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Year: 1875

On the first page will be found a commu

 nication from our friend Judge Dunne, which

 we were at first inclined to comment on in

 detail, but on second perusal concluded to

 let It go to the reader for what it is worth

 confident that to the friends of secular edu-

 cation the poison will suggest its own anti

 dote.

 One or two errors of fact into which the

 Judge has allowed himself to fall call for

 correction however. We will proceed to set

 him right on those points and submit the

 case to the judgment of the candid reader

 without argument.

 He assumes that we have invited him to

 'step down and out" of his official position

 Tn consequence of his bitter partizanship in

 matter that is liable to be brought before

 his Court, when nothing was further from

 our intention. We merely suggested to him

 the duty of keeping within the proprietes

 that grace his exalted position. Again, he intimates that We are probably in with those who seek to have him removed. This is also gratuitous and without foundation. As judge, lawyer, politician and Christian gentleman we admire him, and would not lay straw in his way. Instead of seeking his dismissal. if we knew of move in that d rection we should endeavor to thwart it. He must have been "hanging on the ragged edge l of despair" when he allowed himself to tor ture the language of our article into any such | meaning. We admire his honest ayowal of q | belief that his Church "embraces all that there IS or ever can be known of religious truth" He has right to believe that and believing that he has a monopoly of all re- iiglous truth, 1t is his duty to maintain it. and to stand by his Church through which alone 1t can come to man. But he should not mix 1t up with secular truth to the detri oi others who have different views as to truth both religious and secular.

 Another assumption is that we could tol- crate in the Episcopal Church conduct that , Tn the Catholic Church would be offensive to { us. Where he finds any data to predicate S 'nch deduction upon We are at a loss to ( md out. All churches arc alike to us. We { espect them all so long as they work in n harmony with the enlightened spirit of the n 'se Tn which we live, and promote honesty b md good morals, and we detest them all u when they controvert these propositions. If II he Episcopal or any other Church. as he VOWS, has attempted to embarrass the pub- lt c school system in the interest of sectarian- b 'm, It has set itself up as an object of just p rtieism and will and of right ought to be a ondemned by the friends of secular educa- u on. The Judges advice to us to "go after al iem, show them that they are bitter parti- va ms, that they are narrow minded, bigoted," nc C, IS all useless. If they have done what imputes to them they have proved it all tn lemselves and saved us the trouble. ta
Year: 1875

THE NEW DISCOVERIES NEAR BRADSHAW

 Elsewhere We publish a letter from General A. Y. hautz, Commander of the Departmcn, oi Arizona, who, with Medical Director Ma gruder, recently paid visit to the Peck and other mines in that vicinity. Knowing the General to be a man oe shrewd observation and not liable to be unduly excited by the giltter of the almost pure silver they are talk ing from this mine, we sought his opinion Tor publication, believing it would be more satisfactory to the public than that of an in- 'erested party, however fairly represented. We understand Dr. Magruder concurs fully with General kautz in the favorable opinion expressed, though, as the General remarked to us, it is impossible, as yet, to be very ex- plicit m the way of description, until further development shall enable one to form A bet- ter judgment as to the permanence and ex- | tent of the lode. The quality of the ore is all right
Year: 1875

THE s. F. Chronicle don't know what to make of it, but thinks there is something in air, the soil or social condition of San Fran cisco which inspires the women of that sea girt peninsula with perpetual yearning to kill lawyers.
Year: 1875

Too much rest itself becomes a pain.


Pleasure of every kind quickly salts
fies.


Necessity makes dastards valiant men.


BY sowing frugality We reap liberty,
golden harvest.


Gayety is the souls health sadness
is its poison.


A great mind will never give an af.
front nor bear it.


The less we parade our misfortunea
the more sympathy we command.


Most OF our misfortunes are more
supportabIe than the comments of our
friends upon them.


&c is not only old and early impress
sions that deceive us the charm Of
novelty has the same power.


The future does not come from before
To meet MS, but comes streaming up
from behind as over our heads.


Ii is no small commendation to man,
age q littlewell. He is q good wagner
who can turn in q little room. To live
well iii abundance is the praise of the
estate. not Of the person. / viii study
more how to rive q good account OF my
Little him to make it more.
Year: 1875

oHAESTI.a orENINo IN THE ICE AT PERnYvILLF.


Special to the Commercial.


HAvRE DE GRACE, March 90.
Several channels are opening in the ice at this
place on the opposite ehore. Standing on the
railroad bridge, as far as the eye can reach from
the base Of the gorge up to and around Watson's
island therver is opening and the ice passing
slowly away without damage. The river il
swollen 81 mewhat, but not to any extent, and
the water has assumed muddy hue. All dam
ger from the present gorge is now believed to be
passed, and should those which still romainl
above pass safely by all further destruction vii
be escaped.


THE SITUATION AT PORT DEPOSIT.


{ ssociated Press Dspatchesl


PoRr DErosIr, March 80.
The ice gorge is channelling out rapidly.
There is no perceptible rise in the river and the
people are hopeful that they will escape anoth-
Ell. The weather is bright and warm.


REPORT FROM wILLIAMsPoRT.


WILLIAMsPoRT, March 20.
Iio river ia rising slowly and is now s1s feet
above tho low water mark. The ice gorges
above and below remain the Same, but are wear
ing away gradually The river will have to rise
FIVE or six feet moro before the ice can move.
The weather is clear and getting warmer


FURTHER Up THE RIVER.


RENovA, Pa. March 90
The river raised three feet yesterday and ia
now at stand The ice in the west branch,
west of Keating is expected to come out to-day.
Year: 1875

To pass the Citizens personal attack upor

 us by, in silence, wosid be an affectation o

 contempt that we do not feel, and to rstort

 in kind, and say the editor "pawed the

 ground like an infuriated bull," or ''whined

 like an old granny" would be to apply an

 ungentlemahly epithet, betray a weakness

 we would avoid, and prove us scrub in-

 deed; therefore we simply remark in the

 mildest manner possible, that it is something

 to have enraged man usually so ''child like

 and bland" as our worthy Tucson contem- porary. The fact is, the editor of the Cti-

 zen brides himself not only upon the weight of his arguments but upon the closeness with which he writes them up. and we cheerfully accord to him considerable genius in that Hne but on the occasion under consideration he left an aperture or two into which We in- nocently introduced probe and punctured a rsw place that made him squeal It was amusing, and at the same time somewhat alarming, to hear the roar of anguish that followed our little experiment, for we had not the least thought of touching him in so tender spot

 The paragraph in the Citizen of Oct Both, upon which we base these remarks, is in the following touching language, which reveals high order of culture, a pathetic regard for the amenities of the profession and an entire absence of anything ''scrubby" in the writer: 1.-The editor," meaning us, proves himself guilty of such pcrversion of our position. as only the lowest scrubs of the profession are ever guilty of" For purity of diction in grammatical construction, dig nity and manliness of conception and beauty | Of expression, We venture to say the above is rarely equalled in this de generate age.

 Some thirty or forty volunteers have ap- piled to us for permission 10 go to Tucson and fight in our behalf, but the answer has been, "No; the time is not yet our brother 1t Tucson is angry; his spirit is sorely vex- sd." When reason shall again resume its way, if that time shall ever come, and our brother still persists; if soft answers turn not away his wrath, We may find it necessa- y to test the truth of Professor Fowler's scientific judgment, who, after counting the jumps on our head, pronounced us a terrif- ally ferocious fighter on our own account when agitated.
Year: 1875

Tus Wan EAoLE.-We were interview

 ing Rod McKinnon last night, and though

 he thought we were little lax in not blow

 ing quite enough about the mines, we found

 him like many other miners 10th to give us the facts concerning the working and yielding of

 his mine, the War Eagle We finally pump ed the following out of him by the toughest kind Of work: The War Eagle is twelve feet between the walls, and though he and his partner. Goodwin, have worked it for years, and made quite large sum of money out Of 1t with an arastra, they still know nothing about it except the pay streak on which they arc at work that streak is from one to two feet wide and pays, on an aver age, seventy dollars to the ton. The other ten feet between the casings is an unex- plored region, and may, for all that is known to the contrary, contain deposit of dia- monds as large as walnuts. They intend this winter, however, to cut through the vein matter and examine it. They began on this pay streak, and finding it to contain free gold that paid handsomely for arastra- ing with horse power, were content to do we'll, and have kept on at it. It is his be- lief that the whole twelve feet would pay for milling and perhaps much of it for aras- traing, but they have all they can work up in the streak they are on, and are content.

 When We can get facts that can be relied on, and these are of that character, we are always anxious to publish them, but being no infiationist We want no balloon reports. The recent developments Tn Yavapai County are sufficient in themselves without any painting, and our mining friends will confer a favor, not only upon us but themselves. l our -1saders and sls country, by furnishing ] us with the true state of mining affairs in | their respecting localities.
Year: 1875

PEOPLE WE HAVE KNowN.-We have

 known people, the juices of whose bodies all

 appeared to become musty and sour as they approached their doatage, whose clothe: neEer seemed to fit them, who didn't get enough to eat, or if they did it didn't agree

 with their stomachs, who were always find. fault with others and believed themselves in. falliable in all theIr judgements. Such peo- pie are apt to mistake petulance and peev- ishness in themselves for courage or high temper, assume the leadership of public sen- timent and have no federation for those who refuse to follow them in all their theories. They are apt to believe themselves sent or called, as the preachers say, to special mis- sion, and regard those who venture to think and act for themselves as interlopers, or hei, etics, If you please, who would interfere with the divine plan, stop the march of in,e- lect and clog the wheels of progress. They never realize the fact that the world once got along quite comfortably without them. nor anticipate time when they will have to give up its management.

 The weight of such m momentous affairs, the direction of such ponderous movements and the control of such vast multitudes of peo. pie rest so heavy upon them that they i'm agine the universe subject to their single will, that is constantly getting out of geer, that it began with their existence and would cease to revolve were it not for their consu- mate skill in holding it steady.
Year: 1875

WE have but one serious complaint arains, the Citizen, and that is for insinuating that we are "a low scrub.n Now we can bring thousands of witnesses to testify that we are not lor scrub. In what kind of A light will that place the inialliable Editor of the immaculate Citizen.
Year: 1875

Some Of the cattle operations in the
Western States are conducted upon
very magnificent scale. In Texas
the herds of cattle and sheep are i'm
mense, and sometimes when they are
moved to market the operation is pc
culiar. flock of ten thousand sheep,
which some time ago arrived at Oms-
ha, had been driven four hundred
miles. AS it was impossible to find
food for them except such as they
could get upon the road, they grazed
as they went along, and, in fact, ate
their way from one end of their line
of march to the other. 1t took them
forty-five days to accomplish their
trip, and he progress was about nine
miles day. The sheep were divid-
ed into hocks of about three hundred
each, and two men managed that num-
ber without trouble. Thirty-6ve sheep
were all that were missing at the end
of the trip, and among these were
those which were killed and eaten by
the herders.
Year: 1875

Walt OF August afternoon,


Tiny, gossamer balloon,


Elfia pinnace drifting fair


Through seas Of soft and sunny air.
When thou art launched the summer sun
His glowing task will soon have done
Almost ripe the tasseled corn,
While the cricket sings forlorn;
Evening hath breath more cool,
Dead leaves drop in lowland pool.
Soon the harvest moon will shine
With splendor as divine
With as tremulous a glow
As bedewed Endymion's brow;
Cleaning over wood and wave,
As she cleaned in Latmian cave.
Thy noiseless, graceful fight see,
o Thistle down! regretfully;
For with the Northing Of the Sun
The sweet do nothing days are done.
With thy silken tackle trim
And titful buoyaney thou dost swim
Leisurly, vagrant sail
Through this lovely upland vale.
Mountain shadowed, with spell
OF witchery no words can tell;
Whence DER yon ridges giant spine
'Iis sweet to watce young Hssper shine.
Year: 1875

The last retreatiDg rays of light had
faded behind the parsons quaint resi-
dence and now that [ had nOught that
related to her to look upon, [ closed the
sash and retired for the night.


My sleep was a troubled one, and
every now and then l would awaken
with a start, and glare around me, eX-
pecting to be confronted by something
terrible-I knew not what. The storm
without ragged with unwonted fury, the
elements seeming 70 combine in an eff
fort TO shake the earth to its centre.


I was glad when the morning came,
bleak and dull though it was, and finally
fell into q heavy sleep.


How long had slept 1 do not know,
when I was awakened by a loud knock
ing at my door. I spraDg from my
couch, and was about to open it, when
the iron hinges suddenly gave way, and
a stream of men poured pell-melI into
my room. At their head was the sheriff
of the county. OF him I demanded
sternly the meaning of the intrusion !;
but his only reply was ''YOu are
my prisoner %


They manacIed me with heavy gives
and hurried me through the streets of
the tOwn-streets thrOnged with excited
people who denounced me as a muir
derer, and threatened to tear me to
pieces. When [ reached the jail was
informed that I had been arrested for
the murder of the parsons daughter,
who was found that morning in the
garden, contiguous to the parsonage, in
a most horrible condition, and stone
dead.


I will not go into the details of the
trial which followed, and upon the re-
suit of which my life depended. Let it
suffice to say that my &" alibl was fully
established, and that when investigation
developed suspicious concerning Row
land Powers, it was discovered that he
had fed.


He is fleeing yet, and ever will, until
he is summoned to appear before that
tribunal from whose judgment there is
no appeal.
Year: 1875

Marion showed me her wedding gown


And her veil Of gOssamer lace tonight,
And the orange blooms that tomorrow morn


Shall fade in her soft hairs golden light
But Philip came to the open door;


Like the heart Of a Wild rose glowed her cheek
And they wandered off through the garden path
So blessed that they did not care to speak.
I wonder how it seems to be loved:


To know you are fair in some ones eyes;
That upon some one your beauty dawDs


Every day as a new surprise.
To know that whether you weep or smile,


Whether your mood be grave or gay,
Somebody thinks You all the while


Sweeter than any flower Of May!
I wonder what it would be to love;


That, think, would be sweeter far
To know that one ont of all the world


Was lord of your life, your king, your star
They talk of loves sweet tumult aud pain;


am not sure that 1 understand,
ThOUgh-a thrill ran down to my hnger-tipF,
Once when-somebody-t touched my hand.
I wonder what it would be to dream


OF a child that might one day be your own,
OF the hidden springs of yoursli part;


Flesh Of your flesh, and bone Of your bone.
Marion stopped one day to kiss


A beggar's babe with a tender grace,
While some sweet thought like prophecy,


Looked from her pure Madonna face.
I wonder what it must be to think


Tomorrow will be your wedding day,
And, in the radiant sunset glow,


Down fragrant, fiowery paths TO stray,
As Marion does this blessed night


With Philip, lost ia a blissfUl dream,
Can she feel his heart through the silence beat?
Does he see her eyes in the starlight CLEAN?
Questioning thus, my days go on,


But never an answer comes to me;
All loves mysteries, sweet as strange,


Sealed away from my life must be.
Yet still dream. heart Of mine!


OF a beautiful city that lies afar;
And there, sometime, I s lall drop the mask,
And be shapeiy and fair as others are!
Year: 1875

first of July, it has been determined to assess
upon the several national banks the expense
of Tedeeming and asserting their notes, at the
national bank redemption agency, on the first
Of May, instead of the first of July, as origin
ally intended.


The comptroller of the currency, in
accordance with a request of the secretary of
/ the treasury, Will Immediately direct the bank
examiners for the several districts in the
course of their examinations of the different
banks, to inspect all checks and vouchers re-
quired to be stamped with two cent stamps,
and report the facts in reference thereto,
which information, when received, will be
transmitted to the commissioner of internal
revenue.


The troubles of the Northern Pacific
railroad company have eliminated in the ap-
pointment as receiver the president of the
company, who will take immediate control of
all the property. The condition eff the fnan-
cial affairs of the company has not improved
with time, and the efforts of those who were
trying to build the road were hampered, it is
said, by the creditors. It is understood no
material change will take place in the system
of operating that portion Of the road already
constructed, or in the working force now en-
ployed. No construction will be undertaken
until the company is placed on such basis
that money can be borrowed for the purpose.


FOREIGN.


Emperor William, by q decree last
month, ordered thirty new fortresses and more
ground to be bought for the enlargement of
certain works of fortiication now existing on
the side of the empire looking toward Russia.


Ten natives of IxtacaIeo are on trial
at the City of Mexico for a horrible outrage.
They are charged with burytng three men
alive, leaving only their heads above ground,
and then dispatcbing them with hstchets and
knives after prolonged torture.


a correspondent, at st. Petersburg,
reports that a plot has been discovered in
Khiva for the massacre of all Russians in
Khanite. The Russian papers accuse the
Emir of completely. It is thought that mill
tary operations have already been ordered by
Russia.


The latest discovery in France is that
the numerous Ciipsy bands securing that coun-
try are entirely under marching orders and
military discipline from Berlin, They are
wont to pick out their camping grounds fifty
miles ahead, and know in advance the name
of the man owning that ground as well as he
knows it himself. Just as the Uhlans did.


The German government have put
themselves into communication with some
other governments to discuss the peculiar
position of the pope under the Italian act of
guarantee, which, while it exempts him from
the action of the criminal law, leaves him no
territory to be attacked in case of his taking
aggressive measures against others. The pope,
it is urged, must be either a sovereign or a
private person, but cannot be allowed to occU-
py an ambiguous and altogether irresponsible
position.
Year: 1875

ADvICEs from the west and northwest
indicate widespread damage to crops.
Winter wheat and small grain sown
early in the spring have suffered severe
ly. In many cases fields will be resown
in corn, and this cereal promises to be
the main dependence of farmers this
wear.
Year: 1875

10. Brewer, who formerly lived in
Louisville, came to this county some time
this spring and set in to work and raise a
crop with Mr. Ashford Woodward. He
got in debt to Woodward in the sum oi
about twenty-five dollars, and skedaddled
very unceremoniously, leaving the crop
for Woodward to take care OF, and for
getting to pay "dot leedle pill" He is no
doubt at this time deceiving some other
honest and credulous farmer. Our ex-
changes may save some man from being
chiseled by this dead-beat if they will
pass him around.
Year: 1875

We took flying trip to the Taylortown
neighborhood, on the Green River in the
southeastern portion of the county last
Sunday, going by way of the Nc Henry
mines, and returning by way of Cool
Spring Church and Beaver Dam. We
never saw finer stands of wheat and oats,
and the corn, to borrow an expression
from our fair friends, clocks perfectly
splendid" And the apples, too. were very
far from being all killed Unless cme
pest visits and ravages the fields, we will
be blessed with more abundant and better
crops this season than have been harvest
ed in this section for many a year.
Year: 1875

There is vacancy at the West Point
Military Academy from this, the Second
Congressional District, and cadet to fill
the same will be selected by competitive
examination conducted by a board of com-
petent and impartial gentlemen. The ex-
animation will be made on the LIST day OF
August, and notice ofthe place will IN due
time be given. To any one seeking this
appointment will furnish circular con,
tanning full information as to everything
required of a cadet | will thank the
editors of papers in this district if they
will republish this card.


JOHN YoUNG BROWN.


Henderson, May 3lst, 1875.
Year: 1875

On our trip to the city ot Louisville, last
week, we stopped at Big Clifty and took
dinner with that genial landlord, Sam.
Goodman. They had a wedding there,
that day, but then passengers used to stop
ping there for dinner would not have
known it by the table. for Sam sets a
wedding-dinner erery day.
Year: 1875

We learn that in one or two neighbor-
hoods Of the county the grasshoppers
have about totally devoured the young
tobacco plants, in more than one instance
making replanting necessity.
Year: 1875

If you want a Good Watch at Low
Price send for our new illustrated Price hist
of Coli and Silver Watches which shows sizes
and prices of about fifty different styles We
send it free to any address.