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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07
TIE GOOD WE lis DONE.
reaSsuring,

In these days of painful suspense, DcOplf
recall with sad interest the career Of The loved
and trusted President who lies under the
shadow OF death, and trace with fresh admira-
ton the steps by which he mounted to fame
and public usefulness. They feel now as
they never felt before how much he merits
their love and confidence. The lesson of his
manly, earnest and fruitful life becomes doubly
impressive. They see that there was nothing
adventurous in his success. No sudden wind
of undeserved popularity waited him into high
place. He prOfited by none of the art(uI
schemes and dubious tricks of politics. He
never sought place or power. All his promo
tons, from his first position of teacher of a
country school to the browning honor of the
Chief Magistracy, came to him unsought, be-
cause he had made himself worthy of them.
lie laid the foundations of success in his youth
by the practice of sclf-dcnial, by untlagging
industry, by hard and well directed study. bv
the cultivation of an honorable ambition. and
by always doing well the duty at hand IN
earned bread never tasted sweet to him. lie
did not seek to obtain the favOrs of fortune by
dextcrity or cajolery. He valued only such
prcfcrment as he believed the measure of his
own thought, effort, experience and capacity
entitled him to expect and enabled him to
WOilhIy clnpoy.
People remember his heroic struggle with
orphanase and poverty, how he paid his way
through the academy and the college with
money earned at the carpenters bench and in
the country schoolhousc and how brave and
earnest and hopeful he was during all his early
manhood when he was striving to gain foot
hold in life. They remember how consistent
and straightforward, how devoid of self-seek-
n cd fo .;,,Io
standard of patriotic duty has been his later
career. They remember, too, his unfailng
fidelity to all personal oblgations-hs tender
care for his aged mother, his devotion to wife
and children, his affection for friends Here is
man so sound and true, they say, that he
seemed called by Providence to guide the desti-
mes OF a great nation. They refuse to think
that the criminal act of an infuratc wretch can
cut short noble career now just developed
into its greatest phase of usefulness
Few men at fifty have ever exercised as much
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07
IUE LUN1CY OLE EGOLSM


In all crimes there is more or less of that
lations with his fellows and with society. and
passes for insanity. We call it unbalancc be-
cause it differs from lack of balance i'm the re-
spect that lack of balance properly defines con-
genital mental or moral defOrmity, while the
unbalanced mind is one that, from being natur-
ally sound and sane, has from some cause lost its
equilibrium The unbalance that impcls men
to the commission of crime originates ordinarily
in causes for which the criminal is originally
responsible. In crimes committed under the
influence OF mania a p0tu, the law distinctly
recognizes the responsibility of the criminal for
the processes entered upon while in possession
of his faculties, by which he unhinged his
reason and Judgment, and flung himself abroad
ut the mercy OF his passions Here the offender
adJudged innocent perhaps of malicious intent
and preconccpti0n, and admitted to have acted
upon sudden criminal impulse, is held, never
thcess, to absolute responsibility for having by
his own acts abdicatcd reason and swung him
self Oft upon his ungovcrncd propensitics
Nearly If not quite all the mental unbalance
that leads to crime comes of an intensity of sell
fshncss of the egoism which is defined as sub-
Jective ldealism; that sort of decentralization
which, instead of regulating individual action
by the standard of the general welfare. brings
all things to the test of their effect upon the in
dividual and their influence upon the promotion
of selfish interests.
The man Gulteau-whOse crime exctes such
horror that we write his name with imDatience
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07
3n0ex 10 ADVERTISEMENTS.


-AhUsEMENTs- Sd Page-6th column.
ANNOUNCEMENTs-SM Pa0e-6th column.
BANKING HOUSES AND BANKERs-7M Page-5th column.
BOARD AND ROONs-3d Page-5th column.
BUSINESS NOTICES-4h Pagc-1st column.
CoPARrNERsHIr NoTIcEs-7M Page-6th column.
CORPORATION NOTICEs-3d Pdae-6th column.
DIVIDEND NOTICEs-7M Page-6th column.
EUROPEAN ADvERTIsEMENTs--7M Page-6th column
ExCURsIONs-3d PaQe-6th column.
FINANCIAL-7h Page-4th and 5th columns
CRATES and FENDERs-7h PdQe-6th column.
HELP WANTED-3d Pdgs-5th column.
HOTELs--3d Iuge-5th column.
lNSrRUCTIOS-Gh PdGe-2d and Sd columns
Law SCHOoLs-6M PoQe-3d column.
LECTURES MEETINGS-3d T0ge-6th column.
MAGNETIC CLoTmSG-3d Page-5th column.
MARBLE AND SLATE MASTIES-3d Pdge-Oth column.
MARRIAGEsAN AND DEATHs-5M Paqe-Gth column.
MINING-6M Page-4th and 9Th columns
hIsCELI.ANEOUs-SM P0ge-5th and 9th columns.
NEW PUBLICATIONs-6h Poge-2d cO!amn
OCEAN STEAMERs-3d P0ge-lst column
REAL EsTATE-2d PaGe-6th column.
SAVINGS BANKs-7M Page-5th and 9th columns.
SITUATIONS WANrED-MNEs-6M Puge-5th column.
FEMALEs-3d PdGe-1st and I'd columns
SPECIAL NOuCEs-5h Pdge-6th column.
STEAMBOATS, AND RAILROADS.&C. Page-2d and Sd
columns
sUMaER REsORTs-3d Page-4th and 9Th columns.
TEACHERs-6M Paae-3d column.
THE TURF-3d Pd0e-6th column.
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cry to his party, and has spared no pains to
mako the people believe that the Republican
party was being ruined, and the Republic itself
was being endangered, solely by the bad con-
duct and bad faith of the President. Well, one
Stalwart says he believed it. He believed it so
much that, to use his own words, he looked upon
the killing Of the President as "a political
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07

There is certain mOnOtony in the reports
OF the Presidents condition for which every
patriotic citizen will be grateful. The ground
gained up to Wednesday morning has been
firmly held and gains made even upon that
The day and night have passed without
single unfavorablc symptom developing it.
self, and with positive improvement in sew
cral respects. 1t is well to note, perhaps, that
the physicians still lay stress upon the grave
possibilities of the case, but the people have
apparently reached firm faith that the Presi-
dent will recover, and that fact alone seems
rcaSSuring.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07

Mr. Conkling's recent stupid outbreak against the
entire Republican press of the country is another
proof OF his utter unitness for public hfe As he
lacks also the qualities which make a man snccess
full IN private life it is hard recommend an occn
patton for him On the whole, a career like that OF
Robinson CruSoe would seem to suit his tastes and
talents
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07

Persons tearing torn for tie season. and sum-
naer troreileys, can hare THE DAILY TRIBUNE
mailed to them, postpaid, for $1.2O per month,
The address being changed as often as Desired
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07

We have doubtless heard the last of the
alleged Sessions Bradley bribery. The Repub-
lean members of the so-caled Investigating
Committee have concurrcd in a report which
declares, in substance, that the matter having
passed under the notice of the courts it would
be unbecoming in the Legislature to take any
positive action regarding it. The sOundness of
this position cannot be questioned, and it is
pleasing to find that the warmth of the con-
test at Albany has not prevented an agreement
upon it among the Republican members of
the Committee. AS for the indictments.
the person who expects to hear from those
again, unless upon Senator Sessions's demand
for a trial, has limited knowledge of politics
in Albany County. The relations between Mr..
John F. Smyth and the Democratic politicians
of that county, of whom the District Attorney
is one, are such that the news that Sessions
had been indicted upon the solitary evidence
OF Bradley, in order to aid Mr.. Conkling's war
1are upon the Republican party, surprised no
one. Every Dlstrlct-AttOrney in the State, in
Guiding Mr.. Herrick knows that it is the duty
OF prosecuting officer to consider the proba
bllitIcs OF conviction in making cases, and that
he has no right to waste the public money in
beginning prosecutions in which there is little
chance OF success. Everyone knows that Mr..
Sessions can never be convicted upon the evil
dence given before the Committee of any greater
crime than that of being the associate of Brad
ley. The farce was completed by tho indct-
mcnt of the lobbyists against whom no legal
evidence of any kind was found, nor. in the
nature OF things, can ever be obtained But
all this will be 81 good enough Morgan until
after the election of Senators.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07

Bradley, according to the belief of many. is
peIjurer according to his own statements
respecting himself he has committed, as the
Democratic minority of the so-called Inyesti
eating Committee point out, felony in ac-
cepting bride. Here are the two horns of the
dilemma, and it must be said they make a
situation which would be embarrassing to any
body but Bradley
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07

The American people like pluck, and moth
ing IN General Gartield's whole career, we ven
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07

ture to say, has won him SO much popularity
as his recent bearing in the face of death.
There has been nothing of bravado in it, but,
on the contrary, only the quiet courage and
strong determination of q man who loves his
wife and his children and his country, and has
made up his mind to live for the sake of all
of them, if he can. The Christian calm
ness with which he held himself ready
for the worst, and the strong human
courage which he showed in his resolu-
ton to "take that chance" were equally
wonderful and admirable. The man who said
the other day, 81 like him,-when things are
going against him he don't up and resign" put
the general feeling into terse "American."
Many man would have been killed by the
shock and sudden horror of the shooting
many another man would have died of fright
In the subsequent danger But General Gar
field is made of a different fibre. Yesterday
he was demanding bcefsteak, and showing a
disposition to call Cabinet meeting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07

The versatile Western journalist, who likes
nothing so much as variety, Is engaged lust
now in exciting the population of that region
with accounts of the devastating influence of
plcnics Yesterday he became responsible for
the statement that peculiarly acute variety of
picnic lemonade, diffused at Fourth of july
gathering in Missouri, had caused the death of
eight persons, and thrown hundred more into
a critical conditional statement which was
unnecessary, considering that such must be the
normal condition of any person addicted to
picnlcs. To-day, however, the Western
Journalist, who is evidently disposed to make
game of all mankind, takes this back, and an
nounces that no lives were lost. At the same
time he puts out the statement in a tentative
way that two hundred persons were poisoned in
Iowa by eating poisoned ice cream and to give
an air of probability to the report, he throws
in copper-bottomed boiler, very much as Mr.
Crummles used to advertise "real tubs" To-
morrow we may expect to sec the copper
bottomed boiler explicitly retractcd, and be told
that ice cream is unknown among the agricul-
tural products of Iowa. Eventually, however
the supply of fatal picnics will be exhausted
and the Western journalist will be compelled
to seek fresh fields of enterprise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07

1t seems, from the discoveries of the detec-
tives, that Guiteau was on the Presidents track
during the whole of last week, watching the
White House and DIGGING his footsteps. 1t is
also said that the assassin bought his pistol
several weeks ago, and had been practising at
target. The impression grows that Guiteau
knew what he was about.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-24
AFTEa THIRTY YEARS.

The Red Bluff Peoples Cause of January
Goth furnishes the following:
In May, 1851, Elisha Abbott and Jake
Ford, both of whom are well known in this
county, started on foot from their home to
go to Sacramento, and when near the Yuba
river, about 80 miles above Marysville and
II miles south of Forbestown, they were
accosted by some Indians who asked them
if they had pistol, to which they replied
in the negative. Abbott and Ford started
ON, and the Indians followed them short
distance, and when they had opened dis
lance of about so yards between them
selves and the Indians, the latter COM
menced to shoot arrows at them, and con-
tinued shooting until they had shot away
all their arrows but one meanwhile Ford
and Abbott lodged them all until the last,
which struck Abbott under the left arm
and glanced back and under the shoulder
blade, penetrating to the depth of about six
inches. The arrow was hastily withdrawn
and the two men left on double. quick
time. Abbott felt no particular incon-
venience from the wound, which healed in
due time, and remained healed until about
year ago, when he began to feel soreness
aud pain near where the arrow penetrated.
The old cicatrix opened and slight dis
charge followed and continued to flow, &C.
companied by pain. Mr.. Abbott came to
Red Bluff yesterday morning and called on a
physician to examine the sore. The doctor
soon discovered foreign substance near
the wound, which he extracted, and it
proved to be a stone arrow head, which
had remained in Abbott's body for nearly
thirty years. This stone was well shaped,
but much less than when it first entered, a
large portion of it having disappeared by
decomposition. Strange to say, Mr.. Alb
bott felt no Inconvenience from its pres.
enee until about one year ago.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-24
MR. PIxLlY UEDER A MISTAKE.

Mr.. Pixley, in the Argonaut, writing
over his own signature, and in the first
person singular, says 60 As l understand
it. Mr.. W. III. Mills, of the SACRAMENTO
ss RECORD UNION, echoing the charge Of
e Democratic orator, prefers against d.
ON. Kenfeld, Controller, this charge,
90 that Mrs. Kentield is placed upon the
+" payroll and draws a salary for work
90 done in the Office" Mr.. Pixley, arguing
upon this basis, expresses the opinion that
there is nothing in the charge. and goes SO
far as to intimate that it is unmanly."
Now in the first place Mr.. Pixley has no
right to say that Mr.. Mills personally pre-
fers this charge. 1t was made by the
RECORD. UNION as journal, ard not by
any one as an individual. In the second
place, Mr.. Pixley mistakes the charge
altogether. The RECORD UNION charged
that Mrs. Kenfeld had been placed upon
the payroll and drew a salary for which
no equivalent in work was rendered. That
is an entirely different case to the one sup
posed by Mr.. Pixley. As to the rest of
his remarks we shall postpone comment
until the committee which is investigating
this charge has made its report, when we
shall expect an apology from the editor of
the Ar1onnpt.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-24
A GOOD BILL.


Senator Germans bill providing that all
ballots shall hereafter be printed upon
white paper, is a good one. The tinted
paper ballot business has proved prolific
source of confusion and suspicion. Elk
perience has shown that it is in fact i'm.
possible to guarantee precise harmony OF
tint in all the paper used in State cleo.
ton. If the Secretary of State lays in a
large stock, and some of it remains over,
it is almost certain to change color while
in store, and then at the next election,
when new paper is procured to make up
deficiencies, there will be two or more
tints. The idea on which the present law
is based was ingenious but not practical,
and there can be no doubt that it will be
best to return to the use of plain white
paper as of old. 1t is the only kind that
can be relied upon, and there is no danger
that with it any suspicion of foul play can
arise
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-24
THE CAPTURE OF LIMA.


The Chileans have defeated the last Pc
ruvian army in pitched battle, and have
captured Lima, whichcity was made incapa-
BILE of defense by theoverthrow of Pirerola's
forlorn hope. The Peruvians must have
fought desperately, for they are said to
have lost seven thousand men in the final
attempt to check the advance of the in.
vaders. The Chilean losses must also
have been heavy, aud doubtless nothing
saved Lima from sack but its prompt sur.
render. The diplomatic corps at Lima are
now endeavoripg to arrange an armistics
between the two countries, although the
fight of President Pierola must render
this difficult. The Chileans are now mas
tiers of Peru, and can dictate their own
terms. The propositions which they first
offered were so hard that Peru could not
bring herself TO accept them. but it lie not
probable that the conditions will be lighter
now that is no longer possible for thevan-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-24
Ma. DOYLE AND HIS LETTER.

MIR. J. NJ. Doyle, of Colusa, has seen fit
to write a letter to Senator Glascock in re-
gard to the Yuba dam, in which he init
mates that communication on the same
subject addressed by him to the RECORD
UNION twas suppressed, at least it has
mot appeared yet" Mr.. Doyle evidently
thinks that communication bearing his
name ought to have commanded immediate
publication, and that if so important a
matter did not appear in print, sinister mo-
tives alone can explain the fact We are
therefore obliged to say to Mr.. Doyle
that we did not publish his letter
simply because we knew nothing about
him, and had no guarantee for the truth
of his statements or the competence
ular discussion of the debris question this
journal has received hundreds of letters
on the subject. Nothing is more common
than for people who know nothing of the
question to deliver their views upon it in
this way, and our waste basket has been
filled repeatedly with such illusions. We
had no means of ascertaining whether the
correspondent who signed himself j. NJ.
Doyle was trustworthy authority, and as
his conclusions were altogether at variance
with those of the State Engineers, whom
we know to be responsible and believed to
be reliable, we very naturally preferred
the statements of the latter Nor has Mr..
Doyle any right to feel aggrieved at our
action IN the matter, or any excuse for
stating that we had suppressed his let
Ter, thus insinuating that we were in some
way afraid to print what he said. Mr..
Doyle has yet to learn that no reputable
Journal ever rushes into print with the
communications of unknown and ire.
sponsible persons when those communi
cations impeach the statements of known
and responsible persons. 1t is the
object of the RECORD. UNION to get
as the truth in all questions, and
it conceives that the best way to do this is
to make sure of the trustworthiness of all
communications made to it. MIR. DOYLE
may be better engineer and more relia.
BILE authority than Captain Eads er Mr..
Hall, but neither this journal nor the pub
lie know it, and he must not expect to be
taken at his own estimate in the absence of
proofs Of his capacity. As he will have an
opportunity of demonstrating his assertions
regarding the Yuba dam. before the Debris
Investigating Committee, we will defer
further comment until he has testified un-
der oath as to what he knows.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-24
The Russians and. Tekkes Further
Fighting,

ST. PETERSBURG, January 23d.-General
Skobeloff telegraphs that during the night
between the 18th and 10th insts. tbs Russians
carried a Tekke position forty yards from
the wall of the fortress. The Tekkes made
desperate efforts to recover it, but failed. At
z o'clock on the evening of the 10th the en-
tire force Of Tekkes assaulted the Russian
center and left, and desperate fighting ensued
along nearly the whole line The Tekkes
were finally repulsed with great slaughter,
and pursued over the ramparts Of their own
works. The Russian loss was IL killed and
SO wounded. The Russians continue sapping
aud intrenching, but operations are difficult
because the enemy outnumber them ten to
one. The head of the sap is within thirty
four yards of the wall. On the I7th the
Russians lost killed and Is wounded by
sharpshooters.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-24
A DANGEROUS DISCOVERY.

In digging a ditch at Philadelphia the
workmen have exhumed large number OF
collins containing the remains of cholera
victims buried some years ago. The prev
alence of low temperature may avert any
serious consequences from this discovery,
but by no means certainly. Several in
stances have occurred in which similar ex-
humations have spread infection abroad.
The cholera was introduced TO London in
very much the same way, and the plague
has often been disseminated by similar
untoward finds.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-24

For the week ending January %, 1850, made by
w. c. FARSswoRTH, superintendent Of the City
Cemetery. Office, No. SOL street:
January 15-Mary E. slaven, 2S years, IL months
and 20 days; Pennsylvania. Robert X. Scott As
years Unite1 States.
January alexander Milroy, 40 years, months
and days New oFk.
January ls-Ssrah Crosby, 10 years, months and
% days; California Margaret Berry, Sc years ;
Ireland. Fong King Yut, 81 years China. James
Andei son, IS years; Ireland.
January 2o-T. S. Sanford Harris year, months
and days; California.
January 2l-Albert Miller. % years, months and
% days; Iowa.
Besides the above there were brought here for in
terment the following
January 1i-Manuel Tershire, 80 years; Western
Islands
January 1e-Andrew Zabiaa. 81 years; Portugal.
James Stiliwell, 20 years: Iowa.
January 2o-Patrick Cunningham, rs years; Ireland.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-24
R1GHTs OF THE Pass

hIHHI5 OF TIE NESS TIC " iIIOWs
lColusa county, Journal says:
The trial of Clarence Gray for the brutal
murder OF Theodore Clancy, late editor of
the Santa Barbara Press, has been post
poned. on motion OF counsel for defendant,
until February Sd. Every newspaper man
in the State who was personally acquainted
with the murdered editor should take
enough interest in this case to be present
at its trial. and see that it is properly and
ably prosecuted. The rights that belong
to the press should he defended, and it was
in exercising those rights and doing duty
he owed as journalist to the patrons Of
his paper that caused the felon Gray to
murder him.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-24

pushed country to reject them. 1t is to be
hoped that the efforts being made to bring
about truce may be successful, but it is
to be feared that Peru will sink into the con-
dition of mere vassal of Chile now that
her last resources have failed her.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-24

Watsonvile, January johannes Edward Cooper, p
years.
Crovllle, January 17-FaTry Timothy Fogg, "a
years 8 months and days
oroville, January 20-Charles Sherwood DeLancie,
II months.
Capay, January 2l-John K. Reed, 40 years, 10
months and days
Hook Farm, Suffer unity. ia uary 20-ApDie May
Sophie schmidt, months and Gays.
Marysve. January 20-Timothy Sheehan 81 years.
Gilroy, January l5-Mrs. Susan Brown, so years