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MORE IGNORANCE.

The Call objects to being charged with
ignorance concerning the debris question,
yet in its latest remarks on that subject it
gives new proof of the truth OF our strict
ures. In former article it said There
" has. been at no time an attempt made to
"evade the force of the assertion that if
" the coarse debris from the mines is I'M
pounded, the fine sand and sediment will
&C run past the dams and lodge in the waters
:" OF the bay below. Unless it can be
!" shown that this fine debris will pass out
I" into the Pacific Ocean, the brush dam
"project has no claim to consideration. !"
This remarkable statement our contem-
porary now repeats, as though it thought
it quite clever, and upon this remarkable
statement it takes its stand We did
not answer it before, because we thought
it hardly worth while to discuss the ques-
ton with a journal which set out by show
ing that it had not the remotest comprehen-
sion of the problem involved. As, how
ever, the Call evidently thinks that its
observations mean something, we will en-
tighten it little. The engineering plans
embraced not only series of dams in the
upper channels of the rivers, but such
treatment of the lower channels, by cut
offs, levees, etc., as should increase the
velocity of the current, and thus give to
the rivers much larger carrying
capacity. The methods to have been
applied were intended, first to i'm
pound the heavier and coarser de.
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RESERVED SEATS.

Judge Rix, of San Francisco, has de-
cided that no one can insist upon being
allowed to retain reserved seat in thea
ter, when he has not paid for the reserva-
ton. He holds that the proprietor of q
theater has a perfect right to fix his own
prices. We are very much afraid that
Judge Rix is tainted with monopoly her
estes. If he had read the opinion of the
United States Supreme Court in the Ele-
vator cases he would have known that a
theater is an establishment into which a
public use enters, and that therefore its
proprietor loses the right to fix his own
prices, and is liable to be regulated by law.
OF course if the law fails to regulate thea
tiers the proprietors of them can do as
they please But under the rulings of the
Supreme Court they can only fix their
own prices on sufferance, and it is com
petent to the Legislature to regulate them
at any time. Judge Rix appears to be be-
hind the age in this matter. He ought to
know that according to the Supreme Court
there is no longer any such thing as pri-
vate property, unless (which is scarcely
possible) it can be shown that no public
use whatever enters into it.
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A WONDERFUL ALLIANCE.

The announcement OF the marriage Of
Lord Colin Campbell to Gertrude Blood,
daughter of Victoria Woodruff, under the
auspices of the Princess Louise and the
Duke of Argyll, is certainly calculated to
astonish the American public. There is no
more notorious woman in the world to-day
than the mother of this bride, and her
notoriety is certainly not of the kind to
recommend her to alliance with the Eng
lish tor SCOTCH aristocracy. A story by
Mr.. Mallock has just been printed, en-.
titled GA Romance of the Nineteenth
Z" Century" and in it the author draws
pictures of the English nobility, which
those unacquainted with them are disposed
to regard as malicious caricatures. But
unless some such moral alteration as Mr..
Malloek implies the prevalence of has
really fallen upon the circle referred TO, it
is difficult to understand how such a
match as this could have been made. No
doubt it is cruel and unjust to visit the
sins of the parent upon the child 4; but
such has been the code of the world for
centuries, and that code has never been
more rigidly observed than among the peo-
pie into whose exclusive circles Victoria
Woodhull's daughter has now been ad-
mitted It is beyond all question a most
extraordinary and inexplicable event.
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TURKISH JUSTICE.

a Constantinople dispatch the other day
stated that the late proceedings passing for
the trial of the persons accused of murder
ing Sultan Abdul Aziz have been declared
regular, though there were some defects in
them. This is a fair illustration of that
peculiar thing called Turkish justice.
When the death of Abdul Azz occurred,
seventeen prominent physicians, mostly
Europeans, were called in to investigate
the cause of his demise. They agreed that
he had committed suicide. Several years
Afterwards three menials, having been
put to the torture, confess that they were
employed to strangle the late Sultan, and
that certain high officers were their accom-
plices. 1t is curious that the high officers
named by the tortured grooms are men
who happen to be obnoxious to the pres
ent Sultan, and whom it may be supposed
that he wishes to get rid Of Upon the
confession of the tortured grooms these
officers are arraigned, not before any
regular Court, but before a tribunal i'm
provised for the purpose; sort Of
amateur drumhead court.martial. The
accused offer in evidence of their innocence
the certificate Of the seventeen physicians
who examined the body of Abdul Azz.
They are not allowed to introduce this
testimony, which is of course the strongest
and most practical they could possibly
have. The confessions of the prisoners,
made under torture, are on the other hand
employed as the basis for the prosecution,
and upon these confessions in fact the con-
domination of the defendants is based. 1t
is of course complete burlesque upon jus.
tice, and we are prepared to hear that
the burlesque idea is to be carried out by
setting aside the death sentences pro-
nounced on Midhat Pasha and his friends.
Though it would have surprised nobody
acquainted with Turkish ways if these
sentences had been carried out at once.
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TIE LEADING

Paper Of the interior is the WEEKLY UNION. No
other journal presents itself favoraby to the
people of the coast, it is issued twice each week
To all who have been accustomed to the old style OF
weeg Iy, this is a great advantage, one which all
thoughtful persons will thoroughly appreciate. 1t
sends the paper out twice, where the old style of
weekly goes out but once. Thus these semi-weekly
parts have always conveyed to the readers the news
three and half days in advance OF its competitors.
Each seml-weekly part consists of eight pages and
thus each subscriber to the WEEKLY UNION receives
each week sixteen pages of matter very few col
umns Of which are open to advertisers. Take the
case of the recent tragedy at Washington. The
President was shot on the %. All readers of the
WEEKLY UsIoN received by the semi-weekly issue
that was mailed on the 9Th the full account of the
tragedy, and of all the subsequent events to that
date, while readers of the old style OF weekly were,
SO far as those papers were concerned in ignorance
of the momentous event until the 9TH or 9th while
the emi-xeekly issue of the UNION on the 9th gave
the news TO that date and closer up to it than
possible to the old-fashoned weeklies. The
WEEKLY UNION is mailed in semi weekly parts TO
any address for g so per year.
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bris in the upper channels second,
so to increase the velocity of the current
that it woald be enabled to carry all the
lighter detritus, not only down to the bay
OF San Francisco, but out to sea. Every
student of hydraulics knows OF course
that the rivers could not be cleared OF all
the matter held in solution. Even had
there never been any hydraulic mining the
streams which flow through cultivated
lands would always have carried more or
less earthly matter in their currents, and
this would take its own natural course.
But if the engineering plans had been car
ried out there is ho room to doubt the con-
sequent capacity of the rivers to carry all
the debris passing the dams, safely beyond
the possibility OF serious injury to the
harbor of San Francisco. All this the Cal
ought to have known. All this it could
have learned by study of the reports OF
the engineers. And therefore we were
completely justified in charging it with
ignorance when it numbered the discussion
with statements whose crudity and irrel-
evanee under the circumstances are not
exeusable
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PASSENGER LISTS.

CARLIN, July 22i.-Passed here to-day, to
arrive in Sacramento tomorrow james II.
Moore, New Jersey; Mr.. and Mrs Baum
gsrten, Miss Lizzie White, Z. Nj. Ames, San
Francisco J. H Messenger, Jr., Napa, Cal. I;
John Thomas Waterhouse and wife, Homo
lulu w, W. Booth, Salt Lake; A. P. Moore
San Francisco; John 7. Tingey, England I;
w. r. Barnes and wife. Eureka, New; L. a.
Norton and wife, Healdsburg, Cal; Samuel
FEEDER, San Francisco; Miss Osumivan, Den
yer, Col; Joseph Franklin, San Francisco /;
Burchard, Washington, d. c.; f. H. Tingey,
England r.. M. Daegett, Virginia City,
New; Lieutenant f. Schwatka, U. 5, A;
Lieutenant Rant. Paris France; W. H.
Civer, Kansas City. No; Dan Kelleher,
Utah E. Harmon, Mrs. e, Marks, John o.
Blaul. San Francisco; Benjamin Beanly,
Sierra county, Cal; E. J.. Winchester, Ro-
chester I. J. Armstrong, Canada; Thomas
Cogan New York W. Crawshay. England /;
Mrs. Mary Coffey and child, Butte City,
Montana William Taylor, Philadelphia /;
Mrs. Winchester, Rochester, n. Y; Miss
Boyden, G. W. Boyden, Mrs. CIV. Boyden,
Omaha, Neb.; AZ emigrsnt passengers. in
Guiding 80 males, to arrive in Sacramento
July oath.
TOPEKA ks. J. July 22d.-Passed here to-
rive in San Francisco July 26bh II. Smith,
James Hughes and Edward Hughes, Balti.
more r. NJ. Russell, Trenton, Tenn; ID.
Luck, San Francisco S. Smoker, Peoria,
H.; Alexander Harrison, Pittsburg, Pa;
Mrs S. Williams and son, New York j. b.
Smith Moore, Oil City, Pa.
OMAHA, July 22d.-Passed here to-day, TO
arrive in Sacramento July 10Th: a. w. Col.
Inns and wife, Oakland Mrs. N. G. Shackle-
ford, Cincinnati: Richard D. Fox, with
corpse of B. S. Fox, of Jan Jose; w. j.
Condor, Yopkers, N. Y; E. r. Marshall,
New York Richard Allen, Melbourne, Aus.
tralis; G. w. Whitney, San Francisco; r.
A. Robertson, Glasgow. Scotland; j. L.
Coope, England.
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men, and has committed himself by
pledges, and is striving to maintain him
self by hunting appointments for his sup
porters. They are in fact each and all the
product of the spoils system, and they will
not abandon it until they are absolutely
compelled to do SO. There is nothing
which can compel them TO do SO but pub
lie opinion, moreover. They do not care
for the press as long as the machine is at
their backs. If thsy can control the or
ganization they will laugh at remonstrance
and protest. They must be forced to obey
their constituents by breaking down the
machine upon which they rely; by turn
ing out their managers and henchmen; by
beating them at the polls whenever they
succeed in packing conventions and steal
ing a nomination; by making them under
stand that the control of the machine
is not the control of the people.
And if we are to be protected In the
future against such horrible illustrations
of the spoils system as We have just had,
this assault upon it must be urged
forward resolutely and persistently. The
people alone can obtain victory over the
spoilsmen, and even they must exert all
their energies to secure it. Mere talk
about it, mere expressions of disgust or
regret or alarm are futile. The spoils
system is real and tangible and full of life
and vigor. 1t will not die from shame or
sensitiveness. 1t must be killed. 1t has
been striking its roots deeper and deeper
for fifty years. II has been the foundation
of a creed to two generations. 1t has
warped and demoralized public opinion.
1t has dragged the honor of the nation in
the mud. It has proceeded from defalcation
to assassination. If we do not rise and
strike it to the earth now. we shall never
do il.
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WHEN THIsvEs PAIL OUT, ETC.

An interesting and suggestive quarrel is
pending just now between two of the
pampered bene6oiaries of our protective
tariff. The quarrel is between pig iron and
Bessemer steel. The Bessemer-steel men
are charged with having bought too much
English pig metal, and with having thereby
deprecated American pig metal. The Bes-
semer-steel men reply that in the first
place the pig-iron men are using foreign
ores in their furnaces largely, and in the
second place they say that they cannot af-
ford to pay several dollars ton extra for
their metal merely to favor home manu-.
features. This last argument is positively
refreshing, coming from protected indus.
try, and shows how completely circum.
stances alter cases. The Bessemer. steel
men are perfectly willing that the Amer.
lean people shall be compelled to pay
two prices for the privilege of using
their wares, but when the same princi.
pie is applied to them they at once
repudiate it and protest against
its injustice No doubt it is
unjust, but if it is they are the very last
persons who have any right to complain of
it, for they are growing rich by the
unjust enforcement of the same monstrous
doctrine on the American people. The
quarrel between pig iron and steel
howeveris literallya dispute over plumber
The profits which these industries are
deriving are bounties wrung from the
American consumer; imposts which his
stupidity permits few bold manufact-
urers to fasten upon his broad back, and
which are in the most literal sense con-
fscations of his property. The steel men
and the pig iron men are both
trying to practice free trade in
order to get advantage of one another, but
at the same time both are being PRO
"tected" agaiRst foreign competition.
That is to say that they are being enabled
to levy constant toll on the American
public, not for the better development of
native industries, but in order that they
may buy English ore and metal and sell it
at protected prices to the poor dupes
who agree to the robbery called the tariff.
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REFORM IN RUSSIA.

a recent case serves to show why it is
that Russia is drifting SO rapidly toward
revolution. The Government few months
ago commissioned one Paul Birwauski,
a state attorney, to make special investi-
cation of alleged judicial and admins
trative abuses in 0renburg He made his
investigation in the most conscientious
manner, and his report, which was pub
lished in a Russian paper and subsequently
translated by the London Telegraph, was
an astounding narrative of corruption,
brutality, crime and injustice. The Com
missioner found that there was scarcely the
semblance OF Government in Orenburg.
Men had been imprisoned, and even tor
tured, for years after they had been ac-
quilted in open Court. Women had been
put to torture for pleading for their hus-
bands lives. The state prisons were hor-
rible places; falling to pieces, foul, filed
with unspeakable filth. he discovered
that it was DO uncommon thing for patches
Of prisoners to be logged merely for the
amusement of the guards or the governor
of the jail. In one Jail he discovered that
the governor, an exceptionally brutal fell
low, had not long before had the whole of
the inmates turned out, and beaten until
they were half dead, for no cause what
ever. This ruffian had once before been
degraded and dismissed from the public
service for corruption, but the Rus
sian spoils system had quickly rein
stated him. The Commissioner found the
patients in the hospitals stretched upon
bare boards, and often side by side with
corpses. In short, as he says in his report,
1t was revealed to me how our judges
trample the laws under foot; how Gym
"ical and wanton is the barbarism of our
police how savagely brute force is
brought to bear upon the weak and
friendless." Certainly this is encour.
aging frankness for Russian official to dis.
play, but no one ought to be surprised at
the result of it. The outspoken and hu.
furious resistance on all sides. The bench,
the bureaus, the military headquarters,
united in opposing and harassing him.
The outcome was that the Government
which had given him the commission dis
missed him in disgrace under the thin
pretense that he was in sympathy with the
Nihilists, while the Russian journal which
had published his report was suspended
indefinitely. This is why Russia is about
to shoot Niagara, and why it is quite hope.
less to look for any reform in her govern.
mental system. The Gar is powerless,
and all below him and above the masses is
corruption. But the people know what is
being done at such places as Orenburg, and
when the outbreak comes the officials
and the mobiles will surely be remembered
vengefully flor their responsibility in the
premises
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BEATEN TO DEATH.-A. J. Crum ian old
pioneer of Butte county,, the cripple who
was beaten so badly last week at Chap
mantown. Butte courty, by Thomas
Noakes, died on Tuesday, and Noakes has
been arrested. At the inquest Mrs. Wash
burne testified reside at Chapmantown
Noakes came to my house on the morning
of the 10Th. l was talking of going down
to Butte creek to dry fruit for Crum; he
advised me not to go to Crum's, and said
Crum was no gentleman. | told him that
/ thought Crum was as good man as he
was, and that Crum did not think much of
his brother either. Noakes was IN the
house. and Crum was coming to the house
for his clean clothes was watching Tor
him and one of his boys. Noakes wanted
me to call Crum into the house, and wanted
me to come and sit beside him when he
came in / wanted to see Crum about
getting some pears to preserve
Crum was peddling fruit. Noakes
said Crum was no gentleman,
and said / ought not to go out and talk
with him. Noakes then went out to where
Crum was, took letter from his pocket
and asked Crum if his brother owed him
anything. Crum said no. Noakes said,
+" What have you been talking about him
for" Crum said that he had not been
talking about his brother. Noakes said he
had, and then struck Crum in the breast
and knocked him down, jumped upon him
and beat him with his fist, and kicked him
in the side three times. I was about six
feet from him. took Noakes by the arm
and pulled him away from Crum. told
Noakes that he had killed Crum. Noakes
said he had not that Crum was only put
ting on for effect. My uncle came up then
and told Noakes that he ought TO get a doc
tor. Noakes used very bad words after he
had finished beating Crum, but said moth
ing while he was beating him.
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SUGGESTIONS OF THE HEATED TERM

The world is suffering from an unusually
hot season. 1t is not only in the eastern
States of the Union that the temperature
is remarkably high, but throughout
Europe. In France, England, Germany,
Spain and Italy, the same complaints Of
the excessive heat are heard. Everywhere
the people are suffering. The great popu-
lations of London and Paris are apprehend-
ing an insuficiency of water. The crops
are being destroyed in many places. SUM-
strokes are occurring where they were
never heard of before. In view of these
peculiar manifestations Of abnormal heat
it is difficult to avoid the reflection that
though we are accustomed to look upon
the order of Nature as permanent, and the
succession of organic life as assured, it
would require but relatively insig-
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nificant increase of temperature over the
sarth's surface to destroy every living
thing. The range of temperature within
which organic life can be maintained is
indeed exceedingly short. As recent
writer observes eff line one hundred
" feet long be taken to represent the total
range of temperature in the solar system,
81 length of little more than one inch
twill represent the utmost limits of the
range of temperature at which organic
" life, such as now exists on the earth,
I" can possibly maintain its existence" If
the temperature should rise above l60'
Fahrenheit, or fall below 90, and remain
at these figures for any length OF time, the
human race would be quite as effectually
extinguished as by an universal deluge or
confagration. And the changes necessary
to produce such alterations of temperature
are by no means out of the question. An
alteration in the relations of the earth and
sun SO trivial as to be scarcely perceptible
might produce the destruction OF organic
life upon this planet, nor can it be asserted
that such changes are too remote to be just
grounds for apprehension. We know very
well that what appear to be accidents do
frequently happen to stars, and there is no
such infexibility of arrangements in our
system as to take it from the category Of
bodies liable to eccentric and violent dis
turbances. So it is always in order for
the timid and the imaginative to amuse
themselves by conjecturiug what would
happen if the temperature should rise fifty
degrees or so. and remain there.
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KEvADA.
items. from Furcl-p.

EUREKA, July 22d.-In the Richmond
Albion case to-day Thornton and Wren con-
cluded their arguments for the Richmond
side. Senator Stewart closes the case for the
Albion tomorrow. A decision IS not looked
for before Monday or Tuesday.
The weather here is unusually bot
Grading on the Eureka and Colorado Rail-
road is to be commenced at oacs. There is =
large force of engineers in the field.
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Death OF a wen Enovn FARMER.

MARYsvILLE, July 22d.-Alichsel O'Cou-
nor, a well known farmer Of Suffer county,
died last night after a brief illness. of pneu-
monia, while visiting neighboring farmer in
this county So sudden was the attack that
he was unable to be removed home. and his
family was summoned to his bedside He
was at one time on the police force of this
city, and Assistant Superintendent of the
State Reform School. He was a native of
ireland. aged 81. aud leaves wife and sey-
eral children. The funeral viii take place in
this citr Snndnr
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The Carleton MaaslaaGhter Case-Eeal
Estate sale

SAN JOSE, July 22d.-The Carleton jury
were discharged at P. NJ, being unable to
agree upon verdict. They stood eight for
conviction and four for acquittal. Il is I'M
derstood that the prosecution Will now
The Home Mutual Insurance Company
have purchased the San Jose Savings Bank
property, paying S27, 600 therefor.
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Adrices rroun Los Angeles.

Los ANGELES, July 22d.-The Arizona
train is not expected until about a. ". The
cause wss = wSshout in Arizona. The Sao
Francisco express viii wait for its arrival.
a very light shock OF earthquake was felt
at $50 tonight.
Mark II. Stoddard, aged Is years, o nephew
OF z. Z. Huntington, was accidentally killed
at San Juan Capistrano last evening. He
stopping his revolver fell from is shield, and
striking on . rock was discharged, the ball
entering his abdomen. causing death in about
two hours. His remains go to Sacramento
for intermens on to-night's train.
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DestraetI,e Grain rtre.

MERGED, July 22d.-There was aestruc-
tive tire 10 6 grain field on the Theabold
ranch, shout eight miles east Of MERGED, on
Wednesday afternoon, about o'clock, which
destroyed about half Of a 400-Acre field, the
property OF Y. Z. U. Hooper. Insured with
the Pheuix of London for $500 for the field.
The damage done by the Ere 10 the Geld on
Huffmsn's ranch, adjoining the town, yes
terday afternoon, was nominal. as the hsr-
vesting Of the grain had been completed and
the grain hauled to the warehouse early in
the day.