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Daily Republican., 1881-07-05
NOTICEs.
DEOIOSALS FOR IJrE,
WILMINGTON nnr
CAElLL HOUSE, AS1777 ~,

Will reopen June IS, ls3. rto hRSEY
known A. one Of the mos ta.,. ,H situation
PARK. Two minutes w,lk f., '.t n Asbpr,
ha,hinG grounds: near the u.'h beach AMI
has been enlarged: sever, ,'n1N n. laa hons.
and re!urnishcd; spring bei,' r'. rooms added
etc. bath ICONS. hot an4 oli 'a.' a9ttresse,
drainage. gas Throughout. IN, Ni"r pertec,
facilities, greatly enlarged 11prIsi kitcher
ssuinptn"usly, provided taba Groom and
best Of seaside resorts. Aoniy W. W., rival ths
cure choice Of room. AiEe<, WI and se
CAAALL. Third avenue aai K,D..Mt NJ. b.
Asbury Park, MI. AlNl'e! nrss,
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SECRETARY rHoMpsor,s SPEECH.

Secretary Thompson has been talking
about his connection with the Panama
canal. He thinks that his reputation must
take care of itself, and he asserts, as
though it constituted complete answer
to all that has been said, that he is on the
best terms with the Administration. 1t
appears to US that Mr.. Thompson is not
little obtuse. He seems not to have the
remotest idea that in accepting the offer of
a Craftsmanship of the Canal Company
while he occupied seat in the Cabinet
he committed any solecism. Yet as a
matter of fact what he did on that occa-
sion was most extraordinary and unpre-
cedented thing, and it exposed both him
and the Government to the most injurious
and offensive imputations. 1t is unfortu
nately true that of late years we have seen
men in high Office manifesting the most
stolid and even contemptuous disregard of
public opinion, but we had hoped that this
kind of thing had been abandoned with the
conspicuous rebuke administered to those
who were before guilty of it. Mr.. Thomp-
son certainly did not do himself any credit
by accepting the position rendered him
under the circumstances, and it is bis mis-
fortune that he should be incapable of
realizing this fact.
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the country contains. 1t is not ali easy matter to
expel the Jesuits from the schools OF course what
is wanted is that the doctrines they teach should no
longer be taught but that end be reached by
declar ng that no Jesuits shall teach. For the
Jesuits are actors and masqueraders They are &C.
customed to pursue their plans as easily under dis
guises in official robes. In such a case this
they will simply transform themselyes-and con-
tinue to teach as before. The Government has been
blamed for its severity in executing these
DEGREES. Perhaps it might have proceeded
more temporarily, but the manner of
the enforcement is, after all, quite secondary
sderation. The real question at issue is that OF the
fate OF the Republic and those who believe in the
Republic right in taking every precaution against
the undue supremacy of power which is notori-
ousy hostile to it and to liberty in every form, aud
which would unquestionaby strangle it if it pos
sessed the power. The struggle the DEGREES
has in truth been nothing less than comb&t be-
tween the Republic and combination OF all its foes
under the banner of Rome. That is the actual fact
OF the case and therefore it is of very little
quence that few obstinate old monks should have
been pushed somewhat rudely, that some mar
row-brained, fanatical young Bourbon lordlings
should have been hustled out of the way, or even
clapped In Jail for presumng to assault the author
tiles France is justified in using all her force in
such contest and her people are beyond doubt
With Gambetta and his colleagues. They must con-
tinue this work until the separation OF Church and
State is complete, however, for so long as the
Church claim budget from the state, as at
present, there viii always be danger of mtrigues
and conspiraces, and crafty Jesuit plots to sap the
understanding of the people that they may be made
the easier victims OF Romish chcane.
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The aREcoRp-up1oNn IN 1881.

The RECORD UNION in 1881 will be as
good newspaper as it has ever been, and
as much better as its publishers can make
it. 1t will aim to furnish its readers with
all the news from all the world, and it will
furnish it as quickly as the telegraph can
bring it. Whenever opportunity offers for
special enterprise, the opening will be
availed of. The material interests of Cali.
fornia and of the Pacific States and Terri
tories generally will be assisted and pro-
tected sedulously. The RECORD. UNION
does not think it possible to reform society
by mere force of journalistic exhortation,
but it has clear and strong convictions of
duty, and therefore it will, as heretofore,
continue to denounce vice and fraud and
wrong in season and out of season, and
will continue to uphold all that makes for
the enlightenment and elevation of the
people. 1t believes in the civilizing infu-
ence of intelligence in the moral influence
of the home circle; in the need for purity
and business principles in the civil service
in the mischievousness of the spoils system
in politics in honest.r1oney, and free trade,
and much better educational system than
any part 3t-fhe country has yet achieved.
1t Believes that government of the peo-
ple, by the people, and for the people, has
yet to be evolved from conditions which
are by no means altogether favorable to the
growth of a pure democracy, 1t is OPP
posed to bigotry, superstition, intellectual
narrowness of all kinds. It never has IN
dertaken, and never will undertake, to fol-
low any and every new tangled notion that
may be dubbed popular" for the mo-
ment. 1t is guided by the light of It's own
convictions, and these are not lightly nor
hastily formed. To those who have read
it in the past these intimations are no
doubt unnecessary. Those who desire to
know more of it will learn most quickly
what they wish by placing their names on
its subscription lists.
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THE COLD WEATHER.

The planetary eonjunctions which are
just now being announced with so much
solemnity and in such delightfully."- obscure
astronomical terms, appear to have at least
afforded the groundwork for a theory
of telluric sympathy in the Western and
Atlantic States, for the weather in those
regions has recently been cold beyond pre-.
cedent. Whether this phenomenon has
any connection with the peculiar position
of the sun ana moon is of course another
question. Those who believe in the post
hoe, ergo propter hoe line of argument, may
contend that the special cold results from
the astronomical situation. Others may
reply that for all anyone can tell the
special cold would have happened just the
same had the sun and moon been in their
usual positions. And the answer to this
last contention is not easy.
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SAN FRANCISCO ITEMs.

From San Francisco exchanges Of December 3Ist. I
The U. s. ship Pensacola will sail on
Sunday morning next, under sealed orders.
About 40 days will be required to put
the United States ship Ticonderoga in good
condition for sea, when she will sail for
Hampton roads.
The recount of the votes in the CON-
tested election suit of Coffey against Ed
monds progressed to-day as far as the
Eleventh precinct of the Tenth Ward, Ed
monds gaining one vote. This leaves
Edmonds seven votes ahead.
The amount of standard dollars distrib-
uted from the Mint in this city to the
country during the month of December is
$50, 600. The amount of standard dollars
coined this month is 81, 900 COO. The gold
coinage for the past month will be about
SO, 600, 000
The ship Storm King, which reached
port last night from Rio de Janeiro, made
the passage in the remarkable time of 65
days, in probably the best time between
the two ports on record. She has also
made the trip from Cardiff in los sailing
days.
The Teachers Association of California
held its last meeting yesterday afternoon,
at which the election of officers for the
coming year took place, as follows Presi-
dent, James Denman of San Francisco !:
Vice. Presidents, G. w. Childs of San Jose.
jesse Wood of Butte county, Charles II.
Ham of this city Secretary, a. NJ. Nc
Donald Executive Committee, J. C. Gill
son of Alameda, E. r. Sill of the State
University, Fred. NJ. Campbell of Sacra-
mento, John w. Taylor, f. Knowlton and
John SWEET OF this city Treasurer, M. A.
Griffiths.
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AN UNCOMFORTABLE STORY.

A dispatch yesterday told how drunken
husband killed his wife by putting upon
her chest hat-iron SO hot that it burned
through into the cavity. The woman had
pneumonia, and the warm fat-iron had ap.
parently been prescribed for her by some
amazing doctor. In what condition
woman could be, however, to lie still until
a red-hot iron burned through the flesh of
her chest, passes comprehension. Such an
operation would not be rapid. 1t would
probably require twenty minutes or half an
hour, EVENT. the iron retained its heat, which
of course it would not do. Altogether, the
story is of that peculiar kind which East
ern news agents periodically dispatch ap-
parently for no other purpose than to
gauge the credulity of their customers.
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NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at l1SI for As of 1907 1O14 for IS of 1881
ll2 for as; sterling, 81 slI@4 s4l; silver bars,
III.
Silver in London yesterday sly; consols,
9s 1916; per cent. United States bonds, 1919 As,
l16l As, ISL.
In San Francisco hall dollars are quoted at dis
count to par; Mexican dollars, 9O@91c.
AT Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at9s Sd
@l0s for good to choice California.
Mining stocks very dull in San Francisco
yesterday. Changes in values were small but gen.
eraly against holders.
Unusually high tides occurred yesterday on the
lower coast.
The cold weather continues throughout the East,
West and South, although at some points it has
slightly moderated.
Fires at Newport, R. l.; Atlantic N. j.; Jackson,
Mich; Evanston, H.; McKeesport, Pa
French geld to the amount OF s2l4, 2S0 was re-
ceived at New York yesterday.
Jonathan Costock was found frozen to death on
the street at GAINESVILLE, o., Thursday.
Benjamin j. Phelps District Attorney of New
York, died Thursday night.
The United States Mints distributed this week
3lo,99S silver dollars, against 20709Ss during the
corresponding week of 1879.
A partial eclipse of the sun was visible at New
York yesterday morning.
Charles.C. Staun.on, convict, committed suicide
Thursday in the Missouri Penitentiary
The receipts from customs for December amount
to nearly sls.eOO,OOO. and from internal revenue
nearly sl2oOO,0oO.
man named Flanagan was fatally wounded at
Nah Nv
Smith
Bullion and ore shipments from Colorado during
1850 amounted to 81, 600.
According to the terms of the new treaty between
Russia and China, the latter will open the whole
country to Russian commerce.
Two ENJOYS of the King of Abyssnia have arrived
at Paris
Louis Auguste Blanquin. the noted Communist
and Socialist agitator, did in Paris Thursday.
A German steamship is stranded near Korseer,
Denmark.
The District Governor of orenburg. Russia, has
resigned.
The total United States currency outstanding at
this date is $50, 5ss, 424.
II has been found that General Mcdowell did not
vote at the last election Notwithstanding the asser
ton that he went East for that purpose at Govern
ment expense
The British are about to retire from Candahar.
The Superintendent of Census places the p puia-
ton of the United States and Territories at So
$50.
The gross revenue of the United Kingdom for the
quarter ending yesterday was SIC, 500, 900.
Tie steamer Plowboy sank at Pendleton Landing,
Ark, Thursday, and proved total loss.
Henry Washington (colored) was hanged yesserday
at jackson, Miss
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SOUTH AMERICA.

South America has been distracted, as usual, by
war, all through the year. Chile and Peru, for
ofenses in the main trivial, have been engaged in
deadly conflict, and the struggle has been carried
on with desperation and ruthlessness highly.
edifying to Christehdom. Chile being much the
stronger has finally invaded Peru, and her army is
now probably before Lima, which old historical
city is threatened with sack and destruction.
The collapse of Peru when Lima falls seems GER
tain, for though it may be true, as declared by
President Perola, that it is possible to maintain a
guerrilla war in the mountains much longer vet IT
is evident that this would involve the practical
destruction Of Peru as a State The war hes been
ferocious and disgraceful one, especially to Chile,
and none of the refnements which European Powers
have adopted have been thought of by either of the
belligerents. The United States has made one
feeble offer at diplomatic Intervention, but without
success, and has therefore retired from the scene
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ment of law. breakers, and the obligations
and shortcomings of society in this con-
nection.
In an article entitled 'sThe Miners, the
Farmers, and the State, the Debris prob.
lem is examined dispassionately and care
fully, with a view to demonstrating the
fallacy OF the arguments raised by the OPP
ponents of the remedial measures now in
course Of application.
An essay on "The Material and Social
Future of California treats in bold and
earnest manner the question of community
growth, and the tendencies which operate
to retard and to assist the development of
higher civilization.
The paper on ''The Relations of Educa-
ton to Civilization" somewhat sharply
questions the popular theories in regard to
the supreme efficacy of the common school
system as the be-all and end-all of civiliz-
ing agencies, but the reasons for this criti-
cism are presented SO fully that its justice
will probably not be denied.
In the department of correspondence
will be found some charming letters from
Paris, descriptive of life among the artist
class.
An instalment of our prize story, " The
Adventures of Charlie Could" carries that
interesting narrative into still more absorb
ing situations.
In addition to all these specialties we
print series of statistical tables showing
the work of the Board of Equalization and
other departments of the State Govern.
meut, and more than the usual quantity
of general miscellaneous matter of all
kinds. As specimen of California jour
nalism. taking it altogether, we venture to
say that the present issue of the RECORD
UNION cannot be despised.
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QUINTUPLE EDITION.
coNrEars OF THIS NuMRER.

Page ANNUAL Report of the Sacramento Board
of Trade
Page BOARD OF Trade report continued.
Page 3-Business Review.
Page 4-Business Review and Advertisement.
Page 5-Refreshing Letters; The Household The
Quiet Hour; Our Letter Box.
Page Cuisines Review.
Page 7--Business Review and Advertisement.
Page 8-Business Review.
Page 9-The Social and Material Future of Cali
fornia Advertisements.
Page 1o-Editorial
Page l1-Local, Telegraph, Advertisements, etc.
Page 1.-THE Ventures and Adventures OF Charlie
Gould Advertisements.
Page l3-Helen Mumford's Fortune; Our Harvest /;
Statistics.
Page 14-Business Review.
Page 15-Marriages, Births and Deaths ; New Pub
locations; Science and Art.
Page Statistics.
Page i7-Business Review.
Page acknowledgements.
Page I9-Business Review The Relation of Educa-
tiona Agencies TO Civilization; Ad-
vert.sements.
Page 20-Telegraph; The Miners the Farmers and
the State; Grimes and Criminals.
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CHINA.


At intervals It is announced with flourish Of
trumpets that at last China is about to wake up
and open her territory to the great western cviza
ton Presently the spasm passez, and it appears
that nothing of the kind has happened. Equally
common with these predictions are elaborate specu-
laions about the result of railroads and teleraphs
and electric lights and telephones and selfc cIing
revolvers upon tie Monaghan character. The gen.
eral conclusion seems to be that so soon as the
Chinese have acquired all these new inventions
theywi be seized with rrepressible yearnngs either
TO emigrate en- mdsse to the United States to in
stitute a conquering raid upon the rest of the
world, q la Genghis Khan. Perhaps it is time that
the world began to realize that the Chinese cviiza
ton has very frequently been compared to the
Western civilization by Mongolian observers of
vantage of the West The truth is that
Chinese statesmen and philosophers object
to the very agencies which We think
most nee ssary to civilization. They say that what
we call advancement is merely hurry and con-
fusion. They observe that method of progress
involves constant crushing out Of the weaker
that we sacrifice the Individual at every turn that
we make material success means Of cruelty end
wrongdoing, that in no way elevate the in
tellectual condition of the masses. They point
with pride TO their own country, where an enor-
nous population is, by the exclusion Of all labor.
saving machinery, enabled to live as it could 1--we in
no other way, and where despite quite general
mediocrity of possessons the national philosophy
and the national system Of education render TIE ma
jority OF men contented and happy. The Chinese
regard their civilization far superior to ours, and
as long this belief holds there is no danger that
they will overrun the rid, ell her as peaceful
ernigrants or as conquering soldiers
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RUSSIA.

The internal condition of the Russian Empire has
not been encouraging The progress OF the indus
trial arts and manufactures is very SLOW The tlage
of the southern wheat producing region is so bad
that crops are frequently lost quite unnecessarily
The so,called reforms in the land system and the
condition of the peasantry which were instituted at
the beginning of the present reign have not result
ed as it was hoped they would. The peasantry ap-
pear in fact to he deteriorating under the influence
of partial reimbursement The paternal despotism
of the Mir, however fatal To the development Of
independence, protected its subjects from some of
those grosser vices which capable of destroying
nascent civilization with frghtful rapdity. And if
the peasantry are neither better nor better off, the
middle and upper asses are quite as discontinued.
The peasant grumbles at having to pay for his land.
The merchant and professor and the poor noble
grurnhle because the country does not advance
quickly enough, because careers are more difficult
in it, because corruption is the only unfettered
agency, and because the Government seems inca
pabe of treating popular complaints in any
other manner than by forcible suppression. II is
true that several years ago Provincial Councils
or legislatures instituted to look after local
affairs; but as as they began to make SERIOUS
recommendations and to point out serious abuses
they were made to understand that they were not
intended to organize and reform, but merely to
play al doing something Of the kind. Since then
the Provincial Councils have not troubled the Cen
trail Government. The latter has been somewhat
disturbed by the Nihists who, hough their policy
in regard to government is obscure enough, have
demonstrated very methodical defnteness in their
attempts upon the life OF the Gar. The Imperial
arrangement by which General Loris Melikef
became Governor of st. Petersburg, and the Third
Section of Police was put out Of commission, at
least for the time, appears to have been attended
with very satisfactory results on the whole In the
absence OF Iollce spies and apprehended surveil-
lance the Nihists seem to have lost most of their
interest in the game, and the clemency Of Mekoff
so disarmed them that they are supposed not to
have made more than three deliberate attempts
upon the Emperor's life during the past summer.
It is no more possible than it was a year ago to
explain the purposes of these agitators. The pre-
sumption is that theT are really Anarchists without
any definite plan for the future, and only agreed
upon the desirability OF overturning the ex-
istins institutions. They formidable, because it
is evident that the existing institutions
have the support of but one class, and
that by no means the most powerful, namely the
bureaucracy. As for the army it win support any
dynasty that gives it work to do, and at present it
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AUSTRIA.

Austria has recovered somewhat of the prestige
which she lost in the war of 1866 by her recens re-
newal of the most cordial relations with the Berlin
Government. The world has thus been given to
understand that hereafter Germany and Austria
will stand together and tina. what the does the
other will maintain. The first effect of the new
alliance was in the discussion of the Eastern
Question. The occupation OF Bosnia by Austria
might have been matter for controversy a short
time previously, and in the event of collapse on
the part OF the Porte, Russia might not have hest
tated to step forward and claim the offics of ad-
ministrstor, even despite the guns Of the Eng
fish fleet. But since it has been apparent that the
Austrian policy was now the policy. OF united
Whether this powerful protection is calculated
to help or hurt Austria is nevertheless matter
for consideration. 1t is very certain that
Bismarck has been moved by no special regard for
Austria in arranging his policy. 1t is well known
that he has for years believed in the possibility and
even the desrabity Of breaking up the Hapsburgh
Inheritance absorbing the German elements of it
into Germany, and forcing the Slavic clements to
unite in new Slavic empire. Russian Pan
Slavism has rendered this idea impractical as well
as mpracticable. 1t would be dangerous for Ger.
many to encourage the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of Russia
by suggesting to that power course which would
bring her frontiers to the Rhine, and would stimu-
late her lust OF maritime possessions Yet the
Hungarian possessions of Austria are now, and must
in the near future be still more, sources of PEE
pleyity and danger They never be so amalga-
mated to forget their origin or their history, and
they will always be signing for independence
which could not long be prevented from becoming
an ennlity. The alliance between Austria and Ger
many may benefit the latter when the partition of
Turkey takes place, far territorial acqui
stion is concerned, brit I doubtful whether such
extension is not calculated to weaken still further
an empire already so unwieldy and inharmonious as
to be scarcely capable of control byone government
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tate about it, but plunged into the new experiment
with recklessness and abandon perfectly wonder
full Is is therefore quite natural that they should
have made many serious mistakes, and one of
the worst OF them was in taking the United
States for financial pattern, just when soft-money
theories were in the ascendant here, aud We were
committing all manner of absurdities in regard TO
the currency. Japan made for herself paper cur
rency, and she has never ceased to repent it, Per-
haps it was well that this fasco checked the arlor
of imitation, and that since then there has been
wholesome reaction in favor OF old Indigenous Gus
toms. For there are many points in which Japanese
civilization is at least good as ours, and some in
which it is decidedly superior to ours and the par
ticulars in regard to which we are capable Of in.
structing that ancient and cultivated people are
very much fewer than may be imagined