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The Placer herald., 1873-03-01

Now is the tins to plant r-es and shrubbery.
Inc ground is full of watar and healthy start
Is the making of tree. A la.o planted tree fol-
lowed by dry season, IS money lost, as there
are but few trees that Viii .ay good unler
such circumstances. On l1 II this section
Of country, the main thic- b give trans
planted tree, whether ira ornamental
good start the first seasaa. -a can best be
1one by early planting, aa4 In tae absence OF
MS irrigation must be resai.,l 10 for or two
'ealS Nothing adds So mach to the appearance
and value of town lot or fsro as q few healthy
"eL-arranged fruit and oraq a.stal IL ees. 1t is
Just as easy to raise a ysluat.5 tree as poor,
common one, and il woulG please US to see some
more of the cottonwood lracs around Auburn
give place to finer variety t,sas. They were
-'Aost God-send at first 1t now their useful
less Is past. Almost any tceo rom the south or
Aof'h will do well in Auburn, al.. sooner or later
"u Will understand this an prol. by it.
The Placer herald., 1873-03-01

\ MIsTAKE.-Some Of our exchanges, especial
" ia Nevada county, have been writing good
a about change Of car time. We learn from
he very best authority that nothing of the kind is
contemplated by theraihoad company. The com
pany intends in the Spring 10 pat or the road
special passenger, mail and express train between
san Francisco and Reno Irc.e trains viii leave
San Francisco and Reno each e. ening at about
7 o'clock P. NJ, and reach the other end Of tie
route that is san Francisco auJ Reno, the next
morning at . O'Clock = N iho- giving their pas
sangers q full business day jn ~,a Francisco AMI
returning them home on ihe nipht train. At Reno
this tram will connect with the Tmckec ROAD
for Virginia city, Carson e.a This arrangement
will relieve the regular tbrou sL t,ain OF mach OF
the Nevada and way travel aud be an accommo-
d.,lon to nearly everybody, aud perhaps double
The amount of way travel People along tn
1ole would jump at the chance of going into
sleeping car for the cities below have who
day. business there and sleep home again the
next night, and be ready the uest morning fol
their business at home. lLis is the change
thought of by the company.
The Placer herald., 1873-03-01
BORN.

Near Auburn, Feb. 25, to the wife of Bon
Gotleb Bosse, IA daughter
At Roseville, Feb. 20 to the wife of II. Noon
ey, IL son.
The Placer herald., 1873-03-01
DIED.

At the American hotel, in Auburn, Feb 25th,
Charles N. second son of William and Mary
Mitchell aged years months and % days.
At Ophr, Feb 81 John Gowan of pneu.
monia, native of Harlan, New York, aged 35
years.
The Placer herald., 1873-03-01
MARRIED..

Near Sacramento, Feb. 20, at the residence of
the brides father James Holland (Holland' $
Garden), by the Rev. T. L. Moody, James Nick
erson of Lincoln, Placer county, to Olivia +.
Hnlianl of Sucramruto
The Placer herald., 1873-03-01

HIGH ScnooL.-The people of Lincoln are
talking strongly of establishing high school
there. The palatal residence and grounds of
Col. G. l.. Wilson now stands there tenantless,
the Colonel having removed north where he has
large tracts Of land. The ouilding in Lincoln is
very large one, and built Of the best material
and in the most substantial manner with fine
grounds around it, we'll improved With fruit trees
and shrubbery, well and WIND MI, all complete.
Little change would make this an admirable
seminary. We have heard that the Colonel Of
fered to donate this building and grounds to the
town for purposes of u seminary of learning,
with some reservations rs to who should consti-
tute the faculty and what the cha acter of the
institution should be or sell it at nominal fig
IRE to the people of Lincoln for an institution
OF learning. Lincoln would be an admirable
location for such an institution, and we hope her
people may succeed in this present effort
FATAL ACCIDENr.-ChIrle Gilmore, brakeman
on the eastward bound freight train, met with n
fatal accident near Clipper Gap yesterday morn
ng, says the Onion of last Saturday. He is sup
posed to have slipped and fallen to the track
and then became entangled in the brake appara-
tus. He was dragged nearly mile before the
accident was discovered, and when found the
body was shockingly mutated-the brains be-
ing beaten out, portion of the skull torn of, a
leg cut off etc The remains will be brought to
the city for interment by the passenger train to-
day.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-02-08
OHIO.


ELYRIA, Ohio, Feb. Sd, 1873.
10 the Editor q the woKkNss,>'s ADVOCATE.
wish to call the attention Of all honor
able members Of our craft to an evil which
IS fast destroying the confidence Of large
number Of the men IN the unions, and
which also has a tendency to deter the un-
fair men from joining us, thereby putting
us IN position to resist the efforts of the
bosses to cut down our prices Every cir
cular, issued BY the local unions. contains
the names II members charged with non
payment of loans on their travelling cards,
some OF them two, three, and even four
years back. Now, anyone who reads the
International Constitution and the BY
Laws Of Local Unions, made in conformity
with the International Law, can easily IN
derstand that If officers Of local unions, and
shop committees DO their duty, this necessi-
ty Of putting honest mems names in the
circular, could not possibly ever happen
| find the opinion very general that there
must be- something wrong with the CORES
ponding secretaries, as IN almost every
case these men have their receipts / have
been corresponding secretary Of y union
since its organization, and hereby notify
these delinquents, to call them no harder
term, and whom, by the way, am authoriz
ed by the International Secretary to publish)
and the unions they belong, that they
shall receive no more money from me until
they elect prompt and honest correspond
ing secretaries who will send receipts for
all money orders sent to them by this
Union. ] think this thing Of secretaries
appropriating mems money, and then cir
culating them for it, has gone as far as it
ought to. In future | will give each sec
Rotary reasonable time to answer, and If
1 get no receipt, shall publish their names
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ties, run up interest from IL to 36 per
cent. put down exchange on England to or
or 10 per cent below par, reduced the Gus
toms-revenue one-half, made the govern
ment pay out $50, 600, 600 specie, and COM
PEELED it to issue paper to pay its current
cial men that it drove six thousand heavy
capitalists, business men, into bankruptcy,
and occasioned total loss Of from 800, :
900, 900 to 1000, OOO, 900, a loss which a
half century cannot repair.
But lest we be suspected of prejudice
against the SPECTATORS system, we will
close this article by quotation from Col
wells ways and meals of payment he
says This has been called
paying specie" But with how little pro
priety The banks instead of paying
their liabilities with commercial prompt
ness and the faithfulness Of those who are
discharging a legal and moral obligation,
resist it with all the power and tho weapons
they can command. In the struggles in
cident to this resistance, they strike down
friends as well as enemies, and deprive the
public of al amount of currency necessary
to business ten tunes greater than the
specie they are unwilling to pay out. And
this is the convertability SO long aimed at,
and to secure which SO much legislation
and SO much useless thought has been e1-
pended This is the triumphs Of banks
which pass through season Of panic and
revulsion without suspending "A triumph
like the victory which loses 100000 bodies
on the field of battle, which makes 10000
widows, 30, 600 orphans, and POO, 900 pau
pers
" We have spent half a century in heap
ing penalties upon the banks to enforce an
honest and full discharge of their promises
the performance consists in hurting back
the penalties upon the heads Of their Gus
toners, to disable them from asking a com
Phance with these engagements
Yet to-day We find the commercial press
NlhiltlS III lay pI tl Atil1ItSs cN cHtubllN re-
turning to "Spccie basis, some sooner,
some later. but all for the return. We
have had, through the blessing Of war,
thirteen years Of respite from this cursed
system, and during that period, with the
worst and most iniquItous labor rubbing
currency, We have ESCAPED that worst Of
curses, a specie basis and its revulsions. 4"
In some future numbers we shall dissect
more fully this r)bber system, with the
vague hope that some day the labor classes
viii demand this enslavement If all races
shall follow the exit Of African slavery, and
he decently and forever buried out Of sight
This barbaric despotlsm must be crushed
out, OF there are no rights for labor which
either black or white despots will respect
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Soldiers and Sailors Land and Bounty
Bill.

The New York Erening Post calls atten-
ton to the bill which recently passed the
House of Representatives, giving public
land as an additional bounty to soldiers and
sailors Of the late war. Il says
1t now appears that a little clause in the
amended soldiers and sailors land and
bounty bill, which passed the House Of
Representatives last week contained a very
large scheme for Incorporating the pub
lie lands. This clause authorizes the trans
fer of bounty patents by the soldiers to
agents, and thus the object Of the original
measure, to give homes to needy soldier
and their heirs, is perverted into a means
Of gigantic speculation. -Should this bill
be enacted, there il no doubt that the vast
amount Of land which it originally con
templated giving away for patriotic pur-
pose will almost exclusively fall into the
hands Of the great land monopolists More
than two-thirds Of the five hundred mil
hon acres Of public lands now remaining
unassigned, would therefore be at once
disposed Of with no benefit but positive
detrlment Ia the country, ard this would
virtually nullity the homestead law.
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contractor, at a price double, or more than
double the cost, with q fair profit added for
a. great many capacious Appetites had to be
satisfied, an ample margin was neceasarv
The contractor was then to make over the
contract to the ring directors in the capaci
ty OF stockholders Of the credit mObi her, tn
pretense being that the credit mobiler had
the means to push the work vigorously for
ward, and would be better able to do 90 than
any single individual In Pursuance of this
conspiracy-for it was nothing else-the con-
tract for the construction Of large portion OF
the road at $50, 900 mile was awarded and
duly assigned to the ring a price, which,
according to DR. Durant's statement, was
more than double the legitimate cost of the
work. This, however, vas not enough By
the votes Of the cOnspirators, many miles Of
the road which had already been constructed
and accepted by the United States Govern
ment as complete, and which had nearly all
been paid for by the Union Pacific Company,
were included in the contract at fifty thousand
dollars a mile, and thus an enormous amount
of money was taken bodily, A. it were, out of
the pockets Of the stockholders, without
shadow of justification, and transferred to the
greedy grasp of the ring. The shares of the
credit mobIlier were thus made at once worth
from eight tn ten times their face value-that
is to say, single thousand dollar share was
worth from eight to ten Thousand dollars in
cash"
The ADVOCATE takes an especial interest
in this exposure, because it is the offshoot
of system, which it has for years opposed
that of granting to railroad and other
corporations public domain the heri-
tage Of the people. 4 Not anothes acre"
has long been a cardinal feature in the
platform Of the National Labor Union
and from present indications, its efforts
have not been in vain. Yet at the very
Juncture when success seems to crown its
efforts, when its land and money policy is
commanding the endorsement of the
American people, in fact at the very mo
ment when unity, wisdom and determine
ton should control its counsels, to give
them effect, the demon of dissension rears
its head in its own ranks, and threatens to
neutralize its eff We ASK therefore
in all candor, is il the part of wisdom, thus
to show our weakness If its officers are
incapable, false or time serving. let them
he dismissed, we care not how unceremo-
niously ; let good men and true control its
action, but in sacrificing them let us he
careful at least to keep aloft those PRINCI-
PIES on the success Of which the perpetu-
ity Of the republic depends
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NEW lohhs Jhm. %, 1919.
To the Editor oi the woKKHesAS's AByocarE
You commit AN error in saying the fol-
lowing disposition was made Of the question
Of secret work
Resolred, That the secret work u the
United Order of American Bricklayers Ne
submitted to the local Unions fOr approval.
and when the requisite two thirds vote u all
the local q mons Is received by the President
Of the National Union, he shall proclaim the
same to be the secret work Of the NatiOT al
Union. All local Unions to send t. the Pres
ident Of the National Union the votes Of their
Union before the lst u July next The title
and name Of the National Union t. remain a
heretofore.
Mr.. Kelly, u Cohoes, New York, offered
the following
WHEREAS, The proposition to change the
secret work of the National Union. and to
adopt that Of the United Order Of American
Bricklayers, involves a most complete and
radical revolution Of the whole construction
Of this organization, embracing principles
which may Or may not bc w vital interest 81
many Of the local Unions ana their members
and,
WHEREAS, While believing the said change
will benefit and strengthen our Unions, when
that the change should not be forced or
pressed upon the different Unions without
that careful and sober consideration which
the merits Of the case demand therefore,
be it
Pssoired That the Secretary be directed.
Immediately upon his return home to com
muncate with all the subordinate Unions
working under charter from this Union,
upon this subject, explaining as far as he is
able the import and intent Of the proposed
change, and request them To vote. by ayes
and noes, upon the same, and transmit to him
the result Of such vote and he 1t further
ResOirrd. 7 hat the result w such Vote shall
he made known to the different Unions. aud
also reported to the next annual convention
for final action.
The spirit Of the latter was adopted. and
the question will most likely be settled at
the next convention.
| regret exceedingly that the Canada
Unions were not admitted, for the reason
that, as Bricklayers, We should know No
National or boundary lines Political
demagogues may differ, and quarrel and
tight, and kill, provided they kill only
themselves; but workingmen, by the very
oppression which brushes us all. every
where alike, ought ID create a common
sympathy, and bind Us Together III one
brotherhood. Others may a. AZ they
please, ] presume they did at our late
convention and hold that America Is for
Americans, but as for me, / care not where
the man comesfrum, Whether lac be Irish,
Scotch, French, English. German. NJ Jew,
if he il a bricklayer, I want him to enjoy
All the rights, and benefits, ana priyileges
thai ! enjoy and II that j. wrong, then
am wrong. Yours, IA ever,
JOHN W BROWSING. Ex- Secretary.
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The Ma sachusetts Labor Bureau.

We cannot too highly admire the gallant
fight the friends Of the Labor Bureau in
that State are making in its behalf. If
they succeed, as We earnestly trust they
Will, they will deserve the gratitude Of
every workingman and woman in the land
We are at loss 10 understand the dninus
of many Of these who now oppose its con-
tinuance, and are afraid they will find it a
difficult task to satisfactorily explain their
action. The abolition Of the Bureau would
be national calamity; it fills long ex-
perirnced void, and has done more to e1-
pose and mitigate the evils Of the iniquitous
factory system than any other agency. OF
course the manufacturers dislike it as the
devil does holy water, but that is the very
reason why workingmen should rally in it's
behalf
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-02-08

Coal LAND MONOPOLY. According ~
the Miners Journal the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Comany own -, 669
acres of coal land in the counties Of Schuyl-
kill. Columbia and Northumberland. OF
this land there are IN Schuylkill county ~,
Ol3 acres, in Schuylkill and Columbia 1858;
il Northumberland 23,6l6 acres. These
lands embrace, in Schuyikill county, sixty
FIVE open cOllieries. three in Columbia, and
twenty seven in Northumberland ; in all
ninety-hve collierIes.
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in the circular | think this miserable,
small rAscality Of local officers j. destroying
our Union daily 80 look, gentlemen, for
the future. With Mr. Cameron's permits
sion l will use printers ink instead Of
writing you letters for you to leave unan-
swered. Yours Fraternaly,
gro. f. BRADY,
Cor Sec, g. NJ. q. No. 1927
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-02-08

SCOTTISH Co-OPERArIyE WHOLESALE So
cIETY LINITEp) This associations report
and balance-sheet for the seventeenth
quarter ending 10th November, 1872,
shows the turnover during the three
months to have been fS7, S42. The pro-
posed discount is Al per fl on members
purchases, and I'd per Fl on non-mem-
bers. The total sales for the year
amounted to f262, 53l, which, compared
with EI62, 675 in 1871, shows an increase
Of nearly GlOO, 600, or lad per cent.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-02-08

WILL friend Siney inform US if the gift
concert proposed to be held for the pur-
pose Of erecting a Miners Hospital IN
Shenandoah, Pa, is a bona fde enterprise :
Several of our correspondents are anxious
to learn.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-02-08

MINERS Unions to whom the Communi-
cation from the Illinois and Indiana State
Miners Association has been sent, are re
quested to forward the action taken on the
same to the Secretary, Mr.. John James, Of
Braidwood, Illinois, at once.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-02-08

THR miners of the Lehigh region, though
their demand for fixed basis has been re
fused, have not followed up their demand,
As was expected by some, by striking but
a strike in the spring, if the operators per
sist in Their opposition to better prices, =
by no means an improbabifty.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-02-08

The St Louis Times, Of January 18th,
contains complete description of every
iron furnace and mill in the State Of Mis-
sour, with the statistics Of their opera
tions in 1872. 1t is an exceedingly valua-
bic repDr Of which VIC hope hereafter to
make extended use.
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A Truthful Prediction.

The following from one Of the leading
English -eviews, although referring to the
wages class in the Old World, can be read
withprotit by the employers and manufac-
turers on this side Of the Atlantic:
The steam engine, mighty as a slave. is
the hardest and most brutalizing Of mas
tiers 1t has called into existence a new
class i'll the social scale, a class unknown
save by name a century ago, class which
no great statesman has yet dared to look in
the face. Ii is class the existence, the
increase, and the neglect of which are full
OF the most serious menaces to the whole
framework of society. This class is that
Of the operatives the men, women and
children who are the helots Of the steam
engine. Without that culture of the in
telllgence which every craft necessarily pro-
duces in the craftsman, without the healthh
simplicity which attaches to agricultural
and open air employment shut out from
the influence of man, in his industrial and
social activity, by the many Widowed walls
Of the factory shut out from the light and
voice Of God, As he speaks in the aspects
Of nature the operative class are hourly
adding up terrible sum. which society
will some day have to liquidate They
live, they work, they eat enough to enable
them to do both, poorly, grIdingly, and
unsatisfactory And for what end are
thousands Of small huts annually raised for
the slowing away Of this increasing and
undlscIplined army For the amassiny Of
colossal fortunes for few men, fortunes
that often vanish like fairy gold Toll in
cessant goes to gut the markets of India
with cotton thlckened with clay, or to IN
dersell some cutting competition in the
home or the foreign market
With the growth of the operative class.
which IS widely distinct from that of the
artisans, and also from the petty trades
men, We connect the increasing disintegra-
ton Of the social bond. The old ties Of
apprenticeships, Of guilds. Of corporate as
s"cIatlOns, of all that holds the boy to the
man, through the influence If the crafts
mans education impaired by the latter to
former. of all that binds master to- man AZ
common workers in common industry. in
which each have their allotted parts. are
gone Every year they are more and more
things Of the past The intimate and kind
ly intercourse Of high and low, that pre-
walls, at this hour, wherever the ancient
demarcation is undisturbed (as in Italy
where the feudal system existed within the
century, is displaced by harsh brutality
OF manner wherever the child grows M I'M
der the influence Of the maxim, 'one man
is as good another If the indication af-
forded by the manner in which the young
show disrespect to the old, and the poor
show hatred to the rich, as compared to the
bearing Of the rural and the urban pop
ulation of England 40 years since, he taken
INTO account, we clearly see that revolu-
ton is making rapid progress, to which due
attention, has never yet been directed"
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The TRALEE COOPERs The members Of
the Tralee COopers QrelAnd) Organization
have notified their employers that an in
crease Of pay will be expected.