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Year: 1875

FROM SANTA MARIA.-Abe Prather and several others have returned from the new dry diggings on the Santa Maria, and are not pleased with the prospects. We interviewed Abe, and he said there was gold there and if water could be had good wages could be made for a few days, but the diggings are very limited and no water, even to drink, short of two or three miles, and that over a mountain, and very limited in quantity. Practically, he pronounces it nothing at all, although the discoverers did first rate for a short time drying the dirt and blowing it out. He thinks they had the cream of it before they let the discovery be known.
Year: 1875

Two or three weeks ago we had an item with reference to the killing of a woman by her husband at Mineral Park on the 9th of Nov. but were unable to give names. The Poche Record of the lith has letter from St. Thomas giving names and details. The man was M. DeKay. The family formerly hved at Pioche, and consisted of MT. and Mrs DeKay ana seven children. From Pi- oche they removed to Pahranagat where domestic relations were so unpleasant, that the woman took her children and came to Arizona, in search of employment. He followed her and had got consent to return 10 Pahranagat under a promise that he would cease drinking and go to work. After getting her consent to go back with him he waited until she was asleep with her babe in her arms when he stole into the room put a pistol to her temple and sent ball crashing through hey brain. He then shot himself, but it is believed by the people of the park, as we hear from private sources, that he pulled up the skin on his breast and by dextrous handling of the pistol fired through a.fold of the skin to give it the appearance of two shots to create sympathy.
Year: 1875

SOME naughty children when Sin the pouts" and offered sugar or other nice thing, will strike it from your hand, dash it to the al favors" When We talk pretty to the ed tor of the Citizen he only gets ''madder and madder," until we begin to fear result said to have befallcn an honest Teuton when pur- sued by Wild cattle
Year: 1875

report of the Mohave county grand jury published elsewhere, will be found to be sharp reading. They talk rather plainly as to the management of county affairs in the past, and stir up the supervisors with avery keen pointed instrument. It seems they discovered no irregularities in the conduct of the present incumbents other than negli  reAce on the part of the board.
Year: 1875

GEORGE MARTIN, wholesale and retail druggist at Yuma, is one of the most correct and prompt business men in irizona. It is a pleasure to do business with man who is always square up to the mark. If we were in the business and wanted 10 order bill of drugs We should send right straight to pr. Martin and rely upon fair dealing.
Year: 1875

NE denied yesterday that HENRY ).
WALKgR wrote the articles which have
appeared in the REGIsTER, and now we
simply repeat the denial and stigmatize
.uy assertion TO the contrary as u false
hood
Year: 1875

In Bishop Havens madness about the third term
there seems to be considerable Method-ism.


Il does not follow that is a Christian because
he accepts a creed and attends a fashionable church
any more than that he is gun because he swallows
the physicians powders


As general rule the people who complain about
high priced pews simply excuse for not attend
Ing church There low priced pews in every church
where you the preacher and hear the Gospel
bu-not be The last clause contains the root Of
the trouble


The best place 70 study the effect OF cathedral win
dows is inside the building and outside The same
IL true Of Christianity


Chaunoey Rose Of Terre Haute has given g. 600 900
within twenty-hv years 70 charitable Institutions
Here We have al last Rose without a thorn


great many people very ANXIOUS about having
he Bible read In the schools who are not equally par.
ticuiar 70 have 1t read at home


December Il, 1876 In The calendar or Morrnonism
win always have a black line about il on that day
Chief Justice Waite decided that no man whatever hfs
conscientious scruples has a right to more than ono
wife a. time II you live beyond the reach or the
constitution you think and a. you please but
nyou live within the circle you may think as you will
but you must do az you are told So fados polygamy
and We submit 70 the judgment OF tho Court, which
must have had experience in such matters, that ono
wife supply q with all the dlscpllne that a
needed


We have always rather sympathized with the lady
who declared that she could engage her deyotonl
unless she had giit edged prayer book for there Is
certain divine order aud harmony In all concerns
however trivial Russia leather prayer book simply
preserves the unity Of weather, and anything els,
would be out Of place Mr. Emerson, however goes
step further and tells OF woman who declared
that tho Consciousness Of being well dressed and Ii
good Iaste gave her . peace Of mind which religion
could afford We have heard Of the rags q
rghteousness and have impression that tho apostle
tells that they about all ever attain 10
but people will persist IN the delusion that th'
exnrassloR. "of such la the kingdom Of heayen" hai
Year: 1875

Let dotards grieve for childhood's days,


And only those look back
Whose wasted wealth or shattered


health


Betrays shameless track;
I cannot join in mourning time


Forever passed away
For while 7 look on natures hook


Pm thankful for to-day.
The trees are still as fresh and green


AS ever branches were,
And still, in primal vigor seen,


They wave their arms in air;
The rivers sing their self same song,


That they have sung for aye
Whose burden, as they glide along,


Is, "God is here to-day"
There's not bird upon the bough,
Or leaf upon the tree,
But in the summer twilight now


AS sweetly sing to me-;
The bleakest wind that winter blows


Can chase disease away,
And shower blessings in the SHOWS


That hide the earth to-day
And, every where thousand gifts


Invite us to rejoice
To grieve no more the days of yore,


But raise thankful voice;
That tells us, though the world were
fair


In years remove for aye,
The earth and sky, and sea and air,


AS lovely as to-day.
Then tell me not the childhood's days


Alone are fraught with joy
That manhood's fancy cannot raise
The structures of the boy;
The childish mind is lost in dreams
Of pictures far away,
But man beholds majestic themes,
The wonders of to-day
o We whose eyes upbraiding raise,


Pronouncing Faro unjust
Who walked the earth with cherished
hopes


Low trailing in the dust
Discard false, unmanly thrall,
Nor own so weak sway,
But hope in him who gave you all.


And thank him for to-day.
Year: 1875

No THIRD PARTY.-The Cincinnati
Gazette (Republican) says: "There Will
be no third party to make nominations
in 1879. The contest unless some unfore-
seen event occurs, will be between the
Republican and Democratic organiza.


tions. Of one or the other Grant will
be the nominee, if nominated all. The


Democrats are not likely to nominate
him. The Republicans certainly will
not nominate him. This is as certain
as anything in the future can be said to
be. A third term for Grant orany other
man is, as we have often said, out of the
question. 1t would be hard to guess


who the Republican nominee for 1875


will be, as it would be to guess the DEM
cratic nominee. The Democrats have
already several candidates in the field,
and that party will have trouble enough
in maxim two selection, without both
ering themselves about the Republican
candidate. OF one thing. however the
opposition may rest assured, viz, that
their talk about third term is humbug,
and will not deceive auy body. Not a
corporal's guard of the Republican party
could be brought to support any living
man for third term. The opposition
to any such suggestion would be found
to be well nigh universal.
Year: 1875

The Iron Age says that wedge or
plate of iron has been discovered imbed-
ded in the masonry of the great pyra-
mid. 1t has been Il great puzzle to those
who attributed the first use of iron to n
date not much more than 1000 years
back, how such sharp and well defined
hieroglyphics could have been cut
on porphyry, granite and the
hardest stone rs are found on the tombs
temples and sarcophagl of ancient Egypt.
But the piece of iron found in the great
pyramid shows that this metal was pro-
duced and wrought in the age of King
CheopS, which is placed by some author
tiles as far back as 800 years ago. The
similarity of similar inscriptions on
stone to those made in the time Of King
Chcops suggests the suppoSition that
iron may have been in use more than
5000 years ago.
Year: 1875

THE STORY OF THE NEGRO SAILOR WHO WAS
PICKED UP AT SEATTLE SCHOONER W. d. b.
PROBABLY LOST.


The colored sailor who was picked up at sea on the
by Captain Forbach, Of the Norwegian bark Biscop
Brun, brought up to the city yesterday HERALD
reporter called at the Office of Messrs Funch Edge IL
Co., and obtained the following story from the rescued
man; also statement from Captain Forbach The
story Of


CoLoRED SAILOR
is as folows:- My name IS william Vincent; / am
twenty years Of age, and born Port SPAIN in
the Island Of Trinidad came to this country several
years ago, and am now citizen of Philadelphia; on
the 10th Of September shipped that port as sea
man on board a schooner, the name of which do not
know the vessel sunk so low in the water that
could not make II out She a fore and aft schooner
Of ninety nine TONS and loaded with iron and gas
pipes and was bound for Boston Beside my self there
were on the schooner the captain and and white
cook, but their names do not remember We left
Philadelphia the 10th nst late In the afternoon
and reached the Delaware Breakwater the 18th We
had light winds all the way until got fairly out to
sea, when the wind began TO lreshen and by the time
we had reached Barnogat Lght blowing very hard
Beng heavily laden we made very slow hcadway. ON
the 10Th, when off Fire Island, about nine O'Clock r. M
fierce gale sprang up We all did our best to save the
vessel Finally the captain tried to gybe her, and she
went over


on HER BEAM ENDS.


Her outer ib had been taken in and her mansail and
ferssan we're EesIod When the vessel went over the
Year: 1875

sail fell nat on the water and was thrown upon IL
Whlle IN that position managed TO got ria OF my heay
sea boots and pea jacket AS the vessel lhy sun ior
VINE thought she might loat tlll morning out @ her
cargo had shifted so much that II was breaking her
sues sues out ana saw she must soon 90 down. just az
lhls instant caught spar, and as did so saw inc
sea sweep over the schooner and carry the captain and
mate with It, The cook sprang to whore was ana
caught me around tho neck. but soon freed myself
from ha and he was then swept away ] never
any OF the men atterward and think they all lost,
tho running very high at tho time Being
swept of the spar succeeded in getting cabin door,
and 10 this cung from midnight the hour when the
vessel went down, until noon the day when
picked up by Captain Forbach who treated me in the
most humane manner giving me good food and cloth
ing. was nearly exhausted and do thinkI could
have lived much longer All know about the schooner
is that the mate told me she belonged TO Thomastown,
Me. The Pilot Commissioners have promised to send
me to Philadelphia in day or two


CAPTAIN FoRBACH STATED


that when about twenty miles of Fire Island,
Friday the 18th inst, he saw something floating
in the water which he finally discovered by the aid OF
a glass to be a man. He at had boat lowered,
although the time the running very high,
and put OF for the poor fellow When lie was brought
deck he was in such an exhausted condition that he
could not stand up | doctored him the best / could,
and he all right The story he has gwen you Is
about as he gave II To me.


From Captain FoTbach's log the fact Is learned that
he had very stormy passage from Hayre


On the 26th Of August in latitude AZ deg 80 min.
north longitude 50 deg 81 min he passed the hull of
a full rigged brig Her fore and man masts gone;
the mzzenmast standing, but had no rigging at
tached TO it, and there was no one on board she was
painted black, with white cabin work, nut was SO
shattered her name could not be read Captain For
bach thought she was either an American or German
vessel On the 5th of September the CAPTAIN says he
passed, IN latitude 46 deg 4S min, longitude 40 deg
so min nine of the largest cebergs he ever saw One
OF them stood out of the water $40 feet.


As the United States government always presents
token of commentator to the seaman who saves life
in our waters Captain Forbach is entitled to one.


Messrs Funch, Edge Co sent despatch to Phia-
delphia yesterday TO inquire If schooner had been
lost ans werng the description of the Vincent
on They received word that the schooner W. d. b.,
belonging Portland, Me-. and owned by C. II. Chase,
had lett Philadelphia the time mentioned by Vincent
and had not since been heard from
Year: 1875

NEW YORK, sept ~, 1870
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


For the convenience of out Of town passengers,
informed that the Greenwich Street Company contem
plate running line OF stages from the Of Forty.
nnh street and Ninth avenue TO the depot Tha
thought of having make three changes of conveyance,
between down town, Harlem and Fordham or Yonkeu
Is enough discourage one in the outset. Why not
do our best make travel as easy and pleasant pos
sible instead of adding to II Unnecessary dscOmorures
Let US correct this matter, If possible the outset
propose that on reaching Forty nth street the
company build switch oil into Forty fifth street sui
GENTLY long To serve the purpose OF switching of all
the containing passengers for the Central depot
This DONE steam elevator should be constructed with
motive power undcrgrOund OF sufficient size to lower
raise one, two at time from the road
bed to the street level


on the arrival OF "A train any number oil cars may De
switched OIL here and lowered to the street level and
run from thence by rail- drawn by horses, into the
Grand Central depot, thus avoiding one very important
change Of conveyance and considerable Inconvenience
and delay


This system of raising and lowering cars has been
very successfully employed, and need only mention
an instance the eevatIng OF freight (which are
double or treble the weight OF the passenger
used on the elevated road in the docks ut Liverpool
England Very respectfully, q X IL, ID
Year: 1875

state of public opinion any subordinate
officer would take such q step without
sanction from headquarters. We may
fairly assunie chat The 4fresi4
dent, by these twin acts of usurpation-
the one at New Orleans and the other at
Vicksburs merely illustrates the policy


which he intends to pursue toward the
South. II this il SO, it is AZ waste Of


,ronble for the Republicans In Congress


to recommend any furthe~ military domi-


nation in the Southern States. Presi;;


dent Grant shows himself willing end


ready to interfere in the South IN the
interests of his party to any extent,
without word Of advice from Congress.
Year: 1875

HARPER's WEEKLY, which has always /
been an advocate of Gen. Grants ad |
ministration, and published many car |
toons of his opponents. now maintains
that the action towards Louisiana and
the South is splitting the party and
charges the split upon Grant and Con-
gress. 1t says:


"The Republican party III this coun-
try is strong by the intelligence and in
dependence OF its members. 1t has a.
fair proportion Of regulars" who look
only for the party label, and swallow all
TINT it covers, but It has very large
and controlling multitude Of supporters
who care nothing for labels, and who are
more patriotic than partisan. Now there
is not a Republican leader in Washing
ton-Secretary, or Senator, on Represen-
tative-who must not have felt when the
news from New Orleans was first pub
hshed that the party, as such, wonld not
Justify or sustain the action Of Governor
Kellogg, but would demand its prompt
disavowal."


In concluding this article it says:


The press may be Supposed to know
and to represent the feeling of the party
at least as fully and accurately as Con





faithfully studied at Washington it will
be seen that the way to split the party"
is to approve General Sherdans unfor-
tunate dispatch, and to justify Governor
Kellogg for ordering the soldiers into
the State House. ..


In another article the same paper says
As mere party tactics the first thing
to do was to assume the truth and de-
clare it, and that was the party condem-
nation of all unconstitutional and hasty
action in Louisiana, whether taken by a
Republican local Executive OF not, and
whether with the approval Of the Ma
tional Administration or not And nov
that enough facts are known, Congress
ought to understand that there is on,
sure way of splitting the party" anC
that is by timid, hesitating, paralytii
policy. Mr.. Schurz said nothing bette
in his speech than that he hoped thu
Republicans would not attempt an,
strained or doubtful Interpretation 0
law in defense of the New Orleans ac
ton. The vital interest of the party
the avoidance OF party split" re
quires that the proceeding Of the Exec
utiv6 OF Louisiana, so far az it has n
clear and simple and unquestionabl
sanction i'll the Constitution, and wheth
er the President and Cabinet sanction i
VI HOl, 6htLll De as IOTClDly COnubuICu u
Congress as it is by Republicans through
out the country. That so few Republ
cans in New York signed the call for tn
meeting Of protest was not that they di
not feel that a great wrong had bee
done. And Congress should see tha
even if it must choose in this matte
between the President and the party, {
the great mass of. intelligent Republ
cans, it must choose the latter"


1t is of little consequence how actis
the office-holders and self-interested R
publieans may be in defending the inf
nous course of Grant and Sheridan
when it is so clearly apparent that on
half Of the party is convinced that a
error of the most damaging and mi
chievous character has been committe
Men will not be led to sustain athi
term candidate by such imperial al
dangerous actions as that in regard
Louisiana.
Year: 1875

AND NOW, for want of better mate
rial, the Democracy quotes the following
assurance of DR.. Sears, agent of the Pea
body Trust Fund, as proof that the South
is intensely loyal:


81, too, have made tour Of the South, and
l tell you the war is over. The Southern peo-
pie simply ask not to be annoyed by reckless
adVenturers. Treat them right and you win
their confidence. Send no injudicious man
down there, with friction matches. Such a
man may set whole States on fire. For
heavens sake, keep your rash, partisan men
at home"


1t should be understood that DR.. Sears
is himself an unreconstructed rebel. In
fact, he is one of the excitable and infiam-
mable kind that does not require match to
set him ablaze. He is not exactly the man
to cry "for heavens sake, keep your rash,
partisan men at home" His evidence,
however, will be acceptable as proof that a
condition of rebellion exists in the South
which only requires an imaginary provoca-
ton to cause it to break out in open insur-
rection. The idea that an American citi-
zen, no matter how rash or partisan, should
be prevented from visiting any section of
his country for fear of ofrenewing the war is,
to say the least, little strange, when we
learn from such authority that the "War is
over"
Year: 1875

AND NOW the New York Tribune comes
out with an unqualified Endorsement of the
Democratic programme to remodel the
constitution of North Carolina. This was
to have been expected. The Tribune,
under its present management, has ever
been ready to aid the Opposition in any of
its schemes, and in the present instance,
without waiting to examine the issues in
volved, has assumed, with instructive ha-
tired of the Republican party-the hatred
of a renegade for his former principles
that the Democrats are in the right. The
truth is, the present constitution is more
complete and satisfactory in its provisions
to meet the requirements of the changed
condition of affairs than any one the Dem
ocrats are likely to frame. The objections
to it are comparatively trivial, and the
gain to be accomplished by their removal
is not Of sufficient value to warrant the
risk that will be incurred by giving the
Democrats a chance to destroy its more
accountable features. The Tribune takes it
for granted that "men of enlarged and
"practical statesmanship, spotless integ-
=" rfty, representatives of all classes Of So
mciety, and whose positions entitle their
+" lsbors to confidence and support . will
Year: 1875

the period we have mentioned. We may
confidently assume that the Senate is all
right; but how is it with the Housef Are
our leaders in that body competent 70 breast
the stormi Are they steadfast and un-
fiinching In their support of everlasting
princlplei


Maniiestly, Mr.. Ex-Speaker Blaine. by
force of circumstances, will become the
leader of the Republican side. While the
majority Of his countrymen yield to him
recognition of many of the qualities of
leadership, it must be acknowledged that
others, forming a significant and powerful
element of the Republican party, are in
clined to doubt his consistency. With his
social relations no man of decency will
attempt to interfere seriously. He may
make Tom, Dick and Harry his guests and
receive their hospitalities as often as he
pleases, and so long as he preserves the
proprieties of his position no one will OBJ
ject But if, as it has been suspected
however justly we do not pretend to say
he is in any way engaged in a conspiracy
to lead the party out of its beaten paths for
the doubtful purpose of winning back GER
tain individuals and cliques that have will
fully strayed away from the party folds,
and as willfully attempted to destroy its
organization and the character of some of
its leaders, he may expect that the unani-
nous confidence he might otherwise de-
serve will be withheld from him. On the
contrary, if he remembers the pledges
of the party to support the blacks and
the Unionists of the South in their
efforts to enjoy the dearly-bought benefits
of the war, and if he battles manfully
against the encroachments of the Opposi
ton, no matter in what guise they may
come, whether in the garb of personal
friendship or under the colors of outspoken
enmity, he may find himself on the top
wave of popularity and on the high tide of
success long before December, 1877. In
palmer terms, Mr.. Blaine's opportunity to
make or u3make himself as party leader
ginning to dawn. He has made the mis-
take in times past of yielding to personal
ambitions and jealousies to such an extent
that the party has been injured, its friends
discouraged, and thousands Of its sup
porters left unprotected to the merciless
prescription and murderous designs of their
enemies. 1t will require remarkable
amount of charity to overlook and forgive
these acts; but, as circumstances that are
fortuitous to him have placed him accident
ally in the foreground at time when the
greatest struggle of the party's history will
take place, the eyes of every Republican in
the land will be upon him. If his course
shall justify the hopes his friends entertain
of him, if he shall stand by the Republican
party in its battles against foes of every
description, and if he shall redeem the mis-
takes and almost criminal blunders of the
recent past, he may regain lost confidence
and realize the proudest ambition of his
life. But we are afraid he is too sincerely
welded to strange gods.