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The Crops.

WASHINGTON, July l6.-The July report OF
the Department OF Agriculture shows the con-
dition of the various crops to be as follows: Cd
Tobacco-Returns for July show average,
as compared with last year, as follows: Mas
sachusetts, V per cent; Connecticut, lis; New
York, l04; Pennsylvania. 1l3: Maryland, so /;
Virginia, IS; North Carolins, l09: tennessee, 90 (;
Kentucky. 80; Ohio, l02, Indiana, SO; Illinois,
80; Wisconsin, 10i, and Missouri. 9L These
States raise more than nine-tenths OF all the
tobacco raised IN the country. The States
which grow the bulk of seed leaf tobacco, viz,
Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania, are
increasing their product.r OF the States pro-
ducing shippins and Misunderstanding smoking
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III LOOKS FAvORARLE.

SIOUX CITY, July H-Reports from the
country within fifty miles OF the city 1ndi-
cate that the rust has hurt the wheat but little.
Some lare wheatls ported blighted by the hot
sun following the rain some days ago. The
usual estimate of acreage is 20 per cent. less
than last year, and the average yield at 20
bushels per acre. Few fields are being har-
vested, but the wheat harvest is not generally
before Monday next. Oats promise well. The
corn is immense. Hay is average. The wealth
er is dry and hot. with a light breeze, and IA
vorablt. for ripening small grain
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Death of a Prominent Man.

CINCINNATI, July 19.-Hon. Jacob Brinker-
hoff died at Mansfield, o. :, 20 day, aged seven
ty years. He was the author of the original
draft of the famous Wtlmot proyiso, and was
Judge Of the Supreme Court Of Ohio from 1855
to lS7l. "a trl t-.-e -.- I'll -
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THE CROPS.
The Prospects F1attering in the West.
IN ILLINOIS.

The Prospects F1attering in the West.
IN ILLINOIS.
QUINCY. H., July lathe wheat crop in
Adams County has been harvested. The yield
last year. The average yield is greater, and
acreage larger, than the large crop OF 1879. The
yield excet ds that of any previous year. Oats
a year ago. The hay crop is very large. The
prospects for corn are fiattering; there Is a
larger acreage than last year, and the yield
promises to surpass that of 1879, with very few
exceptions.
THE CROPS IN IOWA.
OrTUStwA- Ia, July 1.-THE harvest is well
under way In this vicinity. 1t Is extremely
hot. One severe rain damaged the nrst cut
ting of grass. The hay crop is fair and the
yield of good quality. Winter wheat is but
little sown, and that is generally a failure.
The spring wheat Is badly damaged in some
sections and in others there Will be fair crop.
There will be an average yield OF oats, and po-
tatoes are excellent. The corn crop is i'm
mense and so far advanced IA TO insure a very
heavy yield, probably the largest ever known
here.
NOT QUITE AS LARGE AS LAST YEAR.
Iowa CITY, Ia July l4.-The acreage OF
wheat in this County is 10 per cent. les than
last year, but the yield will be at least 10 per
cent. greater. The oat crop Is good. A larger
acreage of corn was planted than last year,
and promises larger yield.
HEAVY CROPS
SPRINGFIELD, H., July l4-The wheat In
this vicinity is all harvested an 4 a eonsidera-
BILE portion threshed. Threshing machines
are running day and night in order to thresh
from the shock. The yield Is large, averaging
twenty-five to thirty-five bushels per acre
A larger acreage than last year was Sown. But
a small amount OF spring wheat was raised in
this County. The fall wheat In quality Is fully
up to last year. Hay has been nearly all
cut, anG while the acreage is less than some
previous years, the yield per acre is the largest
and quality the best ever known. Oats have
been somewhat damaged, but the yield is fully
an average and the quality fair The prospects
for corn were never better, especially white
corn, which Is principally raised. The average
is large and the growth fully two weeks IN ad-
vance Of the season. But little rye or barley
was sown, but the quality and yield Is good
The weather has been favorable to the growth
of corn for the past week and promises large
yield. ---.I .
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15
THE TAXATION OF FRANCHISES.

Several of our contemporaries have been
vision of the new Constitution which pre-
scribes the taxation of franchises, and they
have perplexed themselves considerably in
the endeavor to ascertain precisely what it
is that this tax falls upon. We are in
clined to think that this research is unnec-
essary under the circumstances, for we do
not believe there is any room for doubt as
to the real meaning of the tax on fran
chises. The trainers of the new Constitu-
with the idea that the rich did not pay
enough taxes. They were not disposed to
be content that the wealthy taxpayers
should contribute in proportion as much as
the poor, but they favored the adoption of
that form of graduated taxation which is
neither more nor less than a punishment
for prospering The proposition to intro
duce this principle into California was,
however, not favorably regarded by the
piSSS anu pODlIO; anu thS NpiAitiiuiiSSo
found it necessary to dissemble their
purposes, or abandon them altogether
They could not bring themselves to
adopt the latter course, and so they
pondered the matter until it occurred to
them that they might elude the preiudices
os the community by Disgusting their
project. In accordance with this plan
they proposed the taxation of franchises,
which was really nothing but round
about method of confscation. The tax
upon franchises is, as all intelligent persons
can perceive, tax upon nothing, in effect.
1t is merely an excuse for levying an extra
tax, and it is as much discriminating i'm
post as if it had been put in the original
form of a graduated tax. No doubt time
viii come when the people of California
will realize the folly of all such malignant
and short-sighted assaults upon great in
terests which support and build up the
State, but until that time comes we must
be content to act as a shocking example to
the rest of the world in this and other
particulars
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15
THE WHITAKER CASE.

Whatever the outcome of the inquiry
into the outrage committed upon Cadet
Whitaker, the revelations which have
been made concerning his ostracism by the
rest of the cadets will retain their signif-
canoe. But though good deal of indig-
nation has been expressed because of the
cruel treatment of this lad, and though his
social condition has undoubtedly been
most distressing and pitiful, it is very diff
ficult, if not quite impossible, to know
what to do about the matter. The fact is
obvious that the treatment extended by
the West Point Cadets to colored boys is
simply the treatment which all white peo-
pie are disposed to extend to all colored
people, The difference between the cases
is that whereas in ordinary society white
men can hold colored people at arms
length without attracting any attention or
wounding any sensibilities, this course is
impracticable in school where the great
est social intimacy necessarily exists be-
tween the scholars. In other words, while
in the world nobody can be compelled
to associate with colored people if they
do not want to do so, at West
Point the contact is unavoidable save
by the exercise of cruel and offensive prac-
tees. The situation of colored cadets at
such place is not an easy problem to
master. The bringing together of the two
races there is a step more than has been
taken anywhere else, and if it does not sue
coed it may well be asked where are the
precedents justifying supposition that it
would succeed. OF course there ought not
to be any recognized prescription at West
Point, bnt it does not seem possible to pre-
vent the quiet or effectual kind which is
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15
THE ATALANrA.

There seems no room for doubt that the
English training-ship ATLANTA has gone to
the bottom with all hands. The discovery
of certain floating fragments, among which
was a man-of.war's lifebuoy, almost in the
track of her ascertained course, gives con-
firmation to the fears previously existing
Indeed, it is quite incredible that she
should be safe after so long an absence,
and though the failure to find any consid-
cradle quantity of wreck may seem to JUS
tify some hope, it is by no means improb-
able that she may have gone down all
standing, as the Earydice did, and that
scarcely anything may have tloated from
her as she sank. Among the odd reasons
which have been suggested to account for
this presumed disaster, we note a
conjecture that the lads forming her
crew may have been Frustrated by
sea-sickness, or afraid to go aloft to take
in sail. We venture to assert that there is
no probability in any such notion. The
lads who sailed her were not greenhorns,
but large proportion of them were young
men who had been at sea long enough to
have overcome all such qualms and fears
as are suggested. It is very seldom that
boys who go to sea are affected by terror
because of gales, and for the most part
they are rather over bold than over timid.
If the Atalanta has gone down the fault
was with her construction, and not with
her crew, who we have no doubt were
fully competent to manage a stauneh YES
sci in any weather.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15
JUDGE FIELD AS A oANDIDATE.

The mention of Judge Stephen J. Field
as a possible Democratic candidate for the
Presidency is becoming quite frequent at
the East, and it is to be remarked that it
does rot elicit that kind of contemptuous
criticism which is so readily applied when
other men are named. Whether, as re-
Gently alleged in an Eastern journal on the
authority of two Californians, the Democ-
racy of this State is as enthusiastic over
the suggestion as is intimated, we do not
know but we do know that the Democrats
have no man in their ranks who would give
so much intellectual dignity and force to
their canvass as Judge Field. We do not
think there can be any question that he
would make very strong candidate. His
war record is good, his loyalty to the Union
unquestionable, his integrity is unblem-
ished, and his mental caliber is very
far beyond anything that the Democrats
have put forward for long time. He is
known as an able opponent of the extreme
application Of the modern doctrine of CEN
tralization which is causing so much I'M
easiness to thinking men Of both parties.
His nomination would put the Republicans
upon their mettle, and would do much to
elevate the tone of the campaign, but so
far it does not appear probable that he can
obtain it, and judging from the average
tendencies of Democratic Conventions, it
would perhaps not be going too far to say
that his weakness consists in his manifest
superiority to all the other candidates who
have yet been named.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15
THE ARIZONA 1EDIAH WAR.

The Indian war in Arizona is peculiar
kind of campaign. Victories band has
been chased and whipped all over the
Territory by the Federal troops, if we are
to believe the dispatches, and yet he and
his warriors are constantly appearing in
new places, fighting as obstinately as ever,
and always getting away at the end of the
engagement. For man who has sustained
so many crushing defeats he appears to
manage remarkably well, and, in fact, he
resembles those stupid troops who never
knew when they were beaten, and so held
their ground long after they ought to have
abandoned it, according to all the orthodox
rules of war. 1t must be confessed that
the Government theory of this Arizona war
does not account for the facts as they are,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15
AN uNFaINKABLg POSITION.

The position of the Mussel Slough set
tiers, as stated on their behalf, is re-
markable and perplexing one. They are
reported as being determined not to oppose
the United States authorities, yet as de.
termined to hold the land they occupy
at any cost. We do not know what
they mean by talking about not opposing
the United States authorities, for they
have done that already, and had they not
done it there would have been no such
tragedy as was recently enacted in their
midst. They are now in open and unmis-
taxable opposition to the law, and when
they declare that they vii! hold the lands
at any cost they cannot possibly mean
anything else than that they will resist the
execution of legal process for their 'expul-
sion or arrest. If they imagine that they
have hitherto done nothing which is in
contravention of law. they will speedily be
undeceived. If they imagine that they
will be permitted to juggle with words,
and in the same breath to declare their re-
spect for and defiance of the law, they are
very seriously mistaken. They have, in
fact, assumed an unthinkable and untena.
able position, and the sooner they aban-
don it and come down to reasonable atti-
tude, the sooner VIII their present compli.
cations be adjusted,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15
INTERNAL MACHINES.

1t seems that an era of internal machines
is setting in just now. Yesterday two ex-
periments Of this kind were reported, from
different parts of the country. An attempt
was made to blow up the Spanish Consul.
General at New York by means of pack
age which when opened darted balls of fire
ali about the room, and at Portland, Ore
gon, man who was witness in an i'm
portant case was given two cigars carefully
loaded with dynamite cartridges, one of
which exploding as he smoked it, injured
him severely, but not fatally. 1t is to be
remarked that though a great deal of skill
and cunning have at various times been
exhibited in the construction of internal
machines, they are scarcely ever successful.
As a rule they demand too many ADVENT
tious aids A certain anticipated series
of acts must be gone through by the victim,
or the machine explodes at the wrong
moment, and usually without hurting
anybody. The cases in which people
have been killed by inventions of this
character are reassuringly few, and the
failures are almost as numerous as the ex-
periments. This probably is one reason
why such machinery is resorted to so sci.
dom. It is too risky and too uncertain.
The determined and successful assassina-
lions of history have almost invariably
been perpetrated by men who had resolved
to sacrifice themselves, and therefore ap-
preached their victims so closely as to in
sure the fatality of the blow. The assas-
sination of the Regent Murray, of Scotland,
indeed, was accomplished successfully by
man who made his escape, but he was a
dead shot, and had an unusually favorable
opportunity. The deaths of the Duke of
Buckingham, Henry of France, the Prince
of Orange, and others, were caused by the
knife or pistol at close quarters. Internal
machines seldom earn their names, and
nine times out of ten only secure the dis
covery and punishment OF the scoundrels
who employ them.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

The latest Eastern sfgurings on the
Presidential outlook are by no means har-
monious, but they are significant, as show
ing the rapid growth of belief that Grant
cannot obtain the nomination at Chicago.
The Herald's list of delegates already
elected to the Convention is as follows
Grant, 265 Blaine, 243; Sherman, 81
Edmunds, 80; Washburne, IA. The
Tribuae's list is as follows Grant, 226
Blaine, 279; Sherman, 90 Edmunds, "a
Washburne, IA. The Herald calculates
that when all the delegates are elected
there will be a majority of 1874 opposed to
Grant, and that therefore he cannot be
nominated on the first ballot. The Grant
managers continue to assert that they viii
be able to nominate him ON the first ballot,
but as they refuse to give figures in sup
port of their claim, it is of course open to
question. The tendency of the political
current has indeed been for several weeks
Enthusiastically against the prospects of
Grant. The claim that he would have
solid South to start with has been effectu-
ally disproved by facts. The New York
Tribune a few days since made the asser-
ton that :" there is not a single Southern
delegation which can be counted upon
with absolute certainty to give him its
centre vote" 1t says that to all out
"side appearances Kentucky, Missouri,
''Arkansas and South Carolina are fully
secured for him; but the reports of
anti-third-term feeling in these delega-
tions are too numerous and too well
authenticated to be overlooked" Nor
has he made any compensating gains
in Northern and Western States.
On the contrary, he has been I'M
able to secure more than a moiety
of the vote of his own State, while
the revolt in New York and Pennsylvania,
notwithstanding the assertions of Messrs.
Conkling and Cameron, is serious and ex.
tensive. The Tribune confidently asserts
that he will lose at least twelve votes In
New York. and twenty-five in Pennsyl-
vania. And if the latest figures are re-
liable, and it turns out that he will go into
the Convention lacking more than hun
dred votes ON the first ballot, it is clear
that his nomination will be ont of the
question, since if it cannot be had on the
first ballot it cannot be had at all On the
second ballot the strength with which he
enters will break away and go to Blaine,
Sherman, or some other candidate. The
tremendous pressure which has been
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struction of some property during the
Creek war, either by the Indians or the
the troops. The damage was done in 1913.
The original owner of the property never
made any claim for redress. But twenty
years afterwards claim for 5000 was put
in, and refused by Congress. How this
claim gradually swelled and swelled, how
payment after payment was made upon it,
how from claim of 5000 it grew to
claim for sl55, 600, 600, and how the whole
of this would undoubtedly have been paid
to the heirs of George Fisher but for the
occurrence of the rebellion, must be ascer-
tanned by reference to the story itself,
which, though told by a humorist, is I'M
doubtedly true. We are now reminded of
this case by the resurrection of another
equally venerable and equally outrageous
swindle, the ventilation of which the pub
lie may thank the New York Times for.
This is the once-notorious De Groot
claim, which twenty years ago engaged the
attention of the country, which was then
exploded apparently beyond any possibility
of resurrection, but which has just
come slipping and sliding into
Congress again as fresh and impu-
dent as ever. The facts are simple
and clear. In 1856 the Washington Aque-
duct was being built, and contract was
made with W. II. De Groot for the defv-
cry of large quantity of bricks. to be de-
livered at fixed price, at the rate of Co.
900 a day. The contract contained a
special clause making the payments
terminable by the failure of the contractor
to supply the material, or the failure of
Congress to make the appropriations. Both
these things happened. De Groot failed
to supply the material, and Congress cut
off the appropriations. The contract was
thus terminated, but nevertheless De Groot
and his partners declined to regard it in
that light, and made demand for COM
pensation upon the Government. The
then Secretary of the Treasury, Howell
Cobb, took the advice of certain experts,
Congress having authorized him to settle
the claim "on principles of justice and
"equity, and so an award of 500, 534 was
made to the claimant in 1858. This was
not enough, however, and two years later
De Groot appeared again as claimant.
This time he maintained that he ought to
have been allowed prospective profits on
his entire contract John B. Floyd had
the matter referred to him, and he found
that De Groot ought to have $4,000
damages for his failure to execute a con
tract according to its original conditions.
The money was about to be paid when
prying newspaper correspondent at Wash
ington discovered the fraud, and published
it, and the reaction it produced killed the
swindle for that time. Now, however,
generation having passed since it was last
heard of, it is brought up again, and 1t is
quite possible that if it had not been once
more gibbeted by the press, the steal would
have been consummated this time.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15
THE PRESS AND PUBLIC opINIoN.

The Nation remarks of the late English
elections, that Zone of the most startling
revelations made by the election is the
''total lack of the influence on the voters
"of the country at large Of the London
"daily press" Nearly all the London
papers were against Mr.. Gladstone, and as
the Nation says, 'most of them treated
him as a half-crazy person, and as in
"some sense a national disgrace, at the
every time when he was rousing a con-
"fidence and even an enthusiasm among
sc the masses of the voters such as have
"perhaps been bestowed on no man in
England since the younger Pitt" The
inference drawn by the Nation, that the
London press was necessarily wrong, and
that the people were necessarily right, APP
pears to us to be untenable, however 1t
often happens that the public take the bit in
their teeth and run away from the press,
but it does not follow that the people are
right. They are undoubtedly the stronger,
and that is all that can be said. a
great deal has been written from time
to time about the shrewdness of popular
instincts and the significance of great
waves of popular sentiment, but history
does not furnish any support for this theory
of the superiority of mass fancies. Mr..
Gladstone may be all that the people think
him, and the London papers may be quite
mistaken about him, but this does not fol-
low from the circumstance that the major
ity were for him in the late election. As
matter of fact maiorities have been con-
spicuously wrong on many of the greatest
and most momentous occasions And when
the almost unanimous expression of an
educated press is found to be on one
side of case, and the almost unanimous
expression of an uneducated public opin-
ion is on the other, we think that it
requires good deal of enthusiasm to be-
lieve that the public must be right and
the press wrong. Cultivated London may
differ in opinion from uncultivated
England, but which is the most likely
to judge wisely? Mr.. Gladstone has
certainly done many things of late calcu-
lated to help him with the unintelligent,
and to hurt him with the intelligent.
He has been accused, not without reason,
of playing the demagogue, and he has
already since the election been obliged
to confess that in a public speech during
the campaign he grossly abused friendly
sovereign. In all this the instinct of
the people may be truer than the reason
of the educated classes, but if it is, the
fact must be regarded as the exception
which proves the rule, and not as the rule
itself. The idea that the opinion of the
many is necessarily the right opinion is
obviously a survival from more barbarous
periods, when Might made Right. 1t has
been fostered with the growth of democ.
racy, as the easiest way of placating the
majority, but it is not logical deduc-
ton, and it ought to be employed with
great caution and circumspection.