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Show MINING OUTLAWRY IN AMERICA. We are bound to say that the lawlessness law-lessness which has characterized cortain of the mining districts in the United Slates, is a disgrace to any government professing to be conducted on a basis of civilization. The "jumping'1 "jump-ing'1 of claims, or the forcible occupation occu-pation of thorn, with the adjuncts of the pistol and the bowie knife, has become so frequent that we are not surprised to find English speculators giving the cold shoulder to American mines, and English capitalists viewing with distrust anything that comes from the other side of the Atlantic. One would think that a government like that of the United States would have at iU,back a torce sufficient to make the' law respected; but puch does not appear to be the case. Even in the law courts the worst features of Turkish misrule seem to have the fullest scope. The lawyers are the inoBt rapacious we have ever beard of and that is saying a good deal . and even the judges, unlike thespouse : ot Ciesar, are nv t auova suspiciuu. Let anyone read the history ol the j Richmond mine, and sum up the amount ot black mail it has had to pay ere the property for which the shareholders paid could bo considered secure, and if that is not enough, then let him advert to the history of the hapless Emma. Even the Colorado Terrible is now, or was at the last meeting, for the Bake of preserving its very existence, engaged in a lawsuit, ' the result ol which was then quite uncertain, but the immediate effect of which was the stoppage of the works and the loss of the best part of the' season. Under such circumstances as these, it is impossible to conduct any industry with success, or to induco sane men to embark capital in a country where right and justice arc ignored, and where the law is openly and with impunity defied. Show tbo English public that the laws of the United States are respected like those of this country: show that the agents of a British company mny pursue their calling without assuming the character of belligerents; show that miuiug ingenuity and skill may have fair play, and we venluro to think that notwithstanding all that has happened, there is even yet faith enough in the mineral resources of the United States to induce English capitalists to invest their money in developing them. Until all this is shown, and until better laws are made, and a better observance of them enforced, American mines will, as for the past two years they have been, be a drag upon the English market nnd a disgust to all who have had anything any-thing to do with them. London Minimj )'ord. |