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Vol. III.
TUCSOE", PIMA COUNTY, A. T., SATU 1DAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1873.
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JjHTTER FKOM THE "OLD SOD."
About Pictures that are not Painted
--What a Siasty Tour Amounts to
at Best A Zigzag Run Across the
Emerald Isle.
Belfast, Ireland, July 30. There
is only this excuse 1 have for myself
or any other idiot or Innocent Abroad
on & flying trip, as a majority of
Amerie&ns in Europe ever are, and
this year particularly. If we are
truly capable of appreciating a real
painting by human hands one by
the best of hands we are, or should
be, all the better able to enjoy the
scenery, natural and artificial, which
I fancy everywhere abounds in this
old world. I refer more specially
now to the works of man touched by
nature through years and centuries of
them ; almost geological periods as it
were. "We have greater rivers, moun
tains, etc. at home, but wo have not
got the universally cultivated or im
proved hills and valleys, lakes and
rivers, which are everywhere found
m .burope; so solid ana enduring,
that even tradition is uusatisfactor3r
as to the founder of this castle, that
bridge, or yonder wall in general.
Here is art finished by nature into
the grandest picturo gallery 1 can
conceive. A onaseve view tnereoi is
a continual pleasure to me, whether
am more fit to judge of a study by
old Mike Angel m tue V atican, than
a mule is to sing tenor for Mad. Kill
son. I feel that I am not wholly
upon a wild goose chase, and if you
now understand what I am talking
about all right ; you will have the
best of me once, if you do.
I was not sea-sick, but rather sick
of the sea its monotony hence I got
off it the first opportunity. Queens
town is the harbor for the very inter
esting city of Cork in the south of
Ireland. Cork is twelve miles up the
river Lee from the beautiful and well
fortified harbor. The scene is almost
tropical in its luxuriance of verdure.
The river is walled up the sides, and j
the banks and rolling country adjoin-
mg are lined and marked with all
sorts of fine residences, cottages, fencea
of stoim tipped ov covered with, differ
ent kinds of hedge; flowers of the
most delicate construction and colors.
If I could have bought the whole Is
land then, I should have certainly
done it and sent the remainder of the
inhabitants across to help out the De
mocracy in '70. I think it were bet
ter for the Irish if such a Democratic
sort of devil as myself owned it all.
instead of the half-dozen thorough
bred old tyrants of landlords that
now have it among them. This is
the very first grand, distinguishing
feature of the picturo of Ireland that
an observing "tourist" will discover,
"and when found make a note on."
Mexican towns and cities as a rule
terminate short off like a precipice
no houses outside to speak of as in our
country where the farmers own the
land they live on and sooner or later
have considerable mansions. Here is
a country older than Christ and a
great deal more crucified, and we i
only yet see towns and cabins. Its
owners mostly live in England or on
the continent and let Pat and the Pir
pay the rent, whether the crops are
good or bad. One may read of these
things when thousands of miles away,
but the fact is never quite fixed in the
mind thereby. I will read of the
picture hereafter perhaps more in
tently for this trip. But Ireland is
truly as green as reported. Notwith-
standintr it is all on the latitude of
-Labrador, the Gult btreaui twirls
round it like an affectionate vino and
tones down the atmosphere to about
that of the Willamette Valley. Ore
gon. Here, however, the rainy season
may be repeated all the time. It has
rained every day since I landed, and
will continue till I leavo. (No pun
intended I never went out visiting
where the weather could interfere,
hut what it did. Owing to the orig
inal forests of Ireland being long ago
converted into peat, etc., wood and
lumber are secondary items. Barns
are not a part of the scenery further
than that the various cattle ail live
under one roof. The hay is stacked.
Pat mowing his potato-patch grass
plat with the quaintest old scythe,
renders the foreground of the picture
as life-like and jolly aa Father Time
on a pale horse. The peat bogs some
what remind me of the lava-beds.
They pile it up to dry like adobes,
d it is as good fuel as California
Oal. The one thing lacking to com
plete the landsaps, I think, are trees
on Ireland's mountain tops ; they arc
never void of vegetatio.i, where the
rocks are not pirpendict lar and too
smooth for tho injss to cat.-n, but they
lend a certain b.eakness to the coun
try not as 1 would haye it. There
are several rail iug mouuain3 round
the Killaruey lakes, which would bo
completely graid as wel) as enchant
ing, but for tint:. But understand, I
did not come hre to look for natural
scenery superior to much f o.r own,
but for art in concxtion. nd " my
lords" Herbert aTd Kcnuare, who
own the lakes and r 11 of county Kerry,
have done (or thei." predecessors have)
about all that could be to render that
corner of tho Old Sod one g -and park.
In fact, Ireland is all one ywat park,
alongside of vhich Fairmont at Phil
adelphia is but a sorry fly-speck.
Limerick, on the vest side of the
island, is located tiore beautifully
upon the river Shaanon than Cork
upon the Lee. From, there over to
the chief city, Duliin, on this the
east side ; thence up the coast to Bel
fast, tho northeastern and most enter
prising city in the country. Its linen
manufactures renders it raost active
and the only citv in Ireland that
nearly holds its ovn in population.
Emigration is getting ahead of tho
baby business, and 1 appreciate the
poet's song of
" There came t"- ih'v'isflf h a poor exile
oi Erin,
The dew on his thiu robe was heavy and
chill."
Eeally his robes are as a rule as
seedy as an old thistle patch, and the
only thing that prevents tho winds
from making a similar scatterment,
is the great amount of rain, which
noetry converts into dew. "Whenever
Pat is short of water, he just puts in
more whisky : aud both he and his
wife have a place to put it. I saw an
old girl at Cork stop her mug with
four glasses raw in quick succession.
I went out theu and kissed the bust
of Father Mathew, whose great ex
ample has evidently gon to oned in
Cork his native home. Thero aro
very few four-wheeled vehicles in Ire
land, and of all tho cart-constructed
concerns on earth, the jaunting car is
the most doliciously absurd ; it is as
enjoyable at first as a boy's first
breeches and sliding down hill. I
had ridden most all sorts of animals
from a steer to a mustang but I
just thought this proved to bo the
king-pin of vehicles. Tue wheels are
all covered over as it were by a great
broad pack-saddle, on which you sit
sidewise liko a woman, but with both
feet in tho stirrup,. Wo went out to
Blarney Castle and the groves in this
thing, and with' the" wildest sort of a
Pat for driver (ad tfb could afford to
fill him with beer at two cents a
drink), we had thq devil's own spree.
I am satisfied of it. It was the gay
est sort of foolery for a change I had
ever met with. Kingston, Jamaica,
has a species of turnout that makes a
man feel quite as ridiculous the first
time, but the Irish jaunting-car forever
tor my money now. JJlarney Castle
at (Jork, and muckross Abbey at Kil-
larney, are the two most mterestin":
relics or ruins I have yet visited ; both
in good state of preservation consider
ing. Blarney is the older almost
prehistoric. The main tower is as of
old 120 feet high. There has been
many a bully fight .in and round its
strong walls, and I don't know that
Ireland 13 much less barbarous for the
change from feudalism to aristocratic
rule. There is a constabulary police
force of 13,000 in Ireland, besides tho
regular military stations. Excepting
this place, its other throe chief cities
are brilliant with uniforms. Am sor
ry I was not here for the Spring or
Orange fight. Tho bloody Boyne
river looked peaceable as goat's milk
and whisky (" mountain dew " ), as I
looked at it this morning from tho
splendid bridge twenty-five miles this
side of Dublin. I have a thousand
and one things I feel like writing you
tho most interesting to me, in fact
but your space . will not admit, to
say nothing of your patience. W.
A LITTLE girl, daughter of a cler
gyman, being left one day to "tend
door," and obeying a summons of the
bell, found a gentleman on the steps
who wished to see her father. "Father
isn't in," she said, " but if it's any
thing about your soul I can attend to
you. 1 know the whole plan of salvation."
OX MINING AND MINERS.
LETTER TWO.
Milling in General.
Mining, next to agriculture, is the
most important natural resource in
the development of a nation ; and as
a civilizer, the coequal of agriculturo
AH countries aehcient in mines, or
with their mining resources dormant
or but partially and unsystematically
developed', form the rear of our pro
gressive civilization, while those .alive
to their importance, and ever active
in their healthy development, stand
at tho head of it. Tho products of
mining are daily, hourly wanted in
everything, in agriculture, in the
arts, in sciences and commerce. Who
then dares to say, that mining is but
a game, a swindle, and tho ruin of
thousands ? Ay ! thousands and hun
dreds of thousands of fools sav it
say it, because they have dabbled in
it, took it as a game, and lost in it as
a game ; applied their ignorance and
worst qualities in it, instead of their
intelligence and best qualities ; em
ployed ignoramuses and pretenders
becauso such lend themselves to all
kinds of dirty work : they neglect the
honorable professional man, becauso
he does not do so, does not make ialse
reports and misstatements to suit the
stock-market, and to tho detriment or
oihtis and mining in general. Is
mining a swindle, a game, because
somo hundreds of swindlers, gamblers
and thieves, infest California, Wall
and other prominent streets, thinking
of and planing best the rum ot mm
ing, and trying to find the mystic
formula by which mining might oe
reduced to a scientific game or swindle?
W ill they succeed i
Mining is as legitimate a business as
agriculture, more legitimate and lion
orable than commerce, and as a legit
imate investment, it pays better
than either of the two. If therefore
it has not done so on this Pacific
Coast, the fault was not with minin
but with the mode in which' it was
and is still, to a great extent, carried
on. What merchant would think of
putting at the head of his business, a
man altogether ignorant m all things
appertaining to legitimate corners, its
rules and formulas r JNot one ma
million ! He would scorn at the very
suggestion. And yet has the comma
nity of this country in its character
as capital again and again put men
at the head of its mining enterprises,
ignorant on all subjects appertaining
to mining, wanting even in a general
education, aud sometimes in charac
ter and besotted m strong drinks and
omy cheeky, extremely cneeiry. ut
one degree above this kind of " min
ing engineers," stands the so-called
business man, not less cheeky and
ever ready to assert that ho is a jack
of all trades, and can show you even
tho way to heaven and its best en
trance, provided you pay him tor it.
But after having been paid, he will
cheekily tell you that ho lost the key-
to it. Needs mining less of study, less
of practice, less of knowledge and bus
iness canacitv. than commerce? It
needs all these things in a much
higher degree. Why then treat it
but as an inferior trade ? when it is a
trade in a. higher sense, requiring a
combination of art and science. Why
ask more from it, as a legitimate
profit, or burden it (any company)
with ten millions of stock, when les3
than one hundred thousand dollars
have been expended in its acquisition
and development? Put mining on
an equal footing with commerce, and
you will see how it will come out.
Take it out of the hands of swindlers,
gamblers and ignoramuses, and put it
into the hands of those whose legiti
mate trade or profession it is, and
you will see it rise, as a Phoenix,
from its ashes. It is a wonder that
mining, as it has been mutilated and
prostituted for the last twenty years,
is still what it is. It need, therefore,
not despair, for it will purge itself of
the dross in which it is still enveloped,
take its place as one of the powerful
lovers in tho advancement of our race.
J. J. M.
WASHINGTON, August 24. Secre
tary Belknap has ordered tho execu
tion of the Modocs to take place at
Fort Klamath, under the direction of
General Schofleld. The New York
Herald and Times warmly endorse the
President's action in refusing to liston
to the "pea co " hypocrites who
wanted the laurdwerg turned, loose
Military and Other Matters.
Our Prescott correspondence con
tains these items of news :
The Court of Inquiry that exam
ined into the management of Capt
Thomas Byrne, 12th Infantry, at
Bealo's Springs, not only exonerated
that officer from any wrong, but
found that he had gained great con
trol over tho Indians " by his hon
esty, kindness and justice towards
them."
A general court-martial was con
stituted August 18, to meet at Fort
Whipple, September 3.
First Lieut. W. C. Manning, 23d
Infantry, is relieved from duty in Ar
izona and ordered to report to the su
perintendent of the general recruiting
service in New York City, for duty.
Lieut. Weiting, 23d Infantry, who
was severely injured in the face by
the explosion ot a lire extinguisner,
has entirely recovered.
The small detachments of troop3
yet at Hualpai and Date Creek, will
be withdrawn hy September 1.
Mr. Thomas Ewing, beef con
tractor, has visited Fort Whipple on
business connected with the meat sup
ply. Gen. Crook and Capt. Nickerson,
with a small party of gentlemen have
gone on a hunt, to be absent three or
four days.
It is understood that iren. uana-
received funds by last mail: Thi3
will bo good news to freighters and
contractors.
All is quiet at Verde and! Apache-
by last reports.
Tho infantry company at Data1
Creek is under orders to march ot
once and ouiid tne teiegrapn line
from Prescott to Phenix Lieutenant
Trout, 23d Infantry, in charge. Two
telegraph operators have arrived at
Prescott and reported at Department
Headquarters for duty. Tho line will
surely be completed before-Christmas.
x couple of gentlemen representing
very large stock-raising iaterests in
California, have arrived at Prescott 4
with a view to selecting sites-for largei
ranchos. They have for sometime
been contemplating such an-invest- t
ment in our Territory, and have only
awaited the conclusion of Gen. Crook's J
successful operations , gainst the
Apaches, to visit and examine- our
grazing lands.
Copious rains fetl at Jfrescott Au
gust u, zi and zz.
Good News. Authentic reports re- -
ceived last evening assure us that one
cf the murderers of Edward Lumley.'
at Kenyon Station, August 18, wa&
killed jus' over tho Colorado Eivei
in California, by parties pursuing hu
and that the oluer was captured alive
and taken to Yuma. Particulars of
tho pursuit and capture are not re
ceived. Gov. Safford authorizes us to
say that when ho receives the necessary
proofs of the destruction of one of the.
assassins and capture of the other and
who is entitled to tho reward of $500
which he offered, the amount will bo
promptly paid.
We have jnst recvived a document
which reads : Reception. Mr. & ifrs. J.
H. Marion respectfully solicit the pleasure
t your companv on 1 uesuav, weDtemDer
10, 1S73, at 7 p. m., at their residence,
Prescott, A. T. Mrs. F. E. Marion, nee
Baughart. Mr. J. H. Marion.
Now we understand what all those vis
its to Chiuo Valley meant. Well, we trust
both will increase their stock of happiness
and contentment, and owning and run
ning a newspaper of course will insure
them wealth.
Six wagons loaded with barley, pasatti
Tucson yesterday, bound for Camp Grant.
Each wagon was drawn by five yoke t
oxen, and the gru'a w s sent by H. E.
Lacy For government.
Sajhtkl Brack", of Munster, oa
the Rhine, iu the province of Alsace,
would like to hoar from his son, Solo
mon Braun.
A Political orator, speaking ot a
certain general whom ho admired,
said he was always on the field of bat
tle where the bullets were the thick
est. "Where was that?' asked ono
of the auditors. " In the ammunition
wagon;" responded onokhau