The Shasta courier., 1865-04-15
NUMBER o.

ARIZONA, THE COUNTRY oEe eANouALIFs
~ ~ harper Magazine, J Ross Browne fn-
isnes s al interesting series Of articles upon
Arizona. which has run through that mara.
zine from November last. Z He sums mn the
country as follows:a
- no country that | have vet visited nre-
sents so many striking anomalies as A~;ganoa
with millions of acres of the fneSt IarstIo
lands, there was not, at the time of our visit,
single farm under cultivation in the Terri,
tory with the richest gold aud silver mines.
paper money IS the common currency: with
forts innumerable, there is scarcely any pro.
teclioh TO NE ana property with extensive
pastures there IS little or no stock: with
rivers through every valley, 2 stranger NAV
die ofthirst.s Hav is cut with the boe and
WOOD with the spade or mattoek. There are
towns without an inbabitant and deserts ev.
| tensiyely populated Vegetation wbcre tbere
is no soil. and soil where there Is no vege.
tation. Snow is seen where it is never seen
to fall. and ice forms wherei never SHOWS.
There are Indians the-most doeile in North
America, vet travellers are murdered dailv
by Indians the most itbarbarous on earfig
The Mexicans have driven the Papagoes from
their southern homes, and now seek pro-
lection from Apaches in the Pap2go villages.
Fifteen hundred Apache warriors, the most
cowardly of Indian tribes in Arizona, beaten
ni%every fight by the Pines, Maricopas and
Papagoes, keep these and etherseclosed as in
{. corral ; and the same Apaches have desc
lated countryvinhabited by one hundred
and twenty thousand Mexicans. Mines with
out miners and forts without soldiers are
common. Politicians without policy, tra-
ders without trade, store keepers without
stores. teamsters withoutteams, and all with
out means, form the mass Of the white pop
ulation."
LEGIsLATfNG FOR THEIR OWN PocKErs.--
Members of Congress get very indignant
when it is mildly suggested that their action
in Congress is prOmotive ofspecial interests
Of their own, either directly orindirectly, and
fall to work abusing newspapers generally.
for the inslnuation of some, one outspekeg
censor Yet, if we look at their legislation,
we will see that they are not all Of them
above regarding their own Interests. They
havea bill now to raise ,noneyfor the support
of the Government by taxing every man
who earns more than 5000. per -centage Of
his income. Yet in thatssame bill there is Il
clause, the New York Tribule says, which
exempts members Of Congress from paving .
tax on their s. 900 per annum and mileage.
If this is not a careful regard to their own
interests above that of'the publies.s which
warrants the charge of. putting money into
their own pockets, then there is no force in
facts. 4 poor man may. be taxed on the
amount necessary to feed ana clothe his
family, if it is abovesS600-andh no man can
be provided with the neeessagies, ia say moth
Ing Of the dece1eies Of life, with that sum, at
the present prices Of food bat some Of tic
members who impose these necessary taxes
are mean enough to try and srnu ggle through
a section excepting themselves. The fao6
ofpresenting such a proposition. if it really
is in the bill as stated. confirms the charge
that members profess.to be so indignant ut.
The voting themselves large sums for mileage,
more than cost of travel, is bad enough, but
exempting Themselves from taxation is an
aristocratic prctension the public are not
yetto allow.--I'a5la.blDl,ia Ledger. .srss