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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
A F0Itcstc I,ntcr.

htAe n Thu Ehltdgb TrthttHt.
KE0Kuk, ill.,, Aug. IT'LL WIZ Just going III rite
" II letter ask'nu u Bn,n kwcstsl,,lns nGowt lilo
progrcs ny tho srolhg reform wien MI ,Jul ov
7Scres OH kAino In. and tilot III trt MI cks.
pcrrrncnt. 1fo In. tIn I'll sktilt ntc woks wt.ar
TIN tot him tho fonctk snxutla uv aun, uv tho
letters, 81 ns1tt him IT lie wlntd til hctp me ritg
u letter. and 81 he Il tuit,H tito spelling wlllp nm
sllnHing tAn tnk. tu iizc r. il!o "lr.% n''.ptcl
Er.1 This mi mil il neknnlk, / nil mitch III.
terstl Il, thIa rurDrtt,+ for ito went IN Bklilo
Tor foricun y0tR md knttnot si,p INV. whlle this
sx how tho t!l.l1tlru Wl1i ietil II tim eut hAv t,
gud ch.ns with n foHutfk alfMbot. -.
HpE1tN lkEFOltStt,
, 1881-08-20
IERE BLACK,
a Fnlao 1;ulogy by HIlnlsolf upon Him
AClf nistl n SlaMAer upon Con. Scott.
10 the Editor ui Tns Chicago Tribune

FnlHc EutoGy by Himself upon Him.
Aclr nnA II slander upon Con. Scott.
10 the Editor of Tns Chicago Trttuns.
CHICAGO, Aug. ln-1n TIE TGIpuNN OF
Aug. notice n lu,gthy but false culoEy by
Judge Black lpan himself, md III the same
article n severe and unjust attack upon Gen.
Scott. Tho nrticlo III question severely cell
sltres Gen. Scott for falling to reinforce
Fort Sumter, and would lead lis to bolloye
tllut lslnck wns nbunt tic only Union .nan I'll
Washington from October, 1850, until nfter
Llhcoln's inauguration.
Judge l}lack has not the motlcsty to allow
sosne ono else to pronounce his c,ll0Ey, but
gots n reporter to interview him, mid tlloIt
procectls 10 eulugtzo himself. Such oxtraya-'
giant self.concelt would probably pass ,ls,,,o-
tlceh wero It not fur his tnlsc statements
about better men than himself, who nrn III
their graves, and therefore unable to answer
lin.
One of Jnslge Dlack's first lnlsstatements
Is us follows:
Tho fniluro to reinforce sumtor. which l
Thought, and atill thlnk, was tho c9rdInnl error
Ut th0 Administration, snY caused innInly by
S ho ntary ssaton. nl liz centIy o
clirea tht Il could mt be laHe with my force 1T
btu communal. for certain REASONS whtoh firmly
III TO hold him responsible to tho country, Hut
ne ,. cyaea ~ az tT,E Eixssnt fSr h per-
would hAye beelt lnnuEurlitud ut Ftrr Sumter
cnlisu,
Tho abovo statement contains ut least three
gluring falseiloous.
II Is not trtle thnt Con. Scott declared ho
cuNld mt reinforce Sumter; but, OH tho COLI
tr.ry, le urged President Buchanan rs e.lrly
us Oct. 81, tstU, to Immediately 10 garrison
all tho forts In tho South Ms to make my at-
tempt to talse them II faiIura. ! uuotu Gen.
Scutrs lettcr, which was printed rs early rs
lsG3, amt can ba t0una III l'utnaln's Record OF
the Rebellion. i'll Se0tt's Autobiography, anil
Iii WhitnUy's Wnr for the Union. Aud, 10 It
remembered, this letter of Scott IL not like
the letter Ut Judge Hack OIL tho sall,e sdb-
1ect, Which UlAck says I,1 lost for the retiod
uf ttGcHtN years., md WAS found willis l,A WIS
III EuropH. Uun. SENT did not put away Ills
lpttur u buchanan Wlcru 1t WIS iost, but put
| 1t nttl lilllsself Upon tho reeurl..
III his autobiography, Vol. H., pago Gov,
| Scott snyS:
ln tho Presidential CANVASS OF 1850 1t WIS
plainly soon that y disruption Of tho unIou was
iaidfesscd saoiuriat 70 rsesiisnt nuuaai,a.
on tho subject, OF which tho iolIuwlny aro OK.
Oet. -, tsou-rhe e1c.uucnt that ,hrostons TO-
sS::pn @ T. faaS s X M m aI agnoas e ts1aellS;
pas, T ~ .sc ,H ssyS ika, kssS 10 ts ass r. 5 S5
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s $S @ :: ~ !tSiSsi
MUrKnH below MUljlU without u ENTEisUni F,irtS
, 1881-08-20
THE SPRhGUE DIVORCE CASE.
Epftfui DtziAtteh to 4ht fshtenro 7trtt,,t,,s

l'I.ovIpEScE, X, L.. Aug. .l0.-rho S,,-
prosIfe Court Of Washington County utl-
joMrlicd to-tAy, al,d will nut uluct agnln until
November. As uo slnlo WIS tlxct fur lilo
llenring OF tho Spmguo divorce suits tlloy
Will tinvo to 70 uvUr to TINT tiine, tho statutes
providing FOL, tho trlul Of divorce eases III
Term tlnio only.
, 1881-08-20

-Aftpr pers0ltll experlp.,ce md n fair triai,
Mrs. Fltat W. frplIoh, No: tiatcN street,
south nostoll. writes: -! l,ay9 used st. .Ja;
10 anything ever trieh."
, 1881-08-20

those forts. Here, tl,Il, Is Il question, nf ver.
nelly between Gen. Scott Alhl JUICE l}lnrk;
tr.Mtner sHn'o conteni'ora!cntls evidences:
70 lS!D, nna olt Tho it'll, Of !ai,nary was ten.
tlcrct II hat,,lt.et BY Tho authorities 0E leic',-
iMcr ,rronone.al nli rxi,nvngtMt rnlogy o!l
ativu 10 tIlc, Sjulhurli forts: il. Is suta
tint Scott trslrcd TO transfurt, il,o nr'liy
~ slccs!i!y and anictly % pssl.
Hn"l!s , Met Il ~ at seceyiSN s ~
Federal t'overnn,cnt Without n great Ilcot, Or
takn thcm With 16U.U)0 nlcli. laihtly hundred
millions, Dt ttol'Iars several cn'npa'g''s a'l
bHultct inn'io SIMILAR stnlcA,eltt. Tits
.polt tl,'s l'9int. Alll, l,esies tts, Dlaeh Il
lsUchannnfB Atttllnistratinll Of S0utlcri Mf-
faifs,-thnt Oh tic 18th Of November, lSsi3,
1}IaCk.. why was tllGi. Attorney General,
g1,sa Ills opii,ton IL tho President about thu
tho Executive in A0 then pending tl,atters
OF secession.
So completely were buchanan an.l black
snSrtly sSsass IT, ,y tn tes'sns pn st II
h,rssnHu to Congress l..'uptct liinok's vuws aud
urged them upul1 tho ut!tntry.
crnt s M Msit oM II o ut Il was y' .satr sn
and that cycn then aii lii operations must bo
,rfey ' ts tary, f1sc9 ' when
than .wl,at ought to be tluno by Il civil posse.
Judge 13laek won't eyc, l.cyotld this, nnt MI:
rs Esg sG vs mfyse u @ II ar 'ho sti fsnaf mna
ana n.nc othora coul. bu got 10 serve. Tint III
shas usot re- t,sr whns tS so Dt
sia hac "nrs sc,t 70 st! corts md n ~ arslals
iat ass ~, ~ anI y" ns e ny aSS
] T., ~ ~ ~ u . sv ~ ',sui , ~ o ts .tss
~ ~ nSys|sai Il stsSnF'% % %S,s6 & tho TSSsfnssi
TO % so,l military i1fse re- lnt4 ny StMte wt
oc!s ~ ~ aRa,st dno p%g9e % M oo s'y
r & Mr ',t,f ,he i,II 1Mt ~ ,sIas III nsc III 81 I'LL. a
nloious rs y neans Of holdsng tho statcs to-
RgNs"S Nnw. s,,noosnv tiucon.a afntntstrat tim Ind
o:!optod ,a.s ier;;i!coos opn!on oi Juiise !iacl.
sss saers W r. ss a '! a Marss %
aluet!. Ihat opinon' ioliowau 70 ~ loIea!
eenGins @ Wm hHa pGrnG , mIsSG%
JRlEG iitack nrHt!o or ufEa INC rrGsisnht t, ar
o1. scott TO- aefn trons 70 @ sers ,s aex Ws
tt NJ ,a' anM r. .Mt op'!on ,
n'intter." -,
ss @ ~ % ~ asx asxr "nsko ,so ~ ne e Sv
War Or oct: ssott or t!'o rrastdunt t" r!i,f,,rec
sutntcrt ~ Is too ato t1ew. W!sGtl hnen nun
aWUny enaca n.kS If s 'ne nttar yo @
do 1,ho rccort! ts unnpeaehaby Mgait,st him.
~ UetoeGr, aG aoa so1tL pshMi, 0., ~ tno
who!o eourao relatlya q thoao Southern forts.
Why did not Judge Black anmnsk Ills batteries
tnehr
In which % On iaary ptses 10 % roicra III 10 reniurc.
Ing s,!!ntor: DID nack novor SEQ thoso pnEes9
, 1881-08-20
HIGHLAND HALL,
Blackburn University,

At GAltI1Nv1Ll4fs, Ill.,. Fall TORN gpens .!ta
Srnna pFsnGcts sept Spacious hnlilnS, l r ,r;ss AZ
Coassus IUr buth soxeA. Expgises law. ,....,,a.,
, 1881-08-20

mlAUEMDt4E1AGsE TAADASEA"
g Weat FOTty.sixth-st, Now y1tk. ltnaritn9 ~
Say echo3! ior IunuE l.sSs nna GhHfS ,. I.se
Ft1neh and other lhnElnGta HWlxnli WttalM ~ ~
lntlntha. Drawing md ulliachl H4fnuIees uosu''
1blNkGu.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-26
THE ENGINEERING PLAN.

EDS. RECORD. UNION: The partial de.
ssruction OF the brush dam on the Yuba river
by fire is seized upon by opponents of the late
Drainage Act as conclusively establishing the
fact that brush dams are necessarily ulsub.
stantial, aud subject to all the dangers of de-
cay, FIRE and food. Had this Yuba dam been
properly repaired during the past summer
the reservoir Immediately above the dam
would have been filed to its crest with a
mass of slush, sand and water. which would
have kept the dam thoroughly saturated with
moisture, thus preventing any danger from
fire, and also protecting the brush from de.
cay, as it is welI-known fact that if wood is
kept covered with water there will be prac-
tically no decay. At the present time the
water of the Yuba is discharging through
breaks in the dam at a level Of ten or twelve
feet lower than the crest, and consequently
the brush became dry, and ready to burn
upon the application of an incendiary match.
A fair illustration can be found in comparing
the dam in its present state to house whose
walls have been finished, but with no roof.
The general public has also misconceptien
as TO the amount Of material which this
dam will impound. With the dam in
a thorough state of repair the first filling
or retention OF debris will occur Immediately
back of the dam, and to the ignorant the
reservoir will appear to have been filed in
the first one or two years. This, however,
is far from the truth, as after the first depos-
its have been made just above the dam, the
filing viii still continue higher and higher
up the stream, until the surface of the i'm
pounded debris assumes normal slope nearly
parallel to the original slope of tie river.
This common error originates from confound-
ing debris reservoir with one for the reten-
ton of water The unqualified condemna-
ton of these incomplete engineering works by
ignorant and preiudiced newspaper editors.
in the face of the opinions of the most able
engineers of the country that these works
can 10 the end be made to thoroughly answer
their desired purposes, seems to have con-
WINGED most of the people of the State, and is
an unpleasant illustration OF the power of the
press.
The public fails to realizs that newspaper
editor, who perhaps has not mechanical skill
enough TO build woodshed, does not neces-
sarily become an accomplished hydraulic en-
gineer amply because he uses the pronoun
1--WE" ENGrNEER.
San Francisco, October "a, 1881.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-26
TIE MICHIGAN SUFFERERS.

The relief Commission announces that
the fund for the relief of the Michigan suf-
ferers win have TO be larger than was at
first supposed. It is estimated that as
many as ., 500 persons will require to be
supported for the time, and as bilious and
typhoid fevers are prevalent among the
victims of the forest fires it is evident that
they will need patient care. The suffer-
ings and loss those poor people have I'M
dergone commend them TO the sympathies
of every American. They are our own
people, and they have lost not only all they
possessed, but in many cases their wives,
children, parents, husbands, have been
burned to death before their eyes. They
should be assisted literally, and it would
be well if the churches everywhere took
up this matter, and made appeals to their
congregations for aid. Winter is upon tie
sufferers, and it is clear that if they are
not promptly and effectively succored many
more of them must sink under their affiic.
tions.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-26
TIE PENSION ROLL.

The pension roll continues to swell. It
will be SO. 100000 for the current fiscal
year, and there will be deficit of at least
$40, 0O0,0 600. This is one of the costly cou.
sequences of party government. The Pen
sion Act was VIGOROUSLY bad measure.
VIGOROUSLY is opened the door TO enormous
frauds upon the Treasury. But neither
party had the courage to oppose it, lest
the other should make capital out of pre-
tended regard for the poor soldiers, and so
both together passed law which both
knew would result in piundering the peo-
pie, without helping the ostensible objects
of the national bounty at all. And all that
was predicted concerning the bill has come
to pass. Millions of dollars have been
stolen under it already. An organized sys-
tenn of fraud has been established to work
its elastic provisions, and as we have seen,
the drain on the Treasury becomes heav.
Ter every year. Nor is it probable that any
attempt will be made to stop the leak.
The same cowardice that prevented both
parties from resisting its passage will keep
them passive and silent now. Unless the
people should manifest very decided OBJ.
lection to being robbed in this wholesale
way the robbery will go on until all the
thieves in the country have feathered their
nests comfortably.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-26
THE WHISKY Tax.


1t is stated that the whisky manufacs-
urers have resolved to petition Congress
for reduction of the tax on their staple,
from ninety to fifty cents. This is bold
proposition, since the reduction demanded
would diminish the internal revenue many
millions of dollars. There Is no reason
why the whisky tax should be reduced
single cent, but there are many good reasons
for increasing it largely. Cheaper whisky
means more drunkenness, and dearer
whisky would mean the encouragement of
beer drinking. which is distinct advance
in the direction of temperance. But the
whisky men are wealthy, and they know
the value of powerful lobby. They will
go to Washington armed with arguments
which we fear many congressman will find
perfectly irresistible, and we shall not be
at all surprised if they achieve at least
partial success.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-26
THE CUSTODIAN AGAIN.

Certainly the revelations made in regard
to the doings of the Custodian " of the
Treasury Department are of character to
render any defense of that individual ex-
ceedingly difficult. What is singular,
however, is that somehow the superior
officers of the Department appear to have
benefited by the malpractices of this erratic
person. Why he should have been con-
tinually cooking" the accounts in order
to provide the Chief Clerks with lemons
and sugar, bay rum and early lunch, is not
as yet at all easy to understand. Nor can
it be said that he stands alone in his iniquity
in other regards. What is to be thought
of the merchants who sent in bills for
carpeting, and for desks, and for billiard
cloth, and for file-holders, and who received
payment, but never delivered the goods
Ii Pitney had an arrangement with these
men it is clear that they were as great
rogues as himself. The whole story, how.
ever, is suggestive of corrupt practices
which have been pursued so long that their
dishonesty has become obscured. 1t is evil
dent that there has been great deal of
this kind of thing in probably all the de.
partments at Washington, and in the state
mems made recently in regard to the pur.
chases for the White House, another phase
of the same sort of plundering was exposed.
So long as The "machine and spoils sys.
TEN continues, moreover, it will be per
fectly useless TO think of putting an end
to this stealing. That system has sustained
and cultivated corruption in all its forms,
and while it endures it will screen the
worst frauds, no matter what efforts are
made to expose them.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-26


SMARTsv1LLE (Yuba county, October 18th.
The weather is cool and cloudy, with indica-
tons of rain.
MARYsvILLE, October 25th-The weather
is cool and cloudy. A few hundredths of an
inch of rain fell last night.
WATsoNvILLE, October 25th-It began
raining here this morning.
SAN BUENAvENTURA, October 25th.-A
rain-storm began here at A. NJ, and de-
scended gently during the morning. It broke
loose in perfect torrent at noon, and before
2 P. NJ. the register showed fall of 60
inches, % inches of which fell in two hours,
flooding the streets of the town. The dust is
now thoroughly laid aud the roads hardened,
much to the advantage of the farmers, who
are hauling grain to the whafves. The rain
will start the young grass at once, unless fol-
lowed by very warm weather. The crops are
safely housed, except a few beans. The
weather is still threatening.
SANTA BARBARA, October 25th.-At 5
o'clock this morning heavy rain COM
menced. and has continued at intervals all
day. Considerable damage will result to the
unharvested portion Of the Lima bean crop,
but farmers generally are prepared. Flowing
has commenced in many places.
SAN LUIS OBIsPo, October 25th.-It sat
in raining this morning, with heavy south
wind. The prospect is good for two or three
inches.
BAKERSFIELD, October 25th.-Bakersfeld
was visited by a sand storm this morning, fol-
lowed in the afternoon by a light rain.
Los ANGELES, October 25th.--A light
shower fell at 5 o'clock this morning. The
clouds continued lowering until 2P NJ when
a series of heavy showers set in. and contin-
ued until 1880. Up to s P. NJ. 80 of an inch
of rain fell. The weather is still threatening.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-26
OREGON.
Item,s from Portland.

IEOOA EOEtxdnUs
PORTLAND, October 25th.-A heavy fall of
snow occurred throughout eastern Oregon and
Washington to-day.
The fall races of the Northwestern District
Agricultural Association are declared off.
The public schools at Waitsburg and Day
ton, w. T., have closed, to await the abate-
ment of the smallpox. While cases are
numerous none are serious, and there have
been as yet no deaths.
News of peculiarly sad death was re-
received here this morning. Miss Sallie
Briggs, an estimable young lady, aged 81, had
been nursing sick family for weeks near
Albany, and about ten days ago was herself
seized with scarlet fever. Saturday night
her mind wandered, and while her nurse was
temporarily absent Miss Briggs arose and
went to the river near by, as it is supposed,
to battle, as she was won't to do in the low
stages of water. The current now being
deep and swift she was carried off. Her
body was recovered the next morning. Her
father was killed by Indians in 1861, and
seven years later her mother was drowned by
the cap5izing of boat, with this child about
her neck.
SECOND DISPATCh.l
PORTLAND, October 25th.-The safe of the
Oregon Barrel Company at st. Johns, six
miles below here, was robbed last night of
S175
George w. Hon. a bridge carpenter at
East Portland, dropped dead from paralysis
of the brain this afternoon.
China Charley was convicted to-day in the
State Circuit Court of rape on an S-year-old
girl, committed three months ago two miles
from the city.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-26
TIE ATTEMPT TO BURN THE BOHEMIA.

a brief dispatch some days ago stated
that what was supposed to have been an
attempt to burn the Cunard steamer Both.
MIA had been discovered. The details of
the case seem to show that the attempt
was very purposeful and deliberate one.
The facts are as follows On certain
Sunday two men approached the pier at
which the Cunard steamers lie, and asked
permission to go on board the Bothnia to
see the boatswain, Jackson. As they
seemed to know the boatswain, they were
allowed to pass. On reaching the steamer
they again asked for the boatswain, and on
learning that he was asleep, they said that
they would take a turn through the ship.
In about fifteen minutes they went ashore
again. Shortly afterwards an under stew
ard detected strange odor in the saloon,
and called the attention of the Chief Stew.
ard to it. He traced it to a narrow pas.
sage which was nearly dark, but on the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-26

carpet of which he could see phosphoric
gieam. He found that the smell proceeded
from this carpet. and he at once proceeded
to roll it mp. In doing this the carpet
burst into flames, and had it not been car
RED out of the saloon instantly would I'M
doubtedly have set the ship on fire.
Further search discovered four glass
TASKS, two broken and two sound,
in the passage-way. One OF them
had contained phosphoric preparation,
and the other some kind of oil, and it was
evident that these fluids had both been
poured on the carpet, and had together
produced mixture which was ignited by
friction. The piece of carpet burned so
fiercely that it was found necessary to
throw it overheard, and even then it
blazed up go in the water that it had to be
sunk with weights. So combustible was
the mixture that the Chief Mate, having
stepped on it while rolling up the carpet,
and having then gone to his own cabin,
set the carpet OF that on ire by merely
walking over it. There seems to be no
doubt that a most deliberate and coolly-
planned attempt to burn the Bothnia was
made, in short, and from the formidable
character of the chemicals used it is GER.
tain that business was intended. The
officers of the Cunard company are natu-
rally disinclined to talk much about an
affair which may do serious injury to their
business by exciting the fears of intending
passengers and shippers, but there can be
little doubt that this incendiary attempt
had direct connection with the recent
threats of those advocates of dynamite and
its congeners, of whom O'Donovan Rosa
processes to be the principal representa-
tive
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NEVADA.
itenis freu, Eureka.

EUREKA, October 25th.-James E. Ander-
son, who was so severely beaten last Satur-
day, is now thought to be out of danger.
His physicians say he will recover rapidly.
The bonanza in General Connor's Eureka
tunnel continues to improve. 1t has been
opened for sixty feet in length by thirty in
width. The ore pulp assays $50 per ton.
The attorneys leave for Carson tomorrow
to get ready to argue the Richmond-Albion
suit in the Supreme Court November Sd.
The Central Pacific has Just completed q
side track for the accommodation Of the new
district OF Stafford, near Palisade.
Three days racing is going on at Cherry
Creek this week, being largely attended by
horseUen from all parts of Eastern Nevada.