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PRESIDENTIAL srUMp1NG.

The announcement that President Hayes
contemplated taking the stump for Gar
field has raised quite controversy, some
thinking that such a step would be a
degradation of the Presidency, and others
regarding it as particularly good propo-
sition. We confess that we do not share
in the horror with which some exceedingly
reverent and pious Republicans have re-
garded this question. 1t might, perhaps,
be in bad taste for the President to make
political speeches, but it is difficult to per-
ceive how it could he more heinous
offence than a sin against conventions.
The fact that the President of the United
States is always and necessarily partisan
cannot be ignored. The fact that all Pres
idents have invariably employed whatever
influence they possessed in the support of
their own party, is equally notorious. If
then President should think it worth
while to make speeches in behalf of a
candidate for the succession, it is hard to
perceive where the criminality of the step
would lie. 1t is true that General Grant
was not in the habit Of making speeches
on any occasion, but plenty of other Presi-
dents have been more vo,uble in public.
Mr.. Hayes has already made great many
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among the passengers, they having COM
pleted trail through from Alma to q central
part of the diggings. Mr.. Stone states that
one firm of traders at the head of navigation
have purchased $4,000 worth of dust taken
out during the past tour weeks. There are
now some 400 men in the mines. The water
is falling rapidly, and active operations will
soon be commenced. At present large
number of men are at work with rockers,
taking out in many cases from Sc to So per
day.
Last Saturday night large pine tree fell
on the cabin occupied by Andrew Erckin and
son, on Slate creek. The father and son
we're asleep at the time. The son, hearing
the, crash. sprang from his bunk, and while
endeavoring to waken his father, the tree
struck the cabin roof, crushing it in. A
large crosscut saw, which was hanging from
one of the rafters, fell on the father, striking
him and cutting him almost in two, Just as he
was emerging from his bunk, killing him in.
stantly. Mr.. Erckin was from Rock Island,
Illinois, where he leaves wife and family.
He was formerly a prominent miller of Du-
bruue Iowa
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NEVADA
Passengers Passing Carlin.

CARLIN. July 25th.-The following passen-
gers passed Carlin to-day, to arrive in Sacra-
mento tomorrow Mrs. l.. Byers and
daughter, Stockton; G. Beiggs, Illinois /;
Mrs. A. II. Davis, San Francisco N. j.
Beiggs, Illinois; John Hughes, California !;
Samuel McDermott, Boston, Mass. Mrs.
L. r. Maynard, Chicago, H.; H. Goetz,
wife and child, Kansas r. f. Hatch, Chi
cago d. Yoshidia, japan; Mrs. Graham
and family. Canada; Miss f. A. Bean, Falls
Village, Conn. Miss Mary j. Belcher. New
Hampshire; Senator Farley and family, Cal
ifornia; Samuel j. Stout, James B. Stout,
Sprinfeld, ILL., II. Silverhorn and wife, New
York; E. B. Stonehill Virginia, New. r.
H. Nisbet, Scotland; j. Barth, Russia JAS.
Stinsom, Miss A. Bishop, California; J.. l..
Robinson, H. Davis, San Francisco; S.
Stethar, Z. H. Stethar, E. A. New York /;
A. Nelson, Sacramento Y. P. Clark, San
Francisco E. B. Milbowen, Baltimore, Md /;
H. Brighton, Maryland; l. Wolff, Salt
Lake; NJ. Levi, San Francisco Ban. Toon,
New Haven, Conn. r. G. Chase, Boston,
Mass. !; G. Schurz, Secretary of the Interior,
Miss A. Schurz, Miss M. Schurz, Washing.
ton, d. c.; H. Gaullieur, II. A. Meyer.
New York E. P. Hanna, private secretary.
[Secretary Scharz and party will spend one
day at the Pyramid Lake Reservation, and
arrive in San Francisco at 1880 P. NJ. next
Tuesday, Sixty emigrants, including Al
males, to arrive in Sacramento July 9th.
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speeches since ne has been in office, and
several of them have been of political
character more or less In fact it is i'm
possible for an Executive officer to address
the public on public questions at all with
out making some reference to the work in
which he is engaged, and without taking
the standpoint of his party in regard to
leading issues. To our thinking the
one real objection to the proposition under
discussion is that Mr.. Hayes does not hap
pen to be particularly eloquent speaker,
and that therefore little is to be antici-
pated in the way of producing conviction,
from his presence on the stump. 1t Is
true that his own early ideas of the duties
of official position might stand in his way
somewhat, but we find the strongest OBJ
lection to his speaking to come from those
who profess the least respect for civil SER
vice reform, and this is odd, to say the
least. We do not think the question one
of very great Importance, nor do We think
that President Hayes would degrade"
his office by going on the stump. But if
there is any serious objection to the step it
might be as well for him to forego his al
legged intention, inasnluch as no decided
advantage promises to accrue from his per-
sonal participation in the canvass. Were
he to remain at Washington and let loose
all the available federal officials upon the
stump, we presume no fault would be
found with him by those who now appear
to be SO much shocked, and yetin that case
there would be grounds for censure and
disapproval which certainly cannot exist in
regard to his own speaking.
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THE WRECK OF TIE MArH1LpE,

The wreck of the Mathilde, on her way
from Vancouver Island to Valparaiso,
with lumber, brings forward very inter-
esting question. The vessel was abandoned
at sea, the officers and crew taking to the
boats. The boat in which was the chief
mate and several seamen succeeded in
reaching Mazatlan, but that in which the
captain and his wife and the rest of the
crew were had parted from her consort in
heavy gallo, and nothing more has been
heard of her. The mate, however. saws that
he believes the captain made the Island OF
Socorro, and as it is questionable whether
there IS any water ON that island, the DOS
sibility OF relieving this portion of the
crew is clearly matter of prompt action.
Nevertheless the agents of the Mathilde in
San Francisco have contented themselves
with an appeal to the Collector of the Port.
soliciting the aid of revenue vessel. The
Collector has telegraphed to Washington
for leave to employ the revenue cruiser
upon this mission, but has not vet
received an answer. Should he
receive permission several days would be
consumed in preparing the cruiser for sea,
and meantime the unhappy people of the
Mathilde, supposing them to be alive, are
quite probably enduring the torture of
starvation on the volcanic and inhospitable
sides of Socorro. The general opinion
seems to be that the San Francisco agents
of the Mathilde should have dispatched-a
relief vessel themselves, Immediately on
hearing of the situation, and that they
should not have thrown themselves, in
crisis so urgently demanding swift
measures, upon the diIatory and red-tape-
bound mercies of the Government. The
fate OF the surviving portion of the Ma
thllde crew is rendered the more interest
ing by the circumstance that the captains
bride, young and brave girl of nineteen,
IS with the party. Certainly vigorous
effort ought to be made to save these I'M
fortunates, without waiting for news from
Washington
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BuRYING THE RATCHET

Tammany has buried the Ratchet, and now
the New York Republicans know that they
have nothing to hope from any discord in
the ranks of their antagonists The fight in
the Empire State will consequently be fair
one, both parties being thoroughly united,
and both being in an excellent condition to
test their strength. 1t is probable that
the kind of tactics resorted to in 1865 by
Governor Tilden will be less available this
year, moreover, and that consequently the
struggle viii really be tolerably honest. No
doubt the Democrats will repeat and vote
dead men if they can, but the Republicans
will watch them too sharply for those
tricks to promise much: The most de-
terrnined work ever done in any State will
unquestionably be done in New York this
fall, however, for it is the pivotal State.
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SEALED PROPOSALS
INDIAN SUBSISTENCE SUPPLIES

NOR THE NEVADA AGENCY OF NEVADA
Il are hereby solicited for the following articles,
viz. 80, 900 lbs Cracked Barley $500 TBS Bacon
5000 lbs Beans: 800 lbs Coffee; $500 lbs Flour
1900 lbs Oats (white); 100 lbs Dat Meal leo lbs
Rice 200 lbs Tea; 1000 lbs Brown Sugar 900 lbs
Soap 1000 lbs Salt (eoarse)
Bids to be opened at the Wadsworth Hotel, Wads-
WORTH New, at IL o'clock NJ the 10th day OF
AUGUST, 1850 Samples of goods offered, properly
numbered, must accompany each bid The Agent
the right to increase or diminish the above
quantities. and to reject any or all bids. All bids
must be accompanied by certified check upon some
United States Depository, pay able to the order Of
the Indian Agent, for at least five ~ per cent of the
amount of the proposal, which check shall be for
feited to the United States, in any b oder re-
ceiving award shall fail to execute promptly
contract, with good and sufficient sureties accord
ing to the terms of this bid otherwise to be re-
turned to the bidder.
All goods to be d.liv. red at Wadsworh, New, on
or before the 1st day of OCTOBER, 1870, and sub
ject to thorough inspection delivery before
cepted. JAMES E. SPENCER,
jy17-2p3w U. S. Indian Agent.
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A FAcILE INSTRUMENT.

General Garfield in speech in Congress
on the 18th of January, 1865, referring to
General Hancock's course as military COM
mander of the district of Louisiana and
Texas, said &C. will not repeat the long
catalogue of distractions which he Presi-
dent Johnsonl has thrown in the way by
virtue of the power conferred upon him in
the Reconstruction law of 1867, but l will
allude to one example where he has found
in Major General of the army facile in
strument with which more effeetually to
obstruct the work of reconstruction. This
case is all the mere painful because an
otherwise meritorious officer, who bears
honorable scars earned in battle for the
Union, has been made party to political
madness which has so longed marked the
conduct of the President. The General
was sent into the district of Louis
lana and Texas with q law of Con-
gress in his hand, law that commands
him to see that justice is administered
among the people of that country, and
that no pretense of civil authority shall
deter him from performing his duty, and
yet we find that officer giving lectures in
the form of proclamations and orders on
what ought to be the relations between the
civil and military departments of the Gov
eminent We see him issuing general
order in which he declares that the civil
should not give way before the military.
We hear him declaring that he finds moth
ing in the laws of Louisiana and Texas to
warrant his interference in the civil admin
istration of those States. 1t is not for him
to say which should be first, the civil or
the military, in that rebel community. 1t
is not for him to search the defunct laws of
Louisiana and Texas for guide to his con-
duct. 1t is for him to obey the laws which
he was sent there to execute. 1t is for
him to aid in building up civil govern
ments rather than preparing himself to be
the Presidential candidate of party
which gave him no sympathy when he was
calamity fighting the battles of the coun-
try"
l HAVE TRIED Hammers Cascara Sagrada
Bitters, and find they are all they are recon-
ynended IN ha a N (,poxVrTr Sacr,unoptn
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MEXICAN POLITICS.

The Mexicans may be gradually reducing
the friction in their governmental ma
chinery, but certainly appearances are
against them. Their politics continue to
be enlivened with revolutions of the most
pronounced kind, and such little matters
as the seizure of towns, the levying of
forced loans upon merchants, the cutting
of threats, and so forth, are looked upon
as indispensable adjuncts to all important
elections. The recent doings of Ramirez
and others would in any other country be
thought to indicate a very unsettled con-
dition of things, but we are assured that
nobody at Washington apprehends any
real trouble, and that the election OF Presi-
dent Gonzalez is expected to be acquiesced
in quite peaceably. There is special in
terest in these Mexican politics for such
as perceive that in this country we have
now a source of weakness which tends
continually to disseminate Mexican
methods, and to accustom the American
people to them. In the unrepublican con-
dition of the Southern States we, in fact,
have all the elements of Mexican politics,
and the most dangerous phase of
the matter is the growing indif.
ference to this state of affairs. The
Mexicans began with very good forms, but
being afflicted with powerful uncivilized
element they were unable to maintain
these legitimate methods, and so they
have gone from bad to worse, until no
election is expected to pass over without
violence and lawlessness. The central
Government has been so weakened by
these constant intestine broils that the
provinces no longer fear or respect it. a
similar state of impotence may await our
central Government if the present condi-
ton of politics in the South is permitted
to become chronic. Constitutions which
cannot be enforced will perish. Declare
tions that every State of the Union shall
have republican form of government are
worthless SO long as they are not carried
out. Ten States of the Union to-day are
without republican government, in prac-
tlce, and while that remains the case the
country will be exposed to whatever i'll
effects naturally flow from Mexican politics.
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PROBATE NOTICE.

GTATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SACRA-
- mento. In the Sunerior Court In the matter
Of the estate of LOUIS FANLEM BRoUCK, de-
ceased In the superior Court of the county of Sac
ramento. The People of the State of California,
send greeting: In pursuance of an order of the Hon.
s. c. benson, Judge of the Superior Court of the
county afor said, duly made and entered the 2.th
day of JULY, 1880, notice is hereby given that
MONDAY, the 9th day of AUGUST, 1880, at 10
o'clock N. of said day, at the Courtroom of said
Court at Court house, in the county of Sacramento,
has been appointed the time and place for hearing
the application of IDA SPACHER, praying that
document file in this Court. purporting to be
the last will and testament of LOUIS VANLEM
RR0UCK, deceased, be admitted to probate and
that letters testamentary be issued thereon to said
petitioner, who is named therein as executrix, at
which time and place al persons interested may
appear and contest the same.
1t is further ordered by the Court that notice
hereof be made by publication for ten successive
DAYS in the SACRAMENTO DAILY RECORD UNION,
newspaper printed and published in said Sacramento
county.
witaess my hand and the seal of said Court
hereto affixed this oath day of JULY A. D. 1880.
TsEAL.l THOS H. BERKEY. Clerk.
By J. H. PARSELI, Deputy Clerk
Grows L. JOHNSON, Attorney for Petitioner.
iy26.td
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ARIZONA.
Items from Tucson.

Tucson. July 24th.-The track of the
Southern Pacific Railroad is laid seventeen
miles east of Benson. The grading is COM
plete beyond Dragon Summit. The railroad
round-house is complete. An average of
eighty-fve carloads of railroad material goes
to the front daily. 1t is estimated that the
track-laying will go on at the rate of two
miles per day after reaching Dragon Sum
nit.
The mill-dams at Charleston broke to day,
causing temporary suspension of two quartz
mills.
Treasure shipments for the week from
Tombstone amount to 500, SEQ in silver bull
ion from Globe and McMillen Districts,
$500, 000; Silver King concentrations, 1888,
2S7 n.
There has been considerable rain through
out Southern Arizona during the week, with
indications of much more.
Travel to Sonora is rapidly increasing,
caused by large mineral discoveries in the
districts of Altar and The Cienega.
a large silver ledge of very rich ore has
been discovered near the Canyon de Oro
thirty five miles north of Tucson.
The bullion out of Pima county will be
doubled next month.
The Hanshaw 25-stamp mill will COM
mence work this week. The San Xavier and
Santa Rita smelters will also commence oper-
atoms this week
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THE ENGLISH OBELIsK.-The obelisk on
the Thames Embankment is to be furnished
with certain artistic accessories. The Met
ropolitan Board of Works has fixed a
plaster cast of sphinx, colored to look
like bronze, at the base of Cleopatra's
Needle, in order to Judge of the effect pro-
duced, prior to the casting in bronze of the
two sphinxes which the Board have de.
cided to place on the pedestal. The model
now exhibited is an enlarged copy of a
small sphinx in stone in the collection of
the Duke OF Northumberland at Ainwick
Castle, which is supposed to be of the same
period of the obelisk itself Certain adj
ditions have been made to the base and
pedestal as the obelisk, in order to hide
the broken portions of the column, and, if
these are approved, they will eventually
be executed in bronze.
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SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

From San Francisco exchanges of July 25thl
Imports of treasure from Mexico by the
Newbern were $3.50, 600.
There were 4 new registrations yester.
day and 20 changes of residence.
The total tax collections on personal
property for the week ending yesterday
amounted to sl40,225.
The payments for duties at the Custom
House for the past week were Sl29, 969,
making total since January lst of So, 2ll,
100.
Lieutenant Colonel C. F. Croker, of
Governor Perkins staff, has declined the
position of Major of the Second Infantry,
n. G. c.
males and p females. Heart disease
caused . deaths, consumption 10, and pneu-
monia 2.
It is said that the Hawaiian Government
has granted subsidy of S25, 900 year
for line of steamers between Honolulu
and this port.
The Chinese have abandoned the idea of
resisting the payment of license, under the
vigorous determination of Collector Sinton
to arrest Chinese everywhere refusing to
comply with the license ordinances.
The Superintendent of Streets last night
issued an order discharging all laborers en-
ployed upon the streets, as the Street De-
partment fund for the month of July is
exhausted No laborers will be employed
until August lst.
On the 10th of next month the annual
exhibition of the Mechanics Fair Managers
will be held at the Pavilion. The interior
of this gigantic edifice is now being put in
order for that purpose, gangs of workmen
being actively employed in the work.
In Department No. ii of the Superior
Court this afternoon, l. NJ. Kalloch was
arraigned for the murder of Charles De
Young. The accused was allowed until
Thursday next to plead. On that day
motion to set aside the indictment will be
made, and argument upon the motion was
set for o'clock, one week from Saturday.
One hundred and forty.one candidates
for teachers certificates appeared at the
examination yesterday-Sl for first grade,
60 for second grade. During the week, ll9
applicants were excluded from examina-
ton, on failing to attain the required 60
per cent. minimum in arithmetic, grammar,
or theory and practice of teaching. The
examinations are now concluded.
The schooner Little River, from which
Anderson, the master, was brought ashore
suffering from smallpox and taken to the
pest house, is still in quarantine, and no
further development OF the disease has &C.
Cured on board. Anderson and his wife
are progressing favorably, but the man
Hamilton, who brought smallpox with
him from Sacramento, is in dangerous
condition. Health Officer Meares says that
no new cases have been discovered in the
city, and he is inclined to think that there
is no ground for fears in the matter.
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To TOURISTS. -0n the Goth of July the
trail leading from Yosemite Valley by way
of Register Rock to Nevada and Vernal
Falls became free by the expiration of the
lease. From Shows, which tourists will
recognize as the hotel situated between
Nevada and Vernal Falls, there is trail
leading to Glacier Point and Sentinel
Dome. This trail was constructed by
Henry Washburn, and Is still the private
property of that gentleman, but he has not
collected tolls for its use during the past
two years. The absence of toll upon the
route indicated opens free trail to the
following points OF leading interest in the
valley Vernal Falls, Shows, Nevada
Falls, Summit of Nevada Falls, Clouds
Rest, Little Yosemite Valley, South Dome
Except as to the use of the rope), Glacier
Point, Sentinel Dome, and thence by way
of Paragoi's to CIark's Big Tree Station.
Thus all complaint as to the collection of
tolls to the leading points of interest in
the valley is removed. The Commissioners
should cause notices Of these facts to be
posted in the valley.