Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-20

with the "Gabble" dispatch and the Gro
min business, which is the worst thing
against him. P. P. Prim, of Jacksonville,
has been on the bench since the State Or
ganization was consummated, and is now
one of the Supreme Judges. He is par
ticular personal friend of the writer, so
must be good man, and as his democracy
was the force of habit, it must be excused.
If any man on the ticket can be elected 1t
will be Judge Prim. John Burnett, OF
Corvallis, is also good man, like the other
two-not so brilliant as he Is sound and
honest. The nominations are fair, and can
only fail for want of votes IN the party.
John Burnett has been often in public life,
like the others, His record is fair.
Presidential Electors are Tom Fulton, of
Wasco, not a very popular man j. X.
Weatherford, of Albany, a lively fellow,
was speaker of the House in '76, and 7.
G. Owen, of Coos, of whom | know little.
The Democratic Convention plainly
lodged the financial question, and some
members talked hard money in a very rad
zeal way, Judge Macarthur doing PEN
ance for his advocacy of reputation ten
years ago, saying he had studied the Fed
eralist and the history OF the Constitution
since then, and was no longer disciple of
Pendleton. So the financial plank was
not nailed to the platform and lies loose,
ready to drift with the tide that shall set
at Cincinnati
CAPTAIN CONNER.
One of the best known sea captains on
this coast was Francis Conner. 1t is said
4t,,+ L moe G.-t ,oo+a of +ba Cold Huntar
that steamed from your port % years ago
last January for Portland, on which | was
a passenger He has sailed in this trade
very much ever since. | loaded the Gold
Hunter, on her return, with cord wood,
cut green in the woods, at 50 cord, pay
ing s. for cutting and So for hauling, and
the woods i'll sight. 1t was showing and
very mean weather, and | stood at the
levee and delivered the wood in cord piles
to the mate Those were flush times. So
much of the wood as was not burned on
the voyage heard was sold at S25 cord
in San Francisco Conner was trust
worthy commander and respected by the
company. He went East and brought out
two new steamers, and | am informed took
it to heart that he was not sent after the
Columbia, of which he was to be COM
nander when she arrived
THE COLUMBIA RIVER BAR.
The channels of the bar are shifting and
shoaling, somewhat, and new channel is
imminent. Meanwhile the ship Dilharee
went on the sands, outward bound, and
ship and cargo were a total loss. Insur-
ance has increased, and croakers are max
ing the most of the unhappy circumstance.
The entrance to the river can be improved,
and the estimate of engineers for a sea- wall
or rubble-stone dixie 10000 feet long, is
only "a, $50, 600, trife the Government
can well afford to pay to insure good en-
trance. Such expenditure would make a
good entrance, and answer all the needs for
a harbor of refuge, and it is not bad in
vestment, all things considered. One
trouble is that the land south of the en-
trance, which is low and sandy, is fast
wearing away, so that it threatens to wash
Fort Adams into the sea at no distant day
There is twenty miles of this land, known
as Clatsop plains, consisting of series of
sandy ridges that have been sea beaches in
the past, for the bones of wreck are row
found half mile inland. The sea that
threw them up can undo them again, and
take the river channel over the region
where Lewis and Clarke hunted elk in the
early years of the century. This dixie of
rubble rock is intended to stop the wash at
Point Adams, and create a permanent
channel that time and tide will have to
wait for. Something must be done to
mend the entrance to the great river of
the west. c..