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: .r--. I THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF ARIZONA, J. II. MAUtON PRESCOTT: SATUHIUY MOUSING, JUNE 27, .KerrnR. Tun Tucson Amouum still keeps up it lick in praise of Governor MeCormiek, ami ! wc-suppose it can stand it, as it is supported ; br tho Governor and his clique. The last numbor received by u is very sweet on His Excellency and bitter upon us. Well, we sup pose, that is tho purpose the machine is run for. If it pleases the Governor, John 15. Allen, C. T. Hnyden and one or two others it bath dono well, for it hath pleased if patron. It is ditleront with the Minrr. We have no scheming officials, mercenary contractors, or rich peon owners to back us, 7'he jhoU sup lort us, to the number of about five hundred, and wo try to please them and cam an honest living by writing our own cditoriaf and local, selecting matter, setting type, and doing a little of everything else that is to bo done in a printing olllcc. No MeCormiek, no Jen kins or nny ono else writes " crushers " tor us. No fat government jobs are given us, no spi-dor-shajKHi ttomagoguc can call us his dog. Wo might have had your position, " Puppy to His Excellency," had it suited us to wear his collar, but no honest man who breathes the free mountain air of Yavapai is base enough to stoop so low. Yc are poor, but honest," and can truly say, " No favor swttvs in And no fear shall awe." You havo accused us of everything mean since wo have had charge of the Miner, said that no man or party could bear up under the burth en of such a paper, and you have asserted that Mr. Rush "pronounced the course of the Mi ner highly injurious to him and tho party he professed to represent."' Mr. Rush may have said so ; it is a free country and lie had a right to say what he pleased. If he said it, we think no was mistaken. We do not claim to be able to mould and control public opin Ton in this Territory, but tho vote of the coun ties where the Minkr is read proves that its course is endorsed by the people. "Ye hope that you will be honest enough to admit that in Pima count, where MeCormiek got nearly all of his votes, where we have but a limited circulation, and where there aro not over 200 people who can read English, we could not shape public opinion. As to the charges made ty the Atizonian again3t the Miner we havo ao hesitancy m pronouncing them falsehoods, and their author or authors liars. Wc can prove more than we have said, and pronounce any man who has been mean, low-lived and contemptiblo enough to compare us to a dog, ua sneaking puppy." Cnlike the Artzonian, the Miner is not bound up to any one man, clique or party. We espouse Democracy not fo7 pay, but that we believe in it. Wo did not back up Mr. Rush for gain, as the Arizonxan has MeCor miek, and when we can't reply to an argu ment, or contradict a statement, wc do not accuse its author of vulgarity, etc., and try to back out of it, as tho Governor tried to back out of the thieving gamo played by him as Auditor of his own accounts against the Ter ritory, when the Legislature was about to in 7e5tfcato the matter. That's all wo wish to say to you this time, you subsidized penny-a- Iirier. The Aruoninn has tho check to assert that tho result in Pima county is a high compli ment to the Governor, and we agree with it if it means Governor Pesquicra, of Sonora, who furnished the voters. It also asserts that it conveys a rebuko to. the Governor's assailants and slanderers in the upper coun try. Pshaw! Not at all. His slanderers (?) consider the source it comes from, know it to be a swindle and look upon those who engi neered it as swindlers. You daro not bot that there aro fivo hundred legal voters in Pima county, yet sho polled over a thousand! What think you of the result in Yuma, Mo have, Pah-Uto and Yavapai counties ? Don't you think the voters of these counties ad ministered a strong rebuke to tho Governor and his clique? Examine the vote of this part of Yavapai, in which the Govornor resided for over four years, and see if you can draw consolation from it. You should feel ashamed to boast of tho popularity of a man who was beaten in four out of the five counties in the Torritory, and who, had it not been that he sold himself to Pima county, would havo been beaten there, also. Let us hear no more of your silly twaddle about McCormick's popularity in this Territory. Recruiting. Wo learn from an item in tho Sacramento Ret of Jnno 4th, that Lieu tenant R. C. DuRois, of the 14th U. S. In fantry, who was formerly stationed in this Territory, is meeting with good succew in the, recruiting business in California. For the Miner.) General Devin's Late Expedition Into the Heart of Eastern Arizona. The reports of the ofllccrs connected with uie expeuiuonicim to connrm iiiom.ucihu.kh of the early explorers, Weaver, Wilwn, I kcr and others, t lint the most attmr th'o. beet watered and richest agricultural .-action of this Torritorv, lies oast of the Verde. In the Tonto Rasin. north miu! cast of the Sierra Allelic, streams of delicious w ater were fouim at intervals of from three to live miles. j Springs were plenty, mid one, the largest ever soon by any of the party, was estimated to have a. flow of several hundred gallons per minute. The bain of the spring holds eight hundred gallons, and the whole surface was in eommotion. It supplies tho groater part 0f tue msn t,raneh or tho east fork of the Verde. The divides of tho creeks are high, but between them Ho small fertile valleys. Tho valley of Cherry creek, tho largest west branch of the Salinas, is not equalled in beau ty or fertility by any portion of this Territory heretofore settled. It is a series of magnifi cont -Kirks, surrounded by hills covered with excellent pine timber; the valley itself being dotted with juniper, oak and sugar maple. This valley is the northern limit of the gran ite country. All north of this point i3 limo stono or red sandstone. Tho bottom on the head of Tonto creek is also very fertile, and the Indians had commenced to farm thoro this I Spring. The Salinas, above the point where it turns northward, appears to run through an impassable canyon in the mountain. Pa tient research, however, discovered a number of places where it was practicable to cross it, even at points where the banks were nearly one thousand foot in height. East of the most easterly branch of the Salinas the coun try changes materially in character. Tho divides are smoother and far more practica ble for wagons, the levels arc much longerr and the creek bottoms more extonsivo and covered with the richest blue grass. From the cast fork of the Salinas to the west fork of the San Carlos, the country from east to west is as level its a floor, while from north to south it slopes at an angle of about five degrees. It is covered with excellent pine and juniper, but not heavily enough to pre vent a luxuriant growth of grass. Nearly in the centre of this wooded plain stands an Aztec ruin which covers nearly an acre of ground, and through tho centre of which runs a stream of pure water ! A wagon road ascending tho Mogollono at the head of Clear creek and following the divides could descend at this point with comparatively little labor. Such a road has now been commenced and has nearly reached the summit at Clear creek. As for the reckless stories of parties who aver that they can drivo a wagon, buggy, etc., up the mountain, down it, or across it, tho General says they are simply u bosh." Tho road will have to be not only worked, but patiently, systematically and intelligently worked, to surmount the crest, follow the di vide and descend tho mountain with any grade that will be practicable fur wngons carrying three thousand pounds or more. Neither ascent or descent is as practicable as was Grief Hill before the troops built the road over it. At the eastern edge of the wooded plateau the country descends very rapidly to the Arroyo Colorado, which forms the head of the east branch of tho San Carlos. The wa ter is very pure and sweet, the blue grass so luxuriant that tho horses scarcely stirred from tho point where they commenced graz ing until they were picketed for the night. The formation is mostly limestone. Another fork was pad, similar in r.liamctT to the first, but with wider bottom?, and seperated - . , , , ,. . - from it and the main stream by a low divide, ,., ., . ' which was easily crossed. I ho main stream . . . . . . , was struck at a point near the forks of the river, and north of them. At this point the bottoms on each side arc from one-quarter to one-half mile in width; the valley proper, or table land on each side of the bottom, is about eight miles in width between the moun tains and lies mostly in grassy mesas. , The stream has cut out its banks perpendicularly to a depth of eight and ten feet through a channel sixty feet in width, tho water (June 1st,) was very cold and pure, about twenty feet wide arid two in depth. From the east a smaller branch enters through a wide and grassy bottom. The bottoms have been ex tensively cultivated at ono time, ditches, and remains of former corn fields were found in every direction, and several adobe houses, but the stillness of death reigned in tho valley. Not r.n Indian smoke could be seen from the highest peaks, not a foot of earth had been turned, and the only Indian sign to be seen was that of their families in one trail leading to the head of tho Prieia and Little Colorado. Rations were now getting short, and the shoes of men and horses worn out, many of tho latter had to bo shod with leather cut from tho saddlo skirls and apanthoes. Horse shoe nails brought ono dollar each to their lucky possessors. Tho health of tho com mand was excellent. Twining southnahort distance, and then westward, the detachment then joined the main body on tho second day, and ascended tho Mogollono, struck north for tho head of the Salinas, which canyons fur into the mountains. On arriving at the head of Shorbon's fork of tho Littlo Colorado, which rites on tho north side of tho Mogollono, a iingninVent sight presented itelf. A hun dred miles away to tho north-wtut rises the snow covered peak of M Sail Francisco. A few points west of north the Moqni Pickets for lUuo Peaks nicrcid the sky apparently n,u,t st.vt.Iltyiflvc m ,ljtnnt, and away to tlu, nh.,,. roni!Bof mmititnliia mM to mark the western bourdar of New Mexico. The cotiwu of the LitOi Colorado eotild be plainly traced by the nM rising wit!, the morning sun. From th s point the eye could tako in, at ono glance, -on thousand square miles of the finest pine timber in the world, dottod with openings ivid grawy parks. Such n country must have a uliire. Twining the head of the Salinas and pro ceeding westward, tin divide auccessively turns tho head of Ton o creok, the cast fork of the Vorder and Fossil creek, and their branches, all of whicl, of any magnitude, head in tho Mogollont. interlocking those are the canyons and valleys, forming the heads of the streams rumiinp into the Little Colo rado, so that in some paces the divide proper is not over three feet it width. Tho southern face o." tho Mogolione, for ncnrly ono hundred ml es oast of Fossil creek, is very abrupt, descending nearly, if not quite, two thousand feet in four or five tnHes. First, the jump off, a nearly perpendicular rliir, from three to five hundred fret sheer descent, next a more moderate bonch, at an angle of about thirty-flvo degrees, anc thence it 'gentle slope descends to the creek levels. There are no valleys in its southern f.tce, as the canyons split the mountains abruptly. On the northern side of the range the de scent is so gradual that canyons are infrequent and the most charming valleys are found by the heads of tho tributaries ot the Little Colorado. It would inquire more space than can bo spared in' this article to render justice to tho Mogollono rangr ; but one feature must not be omitted ; at intervals oC ten or fifteen miles, along the very crest of the divide, aro tanks filled with pure water, some of them covering an acrej and. from appearances, con taining water, at least, ten months in the year. Some of them are embosomed in groves of the quaking aspen ; and the effect is very beautiful. Al! are surrounded by the finest pine timber, with which, in fact, the mountain is covered' to the border of Now Mexico. The deer and turkey frequent these lakes and a shot can almost always bo had by any one approaching tho vicinity with cau tion. No Indians wcreliving in the Mogollones unless they were weii down touui'ds tho LU- uc VyOiorauo. mu onc trail runs aiong iuu i divide-that of the White Mountain party r 1 !. 1 1 I -1! ! Ol icuo, aim ii nau uecomc so umi-mat. was evidently not used by tlie Indians, tuouuti an cxcellont trail, and one that follows the windings of tho divide with rare judgment, through the heavy timber. Another expedition, this fall, will probably ascertain definitely whether the Indians have permanently deserted this interesting sec tion of the Territory. Vote of Pima Coontt. A privato letter recoived here from Tucson gives tho vote of Pima count y, for Delegato as follows: MeCor miek, 932; Rush, 71 ; Adams, 11. Total voto of county 1,017. It is very probable that the following Legislative ticket is elected: For the Council, Esteven Ochoa, Alexander Mc Key, Henry Jenkins, Daniel II. Stickney. For the House of Representatives, John W. Owen, Iliram S. Stevens, Francis II. Good-1 win, Solomon W. Chambers, Jesus Ma. Elias, j Alonzo M. Irwin, and John Anderson. The Los Angeles Il'puldican of recent date says Mr. John G. Cnpron, who has the contract for carrying the tri-weekly mail from i UKUCiiv via can niuixu iw juusuii, list coia- , . ... . i . . plctcd his arrangements, and started out the 1 , ., - , , : first mad on ednesday. that city via San Diego to Tucson, hai com A detachment of the 8th V. S. Cavalry, destined for Fort Mohave, in this Territory, arrived on the last steamer at Wilmington, California. Paiiranagat. Mining operations havo about ceased, money isscarcc, and everything looks billious in Pahranagat. So the Los Angeles Rejntllican has boon informed by Don Hazard. The San Francisco Reamitier learns from Headquarters Department of California, that "Reports of important or successful scouts and expeditions will hereafter bo furnished newspapers for publication." That is right, it may spar some officers up a little. Tin: Santa Fe Gazette says: "In a council held with tho Navajo Chiefs they signified their willingness to their Agent, Col. Dodd, to remove to tho reservation which it has been proposed to fet apart for them and tho Utahs, to bo called tho Territory of Navajo. Tho reservation, we believe is to bo made up of portions of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona Territories." Edwin M. Stanton having resigned the War Office, nt the close of tho Impeachment trial, General Rohofield's name was rent to tho Senate and confirmed by that body on tho 29th tilt., as Secretary of war. He took possession of the ofllco on the 1st inst. D. O. McGahthv, formerly proprietor of the American Flay, has opened a hotel in San Franciico. Ril.nr.whoiiiurtlerrd the Sheriff of Ormby county, Nevada, lust winter, in no more. Ho was recognized by www men, who surrounded him, when seeing he could not get away, ho, after firing five shots at them, blew his brains out. Tin: people of Hutch Flat, California, were treated t .everal snow htorins in the early p-irt of the month. Titr. ls Angclei Star says that Chaplain Wake and Dr. Randall, of this Territory, were in that city about the 10th Inst. Roth gentlemen were on route to San Francisco. Ntw Papkus. Wc have received several copies of the Salt Lake Daily Iteyjrter, which is nrinted in the citv of the Saints. It looks i well and starts out in the light spirit. Roust A. Ferguson have just commenced the publication of tho Smia Jiarlara Post, at Snnta HarbariL California. Hope it is set - - firmly. Citinr Jt'STttrK CiiAsr, according to the New York Iltrald, docs not hanker after the Democratic nomination for tho Presidency. Thut's right ; don't think tho party hankers after him, although he has acted like a white man of late. A coRunsroNiiEx rof the St. George,(Utah) 7Y, writing front Reno, Nevada, says: "A branch road is now being surveyed I from this point to Virginia City distant fif teen miles south, and irom tneio tnrougu i:m Washoe and Walker river valleys, to a pass not far from the old Mormon town of Genoa, in Caion Valley, thence southeast ria llel uiont, I'ahranagat and tho Muddy, to cross the Colorado at the mouth of the Virgcn, thence through Wallapai Valley to tap tho Southern Pacific Railroad at Proscott, Ari zona." Tr.x.vs. The Freedmonof Texas have quit loafing and gone to work. They say the Radicals have fooled them long enough. Industrious VoTr.n. Ono of the loyal negroes recently arrested in Alababa for ille gal voting, says an exchange, acknowledges that he voted forty-sever, times during tho last election held in that State, and he also gives the names of some of his acquaintances who voted over sixty times. This is what the Radicals call tho free vote of the people of the south. Si'K iking of tho Republican nominations ! for President and Vice-President, nn excliaii; ! ri'timrks that nsusual the Rotmhs '"have their , , h . d b ,M Rt the a of i ' j V,.,:r tirlcr(: Oca Railroad. Wo see by the Cincinnati Jia'droad Jltcord, that the leading men of the largo citioa of the East nnd West are urging Congroas to grant the subsidy asked for by tho Southern Pacific Railroad Company. A raiYATc letter received here from Pima county states that the Indiajts have been very tad, of late. They have shot at people within sight of Tucson, ran oiX Government herds from military posts, etc. Tun grasshoppers havo been playing the mischief with the crops in Utah, nnd the peo ple were discussing the best moans to get rid of them. Rrigham Young told the people that tho grasshoppers were the Lord's army, but that as tho lord had plenty more of them. they might kill them. Sensible. Onr.coN has gone Democratic, by about 1.400. Glory to the land of Web-feet and tow-headed urchins. Election passed ofi quietly with one excep tion j that of a personal difficulty between Jos. Rowelle and Samuel Adams in which Adams struck Rofselle over the eye and Uosscllo be ing a weak man procured a pistol and Adams diil some responsible running when a shot was fired after him that did not cheek his speed. Adams has not been seen in town since. --friioMtan. The Electoral Vote Tho 27 States now represented in Congress will cast a total elec toral voto in tho Presidential election of 247 votes. Tho 10 States not represented in Con gress, And Colorado, will bo entitled to 73 votes. If they should all be admitted and should cast thoir votes, the whole number will bo 320, of which 101 will be .1 majority. Give us Ronner for cheeky, calm compla cency. He states that tlie Hon. George Ran croft, distinguished for having been a con tributor to tho ledger, unexpectedly met the King of Prussia on a stairway lately, but that being accustomed to address tho sovereigns of America through tho columns of the iMlger, ho was not at all embarrassed. Prottygood for Bonner. Dead. Kit Carson died at Fort Lyon, Colo rado Territory, May 23d, from tho rupture of an artery. On California street, San Francisco, lots arc held at $2,000 per foot; on Market street, from 1,000 to l,r,00 pcrfoot; on Ualtery and Sansomc, from ST00 to 800 per foot. Riiick Pomeiioy'b La Ciosfo Wcdhj Dtmo erat has a circulation of 250,000 copies. The tax of ono cent a box on matches last year netted to tho Government u rovenuo of S 1,000,000. A ono-cyed negro has been elected to a set in the Georgia LcsiiUturc. gTILL IN TUB JMEU), GRAND FORWARD MOVEMENT'. FURTHER REDUCTION L DOWN, DOWN, DOWN GO THE PJ1ICES1 UNPRECEDENTED RUSH UPON D. HENDERSON & CO., Wholesale ami Kolal! Dealers In Gents Kcady-Maile Clothing, and Furnishing Goods, Mission and Pioneer Mills' Woolen fjni. vvm, Fancy Goods, Yankee Notious Confectionery, Stationery, ' areei'sc'luium I?ipe.s Tobacco, Cigars, Roots, Shoes,. Hats, Ho,jcrr Ruckskin and Kid Gloves, ' Nuts, Figs, Dates, Henry's and Spencer's Improved Rifles, CoU' Pistol's, Wasting and Sporting Powder Fixed Ammunition, Caps, Fuse, jloci, harming Implements, Groccrie? Wines and Liq ore. k Dry-Goods, Dry-Goods, Dry-Goo,), ClIEAVmi TITAX EVEIV ' KT7 We enn ami slmll run a lively opposition to lilgh prices. r l). UKNIMiltSON iVCO, Corner of Granite ftutt Gtirley Strce's. I'rcscott, Arizona. inytO Feed and Sale Stable, Goodwin Street, Opposite Plaza, PRESCOTT, ARIZONA. Tlie unJersliiel have conatnntljr on hand HAY AND GRAIN, Of the best quality, ami nt the Lowest IUtM. B77 Wagons, team, wuhllo and pack anlouli always on hand, for eale or hire. .TAMES D. MONIHAN. WILLIAM L DE.N1SU.V. l'rcscott, Ang. 10, 1;07. 14-5ia Pacific Brewery, Montezuma Street; Prcscott; Arizona. ItiiDLn a SciiEntir.it, Proprietors. A S WE DREW OUR OWN jl A. nccr. ami take creat nair.s top make It O. K., lovers of that liMltbti and ttrciiL'tljcnlnr beverage will do ' wull ly on Hi 1.5 ujiou us and taking tome of our medicine. Good LAG UK 11EF.K, I.lrpiors nd Cljati, 1 ways on hand. JOHN KAIMX. PHILLIP SHEERER. Prcscoll, October 5, 1S07. CAMPBELL & BUFFUM, WHOLESALE and RETAIL DEALERS I.N Groceries, Wines, Tobacco, Clothing, Roots, Tinware, Paints, Provisions, Liquors, Cigars, Drv-Goods, Shoes, Hardware, Oils. &c, Ac FJKE-l'IlOOF 11V I LD1JXG, West Sfdo of tlia Plazn. Prcncott AiiMM. JOHN G. CAMPBELL W. if. ISL'FFL'M. lTejcott, April , 1SGS. MOrs'TEZ UMA SALOUIY, Montezuma Street, Prcscott npiIF. UNDERSIGNED ANNOUNCE T" X their friends, and the public gcntri!T, mat mis wen-Known, rotniorinuie ami mv resort Is now engineered by them, and ! supplied with the bet of WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGAR?, The MonlMuma will bo kept In n nrat and cosy style. A. J- SHAM X 1. FIERCE- iTcscou, .uizona, .Marc 11 zi, vavs, Blacksmithing. rpiIE UNDERSIGNED WOULD k X. inform the people of Presrott andfi jj surronndlng country, that be lsss lel V" the shop, tools, etc., of the Jllller brother!." their ranch, one mile west from Presee-it, " he It prepared to do nil kinds of blsckunlwoj J a workmanlike manner. Horec, mule and ox shoes will 10 KP stantly on hand, nnd 1 shll endeavor to P tiro sathfactlon lu this branch ol the r ln ' p"81 JOHN DtCKLEY Miller's Ilnnch, May SO, 18&S. O. JACKSOiV & Co., Montezuma Street, Prescolt. TT7 E HAVE JUST ARRIVED FKOM V San Francisco with a Urge assort' . . e r mi.ntta vm nl'..r fnr WIC at reduced prices, for, cash, nt our Mtnpl t , where Joe and Sol, the handsomest sni men In town, will nlways bo on hand to m liquors In tho most approved style. 0f hU iw-w "W "'"'cVjACKSON 1 1 i o 1... .I. attract OB I""- rtti r if Frctcott, JnnsS. I6W.