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Year: 1869

The New SPANISH CoSsTITUTIoS.-At
length certain order seems TO be growing
out OF the chaos OF the Spanish revolution.
The committee appointed to draft new con-
stitution reported yesterday to the Cortes. II
Is proposed that the future form Of govern
ment shall be monarchical-a result for which
we were not unprepared. Provision is made
for Senate and Congress the Senatorial
term to be thirteen years, the Senator's, four
from each province, to be elected by provi-
sional councils the Parliaments to be trien-
nial and universal suffrage TO be the rule
the King 10 reign for eighteen years. The
majority Of the committee favored separation
Of Church and State, while minority advo-
Gated the Roman Catholic as the State creed.
but with liberation towards all other religious
professions. The liberty of the press aud the
right Of public meeting are TO be guaranteed.
posed Spanish constitution. conscription
bill was passed yesterday by the Cortes.


STOLEN PROPERTY in the Supreme Court
the other day il was decided that banker
who had taken gold certificate for five thou
sand dollars which he had been notified was
stolen was not responsible for the amount 10
the person who had been robbed of the ccrtiG :
cate, because the notification Of the theft was
not accurate in the description Of the pro-
perty. and because IL is not reasonable that
cashiers should be required to remember such
notifications in regard to articles 40 numerous
| as gold certificates.
Year: 1869

has been gifted to 1t from private sources since
1860, or which has no marketable value. All
other property shall be taken up by the gov
ernment. The income OF the Irish Church is
about seven hundred thousand pounds ster-
ling year. About seven millions win be
given the Church as compensation for
the loss Of its property. The Presby-
terians in the shape Of Rcgium Donum re-
ceive some fifty thousand pounds year.
Existing incumbents among them are to
be treated like the Episcopalians. They are
all to have life annuitles, provided they con-
tinue to discharge their duties In addition to
this the money now given annually in aid of
the Widows Fund and of the Belfast College
Is to be represented by a sum fourteen times
the amount, paid down at once. Maynooth re-
ceives some twcnty-six thousand pounds annu-
ally. For this the Roman Catholics are to
receive sum fourteen times the amount BY
the year 1881 1t is expected that the
separation Of Church and State will be com
plete: that the Church will have fairly entered
upon her new career; that the government
will have converted the Church property into
cash. will have met all its obligations and will
be In possession Of seven millions OF surplus
money. This surplus seven millions is to be
devoted in variety Of ways to the benefit Of
the poor Of Ireland.


Such in brief Is Mr.. Gladstone's bill.
Passed into law IL will have certain effect in
reconciling the Irish people to English rule.
The great lesson which the Introduction Of
such bill into the British Parliament reads
to the world is this That the State Church
system Is doomed. What Is about TO be done
for ireland will ere many years roll past be
done for Scotland. and England will follow.
The revolution will sweep over not the British
Year: 1869

THERE is a man in Washington
who is handsome rs a man, and


delightfully."- ia sci n a ting when
dressed and made up as a woman.
This person has been one of the
most successful pilferers in the
District, but at last he was caught.
lie has been courted by men, who
have breatbed the tender passion
10 him, and he in lis turn has
taught women the first lesson of
love. Whenever he thorght that
there was a chance OF being ar
rested, he would dress in a wo-
mans apparel, and in this way


would be incarcerated with wo.
mon. A paper of that city says
his career has been tinged with


every crime but that OF murder.
Year: 1869

Too Much LANp.-We know a
farmer who, ten years ago, owned
one hundred and fifty acres of
land, and was doing well lie now
owns five hundred, and 'is worse
off than before. And why2 Be-
cause this large farm is Is great
expense to him; he cannot afford
to keep it mp in good condition,
and it hangs like a milestone, of
care about his neck. Ills wife
and his children, both sons and
daughters, are obliged to work
hard to keep the great machine
running. We presume his boys
declare they will leave home as
soon as they are old enough; and
the girls say they will die before
they will marry farmers. Sc Meth.
er sons nor daughters are educat.
ed as they deserve to be, they cam
not be spared for this from work
ON the big farm. Now, we de-
clare that such a farm is a curse
to its possessor and his family,
and an injury to the. whole agri.
cultural interest. If that man
wants to save himself and his
household, he should sell at least
one halt Of his land, improve the
remainder to make it more pro-
ductive, relieve his children from
bondage, and try to make his
home a comfort. He will live
longer, lay up as good a property,
and will train up a more intelli.
gent and a happier family. as .-'-s
[Americdn Agriculturist.
Year: 1869

Before Judge Gurus.


ViUidgl OSterHleyeT Us, Thomas II. CoaltdS.--This
was an action to recover note for 1884. which
had been paid sl31 So The defence set up was fail
ure of consideration and also counter claim to re-
The evidence showed that the paintiG was employed
by the firm Of Day & Halsey to do their carting;
that custom exists among the carmen OF this
city OF selling their Individual risht and
good VIII to the cartlng done by them Tor
their regular employers; that the plaintlff
had represented to the defendant that he had the
carting OF Day TIalsey, and that IL was In con-
slider alton OF plaintiffs transfer OF his interest herein
to the defendant; that the note referred TO in the
complaint was given Dv the latter to the former.
The evidence further showed that Day & Halsey as
sented TO the arrangement Tor the transfer OF the
cafting, telling Coultas at the Time that lie could
have the carting iOr the firm so long as he did 1t
properly. Evidence was also adduced showing that
tue defendant Coultas, having undertaken and for
a time performed the specified work. was discharged
for negligence and Eattent0n to the business OF Day
A Halsey. These facts being put In evidence, Judge
That Notwithstanding the existence OF such custom
that proved with regard to the transfer oil this
Garage interest 1t could not be binding in Its opera
ton third parties unless assented TO by the and
that in this case no real consideration passed be-
tween the paintin and defendant unless the ar
Iangement between them Was ratified by Messrs.
Day 4 Ilaisey some one having authority TO
ACT IN their benalf; that 1t was a question dor the
Jury TO determine whether, under all the circum-
stances such an assent and ratification were given
by thus nrm or by their direction, and that while in
many cases the question Of consideration was clearly
one 10 be determined by the law, In this case 1t was


question OF fact for the jury to decide on all the
proof submitted either side whether or not there
question: The jury found Tor the painti In the full
nln0unt Claimed.
Year: 1869

The Idaho Statesman in its Demo
cratic garb reached us nj rht before
last. The mechanical style of the pa
per is not changed. The Editors
greeting to the public appears TO
have been gotten up hurriediy. and
either on purpose or by accident
punches up Idaho Democracy with a
sharp stick in the following para
graph W ,ich we copy.


We recognize the fact that many Of
the issues that have frenzied the
blood ofthe American people during
late years have been determined, at
least for the lifetime of this genera
tion. We prefer to live in the pres
ent and the future and to make this
paper live newspaper, warm with
the activities Of the time, rather than
confused with the efete discussion of
an age which can no more be recall
ed in the life of this nation, than we
can recall the events of our own
lives.
Year: 1869

$. G. Tucker writes from Treasure
City, Jan 26lh, to Geo GInsz OF tLis place,
as follows:


This is the richest country in the world,
and business Of all kinds is good, and there
Will be more people here in the Spring than
ever was in one mining camp on the coast
You can do as you like about coming, ut
everybody is coming from everywhere. If
you are making money where you are you
had better stay there, but if you are not you
had better come If you have money,
bring il along; everything Is hisn and II IT.
quires money; and il you have not much
you had better borrow all you can. If you
have money you eau make money here buy
ing and selling 10 ;. | nave made So, 200 at
that business and have plenty of lots left
Don't come without money.


:. G. TUCKER"
George assures us that he will stay by Sill
yer few wears before he runs of after
wild cat
Year: 1869

Our old friend of other years, Earl s
Barney, has hs name attached TO mining
notice published in the Wmie Pine News
Nav he make a fortune. II had been told US
that Earl was engaged in trade at Treasure
City, but on examination of the advertising
columns Of the local paper the assertion is
cOntradicted
Year: 1869

No EIEcrroNA recent private letter received by us from a gentleman oi standing and intelli- gence at Tucson, confirms us in the opinion we long since expressed, that an election would not be held on the first Wednesday in June next, therefore, our politicians may take things easy, and cease importuning the public for its support No doubt the Acting Governor is of the opinion that the decision recently rendered hy Judge Backus, k, in the main, correct, and he does not feel like calling an election until he hears from Washington. Nevertheless. it may be well enough for the people Of this county to hold primaries cleo, delegates to a convention and be prepared to hold an election should one be or dered The status of Arizona as a political cor poration. will, we think, have to be fixed by Congress before lhc people can turn wheel, and all because the schemer Mccormick violated the Organic Act of the Territory for the sake of advancing his own private and political inter ests It may be that the Acting Governor, will call sn election on the day designated in the Code--the first Wednesday in September next or 1t may be that new Governor, with power to make an apportionment and call an election at an earlier day, will be appointed. We earn csty and sincerely pray Congress to attend ic our case at once and put the Territory on tho rgh. track.
Year: 1869

At present, we learn, there are but four or five citizen employees at Fort Whipple, Quartermaster Baker having received and carried out orders to dispense with the services of the remainder Of his citizen employees. This, we think, is a foolish order. It is a well known fact that one citizen will do as much work as two or more soldiers, for the reason, we presume, that the citizen hires Co work, while the soldier enlsts to fight The order may do for the east and south where there are swarms of soldiers, but, for an Indian coun- try where there are but few troops, and lots of Indians to fight and subdue, 1t is bad policy. Were all the troops in the Territory kept con stanty in the field scouting ailcr Indians. instead of being employed around posts-building hons- es. chopping and hauling wood, attending to ami mals and doing various other things, they would be better satisfied with the service, and kill more Indians. By keeping them constantly on the var-path, except at such times as they would require rest, the war would soon be brought to a close, and Arizona would then be but a light burden to the Government Spas modic scouting will never, in our opinion, sub due the Apache and give us that peace prom ised the entire nation by the present Chief Mag istrate and dollar saved by employing soldiers to do citizens work now, will cost the country ten times as many by the prolongation of the war While millions are being squandered at the East, we are left prey to hostile Indians for tho sake of carrying out "pcnny-wise and pound-foolish" policy, instituted, no doubt, to help offset reckless extravaganza in the States, and give the administration and Congress tone for economy We have now in the Territory an excellent, energetic, earnest commander, in the person of General Devin, and if Government really wishes to subdue the Indians give peace and security to the Territory, it will lend him all the aid in it's power, and allow him to use the troops under his command for fighting in stead of working. If it wishes to cause the blood of more Of it's citizens to be shed and tsrnish ii' glory. it will pursue the old policy of helping the white man to-day and the Indian tomorrow We'll may native citizens blush for their country when told by foreigners that their Governmen is weak, puerile, and unable to protect it's citi zens, and well may the Indians ehuekle ana laugh at it's representatives for rewarding then for and encouraging them to murder and rob it people.
Year: 1869

HAD the people of Arizona access to the ear of the Postmaster General, they would very likely tender him little advice regarding the letting of mail contracts in this Territory. They would inform him how big contractors in the East lie back in their easy chairs, while sub-contractors in this Territory are doing their work for them, In way tha. brings discredt upon the Depart ment and disgusts citizens generally. But what Is the use of talking about these matters, while knavery and corruption is so openly practieed by our public servants Eastern lobbyists VII still continue to receive contracts for carrying mails in countries they have never seen and nev- CT expect to sec, well knowing they can sub-lct ihem to poorer men at starvation figures
Year: 1869

TO soLDWRs.-Ksowing the present pay of enlisted men serving their country in this Territory be exceed izEy small and entirely inadequate se procure fes them the common necesSries and uxures inulged in and Soyed by czcns hereby agree to furnish every enlisted serving in this Territory aud at For Yuma California with copy of the Weekly MINER ai the fol- loving low rates; One e'py, year five dollars for six months three dollars and for three months dollars in currency These the loves, terms upon which can furnish papers and we the proposition for the beneet of whom the offer is made than for the sake of making money by doing for there Is Pecu- nary profit derived nm the publication and sale of pepers n this Territory at such prices.
Year: 1869

EIsEwHERE, in to-day's paper, will be found an advertisement for proposals for furnishing the military posts in this Territory with beef and mutton, during the year 1870. Here is chance for some citizen of the Territory to get into bus ness. The probable number of cattle that will be needed is, we are told, about 5000. and the probable number of sheep (wcthers). 1000 Hope some citizen of the Territory will carry off the prize, if prize there be in the contract.
Year: 1869

TIE California mail arrived here on the even ing of the 18th. and left ou the morning of the l6th. The latest dated paper received by us was the Los Angeles Daily Ne,os, of the 5th inst. It is pity that we cannot have two mails a week, as called for by tho contract We hope the commander of this sub-district will as soon as possible, furnish sufficient escort to the con- tractor to enable him to carry two per week, in- stead e one.
Year: 1869

WHITE PINE 0RE.--A small piece of White Pine silver ore (the first we have seenl was ex- hibiied to us this week. It looked different from any ore ever seen byus in this Territory, although we are told that similar ore exists in some of the Colorado river districts It was of a grayish tint.
Year: 1869

THE California and Eastern mail len this place yesterday forenoon. The sub-contraetor Mr. Jas. Grant, accompanied it, and will visit San Fran cisco before returning here. It is not the fault of Mir Grant that the mail is not carried twice a week, for we know that if furnished with mli- tary escort, he would be but too glad to carry 1t in accordance with the contract
Year: 1869

A NEWARK, N. j. enthusiast has Is
sued tract to be industriously circuia
ted. asking all Christians to unite II
prayer for a sign from Heaven, that the
Bible is the word of God. The author
does not reflect that the day of miracle;
is passed and that the failure of prayer
to be answered by such n sign would
give the infidel the keenest weapon lie
has had for century. "If Christians
pray now for miracle to convince the
infdel," it will be said they may
next be praying for sign to convince
themselves"
Year: 1869

The Rev. DIR. Elliot, OF St. Louis,
writing TO the Democrat of that city,
OF his tour over the Pacific Railroad,
says:


81 have attempted no description
of the wild waste OF country through
which we pass in crossing the conti-
nent beyond the few general terms
which are eXtOrted from one, wheth
er he will or no, and these are very
apt to be in superlatives. But while
the whole landscape of thousand
miles or more is such that you can
hardly call it anything but dreary
and iOrbidding and desolate, it is far
from being tame or monotonous. 1t
lis no sandy desert OF Sahara, nor
mere grassless prairie. Take any
given space of twenty miles, andit is
a picture of exceeding beauty and
grandeur. l could wish for no more
beautiful outlook from my window
than those beautiful gray rocks and
sudden uprisings, cone-like, or in
peaks called J,Ates, and broad sweeps
OF rolling prairie, with boundless ho-
rizon, withouta green spot anywhere,
nor tree, nor running water, nor lake,
but always the dull colored sage
bush and grease weed like stunted
old currant bushes grown gray and
messy, and no animal life far or near
to relieve the loneliness, no birds, no
insects, nor human habitations but
all made absolutely glorious by the at
mOsphere which is more than clear
andtransparent. 1t is radiant, invest
ing everything with a glowing light,
giving to every objest u clear, sharp
outline, which seems transparent,
while the bright blue sky, under
which every object stands out with
such bold and startling individuality,
stands oil at an indefinite distance.
Those huge rocks, fifty miles Off
We could walk to them in half an
hour-but are tired OF watching
them and admiring their changing
phases, as NE approach them at rail
road speed, for two hours and more,
while they seem scarcely to come
nearer until we are right upon them.
Instead of weariness for want of in
terest, our eyes absolutely ached
with looking. 1t is always the same,
yet always different. filling our heart
with amazement and awe.
Year: 1869

On Wednesday last, a sailor be-
longing to the schooner Jessie
M'Donald, being slightly under the
influence of forty-rod and wishing to
have high old joke on the Cobourg
people, pretended to fall into the har-
bor but instead of going in himself,
he threw in piece of iron ore, ac-
conpanied by his old plug hat and a
screech of agony. All was excite
ment, and rumors of foul play, etc,
pervaded this usually quiet town.
Drags were made, and the harbor
was searched from end to end, for
days, but without success AS a
last resort, the immense cannon sent
here for the volunteer artillery was
brought alongside of where it was
supposed he fell in, and hat passed
around for a collection To buy pow
der TO raise the body. An old ar
tillerYman was hired, under the SUI
perin,endence OF Captain Stanton, to
fire the gun, and, after shaking the
town 10 its foundation for three
days, they gave it up as bad job,
surprising that the eyolutiOns of one
OF the steam fleet had carried the
body into the lake. 1t since turns
out that the sailor, after throwing in
the ore and his hat, made off in the
direction of Colborne, where he has
been spreeing ever since on the
strength of his own joke, to the utter
disgust OF several cnroners, who were
perched on the dock, night and day,
waiting for the body to make its
appearance.-IorOntO Globe.
Year: 1869

During the time of the freshet on
the Wabash, where the fiat country
on both sides of the river was inun-
dated by the rising water, it became
necessary for those in the way to
''escape to the mountains''-the
mounds that were probably made by
the Indians for that purpose. A
party of fugltives On their way to a
place OF safety overlook man in a
covered wagon, with span of horse
es, standing still in the road, the
water nearly up to the hubs of his
wheels and still rising. He was sit
ting with small book in one hand
and a whip in the other, reading a
line loud and then laying ON the
whip. They stopped a moment to
listen, attracted by the mans curl
GUS conduct, and were surprised to
hear him read: s'The wicked shall
be turned into hell !"-(cuD giving
a frightful emphasis to the word,
"Who believeth not shall be damn
ed !''-(cut.) GLOW can ye escape
the damnation of hell ?'-(cut)-
many more of the same character,
yelling the emphasized words at the
top of his lungs. Wondering at his
conduct, the fugitives asked what he
meant. "Why," said he, 81 am a
methodist minister, and restrained
from swearing, but these horses were
bought in region where they were
accustomed to hear sucu language,
and l am endeayoring to come as
near as possible, conscientiously, in
order to induce them to move, but
Pm" Here he consulted his book,
leaving his hearers to imagine what
he sought to give emphasis to in his
hopelessness of making them stir q
peg.
Year: 1869

D y"


| There is a legion of the grog- mind


ed who assume that the best thing for


the State is to leave every form OF


wickedness alone. Those who argue


that we have no right to restrain or
prevent the sale Of poisons, are natu


rally opposed to preventing prostitu-
Ition or polygamy. OF course they


are by sequence equally opposed to


preventing the circulation of obscene


journals and counterfeit currency. y


We are at a loss to know upon what


principle they found their notion of


the paramount utility and impunity of


CRIME, unless it be in libertine con-


eeption of the law Of supply and


demand, which, we submit, is very


good tree-trade doctrine as argued by


certain Democratic journals.


THUS, the supply OF polygamy and


crime generally will be regulated by


the demand for it; and SO, in the
Opinion of our sophists, the natural
law will govern the ease. But has
Ilt ever struck our contemporaries that
wholesome prevention is part OF the
supply and demand, and the moment


we cease to make a moral effort at


public progress, that moment we are


guilty of public crime? Society is
responsible for its drunkards. and
the same law that impeIs us to take
down the gallOws excites our con
sciences against the rum-shopl 1t is
just as impertinent to declaim against
the gallOws, or against any form of
robbery in our City Governments
another mood, we take it, of the gen
eral inebriation of wickedness-as
against the rum dealers who pour out
so much distilled and concentrated
crime and States Prison at so much |
per glass. Cheap, is it not-this way
of maintaining prisons and aims
houses?


Prophet Brigham, who speaks to
Gentle Trumbull, knows a trick of
worth two of the other.
Congress-" he says, sought to have
made law compelling the master to
treat his slaves well, and then l be-
Iieve it would have been better than
to abolish it, Who could not guess
that st. Brigham entertained Just such
IN opinion ofSlavery? Now, suppose
we pass law compelling Brigham to
-reat his wives well, and still not
lbolish them? 1t would be as easy as
rum, and, we may add,
We should have polyg-
lmy on hand to order, only licensed. Il
L is true that we cannot eradicate
or crime of any kind by
tatute. Thieves will break through
md steal though we paddock our
reasures, and sinners will creep thro'
,ey holes. But it is our ordinary ,
,olice duty to society to protect it /
rom nuisances. We have no more
light to keep our streets filled with {
Walking pestilence than naturally we '
ave to have bad cutters. We can l
lot utterly abolish the house of sin
md shame, but we can prevent it ,
rom fiaunting it's scarlet wickedness
II the faces Of our children. D. In a
word, we can protect society, restrGin
commerce between the good and
rad, and not aid by every means in ,
'ur power the free trade between the |
and his victim.--Nelo York i
Tribune. /