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THIS moRNING,s NEWS.

In New York Government bonds are quoted at
Iles for 4s OF 1907; 1923 for 5s Of 1881; 1149 for
4ss sterling, "a s394 So silver bars, lll3.
Silver In London, 5lsd; consols, 101 1-16d; per
cent United States bonds, ll49 Is, ll93 AS, ll73
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at
discount to par; Mexican dollars, 9o@903e.
At Liverpool wheat is quoted at 9s edges cd for
good to choice California
The stock market in San Francisco is still quiet
and shares were again weak yesterday.
The sentence of Clarence Gray was again con-
tinued at Redwood City yesterday until August Sth
NJ. Walbridge was killed yesterday at the Belmont
Mill in Butte county by log rolling over him.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company has com
menced restraining suit against the Texas Pacific
at Yuma, a. I.
Particulars of the burning of the orihamme at
sea are given this morning.
During the past week "a business failures were
noted, against so the previous week.
Fire at Calais Me. also at WatsontowD Pa.
1t is not settled yet whether the murder of young
Pugh in Mexico was committed by Apaches or Mex
leans.
Two cases OF misplaced switches occurred yester.
day on the Hudson River Railroad
II ID bhGV SAAi VIII Se4~SSSN '''eS
as American Minister to Germany.
Another fatal duel was fought in Germany Thurs
day.
For the first six months of 1881 the bullion ship.
ments from Bodie amounted to 81 100000.
In the fire at Calais, Me-, yesterday, one man was
killed and Eve others injured-one fatally-by fall
ing chimneys
Allen Euers fell Is feet at Hawthorne, New.
Thursday night, and received probably fatal IL
juries.
The Hessian fly is committing havoc among the
grain fields Of Napa county.
Thomas scruggs was killed by a rolling log Thurs
day in siskiyou county.
Charles Il. Gordon, on trial for murder, was
quilted at San Diego yesterday.
Frank Gilbert and Merriek Rosengrant were
hanged for murder yesterday at Leadville, Col.
The New York Greenback s.ate Convention Will
meet at Elmira August 29d
Maud s. will make an effort to reduce her record
August 4th at Buffalo.
The resignation of White, Minister to Germany,
takes effect August 18th.
Demonstrations against the Jews prevail in West
Prussia, aud much property has been destroyed.
At Carbondale, Pa, yesterday, two men were
killed and four injured by lightning.
Ay Dob Kahn, since his last victory, has been ad-
Yaneing on Candahar.
True bills have been found against MeGrath and
McDayitt for attempting to blow up the Town Hall
OF Liverpool.
A decree has been issued by the French Govern
ment ordering an election for members of the
Chamber of Deputies August 2lst.
The French Chamber of Deputies passed bill for
the sale of all the crown jewels
The Tombstone Board of Equalization has fixed
the assessment of the railroad at $4,000 per mile,
The inside pages of to-days RECORD UNION will be
found to contain more than usually interesting and
valuable reading matter
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TRACING THEM OUT.

1t looks as if the genesis of the Internal
machines was about to be discovered, and
as if the pretense that they had been sent
across the Atlantic by British agents
would be very effectually exploded. A
dispatch from Peoria, ILL.,, states that
one of the editors of the National Demo-
crat claims to have ascertained that the
machines were manufactured there. He
says: " A Director of the Association of
United Irishmen lives here, and is sup
"posed to know all about the matter.
"There were ten of the machines made
"here and shipped to New York, where
"they were loaded with dynamite and
"then shipped to London. The manu-
factory rs in South Washington street.
The reporter has been invited by one Of
!" the interested parties to witness an ex-
"hibition of the destructive powers of the
machine, the trial to be made within a
"mile of the city" The steamship COM
panies are naturally very much alarmed by
the shipment of these machines, and are
taking the utmost precaution to prevent
any further shipments of the kind. In
Europe there is quite general consterna-
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to have one.half of the reclaimed land,
that is TO say, four million acres. The
whole of the tract to be reclaimed lies be-
low the frost line, and it is said to be a
richer soil than that Of Cuba. It will pro-
duce sugar, tobacco, ibrous plants, and all
the tropical fruits, as abundantly as the
West Indies, and as transportation is
ample and convenient the question of mar
kets is settled before the work is be-
gun. The engineers have surveyed
the Lake which is to be lowered, and
have determined to proceed by canal
twenty-on miles long, emptying into
the st. Lucie river, and canal from the
lake to the Calooschetchie river, which
flows into the Gulf of Mexico. bitches
will also be dug to drain the remoter parts
of the Everglades, and the streams which
empty into the lake will be Strengthened
and deepened where necessary. Though
the enterprise appears to involve great
deal of heavy work, the soil is so easily re-
moved that it will really not occupy much
time. In fact the company expect to have
the whole tract reclaimed in less than two
years, and in the third to haveit fully pre-
pared for production on large scale. OF
course one of the incidents of this extern
sive drainage promises to be the removal
of malaria from the region which is to be
operated upon.
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CALIFORNIA.
The Burned Vessel.

Los ANGELES, July 29th.-The Orihamme
sailed from London in February last. bound
for San Francisco with cargo Of camel coal
and merchandise. While sailing in company
with the italian bark Santa Andrea, off the
coast of Peru, on June 9th, the 0rihamme
was discovered to be on fire in her hold The
Captain cannot account for the origin of the
fire, but supposes that the coal gas was the
cause. All that Captain Murphy could save
was a few clothes and his nautical instru-
ments, with provisions and water for few
days. lie states that the Santa Andrea was
the only vessel that he spoke the whole vow
age, and as the nearest land was the CALI
pago Islands, 900 miles distant, with little
water and provisions saved, it was doubtful If
they would have ever been heard from had
the consort not been close at hand. Captain
Mazella reports head-winds and calms most
of the passage. He encountered a severe
hurricane north Of the line. There was on the
Oritiamme crew of twenty eight men and
two stowaways. The officers aud crew of the
0rihamme publish letters of thanks to Cap
tain Mazella, OF the Santa Andrea, in which
they say son 10 vessel could we have
been better treated, or more kindly used.
Your ship remained by our burning
ship till there were no hopes of saw
ing her, being one mass of FIRE. Had it
not been for your timely aid, all on board
would have persisted. We have been nearly
two months aboard. and still your kindness
remains the same. We hope the authorities
at home will appreciate your kind and humane
conduct"
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of new mining region. In New Mexico
and Arizona there is probably as much
crime as existed in Australia when the
gold fields were discovered. But assuredly
there is in none of these Territories and
States any such condition of general or
prevailing anarchy as to justify the in
dictment which DIR. Russell has drawn
against American civilization. We are
sorry that he should have made so bad a
use of his opportunities, and that instead
of telling the truth about us he should
have joined the great army of travelling
romancers who are responsible for the
belief that all Calfornians wear red shirts,
tuck their trowsers into their boots, carry
two revolvers and bowie-knife in their
belts, and invariably shoot whoever offends
them in any way. We can afford to wait
patiently for our vindication from this kind
of libel, but we do not think DR.. Russell
can SO well afford to join himself with the
small fry of fabulists who have invented
and perpetuated it.
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THE STORING OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY

One of the most important discoveries
of the age has just occurred in the ascer-
tainment of the fact that electrical energy
can be stored in such way as to be capa-
bic OF transportation and preservation,
apparently without limit of distance or
time. The test of this was made by send.
ing box containing Faure battery, in
which a million foot-pounds of energy had
been stored, from Paris to London. This
+" box of electricity" was sent to the lab
oratory of Sir William Thomson, who, in
letter to the Times, completely puts at
rest all doubts as to the real Importance of
the discovery, and relates some of the
results of experiment. He says the
million foot-pounds kept in the box dur
sing its seventy-two hours journey from
g Paris to Glasgow was no exaggeration.
Zone of the Faure cells, after being dis
charged, was recharged again by its own
Laboratory battery, and then left to itself
absolutely undisturbed for ten days.
After that it yielded to use two hundred
"and sixty thousand foot pounds Tor little
"more than quarter of million).
"This not only confirms NJ. Reynier's
measurements, on the faith of
(which your correspondents state
"ments were made; it serves further
'sto show that the waste of the stored
energy by time is not great, and that
&c for days or weeks, at all events, it
may not be of practical moment" Sir
William then discusses the various uses
to which this discovery can be put,
and shows that it is destined to be
utilized most speedily in the electric
lighting of houses and steamships
though it is capable of being applied to the
most various uses. By employing the Faure
accumulation it will be possible to guard
against all the accidents which the pres
emit methods of generating electricity for
Illuminating purposes are liable to. Sir
William incidentally shows that the new
principle may be used to great advantage
in surgery, for he says ga few days ago
my colleague, Professor George Buchan-
an, carried away from my laboratory
'' one of the lead cells weighing about
eighteen poundsl in his carriage, and by
g it ignited the thick platinum wire of a
" galvanic ecraseur and bloodlessly re-
moved nevoid tumor from the tongue
of young boy in about minute of
time. The operation would have occu-
"pied over ten minutes if performed by
the ordinary chain ecraseur, as it must
have been had the Faure cell not been
available" But it is evident that the
storage of energy thus found possible must
render hundred matters possible which
have hitherto been impracticable. and that
it must solve an equal number OF scien-
tife problems which have hitherto baffled
experiment. 1t is, in fact, one of the very
greatest discoveries of the century, and it
is at present absolutely impossible to say
what it may not lead to.
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THE CHANGE IN THE "NATIoN. /"

The New York Nation has been made
the weekly edition of the EUening Post 1t
has therefore ceased to have separate ex-
istence. The contents have all previously
appeared in the Post, and though it might
be difficult to assert that it has suffered
any literary loss since this change went
into effect, it is perfectly certain that it
has ceased to be the Nation for those who
have read the latter for the past ten years.
We suppose that the new managers of the
Post concluded this change to be desirable.
We presume that the Nation was not pay
ing sufficiently to render its maintenance
under the original conditions UNSUITABLE.
And yet the Nation was beyond all ques.
ton the best journal ever published on this
continent ; the most keen, logical, fearless,
just, frank and intelligent. 1t was always
conducted on high plane. 1t always gave
the very wisest and most suggestive in
terpretations and comments upon cur
rent events. 1t was so thoroughly good
in all its departments that its failure to
make a fortune for its conductors is most
discreditable fact to the American people.
When so admirable journal as the Nation
has to descend to the position of weekly
tender to daily newspaper because it
cannot obtain sufficient support on its
merits, it is time to admit candidly that
there is great deal of falsehood in the
prevailing brag about Americans educa-
tional progress, and that the national
standard of intellectual growth is clearly
not yet up to the level of the Nation. This
is the unavoidable conclusion to be derived
from the late change, and it is one to be
regretted on many accounts, but chiefly be.
cause the stupidity of the masses has here
resulted in depriving the intellectual mi
nority of a journal which they admired
and appreciated most heartily and thor
oughly.
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OREGON.
Advices from Portland.

PORTLAND, July 29th-In consequence OF
the heavy condition of the track, caused by
the hard rains last evening, the races an
nounced to come off to-day over the North
western District Agricultural Associations
Course, were postponed until tomorrow,
which will close the sporting season.
On the 2Sth, while Judge Warner and M.
McGraw were returning from Colfax, w. I,
to Lewiston, /. T., their team took fright
and ran away. The buggy was reduced to a
total wreck, and both gentlemen were badly
injured. McGraw's thigh is cut to the bone,
and the main artery narrowly escaped being
severed. Judge Warner had fearful cash
cut in his head, and one leg fractured. Both
men are now lying at Hamilton's ranch, near
Colfax, in a very critical condition.
w. 81. Mastin, who was heavy loser by
the recent fire at Colfax, w. T.. has been
drinking hard and became crazy. Yesterday,
during drunken spell, he procured Win
chester rifle and several pistols, and kept the
whole town at bay Mastin was finally cap
tured by the City Marshal, who slipped up
behind him. No one was injured. though
several had narrow escapes. Mastin will be
confined until he has sobered up, and is in
his right mind.
Thomas Mckenzie, q cattle drover, Tor
merly a resident of Washington county, was
drowned on the Doth at Missoula Ferry,
while endeavoring to cross the river. his
body was not recovered.
Miss Minnie May, daughter of J. D. May,
a young lady aged Is years, shot and in
stantly killed herself this afternoon at her
residence, No. 246 Main street. Minnie
came home about 2:30 P. NJ, and was asked
by her mother to step up stairs and see a
little sick brother. She cheerfully complied.
In few moments the report of a pistol was
heard. Mrs. May rushed up stairs, and was
Mortified to find her daughter lying dead on
the floor, revolver lying at her side, one
chamber empty. The ball entered the mouth
and passed through her brain, causing instant
death. The girl appeared cheerful up to
few moments before her death. 1t is impos-
sible to ascertain whether her death was the
result of accident or deliberate suicide.
The north-bound train on the West Side
was ditched this afternoon near Hillsboro,
Washington county. The passenger coach and
baggage and express cars were thrown from
the track. Over 100 feet of track was torn
up. There were about thirty passengers in
the coach at the time. They were thrown
violently about, but all escaped with few
scratches and bruises.
A large barn of Peter Hoover. of Alsea VAL
ley, Benton county. was burned on the 9th
instant. A thrashing machine and several
agricultural implements, and large quantity
of grain, were destroyed Loss, $4,000. /
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DEFEAT OF THE AMER,

There seems no doubt that the Amer Of
Afghanistan has been completely defeated
by Ayoob Khan, and that thus the last
remnant of the authority so laboriously
erected by the British arms has been swept
away. As the English forces have been
withdrawn from Afghanistan the defeated
Amer has nothing to fall back upon, and
no doubt Ayoob Khan will as usual receive
the allegiance of most of the tribes who
previously supported the Amer. The
effect of this change upon the future of
Afghanistan may be very slight, but it
must exert sinister influence upon the
British prestige throughout that region,
if indeed that prestige survived the aban-
donment OF the country after SO much bard
work had been gone through to win it.
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TIE Weekly UNION

Is constantly extending its circulation and widening
its influence Its success is remarkable and is due
not only TO its high literary character, complete
news department and mastery editorial reviews,
criticisms and Debates but to the fact that it reaches
its re rs in advance OF all other weeklies and is,
therefore, fresher frequent, and in every way
more desirable 1t is sixteen page paper, issued
twice week. in eight page parts, and is mailed to
its readers Tuesdays and Fridays. The advantage
OF this system is to be at glance. One is not
compelled to wait whole week in order to learn
the news of the proceeding day, but he has it before
him in from two to three days. The agricultural
department of the WEEKLY UNION, prepared by a
practical and long-experienced farmer and agricult-
ural observer and critic, makes it peculiarly valua-
bic to the farmers of California especially as it is
supplemented by the latest notes of progress and
discovery as CLEANED from the leading agricultural
Journals of the world. The WEEKLY UNION is
mailed to any address, post paid year for 81 So
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THE OPIUM TRADE.

The Society for the Suppression OF the
Opium Trade has been corresponding with
the Chinese Government, in the expectation
of what precise results does not very
clearly appear. The Society has received
letter from the Chinese premier in which
he is reported as saying that "opium is a
subject on which England and China can
never meet on common ground. CHINA
views the whole question from moral
% and England from a fiscal standpoint.
That is terse way OF putting the case, but
it is nearly correct. England does not
care what injury the opium trade does to
China. All she does care about is the
revenue derived from it, She is just now
experiencing from the Burmese precisely
the same opposition that she has long en-
countered from China The Burmese Gov
eminent points out that the opium habit
is running the people, and that it is rapidly
gaining foothold from which it will be i'm
possible to dislodge it. But all such argu-
ments are useless. The opium must be
sold. and if the natural consumers OF it do
not like to take it, they must be compelled
to do So Not long ago an elaborate
attempt was made to make it appear that
the Chinese always did use opium anyhow,
and that therefore the compulsory use OF
it was no injury to them. OF course this
argument entirely ignored the moral aspect
of the question. 1t was precisely equiva-
lent to the argument of a rum-seller, to the
effect that the drunkards ne was making
would have got liquor somewhere, and
therefore he might just as well supply them
as for it to be done by somebody
else. 1t really is of no practical
consequence whether the Chinese en-
ployed opium before the English forced it
upon them. The moral guilt of England
is the same in either case. So far as she
could she has compelled these people to
use the drug, and aff her action in the
premises has been calculated to de-
moralize and debase them. The truth is
that there is no answer to the Indictment
against England on this count. Her course
towards China has been infamous in this
respect, and it is the sharpest possible
satire upon her pretensions and professions
Of Christianity. If the Government of the
United States were to force the Indians to
drink whisky, and then seek to excuse
itself by alleging that they had been in
the habit previously of procuring it from
post traders and squaw-men, the defense
would be in all respects as good as that
which has been put forward on behalf of
England. The opium business is an out
rage of the first class, and it is standing
scandal and disgrace to the country that
is responsible for it. The fact that the
weakness of China singled her out for this
outrage, moreover, adds to the meanness
and immortality of it, and puts the shame
less greed of the English Government in
the most odious and detestable light.
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THE CHANCES OF FORTUNE.

A curious illustration occurred the other
day in New York OF the impossibility of
foreseeing the tendency of events. A
venerable-looking man, with white hair
and beard, began to sing in Central park,
and the passers-by dropped a few small
coins into his hand, for he sang remark
ably well. Presently policeman came
up and told him that he was transgressing
the rules of the park, and that he must go
away. But as the policeman put his hand
ON the old mans shoulder he discovered
that the stranger wore wig, and looking
closer saw that his beard also was false.
He pulled the wig and beard off, and
young man stood before him. The police
man arrested him instantly for wearing
disguise, and on being taken to the station
house he told his story. He said that he
was an Englishman, and an actor and
singer by occupation. He had been choir
master in London church, and had
drilled and led several theatrical choruses.
He had come to the United States hoping
to get employment, but had failed. At
last, finding himself starving, he had re-
sorted to the disguise in which he was ar
rested, for the purpose of procuring enough
to keep himself alive. The magistrate
before whom he was taken promptly sen.
fenced him to six months Imprisonment,
and at this point his case would seem to
have been as hopeless and desperate as
possible. But his story had been taken
down by the reporters, and appeared in
all the papers, and then several persons
who had made his acquaintance came
forward and Testified to the truth of SO
much of j. as lay within their knowledge.
His references were examined and found
perfectly correct. His account of himself
was fully borne out by documents in his
possession. 1t was made apparent that he
had always borne a good character, and
been steady, industrious and capable
man. General sympathy was felt for him.
Stunt OF money were sent TO the magistrate
for his relief. Offers of employment from
responsible parties fairly poured upon him.
Influential citizens persuaded the magis-
trate to remit the sentence pronounced
upon him. And within forty-eight hours
of his arrest he was once more free, and
not only free, but happy in the assurance
of permanent and remunerative employ
ment. Thus the very acts which at first
seemed to be leading him straight to ruin
and disgrace were in fact the very means
by which his distress was relieved, and the
notoriety which threatened at the outset to
bring him only shame and humiliation,
effected his liberation and solved the prob.
lem of existence for him in the most salts
factory way.
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ton, and shall find when we have filed
them all that the criminal level remains
scarcely changed. England spent fS, 000,-
900 in transporting her criminals to Aus
tralia, and when she had established penal
colonies there, and started them well,
she found that there was no appreciable
diminution in the number of her criminals
at home. 1t is not by peritentiaries and
transportation that crime is to be checked.
It is by removing the conditions which
produce the criminal temperament.