The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-27 00:00:00

RESOURCES OF NEVADA, U.S.

It is the common notion of the citizens, or the occu-
pants, of Eastern Nevada that the resources of the
country will of themselves attract a population, and
keep the section upon its onward course • and some
more than usually honest say, if the native wealth
is not here to show itself, then people had better
not come. But very few exhibit any public spirit
or willingness to aid in advancing the interests of
the country by making its resources, condition, and
advantages known. Rich as Eastern Nevada may
be, there are other sections possessing resources of
a high order, and these are making great efforts to
procure population, capital,and. public improvements.
The States of the Mississippi Valley, now so popu-
lous and wealthy kept their agents at the seaboard
cities to aid, advise, and forward emigrants. and sent
other agents to Europe well supplied with maps,
guide-books, reports, explanations, and instruc-
tions, and individual companies, cities, and coun-
ties joined in the enterprise, and unexampled pros-
perity is the consequence. Kansas, Nebraska, and
Colorado are doing everything possible—not as
States, but by individuals, companies, and commu-
nities, to make their resources known—showing in
glowing colours the beauty of their valleys, the
breadth of th?, prairies, the depth and fertility of the
soil, the grazing and agricultural advantages, their
quarries of building stone, better suited and more
convenient than a free brickyard, their coal mines
of illimitable extent and superior quality, their gold,
silver, lead, copper, and iron mines, the accessibility
of the country and the progr, ss of railroads, tke
healthiness and salubrity of the climate, and the bright
future, so that one can but see that it is a paradise
before him, and that the gates are open. The fine
presentation made by Colorado at the Paris Expo-
sition won for it a gold medal, and the attention of
the French Government and European capitalists,
and the Emperor has sent a commission of scientific
and prominent men to make an examination and
report, and at the same time quite a number of in-
dividuals, savans and capitalists are upon the
same errand. The well• directed and generous en-
terprise of the Coloradiaus has opened for them a
new era, and from dying of inanition they will
in
all probability go forward in uninterrupted pro-
sperity. Our neighbour, Utah, too, bids for popu-
lation, and takes most liberal measures to procure
it, by sending missionaries and money to all
the densely-peopled parts of Europe. While
not pretending to have rich mines of gold and sil-
ver, and promising only a livelihood as. a recom-
pense for industry, economy, and toil, Utah yet
receives a constant stream of immigration, and the
desert country is made the happy homes of a large
and thrifty population. They say there is room yet
for tens and hundreds of thousands of people in
their valleys; that they have not yet begun to set-
tle and improve all that is capable of settlement
and cultivation, and that they can sustain half a
million comfortably. In this idea they are going on
to attract population and fill up their country. So
all others are energetically presenting the re-
sources of their section and its claims for set-
tlement and the opportunities of capital. Since
the establishment of the Reveille, it has
been its constant endeavour to advocate
the best interests of the section, and present
its resources to the world. We have persisted in
the course, and shall continue until the country, by

its productions, publishes to the world a stronger
argument than we can present in words. We have
seen other places flash up and die away, while our
own locality has kept steadily onward. In this con-
nection, we will not hesitate to say, without dis-
paraging the claims of the above-named sections,
that we could select four or five mining districts
out of the numerous ones located in Central and
Eastern Nevada, and employ more men and more
money thereon, advantageously and to a profit, than
in any other section on the globe. To par-
ticularise we might mention the great "Nevada
Giant Ledge" at Cortez, 70 miles north-east of
Austin, upon which are located the St. Louis,
Mount Tenabo, and other companies. • This ledge
alone, when properly opened, will give employment
to thousands of labourers ; and what can be said of
this ledge can with equal truth be said of the lead-
ing ledges of Austin, Belmont, Twin River, Hot
Creek, and other leading districts of this section.
The St. Louis Mine at Cortez has been for some
time shipping ore to Austin, a dist ince of 70 miles,
for reduction, there being no custom mill in the
district. All the ore thus shipped has yielded from
150 to 200 dollars per ton.
In substantiation of the above, which we cut
from a late number of the Mese River Reveille, it is
only necessary for us to continue our researches and
quotations from that and other papers upon the
resources of that country.
FROM CORTEZ.--The mines that are being worked
at present in this district are turning out well.
The larger number are lying idle for want of capi-
tal. Nearly all the work is done on the St. Louis
and the mines of the Mount Tenabo Company,
which are producing a large amount of good
rock. The St. Louis Company had about
one hundred tons of second class ore worked
at the mill of the Mount Tenabo Company,
which yielded $l3O per ton. The first class from
this mine, considerable lots of which were worked
at the Keystone mill, near Austin, yielded some
$250 per ton. The company is putting up build-
ings, and such other improvements as will be neces-
sary to work the mine during the winter, and under
the management of the superintendent, Mr. S.
Wenban, the mine cannot fail to be a paying one.
The Mount Tenado company is preparing to work
its mines and to keep the mill going during the
winter. It is the pioneer company of Cortez, and
is deserving of credit for its perseverance in
developing its property to its present condition.
There should be no longer any doubt of the
character of the mines of the company, in the face
of their appearance and the bulliBn produced by
them. The extensive property of the company is
well managed by Mr. H. 11. Day, formerly of the
Savage Mine in Virginia city. In my judgment,
in less than two years the Mount Tenabo Company
will ship more bullion than any other in Eastern
Nevada.

BULLION FROM CORTEZ.—Russell's stage from
Cortez brought 19 bars of bullion, valued at about
$17,000, from the mill of the Mount Tenabo Com-
pany. Russell's stage also brought from Cortez
1,400 ounces of crude bullion from the St. Louis
Company.
BULLION FROM lONE.—Three large bars of bul-
lion, weighing 4,805 ounces, were brought into the
city from the Knickerbocker mill, near lone.
Anglo-American Times.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

CFrom the Anglo-American Times.)

The latest news by mail is from Portland, by the
Nova Scotian, dated New York, Jan. 11th, and a
few straggling papers only have reached us. The
meetings to secure the rights of American citizens
abroad continue, and a great gathering was held, on
the evening of the 10th, at Washington, when reso-
lutions were adopted censuring Minister Adams for
neglect of duty, and urging Congress to legislate so
as to secure the rights of citizens abroad, and means,
it was said, must be discovered to apply a remedy
for the cruelties exercised towards Americans by the
British authorities. Mr. Montgomery Blair and
Senator Wilson addressed the meeting, and letters,
sympathizing with the object in view, were read from
Mr. Colfax, General Banks, and other members of
Congress. There was nothing said of the suffer_
ings and cruelties exercised on British citizens by
the persons these gentlemen seem so anxious to
claim as countrymen. Such meetings are, as we
expected, the order of the day, and the Fenians are
hard at work to give them as national a character
as possible. In Canada, according to the Herald,
guards have been placed over the public buildings,
as Fenian attacks were apprehended ; yet, under
such threats, and while these people were openly
organizing to carry out their atrocious filibustering
proceedings, the House of Representatives has
passed a resolution requesting the President to in-
tercede with the Queen in behalf of Father Mac-
mahon, the Fenian prisoner in Canada, and also for
Lynch, Warren, Nagle, and other Fenians.
The last news from Alexandria is to the 22d
January, and it states on reliable authority that the
Viceroy intends to withdraw the greater part of the
Egyptian troops from Abyssinia, leaving only a few
men at Massowah. The expedition appears to be
progressing favourably. The climate on the upper
plateaux has proved to be fine, and the men are in
good health. The details have been carried out re-
gardless of expense ; and wharves, tramways, tele-
graphs, wells, &c., are in course of construction, as
if the foundations were being laid for a colony.
The Virginia Convention favours Chief Justice
Chase for the Presidency. The West Virginia
Democratic Convention puts forward Mr. Pendle-
ton, and adopts his plan for the redemption of the
national debt. The Ohio and Indiana Democratic
State Conventions are also for Mr. Pendleton, for
the taxation of Government Bonds, and the cur-
rency payment of the Five-Twenties. The Recon-
struction policy of President Johnson is likewise
endorsed—Democracy pledged to support him, and
the course of Congress strongly denounced. Reso-
lutions also were passed opposing negro suffrage,
the payment of the rebel debt, and the centralization
of power; declaring the concurrence of the Demo-
cracy in the abolition of slavery, and thanking the
Union soldiers for suppressing the rebellion. The
Georgia Conservative Convention has issued an
address against the Reconstruction policy of Con-
gress, and urges the people to unite in opposing
negro suffrage. A resolution has been introduced
into the Virginia Convention _ providing that a
payment of 25 per cent. should be a legal settle-
ment of all debts contracted in Virginia during
the rebellion.

The office of Commissioner of Patents, lately
filled by Mr. Theaker, is still vacant, though a place
eagerly contended for at Washington. Though the
salary is only $4,000 a year, it is rumoured that the
incumbent generally makes a fortune in three or
four years. Mr. Alfred B. Ely, of Boston, and
Mr. D. Bishop, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, were
each supposed to be likely to succeed. Mr. Bishop
would have to vacate the Presidency of the New
York and New Haven Railroad, with a yearly
salary of $lO,OOO, which those not in the secrets of
the Patent-office consider a far better thing. It is
certainly not a little strange that a man should
eagerly seek to exchange an income of $lO,OOO for
one of $4,000. The President is said to pretend
that it was Secretary Browning who removed Mr.
Theaker, and to be anxious to procure a man of
known honesty for the post.
The Times, in its reply to the second letter of
Lord Hobart on the Alabama claims, says, " he en-
tirely ignores any grievance on the side of Great
Britain, and argues as if it were possible for the
United States to be at war for the purpose of de-
stroying our commerce with its enemy, yet at peace
for the purpose of impugning our neutral rights.
This fallacy is equally fatal to his practical conclu-
sion whether it be advocated on grounds of inter-
national law or of international morality. If Great
Britain was not legally justified in recognizing an
actual state of war—an hypothesis which almost re-
futes itself—neither were the United States legally
justified in enforcing against neutrals, rights which
have no validity except during the existence of an
actual state of war. If Great Britain was not
morally justified in availing herself of her legal
rights, she may at least complain in her turn of the
many harsh measures employed in the suppression
of the rebellion, by which her interests were
affected." Doubtless there is great force in this

argument. But we maintain the truth of what we
have elsewhere asserted, that the circumstances were
wholly different on this and the other side of the
Atlantic, and that the real point of the grievance, is
the aid and countenance given by England to rebels
who were striking at the life of the United States.
The Washington Government was compelled, by its
position, to adopt stringent measures to save itself
in a great emergency, while the British Government
was in the position of a spectator of a contest be-
tween a respectable citizen and a robber, who has no
right to proclaim neutrality, and then become bot-
tle-holder for the footpad. We hold with the Times
that such mutual recriminations are far better
avoided. The war is ended, and the United States
triumphant. The precedent has been established
which it is for the interests of civilization, but more
especially for England, should be abolished. Eng-
land established it, and England benefited by it.
Let England acknowledge her error—express her
sorrow—and pay the penalty ; and thus put on re-
cord the fact, that where a nation, however strong,
has permitted its citizens to commit a wrong
against a friendly power, it is her duty to bear the
burden. The controversy has been carrie I on, Lord
Hobart stoutly maintaining his opinion against
Historicus and the Times; but we hold with the
Rev. Newman Hall, considering the true policy to
lie in settling the bill first, and splitting hairs after.

The English are groaning over an increase of a
ponny in the pound in the income tax caused by the Abys-
sinian war. This makes the aggregate fivepence in the
pound, equivalent to a little over two per cont. income-
ax : ours is five. The tax in England is imposed
on the average income for three years, and all
incomes of £lOO or $5OO are exempt. With us the
exemption applies to all under $l,OOO. But our income
tax is more than twice as heavy as the English, to say
nothing of the taxes on manufactures and various articles
of common consumption, in which they are are more than
four times as high. The day for our exulting over other
nations in the matter of light taxation seems to have passed
away.—Baltimore Commercial.

The case of Matilda Griggs has directed public
attention to the practice of binding over private persons to
prosecute criminals, and a little story in "Once a Week"
is brought forward to show the curious results which often
ensue. A Russian author, it seems, has gravely asserted
that whenever a Russian has his pocket picked in Eng
land he is always put in prison for a fortnight while the
thief is sent about his business. Tne incident from which
this startling generalisation was deduced is said to have
been as follows :—A. Russian captain having been robbed
in Cheapside was bound over to prosecute the supposed
thief. But his ship was ready for sea, and by the terms
of the charter-party he was bound to sail the next day.
He was offered the alternative of entering into a recog-
nizance for £lOO, or being detained in prison, and pre-
ferred to go to prison, for then the owners of the vessel
would know he was not to blame. On the other hand,
the friends of the prisoner, alleging his innocence, went
before a judge at Chambers, and procured his liberation on
bail. At the termination of the 1.4 days the sittings at the
Central Criminal Court were held. The Russian captain
was brought up in custody. The accused, forfeiting his
bail, did not appear; whereupon, without explanation, the
Russian was discharged, after having suffered 14 days' im-
prisonment.