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THE WISDOM OF KEEPING A GOOD MAN
IN OFFICE.

Sacramento has been for years in debt.
1t is therefore necessary that the affairs of
the city should be conducted as efficiently
and economically as possible. The wisdom
of continuing in office men whose faithful
ness and efficiency has been proved, is con-
coded in all conditions of life but those into
which politics enter. 1t would be very
much the best course to recognize the prin-
ciple there also, whenever it can be done,
and conjuncture has arrived in which it
may be applied with advantage. In few
days an election will be held for Second
Trustee. Mr.. Knox is about to conclude
six-years term of public service, in which
he has proved himself one of the best Of
ticers Sacramento has ever had. No man
understands the needs of the city
better. No man has earned a bet
ter title to the confidence and es-
TEEN of the community. In moments
of danger and apprehension his sterling
qualities, his great administrative ability,
his strong sense of duty, have been exhib-
tied to the admiration of all who have OBJ
served him. As Street Commissioner he
has done the most that could be done with
the means at his disposal; has always
practiced the most rigid supervision and
economy; and has resisted every attempt
to squander the public funds upon unnec-
essary undertakings. He has never availed
himself of his opportunities to make polit-
ical capital for himself. He has never put
his own interests before the peoples. He
has been vigilant, active, prudent, upright,
and In every way efficient And since this
Is but simple truth, freely admitted by
all right-minded citizens, and since
the system of street improvements now
IN progress ought, as mere business
proposition, to be completed under the
superintendent of the man who under
stands it best, we desire to suggest the adj
visibility of re-electing Mr.. Knox, without
any reference to party politics, but because
he is the best man for the office. No party
need apprehend any baleful consequences
from the outcome of SO purely local an
election, and at such elections politics may
very well be ignored, to the advantage of
the public administration. There is no
prospect Of getting better man than Mr.
Knox. So far as we know there is no
prospect of getting as good a man through
party machinery. 1t would therefore be a
sensible thing to vindicate the principle
of retaining good men in the public service,
by reinstating this faithful and Jealous
officer
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THE RATE OF INTEREST.

All attempts to fix the rate of interest
by law have invariably failed, and for the
reason that tits matter altogether beyond
the reach of legislation. To say that all
men at all times shall pay the same rate for
the use of money, is to assume that the
necessities of all men at all times are pre-
cisely the same, which is ridiculous. 1t is
also to assume that all possessors of money
will be willing to lend it on the same
terms. and this is not less absurd, seeing
that there are many shades of risk to be
encountered, and that every risk must be
paid for by the borrower. 1t has been
sought to keep up usury laws in many
States of the Union, though seven
teen States and Territories have
abandoned it. But even those which
have undertaken to fix the rate of inter
est always provide that &. much higher rate
may be agreed upon by special contract,
and of course the practical effect of this is
to make the higher rate the one which
commonly obtains. In Massachusetts,,
Maine, Pennsylvania, and many other
States, usury laws have been given up as
opposed to public policy, and there can be
little doubt that this is the tendency of
legislation. When the rate of interest is
fixed by law, and it is not permitted to
exceed it under special contracts, the
condition of the borrower is excep-
tionally hard. Even then the law is
evaded but it tends to force the necessi-
tous into the clutches of sort of
harpies who fleece them far more
mercilessly than would be possible when
the money-market is free from statu-
tory restraints. As all the legislation
had under the new Constitution in regard
to the taxation of mortgages must tend to
divert capital from that form of invest
ment, moreover, it should be obvious that
usury law in this State would be calcu-
lated to injure the borrower exceptionally
In fact, we have no doubt that such law
as has been proposed, limiting the rate Of
interest to 6 per cent, would have the
effect of preventing the renewal of mort
cages in a multitude of cases, and thus of
dispossessing embarrassed farmers of their
homes
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DOUBLE TAXATION.

The revenue bills are perplexing the
committees, and no wonder. The attempt
to avoid double taxation without violating
the new Constitution must be ranked
among the most difficult and delicate oil
feats Whether it is practicable at all is
indeed by no means certain. The Consti.
tuition prescribes and defines taxable prop.
erty, and enumerates among the objects OF
taxation several things which are not prop.
erty at all in any scientific sense, but are
merely the vouchers for or representatives
of property. These shadows or reflections
the Constitution says shall be taxed equally
with the real things which constitute ac-
tual property, and unless the Legislature
takes the responsibility of ignoring the
plain letter of the organic law, it is
difficult to see how this mischief can be
avoided. In fact the Legislature has now
encountered one of those embarrassments
which were so airily disposed of while the
new Constitution was under discussion.
At that time many people excused their
apathy, or sought to justify their support
of the measure, by saying that it would
be easy enough to overcome all such diff
culties as this when the Legislature came
to put the new law IN force. The RECORD.
UNION combatted this idea, and pointed
out the extreme and dangerous precision
and minuteness of some OF the worst parts
OF the instrument. We then expressed the
opinion that it would be found scarcely
possible to modify or elude the destructive
force of these provisions, if it was once
adopted. Our advice, however, was not
needed, and now the people and Legisla-
ture can see for themselves how intracta-
BILE the instrument is. The Constitution
declares that (Art. MID: "The word
"'property as used in this article and Sec
ton, is hereby declared to include mon
"eys, credits, bonds, stocks, dues. fran
"chises, and all other matters and things,
"real, personal and mixed capable of
private ownership" To apply that deini-
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OREGON.
Sent to the Grand Jury-Helief Movement
-WOman's Suffrage AssOciatiOn-Presi-
Dental Preferences.

Sent to the Grand Jury-Eelief Movement
-WOman's Suffrage AssociatiOn-Presi.
Dental Preferences.
PORTLAND, February 10th.-Richard M.
johnson, who shot and instantly killed nj.
Crosserly at Monmouth, Polk county, on the
9TH inst, has been held to await the action OF
the Grand Jury on charge of murder. No
bail allowed.
A meeting of the various Irish Societies of
the city has been held, at which committee
of three was appointed to wait on Mayor
Thompson and solicit his cooperation to de-
wise ways and means for the relief of the
suffering people of ireland. Mayor Themp-
son, in compliance with the request of the
committee will call mass meeting at an early
day, and an appeal will be made for contribu-
lions to fund. 1t had been the intention of all
the Irish Societies to celebrate St. Patrick's
Day, but it is probable that the usual demon
stration will be omitted, and instead an en-
tertainment will be given and the entire
proceeds donated to the relief fund.
The Oregon State Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation is in session here. The attendance
from abroad is quite large
The OregoniaR publishes interviews with
50 Republicans of Salem as to Presidential
preferences. The result shows Blaine to be
the first choice of 80, Grant IA, Sherman 4,
Hayes 4, scattering 4. Interviews with sc
Democrats of the same city show Tilden 10,
Seymour s, Bayard Z, no choice 5.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Speculation in mining stocks is evidently
gaining a strong foothold in Chicago. The
sales of the FIVE mines now listed on the Chi
cage Mining Board reached %, 100 shares on
Monday.
The weekly statement of the Imperial
Bank of Germany shows an increase in specie
Of 4, $4,000 marks.
In the match on the Tyne Saturday for
e200, between Robert w. Boyd, the winner
OF the race with Elliott Monday, and John
Hawdon, the former gives the latter startof
four lengths.
A dispatch from New York says: All the
obstacles to the Hanlan Courtney race are
apparently removed. Riley is expected to
enter 81, 800 forfeit money.
A Melbourne dispatch announces that the
Provincial Parliament is dissolved.
An explosion of the boilers in the Canada
Paper Company's Mills at Windsor, Ont,
killed two men and probably fatally injured
three more. The pulp mill was burned.
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DIE n

Near Sacramento. February l0-Catherine Hargrave,
native Of North Carolina, So years.
Funeral notice hereafter.l
Sacramento, February 9-John Jones, native OF
Wales, 46 years.
Friends and acquantarces are respectfully invited
to attend the funeral, which will take place from
the undertaking rooms of ]. Frank Clark this
morning at 10 o'clock
Sacramento, February l0-Andrew J. Zimmerman,
native Of California, "a years, months, days.
(san Francisco and Virginia City papers please
copy)
Friends and acquaintance respectfully invited
to attend the funeral, which will take place from
the reridence Ct his mother, corner Eighth and
streets, this afternoon at o'clock.l
Santa Barbara, February 10-John F. Mcguire, q
years.
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WARRINGTON TERRITORY.

The skagit Mines-BesinninsO OF the Rush.
SEATTLE, February l0th.-G. w. Mccoy,
who left the Skagit gold mines in company
with twelve miners on Tuesday last, arrived
here last evening. He states the party were
only thirteen hours in making the trip from
the digeings to Goodell's place, twelve miles
above the head of navigation. They passed
sixty men on the trail and riveron their way
into the mines. Those already in the dig
gings are busily engaged constructing shanties
and prospecting The snow is settling rapidly.
Those going into the mines pack an average
of 100 pounds each verthe trail. a party of
miners who were recently showed in at the
mouth of Panther Greek, and who it was re-
ported were likely to starve to death, have
been found all safe by miners who went in
search of them, they having killed number
of deer which had been driven out of the
mountains by the snow. McCoy's statements
are conhrmatory of previous reports concern
ing the richness of the mines.
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INCONSISTENT DEMOCRATS.

A canvass among the representative
favorite candidate for the Presidency Is
Senator Thurman, and California Demo-
Gratis generally appear to prefer HIM even
before Bayard. This Is a somewhat curl
GUS circumstance, inasmuch as Thurman Is
the most undemocratic Democrat IN the
party to-day. His latest and most impor-
tant work has been the framing OF the rail
road bill which has taken his name, and
that measure is unquestionably the most
pronounced step towards governmental
Capitalization that has yet been taken.
Some recent articles in this journal ON the
dangers of the present centralizing move
ment have been commented on by Demo-
cratic contemporaries as embodying doc
trine which the Democracy has always
held. If this is the case, it would be dlt1cult
to account for the preference now shown
by California Democrats for man who
may be justly styled the High Priest OF Cen
tralization. If that tendency is dangerous
and against public policy, the statesman
who has given it the greatest impulse IL
has ever received cannot be a fit representa-
tive of party that processes to regard the
doctrine as heretical. Yet there can be no
doubt as to Thurmans position in this re-
gard. He proposed and urged to its tlnal
massage law which strikes an almost fatal
blow at the rights of the States; when
endows Congress with powers never con-
templated by the founders of the Republic;
which strips California Of the authority 10
control corporations of her own creation !;
which degrades the State into Territory,
and concentrates all real power at WASH
! inoton. Democrats will do well to remem-
her that it is not a Republican, but
one of their own most trusted and
bonored leaders, who has become the
advocate of Capitalization in its most
radical and uncompromising shape; and
thew will also do well to ask themselves
whether, in supporting this contemner of
States rights, they are not stultifying
themselves, and abandoning the principles
the maintenance of which, as one of their
journals observes, makes them Demo-
"crats." The theory of government en-
bodied in the Thurman bill is incompatible
with the retention OF any reserved rights
by the States. 1t reduces them to the po-
sition of mere provinces, and eliminates
their sovereignty altogether. 1t transforms
the Union into an Empire, under the abso-
lutte control of Congress, and it even goes
so far as to assume for the last-named body
power to abrogate and annul contracts
made by the State, at its pleasure or ca
nrice
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across the country to Magdalena, where he
embarked with his followers on a small ves-
sci and proceeded up the coast to Rosario
From Rosario he marched to San Rafael
Manuel Moreno President of the municipal
ity, was left in charge at San Rafael by Cas-
triton, but it is supposed that Marquee will
appoint a new government for the frontier be-
fore he leaves for Sonora.
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A Musical and Literary Progra,
A CARD.

TvNIoN LODGE NO. d AND SACRAMENTO
I No. so, A. o. U. W.. by their joint committee
on reception of the Grand Lodge, hereby desire to
acknowledge their obligations to Mrs Addie Carter,
Miss Amelia Boil, Miss Amanda Schuch Mrs. W r.
Freeman, Messrs. E. d. Crandall, @. II. Putnam,
Goodwin Mcneil and W r.. Freeman (quartet, Misses
Matte X. Powers, May Hapsbrow, Hattie Mchilhp,
Nellie Henley Mary Milliken, Lou Bidwell, kittie
Henley Alice Wilsey, MoIlie Ackley and Lizzie NJ.
Griffin. To these ladies and gentlemen the Lodges
are indebted for that generous assistance which
made the entertainment OF the 9Th inst success,
and in the eyes of twoIhundred and twenty five
strangers did Sacramento honor The ladies and
gentlemen named will not be forgotten by the A. O..
of favors Our thanks are also due to the Pioneer
Association for favors extended.
BY order of the Committee,
fll.lt LIB CT EUGENE j. GREGORY. Chairman.
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How little the average Democrat COM
prehends the drift of events and realizes
their significance, is strikingly shown in
the preference evinced by members of that
party for Thurman. 1t might almost be
thought that since the rebellion all party
landmarks had been obliterated, and that
Democrats merely followed an old habit in
retaining their former name, but had
lost all memory of the principles upon
which their political programme was ori-
ginally founded. Remembering what kind
of doctrines Thurman represents, his nom-
nation by sincere Democrats would be as
fragrant a solecism as the choice of Jeffer-
son Davis by the Republicans. This
fact one would suppose to be obvi-
Gus, yet it is evident that it has been
entirely overlooked. The policy which
Thurman has identified himself with is,
moreover, essentially Republican policy,
and it has received its most emphatic IN
dorsement and elucidation at the hands of
a Republican Supreme Court. The ablest
refutation it has met has been supplied by
Justice Field, and the significance of his
opposition to the centralizing programme
was instantly interpreted by Republican
party organs as being partisan, for no
other reason than because they knew that
Democratic statesmen had always hitherto
been found in the same attitude of hos
tility to the imperialist policy. Thur
man and Field are as far apart on this
great issue as Blaine and Hill on the
Southern question, but though both the
former are nominally Democrats, Field
stands for the doctrine with the defense
of which the party is identified,
while Thurman is the champion of
ideas which have been at the bottom of
every Republican measure condemned and
protested against by the Democracy.
Thurman is in fact Republican of the
| Republicans, for he has done more than
any of them to fasten upon the country
that policy of Capitalization which every
intelligent Democrat affects to disapprove
of. If our California Democrats have, un-
consciously to themselves, changed their
politics, however, and forsaken the convic.
lions of their forefathers, it would be more
practical in them to choose an acknowl.
| edged Republican for their candidate than
a renegade like Thurman, who has no longer
any more Democracy about him than goes
to a name. lion the contrary, our friends
are still opposed to Capitalization, it is evi.
dent that they have made singularly I'M
fortunate selection of a representative on
this occasion.
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NEVADA.


CARLIN, February 10th.-The following
passengers passed Carlin to-day, to arrive in
Sacramento tomorrow DR.. j. H. Hill and
wife, London, Eng; Frank E. Myers, Chi
cago; A. Warren, England w. w. Mon
tague and wife, o. IL: Spencer, San Fran
mons, Boston, Mass; c. III. Duncan, L.
J. Creswell, OIL City, Pa; F. NJ. Mcbride,
Salt Lake City; George A. Crofutt, Chicago /;
&. r. Hermann, Philadelphia E. Skies,
San Francisco William Webster, Rochester
n. Y; H. c. Tindell, Missouri; John +.
Pierson, M. A. O'Riley, New York a. Wise
and wife, Colorado; 80 emigrants, including
81 males, to arrive in Sacramento February
10Th.
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ARIZONA.
Railroad Operations.

PHOENIX, February 10th.-A Herald special
from Maricopa says that work was COM
menced there this morning on the Arizona
Central Railroad. The company have about
30 white men and 100 Indians, with a NUM-
Der of mules, plows, carts, ETC., actively en-
gagged about half mile from town. Mr..
Atkinson, in charge of the construction, says
he expects to have the road graded as far as
the ella river by the 25th inst.
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Five Doctors Did Not Cure.
CLINTON STREET.

CLINTON STREET,
TORONTO (Ont.), Sept. 1s 1870.
MR.. Il. r. STEVENS-Dear Sir hereby certify
that have been sick for three years. unable to get
any relief whatever. have been under the care of
five of the best physicians, each one giving my
illness a different name. The first said General
Debility; the second, Female Debility and I'M
poverished blood the third, Liver. Complaint and
Dyspepsia: the fourth said | was in Consumption
the fifth said, Neuralgia on the Lungs, and was
certain would never enjoy good health, so l con-
cluded to give up doctors and commenced taking
Patent Medicines. At this time | was very weak.
| had pain in my side, back and ch est slept very
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try vEGETINE. A friend gave bottle to try,
not thinking it would do me any good, as 1 had no
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pronounce your medicine far ahead of any other,
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of such a medicine. Yours respectfully,
MRS. T. ALLEN.
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Railroad CnmnIetcn.

AUSTIN, February 10th. The completion
yesterday OF the Nevada Central Railway
from Battle Mountain, on the central Pacific
Railroad, to the city of Austin, establishes a
new era in the mining industry of Reese
river and the adjacent country. The people
of Lander county are jubilant over the COM
pletion of the road, and are celebrating the
event by the firing of cannon and other evil
dences Of Joy.
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Secretary Ramsey. asking if his charges ard
request for military tribunal to try Sher-
man had been received. Secretary Ramsey,
through his Secretary, replied in the affirma-
tive.
Street Fight Between OmcehOIders and
Politicians.
CINCINNATI, February 10TH Prominent
oficeholders and politicians, headed by
Sheriff Wallace and Lew Irwin, INDUCED in
street fight this afternoon, on account of
charges of bribery and corruption preferred
by Wallace against Irwin, who was recently
candidate for Prosecuting Attorney.
Rodents In Possession.
DENVER (CoLl. February 1Oth.-The Ne,cs
Office here was occupied by non U MON print
ers to- day.
Died OF Her Injuries.
LONDONDERRY On. H. J, February 10TH
Mrs. Dillingham;, the victim of her nephew's
assault, died tonight.
Allowed TO Resign.
WASHINGTON, February 10Th. A the
Cabinet meeting to-day it was decided to al
low Major Reno to tender his resignation.
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VEGETINE.

TORONTO, March 90 1870
Mr.. II. R. STEvENS-Dear Sir: was troubled
with Rheumatism in my knee and hip joints fol
nearly year. / tried number of medicines TO
effect cure but none gave any relief. A friend
recommended me to try your EIETINE, which
did, and after taking two bottles of It found relief
took four more bottles and the pains completely
left me. feel satisfied it is cure for Rheumatism
Yours respectfully, N. ALLEN,
No. Rossin House Block, Toronto. Ont
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VEGETINE.
coNpucroRs TAKE II.

Noxc:oS On. b., Sept. "a, 1879.
II. r. STEVENS, ESQ About year ago was
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limbs. and my appetite almost entirely filled me-
Having tried other remedies in vain, was induced
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ton of property without imposing double
taxation, is a problem the solution ofwhich
ought to qualify the successful legislator
for Chair OF Casuistry.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

| Owing 10 the Illness of Mrs. Leland
| Howe, the entertainment for the Sons of Temper
anco of February 18th has been postponed until
| +Iar NTH Al