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The Grange advance., 1874-03-11
The Gulf that has no End or Bottom.

The committee Of the House of Repre-
sentatives on expenditures, in the depart
ment OF justice, has adopted resolution
directing its chairman to ask the House for
authority to send for persons and papers
and administer oaths for the purpose of
enabling the committee more thoroughly to
discharge its duties. About $500, 900 have
been spent in marshals' fees in Arkansas,
and the same amount in southern New York
and South Carolina each, and the committee
must have such authority before they can
probe this gigantic ulcer.
In recent debate in the House of Rep
resentatives, upon bill providing that the
clerks Of the U. s. Courts shall deposit
their fees with the Treasurer of the United
States, MIR. Speer made the statement that
there are some clerks of these Courts who
make out of fees $l00, 900 per annum.
And so it goes. Turn our eyes in what
ever direction we will, rapacity, extortion,
jobbery and corruption stalk abroad in the
publicity of noon day, or glare at us from
the darkness of their secret hiding places.
When shall we know it all? Is there any
place or part Of the administration of pub
lie affairs that is not leprous with corrup-
ton? 1t reeks in the low places, it holds
high carnival in the high places. 1t per-
vades the legislative departments; scarcely
disguised, it masquerades in administra-
tive departments it invades the sanctity Of
the judicial department, and its sickly
courtesan odor is even found upon execu-
tive garments. Long it lurked in secret
hidiag places, it grew in stealth and pri-
vacy, but when it became giant in the
land, when its clutches were deep in every
department Of the public service. it be-
came defiant in its might. it threw of the
mask, il stalked forth from its lurking
places, it made the government it's ally in
the gigantic Credit Mobilier frauds, and in
the consciousness Of its power, it boldly
and openly asserted its supremacy over the
people in the land, in the Salary Grab and
Back Pay Steal.
But here it over-leaped itself. The
people saws they were rapidly sinking into
a5dsspotisn: more fathonle - than those Of
Z sths niddle sgss They aross Il their
lnigh g md ad.powsr, and a tho tsrrib1s storm
Ithat i followed the nsnsts w. soonpslled
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The Grange advance., 1874-03-11

The following communication was writ:
ten and received by US before the late re-
port Of the executive committee on the
Farmers Insurance Association, but was
crowded over by press of matter. It is but
fair to state that the writer of this COM
munication is himself an insurance agent.
and while on the one hand this position
may have given him better opportunities
for becoming acquainted with the insurance
business, yet on the other, we know that
the stock companies and their agents have
always been bitterly opposed, and to some
extent prejudiced against the cooperative
plan upon which the Farmers Association
has been doing business. In estimating
the cost of insurance they seem to over
look the fact to some extent, that farm
buildings can be insured at a much lower
rate than city property.
MANKATo, Mimi, Feb'y %, 1874.
Editor Grange ADVANCE: b.
In your issue Of Feb'y 18th, 1874, 1 no.
tice rather ancient communication from J
@. Farmer, President Minnesota Farmers
Mutual Association Of this State, and as it
is calculated to mislead farmers, l cannot
but ask that be allowed to give them
slight benefit Of twenty five years expe-
rience with mutual and stock companies.
and correct some of the misstatements Of
President Farmer. j.
He says the bylaws "guard against
possible mismanagement." Now that is
cool in the extreme. The Secretary is the,
only officer who has any power
in the matter and all the funds are payable
to him, (see bylaws, and his compensation
is there fixed as follows: The Secretary
receives all membership fees interest ON
all obligations to the company; five cents
on each 500 insured yearly, and $1.25 for
each endorsement, and is the only receiving
and disbursing officer, and pays himself.
''Lucky Secretary"
He also says this company is on the
mutual plan, but differs from those old de-
| funct companies which had their salaried
officers and premium notes (Which cost
! more to collect than they were worth. -
Now at. the annual meeting at Minneap-
oils, Mr. President Farmer was voted $500
for his services last year, and the Worthy
Secretary acknowledges the receipt of over
50, 900 for his distinguished services, and
in their sworn list of assets in the Insur-
ance Commissioners Office, we find the sum of
promissory notes for deposit ($74, 4,323.44,)
| seventy-four thousand, three hundred and
twenty-three dollars and forty-four cents,
which the President says are not north coz-
lection. The President says each member
is only required to pay his share of loss.
Who pays the expenses? ,'
We find that in the year 1873, the COM
pany paid as follows: :.
II
HAtel0oo 5O 80
Claims unpaid 5743 8S
.3339 90
Or cost of over So cents on each 500
The Grange advance., 1874-03-11

rived st the conclupion that ssoeens q ed.:
josr'ts 80 1rasgs n.setisg i .evsv q
The manual Of the Patrons of Husband,Y
has no provision for sdjournment, but pre-
soribes : form for closing. The Patrsnss
Monitor, little work prepared by Alb.
smedley, Master. Of the State GrangsSof
Iowa, and approved BY D. ". Adams. M.s-
ter Of the National Grange. on page ~
under duties of officers, has the following
provision In the Subordinate Grange s.
motion to adjourn is not in order, but the
Master should close as soon as the time has
arrived or the business finished.
.>....,,-. J.F. PINGREY.5
The Grange advance., 1874-03-11

Leaving balance 81, ,156 %
to carry risks to the amount Of nearly
ten million dollars for an average Of seven
years, and how long will they stand
Farmers, the Secretary Of this companYss;;
makes the money and you pay It for &.
shadow that will be worse than the shadow
the dog took for his piece Of meat. .,
The Grange advance., 1874-03-11

Claims unpaid. 7Q3 9a
,339 80
Or q cost OF over So cents on each 500
insured for one year. When they deceive
the farmer into believing that it will cost him
but two per cent. for ten years, how soon
will they be obliged to call for new de-
posit at this rate?
President J. @. F. counted his chickens.
before they were hatched. Why don't he
make his figures on the last report and
collect those notes he says are worthless?
Now let US see how the company stands:
It has assets. ;so2 81
Deduct notes 1923 A
Omce 800 90
Cash in hands OF agents.. 6,O23 81
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09
Equal RIGHTS OF EDUCATION.

The everlasting darkey is destined to
always be an element in American poll
tics and the skeleton in the closet" of 8
great many houses. But our country is
a progressive one, upon the negro ques-
tien at lesst,) and it will be saving of
money to our people TO recognize at once
the fact that political and civil equality
exists for the negro race. This is the re-
suit of Congressional legislation, sane
toned by the approval OF the States in
their individual and sovereign capacity.
Nevertheless, we occasionally hear of
some locality, where the community gets
on Its high horse, and insists upon the
rigid adherence to the State Law which
the wisdom of the Code Commissioners
framed, prohibiting Negro and Indian
children from being educated in the same
school with those of the pure Caucasian
blood. In the goodly city of Sacramento
which invariably voted for the elevation
of the negro race until it had gone as far
in that direction as national issues could
be made TO 60, when it was brought down
to local affair, she turned her back upon
all the precepts she had sedulously decided
to be good for practice, by voting against
equal rights of education. The latest and
funniest case, however, comes from Men
there was solitary darkey child. The
parents Of the juvenile African demanded
as they had the right to demand, that
their sable scion should be instructed in
the rudiments of an English education.
There was school being taught there,
but the parents of the noble Caucasians
cared not to expose their children to the
contamination which the solitary little
niger would bring to the classical regions
Of the school room. Then the Trustees
hired a house, employed a competent
teacher and opened a school for the lone
darkey, All went merry as a marriage
bell till the financial question came in,
when the county Superintendent declined
TO recognize the little "cullud pusson" as
a school. The District Attorney and the
State Superintendent, however, when ap-
pealed to, decided that the Trustees were
right, and we presume, under the new
law, if the district is populous one it
will draw its quota Of five hundred dollars
for the education of that lone darkey.
Now this is nothing more nor less than
nulliicaton in a small disqualification
Of the spirit, il not of the letter of the
National law. The old time prejudice,
which grew out of the relations of Free
dom and Slavery, which extended into
the North until the people of every State
became imbued with it, asserts itself now
in the form of a denial Of civil rights to
negroes. The effects of action of this
character is only to provoke national leg
islation covering all such points.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09
THE PENALTY OF MURDER

The trial of Nash, in Contra Costa
county, for the murder of Gers bach, COM
mltted nearly year ago, resulted in the
conviction OF the prisoner Of murder in
the first degree and was followed by
sentence Of Imprisonment for life. We
presume, in the absence Of details, that
this trial is the first under the amendment
to the Criminal Code which permits the
jury to define the punishment to be in
flicted, as well as the degree Of guilt, and
may therefore, be taken as something of
criterion of the action which will be
taken by juries in most cases similar in
character.
The murder for which Nash was con-
victed was one of the most brutal and un-
justifiable which have had place in the
annals of crime. We do not care to re-
hearse the details Of the affair further than
this: Nash and the wife of his victim
conspired together to murder Gersbach,
and did the decd in the most cold blooded
manner. Immediately afterwards Nash
left, and was afterwards arrested near
Truckee. The evidence was positive as
to the guilt and motives of the murderers
and under the old law there could have
been no hope of escape from the penalty
of death. 1t has been case where no
eXtenuating circumstances could be shown
and if the jury have leaned to what they
believe to be the side of mercy in this
instance, it is fair TO presume that other
juries, in cases less fragrant, will follow
the example.
The humanitarians, who have long con-
tended for the abolition of the death pen
atty, have thus practically carried their
point. For few men are stern hearted
enough to decree that human being
shall be launched into eternity, whensthe
choice of lesser punishment is in their
hands. 1t now remains to be seen if the
ends ofjustice will be better served under
the new law than under the old. 1t has
been urged that they will. That jurics,
when man is on trial and justice de-
mards his life il he is convicted, incline
to take the side Of mercy in all stages Of
the trial. That the certainty and not the
severity Of the punishment is what will
act as preventive to crime, and that
this certainty becomes more assured,
when that statute, which makes the SEN
tence Of death follow the verdict Of guilty
is repealed. This is the reasoning of the
advocates of the abolition of capital pun
ishment, and it only remains to be seen
how far they are right. If the change is
for the better we shall rejoice.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

PoLYGAMY.-A last It seems that the
"twin relic" will be attacked in Congress,
and who doubts that the war will be
waged against it until it, also, is swept
from American soil. Cannon, the Nor
mon Delegate from Utah is reported by
the House Committee on Elections as en-
titled to his seat, but they add that res
oluiion will be offered that he is openly
living in polygamy, to the great scandal
and disgrace Of the Government of the
United States. If Cannon is expelled,
for po'ygam0is practices, as would seem
to be indicated 10y this resotition, it is
not pFObabl: that another practical polyg-
ami-t will ever take seat in Congress.
Mormons will have to elcc. representa-
tives of other than the "tiue faith" or 20
unreprcsented. 1t Is full time some step
Of this nature were taken, for while moth
ing which tends to abridgc the freedom
of religious opinion should be done, the
toleration Of practice at variance with
the laws of all civilized nations, is a
stretch In the lime of religious freedom
which hns more Of license than liberty
connected with 1t.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

WHAT CAN BE DONE ?-It would
seem, to judge by the tone of the Dolly
Warden sheets, that such small qualities
rs honesty and competency cannot be
found in men who are, or have been in
public life. They are now after Andres,
late State Senator from Tuolumne, and
if we are to believe them he is man de-
void of intellect, who was elected Sena-
tor by the railroad influence, and who in
consideration Of having been reliable
friend of the company while in the Leg
islature, is now rewarded by Federal
appoin tment. One thing will be apt to
strike inquirers rs being very strange.
How is it that in counties like Tuolumne,
where the railroad company have no in
terests whatever, not man employed
nor mile of road either in operation or
projected, it is strong enough to elect a
man over the anti-monopoly sentiment
of the people, while in those counties and
districts where the company have the
~ OdbCsO IiOpOity HItCiSSI uiu lile ihi SCs'
number of employees, anti-railroad men
are elected. The charge is too thin al
together. The intention is to stamp ev-
cry man who is assisted by Sargent, or
the Republican Congressman from CAL
ifornia, to a Federal appointment, as be-
ing one who is opposed to the people and
railway creature, and thus weaken
their influence and standing and cast ap-
probri1m on the party of which they are
members. A more servie set of libelous
defamers than the Dolly Warden organs
Of this State would be hard to find
The Colusa SIN hits the nail on the
head squarely, we think, when it says
that it will soon be in this State that
there will not be dog fight unless one of
the dogs is a railroaddog. Meanwhile it
becomes serious public question what
can be done to keep our public men from
being either elected by that everlasting
railroad, or captured after being elected
in opposition to 1t.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

SINGULAR SEARCH FOR A GOLD MINE.
"A short time ago Smith & Barr sold a
chicken to a customer. A day or two
ago the customer returned, and was very
anxious to learn from whom the dealers
had purchased that chicken. AT first he
declined to tell why he wished to know,
but finally said that he had found pieces
of coarse gold in the chickens crop, and
was satisfied there was plenty of it where
the chicken came from. The chicken
was traced to man and his wife who
brought down lot from Lake county,
and the gold-huntcr started off in quest of
the chicken-raisers. lie is going to scour
the country until he finds them, and then
he expects to see gold lying around on
the ground loose and in great abundance.
-PdttejO HldepcHdeRt.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09
u. s. LAND OFFICE,
SHASTA. CALIFORNIA.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT TO A PLACER
MINING CLAIM.

APRIL 23d, 1874.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that
1N James Ward, whose Post Office ad-
dress is Weaverville, Trinity County,
State Of California, has made application
to the Government of the United States
for Patent for the following described
Gold Bearing Placer Mine, situated in
Oregon Gu4ch Mining District, in Trinity
County, and known as the James Ward
Placer Mine, and more particularly de-
scribed in the plat and feld-notes now on
file in this office, as Lot No. 46, in Town
ship 33 n, r 10 w, NJ. ID. NJ.
Beginning at post, marked w & Co,
NJ & Co and b q Co. for the South East
corner of the claim, from which the cor
ner common to Sections and 7 in Town
ship 33 n, r 8 w, and Sections and II
in Township 33 N, II 10 w, bears NS6o
54E 1913. Is chains distant, (calculated),
running from said post with variation of
lSo30'E) North I.86 chains to a Sugar
Pine tree, marked NJ & Co and w, Mt
the North East corner Of the claim !;
thence West 500 chains to Pine Tree,
81 inches in diameter, marked NJ & Co
thence S630W Alp chains to granite
rock, marked Nj & Co, on the left bank
of Cooper Gulch, "A inches long, 20 in
ches VIDE ana II inches thick, In a mound
of rock thence $500 w 1918 chains to
post in a mound of rock, marked w &
Co, at the SW corner of the claim !;
thence East along the South line of the
claim 56.77 chains to the place of begin
ming, continuing ! 10 73 100 acres. Bound
ed on the East by the mining claims of
Wilson q Co and Beaver g. Co; on the
North West by the mining claim of At
kins 81 Lowden; on the South by the
Oregon Gulch Mountain Placer Mine.
All persons holding any adverse claim
before the Register and Receiver of the
United States Land Office, at Shasta,
California, within sixty days from the first
day Of publication of this notice.
AARON BELL,
my2 God Register.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

A REMARKABLE QUARREL.-A terri
bic fight took place recently between two
women in Chill under the following cir
cumstanccs: One of them, who had re-
Gently given birth to an infant having TO
make a journey to Rancagna, left the
child under the care of neighbor, who
had child about the same age. A few
days afterward the mother who had gone
on the Journey returned home and was
told that her child had died during her
absence. She insisted that the surveying
infant was hers. She said she knew the
child to be hers, and was not going to be
deceived by the stratagens of her neigh
Dor. The other called all the saints in
heaven to witness that her child was the
living one and not the dead one. The
dispute finally ended in blows and the
intervention Of the police. The case has
gone TO the tribunals, and another ques-
ton like that decided by King Solomon
is now before the judges Of Rancagna.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

A LITTLE GIRL KILLED BY RED ANTS.
F. G. Jones informs us Of the singular
death Of little colored girl on his farm,
near Auburn. The girl went to some
sils that had been used for cutting up
meat on, and on which there was large
number Of red ants. While asleep the
ants by the hundreds made an attack up
on her, and when she awoke she was lit
orally covered with them, and all busy
biting and singing. They were so fero-
cous that woman on the place had to
sweep them off with brush broom. The
biting and singing were so very serious
that fever ensued, which, coupled with
the poison of the bites, produced death
two days acknowledgement (Ala.) Oh
SeTUer.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

WHILE youthful couple were being
joined il wedlock in n Justices court in
New York, recently, the damsel rather
astonished number of spectators by
suddenly breaking out with, 81 want to
know whether we are going to keep house
or board before going into this thing ?"
The justice ruled the question out of or
der, and the ceremony proceeded.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

A SwINo TEA1S.-The Marysvi.le Ap-
peal says a change has been made on
the California and Oregon Railroad. =
The crews of the passenger trains on this
road will hereafter run only from Sacra-
mento to Red Bluff; swing train y
will run between Red Bluff and Reading.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

The Chicago Tribune prints poem
in which the writer wishes she had "a
heart full ofswcet yearlings." How the
l'er>ecuted author must have yearned to
tumble among that compositor's hair.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

IL Colusa and othefvalley counties the
wild geese have done immense damage
TO the young wheat fields. They settle on
them in large focks and can hardly be
driven away, and if permitted to remain
unmolested soon leave. the ground per-
fectiy bare. 1t is estimated that they
have done damage to the extent Of $780,
900 in Colusa county alone.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

A LOT Of young fellows of Auburn went
TO serenade a girl last Wednesday even
ing. They spied what they thought was
the fair damSel herself, seated in shady
place on the veranda. After singing for
nm hour or two, the old lady said. "Thats
very good, come again sometime when
the girls are at home"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

THE Grangers Of Minnesota have got
into trouble with regard to Catholic Pa
irons. Some of the Catholic clergy have
dissuaded their flocks from joining the
Changers, because they are a secret or
ganization.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

CorRTINe comes less expensive than
formerly in Iowa, judicial tribunal
there having decided that when a lady
broke of an engagement she must return
all presents received. from her suitor or
reimburse him for their value in money.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

THE most thoroughly burned out of
house and home man in the United States
is Charles Williams, of Portland, Maine.
Seven times during the past year has his
residence been consumed. He now pro-
poses to build raft and live on pond.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

CIVIL war has commenced in earnest
in Arkansas. A body of Baxter's troops,
attacked Brooks party at New
Gsscony, on Thursday, killed nine and
wounded twenty others. The balance of
the party were taken prisoners.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

PASSENGERS to the Pacific by rail
breakfast in the Sierras with twenty feet
of snow around them; four hours later
they find wheat four inches high, and the
next day see pear trees in blossom.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

AT an election held in township No.
Fou of Contra Costa county o-day, un-
Der the Local Option Law, Nortonville
gives 10 and Somersville 2l majority in
favor of and Clayton 6against it.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

SIXTEEN years ago Tom Kenyon went
TO Kan>as City without cent, and the
other day he signed check for $4,000.
He signed it with another mans name,
and his supply OF freedoms air has been
abbreviated.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

The difficult job of lancing an abcess
on the live and leading the discharge out
through a tnbe was successfully perform
ed in Chico last week by Drs Spaout and
Waylrnd.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09
M'sskly 0rinitu 5unrnal.
OUR AGENTS:

THOS. Royce. Room No. 80, New
Merchants Exchange Building, San Fran
cisco, is our only authorized agent in thatcity
ere r. a0WELL & Co.. 40 Park
Row, areOar only authorized Agents in New
York City.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

TIE officials of the Supreme Court
have been notified that San Francisco
acc, pts the proposition for two terms of
the Court there, and the Supervisors have
ordered rooms fitted up tor their Honors.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

The Colusa Sol says that petitions will
DO presented to the Board of Supervisors
Of that county at the next term, for cleo
tions under the Local Option Law" from
nearly all the townships in the county.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

THE Colusa Independent says the dam
age done by wild geese in the country,
the present season, has not been less than
two hundred thousand dollars.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

AFAMISK is prevailingin Asia Minor.
1t is reported that in, the town of Angora
one hundred deaths FROM starvation oc-
cur daily.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

The Ohio Legislature has introduced Il
bill fixing fine of from five to fifty dol
lars for pointing any kind of firearms at
q person, loaded or " unloaded."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09

&. Y. SUFFER-, son of General SUIT
ter, having been appointed Consul for
Greece, has been presented with a Greek
Medal ay his friends.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-05-09
SATURDAY, MAY o. 1874.

SEA oULLs were recently seen nying
about Memphis, having been blown in-
land by the late gales from the South.