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would undoubtedly welcome war with Germany,
though the Car is strongly opposed to any rupture
with Berlin. The Nihilists have been much quieter
of late than usual but since no reforms have taken
place, and since they themselves have not been cap
tured en- ma'se, it is reasonable to conclude that
they have not abandoned their agitation and are in
fact only hiding their time. There have been rumors
OF war between Russia and China. The former
Power has placed the Pacific fleet of armed
vessels capable of reducing any Chinese port and on
this side of the world would certainly possess great
advantage in such struggle. But in Central Asia
the would be very different. There the Russian
movements would be hampered in many " avs while
the Chinese mode OF making war, by slow ap.
proaches conquering every foot OF ground, and
building and sowing the advance is made,
would quite possibly tire out the Muscovte forces,
and ultimately drive them not only from Kuldja,
but from Turkestan. For the time this collision
appears to have been averted, but there can be no
doubt that it will come sooner or later, and when it
does it might be mistake to wager upon the sue
cess of the Power which appears to possess the ad
vantage in armament and discipline at present.
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Discharged, died and elcped.
Remaining Inlr 1ssn

DIR. Wilkins says: The average annual in
crease, since the Asylum was opened, has
been ICY As, the increase during the last
year (125l being the smallest. These, added
to al already crowded Asylum, has sorely
taxed our ingenuity, ard has rendered proper
classification more impossible than ever. The
attics now being fitted up will ere long afford
accommodations for nearly 200 patients, but
as more than half Of this space will be occu-
pied before the close of the fiscal year ending
June so, 1880, the question again arises as to
what is to be done with the increase for the
next two years, which no reasonable estimate
can place at less than $50. To my mind the
remedy is perfectly clear. Steps should be
taken and appropriations made by the Leeis-
ture, soon to convene, for the construction of
another Asylum, to be located ia the First
or Fourth Congressional District.
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THE DOMINION OF CANADA.

Within short intervals suggestions have been made
both from Canada and British Columbia, looking to
annexation to the United States. The apprehended
failure OF the Canadian Pacific Railroad Is responsible
for one OF these propositions perhaps but the more
important one is doubtless due to growing convc-
ton that Canada has nothing to gain and much to
lose by her connection with the mother country
Should England become involved in foreign war,
AMI her enemy be in position strike at her col
onia possessions, We have no doubt that this ques-
ton OF annexation would instantly spring into first
class Importance, and that the absorption of the
whole of the present British possessions into the
United States would inevitably follow
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ITALY.

Italy still suffers from the reactionary effect OF her
late important advances. Unifcation, while it was
in prospect, seemed to embrace all that patriots
could desire, but when consummated it is at once
apparent that only one step in a long ascent has
really been gained and that it is after all quite pos
sble to suffer nearly all the vexations and dsap-
pointments of the cd regime, under the new one.
This discovery has tended not only to damp the
ardor of the contemporaries OF CavOur and Victor
Emanuel but TO cast certain dscredi the kind
of enthusiasm they represented. a somewhat Ian
guild period has succeeded to that of fire and ervor
and the country contents itself with the mild
das OF ministerial ntrigues for steady diet, and
is moved out of its habitual lassitude by the
sham earnestness and pinchbeck pltliotlsm of the
IItia irridentG movement The policy OF the Vail
can, after wavering for WHILE and after raising the
hope that Pope Leo would signalize his advent to
the Pontifcal chair by adopting more liberal pro-
CRANE than his predecessor, has at length been de-
fined in the most unmistakable way, and proves to
be UItramontane to the core. In fact the new Pope
is evidently altogether in the hands of the Jesults
who to all practical ntens guiding the course of
the Papal Government throughout the world. As an
illustration of the observation of Disrael that it
is always the unexpected which happens, may be
mentioned two circumstances in this connec ion.
neither of which could possibly have been pre-
dicted. We refer to the outbreak Of war between
Church and State in France, and the practical sur
render of Bismarck to the Church in Germany.
How long is it since the great Chancellor grrlly de-
cared ''We do not go to Canossa" -? Well, it seems
that Germany of to-day does go to Canossa, for a.
suretly other Interpretation can be put upon the
Princes abandonm mt Of that hostile attitude TO
wards Rome which Rome has done nothing to mol
hfy. The Papacy, however, is at present Ultra
montana throughout and this means that the
whole Church is what the Jesuits were formerly
The Pope still refuses to leave the Vatican, and
keeps up the fight against modern science by recon-
mendirg the revival of Scholasticism and solemnIy
indorsing Aquinas as the right kind of authority
wierewith to encounter scepticism and enlighten-
ment. Italy grows slowly but secularly, without
much reference to or concern for the Vatican There
are indeed some symptoms of danger arising from a
too careless treatment OF popular education, thus
leaving openings for the nsidious and vieilant cer
ical element, but probably the sharp eyes of the
people can be trusted to preserve the country
against that particular form of blight, and for the
rest progress is being made, if gradually none the
less sensbly
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A singular custom exists in Arabia
When an Arab widow intends marrying
again, the night before the ceremony she
pays visit to the grave of her first hus-
band. There she kneels and devontly
prays that he will not be offended. The
widow brings with her donkey laden
with two goat-skins filled with water. The
prayer ended, she proceeds TO pour water
upon the grave, and. having saturated It,
che departs and makes preparations for
the approaching nuptials.
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AVERAGE LAND VALUES.

From the report of the State Board of
Equalization for 1880 we compile this table.
1t shows the average assessed value of land
in the classes named, FER acre, in some of the
counties of the State, and which may be
taken as fair example Of how the same
classes were assessed in the other counties
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The Board adds "We think that Assess
ors have still followed the old way. There
seems an air of eucnantment about estates of
many acres, that steals away the senses of
Assessors and incapacisates them from peg
forming their duty. al statistics, or rather
the deductions from them, are more or less
failacious; but when we observe the regular
procession or decreasing values, per acre.
frcm the tracts of 10 acres to the tracts Of
$40 acres, we can but come to the conclusion
that Assessors have not performed their duty.
1t will not do to say that the smaller tracts
are cultivated. and therefore more valuable,
because the Constitution and the law both
require that cultivated and uucultivated
land, of the same quality and similarly sit
uated, shall be assessed at the same value.
The popular sense is probably against this
rule, and Assessors were influenced by it."
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SPAIN.

Spain has been SO fortunate of late as to have
dull annals. Cuba has afforded her press ana
people the bulk of the topics they have discussed
during the past twelgemonth The abolition OF
slavery in the ever faithful isle has after long de-
bates in the Cortes been decreed on the APP
premiership system; probably as injudicious a
method as could have been adopted. In Spain it
self there has for several years been a decided
revival OF commerce and industry. Railroads have
been built canals have been dug, ships and steam
ers have been laid on the stocks, new markets have
been developed, old industries have been stimulated,
in short there has been quite business renaissance
and this was what Spain needed perhaps more than
ANYTHING. For while the authority of the Church
had been partially shaken off the nation still suffered
from the paralyzing influence OF priestly despotism
and Intellectual dragging. Popular education
had been almost abolished, the church schools
having been mere burlesques. But now spirit
of progress is being developed throughout the
country Schools are springing up where they
were never known before. Trade is brisk, and the
people are prospering remarkably In fact Spain is
beginning to show trustworthy signs of general
convalescence which, unless she relapses into the
state of superstition which formerly proved her
ruin will in the course of another generation en-
able her to resume her place among the nations.
And if hereafter her tone is lower than OF yore,
neither she nor her neighbors viii have anything to
regret in the change.
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THE NEW YEARS "REcoRD-UN1oN.


The present issue of the RECORD. UNION
is undoubtedly the most important newspa-
per, from local standpoint, that has ever
been published in this city. The admira-
BILE report of the Sacramento Board of
Trade we have discussed in another article.
The contents of to-day's RECORD UNION are,
however, very much more than merely
locally interesting. The business of the
city is set forth with an elaboration which
leaves nothing to be desired, but due at
tention has also been paid to the intellect
ual wants Of our readers, and beside the
regular departments, embracing the tele-
graphic, local, miscellaneous news, house
hold, etc, there will be found in these
pages a number of special papers of more
than ephemeral interest and value.
In our annual Foreign Review sketch
is given of the salient events which have
occurred in the principal countries of the
globe, together with such general informa-
ton as will enable the reader to grasp the
existing condition of each OF them.
A notwithstanding and well-written
story by Junius Henri Browne, the we'll
known Etterateur, and the regular New
York correspondent of the RECORD UNION,
will appeal to such as are not interested in
business statistics and arguments.
naper on uCriroa apd rr;r,;n,F.n
discusses the grave question of the treat.
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ter the estate 1t is evident tina. the Ottoman
power in Europe is on the verge of extinction, and
that finally. Whether it can pass over into Asia
and there find any revivifying influence remains to
be seen but we do not believe that it retains any
more capacity than would suffice to hold together
in such loose alliances Central Asia knows,
tribes of semi-savage Turcomans or kirghIz, or
Circassian nlarauders. The Turkish system has not
progressed with the rest Of the world, and it must
therefore be relegated to those torpid regions where
progress seems of little consequence because what
Europeans call civilization is there despised and re-
iected
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JAPAN.

The difference between China and Japan is enor-
nous, despite the close resemblance between the
people and many of their customs and arts. The
Japanese have infusion of blood which often gives
them almost Anglo-Saxon hkeress. They hste
been the better for lacking Confucianisn,, we i'm
agine, and the genial side of their nature has ha
room to expand When they determ@hed to open
their doors TO western civilization they didnot hest
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CENTRAL ASIA

The birthplace of the nations has always been
restless region. Conquerors, mostly nomads and
leaders OF nonads, fit over it backwards aud for
words Khnns and Begs meet and pass and mingle
in wild confused reel, of which the Europeans
only perceive that the is ceaseless fight and
scramble; that there is continual intrigue treach
cry, murder, and falsehood that Might makes
Right in Central Asia just it did in medieval Eu-
rope-or just as it does all over the world and
that whether Russia succeeds in squeezing out the
indigenous rulers, or China succeeds in squeezing
Russia out, or both these Powers eventually
expelled by England, or either of the three drives
out the Others it will make very little
difference to the present condition OF the country
which condition is simply a thinly. concealed an
archy. Just now, and for several years past Russia
has been making the most important advances in
Central Asia, but though her progress has been
steady and continuous the difficulties If transporta-
ton and Of communication are so great that it is
neither possible to send large bodies OF men to dis
tant points, nor to maintain them when there. The
real forces of Russia have consequently been quite
small and she has relied upon the barbarism Of her
opponents But China cannot thus be dealt with
She has an enormous population to draw upon
She had great reputation in Central Asia before
Russia had been heard of there. Her troops ale
now furnished with modern arms of precision She
has long-ranged rified artillery of the newest
patterns, and officers versed in tactics.
In short she whenever she peases
either force Russia out of Central Asia altogether.
or compel her to fight there prolonged and
necessarily costly war; under the most serious dis
advantages As to England, her unfortunate ex.
perience with Afghanistan may induce her to
abandon the idea of making "neutral zone of
that province, but if Russia's aggression is not
otherwise checked she may be compelled to come
forward and put limit to it herself The capture Of
Merv, for example, by Russia, would quite posi-
bly, be regarded by the Indian Government as
caSus betti, and not without justification. The
integrity of Herat is equally important, and Russia
will probably not apprcach either of them for some
time.
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INDIA.

1t is a significant circumstance that during the
past year the English press has begun openly to dis
cuss the question of the desirability of retaining
India As matter of course those who for
abandoning the Indian empire are as yet in small
minority, but it is to be observed that their argu-
ments are now treated with some approach to re-
spect, and especially that they are admitted to the
most influential and intelligent organs of opinion
The reasons of this change are on the surface. In
da is becoming every year heavier charge upon
the country, and all its prospects are gloomy The
enormous investments made by the British Govern
ment there have not returned any profit. The ef
forts of the Indian Government to introduce reforms
have in one set Of instances only made bad
worse, and in another set have actually
produced tremendous disasters by doing their
work too well. For where the evils
which formerly checked and limited the growth OF
the native population have been completely re-
moved population has increased fast that the food
supply could not keep pace with it, and dreadful
famines have resulted In the old times, when
wild beasts and venomous reptiles and marauding
raids and the cruelties of Oriental desposm thinped
out the people, they at least spared these de-
vastatiTg assaults Then, too the question of the
def -se Of the Indian frontier threatens to be al
wavs burning one, and the disasters caused in At
ghaustan Of late by the pretense of necessity for
guarding this frontier have disguised many people
with the whole subject. The practical selfshness
which is more than any other the spirit OF the
century, leads men to ask why England should
expose herself to the constant danger Of great
and costly war with Russia in order to guard a
possession which has long ceased to be anythi e
more than burden and the only effect of civiiiz
theories upon which has thus far been to aggrayate
all its suff ,rings. They argue that even from a
humanitarian and Christian standpoint it would be
much better to abandon India, for that the
rule OF the native princes however bad cannot pro-
duce more widespread ruin and misery than the
benevolent and mild government of the English has
produced in Bengal and Orissa. It seems probable,
too, that the new treaties between China and the
United States may strike deadly blow at the opium
trade OF India, in which case the condition OF the
Indian bucget will he worse than ever, and the in
clination of the English politicians to support the
burdens of that Government viii be feebler The
whole future of India in short is both doubtful and
disheartening, and its situation seems to indicate
that the western civilization is so far from be-
ing intrinscaly perfect as to be capable of doing
even more evil than good under certain conditions.
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NApA INSANE AgYLuW.

The following is from the report of the Resi-
dent Physician of the Napa Insane Asylum
to be submitted to the Legislature next week:
Number of patients admitted and discharged from
July l, $40, to July l, $780,
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A young man who had inherited the day
before large fortune from his uncle gave
a dinner to few friends. He inquired at
the restaurant if they had some old cheese.
"Yes," replied the waiter. sis it
strong?" Strong enough to bring the
dead 10 life." 81 don't want it" replied
the neir.
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1t you want to find out how little man
knows about himself and family give him
an insurance application to fill out. If
you want to see how little he knows about
anything put him on the witness stand.
burlington Haweye.
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INDEX 20 RECORD UNIONS REVIEW OF SAC
PAMRNrn BUSINESS H0nSFS

The following is a complete index to the special
business review of leading houses as presented in
this number. The first column of figures refers to
the page, and the second to the column where the
article will be found:
National Republican., 1881-07-27
Roscoe ConkIImg's Traduc.r-.

Roscoe Conkling should, for the pres
sent cease 10 be q subject for newspaper comment,
Ifhe Is politically dead, as some of his detrOctors
intimate, their satisfaction can be manifested in
some more becoming way than in "rattllng his
bones over the stones.' II lie has by a candidacy
for office placed himself outside OF the Republican
organization, those who rejoice over 1t should
content themselves now as they have already
read him out Of the party. They can no longer
fear him, as he has none of that official patronage
which they have declared was his only source Of
power. lie is asking nothing of the powers that
be at Washington or at Albany he is in nobodys
way, and he is nobody's rival, Having been so
weak as not 10 have improved the opportunity for
making money offered by his official life, he is
now under the necessity of fdevoing himself TO his
profession to make up for time spent in the dis
charge of official duties, and his enemies.
whose antics have been in emulation of the scalp
dances Of the savages of tho plains, should give
themselves and the country at least period Of
rest Boston Traveller
National Republican., 1881-07-27
Old PecksniT Double DI.coun,cd.

The editor of the Cincinnati Gazette can
rake the pot when it comes to doing the role of
Pccksnif. In n recent number of his paper he de-
votes column and n halfto exposing the military
blundcrs of General Sherman at the battle of
Chickasaw Bluffs, and closes with the following
double distilled rag-ofl. bush specimen of
Pecksninian sentiments LET us, like the two duti-
inl sons of Noah, with avered faces, drop the man.
tie of charity over this exposure Of military and
moral weakness of great general" The drop,
and the mantle, and the charity are all right in
their way, but we are not told In Holy Writ that
the boys first stripped the old man naked, and then,
with pretenslons of reverence, event
backward and threw their mantle over him" to
hide his nakedness. Not by a large majority. And
the Gd:otios metaphor is lame in another respect.
Nobody pretends that old Tecumseh was drunk at
Chickasaw, while old Noah was fuller'n a goose.
However 1t is prepostcrous TO expect q Cincinnati
editor to be very bright on the Scripture question.
National Republican., 1881-07-27

est known letters sfrom washingtons pen. The
were written between March Q, i7jl, and May 2,
1866, when he was but twenty-five 10 twenty five
years Of age.
THE universal enthusiasm with which
the news Of the shooting of that vulgar hero,
"Bily the Kid" has been received, should be a
lesson to Of the gentry who flourish revolvers
in bar-rooms.
To-co-BE, chief of the Shoshone Indians
Of Nevada drives a spanking pair of trotters at
tached to n handsome carriage. He has made some
successful ventures in mining and is an extensive
breeder Of cattle.
Miss EMMA E1sNER, a young lady who
is beautiful, only seventeen years old, and pos
sesses n contrato voice eofextraordiuary range and
power, has been engaged by Mr. c. D. Hess for
period Of ten years.
NINE. JENNY LIND GoLDsCHMiDT has re-
coived from the King ofsweden tho medal "Literis
ct Artibus," in diamonds, with an authorization to
wear 1t suspended from the blue ribbon Of the Or
der the seraphim.
A GRANDSON of Henry Clay, who went
to Greenland with the Howgate expedition last
year, remained in that country during the winter
He writes that his health was excellent and he
was In every respect comfortable.
GENERAL PIERCE NJ. b. YOUNG, Of
Georgia, is in the city. General Young has been
visiting General Rosser general manager Of the
Northern Pacific at 81. Paul, and made an extern
sive trip with him through Manitoba and the
Northwestern Territories ofthe United States
Mr.. CHARLES VI. Bliss, who has been in
Berkshire for the past few days interesting some
of the citizens in the proposed monument at BEN
nington, Vt, has found in Great harrington the
original payroll of the company of ffty-onc men
who started out from there under Captain Good
rich on the alarm. lie is also looking up the
records to find who of the Berkshire men got to
the battle-ground.
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Spring
field ILL.,, says Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is not really
sick. She does suffer from slight trouble, caus.
ing this hystcrical condition, and of course her
general health has not been improved by her six
months confinement to her room because of
her own whims aud hcrgcneral mode Of life. But
her sufTcrings are almost wholly imaginary and
she may at any time conclude that she has recov.
cred. All Of her hncies and whims are INDUCED
TO the fullest extent by her friends, and this may
be said TO comprise the whole course of treat
ment adopted