The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-05-17
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rected altogether to New York. Baltimore
papers say that for the week ending April
10, the largest number ever recorded in seven
days landed there, being about /, 100. There
is also an enormous influx from Canada at
Port Huron and other points onthe lakes.
De Lesseps himself is in London, looking
after his affairs there. His representative at
Panama-Lieut. Wyse-is about to start for
Paris. The rainy season will soon put a stop
TO field work, and as nothing has been &C.
complished in this direction worth mention
ing, a year has been as good as LOST
THE New York Herald is responsible tor
the statement that the Temperance party of
Ohio are taking the initial steps toward put
ting ex-President Hayes in nomination for
the Gubernatorial clair. Hayes will fail to
"get there The vote Of South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana cannot b" couuted for
him this time.
1T is said that all eX-Congressmen want
the Mexican Mission. The "war-horse
smells the smoke of battle from affair." The
average politician sees al opportunity to
"Bradyize' the guileless Mexican in that
promising field for peculation. In this con-
nection We may state that Governor Fremont
of Arizona, expects to be appointed Minister
to that coutrv.
TIE diatrIbe that appeared in the Inter
Mountain last evening about the Era Of
Good Feeling" is, barring a few misstate-
ments, all right. But how is 1t about that
letter? 1t requires but a very small key to
set our evening cotemporary going, but the
hands upon its dial points in every direction
save the right one. 1t takes the medal as the
premium dodger.
THE following from the Placer (Cal.) M
fer tells IA suggestive story:
wv are informed there is disappointment
in the Dewey mine with the Chinese miners.
They do not seem to understand drift mining
as we'll as was thought, aud it now takes three
Cinnamon to do the work of one good white
miner, comparatively. The Dewey people
seriously contemplate discharging the China
men and putting on white men again, So we
understand. 1t will be remembered about
some six weeks ago some 30 white men were
discharged and Cinnamon put to work in
their place ID this mine"
The Mayors Of the nine largest cities in
the Union are Democrats, namely: New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Balti-
more, Cincinnati, San Francisco and New
Orleans. These cities are the .centers of the
wealth and intelligence of the country.
Where superior educational ADVANTAGES are
offered and knowledge is generally ditlused
among the people, it is there the pure princi-
pies OF Democracy are cherished and bear
their legitimate fruit in the election of Dem
ocrats to office. The masses, in time. will
note this fact and profit by the lesson IT con.
veys.
Those who have been looking with longing
eyes to the far northwest for the discovery of
new, rich and extensive mining fields will
read the following with some interest:
"The Colonast correspondent at Takou, b.
G., writes despairingly from the new mines.
lie says the eXciteit ent about the Takou
mines is gradually subsiding, and none of the
old miners have much confidence in It. Sew
enty or eighty men are reported to be on the
spot, but as the ice has not yet got out of the
ground. very little has been done. The
quart>-bealing vein is said to be very thin:
and as it is not expected that surface diggings
will be found, there is little or no induce
ment for single men without capital to visit
that far-otf place Several traders and miners
have taken up claims at Takou, intending to