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Year: 1871

Those who think our cultivated
lands mtst grow poor as they grow
old, win find food for reflection in
the fact that not many years back,
the average yield Of wheat per acre
in England waB only 10 bushels-it
is now 80 bushels. Brains did it.
Year: 1871

The world is safe from collision
for awhile longer, as the eonsola-
tion is afforded as that for the next
hundred years the distance between
the earth and the sun win gradually
increase.
Year: 1871

God is wise 70 conceal the sue
cors He intends thee in the several
changes Of thy life, that SO He may
draw thy heart into an entire de-
pendence on His faithful promises.
Therefore, though thou, perhaps,
might not see thy good in the way,
thou shalt surely find Him in the
Year: 1871

The Supreme Being has not gis-
en- US powers or faculties sufficient
to extol and magnify such unutter-
able goodness. It's, however, some
comfort to us that we shall always
be doing what we shall never be
able to do, and that a work which
clnnot be finished viii, however, be
the work of eternity.


The best way to raise beets-
Catch them BY the top and pull.
Year: 1871

fed up stairs, and Joe Mayweed, extricat-
ing himself from the clock, effected his
retreat in the same way that he entered.
The next day all Appleton was alive with
the STORY Of how Deacon Barberry's clock
had been bewitched and though many
believed its version, some, and especially
Joe Mayweed, affected to discredit the
whole affair, limiting that the deacon had
been trying the experiment Of tasting
frozen cider, and that the vageries Of the
clock case only existed in distempered
Imagination.
Year: 1871

- A revenue officer at Toledo (Ohio)
pursued q man with q keg Of whisky across
the river and greatly terrified the fellow
by pointing ont the fact that there was no
stamp on the keg. Suddenly, however,
his countenauce lighted up, and clapping
both hands upon the seat Of his pants,
he exclaimed: See there amt that q
stamp? sat on that keg when / came
over the river" Sure enough, there was
the stamp. The adhesive power Of the
varnish with which the stamp was covered
was greater than that Of the paste which
attached it to the keg, and when the man
left his seat he was stamped The officer
returned home after an all nights chase,
much chagriued At the result Of his ad-
venture.
Year: 1871

the pitch plaster fixed over the lower part
Of his face, were the only properties"
of the william left to indicate his visit.


The cool old assassin had carried off
every other trace of his presence, and he
and his comrade, taking the donkey. cart
with them, had decamped with a celebrity
and managed their diguise with an art
which, as matters then were, and with
full hours start, had bafled pursuit.


No doubt, with the police force now at
our command, the result might have been
different. As it was, no clue whatever was
discovered; and this was positively mar.
velous, considering the marked peculiari.
ties of dress and Of person that belonged
to the ctlpfit. The persons best acquaiut-
ed with the ways of our criminals at that
period were Of opinion that the strange de-
tails Of the dress, the gait, the hair, the
complexion, and the distortion Of the fg-
ure, were parts of an elaborate piece Of
masquerading.


There was some controversy as to the
object Of the projected crime. 1t was not
until the terrific exposure at Edinburgh
had made all the world horribly familiar
with the machinery of that peculiar sps.
cies Of murder that all the debate upon
the matter ceased, and the pitch. plaster
was accepted as conclusive evidence that
the body was intended for sale to the sur.
geons.


No doubt these poachers on great scale
were thoroughly skilled in all the finesse
and strategy Of their contraband art. The
regularity Of my poor brothers solitary
walk, its favorable hour, and the easy sug-
gcstion of drowning as the cause of his
disappearance, had all been noted, and the
enterprise was, as have told you, very
nearly accomplished, when an unexpected
interruption saved him.


My brother was ailiug at the time this
dreadful attempt was made upon his life.
He survived it little more than ten months,
and the able physician who attended him
attributed his death to the awful shock
which his system had received.
Year: 1871

Will our exchanges please note the following fact

 The very few men in Arizona who are standing in with the Indian Ring and savages and against the settlers, excuse themselves in this way: They say that there is no use to oppose Col yer's policy for it will prevail, there fore the best thing to do is to act with him and make all the money they can, as there will be many chances to do so. This is simple statement of the truth in the premises, though the de- based toadies often vary the form but not the spirit of their excuse.

 We never envy men who crouch down and say to their official superiors kick us, spit in our faces, and de- spise us as you will, but graciously permit us to do your dirtiest work and put some money in our purses-ne matter how badly the public is out ragged and robbed. No! such self pronounced tools are not subjects o1 envy.
Year: 1871

TIE San Diego Union is incom- parably the most valuable daily news paper of its size of which we have any knowledge. It Is almost mar vel to us how its proprietors can af- ford to give the public so good a paper under the circumstances, but we presume it is literally patronized at home where it so justly deserves to be, for it is never one day unmindful of the best interests of San Diego and all others tributary thereto. Ari- zona people should patronize The Union, for it is zealous in their be- half. Those who do not care for the Daily can get the Weekly at $5 per year, and we can assure all our readers that it is well worth the money-in fact is a live newspaper, and always has the latest telegraphic news and all the more important matter of the Daily. The Daily is sold and deliv- cred by the Pioneer News Depot here at 50 cents per week, and always has two days later telegraphic news thar any other paper received in Tucson.
Year: 1871

Hardly a mail arrives which does not bring letters from some person asking about Arizona and our advice as to coming hither to engage in some occupation or business. With its moderate climate and vast area of hills, valleys and plains wholly un- occupied and unclaimed, we can easily and truthfully give tempting reply as to the Territory's intrinsic merits, but our advice must be to stay away, as any other would make us accessory to murder. John Montgomery, of the San Pedro, informed us some weeks ago that quite large number of his friends eastward sought his advice on the subject and even wanted it to be favorable, but having helped to bury so many of his neighbors who had fallen by the murderous Apaches in his own neighborhood, and being an honest man, he emphatically objected to their coming to this graveyard. And so with other men. Excepting a few limited settlements, the whole Territory is unsafe for both life and property. It is idle and even crimi- nal to make any other representation. Before the advent of Colyer, we could convey hope to our correspondents that peace and safety would prevail here in a comparatively short time j; but since that date, in the light of his acts and boasts that his policy was the one that would prevail for six years to come, despondency has seized upon the mass of the people. Some of the best men are discouraged and anxious to dispose of what little the Apaches have not stolen, and get away where if the people are no bet ter citizens of the United States, they get that protection of person and property due them.

 We are pained to write thus when an influx of population is so much needed, but as before stated, we would deem it species of criminality not to let the facts be known. Colyer trav- eled safely in Arizona under strong escort of troops at the public expense. Citizens cannot do so, nor should they, but Government should subjugate the savages so they could eingly or in squads travel and pursue their avoca- tions in safety. They ask no more and are entitled to no less. At pres ent there is no safety from savages over by far the largest share oi Arizona.
Year: 1871

It seems by our correspondence from Camp Bowie, as we'll as other reports hitherto made, that the bruited firm of "Cachise, Poper & Pipah," with busi- ness office at Canon AlamOsa, and published to the world with such self glorifcation and cordiality of en- braces between the senior and junior members, is and was fraud, and that as a matter of fact 1t never had any existence. For this reason we declined to give the alleged firm the ordinary business notice at the time of its re- ported organization. We had faith that Cachise would never condescend to go into "business with Indian agents-not even with the divine Col yer although we well understood the anxiety of the paleface agents to inn prove their credit by taking in with them the famous chief murderer of industrious citizens.

 That no injury may inure to any of the parties to the alleged new firm, we now state that it may have 8 genuine existence and if 1t so prove, we shall properly make the amende Honorable, and notice its "business." In the mean time, Captain Russell will take notice that its field of operations is likely to be broad, and that any interference with Cachise's part of the "business " will meet with prompt resistance and perhaps punishment. Hence our anxiety to deal fairly by the "outft." :"

 OUR accommodating Santa Fe ex- changes speak of some murders and outrages perpetrated over that way by the natives" It might be imrerti- nent to inquire what natives they so childlike and blandly refer to, and hence we'll not do 1t.
Year: 1871

WE give liberal space to detailed history of the military and citizen scout which resulted in the making of 56 good Indians. before referred to in THE CITIZEN. It is so seldom such a large haul is made, especially right after the crimes of theft and murder, and so rare that military and civil powers work together with such suc- cess and harmony, that we think a full record should be made. Our cor respondent has enabled us to "place 1t on file" in good shape.

 The scripture talks of "good fights, !" and this was one. It was a genuine peace maker. A few more are left to make, and when made, an enduring peace with the craven, assassinating Apache will have been secured. Since this fight, we have just 56 more reasons for being content to reside in Arizona. We are glad the people of Prescott jubilated and were happy. It is true that it occurred a few days after the hopeful victory and cheerful funeral, but it emphatically gives the lie to every liar who says the people of Arizona don't want the Indian war ended.
Year: 1871

The Territorial Enterprise (Nevada credits THE CITIZEN with complete endorsement of the Camp Grant slaughter, and with language never used in this paper. As many others give us like erroneous credit, we may as we'll state our position distinctly, although to careful readers of our paper, there is no occasion to do so.

 This journal never counseled nor wholly endorsed that massacre, al- though we knew at the time, and cor roborative evidence is daily accumulat- ing, that the Indians at Grant were murdering and robbing our people, and that they were protected and fed by Government officers whose duty it was to punish hostile Indians. We we'll knew some days prior to the slaughter that it was contemplated, and knew that anything we might in terpose would not arrest the effort so sue cessfully made. Afterward, we stated that there never was murder or kill ing done with greater provocation. or one more easily defended on grounds of self-defence. We say so still. We knew how the act would be misrep- resented, that the white ivered friends of the Indians would always suppress all the facts which would reasonably excuse the deed, and therefore our aim has been to correctly inform the public on these points. In doing this, 1t was not deemed necessary to justify the deed further than mere recital of facts would do so. If what we have published has amounted to justifi- cation of the deed, then the truth does 1t. When we see official reports go forth on subjects which involve the lives and property of our neighbors and friends, which are false and have a tendency to augment the blackest of crimes, we shall endeavor to counteract their fendish influence.

 Again we say that the files of our paper and correspondence will show that we have not endorsed the deed, but have excused it, and published abundance of facts relating to 1t, which, had the victims been half as bad whites as they were Indians, would have been deemed ample for a complete justification.
Year: 1871

Masonic Hall was last night, as might
have been expected, well filed, to witness
the second exhibition of the beautiful and
instructive panorama Of Bunyan Pilgrims
Progress. The evening was fine, and our
good people were given an opportunity of
showing their appreciation OF so refined and
interesting an xhibition-instructive and
salutary both to young and old of both
classes, It will be exhibited this afternoon
and evening and tomorrow afternoon and
evening, thereby giving ali an opportunity
to witness it.
Year: 1871

man, bearing in her arms an infant only
few weeks old. The visitor, having
stated that she was going to some neigh
SbOr's, calling the name, requested the ne
gro woman to take charge of the child
and bundle for a short time, until she
could pay the proposed visit. The ne
gress, suspecting no wrong, cheerfully
complied with the request, expecting soon
to be relieved Of her charge; but hour af-
ter hour passed and still the woman fail
ed to return. She has not yet made her
appearance. The child was handsomely,
even richly dressed, and the bundle was
found to contain quite quantity of cost
ly apparel for the infant. No clue is left
to trace the mother, and the beautiful in
fant is left to the charities of negress.
Fortunately for the infant, the negress
had sucking babe, and the little ones of
two distinct races are drawing nourish
ment from the same source.
Year: 1871

Not many days ago there was a box Of
the genuine Mocha coffee received n this
city, by Messrs. Hicks, Houston & 90.
which came direct from Egypt. One sec
ton of the remarkable voyage made bv
this singular looking box, was its passage
through the Saez cansl-that wonderful
desert-channel of which tho world has
said and written so much. It was covered
with strange looking characters, together
with a picture Of the cid Pasha Of that
country Of ancient fame, and the saIuta-
ton lettered thereon, 'Let there be peace
between us'-probably an Out-shoot Of
''Let us have peace.
Year: 1871

The indications are that the May term
of the Criminal Court to commence next
Monday will bemore than usually pro
trscted. For the first week and probably
longer, the court will work upon the mis-
demesnor docket, and after the second
week Judge Frazier will exchange places
for time with Judge Hickerson, of the
Coffee county circuit.
Year: 1871

A deacon who became rich in
a grocery no a hundred miles
from a certain State House,
used 70 boast how much he
had done for the cause of tenn
perance, by mixing at least a
gallon of pure water with every
gallon of liquor he sold.
Year: 1871

! The rapldity with which this eat ma


tional thoroughfare is being built, is really


astonishing when we take into considera
| ton the character of country through


which the road is now being constructed


Already the mighty Mississippi is ~panned
| by a substantial bridge and trains run
thirty miles beyond, while track laying pro-
crosses as speedily As men aud mouey will


permit.


Brainerd, on the line of the road at the
Mississippi crossing, is rapidly growing


town yet in its infancy, and with lis present
prospects it will not be many years before
It's inhabitants are counted by the thou


sands.


w ork has been commenced on the Pa
ciic coast and will be vigorously prose-
cuted. The road when finished will at
once command a large portion of the busl-
ness between the waters Of the two or, at
oceans, which cam It fail to pass over its
track in seeking an eastern market by way
Of the lakes.


Including the purchase aud consolidation
of the ST. Paul & Pacific Railroad, the
Northern Pacific now has over 425 miles
OF road in working order, and before the
close of the year 1871, the company will
have 600 miles or more fully equipped and
doing business.


Among the numerous products of the Pa
I a
which will form an immense traffic, and be
transported to tie tide of imm grants now
settling up the rich and fertile farming dis
tricts IN the States and Territories, along
the line of road. All Europe is full of en-
thusiasm in regard to the heathfuIness Of
our climate When we reflect it is not as
,oni>hing that our productive soil is sought
after by so many desirous of obtaining
good farms.


Lake Superior is the eastern terminus of
this gigantic highway, but the exact spot
on the shores of said lake yet remains an
unsolved mystery with the anxious and Gu
rious public. No definite and permanent
point has yet been selected, notwithstand-
ing all inflated newspaper misrepresenta-
tions to the contrary.


What fortunes men would make, could
they but peer into the dim future and dis
cern financially the proper course to pursue
in order to arrive at the goal of the avar-
cious 1t is no uncommon occurrence to
see facts positively stated in connection
with the future designs of the company in
undignified sheets, and in the course of
time, Ill the same organs, see a shameless
contraction, and some other equally obnox-
ious and lying assertion made. That it s
provoking and diSgu ting, there cannot be
a doubt, and it is AL done for money, and
not calculated to forward the commercial
prosperity of any place.
Year: 1871

The steamer City of Quincy which ar
rived at ST. Paul last week was the first
boat that ever came through direct from
New Orleans to the head of navigation Oh
the Mississippi This is Commodore Da
Wilson's attempt to flank the Lake Superior
trade.
Year: 1871

JAY Cooke is said to have been enter
tanned the other evening at the house OF
Henry Ward Beecher. We hope Beecher
will come to Duluth. He is throwing him
self away there in Brooklyn.
Year: 1871

Ann Margurlett Hugu1er, fIalntlI,


against


Antoine Savinier Maximen Huguer, Defendent.)
In the name Of the State of Wisconsin, to the above
named defendant


You are heteby summoned and required to answer
the complaint of the plaintiff in the above entitled
ton which said complaint is filed in the Office of the
Clerk of this Court in and for the County of Douglas
aforesaid in the Town of SUPERIOR and to copy
of your answer upon the undersigned at his office in
said town of Superior in said County within twenty
DAYS after the service of this exclusive of the
day of service. And if you fail to answer said COM
plant within the time aforesaid the plaintiff in this
action will apply to the court for the relief demanded
in the complaint. THUS. CLAhh


Plaintiffs Atty, Superior, Wis
Dated March 2Sth A. D. 1871 30-7
Year: 1871

John B. Cough gives the follow
ing, and we think it worthy a place
in our columns, as indeed, any pro-
duction of the eminent advocate OF
Temperance is we'll entitled to:


In the United States have b cen
accustomed to speak in State Pris-
ons-although was not allowed to
do 80 in England-when the wife
Of poor creature wanted me to
speak q word to her husband, and
having been permitted to ask the
question:


"What brought you here?" the
answer has almost invariably been:


"Drink, drink, drink"
remember in New Hampshire
prison l saw a very benevolent.
looking man seated before me.
The chaplain said:


"Do you see that ina:l?"


"Yes."


II want you to notice particular
ly." / did


That man, said he is here for
murder


What! a man like that?


Yes, for the murder of his wife


When l went round I took hold
Of his hand and said to him.


Now, my friend, have heard
Of yo1r crime. and I am perfectly
astonished when l look at you, and
l want to know the reason why you
did


He looked at me for a moment
and said:


'Yes, loved my wife and chill
dren as we'll rs any man in New
Hampshire ever loved a wife and
children, l loved them. sir; but
drank drank neglected them.
| went on and on--my wife's face
grew paler, and her eyes grew larger
and l caught her many and many a
time weeping bitterly, and it made
me mad-mad with myself-1 knew
| was causing it; and them" said
he II wished she was dead. could
not bear to see that pale, pleading
face everywhere-at the corner Of
the street, in the dram shop, in the
very glass would see her glitter
ing eyes upon me, and it made me
mad-mad, sir. And sometimes
| would be sober for a week or
two. and then would be sorry
had ever said cross word to her;
but drink l must, and then I would


wish her dead One day came in
to the house; she did not hear me
she did not know l was there. She


was seated upon chair, with her
elbow upon the table, and her pale
face lay upon her hand, and the
comb had fallen from her hair
; she had beautiful hair hung all
down her shoulders; and I stood
and looked, and l saw the tears
rolling down her cheeks one after
the other. The devil entered into
me. went into the next room
{ I got rifle and shot her dead.
am here; do not expect to get
out, want no pardon. I am sen.
fenced for life. But on! sir, believe
, me-believe me"-and he grasped
! my hand-believe me, I never
! would have done it, had it not
been for DRINK"
Year: 1871

From Senssor Morton's Cincinnati speech.


| want to consider the Fourteenth
q Amendment in regard to its power. 1t
says no State shall deny to any portion
Of its citizers equal protection Of the
laws. Blu. what amounts to denial?
That is the great question. What amounts
to denial on the part of State of equal
protection OF the laws to any class Of its
citizens? According to Mr.. Groesbeck,
it can only be done by an act Of the Le-
gislature, which withholds equal protec-
ton of the law. l say, not so. If the
State should pass law Withholding
| equal protection from any portion of the
people, that is ore way; or if the State
| fails to enact laws which are necessary
for the protection of her people, that is
another way, and if the State enacts a
| law ard fails to execute it as to part Of
| the people, that is still another way: or If
he Stale has enacted law, and the cons
dition OF public opinion. as in North and
South Carolina. Georgia and Alabama, is
such as to render it impossible to admins
ister the law. and give equal prolec,io n
that is another way Of denying equal
protection of the laws to all classes Of
the people.


What have we to do about it? We
have 60. TO do simply with the fact. Ali
that We can inquire into is the fact: Is the
equal protection oi the law denied. or is
it wanting to any class Of people in any
State?


| It is no difference how it comes about;
whether the State has wilfully refused
to pass the necessary laws, or, having
passed hem refuses to enforce them
We can not inquire into the cause. All
we can deal with is the great fac. that
equal protection by the law is denied,
and if the State does not give to por.
ton of its people equal justice can
not inquire into the motives, but we can
compel the State to the enforcement oil
the law; We can compel the State Off
cefs to enforce the law by United States
officers. But if the State fails from any
OF these causes to give equal protection
of the laws we deal with the fact, and the
Government Of the United States must
step in under the fourteenth amendment
and furnish that protection. How fur
nish it? By Furnishing the men who are
the instruments Of crime, and who have
denied to portion Of the people equal
protection of the law. This is all we
can DO, and that is what We are required
to dc.


| Mr.. Groesbeck says we have our home
governments and our fireside govern.
menis, and we must cherish and main
tain :hem. and l say SO, too. But he
goes further, and says we must leave to
them the exclusive protection Of our lives
liberty and property. But when men
are invaded in their homes and massa>