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Year: 1879

THE sanderous innuendoes of the Demo-
cratic press regarding Senator ZACH
CHANDELIERS personal habits are rs vile as
they are untruthful. 1t has become the
custom with o certain class of scribblers for
the Opposition newspapers to start tales Of
this kind against leading Republicans when
ever the provocaton is offered, rs it was in
Mr.. CHANDELIERS ease, of an unanswerable
arraignment of the Bourbons for their per-
sistent adherence to the sedition of the past.
These disreputable writers pay no more
heed to the truth under such circumstances
than they do to the feelings or sensibilities
of innocent and unoffending members of the
families of the victims of their disreputable
libels. Yet there is not one of them who
does not know that within the past year
one Democratic Congressman met the cause
of his death in a public brothel in this city,
in which his badly-wounded assailant, an
| other Democratic member was forced to
remain, under surgeons charge, for
several days, and that not u word
of comment upon this truly disgraceful af-
fair has ever been printed in Republican
newspaper. The proprieties of journalism
can be respected, as this instance clearly
shows, without violating partisan integrity
or bringing the blush Of shame TO the cheeks
of non on-combatants. If these libelers insist
upon dishing up this kind of stuff for their
readers, they can find plenty of material in
the incident we have alluded to, and need
not draw upon their imagination for facts,
as they have in assailing Mr.. CHANDLER, in
doing it. But Mr.. CHANDLER has not been
injured by them A man who is sixty-six
years old, hale and hearty as he is, and who
has passed through all that he has, enjoy
ing the confidence and respect of his fellow
citizens in an official career which began as
mayor of the great city of Detroit in 1851
and has continued almost without Interrupt
ton in the Senate and in the Cabinet ever
since, can afford to laugh at their E,lsehoods
and scOrn their ISLANDERS.
Year: 1879

IT is now reported that the Republicans
of Wisconsin have ordered one hundred
thousand copies of BEN HILLS speech as a
campaign document. 1t will do much to
educate the people as TO the spirit and in-
tent of the "Solid South"
Year: 1879

but would serve in measure to justify the
Republican claim that the original BECK
programme is revolutionary in effect and
intent Against this array of thorough-go-
ing and unsefsh Democratic sentiment
the feeble, though frantic yells of the Trdmp's
0wH of this city are heard in favor of mo
Hsurrender ~
Year: 1879

The people sit up nights watching and
waiting for PROCTOR KNoTT's promised
address to the country. If it should turn
out like his Duluth speech, to be the pro-
duct of some other intellect, then what?
Why, another laugh, of course.
Year: 1879

BEFORE the war when the Southern lead
ers were trying TO destroy the Union they
told us that there were no Unionists at the
South, yet Mr.. HILL tells us that of the
Southern members of Congress at the break
ing out Of the war seventy-five out of the
ninety-three were for the Union, leaving
only eighteen real Secessionists; also, that
in the Georgia convention for the purpose
of declaring the State out of the Union the
Unionists were in even larger proportion
ate majority-nine TO two-and that he, Mr..
HILL himself, was one of the large majority
of nine against two, yet the two carried the
day. From this the questions naturally
arise, was Mr.. HILL true in his figures, or
was he mistaken; or does this illustrate the
manner in which they do things down
South?
Year: 1879

THE Democracy have much to say about
the majority of Congress; )" "the President
should yield to a majority of Congress" I"
&c. If the present majority in Congress
represented true majority of the people
las it should) there might be some force in
this style Of argument, but, under the pres
ent circumstances, it requires the most bra
zen effrontery to indulge in such talk.
Year: 1879

WHY do so many parents think children trouble
some? Because they cry. And why do they cry
because they suffer. DR. Bulls Baby Syrup viii
relieve at once all pain that babyhood Is subject to
Year: 1879

If Senator MCDONALD's bill, introduced
yesterday, is to be treated as the Bourbon
ultimatum, another veto is in order The
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. provisions thereof
are sufficiently comprehensive to be accept
able to all the parties in interest; but the
sweeping repeal of all law granting power
to the United States to take part in the
election of its own officials which is en-
braced in the fifth section should be, and
will be, opposed by every loyal opponent to
the seditious encroachments of State Rights
upon the legitimate and constitutional pow
ers of the General Government.
Year: 1879

THE President seems TO have lost all track Of
that great and good. man who once said he
serves his party best who serves his country
best" That good mans name, let us remind
the President, was HAYES FhHadeiphid Times


The above may be infinitely funny, but
it is not for its humor that we copy it. 1t
is for the reason that it calls to mind the
fact that President HAYES has in a marked
degree of late been the cxemplar of his own
trite maxim--"he serves his party best who
"serves his country best" When he planted
himself as wall between the statute book
and the revolutionary designs of the Dem
Ocrats, he served hls country as well as he
ever did and Mt the same time he served his
party so as to challenge its lasting gratitude.
Year: 1879

Sandy White, an aged negro inmate of the City
Infrmary, made violent attack upon George
Ray last evening, also an inmate of the Institu-
ton. He tried to kill Ray by striking him with a
heavy iron instrument and then not ltsfied with
this. he is said to have made an attempt to drown
him by holding him down in a bath tub full of
water. White was overpowered and taken to the
Staton-house In the Police Coult this morning
he was arraigned for assault and battery The
case was continued until July 9th.
Year: 1879

yielding by mill returns about
$500 per ton. A fifty foot tunnel
as well as the shafts are in ore the
whole distance.


The Flagstaff is not far from
the Buel on the same lode. It
has two shafts of seventy and
forty feet. The pay streak in
the forty foot shaft Is $3.50 per
ton. The average milling worth
of the whole vein Is $50 per ton.
It will be seen from the above
that the ore deposits of the dis.
trict are of high grade, Offering
far greater inducement for in
vestment than most of the Neva-
da or California properties can
proffer. Nothing but sufficient
mill power is wanted to render
Cerbat and Mineral Park as re.
for production and divi.
dend paying capacity as Silver
Cliff, Bodie or Leadville.


The South.
Year: 1879

Only one side of the Mazatlan case has
been heard, and there may be some ex.
planation hereafter which may relieve
the action of the Mexican authorities of
that place of portion of the blame We
feel disposed to charge them with. OF
course it is the duty of the Mexican off,
cials to see that their laws are compiled
with and the regulations of the port not
sighted or detied. But there should be a
decent manner in enfo. cling them. Even
II Captain Metzger had been guilty of the
chare of smuggling, which no one who
Knows him will for moment believe,
there Is no excuse for the treatment he
received, being thrown into an uncom.
Year: 1879

Pan or barrel, where it Is charged


with the roasted ore. # is then
heated by steam, and the mercu-
ry Is added. In a few hours the
contents are drawn off into a set.
tier tub, which is also of wood.
When the mercury and amalgam
have sufficiently settled, the con.
tents consisting of ore and brine,
are drawn off into a filter tub.
Here the brine IS filtered out, and
allowed to run through a tub
which contains copper, or mercu-
ry. or both, to precipitate any sill
yer or gold which may still re-
main in solution, and thence is
pumped into another tub to pre-.
cipitate any copper that may be
in solution, and thence to pump
10 be raised again to the original
supply tub, for use again in fresh
charges of ore. Any surplus of
brine will overflow from this sup
ply tank to an evaporator for boil
ing or crystallizing the salt. The
ore from the filter tub Is shOveled
into the waste sluice.


In this way the chlorides and
other reagents contained in the
lixivium of one charge of ore are
utilized upon the subsequent
charges.


This, we are informed, Is the
process used at the Ell Dorado
Canyon mill, though with some
improvements suggested by ex-
perience, Mr.. Knox of San Fran
cisco witnessed several tests Of
this process before adopting 1t,
and we hope soon to be able to
report the favorable results Of its
trial by the South Western Min
ing Company.
Year: 1879

This district is beginning to attract
considerable attention and East
ern capital in small amounts II
being invested in property there
The vein deposits of gold and
silver are extensive and of high
grade. They have been worked
for several years in a small way
but the absence of mills and the
remoteness of the locality from
all railway accommodation have
hitherto been obstacles to large
operations.


These difficulties are being
surmounted and the value of the
district will soon be better ap-
preciated.


The best route to Mineral Park
and Cerbat is from San Francisco
by the Sou thorn Pacific Railroad
to Yuma, then up the Colorado
river by steamer three hundred
and twelve miles to Hardyville,
whence a good road of thirty-fivs
miles reaches the mines. This
route in fact gives greater facjli-
ties for transporting machinery
and produce to the mines, and
for sending high grade ores to
the Pacific coast for reduction
that can be found at many better
known mining camps of far less
mineral wealth.


We have been favored by Mr..
Louis Dawson, of Mineral Park,
with the following description:
"This district was formed in
1862, but the Indians were very
hostile, and after many Of the
miners had been killed, the
camp was abandoned. In 1871 a
large party of prospectors came
here and found very rich mines.

This place, about the center of
the district, is situated on the
foot of Sherman's Peak. There
is a perfect network of mineral
in these mountains, and the gene
raj opinion of experts is that the
most permanent mines in the
Territory will be found here.
Among the developed mines are
the Keystone, with shaft of two
hundred feet, and drifts showing
fine body of rich ore, and it is
being successfully worked by a



New York company. The Lone
Star has shaft of two hundred
feet and its ore has'a high per-
centage of gold and silver. There
are also the Fairfield and several
others. Two mines were sold
here last week for $4,000 and $4,000
cash, and everything shows new
life in this part of the coun-
try"


Among the mines now Icing
developed are the Baden Baden,
two miles east of Mineral Park,
The county seat, on a good wagon
road. 1t has cut of fifteen fe 1t
and a tunnel of forty feet on a
four-foOt ledge. The vein is
granite and porphyry with a pay
streak of a foot wide, assaying
$3.50 in gold and $2S in silver per
ton. The st. Louis, next to the
Baden Baden, has shaft thir.
ty feet in ore of the same charac-
ter. The two properties together
form a valuable prospect, as the
ore is free milling, and the whole
ledge, independent of the pay
streak, of high average value.
The Silver mine in the Todd Ba.
sin has shaft Of thirty feet on a
pay streak of five feet in width,
of free milling ore, averaging SIC
to the ton.


The Buel mine Is on the same
lode as the Silver mine, the crop,
pings being over twenty feet IL


width. 1t has two shafts and 6


tunnel. The average milling


value is $50 per ton of ore.


The Fontenoy has two shafts O


eighty and seventy feet respect
Year: 1879

The 7otcnsend Cdse-7he Matter Amt.


cdbty Settled BY Compromise.
Special correspondence of the Gazette.


DOVER, Del, Jan. 23.-After all the
talk about the Townsend affair, 1t has
been quietly settled. At the meeting of
the Investigating Committee, yesterday.
Col. Townsend's counsel, said that 1t
would be decided that the proper and
best action that could be taken was for
him to plead guilty. and that he would do
this if the case could be ami cably settled
so far as his bondsmen were concerned,
and in a manner satisfactory to him.


A meeting of the Investigating Com
mittee was held at l o'clock yesterday
afternoon, when counsel for the defense
asked the prosecution TO draw up direct
specifications of the charges against Col.
Townsend. An adjournment was effect
ed until o'clock last evening in order to
time to arrange compromise. BY this
II is intended that Col. Townsend is TO
plead guilty, a. already stated, and that
an open letter directed TO the Governor,
signed by those who petitioned his re-
moval, asking that he be retained in
office SO loag as he faithfully attends his
duties. This settlement is satisfactory to
all the parties engaged in the affair, and
his bondsnen would have been satisfied
" th nothing short of plea of guilty,
They were ready to prove their case after
having made the charges having prefer
red them simply to protect themselves.
THIS turn of affairs has refuted the charge
OF undue haste that was made against
the petitioners.


Only d few formalities are to be gone
through with before the case is settled,
and it is quite probable that the matter
will be decided this morning.


a precedent to this mode Of acti on had
been established in theG reen case N 1855.
By this the fact has been demonstrated d
tina. he was not removed by the Govern
| OF for more than year after the passag g


of address by the General Assembly.
A caucus will be held this evening on


the Treaurership and Authorship.
Year: 1879

The preacher entered his pulpit drunk,
How terrible is such an announcement
What an awful offense? And yet he is
but teacher. A teacher entered the
school drunk! There again do you create
stare from every gossip. What more is
he, or she, than physician, or al editor
They are teachers. Why should drunk
enness be excasable in these and not in
The preacher? "oh, consistency" &c.
Year: 1879

AN evening contemporary is at
last at rest. It announces that the
new Constitution is to be adopted.
1t don't even entertain the idea of
doubt. Rosy certainty tinges all
its Vaccinations. Such thing as
a slip betwixt The cup and the lip
is impossible. 1t is pleasant to dis.
card the subjunctive and potential
moods from ones methods ofspeech
and get down to the downright i'm
perative. The people simply must
60 and vote for the new Constitu-
ton, nil they,will they. Now this
is all very fine on paper, but it
strikes us that the pride of proph.
ecy, like other kinds of pride. may
60 before fail. Every day the
sentiment is gaining ground
amongst sensible people that it Is
far better to suffer the Ills we have
than fly to others that we know not
of-and they are unuumbered in
the new Constitution. If the Con-
stitutlonal Convention had not
flched from the people fifty seven
of the days which the Legislature
contemplated that they should
have in which to consider the new
instrument it would be beaten by
an overwhelming majority. As it is,
II those who have the real welfare OF
the State at heart work it will be
beaten by a satisfactory vote. We
think 1t is beaten now unless its
partizaps exhibit an objectionable
negligence.
Year: 1879

A flash of lightning is 8 very large spark of electricity, just the same thing that one sees given by an electrical ma chine in a lecture on natural philosophy, the only difference being that the best machines will not give a spark more than yard long, while some flashes of light ming have been estimated to be several miles in length. According to their ap- pearance, various names have been given to these sparks in the sky, though in reality all the several kinds are one and the same thing. On @ warm summer evening one often sees the clouds on the horizon lit up with brilliant glows of lightning, unaccompanied by any sound of thunder. ....... ..

 To this appearance the name of heat lightning" has been given, and the warm weather is often assigned as its cause. In point of fact, the heat lightning is only that of thunder shower so far off that while the observer can see the flash nc sound of thunder reaches him, and the intervening clouds veil and reflect the flash till it becomes glow instead of the sharp streak usually seen. Where the flash, starting from one point, branches and divides into several parts, 1t has re- ceived the name of [" forked lightning. This is usually seen when the discharge is near the observer. Single flashes bearing zigzag or crinkled aspect are denominated "chain, or zigzag light ning,'' probably from their resemblance to chain thrown loosely on the ground

 Again, when several discharges occul from about the same place at the same time, and are screened by rain or cloud; so as to light up the heavens with 2 broad, bright glow, the title of ''sheet lightning is applied. These four com

 prise all the common forms. There is

 however, one rare manifestation, called 'ball lightning" In this phenomenQ2 a small globe or ball of apparent fire very slowly rolls along the ground, and, aftel a time, suddenly explodes, carrying de

 struction around. There are but few in

 stances of this on record, and no yer. satisfactory explanation has ever ac counted for this curious appearance.
Year: 1879

Willard Crawford, District Attorney for the Southern District of Idaho. -re-s. turned from a professional and pleasure trip to Soda Springs and Bear Lake in the latter part of last week, and the En- terprtse paid its respects to Mrs. Craw- ford and the judge, and while chit-chat- ting with them gathered up the frag- ments of several items of interest to our readers. &*l "But,n said the judge, producing some specimens of nat ural incrustations, "when you go to Bear Lake you want to visit Swan Lake, which is about ten miles south of Soda Springs, on the Paris road You can see sights there more wonderful than at any other place on earth. Yosemite is nowhere in comparison. There is a lake Cn the top of a mountain covering about one acre of ground, with q rim around it like china washbasin, which slopes off toward the center inside. Bend over the rim of this lake and look down into its clear cavernous depths, and you will notice full-grown trees-body, branches and all-in perfect symmetry, and entirely petrified or encrusted with substance which without a closer an- alysis we should pronounce carbonate of sodium and lime, judging from the speci- men shown by the judge. ...

 "These trees" continued he, " seem to have grown to their ipresent stature before the water found its way into the top of this mountain, and after being covered with water became incrusted as we find them. 1 reached down and broke off a piece of one limb, which you see is thickly coated" -...aa7. .g

 The inquisitive Enterprise representa- tive queried the judge as to his opinion Of how this lake came to be formed thus on the top of high mountain, where the rainfall is insufficient to supply one- tenth enough water to provide for the evaporation natural to such body of water, and he gaveit as his opinion that the mountain was formerly volcano, that after the blowing out of the crater a fountain or spring had gushed out into the base of the mountain and in course of years had filled it to the top, as we now find it. Around the outside of the

 lake there is a grassy meadow several acres in extent, covered at this season of the year with luxuriant growth of grass.-Orford (Idaho) Enterprise. -.
Year: 1879

In striking contrast to the modest simplicity of the terms of the late Prince 1mperial's will is the last testament of his father, Napoleon III. The follow ing is the text: f.- z. ..........

 THIS IS MY WILL

 l commend my son and wife to the high constituted authorities of the State (aata grdaads corps de reteD, to the people and the army. The Empress Eugenie possesses all the qualifications requisite for conducting the regency well, and my son displays disposition and judgment which will render him worthy of his high destinies. Let him never forget the motto of the head of our family Everything for the French people,: :" let him fix in his mind the writings of 1 the prisoner of St. Helena; let him study the Emperor's deeds and correspondence |; finally, let him remember, when circum- stances so permit, that the cause of the people is the cause of France. | Power is a heavy burden, because one cannot do all the good one could wish, and because your contemporaries seldom render you justice; so that, in order to fulfill ones mission, one must have faith in and consciousness of ones duty. It is necessary to consider that from heaven on high those whom you have loved guard and protect you; it is the soul of my illustrious uncle that has always in- spired and sustained me. The like will apply to my son, for he will always be worthy of his name.-

 I leave to the Empress Eugenie all my private property. It is my desire that on the majority of my son she shall in- habit the Elysee and Biarritz

 1 trust that my memory will be deal to her, and that after my death she will forget the grief may have caused her With regard to my son, let him keer as talisman the seal used to wear at tached to my watch, and which comes from my mother; let him carefully pre-. serve everything that comes to me from the Emperor, my uncle; and let him bt convinced that my heart and my sou remain with him.

 make no mention of my faithful ser wants. 1 am convinced that the Elm press and my son will never abandon them.

 shall die in the Catholic, Apostoli and Roman religion, which my son vii always honor by his piety.

 NAPOLEON.

 Done, written and signed with m hand, at the palace of the Tuileries, tn 24th of April, 1865. NAPOLEON.
Year: 1879

A foreigner may live for years among the Chinese and never notice any change to relieve the monotony of their dress. Yet, as a matter of fact. some variety, even of hat or shoes, is introduced al- most annually. The fashionable caI is squarer or rounder at the top, as the case may be; the shoes more or less pointed or ornamented after some novel design. And so it is with fans, which are made of different material and of different sizes for different seasons of the year, in pro- portion to the quantity of breeze re- quired. In the Miscellanies of the Western Capital" we read: "The fans for the son ofheaven are, for the summer, of feathers; for the winter, ot silk j" and in poem by Ow-Y Tang Husi occurs this 1 line:

 t In the tenth moon the people of the capital turned to their warm fans.' | At the present day the distinction be- tween warm and cold fans can hardly be said to exist. Those for spring and autumn are smaller than those used in summer, reminding one of the old Roman luxury of summer and winter rings. It I is also nGaeUdis ton to be seen with a fan too early or too late in the year. There are indeed no days absolutely fixed fol the beginning and end of the fan season as in the case of the summer and winter hat worn by all employees of the govern ment, and which are supposed to De changed simultaneously all over the em- pire; but Chinese custom has made it as 11<~,,e c.. fr. faya kn fore or after a certain conventional date as it would be with us to wea1 white

 waistcoat in March or November.