New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-02

in charge for year or so, and found the bust
ness of the receivership SO profitable that he
was in no hurry to open the hotel. Finally,
he was dispossessed by order of one of our
State courts, but now another court is consid-
eripg AN application to vacate the order 1t is
very pretty quarrel, but the men whose
money built the colossal tavern cannot regard
it as highly amusing.
Electricity was put to an entirely new purpose
yesterday in determining the position of the bull
let in President Garfield's body. The instrument
called an induction balance, invented by Pro-
fessOrs Bell and Taintor, seems to have done
its work admirably in the first experiment.
The ball Is where the surgeons believed il to
be, and further experiments will, it is thought,
show to fraction of an inch how Ear beneath
the skin ID lies. It's position is such that the
wound can heal without danger of internal
Assesses. When the patient gains strength
there will probably be little trouble in OK
tracing the ball by an incision in the wall of
the abdomen. Meanwhile, we have still rea-
son for thankfulness in the fact that the pro-
gress of the President toward recovery. though
slow, is steady.
DR.. Cove Salisbury, Ex-Governor of Della
ware, who died yesterday, was perhaps the
least noteworthy of the three Salisbury broth
ers, who have largely controlled the politics of
that little State. for q generation. Delaware
has but three counties. The upper one is
dominated by the Bayard family, while the two
lower ones are the bailiwick Of the Saulsburys
1t seems to he an unwIitten law of the State
that one Of its United States Senators shall be
a Bayard and the other Salisbury and that
if there is any remaining Salisbury to be pro-
vided for he shall have turn at Gubena-
toral honors. The Doctor, as the late Cover
nor was tanniliarly called was never accredited
with the possession of much of the talent for
politics displayed by Eli and Willard Sauls-
bury. 1t was the family influence rather than
his own efforts which lifted him into prom-
nence. The brothers were not always har-
mOmOus, however. In 1871 they all engaged
in strife for the Senatorshp in which Eli
came ont victor, pushing Willard ont of the
seat, and at the same time demolishing the
rather unreasonable ambition Of Cove.
A candid description of the resources Ct Ari-
iona is especially timely in this epoch of
Western expansion. Such description is fur
niehed in long and interesting letter from a
correspondent at Tombstone, the centre of one
of the most prosperous of the new mining dis
tricts. The agricultural value of this great
Territory, whose area is twice that of the State
of New York, is rated at but little above zero.
The whole region is an arid waste. Scanty
crops can be raised in the narrow valleys of the
slender streams by irrigation, but the grazing
ana wheat growing regions pictured in the local
newspapers as attractions to immigrants exist
only in imagination. Where grass thrives it is
of such wretched quality that sheep and cattle
soon degenerate, and juicy beef and mutton are
unknown luxurics. On the other hand the
mineral wealth of the region can hardly be ex-
aggerated. Our correspondent believes that it
has scarcely been touched as yet, productive as
are tho mines which have already been opened.
1t will surprise most readers to learn that copper
is at present the best paying interest in the Ter
ritory. Silver is, however, the basis upon which
its permanent prosperity must rest. This metal
is abundant. The hills and mountains arc full
of it. Every county has disclosed rich deposits.
Our correspondent thinks that even the Arizo-
mans themselves have no conception of the
wealth their country will yield when it is fully
explored and developed