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PACIFIC COAST.

San Francisco, Jan. 28.-The gale
which prevailed on Sunday last is re.
presented by sea-fariDg men to have
been the most severe felt on this coast
for years. Fears are entertained for the
safety Of the British ship Prince Um-
berto. which left this port for Portland
on the 10th ult. She took o pilot on
board off Columbia river bar on the 18th
inst, but has not been seen or heard Of
since.
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 28.-Senate-Lewis
called attention to the correspondence in
the San Francisco Chronicle to-day con-
corning himself and Senator Laine. and
moved the expulsion Of the correspon-
dent from the floor OF the Senate
chamber.
Gibbons moved to amend by adding
that no reporter from that paper be in
future allowed the privileges of the
floor.
Lewis accepted the amendment and
the same as amended was then adopted
under viva voce vote, there being a
few faint noes when the question was put
from the chair. Sergeant-at-arms Haw-
kins then conducted the correspondent,
who had taken the place Of Somers since
the Wilcox melee, outside OF the bar OF
chamber.
SAN FRANcIsco, Jan. 29.-On Seventh
street yesterday, between Minna and
Howard, a little boy named Edward
Dwyer, 10 months old, was run over by
ON express wagon, the wheels of which
passed over his neck, infiicting fatal in
juries. The horse attached to the wagon
had run away.
SALT LAKE. Jan. 28.-In the contested
case between Foote, Gentle, and Atkins,
Mormon, for seat in the Legislature.
it was proved that the latter received up
wards of 800 illegal votes, and that At.
kins and his predecessor in the Assem-
bly,, Bishop Rowberry. are both alines.
Foote, the member elect, is excluded by
vote of the House. A bill is pending in
the Legislature to protect the Mountain
Meadow assassins from prosecution. It
provides that no person shall be tried for
public offences committed previous to
1866, but no limitation OF time shall be
imposed upon prosecutions for murder
committed since then.
HoLL1sTER, CAL, Jan. 49, W. 8.
fletcher, an old and much respected
citizen, formerly OF San Jose, committed
suicide this morning by cutting his
throat with a razor.
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Y T e LEGR A PEI!
sPEdtAL TO THE PIooHE DAILY RECORD,
BY WESTERN UNION LINE.
EASTERN DISPATCHES.

Baltimore, Jan. 29.-An explosion of
dynamite, or safety powder, followed by
Ere. occurred yesterday p. m. in a fac.
tory at Biddle and Stillman streets. q
thickly settled neighborhood.-. About 800
cans, containing twenty-five pounds Of
each. exploded in volleys. continuing for
half an hour. The building was shat
tered, the walls crumbling in with the
last volley and ipjuring six firemen. but
none dangerously. During the explosion
the greatest excitement prevailed and
several families procured wagons and
moved away from the neightorhood.
CHICAGO, Jan. ga Tribune Wash.
ington spaciai says the Committee on
Ways and Means has assigned Tuesday
for the consideration Of the reciprocity
treaty between the United States and the
Hawaiian Islands ratified by the Senate
during the special session Of March last.
The treaty contains the following pro-
vision "The present convention shall
take effect as soon as 1t shall have been
approved and proclaimed by His Majesty,
the King Of the Hawaiian Islands, and
shall have been ratified and duly pro.
claimed on the part of the Government
of the United States, aud not until the
law to carry it into operation shall have
been passed by the Congress of the
United States OF America" This
proviso it will be seen requires not only
the ratification OF the treaty by the Sem
ate. but special act placing the articles
covered by 1t on the free list before II
goes into operation. Mr.. Wood. who
has charge Of the bill, will advocate II in
the Committee. and Kelley. who is op.
posed, will reply. The discussion it ID
thought will be quite sharp. Kelley's
opposition is understood to be based no,
SO much on the merits of the question
itself as on his general opposition to any
measure looking towards the red uctiou
or abolition Of the tariff or Its operation,
which may be considered as precedsn,
for the negotiation of reciprocity with
Canada.
CHICAGO. Jan. ga Washington
special says the correspondence between
the United States and Spain relative to
Cuba has been printed. The ssvera
letters aud dispatches that have mol
been printed contain much of interest
From the text Of these dispatches Il YER,
clearly appears that the government a
one time seriously considered inter
ference. This may furnish the key not,
to the naval outlay in November.
Southern Republicans Of prominence
Just arrived, say that there Is
move on the part Of the south to send .
delegation to the national convention il
favor OF Bristow for President, and
Jewell for Vice. President,
The grand jury yesterday returned
fve indictments, including the names O.
eleven distillers, as follows: Simon
Powell. Jos. Hass and Thomas F. Bailey
OF the South Branch; Ed. Lawrence, J
N. Ballentine and Jno. Robinson Of III,
Illinois distillery; H. B. Miller, Ere,
Reed, Orlando Dickinson. Jonathan
Abel and John Burroughs.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 29.-Ths disappear
ance Of Smith N. Howes. who retire,
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PROTECTION FOR MuRDERERs. bill,
Is pending In the Utah Legislature,
(Brigham's Parliament) for the protso-
ton of the Mountain Meadow murderers.
It provides that no person shall be tried
for public ofenses committed previous
to 1856. This is clearly law for the
protection OF the Mountain Meadow
fends. who. to the disgrace Of the coun-
try. have been allowed to go unhune TO
this day. Hanging is too good for them
torture would come nearer meeting the
case.
Our dispatches says there is a move on
foot among prominent Republicans at
the South to send delegation to the
National Convention in favor of Bristov
for President. II the Republicans only
knew it, Bristow is about the only man
available, the only man who would bring
out the full strength Of his party. and
withal man againss whom but little can
bs said. II be has ever been guilty of any
thing mean that will come out. especially
after the nomination, should he get it.
->->-
About three hundred cans Of dynamite
or safety powder exploded in Baltimore
ON the 26th. It exploded in volleys, con.
tinuing for half an hour. The explosion
vas followed by nre. II this 10 safety
powder, its performances on various 90.
casions would not have the effect Of max.
Ing one feel very safe. It would bs
dangerous to be safe with that article
around.
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ExPELLED.-In the Senate in Sacra-
mento, Lewis called attention to the cor
respondence in the San Francisco
Chronicle rejecting ON himself and
Laine and moved the expulsion Of the
reporter from the floor Of the Senate.
Gibbons offered ON amendment that in
future NO reporter from that paper be
allowed on the floor Of the Senate, which
waslaccepted by Lewis. and on motion was
carried by uiua roce vote, there being
but few faint noes in opposition. The
reporter was accordingly conducted out
side the bar by the Sergeant-at-Arms.
We know nothing Of the nature OF the
structures in the Chronicle, but judging
from it, usually severe criticism. take it
for granted that the Senate did the right
thing. In the eagerness Of that paper to
outstrip all others. regardless of facts,
II not inirequently goes outside the
bounds Of propriety. Information is OF
little value when not strictly reliable,
and In this branch the Chronicle excells.
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Al the P1ocHK DAILY RkconD will hereafter be
run By the RECORD PUBLnHrNG COMPANY. all
sdvertissments from this date must be settled
with said company only. No one Is authorized
70 contract debts for this Company unless by
the written order Of r. 8. CnowLEY.
RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Phoebe, December Gath, 1875.
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JOS. M A r z ID N will be
ON hand to attend to the wants Of customer.
The patronage Of Families and Hotels solic.
tied. ONEIII.
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The Fryer Process which has been
laudsd to the skies all over California
and in certain portions Of this State,
has not yet attracted the attention Of
mining men in this section. II the
process is all that ia accorded II where
ever tested, it is worthy Of trial here.
By its introduction low grade ores
which are now considered worthless
could be turned to account. Even in
the reduction Of all grades the Fryer
process may be found to save large,
per cent. Of the precious metals than the
one adopted in this district. It is Ger.
tainly worthy of attention. A des.
cription Of the process is promised the
public in short time,
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juror LEWIS. This gentleman was in
town yesterday ON legal business. The
Judge ID one Of the ablest jurists in this
State; his practice is large, and much
more lucrative. than when be was Chief
Justice. We don't believe he would
relinquish it for any office in the gift of
the people. 1t is deplorabls state OF
Affairs, but nevertheless is the rule, that
good men can not be prevailed upon to
accept public office. II State Journal.
That is little to thin. Some OF our
attorneys have given up quite as luora.
tive apractice as Judge Lewis now enjoys
to serve the State on the Supreme
Bench, and were Lewis sure Of election
he would no doubt be laying track at
this time toward nomination. 1t looks
to MS as though the State Journal was
sndeavoring to call into question the abil.
ity OF those now occupying the Supreme
Bench, or else 1t has taken the occasion
to put in bid for Lewis. Mr.. Lewis is
evidently worrying himself about some
thing not likely to occur. II nominated
he has the privilege OF refusing to offer
himself up.
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HON. n. q. MAILS.

This gentleman made a powerful speech
in the House of Representatives, on the
twenty-ninth of January, pending discus
sion, in committee of the whole, upon the
condition OF the Union. 1t applied spe-
ciAlly to the reduction of tariffs Oh imports,
and was exhaustive in statistics. The fol-
lowing is the closing part of his speech;
But the question will be asked, how are
we 10 reduce the tariff and yet raise so large
a sum as our yearly expenditures requiTei
There is 90 difficulty in answering this ques-
tion. We raised one hundred and tifty-
seven millions during the last fiscal year
With our imports largely cut down and with
one-third of them bearing no duty. The
average rate of duty on the dutiabIe goods
was forty per cent. Three hundred and
eighty-six millions bore this duty and paid
our revenue of one hundred and tifty-seven
millions. One hundred aud sixty-seyen
millions were free. Now let Us abolish the
free list and lay uniform ad caisrsR tax OF
TWENTY-FIVE per cert. on the whole OF oul
imports. and il will bring the same amount
of duties. Six hundred millions OF imports
will give US one hundred and nifty millions
of revenue. The present arrangement
Of the tariff was not designed q
obtain revenue in the leasn oppress
i've way, bat principally for protec
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FREETHBNkING BN POLITICS AND
a ANOTHER LUNATIC ASYLUM NEED


The Waxahachie Enterprise is edited with
unusual intelligence, and creditable indus
try is exercised in its weekly production.
But we would ask, in all candor and fair
ness, what purpose it proposed to accom-
plish when it said last week:
We must eat the peck of dirt anyway, and
it makes but little difference whether we
take it from the pure Radical spoon or from
these counterfeits, the STATESMAN and the
Telegraph"
In what are these journals ''counterfeits2"
We oppose Grants re- election, and that is
O',-------r--A urnIVcISdIIy auSyut-
ed test of sOundness. We are free traders;
and if the rest of the States. like Texas, can
endure it, we are for the speediest possible
resumption of sp Gle payments. We do be-
lieve in Home Rule, and to such extrava-
giant lengths have we gone in advocacy of
the idea, that we have advocated the re-
striction of suffrage, in counties and towns,
to freeholders in order that the people,
rather than the Legislature, may govern
thc mselvea. The new Constitution vests in
the Legislature or inhibits the exercise of
powers by corporations which could not be
safely entrusted to the ''much-voting'' mob,
the State becoming a despotism because
demagogues fear to offend the rabble. Dem
ocrats Who is Democrat? Local inde-
pendeuce is of the essence of Democracy in
to shape the policy of the STATESMAN.
If the Galveston convention had declared
hostility to the Constitution, now adopted,
sufficient cause for our exclusion from the
ncaton would have been simply absurd
! brutuna tulmen We have no Pope or con-
sistory or college of cardinals to make ol
unmake members or system Of faith for the
Democratic party. 1t has no cardinals II
Coke or Hubbard or Ireland, or college Of
cardinals in Galveston conventions. The
acceptance or rejection of a fixed creed, al
most as old as the Federal Union, detiLe:
the partisan status of each citizen aud o.
each newspaper, and when the Waxy Enter
prise assumes the task of excommunlc eating
a follower of jefferson and Madison, who
may not follow Coke or Ireland or Hubbard
or the Jolly convention at Galveston on al
ephemeral side issue, the Wake, etc., rend
ers itself supremelY ridiculous. A citizeI
becomes partisan because the party thinks
as he does He adopts its philosophy o
American government, and is expected, OF
all lcgitimately deriyatiSe issues, as an hon
est man, to cooperate with the party
Failing in this he may be properly un
churched. 1t is not pretended, and neve
has been, that the STATEsMAN-or 1etegrdpI
have violated any article of Democrati
faith, and yet newspaper, assuming to b
honest and intelligent, tells its readers tha
we are counterfeit Democrats. We tax
it that the Waxy man knows no better, ant
il his readers do not, there is a fine opening
for a first class asylum for idiots at Waxa
hachie.
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tion of every charm that msy render city
less attractiveness. 1t is in this that the
secret spell consists that binds men and wo
men to the spot, making them ever reassert
local attachment confessed by dwellers il
no other city of the South. 1t does moi
fade, but grows stronger with time. 1t is 6
strange, sweet, subtle charm that make;
those who love Austin at al, love her with
passionate close-clinging faith,' rs the
falrest dwelling-place that men have eyeI
known. l. is this force of nature that must
induce law-givers gathered IN Austin to
make art the ally of nature, and assent tc
the appropriation of public wealth to pur-
poses of taste in the adornment of lofty
heights with architectural charms. On
every hand from the summit of the hills,
whence one looks down upon the cleaning
river and white stone houses and green and
purple cedars of the valley and moss.
crowned live-oaks, there are flowers and
blossOming plum trees. There is a radiant
serenity of light, as the sun goe: down, that
thIobs In its intensity, and yetit is ''divine-
ly restful, like the passion and the peace
of love when it has all to adore and nothing
to desire" None who have ever seen and
known can forsake Austin, or suffer the
darkness of the hills to intervene final
lY bttween themselves and the capital.
But it is not during one afternoon alone
tI,,t A -.
charms. 1t is ever springtime here, and in
the north the country is green and beauti-
fu, but there it can have nothing of the ra-
dance, the cheerfulness and ecstacy of
spring as in these Southern latitudes. The
springtime of the North is pale, we are
told, with gentle, colOrless sweetness of
Its world of pIimroses - the spring of Aus
tin is rainbow hued, like the profusion
of anemones that laugh with it in every
hue of glory under every rugged wall of
stone and beside every hill-fed, laughing
streamlet." Spring in the North Is child
that wakes from dreams of death; spring in
the South is q child that wakes from dreams
of love. One is rescued and welcomed
from the grave; the other ''comes smiling
on sunbeam from heaven" There is
nothing on earth like the smile of these
sunlit mountains and valleys and boundless
prairies and bright river when awakened
by spring after doing through the winter
in the delicious odors of cedarwoed fires.
"There is CLEAN of divine glory in it, and
one leans down and basks in the sweet air
that is like breath of Paradise"
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ton. Lay an al raloreHl tax OF uniform
rate and at the lowest per cent. possible IN
obtain the required revenue aud we will
have but little of the evils OF protection
1t would greatly stimulate our foreign COM
merce and increase of imports till our reve-
nues from customs at twenty-five per cent.
would In few years reach two hundred
millions, when the rate should again be
lowered and never permitted TO exceed ore
hundred and fifty millions. Repeal all
taxes on medicines, matches, bank check !,
and all taxes derived from the sale of ad-
hesive stamps that bring six millions and
half of revenue. Repeal all taxes on to-
bacco except manufactured tobacco and
cigars, SO arranging il that it will bring
twenty millions instead of thirty-seven, as
now. Retain the tax on spirits and fer
mented liquors that now bring sixty-two
millions. Re-impose the tax on all incomes
over five Thousand dollars exclusively of the
exemption of one thousand dollars. 1t
brought to the government twenty-six
millions ten years ago and will bring
thirty millions now. Repeal the law
that exempts any of the deposits In
the savings banks and tax them as
all other deposits in bank are taxed, and 1t
will bring three and half millions more
than it does now. Re-impOse the tax on
the gross receipts from passengers and
freights and on the dividends and interest
of bonds of railroad companies 1t brought
eleven millions of revenue ten years ago.
Let that tax be half what it was before.
Their clear profits were one hundred and
eighty-nine millions in 1874, and they Can
well afford TO pay a tax of five millions
Re-lmpose the tax on the gross receipts
from premiums, dividends, and additions
to surplus funds of insurance companies
1t brought two millions in 1866. Re i'm
pose the tax ON sales of stocks, bonds; for
eigu exchange, gold and silver. 1t brought
two and a half millions in 1864. 1t will
bring ten millions now. These sources of
revenue will bring to the government over
three hundred millions annually.
II we would reduce taxation on the reO-
pie and stop the spohation and destruction
of their property; if we would bring back
the golden days of other years, when labor
was prosperous and the people happy; if
we would dlspel the gloom that has been
hang ing over the land and revive all our
prostrated industries, we must equalize tax
alton. We must take some of the heavy
burdens off the backs of the laboring
masses and lay them where they belong
upon the shoulders of the wealthy We
mpst cut down the tariff till it shall bring
revenue to the government and not pro-
lection to the capitalist and bankruptcy to
the masses. We must cut away with un-
sparlng hand the aUu,es that have grown up
in the administration, requiring the annual
expenditure of millions without any benefit
to the government. Then will confidence
be restored, labor be employed and re-
warded, business resume its natural condi-
ton, capital flow in channels OF legitimate
investment instead of wild and visionary
speculations, and the country will resume
its march in prosperity and peace.
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ARnby,n . oliIoquY.

/ am here. And If this is what they call
the world, don't think much OF It. It's
very fiannelly world, and smells OF paregoric
awfully. It's dreadful light world, too,
and makes me blink, tell you. And 1
don't know what to do with my hand;
think I'll dig my fists in my eyes. No
won't. I'll scramble at the corner of my
blanket and chew il up, and then I'll holler;
whatever happens I'll holler. And the more
.paregoric they give me the louder I'll yell.
That old nurse puts the spoon in the corner
keeps tasting my milk herself all the while.
She split snuff in it last night, and when
hollered, trottei me. That came OF being
& two days old baby. There's pin stick
ing in me now, and If say a word about IL
III be trotted or fed and / would rather
have cainip tea. I'll tell you who / am;
found out to-day; besD the folks says:
'.Hush; don't wake up Emeline's baby, !"
and suppose that Pretty white-faced wo-
man over on the pillow is Emeline.
No, was mistaken, Tor chap was in
here lust now and wanted 10 see BOb's baby,
and looked at me and said was a ''funny
little toad, and looked just like Bob" He
smeIt of cigars. / wonder who else l be-
long 20. Yes, there's another one-that
Gamma eft was GanrmA's baby, so il
IVES" declare, don't know where ! be-
long TO; but Til holler, and maybe I'll find
-out. There comes Suffy with catnip tea.
I'm going to sleep. / wonder why my
hands Won't 60 where / want them 70.
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CHARMS OF 1HE OAPIrAL AND ITS
ENVIRONS.

There is not more fascinating country
than this about Austin. There are more
majestic mountains and boundless plains in
southern Colorado, and there the sky is as
blue and the atm ,sphere as transparent,
tut here abides eternal springtime, and
there are forests and mountains and YER
dure-clad plains and a river as clear and
bright as the bended heavens reflected in
ITS waves. Austin is most beautiful when
seen at sunset from the high hills south of
the city, and reaching the summit when the
sun is going down an ethereal golden mist
rises from the river and the woods. Sun
day afternoon the city fiOated on it as upon
> lake; the Capitol, and churches and pub
hc buildings and pretty cottages on lofty
cedar-crowned hills, seemed bathed In
amber waves rising upward into the rose
hued radiance Of the upper air" The
mountains that encircle Austin caught the
varying lights and shadows of sunset and
glo~ed and wavered with flame and ''paled
to whiteness as the opal burns and fades. "
Warmth. fragrance, silence, encompassed
the beautiful city as does the sparkling,
rapid river that breaks through the noun
tains to embrace the charming capital.
Mount Bpnnell, as was written of Mount
Oiiyet, al Florence, rose dark against the
rosy glory Of the West. There was q sweet
sea-wind, which famed out as it went all
the spiced Odors of the pharmacies and all
scents of the budding woods. Every
! where, on every hand, there was som,
beauty, some fragrance; deep dell o.
rugged height or winding valley, AnC
slit,ering streAmlet aud far away to
wards the north are the boundless prairie
ounpreAding As innnity. 1t is this eOllOca
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THE deposition of President Grant was
taken a: the White House. He attests the
h-leS,y and p,riect trustworthiness of Bab-
cock, acciartag that he himself never inter
posed in behalf of the whisky ring. The
President surely tells the truth. Audy
johnson once said that Grant lied; but
Andy and Grant were both drunk in their
time, and it was whisky that spoke if
Grants lips bAbbIed falsely, or when Andy's
made the allegation. Grant may have his
vices, but we cannot believe that he Will
either lie or steal. Thus far in .he trial of
Babcock there have been no Developments,
we believe, that connect him with absolute
certainty with the knaveries of the whisky
ring.
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Now that tne Constitution is adopted,
the press can contemplate the propositions
of Huntington and Tom Scott without pref
udice, and each journalist owes it to the
country to investigate the kcts. If these
were understood thoroughly there would
not be citizen Of Texas, as we believe,
asserting to Tom SCOTS plans and pur-
poses, even as be defines them.