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NOVEL REASONS.

The Ah1 thinks the buzzard silver
dollar ought to be retained in the coinage,
not merely because it is the real original
"dolIar OF the fathers" but because it
''is founded upon measures or standards
which are concurrent with the famous
g touchstone measurements of the Great
Pyramid, which gives them perfect
4" mathematical Endorsement to the world OF
"science, and deeper Endorsement to
many biblical scholars" These, truly,
are weighty reasons for retaining the
buzzard dollar. We might object that
all the notions which Mr.. Piazzi Smyth
has conceived in regard to the mathe-
matical significance of the Great Pyramid
are as yet not only unaccepted by Egyptol-
osists and men of science generally, but
are for the most part rejected by both.
Even il this were not the case, however,
the Alias reasons would be none the less
p5eposterous The silver dollar is objec-
tionable because II is not what it purports
20 pei anu BECAUSE therefore, 10 Is
circulating theft, the fuIl acceptance
and dissemination of which throughout
the uationmust drive out honest money, and
rob the people by diminishing the purchas-
ing power Of their earnings. That these
results can be sfected or modified by Pro-
fessor Pazzi Smyth's ideas about the
mathematical relations OF the Great Pyra-
mid is fancy so grotesque that the 4ta
really deserves some credit for having in
vented so delightful an absurd.ty. We
shall expect our contemporary to defend
greenbacks next, on the ground that Kub-
lai Khan issued somewhat similar cur
rency in the time OF Marco Polo, and that
therefore all lovers of antiquity will be
pleased by their perpetuation. By all
means, however, let the Aha continue in
its new vein. It is certainly refreshing as
a change from the hackneyed stupidities
with which the silver lunatics commonly
defend their beloved swindle
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18
THE LOSS cP THE VERA CRUZ.

1t is beginning to be realized that the
loss of the steamship Vera Cruz was almost
certainly attributable to defects of con-
struction which she shared with nearly all
modern steamers. OF the strength of her
hull there is no question, but she was so
built that her decks were not protected
against heavy seas. 1t is the opinion of
experienced seamen that a vessel whose
hull is sound, and whose interior is fully
protected against the shipment of water,
ought to defy any storm. In the case of
the Vera Cruz, however, it has been shown
that heavy sea poured down her hatch
ways and extinguished her fires. She then
lost steerage-way and fell into the trough
of the sea, and from that moment became
helpless and unmanageable. Nearly all
passenger steamers are weakened and en-
dangered in the same way by fimsy deck
saloons which yield at once to heavy sea,
and which, being swept away, expose the
between decks and the engine-room to a
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18
DEMOCRATIC SHARP PRACTICE.

The Democratic National Committee has
issued proclamation stating that
Plaisted has carried Maine, and that all re-
ports to the contrary are false, and indica-
tive of fraudulent intent. This is gross
piece of impudence on the part of the CON-
mttee, and it is as silly as it is impudent.
Who authorized them to declare how
Maine has gone? Where did they
procure their infallible information
concerning that event? What better
right have they to assume the victory
than their opponents possess, in view OF
the character OF the returns ? If fraud is
to be talked of it is in order to point out
that nothing can be SO suspicious as the
positive claim of a victory in an election
the full returns of which have not yet been
received. When men claim victory be-
fore the returns are in, there is good ground
for suspecting that they have stocked the
cards, and that they are betting on what
they had previously made certainty by
foul means. Perhaps the Democratic Com
mittee has had earlier intelligence
from those French settlements in the
Aroostook district than the State authori-
ties have been able to obtain. Perhaps
they have reason to know beforehand how
these settlements were to go. If they have
not been resortlng to foul play what do
they mean by pretending to know posi-
lively how the State has gone, in advance of
the receipt of the returns? 1t appears to
us that these are not only pertinent but
awkward questions, and that if Plaisted
should be found to get majority in
the French settlements after this singular
exhibition of confidence on the part of the
National Committee, there will be ex-
tremely good grounds for searching inves-
tigation. On the other hand, if the "proc-
lamation" of the committee was simply a
bit of ssbluff," we fail to see what they
could have expected to gain by it. The
full returns will be in shortly, and then if
Davis is shown to be elected no quantity
of Democratic proclamation" will make
any difference in the fact.
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The CHISHOLM CASE AGAIN.

This celebrated case is again before the
public, through the trial of two of the
assassins of Judge Chisholm and his
heroic daughter, for the murder Of ano.h-
or of the victims of that diabolical outrage.
There does not appear to be any belief that
they will be convicted, however Missis-
sipp. juries do not regard the assassination
of Republicans as criminal, not even when
the victims happen TO be women and child
rem. The probability is that this jury
will either ind the defendants no. guilty,
OF disagree The Chisholm case has
dragged along for years now, and no one
OF the Infamous scoundrcls who committed
the murder has been punished, or is likely
to be. Indeed there is reason to believe
that the officers who have conducted the
prosecution have had to face the menace
of assassination continually, and it is really
somewhat singular that no other murders
have vet grown out of the case. In Missis-
,;noi as in most Southern States, murder
has long ceased to be regarded with horror
or indignation, and political murder is
rather looked upon as duty than an Of
tense against society.
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THE DAILY RECORD-UNION.
THE WEEKLY UNION.

The WEEKLY UNION is issued to-day-that is, its
second part OF eight pages is sent out, for the UNION
appears twice each week, each part consisting Of
eiyht pages Thus each WEEKLY UNION embraces
sixteen pages of choice news, critical and business
matter Tor home, oce and froste, street car, farm
and shop. Matters occurring between Friday and
Wednesday the subscriber to the WEEKLY UNION
obtains full knowledge OF in the semi-weeky of
Wednesday, and occurrences happening between
Wednesday and Saturday are reported to the patron
of the paper in the semi-weekly of S,tur. ay. Its
departments, which are recognized as leading, are
Editorial writing upon leading social, political, SCI
entiie and other topics of the day; agricultural
comments. selections and news Geographic, coast
news and market quotations; literary matters, en-
braelng book reviews, religious, scientific, art
fashion, mechanical health and other matters !;
political news: notes of development, progress and
production educational religious and other notes
art, music, popular science and industrial news
Paris, London, New York, Oregon, Arizona, State,
coast, Chicago and other correspondence tele-
graphic news, European, coast and Eastern Pacific
coast news mining news market and stock re-
ports commercial review local intelligence; So
ciety notes; fiction and poetry, etc. The WEEKLY
UNION has constantly extending circulat on, and
has grown with unexampied rapidity.
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4 GOOD DESCRIPTION OF THE AMERICAN
COMMUNE"

The Nation, in an article on another
subject observes we do not deny that
"there is something in the country which
"may be called the Commune that is,
ga body of persons who look on all owners
"of capital, nc matter whether composed
"of the workingman's savings or the idle
''man's inheritance, as their natural ene-
'mies, and to whom all power, influence
cor authority acquired by superior train
cling, skill or intelligence is detestable.
"The Greenback party contains q consider
"abte body Of them the Democratic party
" contains most Of them. They are the
"sworn enemies of public and private
"credit. They like high taxes, to be
"paid by the industrious persons who
"save. They like also to have money
"made plenty without work by the free
fuse of the printing press. They hate
colleges and all institutions of learning as
producing persons with minds of mental
superiority to the simple Democrat who
"carries the hod up to the bricklayer. They
"do not care to have the world carried
forward in civilization, because their
"highest ideal of civilization is expressed
sin the phrase, plenty to eat and drink,
'"a and little to do. They are the curse of
"any country in which they abound, and
though they are less numerous in this
" country than in most Others, they have
tthe power of making more trouble.
They have within year or two arrested
''the prosperity and seriously endangered
"the future of one American State-Cali.
+" fornia. They may any day disorganize the
industry or lower the credit of some other
sin which they may happen to secure
Temporary ascendancy or hold the balance
"of power" This Characterization will be
recognized by all as substantially correct.
The Greenbackers and the Democrats, as
the Nation says, furnish nearly the whole
of the Communistic elements. They are
the factions whose alleged success even in
a single State in the Union has within the
past three days caused the price of Govern
ment securities to decline two per cent,
and impelled even Democratic bankers and
brokers to rush into the market with
their bonds, as knowing too well what the
success Of their party portended to the
national credit These factions are the
chronic enemies OF all ordered government
and healthy progress. They represent at
once the laziness, the shiftlessness, the
dishonesty and the incapacity of society.
Their principles and propositions appeal to
the malignity of conscious incompetency,
and not to the reason of self-respecting
men. They seek to organize war upon
wealth. They endeavor to array the Have
No.s against the HAYES. AL their pro.
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MOB LAW AT THE SOUTH.


The lynching of negroes by Southern
mobs has become so ordinary an occurrence
as scarcely to. excite remark, but the
phenomenon ne vertheless calls forthe most
energetic protest, and indicates an abnor-
NAL state OF society. In the States where
it is most common, there is no pretense
that the machinery of justice is crippled
or corrupt. 1t has never been claimed
that summary and lawless modes of pun
ishment were had recourse to because the
conviction of criminals was uncertain. So
far as can be perceived negro criminals at
the South receive the full measure of their
offenses when they are brought before the
Courts. The only explanation of the pas
sion for lynching which has become so COM
mon is, that the Courts do not punish all
offenses with death, while the lynchers
do In other words these lynchings
are at bottom neither more nor less
than systematic methods of terror
izing the colored people by making
them believe that all their offenses
are to be regarded as capital. There have
been hundreds of foul murders committed
by white men in the South, but unless the
murderer happened to be a Republican no
thought of lynehing has ever arisen because
of them. When Colonel Tom Buford
assassinated Judge Elliott because the lat
ter had decided civil suit against him,
the scolndrel was sympathized with and
pitied. Had he been negro it cannot be
doubted that all the country wonld have
turned out to hang him summarily. In
Mississippi two other villainous white men
have just been acquitted on the charge of
numbering a man during the Chisholm
massacre. Nobody doubts their guilt,
but no white Mississippi jury can be got to
convict them or any other white
assassins. 1t is therefore perfectly
clear that Southern lynchings have no
connection with regard for order and alb
horrence of crime. They are rather evil
dences of the chronic defiance of law and
order which the Southern whites pride
themselves upon wherever their colored
fellow-citizens are concerned. They hold
lynching parties just as they organize red
shirt and rife clubs. 1t is all part of the
MISUNDERSTOOD general policy to keep
down the negroes, and lynching is specially
favored because it affords pretext for
outrage under the cover of regard for soci-
ETY.. Every one of these lynchings is an
assassination, and an indictment of the So
ciety that approves of such lawless work.
The Southern people perhaps do not realize
it, but they are giving themselves very
bad character by these continuous overrid-
ipps of the law.
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ARE COUNTY OFFICERS TO BE ELECTED
THIS Wharf.-The AFFIRMATIVE
MAINTAINED.

EDS. RECORD UNION 1t seems to be the
general impression that the recent decision
of the Supreme Court deciding the County
Government bill to be void will do away
with the election of county officers at the
coming election. a careful reference to the
provisions of the new Constitution will show
the error of any such supposition. Section
10. Article XIII, of that instrument reads ::
sin order that future elections in this State
shall conform to the requirements of this
Constitution, the terms of all officers elected
at the first election under the same shall be,
respectively, one year shorter than the terms
as fixed by law or by this Constitution /; and
the successors of all such officers shall be
elected at the last election before the expira-
ton of the terms as in this section provided"
The county officers were elected at the last
election the law provided that their term
should be for two years; the section above
referred to shortens it one year, hence their
term of Office expires in March, 1881. The
same section says that their successors shall
be elected at the last election before the ex-
.piration of their term of office.
Section 5. Article ", of the Constitution
provides that there shall be az election for
members of the Assembly on the first Tues
day after the first Monday in November,
1880. That election will be the last election
held in this State before the expiration of the
term of the county officers, in March, 1881,
hence their successors must be chosen at the
coming election.
The provisions just referred to are self.
operating, and do not need the assistance of
a proclamation of the Governor or Board of
Supervisors TO call for the election of these
officers. LEN.
Sacramento, September II, 1880.
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posals involve the cheating of somebody
or some class, the reputation of
solemn engagements, the adoption OF
some cheap and nasty circulating
medium, the enactment of some
law which will rob those who have saved,
or plumber those who have bought the Sc
curities of the Government. The Green
hacker movement is essentially commu-
nistic one, and this is recognized in the
money markets, as shown by the effect of
the first reports of the Maine election on
Wall street. Communism has done enough
mischief for California in the adoption of
the new Constitution, but there are chronic
communists who are not satisfied with that
damaging measure, and seek to brand this
unfortunate State still more indehbly with
the marks of their pestilent faction.
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1850. I 1870.
sECrIOTs.

The percentage OF increase in the differ
ent sections is as follows: New England,
10 /; Middle States, Is; Southern States,
&c =; Western States, Of; Pacific States,
81. It will be seen that the increase of
the Pacific States is considerably greater
than that OF any other part of the country.
The alleged increase of the Southern States
fully explains the suspicious which have
arisen as to the genuineness OF the returns
from that section, 1t is, as everyone must
perceive, not only improbable, but impos-
sible, that the States of the South-which
have been deprived of immigration, which
have been depleted by the negro exodus,
which have suffered from lack Of capital
and enterprise, which have been discred-
tied on the one hand by reputation, on
the other by political anarchy-should
have increased in population more, and
greatly more, than the New England and
Middle States, and within one per cent.
as much as the Western States, which
have been the focus OF steady stream of
immigration all the time, and have been
built up by every influence and agency
which can contribute to the prosperity Of
region. So notorious are these facts that
controversy in regard to them is impossi-
bic, and the conclusion that the Southern
census has been stuffed is therefore quite
unavoidable Apart from this, the rapid
growth OF the West Enthusiastically points
to the change in the seat of political en-
pire which is forecast, while it is made
apparent that if the ballot were once free
in the South that section would in a few
years become incapable of contesting the
control OF the Government with the North
and West. The most serious feature
of the new census is the indication it az.
fords of the growing concentration OF popu-
lation. The great cities have in the last
ten years absorbed far more than their
share of the increase. They are becoming
bloated at the expense of the country dis
tricts, and the larger the urban population
the greater is the danger of corrupt and
communistic politics. The rural districts
have not indeed throughout the West sup
Piled that conservatism which elsewhere
has been their chief characteristic. At
some points the political relations of the
cities and the country have in fact been
changed, and the former have acted as
checks upon the communism of the latter.
These occurrences, however, are abnormal
and exceptional. and the natural function
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times that sum. These cicims, be it re-
membered, are such as are not barred by
the Fourteenth Amendment. We are not
referring now to the dormant claims for
the value of the emancipated negroes.
The claims represented by the Washing
ton syndicate might be engineered through
without technically violating any of the
amendments to the Constitution, and if
Hancock is elected they will undoubtedly
be pressed without further delay.
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THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED
STATES.

Several attempts have already been
made to forestall the exhibits of the new
census. As matter OF course none OF
these calculations possess any fixed author
ity, but there is reason to believe that one
at least of them approximates the truth
very nearly. This one has been made by
the Chicago Times, and is clearly more
trustworthy than the table recently pub
lished by the New York Herald. We give
the reorganization of the Times table,
which is divided into geographical sections
for greater convenience, and which gives
the results of the two previous censuses
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18

rush OF water. The Vera Cruz did not
spring leak. She was sunk by being
filed with water from above. No strength
of hull could have, therefore, saved her
under the circumstances, and her fate
should be warning to the owners of all
vessels built like her, and to those who
travel in them.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18

An Illinoiswo compelled her husband
to pay her alimony for ten years on account
of her helpless lameness. He suspected
trick, and induced number OF nelghbors
to suddenly burst into her house, where
they found her walking about without even
a limp.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18

HAVE TRIED Hammer Cascara Sagrada
Bitters, and find they are all they are recom-
mended to be. o. N. CRoNKITE, Sacramento.
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Dr. UseAR's LIQUOR ANTIDo1s. caretaily prepared
OF the best Quill Bark by NJ. S. Ha.nmer. druggist
Sacramento (The celebrated cure for drunkenness,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18

right snot in dyspepsia constipation and dyer com
plant,
, 1880-07-01

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TEMPERANCE NATIONAL CORVEN.
TON,

III OLEykLAND,. June II, Tile Prohibition
NatIonal censsnt 2bh Was held Here TO-
day. One ilnhdfetf and forty-two dele
gates, representing twelve states--Arkan-
sas, Connecticut, Iowa. Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota. New Jersey. New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
and WiscOnsh. were present. Rev. Dr.
Miner OF Boston, WAS president The
principal speeches were by DIR, Miner ana
Jndge Black. For President, Neal Dow.
Of Maine, was nominated. For Vice
President, A. II. Thompson. of Wester-
vile Ohio. OH
The above, from telegraphic dis
patches, shows briefly that nucleus
has been formed around which for.
midable national temperance party
!, will grow up. Doubtless, after 4
!. time many olfiet States ami TetTit,1
fies will be represented in this or.
ganizationp adding materially , to its
stfength3 or cobserbe hope of the
temperance party is largely in the
tutnre5 vet they must nut "d..spise
the day of small things" The un
Precedented action Of Congress last
year in constituting a standing ma
tioHal tsmpesa6ce committee, and
the firm stand taken by President
and Mr1. Hayes on this qnes,ion,
have contributed no little to the en-
couragement OF Temperance people
who look forward to the enactment
Of national restrictive laws. The
temperance and women suffrage po
litical movements are the outgrowth
OF an enlightened and progressiyr
age.
, 1880-07-01
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vh,sh "A. battle raarA durng the
t-o successive days. lie vas se
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saul, aoon h,s lines. and los conspic
pou. service. during the battle ne
yrc.iysd ,he thanks or Congress
He ,onk a prumiuert parr in the
campaign srains, Richmond in the
snr;pg Of 1864. for which he was
made R,;y,,lier General in the
regular army. Since the war he has
commanded several different "miH.
,arv dixisions - hs,;ng bean made a
M.;o,.Ganaral In the REGULAR armv
,non the accession of General Grant
to the Presidency
Hon. James Z. English, of Con.
necticu,, who was unanimously nom
mated by the Cincinnati convention
for Vice. President, was born in that
state in 1912. Although 6S years
old he is vigorous and active, and is
considered wealthy man. In 1856
He was elected member of the
State Senate of Conpec,icut. In
1851 he was chosen a member off
Congress. and in 1869 was re, elected
and served during the war in Con