, 1870-07-16

These pastures now support j 100000 head c
cattle and 1000, 600 head Of sleep.
There are mines Of gold, silver and ss scsoppea'
ore. The average yield Of silver ore is $50
metal.
The number Of acres already disposed Of t
! settlers il ,o91 SIG. mainly Ilativa English
| men. This is tile Cockuey Territory, and
| wilKptobably be State within year.
NEW MEXICO,
also TO be State soon,5 has an area Of 121
201 square miles, or II, ,56a, ,G40 acres. Their
is great variation in the climate. In she mort
the winters aEe long and severe, but not sub
ject to sudden changes.
In tie south il is mild, hardly ever belo,
the freezing point
The table lands, Lill sides, and valleys ar,
covered With grasses, which afford first-c1as
pasture the tehole year. The climate has
good, effect on the health Of eheep and cattle
and disease is rarely ever known among them
New Mexican homes are remarkable for thei
endurance, and the beef and mutton there arr
celebrated for their excellence.
Iho a,r il 30 pute that beef, mutton and
ycnison arc cured without usinR salt, Icing
eimply dried in the open air.
lu the valleys, corn, wheat, barley and oate
yle!d abundant crops, while apples, peaches,
melons, apricotB and grapes grow in great per.
fection.
Where irrigation is possible (and it is in
most parts devoted to agricullu1e) crops move,
fail.
Forests Of pine. cedar, spruce and kindred
trees cover the mountains, and veins Ut gold
and silver, and rick deposits of copper, iron
and coal are found in many parts, aud new
discoveries are being made constantly.
Many mines of gold have been opened, and
are being worked. The new Mexican MIN
ing Company runs about forty stamps, and the
| To u,
Placer de San Francisco ten stamp mill OBJ
tains s35 per ton. Thirty pounds OF quartz
recently taken from Langston lode averasel
$50 to tho pound. The Santa Rita mine pro
duces about 5000 pounds Of copper week,
and the Stephenson mine yields so per cunt Of
lead and 80 worth Of silver from each ton
Chavea, the present delegate, SCENE to be the
most important man in the Territory, and his
friends expect him to be Senator.
organized March 2, 1861, is chiefly surrender
ed to the Sioux Indians. Its length, from
north to eoutb, is 41i miles. and its greatest
| width $50 miles. Its area ia $50, 935 square
miles, or 95, ,595, $40 acres
Tho climate Of Southern Dakota is mild, but
| in the northern part the winters are long and
| severe: The southern and eastern PORTIONS
aro being rapidly settled by energetic and in
dustrious people. immigration has poured
INTO the Territory SO rapidly that the public
surveys are much behind actual requirements.
Tho climate and soil arc favorable to the
growth Of wheat, corn, and. other cereals,
while al the fruits and vegetables produced
in the Northern States grow in the greatest
perfection. During the past season the wheat
crop varied from twenty to forty bushels per
acre; oats, from fifty to seventy. Dakota has
extensive praries and nutricious grasses, aud
it affords great facilities for raising sheep and
gsged in these pursuits.
Gold, silver, copper, and coal are found.
Excellent building stone il found in many
places, and there arc immense beds Of salt in
the northern part. The estimated white pop
ulation il above 10000.
OTHER MATTERS CURRENT.
a Eon OF Stephen /. Douglas, named for his
distinguished father, and bearin. wonderful
sesem h1auce TO him in face and person, has
Carolina.
Chief Justice Chase bears marks Of rayage
and FROST His step is OF tre1nulous sort,
and bis eye and counteuance have lost some Of
their former coliectedness. His former i'm
posing appearance ia reduced of is p1emtude
Of flesh, and as he walks to and fro upon the
avenue his friends feel TINT he is coming down
the steep side Of the hill Of life. He will spend
most OF the summer in the Middle States and
hereabouts, and be has recently built himself
country box near Washington.
OREGON POLITICS AMI rEosrEcTs.
Senator Williams, Of Oregon, says that the
chief Democratic candidates for his seat areJo. :
Lane, now 60 years old, aud Brrckurlilgea
colleague On the Presidential ticket III 1850, Joe
Smith and one Kelley. Tho Democrats have
majority Of from twelve to twenty in the Orc
dred vntes would hare giren the Senator to
TIE Republican, Williams being the only can
didate Oh the latter side. Tho State was
mainly lost by Republican wrangle in Doug
las County. Multuomah County, the residence
81 Ben Holiday, alwayH Democratic. voted
Tht1
whole strength for Williams, andhe is not hlm-
self candidate for the United States Senate.
In this election We can see plain case Of dls-
reimbursement in the interest Of party, re-
turning TO plague the Inventors. Tie new ele-
ment IN Oregon which overturned the Repub-
Missouri rebels deprived Of their full citizen
ship In tho latter State, and they have revo1u-
tlon12ed Oregon and put another voto inimical
to the spirit OF the age in the Senate.
10. Lane is said to have been quiet but hos
tile. .dunng tho war. He was born in the oele-
brated Bqnsombo County. North Carolina,
age Of q Has in the State Legislature He
served with credit i'll tie Mexican war, and be.
ing sent as Governor to Oregon by Fillmore,
lie has lived there in public
Office much Of the time eince. He said to be
man OF polite address, but without deAnite
ability. The Breckinridge Democrats nomi-
mated him in order to carry the Pacific Coast
with their politics or their secession. 10. Lane
Is not arelative OF Henry S. Lane, nor Of the |
late Jas. Il. Lane, all Indianians and Ill |
Senators.
Ben Holiday is now controller Of the rail-
way system general Of Oregon, and he is said |
to be driving man, without politics, without |
prudence. and without learning, but supplying
all By tleless energy and that doubtful order |
Of principle called "sticking to hIs friends" |
The country has no friends to stick to it.
Oregon IL not believed to have capacity for |
more than No, ,Mo people at best, tho esstern
bouldeg-strewn, nearly naked ridges, without
irrigation. The two valleys OF the Umpqua
and the Willamette, flowing betwean the Cas-
cade Mountains and the coast, are the chief
reliances OF tho State, which does not powcon-
isn s'oV' '0' sng pssRia' sPa aaSsssiSe R1ssaSy
Trip from San francisco to the Columbia
Nver, costing abont $50 in the cabin, but the
railway from California viii probably be COM
pleted within two or three years. As to the
new Northern Pacific Railway, most well-in-
formed men with whom have talked say that
its completion to the Pacific il many year OF,
and that extravagant ideas ire entertained OF
the lands and resources Of tho western end Of
tie road.
cA1uoRS1A xo1Es.
The Coolie question is said to threaten the
division Of tue Democratic party in California,
l
verify for the Chinese, and the Irish element
violently opposed to it.
This fall will definitely demonstrate the sue
ceas OF failQre Of the tea-plauting in Ca1ifor-
MIA, as the Japanese who have undertaken it
ve,,paid every attention to their several hun
bred. d.aczea Of plants, and regard them hope
fully!
alluded sometime ago to tho successful
working OF the tin mines in California, and
o the coffee pots and the seventy
2o1nd 2 nd block os Ct pure tin exhibited hers
o yield far batter ore than those of Corn
rail-, now showing signs OF giving out, and
,gents are abroad looking into the worldngpf
he TN manufacture, with view to afford sug-
,estions to tho California Tin Mining Com
IN the Pacific coast, threo hundred acres hAv-
ng been planted, and showing finely to the
mbitiouH men who have undertaken the task,
An immense silk flag, made Of California
ilk, has been hanging for week under the
lone Of the Capitol, being about sixty feet in
;aiifornia has many Thousand acres planted
ver with mulberry treeB this year, and the
ulture ia . success already.
Eforte are being made TO utilize the great
'ells and sp1ings Of asphaltum in Santa Bar
ara County, California, which are now run
ing To waste Id the se4, and dyeing the waters
I the Pacific b1ack for many miles.
Al these iinmen 80 Resources Of California; !
old, silver lead, coal, silk, tea, beet-root. tin,
uickslFer-impzess us with the necessity Of
'hiness labor, to do the rough work Of the
lines, and stand hartahips not fit for CAucas-
IN men.
The highest wages in ths World are now paid ,
! Californi4: yet natures treasures run to ] !
aste for wAnt Of hands to gather them. Ia
.Amongat the strange political diguitAkiea .
ho h4ve recently been in Washington il !
2s4et Gallagher, The potential Catholic priest
rtarft xuf fha II I