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THE WEEKLY r ARIZONA MINER. VOLUME V. XiiixoiSjX. imiintisj??,, PI BUSHED EVERY 8ATUUDAY MORNING. AT I'UUrVTT, YAVAPAI, COC.VTV, AMZOKA. TERMS OF SUIlSCUIl'TION: One Copy, Oni! Year S 7 00 Six Month 4 00 i, Three Months 2 50 -c!og!o Copies 25 mi HATES OF ADVBUTIS1NG: On" "snare, one ttmo, fS.OO; cMh additions! tint ft r' Each additional square, mi mo ralo. A a' rr:il discount will bo made to parsons oon I n r-A ttu' ame advertisement for three, fir, or tvrt r-Miioiiiliti Pruu. jusl or business cards Inserted upon r isj'i!'!-- terms. jj,y- lqal TtwUr 4YpM tajttn at par in paymtnt fur iu3 riptwH, (ulcitlltinf and Job aork. Term., Inviirlitlily In nilvniie e. joxn it Mnios iinsj. ii. weaver. 1'ublUhen awl rnfvtotm. Directory of Yavapai County. r .ttffi Jtlr Wd. F. Tithkrk. 1'nbat T-jcisr" IlBMKIAlt HOOOHS, f' s r.. t Attorney JOHK M. KotvrBMt, g. rr t A. J. Moon. I . I!.. MiT Jott II. llfcHAX, i r Ir-uum WK4JAH COBT, l.ei TDiTtrt Owiit, It. W. WCU3, Jo. TEltMfi OP OOCItTSi D iW. t C'.mrt rint JtUj-U Maj", ttsd TUM 1 irt rint Mw4aj I January, Afftl. Jrijr ROAKD Of SLTKUVISOItS: i -n CoroMl John O. OamptxM. I". II. WHmtrrUsh. " mwii on lki lint Moadajr In jA.-j-, ApHJ, J . v nd October, ikt Piewwtt. JI-iTlCUS OF TUB lBACr!( r. BUlr. Oeorg W. ItareartL Business & Professional Cards. .J. P. H All Git AVE j HORSEY AND COL'NSELQR.AT-LAW, Montcruma tfe, Trwoett, Arizoot. JOHN HOWARD, ATT'iUVEY AND COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. Vreaeeit, Arisen. A. E. DAVIS, ATTORNEY AND GO (INS HLO It-AL A W, Mohavo City, Arizona Territory. F. P. HOWARD, IM. I)., j?irvsictv axd suugieox. Wiekcaburg', Arizona. Aztkn Lodge No. 177, F. & A. Id". Regular ineetlags of this Lodge on the Imi Saturday of each mualh, ax 7 o'clock r. m. SuJourrftiR Hrtri aw fraterulljr Invited (a attend. EDWIN DAltLlNO. V.iI Jambs E. McCArrnr, Secretary. Why Is it That the Fresco It people wear teller clotaet. soke better cigars, chew better tebaeeo, look ban homer and are happier than fsrraeriy! Ak Henderson k Co. mylfc. I. 0. 0. P., Arizona Lodge, No, 1. X'J'y. ItKOL'LAR MEETINGS ' " J i nfll.l. r .wl .M ,. lfl...1. rv5f!V5' !,. at Ntainnlo Hall Ins, at Maionlc Hall. Mfinixri or iiio oroer. In trood Undine, arc lnvlled to Mtencl. A. 0. NO YES, N. 0. E Dapuxo, Itcc. Sec F Oil SALE A FEW Annlv to NO. 1. 00Ya A. 0. DUNN, if. 1'rcwott, June 12, 1S0S. Why 1 it That the Prcscott Bar pell belter Llqnors tkia formerly! Ak HENDERSON &. CO. mylC. KUSTEL & nOFMANN, METALLURGISTS AXD ASSAYEUS. Gold and SlUtf Bullion Aiinycd. MINERAL ASSAYS AND ANALYSIS MADE. 611 Commercial Street, San Frnneleo, fiiLvnn axd Ooli Onus worked In email lot up to a humirud pound., by CMorlncUcm and other metliods. San FrnncUco, Oil, Juna 27, ISM. JyUiniO Goods well IJought, Sell Them selves. -D. IIbxiikiuon-. the senior partner of tha Ann, Is constantly employed In Son Franolsco 'c'.ectinK and buying goods by which moans wc are enabled to take advantage of the fluctuations in prices, and purchase our goods at lower rate than any other House lu Central Arizona. ray 30 D. IlEXDBnsos A Co. Illuiik MIiiIiik Hiiltftal'" t-cl, 't'telnt ami ttrncrut IosvrrorAttoriiry, le., for snlc at the Sillier Ollcu. Why I, it That Dry Goods are sold cheaper In IVosoott 'nan elsewhere this side of gar Francisco? Un- Itthuor IIEfNI)ERSQN JcQO. ay!6 . ' ' WIESCOTT, ARIZONA: SATURDAY MORNING, Letter from Tucson. COIir.KSr-ON-DKNCE or AUIZO.VA Mt.VEn. Tuchox, Arizona, September 9, 1808. Editor Miner : I promiwl, in my last Icttor to you, to tell ym tlm ren1t of tbo suit of Quo Warranto pending in the District Court at this place, which, ir decided against the roipondont, would, in cfToct, render void all the law of tlm Territory, together with all prdcedinjrs under them. At the time of writing that letter it was understood that Judge Hackus would deliver his decision on tho follon-iiig Monday, but tlio importance of the case, or rather of the consoquouces, if de cided in one way, induced the Judge to take more time, ami I believe it is the intention to submit it to the full Hench of the Supreme Court at its next session. Tho .M i.n Kit comes to hand pretty regularly and is much sought after by the people about town, and when found, Mini laugh and somo swear. Mot of them acknowledge however that you are a truthful and outspoken indi vidua!, although souieof thein tsiiggott thut there is a trifle too much "gall ami wormwood" in you. Some few acceptfoits were taken do my letter as published, but no tights have re sulted. The rain has been fulling for the last twenty-four hour pretty steadily and orerything is in a very tnotat condition. I was down town this morning and listened to the reports, and I did not hear of but one hwint that did not leak last night. The now Court I!ou, of whic$ the people of Tucson were justly proud, is likely to fall down, the walls having i split and the roof leaking badly. I am mktv to hear of tfebj, as the building was a credit to the plaee. Them i a great deal of sickness here at preMttt, awl almwt ever' day a prccssefon can be seen making Hi way towarde the "City of th Dead." Many parsons are tick with the fever and among the children the whoop ing eocgh is rcersletst and seems to bv ubuo ally fatal. In the way of amusements there Is bat lit tle going on, except among the Mexican pop ulation. They have beon oelebrating the lltiia of San Augustine fur about eight days, and np;iareutly iavo had a good time of it. I believe be is the pat ran Saint of the village and of coerce it is right that the inhabitants should do him tnaeh honor. Day and night the plaza in front of the Church has Utn filled with merry makers ivko (ttoyed them oelves dancing, eating, drinking and gambling, lint few Americans seemed to take any part in the amiwments. Hut few dittfculti oc curred, and but one r two arrests wore inad during the wboJe time. Our old fnend Mut ton, (formerly Lieut. 1 1 niton, 1st ArinMRi Vol unteer) who is vratchman, DrtDctire force ! and Chuf of I'olice fur i he city, was around ready to arrot any one who became too bois terous in bis devotions to his Saint. Every thing passed olT pretty smoothly, however, aad was in every way creditable the peo ple who (wrticipated in it. General Devin arrived here yesterday, to take command of the District, i suppose, in place of General Crittenden, who is going to San FraneUeu, and who will take with him a largouumberol thewhliera stationol here, to be dlscfaareei), their time bavins cxnired. General Deviu soerne! to be in good spirits and condition when he arrived here and it is to be hoped that he Mill make some changes lit the operations of the military so as to ren- der them of some use in nrutectintr theoonn- I try and chastising the hostile Apaches. The Indians are wry bad all around this sootion of ouutitry, and every day or two brings news of some new depredation Ukmi life or prop erty. I suppose you will have heard Iwfore thin reaches you of tho doath, at tho hantU of the Apaches, of anothcrokl pioneer of the country, James Pennington. He was kiilwl obout ten days ago, near San Xavjer. The citizens are roused at last, by the repeated murders and thefts of the red raKals, to take some action for their own defence, indepen dent of the "boys in blue," and a very seiwi ble movement has been made, if properly eon ducted, A subscription paer was circulated among tho people upon which was jHit down by the subscriber tho amount he would ey wr month, to eupjHrt n company of volun teers to not against tho Indians. I under stand that enough wm subscribed to keep a company of fifty men in tho field and the whole matter was put under tho control of a committee of five. Tho Governor, it is un derstood, will commission the officer chosen to command tho company. Ills Excellency ays he will start for Pres cott in a few days. P. G. Christie is here enjoying hitmolf well, apparently. Business is very dull ; nothing doing of any kind, ex eunt selliiik' the imputation of the city their daily bread and meat. It is rather amusing to fctanil in one of the stores of this "coiumer- nirl centro" and watcli tho trado at the coun ter. Tbrco pounds of flour, lb coifco, 25 ccnU worth of lard, I lb sugar, 5 eta worth of sugar, etc., etc. Ask tho merchant or tho little town of Prcscott how they would like to exchange their trado for that of tho Capi tal. I am very confident I have seen a mer Hmnt here, employed busily for one hour, measuring nd weighing to hig customers, and nt the end of that period he had not sold ten dollar worth. - J. T. Alsap. Letter from South Pass City. ooRttcsroNiiExor. or the mixer. South 1'ass City, D.TH Aug. 21, 1808. Editor Mixm: Afteranabsenceof twolva months, I have come to the conclusion to write you a brief epistle, thinking, probably, it may be wine satisfaction to you to get some news from this region, particularly from one who has been through the mill and has had the experience that your humble sorvant has had. Well, this country is the grandest bilk of the ago. The Prescott oonntry Is a paradwvc compared with it. There is not a single lode m the country. It is true, there is some lit tle q'oarti in the country that will pay for working, provided a suflWeat quantity cowld be obtained, init the country is a broken up elate formation, and the ludea are nothing more than little fibres and oMnineyscmppiog ont of the surface, through the slate, and it it the meanest climate on the face of the earth. We had a snow storm about the mid dle of June ajid ! honestly believe a nssn would bare fraum to duftth had he been caught out hi it. In addition to this, we have the Crow and Sioux Indians to contend with, ami when they tie owwe they make it hot I for m. They are diflemt t fraan y onr A pachas; whenever they coUsh a wniH party they are dead enre to Ukc thetn in. I think I that! retnrn to Arizona this fall. X hare had enough di northern MMiUiM, snd rather lift- in ArfoMM and be a jamn jvnt than to bo a king this ikm. J. WiLVBIt WlttlAMS. Letter from Hardyrille. TliwTrt-v,, t p c, 1 1 icrs En. An!ZOl .UIN'CK : -I Mat Statement from an inteHigent and nJiaWe,'1 proves not to be correct. I reported it in good faith and had gmi reason Air believing it. At prosont writing the treaty appears nut to have been cofMUtnated, al )eaM on the part of Mr. Wal-1 lapai. So many "reliable reports" got out that one dare net hoot hk month oiF, now-a-days, withent danger 4 binf; convietod f lying. The Iniian, I know, are not yet up on the river, ht the Interpreter inferna me that Col Price has given them tea days to eome in and settle down among the Mohave , and if they fail, tba war to the knife, i Travelers to and fro, between here and the Willows, pass along the route in peaee at es ent and Use "good Iajin" is allowed to viit the travaier' camji. the allotted time is up, I nreetnae dne notice will be given, ami if they Ml in csming up to the Coloeol's treaty, tfcewwltl be no mere friendly greet ings bat a war of bitter oxteradnation, 1 hope. Mr. Hard, to say hit employee, has struck some very rich rock in his mine. The "old geflthKiMSil biroMdf has gone to California on a viit, via Austin and Virginia, Nevada. Hoping that no one was damaged by that "reliable" report ami that you will make the aaktadf Umoratit, I remain very truly yours, Jai. P. Roll. The Miuhle Aos Cithkprai.. The ca thedrnl was the grand ppoar monwment or the Middle Agii. It wa not only tbe puce of prayer, and the abode of God, but the cen tre of intellectual movement, the storehotMe of all art traditions and all human knowledge. What we 4ee In the cabinets of mm-enm our fathers entrusted to the treasury of church u; what wo soek in books they went ami road in living character upon the cbbell inc "f gates or the iintings of windows. Thi? is why, wo find in such number upon the alU of our cathedral, those calenders, those botanical and zoological illustrations, thoo details about trades, thoe warnings about hygiene, whMi ielosl nn eilcyclo jMudia for tho use and within thereaeh of all. At Rheims, St. l)eni, Sdnte t'liapellc, they kopt 8tuirel croeodiles, ostrich's egg, cuim-oa ami antique vase, relies of martyrs and Saints. U draw the people within the dace of wor ship. So writes a dovout Catholic. Victor Hugo is au-erb when he signals the corrwiiondence between the cathedral and the mind of the Middle Age. He not only discovers that the cathedral is the encydu paodia it is also tho (.tune bible, the majestic ami visiblo poem, the grand publication of the time. Each stone is a lent in the mighty volume, each cathedral adifferent and enlargod edition. The sculptor of the period, like the writer of the press to day, hail tho liberty of expresiion, ierhaps inoro liberty than is grantoddiy n million-voiced public opinion to tho writer in America. Then the bishgp was the publisher; the people subscribers; the architect, tho aculptor, the painter, tho jew eler and tho maon, fellow-worker. OCTOBER 3, KGB. Ecconstruction. One of tho grand errors which tho people of tho North have committed fclnce the close of the war lies (says the Jlouml Table) at tho ba sis of the wholo reconstruction policy, and is independent of nny question of the constitu tional power to deal with the. Southern States as they have been dealt with. It has consisted in tho assumption of a nesity far protecting the nogrocs against the whites. The general belief in euch a necessity has led the people of tho North to acquiesce in measures which they certainly would otherwise havo con demned, and of which they arc now begin ning to see tho mischievous fruits. The error has extended to the means as well as to tho end. H'e have assumed that the negroes needed protection at our hands, and then have committed the blunder of supposing that the ballot was to be the great panacea. It has proved to be a Pandora's box. If a supreme ruler, having unrestrained au thority ond an ordinary share of wisdom and benevolence, had Iwen called to consider the problem presented by the sudden nlwlition oi Mavery as one oi tlio consequences ol a civil war erowinz out of a iolitical revolt i against las government, it is probable that j portion of rcprnscntathc populations unless one of the last projerts that he would have j t"e.3r conferred suffrage upon the negroes, adopted would have been to reverse the po- n'8 amendment was rejected by the jwoplo' litical and social relations of the two races 011 ,'hom it undertook to force a change by conferring political jhjwct ujKtn the infe- 'hich they knew the frcedmen were not tit rior race and taking it away from the superi-, fri ""d for which there was no kind of hon or. But wise or unwise, constitutional or ! necessity. What was to be done 7 ?egru unconstitutional, the action of Congress to- j suffrage must be had, or the political power ward the Southern States has been founded j f 'he Radical party in the North was in dan on a monstrous assumption. The whole so- Ker f being lost by the reaction naturally to cittl history of the South for a period of fifty oe expected after a civil war. RtcowUructien years proceeding the rebellion show that the i wwf the only remaiuing resource a scheme relations between the two races had in gener- which ment that the Southern State, as they al ben kindly and harmonious. There were ' 'hen existed, should be suppressed; that the evils enough attendant upon slavery, and it whites who would not consent to negro suf- was certainly a blot upon the escutcheon or surfi a republic as ours. AVc have all rcafon to le thanknal for it removal, and this we lw- Heve it the otiinion of ninetr-njne in even )ufHro,l f the former master. Rut whether h arce irom toe nature ot me negro, trom the fact tlwt for so many generations lie had been a slave, or from the virtues which such a yttn engendered in the white along with viees which it produced, it is undeniable that protection and rood treatment of the blacks were the Mttied habits and tins dispoitHn oi Sontbern society. If it had been other- casian races, and with which the negroes of wii. we never should have witnessed the ex- j our Southern States can be compared. Gov. traordinarv spectacle, which was dwplayed ' emroents that arc thus based upon the most fall thftHigft the war, of a .TTile imputation ignorant and degraded class, that class being reraaininf peaoe&ldy at work in the absence an inferior race and being made by the dis sA their master, who were carryiar on a war franchismcnt of great numbers of the sujierior I "e oi toe aioweu oiyecw oi Avuicii wa to Til... ... M .-V. . . . l- . urreton in the whole South while the war , other motive than a design to obtain the pen was going on. In can almott innumerable litical control of those States in the election! the slaves on isolated plantation, where white which relate to the ofllces of the Federal wvmen and child run were left without any , Government. The idea that the blacks need protectors of their own race except a single i d protection against the whites has been hon overwujr. were fathfol to the last, carrying , etly entertained by the masses of the people & tne laimr ot production winch lurnisbeu the sinews of war as well as the means of tatbsistence for all. The National Govern ment obtained no important military advan tage in tae whole course of the war which can be said to have accrued from any will ingness of the htack to rite fm mom? against the apped opprnr. This spectacle has at no time impresed the people of the North est it was to raise their condition as fast as it as it did the peopb? of fort-isn countries, and ; could be raised by prudent and honest legis, we have not drawn from it the important les- lation. No good has yet been done in the rs ton It shonld have conveyed to us. ! latloas of the two races by the interference It should have taught us that when the ' of Congrc. At the same time the etatc of people of the Southern States, after the war ' things which lias been produced, politically, was onded,confented to ratify an amendment deplorable. A race of adventurers from tbo of the Constitution or the United States abol- ! North, of the worst type of politician?, ap ishing slaverv, and when they were ready, hs propriately dubbed in the political slamr of they certainly were, to adjust their legisla- j of the day as "carpet-baggers." ore assuming thm ami customs to a system of free labor, j the most Important offices oi those States, our farther interference would be both un- and arc swarming into Congress as rcpresen neeesary and mischievous. It was clearly i tatives of the Southern people; while the unnecessary, because there was no oppression, and no feeling that rankled in the bosoms of tne wnites arainst the blacks. It was cer It tain to prove mischievous, because as legisla tors for the South we were utterly incompe tent to deal with a problem so far removed from us, so local, so ticculiar, and involving so many details of which we could know noth- ing. c were compli-tely ignorant of tue race for whose Ix-ncfU we undertook to act. We were ignorant of the processes and ncces- titles or the ajrncuJUire which depended on ... . ... -... .. their labor. What kind of contracts the owner of the soil could make with the frrcd limn, what contracts could be enforced, bow subsistence was to be provided, bow the la boring jwpulation were to be kept at work and kept in health that population being one just emancipated from the absolute will of an owner and no more capable in general of self-directioo than so tuanr children the were matters with which ft was impos sible for any government to deal wisclv which ontirely lacked representative men belonging to those communities, and assumed the rela tion of a sovereign who had quelled a politi cal revolt. Wo did the very worst thing that we could have done. Wc fent a military Iower to deal with social problems that re quired local knowledge and the xj)rience which generations of civilized and intelligent white men had acquired in dealing with the negro; and the agents of that military jower were Northern stranger, very poorly quali fied to legislate for a people whoie interests and whose wanU they could nut understand, and agaiast whom they carried with them strong political preiudiccs. Tho FrcedmcnV Hureuu was founded upon tho idea that the blacks needed protection against tbe whites; ami along with this caino another stupendous mistake, that it was necessary to repress the whites becuusc they had been "rebel," and to proclaim the blacks to be tho "loyalists '' ami " Unionists " because their former mas ters had engaged in a political revolt against tho Federal Government. This running of political distinctions into problems that were purely social, legislative and local tho prob lems of free labor where slave lalwr alone had N HIRER 40. produced tho great staples or a very peculiar region coon excited the ambition and chi canery of a certain class of politiciaas who have had the predominant control of the Fed eral Government since a comparatively earl r jicnod in President Lincoln's administration. Thaw men conceived the idea that if the ballot could be put into the hands of tho ne gro they could control the political character of tho Southern States, and by means of a population which they could handle as they pleased, the Southern States might bo made, politically, Republican; as they would cer tainly become Democratic if the whites were left in possession of the political power. Ku' how the ballot was to be got into the hands of the blacks was a question not easy to be nettled. The institutions and the fundamen tal law of tho L'nitcd States did not.admit of any interference by Congress with tho right of suffrage. The making or unmaking of vo ters by an act of Congress was a thing un heard of ; and even the most radical of our Radicals did not at first see their way to this assumption of noucr. Thev nmwwwl an amendment of the Constitution which would deprive the .Southern States of theic pro- "gc nouiu dc oistranchtsed or the direct force of n act of Congresa, that suflrago tuouju.uo conicrrea on tuc oiacu Dy tiie Mine tower; and that the tUiU should' thus become an entirely new body of people, a majority of wliom are destitute of even the rudiment of education, and are !e. fit for the exercise of the right of suffrage than any oorrcsponding population in any country of Christendom ; if, indeed, there is any other . 1. . 1 t 1 . i - . . . V population oi a aitunct race, situated in the midst of the intelligent and educated Cau race i;ic acuwii uoiut-m oi iac ponucni power, Thi. wbmi ronld tint k nrimn.twl ;n ' oi tuc .ono, wnose crroncons convictions have thus furnished the politicians with a pretext; whereas wc should all have seen and admitted that the best protectors of the blacks in their new condition of freedom were those who had always lived with them. who were horn on the t-ame noil, who best ; understood them, and whose fctrongest Intcr- legislature oi tnc new negro governments are coinpocu or tne least intelligent, the least capable, and the least honest of the white race, with an intermixture of blacks, most of whom cannot read or write. Tbo new governments, too, are started with the fundamental condition, imposed by their con stitutions ana cniorccu by tnc terms of their i aaraission into me union, mat tne universal I suflrage should never be changed. What a future, then, is before those States ! Bound l f ; . 1 . i ; t , forever if the scheme is capable of lastine ..-to an irreversible and unchangeable condi tion of society, that condition being that cto ignorance and absolute overtr shall hold more political tower than intelligence and property ; that laws shall not be mode by those who arc best, but shall be made by those who are least qualified to make them ; and that no man shall hold office or cast a vote who docs not first take an oatli that he believes in the political and social equality of races on which the hand of Heaven has stamped indelible marks of rclativelnferiority and superiority which have always been dc vcIojhxI and always operated whenever thty have been brought in contact. The prospect is melancholy enough. One thing, however, appears to us clear, whether tho one party or tho other prevails in the ap proaching Presidential election. It ts( that this condition of tbintrs in the South cannot continue. It is a kind of legislation that is impracticable for any but a temporary and factitious purpose. It is a scheme which may possibly give the electoral rotes of the recon structed States to the Republican candidates; but as the basis of the future polity and con dition of civilized States it is too manifebtly a violation of ordinances of Providence to re main long In operation. Daniel Webster once said speaking of the impossibility of Intro ducing African slavery into a region where it was excluded by tho irresistible forces of clmate and soilthat it was useless to rcenact tho laws of God. It is worse than useless to legislate against His laws; and that it is ono of His laws that educated intelligence, expe rience, nnd virtue shall govern the aflaira of this world is certain.