The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-05-10

SiilS III ILc tdCcS'
BETWEEN January and May 1 of this year
our receipts of foreign specie amounted 10
$500 o. {, 900 against $4,O0O,0 900 in the cores
pondlng period last year.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD has openly de-
clared war OH Senator Conkling and the Stall
warts. All good Democrats will rejoice at
this evidence OF Republican disintegration.
SARA BERNHARDT carried off about $780,
900 as the proceeds of her American tour.
There is nothing like advertising. If Bern
hardt had been let severely alone by the
press and the pulpit she would not have
earned her salt in this country.
GOVERNMENT tours have advanced to l1jaa,
and skies, which carry the privilege of be :
indefinitely extended at a 81 per cent. rate of
interest, have sold as high as 1O4. By next
winter it is probable that a three per cent.
loan can be negotiated at par.
THERE is a fair prospect 10Y that the dead
lock in the Senate will soon be broken, a the
Republican caucus has consented to
the holding of an executive session for the
confirmation of all mncontested appoint
ments. This is a virtual abandonment of the
position assumed by the Republicans when
they resolved That no business should be
transacted by the Senate till the price of Mr..
Mahone's peridy was paid by the election of
| Gorham and Ridlleberger. The load became
too heavy, no doubt, and the country will be
pleased to learn that the firmness of tho Dem
ocratic Senators has prevented the consumma-
ton of the shameful bargain. 1t seems
most likely that Stanley Matthews, nominated
for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court,
and Robertson, appointed Collector of the
port of New York, will be laid out cold by
the adjournment of the Senate. 4 failure to
confirm Robertson will be a slap in the face
for Garfield and Blaine and a great triumph
for the naughty Conkling.
New buildings are springlng up in every
block in Butte, and a vast number of others
are in contemplation. At the present rate of
increase it is evident that before twelve
months have elapsed the population Of the
city will be not less than 10000. In view of
the extraordinary present and prospective
growth of Butte, it is important that some
system of grades shall be established which
will produce uniformity Ill the elevation of
sidewalks. Now everybody builds as he
pleases, and it is a rare thing to find the base
lines of Two houses in any one block on the
same level. 30 long as Butte remained a
mere mining camp, it made little difference
wbathar tho SiApuyalkS Waca 0OpH Op had hut
now that the incoming of the railway makes
it certain that this is to be the commercial,
financial and social capital of the Territory,
it is incumbent upon us to adopt such rules
and regulations for the construction of houses,
streets, sewers and water works, as obtain
in other great cities. Of course, everything
cannot be lone in a day, but a beginning can
be made. and it should be made by the estab-
lislplent of uniform grades for the guidance
and control of builders.
TIE Eastern press, IN commenting on the
Star route frauds, seems to be laboring under
the d~e.usion. that Brady's wickedness consist
ed mainly in consenting to the increase of
mail facilities in the far West. A majority of
the editors of the older States seem to think
that the people Of the territories ought to be
satisfied with a weekly mail. But the peo-
pie of this section are firmly convinced that
they are as well entitled to frequent and reg,
ular mail communications as their Eastern
brethren, and nothing short of a daily maj,
will satisfy them. Gen. Brady's guilt did moi
consist in eXpediting the Star route service hu,
in the methods and costliness of that proceed