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Year: 1876

BY JOHN H. BOUsTEAD.
Oh! come to the Grange; Oh! stay not away,
When monopolies around us so thick do


cluster,
Then spring to our aid, and shorten the day,
When in ourgreat council we all there shall


muster.
Oh! come to the Grange, Oh! do not delay.
When moneys SO scarce and times so de-


pressing,
For with our true honor and cash for our pay,
Well Danish the panic that is so dis


tlessing.
Then come to the Grange. the farmers own


band,


Where the Patrons Of Husbandry in coun-


Gil do meet,
To drive back the tyranny Of own land,
And to find the best mode Of sowing our


wheat.
Then come to the Grange with feelings OF


pride,


For in this free country the farmer i. king;
No more with the monopolies will we ever


side.


But unto free farming we ever shall sing
Year: 1876

my opinion IS they will have 70 run
fifty or sixty feet further before they
will tap the lead. suppose the com
pany came to the same conclusion,
as they have let the contract to run
fifty feet to two experienced miners,
Quaid and Clark. Through the polite
ness of these last named gentlemen /
was able to learn much Of the quality
of this lead. although their knowledge
Of it was limited, on account Of their
not having been long in that neighbor-
hood. After an examination Of the
discovery shaft and drifts near the
surface, l have no hesitancy in pro-
nouncing it the best quality Of rock !
have ever seen in the Territory. It is
of a porous nature, and such rock Of
ten conceals its richness, but even so
there was not piece l picked up but
l could see gold in with the naked
eye ! took few handfuls of dirt, or
ledge matter, washed it in pan and
to my surprise got about dollar Of
coarse and fine gold of very pure
quality. The lead on top is about
three feet wide, and increases in size
as far as they sunk the shaft. When
this ledge is tapped at depth of two
hundred feet then "look out for squalls"
in the shape of mill, machinery, mi
ners and mineral.


After leaving the Ebenezer l crossed
over the divide in a northeasterly d.
rection, and came almost Unexpectedly
on Messrs. Biddy & Co.'s mining
ground, on the head Of Fall creek.
These gentlemen have stripped acres
Of bedrock almost to the summit, or
as far as water could be got on the
ground. Their work shows great en-
ergy and perseverance in bringing
water on their ground and then secur-
ing their tailings from the bitches be-
low them, which was anything but an
easy job, as dams of brush thirty or
forty feet can prove. Their cleanup
is expected to be the largest in this
part of the Basin, considering the
number of hands employed. Some
say they will clean up $4,000. They
struck quartz lead in their claim las.
fall and run a tunnel two hundred feet
on it. This lead is four feet wide apd


we'll defined. They call it the Centen-


NAL. But l think it is an extension


Of the Ebenezer.


Tic companies on Granite


creek have cleaned up and all


done well. 1t is supposed that the


Ranch Company cleaned up $l4, 900 or
sl5, 900; Crowley, Connoughton & Co.,
$4,000 or $4,000 This is indeed


very encouraging and proves that our
placer mines are not exhausted yet.
CANYON CREEK.
L
Year: 1876




Having entertained a desire for
sometime past to witness the prog
ress of industry Of my ncighbors in
Canyon creek and vicinity, | took a
stroll up the creek few days ago for
the first time in my life. The first
part Of my journey was anything but
pleasant, as | undertook to follow the
bed of the creek with it's various me-
anderings, but after struggling
through dense brushwood and climb
ing over precipitous rocks l was
forced to seek the trail on higher
ground, which. with painting sides and
profusion of perspiration | was able
to accomplish.


The first mining claim Of impor,
tance that | came to was that of
Messrs. Albro & Lyons, which is loca-
ted about the center OF the canyon. 1t
is really wonderful to notice the inde-
fatigable energy displayed 10y those
gentlemen in opening their claims,
considering the many disadvantages
to bc encountered in SO rough local
|ity; but perseverance and hope de-
rived from good prospects will sur
monnt all difficulties. have no doubt
from the amount Of ground suiced of
but they will reap handsomely the re-
ward of their toll and industry. AS
the water in the canyon will hold out
long enough Ia enable them To clean
up, they have put in a good hnme, and
low enough to enable them to run the
dirt through, to the bedrock. A few
days ago Mr.. Albro met with a pain
fnl accident by boulder rolling on
his foot. 1t is only bad bruisc and
| will be all right in short time


About one half mile further up
Messrs. Lammc, Holly & Co. have
their mining ground. At this place
noticed the first level ground since
left the mouth Of the creek. There
are some three or four good substan
tial cabins built here. One OF them is
occupied by Mr.. Lamme and family
At this place the creek forks, or a
spur of the mountain divides It,
Lammc & Co.'s operations in placer
mines are confined to the east fork in
the ncighborhood Of the famous Ebe
nczcr quartz lead, which | have nc
doubt is the chief source OF all the au
rifcrous matter in this creek and head
of Fall creek. They have left very
fair mark of their industry in the
shape of clean bedrock, OF which it is
supposed twenty thousand dollars will
be cleaned up. The water at this
point will not last much longer, but
they will get through cleaning mp in
a short time.


Ny attention was next drawn to the
Ebenezcr quartz lead, owned by
Mcssrs. Merrill, Fisher, Bradford and
German. Hearing SO much OF tile
|fs'nlous richness Of this mine | was
somewhat anxious to see it. These
gentlemen have been running tunnel
since last winter to tap the lead about
1.-TWO hundred feet lower than the dis
|covcry shaft. This tunnel is now u
ono hundred ani thisty.fiye feet, bu'
Year: 1876

election" for two friends "Yes," the land
lady answered " II they are here only part OF
the time have number Of others who are STAYING
here, off and on, till after election, but they aren't at all
regular, so that can accommodate you ALL shah
charge full price though" or these men who are of
and on till election" there seven-Willlam shaW
Peter Farrell, Miles Campbell, James Benson, James
Butler David Kelly, and A. Pasassenzelen. They have
been entirely unknown in this part Of the city until
within short time, and, when registered had not been
the requisite number Of 80 days in the dis
trict. The Second and Third Districts alone OF
the Eleventh Ward contain many houses filled tenn
porary with voters The keepers of boardinghouses in
that locality are very willing to incur slight risk 10
furnish board high rates persons who seldom eat or
sleep their houses. They the other hand, are in
sucted TO parry all inquiries by proper answers so thaN
is very difficult TO obtain any information from them
TO whether the registered persons actually i've Win
them OF not There one house on Nayy-st which
Deputy Marshal DE Clue had reason to believe was filled
with cOlOnzng voters who also had registered
Inquiries for these at door would he met by the
reply that they had Just left would be back in
moment" &c. but OF them, after whole day OF
waiting could be found the house Mr. DE Clue then
had recourse 10 section 5523 OF the United States Re
viscd Statutes which provides that when any person,
under such circumstances refuses to answer the Gues-
tOns put or gives false information, he shall he punished
by Imprisonment for not more than thirty days or
by fine of not more than 500 or both When
this shown TO the landlady it had stronger elect
than the expectation gain from the bOardcr and she
furnished the information sought. From No 334 Gold
St there the OF four persons registered VINO
have not been in the district mOnth-Bartey Gum
ing James Mccormick Samuel Bevins, and Charles
Shay reporter informed at the house that IL had
been for long time the residence OF Mr. Moore ana that
besides himself only other man lived in the house
One of the persons named Samuel Bevins, has been


fireman on Frontst and he does not belong in this dis
trict.


POPULATION AND REGISTRATION.


The following table shows the population OF BROOKLYN
by wards according the Of 1870 the regstra-
ton for 1876 and the proportion Of registration to popu-
ation The total population includes the inhabitants OF
Litrtlnns the nmmhnr OF 2.G0l.
Year: 1876

PROOFS or COLONIZATION-TEMPORARY LODGING


PLACES UNTIL AFTER fLECrION-PoPULATioN


AND REGISTRATION COMPARED.


There are still some, particularly among
Democratic politicians. who affect to believe that
siderable OF fraudulent registration has taken
place this year in Brooklyn. The increase cf 10000
names over the highest number registered in any pre-
viOus year. making total in round numbers Of 100 600
voters is accounted for by these persons the ground
OF increase in population and Of unusual interest the
result OF this election. look however what being
done at the offices OF Supervisor Allen and
United States Marshal Harlow, would remove
any doubts in regard to this matter Several
thousand complaints have already been received there
Of frauds committed in various parts Of the city, and
these are being rapidly investigated In addition there
are many cases that have been discovered by the deputy
Inarshas through their independent inquiries. Not
only do the proper supervisors Of the places Registration
bring charges against individuals whom they suspect
but frequently private citizens report cases that have
come within their own knowledge. Some hOusehOders
aege that persons unknown 10 them have registered
from their residences, from their vacant lots
Others have made known instances OF colonization All
these cases will be thoroughly investigated and hoped
that before election day all ropeaters Will either
rested or so well known TO prevent Illegal voting.


The extent to which Illegal registration has been car
ned on is best illustrated by considering small
ton Of the city, The Eleventh is not by any the
worst ward in this respect but it perhaps exhibits the
different phases of the frauds as well as any Being


made up very largely Of thrdclass clearinghouse
crowded tenement-hOuses It is much more difficult TO
trace out crooked there than elsewhere No 6l
DeKabave s neat. twO-story brick house. which dis
PLAYS little front p0rco sign with the single word
- Boarding" upon IL. reporter Of THE TRIBUNE In
uuired at door board could be procured till after
Year: 1876

injury TO the Presidential ticket The approval OF MI
Green was question to be met and decided with much
care Republicans had always supported good men lor
the local Offices and had favored municipal reform WIN
onr resnect 70 marty ties At this election important
national issues were at stake and every prccauton must
be used against taking step in wrong direction.
Year: 1876

IN The Probate Court Of the County OF Los


Angeles, State of California.
In the matter of tie estate of


Jacob Keller, deceased


Order to show cause why decree of distribu-


button should not be made.
an reading and filing the petition of Lou
~ lisa Keller, surviving widow of said
deceased, setting forth that more than four
months have elapsed since the probate OF tn
will of the estate of said deceased, and
that she is entitled to the immediate possess
ion OF all the property under and by virtue of
said will of said deceased; it is ordered that
all persons interested in the estate of the said
Jacob Keller, deceased, be and appear before
the Probate Court of the county of Los An
geles, at the court room of said court, in the
city of Los Angeles, in said Los Angeles
county, on
Year: 1876

There ahsl be In said city Board of street Opening
and Improvement, consisting OF the Mayor controller
prosdent OF the Board OF Aldermen President Of the


.nartment of Taxes and Assessments Commissioner Of
Pube Works. and Commissioner Of Parks To this Board
Year: 1876

The mastcrly speech of Hon. Geo.
w. McCrary, member of Congress
from the First Iowa Congressional
District found in to-day's COURIER.


Mr.. McCrary is among the half
dozen ablest and leading members of
Congress, not having superior in
point OF solid ability and general in
formation on either floor of Congress.


He has lived from his infancy in
Iowa, and no man has ever cast the
slightest breath Of suspicion upon his
word or character. Serving now with
distinguished credit at the close of
eight years of service on the floor Of
the House, entities the word Of such
q man to much weight among his fel-
low citizens without respect to party.


We again commend his speech to
our readers as being uncommonly
good and truthful political reading
Tor the times,
Year: 1876

RED CLoUD AGENCY, Sept, 22.-This
evening the commission cOnsumated
a treaty with the Sionx, Cheyennes
and Arrapahoes, at this agency. The
Indians agreeing to the propositions
made to them on the 7th inst without
the change of single word, which
has already been published in full
The Ogallala Chiefs signed and the
Cheycnnes and Arrapahoes will not
sign until tomorrow, after which the
commission starts at once for Spotted
Tail Agency to consummate treaty
there. To the surprise of the COM
missioners, after they had affixed
their signatures to the treaty the In
dians hung back and speeches were
made by q number OF them before
they would touch the pen and make
their mark. Red Cloud said: 81
am a friend of the President and you
men who have come here to see me
are chief men and men of influence
You have come here with words ol
the Great Father, therefore because
am his friend, you have said them tt
me and l suppose that makes you
happy. don't like it that we have q
soldier here to give us food. 1t makes
our children's hearts go back and
forth. wish to have Major Howard
for my agent and want to have You


send word to Washington SO he car


come here very soon. II my young


men come back and say that the conn'


try is bad, it will not be possible fol


me to go there as far as Missouri Riv.


er country. I think il my people


should move there to live they wonlt


all be destroyed. There are grca


many bad men there and bad schssk,y


therefore don't want to go there
Young Man. -Afraid-of- His Horse
also spoke in a conciliatory way.
Red Dog asked to have Major How


ard for agent, also b. +. Smell an,


Daniels.


Little Wound, American Horse


Man afraid-of-the-bear and other
made speeches and requests, an
some Of the chiefs made their mar
on the treaty in silence aud with shl
eyes.
Year: 1876

Everybody confesses that Tilden
has been steadily losing, and Hayes
has been steadily gaining for the past
fortnight. The Democrats feel It, and
doubtless many of them will say
amen to an exclamation of a respect
ed member of their party few days
ago; "Well, if Hayes Is going TO be
elected, l am going to vote for him.
| want to vote for the man who is
going to be elected once in my life.
Year: 1876




desire such reform as that carried into
every part Of the government, and in
to all the appointments Of the Execu-
tive, then you ought to vote for Til
den and Hendricks. But il you do
not desire such reform as that, then
you ought not to vote for them.


WHY THE coxFEDERATE HOUSE REDUc-


ED APPROPRIATIONS.


But let me ask you what was their
object in cutting down appropria-
tions2 Was it to relieve the people
Of burthens? l tell you no. Because
cutting down appropriations Won't
relieve the people of burthens. You
must cut down the tdres il you want
to relieve the people, and / will show
you presently that the Republican
party, true to its pledges to the peo-
pie, has been continually reducing
appropriations, and at the same time
reducing taxation; and that means
something. They have tried very
hard in this Democratic House to re.
duce appropriations, but l want to
prove to You, out of the mouth of one
Of their leaders, that their purpose
was not to take taxes of the people
but to accumulate o large fund fol
distribution among the rebels of thu
South for the payment of thoir claims
and in certain great works, to b.
championed and assisted by tho ma
lional government. Sensation.
Now, this very question came up no
VERY long ago in the course Of debat,
| In the House, and this same gentleman
to whom I have already referred
Mr.. Singleton who was so certain
that they were going to keep slavery
land who has come back to this Con
Year: 1876

A few days ago there landed at the
Union Depot one Of the greenest looking
specimens Of the complete rural, that ey-
er visited these parts. lie was born in
Muskingum county. lie got on the train
at Zanesvillie, intending TO 90 up into
Logan county to visit an uncle. On his
arrival here he had an hour or two to
wait over, so he thought he would while
away the time by strolling up town. lie
had Just gotten on High street, when he
thought he might have made some mis-
take in relation to the time Of the dcpar-
ture OF his train for Logan county, so he
stopped genial looking stranger and
asked him # he could tell him what time
his train left. OF course he could, and
are you going over 10 Logansvillef' in
auired the accosted stranger, why here's
my cousin over here who Is merchant
at that place, and he is going over there
this very afternoon, why you can both
20 together. Come over and ! will in
troduce you to him and he can tell you
all about the trains, and he no doubt Is
well acquainted with your uncle


This was delightful news for the YER
dant customer. who was conducted over
toward a hotel, where the gentleman
from Logansyille was found, and, as eX-
pectsd, he knew everybody at that place,
and kept a store the very next door 10


that OF the uncle Of the greenhOrn.
They were friends from that moment
and would journey together TO Logans
vile. IL was but few moments until


the merchant was approached by a stran
| ger representing a mercantile house u
/ the city, who had a bill which he desiret
/ paid at once. Then followed the old


old gag. The merchant had nothing
about him but draft for one thousand
Year: 1876

superfuities which are enough to drive
an honest, law-abiding citizen crazy.


The work Of the Codifying Commission
will Of course be mainly lost IL this legis-
latiye itch for tinkering the laws shall
60 on as it has done There is no use in
trying to analyze, simplify and boil down
this mixed up mess Of statutory contra
dictions il the result is only TO be resolv-
ed into original chaos again by silly am
bition to alter or add to the codified body
Of the laws. 1t ought to be, in public es-
timation, a sort Of sacrilege 10 touch that
work to tinker it, except in cases Of most
obvious public necessity and most clear
ly for the public good.


Ii seems pity, by the way. that a sim
liar work cannot be performed with ref.
orence to the. decisions of the courts,
Many Of these are wholly obsolete, utter
ly worthless as precedents, and perform
no earthly function except TO add to the
confusion of counsel. Now, IL these
dead branches could be Topped of so
that she bearing ones might thriye, so TO
speak, il the really reliably rulings could
be sifted from those which are Of second.
airy importance, and practically OF no
use, and IL the useful decisions could be
classified and condensed so that a short
examination should suffice to develop the
latest and most reliable ruling on any
particular subject, n most invaluable pub
lie service would be rendered
Year: 1876

A little more than year ago Professor
Huxley startled the world with his IA
nous paper on animals as Automata."
In that paper, this lucid writer and bold
thinker, used the word automaton in
much the same sense as we use the adj
jective automatic, namely, to describe
something which acts involuntarily, and
not, as Webster defines il, "a self-moving
machine, or one which has its driving
power within itself" Professor Huxley
meant to say that the movements Of ami
mails were directly caused by external
impressions, independently of any exer-
else of will power; in other words, they
were machines, upon which certain caus-
es produced certain effects. We are not
yet ready to acknowledge ourselves as
automata or machines (and really the
two words mean the same thing), even il
so great philosopher as Huxley should
tell us we were.


The differences between q man and a
machine are numerous. In the variety
of work performed, man surpasses any
engine that he has yet devised, although
many of his machines surpass in perfec-
ton their builder. Where great accura
cy, great delicacy, or great strength are
requisite, the machine outstrips the
man and yet so simple a motion as that
of walking has been but poorly initiated
by machinery.


The superiority of q man to q machine
is shown by his ability to devise and con-
struct machines it is, in fact, the superb
ority of mind to matter. But between
the machine which can do nothing but
what it was expressly built for and the
intelligent thinker who planned the ma
chine, there are all the intermediate
stages represented by different members
of the human family. There are men of
little brains and much muscle, men of
big brains and less muscle; men who plod
along, year after year. in the paths which
their fathers trod, and men who put all
their heavy work on muscles of steel and
of leather. The proportion of wide
awake, thinking men to dull plodders in
different countries or sections of country
is easily determined by the relative mum
Der of patents taken out in that country;
and measured by that standard, the Uni
ted States contains the least proportion
of automats.


But there is a word to be said in favor
of automat or man machines. Even now
toward the close of this nineteenth GEN.
tury, there remains many kinds of labor
which cannot be done by machinery.
There is also large number Of men, and
women too (for the fair sex are not to
be excluded in this classification, re-
quired to tend the machines, feed them,
prepare work for them, and ill up the
gaps in their work. For some of these
positions there are required skill, thought
full care, presence of mind, nerve, inge.
nuity. Yet the more nearly all our mo-
tions resemble those of a machine, the
greater is the amount of work we can do
in given time, and the less the fatigue.
As the movements become automatic
and regular, removed apparently from
the control OF the will, they become more
rapid and easier. Why has division oi
labor accomplished 30 much2 Chiefly