The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-16
BOHEMIAN BRIC-A-BRAC.
GENERAL ~BEAUREGARD.

GENERAL BEAUREGARD.
The General has lately deliver
himself of the assurance that t
South will welcome us of the MOI
if we go down in a manner satisfs
tory-to him. Who's he? He's
gentleman who declared the ware
of the North to be Booty al
Beauty" He declared it in a "prc
lamation" and made General Butt
responsible and never apologize
that I know. But now he comes !
the front, and via the N. Y. Worl
in an interview report republishe
by the MINER, tells, without a blusl
Of Buffers generous treatment. VIII
asked him for permission to 60 South
THE NATIVE AMERICAN GROwLEI
The following from the N. Y
Tribune hits so many of us "wher
we liveu that it is entitled to tn
space it occupies:
"How often we complain of OH
Government without reason! Grea
Britain has a territory of 121 ,OO
square miles to guard and watch
the United States 100000 square
miles. To collect the internal revenue
over these areas, Great Britain en-
ploys 1865 officials and other persons,
at a cost of about $lO, OOo, 900 yearly.
We employ, to watch a Territory
thirty times as large, only 4,O9S per-
sons, and the total cost of collecting
the internal revenue is $5,1l4, 735.
For the current year the number of
persons employed will be still small
er and the expenses less. To watch
its little coast line and collect duties
on imports, Great Britain employs
1923 officials and other persons, and
the cost of collection is about 5 $780,
600. To watch a coast-line many
times as long, u Government
spends in collection of customs only
$500, 600. We collect $2l4, 10000
from customs, at a cost of about 3
cents for every dollar collected;
We collect $144, zoe, 900 internal e
enue, at a cost of only 3.5 cents on
the dollar, though the territory to be
guarded is thirty times that of Great
Britain, but the British internal
revenue is S267, $50, ono, collected at a
cost of 81 cents on the dollar. Per-
haps it would be as well not to abuse
our own administration of affairs 80
often"
Good reading that for Democrats
and Republicans; for, of all people
in the world, we Americans are the
most absurdly critical of vi own
government.
SCOTT AND PILLOW.
I came across the following the
other day in apackage of photographs.
1t revives re~collections of the Mexi-
can war and of the once famous
Scott and Pillow difficulty:
CITY OF MEXICO, Feb. II, 1S4S.
MY DEAR POwELL:-I learn from
the papers that a court of inquiry is
ordered by the government. Having
done nothing, and being the object
of a malignant persecution, I am
ready to meet my dccuser before any
honest court, and if 1 don't make
him blush it will be because he is
I received a letter from
few days since, saying he
was preparing a statement of facts
for your use. You will see from the
letter which accompanies this the
history of my difficulty with Scott.
I send by the mail which carries this
copy of a letter to Mr.. Elid.ll from
the author of "Leonidas," acquitting
me entirely of any connection with
hat transaction. That the facts will
Ill reach the public eye 'ere long 1
cannot DOUBT, and that they will pro-
luce a terrible explosion I have
title question.
Have no apprehension for my safe
y in the fight with Scott. I will
,ore him and tear out his entrails.
He don't know who he is fighting
ret, but he will know before L am
lone with him. The army CORE
pondent of the "Delta" belongs to
scott and Trist.
We have every prospect of peace
nd a frightful amount of sickness
nd mortality in the army.
Your Friend,
Pillow.
The italics are in the original-the
'aper is yellowed. the Ink pale-and
scott lived to be a candidate for the
Presidency. And Pillow (?) why, he
along until he became the
zero of the fort which once bore his
lame.
GOVERNOR CROsBY's REPORT.
When the Governor first came
many Of us thought he ''pitched in"
90 suddenly and assumed to know
90 much too soon. But we are pro-
erbially jealous of newcomers and,
o to speak, we want them to become
before they sweat, while,
n the contrary, n must sweat first
The Governor shows that he has