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Year: 1872

The past week has been a very quiet one In
both trade and financial circles, the Wal-st markets.
presenting no interesting features, the dullness
OF this unusually dull Summer season c0ntln-
uing unbroken. Money has ruled IN such
abundant supply and the demand has been so
limited that borrowers OF money could dictate thelr
own terms lenders gladly accepting the lowest interest
rates though in some instances bankers preferred
rather TO suffer their balances to remain idle than
lend at the low quotations current. The extreme
range of rates II TO per cent the latter hgure
being rather exceptional. The chief business has been
at "A TO per cent The movement in Government bonds
has been restricted and the variations Of the week un-
important prices being on the whole well supported
State bonds have been quiet with steady tone to the
prominent descriptions except the new issues OF North
Carolina which we're weak. The action Of the Legisla
tive Committee OF the State OF Georgia, in recon-
mending the reputation OF about five millions
OF the State debt, has, In connection with
the past injudicous legislation IN other OF the
Southern and Border States operated to produce such
drust in their securities that speculation and dealings
are confined to few houses who make them specially
In gold the business has not been Of large proportions
and chiefly for commercial purposes, the premium
strenghenng at the close OF the week from 1t to ma
owing to unusually large specie shipments OF the
week With reference to the future OF the market Tor
coin much importance is attached to the operations con
nected with the indemnity payment OF the French
Government
late of the bullion in the Bank of England, amounting
TO above a2OOOO sterling, is supposed to afford reason
for anxiety as to the requirements from New-forK
should the outflow continue without entering into any
extensive details of the subject we may say tha inc
future course Of the price may depend in large degree
ON this foreign movement Local causes may tend 10
oounteract its effect here.


The stock speculation has been noted chiefly Tor s
tameness the small changesas reflected in our usuai
weekly tables below-offefing but little scope 1or
comment The tone of the market has been
in the main strong all the way through, the principa
movement being found in such speeialtles as racine
Mail Erie and NORTHWESTERN Common. To-day mas
witnessed the stereotyped ethargy so long dominant on
the Exchange the market ruling exceedingly stupid III
some of the leading peculatiyes higher quotations were
but in the Of the list prices were aDou
steady The market opened firm, and, under an advance
in North 765 the entire list gave signs OF III


creased strength NewYork Central reaching 9s3 Rocl
Island 1l2I and Co. c. and Indiana Central 5Gi In the
afternoon Pacific broke from ri TO 76 creating som'
CONSERVATION in the other shares, which declined Du
the favorable bank statement again came to the reer
the market which closed firm. The opening, highest
lowest and closing prices Of stocks were as IooWs'
Year: 1872

GOVERNOR Stafford, Major Brown and E. N. Fish returned from Camp Crittenden day before yesterday. They came by the upper Santa Cruz settlements and visited all the settlers in the Sonoita and Santa Cruz valleys. Major Brown has done all that was in his power to give them protection, and 1t is now the united determina- tion to try and hold the country until the crops are harvested, and in the mean time General Crook will do all in his power to so arrange his forces as to avoid the necessity of abandoning the country. All feel confident that he will do all that human energy can do, and whether the country south of Tucson has to be abandoned or not, no one can or. will ask more.
Year: 1872

WE call attention to our letter from Camp Crittenden. It was written where the Apaches are reaping rich harvest and having it all their own way. It gives in a forcible manner some little idea of the struggles and hardships of our people.
Year: 1872

A CORRESPONDENT writes to The Miner from Mineral Park, that the little five stamp mill at that place was pounding out about $1,O0O per day of silver bars from the Lone Star and Keystone ores; that the mill now saves about 90 per cent without roast ing, and that the pulp of the ore now being worked assays $4,OO0 per ton. Give us peace and from every DOT tion of the Territory we will send forth similar cheering news.
Year: 1872

MT. Gavena has charge of Hughes ranch, where three attacks have been made by the Apaches recently. His wife has an infant less than month old. Governor Stafford visited them this week and urged Mrs. Gavena to go to place of more security, and she nervously replied, No, no; I cannot go. The Governor pointed to the walls of the house filled with bullet holes and said 1t was no place for her and the baby. "Oh," said she, "do not speak of taking me away from my husband; 1 am not afraid with him, and I can watch the hills and advise him of approaching danger, and if he must fall victim to Apa- che cruelty let baby and I go with him. I cannot bear to leave my hus- band alone in this place of danger" It would have been a hard heart that did not melt at such scene; and yet brave women are accepting these posts of danger cheerfully all over the Territory.
Year: 1872

FROM The Miner we learn that James O'Brien and twenty three others have started 8 colony on the little Colorado river. It is on the line of the thirty fifth parallel railroad, and 8 very desirable country for settlement. As railroad prospects brighten, settlements will advance until we hope the time is not far dis tant when we shall have population sufficient to protect ourselves from Apache cruelty.
Year: 1872

Coon MAyEERs,-Youngfolks should
be mannerly. How to be 80, is the
question Many good girl and boy
feel that they can't behave to suit
themselves in the presence of compa-
ny. They feel timid, bashful and
self-distrustful the moment they are
addressed by stranger, or appear in
company There is but one way to get
over this feeling and acquire easy and
graceful manners, that is, do the best
they can all the time at homo as well
as abroad. Good manners are not
learned by. arbitrary teaching so much
as acquired by habit. They grow
upon us by use. We must be courte-
Gus, agreeable, civil, kind, gentleman
ly and womanly at home, and then it
will become kind OF second nature
to be 30 everywhere. A course, rough
manner at home begets habit Of
roughness which we cannot lay off il
we try, when we go among strangers.
The most agreeable people we have
ever known in company are those who
are perfectly agreeable at homo.
Home is the school for all good things,
especially for good manners.
Year: 1872

these facts, it needs to be stated that
promotions were in no case made
with reference to the original stand
ing Of the clerk upon examination,
but solely from considerations Of the
ability and efficiency developed under
the test of actual service from month
to month.


In closing his report, the Superln-
tendent expresses his commendation
Of the clerical force Of his office, men
tioning by name his chief clerk and
the chiefs and assistant chiefs of divis-
ions, and his obligations for courteaies
from various persons outside the CEN
sUs office.
Year: 1872

he said:


"Republicans ask me, shall we not De
swallowed up by the old Democratic party
So you recognize the old Democratic party.
4 suspect it does not recognize


itself. Do you fear to be sWal-
lowed up by that old Democfahslc
party? Why, the Democratic party mas
been swallowed up itself by the new era era


No bo y need fear that L would leaq him
from the Republican into the Democrats
camp for do not intend to 60 there my


self, and unless greatly mistake the zen a


deney of she time the day is not very la5
of when there will be but little OF an l.. oid


Republican camp to go from, and but III; T5tie
of an old Democratic camp to go TO. A!S
period is spregnant with new fornAslon'


which needs but the electric spark Of SP-


portunity to spring into shape. This is tne
time for independent actloh, ID
and those who think as 90
will not, after having shaken oF the shackies


of one old party, take upon their limbs the
shackles Of another. No party can 90 What
Year: 1872

ism and low associations; to corrupt the
service and to degrade our political life.
he only wants to make his relatives and
favorites comfortable, to associate with
men who are congeIlial to him, and to take
the best care of bis interests be can. lie is
not incapable of occasionally doing good
thing. He prefers good appointment to
bad one, other things being equal. He un-
doubtedly desires that affairs should go well,
his own welfare inclnded. Such is the
character of his personal government. We
should be doing it too much honor by call
ing it Cesarism. It is not Inspired by any
grand, lofty and long headed ambition.
II ia
Year: 1872

Written after reading Irving's account Of


Annesley.


Perhaps of all the old barronial
estates la England. none is more in
terestiug than Annesley Hall. 1t is
situated in that beautiful country
once peopled with handsome oaks
and elns, ard known by the name of
Sheeswood Forest. and was the stage
upon which Robin Hood, so famous
in the "long ago." acted, and of
whom the simple peasant still has
MANY interesting anecdotes and Won
derful tales to tell to the visitor of
his neighborhood. The dwelling is
an old brick mansion in a very ar
tiquoted style and like most of the
old homesteads of the country con-
structed so as to be a defense against
the free e-booters Of the times. The
MACE was once of remarkable beau
ty. On the front was a beautiful
GROVE of oaks and elIns formed into
a large park where the deer, the
ouail. the waterfowl were wont to
feed. The park opened into an ex-
,ensive courtyard. adorned with
shrubbery and flowers, with paved
walks leading through it. Gardens
of fruit trees and flowers girt in on
the back of the old mansion, and all
the surroundings eonspired to tell
the visitor that wealth and title
dwelt within, Bet more interesting
than its beauty IS the poetic fame OF
Year: 1872

over the entire line of survey of the
C. G. and Cumberland Gap railroad.
which is remarkably favorable with
easy grades.


The country aleng the entire route
abounds in white oak, black walnut.
white pine, ash. chestnut. and wild
cherry, in immense forests. The salt
works in Clay county are extensively
worked. and the valley of the sup
posed saltwater basin extends for
thirty miles. In this county your
correspondent passed the celebrated
burning springs. which are cnntinu.
ally boiling and blazing up. and as
the morning was cold, warmed him,
self by its cheerful blaze l have
never seen any country better able to
support road, and with its great
mineral wealth, timber. &C.. and
backed by the great Blue Grass coun-
try, it is only a wonder it has never
been built heretofore.
Year: 1872

New York, October 1.-THE Tri-
bune says Of Mr.. Seward: To-day
as the news ofhis death is telegraped
over the world. it is no exageration
to say that in every court and cabinet
on earth the tidings will come with
something ofa personal shock. To
the few who govern the many in the
Republics of Spanish America, the
loss of powerful friend and patron
will be mourned. The statesmen of
Europe will recognize the demise of
almost the only American whom they
have ever regarded as their peer, and
in the farthest East, in the uttermost
isles of the sea, prayers will be offer
ed in strange tongues to alien gods
for the aged chieftain whose white
head and broken frame cast such a
wonder about his wide journeyings in
the hamlets and palaces of India and
Niphon and Cathay.


AFTER the death Of Lincoln it was
Stewards faith in hnm2n nature, his
confidence that other men were on
the whole as good as he was, which
led him to believe in and support the
policy of Andrew Johnson for the
immediate restoration of the South.
For this he sacrificed his position in
the Republican party. and at the
election of General Grant, without a
compliment or a civility, left that de-
partment of state which he had ad-
ministered during eight years with
wisdom, an adroitness, an unfailing
courage. and an industry hitherto un-
precedented in our annals. and which
we may long look in vain to see re
heated "
Year: 1872

The Louisville COwier-Journal has
the following in regard TO Hon. JEFF
Davis, who is on a visit to that city on
business relating to bis insurance CON-
panies:


Mr.. Davis looks younger than be did
ten years ago. We are told that he is
enjoying excellent health, and his ap
pearance in the parlor Of the Gait House
last night confirmed that report. He
is in the sixty fifth year of bis age, yet
his step is as firm as that Of young
man, and his eye as bright. He had a
caue in bis hand, but il did not seem to
be carried in tue least for support -
His hair is considerably grayed-a me-
dium iron gray in color and his beard
is also tolerably white, though that on
his temples is still dark, and apparently
but little tuched by time.


He wears full beard with a closely
trimmed mOustache, aud this possibly
aided to make his face appear roLnder
and fuller than We have seen it in a
,oug time He is not quite six feet in
hight, of slender build, and his carriage
is erect and graceful, bis manner kind
and grave, bis countensnce placid. and
his tone clear and round and resonant.
His brow is broad and deep. with the
chronological location Of the powers of
observation fairly developed, and his
whole appearance, while not impressing
the causual observer with the idea that
be is a man of extraordinary powers.
still bears the stamp of intellect and
force Of character: He is not, proba-
bly,, the man who would be selected BY
a stranger from among thousand oth>
ers as the representative Of the extraor-
dipary life that be has led, aud the hero
Of so many and such great viciss:tudes;
the engineer of the greatest revolution,
rebellion-call which you please-in the
annals Of history.
Year: 1872

bad been. since their arrest. in the
Wythe Jail for safe keeping. but had
been brought to Pulaski for trial.
They had elected to be tried in the
Circuit Court and had been remanded
until the Spring term and would have
been returned to Wytheville for safe
keeping. The jailor was at church
when the breaking took place.-Mont-
gomery Messenger.
Year: 1872

ENGIISu MOTHERS 1t is marked lca-
ture of social life in England, and certain
ly one of its especial charms, that mothers
and daughters are 50 uniformly seen to-
cether at their o>n home Not only is
the mother the first lady TO whom YOU are
introduced al the house where you visit.
but mistress Of ceremonies throughout !;
not only does she preside at the dinner
table, but at the evening party she sits a.
queen Whatever may be your first i'm
pressious Of such an arrangemeut-il it
happens that your sympathies are with the
younger ladics-you will very ooa learn
to think that the mothers absence would
be very sincerely regretted by the
daughters. As picture, all must admit
the arrangement TO be perfect. The port.y
form and matronly dignity Of the mother
are an exquisite foil to the youthful beauty
and maiden coyness OF the daughters.
And you will fad nothing to mar. but
everything to enhance tue interest OF the
picture. The mothers presence never
seems to operate as an Uuwelcome restraint.
Between her and the daughters YOU will
mark the most Joyous, playful, loving free
dom, without the sacrifices OF a little
Of parental dignity and authority on the
one hand, or OF sweet and graceful flial
duty on tue other. 1t may be said said
of English families generally, that these
two things are eminentiy characteristic, TO
wit, uniform parental authority, and the
most charming freedom of intercourse
between parents and their children.
Year: 1872

\ TAME WAsp-At the recent meeting
Of the British association in Brighton, in
the section of zoology and botany, Sir John
Lubbock exhibited a tame wasp which had
been in his possession for about three
months, which he brought with him fro m
the Pyrenees. The wasp was of a social
kind, ana he took it in its nest formed of
twenty-seyen cells, in which there were
fifteen eggs, aud had the wasp been allowed
to remain there, BY this time there would
have been quite little colony of wasps.
None OF the eggs, however, came to matu-
rity, and the wasp had laid no eggs since
IT has been in his possession. The wasp
was now quite tame, though at first it was
rather too ready with its sting. 1t now
ate sugar from his hand and allowed him
10 stroke it. The wasp had every appear
ance Of health and happiness and although
It enjoyed an outing occasionally, it
readily returned TO lis bottle, which it
seemed to regard as a home This was the
first tame wasp kept by itself he ever
heard Of;
Year: 1872

4 SEDUCTIVE RAT TRAr.-A man IN
Pennsylvania has invented a rat trap that
is made to operate upon the selfish pas
sionS Of the poor rat and lure him into
trouble. The Mechanic a1.d Farmer in
a description of the trap, says that a
mirror is set in the back part of the de-
vice beyond the bait, and as his ratship Is
out on foraging expedition he espies the
bait, and at the same time believes his
image in the mirror to be another rat
making for it on the opposite side. This
is too much for rat nature TO stand and be
cool over, 50 he rushes for the bait, and is
caught
Year: 1872

TIE BROOM FoRGorrEN.-Some years
ago there was crossing sweeper in Dublin,
with his broom at the corner, and in all
probability ms highest thoughts were to
keep the crossings clean and look for the
pence Oae day lawyer put his hand
upon his shoulder and said to him:


Ny good fellow, do you know that you
are heir toa fortune Of ten thousand pounds
a year


!" Do YOU mean it said he.


a" [ DO. he said have Just re-
ceiyed the information am sure you
are the man


He walked away and forgot his broom.
Are you astonished Why, who would
not have forgotten a broom when suddenly
made possessor Of ten thousand year ?
So poor sinners, who have been thinking Of
the pleasures ofthe world, when they hear
that there Is heaven to be had, may we'll
forget the deceitful pleasures Of sin and
follow after higher and better things.
Year: 1872

Louisville rejoices in the possessing
of a precious four years oldster, who being
placed in a closet by his father the other
day for disobedience of pater al authority,
instead Of crying, put his wits together to
eet out Calling to his father to come in
and see what he had found, the unsuspect-
ing patertamilias walked 10, while the four
year-old slipped out and quickly turned
the key, leaving him to swaet it out. Pres
emily the youngster called to his pa to
know If it was hot in there, nor did he let
his prisoner out until he replied in the af-
irmative
Year: 1872

Joe King was sick in a bording- house,
and made up his mind for some chicken
broth. The order went down into the
kitchen, and the broth came up, weak.
fat and insipid The sick man was sub
sequently relating his disappointment to
a friend, who said They must have let
a chicken wade through it, IF they did,
said Joe, family, " it had on stills" He
recovered
Year: 1872

SWIMMING APPARATUS "A French IN
ventor has patented an apparatus for
swimmers. For the hands he has large
membranous fin, which is held in It's place
by loops passing over the fingers and a
strap around the wrist The surface pre-
sented TO the water by these fms is so
large as to add greatly to the effectiveness
Of the strokes OF the arm, but not so large
as to exhaust the muscular power Their
effect is to reduce very much the effort re-
quired to swim without them But the
greatest ingenuity is displayed in the form
and fitness of the fins for the legs, which
are attached to the ankles, and are 50
formed that they act upon the water, both
in the movement of bringing the legs to-
gcther a throwing them back They
act 50 finely in treading water as swim
mers call it, that one can really walk. if
not on the water at least in it. The
difference between swimming with this
apparatus and without it, Is very much
like the difference between rowing a boat
with the hand aud the blade of an oar.
The old swimmer has no trouble in using
the fins at first trial, and j. surprised to
find with what ease he can swim without
exhaustion. He easily s~ims twice as
fast with the apparatus a. without 1t, and
he can sustain himself for hours upon the
water or swim miles wi.h it.
Year: 1872

New ORLEANS, December l5.-The Citizens
Committee left for Washington this evening.
Although drizzins rain had set in, crowd OF
at least $1,000 people had collected about the
depot TO see them depart. Gloom and sadness
were pictured upon every face, and it looked as
if the people were following the corpse OF some
beloved citizen.
Year: 1872

SEVERE sore throat aud Diptheris is
quickly cured by using Renne's Magic Oil
freely. Swathe tho neck with three or four
thicknesses of flannel and keep it wet with
the Magic Oil gargle the throat mixed with
water, or take 9 little clear, and swallow
slowIy-follow up this until cured.
Year: 1872

Persons should be chary of keeping
ripe fruit in their sitting-rooms, and es-
pecially should they beware of laying it
about a sick chamber for any length of
time. The complaint which some people
make about a faint sensation in the pre-
sence of fruit is not, we are assured, fanci-
ful-they may be really affected by it.
The last number of Good Health has a
sensible article upon this subject, in which
it is asserted that two continental chemists
have shown that from the moment OF
plucking apples, cherries. currants, and
other fruits they are subject to incessant
Transformation. At first they absorb oxy-
gen, thus robbins the surrounding air Of
its vital element. Then they evolve car
bonic acid, and this in far greater volume
than the purer gas is absorbed, 90 that We
have poison given to us in the place Of
pure air, with compound interest.
Year: 1872

from its resemblance to that noble
ruin. Continuing round the rim of
the crater. to the other side, Snake
river proper stretched across the valley
till lost tO view, pursuing Its course To-
wards the great Pacific ocean. we
now descended into the crater. and as
we stood in the centre Of the miniature
prairie, / was reminded OF the crater
of Pozzoli, near Naples, the sulphur
Gus smell from the still active cave OF
that volcano alone being wanting to
complete the resemblance.
Year: 1872

with the one you are now at, and paint
another oh, so hideous for Sir Nor
man to see?"


Bilps face upon this assumed such
a look of blank amazement, that even
the sobbing young creature by bis side
could scarcely refrain from laughing
but she continued: 80,


"You do not know why you are
painting my portrait, Isuppose? We'll
it is lust this. When / was about sew
enteen I became engaged to Sir Nor
man Atkins but the families thought
we were too young to marry, and SC
it was arranged that he should &c
India with this regiment. and that if
after five or six years, he should be o.
the same mind, he should have me
Well; he will be back in few days
and as papa and mamma did not liks
the idea OF just coming and looking al
me, and then saying that wouidn' {
do-that trOuId he rather awkward
you know-it has been agreed between
them that some artist should paint my
portrait exactly is look, and that Sii
Norman should see that, and then de
eide"


"Weli," inferposed Tozer, hav.
endeavored tor


"Oh, yes. and you have made mt
very handsome, but"-


At this point MissEmily's face as
sumed q color which no earthly artis
could hope to represent. After a shor
pauseshe resumed.


"I must tell you the truth. Som,
time after Sir Norman went away
fell really in love with Herbert Laker
The other was only childish nonsense
But he is not so rich as Sir Norman
and is not baronet. so that if Sir Nor
man likes me shall be forced to MARI,
him. Oh I! do paint NE ugly! Pra,
do!n


"Ten to one you are q dissipate
ruffian; and Pm glad if I've don
any thing to spoil your chance"
J Bill Tozer had little tinge of re
nance in his soul, sleepy and beery q


he generally looked and was; 50 h
set to work that very afternoon I
paint an ugly likeness Of the lovel