Year: 1873



 who looks about and thinks for him. self i'll this motley world, cannot do much with New York in one or two newspaper letters. 1 have been nos- ing about this place every day and night for eight weeks, now, in addi- tion to several visits in years past, and the more come to know this metro politan monstrosity, the better l like it and the more thoroughly I hate it. Its lights and shadows are the very extremes of an orthodox hell and 6 Mohammedan heaven. To live here as I would like to would require 8 competence of half million.

 Governor Mccormick was here last week, and after two days and nights run together in and about this accursed hive of humanity, we agreed that no language could do justice to life in New York. He thinks he has discovered the grand line of demarka- tion between wealth and mediocrity in this world-specially in this world of New York. Those who have to ride in omnibuses and street cars, are among the damned; those who can af- ford conveyance of their own, how ever plain, are above the common herd and happy. He considers the veriest Arab of the American desert @ person to be envied in comparison to the half million of well-dressed clerks, etc., struggling for better things in this mighty assem- blaze. Although born and raised here, he hates the place next to myself. l allow no del- egate or devil to outswear me or say more hateful things. In regard to opening up streets parallel to Broad way, and clear down to the Battery, he says he would want the power of ex-Emperor Napoleon, (the Third, ] whose declaration was law. should want to be the First Napoleon here for about year; the first widening of streets in southern New York would be by the direct use of grape shot and canister. If I could have Almighty power for fifteen minutes. would sink all south of Canal street and start things anew.

 Speaking of Mccormick, he thinks of a two months tour to the Vienna Exposition, some time after the meet ing of the Centennial Commissioners early next month at Philadelphia. He thinks he could as we'll if not bet ter serve Arizona that way than by returning to the Territory this sum- mer; and it would seem like @ more sensible move to any reasonable mor- tai. He will not decide until the meeting in question. General Crook and Cachise ought to be able to take care of the Territory one summer, now that they have made such head way toward peace--the one great aim of all good Arizonans. It Is source of great satisfaction to all those who assisted in placing Crook in command of Arizona, to see him as the right man in the right place. l met h. dian Commissioner Smith the other night, and he expressed himself quite content with the military triumphs in Arizona. All that is necessary now to complete happiness all round, IS the placing of the star on Gen. Crooks shoulder, that he had eminently earned five years ago. was going to say something about his three days and nights fight in the "lava beds of northern California in September, 1867, with about 75 men, in compar- ison to the three months battle up there yet going on with nearly @ thousand men, with artillery thrown in; but comparisons are odious. Let us have peace.

 The map of New York has been compared to a fan, but that IS too thin. Cut your hand off back of the wrist-joint, and spread out the fingers and thumb more or less, and you get @ better idea of it. eff you don't want to cut your hand off as sug- gested, you can go to the devil. Then surround your hand with water--(an- other startling suggestion for some of you, perhaps) and you have good enough idea of Manhattan Island, alias New York city. In reading up yesterday, I found that the word Manhattan is I2dian for "a place where all got drunk" "-as was the