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A MILLION OF DOLLARS

and much large certain goods which though
highly desirable may not be another
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
WIDESPREAD SYMPATHY.

1t is very gratifying to observe the uni
versatility of the sympathy that is being
expressed for the President From all
parts of the world dispatches keep pour.
ing in upon the White House. bearing
messages of cordial regret and expressions
of satisfaction at the prospect of his re-
, eoverY. Every European Government,
and many outside of Europe, have sent
their condolences to him, while scores and
hundreds Of kilograms from distinguished
unofficial foreigners have been received.
Within the United States there appears to
be perfect tidal wave of emotional SYM
pathy and practical helpfulness. The
people are not content with expressing
their feelings, but they keep sending all
manner of delicacies, rare wines, wonder
ful liqueurs, marvellous spirits, and last,
though not least, inscrutable remedies Of
the most unspeakable description. AS for
the patent medicine people, we must sus-
pect them Of an advertising incentive,
and therefore they deserve no credit for
their gifts, even if the latter were not gen.
erally denominations. But the people who
send their most precious vintages are evil
IDENTIFY very much in earnest, and we are
sure that the President must feel all this
hearty kindness very deeply, and that it
will help him to convalescence to know how
concerned the people are for his recovery.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
THE THEATER QUESTION.

We are glad to see that a movement is
on foot to consider the question of new
theater for this city. As regards the need of
such a building there can be no contro-
versy, and we think it almost equally clear
that the requirement cannot be met by
buying the old theater. The fact that the
latter is so situated as to be incapable of
being supplied with sufficient exits is alone
enough to put it out of the question. 1t
is, moreover, evident that it could not be
converted into respectable theater with.
out spending as much money as would
build new one. And it must also be re-
allied that building which can only be
used as theater is not at all adapted to
the wants of this community. The sug.
gestions made at the meeting the other
evening looking toward building combin.
ing the conveniences of a theater and a
hall, are most in the line of practical
utility. For several years to come it must
be expected that this community will be
unable to support theater continuously.
But if we had building which could be
used both as q theater and as hall, and
for assemblages of all kinds, it would find
occupation nearly all the time. That is
what is wanted, and that is the class of
building the committee should turn their
attention to principally.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09

hailed everywhere as portent, and the
attempt upon the life of the President
would have been either ascribed to the ad-
vent of the strange visitor, or its advent
would have been cited as celestial sign
and token of the calamity. Now, however,
the world has got beyond such supersti-
tions, and it is in fair way to free itself
from the mental shackles which still incum.
ber it. No doubt the force of custom
reconciles many people to observances the
futility of which they would perceive in a
moment if they took the trouble to reflect,
but it is becoming more and more generally
realized that there can be no wisdom, and
still less use, in maintaining ceremonies
and rites the nationality of which is ex-
ploded. and which merely testify to view
of Nature altogether abandoned in these
days by all save the most ignorant people.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
THE DuELLo IN TIE SOUTH.


Cash, the South Carolina assassin who
killed Shannon in duel, has been acquitted
on his second trial. This is disgraceful to
South Carolina, and is also warning to
intending emigrants to keep clear of a
State where assassination is legaliged.
Cash was bully. Shannon was an elderly
lawyer. Cash determined to kill Shannon !;
insultel him persistently until he forced
him to fight and then shot him dead. 1t
was a cold blooded murder. Now COM
munity which cendones such crimes is not
fit for civilized people to live in, and until
South Carolina and all the Southern States
stamp out the duello they must be Stunned
as reservoirs of ruffianism and crime.
This Cash verdict is almost as great an
outrage as the crime it whitewashes, and
while such insults to justice are possible no
self-respecting people will care to settle in
that region
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
TBE QUESTION OF TREASON.

1t has been suggested that it would be
well to make attempts upon the life of the
President of the United States treason.
OF course it is of no practical consequence
whether to do this it would be necessary
to amend the Constitution. If it is worth
while to do it there will be no insuperable
difficulties in the way. The real question
is whether it is worth while. 1t may be
urged that the life of the President belongs
to the nation; that he is its official repre-.
sentative that therefore he ought to be
hedged about with more than ordinary
precautions that an assault upon him is
much more than an assault upon private
citizen that it is in effect an assault upon
the whole people and that it might con-
sequently be logically added to the offenses
which the Constitution already makes trea-
sonable. All these considerations may be
admitted to have more or less force, but
since the main object of any such alteration
in the laws must be to protect the life of
l.
whether this object would probably be at
tanned by the proposed change. Voltaire
has said that monarchs ought to be specially
protected, because, while all men are
liable to the attacks of knaves, kings are
liable to the attacks of both knaves and
fools. There is great deal OF truth in
this, for by far the larger number of at
tempts to assassinate the heads Of states
have been made by persons of weak or dis
eased mind. This fact, however, seems to
indicate that very little benefit is likely to
be derived from an enlargement of the
penalty for such offenses, for in most
instances the man who assassinates because
he is mad cares nothing about what is to
be done to hin afterwards. The other
class of assassins consists of fanatics
usually, and these are notoriously intent
upon sacrificing themselves, and would Ger.
tainly not be deferred from the pursuit of
their aim by the apprehension of capital
punishment.
But the most serious obstacle to any such
change in the law consists in the present
confusion in regard to the treatment of
insane criminals. 1t may be said that the
plea of insanity has of late years COM
pletely disorganized our criminal law ad-
ministration. 1t has practically been held,
(l) that insanity is an effectual bar to con-
viction in murder cases ~ that insanity
may be proved in almost every conceivable
way. The result of these theories is that
failures of justice have been the rule in.
stead of the exception in murder cases,
and that many cold. .blooded murders
have gone unpunished upon the outrageous
pretense that the murderer was insane
during the moment of the killing, but per-
fectly sane both before and after. 1t is
clear that 80 long as such pleas are received
and acted upon in our Courts it cannot |
matter much what changes are made in the |
penalties for assassination, either of the !
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
THE SUPERVISORS.

The Supervisors have evidently discov-
cred that their recent action in regard to
the anti.hydraulic suits is not approved
by the public, and in their meeting on
Thursday they discussed the matter in
such a way as to bring into prominence
some singular facts. 1t appears from
statements made by members of the Board
that Mr.. Cadwalader had persuaded them
to hold secret session, and that, accord
ing to the Clerk of the Board, the one pur-
pose of this secrecy was to prevent the
press from ascertaining what was going on.
This is certainly an interesting piece of
news. To what honest public end were the
Board and Mr.. Cadwalader SO anxious to
keep their proceedings from the knowledge
of the press? Do public servants gen.
orally evince such an apprehension of
journalistic criticism when they know that
they are doing right? Is it in accordance
with the public interests that the Board of
Supervisors should hold secret meetings,
precisely when they are contemplating the
saddling of an obligation of 10000, $780,.
900, perhaps $4,000, upon the county?
And why was Mr.. Cadwalader averse to
having his proposition fully investigated?
Is it possible that he had things to say to
the Supervisors which he did not wish to
see in print? 1t must be admitted that
this secrecy, together with the attempt to
fasten illegitimate claims upon the county,
looks anything but straightforward and
innocent, and we are not at all surprised
that Mr.. Samuel Blair should have thought
it necessary to repudiate all concurrence in
the hole.and corner proceedings. What is
particularly odd, however, is the delusion
of the Board that its acts could be kept
from the press and the public its absurd
notion that by locking the door when it
was about to do something which it did
not want known, it could conceal its do
ings. The fear lest the press should find
out what was being done, too, is suggest
i've of anything but clear conscience.
The press represents the people. It's func.
tions and duty render it the guardian of
the community's interests. 1t is bound to
expose all sinister proceedings on the part
of public officers. But it is feared only
by officials who are doing what they know
the public will rot approve of. The Su.
pervisors have followed Mr.. George Cad
walader altogether too blindly for their
own welfare. They ought not to have
yielded to his request for secret sessions.
They ought not to have tried to keep the
press from knowing what they were doing.
They ought not to have undertaken to
give away the peoples money without
warrant, in an illegitimate way. They
were about business which deeply con.
cerned every taxpayer in the county. By
what right could they transact such public
business secretly: The whole affair needs
a great deal more explanation than has yet
been given, and SO far no justification for
the incomprehensible course of the Board
has appeared.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
ra1s MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York Government bonds are quoted
t ll6s for 4s OF 1907 1929 for IS of 1851; 1l4s
or las; sterling, - s4I@4 s6l silver bars, 1114.
Silver in London, BIZ consols, 1o1 1-l6; per
eat United States bonds, LOG; 4s, l19a As, i172
In san Francisco half dollars are quoted at /
discount to par Mexican dollars, 9o4@91c.
At Liverpool wheat is quoted at 9s Sd 99s Sd for
good to choice California.
Nothing occurred in the San Francisco mining
share market yesterday worthy of note, business
being exceedingly quiet.
Albert Hoyt was arrested at Astoria, Or yester-
day for rape on a girl years of age.
The highest Court in Turkey has confirmed the
sentences of Midhat Pasha and the other prisoners
for the murder of Sultan Abdul Aziz.
Fire at Toledo, O. Loss, $4,000; partly insured
The Toledo Daily Telegram has nominated Gar
field for President in 1884.
Riot at Montreal, Canada. The rioters were fred
on and several wounded, alse some of the police.
Young Corcicau has been acquitted for the mur-
der of Ley Tup Ko, at New York City.
Peter Colison, shot by J. Britain, died at Santa
Maria Santa Barbara county, last Thursday evening
new Jury has been ordered in the Richmond
Albion case at Eureka, New.
Serious riots are occurring at Montreal, and sew
eral persons have been wounded.
Hrs. Isabella Reed was found dead in bed at viii
lows, Colusa county.
Alexander Edison accidentally shot and killed him
self yesterday at Livermore
A two-year old boy was fatally injured at Wheat
land yesterday by drinking lye.
The woman's Bank at Boston will pay five cents
on the dollar.
The Bulgarian Chamber of Deputies will be
opened at Sirtova on the 18th instant by Prince AL
'eaander.
At Hyres, France, girl fell into the sea, and her
mother and two sisters attempting to her, all
tour we're drowned.
Four hundred cattle were burned to death at Buf-
etlo yesterday.
A son of General Sigel has absconded from New
York with large sum not belonging to him.
Mcnamara, who desired to kill Blaine, was dis
charged from the Napa Insane Asylum in July, 1879
In financial point of view, Griscom's fast at Chi
cage has proved a decided failure.
The hosting works OF the Trojan mine at Gold
Hin, New, were burned yesterday, together with
zdWellinQ house.
G. PAUL was struck by locomotive near San Jose
yesterday, and severely injured
Fire at Santa Clara
Attention is called to the excellence of the matter
Contained in the inside pages OF this mornings REc,
eRD- UNION.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
THE MONETARY CONFERENCE.

The Monetary Conference at Paris is
having precisely the results which were
predicted for it; that is to say, it is hav-
ing no results The English Government
has already got tired of the humbug and is
contemplating the withdrawal of its rep
resentatives. As to the others, they ap-
pear to have been waiting patiently for the
United States to propose something prac.
tical, and to be considerably surprised at
the failure of our representatives to do
anything of the kind. Mr.. Evarts has
made speech, and Mr.. Timothy Howe
another. But as Mr.. Evarts never studied
the subject until now, and as Mr.. Howe
has always been utterly and hopelessly
bemuddled in regard to it, these disquisi.
tions did not help to clarity the subject.
The few who think have been convinced
from the first that nothing would come
of this Conference. The many who never
think allowed themselves to be persuaded
that it would somehow produce wonder
full consequences. The fact is that the
United States had nothing to offer England
and Germany. All she could say was
that if she was forced to adopt silver
standard it would be very bad
for her. Nor could she conceal from
her neighbors that in that event she would,
despite her wishes, tend to solve the silver
problem for them. So that her represent.
atives only served to demonstrate the Wis
dom of letting things drift. England how
ever perceives also the danger of recog-
nizing the doctrine that Governments can
alter and establish monetary standards
arbitrarily, and declines to commit herself
to any such proposition. So our delegation
will undoubtedly have to come home with
out having achieved any practical results.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
FREE LIBRARY BOOKS.

We published yesterday list of books
which have recently been ordered for the
Free Library, and having read that list we
began to consider whether it was worth
while to maintain free library in order to
furnish such literature to the public. For
it resembled Sir John FalstafFs tavern ac-
count, with this important distinction, that
there was not in it even one single penny.
worth of bread. The Juvenile literature of
the day is perhaps as rubbishy as any lit.
erature has ever been, and though it may
be thought necessary to provide some boys
and girls books of the regulation emp.i-
ness, we very much doubt the wisdom Of
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
THE CHARACTER OF GUITrEAU.

a great deal OF information has now
been collected about the assassin Guitteau,
and the more facts we have to examine the
less ground is there for the theory OF his
insanity. The evidence gathered so far
all points in an opposite direction, in fact
1t is made plain enough that the man has
always been dishonest, tricky, unprin-
cipled, wanting moral convictions, spiteful,
and egregiously vain, but these are each
and all qualities common to perfectly sane
people. What appears most clearly is that
he has a criminal temperament, but it is
equally clear that he has always possessed
sufficient intelligence and even shrewdness
to make his way in the world, and often to
get the better of many of those with whom
he came in contact. The obvious expla-
nation Of his crime is that he had been
broodihg over his failure to obtain for
eign mission, and that his exaggerated
sense Of his own deserts and Importance
led him to form deepseated dislike to the
President, upon which his meditation on
the "stalwart business supervened to
give direction to his malignant impulses
He seems to have imbibed ideas of the
Albany deadlock very similar to those en-.
tertained by Conkling and his followers.
In all this, however, there is no trace of
insanity. There is plenty of evidence OF
perversity and malice and rascality and
,sne&nness in his career, but this evidence
only warrants the conclusion that he is a
s.oundrel, and does not at all indicate that
te ia lnsane.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
PASSENGER LISTS.

CARLIN, July Sth.-Passed here to-day, to
arrive in Sacramento tomorrow J. Il.
Mahoney, E. Raas, San francisco G. Fl.
Bailey, New York Il. w. Jansell and wife,
Chicago, Ill. w. F. Lewis, Montreal, Cam
ada; Edward Lee Childe, Paris, France 1.
Dietrichson. San Francisco; Mrs. Wurtele
Evanston, Wyoming; E. Q. Justhe. New
York; A. Wolf and family, s. Wheeler,
Dutch Flat, Cal. w. Heller, New York
Francisco 1. S. Lawson, Liverpool; Q. S.
Givens, Sacramento Mrs. Thompson. San
francisco; w. w. Brier, Alameda Miss L.
M. White, Boston, Mass. Miss E. Forman,
Rochester, n. Y. f; G. G. Whitman, Cincin-
natl; Il. Z. Pikerof Hopland, California;
Mrs. A. B. McIlwain, Oregon; Mrs. A.
Drew, t. L. Watson and wife, Charles G.
Lyon, Mrs. Hanford Lyon, Bridgeport,
Conn. J. M. Masterton, VIM. Jones,
Wales NJ. Durall, New York Rev. j. r.
Thompson, Olympia, w. T.; ]. Beaman.
wife, Chicago, Ill. Miss F. Cooke, Boston,
Mass. SO emigrant passengers, including 32
males, to arrive in Sacramento July 10th.
OMAHA, July Ssh.-Left here to-day. TO
arrive in Sacramento July 18th: M. Cohen,
Chicago; E. A. Hubbard, Dr. Perrine, Mrs.
S. E. Meldrum and child. Mrs. N. s.
Farthing, San Francisco w. j. Sheave and
wife, Washington Lyman F. Gordon,
Worcester, Mass; E. D. Williams, Boston
E. B. Finlay and wife, Miss Alice Codding,
Bucyrus. o.; j. Claybough, Mrs. Clay
bough, Frankford Miss Lizzie G. Davenson,
Lyman Stevens, New York K. McAlpine,
Portsmouth, Va; Mrs. Rebecca Muller and
two children, Duluth, MINI; Mrs. John
Kirkwood, England; Mrs. Lieut.. Harry
Knox, U. S. Navy; Card Dougherty, Lille
Dougherty, Lou Deugherty, Santa Rosa;
Mr.. Hopkins and family, in special car.
Forty-seven through enigrants left on
Wednesday nights emigrant train. to arrive
in. Sacramento July 14th, and sixteen last
night, to arrive in Sacramento July 18th.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
THE PRESIDENTS CONDITION.

The President appears to gain strength
steadily, though he is now approaching a
very critical period in his case. His wound
has begun to suppurate, but the physicians
say that the discharge is healthy. No
secondary hemorrhage has thus far ap-
peared, and no symptoms of peritonitis.
His appetite is all that could be desired,
and the prospect of his ultimate recovery,
though by no means assured, is yet brighter
every hour. The hot weather is undoubt-
ediy against him, but the temperature OF
his room is kept down by artificial meana,
and he appears to be comfortable.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09

President or anyone else. For while it con-
tinues possible to plead insanity it will
always De pleaded, and while there is no
standard for testing sanity, it viii al
ways be possible to make this plea hold.
We suppose there is no doubt that Quit
teau will be defended on this ground, and
so much has already been said about his
insanity that it may be very difficult, and
perhaps impossible, to secure his convic-
ton. We may therefore ask what differ
ence it would have made in his case had
the penalty upon conviction been death
Clearly it would not have prevented the
familiar plea of insanity from being en-
ployed, ror would it have helped the jury
to discover what constitutes insanity.
For while science has made great ad-
vances in mental pathology of late years,
it is still easy enough to bring forward an
array of medical witnesses who will con-
tradict one another fatty, and who will so
confuse the jury that they will not know
what to believe, and SO will be pretty sure
to give the defendant the benefit of their
doubts. And even the most experienced
alienists differ radically when they come
to the question of responsibility, some
holding, with Maudsley, that insane
criminals are not responsible, and others
maintaining, with Hammond, that they
are quite responsible enough to be hanged.
1t is not to be expected that unlearned
iuries can solve problems which learned
physicians differ concerning SO widely, and
the natural result of such perplexities is
that the murderers escape punishment
None of these dangers and sources of
confusion would be touched by making the
assassination of the President treason.
Such change would in fact have no prac-
tical results whatever under the existing
circumstances. If time should come
when we are able to determine whether
insane criminals should be held accountable
for their acts, and when we can agree upon
the evidences of insanity, it will be in or
der to make assassination treason, for then
| for the first time it will be possible to pun.
| ish assassins with some certainty. At
present, however, we are long way from
| that consummation. We cannot even tell
whether it will be possible to do anything
with such wretch as Guitteau. If even
he is sent to an insane asylum, there can
be no guarantee against his release sooner
or later. The whole matter is subject for
conjecture and speculation, and the situa.
tion is really about as bad as though we
had no laws prohibiting murder. We
believe that such crime as Guitteau's
ought to be punished with death, no mat.
ter whether the President dies or not.
But it does not follow that to hang this
assassin would deter others hereafter, mol
must that be taken into account. As it is,
however, there is no way of infictine
exemplary punishment upon murderers in
the United States, nor can there be until
the questions of responsibility and of in.
sanity are clearly defined and established
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09

laying in that kind of stuff by the cargo,
as our Library seems doing. We believe
that fiimsy fiction ought to be eschewed
as much as possible in free libraries, and
that the funds available should be expended
in the best class of fiction, and in more
useful and substantial literature. We do
not believe that free library should be
converted into cross between Sunday
school and nursery library, yet there
seems danger of such metamorphosis in
the present instance.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
SECOND EDITION.

A second edition of the RECORD UNION is issued
each day at P NJ, bringing the Eastern and coast
news up to thai hour. By this arrangement the
RECORD UNION will present the latest news obtain
able at al! points east and north of Sacramento.
The regular morning edition of the REcoRD-UNIoN
is carried by morning trains, and is ahead of all
competitors as far north as Chico, OH the California
and Oregon Railroad; west to Benica, and south to
Stockton, and east to Colfax, Folsom and Placer
vile and all intermediate places
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
THE WEEKLY UNION

Is rapidly and constantly augmenting its circula-
tion The public recognize and acknowledge it to
be the leading weekly of the Pacific coast. 1t is
issued in semi-weekly parts, and thus reaches its
readers twice each week, while the old-time week
lies go out but once The gain and advantage of the
UNIONS plan to the reader is obvious. The WEEKLY
GSIos is mailed for 81 so per year any address.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-07-09
THE WARDEN.
Continued Inquiry into the AT
fairs of the State Prison.
DIR. CARY AGAIN ON THE STAND
Moral Instructor Cummings, Clemet
shaw and Others Testify.

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