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The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18

came up in full uniform and called "Halt." Unwrapping, an English flag from. around his swOrd,. he threw it over Cook and. PachecO and said; 'I am not an American. citizen, but I am an Anglo Saxon,. the same as these gentlemen. Murder enough has been commit ted here and if one hair of their heads is harmed, I will blow San- tiago de Cuba to he'll" This end~ ed the slaughter. That little peice of British bunting: snatched' two heretics from the pious sons of,the true church, who have never lost an opportunity of trampling and splitting on the American flag. Did the United States go to- war about it? Not at alL They did not DARE. to. Gen. Sickles, our minister at Madrid, demanded satisfactien, but his temerity lost him his situation. Our govern ment was bluffed by Spain and tried to take water, but England would not let us. The British go- vernment threatened to hold us responsible for the lives of a few Jamaica negroes on boardthe Vir- girlius and. to make us pay indem- nifty unless we compelled Spain to pay it. Amongthe steamers pas- sengers was a Cuban named Que sada. Gen. BurrieEcame into the prison to make the prisoners feel good by stirring'em up and telling them they should all be shot. Quesada recognized him and, charging him with the murder of his two sisters and of his father, mother and. brother, sprang upon Burriel to throttle him; but he was prevented and all hacked to peices by the bayonets of Burrieps soldiers: his heart was torn out and smeared in the faces of his fellow prisoners. Poor Quesada!Ais fam- fly murdered, he had escaped from Cuba and thought himself safe as a passenger on an American ship and under the American flag on the high seas. Fatal error! En- glish intervention forced our gov ernment to collect from Spain $S0, ,000 for the families of the mur- dered men, and to demand the return of the-steamer:, The money was not paid for three years. A special decoration was conferred om every man. and officer of the gun boat that captured her. Not only has Burrief never been called to trial or punishment, but he has even been promoted two grades in the Spanish-arnay. Ihe foregoing are factS..
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18
White FeathePe

AftergiEingprovocatione enough, had it come from a man, to have enthusedta stone image, the dis trict attorney publishes the editor of the SENTINEL, in the Tucson Star, as a coward for net killing OF fighting him. We do not propose just now to do either. Whenever wegetAFRAID of a dog, the CUP can live just as long as it takes te load agun. Life is tooshort to be passed in fear. Fight him? We would as soon think of flying intoa pas sion at an old hat and frantically kicking it through a crowded street; or of obtaining satisfaction for wounded honor by getting down on all fours for a biting match with a coyote.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18
THE "Deus ex machinay of.tbe

THE "Deus eX machina" of the SENTINEL exists only in the per- turbed imaginations of Territorial journals, whom we have left far behind in the race fer circulation and influence With a hope of rolling this editor, our weaker contemporaries affect to believe the SENTINEL is controHed'by a prom . inent- merchant Of this town and of this Territory. To him they sehoose tosattribute the merit of Sour columns and the good judg- nent of our views on matters local md general, and to his inspi- |ation they pretend to ascrfbe the
 nerited censure we have distrib- tied with sparing and discrimin-
 ting pen. It is proper to say that
 es SENTINEL does net owe him lSOlkf, or anything bat good will; that he has never, even indirectly, influenced it's course; and that in publishing unkind allusions to him inconnection with this paper they do gratuitous dirt'to a man who in no way merits it. This statement should be enough to restrain de- cent men and journalists from repeating the effense~
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18

WASHINGTON, Aug: 13.- Act ing Secretary Mccormick yester- day issued a circular to employees of the Treasury Department, stat ing that the credit of the govern ment required its duties to be performed by honorable men; that the Secretary would not be ar raigned by creditors seeking their just dues from clerks; that it was expected that all just debts would be paid. and that if clerks refused to pay their just debts they would be charged with fraudulent prac- tices and recommended for dis missal by the chiefs of ther respec- tive bureaus.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18
Did Sene Good.

Since January last, one James Reilly has been district attorney |of this county. Verifying the ad- (age about setting ia beggar on horseback" he gradually made himself nearly insufferable by his assui inption and turbulence The IbENTINEL took no notice of his personal career, but after an.unus- ually violent scene at c session of |the Board of Supervisors, a cut at |tbe flank of his official deport- lnent was given with the lash of his papers ridicule. It did some rood. Since that time his official ntercourse with other officers of le county has been marked by
 D extraordinary discourtesy. He
 las avenged this self-controi by a remarkable Outpouring of his true inwardhess" in a Tucson paper. Our reproef has also eff. ected notable change in his in- kicOurse with fellow-eitiZens. To aggressive turbulence has suc- eeded obsequious civility: those
 e has outraged by overbearing
 science he now seeks to propi-
 te by servile deference and
 ttery. By pHlling him down Then rampant and kicking him |p when grovefing we hope to eep him vibrating until: he
 ches mean of upright, manly
 rtesy becoming to his office..
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18
JOSeDh'S Indiaus.

From Dr. Loring, who returned this week from Oregon where he met gentlemen just from the seat of war, We learn that most of the Indians now fighting the troops are rather we'll educated and in many respects like civilized pastoral people. Some of them have grad uated at universities, while a ma- jOrity of them can read and write. They do their fighting in style combining regular army tactics with Indian peculiarities, and are as brave as only men can be who feel they are fighting for lfe-and home.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18

LEADING directors of the Wes. tern Union and Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph companies have been vainiy trying to effect a consolida. tion this week. If they succeed, what a cry of "Monopolyp will go up from the rural districts. We might then get a military line into MOhave county. The Western Union would then have TO parti- cu4ar use for the line between here and San Diego and would allow it to be moved up the Colo. rado river.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18
IN YUMA COUNTY:

Very few entries have been made in MOhave and Yavapai counties, therefore the foregoing shows the extent of the sO-called land steal in Arizona The report that Gen. Banning and others in the interest of the Southern Pa cific railroad company, had gOb- bled up whole townships on the Gila, has dwindled down. to, two sections! With these exceptions, every location named is made by an actual settler in the Territory or one dong constant business in it. We are inclined tobelieve that the reported "large steals" else- where, on examination, would be found equally exaggerated and further investigation would very likely show that the cry of "steal" was raised by gang of blaekmail- CTS and libellers whoa are trying to break down Senator Sargent who, with all other Pacific senators and representatives, favored the bill in Congress. No man can steal land under the bill, for the act cOmpels him to pay the full government price and make expensive im- prOvements which any sensible and just community of people would hail as a blessing.
 A Mir. Thompson came in from California expecting to take up extensive tracts in the Gila valley. He had surveys and examinations made and, finding that he could get only alternate sections and that the cost of irrigating dtches would be large, he abandoned the scheme and did not locate an acre Now what did this man and his associates contemplate doing with the land had they entered it !? Why, plant it with sugar cane and thereby give thousands of people employment and save hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Terri tory. And yet he was charged with a purpose to perpetrate an immense Steal-at an expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars earned elsewhere. And such is the justice done to valuable public men and measures by a set of human hounds who would never improve an acre of desert land If millions of acres were offered them on condition they would improve it, Citizen.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18
Yuma COunty.-II

For the succeeding four or five years this town gained slowly in size and importance. Immigration by this route fell off rather than increased. Though conquered. the Yuma Indians still made it unsafe to occupy or prospect any part of the county at a distance from the fort until 1857. In that year Irataba. chief of the MOhave Indians (the word Mohave in their language signifies a club, this being their favorite weapon), formed a coalition with the Yu- mas for the purpose of attacking the Pimas and Maricopas, living about 200 miles up the GiIa. The Mohaves were to march across the country by the present site of Phoenix and attack the Pima vii. lages at the upper or eastern end. while the Eumas were toemarch up the Gila and make simulta-
 neOus assault on the Maricopa villages lying 15 or 70 miles fur ther west. Both the attacking tribes at that time numbered nearly ten times more warriors than now. Irataba and his Mo- hayes. either by mistake or through treachery, failed to- at-- tack at the time agreed upon. Ignorant of this, the Yumas boldly assaulted the villages al- loted to them, and for a time had
 things their own way. But the alarm spread to the Pimas, who on ponies and on foot rushed to- succor their Maricopa allies and massed their forces upon the Yu- mas, drove them down to the flat in front of Maricopa Wells and there surrounded what were left of them. The Yumas fought with the courage of despair, but
 were killed to 8 man. But a few years ago their bones and crushed skulls could be seen lying in piles where the coyotes and buzzards had left them.. The victors then
 began a. slaughter of the Yumas wounded earlier in the fight and
 hidden away among the bushes. Of these, as indeed of the whole party. only two escaped, who
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18
A True Story.

October 27, 1873, the Virginius;
 American steamer, flying the
 merican flag, was overhauled
 bon the high seas and broue Int to
 a Spanish gun boat; she was
 Jed, the flag torn down and
 erately fouled and the ship
 sched. Nota thing contraband
 Far was found aboard of her:
 some of her passengers were sCbans and that was all the pre- text wanted for taking her into Ehe port of SantiagD, de Cuba and
 turning her crew and passengers ger to Gen. Burriel, the Spanish
 mmandante. No trial was given sem, no testimony was taken or Investigation made; but omthe 2d. of November Capt. Fry and the 52 men comprising the officers, en- gineers, stewards and crew of the Virginius were led out and shot iii view of the passengers. After the firing of the troops, the mob was turned loose to finish the wounded Yankee heretics,, whose heads and: limbs were borne about jnpoles through the streets. Next fy, Nov. 3d.. commenced the
 aughter of the passengers. To lake the fun for the crowd last longer, they were led out and shot two at time. Four had already kbeen murdered and their heads Icut oF and given to the populace. kAn American named J. l.. Cook and Cuban named Pacheco had Aeen led out and were about to. be hot, when Captain Lambton.L Lor- E Eaine, of the British ship Niebe,
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18

CAPT. M. P. NOLAN, of the Pa cific Mail Steamship Company, died suddenly of sickness at Aca- pulcO, July 27. Ashort time since he was selected by the company to take charge of the wrecked steamship City of San Francisco, and save everything possible. He was at Acapulco in discharge of his duties at the time of his deaths
 An account was given q few weeks ago in the SENTINEL of the sudden, death of Capt. Nolan's brother near the Colorado river at Aubrey.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18

GALVESTON. Texas, Aug. 13;- 4 special from Rio Grande City says that at one o'clock this mOrn- ing 15 men from Mexico entered the town, broke open the Jail, shot Judge Cox and the iaiIOr and re- leased two notorious outlaws. The civil authorities called upon the military for assistance. and Col. Price with 100 regulars and two Gathng guns crossed the Rio Grande.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18
Yavapai Matters.

Water is scarce for stock this season and crops are bad for want of rain. Berry the stage robber has been convicted. A party of Kansas emigrants are going to erect a saw mill on the Moaoilo- nes mesa. Wm. Clancy, who was shot last winter by Indians near Maricopa Wells, has been stealing horses and a reward is offered for him. The Bank of Ari. zona has been Incorporated, has elected its officers and will open for business as soon as it's new building is finished.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18
KERENs & RooTs are proprietors

KERENs & ROoTs are proprietOrs of extensive stage lines in Texas connecting at Mesilla with the line run through Yuma by Kerens & Mitchell. During the past month K. &. R. have lost g stage teams taken in% by. Indians in Tex as. besides having one'driver kill ed and several wounded.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18

c. w. c. HOWELL is a regular candidate for the office of District Attorney of San BernardinO COun- ty. He runs on the republican ticket.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18

The excellent account given on our first page of mining matters in Pinal county is taken from the Citizen. The customary credit was accidently neglected.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18

ED. MUNROE Fnman. who kill ed Wm. Rowe. escaped Aug. 10th, from the Phoenix jail.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1877-11-01
THE STATE GREENBACK CON
VENTION.

This Convention met in Washing
ton Hall on Tuesday, and continued
in session three days, closing with an
open-air meeting at the Court House.
Britton A. Hill was chosen permanent
President, and number of other
prominent gentlemen in the counties
of Missouri were elected Vice-Presi-
dent and Committees.
The Convention passed a series of
resolutions, wich we print below.
1t will be seen the platform is very
similar to that of the Workingmen's
Party, and we have no doubt that
much strength wonld be obtained by
both if these movements, politically,
were unit.
Among those present at the Conven-
ton Mr.. Hazleton, of Southern Mis-
souri,, was prominent for his great
ability as speaker and business ca
pacity. Mr.. I'll. addressed large
audience at the Court House, in an
exhaustive speech the greenback poll
cy. His remarks were attentively
listened to:
/ The following platform was adopt
ed:
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, The official managers OF
our public affairs have TO r many
years past usurped the franchises,
rights and privileges of the people
r for personal profit and aggrandize-
: ment; have plundered the public
4 treasures, Federal and State, and ii
t multitudinous forms have aided il
the organization Of corrupt rings o
: many kinds, designed to embezzle
: moneys of the people in many ways
have defrauded labor of its earnings
u manufacturing kills, and inventin.
it genius of their reward have becom
g masters instead of servants, tyrant
when they should have been patriots
IT have used Congress to divide the ns
r tional sovereignty over the currenc
with national banks, in violation I
90 the G Constitutions cripple the greer
a back circulation by refusing TO n
to ceive them for duties, compellin
legal tender notes to suffer discoul
to at the very time when treasury d
mands notes, receivable for dutie
er were are at par with gold /; aud,
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1877-11-01
MEXICO. MISSOURI TTItHADAY. NOVEMBER 1877. .

lovely eyes ssffusing with tears, as
the thought af home passed over her
mind-ssand ishall I never behold
your orange groves again, nor hear
the rush Of yoHr mighty streams, but
die like a transplanted flower in for
eign soil!'' He
Such scenes as these were of daily
occurrence, and sometimes they did
not end SO placidly. @
s'ssIt is / that am the slave,'' would
Achlnet say when the fair Spaniard
made him feel, too severely, the
chains that bennd him-ssthe slaye
of your caprices, Camilla. Would
that had payes seen you'll .
sssSurely, Aehmet,. that was my
misfortune since I had not the slight
est wish to become the victim of the
lawless traffic in women that prevails
in this disgusting country
'By Mahemet, you never opened
your lips but with the design of say
ing something vexatious. Till 1 saw
you l was happy, but you made me
the most miserable of menl 1 am
unretehed when absent from you; and
when / am near you your whole study
is to torment me-"
At other times Achmet would sit in
Camilla's apartment listening to her
guitar-his whole soul entranced in
the pleasure of hearing and seeing
her. One day when he was thus oe-
cupied Beatrice and Antonia entered
to bid farewell, as all things were
ready for their departure. When
they offered their thanks to Achmet
-Ae said: ''Your gratitude is due to
Camilla, who, when she might have
used her boundless influence over me
to obtain her own liberty, preferred
making you happy"
Because my love for them prevail
ed over every selfish consideration" "
said Capilla, with significant
glance.
'Ah! Camilla; / understand your
allusion. Go! you are free. Return
to Spain-that beloved country,
which you prefer to Achmet." His
voice faltered as he spoke; Camilla
looked up; their eyes met; they both
burst into Tears.
"Ah!" exclaimed Beatrice, *'you
love one anoths-. wherefore. then.
should you part?''
The Pacha threw himself al Camil.
las feet. Light OF my eyes! will
you leave me?"
1 z -T,-7.-->+ @h n -di,zifIaa
II swear TO you by Allah, that m,
harem shall be dismissed. and vor
shall be my only wife.
"Ah, Achmet, there is another
thought, said Camilla, weeping
your are afollower ofthe False Proph.
ct and | am believer in the only
faith whereby we hay have eterna
life."
"Camilla, you speak dark things
and hard to be understood; but onl!
promise to he mine, and | will hea
you patiently on these matters: an'
if convinced, l will not cling to er
ror.'
1t may be easily imagined tha
Beatrice and Antonia departed 70
Spain without Camilla, who becam
Achmet Pacha's bride; and who, Ell
long, had the happiness of Informing
; her cousins, by letter, that he had be
come secret but decided proselyt
to Christianity.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1877-11-01
c.. w. BAKER,
INSURANC
81. -1.z AND SIX
REAL ESTATE AGENT,

6k2kaA &a6 I'D b -
Represents the following old and reliable
Companies--FIRE AND LIFE:
Liverpool, London & Globe, Eng
-Etna, of Hartford, Conn.
Hartford, of Hartford, Conn.
PhGnix, of Hartford, Conn.
Franklin, of Philatielphia, Pa.
Underwriters, of New York.
German American, Of New YORK
PhGnix, of New York.
Niagara, of New York.
American Central, of st. Louis.
Life Association of America, ST.
Louis. I
Mutual Life Insurance Company,
sof New York. GA
EThe. shove fine OF Companies is the mos e'l
4 reliable known.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-29
SAINT PAUL MINNESOTA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER %,

, and dmeans--probably because Thadeus
Stevens was it's chairman, and known
to be opposed to everything of the
"Credit Mobiller' nature.
It was considered on the 10Th, and
passed on the Goth, by vote Of 78 to
81. It was signed by the President
and became law February 25th, 1853.
1t will be interesting to notice that
the measure had but two majority in
the Senate, and IA in the House.
When the claim is put forward, rs
we frequently see it, that the Natio-
nal Banking System was established
to enable the government to procure
the means to carry out the war. i.
will, also be quite Interesting to
remember that but We ASlittle use was
made of it until the 'ecessity had
passed.
On January 1st, ls64--over ten
months after the act became a law
we find that but little more than one
quarter Of a million had been issued.
Six months later--July |, 1S64--we
find but little more than thirty-one
millions outand on July l. 1o65-three
months after the close Of the war
but little more than 146 millions.
After the danger and the necessity
had both passed, however, that issue
was rapidly pushed out until it reached
about 1854, 100000.
The bill changing the terms Of the
$40 bonds, amounting then to nearly
LOO, 900, 900. SO as to make them
payable in coin instead Of lawful
money, to-wit, greenbacks, passed the
House March II. 1869, bya vote of
yeas 90, nays Al, absent 40. Neither
of the members from Minnesota voted
upon the question.
The bill passed the Senate March
10Th by a vote of yeas A. nays Is
absent 10. Mr.. Ramsey voted aye!
Mr.. Norton was absent. The nays
were:
Bayard, Carpenter, Casserly Cole,
Davis, Morton, Rice, Ross, Spencer,
Stockton. Thurman, Vickers. a
The vote first quoted was had before
we entered Congress; and the latter
vote afteraWe left it.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-29

See how we are drifting into a des-
potism! It has long been known
that the manufacturers Of the east
have made their workmen vote just
as they directed; and now it seems
the street car officials are at the same
game. The Seventh avenue street
railway company posted this notice
just beforesthe recent election;-
Conductors and drivers are here
by notified that before they vote they
must get their tickets at room No. 2,
from Mr.. Newell, and not to vote un-
til they do so, as it is as much to your
interest to vote for the right men as
it is for the interest of the company.
Every employe is expected to COM
ply with the above. 1A
JAMES w. FORsHAY, President.
NEW YORK, November 5. 1877.
4 New York newspaper interview
ed one of the conductors as follows:
why did you not refuse to vote the
company s ticket!' a Seventh ave-
nue. car conductor was asked. tH
GLOW could Il Didn't they send a
man along with me to the polls to see
that l voted the ticket he would put
into my hands!' r..
.'But did you thus give up your
freedom as an American citizen with
out protest!'
"What would have been the use of
a protestH' was the smiling reply.
Il should only have been discharged.
l have got to look out for my wife and
two little ones. Bread is more neces-
sary to me than my right toa free
vote" E
''But Mr.. Forshay denies that any
man who refused to vote the ticket
put into his hands by the companys
spies was discharged 81
ssIt's false" the conductor returned,
Indignantly. Lynch and Wander
water, the two men, the only ones who
had the courage to kick against it,
were both discharged, and this morn
ing they were hanging round the de-
pot, trying to get back, | suppose
How long can free institutions en-
dure where capital controls the
ballot after this fashion!