The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-01-16
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be published by II. W. sherry, who says, m ! card Co the public, "that it will appear regularly every Sunday morning. and that l it will be conducted with the best ability in his power Co obtain. which is equivalent Co saving that some outsider or outsiders will have to edIt it for him. Mir Sherry is, We are told. printer, and we wish him success.
 Before taking leave of tho establishment, DeLong and McCoupick, the two literary pigmies and lying wretches who. for some time past, have conducted the yilo sheet, put their heads together and gave us a farewell shot, which they, no doubt, thought would finish us and establish their claim lo honesty, fairness and great intelligence, but which isi3s, sigHaily, to seeoaHFiist oiie thing of ihe other, and is only remarkable for the bitter ness, abuse and lying assertions contained in it. A. has been their custom in times past, they did not send copy of the number containing this fast tirade, but a friend who received copy of it loaned 1t to us, and we are thereby enabled Co rctute their false assertions and accusations Were i; not tbat publication time is close at hand. we would quote the article entire, but such being the case, the best thing we can do is Co make quo tatons from it, and comment thereon.
 They start in by calling us blackguard, ' and then accuse Us of cvading the question, and of ignorance but fail Co set forth one sol itary fact to sustain these charges, and, of course, they isll to the ground, still born. We may be ignorant, but those who know ms know that hlackguard!ng is not our Tgrfe We leave that business Co those hp hang around places of n repute and who live in an atmosphere oi impufty. As to the charge of having made misstatements about the Gov ernor we recollect of bat one, and that erept
 in through mistake. If we have asserted un- truths about Mccormick, why has he not re- futed them. We have dared him Co do so. but he has not dared to attempt it. We have g habit of speaking our mind freely, and when we accused the Governor of selling himself on tho capital question, of swinding tbc Territory and the General Government, Of lying to us, Of betraying his party, of inju- risE ;iie Territory l5y selling wildcat feet in New York. of being expelled from the Union League of Prescott, of drawing provisions from the eommissary at Fort Wbipple and selling them again. at time when the garrison was upon half rations, Of taking water and hay be- | longing to teamster on the La Paz road, without his permission, of quarrelling with | the military, of fmisrepresentingthe number of | hostile Indians m the Territory, of fomenting
 discord among the people of the several coRn-
 ties, Of usurpation of power, of running rat printing office in Prescott, and of meanuess in general, we knew what we were about As 10 the charge that Pima county paid s7 7O00 into the Territorial Treasury while
 Iayapai was paying one thousand, we would
 say that we do not believe ii. But, if such i.
 the case. what does It prove1 Nothing mora
 than that al the time you made the boast, tho Il County Treasurer had not sent the Terrto ry's share of the taxes 10 Tucson, because b,
 was afraid 10 send it by mail, and beeaus,
 in a short time thereafter be expected to b,
 able io forward the entire sum- Again, it { time that your county paid her just share O
 the taxes, for, if you rccolieCt, in former time
 she was slow. to ppngle, and you, GoyeFaes used to abuse her in the same manner ii ! which you now abuse your former pet-Yav
 apsi.
 Now, for the ignorance part. DcI.ong an, the Governor say we showed our ignorano
 by stating that we knew nothing of the Ac said to have been passed by the fourth Legis latare, leyying tax of fifty cents on tn one hundred dollars for Territorial purpose, This is in keeping with the balance of ihei
 assertions about us; we never said Sc. and h
 or they who say we did, say what is not s, D We said our Board of Supervisors were DO i aware that such an act wss in existence whe . they levied the taxes for the past year. Mex f comes the charge that oar Supervisors c1 i. ceeaed their powers when they extended ;h v time in which Co pay taxes in this count, 2 and the pigmies lay great stress upon thu s their principal point Little did the esmartie e suspect that in making this charge the q proved themselves greater ignOramuses tha
 we had any reason tO believe them to Ike. !
 will be seen by reading the following quot.
 tion from chap TX, section II, Howell Cod
 which, we feel certain. has not been repeale, s- go. To extend and determine by re-0lutio q tue time in which the sheriff as collector :, taxes shall make his return to the count
 treasurer but such time shall in DO case e. o ceed thirty days from the time fixed by eel ie cral law; and in all cases interest shall ! a charged on all taxes SO extended for the tin o. of such extension.n
 Docs nef this give them tho right l., e '' tend the time7 What say you, wiseacrt D. Do you still wish to be commended to th q Board for a cool neglect Of duty or usurpatis lt of power" and do you still stick to it th
 'we have nothing ike it in Arizouan Don
 you think, Governor, that for cool usurpati'
 of power your name will stand pre.enaine 'a in the annals of Arizona, or have you f, L. gotten that you have usUFped power n ma Iy ing app0rtionments since 'C5, and in actii ,a as Territorial Auditor and allowing your oy ~ bills against the Territoryl Ifgoa have, | n- people have not.
 r. The article winds up by telling us that O j., e9aEsc is ruiHOus to nobody but onrselE, ai ae that the people are disgusted with us, b
 we cannot sec it in that light If patrona " and good viii is test of our popularity, al 'e an indorsement of our course. we have ( n' satisfaction of knowing that our efforts a CT well thought of. Had we cold ourself [. f