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Year: 1866

Why Is Ir!-We published at tho re-
quest of a physician, day or two since,
q paragraph inquiring why 1t was that
some of the apothccaries Of the city made
an additional charge Of fifty cents for each
prescription put up after certain hour
of the night. This was replied to by one
"who did not make an extra charge" and
the question was asked why our doctors
made extra charges for night visits. The
game seems to be opening between the doc
tors and the apothccarics. The following
communication was handed us yesterday,
which we insert at the request Of the gen.
tlcman who gave it to us. We leave to
the gentlemen concerned the task of On.
swering the questions "Why is it" and
"How is it 7"


"Why is it that the apothecaries will not
get up at night At o'clock last night
physician was sent for to see man suffer
ing extremely with collie. A prescription
was written, n messenger dispatched In
haste, and after humping and ringing AZ
four apothecaries in vain, admission was
gained to the .ftth, and after an hour
elapsed the much-dcsired medicine was
obtained. Such was the report Of the mes
sengcr, and there il no reason to doubt Its
truth. If the apothecaries will not get up
at night, there is little use In the physl-
clans doing so"
Year: 1866

SEVERE AccIDENT.--An old lady, whose
name we could not learn, was run over by
a Government wagon yesterday morning,
ON the corner of Sixth and Canal streets,
and seriously hurt. Her left leg was bad
ly mashed, and she was otherwise so badly
bruised that it is feared her injuries may
prove fatal. Prompt medical assistance
was given by several doctors who were
near at the time of the accident.
Year: 1866

WHARFAGE AND DockAGE.-Thc charges
made by the owners Of wharves and by
the James River and Kanawha canal for
tho use Of their wharves and the dock
have given rise TO much complaint amongst
the merchants and shippers OF our city.
We procured yesterday the tariff OF
wharfage as well as that Of dockage, and
find from careful examination that although
each separate and distinct charge may ap-
pear small, when taken in the aggregate
for one house, or one branch Of business,
the charges are, many Of them, enormous.
Save the article of -four, for instance, the
charge for wharfage is three cents per bar.
rel. If shipped on the dock the charge Is
five cents per barrel. Just think OF the
aggregate of the wharfage or dockage of
this article alone in one shipping season.
Many merchants will risk twenty five thou.
sand dollars to make twelve .and half cents
per barrel on -four; take FIVE or three
cents from this profit, and It will make
very material difference. The wharfage on
boxes and bales Is one cent per foot the
dockagc on the same articles Is two cents
per foot. This, in the aggregate, will make
q large sum in twelve months.


On tobacco, the wharfage Is fifteen cents
per hogshcad, ten cents per tierce, five
cents per case, and two cents per box.
The dockage is twenty-five cents per
hogshead, ten cents per terce, five cents
per case, and three cents per box. These
are very high charges. From compari-
son of the rates of wharfage with those Of
dockage, it is much cheaper to load or un-
load vessel at one Of the wharves than
on the dock. The rates on the dockage
tariff are unreasonably high, but We be.
lieve that reduction from the present
rates is contemplated, and will probably
be made at the meeting of the Board Of
Directors next week. In regard to the
wharf rates, We found, on examining the
bills Of one of our firms, that the charges
for wharfage on his bills did not agree with
the published tariff, but that the usual
charge for wharfage on these bills was ten
per cent. of tho freight on the articles re-
ceiycd. The charges for wharfage or dock
age now are from twenty to fifty per cent.
of the freight charged on sailing vessels.
The present rate of these charges, COM
bined with the enormously high prices Of
freights, add materially to the cost Of goods
here. We hope, for the benefit Of the
trade, that there may be reduction in
these charges.
Year: 1866

The subscribers having accepted the agency for
the Western and Northwestern States for this
deservealy celebrated Collar, are now prepared
to take Orders for the present future delivery.
Year: 1866

Since the passage Of the Civil Rights
Bill over the veto Of the President,
Congress has maintained a somewhat
passive attitude, apparently regarding
the effect of It's action upon the public
mind, and no doubt preparing for q
still harder blow. 1t would be insan-
ity to suppose that Congress has com
pleted its work, and fulfilled its mission.
The attack upon the constitution in
the bill they have passed. is only ono
of a series of assaults upon the popu-
lar liberties. They are but carrying
out the old mission Of federalism, and
working stealthily for consolidation.
The old creeds and principles of mon
archy are their rule of action upon all
occasions. But if they wore unsuc-
cessful at the birth of the republic,
when all men were more or less tram
moled with the dogmas of the divine
rights of kings and governments, it is
not possible that they can succeed at
this late day, when the free feast of a
republic has been so long enjoyed
But the course of things has worked
to their momentary advantage, Just as
it will bring them dismay and defeat
in the future. Pontiac Jaeksoniaa.
Year: 1866

The VINO The President has veped
the bill admitting Colorado, in view
of which circumstance the Jaclton
Citizen, rep. must be pleased as fin
dulged in the following unusihlly
sane comments in hope he would y so


The admission OF thinly populted,
undeveloped States was one reat
source Of evil before the war, which
we hope will be avoided in the fupres
The manufacture of, States on of
wild prairie and virgin forest fol Tho
purpose Of affofding seedy politicians
an opportunity of getting into pm
gress, or for the purpose of maintin-
ing the power Of party Or sedon
cannot otherwise than fail Of gool-
1t is somewhat singular that the old
States should eyer have adoptedthe
suicidal policy of admitting to an
equality with themselves half-heiEed
Saates, with barely population en,pgh
to entitle thom to one Representative.
The strife for power did it and VII do
it again, unless the older States hall
take warning and seek to ayoidcut-
to avoid cutting their own throas by
keeping wo,dd-be States a little Logger
in territorial pupilage, President
johnson will certainly be entitld to
commentator for any effort he nay
make in that direction.
Year: 1866

a CLERICAL DEMAND.-A singular
incident has just token place at Neuf-
chatel, in Switzerland. At the death
of a merchant in that city on the
credit side of his book the name of
God was found to be inscribed to
a considerable sum. No one knew of
such creditor, and on investi4 alton
evidence was obtained that deceased,
who was man Of great piety, had
opened an account to the Father of
all, and entered to it each year share
of his profits. The clergy have claimed
the sum, on the grounds that they
represent God on earth, while their
demand is opposed by the authorities
of the canton. The affair will proba-
bly, be brought before the tribunals.
Year: 1866

EE The fact that the Radicals in
the United States Senate admit Col
orado into the Union when it prevents
negroes from voting, shows that in
excluding the Southern States, upon
the pretext that they front aliOp negro
suffrage, they are guilty Of gross hy-
pocrisy, and that that reason is not
the one which actuates them. A
desire to perpotuate thoir power is
really the only thing which governs
their conduct. They are for Colorado
without negro suffrage, because they
think she will act with them. They
would be for the South tomorrow if
they thought they could hitch it on to
their political car. They are the
merest gamblers and thimble-ri -riggers
in politics destitute alike of consis-
tency or honor.
Year: 1866

the journey. He may however, conclude TO join them
In New York 1t is understood that there VIII be but
little speechmakng the way at any point ana tnas
not OF political nature, the President considering


improper that the occasion of holiday excursion should
be made stump speaking affair for political purposes
Year: 1866

Daily clincling testimony comes to the
knowledge Of the public through Repunli
can sources, TINT it is the purpose of the
Republican leaders, in the event that the
people shall unaccountably elect a majority
Of Republican candidates to Congress, to
impeach President johnson and axe thort
work of him afterwards. Such revolution
ary proceedings the mascot the Republican
voters do not want s1lpee inaugurated. ---
They havo had enough of civil war; they
have enough of taxes to pay growing ont Of
that war; enough Of their ilierds and rcla
tives have lost their lives or were wounded
in that war to satisfy them. The leaders Of
their patty who have got thei' clutches ur-
on the Govcrnmer have no idea Of letting
go or of paying heed to the President S
earnest appeals for them to conform to the
Litter and spirit Of the Constitution. Upon
revolutionizing this Government they are
|: the people shall not defeat
them at the POLLS, by their impeachment mt Of
and assaults opon the President, they will
again throw the country into civil war
StdteSndn.
Year: 1866

BY the new act to amend the new postal laws 1t is provided that Pcstmasters shall re- turn to the writers, free ot cost all letters not delivered or called for, when requested so to do by the person mailing them. Persons mailing letters may write on them request to the postmaster to return the letter to them if not delivered in any number of days they may choose to mention, and it is made the duty of the postmaster to do So.
Year: 1866

sTEANEN AT tAlLNtbLb.

 We are indebted to the Hon. O. n. Gass, tho champion of the Upper Colorado, for the following information regarding the arrival Of steamer at Callville. We rejoice with him that the long Inooted question of the practi- cability of navigating the Colorado to that point has been thus favorably settled. The fact will give new life to the river, to all of Arizona, and to Utah and Montana:

 pRrscorr, Arizona, Oct 22, lsGG.

 EDIroR CT ARIZONA MlNER.-By adviccs from the Upper Colorado I learn that the steamer Esmeraldo, with her barge, has ar rived at Callylle with one hundred tons of freight. Admiral Rodgers in command. Too much praise cannot be bestowed on the Ad- miral and his pioneer line for the consuinma- ton of this laudable enterprise. Thousands of anxious consumers have been waiting to hear the good tidings At last the enter terprise of the right men in the right place has completed the connection Ot trade be- tween Utah, Montana and the Pacific Ocean. The obstacles tn the way of the opening of this trade have at last been overcome, and the link of trade is now opened to Salt Lake City. The millions of tons of freight annu- ally brought over the dusty plains by the slow process of OK teams will now be brought by the way of the Colorado when the prog ramme of this enterprise is fairly put in prac- tice goods will be brought direct from New York to the mouth of the river, without the necessity of first going to San Francisco, which incurs a large expense by way of prof it's to the many hands it necessarily passes through. Tho emigration of the European saints will ih succeeding years all come by this route, which with the immense trade continually passing mp the river will give to Arizona new impulse and life. more inyig- orating than she has experienced since the day of her birth. It will give prosperity to every branch of business, and groceries of all descriptions, goods of every kind, will be cheaper. and obtained with certainty at the proper time, which will warrant the working of mines that now lay idle, in consequence of the exOrbitant cost of everything necessary tO their development Since 1t has been full ly demonstrated that the Colorado is naviga- ble to Callyille the rapid accumulation of steamers for this trade will astonish the most sangtline. The steamers now on the river if united would scarcely be able to supply the trade with tobacco and tea. There are few aware of the anxiety of the people of Utah to hear of the success of this undertaking. Every inhabited valley and mountain hamlet will jump with joy to hear the glad tidings.

 c. D. GAss.
Year: 1866

DoNT BLOw DowS LAMP CHrMxErs.-It isssa very general custom among those who use kerosene for Illuminating purposes to ex- tinguish their lights by blowing down the chimney. This is very dangerous practice. and will almost inevitably result in an explo- sion'if there Is any defect in the wick or burner. 4 case of the kind occurred in Bos- ton, and came near resulting in a serious con flagration.
Year: 1866

The third volume of the MINER Is begun with an enlargement of the paper and corresponding improvements It Is the determination 10 make it in every respect more complete and attractive than the preceding volumes. 1t will lead rather than follow in the sure and gratifying progress which the Territory is making. While it will treat of all matters of public importance, is col umns will be more particularly devoted to the n- tercsts of the miners of Arizona, the intrepid and deserving men who as pioneers and prosPcctors through dangers and difficulties to which Ordina- " men would have succumbed have wrcsted this rich country from the hands of the savage, and will not abandon it. As their organ, and a record of the progress in the opening and development of the unriyaled mineral, agricultural and pasto- ral regions of the Territory, and of all that per tains to it's growth and prosperity, the MINER will merit large local and general circulation. As the oldest paper in the Territory, its value as news medium and advertising sheet must be ap- parent not only to onr own citizens but also to business men throughout the Union.
Year: 1866

PARrIzAN LEGISLATION weed, the
Assembly passed bill to postpone the elec.
ton in the city and county of San Francisco
until the next general election. The effect Of
this bill, if it becomes law, will be to extend
the terms Of a certain number Of Abolition
officials, in that city, from May of the present
year until after the September election in
1867. The advocates of the bill distinctly
stated that they urged the measure because
they feared the Democrats would succeed in
electog their ticket in May, and by postpon'
ing the election until the next general cleo.
ton they could then bring out their full par,
ty vote, which they could not do at the pres
ent time. They did not place their arguments
upon any higher ground than to obtain a
mere partizan advantage, and thus showed
themselves the slaves to party spirit, while at
the SANS time they we're admitting that they
could no longer count upon the support and
encouragement Of the people. l: was an ad
mission that in the city Of San Francisco, the
heretofore great stronghold of the so'called
Union party, the day of their power had
passed, and in order 10 hold on 10 the off.
cial crumbs little while longer, they were
willing to cheat the people out Of their right
TO select their public servants, at the time
designated by the existing laws. The House
indorsed this shameless sentiment by passing
the bill by large majority. We have no
doubt the bill will pass the Senate and re.
csive the Governor: approval-who is such
q super'ssrvicsable tool Of party that he il
unable to raise himself to q statssmanlike
comprehension Of the duties Of bis position.
In legislation Of this character, the domi-
uant party are establishing psecsdsnts, tha,
will hardly be forgotten in the not distant
future, when the Democracy will surely come
into power 10 the State. But it would be
hard work for Democrats ever get down te
the msanusss Of rssaliasing 10 kind by similar
mesarres
Year: 1866

How THEY SrAND.-The San Francisco
Call gives the names Of twenty Union papers
10 this State that support the President.
Per contra, the Sac. Union says there are
twenty.seveu papers that Sustain Congress as
against the President. Accepting this as
true, there are over forty per cent Of the
Union party papers Of California with
the President in his efforts to restore the
Union under the Constitution, and against
the revolutionary dogmas and plans Of the
Thsd Stevens distructionists. Beside, all the
Democratic journals of California have
warmly espoused the cause Of the President,
which gives large majority Of the State
press on the side of reason and Justice
which is the best of evidence that large
majority Of the people are Of the same way
Of thinking.
Year: 1866




The TRUE UNION PARTY-We shave the
high authority Of President johnson himself,
in claiming the Democratic party to be the
true Union party Of the country. A party
of Connecticut Radicals having called upon
the President to obtain an expression from
him as to bis sympathies in their coming
election, he told them that lie desired the
success of Union candidates. Upon this
they went home and announced that John
son was on their side. Subsequently Dem
ocratic delegation, from the same Stale,
called on the President, and directed his at
tention to the use the Radicals were making
of his expression, desiring the election Of
Union candidates, when he explained that,
he considered only those as Union oandi-
dates, and that party Union party that up.
held the Government in its efforts to restore
the Union under the Constitution. They
were the only true Union men, and such had
his warmest sympathy for success. As the
whole Democracy Of the nation is support
ing the Presidents reconstruction policy,
this was an unequivocal Endorsement that it
is the genuine Union party Of the country.
Hereafter the Radicals may as we'll fly their
true colors, and call themselves dis Unionists.
Year: 1866

What we most regret in this Veto is its
tendency to unsettle the industry Of the
South. The negroes are almost all at work,
under contracts framed and witnessed by the
agents Of the Freedmen's Bureau Tribune.
This is wicked falsehood. Nothing has
more unsettled the industry Of the South than
the Negro Bureau. We have the universal
testimony Of every southern man whom We
have seen that, even after The pegroea were
set "free," il it had not been for this pes.ilsnt
Negro Bureau. they would have got along a
thousand times better than they have. 1t has
been nuisance always, and retarded not
added, Southern industry.


N. Y. Day Book.
Year: 1866

THEIR ToNE.-The tone of the press Of the
country on the veto message and the Presi>
dents speech says the New York World,
shows how completely the old Republican
party is disrupted on the issues raised by the
Radical Congress. OF all the daily press of
this city only the Tribune baa taken ground
against the President. That one paper can


not by any possibility represent more than
fifteen thousand voters out of one hundred
and fifty thousand in this metropolitan DIS
trict. The Cincinnati Commercial, the ablest
Republican paper in the West stands by the
President; SO does the Chicago Journal, the
Buffalo advertiser, the Syracuse STANDARD. the
Hartford Courant. the Auburn Advertiser


the Albany Journal, and about one third, we
should judge Of the other Republican papers
throughout the country. 1t is very evident,
as Saml. Bowles telegraphed to The Spring
field Republican from Washington that the
Republican party is "hopelessly disrupted"
Year: 1866

THEIR MosEs.-The Radical papers says
the Clear Lake Times, are continually re
minding the public that President johnson
promised the negroes Of Nashville that he
would be their Moses to lead them out Of
bondage. Well, supposing he did. The ne.
groes are out Of bondage, and the President
didn't promise TO be their board and lodg
ing. He did not intimate that he would fur.
nish them with cloud by day and pillar
Of fire by night. and pay their travelling ex
penses out of the national treasury. He may
have said that he would be their Moses, but
that statement could not possibly be cons
trued as pedging himself to become their
Shadrach Meshech and Abednego.
Year: 1866

There is no country in the world,


says the st, Louis Republican, where


the newspaper is so universal a ne


cessity as in our own. To everybody


it is as indispensable as their daily


food; yet few are aware of the labor


and expense involved in the prepara-


ton of the constantly recurring meal.


The Philadelphia Ledger lately an


nounced that the loss on its eircula-


ton alone amounted to 100000 in


twelve months, which will seem a
I startling statement, and may be re-


ceiVed with more or less incredulity
by those not engaged in the business,


and therefore unacquainted with the


mysteries Of newspaper publishing.
The Philadelphia Telegraph has
some remarks upon the subject,
which The initiated everywhere know
to be true. 1t declares that there
is not now single daily paper print
ed i'll this country of which the cost
to the publisher is not greatly in ex-
cess Of the price for which it sells.
The question may be naturally ask
ed, how newspapers, then, are sup
ported The answer is, that the
publisher is only saved from ruin bv
the advertising sources of income.
Neither the subscriber, who takes
the paper only to read it, Dor the ad-
yeltlSer, who uses it as a profitable
means of communication with its
readers, separately sustains it. Both
conjoined are necessary to that end
and while one complains that the
price of the paper is too high, and
the other that he is charged teo much
for his advertisement, the publisher
is continually struggling to adjust
the just claims of each. In other
words, lie is governed by the same
principles which govern men in every
other kind of business. He is too
wise to impose prices on the public
which they would not long pay if
found to be exorbitant and compc-
tition in this, as in every other sort
Of business, would soon expose and
correct any such cXorbitance. All
these things considered, the public
are getting the benefit of the daily
newspaper Tressat a very cheap rate,
and publishers realize a profit quite
inadequate to the service they rem
der, and the labor and care they in
cur.
Year: 1866

When | used to be out Of temper, or
naughty in any way, fgrandfather was there
he would call to me


Mary, Mary, take care! there mouse
in the pantry y


| often used to cease crying at this, and
stand, wondering to myself what he meant,
| often ran to the pantry, to see if there
really was mouse in the trap; but never
found one. One day said


"Grandfather, don't know what you
mean. haven't a pantry; and there arc
no mice in mothers, because have looked
ever SO often" He smiled, and slid-S


Come, little woman, sit down here in
the porch by me, and Ill tell you what
mean Your heart, Mary, is the pantry.
The little sins are the mice, that get in and
nibhe away all the good, and that makes you
sometimes cross, and peevish, and tretlul--
unwilling to do as your mother wishes and,
if you do not strive against them, the mice
will keep nibblng till the good is all eaten
away Now, want to show you, my little
girl, how to prevent this. To keep the
mice out, you must set trap for them-the
trap of watchfulness and have for bait good
resolutions and iirmness.'
Year: 1866

Two Irishmen crossing n field came in
contact with donkey who was making day
hideous" with his unearthly braying. Jem'
my stood moment in astoniShment; but
turning to Pat, who seemed as much en-
raptured with the song as himself, remark,
ed: Its fine large ear that bird has tol
music, Pat, but sure he's got an awful
cowld.


The Principal of an academy gavea pupil,
who was an aSpirant for the situation OF
school teacher, a certificate which said =
This young man is capable of filling any
position for which he is qualified.


The anger which fushes the face is not
so deadly as that which makes it pale. -
The red heat is less intense than the white.


Some of our religious exchanges tell a
story about woman being relieved from
spcechless grief by hymn. We have known
a number of the sex to be strongly affected
and greatly benefited by hims before this.


An Irish peasant being asked why he per
mitted his pig to take up his quarters with
his family, made an answer abounding with
satirical ndirete: why not? Doesn't the
place afford every convenience that pig
can require