The Placer herald., 1874-07-25


sex, | am not prejudiced against them. 1t
might be remarked that no man who ever
had mother ever was, or should be; but |
go outside of these natural feelings. As
between boys and girls, irrespective of re-
latons, have always preferred girls! Boys
are bad, mischievous. | never liked boys;
but this prejudice does not extend to girls
BY your programme see that ! am set
down for an address. Let our splendid
State be the brief theme. | would like to
disencbant you of politics, but fear it will
be vain. In your opinion the greatest thing
to be remembered in New York from its
earliest day is not, perhaps, her physical
grandeur, her Arcadian beauty, her milk
and honeyed inter-vales, her milk trains and
Erie canal boats, her sounding shores and her
mountains of Dutch myths and blue mists
not her Rochester fall, from which Patch
leaped, nor her greatest statesman, William
l.. Marcy, about which another "patch' is
yet remembered; not her Niagara, but fall
still greater; aye, greater than the fall OF
Adam-her last fall, or rather the Demo
cratic fall of last Fall.
| fear that YOU are too proud of this
achievement. But remember that pride has
its fall, also, larger than Niagara. You
will not deny that you are proud of your
part in this political cataract If | am not
mistaken in the phraseology, have some
where read that the minions, be-
loved brothers-of the Administration, con-
tributed to this more than Niagara's fall
Then, if you and and all of us did not
fall down, one of US did. 1t was for a
small mana fall cat large" and the leap
of Sam Patch was not a patching to the
leap of another man of a similar Christian
name, and of a similar vaultng ambition.
Gentlemen, would like again to recall
minds from politics. Consider other more
interesting subjects which honor our State
He'll Gate for example. ran from it, and
perhaps through it. From it to the lakes is
a large district. 1t is an honor to be de-
feated at large in such State | have
that honor. | call on Niagara, and with
thunders of applause she answers to the
mighty Hudson, through the silver lakes
ut is great and beautiful to run and be
beaten in such State" Did you ever
think Of the magnfcence of Niagara in this
political light? Niagara 1t furnishes a
chance aud wall of rock for four big lakes
10 jump from. On the New York side it
jumps fourteen feet further than on the
Canadian. IKE American eagle is proud of
this arrangement Of nature. | claim the
extra fourteen in my fall campaign. Con
slider Niagara again in this light. Its sub
Unity consists in the vast power of a
mighty current descending impetuously.
Fist, by long inclined plane that is the
Cincinnati convention; then into the rapids
that is Baltimore; then in a rush of ter
rife thunder-that is the Pennsylvania
election, and then in one unbroken vertical
sheet into the abyss-that is November in
New York
The Smithsonian Institute reports tie
power of Niagara to be that of II ,56S, ,0369
horses. The half horse is, | suppose, a
mule! 1t is horse and mule power,
may add, which never has the epizoot.
General Grants known attachment to horses
will account for our disaster. Imagine our
President driving such team tandem. By
calculation from the Bureau of Statistics
ascertain that tandem team of that number
would reach from the Georgium Sidus to the
famous hole in the sky. With such power
against us, together with the franking privi
lege do YOU wonder that some of us retire
to domestic life.
Let us estimate the horse power in the late
of statistics. A horsepower is equal to a
force which will raise SO 900 pounds through
one foot Of space in one minute. The power
of the currentof Niagara Falls-say II ,56S,
0369 horsepower which, multiplied 33 900,
is equal to 3S1 ,745, , ,1SS 900 pounds, or
100 ,S72, ,594 tons. This current is equal to
team of horses htched at tandem, (allow-
ing Is feet pulling space to each horse }
80 1868 miles in length; which would reach
around the globe and leave 1868 miles to
the square. The globe contains 33 1926 600
cubic miles, or 4 800 ,612 100, 400 600 600
feet, and weighing 400, ,361 ,219 ,04O 900,
GOO 900 Iounds General Grant seated in his
chariot, would require 1,300, 900, 900 such
teams to move the earth out of its orbit.
Thank God, our stars is still safe under the
Administration.
But once more, aside from politics, is it
not grand even to have The negative success
of splendid defeat in State which in two
hundred years has leaped up, as well as
do1n-leaped from twenty thousand to five
millions of people It's magnitude now may
be measured by the enormous fact that
four hundred thousand people voted for
me; and yet used to be elected in other
States, by only twelve thousand. Is it not
imperial to be beaten by half million Of
votes =?
But politics aside, for this society has other
and nobler objects. What splendid history
our State has
Some of us love to wander in the twilight
of time and gather its dim traditions. But
we need not wander out of New York Stale
Her Catskills furnish us in 1rving's wierd
stories, the tai, Of the houseless, adventur-
Gus Dutchman, who slept out of one dynasty
into another. But politics aside, your OBJ
ects are noble The world is growing curl
Gus even on our continent. Arizonian cities