Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-09-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that the
Californians actually hate the Chinese,
and kill them off as fast as possible, the
immigration from China increases with
with every month. Since 1862, 1904
Chinese immigrants have come to Cali
fornia. Of this number 4, 172 are women,
and all Chinese women who come to this
country are.prostitutes.
ONE of CALIFORNIA; contributions to
the Centennial will be a section of sap
ling from Tulare County. The ''sliver"
is sixteen feet in length, twenty-one feet
in diameter at the larger end and nine
teen feet at the smaller. The heart will
be taken out and the shell divided into
eight parts, IN order to allow it to pass
through the tunnels on the road.
A HIGH joint commission has been APP
pointed for the purpose of again examin-
ing the Chicago custom-house. This has
been done in response to the pressure
brought to bear upon the President and
Secretary Bristow by Chicagoans in favor
of an early resumption of work. But
unless the 'high joints" stir themselves,
winter will have set in, and it will be inn
possible to do anything before next
spring.
PROFESSOR WINCHELL thinks it would
be judicious to undertake boring atany
point along the Grand Rapids and Indi-
ana Railroad. A failure to strike work
able bed of coal at one place would be
no presumption against success at an
other place ten miles distant. The like
lihood of striking coal is no greater in
the valleys than on the hills; but the
lower positions would economic ex-
pense in boring and tubing, and after
wards in shafting and curling.
THE Chicago Times correspondent
says of the way the '.New" broom in
Treasurer Spinner's place is working !:
Treasurer New is gradually hedging
the cash-room of the treasury with rules
AUTHORIZATIONS, until the place has earned
the name of the menagerie. 1t is his in
tention to use every possible means to
prevent any further successful opera
tons on the part of thieves, To-day
eack clerks desk in the treasury proper
was fenced in with strong wire fencing,
and strict order issued to the effect that
no clerk will be allowed within the in
closure Of any but his own desk. This
prevents them having anything to do
with each others work, and in the event
of package being stolen, by any posi-
bilitys, by one of the clerk, the response
bility can at one be located"
HUGH MCCULLOCH, Secretary of the
Treasury under Andrew johnson, has
written an interesting sketch of that
gentleman, as he observed him during
four years of intimate official intercourse.
He ascribes to Mr.. johnson vigor of in
tellect, honesty of purpose, tenacity of
convictions, and an unwavering patriot
ism. His faults were excessive combat
ivenes, tendency to make speeches, and
a mistrust of those around him, who
might have rendered him material as
sistance had he confded in them. 1t is
pleasant to know that Mr.. McCulloch en-
phatically denies that Mr.. johnson was
an Incorporate man. Mr.. McC. states
that he was as decorous a gentleman as
ever occupied the White House, although
he never had the breeding which we all
instinctively feel should attach to the
Presidency.
THE late state census of Louisiana
shows the entire population of the state
to be S54.9SO-an increase over 1870 of
12S,O65. The number of whites in the
state is 404, 961, of the blacks 450,029; the
blacks being in excess of the whites 40
06S. The increase of the whites in the
state over the number in 1870 is 1886,
and that of the blacks $3.50. The CEN
sus shows population of 2O3:36S for the
city of New Orleans-an increase of H.
$50 since the census of 1870. The num-
Der of whites in city is 145,721, an in
crease of 4,O9S; the number Of blacks in
the city is 57,647, an increase of 7,191.
The increase of whites in the state since
1870 is in excess of 11% per cent; the in
crease of blacks during the same period
has been in excess of 23% per cent. In
the city of New Orleans the whites have
increased 1926 per cent, and the blacks
IA 1-5 per cent.