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REVELATIONS OF A BLUE BOOK.

The recently issued English blue book
on Afghan affairs shows that if war has
not occurred between Great Britain and
Russia it has not been because of the alb
sence of provocation. The evidence of
Russian completely in every step of the
Central Asia difficulties, in fact, is per-
fectly convincing, while it is equally clear
on the systematic falsehood practiced by
the Russian Government and diplomatic
corps. The Russian policy in Central
Asia ought by this time to be too we'll
known to require explanation. When
there are no formidable rivals in the field,
conquest and annexation are the order of
the day When English influence has to
be encountered the most tortuous Oriental
intrigues are resorted to, and the utmost
use is made of every local ruler who can be
thrust forward as a cover for Muscovite
deceit. The agency of Russia in the
turning back of the British Mission under
Sir Neville Chamberlain, by Yakoob
Khan, has been fully demonstrated, and
there is the strongest reason to
believe that the subsequent massacre
of Major Caavgnari at Cabul was
suggested and urged by Russian agents.
In fact the evidence against Russia OBJ
tanned by the last capture of Cabul is of
the most startling and damning character,
and so strong is a portion of it that it has
been deemed advisable to withhold it from
publication, lest it should produce such an
impression on the country as to make war
unavoidable. All this fresh proof of the
deep snd abiding hostility of Russia to
British interests in Central Asia only tends
to confirm the Judgment of those who be-
lieve that a great war between England
and Russia is necessity of the near fu-
ture, and that there is no way by which it
can be averted. The situation renders
these two powers deadly enemies, and
they must join issue before long to deter
mine which must retire from Central Asia
altogether. Diplomacy may fend off the
collision for short time, but the longer it
is postponed the more desperate will it
ultimately be.
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GOVERNOR STAMFORD AND THE SAND.
LOTTERS.

A deputation from the sand. lotters hav-
ing demanded of the Central Pacific Com
paDy that all the Chinese in the employ of
the corporation be discharged, in compli-
ance with the new Constitution, Governor
Stanford has replied in letter which we
printed on Saturday, first, that just seven
Cinnamon are employed by the company in
the city and county of San Francisco !;
second, that the company "will ever be
mindful of the laws of this State, and
"will endeavor cheerfully to submit to
them as it understands them, or as the
s'Courts construe Them" and, for the
rest, that the company Sin the manage
"ment of its business, will be gov
"erned, under the laws of the land,
entirely by consideration of what it
"shall deem, in its own judgment, to be,the
"wisest policy, having due regard for the
"rights and interests of its stockholders. F"
This is a temperate and dignifed way of
saying that the company proposes to con-
ouSb ito Wv IL DuSIuCSS, anu luttb IL uOtS uOU
propose to take instruction from the sand
lotters. The anti-Chinese bill which has
just been enacted will no doubt have to
be passed upon by the Courts before it will
be accepted as good law by those with whose
free conduct of their own affairs it interferes.
A Legislature may persuade itself that it is
not called upon to go behind the State
Constitution in case of this kind,
though it is very doubtful if any man who
voted for the bill seriously believed in
this convenient sophistry, but it is very
different matter when the execution of
such law is in question, and here all reli-
ance upon the demagogism which infu.
ences legislative bodies must cease. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether the Constitution
of the United States is of none effect in
California, but we are compelled to say
that we entertain the most profound con-
tempt for the legal abilities of those So
called lawyers who have expressed them
selves as harboring doubts upon the propo-
sition
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CAVE MAN IN ENGLAND.

Professor Bovd Dawkins, a prominent
English geologist. gave recently lecture
in London on 1.-THE Man of the Cayerns, u
in the course of which he drew vivid pic
ture of Southern England in prehistoric
times. While the river-drift men and the
cave men were living in Britain, the hills
and valleys in the south of England, he
said, presented the same outlines as they
did now. Could we take our stand in
those times on Shooters Hill or on the Es-
sex Heights, and look over the Thames
valley in the direction of London, we
should see dense forest of oak, ash and
Scotch fir, and the course of the Thames
marked by lines of willows and alders. A
few thin columns of smoke rising over the
tops of the trees would mark the camping
places of primeval man. In the forests
wild boars, mammoths, and rhinoceroses,
wild horses, stays, and Irish elks
would meet our eyes, and in the summer
time countless herds of bisons, like those
now ranging over the plains of Northwest
ern America In the winter were vast
numbers of reindeer, and few musk
sheep, the most Arctic of the mammalia
family in its habits. In the rivers were
offers and beavers, and the explorer would
be startled by the snort of the hippopota-
mus in the reaches of the Thames near
Brentford. Beasts of prey also abounded,
lions, leopards. hyenas, grizzly bears,
wolves and foxes. If we penetrated to
one of the camp fires we should. have seen
the river-drift hunter chipping or using
some of those rude flint implements which
lie in the London gravels along with the
remains of the animals which he hunted.
The river-drift man, in the long course
of ages, was succeeded by the man of the
caverns and more highly equipped for the
battle of life. In the course of time the
cave man disappeared, the climate and
geography of England becamealmost what it
was now, the hunter stage Of civilization
was superseded by that of the herdsman
and the tilier OF the ground and the manu-.
factarer of the neolithic age. From the
neolithic age down to the present time the
progress of man had been unbroken in
Britain and in Europe, and the present
condition of the European peoples was to
be looked upon as the result of gradual
series OF changes by which civilization sue
ceeded civilization, and race succeeded race,
the old order yielding place unto the
new" because the new order was higher
and nobler.
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TIE NEVADA oPIuM Law Coysr,r,

The NEVADA OPIUM Law CossrrrU-
TIoNAL--Says the Carson 7'ri5une. The
Supreme Court this morning declared the
opium law to be constitutional. The case
was The State VS.. All Sam, convicted in
HUMBOLDT county of visiting an opium den
for the purpose of smoking opium. Each
and every point in the Act is thoroughly
passed upon in the opinion, and as whole
declared constitutional, and, of course, the
Judgment of the lower Court sustained.
The opinion is by Chief Justice Beatty, and
concurred in by Judges Hawley and Leon.
ard. The result of this appeal case will be
very pleasing to all lovers Of good principles
and sound morality, for now that the GER
taipty of a sentence to the State Prison
hangs over the convicted opium-zmoker.
dread of punishment will accomplish what
good advice and threats failed in doing.
The defendant in this case being China.
man, and of a race addicted to the habit of
opium using in every form, his conviction
is likely to have double weight in lettering
our youth from adopting the very pernicious
habit.
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THE TRUTH ABOUT EEL RIVER. Fern
dale Enterprise An effort is being made
by some to have those who have never seen
or examined Eel river or its entrance to the
sea, believe it is nothing more than a
slough, that the body of water that flows
in and out of the mouth of Eel river is
small-exceedipgly small-and that with
the aid Of a pair of long-legged rubber
boots man would be enabled to cross the
river and come out ON the opposite shore
of the river dry shod. In order that the
facts may be known and published to the
world as they really exist, number of ex-
perienced seamen went down to the en-
trance Wednesday. and made thorough
examination of all parts of the river, and
especially of the bar, with the following
satisfactory result: The water from the
river was found flowing into the sea
through two channels, each about 100
yards wide, and ) miles apart the water
between these entrances measured 81 to
IL feet in depth at quarter tide, which at
high tide would be increased to depth
of from IL to ii feet. Upon examina-
ton the water on the bar of the old en-
trance was, at half tide, found to measure
10 feet, with wide channel running
straight out to sea, enabling vessel to
enter with ease, and without the slightest
danger The water just inside the bar
was found to measure 26 feet The en-
trance made by last winters high water,
commonly known as the new entrance, was
sounded at third tideand marked Sfeetonthe
line. This entrance, it is, stated by those
residing near by, is rapidly filling up,
which statement is verified by its past his
tory. Salt river was sounded on half tide
from the old entrance to the wharf at Port
Kenyon, finding good channel with water
varying in depth from 81 to 26 feet. The
tide Gibbs and flows up Eel and Salt rivers
a distance of ten miles, with a flood of
from 5 to feet, once every IL hours, be-
sides the large amount of water which must
necessarily flow from Eel river and its
tributaries, which in itself is almost suffi.
Gent the year round to make an entrance
of sufficient depth to float steamer of z
feet draught.
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MYSTERIOUS MURDER THURSDAY n


MYSTERIOUS MURDER. Thursday morn
ing MIR. Salvador received dispatch
stating that John Wyss, living on the
formers ranch in the mountains, about
eleven miles from Saratoga, had been
found dead in his cabin. In the
afternoon Coroner McMahon dispatched
his son John to the ranch. Mr. Nc
Mahon proceeded to the place and found
Wyss in store-room lying on his face and
hands with his forehead crushed in. His
head was covered with brush. The deed
had evidently been done with club. Near
the body was found an ak, which showed
no indication that it had been used in the
Preparation of the murder There was no
signs of struggle in the room. The body,
which was slightly decomposed, was
searched, but nothing was found. Mr..
McMahon visited the cabin, about twenty
feet from the store-room, and under the
blankets of the bed he found the old mans
naturalization papers. 1t was reported
that the deceased had recently drawn
large sum of money from the bank. Wyss
was native of France, aged 6S years,
and had been taking care of the ranch for
three years. He was not known to have
any enemies, although a man informed
Mr.. Mcmahon that Wyss had quarreled
with person about some goats He was
last seen alive about three weeks ago by
Mr.. Alsage, proprietor of the Saratoga
Springs. Jose Times, Febsuary 18th.
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DISSOLUTION OF GOPARFNERSHIp
ArorfcE Is HzkERY GIVEN THAT IN nr

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN PUR
IN suance Of an order OF the Probate Court a
the city and county Of San Francisco State of Cali
fornia, male on the 10th day of NOVEMBER 1s76
in the matter Of the estate Of JESSIE RUSSELL
OSBORN, deceased, the undersigned, the Adj
mipistrator of said estate will sell at private sale
to the highest bidder for cash. In gold coin of the
United States, and subject to confirmation by said
Probate Court, on or after FRIDAY the 5th
title, interest aud estate CT the said JE SIZE RUS.
SELL OSBORN, deceased, az the time Of her death.
and all the right. title and interest that the said
estate has, by operation of law or otherwise,
acquired other than or in addition to that of the said
deceased ut the time of her DEATH in and TO all that
certain lot piece parcel Of land situate lying and
being IN the said city and county Of Sacramento,
State OF California, aud bounded and described as
IolfWs, TO wit: The north half Of the south half Of
the north half OF lot number one y, in the block
bounded by and aud Second and Third streets, in
said lot being twenty feet in width By eighty fee in
depth.
Terms and conditions OF sale Cash. in ID coin
chaser.
Bids or offers may be made at any time after the
first publication Of this notice and before the making
OF the sale.
All bids offers must be writing and left at the
Office Of +. W. Van Reynegon, Attorney-atrL Law.
No 53l California street, in said city and county OF
San Francisco, delivered to the Administrator, or
may be filed IN the office of the Clerk of said Probate
Court.
Dated San Francisco, February 13 1897.
ii. Z. OSBORN,
Administrator Of the estate Of jessie Russell Osborn
decreased.
F. W. VAN REYsEeox, Attorney. n615t
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climax is reached.
There may be those who think that it
would be the shortest way out of the diff
Guilty to. precipitate this climax. but we
are not of that number. For it is evident
that the result may be to bring about dis
asters from which the State could not re-
cover in generation. If, during riot of
any kind, half San Francisco should be
destroyed, it cannot be believed that it
would be speedily rebuilt. For five years
the business men and capitalists OF that
city have been losing confidence in the
future. 1t is extremely doubtful whether
they would retain enough hope to induce
them to remain after such catastrophe.
But it is clear that unless some steps are
taken to combat the chronic disturbances
which curse the city and react iniuriously
over the whole State, there can be no i'm
provement in the present condition of
things. Men who feel their ability to
choose their own business surroundings
will not consent to sit down patiently and
spend their lives amid such continual
harassments and assaults. The disposition
to make war upon capital, to menace
vested interests, to seek concessions by
threats, is becoming too confirmed to be
longer treated lightly. So much real harm
has moreover been done by the adoption
of the new Constitution that it may
be questioned whether in many cases
the ability to Withstand these at
tacks has not been destroyed. 1t
tits plain that the drift of things now is
toward the decline of all confidence in the
future. 1t is to be feared that appeals to
the turbulent element itself are destined
to be quite useless. Those, therefore, who
are intelligent enough to perceive the dan
gers of the situation, and who are alone
accessible to reason, ought to ask them
selves whether it is impossible to do any,
thing for the restoration of quiet, and the
cessation of those dangerous agitations
which now threaten to break down the
prosperity of the community and to blast
the future of the State.
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even alleged, that the Jews swell the
criminal element abnormally. The staple
ground of complaint is their abominable
prosperity. To make raid upon success
full people is indeed no novelty, but it is a
novelty to find such a raid made by learned
doctors asd professors who, for all their
erudition, are blind to the influence of in
herited bigotry and intolerance. upon their
convictions, and who attempt to dignity
with labored polemics crusade which is es-
sentially barbarous and prosecuting and
narrow and unjust,
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THE DEBRIS QUESTION.

EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN 1t is becoming
every day more apparent that no basis OF
compromise will be found between the min.
ing and the agricultural interests in regard to
the flow of tailings from hydraulic mines
over agricultural lands. The failure of any
legislation to meet the case will relegate the
whole subject back TO the htigant position it
has heretofore and still occupies The issue
of the controversy has no middle ground in
appeal to law. The farmers demand that
hydraulic mining cease at once, and pray COR
immediate injunction to that end. Failing
in obtaining this injunction, the farmers
will then be suppliants for legislation,
since that will be the only remedy for the
tailings down the streams of the
State. Succeeding in their efforts to
enjoin the miners, hydraulic mining will
cease, and the most important interest in the
State will be blotted out. If these interests
were animated by a true spirit of compromise
and mutual concession, or of that kind of for
bearance which characterizes true civiliza-
ton, means could readily be devised whereby
all the evils complained of might be remedied
without injury to any existing interests 1t is
only too apparent, however, that the farming
side OF the question Is being led and controlled
by the attorneys, who are interested in the
perpetuation of the interminable litigation
into which they have entered, and who find
in the Courts of theS State the most satisfac-
tory remedy to themselves. If the present
session of the Legislature shall adjourn
without devising some means of set
Ting the existing controversies on some
just basis, the question will be left
to interminable and costly litigation, in
which the parties most profited will be the
attorneys on both sides of the case That
these attorneys are using their influence
against any amicable adjustment of the case
is only too apparent. They have from the
first discouraged every proposition of what
ever character looking to any other than set
Element in the Courts, and as long as both
parties are led by them there is no hope of
any compromise or any adjustment of the
difficulty within the space of at least ten
years. CALIFORNIAN.
Grass Valley, February II, 1880.
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HoMIcfDL-On Sunday last Portu-
guese named Manuel Sylvester was shot
and killed by Cornelius Van Dorsen, on
the Divide, about midway between Yreka
and Hawkinsville. The parties were
sheepherders, and had some difficulty, the
particulars Of which are not positively
known, as no witness except the man who
fred the fatal shot has yet been found,
although he says more were present. Van
Dorsen surrendered himself to the Sheriff.
and claims to have acted in self-defense.
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For it is, we think, impossible to dem
the inherited repulsion which centuries of
savage fanaticism engrafted upon the
Christian nature of Europe. Whoever
undertakes to maintain the absence of that
animosity toward the Jews as Jews, must
show wherein their actions, habits, con-
duct, business tendencies, differ materially
from the actions, habits, conduct, business
tendencies, OF millions of other men by
| whom they are surrounded. And it must
also be remembered that after all the crust
of German culture is not very thick one.
Civilization in Germany has been plant
of slow growth, and though it has BIOS
| somed profusely, its blooming was late
The tendency therefore for the old hatred
of race to crop out upon provocation may
well have been strong enough to ASSERT
itself, but that it has any high or ra.
tional Interpretation we cannot believe.
Put into the simplest terms, it is
the worldly prosperity of the Jews that
ofends their Christian neighbors. Any
one may convince himself that this is true
by asking himself whether the actions of
poor Jews would have been likely to evoke
the same kind Of explosion. But the
Jews get rich in ways which are not no.
nopolized by them. Ii they do not incline
to mechanic arts, but to finance and COM
meree, what is that to any one? Do Ger
mans pretend that mechanical pursuits are
somehow more moral or more patriotic
than financial and commercial pursuits {.
If so, it would seem that the real cause OF
quarrel between the German Jews and
Christians was identical with the cause
of quarrel between Capital and Labor,
or, in other words, that it is but a
new phase of the irrepressible conflict
between the HAYES and the Have Nots.
| The Jews did not make the sy.-
TEN which they seem to have awaited
themselves of SO successfully. II tits I'M
desirable that non-producers should be
enabled to control the funds of country,
evidently it Is the system that is at fault,
not those who take the system as they
find it. Il does not seem to be shown, or
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A lady recently had premonition that
as soon as she printed her first volume of
poems she would die The premonition
was fulfilled. We would earnestly call the
attention of a. large number of poetical
young ladies and gentlemen to the fact that
things generally happen without any pre-
monition at all.
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A CURIOUS WAR OF RACES.

A strange war of races has broken out
in Germany. 1t has taken the shape of a
crusade against the Jews. How it began
we have not learned, but according to the
Nation it is raging with unexampled fury.
the hostility of the Germans to their Is
raelitish fellow-citizens being expressed in
ponderous pamphlets, sharp circulars, rat
thing leaders, and every form of literary
attack. The Jews do not lack champions
and defenders, but the attack upon them is
SO bitter and so evidently inspired by a
deep-seated feeling, that the episode is de-
serving of special study. The case on
both sides is thus epitomized by the Ma
ton: 1.-THE anti-Jews says that the great
"enemy of the German nation works
"neither with pillow, nor trowel, nor ham.
"mer, nor pickaxe, nor spade; that he
escapes military service by being fiat
footed, bow-legged, hump-backed and
"weak- backed that he monopolizes CON-
"merce and controls the money market
"that he is pushing, restless, intrusive,
gets all the best places for himself, and
"lives in the country as if it were
ga tavern. To which the Jews reply, that
Z" for ages they were shut out from all en-
"ployment but that of money changer or
trader; that their physical defects are
"the results of the wretched existence
'Iong led by the race under Christian op-
preston that they make no money by
"any means not open to everybody, and
that they use it for asznoble purposes as
"the Christian; that they are as public
"spirited and as patriotic that the race
&C has given Germany MendelssolIn, Mey-
"erbeer and Heine, and the world Spinoza,
"Moses, and Jesus Christ 1t will
be seen from this that the fight is sharp
one, and as it is being conducted by
learned professors and publlcists like
Treitschke, it is evident that everything
that can be said on either side
is sure to be pressed into the controversy.
The great publicist Treitschke, indeed,
treats the question as very serious, and
says that Germany is being overrun by
northern Jews, "who are eating up the
country in all fields of activity, besides
"seizing on the periodical press" He says
it is all very well for Englishmen and
Frenchmen to laugh at the German excite
ment, for in neither of those countries are
there more than $4,000. Jews, while in
Germany there are 600, eco, and they are
still coming. He declares that "the anti
"Semitic movement is powerful and deep
Sin all the most enlightened and Guilt
"vated circles, and amongst those who are
"farthest removed from all idea of relig-
''ious intolerance or national pride" 1t
may be- well doubted, however, whether
this last statement ought not to be taken
with several grains of allowance.