The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-09-04

The monkey races sometimes select their leaders by the length of their tails. Louis XVIII. made Monsieur D'Avaray a duke for helping him into his carriage.
 GRANTS "LovE OF QUIET AND RETIREMENT n
 Then Grant imposes upon us with other pretensions. He has published to an extray agant eccentricity his love of quiet and re- tirement No public man of his station, since the beginning of the Government, has so con. stantly thrown himself in the way of the peo. pie A triumphal procession through the country every six months since the war has been the least of it. As President he is push ing his social prerogatives to the fullest bent. There have passed fourteen weeks since the adjournment of Congress. Grant has passed half of them here, the rest in social unbend- ing elsewhere. They say he takes gaily to the dance at Long Branch, sliding through the figures more glibly than at Annapolis or West Point. This is very well, but the coun- try is asking of him and his Cabinet A few serious questions that it would be we'll to have answered from Washington, reception balls at the seashore notwithstanding. What about Cuba, South America, Virginia, the South, the Alabama matters, and political assassinations
 THE SPHINX POLICY DON'T FILL THE BILL.
 It is credible that the cabinet and the head of the nation, properly digesting these things, would not find much time to be ab- sent from the capital Anyhow, the nation IS anxious to see looming above the rosy horizon Of balls, Touts, excursions, banquets, receptions, and seaside frivolties, the execu- tive head of powerful Republican Adminis- tration. We are hardly contented with this sphinx-like policy. It may be Delphic, as Shelabarger said, but is less than Republi- can. The President would do we'll to accept humility from the cabinet kdsco and consult the people henceforth. 4 member of the Grant family is reported to have remarked, just after the nomination; "It was the Generals desire not to be made President by party, but by the people" Perhaps Grant believes that the "erA of good feelingn may return again under a;s administration that he is Colossus, under whose legs all the people can walk.
 So far the
 PrrTisEss or HIS ADMINISTRATION has been the most objectionable. and now. playing President be reminds you of . boy who wished to be king. "so that he might ride on the gate post all dayr If he will stop buying bagatelles in New York, and pa- radiHg his Presidency along the porches of the Stetsons, and keep to Executive busi- ness here, he will look more like successor of Washington-his ambition we are told.
 THE DENTS TOR EVER.
 Early after the inauguration, when offices and honors were heaped, like Attila's buck lers, upon the royal house of Dent, you might have heard here among certain sagacious Western men pertinently suggested the es- tablishment of firms to go into the brother in-law business" The suggestion had drop ped from my mind until, arising from my sick bed, hear the buzzing of fresh swarm of Dents-eotne out like locusts applying for satrapies in the Southwest
 0Bs believes almost that there is some where brokerage of this magic name, upon whose bearers honors and offices are expected to drop like stars. 4 storekeeper Of the capi- tai Of ancient Persia went one day to Ibra- him, the Governor of his province, to request the abatement of the taxes he was unable to pay to Hasse lbrahim, chief magistrate of the city, and the Governors brother.
 "You must pay, or leave the city, replied the Governor. Where shah go7" asked the shopkeeper. "To SbirAz was the reply. "Your nephew rules that city, and your fam fly are my enemies" said the shopkeeper. {" Then go to Cashan." "But your uncle is Governor there.n Then complain to Shali.n !" He is your elder brother, and Prime Minis ter.h linen go to the lower regional exclaimed the Governor in passion. Alas your p;oGs father is dead Fetortad th. 
 History reports its trying situations, it Is said, for every people. The Dents are our Ihrahams We meet them omuipresent here, and only by virtuous life have the hope of escaping them in the hereafter.