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Miner. Yol. XIL No. PRESCOTT, ARIZONA, FRIDAY E VEXING, MAY U, 1S75. Established 1S61. THE ARIZONA MINER. PUBLISHED EVERY Fill DAY, T - J ....BT BUTLEE Tlio firstunmberof the WF.EKLT MINER was issued on March J PCI. an"! i -M- iu twelfth year. It can, with truth, claim to be the oldest, largest and best news paper la the Territory. Subscription Rates: S7.00 Om Copy, Oae Year " Six Montln " Three Mouths. ........ Single Copies 4.00 2.50 .... 25 Advertising Rates. One inch ("12 linPi iif th u tvpi). in culnmn. S3.00 Tor first Insertion and $1 jO per inch 'for each additional lner!ion. A JilKsral discount from nlmve r.ite will be made to per nn ,rh A ertise larrely by the year, half year or PruTntMunl and businef cards Inserted upon reasooa ble term. . . Peron tending us money fo. subscription, advertise nr 'lU,rt. .nay forward !t by xnU, or otlierwi.e. at their own riV. 7il Mr A'ofes taken at pnr in payment for sub tcriptinn. adctrtiiing and job icnrt. T.KtlMS. fit atlra.net inrariahty. Address all order ami letter to "THE MINER." Prescott, Ailioaa. PRESCOTT. New Store. New Goods. AVM. 31. BUFFUM Has just received, and nw offers for sale, at his NEW AND.C0MM0DI0US STOEE, (Next door to the old stand or Campbell fc Buffum,) The Best Selected Stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE Ever Brousht to this Market. The entire stock is NEW AND FUESH consistinR la part of THE JUSTIFIABLE SUICIDE. I met him on the boiler deck us wc sailed out of j MEX WE II A VE MET. Tbe success which has attended Tom Mer- BUSINESS CARDS. J. P. IIAIlGttAVE, Attorney sunl Counselor at Jsaw: .OSIce East oid-3 of Plaza, Prescott. COL.12S HASH FORD, Attorney ami Counselor at Law, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. "Will practice his profusion in the Courts of the Territory JOSEPH LESESXE, iiwvsTfMAN AND STJU&ICO. lOineral Park. Arizona Territory: J. N.3IcC AIDLESS, pttv.!?ICIAN .A.-NX) SU-KG-ICOIM", Office North Side of Plas, Prescott. JOIEV V. LEONARD, Attorney ami Counselor at Law, Office East Side oi Plaza, Prescott GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, Staple & Fancy Dry Goods, LADIES' AND GENTLEMENS' .-- FURIVISHIJVG GOODS, CLOTHING' MENS AND BOS IdLA-L Boots and. Slioes, p.r.wrTnvrERY & TOILET AKTlOlxtiO, PATENT MEDICINES, nort. He seemed to be a gentleman--one of the better sort ; Bat be had a most ferocious look, a maniacal stare. Such as hunters And in timers when they rouse them from their lair. We met again at eve, when the cabin lamps were lit; . . .. He did by au aucicut femalo In the ladies' cabin fit. Then he wore a look of sorrow such a fearful look of woe. As Xiobc and her children, on the painted can vass show. And we metadata at midnight as we glidud down the stream, And all around waa stillness, save the 'scaping of tlin st rum. I Then he bad a look of wildness of misery and deiualr. As he gazed into the waters, as If something drew hmi there. I sought a conversation, and asked if he knew That we were on a dangerous boat anil hau a dpHiipnitt! crt:W ? I tol! him that tbe engineers were carrying: the Ktcaiu too lllL'll. That any minute ue might bu meandering to'rds the t-ky. ry's personal sketches encourages us to give n account of some of the characters we have encountered in our journeyiugs up nnd down the Pacific Coast. In the Fall of 1SG0 a friend of our's had the misfortune to kill a man in Silver City, Idaho, and was sent to the Territorial peni tentiary for a term of years. It was gener ally conceded to he a great hardship, and at a meeting ot his friends it was decided that wc should be delegated to go to Boise City to interview the Governor, with whom wc were on intimate terms of both personal and political friendship, with a view to obtain ing a pardon for our unfortunate fellow citi zen. "We laid the matter before his Excel lency, tbe pardon was immediately granted and our friend set at liberty. Having busi ness in Boise Basin we visited Idaho City during tbe following week where tbe Terri torial prisoners were then kept, and while at Luney's hotel received a note signed "Stone," requesting our presence at tbe Ter- I . . . .i i. : And that the pilots both were drunk, so I under- j ntonal I'rison, wncnever v e tuuiu ...a- .u f,tood. I piinronient to call. The writer apologized atii2v" ,is with sucba rcqucst' bu casting about could think of nobody who AMERICA FRLE U1UUL. could spare it so well as Wells, Fargo & Or. j Tjr Primer, in a recent address, said : " I ' . , 1 I . . 1 r 5 . T a a m -.:.-. iw nrm,,.ii nnd wouiu iivicr innL- nnnn trn nuesnon oi euucauuu nut. itiev ncic n-u, in. .nj,v., - , .-- 1 . II. 1J. CA UTTER, Probate Judge, Jusl ice of the Peace j And Conveyancer. County Building. JOHN HOWARD, Tim st ranker cried. " but 110 bUCh luck Will e er " c - - - - . be mine. I trow. For death in any shape would ben pleasure to me now. " I've sought it at the cannon's mouth and ou tin? rai'in'' Si'flS. And on the Northwestern Railroad, and places such as tbie. Why will it lice ? Tbe young and gay arc called away too soon, While I am left, who many years have craved it as a boon." I tried to cheer this gloomy man and draw his tlm n'lits nwav HARDWARE, TJN & WO ODENW ARE, Krom dwelling on such dismal things. "Sit down my iricnu, i pray ; Have you no living wile or child, no cncriueu kindred dear? Is there no one you love on earth, no tics to keep you here? "Who is that dear old lady who is traveling with von now 'i Can she not clear away the gloom which settles on your brow i Ah, there she comes ; I'll ask her aid ; most surely von'll reoent." But up he jumped, threw off his hat, and over board he went. I turned to whore the lndy stood, and spoke to " Madam, you're his mother-in-law." She calmly sunl, "Uorrecli CROCKERY, QLAS3 AHD EARTHENWARE, PAPER HANGINGS, LAMPS, CLOCKS, 31 in hag and Farming Tools, And oilier articles too numerous io mention, will be sold at tl.o lowest marKet pnees ior 'j.yjj I'reicott, July , 1874. JOHN a. CAMPBELL, PRESCOTT, ARIZONA, Attorney ami Counselor at Law. hvViiolcssale and Xetixil Office SouOi Montezuma St, Prescott. .DKALCIt IN J. T. ALSAP, Attorney.und Counselor at Law, Washington. Street, Phoenix, Arizona. .T. L. FISHER, REAL KSTATE AGENT. Auctioneer and Commission Merchant. Office New Comity Building. GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Early Plants. It happens in nearly all seasons that there is some disappointment about starting plants early, and it will very likely be tbe case in some locality at tn.s readin" that the ground is not yet reliable Ktx.i-3 constantly on HAND a LAitoc ASSORTMENT or j jnp .,11 tender seeds, such as tomatoes, green com, squashes, and melons ; periiaps not ioi cabbage and peas, ao tnat. a ic mib1-?' tions in this line may yet be timely. It is desirable to so transplant as not to cheek rrowth. To this end we t-hould not disturb the roots J. GOLDW ATER i URO., WHCI.nSAI.C UEAI.E11S, Torwarding and Commission Merchants Ehrrnberg, Arizona Territory. WILLI A3! JENNINUS, City Marshal and Night Watchman, Lttsnas to uiu3 ui cm Groceries & Provisions, WINES, L I Q U U t to TOBACCOS AND CIC1ARS, DRY GOODS, CLOTHING HATS, BOOTS & SHOES, assured us that it was a matter of almost vital importance to him and begged to be excused on that ground; we complied at once, and were ushered into the main hall of the prison by a polite turnkey who intro duced Mr. Stone and withdrew, leaving us to conduct our interview in our own way. We found Mr. Stone to be a young man of line address, cultivated manners and very prepossessing appearance. He was perhaps 24 or 25 years of age, nearly six feet tall, well developed and would weigh about 190 pounds before he lost his right leg, which had been amputated below tbe knee, Willi which exception we thought, as he stood there before us, he was about as perfect a specimen of physical manhood as we ever saw. lie at once proceeded to business and it was soon manifest from his conversation that he was a man of line intellect, and had had liberal advantages in tjic way of educa tion. His object in sending for u, he said, was to endeavor to enlist us in his behalf m trving to intluence the Governor to grant him a pardon. He had heard of our success in the other case through the party himself who had been his friend and confidant while they were fellow prisoners, and they had covenanted together, and pledged them selves, each to the other, that they would devote the remainder of their lives to doing good, and he felt that bis opportunities were too circumscribed within the walls of a .... i i i: .i. prison, luey nai; oeen reaumy uiuiiiun. feel" the loss of the small amount that it would take to render him and bis dear one happy. So he shouldered a shotgun, went out on the road, attacked the stage and cap tured the treasure-box. The alarm was soon given and he was pursued and captured near Malad City, in Idaho, after-having his ( so badly shot with a Henry rifle-ball as to render amputntion necessary in order to save his life. Though he still persisted that if he had had a long-range rifle instead of a shotgun they never would have taken him. He was tried, convicted and was serving out a ten years' sentence when our services were sought to procure a release. We offered him but little encouragement, but promised to relate his story to the Gov ernor, which we did ; but that officer re fused, saying that he thought one was enough at a time and our hero would have to remain where he was. In a few months, however, the Governor took a trip down into Oregon and lelt tlie Territorial Secretary as Acting Governor, who exercised bis authority and let him g . This was the last we evpr knew ol Mr. Stone until about a year and a half ago, when we met a young Kentuekian in North ern Califoania, and chanced to bear him say he was from Bowlingreen, remembering that ,1s Stone's town, we naturally enquired and learned that he was a noted revivalist in that country, and that be makes no secret of his robbing and imprisonment, but turns it to good account in frightening sinners to re pentance. We should like to be able to add that hn was married to the object of his affections, but our informant did not know the fact, md we leave it in uncertainty. WHAT JDO WE LIVE FOR? Not more, but better. If wc live only to eat, drink, drcs, sleep, and get money, we had better ignore astronomy aim uie. iu. if we are here to grow mentally, to enlarge the to There are several ways ot doing i , , , i otjlur rei,nri0lis books as this. A good way is to scrape out turnips, . d coniinetne.it, fill with irooil soil, aim n am. - -. .. fhr"e seeds? setting the,., in a warm, light : and had instituted daily prayt ..i.,rw. mil l.-i'ciiinir thfin moist. hen the weather is suitable, place these out in the garden at the proper depth, the turnip will decay and the plant will thrive unchecked, if properly cared for. Do not use potatoes FURNISHING GOODS, place of turnips. Another me l.od is to FURBismfiuww .r-.t snuaresofsod. say of six inches wide, MINING & FARMING TOOLS, from omi ,neUow soil, turn them bottom up, LADIES DRESS GOODS AND UNDERWEAR, LADD3S AND GENT'S er meetings, in which several other convicts were m the habit of joining them. He was studying divinity and expected to devote his life to the mini.-try of the gospel, if he ever got out of his present troubles. Wo (inquired how he came to be there and whether he considered himself suffering WILLIAM A. HANCOCK, Notary Public and Conveyancer, Corner of Washington and Mosteinaa Street, Phirnir. .VT. A. LANG LEV, Cerbat, .Moliavc County, A. T. OUra CABEITLLY ASSAYED. c a TtTtT rwv CUTLERY & HARDWARE and put in such seeds as squash or mellon, under an njust sentence or not? He hesi SADDLERY, oUJ.Jj.tixt. i o. ,,r sweet corn, and treat them m the same a a moml,nt ami sai(J jt was rather a CHIN A WARE. GLASSW ARE, CROCKERY. TINWARE, prrRiNrTTTTRE ,TT.TTr., nnnnc ivritinff naner or tuicK newspaper, HOUSti i-UtUUami r l. fnK n von Would ill llllllIII'r I I1LT111 ill IllV .w tivi ' . . covering a book, and tacking them with a way, not putting out till tne c.iwn.r ! delicate matU-r to talk about, but his was a quite warm, and then protecting against x'0 , J,e thought was "Fo'r more delicate plants, flowers, etc., j ever tempted as he had been, and though he make little square paper boxes out of thin j,aj committcd an otfense for which the law merely E. 11. UlcDANIEL, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Prescott. Yavapai County, Arizona. vniVnu-tlc his pm!M!on In the dm! of Yavapai and Mohave countiw. and tti Suj'rf rne Court. JAMES B. M'CAVKUY. McCAFFKY & CLARK, VttorneVa and Counselors at Law, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, Will attend to all lepal l.uin a p.irtn.-r cxrrpt in cases vvh.-re the United .State is puny . . .. ED. W. WELLS. RUSH & WELLS, ATTORNEYS .A-T LAW, Prescott Yavapai County, Arizona, GLASS, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISH, WALL PAPER, WINDOW SHADES. LOOKING GLASSES, LITHOGRAPHS AND CHROMOS DRUGS. MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, TOILET ARTICLES, ETC, ETC., ETC. trs A competent tiDner, constantly employed, will make all kind -f Tin, Copper, nnd Sl.eetiron work. Jobbing In thi line promptly attended to. JOHN O. CAMPBELL, rreseott. AriroMa. September i. Iti74. needle and thread; make them about three inches square and two deep. Fill with good soil, start the seeds and put out at the prop . , ,, i jiit, iK- er tune Dux and an in piace n.u"" ne-the roots. If vou fear that tlie paper is ton strnncr for the roots to penetrate, cut carefully on the bottom of the box in the hanc of a cross anit an win ue mn. from one to three seeds in a place, acconling to the nature of tlie plant. peience o Health. had justly consigned him to prison, PIONEER OXXJO STOKE. Wilt crTctty attend to nil civil 1hi!i.m entruteil U. t .,em in he several Cm.ts..r K.W in the Territory. A.tn t LV3.tVr .mrnm,, CLdm'ad Ke.dty uccarat.ly prepared. lr"inp : atterttionvcn to wlleetiinm Prescott, Arizona, PIOXJEEB RESTAURANT, BAKERY & SALOON First buildineouth of the MlSKU Oalco, Prescott. iVeIOiisc---ycw Everything:. -u most respectfully informs tha ruWIc .bat M,Vit-pUw. stfln'U n ,h "f buildinc recently detroyM by fire, is now open for the.r aecoram.xtion, and that be will bo picascu w iG'bOD BREAD, piS, CAKE'S, ETC. he thought no one but the Searcher of all hearts could ever properly appreciate the motive wnich induced him te do it. He said he wtis a nave of Bowlingreen, Kentucky, had just graduated 'from college and fallen deep ly, madly in love with the loveliest, sweet est girl in the whole State, and she returned his nassiou. Every atom of their being : seemed to belong each to the ' other, and it was impossible lor one to exist without the other. He felt that God had created her : soul, to expand and develop ourselves, make ourselves, through the media of the bodily organs, acquainted with our relations t ,tt...r thmiT and oilier ueme in wn- - vi'rsi' we bad better studv the "shinin frnnw.''iif tin! "starry heavens" and live on. There is no way to approach God except tlirmi.rh His works. The mora we know ot His work, the more we shall be assimilated tn tin- God nature. Who is there. who can nnt i.i mum for iuinrovement in this direc tion 1 Let him "go hence" in a "cbarriot of fire" at once, and "stand not upon the order of his going." When wo pass through the ".1-Mr v-iIImv " what shall we find ot earth on the "other side of Jordan?" Ourselves. "Only that and nothing more." We shall be as destitute, as when wc are born, of everything except the ' treasures laid up m heaven." As we nrougui nouimg uuu iuu world except ourselves, we can take nothing - ..1..... . nnsl II1I Ul WUlkC. Ollt Ol It except liuisliua, .mvi uiu sions in the long hereafter will be just what we have added to ourselves here, ilie trutn is respectfully commended tw the prayerful consideration of the Astors, the Stewarts, the Vanderbilts, the Goulds, and tlie Urews. What a thought that the great and power ful of this world, the railroad magnates, the lnn1 tlio merchant nrinces, the suc cessful stock gamblers, the "green bay trees" f nmsneriiv. whose enormous wealth has ... , .!.. impoverished tliousanus, aim curaeu tm.ii children, mav he louim in tue ouier uuu "... m 1 . f . 1 "nnor indeed the intellectual uwaris aim . . t T n.tilmwt m.irn !i'mii's oi society uicii.. x auiiuuioo. I'-O - . . - . . r disposed to believe m "reincarnation ior their sake, so as to give mem anuiuui uu.uia-. What n "treat ffulf may aupear uciwcku them and the Coopers, the I'eabodys, the Cornells, the Wbitworths, and the Licks Science of Health. minister but from a stand-point of American citizenship, and feel like saying to-day that, as long as God gives me breath, so long shall I oppose any interference or breaking up of the common school system of these United States. I feel that the Constitution is a great blessing but not so great as the common school svstem. Unless the peoplo are edu cated up to the Constitution it is valueless." Remarking upon the above the San Fran cisco Chronicle says: " We think the reverend gentleman struck the key-note of the entire question when he employed this language. Viewing the edu cational problem from a national and patri otic stand-point, what we require is a public school system divorced from all sectarian in fluences" whether Protestant or Catholic a system controlled and supervised by the sec ular authority without nny interference or meddling or scheming by any church, sect or denomination. We want a homogenious American system ; not a Protestant system, or a Catholic system, or a system leading toward any sectarian creed. Lvin? at the very basis of our American theorv of free government is the right of un trammeled private judgment in matters of re ligious faith. Under free institutions all sects are equal before the law. Utter divorce of Church and State, and a complete subor dination of the ecclesiastical to tue ciu power within the appropriate domain of the latter, are absolutely indispensable in a gov ernment which recognizes the freedom of the individual conscience and the right ol the citizen to worship God in his own way or not to worship Him at all. " It has now come to be a recognized neces sity that in a government the wise adminis - . V . . . ... ...115 tration ot wlncli uepemts upon tne uiiem cence of the voting masses, we must have a system of popular education. Such a gov ernment cannot go on unless ine peopie arc educated. And thus the duty oi the Mate- to provide for the instruction of its youth is logically deduced from the law of self-pres- ervatiuii. A republic, in its enure eisiciitu is a body politic, is a reflex ol the intelli gence ot the people who exercise oi mu elec tive franchise. The majority decide by theie ballots who shall make and execute the laws. They, by their representatives pass upon all questions of public policy, both foreign and domestic. They decide the issues of peaco and war. They judge of men and measures, and thus absolutely shape the policy and control the destiny of the nation. Hi'iice the clear duty and absolute necessity of public ou On hand nnd for Sale. AVER'S, J A VIVE'S, BRISTOL'S BULL'S AXI) HALL'S FAMILY MEDICIjVES, And a full aiortraent of the best IPrttent 3Xecliciiies TT III MarKCl naruimuu FA.CY TOILET ARTICLES, SOAPS, PBS.PTT3yCEB.-r, S. J. IIknsley, of the Salinas (Cal.J Town 1 f b- ,lIm nim ror i,er but had failed to Talk, April 29th, writes: "From the Am- j provjuc them with a sufficiency of this zona Mixer of April lJth, we see that tue j woriu's g00ds to start in lite as he thought Territory is now in a fair way to go ahead md become at an early dale, what we have all along c'aimed that it would, sooner or later, one of the leading agricultural, mining and grazing Mates oi mc union, in sa $; this we believe we know whereof we speak, as we have been all over the Territory and once knew nearly every man, nook and cor ner of that beautiful land. We sigh for the day when those brave, generous and noble companions with whom we traversed that ir;ia nnrl nipt tiresfiuc renion in the days ol Indian massacres, ohall reap the harvest of wealth which they have sought, found and ustly deserve. As a clas, Anzonans are he wealthiest in tbe world in proportion to their numbers, as nearly all of them own mines which, in our opinion, surpass in richness the famous bonanzas of Nevada, but whether they will live to draw their depos its, wc can't'say, we hope they will. , i $9.03 Board, per week: - S'.nem,ieais THE. SALOON DEP ABUTMENT Vnil altravs be foand well stocked with rrettv pl IMdViMm n.t flirars. DAK. llATii. r . rraoott, Arizona, December 3. 1S7I. Tfr ANTELOPE RESTAURANT. Gurley Street, North Side of the Plasa PRESCOTT, AKIZOXA. The Proprietor of this Bettaurant respect fully announc-s that h will spare no pains In catering to the wants of his patrons. Xleals will be furnished at all hours of the And a full supply of DISPENSING MEDICINES. Physicians' Prescriptions carefully and accurately compounded KmDAUU n v-tit.t.'5 Officc-In rear of Drue Store. ' 1 rtc" AXl iiid Hi,, table minnliett with cram nnd the choices delicacies that can be procured. Everthine rlean and erred up la the best style. Hoard, per week, $10. T. WHITEHEAD, Proprietor rreseott, KoTmbcrS3, 1S7S. HEZEKUnWOOM. CUAS. E. FKEDKU1CK TIN SHOP, Montes-ma Street, Opposite the Postoffice Yh-re can be foand a good assortment of TIX, COP- . rnrrTirns WARE: also. "WOMAN'S ptK. ana oumwuv . rmpvn -or TILTON'S STEAM WASnERS. to JOn WORK. AH rji?- iMrttcuiar ' filled BROOKS & FREDERICK. r- onn per day at bone. Terms iree- aoiw $tl tO 20 fsTCOOS & CO., Pcrtland, Maine. By A crcat celebrity appeared in Reno Mon day night last. It was no less than Sam Haz- lett. the " l'llgnm" primer, huu uu "ecu m nnar v everv iinntinc omce in ine uimuu States, and though often importuned to re main for a week ortwn. t help out on a nisii. be will quit at the end of two or three days and continue bis extensive tramp. He orig inally bailed from Titusville, Pennsylvania, hut. tines not intend to return. He is on tne way to this city Territorial Enterprise, May 1. General Thomas n. Williams, hte of Nevada, is said to have an eye on Sargent s seat in the Senate. The general hxs set up bis household gods in Oakland, California, and, with eight or ten millions of bonanza stock, may be thought to be in a condition to make the tight. San Francisco has got the picnic fever. Thirty -sir are announced to come ou ai va rious dates aunng me net ic they ougut to, consequently the happy day when they were to be joined in the holy bonds of wedlock was postponed lor a penoi of two years, and in the meantime he was to trv lii fortune in Montana with a view to increasing his worldly store. The separa-j tion was like tearing their heart-strings' asun- j der, but he remembered it was for her sake that he was depriving hiniselt of her society, and bore up as well as he could. Arming in the mines he went to worK liKe a siac, delving in the earth late and early, tearing ancient rocks from their primitive beds with .. . ..C I. f....lj f Vi.if ill tue impatient aruur oi onu uu iw ho must succeed, and with the image of his oved one constantly before his eyes encour- . . ... 1 .. . .1... C. ..r,. a"ing him to persevere, uui mv iw against him. Others were successful all about him, but dig where he would, his claim was always a failure. The time ap pointed for his return was fast approaching and ho was poorer than when he left home. They corresponded and it was agreed that he should remain and try it another year, but the same bad luck attended him, and as the . time of the second appointment ap proached he was so reduced in funds as not to be able to raise sufficient uvans to taKe him home, he became desperate, could not sleep, or if he fell into a troubled slumber be dreamed that the one he 60 much aaorea was upbraiding hiin and accusing him of inconstancy, finally ho said to nunscit, tuis will not do, I must and trill have money." He knew several miners who had plenty of it but could not think of taking it from men who had worked so hard to obtain it, there fore he concluded to look elsewhere, and in Pn kit rv Vnn Spelling Matches. The mo,t skillful "auirer I ever knew was a ma limii.il nii.li er. armed with a poniani, un drove a peddler's wagon, using a mullein stalK as an instrument oi coercion iu ijiuniu-c nvi'p liU nonv shod with calks. He was Galih-an Sadducce, and he had a phtbisicky n-t-irrh dinbthcria. and the bilious inter- mittent erysipelas. A certain Sibyl, with the sobriquet of " Gypsy,5' went into ecstasies of cachinnation at seeing nun meaauic t hiishel of tieas. and separate saccharine to n,;.tiii-.s from a heap of ieeled potatoes without dyeing or singing tbe igtntible queue which he wore, or becoming paralyzed with a hemorrhage. Lifting her eyes to the ceiling of the cupola of the Capitol to conceal her unparalleled embarrassment, making a rough courtesy, ami not naiassiu unu .- . -itifvmcT nirefvinrr. and stupefying innuendoes. she gave him a couch, a boqjuet of lillies, mignonette and fuchsias, a treatise on mnem onics a copy of the Apocrypha in hieroglyphics daguerreotypes of Mendelssohn and Kos ciusko, a kaleidoscope, a dram phial of ipe racuanha, a teaspoonful of naphtha for delcble purposes, a terrule, a clarionet, .-ome licorice, a sun int;Ie, a carm lian of sym motrip.il nronortions. a chronometer with a moveable balance-wheel, a box of dominoes, an 1 a catechism. The gauger, who was also a trafficking rectifier and parishioner of mine, preferring a woolen stirtout (this choice was referable to a vacillating, occasionally re nnrrino ii'.insvncrasvl. wofully uttered this o " . . - . , 1 apophthegm: "Life is checkeru: neresy ami villany shall be punished." The sibyl apol ..m?in'olv Answered: "There is ratably an nii...rp:ih o ' i ierence between a conierrauiu elbp-is and trisyllabic diaeresis." W e replied in trochees, not impugning tier suspicion. provision for the education of those charged with the primary political functions. u You in.iv burn ui) vour Constitution," says Dr. Lorimer, " and give me public schools for five ye-irs and I will write you just as good a Constitution out of the children that shall grow up under the teachings of thosa schools as I desire."' A widespread and apparently n concerted movement seems to have Ueen inaugurateu for the overthrow of our American system ot pnblic instruction. I hat movement must ho iironintlv met and resolutely opposed. Y o cannot atford to permit the common schools to be divided into Catholic Schools anil rro- testant schools. so argument can be made in favor of such a plan, the force of which would not go far beyond any sucn uivisiou. f the argument has any validity tue division nnnotstav there. Jews. Swedenborgians. Mohammedans, Mormons, Spiritualists and Atheists have the same right to tietnaim a further division of the school fund. All bc- iefs and unbeliefs are absolutely equal be fore the law. Our public school system is lesiened for the education of American citi zen: not for the education of Protestant cit- izens or Catholic citizen-, or iree-wiiiiMiis citizens. It is not designed to promote dis cord, but concord ; not to fo-ter antipathies and prejudices, but to destroy them. Tbe churches are lull ol zeal anu taieniaiiu wealth. They are amply able to provide tor the religiou training ir the children belong ing to their respective communions. The State is concerned to furnish the necessary education to make good citizen?. The churches may fairly and wisely be left to sup ply the education needed to makeuevout au herents to their various creeds. There must be no division of the school funds among the sects; and as a matter of equal justice, no sectarian religion must bo taught in the public schools. If the reading of the Bible, whether King James1 transla tion or the Douay version, is objected to, th Bible must not be read. If the recital ol the Lord's prayer be objected to it must be ban ished. Praver of any kind, religions exer cises of any kind, are just as inconsistent with the principal upon which our American common-school system rests as the reading of the Koran or the book of Mormon. Theso are ideas and principles which at the present crisis cannot be too much dwelt upon or too largely illustrated. They should be made as familiar to the minds of the American peo ple as the multiplication table or the days of the week. There is no better work that tho American press can do, and no h'-gher duty that it can fulfill, than to impress upon the n.iruta nf thn neonlc. irrespective of sect or creed or party, the supreme importance of maintaining our public scnooi system wto- ate against all attacks, Irom wnateyer quar ter they may come. Irrigation, emigration, nnhtir. tlii-'finances and the crops are sub jects which have their ttrnpory and local im- portance. JJUt uie generoi ijuvsnuii -uiui involves the preservation or destruction of our common school system is one which vi tally concerns the whole nation, tbe late ol free institutions, the cause of civil and relig ious liberty throughout the the world, nd the happiness ol tuture generations. a cunvrtKR scrapb took place on Hey nold's Creek, near Silver Cty, Idaho, on the lbth ultimo, between James jwrnaru u.m wu. vin Morton, in which the former fired eleven shots and the latter five. Of the sixteen cimto nr.lr nun took effect, and that struck Morton in the groin, inflicting what may be a mortal wound. Georc.e Peabody, the great philanthro pist, used the following language in explana tion of one of his bequests to the cause o education : Education A debt which the present owes to the future generation.". The statements of tbe great majority of the passengers in regard to tbe n recking of the Ventura are contradicted by the officers, tbe crew, James A. Hutchinson, of Columbus, Ohio, and Mr. Erringer, of tbe Pennsylvania Central Railroad. Goodall, Nelson a Perkins declare that they cannot be held pecuniarily responsible for the freight or baggage, abb truth of the whole matter and where tbe blame attaches will be known as soon as an investigation can be had by R. A. Water man, United States Inspector of Hulls. AM05C the gang of desperadoes prowling in Gila Valley, Arizona, aid to bo a bro ther 'if the notorious Pedro Pins, who assist ed in murdering the Reidle family, at Mis sion Camp, in 1870. fEx.