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Year: 1875

ITO RENT-IN A PRIVATE FAMILY, PARLoR AM
Extension Room nicely furnished suitable for "a doctO
dentist with gas furnace hot and cold water; location
Forty fifth street, between Sixth and Broadway
but responsible parties need apply Address box 15
Herald Uptown Branch Office
Year: 1875

ever been trod by the foot ofa white man.

 THE GREAT LACK Is the means of transportation. This will not long exist, provided you can induce the Railroad magnates to come down here and see as ! have seen the immense resources for export which only wait for the iron horse to transport to California or to the Eastern markets.

 THE GREAT WANT Is capital to develop the resources-most of them not hidden in the bowels of the earth, but which are laying around loose on the surface visible to the eyes of any one who will take the trouble to go around, as have done, and see them.

 Yours respectfully, c. E. HITCHCOCK. Big Bug, October 18th, 1875.
Year: 1875

BUILD UP AND NOT PULL DowN.-We an-

 nounced ip succeeding to the management

 ot the MINER that it would be our policy to

 enoeavor to build up and not pull down any

 and all institutions tending, in our judgment,

 to benefit the people of Arizona and particu-

 larly those of Yavapai county and Prescott,

 and that we should encourage, to the extent of our ability, individuals and indiviual en-

 terprises tending towards the social, moral and material improvement of society and

 business, within our sphere. This promise we have endeavored to keep, and have tbus Tar rather tried to encourage those in the right than censure those in the wrong. un- der the conviction that wrong is always sus- ceptible of improvement. and it is often bet. ter to make use of means conceived in wrong or managed on wrong principles and conduct them into right paths, than to make war Of extermipation which will destroy forces which may be, by proper direction. made available for good. Our town and county arc rapidly filling up with a thrifty and industrious people, and although the Village government has, in the past. been slow to lnaugurate needed reforms and inn provements, it does not seem to be the prop CT time to move in the matter of disineorno. 1 ration just at the moment when our popula- t'on has very nearly doubled within a year. and is still increasing as rapidly as ever. If there ever was partial need for a village government that need has not decreased but has been enhanced by these additions. and is constantly becoming greater necessity. Let us then not go backward, but forward. Let us not pull down but build up and be prepar ed for the emergencies that are bound to crowd upon the heels of our wonderful pros. perity.

 If the village government is found to be inadequate to the requirements of the times. let us build it up, make it strong, and not pull it down. At the same time, let it be reformed where it is wrong, and encouraged in the right, in order that its forces shall be directed to the accomplishment of good in- 'tead of being destroyed,
Year: 1875

WE received very long dispatch yester-

 day embracing somewhat rambling account

 of the findings of the committee of investi-

 gation appointed to inquire into and report

 upon the charges made by Professor Marsh

 against the management af the Red Cloud

 Indian agency. They find that the system

 Of Keeping accounts was loose and defective

 for which the Indian Department is censura

 ble. They also find that goods had been is sued to the Indians without the presence of m army officer, as required by treaty of 1868, but no proof that fraud had been practiced. They, found fragrant frauds in the pork con- tract, and recommended the removal of the Inspector. They found irregularity in four and freight contracts, but failed to connect the Secretary of the Interior or Indian Com. missioner with them. They say that their conclusions are that the present commis- sioner earnestly and sincerely desires to per- form his duty faithfully to the country. They have encountered no transaction which cast the least shadow upon his personal or oficia! integrity, but have met with many marked | with want of vigilence and decision of char acter, which should not belong to the head Of an important Bureau. The commission CTS are not favorable to the transfer of the of Indians to the War Depart ment, though they think an army officer ought to be present at inspection and deliv- cry of supplies. They think future legisla- ton should look to the bringing of the Indi- ms under the same laws that govern all other inhabitants of the Republic.
Year: 1875

Ex.f,overnor-no ex-State Printer-confound
q, we mean ex.Secretary Smallwood, of the Wa
terville Telegraph, enters the list in favor OF the
b;rd killers and grows quite facetious overit. He
thinks here is an opportunity for some lecturer
to make hit. by getting up lecture ridiculing
the defence and protection of birds. Inasmuch
as the question cannot be met with common sense,
ridicule is an appropriate weapon to employ.
why does not the x-Seeretary himself undertake
the jobi He might as we'll turn an honest penny
by it as any other man.


As far as the Chief is concerned, it has never
argued that birds could prevent the grasshop-
per plague. We believe that no remedy has ev-
er yet been discovered. All the birds in the
world could not have eaten the Kansas grasshop-
per crop, this season. But birds and domestic
fowls ate as many of them they could, not
withstanding the TelegrdpRs assertion that they
do not relish them. But we have contended that
birds would remedy if not wholly cure other in
sect pests which annually cause great loss to
farmers Had it not been for other insects, Kan
sas farmers would have been in better condition
to stand the loss of crop by grasshoppers. Had
it not been for chiDchbugs and other insects, the
crops of Eastern Kansas would have been heavy
enough and far enough advanced to haEe mate
rally escaped the grasshopper invasion last
Fall. We not only defend the birds, but We in
sist that the people, by other wsntou practices
have invited crop failures. By constant burning
over the prairies snd by destroying or neglect
ing to encourage the growth of timber, they hav'
left the country open 10 the, effects of drought
and to sudden and destructive changes of tenn
perature.


We bsliere we are correct in our opinion, but
good dose Of ridicule might cause us to chang
our mind. The testimony of naturalists all zoe
to show that birds are active and voracious de
stroyers of noxious insects. We are willing Z
take their word for it, as we believe they hav
had every opportunity to know-except perhaps
they may never have been Secretary of State!
Year: 1875

Neither the President nor Cabinet were present
at the Bunker Hill Centennial Celebration. The
New York Herald gives the following reasons
thereof:


Our Long Branch correspondent informed us
recently that the President had resolved not to
attend the celebration at Bunker Hill, aud that
the Cabinet had arrived at the same conclusion
This information is confirmed by the fact that
neither the President nor any of his Cabinet
were in attendance at the celebration. The rea-
for this action the part of the President is
that he resents the discussion which has taken
place as to the bills incurred by himself and his
party when they visited the celebration of the
battle of Lexington. The President felt that
the discussion the part of the local authOri-
ties of New England was an offense of the gra-
vest character, the insult of q host to a guest.
The President visited New England at the invi-
tation of the authorities. His presence was gra-
cious and kindly act, adding largely to the sue
cess of the celebration. He was not allowed to
incur any expense, or to bear any portion of his
entertainment. Yet as soon as he returned he
found that the bills for his entertainment had
been made matters of discussion, and that ques-
tions had been asked as to whether the Pres-
dent should or should not drink wine or should
should not smoke cigars; that the amount of
wine charged in the bill had been a matter of
amaZement and reproach, and that one of the
committee went SO far to express his alarm
lest the habits of President Grant should lead
him into an unusual and painful condition of
life.


We do not see really how the President could
arrive at any other conclusion. 1t is the gravest
offense that can be committed in modern society
for host to put an insult upon his guest.
Year: 1875

DENVER RoAD.-We stated, last week, that
the Denver Road had gone into the hands of q
receiver. A receiver is an officer appointed by
the Court, and usually cannot be sued for in.
debtedness accruing while the road is under his
control But in this case, npon the motion OF
Judge Price, the order was made SO that any
person performing labor or other service for the
road while under the charge of the receiver, may
sue him for their claims.
Year: 1875




MILWAUKEE, June 24.-It has been for long
time fas hionablo to abuse our greenback curren-
cy. II would seem that those paper stamps were
somehow something to be ashamed of, and that
unless we join in denouncing them, or at least
keep silence while others do so, good sense
and good intentions, our honesty of purpose and
appreciation Of that which is right, will some
how or other be compromised. We must either
shout ont contemptuously "Irredeemable shin
plasters; rag money" or be quiet, lest we may be
taken for fools who don't know anything, or for
knaves who want to cheat somebody. !, for one,
am getting tired of the blasts blown from that
horn of destruction, and would welcome n turn
in the time, and as such the currency plank in
the platform of the Ohio Democrats suit me.


Our greenback currency is not 'rag-mOney,"
nor anything to be ashamed of nor to be got rid
OF IN hurry. livery dollar or dime of it is good
for Its face, good for what it says it is; the best
currency to do business with the world
ever saw, and redeemable for its face value as
fast as we need it-in fact n dollar is worth a
dollar IN gold at its creation, worth it now, and
will be worth it as long as the United States en-
dure as virtuous and patriotic nation. The
conjoined cry Of press and convention through
out the land, however loudly swollen or long
continued, connot change one fundamental fact,
established and unalterable; and that is the sue
cess of the Government in the great conflict
through which We have passed. The stability of
our Government; the flag floating over all the
| land, and over every sea, respected everywhere
as the sign of our nationality. Order, liberty,
law, and unhindered progress, secured on this
soil for all time against all foes from without and
within, are what we have secured for what we
have paid since 1861, or are still to pay. part
of that great value has never been estimated,
] and never will be. We yearly put flowers on
\ the graves of our dead soldiers where We can
1 find them, but there are no Government bonds
| ort as interest, no despised greenbacks held at
hdlne, 70 represent any part of the value of what
their lives would have been had they lived in
peace and posperity on this side of the bloody
flood as we do now. A portion of the value OF
| what We have got and have and hold to-day has
been measured and valued in gold and called the
natonol debt. 1t may be S24 ,O0O, 900 900 more or
less, but every dollar of that is worth dollar in
gold to us and to all the world to whom the ex-
istence of this great Americas nation is worth
anythng.-Ailicaakee Sentinel, (RepublicdR.)
Year: 1875

v The Republicans of various States are en-
deavoring to recover lost ground by nominating
their popular war Governors once more-and
then adopt specie payment and contraction plat
FORMS 1t is is hard to cure sick man by en-
ploying good doctor, if the patient still elings
TO that which produced the disease
Year: 1875

II 1t is suggested-but we don't believe it
that the deep interest which the editor of the
Waterville Telegraph takes in the locusts, is ow-
ing to the fact that they were once intimately
connected with old Faro!
Year: 1875

The Catholics demanded the passage of the
Geghan bill, and the Democratic party passed
it. Now the division Of the school fund is insist
ed upon. Is it safe in this crisis to trust the par
ty that passed the Geghan bill
Year: 1875

Uncle Henry is suggested as the temperance
candidate fol- the Presidency. If he should be
nominated on that platform, Ulysses might con-
slider it an Imperative duty to run for third
term.-B0st0n Herald
Year: 1875

Every thing around us has capac-
ity for rest as well as for action. The
stormy winds and restless waters can
be calm as q slumbering infant. The
railway with its snorting engines,and
crowded stations, and lightning speed,
seems as If it knew no rest; yet, mo-
ment after the flying train, there is no
sign oflife or motion on the iron rails.
There Is q double capacity, however,
in the Christian life; not restless at
one time, and calm at another-not
working first, and then taking rest; it
Is composed of united labor and repose.
It is only the Christian who can COM
bine these two apparently anomalous
states, namely, that Of work and rest.


A poor woman being threatened to
have but little bread one day, and q
little water on the next, replied, "If
you take away my meat, God, 1 hope
will take away my hungerw If God
give but little: he can make that
little serve the turn, and then enough
is as good os feast. Is there but q
little meal in the barrel, little oil in
the cruise, God will make it hold out.
Is that little coarse, and none of the
finest, ''brown bread and the Gospel"
said Mr.. Greenham. "is good cheer;"
and indeed Thrown bread and the
blessing of God, is a rich banquet"
God makes bread to be staff and q
stay to satiate the righteous man,
when the wicked may have the staff
broken to them, but the stay taken
away: they eat, and are not satisfied;
they drink, but their thirst is nothing
at all quenched.-Spencer


A hypocrite may be both the fairest
and the foulest creature in the world.
How commonly do such unclean
swans cover their black flesh with
their white feathers!-,Secker.


IAN evil soul producing holy witness


Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,


A goodly apple, rotten to the core.


o, what q goodly outside falsehood hathr'


What wilt thou say when thine alb
ominably corrupt and filthy heart
shall be opened before the sun, and
men and angeles hear thy lies and
hypocrisies laid bare before thee?
Wilt thou play the hypocrite then?


O! there are times of awful lonliness
upon the earth; times when, as the
sun sinks beneath the horizon our
hearts sink with 1t. Times when, as
the sun rises again in its freshness and
strength, we feel that it brings to us
no light, no heat, no healing on its
wings. We have no flowers in our
hearts to unfold beneath its beams,
our flowers have been picked. and
bloom with us no more; we have no
Jewels to flash and glitter in its rays,
we have had our treasures taken from
us, and our heart is like the rifled cas-
ket, good for nothing in itself.-PoW-
err.


Queen Elizabeth In letter of hers
to Henry W., King of France, among
many other expressions, hath this up
on the sin of ingratitude, that If there
were any objectionable sin in the
world, such is the sin against the Ho-
ly Ghost, 1t was ingratitude, "Call me
unthankful,n said another, "and you
call me all that naught is" And
without all doubt such a vice it is,
that Nature frowns at it, though she
smile at many others-nay, it is a
monster in nature, solecism in man.
ners, paradox in divinity, an ugly
sin, insomuch that Christ himself
Joined the evil and the unthankful to-
gether.
Year: 1875

behind one of these women, and see
what she rakes up as she goes and
not feel squeamish, he has got tough
stomach. would not let one of them
into mv room without serving them
as David did Saul at the cave In the
wilderness-cut off her skirts.


"Don't tell me that q true lady sac
riflces the duty of keeping all about
her sweet and clean, to the wish of
making vulgar show. I don't be-
lieve it of lady. There are some
things that no fashion has any right
to touch, and cleanliness is one ofthese
things. 1t is an insult to respecta-
BILE laundress to carry such things in
to q house for her to deal with"
Year: 1875

Judge Ballinger is an honest gentleman
of proper notions of integrity and truth and
of common honesty. The Judge asked the
Rutabagas and others who pandered to
their prejudices to deal honestly and fairly
with the people of Texas, and have the new
constitution voted on by itself, on fixed
day, when there could be no extraneous,
improper influences made operative upon
the people. But the fearful majority of the
terrible body of law givers spurned Judge
Ballinger's fair-dealing, and the blessed
people are to be drawn into the support of
the constitution by all the adventitious aids
which three or four thousand candidates,
and the whiskey they will supply, and the
kinsfolk they can furnish in:the promotion
of the adoption of the botched organic code.


Besides, the party is to make acceptance
OF the new constitution, new plank in the
platform of Democracy, and for this purpose,
1t is stated, the leaders are to meet in Gal
weston. The matter was talked over here,
in Austin, and the party may tamely sub
nit. Old Rutabaga will hold its nose while
our genial, good-tempered, modest friend
DeMorse will force it down into the unwil-
ling maw of the tumesent party. Sick and
disgusted it may be, but swallow it must.
The leaders withstand up in Galveston and
anathematize everybody who turns away
sickened from the absurdities and preiu-
dices and selfshness and ignorance and dem
agogism injected into the proposed new
government of Texas.


Ii the honesty of Judge Ballinger cannot
be approved, we may at least prevent the
outrage proposed to be done the party and
people at Galveston. If the people were
not suffered to vote fairly, and without the
foreign and corrupting influences of count
less office-seekers, who approve the law
that gives them the peoples gold, the peo-
pie should at least be suffered to vote in
such an election without subjection to in
fiuences of insane, unthinking partisanship.
Let us at least have fairness and honesty il
Illustrated by Democratic leaders in this mat
ter at Galveston, even if we could not have
it in the conduct of Rutabagaism in the Con-
stitutional Convention.
Year: 1875

We ought to ratify. Is it true that we have
ratifiedG The thing needs ratification and
sevaral of them. Tue little ''half ham,
mond" corner grocery popular declaimers
should come hopping to the front. Deli
cious speeches should be made and the
people should be forced to rend the very
heavens. If something of the sort be not
done, the voters of the State will go along
coolly and quietly and read the new consti-
tuition for themselves and discover what
boundlesss stupidIties were injected into it
by Rutabagaism and timid demagogism
Politicians have set out on the mad hunt for
office. The number of offices and sinecures
under the new will be greater than under
the old constitutions says an eminent
lawyer who has been making a tabulated
statement of the number and salaries of
this army of coming barnecles. Taxation
is limited, but FEES AND PERoUIsTTEs are un
limited, and thus tie people are to be
feeced and robbed by Texas as through the
tariff system which does indirectly what
the people would not endure a single hour
if done openly and honestly and directly.


Ratifyl ratlfy! ratifyl 1t good thing
to ratify great deal, and the flight of
speakers who were announced to do the
first little job of the sort at the capital,
that other towns might follow the noble ex-
ample, will have a very unfortunate effect
upon the fortunes of the excretion of Ruta-
baga prejudices left as organic law for the
approval of decent people. Oh, yes, by
all means let us ratifv.
Year: 1875

An old friend and comrade of Stonewal
jackson writes to the Richmond Wig: In
June, 1912, A. P. Hill, George E. Pickett,
B. d. Fry, and the writer, having passed
our first week at the military academy, were
standing together on the south side of the
south barracks at West Point, when Cadet
sergeant came by us conducting a newly
arrived cadet to his quarters. He was app
parently about twenty years of age, ETC.,
his figure was angular and clumsy; his gait
was awkward. He was clad in old-fashloned
Virginian homespun woolen cloth; he bore
across his shoulders a pair of weather
stained saddle-bags, and his hat was one of
those heavy, low-crowned, broad-brimmed
wool hats usually worn in those days by
overseers, county cOnstables, wagoners, etc.
He tramped alone by the side of the sergeant
with an air af resolution, and his solid look
added to the inhexible determination of his
whole aspect, so that one of us remarked:
ssThat fellow has come here to stay" His
name was Thomas J. Jackson.


He had a rough time in the academy at first,
for want of previous training placed him at
disadvantage, and it was all he could do to
pass his first examination. We were study
ing algebra, and maybe analytical geom etry.
that winter, and jackson was very low in
his class standing. All lights were put out
at s'taps," but just before the signal he
would pile up his CRATE with anthracite coal,
and, lying prone before it on the floor, would
work away at his lessons by the glare of the
fire, which scorched his very brain, till
late hour in the night. This evident deter
mination to succeed not only aided his own
efforts directly, but impressed his instruo-
tors IN his favor, and he rose steadily year
by year till we used to say, IF we had t.
stay here an other year 'old jack would be
at the head of the class"


By the fourth year he attained position
in the first section, but his lower standing
during the early years In the course, and in
drawing, French, and some other study of a
lighter and more ornamental character,
brought his average below the point to
which he had actually attained by the end
of our course.


In the riding-hall think his suffering
must have been great-he had a very rough
horse-and when the order came TO sscross
stirrups" and ''trot," ''old Jackn swayed
about and struggled hard TO keep his horse.
When he had advanced to riding at the
heads, leaping the bars, etc, his equestrianism
was truly fearful ;but he persevered through
the most perilous trials, and no man in the
riding house would take more risk than be,
and certainly no one had our wishes for sue
cess and safety more than he.


believe be went through the very trying
ordeal of the four years at West Point with
out ever having hard word or bard feel
ing for or hard feeling from any cadet or
professor. And while there were many who
seemed to surpass him in the graces Of in
tellect, in geniality and in good fellowship,
there was no one of our class who more alb
solutely possessed the respect and confidence
of all than he did.
Year: 1875

THE locals of Messrs. Haber & Co. will
be found particularly interesting this morn
ing. The carpets they advertise will be
sold at strict cost, and we are satisfied that
parties in need of carpeting will find it To
their interest to purchase of this house.
The crowded condition of their store does
not admit of possibility to display this
line of goods to any advantage, and they
have decided to close out their entire stock
of carpets at strict cost in consequence.
Year: 1875

money, cry not unfamiliar at this day,
I'm get my printing press and give them
plenty of paper money" Lau! liter and
cheers. The residue of the lecture went to
convey the idea thar there was no personal
devil, and that all good men, who labored
faithfully to serve their kind would meet
their reward, no matter how many demons
stood between them and eternity. Long
and cOntinu applause
Year: 1875

Thirty nine widows were ranged in
rows of chairs, the other day, in the
County Clerks office of Virginia City.
Each had a burial certificate or some
other proof of the death of her hus-
band. They were of varied aspect,
from the dimpled girl Of seventeen to
the wrinkled matron of seventy, max.
ing, probably, the most remarkable
gathering of widows ever known.
Their errand was to recover taxes
which had been improperly collected
the law which allows them to hold q
certain amount of untaxable property
having been disregarded.