The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-24
SONORA AND ARIZONA.

The Washington States in an article under the
caption of "Arzona Speculation-the Bubble
Burst" saws:
Arizona and Sonora are, beyond doubt, rich in
silver deposits, which, in the course of few years
and under the full appliances of science and capt.
tai, will some day return magnificent results, but
as yet those remote and barren solitudes in
the highest degree unfavorable to single-handed
effort
Silver mining is emphatically business demand
ing costly machinery and strong gangs of steady,
reliable laborers, and these it will be difficult to
transport through thousand miles of bowling will
derness to the interior of Arizona and Sonora
Outside of mining, there is no employment for poor
men who go there to earn their bread by stated la
Dor. There is such scant proportion of arabic
land and such miserable scarcity of pure and living
water that farming, even in the old Spanish time,
not carried on to extent to supply the mining
establishments with bread Forest timber is so rare,
that one may journey day after day without meet
ing a fair sized tree. In the deep sheltered val
leys, few and far between, may be met green
oasis, but most of these already appropriated,
and wants to hire laborers to cultivate
them
The climate is pure and healthy, and those arid
and desolate hills embosom uncounted millions; but
large OUTLAWS and strong combinations are the in
dispensable prerequisites for unearthing the trea-
sures. Owners have gone forward to explore and
secure the best and most accessible districts and
combinations like the Cincinnati and New England
companies proceeding Systematically to develop
them, with the prospect of almost fabulous reward;
but there is not on this continent more dscoura-
| cling section for single-handed man, without at
| least few hundred dollars at his command In
direct, downright labor for wages, he must
pete with the poor Mexican peon, and, like him,
accept from capital the scarce ration of food at the
terms of the buver Time will change all this; but
those who are tempted by glowing descriptions
to plunge unprovided into the sterile depths of
Arizona, will be apt to pay dear for their impru-
| dence.
| The reader will understand that we are impeed
" a concerted q blow
| the Arizona bubble into the proportions of ma
| tional humbug. We have been initiated in the
mystery of the Arizona enterprise. We under
stand upon what motives of cupidity and ambition
the creduous way-farer is invited into the wilder
ness by seductive images of fabulous fortune.
| THE TEHUANTEPEC RoUTE.-The Hon. S. W. Inge,
pioneer passenger from California, via Tehuante-
pee and we'll known citizen of that State as we'll
as in the East, authorizes the New Orleans Picayune
to publish the following report in regard to the
transit. He declares that the difficulties in regard
| to Ventosa Bay of trivial nature, may be
obviaed, and even now offer no serious impeachment
| to debarcaton embarcaton. The road from
| Ventosa to Suchil he pronounces one of the best
natural roads travelled for that distance,
| ll2M miles.
The road is adapted to the easy transit coaches,
and the land trip between the two points will soon
be made in twenty-four hours. The climate on the
lsthmus is cool, agreeable, and healthy, and singu-
ary free from the usual annOyances OF the tropics
Col. nge expresses the confident opinion that in
short time, when arrangements on foot are
completed, the through trip will be made between
| New Orleans and San Francisco in twelve DAYS;
and that the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is speedily
destined to be the great thoroughfare for passen-
gers mails and treasure between the States of the
Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific coast
DAMAGES AGAINST A RALRoAD.-A decision has
! Just been rendered by Judge Drummond in the
| United States Circuit Court at Chicago, upon a
claim made for damages BY Ford Us. Illinois Cen
| trial Railroad Company. The plaintiff shipped 100
head of cattle at Urbana, ILL.,, under contract for
their delivery at Detroit in 80 hours. They were
detained at Michigan City on the Michigan Central
! Road II hours and II hours more at Marshall
! On arriving at Detroit four of them were dead,
and the owner claimed that the remaining Sc had
suffered material depreciation. Judgment was
rendered for the plaintiff for 81 ,250
On Monday last, at Emmittsburg, Frederick
county, Mr. W. B. Tabler, auctioneer, sold at pub
lie sale on account of VIM. J. Ross and B. T. John
son, Esqrs., trustees, the Phenix Mills with 116
acres OF land and the improvements thereon, the
| pf g n YnupC for IN Iob,