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class. Whatever weakens the arm of the
law strengthens the arms OF lawbreakers.
The tendency toward interference with the
Courts is therefore most dangerous, and
must be deprecated with the utmost seri-
business. When men who do not compre-
bend the facts volunteer to sign petitions
for the release OF convicted murderers, or
for the Communication of their sentences,
they exhibit an ignorance of the require
ments of justice and good government very
uncomplimentary to their intelligence, for
they are helping, to the extent of their ca
pacity, to bring into contempt and disre-
pute the laws upon whose satisfactory adj
ministration the safety of society and the
preservation of human life ever depends.
OF course to make the Communication of a
murderer's sentence race question or a
political question is to enhance the dangers
of the tendency. This, indeed, is nothing
less than Discrimination, and requires to
be checked instantly, and in the sharpest
and most ursparing way.
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PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

The Washoe Valley, New, fruit crop is
large one.
Eight Cinnamon have died at Cassiar
from the scurvy.
In Sonoma Ito young men will vote this
fall for the first time.
The Jacksonville beach clam-bed is be-
ing rapidly depopulatei.
Battle Mountain has shipped 100000
pounds of wool this year.
Prescott, Arizona, is awaking to the
need of having fire engine.
Anonymous letter writers have been
making mischief in Ventura.
Salmon are ascending the streams of
Santa Cruz in large numbers
There are eighty-nine patients in the
Territorial Insane Asylum at Steilacoom.
The population of Mono county is about
6,4l6, but the returns are not yet quite
complete.
A valuable spring of water has been
found within half a mile OF the summit of
Mount Hamilton.
Independence, Or, is improving rapidly.
A large hotel is soon to be built and also a
large brick store.
The C. P. r. R. has graded 5000 acres
of land at Reno, New, on the Highland
ditch, at So per acre.
a San Ysidro woman found her husban
at a Gilroy house of ilLfame, last week,
and horse-whipped him.
Miss Matte Gally, of jacksonville, has
raised $500 for the purpose of supplying
water to the cemetery of that town.
The Battle Mountain, New, Messenger
says that 1900 tons of hay will be cut
within twenty-five miles of that place.
There is talk of constructing road from
Lower Lake to Bartlett Springs. Two
thousand dollars have already been SUBJ
scribed.
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POPULAR SYMPATHY WITH MURDEREas.

It is no doubt very difficult to account
for the frequently exhibited popular dis
position to sympathize with the very worst
class of murdcrers, bat it is certainly
necessary to protest against a new kind
OF demonstration which has recently APP
peared in the East, and which is character
lied by the infusion of race sentiment into
these capricious displays of maudlin senti-
ment. Two cases of this kind have occur
red, one directly after the other. The
first was that of Chastine Cox, negro.
The negroes of New York and other parts
took up the case, and made the most
strenuous exertions to procure commu-
tation of the death sentence. The man
had murdered an old lady while robbing
her house. 1t was brutal and most un-
necessary crime, and there were absolutely
no cxtenuating circumstances. Yet the
colored people actually tried TO n AXE the
matter one both OF race and politics. They
began by claiming the Communication OF the
sentence as in some way due to them as a
race, and they ended by threatening Gov
ernor Cornell with vengeance at the polls
should they not be listened to. 1t is salts
factory to be able to say that this murderer
was duly hanged despite all their agitation
and folly. In the case of Balbo, an Italian
ruffian who cut the throat of woman be.
cause she refused to be hismistress, similar
effort was made by the Italians of New
York. They seem to have tried to make
national question of it. They prevailed
on their Consul to make representations.
They elevated Balbo into hero. They
held professions and meetings in his honor.
We do not know whether they too
threatened the Governor in case he did not
commute the sentence, bat when, notwith-
standing all their exertions, Balbo was
well and duly hanged, they gave him a
splendid funeral, turning out with quite an
imposing demonstration, after the manner
of revolutionary France. And in view of
such incidents as these it may well be
asked whether American society is becom-
ing hopelessly demoralized, SO far at least
as concerns some of its foreign elements.
It would, however, be mistake to con-
clude that sympathy with murderers is
confined to the foreign elements. Unfor-
tunately there is only too much evidence
that all classes in this country are liable
to be carried away by the wave of maud
lin sentimentalism which has go often
encouraged homicide AMI outrage by
cheating the gallows. The fact is that
all attempts to set aside the pro-
cedure of Courts and juries in murder
cases are attacks upon the administratio
of the law in the interest of the lawless
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A nEW SOUTHERN CENSUS.

1t is stated that new census OF South
Carolina will be ordered, and itls added,
that "under the law General Walker,
% the Superintendent of the Census, is
.'' empowered to remove the present Super
q visors and make new appointments, with
&c out regard to those nominated by the
Z" President and confirmed by the Senate
If this is the case an opportunity will be
afforded to ascertain the extent of the
frauds practiced in South Carolina. As
a matter Of course the taking of new
census there presupposes the commission OF
frauds in the recent enumeration, since it
is very certain that General Walker would
refuse to incur the expense unless he was
thoroughly convinced that the first enumer-
alton was untrustworthy. The Democrats
have attempted to pooh-pooh the reports
of fraud in the Southern census, but the
present developments leave little room
for assertions of that kind. The strong
probability is that it will be found neces-
sary to take new census all through
the South, for the evidence accumulates
that there has been fraudulent in
crease of nominal population in that
region, equal to at least two millions.
1t is no doubt fortunate that Congress
is not in session now, for there
can be no doubt that if it were the Demo.
Gratis would endeavor to prevent the TAX
ing of a new census at the South, on the
ground of expense, or some other excuse.
As it is the Census Bureau is free from
the possibility of partisan interference, and
General Walker has plenty OF time to take
a new census throughout the South before
the next Congressional session opens. We
should not be at all surprised. however, if
the Southerners resisted the taking of
new census. They evidently thought they
had arranged their plans so adroitly
that no discovery would be made
of these frauds. They forgot that the
commercial and manufacturing statistics of
their section, and all the results of the last
census, were open to inspection, and that
these returns constituted check upon
them. 1t is quite possible, however, that
they may undertake to bulldoze the new
enumerators, in which case the result will
probably be that no census of the South
will be had, and SO the attempt to raise the
representation of those States must prove
failure in any. case.
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NOT A MATTER OF CONJECTURE.

Our evening contemporary says: Oar
" morning contemporary thinks that it is
So necessary to retain the 5000, GOO, 600 idle
sin the Treasury in order to maintain
g gold at par. We do not think So"
What our contemporary thinks is, we
are compelled to say, nothing to the pur-
pose This is not question OF speculation
or conjecture. 1t is not an open ques-
ton. We have asserted, as a matter of
fact that the coin now in the Treasury is
needed az basis for the national currency.
We do not say so because we think so,
but because we know it to be true, and we
know it to be true because the experience
OF mankind from the earliest recorded
financial experiments proves it to be utter
ly impossible to maintain a paper cur
rency at gold par without
sufficient specie basis. Experience further
proves that the smallest proportion of coin
to paper that can be maintained with safety
is 33b per cent. There is no room for con
troversy on these points. History shows
that all the fanciful theories of the fat
money people have been tried long ago,
and it shows that they have invariably
failed, and why they have failed. There
has been no financial absurdity propounded
in this country which had not previously
been exploded elsewhere. There is no
novelty in the fiat-money fallacies. They
are simple exhibitions OF stubborn ignorance
on the part OF those who advocate them.
tanning paper currency at par with gold
without sufficient coin reserve to back it,
and sufficient coin reserve is no less
proportion of coin to paper than is
now held in the Treasury of the United
States. The assertion of our contemporary
that the'coin in the Treasury has nothing
to do with the maintenance of greenbacks
at par, we are compelled to characterize as
nonsense not because We "think it is
nonsense, but because the history of finance
shows it to be the widest delusion. If our
contemporary would trust a great deal less
to its own speculations, and a great deal
more to the teachings of history, it would
perhaps avoid many of the extraordinary
blunders which impair the value of all its
attempts to discuss financial questions.
As regards the history OF the demonctiza-
ton of silver, we give it, elsewhere, the
materials for somewhat better information
than it appears to have possessed hitherto.
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TIE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.

Tho triennial reunion of the Knights
Templar at Chicago has undoubtedly been
very profitable to that city, whether the
visitors have enjoyed themselves or not.
And if, as is now stated, the next re.
union is to be held in San francisco, that
city has good cause to congratulate ITSELF
For these gatherings bring great numbers
of people into town, and the Knights
themselves spend in the aggregate an in
mense amount of money. Probably
Chicago has profited during the few days
of this celebration to the tune OF three or
four millions of dollars. OF course one
source of profit has been the crowd OF
spectators coming in from all the country
round about In California there is no
such dense population to draw from, and
therefore San Francisco will have to de-
pend mainly upon the Knights themselves.
AS they may be expected to number from
thirty to forty thousand, however, it is
evident that it is worth while for any
city TO secure their celeDraglon, ana As
they are for the most part men of COM
petence or wealth, they are sure to prove
profitable guests. In San Francisco they
will at least be free from all danger of
prostration by the heat, and there will be
no record of sunstrokes or collapses at the
end of the parade. 1t seems quite posi-
bic, too, that the Californians will be able
to surpass the arrangements male for the
comfort of the visitors at Chicago, for
Though the correspondents have evidently
CLOSED this matter over, it is plain
enough that there was much mismanase-
ment and consequent dissatisfaction in
this regard.
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From 1858 to 1873 the coinage laws re-
manned unchanged, but during the last
three years of this period new adjust
ment of the currency was being discussed.
In 1870 Mr.. Boutwell,, then Secretary OF
the Treasury, proposed to Mr.. Sherman,
then at the head of the Senate Finance
Committee, bill for the revision of all the
laws relating to the MINIS. 1t was &C.
companied by report from J. j. Knox,
the Deputy Controller of the Currency,
explaining the bill, one of the provisions of
which was for the cessation Of the coinage
of silver dollars, in consequence of their
excess of bullion over nominal value. The
silver dollar had then long ceased to form
part of the currency of the country.
Every issue of the coin had been
promptly exported as bullion, and it was
apparently certain that this would con-
tinue to be the case. The proposition to
drop the dollar from the coinage was there
fore merely common sense proposition to
discontinue the coinage of piece of
money which had no use as circula-
ting medium. This measure, however, has
been misrepresented more recklessly and
Indignantly thar perhaps any other in
history, and the bald falsehoods which are
printed about it prove how very hard it is to
get even the best attested facts recognized
and admitted where prejudice or passion
IS concerned in having them distorted. 1t
has been said that the Act of 1873 was
procured 'by fraud and stealth" As we
have shown, it was first proposed in 1870.
In December that year it was reported
by the Senate committee, taken up for
discussion, and on the 9th of January,
1871, it was passed by the Senate. 1t was
then printed by the House. In February,
1871, it was reported to the House from
the Committee on Coinage, with substi-
tute by the Chairman, which, however,
retained the discontinuance of the silver
dollar coinage. Kelley's bill was ordered
printed and recommitted. In January,
1872, 1t was again reported. In April of
the same year it was taken mp by the
House and discussed at great length. In
May it was again discussed and amended.
On the 9th OF May it passed the House.
Going back to the Senate it was printed,
referred, reported, debated, re-referred,
amended, and reprinted. In January,
1873. it was discussed in the Senate, and
finally passed by that body on the 18th of
that month, and a conference committee
having adjusted the difference between the
houses, it was finally made law on the 18th
of February, by the Presidents signature.
1t will thus be seen that the bill had every
possible publicity and every opportunity for
examination and discussion. 1t was nearly
three years under consideration. During
that time it was repeatedly discussed by
the Finance Committee of the Senate and
the Coinage Committee of the House,
through five sessions of Congress. 1t was
repeatedly read in full in both houses. 1t
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BRITISH C0LUMRIA.
AdYices from Victoria.

VICTORIA, August 1Sth.-Telegraph com
munication continues uncertain, and attempts
to repair the cable have failed.
News unfavorable for the success of the
syndicate scheme for the construction of the
Pacific Railway through Canada is received
by telegraph.
Five hundred and seventy-one pupils re-
ported at the public schools this morning.
Proceedings have been taken against the
parties who were concerned in the carting of
200 cases of giant powder through the streets
for the railway.
A party has started out to explore the
sland for gold
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Trouble at Oakiand-Chinese Attempt to
Break Quarantine.

OAKLAND, August 20th.-About one month
ago smallpox appeared in the jute factory at
East Oakland among the Chinese employees,
of which there are between 700 and 500. The
establishment was promptly placed under
quarantine, and four special police officers
were detailed to prevent the quarantine being
violated. Subsequently new cases appeared
and the quarantine was kept up. At noon
to-day the Chinese revolted and attempted to
get out of the building. They were, however,
resisted and compelled to return. An appeal
was made to the Health authorities for as.
sistance, and a Captain of Police and six reg
ular policemen proceeded at once to the fac
tory. 1t is represented that they are under
instructions to shoot the first man who at
tempts to escape from the quarantined
building
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Sacramento Market.

FRufr-0ur Sacramento quotations from
the price-lists OF W. Il Strong s Co. and
revised up to T. NJ. yesterday. They rep
resent trade pTices, and have in view selected
apples, papersd for lon. shipment, 81 25@I so;
pears ordinary varieties, Use 81 Is; Bartlett, 3l
IS; prunes, sI@1 25 T. box; peaches q 25al 70 .
q box; figs, G@10c 1, Il; plums, in variety, I5c6sl q
box; oranges are very scarce, guotsble at $40 q
Tahiti; lemons, Sicily, s9dlo a box California, S4&
so; Australi1n, s5@5 50 y box; lines, Mexican,
sl59l7 e box bananas SSesi so q bunch pine
apples, sac u dozen; tomatoes, 408j9c % box;
watermelons, 00e1Sl q dozen grapes, 81 40ep1 60 .
case cTabapples 75c@sl q ; can;aoupes, 75@9oc
q doz. Late Crawford cling peaches row coming in.
We note some choice mountain peaches in to day.
FEED-Our quotations are from the price-lists cf
E. A. Burr. of this city, and corrected to date
Dat hay, S5a10 q ton, baled alfalfa, s7dS 2 ton,
ba.ed bran, Sl1@l2 q ton; barley, s9@95c y cwt.;
ground barley, 95c@Sl q cwt.; wheat, 81 40@l IS
. cwt; oats, 81 S5@2 e cwt.
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Vandalism at Chico Three Malicious


CHICO, August Goth. This city has been
in greatly excited state all the afternoon,
owing to the discovery this morning that some
twenty-five or thirty of the choicest trees
and shrubs in the public park had been
ruthlessly torn up and destroyed by three
tramps. 1t seems that these Migrants lad
been notified by the Marshal to leave town
by given time or they would be arrested,
and in spirit of revenge they went to the
park this morning about o'clock and COM
mit,ed the depredations, but were caught in
the act by officer Allen, who arrested all
three. The feeling of the citizens has been
most intense, and threats have been freely
made to take them from the lookup and
scourge them with the branches of the trees
they had destroyed. On being arraigned be-
fore the Justice this afternoon they pleaded
guilty and were each sentenced to six months
imprisonment. They give the names of Thos
Morton, John Williams and Charles Ella.
Morton and Williams have been recognized
as brothers. known as Mike and John Car
roll, and were sentenced from Vallejo some
time ago for horse stealing.
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STOLEN IeMelrr recovered.

MARYsyILLE, August 20sh.-All the plum
der taken from Gorcyzinski's pawn-brcksr
shop on the 9th instant was recovered this
afternoon by two lads from its hiding place
under the flor of the old stable on Third
street. near the railroad. A tramp was tenn
porarily occupying the premises, and the
lads attention was drawn to him through
curiosity, and their prying notions were re-
warded by the find. Immediately rotice was
given the police, and the plumber taken to the
Marshars office. Shortly after they arrested
Joseph Stiffenski and his wife, Caroline, who
were the parties in charge of the shop in
Gorcyzinsl1is absence at the time of the bur
glary. Searching their rooms the officers
found the mate to a stocking in which IN ,st
of the iewelry was found; also other evidence
strongly connecting them with the burglary.
The value of the jswelry recovered is about
$780,
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Held to Answcr-Preparing 10 Receive
the President.

Marshal Shaughnessy waived examination
before Justice Piper for assault on r. G.
Chambers, Superintendent of the Ontario
mine on Tuesday, and The Marshal was held
in 1900 bonds to keep the peace and $500
for his appe france before the Grand Jury.
This evening a meeting of the Gentle citi-
zens of Salt Lake, regardless of party, was
called at the Walker House parlors to make
arrangements for the reception of President
Hayes and party, who are expected here on
the 1st of September, and committee was
A pleasant reception is promised.
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DEATH FRoM ACCIDENT. August

DEATH FROM ACCIDENT. = Augustus
Weber, rancher, who resided about three
miles from fremont, beyond Davisyille,
while driving across the track Immediately
in front of an engine day before yesterday at
fremont, was struck before the engine could
be stopped, and received injuries from which
he died yesterday morning. An inquest was
held in the afternoon, which was attended by
Judge Mcfarland and special officer Burke,
TO represent the railroad company. The jury
returned verdict that death was caused by
an accident from being run against by loco
motive and that no blame could be attached
to the engineer The deceased was somewhat
deaf, which probably occasioned the accident.
He was about 90 years of age.
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Napa County Crops Obtaining Money
Under False Pretcnscs.

NApA, August 20th.-Much of the wheat
crop of this valley has been thrashed, though
considerable is still in the stack. The grain
has generally yielded better than was antici
pated, is of good color, plump ant clear A
few fields in the southern part of the country
still remain uncut. The first installments OF
the new crop are just coming into town, fully
a month later than usual. Extensive prepa-
rations are being made at the many wine cell
Jars in this valley to care for the immense
crop of grapes now approaching maturity.
AT several of the wine cellars steam power
will be introduced to elevate and crush grapes,
etc.. greatly facilitating the process of wine
making. Prices are higher than ever before,
ranging from $50 to $50 per ton. Nesrly all
the crop that is for sale has already been
bought up.
Charles 7. Bell, purporting to be an agent
of the San Francisco Journal Of Commerce,
was arrested here last evening for obtaining
money under false pretenses, He is now in
Jail awaiting trial
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At this season of the year. when the
broker returns on Monday morning from
the seaside or the springs, and his friends
comment on his rubicund complexion, he
remarks briefly, "sunburn." And then
they laugh and point exultingly to his
pimple, and he answers, "poison oak. !"
But they believe him not, for the seaside
whisky is of exceeding strength, and the
barkeeper at the springs scrupleth not to
put high wine in his cocktail.
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Train Delayed by IA Tashout-Suicide of
Democratic Candidate.

Los ANGELES, August 20th.-The passen-
ger train due from Arizona at 10 A. NJ. did
not arrive here until 1880 this evening. The
detention was caused by washout at Pan
tauo, east of Tucson.
DIR. Il. E. Reeves, of Downey, Democratic
candidate for Coroner, committed suicide this
morning by taking strychnine. He had been
drinking hard for some time
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the Rocky Bar mine still continues rich,
showing free gold in profusion. Several
candle boxes OF specimens were taken out to.
day, which will average about 500 to the
box. The extent of this rock is unknown,
but the ledge is the same as found in the ad-
Joining mine. which turns out very rich rock
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Eastern apd Foreign MARKETS.

New YoBg, August goth.
DEMONSTRATION and Wheat quiet latter
at 81 05@l IL.
wool-Cafornia is steady at 16t319c for fall
bury, and 2oa2Sc for clean fall; spring bury, ESQ
Soc; clean spring, $50 DC; pulled 40@50c.
HIDES California are dull and heavy at 22l@93e.
LIVERPOOL, August goth
WHRAr-Gocd to choice California, % Cd 10
9s lid. Spot lois are fat and penny lower cargo
lots quiet at ABS for those just shipped, and iIs
for those nearly due; French country markets are
generally cheaper