The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-12-18
TFF WEEKLY ARN0NAN
SIGNS OF THE TINES.

Fa.tern iournals devote much space 10 con- lecture with regard to the future; and believing that coming events css! their shadows before them take hold of avery tranapiring incident, view 1t as il is, predict itS influence upon the 5estiuies Of nations, seets, or individuals, and having satisfied themselves that their predic- tops are correct. and that the events from which said predictions are deduced are the agents of otbor and more terrible events which are 10 follow, await win evident terror the calamities Egured ou; by their own fears.
 Father Hyacinthe has come to America psrhaps for the benefit of bis health and from anything that he has said or done since bis ar rival it can hardly be considered that his busi- nsss was of 0 more public nature. Yet we see that ilIustrious parsonage in almost every ca pacity: In the first place he has been declared in favor Of joining himself 10 almost every reli- gious sect in the eastern States; in the second a professor in nll the Universities of New Eng land again he in going 10 become Puritan clergyman just to please the people of the Hub" and in tho next place he is about to wrest the re ins of power from the grasp of Pic Nino, etc, etc. This business of raising up pondsrous sdfces upon weak foundations is quite certain to end in disappointment. and would be quite as certain to carry with it dis aster if costly materially involved but those who deal Tn settlements and love to put the most repulsive aspect upon the comeliest form understand well that the worstwhich can befall them is to see their opinions secuted but to this they are accustomed and therefore take the matter philcsophically.
 If we consider this subject from locGl stand-point-that is, if we cOnfne our Obser- vations to the incidents transpirng among our sslVes-it would appear quite as safe to regard matters as they are, and to treat incidents to the best personal advantage as to prepare for battle against what VIC believe them to portend For Arizona the signs are not very promising From California to New Mexico, and again from Nevada 10 the Mexican Republic We see forever the same sign and one which to un-
 
 Eastern augur or sage This sign s a painted savage, armed with all the implements of barbarous warfare, from the arrow to the brand and stake He mears murder and robbery; for three centuries he has been engaged Tn de- moRsirating this fact--wi.h vengeance h his efforts to impress it upon the people he is mt las. ogsi-5ucue in Ar;1opa today +bap lo was in Kentucky in he days of Daniel Boone bu; in these days the country understood him and hs paid the penalty with his life; in these days the country does not understand him, and the penalty which this ignorance enjoins is paid by the lives and property of the settlers Ignorance (for the sake of the countrys honor weEhould So term it) on this point has cost us, since January last, the lives of more than fifty pioneers, and property to the value of more than $lO0,000; ignorance on this point has exploded every mining enterprise south ofthe Gila river, where once some ten mines in op- erstion turned out thousands of dollars per day; ignorance on this point causes to be seen On the outskirts of every tract of valley land | buildings once occupied, now failing to decay. lands cultivated for g brief season, now clothed | towering weeds. With these significant views ever before us 1t IS not at all probable that see shall ever grow to ignorance of what the sign so familiar to us porlends. But from all that We have said in van, and from all that the Press of California have said, without result, in our behalf, it would appear that we will be re, luired to learn yet more in the same school and to enjoy the knowledge thus obtained es NC best may.