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Year: 1875

A lot of one hundred pounds of ore from the Old Mine was smelted and re fined in Tucson this week, and gave the surprising yield of $200 in silver This bears out Dr. Handy's previous estimates of it's worth, and is simply immense, especially as the Old Mine is a large vein of ore-nOt seam or de posit. Work is going forward day and night, and the force will be increased just as soon as the mine will admit of more worlmen to advantage. Dr. Han dy, Prof. Arey, R. N. Leatherwood and J. H. Bartlett have just gone out to make a preliminary survey and do other work.

 Tom Roddick came in early this week with $161 in beautiful, bright gold, obtained from three tons of ore from the Yellow Jacket mine on the Ostrich lode. He worked the ore in an arrastrar right on the ground, and says there are thousands of tons in sight. He tells us we will be safe in saying that is one of the most valuable gold mines ever discovered.

 The Ostrich mill plates were cleaned up about a week ago, and thirty-seven ounces nice gold was the result. Bat teries and sluices not cleaned at latest advices which probably contain much more.

 Reports from the Santa Rita placers continue as good as ever.

 We call attention to an article from The Binghamton (N. V Times, by which it will be seen what that ener getic gentleman, James H. Truman has done. We are advised that he vii be here next month and push work vigorously.

 We print Florence dispatch be cause it was evidently sent elsewhere as well as here. We have made in quiries about it and the replies sustain our opinion that it is so much eXag gerated as to do the Territory injury and no one any good. The idea of ore averaging 50 to $1O per pound, is one hard to accept without doubt. TheT the taking of $20,G00 in two days by three men, is almost equally incredu lous. THE CITIZEN glories in all rich discoveries-the richer the better. We rejoice heartily that Pinal county has such good mines, but we remember { private dispatch sent to the Governor at San Diego recently, about a 200 pound find of silver; of the offer O. Kerens & Mitchell to transport it free of how it could not be found nor any thing like it; and the operator did no have the courage to report the mythic al find as news. Such reports will d( much damage. We want to know anC print the brightest showing that can bC done truthfully. We have abundan evidence that the Pinal mines art wondrously ricn with the finest pros poets. Let all us news -gatherers anC disseminators adhere to the truth, anC the Territory will fare better, and al fair and sensible people will applaud us for it. We have a marvelously ricE Territory. Let us truly represent i and thereby capital and labor will be induced to come as quickly and remain much longer.
Year: 1875

ACCORDING to previous announcement, the exclusive right to rent booths on the plaza during the coming Feast of San Au- gustine, was sold at auction last Saturday to A. Torres for S3S5; and the several lots of block l6l in the extreme southern DOT tioD of the corporation, were sold to sever al persons for the aggregate sum of SI21.

 The Village Council will meet next Monday evening to provide police for the Feast which opens next Saturday and will probably continue ten days. Booths are now being erected on the plaza.
Year: 1875

WE are informed that considerable pet ity thIeving has been done about town within few weeks, and that the village authorities have been making successful efforts to ferret out the rascals. It would be prudent for people to keep a close look out and so secure their houses as to not tempt the thieves.
Year: 1875

Is always supplied with an ample variety of well-cooked food. No exaggeratiOn in this. Stage passengers and travellers by there understand It, and to them all un- acquainted with the fact are respectfully referred for information.
Year: 1875

.OUR MILL NOW BEING IN FULL " operation, we are prepared to furnish the market with a quality of Flour, which factured in the Territory, and fully equal to the very best imported from California. We will keep constantly on hand at the Mill, and at our several agencies

 Three Qualities of Flour,
Year: 1875

The symptoms of Liver Complaint are
unessiness and pain in the side. some
times the pain is in the shoulder, and is
mistaken for rheumatism. The stomach
is affected with loss of appetite and
sickness, bowels in general cosuve,
head is troubled with pain, and dull,
heavy sensation, considerable loss Of
memory accompanied with painful SEN
sation of having left undone something
which ought to have been done. Often
complaing of weakness, debility, and
low spirits. Sometimes many OF the
above symptoms attend the disease, and
at other times very few of them; but
the liver is generally the organ most In
Year: 1875

showed that the woman had been taken TO the Police
Station by an excise inspector, who said be was not Ger
tain of obtaining evidence to hold her and NO
was made against her, although the inspector desred
10 have her detained Subsequently the inspector ~ tne
presence of Commissioner stner, said that Ne naa no
evidence on which holi the and the prisoner
was released The referred ~ the fuII bonru
Year: 1875

the Shipley and Brown pirates did
a few years ago, who became SO
bold that they hob-knobed with
some of our political aspirants
with perfect sang-froid, and finally
left the Territory when they be
came unpopular as heroes. Ifanv
sheriff has any business with the
firm Of Jones & Co., he can call
at their camp, between Cape
Flattery and Dungencss any time
before the last Of next month,
as thcvm have business in some
other part of the Territory when
they recruit from their recent eN-
ertiOns.


What a farce it is to call honest
citizens from their homes two or
three times a year to attend court
as jurymen, leaving their families
and business to hear testimony
and convict evil-doers at a great
expense to the Territory, who are
after conviction passed over to an
individual without security against
escape; and if they do cape
it is nobody's business. The press
seems silent and passes it over
with threc-line notice, and in a
few days it is forgotten. There is
a screw loose somewhere, and the
sooner our governors, judges and
county officials tighten it up the
better. Our laws are Just as
stringent as those of Great Brit
ain, and it only remains for our
citizens TO see that they are car
ried out. We are fast verging
into Vigilantic period when none
will be too high to reach.


tits time this thing was stopped,
Murderers are rampant and thieves
are jubilant. Citizens, awake
You are sleeping on a smoldering
volcano, which will break out
some day and fill the Territory
with terror. This is no idle proph-
ecy; it is written on the walls,
and he who runs may readl


1t is time the press and all law
abiding citizens took this matter
in hand while there is yet time
If something is not done soon
fear for the future. Our courts
are farce and juries a burlesque;
like putting locks on mail-bags
which makes a thief $ knife laugh


HUSTLER.
Year: 1875

TIE Treasury Department at Wash
ington, has received from the Collector
at Sitka, a copy Of a report made
to him by an experienced miner, who,
having made an extensive examination
OF Alaska, states that he has discovered
deposits of greater richness than any
known TO exist OH this continent and
probably in the world.
Year: 1875

To-day is a school holiday. What more


than that can now be said about it If the


youngest of town-boys should be detained


while their teacher lectured on the Father of


his Country, could they be expected to tolor-


ate it 7 They hold that the First in War and


Peace is bore. and was png that all that


shining host of immaculate immortal dead,


whose names we, when we were lads, spoke


with bated breath and heated blood, were


really no better than their neighbors All the


lesser tribe of heroes, too, whose deeds used


to fill the pages of school readers and the
souls of school-boys. have been stripped Of
their royal robes in the eyes of this genera,
ton. Penn was an Atful Dodger in his way
Pocahontas olOose half breed tomboy,
and William Tell never lived at all there
was no Albert, no tyrant, no apple For Us
grown-up people the matter is worse, because
once upon time we saw differently the
world used to be a melOdrama, full of saints
in white and sinners in inexcrable fame
color; now we live on high dead
level, and are apt to find no heads
any taller than our own. 1t is we who
IN our daily talk have taken off the halo
from the heads of all heroes for our girls and
boys, and replaced them with ordinary hats
and bonnets. 1t needs but five minutes gossip
at the breakfast-table to lower and cheaper a
great. name forever in their minds. In Our
grandfathers'. days gossip was slow to reach
US; it travelled at the swftest on a pack car
ried by man on horseback, and never pene-
trated remote districts. The crowd looked on
III awe while the Father of his Country
stepped into his gilt coach on Highest, and
no "dirty Democrat" caviled at Lady Wash
ington. Now, the newspaper, with its myriad
Argus eyes, spies out the foul stain, the dark
chapter IN every mans life, and the lightnings
carry the story to the meanest hamlet. We
have, therefore, the miserable satisfaction of
measuring ourselves with every Saul who at
tempts to stand higher than his brethren and
OF finding some reason for trampling him un-
der foot. 1t is food to our petty vanity when
q great Christian teacher is dragged in the
mire, or when brave soldier betakes himself
to greedily lining his pockets. We carry our
iconoclastic fury into the region of our faith.
The great mass Of men, who have neither
genuine scientific knowledge nor religion, ex-
perience. welcomed with o singular eager
ness the hint that Great First
Cause might some day he reinstated by
An Intelligent Molecule. The ancient Devil,
with bis horns and hoof, is reduced nowadays
to an attack of dyspepsia, and Lazarus and
the Prophet Samuel OF Endor were material.
lied spirits, twin brothers of Katie King and
the tricky redskins of the Eddy brothers.


Seriously, this utter abolition of all hero
worship among us will tell. in another genera
Year: 1875

the subject, are necessarily made familiar with
the best modes of conducting rcformatory
schools through tho colony at Mcttray. Tho
criminal child of the poor man ia sent there
with an almost absolute certainty OF his re-
form; the idle, refractory son OF the rich man
goes into tho Maison paternehe and comes
home thankful for ordinary college work ana
discipline. In the same manner the English
man is familarized with the idea that the
punishment of the convict should be ref0rma-
tory as well as punitive through the work
inps of the Crorton system. 1t is not through
International Congresses or bulky reports
that the real reform is to be accomplished IN
this country, but by some actual work done'
TO whose success one can point with assurance
of approval The National prison would oiler
arguments in brick and mortar, and we hope
in criminals regenerated into honest citizens.


The work of the Association, too, could be
rendered moro effective in this country II II
were made known through cheaper and more
widely diffused mode Of publication. The
repOrts of International and National Con-
presses arc volumes of carefully digested in
formation essential to every library, but GER
tanly too costly to reach State legislators or
Jail and prison wardens. How many OF either
class could give an intelligent account OF the
system of NJ. Demetz for the redemption OF
criminal children, or of Maconochle for that oil
adult cOnvictsf Yet after all it is the State
legislator who must inaugurate these reforms
in this country, and the warden and jailer who
must carry them into effect.


Ehe appointment of the commission Is a
step in a right direction; but we should be
glad if the commission could carry with them
a better report of tangible good accomplished
than they are now able to present.
Year: 1875

The members of the Louisiana Investigation
Committee seem to be agreed on one point
that the Conservatives were illegally deprived
of majority in the Legislature which met
on the fourth Of January and the blame is
laid upon the' Returning Board. ABOUT all
else there are divided opinions The majority
report, however. will sustain the statements
and conclusions of the report of the Foster
Sub Committee, which is generally accepted as
the fullest and fairest review of the ease yet
presented. The subject will come before the
House Of Representatives tomorrow. Mean
while the negotiations for compromise con-
tinue with more favorable prospect for the
revised proposition from the Conservative
side Major L. A. Burke of counsel for the
Conservative caucus communicates to The
TRIBUNE an interesting statement of the views
he is authorized to present.
Year: 1875




The reduction Of the rates Of fire insurance,
as agreed upon by the New-York Board of
Fire Underwriters, will be welcome news to
many of our readers. The prospect of fall
in rates had been foreshadowed in THE TRIB-
UNE, but whether it would be general
or confined to companies unwilling to
be bound by the restrictions OF the
Board, seemed doubtful 1t is evident
that the Board has made q virtue
of necessity, and adopted these more liberal
measures chiefly in the hope that thus it may
be able TO hold its members together. Per-
haps further concessions will be found neces-
sary to effect this object, if great fire inter
feres with the prosperity of our city COM
panies during the present year; but a reduc-
tion of 20 to 25 per cent is very good as a
beginning.
Year: 1875

The report of Mr.. Lyman Tremain on the
libel law in the District of Columbia is not
very clear or clever piece of legal interpreta-
ton, but it will still serve to amaze those OF
his fellow partisans who have maintained that
there was no such thing as gag law Mr..
Tremain's concessions and recommendations
to prevent the dragging of editors from any
part of the country to Washin gton for trial
on libel suits, are given with ill grace, but
they are of Importance. Mr.. Tremain knows
enough law to avoid getting entirely on the
wrong side. 1t is a pity that he is covered
by too many sores to make his movement
on the right side easy or graceful.
Year: 1875

The troubles of that unfortunate enterprise,
the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, have
compelled the abandonment of some under
takings connected with it. Rolling stock has
been Withdrawn from one or two subsidiary
lines, and the managers, who appear to have
tried the experiment of running railroads
with faith as the principal reliance. have not
been sanguine enough to carry their conf
dence one step further and try to get along
without locomotives or cars. Sir John Swim
burne appare1tly has been very diligent in
the interest of the English capitalists whom
he represents, and has played an important
part in recent changes which have affected
the property Of the Atlantic and Great West
ern,
Year: 1875

The District Ring will bear watching all the
time. Chief-Justice Cartier decided recently
that the acts passed by the late Legislature OF
the District are not valid unless ratified by
Congress. Thereupon application Is made to
Congress to ratify them in bulk. 1t is to be
hoped that it will do no such thing. There Is
now offered fine opportunity to examine the
many laws of a suspicious character enacted
in the days when corruption was the rule in
the District Government. The work will re-
qure considerable time, and it may. be too
late to begn.it at this session, but it is better
to let the matter lie over than to take the pre-
posterous action recommended by the senate
Committee on District Affairs.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, Dec. Lit Is stated
that but three Democratic Senators
voted for the confirmation OF Secretary
Chandler. Several voted against his
confirmation, but majority declined to
vote at all. a


It is stated around the House that as
the Democrats are dlscharging Republic
can officers of the House, they WILL be
provided for In the Departments, and
Democratic clerks will have to be dis
placed to make room for them.


Great dissatisfaction continues to be
felt in regard TO the distribution Of Off.
ces by tine doorkeeper and Postmaster,
and some of the delegates complain Bit
terly that Virginia and Texas are getting
every thing.


Speaker Kerr is still much engaged In
making up his list of committees, but he
has not yet communicated what his in
tentions are. 1t is understood that Mr..
Lamar does not wish the Ohairmanship
OF the Committee on Elections, as tue
duties involved are more arduous than
he should be willing TO undertake in his


present state Of health.


The House Democratic caucus will
not, it is understood, take up at the
meeting which has been called for Mon
day next anything for action beyond the
appointment OF General Committee to
call meetings when expedient. w
1t Is not likely that any discussion as
to a general line of policy will be
brought up in caucus until after the hol.
idays.


Ii is now understood that Con gress
will do nothing before the first Of Janu'
uary. The adjournment over till Tues.
H. tor lA y.Itrn nj
avoiding new business which might
have been brought under the open rules
1t is now understood that Speaker Kerr
will not announce the committees until
the Goth, and following this Congress
will adjourn over the holidays.
Year: 1875

THE SEALED CAR CoNTRovERsY.-Sr Ed
ward Thornton, the British Minister at Wash.
ington, short time since called the attention
Of the Secretary of State to the treasury regu-
lations respecting merchandise from the Do
minon transported across the territory of the
United States to the seaboard for expectation.
and gave the opinion that the regulations are
in violation of the treaty Of Washington. The
letter of the British Minister was referred to
Mr.. Bristow, Secretary of the Treasury, and
that officer yesterday replied to Mr. Fish. He
holds that under the statutes, and the treaty,
the provisions for sealing cars under consular
manifest, as contained in articles and OF the
treaty, do not apply to this class of goods SO as
toexcnse them from the necessity of entry at
the first port but that an entry thereof in indis-
pensable before they can be permitted to ira
verse the territory of the United States; such
entry, however, need not necessarily include AN
entry for expectation, but may at the option of
the person duly authorized to make entry cou-
slSt only of an entry for transportation in bond,
conditioned in the usual manner for delivery of
the merchandise to the Collector at the DO rt Of
exit from the United States.
Year: 1875

lengths on the question of imitation. They
are filled with admiration for the Ohio DEM
ocratic platform. The Richmond Whiq saws
this issue must be mst IN the next national
Democratic Convention, and it thinks the
way to make the assurance of party victory
doubly sure will be to nut the Ohio currency
planks into .he national platform. 1t adds:
"Ohio leads off grandly on the currency ques-
tion with the invincible Governor Allen as
the chief and champion of the party of the
people. Let her move forward with steady
step; the true Democracy of the North aud
the Conservatives of the South will follow
her flag on the national field next year" The
Nashville Banner is of similar opinion.
and it is almost impossible TO find a southern
journal which is not.


Probably the next presidential election will
be decided by the action of the INTELLIGENT
and honest reserve. To this body let all ap-
peal with whatever o: fact and force NAV be
possessed. The vice-president is not to be
smut out OF the arena; the hdmblest utterer
OF truth or argument will find listeners
ProrSdence journal.


Looking at the two parties as they enter
upon the canvass, and their relative condi-
tion compared with that of 1873 and 1874. it
must in f4lrness be stated that the prospects
OF the Republicans have greatly improved,
and that their chances of success in October
are so favorable as to almost inspire them
with new hone and encourage them to work.
Cincinnati Commercial (Ind)


1.-THE men who fought at Bunker Hill had
been as Indifferent to ther liberties as are the
men of our day who fud political caucus
too trying to their nerves, the smell of gun
powder would have kept them out of the
trenches, and Howe's troops would have had
an easy victory.-Ne1o York Times,
Year: 1875

FERDINAND Of Hapsburg, who died in
Prague the other day, was the son of Francis
H., the last German emperor of the Austrian
house, and was the second hereditary emper-
or OF Austria. He was an imbecile, bat his
weakness of intellect was so well concealed
by his ministers that his people did not dis
cover it for some years, and he did not find it
out himself until 1S4S, when he abdicated in
favor of the present emperor. After that he
lived In retirement, amusing himself with the
study of the fantastic science of heraldry.
Year: 1875

LATE accounts of the calamity in Farnce,
caused bv the overflow of the Garonne. rep
resent the disaster to be greater than at first
reported. Nothing like it has occurred on
the continent for the last fifty years. One
hundred thousand people have been thrown
upon the charity of the public, and the dam
age done to property will reach eighty mil
lions ofdollars. The French people appear
to be responding with great readiness and lib
erality to the calls made upon their compass
sion.
Year: 1875

THE Republicans of Iowa now face into
the line of Republican states which declare
for currency with coin basis and the ear
ly resumption of specie payments. 1t now
looks as though all the Republican State can
ventions would be a uhit for specie pay
ments,
Year: 1875

Portland.


The GROWERS who have been all the while
saying that the city of Portland is standing
still will find that the census as recently TAX
en- does not sustain their dubious and doleful
utterances. In 1870, five years ago the pop-
ulation of the city was 81 ALB. The census
just completed by the city officials shows a
population of "a ,420-a gain of 3O07, or more
than 900 year. This gain, however gratify-
ing, does not compare with the increase Of the
business of the city, particularly its Wholesale
trade, which, in the same period, has nearly
doubled. In the same time the facilities of
our people for doing basiness have been large.
ly increased. particularly by railway communi-
cation.


-Four years since, the people of Portland
had not recovered from the disastrous effects
OF the fire. Many stores were without ten
ants that are now filled with goods; ''to Iet'
was very common placald in the windows
OF houses and people generally were feeling
very blue after the lively times incident to
the rebuilding of the burned district. This is
now fairly overcome; and while in common
with the whole country, Portland feels the
present business lethargy, there is every rea-
son to believe that its people feel the pres
sure less heavily than many other cities.
There is an unusual amount of building 90
ing on, so much, that many mechanics from
abroad find employment here. When busi-
ness starts up again, as it must in time, it
needs 40 special gift of foresight to predict that
Portland will enter upon period of business
prosperity such as she has never seen, and
that the next census will show far greater
evidences OF prosperity that the bare figures
presented by the enumeration of the city of
ficials. There is certainly every rea-
son for hopefuness in view of the energy and
ability of our business men and tie enter
prises they have undertaken and are carry
ing on.