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Year: 1866

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Fort SULLY, June I'd.
The whole of the three thousand Sioux
camped about US gave me early information
of their design to lave the annual sun dance
at this time and place, the season of the year
the trees in full lcaf-having now arrived !;
and they wished me to inform Col. Recor,
the commander of the soldiers, that however
boisterous their demonstrations might be,
they would all be peaceable and OF pious
character.


On yesterday, Juno lst, the darcing was
delayed at intervals to allow fortunes to be
inflicted Two or three men stood over the
devotee With needle and knife, very quietly
performing penapce according to the customs
of all these Sacerdotal rites as follows: First,
they cut the arm in several places by strik'
ing an awl in the skin, raising it, and cutting
out about half an inch. This is done on both
arms, and sometimes on the breast and back.
The wooden setons (stcks about the thickness
of common lead pencil) are inserted through
hole in the skin and flesh. Then cords or
ropes are attached to these sticks by one end,
and to the pole at the other end, the victim
pulling on the ropes till the seton sticks tear
out the flesh and skin. / saw one with two
setons thus attached to his breast, p .ng till
it seemed to draw the skin out three inches,
and finally required nearly his. whole might
to tear out the seton.


One painted black had four ropes attached
at once. The pulling QUITS done in the dance,
tie pulling carried on in the time of the mu-
sic Gy jerk, jerk, and the eye, head and front
all facing the sun in the form of supplcation.
One had four setons attached to four dry buf-
falo head boces. These were all strung and
suspended to his flesh by ropes that raised
each head some three feet off the ground.
He danced hard to teur them out, but they
would not break the skin. One OF them came
off the stick accidentally, but it was again fas,
tened. Finally these heavy weights leach at
least twenty-five pounds wcight) not tearing
out by their own weight and motion, the de-
votee gave comrade horse to take hold OF
the rope and tear out the setons. While these
| men were being thus tortured, their female
relations came in and had pieces cut out Of
their arms to show their appreciation and
valor, and devotion to their kinsmen. Still,
as soon as the victim could be prepared, the
music was renewed, and the dismal dance
went on, victims bodies now mingling with
blood, paint and setons.


There being several steamboats, and many
soldiers here, q crowd of spectators rather
embarrassed the performers, SO they conclu
ded the performance at twelve o'clock, hay-
ing only danced twenty-four hours instead Of
forty-eig ght, as they usually do. All the de-
votees gave away all their ponies and other
yaluables to their friends, had their wounds
carefully dressed by an attendant medical
man, and sat down to an abundant feast o.
dog soup and buffalo meat.


So ended this most barbarous anG painful
exhibition of savage idolatry. The picture il
still deeply impressed on my senses, but
cannot give half the horror Of the scene, eli
ther by pen or pencil.
Year: 1866

1t is not much the worle. can give
With all the subtle art,
And gold alone is not tie thing
To satisfy the heart;
But oh if those who cluster round
The altar and the hearth
Havo gentle ways and loving words,
How beautiful is earth
Year: 1866

The brave soldiers who followed this
gallant officer through many brlllian
battle-felds cherish his memory with the
liveliest sense of respect and affection.
They are now scattered very nearly all
over the State, but wherever they are
their voices and hearts swell with praises
and memories of him. Truly it is most
touching tribute, and if the departed
spirit of the noble hero can realize from
his home in the great Hereafter how
large a place he holds in the affections
of his comrades, he would consider his
death not in vain, although the cause for
which he fell is lost We subjoin the
concluding paragraphs from commu-
nication in the Columbus Sentinel:


Beyond the Potomac, under the
heights where he nobly fell, sleeps, in an
unhonored grave, the most famous
Brigadier of the Army Of Northern Vir-
ginia. That man shed imperlsha6le
lustre on the name of Mississippi With
love bordering on idolatry he bore the
name of Mississippi in his heart On
scores of fields, at the head of his brig
ade, he always said, Mississippians,
remember our homes-remember our
State! This day let us illustrate its his
tory with another bright page! This
man never thought of himself when he
could think of his State. She was all IN
all-may God forgive him that he loved
her So


Is it necessary that another word be
writtenP While statues and monuments,
and tablets are rising everywhere, IN
commemoration of our deathless hosts,
shall it be said no public formal honors
were paid to this mans memory? This
was his State: here in the midst OF this
beautiful little city, was his home. Here
ought his sacred ashes to rest; here
ought monument, worthy his sacrifices,
his suffering, and his death, to be cree
ted. The remnant of his devoted brl,
gade-but handful now, and wearled
and SCARED, and poor in this world
goods-wearied of the apparent neglect
of the memory of their beloved leader, Is
striving for the vindication of this man
name and fame. Here, in this place, let
the grateful work receive an instant be-
ginning, and an earnest support. here
let his bones rest, and his name live.


A SOLDIER OF LEES ARMY.
Year: 1866

From the New York World


The alarming increase of infanticide
in Massachusetts, is beginning to attract
the attention and to excite the sympathy
ofphilanthropic observers in other States.
At least one eminent Psychologist attrib-
utes it to the operation OF the same bench
cent law of nature which makes the saw
age proclivities of the most noxious spe-
cies of animals practical check upon
their excessive reproduction. But
similar phenomenon appears in the social
life of England and of China, in both OF
which cases it has been commonly ac-
counted for by the hypothesis that, under
the influences of an intensely artificial
state of society, the maternal instinct be-
comes less imperative in the irregular
and unauthorized Chinese or English
mother than the fear of public shame
That society in Massachusetts is quite as
bitterly virtuous and quite as Pharisaic-
ally inquisitorial as in England or IN
China, no one, of course, will deny; and
it is possible that in all these instances
the rarity of human charity may have
something to do with the growth OF a
practice so inexpressibly shocking


But the best informed and most re-
cent writer on the social life of the
Chinese, the Rev. Justus Doolittle, main
tains that infanticide in China, in the
vast majority Of instances, is the resort
of poverty rather than the refuge of
deeorum. Chinese mothers, he tells us,
consent to the murder of their infants
simply because they see no way of rear
ing them and when We consider the
comparatively hopeless condition of
women, both in England and Massachu-
setts. as attested in the one case by the
universal voice of enlightened observa-
ton, and in the other by the efforts of
Governor Andrews to consign whole
cargoes of educated female New Eng
lauders TO the desperate chances of mat
rimony in the Rocky Mountains, 1t IS
difficult to resist the conviction that the
brutalizing despotism of misery is really
the main source Of this most revolving
offense against humanity. This convle-
ton gathers additional strength from the
Circumstance that since the forcible
emancipation Of the Southern slaves,
infanticide has made its appearance
among the negroes, whose superiority TO
the white race in all the nObler and ten
derer attributes Of our nature has been
repeatedly demonstrated by the ablest
living orators aud statesmen Of New
England


The New York Tribune, for instance,
informs us that in PontotOc county, Mis-
sissippi, q negro woman has recently
been arrested BY the Freedmen's Bureau
for causing the death by starvation Of
her area mother and Of four Of her own
Year: 1866

children, and that upon being charged
with the crime the murderess quietly
confessed it, and said she was tired Of
supporting the brats, and had taken this
means to get rid Of them fthe pres
sure of want can thus demoralize the
black woman of Mississippi, it is evident
that the white woman Of Massachusetts,
cannot be expected to resist it. We ur-
gently commend this view Of the case to
our Eastern neighbors, as fitted to stim-
u,ate them in their endeavors to widen
the field of female employments and OPP
portunities. For women, as for men,
the question of bread is vital TO the qnes-
ton of morals
Year: 1866

MEDICAL ADVlCE.-Dr. VIM. X. DOherty g
Medical and Surgical Institute is becoming sine
o,,n non to the we llare of our State and health
ot our citzens and his rapidly spreading reputa
ton. although it may excite surprise, is but the
sional of skill and follows rs the natural effect
Of such cause. We are personally acquainted
with ccrtlemen who had suffered for years under
chronic disease, and who had taken advantage Of
every available means that promised relief but
without success, until they called upon DR.. Do
herty, who in an Incredibly short space of time
has given them entire relief. 1t is gratifying to
announce this fact because the IOctor is a gen.
tcman who seeks. not by defamation Of others
TO establish his reputation. or to rear the super
structure of his own upon the ruin Of anOthcr's
fame, The Doctor conducts his Institute in sach
a manner that must be gratifying to all his pa
TENTS He examines advises and recommends
without charge, and the patient after thearing
his terms for treatment, can accept or reject ut
pleasure. In no case does the Doctor make
charge unless he effects cure. This, he is allie
to do, because he feels the confidence which long
experience has given, and no doubt the consola-
tion which appcrtains to that confidence. Per
sons afflicted with either acute or chronic disease
would do well to consult the Doctor; at all events
it can do nd2harm, rs for. consultation he asks no
fee; nor does he insist on obedience TO his advice
unless the patient places himself under his care
His Offices are on Sacramento street, opposite the
Pacific Mail Steamship offce.-S. F. News
Year: 1866

TERRIBLR EXPLOSION OF LOCOMOTIVE
On Friday last, locomotive No. AZ, employed at
Remove, Pennsylvania, on the philadelphia
storehonse and Office, and exploded, killing the
engineer and fireman. A young lady walking
down street was hit In the head with piece Of
IRON, and is not expected to live Another
walking along by the storehouse, was blown
through the cellar window, but was not much
hurt The windows, cash and all, were stove
in on the lower story of the storehouse and
office. MIR. Wilson was scratched by q piece
OF glass while sitting in his ONCE. The dome
of the engine was thrown about fifty rods


Some of the ffasmenu were found one-haif
mile from where the engine stood. 81 z
Year: 1866

The following paragra ph, from the
Chronicle & Sentinel of the 9th, ult.
both panied and surprised US:


'FREEDMEN's CONVENTION. We notice
by our exchanges that the freedmen are
to have convention in this place, and
in that place. Now, we look upon all
such things as these, as, mere foolishness
And the white men who put such non.
sensical ideas into freedmen's heads are
their worst enemies Conventions are
expensive. And the freedmen of the
South instead of holding them and en-
deavoring to get privileges which they
have not and which will never be granted
them, had much better keep at work, save
their money, and be satisfied with the
rights they already have


We were panied, to discover, that our
friend had ceased to advocate our cause
To know that the man, in whom we had
placed confidence, Lad deceived us, that,
after be had asked for and received the
support of the freedmen, he should strive
to injure them; and surprised, that the
nan who had solicited their patronage,
promising that his paper would advocate
their cause, should, afterhe had obtained
their money, oppose the holding of a
Convention, because it would cost them
something. He had no such anxiety if
tie received their money We feel sad
to have paper that was willing to be the
organ of the freedmen, if it could receive
from them and their friends sufficient
support, turn against them when they
were laboring to sustain it, because they
were not as successful as the pro ,)rietor
expected.


We trust that our friend viii turn
once more and agaiu advocate our cause,
for We feel that he would prefer to do 80
1t might be little unpleasant at first,
bur for one accustomed to change fre-
quentl,, it would be much easier, than
it would, if he always advocated the
policy, he believed to be right.
Year: 1866



 Exception having been taken to the above, which appeared in the Daily of Thursday, referring to the ease with which freight may be carried over the lIardyville or Mohaye road, we take this occasion to say that the facts therein given were communicated to us by prominent citizen of Mohave county, and that we believe them to be entirely cor rect. At the same time, the columns of the MINER are open, as they always have been, to any representations that the advocates of the La Paz road may wish to make. We have no prejudice for one road over another, and have never refused to print any com mendation of either or both. Any attempt to make it appear that we have at any time praised the Mohayc road over that by La Paz Is unfair The best interests of central Arizona, and especially of Prescott, demand that all roads from the Colorado should be warmly supported and we shall not be blind enough to favor one at the expense of an- other.
Year: 1866

TyE got a new machine, n said Yankee pcdlar " forpicking bones ouf of fishes Now I tell you, it's a little bit the darndest thing you ever did see. All you have to do is to set it on a table and turn crank, and the fish flies rite down your throat, and the bones rite under the grate We'll, there was a country grccnhorn got hold of it the other day, and be turned the crank the wrong way; and, tell you, the way the bones flew down his throat was awful. Why, 1t stuck that fellow go full of bones that he couldn't get his shirt oig for a whole weckn
Year: 1866

GOVERNMENT BONDED WAREHousE.-From information received from gentleman con nected with the United States Internal Rev enue Department, second district, California, we learn that Government bonded ware house is to be established in the city of Los Angeles, Insufficient capacity to afford distil- lers the privilege to bond their spirits. Tax es so be paid on the same when removed for consumption or sale
Year: 1866

JUidUs SAUNDERS is lhe door keeper of fine puncil, everybody knows him, and if be ever Ilngs his big shot gun to bear upon the honor Die members they will have occasion to regret The old gentleman is as sharp as a razor, and gritty as a mill stone.
Year: 1866

TIE Coulter Quartz Mill on Lynx Creek is fast approaching completion. It promises to be on, of the best mills in the Territory, and it's owner, are as full of energy as an egg Is of meat
Year: 1866

The study of Vocal Music is too much
neglected, and it will not, therefore, be
amiss to state some of the advantages
which may be expected to result from its
more general Introduction into our schools.


Music gives pleasant employment during
leisure hours. There are times of leisure
in every family-evenings Saturday after
moons, Sabbaths, and these seasons can be
made to yield more true enjoyment if en-
livened with or improved by appropriate
music. He who is fond of music need never
suffer from ennui, for he has a constant
source of the purest pleasure within himself.
Besides, temptations come to the young.
especially to young men, during hours in
which they are not employed. It is then
that the dull family fire-side is deserted for
the tavern, the theatre, the club room or
the street corner, vice presents her allure.
ments, the unsuspecting are enticed into
her coils, and thousands fall. Home should
be made more attractive, and nothing is
better calculated to give it charms than
music.


Music cheers men on in the performance
of duty. The mother soothes her sick
child with music; with music the laborer
lightens his toll with music our thoughts
are turned heavenward in the house of God,
and to the sound of music patriot soldiers
march to the battle.


Music promotes good morals. It does
this by furnishing employment for leisure
hours, by increasing the pleasures ofsocial
life. by cheering men on in the performance
Of duty, and by purifying the taste. IN ad-
dition to all this, the natural tendency of
music is to enrich and ennoble the whole
emotional life. From love Of the beauti.
full, it is not difficult to attain to love Of
the true and the good. There is some
thing very much like music in loving our
neighbors as ourselves.
Year: 1866

The sea is not only The emblem of change !;
it is itself the cause, directly or indirectly,
of nearly all the physical changes that take
place in the world. Ascend the mountain
summit, and there, amid the crags where
the eagle builds her eyrie, and the heather
grows in the blue immeasurable silence Of
heaven, you tread the shores Of former
sea, whose shells and corals imbedded in
the rocks are still as perfect and beautiful
as when the last retiring wave rippled over
them.
Descend into the stony chambers, of the
earth, and there in the darkness ofthe quar-
ry you will see the petriied skeletons of
fish that once swan in the waters, and the
sands that formed the shores of unknown
seas, and the undulating ripple marks left
behind by the ebb and flow of long forgot
ten tides, we can not name a single spot
where the sea has not some time or other
been.


Every rock that now constitutes the firm
foundation of the earth was once dissolved
in its waters, lay as mud at its bottom, or
terials of our houses were once deposited
in its depths, and are built on the floor of
an ancient ocean. What are now dry con-
GlueuIS were OuC0 OCEAN UeuS anu Will.
are now sea beds will be future continents.


Everywhere the sea is still at work en-
croaching upon the shore-underminin
the boldest cliffs on the coasts by its own
direct agency. And where it cannot reach
ITSELF it sends its emmissares to the very
heart of deserts, and the very SUBMITS of
mountain ranges, and the very innermost
recesses of continents-there to produce
constant dilapidation and change. It's
own waters are confined by the shore line
but no voice has ever said to its feet-footed
winds and its viewless vapors, " Hitherto
shall ye come, and no further" They rise
from their ocean bed, these messengers Of
the sea, and pursue their fight along the
sky until some lofty peak far in the inte-
rior arrests them and they discharge their
watery burden into its bosom, forming the
sources of streams and rivers and glaciers,
that carry on the work of change where
the roar of the sea itself is nauor hoard
Year: 1866

The Philadelphia Ledger, under the head
of Early Indulgence of the Appetites, "
gives this sound advice Parents should
ponder we'll on the danger of an early and
capricious indulgence of the appetites and
imaginary wants of their children. Repet-
tions soon becomes habit, and habit
once formed, even in childhood, will often
remain during whole of after life, acquiring
every year, until at last, it sets all laws,
human and divine, at defiance. Let pa
rents, who yield to the cries of their chill
dren for dainty and promiscuous food, or
who allow them to torment domestic ami
mails or to strike their nurses, or to raise
the hand against any person, consider we'll
on the consequences. The moral effects
of pampering the appeties of children are
most melancholy. Is the mother afraid of
an explosion of passion, bribe is too Of
ten promised in the shape of cake or tart
as peace offering. Does it annoy whole
company by its boisterous or illtimed
pranks, it is persuaded to be quiet by the
promise of some sweetmeats. Ifit has been
good, as the phrase is, and learned its let
ters, the reward is still too frequently some
thing for the stomach Eating is soon re-
garded as the chief end and object of life
by child, who sees in it the chief incen'
tive to good behavior. A premium would
truly seem to be given for gluttony. The
use of the other nobler senses, and OF the
faculties of the mind, the early cultivation
of the kindlier feelings of our nature
generosity, disinterestedness, pity, flial love
all are overcome or postponed in favor
of the one sensual, selfish and absorbing
act of gormandizing.
Year: 1866

A wealthy gentleman of Boston, several
years ago, gave the editor of the Worces-
ter Palladium short narration of his own
experience. He had an income of $4,000
year, Ia large sum then, but not consider
ed so now house in town, and country
seat few miles out. He had several chill
dren-a coach, fine horses and a driver ;
and took pleasure in riding every day with
his children.


One day, when riding, the thought
struck him that each one of his children
would expect to have fine house and a
coach and horses and driver, as their faith
er had before them, and to live as he lived
and if they did not they would be unhappy.
He did not think that all of them could
have things as he had them, or live as he
was living and he rode home; sent his
coach and horses to market and sold them /;
bought cheap carryall, and became his
own driver.


With emphasis he declared that no
amount of wealth could induce him to re-
turn to his former mode of living, for if any
of his children should chance to be poor,
as in all probability some of them would
be, they should not suffer in their feelings
by the reflection that their father rode in
his coach while they had to rough it on
foot. The example he gave them afforded
him satisfaction greater than his wealth
had to bestow.
Year: 1866

When the face of Nature is wreathed
with smiles, and the heart reioices in pros
perity, it is because some darling object is
about to be obtained-some valuable pos
session near at hand It is the hope of
happiness that sustains the soul when sink
ing under adversity that calms the troub-
led spirit that pours into the heart of
grief those consultations which are healing.
The chief aim and object Of life is happi-
ness, and the pursuit thereof permanent
pleasure for, even in the darkest days of
life may be seen the beautiful rainbow OF
hope, and it sends its rays of light far over
the fearful chasms of death, into a land
where the eye that is fading on earth can
discern objects of heavenly beauty, me
hope of happiness is the rainbow and the
sunshine Of life and though clouds may
sometimes darken the horizon, yet the rain
bow will soon appear, and the clouds give
place to sunshine and beauty.