, 1876-02-05
Editorial Notes.


country if the fearless performance
of official duty is so perilous, and
the good opinion of those newspa-
pers whose opinions are uncontrolled
is a rock upon which the honest Off
cial is sure to be " wrecked"
VIcE-PREsIDENT WILSON had fin
ished his work on the "Rise and Fall
of the Slave Power" with the excep'
tion of three or four chapters. Mr..
Hunt, his private secretary, will com
plete these, and superintend the pas
sage of the volume through the press,
as he did the previous volumes; and
thus the great literary work of Mr.,
Wilson's life, which held so large a
place in the hopes and purposes of
his later years, will be completed.
A SALT LAKE editor not having
the fear of the great prophet before
his eyes, discourses thus about Brig
ham Young: "We are pleased to
chronicle the great improvement in
the old frauds health, and prophesy
it will be permanent until he is again
needed in court on account Of his
! murders or lustful proclivities, when
he will doubtless produce score of
medical certificates to the effect that
he is about to enter the valley of the
shadow Of death"
Mr.. PL1MsoLL, the undaunted
Englishman, whose fearlessness in
exposing the unseaworthiness of
Bates vessels, together with their
lack of stores for long voyages had
already made him famous has secured
immortality whether he ever has a
monument or not. A short yellow
band, painted amidships, about six
inches below that which has ever
been regarded as the ships water
line, which is being put upon British
vessels by order of the Board of Adj
miralty, is called by the sailors
g Plimsoll's mark" It will make a
considerable difference IN the amount
of cargo which it will be lawful for
the ship to carry.
THE destruction of ship property
belonging to or trading to ports in
the United States, during 1875, was
81, ,164,0O0 less than in 1874, the to-
tai being S7,622,o0o. In 1878 the
loss was valued at 81, ,7s3,oOO. The
most disastrous months for shipping
last year were May and November,
when over 100000 went to the
bottom of the sea, including six
steamers, six ships, sixteen barques,
FIVE brigs and forty-four schooners,
total of seyenty-seven vessels.
Last year twenty steamers we're lost;
in 1874, nineteen. We have no da-
ia at hand showing the value of the
cargoes lost in the S73 vessels last
year, but no doubt marine insurance
companies are familiar with the
figures. The loss of life incident to
these disasters has been comparative
ly small, but those over whose rest
ling places no monumental stone can
ever be placed, have left behind
them hearts to mourn.
The extent of the whisky frauds
is something stupendous. The value
of the property seized and libeled in
the several collection districts since
May, in consequence of frauds on
the revenue imposed on distilled
spirits, is 81, 1852, ,939, and the amount
assessed upon theproperty and bond.
of guilty parties, is $927,975. This
last-named amount was assessed al
follows: Illinois. $427, ,27o; Indiana
/ sS4,540; Missouri, s2S4,S14; Wis.
consin, S176,775. All this is exclu.
ISive of the seizures made recently
lin Chicago and St. Louis. These, il
is estimated, will result in the con.
6scation of about 100000 worth Of
property, and the assessment of an
additional 100000. The number
of persons SO far indicted is over Il so,
and of these over one-third are Gov.
ernment officers.
The erection of centennial mon.
lumsnt in the port of New York meet.
with much favor in France, where
the friends of liberty are desirous Of
uniting with our country in com.
memorating the establishment Of our
republic. One man having offered
to give all the brass necessary, the
President of the Franco American
Union called upon him and said;
Sir, l must inform you that the
statue of Liberty will be sixty-eight
feet high, and that twenty-five tons
of metal will be required; now that
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