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use for the attainment Of highest politi-
cal places. deem that "the post of hon.
or is the private station" It is almost
an universal sentiment that public Office
no longer confers any honorable dis
tinction; that it is sought only for Pc
cuniary gain, and that some of the
highest offices in the land are held by
men who would not be permitted to
cross the Threshold of any private gen.
tleman's s residence for purposes Of social
intercourse. As the party press has
been chief instrumentality in contrib
uting to this state of affairs. it has suf-
fered the general decentralization proper
tionately. That editor who makes a
jackass of himself by consenting "to
carry nny load that party conventions
place upon his shoulders" must be
contented to be treated like jackass-
fed on thistles. The party press. which
is consenting slave to corrupt sys-
tenn of politics. can never elevate itself
above the conditions of beast of bur-
den, to do the service of, and to be
bought, seld. traded by the corrupt po.
liticians, as their interests may seem to
dictate. This is the experience of all
party editors who have been faithful to
their party obligations. If Public
Printer is to be elected, that Office is
uniformly used to trade upon by other
candidates, to divide up, and as often as
any way, given to some one who is nei-
ther printer nor editor. as reward for
dirty services. If retrenchment in pub
lie expenses is demanded, the dema-
gogues invariably commence, and gen.
orally end with cutting down the beg
carly pay of their printer to starvation
rates. If publisher exhausts his re-
sources in bringing his party into power
in county, he may reasonably expect
that the first official act of the newly
elected officers will be to sigLalize their
devotion to the public interests by let
ting the printing to the lowest bidder.
thus melting a party competition by
which the successful bidder is sure to
lose money. The press being thus de-
graded by politicians, it is subjected to
the same treatment in all other public
matters. Whatever public project an
editor may propose, if it succeeds he is
Immediately shouldered aside by some
Aippant pettifoggsr or village dema>
gogue, and his part in the matter is
soon forgotten; if it fails, he becomes an
object of derision to the same parties
who ever stand ready to steal and ap-
propriate to themselves his laurel Is. If
he throws himself into the breach in
time of peril to the community from
internal or external foes, the matter is
generally settled by making him the
scape-goat between the contending par
ties. or he is sacrificed by his friends to
propitiate the enemy.
The press can be degraded no longer
than than the partisan and merceny ele-
ments prevail; SO long as majority of
publishers consent to do dirty service
for debasing considerations. and thus
degrade the character of the whole.
, 1874-05-21

WHY THE TERMINUS WAS LOCATED AT
Tacoma A gentleman of whose veraci-
ty there is no question, lately related to
us the substance of an interview he had
with one of the officials of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, who explained to him
in full the reasons for terminating the
road, for the present, at Tacoma. He
said that he did not blame the people of
the Sound, particularly those of Seattle,
for their denunciations of the location;
for not a member of the Board regarded
it is the proper place for the terminus.
or believed that it would permanently
remain there. At tbs time the location
was determined upon, it was only a
matter of "any port in storm" The
Con pany had not the means, and no
resources to raise the means to construct
the road mile beyond that point, and
could only reach there by the aid of
parties interested in the Tacoma town
site. Beside, it was urged by Jay Cooke,
in whose interest the Tacoma Land Co.
was organized, under a charter granted
by the Pennsylvania Legislature. as
measure of relief to himself; brokers' 8
kite flying device to save himself from
impending bankruptcy. He argued that
by putting the stock of the Tacoma
Land Company upon the Eastern mar
ket Immediately after the announcement
of the location of the terminus. two
millions of dollars might be realized at
once from sales, and relieve him from
financial embarrassment. The failure
of that scheme, and the consequent
failure of Cooke, is very properly attri-
buted to the prompt exposition OF the
character of the location. made by the
DESPATCH, and telegraphed to New York
from day to day while the matter was
pending.
This railroad magnate frankly admit
ted that the road had been miserably
managed on the Pacific division, but
the pecuniary endorsements OF the
Company had put it out OF their power
to make the needed reforms; Ainsworth
was depended upon for the means OF
completing the road to Tacoma, and he
demanded the retention of Sprague as
Superintendent. But for that Sprague
would have been superseded long ago.
He further said, that there was the best
reasons for believing that Congress WILL
pass the bill now before that body for
the relief of the Railroad Company, and
then such changes would be made as he
thought would give satisfaction to q
large majority of the people Of Wash
ington Territory.
We believe that the account of this
conversation given by our informant is
literally true in every essential particu-
lar, and we tell it as it was told to u.s..
, 1874-05-21

And in accordance with law and an order Of
the Baord of Trustees, made on the 9th day Of
March, 1874, SO many shares Of each parcel Of
said stock as may be necessary. will be sold at
public auction at the Office of the Company, No.
1891 Battery Street, San Francisco, California,
on the Twenty-ars day of May, 1874. at the
hour Of Three O'Clock P. N. Of such day, to pay
delinquent assessment thereon, together with
costs of advertising and expenses Of the sale.
JOSIAH HAND, Secretary.
Office No. 1901 Battery Street. Corner Tilbert.
San Francisco, California. my9
, 1874-05-21

A REMARKABLE QUARREL.--A terrible
fight took place recently between two
women in Chill, under the following cir
cumstances.
One of them, who had recently given
birth to an infant, having to make q
journey to Rancagua, left the child un-
der the care of a neighbor, who had a
child of about the same age. A few
days afterward, the mother who had
gone on the journey returned home, land
was told that her child had died during
her absence. She insisted that the sur
viving infant was hers. She said she
knew the child to be hers, and was moi
going to be deceived by the stratagem
of her nelghbor. The other called all
the saints in heaven 10 witness that hei
child was the living one and not the
dead one. The dispute was finally end
ed in blows and the Intervention of the
police. The case has gone to the tri-
bunals. and another question like that
decided by King Solomon is now before
the Judges of Rancagua.
, 1874-05-21

T The following described sinfu
little game was INDUCED in at Atlanta
Georgia: A party of young men dined
sumptuously at restaurant, and eacf
one insisted on paying the bill. To de-
eide the matter, it was proposed te
blindfold the waiter, and the first ont
he caught should pay the bill. He hal
not caught any of them yet.
, 1874-05-21

T Mr.. Gladstone tells his private
acquaintance that he regrets having
given SO many years cf his life to poll
tics. "How little," said he the other
day, to an admirer, "do politics affect
the life, the moral life of q nation! One
single good book influences the people
q vast deal more"
, 1874-05-21

SENSIBLE YcUNG LADY A New York
belle writes to tho Graphic as follows:
All attacks made upon our dress at
the present time are founded in ignor-
ance. Years ago our women wore paper
shoes and ''board' corsets. OF course
these were unhealthy. But nowadays
we wear thick shoes and corsets that are
no more injurious than mems waist
coats. What nonsense. then, it is to at
tack women's dress for reasons that
have now become obsolete! I claim that
our dress is rational because it is be-
coming, and that is the chief object of
women's dress. We hang our skirts on
our hips. and not on our shoulders. be-
cause our hips are made for the purpose,
and because the plan of wearing skirts
suspended by braces from the shoulders
is impracticable, except for fat-chested
old maids. As your correspondent,
"Mrs. R. s." has said, our skirts are SO
arranged that they keep our bodies cool,
whereas trousers would produce the op-
posite effect. If women were intended
to jump fences and ride astride there
would be q reason for "dress reform. I"
As they we've not intended for any such
purpose insist that their present dress
is Just what it should be, both in point
of health and appearance.
A TRIP TO ENGLAND CONTEMPLATED
The San Francisco Call of late date
say: donald Mckay and his Warm
Springs purpose going to England when
the tour of the Eastern States has been
made. As Donald can claim connection,
on his fathers side, with the northern
part of Britain, he will probably pay
a visit to tie wilds of Sutherlandshire.
the county of the McKays, and learn,
to his surprise, that that region is inf
nitely bleaker and less habitable than
even the lava beds from which he GUST
ed the Modocs. The old Duke of Suth-
erland, who compelled so many of his
people to emigrate, and around whose
memory clusters an avalanche of Gaelic
anathemas. may have done very cruel
thing at the time in ejecting his attach
ed tenantry, but he was probably wise
in deeming a region SO inhospitable
better fitted for the rearing of mountain
sheep. Donald and his braves ought to
stake" excelleutly wherever they So
journ in Britain. A vsritable red man
has hardly ever crossed the Atlantic, and
a dozen of them, with two squaws and
a child. Ought to fill the Crystal Palace
to overfowing.
, 1874-05-21

CRUEL OUTRAGE IN MARYLAND BY Ne
GRoEs.--A Baltimore dispatch Of May 2
says: The city papers this morning pub
lish accounts of shocking outrage per-
petrated by two negroes on a negro boy,
named James Henry Woodley, aged Is
years, in Howard county, on the 18th Of
April. According to the boys state
ment, the two men, without provocation,
SCARED and branded his limbs in most
cruel manner with a red-hot iron, and
afterwards poured spirits of turpentine
over his naked body and lower limbs,
and set him on fire. In this condition
he escaped from his prosecutors and
succeeded in extinguished the flames,
though in what manner he is scarcely
able to tell. Woodley now lies at the
Lombard Street Infmary in this city,
his back and legs roasted to crisp. His
recovery is doubtful. 1t is reported that
the men who committed the outrage
have been arrested.
, 1874-05-21
DELINQUENT !

SEATTLE COAL AND TRANSPOR.
y tation Company = Location Of Prins ipal
Place of Business, San Francisco. California.
Lacation of Works, King County, Washington
Territory. There is delinquent upon the fol
lowing described stock on account Of assess.
ment levied on the 9Th day Of March, 1874.
the several amounts setopposite the names Of the
rasnacfi,,a sh holderS as follows:
, 1874-05-21

II Of the thousands Of mines in
Utah, but one is owned and controlled
exclusively by Morn ons; and of all the
smelters and mills in the Territory only
one is owned by Mormons.
, 1874-05-21
FURNITURE!
Selling at Cost.

TAM NOW SELLING THE ENTIRE
stock of furniture at cost, in the store
lately occupied by j. s. Anderson. Par
ties wishing to purchase will find it to
their advantage to call early, examine.
and be convinced.
D. T. WHEELER, Assignee.
, 1874-05-21
NOTICE !!

HAVE THIS DAY SOLD MY IN
terest in the Puget Sound Candy
Mandatory. Seattle. MIR. A. W. Piper
will collect outstanding accounts and
pay all liabilities.
CHAS. PAGDEN.
Witness, A. W. PIPER.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-11
Latest kilograms.
ASIATlC CHOLERA IN BROOKLY YIN.
An Indian Battle in
Nebraska.
The Union Pacific Takes
a Trick.
EASTERN.

Deaths from Cholera and Hydro pho
New YORK, July 10.-Mary Har-
mon died in Brooklyn to-day of Ash
attic cholera. VIM. McGinnis died in
New York of hydrophobia.
The New Telegraph Cable.
PORTSMOUTH On. II. J, July 10.-The
steamer Faraday arrived safely this
afternoon, having been detained seven
days by fog. The Ambassador is ex-
pected to return here Immediately,
when the cable will be laid forthwith.
Lifeboat Stations.
WASHINGTON, July 9.-The work of
providing life-saving stations on the
Lakes and Pacific coast will be COM
menced soon. The stations on the
Lakes and the Pacific coast will be
lifeboat stations, provided with ac-
cOmmodations for apparatus and boats.
Some will be furnished with regular
crews and others are expected to be
operated by volunteer crews.
Fire i'm ottawa.
OTTAWA, July GA fire to-day de-
stroyed Reyes Carding Mills, Stock
dale's Carriage Factory, SINNERS
Iron Works, and a number of smaller
buildings. The loss is not estimated.
One for the Union Pacific.
BOSTON, July 9.-In the matter of
the Union Pacific Railroad and the
petition for its bankruptcy, notice was
to-day filed in the L. S. Circuit Court
of withdrawal by the petitioner and
creditor of his appeal from an adverse
decision of Judge Lowell, thus ending
the case in favor of the Board
A Battle with the Indians.
WASHINGTON, July g.. The War
Department has received to-day dis
patches confirming the accounts of q
battle with the Sioux Indians in Ne
braska. Lieutenant Young is reported
seriously wounded. Reports from
Captain Joseph Bush in the lower part
of Dakota, and from Captain Carlisle
Boyd at the Cheyenne Agency, state
that the Indians are in warlike mood.
Col. John Il. Smith, Of the Fourteenth
Infantry, writes from Camp Robeson,
Nebraska, under date of June ODD,
that Indians recently arrived report
that large war parties are destined for
vorious parts of Nebraska. Gen. Rug
giles, Assistant Adjutant-General of
the Department of the Platte, in for
warding the dispatch, says the Depart
ment Commander has been notified of
the movements of these Indians, and
steps have been taken to intercept
them
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-11
Freights and Fares.

Our attention has been called to an
error which occurs in the HERALD's
article on freights and fares, which ap-
peared in yesterday mornings issue.
We then stated, upon what we ac-
cepted as good authority, that prior to
the appearance of GOoDALL, NELSON
Il PERKINS steamers on the coast
route, the Pacific Mail charged seven
dollars per ton on all freight brought
from San Francisco to the port of Will
mington. Had we said the old line
charged these rates while owned by
BEN HOLLADAY, we should have been
correct. Since the line passed into the
hands of the Pacific Mail, the nominal
charge has not exceeded five dollars
per ton, though we have no doubt that
averaging the freight by weight they
netted seven, and perhaps ten, dollars
for every ton brought down before the
appearance of the opposition. The
classification rates by which freight is
received, has, we presume, been prac-
tised ever since men began to learn
the tricks of trade, but it is always an
expensive rule to the shipper. A baby
wagon or light buggy may be made
to measure a ton, when in reality it
does not weigh as much as the steam
er's clerk. This, however, is practised
by all steamboat and railroad compa-
nies, and will be remedied when the
Changers are through with other and
more important matters. With regard
to the rates for freight as now charged,
we are informed that the freight which
goes out of this valley is largely in
excess of that brought in. This being
the case, it would not be to the advan-
tage of the people to equalize the rates
by taking off of the down freight and
adding to the up bound. Merchandise
from San Francisco to Wilmington
now costs five dollars per ton-the
same as charged by the Pacific Mail
before the opposition was placed on the
route.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-11
Bad Advice.

In referring to the election under
the Local Option law, soon to take
place at Los Nietos, the Star says: " If
the eintermeddlers with others business
carry their point, we think we are CIV
ing good advice to those who deal in
liquors in any way to say to them to
stick to their business just as though
nothing had happened. No grand
jury will ever indict them" We
think this bad advice, very bad advice.
No man will abandon his claim to in
telligence by asserting that the Local
Option law is not now law of the
state in actual force. 1t was the Act
of the people of California, in Legisla-
ture assembled, and when the Act re-
ceived the signature of the Governor,
it became a law as binding as any in
our statute books. All elections held
under the Local Option law are legal,
and to advise men to disregard the
law which such elections establish, is
to advise them to violate the law, and
thereby jeopardise personal liberty
and individual property. We are no
stickler for Local Option, but we re-
spect the law and recognize tue will of
the people as the law of the land. We
hold that in any community where a
majority of the qualified voters have,
in accordance with the provisions of
the Local Option law, voted against
the retail of liquor, to retail liquor
within the boundary fixed by the elec-
ton, is an unlawful act, and certainly
those who advise the commission of
such an unlawful act, are giving bad
advice. The assertion that no grand
Jury will ever indict those who commit
such unlawful act is unwarranted, and
could only hold good with grand
jury composed of men having rather
vague notions of the sanctity of an
oath. Local Option may be an un-
constitutional ltw, but has not yet
been so pronounced by the proper tri-
bunal. and until it is so pronounced it
is law of the State, and its violation
is an illegal act subjecting the violator
to the penalties named, hence we say
advice to disobey the law is bad adj
Il.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-11
Notice of Sale of Real Estate
jyil-1nn-21

A DMINISTRATOR'S SALE OF REAL
IA ESTATE Notice is hereby given, that
in pursuance of an order of the Probate e
Court of the county of Los Angeles, State of
California, made on the 9th day OF July, 1874,
in the matter of the estate of Pierre Richard
deceased, the undersigned, the administrator
of the said estate, will sell at private sale, to
the highest bidder, for cash, gold coin of the
United States of America, and subject TO con-
firmation by said Probate Court, on Thurs
day, the 30th day of july 1874, at II O'Clock NJ,
of said day, all the right, title, interest, and
estate of the said Pierre Richard at the time
of his death, and all the right, title, and in
terest that the said estate has, by operation of
law or otherw Sc acquired other than, or in
q ldiion to, that of the said Pierre Richard at
the time of his death, in and to all that GER
tain lot, piece, or parcel of land situate, lying
and being in the city and county of Los An
geles, State of California, and bounded and
described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning on the north side of Spring street
at the southeastern corner of the lot eli Allen,
thence south fronting on said Spring street II
feet Inches TO point; thence westerly to New
High street, thence uorth along New High
street IA feet inches TO said lot of Allen;
thence eastetly along said lot to Spring street,
the point of commencement being No. on
said Spring street.
The bids or offers must be in writing, 10 he
left at the Office OF Stanford & Ramirez, Tenn
pie Block, Los Angeles city. at any time after
the II st publication of this notice and before
the making of the sale. +. LEMAIRE,
Administrator of the Estate OF Pierre Rich
arI, dece. sed.
Los Anl eles, July lOth, 1874. jyll-td-7
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-11

THE Express of last evening devotes
its entire editorial and part of its local
space to personal attack on the HER
AIDS correspondent, at. A. c." We
regret that our cotemporary should
deem it necessary to attempt a defense
Of itself in this way. 1t certainly
committed q mistake in its statements
concerning the Changers notices in
the Fourth of July procession, and
when that mistake is corrected the
response is series of personal attacks
on our correspondent. Nothing is to
be gained by the pursuance of such a
policy. The author of the letter pub
lished in the HERALD is respectable
citizen of wealth and position, and the
charge that he owes the Express for
subscription which he will not or can
not pay, will be received with smile
of incredulity by the people of Los An
geles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-11

THE following from the Alta will be
of interest to the people of Los An
geles: "The Supreme Court of the
State has decided in the case of San
Francisco against the Spring Valley
Water Company, that the Legisla-
ture cannot confer on corporations any
peculiar powers, or subject it to pecu-
liar duties by special legislation. The
constitution provides for the organi-
zation of corporations under general
laws, the provisions of which can
not be altered for special cases."
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-11
Notice Of Intention.

SECOND AND OLIVE office
- Is hereby given, that the Comm ~ COun-
Gil of the city of Los Angeles, intend to grade
Second street, from the crossing of Second
and Fort streets, to the westerly line of Olive
street; also to grade Olive street from Sec
Ond to Filth street, as follows:
That the crossing of Second and Fort streets
shall be p feet above the datem plane OF
levels as now established in this city, accord
ing to the grade map now on file in the office
of the Mayor and Common Council of the
city OF Los Angeles.
The crossing of Second and Hill streets
shall be 40 feet, and the crossing of Second
and Olive streets shall be rs feet, and the
crossing of Third and Olive streets shall be
1876 feet, and the crossing of Olive and Fourth
streets shall be 62 feet, and the crossing of
Fifth and Olive streets shall be II feet above
the datem plane before mentioned.
That the distance to be graded on Second
street, from its crossing with Fort street to the
westerly line of Olive street is $50 feet includ-
ing the crossing of Hill and Second streets,
and that the distance to be graded on Olive
street from Second to Fifth street is 800 feet,
including the crossings of Third and Fourth
streets.
The above named streets shall be graded to
q width of sixty feet, and shall conform to the
crossings of street levels before mentioned;
the slope of the streets shall be straight and
uniform between the different streets, and
shall be one foot higher in the center OF
the street than at either side Ofthe gutter
BY order ofthe Common Council.
NJ KREMER,
Clerk of Common Council.
jyll-l0t
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-11

LOCAL OPTION has developed some
curious phases in the San Francisco
newspaper world. The Post felt
called upon to rate the Germans in
language more caustic than compli-
mentary. The Germans are not in the
habit of nourishing viper after it
bites them, and orders to stop the pa
per have begun to fill the Post order
book. To save itself the Post threat
ened to publish list of those discon-
tinuing their subscription. The Ger
mans didn't scare at this, but other
subscribers did, for they knew that if
the Post carried its threat into execu-
ton its columns would be filled. with
German names, to the exclusion of
everything else, and they began to
stop the paper. Then the Chronicle
come to the rescue, and talked in favor
of the Post. This was the signal for
the Germans to fill the Chronicle Or
der-book with "Stop my paper" 1t
is an amusing contest to all except
those journals who have committed
hari-kari. Wonder if the Legislature
anticipated these lively times when it
passed Local Option?