Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-08-23

aud 1t is calculated that some -four
and twenty thousand fighting men
are still afoot, while arms given up
do not include many serviceable
rifles.
A Tribune correspondent says:
"Sir Garnet went out with one
hand tied. The other he has since
tied himself In his overzeal to COM
ply with the exigencies of those
who sent him. He was to smooth
the path to an autumn dissolution,
and 1t looks at this moment as Ii
the dissolution must, after all, be
postponed"
Tue Grain Crop OF France.
NEW YORK, August 22.-The
Paris correspondent of the London
Economist reports the weather in
France ending August I'd as mag.
nificent, and all the crops have
made great progress. He says that
it is almost certain that fair av-
erage may be counted on. This
agrees with the prediction of the
Mark Lane Express, fifteen days
later, from which the Comm ercial
Bulletin deducts the conclusion
that the wheat crop of France this
year will be 260,000,000 bushels.
Assuming this. which is rather un-
der fair average, and assuming
that its quality will be an average
grade, 1t follows that from 10000,
600 to 100000 bushels will be
al 20 kn I'm
event, it seems difficult to find any
good reasons for expecting that
France will need to import during
the next twelve months anything
like the large quantities that have
been estimated in somo quarters,
and notably In certain French esti-
mates.
A seuthern view Of risden.
NEW YORK, August 22.-The
Charleston NetOs and Courier has
the following: 1t is high time for
the South to make itself heard, aud
in very plain language, with re-
gard to Tilden and his assumed
claims to the Democratic nomina-
tion for the Presidency in 1880.
That pertinacious gentleman and
the clique of politicians who have
identified themselves with his for
tunes, are certainly pulling the
wires in his interest more vigor-
ously just now than they have ever
done. The Democrats of the
country do not want Tilden as
their candidate, and they are not
going to allow him to be forced
upon them. Southern representa-
tives will not so far disregard the
Democratic sentiment of the South
ern States as to consent to the
nomination of Tilden--a man who
was never either known or liked
by the Southern people, and whose
name, justly or upjustly, has now
become associated in their minds
with trickery, cowardice and dis
aster.
An Eastern criticism Oii oar New
Constitution.
SARATOGA, August 22d.-In his
address before the American Bar
Association, the President, James
o. Brodhead, reviewed the special
features of the California Constitu-
ton. Referring to the Chinese sec.
tion, he said: sit Is difficult to ap-
prehend how the prohibition con-
tanned in the fifteenth amendment
is avoided by declaring beforehand
that If Chinese are permitted by
the naturalization laws to become
they shall nevertheless
not enjoy the elective franchise.
This attempt to repeal the Fifteenth
Amendment will not, in my judg-
ment, stand the test Of judicial
scrutiny. If they had said in the
Constitution that no man wearing
queue should enjoy the elective
franchise, the prohibition might
have been avoided, because the
Fifteenth Amendment to the Cou-
stitutiOn says nothing about
queues, but it does protect all races
and all colors when they become
citizens. In civil actions three
fourths of a jury may render ver-
dict. Before drawing their salaries,
the Justices of the Supreme Court
and the Judges of the Superior
Courts are required to make and
file an affidavit that no case re-
mains undecided in their Courts
which has been submitted for nine.
ty days. This sentence elicited
cheers from the audience. Many
of the provisions of the Constitu-
tlon of California partake of the
character of acts of legislation.
They are, in fact, laws or ordi-
nances, adopted without the con-
currence of the Legislative and
Executive Departments of the Gov.
ment, and yet operating directly
upon the individual.
who ID. 3. Terry Is.
NEW YORK, August 22d.--The
Times has the following on Terry:
The D. S. Terry, who has Just been
nominated for State Attorney Gen.
eral by the Dem ocrats of California,
is the notorious Dave Terry who
killed Broderick in 1859. Terry at
that time was Chief Justice of the
State and fierce champion of the
rights of slavery. Broderick was
not duellist, not even a good shot
with pistol, and it Is a matter of
tradition that Terry was selected
as an old duellist, to give the anti.
Lecompton Senator his quietus.
By a trick played by the officers of
the Court, Terry escaped even the
formalities of trial for murder.
Soon after, the rebellion having
broken out, he slipped off to Mis-.
sissippi, and headed rebel brigade
during the war. This episode over
he returned to California, where he
lived very quietly until the recent
political upheaval brought him,
with other unclean things, to the
surface. He was an active men
ber Of the party known as "Hon-
orable Bilks," nondescript organ
ization of political fossils and rene
gades of every stripe. The Demo-
Gratis, seeing Terry needed "vindi-