gratifying to the Liberal party gene-
rally. He said that he came from Greenwich, where there
were at least 1,400 otherswho held similar views, which
were, that the miseries the working classes are now endur-
ing came from the Liberals. Free Trade made bread and
meat dear, and they brought in Free Trade. Thousands
were out of work and starving, and it was to them it was
o ving, who left everything unsettled after distuding
every settlement.

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