Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-07-12

Then Judge Harding came to his relief
again, and arrested the other party for
contempt of court and after long hear
ing on this question, this most
wise judge decided that although
the alleged contempt was not proven, yet
the defendants had not disproved it, so
he should hold them under $4,000 bonds
for trial upon that Thus the matter
stands; and the mine will probably re-
main unworked by either party until
trial can be had of their respective claims
to it. But Judge Harding left immedi-
ately for the states, upon making this de-
cision, and will not probably return. If
he is not as equally disgusted with the
people as they are with him, and does
not stay away, or resign, new appoint
ment will be made. For aside from the
controversy in the Porter case, and the
personal and political divisions aroused
by it,-for the republicans naturally side
against Porter, and the democrats with
m,-Judge Harding fails to hold either
the personal or professional and confidence
of the community. The lodes of ore run
into and across each other in these Colora-
do mountains SO freely and intricately
that questions like this one are likely to
be of frequent occurrence; and all parties
here feel the need of an intelligent and
impartial judiciary to settle them upon a
permanent and satisfactory principle. The
miners have established for themselves a
code for regulating their claims and inter-
ests in many of the earlier and petty de-
tails of their business but state and
congressional legislation and judicial au-
thcrity are what is now needed to dis
pose of larger questions that are now cons
tantly arising
AS the great need of the business men
and miners is male laborers, so also, that
of the housekeepers is female laborers or
"nelp." Housekeeping in large families.
and children do accumulate surprisingly
here's very serious burden to the
wives and mothers. Their eastern sisters
in their drest woes with poor servants,
can have but faint appreciation of the bur-
dens of living and entertaining here, where
cooks and waiting girls are not to be had
at any price. We go to rich dinners and
bountiful teas here at the homes of dis
tinguished and wealthy cstizens, and sit
and eat without the company of hostess
or any other ladies. She and they are
busy in the kitchen, and come out only to
stand behind our chairs, and change the
plates, and pass the viands There is an
uncomfortable feeling in being thus enter
tained but it is the necessity of the
country, and all parties make the bets Of
it. The price of the commonest of female
labor is So day and board. But the
Colorado ladies have their compensations
their husbands complain that they Cal
get no goods, no machinery out from th'
states under year from the time OF or
dering- that all business, all progress
must wait this long delay; yet the ladies
shine in the latest fashions of millinery
, and dressmaking. Modes that were jus
: budding when | left home, | find in full
, blossom here. How it is done | do no
, understand--there must be subtle tel
egraph by crinoline wires; as the south
D ern negroes have what they call a grape
. vine telegraph.
! The burden laid upon all agriculture
, the absolute want of all horticulture a
! yet in oil this country. are among its serl
GUS drawbacks. The winds, the sun, tn
5 porous yet unfriable soil, the long season
r of no or inadequate ram leave all vegeta
tion gray and scanty, except in direct com
, munication with the water courses Tree
: will not live in the house yards; hous
q owners can have no turf. no flowers. n
$ fruits, no vegetables-the space aroun'
( the dwellings in the towns is a bare sand
? relieved only by the frequent moses AN
+. weeds. The grass is grey upon the plains
e cottonwood and sappy pine are almos
{ alone the trees of the mountain region
1 no hard wood is to be found anywhere
and but for the occasional oases by th
: streams, and the rich flowers that wi
n spring up on the high mountain morasse
the country would seem to the trayele
!. ,ooxly barren of vegetable life. Bu