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MINING NOTES

Large supplies OF timber are being cut
around Port Wine for the Boranzs and
Virginia mines.
A ledge recently struck at Willow Creek,
near Paradise, Nevada, is said to assay
from 1855 to $500 per ton.
The French hydraulic Company is re-
pairing their ditch and tiume, preparatory
for active operations next fall
The Queen and the Union drifting claims,
Sierra county, are being worked by eighteen
men, and yield well this season.
A new contract will soon Be let by the
Highland Mary Company, Sierra county.
for running of more tunnel back into the
hill at Wahoo.
The new mining district, called Mojave, in
San Bernardino county, is beginning TO
attract attention by the abundance and
richness of its ores. They are black oxide
OF silver, in copper-stain quartz. They
are located llo miles east of Santa Ana.
The Folsom Telegraph says: G. w.
Hammer, who resides near Alder Creek,
while out hunting one day last week found
a piece OF gold-bearing quartz the size OF
hens egg that was literally studded with
gold, supposed to be worth S70or more and
really the finest specimen Of the kind we
have ever seen.
An important strike was recently made
in the josie Green mine, IN Mono county.
The ore vein was struck in an incline that
was being sunk on the ledge. 1t is about
fifteen inches wide. of the most beau
tiful free gold quartz a considerable
quantity Of 1t was brought to the IHdsr
Office, every piece fairly glistcpiag with
the precious particles. The incline has
been sunk on the ore body, which con-
tinues to improve in width.
Several boxes of rich specimens were
brought up from the Rocky Bar yesterday,
says the Grass Valley Union of September
ID coming from the same part of the ledge
that produced the rich rock last week.
The rock was not equal in richness to the
best that has been taken out, but it was of
the genuine bonanza kind, that ton OF it
would sum up into the Thousands. The
Rocky Bar Company has evidently drop
ped on the richest gold streak that has
been found in this district in many day.
The Mammoth Bar mine, on the middle
| fork of the American river, near Auburn,
is represented to be giving very encourage
| ing prospects. This claim is on portion
of the river bed that never could be worked
in early days of river mining, because of
the great depth Of. the gravel and the i'm
possibility OF getting to the bottom of the
channel without the aid of deep working
by machinery. The ground has been con-
tinuously held for many years by Grass
Valleyans, and last season an Incorporated
company was formed to work lhe claim
under the above name.
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BIBLE COPYRIGHT.


A new and curious test of the morality
of American publishers is about to be made.
The revision of the Bible, which has been
proceeding for some years in England, ap-
proaches its completion, and the revised
edition is about to be published by the
great publishers Macmillan & Co. Of
course new edition of the Bible involves
an enormous outlay and an equally large
profit, supposing the original publisher is
allowed to retain the monopoly. But it is
feared that in this country the temptation
to issue piratical edition viii be too much
for the moral stamina OF some OF our lesser
publishers. It is said that the American
Bible Society has agreed not to republish
the revision without permission, and that
the Baptist Society has promised that it
will not "pirate the Holy Scriptures.
But it is ominous that arguments are being
brought forward to show that the Bible is
the common property OF Christendom,
while it IS further contended that the re-
vision being foreign publication is not in
titled to protection in this country. The
fact thatfve American scholars havebeen on
the revision committee throughout may
perhaps afford ground for claiming copy
right in the United States. There can be
no doubt that the special contributions of
these American citizens could be copy
righted, as has been already done with the
Encyclopedia Britannica. But while such
an arrangement would doubtless effectually
prevent all pirating, since it would be i'm
possible to print the Bible with any parts
omitted, it may be questioned whether the
necessity of inserting the names of the
American reviewers opposite their work
would not mar the appearance of the origi-
nal publication. AS the case stands, the
indications are that the new revision Of the
Bible will be pirated as soon as it appears,
and that Macmillan & Co. will have to
make up their minds to forego all profit on
their enterprise in the United States. 1t
is pity that this should be SO, but the
opportunity is too good a one for the pi-
rates to let pass, and moreover, they seldom
find so many plausible excuses for their
professional thieving.
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BELTzHoovER's LETTER.

1t appears that Congressman Beltzhoo-
yer, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, wrote
a letter in which he stated that pension
bills do not find much favor with the pres
emit Democratic House, and that the rebel
General who is at the head of the Pension
Committee in the Senate is still more
averse to allowing such bills favor. TWAS
certainly somewhat remarkable thata Demo-
cratic Congressman should have made such
statement, because there can be no doubt
of its truth, and also because all Demo-
Gratis are supposed to understand, without
being told, why Southern Congressman
are coldly disposed toward bills pensioning
Union soldiers. Mr.. Beltzhoover, how
ever, made the mistake Of declaring this
letter to be forgery, when it was pub.
lished, and now the New York Tribune con-
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1NsIHcERITY IN THE PULPIT.

The Rev. E. Z. Hale has an article In
the September North american ReUie,0 on
" Insincerity in the Pulpit" Coming from
a clergyman such paper is necessarily
more interesting than the criticism OF a
Iayman would be, since it is to be pre-
sumed that the writer has special sources
of information. The burden of Mr.. Hale's
accusations against his brethren is that they
do not say all they believe, in the pulpit;
that they make many mental reservations
that they not infrequently preach dogmas
which neither they nor their congregations
believe; that in fact they have become de-
moralized by the advances OF Science, and
that while great many OF them have fol-
lowed scientific progress and historical
criticism to the verge Of skepticism, If
not beyond the verge, great many more
have endeavored to effect a compromise by
quietly dropping the discredited dogmas,
and preaching generalities which demand
no precise definition. Mr.. Hale asserts
that it is the duty of the preacher " to say
"what he belives, not what he wishes to
"believe, OF thinks it would be well to
believe" And he continues g 1t seems,
q now, as if the country at large was be.
&" ginning to doubt whether the pulpit does
"make such utteranoe. Ia one quarter
and another, and this in no dainty
"terms, it is called half-hearted. Preach
'sers are called towards and insin-
cere. 1t is for the organs OF
orthodoxy to consider how far they can
bear to diminish the power of the pulpit.
"They ought to know whether its
" dogmatisms have any such power as to
make it safe to risk the contempt of those
"who hear They ought to ask themselves
whether men now come to church with
ssthe eagerness with which men once came,
'or whether the word spoken from the
"pulpit now commands the sort of assent
al it once commanded. The ques-
"tion is, Does the American people, on
q the whole, believe that the preach
ers say all they know This is a
Every grave question. In proportion
"as orthodoxy shirks it, or as it
"fails to amend its ways, in that pro-
portion will the American pulpit,
$50 far as orthodoxy controls it, cease
'to be the power which it once was, and
(which it wishes to be-" This is plain
talk, and shows that MIR. Hale at least
believes in the justice of his criticism and
the need for reform. But it is more diff.
cult to suggest remedy than to point
out the disease, and in point of fact he
fails to suggest remedy. For if, as he
intimates, many preachers no longer
believe the things which they preach,
it would seem Improbable from an
ecclesiastical standpoint for them to avow
their disbelief openly before their congre-
cations. Such avowals would very prob
ably dissolve the congregations, but it is not
reasonable to suppose that they would
strengthen confidence in the sincerity or In
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&c pEnANp ron wINE N rRANcg

According to the latest authorities the
plyliorer1 has completely triumphed over
the French vineyards. All remedies have
failed, and the present estimate is that in q
few years the yield OF the French vines viii
cease altogether. and the country will be
dependent upon importation for its entire
supply Of wine. It is true that when
American vines have been planted they
have resisted the pdyliorera successfully,
and proved healthy, but the substitution
of American vines is necessarily work
Of time, and it must take many years to
bring up the new grapes to the standard Of
the old ones In the meantime this rs the
opportunity Of America, and especially Of
California. The value of imported wines
IN France has risen irons 600, 900 to 1884,
600, 600 Italy, Spain, Algiers and Hungary
are our rivals, and none OF them can
produce as good vintagos. The California
wines are now bought largely for mixing,
By European vintuers, and considerable
market Of this kind exists. They need,
however, to be pressed Tor what they are on
their merits, and it cannot be doubted that
If this is judicionsly done the great i'm
provements which have been effected dur
ing the last five years in the quality OF our
wines viii secure them a ready sale in the
French market. France must go abroad
for her wines henceforth, for at least a
generation, and perhaps for half century
or more, and California ought to be able to
supply the larger part of this demand, and
thus establish permanent and extensive
yiticultural industry
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the utility of the preachers. The chief
difficulty is that the doubts of so many
preachers involve the very foundations of
the schemes of religion they support, and
that therefore if they should say all they
believed they would have to say that they
did not believe in the efficiency of their
own preaching. This consideration appears
to offer an almost insuperable objection
to the adoption of that intrepid and
unreserved candor which Mr.. Hale
recommends. That frankness might, in
the opinion of some, be salutary
in regard to the REIMBURSEMENT of con-
gregations, but to such as still believe that
dogmatic theology ought to be taught, it
would seem that the prescription of Mr..
Hale would be,suicidal. Insincerity in the
pulpit, if it exists, is no doubt deplorable
and discouraging, but if it is, as alleged,
due to the failure of all attempts to over
come the force of scientific discovery, there
appears to be no sufficient remedy for it,
compatible with the maintenance of the
pulpit as a moral and civihzing agency.
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AN ODD STAGE ROBBERY.
A correspondent of the RECORD UNION

A correspondent of the RECORD UNION,
writing from Aurora, New, says:
The first week in September there was
an odd stage robbery over on the Aurora
and Bodie road. The BelleyilIe stage was
first robbed by two highwaymsn. They
then went over to Dalzells and robbed the
passing stage. The same night (Fridayl
went eight miles toward Wellington and
waited for the down-stage from Bodie, On
that stage was foley, the shotgun guard,
on the outside, and Tom Woodruff on the
inside, with a number Of passengers and
plenty of bullion, and Messrs. Ulzich and
Billings following in a buggy. The rob-
bers built forts or walls OF stone on either
side of the road, and seoreted themselves
behind them. IS the stage came up they
demanded a halt, and began 20 fire from
pistols. One of the shots killed the leader
of the stage team, and another shot passed
through Tobeys arm. a robber then
rushed up on each side of the horses toward
the coach, when Tobey fred, blowing, as ne
believed, the head off Of one OF the robbers.
Woodruff sprang ont and fired &c he other
robber twice, who howled with pain and
ran eff into the sagebrush and fell. The
superstition was that both the robbers were
dead, and so Woodruff, Ulrich and Billings
took Tobey on the blackboard buggy
and drove on to get Tobey's wound
dressed, leaving the driver to get the dead
horse out of the way alone, and come on
with the bullion and passengers, While
the driver was at work with his disorgan-
lied team the robber, who had fallen as if
dead and had successfully played possum,
o,o+ mn and %al,inr the aT0rpss hOxpg
cooIly marched off with the boxes in one
hand and his gun in The other, and called
out repeatedly, Partner, where are you?"
not knowing that his fellow -highwayman
was dead. This is reckoned one Of the
checklist robberies on record. The name
of the dead robber was Horton.
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fronts him with fac simile engraving of it,
demonstrating to all who know his hand
writing that he wrote it. Thus his haste
to escape from damaging exposure has
plunged him into still more damaging
one, and in endeavoring to save himself
and his party from the stigma of disloyalty
he has branded himself as willful liar.
No doubt the letter was very imprudent
one for him to write at such tine, but
no doubt he stated fact in it, and one
which it is interesting and perhaps im-
portant for the country to know. As for
his own reputation for veracity. that is
sacrificed, and worst of all, he has only en-
phasized the sinister significance of his i'll
starred letter.
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RUSSIA AND GERMANY.

Baron Huebler is said to have stated
that the close alliance between Germany
aud Austria is the inevitable issue OF an
attempt made year ago by Russia to Sc
cure French alliance against Germany.
NJ. Waddington not only declined the pro-
position, but proceeded to inform Bismarck
of it, and the Chancellor, who has never
had any love for Gortschakoff. at once took
steps to checkmate the Muscovite diplo-
matist by ratifying compact with the
house of Hapsburg. 1t is quite possible
that this story is true, and it is also by no
means unlikely that the German-Austrian
alliance may before long compel Bismarck
to take more active part in the Eastern
question than Germany had counted upon.
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BAD NEWS.

It is now stated that upon fuller re-
turn of the votes in Arkansas the repudia-
ton amendment to the Constitution
appears to have been adopted. II this IS
so the progress Of Arkansas for the next
half century is effectually stopped, and she
viii join the rank of Southern States
which have put themselves out of the race
of civilization by repudiating their just
obligations. In a short time the difference
between these States and the honest debt
paying ones will become SO conspicuous
that we are in hopes the Greenbackers
may be induced to migrate thlther. Ger
tainly they will find in Arkansas and its
repudiating mates the most congenial at
mosphere any part of the Union can afford
them.
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THRAsHING MUSTARD. in regard to the
proper mode OF thrashing mustard, the
Castroville argus says:
For years past, in fact ever since the
growing of mustard for market was COM
menced by the farmers of this valley, John
Chinaman has enjoyed c monopoly of
thrashing that commodity. And ne has
made money out of it, too, as he does from
every employment he enters. But his
occupation as a mustard thrasher appears
now to be seriously threatened, IS we gather
from w. A. Evans. Cooper ranch f7rmer,
who proposes to supplant Chinese Ia or in
the mustard harvest by the use of horses.
Mr. Evans is, we believe, Che pioneer of
the new plan in this section, and furnishes
the following as the n1od4s opercaG.. On
a thick layer of straw he rests a large
sheet of canvas, say sixty feet square the
larger the betterl, and here the cut Il s.
tard is dumped and spread ont, after which
double team is repeatedly driven over it,
tramping out the seeds, but owing to the
springy layer Of straw beneath the canvas
and the Intervention of the stalks, not
breaking them. The removal Of the stalks
and the transfer of what then remains on
the canvas is next in order, the operation
being thus repeated and the use OF the
tanning mill finishing the Job previous to
sackirg for market. This method, Mr..
Evans tells us, is considerably cheaper
than the employment of Chinese TO do the
work and is likely to be adopted on large
scale until steam power shall be utilized
for the thrashing OF mustard as generally
as for the thrashing OF wheat and barley.
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CANON DUcKwoRTH has got himsef and
another clergyman into an odd snari. Not
long ago he fell very i'll, resigned his ilVing
at St. Johns Wood and talked OF resignlng
his canonry at Westminster. ana went
abroad, after preaching his farewell sermon N,
Beaconsfeld presented the Rev. Or. sam am
mel Flood Of St. Mathews, Leeds, to the
l;v;na the Canon had resigned, and Dr.
Flood gave up his own living when sud
da auI .5e Canon reappeared and insisted
on teepine the place, resting his case on
tocbnIcal defect in the letter OF resigna-
tion The subject will come up in Parlia-
ment.
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A Young man from Texas married gi

A young man from Texas married girl
in North Carolina, and then proposed to
leave her while he worked his way back to
his Texas home, in the hope there of earn
ing money enough to send for her. She
said, however, that she would rather ac-
company him afoot. They therefore made
the Journey of !, 900 miles as tramps, but
their good appearance gained for them
considerable help along the way, and for
the last fifty miles they rode triumphantly
in carriage, provided by an enthusiastic
admirer of their pluck.
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SPIRITUAL CoNsoLATIoN.-Th Los An
geles Herald OF August 29th tells the fol.
lowing which refers to reverend gentle
man formerly of Sacramento
A good joke is available at the expense
of Rev. VIM. H. Hill, the much respected
Episcopal clergyman OF Los Angeles. A
lady parishioner of his was supposed to be
lying at the point of death. As in duty
bound, Mr.. Hill paid her visit, to impart
the last consolation of religion. He was.
met at the door by the inyabd's husband,
who stated that, by the physicians orders,
no one was to be admitted to see his wife.
But" said MIR. Hill, &c l understand that
she is at the point of death, and she needs
spiritual consolation" "God bless you,
said the good hearted but obdurate hus-
band, " she has the very best spiritual
consolation the market affords. DR.. Burton
has tasted of it, and he says it is excellent,
and if he don't know I'd like to know who
does. Money is no object when it comes
to spiritual consolation for my poor sick
us;fa ~
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Democracy, and what is more they belong
to the least honorable elements in it. The
Republican party has ever stood between
them and the attainment of their malevo.
lent designs, and it will ever continue so to
stand General Garfield at its head has
record which is conclusive assurance of
the reception any measures of reputation,
open or covert, would meet from his adj
ministration, and whoever favors the
Greenback follies will have to 90 to the
Democratic party for aid and comfort.
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HAVE TRIRD Hammer CT ara Sagrada
Bitters. and find they are all they are recon-
msnded to be. o. n. CBoRKIFI, Sacramento.
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Inc southern people nave HOb iss peSteo
republican institutions since the war. That
is the plain fact. It is also true that be-
fore the war Slavery had warped their
democracy into something quite different
from that which existed at the North.
But for twenty years the South has been
anything but democratic in its system of
government, and it has now formally IN
dertaken to establish permanent situation
of which minority government shall be the
cornerstone. 1t Is necessary to realize this,
because until it is adjudicated all attempts
to proceed with the government of the
country on the original principles must iail.
The Republic was constructed to fit ma
iority government. 1t was not constructed
to lit minority government, and it cannot
be made to do SO. The attempt to
harmonize majority and minority gov
eminent in the same general system
is clearly futile, nor is it any
more possible to conceal the fact
that these irreconcilable principles are both
in operation to-day It must be perceived
that they cannot be allowed to continue in
operation. They are not capable Of being
maintained contemporaneously. Govern
ment by majority must prevail throughout
the country, or Mexicanization will pre-
vail, which means that all true and ordered
government viii cease, and fraud and force
will be in the ascendent everywhere. The
recognition of this appears to US to be the
one vital requirement of the hour, and be-
side it all other considerations sink into
insignifcance. We have no right to pass
on to the discussion of any issue until we
have determined the conditions of all dis
cussion. At present our politicians are
dallying with this momentous issue, try.
ing not to perceive its imperative nature,
trying TO make believe that if the minor
ity usurpation can be overcome by down.
right majority expression. it will be
the same in the end as though no
usurpation had been attempted. 1t will
not be the same. We are to-day to all
practical intents divided nation. And
the most serious fact is that these divisions
have ceased to recognize the same govern
mental standards, though they affect to
believe that this separation has not taken
place. The North clings to majority rule.
The South adheres as stubbornly to minor
ity rule. Nor does it matter whether
there is any FEASIBILITY in the reasons
given for setting aside the fundamental
governmental principles at the South. All
that is important is that this has been done,
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