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. 2. No 42: Tucson, A. T.5 Saturday, October SO, 1869. ffEEKLT ARIZONA!! ,v Journal, devot e5 to tla Bstsoi a - " even Saturday at Tucson, A.T. ..-..asGt'VRSt liUlTOK. w ' " Ixerms of Subscription, k. one year r ; I. Six rnoinbs..... v three months Mrs, each V";":"" Us must be paidinvariably in ad vance a TrQ'!-iiiiiTicr "Rates R iXUV """'S f glars pt-r square f o r tl c S v- onoVi sulip.eauent insertion tqjuih iu. - If ... I nilllfHIUAfl fA tllO Eaess letters musi uB.uu.v - - I, and all "correspondence to the I J, E. MCCAFFREY. Sky jlnd counselor at; law TUCSON, A. T. Iftiy 2 J 13GS-tf G. 33. OSJBY, crney and Counselor at Lar ICtcc in Courthouse Building r TUCSON, A, 'i . tf Tucson, A. T. Vlaa, oppOiil tb Catkolic Caurch. F. M- HODGES, !M s ! X ST BET TUCSON. A. T. ?S con- lanflv on hand a large supply jr&nd of La.uors aud Cigars. 1st '69 USD . TTiUfclAil-J LOUD & WJS1LL5A3IS. IXJ just brought on from Now Yerk id jjlCE STOCK OF MERCHANDISE, iag tho same very cheap for cash. ot at our goods and prices. Jan. 1 ;&9. LUNCHES H1E PIONEER BREWERY AND AGENCY consistiug of i-jSP" Schwitzer Choose, Holland Hrrings p-'i rotato Salad, Pickles, etc., etc. if, IlAfiR CUTTING ASD SEIA51FOOIXG Jons attar tut most approved stylet. J.Jf SAMl. BOSTICK merchant GUAYMAS, Forwarding and Com- SONORA, MEXICO. foliar attention -nnA fn ;,riT.n S goods with quick dispatch. Respectfully ?D k 'WTT.T.-I 1 urn - Dfftvlo.S5'. i. Jb'isn Co. I Datmv88' H0N" J' B- ALLEN "B.A TH AUjjjjiKUUUUA,. -"-4 M. Falb aad Iiis Astronomical Predictions. Most of the news from the South by the last mail, came minglod with fears and anxieties excited bj the predictions of Astronomer Falb. Certainly, if it is any satisfaction and honor to a scientific man to havo his deductions read and attonded to wherever the voice of the Press can be heard, Mr. F. has little reason to complain. Along the coast of Peru, many of the most intelligent families hare removed away from the sea, until the pe-iod of the pos sible fulfilment of tlw4 prediction shall have passed over. Duriig the middle age the ap pearance of a comet and o'her common celes tial phenomena were sufficient to disturb the tranquility of entire nations. They looked to heaven xnd the ceremonies of the church topro tect them. The voice of science was neither heard nor sought for. Novr-adays science has ascertained for us how even the most distant planets effect our moral and physical welfare, i. ven the spots on the sun's di3C, though 90, 000,000 miles off, effect our magnetic instru -nients ; showing how our terrestrial and atrial electricity are obedient to the solar influence and by producing depreision or elevation in the state ol man's mind, may make him enthu xiastic, reckless or dispirited. As to' earth quakes, here we seem to enjoy a not easily ex plained immunity from such events; somehow or other this part of the isthmus seems to lie outside of the lino of direction of both uorthern and southern volcanic disturbances. In Cher- iqui, to the north of us, they are yearly felt more or less, becoming more severe as we p n- ctrateinto ihe Central American Slates There is not in the "In.-Ury of Panama, (since its es tablishment, any evidence or record of severe earthquake?. The towtirs of the cathedral and the saints in its niches seem neper to have stirrtid from their rigid contemplative attitudes since it was built All this, we admit, affords but littleconso'atien to our friends whose dwell ings rust above the volcanic subterranean re gion of South America. However we often auffer real evils by too keenly anticipating events whose recurrence certainly falls within the circle of possibility; but still does not ad mit of absolute certainly. How often has the end of lha world been predicted, founded, it is true, only on moral calculations which cannot claim anything like mathematical certainty It ia said of Rev. Dr. Cummings, who has also had his share of such gloomy vaticinations that in making a new contract far renting a house, he wishod to have it at a much lower price, seeing that the end of all things was so near. It must be admitted that our friends botb at Calloa and Atica have abundant reason to be uneasy. The lesson taught b"th places, espe cially the latter, has been too terrible to be forgotten. To a stranger arriving for the first time at Calloa, the formation of the shingly oil and point upon which it is built is very striking. As he walks through the recently made streets, running over the site of old Cil- lae, and sees upturned human skulls and bones,. the relics of the former city on the one hand and the 3mall elevation above the sea on the other, he can scarcely help saying to himself what a slight oscellation of the land would bo sufficient to sweep again the present inhabitants and building3 into the ''mar brava." Neverlhe loss we have the overwhelming earthquakes of Lisbon, Port Rpyal, Caracas and other places which have never been repeated. "We translate for our readers part of a letter written from Taona to the Comercio of Lima, under date of August 15th : "The days have pasjed when, according to Mr. Ff.lb, we ought to have had violent ter restrial movemeuts. However, about 5 a. m of the 14th innt., some noise was heard, but without any further results. But as it might be a prelude to the terrible earthquake which is expected to occur about the eud of September, or beginning of October, everybody feels anx ious and dispirited from the mere idea that the cataclyism of the 13th of August, last year, I might be repeated. Many families still remain in the fields, suffering frpra.cold and exposure, deeming it safer than city, to await the fatal day. Disregardinglna .probabilities of serious diseases, such as pHforisiea or other in flammations of the chested lungs which are apt to be engendered by such exposure at this season of the year." So it is under all snch trying circumstances, man is apt to suffer certain evils while trying to escape future ones, whichlmignt never oc cur, ilt is right, to exercise a prudent yet watchful resignation. Those in Arica who took a"n intelligent notice6f the retiring of the sea beyoirtfuSnstial bound!, preparatory to forming the return wave, and moved to higher ground cacaped with life. To Mr. Falb we owe our thauks for tb warn ing he stnds us. The physician predicts from the symptoms the approach cf a serious dis ease, and at the same time comforts us by point ing out the means by which a fatal catastrophe is tobo avoided. We ask can no instrument be devised which, like the barometer, would tell us locally of the comiug storm '? The wild Indian places his ear to the ground and hears the far oif footsteps of the horses of his enemy. The awful and terrible footsteps of naturo, in her reconstructive moods, impress ns with fear and trembling. Man can oniy stand aside with reverent awe until she has past. Panama Star and Hejald. ASesaadoa Von aisimboielt. The following dejcripticn of the appearance ot Alexander von Humooldt is irom the pen ot Bayard Jaylor, who saw him iu November, 1856, three years before his death : Ai I looked ,it the majestic old man, the line of Tenninoi., describing Wellington, c;'me into my mifld"Oh, good grav head, which all men knew." The first iinpM8sk.ii made by Humboldt's race was that of a broad and gonial humanity. Eh mas give brow, heavy with the gathered wisdom of nearly a century, beat forward and overhung his breast like a ripe ear of corn ; but when you looked below it a pair of clear eyes, almost as bright and steady as a child's, met jour own. In these eyes you read that trust in man, that immortal youth of the heart, which made the snows of 87 winters lie so lightly on his head, You trusted him utterly at tho first glance, aud you felt that he would trust you, if you were worthy of it. I had approached him with a natural feeling of reverence, but in five minutes I found that I loved him, and could talk with him as freely as with a friend of my TT ' . f 1 1 f t . 1 own aje. ins nose, moutn aim cniu uaa tne heavy Teutonic character, whoie genuine type always expres.-cs an honest simplicity aud di rectness. Hi3 wrinkles were few and small, and his skin had a smoothness and delicacy rarely seen in old men. His hair, although snow-white was still abundant, his stop slow but firm, and his manner active almost to restlessness. I could not perceive that his mem ory, the first mental faculty to Bhow decay, was at all impaired. He talked rapidly and with the greatest apparent ease, never hes itating for a word, whether in English or German, and, iu fact, appeared to be uncon scious which language ho was using, as he changed five or six times in the course of the conversation. "You have traveled much and seen many ruins," said Humboldt, as he gave me his hand; ''now you have seen one moro," "Not a ruin," I could not help replying," but a pyramid." For I pressed the hand which had? touched those of Frederick the Great, Foster, the champion of Capt. Cook, of Klop stockand Schiller, of Pitt, Napdleon, Josephim the Marshals of the Empire, Jefferson, Hamil ton, Wieland, Herder, Evettie, Cuvior, La Place, Gav, Lussae, Beethoven, Walter Scott in short, every great man whom Europe has producod in three-quarters of a century. I. .. iwm Tho expedition under Gen. Duncan, which left Fort McPherson for Republican River, sur prised a camp of fifty-six lodges, last'sunday, and drove the Indians away, capturing a large quantity of supplies and camp equipage. Thoy killed one Indian and wounded two. Denver 2i9ws, Oct. 6tb. CONVENTION BKTWZUX TIIE GENERAL TOST OFFICE OP THE UNITFD KINGDOM OF GRBAJfT BRITAIN " AND IRELAND, AND TUB GENERAL POST OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ' OF AMERICA. The General Post Office of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the General Post OlSce of the United States of. America, being desirous of establishing and maintaining an exchange of mails between the United State3 on the one side a-nd the colony o.Bfitish Honduras onjhe other, by means of the British mail packet plyingJ&tween New " Orleans and Belize, the undersigned, duly au thorized for that purpose, have agreed upon tht following articles: Article I. There Ehail be a direct exchange of mails between the office of New Orleans on the one part And the cfiice of Belize on tho-other, cam prising letters, newspapers, book packets, and packets of patterns or uarenles. orisrinatin? in the United States and addressed to the British Honduras, or originating in the British Hon duras and addressed to the United States. These mails shall be conveyed by the British mail packets established betweon New Orleans and belize, so long as the British government shall deem it expedient to maintain such pack etg. Article II. The postage to be collected in British Hon--duras upon paid correspondence addressed-to the United States shall be sixpence per singls letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, heavier k-tters being charged in proportion one penny for each newspaper, and threepence per four ounces for book paeketB, or packets--of patterns or samples; and the postage to bo collected in the United Sta.tes upon paid cor respondence addressed to British Honduras shall be twelve cents per single letter not. ex-v ceeding half an ounce in weight, heavier 1st lers being charged in proportion; two cents on. each newspaper, aud six cents per four ounces- on book packets, or packets of patterns or samples. The postage in either direction must in alt casrs be wholly preps.id. The correspoaden co thu3 paid shall be de livered at tho place of destination, whether in the United States jr in British Honduras, free ironi all charge TThatsoever. Article HI. The exchatige of correspondence referred to in Article II, preceding, shall not giva rise to any accounts betwern the British and the United Sts.tes post offices. Each office, shall, keep the postage which it collects. Article IV. Every letter, newspaper, book packet or packet of patterns or samples, dispatched from ft? . .i i ii, ii. one oriice to anomcr, snan oe piaiuty stamped iu red ink, with, a stamp bearing the word "Paid ' on the right hand corner of the address and shall also bear the dated stamp of the of fice at which it was posted. Article V. Dead letters, newspapers, &c. which cannot be delivered, from whatever cause, shall be rautually returned without charge-monthly, or as frequently ns the regulations-of the respec tive offices will permit. Article VI. The two offices may, by mutual consent, make such detailed regulations as shall be found necessary to cairy out the objects of this ngracment; such regulations to terminate at any time, on a reasonable notice by either office. Article VII. This convention shall come- into operation on the let day of October, 1869, and(shall be terminable at any time on a notice by either office, of six months. Pone in duplicale, and signed in Washington on the litii day of August, 1SG9, and in iTon don on the 4th df-.y of September, 1869. shal . J NO. A. J. CRESWELL, Postmaster General. seal PARTINGTON, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom. I heroby approve the aforegoing convontion, and in testimony thereof 1 have caused tho seal of the United States to be affixed, seal U. S. GRANT. By the President HAMILTON FISH, ."secretary of State. . Washington, August 11, 1S6.