Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11


should have some good place in the East as
soon as he could settle his affairs in Oregon
and take it. He told him also, it is under
stood, that he should make General Terry
Commandment at West Point.
How to Become Cadet.
| WASHINGTON, December 10th.-A circular
has been Issued by the Secretary of the
Treasury containing the regulations govern
ing the admission of candidates to the grade Of
cadets in the Revenue Marine service. The
service circular says: "a standard of pro.
fciency viii be fixed. If candidates fall be-
low such standard, they will be rejected.
They may, however. receive second ex.
animation at the next annual converting OF
the Board of Examiners. A failure in the
second examination will result in the final re-
lection of the candidate While applicants,
as rule, will be accorded not more than two
examinations, an exception may be made
granting a third examination in particularly
mentioned cases, where candidates have
passed successfully two examinations. Cadets
will be appointed for probationary period OF
two years, during which they will be required
to pursue a prescribed course of study and
perform such duties on board ship or else
where in the service as may be demanded Of
them. At the end Of two years they will, il
their probationary service be satisfactory, be
examined for promotion to the grade OF
Third Lieutenant in the Revenue Marine
service"
The Mormon Elephant.
NEW York. December 10th.-The Times,
referring to the Presidents recommendations
concerning Utah, thinks neither provisional
government nor disfrar chisement Of the po-
lygamists a practicable remedy, but says 1t
is question whether it would not be better
to establish military government at once, and
! administer the affairs of the Territory d.
rectly by the national authority until polyg-
amy has been rooted out and materials for a
State founded on the principles of republican
institutions have been introduced. No half
way measures are likely to succeed, and no
pottering with the subject is desirable. Utah
is still in the hands of the Federal Govern-
meut, and it should take the most effective
means Of preparing it for its destined place in
the Union of States.
MoonshIners'. Work.
WASHINGTON, December 10th.-The Com
missioner of Internal Revenue has adyices
! from Huntsville, Ala, to the effect that a
gang of illicit distillers, who were interfered
with by United States Deputy Marshals,
shot and instantly killed Deputy John B.
Hardie. Another deputy barely escaped.
| Loss is organizing a force to arrest the par
| ties, of whom there are four. named Gull
| breath (who fired the fatal shot), Lemons and
the two Crisco brothers. Commissioner
Baum telegraphed instructions that the most
| vigorous measures must be taken to bring to
| punishment these parties. Every distillery
must be seized and illicit distillers arrested!
| The Acknowledgement sent similar instruc-
| tions to United States Marshals.
Secretary Thompson and the Panama
Canal.
WAcuyycr0N Daoap,har 10Th -Secratarx,
Thompson left for New York last evening,
and it is said by intimate friends of the Sec
rotary that his visit is for the purpose of
consulting with gentlemen there who are in
terested in the Panama Canal Company, rela-
tive to his acceptance of the Presidency of the
American branch. From interviews with
persons who are cognizant of the Secretary g
movements, it is believed that he already
has accepted, or will do SO in the course of a
few days, and will tender his resignation as
Secretary of the Navy.
The Syndicate of the Ontario and Cana.
dian Pacific.
INV YORK, December 105h.-A Rorlds
special from Ottawa, Ontario. says: Sir
| Johns majority in Parliament is what Can
ming called steady fact" and he can al
ways count upon its support. but Ontario by
| far the richest and most important province
in the confederation, is alarmed at the pros
pect before it. The leading spirits in the
syndicate are George Stephen and Donald A.
Smith, the former President of the Bank of
Montreal the latter ex- Governor of the Hud-
son Bay Company, who owns the st. Paul.
| Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway. These
gentlemen, through Mcintyre. another mem
| Der of the syndicate, also control the Canada
Central Railway, which is the highway be-
tween Lake Nipissing and Montreal. This
| IL, g. e.
| Sault st. Marie, which will soon be con-
nected with the Northern Pacific and st.
Paul and Manitoba roads, and Ontario
people who are not represented ia the syndi-
cate fear that Stephen and Angus will carry
the trade of the northwest over the American
and Canada Central connections, direct to
| Montreal, and build up the Eastern at the ex-
pense of Western Canada. Ontario, paying
| three-ffths OF the entire revenue of the
| Dominion, is stropg enough to break up the
| Sir John arrangement, and will do so beyond
| 8 doubt, unless he can extort from the
syndicate satisfactory guarantees that they
will not use their own roads to the disadvan-
| tage of the province. Sir John is playing a
| desperate game, but he is a desperate player
and his liberal opponents are weak and de-
moralized.
What is Thought Of our Defective Re-
! turns.
! New YORK, December 10th.-The Times
says: The strict constructionists of the
| Democratic faith will be appalled, to learn
that the Republican Secretary of State in
| California, discovering that the returns for
| Presidential Electors from three counties
were fatally defective, telegraphed to the
local officers and advised them to send
amended returns. Clearly this was not his
duty and he should have proceeded with the
canvass which he is required by law to make.
and have left fatal defects to be discovered
| by others but this officials action, irregular
though it was, saved the votes of three coun-
! ties and changed the result in the State.
Democratic constructionists like Garcelop,
| for example, will denounce the course of the
| California Republican Secretary of State as
"extra constitutional" It may assuage their
wrath, however to learn that the three coun-
ties whose votes SO narrowly escaped being
nullifed are Democratic, and that in conse-
quence of their returns being attended to
Hancock secured FIVE Electoral votes.
Legislation in Relation to Indian Affairs.
WASHINGTON, December 10th.-The House
Committee on Indian Affairs in view OF the
urgency and Importance of legislative action
upon several bills reported from the commit
tee and now pending before the House, in
structed its Chairman to request action by
the House on several matters pertaining to
Indian affairs. Chairman Scales was also
instructed to offer an amendment to the bill
now pending and upon the House calendar
which provides for the allotment OF lands in
severalty to Indians. The object of the
amendment is to extend to the Indian hold
els of those lands already allotted the same
benefits and privileges as are provided in the
proposed bill.
The Health of the People.
NEW ORLEANS, December 10Th. = The
Quarantine Convention unanimously resolved
that it is the duty of the General Govern
ment to defray all quarantine administration
which extends beyond the boundaries of a
single State, and they ask for sn appropria.
ton from Congress Adjourned to meet at
Savannah next December.
In the American Public Health Associa-
ton, Or. Henry Gibbons was appointed the
California member Of the Advisory Commit
tee.
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