Volume 12 (1866) (428 pages)

The Blining and Scientific Lress, 35 hy this, their fullest approbation of the * lumbag” or manuer uf navigating the river, as introduccd hy Capt. Trawortly. The successful nccomplisliment of this end is of immense value to thoso depending on the ouvigation nf the Colorado for their supplies, ns they can thus he taken not all seasons nf the ycar. It has pro. duced n complete revolution in tho navigation nf this hitberto misrepresented river. At La Paz, 300 miles from the mouth of the river, a delegation from the Mormon settlement at Callvillo, crme to sccuro n steamer to take a load of freight to that point. ‘I'hey had built a large worchouge at tbs head of uavigntion. The request was at first. made to those having charge of tho steamer ot the old line. This was refased, on the ground that it was impossible to ascoud the river. Capt. ‘fraworthy then consented to wake the trip with his stuamor and hurge, coutuining over ono hundred tons of freight. “ A bill wns at this time before Congress to secure al uppropriation of $150,000, for the benefit of the old lino, to remove impassable ohstructions suid to be in the river, but which did not exist.” F Scarecly hnd the stenmer and barge started on her destinntion, wheu parties were seut abend te prevent persons having wood from selling the same to Captain Truworthy, and even tocnt the timber on each side of the river, which was done to tha letter, and for thirty miles scarcely » tree was Icft stnnding, ifaving been informed of this system of vandalism, the precaution wns observed to tako ou board the burgsa a sufficient qaantity of wood to pass through this harren waste. It might well have been supposed that the efforts to thwart the object of the expedition from the time it was undertaken ut Son Frnncisco up to this time, would have been exhausted ; but. this was not the case. Additional parties were set uhcad to Collville, stating that it was impossible to rencb that point, aud that the enterprise had been abandoued ; in consequence of which the Mormons, who were expecting the goods, returned to the settlementa, and to Salt Lake City, leaviug two persons in charge of the warehouse. Still the steamer aud barge kept on their way, and not stopping until tbe object of this dilficult enterprise had been accowuplished, thereby successtally demonstrating that the Colorado river was navigable for steamers and borges for 600 miles from its mouth, without a fraudulent appropriation of $150,000 from Congress. Ilere, apon the face of the rocks, which stand like giant sentinels, 1,000 feet in hight ars inscribed the day anti date ol the arrival of the steamer in letters so broad nnd conspicnous that even the combination navigation company can never deface them. Our nrrivaf fully established the Iuet tlt steamers could usceud this river at all seasons. To show how little confidence is to be placed sometimes in the expeditions undertaken by Govevnment, it is only necessary to say that the impassnble locality, known ay “ Explorer's Rocks,” where the diminutive steamer “ Bxplorsr,” fifty-four feet long, had struck, nnd retarned seven years before, proved to be nothing hut on isolated rock, on eacb side ol’ which there was a smooth sarface of water, from ninety toa hundred feet in hreadth, having a current of only two miles an-hour, with an averago depth of from six to ten feet. This river wos lower than when the Iexplorer ascended the same. But, notwithstanding this, the steamer Esmeralda, 116 feet in dapth, went far above, towing a barge 124 feet in langth, and capable of taking on board two steamers of the size of the Explorer. «As we desceuded the river to El Dorado Conon, ths most mognificent scenery burst upou our view, Ateach change of position, hew and startling heuuties were revenled, the grandeur of which is so differant from that of other rivers that the mind cnn scarcely realizo that what it sees is reality. All the colors of the rninbow can here be found, extending far over the highest peaks, or confined within the narrow compass of a few hundred yords. ‘l’o these favored localities the admirer of Nature can come witb the fullest assuraoce that he can here look upon scenery which, in grandeur and magnificencs, is unequalled on the American continent. This comninnication, which has by individual enterprise been opened up for the population of the center of the continent with tha Pacific coast, can never be closed. Soon the vast gold, silver, and copper resources of Arizona will be fully apprecinted, and hundreds of thousands of people will receive their goods by way of the Colorado river. At the urgent solicitation of tbe miners and Mormons, Capt. Truworthy and myself cousented to cross over the country from the head of navigation to Salt Lake City, 360 miles. We found an excellent road for the entire distnoncs. ‘Twenty milos from the river we came to the first settlement. From tbat point to Snlt Lake we passed throaghb forty-two cities and towns, with n populntion of over 60,000 poople. Agricultury here is certain, as the wuter for irrigating purposcs ig conveyed fron the mountnins to tho valleys. Cotton is also raised, and cotton niills ars in operation. ‘l'ho farmer has an ¢xcelleut morket for nll be con rnise smong tho miners, who are rapidly filling up Idaho, Utah, and Montana Territories. aAt Salt Lake City the usws of the success of this enterprise was porticularly gratifying,ns all felt the assnrance of being uble to obtain their freight from tho Pacific coast at all seusons, at from one-third to one-half less cost than hy nny other route. Mcetings wero held in the city to give expression to the feclings of the co:mmunity, and it wns decidcd to huve their emigrativn, nmounting to about 20,000, coms ly way of the Colorado river. A telegraphic lings hns been estoblished to the head of navigntion from Salt Lnks City. Should the popalation increase in Utoh, Idaho. and Montann, for the next year as rapidly as it has for the last twelve months, thres important States will soon bs formed out of them. A uumber of merchants recontly came to San Francisco from Utah and Montana to purchnse goods; bat such was the course token theu respecting the currency, thnt thoy were reluctantly compelled to finally mnke their purchases in New York. When it'is remembercd that more than 16,000,000 tbs, of merchandize were last year brought into Utoh territory alone, over the nrid nnd desolate plains which separate that territory from the Atlontic States, some conception may be formed of ths henefits which would ncerne by tha diversion of this immense trnde to San Francisco. ‘This is hut the beginuing of the commerce of tle region penetrated by the Colorado River. Ifthe proper snterprise is manifested hy the people of Cae Froncisco, they cun have the benefit of: a trade second to that of no other city. This has heen fully demonstrated by Cnpt. Truworthy, who has from the commencement of the enterprise Inbored against the most bitter and continued opposition on the Colorado river, and in Son Fruncisco. Arriving in this eity from Salt Lake, nfter acconiplishing so much for the hencfit of the State and General Government, in opening up a way hy which the latter can save tbree millions of dollars yearly, the. hostility against Capt. Truworthy was agnin renewed; but under a different form from tbat whicb has alrendy been referred to. Suits were institated agninst him, to the end that he might be prevented Irom returning to the scene of his triumph, so that the combination company of this State, ucting in concert with the old line, night hnve the same control over the Colorado that the former has on each of the navigable waters of Calilornia. Being lully aware of ths expenses Capt. Traworthy had nlready incurred, and was incurring on tha river, and having unlimited capitol, the joint corporations expected, by the system they were inaugurating, to reap the beuefit of his exertions, ond to drive him from the field. Over five thousand dollars were due from the combination navigation company to Capt. Traworthy. This was refused, and continues to be refused to be paid; but the captain was informed that he could hnve his claim, provided he did not return to tbe Colorado river. Tere is the grand secrct to the opposition, ns carried into effect against the enterprise of navigating that river, from the time it was first undertaken until its successful consummation. This will explain why the most prominent men connected with the combination compuny, and ths swarms of idlers who nre influenced by it, and have been so active in preventing. stock being subscribed to the new Pacific an Colorado Steam Navigation Company. It was not enough thot Capt. Truworthy Shonld be deprived of bis just claim. The lumber owned hy bim at the niouth of the river was clandestinely carrisd nway in his ahsence ; the pumps and machinery of his vessel lyiug tbere, were tnken and brought to Son Francisco for gale, by one of the schooners connecting with the old line ; his private letters were broken open, and their contents examined hy persons occupying prominent positions in the community, and who, at the locality of their guilt, and by their influential friends in San Francisco, availed themselves of the knowledge thus obtained, to persecute and hnrrass an enterprising and deserving man, whose only offense consisted in coming to ths sid of a struggling community, and in successfully navigating an important river, These, Messrs. Editors, ore but a few of the obstacles placed in the way of an enterorise which has, notwithstanding nll this, resulted in . complete success. I should not refer to these things tbus publicly, did I not feel that it was a duty I owe to Capt. I'ruwortby (whom I succeeded in inducing to go to the Colorado over “eigbteen months sioce), that the facts sbould he laid before an honest and discriminating community. ‘Ihe contest of individual eapitat and enterprise, against the continued and unCeasing efforts ol two wealthy corporations, has hecn loug and difficult. But success hus resulted in the cause of Jastice. ‘he Stato of Californin and the city of Son Francisco ; will feel the hsnefits of this movement, so importnnt to ench from the difficulties under which they Inbor at tho present timo, Cnst your cyos, Messrs, Editors, over this Stato, ond see the melancholy result which hns been prodaced by a dangerous centralization of capitol ond power, as exhibited in the combination company of California: Steamers rotting at yonr wharves; towus hastsning ta decny ; a thousand publie pensioners sustnined by the country, aud exhausting the vitality of the Cummonwesnlth; popalution lenving tho country ; cnpital seeking investment in other locnlities ; nrunufnetures receiving no impstns ; tbs mincrnl resources of the Stata not one half developed; agriculture, ths substrata of o nation’s greatness, neglected and impoverished, whilst hundreds are tising to affluence in uo siuglo night hy money taken from the honost masses of the community, who are but illy prepared to meet tho constant drain which has been mods upon them. ‘he day will yst coms when the oppressive cnpital which has tlmost ruined ths Stats will bs compelled to Tecognize the claims of the community; and tlint a combinatiou company will find that hy resorting to a deliberate conspiracy to prevent soms, aud to tbe bullct nnd the knife to strike dowu thoss who will not accede to their hrides or be intimidated by their threats, is adopting an alteruutive which will react upon themselves. Let the facts go hefore the pcople, regarding ths actions of those who hnve set at deliance the lnws of tho country nnd of humanity, and who have heen so far emboldened as to treat the rights of the commnnity as if they were hut the titled dignitaries of the chess board. We live under a free government, where all are guaranteed the ahsolute rights of personal security and privnte property, and ths comhination company of Cnlifornia, and that of the old line, on ths Colorado, may find to their regret that it is dangerous to trifle with the feelings of an outraged community. I must close my remarks, feeling thot I have alrendy wenried your patience. The interest which bas been manifested by the miners and others to know the facts in reference to the navigation of the Colorado, is the reason I have in this instance deviated from my purpose, which wns to remain silent upon the subject motter of tbis communication, and to leave time to do justice to our connection with the successful navigation of the most importnnt river ranning into the Pacific ocean. Thanking you far the commendable interest you have manifested in this enterprise, Inm truly yours, Samuen Apams. A Sivevtar Case or Tooru Diszase.—Dr, Ewory L. Willard, of La Porte, submitted to our inspection, a few days since, a singular monstrosity, which eonsisted of a tooth which he extracted in’ May, 1862, from the jaw of a Chinaman, in Lé Porte, Sierra county. Some eight years previous to the extraction, the Chiuaman in question was ssized with a vioent tooth-ache, which regulted in inflammation and ulceration, and a final nbsorption, hy the system of the diseased fang or root of the tooth. After this process had ceased, a disease of rare occurrence, but known in the hooks as costosis, set in. This disease consists of. an effort of Nature to restore the absorbed root ; but in this ease. Nature seems to have overexerted herself. Instead of stopping when she had restored the root to its original dimensions, she kept on with the work until the root had attained the enormous size of 13g of an inch, one inch in width, and five-eighthsin thickness, independent of the tootb itself. Tbe disease: had heen of fourteen years’ standing when Dr. Willard was called to ths patient. All this .time there were regular running fistulas opening through the cheek ; having in tbe time created seven different points of opening at as many different periods of time. The tooth was removed hy the excision of the jaw-bone, onethird of which was cut away in the operation, We bnve a photograph of thia monstrosity upon our table, which tbe curious can examine at their leisure. A full report of this extraordinary case will be published in the next number of the San Francisco Medical Journal and Press, accompanied by nn engraving. vs am oe A man has just taken out n patent, says an exchange, for luminous hats. They will, he says, preserve the wearers from heing rnn over at nigbt, and to some extent will provs n saving in the lighting of streets. Arizona, A month or two ago ths friends of ths Tion. R. C. McCormick, Secretary of ths Territory of Arizona, gavs him a sumptuous dinner at tho Astor House. in New Yerk. On the ocension ths Hon. ©. D. Posten, delegate from ths Territory, mods an eloqnsnt speech, wberein he enid : Arizona is ths classic land of pioneers, and has a history not inferior in intcrest to any portion of the Amcricnn eontinent. ‘Ths first pionecrs of Arizonn were,in the opinion nf tho illustrions Humboldt, Asintics,and reached the land of Ophir by Behring’s Straits. They have left monuments of their industry in Artzonn marking their era with indubitabls evidences of civilization. A lonely citads! stands near the Pima villnges, in tbe midst of n desert, as the only milestoue ol time laft to murk the passngs of this racs. The house has five stones yet remaining, and wns surrounded by a city coveringan aren of some ten miles squara, wotersd by cnnals from the Giln River. Of this race littls or nothing is known. No historian hss recorded their rise and fall. Nopoet has celebrated their deedsof love or arms. Ths old * Casa Grande” stands in solemn majesty, the sentinel of the desert, mourning for its lost children. The next pioneers were the proud Hidnlgoes of old Spain, who bore the bannar and the cross from Vera Cruz to San Francisco. Indomitnble in wnr, and zealous in religion, they mnrched with the torch nf civilization in one hond and the crop of faith in the other. They were noble men, and nohly did their work. The monuments of their devotion are spread from Cape Horn to Oregon. The first tn enter Arizona was the renuwned Cabezo de Vaca, who crossed the continsnt from the Savannab of Florida to the mountnins nf Arizona in 1538. In this remote region they fonnd villages nf stone, inhahited by an intelligent race clatming Europeau extraction. These are now called Moquis or Mokes, and inhabit northeastern Arizona. The next pioneers ware Americans. In the year 1824 a party of about 100 bardy and adventurous frontiersmen set nut ona trapping expedition to the headwaters of the Arkansas river. After many romantic adventures in New Mexico, the party dispersed and a few ofthe boldest spirits nndertook tn reach the Pacific Ocean, * * * ' In the yenr 1853 the Gadsden Treaty was made, hy which we acquired that narrow strip of land which forms the southern district of Arizona. In their eagerness to secure a southern route for a railroad to the Pacific, the politicians of that day overlnoked the substantial advantnges to be gained hy a port nn the Gulf and outwitted hy Mexican diplomacy, parted with $10,000,000 in hnord gold without leaving us egress to the sea. With a port on the Gulf of California, the vivifyiug streams of commerce would soon vitalize Arizona, and extract Irom her virgin bosom wealth whicb it would seem fahulous to predict. Liquipation or tae Nationa Drst.— According to the official figures, the national indebtedness was reducsd nearly thirteen million dollars in Septemher, or at the rate of one hondred and fifty-six millions a year. Such an energetic process of liquidation would result in the discharge of all the national pecuniary obligations in nhout twenty years. Unreviasinity or Governsient AOENTS.— The cotton agents dispatched to the South, by all accounts, are @ very enterprising set of officials. It is now thought that out of the 120,000 hales of Confederate cotton surrendered the Government will not get 10,000. The Secrstary of the Treasnry is reported to have recently remarked that he found it almost impossihle to get suitable men to transact that sort of husiness. Tae Campo Seco Copper Mining company sbipped fron: tbe mine, during ths year 1865, 1,902,501 pounds of copper ore. The Taunton Copper Smelting company, whose works are located at Compo Seco, nnd have been in operation during the past thres days only, have witbin that time shipped 193,605 pounds of coppsrregulus, *: How Hisrosy 1s Maps.—The English publishing honse of Rutledge & Sons hnve just issued a volume entitled “ Men of tbe Time,” in which, among other startling facts, tbe reader finds that General Sherman was compelled to abandon Atlonta, and fleeing eastward escaped to the sea.

The Blining and Scientific Lress, 35 hy this, their fullest approbation of the * lumbag” or manuer uf navigating the river, as introduccd hy Capt. Trawortly. The successful nccomplisliment of this end is of immense value to thoso depending on the ouvigation nf the Colorado for their supplies, ns they can thus he taken not all seasons nf the ycar. It has pro. duced n complete revolution in tho navigation nf this hitberto misrepresented river. At La Paz, 300 miles from the mouth of the river, a delegation from the Mormon settlement at Callvillo, crme to sccuro n steamer to take a load of freight to that point. ‘I'hey had built a large worchouge at tbs head of uavigntion. The request was at first. made to those having charge of tho steamer ot the old line. This was refased, on the ground that it was impossible to ascoud the river. Capt. ‘fraworthy then consented to wake the trip with his stuamor and hurge, coutuining over ono hundred tons of freight. “ A bill wns at this time before Congress to secure al uppropriation of $150,000, for the benefit of the old lino, to remove impassable ohstructions suid to be in the river, but which did not exist.” F Scarecly hnd the stenmer and barge started on her destinntion, wheu parties were seut abend te prevent persons having wood from selling the same to Captain Truworthy, and even tocnt the timber on each side of the river, which was done to tha letter, and for thirty miles scarcely » tree was Icft stnnding, ifaving been informed of this system of vandalism, the precaution wns observed to tako ou board the burgsa a sufficient qaantity of wood to pass through this harren waste. It might well have been supposed that the efforts to thwart the object of the expedition from the time it was undertaken ut Son Frnncisco up to this time, would have been exhausted ; but. this was not the case. Additional parties were set uhcad to Collville, stating that it was impossible to rencb that point, aud that the enterprise had been abandoued ; in consequence of which the Mormons, who were expecting the goods, returned to the settlementa, and to Salt Lake City, leaviug two persons in charge of the warehouse. Still the steamer aud barge kept on their way, and not stopping until tbe object of this dilficult enterprise had been accowuplished, thereby successtally demonstrating that the Colorado river was navigable for steamers and borges for 600 miles from its mouth, without a fraudulent appropriation of $150,000 from Congress. Ilere, apon the face of the rocks, which stand like giant sentinels, 1,000 feet in hight ars inscribed the day anti date ol the arrival of the steamer in letters so broad nnd conspicnous that even the combination navigation company can never deface them. Our nrrivaf fully established the Iuet tlt steamers could usceud this river at all seasons. To show how little confidence is to be placed sometimes in the expeditions undertaken by Govevnment, it is only necessary to say that the impassnble locality, known ay “ Explorer's Rocks,” where the diminutive steamer “ Bxplorsr,” fifty-four feet long, had struck, nnd retarned seven years before, proved to be nothing hut on isolated rock, on eacb side ol’ which there was a smooth sarface of water, from ninety toa hundred feet in hreadth, having a current of only two miles an-hour, with an averago depth of from six to ten feet. This river wos lower than when the Iexplorer ascended the same. But, notwithstanding this, the steamer Esmeralda, 116 feet in dapth, went far above, towing a barge 124 feet in langth, and capable of taking on board two steamers of the size of the Explorer. «As we desceuded the river to El Dorado Conon, ths most mognificent scenery burst upou our view, Ateach change of position, hew and startling heuuties were revenled, the grandeur of which is so differant from that of other rivers that the mind cnn scarcely realizo that what it sees is reality. All the colors of the rninbow can here be found, extending far over the highest peaks, or confined within the narrow compass of a few hundred yords. ‘l’o these favored localities the admirer of Nature can come witb the fullest assuraoce that he can here look upon scenery which, in grandeur and magnificencs, is unequalled on the American continent. This comninnication, which has by individual enterprise been opened up for the population of the center of the continent with tha Pacific coast, can never be closed. Soon the vast gold, silver, and copper resources of Arizona will be fully apprecinted, and hundreds of thousands of people will receive their goods by way of the Colorado river. At the urgent solicitation of tbe miners and Mormons, Capt. Truworthy and myself cousented to cross over the country from the head of navigation to Salt Lake City, 360 miles. We found an excellent road for the entire distnoncs. ‘Twenty milos from the river we came to the first settlement. From tbat point to Snlt Lake we passed throaghb forty-two cities and towns, with n populntion of over 60,000 poople. Agricultury here is certain, as the wuter for irrigating purposcs ig conveyed fron the mountnins to tho valleys. Cotton is also raised, and cotton niills ars in operation. ‘l'ho farmer has an ¢xcelleut morket for nll be con rnise smong tho miners, who are rapidly filling up Idaho, Utah, and Montana Territories. aAt Salt Lake City the usws of the success of this enterprise was porticularly gratifying,ns all felt the assnrance of being uble to obtain their freight from tho Pacific coast at all seusons, at from one-third to one-half less cost than hy nny other route. Mcetings wero held in the city to give expression to the feclings of the co:mmunity, and it wns decidcd to huve their emigrativn, nmounting to about 20,000, coms ly way of the Colorado river. A telegraphic lings hns been estoblished to the head of navigntion from Salt Lnks City. Should the popalation increase in Utoh, Idaho. and Montann, for the next year as rapidly as it has for the last twelve months, thres important States will soon bs formed out of them. A uumber of merchants recontly came to San Francisco from Utah and Montana to purchnse goods; bat such was the course token theu respecting the currency, thnt thoy were reluctantly compelled to finally mnke their purchases in New York. When it'is remembercd that more than 16,000,000 tbs, of merchandize were last year brought into Utoh territory alone, over the nrid nnd desolate plains which separate that territory from the Atlontic States, some conception may be formed of ths henefits which would ncerne by tha diversion of this immense trnde to San Francisco. ‘This is hut the beginuing of the commerce of tle region penetrated by the Colorado River. Ifthe proper snterprise is manifested hy the people of Cae Froncisco, they cun have the benefit of: a trade second to that of no other city. This has heen fully demonstrated by Cnpt. Truworthy, who has from the commencement of the enterprise Inbored against the most bitter and continued opposition on the Colorado river, and in Son Fruncisco. Arriving in this eity from Salt Lake, nfter acconiplishing so much for the hencfit of the State and General Government, in opening up a way hy which the latter can save tbree millions of dollars yearly, the. hostility against Capt. Truworthy was agnin renewed; but under a different form from tbat whicb has alrendy been referred to. Suits were institated agninst him, to the end that he might be prevented Irom returning to the scene of his triumph, so that the combination company of this State, ucting in concert with the old line, night hnve the same control over the Colorado that the former has on each of the navigable waters of Calilornia. Being lully aware of ths expenses Capt. Traworthy had nlready incurred, and was incurring on tha river, and having unlimited capitol, the joint corporations expected, by the system they were inaugurating, to reap the beuefit of his exertions, ond to drive him from the field. Over five thousand dollars were due from the combination navigation company to Capt. Traworthy. This was refused, and continues to be refused to be paid; but the captain was informed that he could hnve his claim, provided he did not return to tbe Colorado river. Tere is the grand secrct to the opposition, ns carried into effect against the enterprise of navigating that river, from the time it was first undertaken until its successful consummation. This will explain why the most prominent men connected with the combination compuny, and ths swarms of idlers who nre influenced by it, and have been so active in preventing. stock being subscribed to the new Pacific an Colorado Steam Navigation Company. It was not enough thot Capt. Truworthy Shonld be deprived of bis just claim. The lumber owned hy bim at the niouth of the river was clandestinely carrisd nway in his ahsence ; the pumps and machinery of his vessel lyiug tbere, were tnken and brought to Son Francisco for gale, by one of the schooners connecting with the old line ; his private letters were broken open, and their contents examined hy persons occupying prominent positions in the community, and who, at the locality of their guilt, and by their influential friends in San Francisco, availed themselves of the knowledge thus obtained, to persecute and hnrrass an enterprising and deserving man, whose only offense consisted in coming to ths sid of a struggling community, and in successfully navigating an important river,

These, Messrs. Editors, ore but a few of the obstacles placed in the way of an enterorise which has, notwithstanding nll this, resulted in . complete success. I should not refer to these things tbus publicly, did I not feel that it was a duty I owe to Capt. I'ruwortby (whom I succeeded in inducing to go to the Colorado over “eigbteen months sioce), that the facts sbould he laid before an honest and discriminating community. ‘Ihe contest of individual eapitat and enterprise, against the continued and unCeasing efforts ol two wealthy corporations, has hecn loug and difficult. But success hus resulted in the cause of Jastice. ‘he Stato of Californin and the city of Son Francisco ; will feel the hsnefits of this movement, so importnnt to ench from the difficulties under which they Inbor at tho present timo, Cnst your cyos, Messrs, Editors, over this Stato, ond see the melancholy result which hns been prodaced by a dangerous centralization of capitol ond power, as exhibited in the combination company of California: Steamers rotting at yonr wharves; towus hastsning ta decny ; a thousand publie pensioners sustnined by the country, aud exhausting the vitality of the Cummonwesnlth; popalution lenving tho country ; cnpital seeking investment in other locnlities ; nrunufnetures receiving no impstns ; tbs mincrnl resources of the Stata not one half developed; agriculture, ths substrata of o nation’s greatness, neglected and impoverished, whilst hundreds are tising to affluence in uo siuglo night hy money taken from the honost masses of the community, who are but illy prepared to meet tho constant drain which has been mods upon them. ‘he day will yst coms when the oppressive cnpital which has tlmost ruined ths Stats will bs compelled to Tecognize the claims of the community; and tlint a combinatiou company will find that hy resorting to a deliberate conspiracy to prevent soms, aud to tbe bullct nnd the knife to strike dowu thoss who will not accede to their hrides or be intimidated by their threats, is adopting an alteruutive which will react upon themselves. Let the facts go hefore the pcople, regarding ths actions of those who hnve set at deliance the lnws of tho country nnd of humanity, and who have heen so far emboldened as to treat the rights of the commnnity as if they were hut the titled dignitaries of the chess board. We live under a free government, where all are guaranteed the ahsolute rights of personal security and privnte property, and ths comhination company of Cnlifornia, and that of the old line, on ths Colorado, may find to their regret that it is dangerous to trifle with the feelings of an outraged community. I must close my remarks, feeling thot I have alrendy wenried your patience. The interest which bas been manifested by the miners and others to know the facts in reference to the navigation of the Colorado, is the reason I have in this instance deviated from my purpose, which wns to remain silent upon the subject motter of tbis communication, and to leave time to do justice to our connection with the successful navigation of the most importnnt river ranning into the Pacific ocean. Thanking you far the commendable interest you have manifested in this enterprise, Inm truly yours, Samuen Apams. A Sivevtar Case or Tooru Diszase.—Dr, Ewory L. Willard, of La Porte, submitted to our inspection, a few days since, a singular monstrosity, which eonsisted of a tooth which he extracted in’ May, 1862, from the jaw of a Chinaman, in Lé Porte, Sierra county. Some eight years previous to the extraction, the Chiuaman in question was ssized with a vioent tooth-ache, which regulted in inflammation and ulceration, and a final nbsorption, hy the system of the diseased fang or root of the tooth. After this process had ceased, a disease of rare occurrence, but known in the hooks as costosis, set in. This disease consists of. an effort of Nature to restore the absorbed root ; but in this ease. Nature seems to have overexerted herself. Instead of stopping when she had restored the root to its original dimensions, she kept on with the work until the root had attained the enormous size of 13g of an inch, one inch in width, and five-eighthsin thickness, independent of the tootb itself. Tbe disease: had heen of fourteen years’ standing when Dr. Willard was called to ths patient. All this .time there were regular running fistulas opening through the cheek ; having in tbe time created seven different points of opening at as many different periods of time. The tooth was removed hy the excision of the jaw-bone, onethird of which was cut away in the operation, We bnve a photograph of thia monstrosity upon our table, which tbe curious can examine at their leisure. A full report of this extraordinary case will be published in the next number of the San Francisco Medical Journal and Press, accompanied by nn engraving. vs am oe A man has just taken out n patent, says an exchange, for luminous hats. They will, he says, preserve the wearers from heing rnn over at nigbt, and to some extent will provs n saving in the lighting of streets. Arizona, A month or two ago ths friends of ths Tion. R. C. McCormick, Secretary of ths Territory of Arizona, gavs him a sumptuous dinner at tho Astor House. in New Yerk. On the ocension ths Hon. ©. D. Posten, delegate from ths Territory, mods an eloqnsnt speech, wberein he enid : Arizona is ths classic land of pioneers, and has a history not inferior in intcrest to any portion of the Amcricnn eontinent. ‘Ths first pionecrs of Arizonn were,in the opinion nf tho illustrions Humboldt, Asintics,and reached the land of Ophir by Behring’s Straits. They have left monuments of their industry in Artzonn marking their era with indubitabls evidences of civilization. A lonely citads! stands near the Pima villnges, in tbe midst of n desert, as the only milestoue ol time laft to murk the passngs of this racs. The house has five stones yet remaining, and wns surrounded by a city coveringan aren of some ten miles squara, wotersd by cnnals from the Giln River. Of this race littls or nothing is known. No historian hss recorded their rise and fall. Nopoet has celebrated their deedsof love or arms. Ths old * Casa Grande” stands in solemn majesty, the sentinel of the desert, mourning for its lost children. The next pioneers were the proud Hidnlgoes of old Spain, who bore the bannar and the cross from Vera Cruz to San Francisco. Indomitnble in wnr, and zealous in religion, they mnrched with the torch nf civilization in one hond and the crop of faith in the other. They were noble men, and nohly did their work. The monuments of their devotion are spread from Cape Horn to Oregon. The first tn enter Arizona was the renuwned Cabezo de Vaca, who crossed the continsnt from the Savannab of Florida to the mountnins nf Arizona in 1538. In this remote region they fonnd villages nf stone, inhahited by an intelligent race clatming Europeau extraction. These are now called Moquis or Mokes, and inhabit northeastern Arizona. The next pioneers ware Americans. In the year 1824 a party of about 100 bardy and adventurous frontiersmen set nut ona trapping expedition to the headwaters of the Arkansas river. After many romantic adventures in New Mexico, the party dispersed and a few ofthe boldest spirits nndertook tn reach the Pacific Ocean, * * * ' In the yenr 1853 the Gadsden Treaty was made, hy which we acquired that narrow strip of land which forms the southern district of Arizona. In their eagerness to secure a southern route for a railroad to the Pacific, the politicians of that day overlnoked the substantial advantnges to be gained hy a port nn the Gulf and outwitted hy Mexican diplomacy, parted with $10,000,000 in hnord gold without leaving us egress to the sea. With a port on the Gulf of California, the vivifyiug streams of commerce would soon vitalize Arizona, and extract Irom her virgin bosom wealth whicb it would seem fahulous to predict. Liquipation or tae Nationa Drst.— According to the official figures, the national indebtedness was reducsd nearly thirteen million dollars in Septemher, or at the rate of one hondred and fifty-six millions a year. Such an energetic process of liquidation would result in the discharge of all the national pecuniary obligations in nhout twenty years. Unreviasinity or Governsient AOENTS.— The cotton agents dispatched to the South, by all accounts, are @ very enterprising set of officials. It is now thought that out of the 120,000 hales of Confederate cotton surrendered the Government will not get 10,000. The Secrstary of the Treasnry is reported to have recently remarked that he found it almost impossihle to get suitable men to transact that sort of husiness. Tae Campo Seco Copper Mining company sbipped fron: tbe mine, during ths year 1865, 1,902,501 pounds of copper ore. The Taunton Copper Smelting company, whose works are located at Compo Seco, nnd have been in operation during the past thres days only, have witbin that time shipped 193,605 pounds of coppsrregulus, *: How Hisrosy 1s Maps.—The English publishing honse of Rutledge & Sons hnve just issued a volume entitled “ Men of tbe Time,” in which, among other startling facts, tbe reader finds that General Sherman was compelled to abandon Atlonta, and fleeing eastward escaped to the sea.