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Year: 1879

the General sees that he can be
elected he will want the nomina-
tion, and want 1t badly. II, how
ever, after careful survey of the
field, he comes to the conclusion
that he would be beaten if he were
to run, he would probably, on the


"sour grapes" principle, strike an
attitude of patriotic self-sacrifice.


Shrewdness and bulldog determine
tlon are the leading characteristics
of Grant. His acceptance of the
nomination for a third term would
be strong evidence that he thought
he could be elected. His opinion is
by no means one TO be despised.
We cannot help thinking, though,
that the love of the precedents set
by Washington and his immediate
successors is too strong in the
hearts of the American people to
be soon overridden. This imme-
mortal usage of the Republic would
make an otherwise strong candi-
date weak. The remarks quoted as
from Pacheco by the Chronicle
show considerable sagacity and
more capacity for just political re-
Election than we had given the ex-
Governor credit with. While the
hero of Appommattox is receiving
such unlimited adulation in the
Eastern States, it would not be
amiss if some one should sene him
this excellent reminder of his duty.
Grant is now truly the most popu-
lar of Americans. That statement
involves the reflection that he has
fearful height to fall fro
Year: 1879

The facilities of the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed In California outside of San
Francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to us will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates.
Year: 1879

ABOUT a week ago, there was a sud den and vigorous rise in the price Of press dispatches over the Government wires Previous to that time the rate was twenty-five cents per hundred words; but by the new tariff we have to pay $l.15 for the same number of telegraphic ticks. Just who is the party responsible for this elevated state of things we are unable to say; but it has the same facilitating effect on the poor newspaper men, whoever it is. TIE DAILY CITIZEN is now the only paper which publishes daily tele- graphic dispatches, in all the country between Los Angeles and Santa Fe. Subscribe for THE DAILY CITIZEN.
Year: 1879

Congress has finally made provision for necessary expenses attending the adjustment of private land claims in Arizona, the money therefore being made available on and after July 1. ensuing. The Surveyor-G General assures us that not later than July 1, public notice will be given of the day upon which he win be prepared to receive title papers and formally enter upon the examination with a view to re- port upon them for the use of Con- gress, and further that this work will be pushed forward with all the dis patch compatible with accuracy in it. He will at once take steps to provide his office with suitable safe for the safe-keeping of the valuable record papers and books, and also with such Spanish and Mexican laws and regula. tions and United States authorities as are essential.

 We are glad to make this a1aouu~e- ment. A point has been reached in the progress of the Territory, beyond which delay in this matter would be very damaging. The delay thus far has been solely due to the neglect of Congress to provide the means which the Surveyor-General and the General Land Office have for years insisted were necessary.
Year: 1879

X CRAZY lunatic shot at Edwin Booth, while he was reciting the soli- loquy in the last act of Richard II. at MT Vickers theatre, Chicago, on the night of the 23d Booth sat on the stage, in the glare of a calcium light, and did not move until the second shot was fired and the revolver had snapped the third time He then rose and pointed out the fellow, who sat in the gallery. Booths house at Cos Cob, Connecticut, was burned the same night.
Year: 1879

Well, the railroad is finished to Ma ricopa. ninety miles, as the wagon track lies, from this village of Tucson. Hail the day! And now, having this much, we want more. This is April 2G, and the weather has not yet grown hot enough to stop outside work. In fact, the season seems to have been made especially propitious for this work. Sixty days, at a mile and a half day, will complete the line to this place. We vote for the compile tion in those sixty days Rumor says that the company will push on at once

 Travellers arriving by stage yesterday and to-day say that grading is already several miles this side of MaricOpa. When they say that track-laying is in the same condition, we shall be hap pier. There are hundreds of miners in this county, who have good claims and some ore on their dumps; but they are not able to sink very far, and they want to get few tons of the stuff away to mill, both to sec what it will come to. and to furnish their pockets with little of the ready" MT Cash may not be able to see all these men, or many of them, because most of them are attending to business at home; but they will be seen very quickly if there lis once railroad station at Tucson, and the company can make good terms with them for freights outward.
Year: 1879

TIE PGhniX Herald is soon 10 ap- pear as daily and weekly instead of semi-weekly as at present issued. This is another evidence of great prosperity of that section of the Territory and we congratulate our friends of the Herald wishing them abundant sue cess
Year: 1879

MAzATzAL is the name of a new mining district situated some thirty five miles north of Camp Mcdowell. The Mazatzal Mining Company have a twO-stamp mill in process of cree tion, which will be ready for opera tion by the first of May. The district is very little known as yet, but iS at tracting considerable attention through the Globe and McMillen districts Herald
Year: 1879

WE have always heretofore, been accustomed to speak of freights as so many thousand pounds" but the old form will soon be changed, for the railroad have an memorable way of regulating their tariffs by the hundred and ton.
Year: 1879

TIE Mineral Park mill and Key stone mine, of Arizona, have been sold to a company of brokers on Wall street, New York, by Ben Spear, and he has gone there to get the money. The mill is in operation, and turns out a fair quantity of bullion. They charge $50 per ton for working, so the ore has to be rich to pay; this short run has been very successful for the miners, or rather hloriders.-Stock Report.
Year: 1879

| There is not a man in this county who be-


blackburn. There may be those Who would
vote for him great deal more cheerfully if the
charges were true.-[Owingsvillet tKyJ Outlook.


Read that sentence over, and over
again, and ponder on it, you who be-
lieve that the policy of the North
toward the South is rigorous, and
that all the dear Southern people ask,
is to be let alone in their love of the


Union restored, and their desire and
purpose to lay aside all old differences
and again become one in the family
of the Nation! Do you know what
that atsentence means? No? Then let
us tell you. During the war this man
Blackburn, recently elected Governor
of Kentucky by 10000 Democratic
majority, filled with hatred for the
Union, but too cowardly to fight the
cause he hated, ran off to Canada, and
in pursuance of an Infamous plan of
fiendish cruelty he had packages and
trunks full Of Of old clothing infected
with yellow fever and small pox, sent
from Southern localities to Northern
cities to be distributed among inno-
cent and helpless women and children,
spreading death and desolation among
the families of those who were on the
field of battle defending their country.
This, which has never been proven
untrue, is what this Kentucky Demo-
crat of the Outlook says would rather
be recommendation for Blackburn,
than otherwise, and Democrats would
the moore cheerfully vote for him,
knowing that he tried to murder wo-
men and children, like a cowardly as
sassin, who plunges his dagger into
the back of his victim. This, too, be-
cause the crime of these helpless ones
consisted in being the wives and chill
dren of those who loved the stars and
stripes, and were willing to do and
suffer for the perpetuation of the Re-
public of States sealed to them by the
blood Of their fathers! This was
their crime, and Democrats Of the
South now love, cherish, and support
the man who sought to visit a most
horrible death upon those these patriot
criminals" loved, and honored and
died for! This is Cancellation with
vengeance, and makes us almost re-
gret that the war Of the rebellion had
not been a war of determination.
Year: 1879

Carpenters are badly needed in Waverly, Just
now. Our home mechanics have more work
than they can begin to do, and eight or ten
more good carpenters can find plenty of work
heTe.-lWaverly Waterman.


The above from a paper that is
bowling for more greenbacks, yawp-
ing about the enforced idleness of la
Dor all over the land, and advocating
Ewing's election on that score, hardly
bears the ear marks Of consistency.
But it's the fix all the Democratic pa
pers of the State find themselves in at
this moment. Tom Ewing credits it
all to Providence We think so, too.
Providence and the Republican party
have been pulling together for some
years past, and they will do to stay
WITH Portsmouth Blade.
Year: 1879

THE question is asked, are we tc nave a celebration here on the Fourih eE July :' To which a negative re. ply is given. All the towns in the Territory are making extensive prep arations for the proper observance oi this day, with the exception of Phn- nIx, the most prosperous one of all. Girdle on the armor of patriotism and show that if you are on the from tier, that this day shall not be forgot ten, and that we will have such eel ebration as will eclipse our neigh bors.
Year: 1879

Although within 400 miles of San Francisco and the bulk of the Pacific coast shipping, the cattle raised about Winnemucca, Nevada, are shipped eastward from 1900 to 5000 miles. The Winnemucca Silver State says 150C head have just been bought for ship ment eastward, and that evidently there is a turn in the tide of the cattle shipping business, as not load of beeves has been shipped from this sta tion to San Francisco for several months A year ago San Francisco furnished the only market for Nevada cattle. Now, all that are sold are either driven or shipped by rail East.

 Arizona will eventually find her best cattle market eastward, and hence is deeply interested in having early railway connection with the Gulf of Mexico and also with the Northern seabOard cities via St. Louis. The of Arizona have not yet been able to supply the home market, but with the Indians at peace and un- limited pasturage they will soon meet the local demand and have a large sur plus to export.
Year: 1879

NfSGtNNs

 An effort was made on the part of the committees of Congress on Public Lands and on Mines and Mining to have an appropriation to enable them to visit various parts of the West. A Washington dispatch says the Senate passed favorable .resolution, but the House defeated it. The action of the House is mentioned as defeating the contemplated excursions to the Tel lowstone and Yosemite Valleys, planned by the chairmen of the con- mittees named"

 The sending out of special commit tees of Congress to examine certain subjects with which not one Congress man in twenty has the slightest per sonal knowledge would be good pol icy if honestly and earnestly carried out; but for the past few years such committees have practically turned their missions into pleasure trips and some of them damaged the causes they might and should have benefited. There is no question but if a live, earnest working Committee on Mines and Mining and Public Lands were toI honestly spend a few months examin- ing the subjects affecting these inter lts in connection with the practical settlers and miners, much good might be accomplished thereby Certain i'm prOyements should be made III theI mining and public land laws. The laws which properly apply to public land east of the Missouri river dol not justly apply to most of it west of Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas. Pres ent laws make much of the remaining public land unavailable by poor orI rich, and therefore practically prevent settlement Congress as a body isl wofully ignorant of the character of most of the land in the Territories. The right kind of committee ought to have been empowered to gather the facts and present them to guide the action of the whole body.
Year: 1879

LETTER of date June %, in the Santa Catarina mountains, by Louis Deputy, states the San Carlos Indians persist in setting fire to the timber in the mountains and refuse to abstain after repeated requests to do so. He sends a letter to be mailed to the San Carlos authorities at the agency, in which the evil and its consequences are set forth Surely the Indians must be made to understand that to fire the timber is forbidden by law, and that if they refuse to obey, they should be punished.
Year: 1879

!

 At the late special session of Con

 gress the House passed bill regard

 ing Territorial Legislatures, which

 contained this provision:

 And if in any case the reapportion

 ment and redistricting of any Terri

 tory shall not be done by the Legis lative Assembly thereof, it shall be the duty of the Governor of such Terri tory, before the next general election to be held in such Territory, to divide such Territory into proper council and representative districts, upon the basis of the census of A. D. 1850.

 The bill went to the Senate and on June 24 it was reported by substitute for all but the enacting clause and SC passed, and on the 25tn the House concurred in the Senate's action. Fol. lowing is the law passed:

 That the provisions of an act en. titled An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive and iudi. cial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879 and for other purposes, approved June 19, 1878, pertaining to government in the several Territories of the United States shall not be so construed as to impair or shorten the tenure of office of any member of such Legislative Assemblies until the redistrictinr and lreapportionment of such Territories as is therein provided, nor until at the next regular election thereafter the twelve members ofthe Council and twenty-fOur members of the House of Representatives of such Territories shall have been elected and their term of office begun"

 Amend the title so as to read: "An act concerning the Legislative Assem- plies of the several Territories of the United States"

 Referring to the clause of the House bill comforting the power of redis- and apportionment upon Ter ritorial Governors, Senator Garland expressed the views which prevailed in tie Senate without objection, as fol lows:

 Mir. Garland. The Committee on the Judiciary were unanimously of the opinion that this was not a proper power to vest in the Executive of a Territory-the redistricting and reap pOrtiOning of the Territory under this act. If it were such a power as could be vested in the Executive, the com mittee were very doubtful of the pro- priety of leaving to any one who might be the Executive of Territory the power to make up a Legislature to suit his own convenience or his own purposes.

 My proposition would be-but that was not discussed particularly before the cOmmittee-if these Legislatures do not perform this duty at the next meeting, let Congress perform it itself, which it has the power to do, to Tedis- trlct and reapportion these Territories on the information which it may getI here. would not vote and I do not believe any member of the committee who investigated this would vote toI give this power to the Executive. After this opportunity twice given them, if the Legislatures fail to do it, my proposition would be that Con gress should make the reapportion- ment and Tedistricting itself.
Year: 1879

Some time since, the commanding officer at Camp Mcdowell offered to put up the poles for telegraph line from Phoenix to Mcdowell if the Gov crnment would furnish the wire, and it was then expected that the offer would be accepted and the line put up; but of late we have heard nothing of the proposed line and it may be that the idea has been abandoned We .hon, not -EypO,itor
Year: 1879

The Bulletin of July 3 says track laying will probably not be resumed this side of Casa Grande before Nov ember, and that it is the plan of those having charge of the construction of the road in Arizona to occupy the time until November in accommodating large supplies of ties, rails and other material at Casa Grande. This will greatly facilitate the work of building the road on its resumption during the autumn, when it will be pushed on to Tucson or even further.
Year: 1879

The surveyors of the Southern Pa cifc Railroad Company are being closely followed up by the stalking party, which is now this side of Fort Cummings and near the Mesilla Val ley on the Rio Grande. It appears as though they are trying 10 steal a march on the New Mexico and Southern Pa ciic or the Texas Pacific by the way they are silently pushing their work without making any noise about it.. They will probably continue down the Rio Grande to the Gulf of MeXico.- Mesilla Independent, July ,.
Year: 1879

EIGHT new quartz mills are now being made or are in transit, for Ari- zona mines. This is q sure indication of the rapid development of the vast mineral region on our eastern border. Parties who do not wish to take risks m mining can find profitable employ ment for their capital in setting up custom mills in Southern California and Arizona.-Los Angeles Commer- cial
Year: 1879

A GENTLEMAN being asked whether he was seriously injured when a steam boiler exploded, is said to have replied that he was so used to being blown up bv his wife that mere steam had no eff feet on him.
Year: 1879

MINISTERS frequently revert with n
kind of sneer TO tho poor diction, the
harsh language, the inclegant sentences,
the want Of nice construction in the edi>
torials Of newspapers, and deplore that
they are inculcatng in the minds of the
young false literary taste. A minister
works one day IN the week. An editor
works six or seven. The one gets ore
idea a week and hammers it out and
adorns it and puts frills on it until it
makes a sermon of one hour. The other
must have five. six, dozen or twenty
ideas a day, and must wake up the next
morning to have as many more. There
is no time for him to ponder the round Of
a period, to erase q harsh word and sub
slitute n softer, tn read over manuscript
three or four times, and shorten here or
amplify there. The Lord waits six days
on the minister the devil "growls if
he has to wait five minutes on the editor
Yet the men who write their one idea a
week have not the advantage OF those
who work and think and write so much
more. The editorials of the Pacific Slope
will compare more than favorably with
the sermons, hastily written though the
former he. There is more originality, more
thought displayed in weeks issue of II
good California paper than in two dozen
sermons preached on Sunday, and those
who attend church and who read the dai.
Is papers will bear us out in the assertion.
-Sacranento Bee.
Year: 1879

IT is said that the walrus at Behring
S trait are being slaughtered by the thou
sands for their ivory. At least ten thou
sand have been killed during the last
season. Over $4,000 pounds of tusk ivo-
ry are brought from there to San Fran
cisco every season. The tusks will aver
age about ten pounds pair, but, in OBJ
tanning them two or three times as many
walruses are destroyed as there are cap
tured and their young frequently perish
for want of sustenance. The natives of
that region mainly subsis: on walrus, and
thence the reckless and unrestricted
slaughter of the animals is to them a
matter of the most serious concern.
Year: 1879

WORKING BLACK SAND.-Major Nc
Laughlin left for the East, on Monday
last, on business connected with the cree
ton of the contemplated Edison Reduc-
ton Works, at Oroville. In an inter-
view had with him just before his depart
ure he informed us that he would be
back on the first day Of January, when
he would be fully prepared to commence
operations on the works and push them
to rapid completion. Prior TO his de-
parture satisfactory arrangements were
were made with many mining companies
of the county for working their black
sand Butte Register.
Year: 1879

A BARN in Oakland, Josephine county,
was recently burned by the spontaneous
combustion of clover pot in the barn in
an uncured condition and covered over
with marsh hay, which prevented the gas
formed by fermentation Of the clover
from escaping, until an explosion took
place that was heard mile and quarter
aWav
Year: 1879

SENATOR JONES says that the Lead
Vile mines far surpass the bonanzas OF
the Comstock lode in its palmlest days.
There is more mineral in sight now there
than at any one time in the bonanzas. L


say this on my experience and judgmen
as an old miner and personal investigation.
Year: 1879

By the recen. action OF the Board of
Education of Mary yland, the school teach
ers of that State will hereafter hold their
positions during good behavior, nor can
they be removed, even for cause, except
after notice Of thirty days.
Year: 1879

THE San Jose Mercury says the editor
of the San Mateo County Journal is
acknowledged to be the worst penman in
the State. He recently headed an item,
as there Balm in Glead?" After
much study the intelligent compositor
put it, us there Barn in Gilroy2"
Year: 1879

THE body of a man was found floating
in San Francisco Bay, lately, and the
jury found "that he came to his death by
the Mongoian horde which is overrunnlng
our beloved land, and we recommend the
arrest of any Chinaman found roaming at
large upon the streets"
Year: 1879

In Washington Territory the recent
legislature passed e law defining habitual
drunkenness, in order TO settle forever for
that section question upon which
the courts are not always agreed, and
witnesses never.
Year: 1879

IT REALLY DOES look as if there was
a real carnival of crime raging over the
land, more epidemic if possible than
the cholera or yellow fever. The read.
ers of the REPUBLICAN must have noticed
last evening the long record of crimes
which we condensed under one head
as having taken place in one day, and
this record hardly contained one tenth
of the Outrages Of like character, tha,
were committed within the space of one
day only.


Every now and then the country
seems to be swept with wave of blood
and violence, and then these in turn
are followed by long spells of order
and quiet. Just now it looks as if we
wer- in the midst of the bloody era.
commencing with the Hull tragedy,
since which scarcely a day has passed
without bringing its well filled lists of
murder and outrage. The sure increase
of lawlessness throughout the land
suggests the necessity of the proper
authorities enforcing the laws, which if
not stringent enough, should be made
more so by the next Legislatures that
meet.