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eIRsoNs STAG RourE REPORT.

Gibson's report on the star route cases
appears to be a very elaborate exhaus-
tive, and formidable analysis of the whole
business, and to furnish conclusive evidence
of the corruption pervading it throughout.
In case the Government should find it DOS
sihSe to renew the prosecutions this docu-
ment ought to be very useful. Even now
it serves to show that there was abundant
justification for the course taken by Presi.
dent Garfield in the premises, and also the
utter falsity OF the statements put forward
ON behalf of the thieves. Among the bet
ter results to proceed from this scandal we
look forwards to the unmasking of those Jour
nails and public men that have endeavored
to shield and justify the corrupt scoundrels
implicated directly, aud it is highly proba-
be that when the bottom facts are needed
these DEVILS advocate" will prove to
have been sharers in the plumber. It will
be necessary to point out the Congressman
who have been ON the side of the star route
robbers from the first, and when they are
thus introduced to the attention of the
public the latter will see to it that their
public careers are closed, no matter what
course may be taken with the Bradys and
the Tyners.
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hrs. LINCOLN.

The parsimony of Congress in providing
for the widow OF Abraham Lincoln has
always been discreditable TO the country,
but it seems much mora SO than usual now
that private patriotism has SO munifcently
endowed the widow of James Garfield.
Mrs. Lincoln was given pension of $4,000
a year-a paltry pittance when the services
of her husband TO the nation are consid.
cred, and when the TACT of his martyrdom
is also taken into the account. We do not
think there can be any question as to the
proposition that the American people are
In honor bound to make suitable provis-
ion for this lady, and it is undeniable that
her present pension is anything but suit
able provision. 1t is stated now that she
is 10 Ill health, and that with the increased
expense entailed upon her she finds It i'm.
possible to live upon her pension. The
mere announcement Of such fact ought
to be enough, and when Congress meets
we hope that a proposition to give Mrs.
Lincoln at least double her present income
will be introduced without delay.
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HoME.-Dr. Holmes says never saw
a garment too fine for man OF maid there
never was chair too good for a cobbler or
a cooper or King to sit in ; never house
too fine to shelter the human head. These
elements about us. the glorious sun, the
imperial sun, are not too good for the
human race. Elegance fits man. But do
we not value these tools little more than
they are worth and sometimes mortgage a
house for the mahogany we bring into it !?
l had rather eat my dinner off the head of
barrel, or dress after the fashion of John
the Baptist in the wilderness, or sit on a
block all my life, than consume all myself
before l got to home, and take SO much
pains with the outside than the inside was
as hollow as an empty nut Beauty is a
great thing, but beauty of garment,
house, and furniture are tawdry ornaments
compared with domestic love. All the
elegance in the world will not make a
home, and l would give more for spoon
ful of real hearty love than for whole ship
loads of furniture and all the gorgeousness
all the npholsterers in the world can
gather.
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Linch, Price and Hoochenoo Frank. They
brought it down the Stickeen river from
Bucks Landing, in British Columbia. The
liquor is supposed to belong to W. j. Steph.
ems. Mr.. Oakford arrested Linch and seized
his canoe. but Price and Hoochenoo jumped
the Territory, but they will be arrested if
they return within FIVE years. Inch also
ems has been put under arrest, and will be
brought to Portland on the December
steamer. All the liquor dealers got fright
ened, and took to The hills. While the Cali
fornia was at the wharf FIRE broke cut in a
building owned by Charles Brown. It
threatened the obstruction Of the whole bust
ness portion of the town. Captain Carroll
called out his crew. and by their energetic
exertions, assisted by the citizens, saved the
town
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ONE POSSIBLE GOOD.

0ne possible good may come out of the
trial of Guiteau. 1t may disgust the
American people with the plea of insanity
to such an extent that they will not be
satisfied until the laws have been so re.
formed as to deprive murderers of that
means of evasion. The spectacle of e
murderer defending himself, and doing his
best by argument to establish his own in.
sanity, has never been given TO the world
before. 1t is of course complete bur.
lesque Of the plea and all that the plea
embodies. It is so absurd that its admis.
sion to Court Of justice almost justifies
the suspicion that insanity has crept into
our criminal practice. The confusion in
which this whole question has been en-.
folded by the unscientific positions of law.
yers ignorant of psychology and mental
pathology, has here reached climax. And
the fact that this is, SO to speak, national
trial, gives additional emphasis to the alb
surdity of the situation. Whatever else
WV piooVoushSo hoy ouSSooS w tuO
public, therefore, they certainly cannot
fail to suggest the advisability
of determining this long-vexed ques.
ton in permanent way. The real
point which requires solution is, of course,
the question of responsibility. As to
whether criminal is insane or not must be
secondary consideration. The change
the country needs is the abandonment of
the doctrine that proof of insanity is equiva-
lent to proof of responsibility. That
change once made, all the difficulties will
disappear, and the plea of insanity in MUIR
der cases will be practically abandoned.
Let it be understood that man may be
mad, and yet not go mad as to be irrespon-
sible, and juries will cease to hesitate about
consigning insane murderers to the gal
lows. This is the only solution of the
problem, and il the trial of Guiteau con-
vinces the country of that fact, it will
have been worth while to undergo the
scenes OF humiliation which the brutal and
insolent egotism of that most detestable
wretch must inspire in every intelligent
man and woman who follows the proceed.
ings carefully.
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wANrEp-A oHa1grmAs STORY.

The REoosD- UNION will pay fifty dollars $50 r
the best Christmas Story, not less than ten nor
more than fifteen columns in length. To assist
competitors in gaugng the length of their compost
tons, we may well state that a column of the
type in which the story is to be set contains about
1900 words, and that legal folio contains 100
words. Those who wish to compete for the prize
Will be free to choose their subject and to place
their stories wherever they please The stories
must be delivered at the REcoRD-USIoN Office by the
18th of December in order to allow sufficient time
for their examination. This is good opportunity
for aspiring authors who feel that they would be
the better for little extra pocketmoney at Christ
rnaq
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GUS as those employed by the Southern
Bourbons during the shotgun" period
The scheme looks to the establishment of
the " Stalwarts in power by the use of
the Southern States, and the swapping of
the intelligent Northern vote by the iguo.
rant negro vote, just as the Southern
Bourbons have been doing in the
past. There is a recognition in
this plan OF the impossibility of
holding the North solid upon any such
programme. The "stalwart politicians
indeed are at length realizing that they
cannot expect to keep their strength by
fair means, and that if they are to retain
their hold upon politics hereafter they
must be prepared to stihe the votes of
those who understand and are therefore
opposed to them. The most curious
feature of this programme is the closeness
of its resemblance to that of the Southern
Bourbons, and this fact indicates that the
Republican stalwarts possess all the In
herent tendencies of Bourbonism, and
are indeed undergoing that final metamor-
phosis which will strip them of all their
| Republican attributes, and exhibit them
| as pronounced Tories and foes of freedom
as ever the old shareholders were. Be.
tween the politicians who thought to hold
the South solid, and through its solidity
to conquer the North, by suppressing the
negro vote, and the politicians who pro-
pose to make the South nominally Repub-
lican, and through it to overcome the real
Republicans of the Moth, by leading the
negroes to the polls on reputation
tickets, there is in fact nothing to
choose. Both are the enemies of purity,
progress, intelligence in government.
Both are the supporters of corruption, in.
| tolerance and undemocratic methods.
Neither has anything in common with that
Republican party which saved the Union
and abolished slavery. The new "stal.
wart policy, indeed, is neither more nor
less than the old Bourbon policy re-
vamped, and this cannot be concealed from
the people. The time has gone by when
any intrigue OF the kind could have been
successful, and the mere statement OF the
case is almost sufficient to insure the failure
of the experiment. 1t is not by thus put
ting spells and craftsmanship above all other
considerations that the supremacy of the
Republican party can DO maintained. For
it numbers among its most faithful sup
porters hundreds of thousands of thinking
men who will rather destroy it with their
own hands, Brutus fashion. than permit it
to be degraded into the mere instrument OF
new form of Bourbonism.
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MOVING IN A VICIOUS CIRCLE

The recent specimen of the new method
of breaking up the solid South, given in
the Virginia campaign, suggests the danger
OF recurrence to the politics of the scar
pet-bag era, with improvements of very
sinister kind. The leading idea evidently
is that by the adroit and INSCRIPTIONS use
of demagogism, and by distributing plum.
der discreetly among the venal white ele.
ments at the South, the negro voters may
be made to go with local demagogues like
Malone, and thus enough Southern States
be secured TO offset the possible loss OF
some Northern ones through the revolt Of
the intelligent voters at these methods. In
other words the new plan involves the
adoption by the Republican party of agen-
cses in all respects as vicious and mischiev-
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THIS RoRa1sgs NEWS.

Il New York Government bones are quoted at
11s2 for As of 1857; 1871 for as 1911 for 3s
Ing, 81 so4as s4l silver bars, 1l2..
Silver in London, 81 14-1ed; consols 100 .18j :
5per cent. United States bonds, extended, 1o5; 4s,
1901; SIS, 1151.
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at dis
count to par; Mexican dollars, 921@93c
There nothing done in stock circles at San
Francisco yesterday, the day being observed rs
close holiday.
j. R. Middleton was sentenced at Hamilton, New,
Wednesday, to five years in the State Prison, for
killing George Blair.
}. Hanrahan was run over by wagon and killed
near MERGED yesterday.
1t is stated that John R. Lydeciler, of New York,
is to succeed French as Assistant United States
Treasurer.
Two Of Henry Ward Beecher's sons were married
Wednesday evening.
Robert Gordon, old Californian, died at South
birmingham, Mass, recently. He established the
first newspaper ever published in the Golden State.
Fire at New York also at Pittsburg.
In accordance with Thanksgiving custom in
Ohio the Governor OF that State yesterday pardoned
two convicts
Three men were terribly burned by molten metal
the Pennsylvania Steel Works at Harrisburg yes
terday
Interesting items from Alaska are given this
morning.
The city of Port Townsend, W. T., is entirely free
from debt, and has a surplus 10 the treasury.
a steamer arrived at Portland, Or, last night, in
twenty days from Valparaiso fastest time ever
made between the two ports.
a deserter from ship jumped overheard while in
custody Of constable, near Astoria, Or, and was
drowned.
A ship was wrecked between Clyde and Dundee,
Scotland, and seventeen persons drowned.
In a collision OF steamers at Ashland, KY, yester-
terday morning, one of the vessels was sunk and a
female cook drowned.
The Mississippi River Commission is in session at
ST. Louis.
Thanksgiving Day was generally observed on the
Pacic coast as holiday, business being suspended
and the usual services being held in the churches
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Run Over and Killed.
NEVADA.
Sent 10 the state Prison.

EUREKA, November 24sh.-In the District
Court at Hamilton yesterday J. r. Middle
ton was convicted OF manslaughter, and sen.
fenced to five years in the State Prison by
Judge Rives, for killing Hon. George Blair,
member of the Nevada Legislature, in May
last. The killing grew cut of little family
quarrel, during which Blair slapped Middle
toms face, when Middleton iabbed knife
into Blair's abdomen.
At the same session of Court c. W. Heath
was sentenced to one year in State Prison for
an assault with intent to kill, Daniel a. Bsx-
ter to two years for grand larceny, and q
Mormon one year for DEMONSTRATING.
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sacramento, November 23-Mrs. llap Nsssev -,
i've OF Montreal, Canada, 30 years, 10 months and
FRIENDS ana acquaintance respectfully invited
to attend the funeral, which viii take place from
late residence, Third street, between and K. this
afternoon at o'clock
Sacramento November George Walter Gilbert
native OF Cincinnati, Ohio, IS years. >
Friends and acquaintance are respectfully invited
to attend the funeral, which will take place from
St. Paufs Church, Eighth street, between and j,
this afternoon at o'clock.
tive of Pennsylvania, Sc years
Funeral notice hereafter.l
sacramento November 24-Mrs Catherine Cameron
Craig, anatlye of Scotland, 81 years.
Funeral notice hereafter
hcCrackin's Fridge (Cosumnes liyer), November
24-Henry Thomas Shower, native of Caiifor.
MA, Is years, 6 months and days
Funeral notice hereafter.l
Near Rocklin, November 21-samuel r. Rradlev
rs years and months. -
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OREGON,
Qusck Trips.

PORTLAND, November 24th.-The Oregon
Improvement Company's steamer Walla
Walla, Captain Dewolfe, arrived tonight,
twenty days from Valparaiso-the fastest
time ever made between these ports.
The State of California arrived at 5 o'clock
this evening, within thirty minutes of her
70 fipoa
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shootinr AGray-DangerousIy Ill,

PORTLAND, November th.-Yesterday, at
Vancouver, "Bud" Vanata shot and seri-
ously wounded Charles Campbell, because
the latter objected TO him keeping company
with his (Campbelps) sister. Vanata was ar
rested, but was released en- bail.
Hor. G. F. Bsattie, Chairman OF the Dem
ocratic State Central Committee, is again
very low at his home in Oregon City, and his
recovery is not expected.
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neserfer Droyrned.

ASTORIA, November 24th.-Jack Melon
aid, deserving seaman from the ship Harry
Morse on his way down to Astoria 10 Gus
tody of Constable Ward, jumped overheard
from the steamer Fleetwood opposite Cath
lamet and was drowned.
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WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
AProsperoKs City.

PoRT TOWNSEND, November 24th.-At a
meeting of the City Council yesterday,
Mayor Minor announced that all the debts
had been paid, and tie city was now entirely
free from indebtedness, and had surplus i'll
the treasury,
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MARRIED.

Sacramento, November 24-By Rev Father Grace,
at the residence Of the brides parents. Charles
Il: Eldred to Miss Edith oConnell, both Of this
city.
Napa, November 1s-John Holto-f to Annie heser
Stewart Point November l6-Levi santee to Ina
May Stanley.
Aituras, Modoc county, November 14-J. ~ Pierce
to Mrs Southland
Fort BidweIl. November Geo volgraf to Louise
Hanks
Shepherds Home Fresno county, November 49,
Christian Sox to Miss Ida F. Daulson.
Woodland, November 20-Wiam H. Molby to
Demaris Bachelor.
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weather Probabilities.

WASHINGTON, November 24th-Midnight. -Indica-
tons for Pacific coast regions Fair weather in
California, Fight rains in Oregon and Washington
Territory.
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PACIFIC COAST.

LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION.
OBSERVANCE OF THANKSGIVING.
san Francisco Street Boys Treated to a
Feast.
A TRANSFER RUN OYER AND KILLED.
Sentences to the State Prison at Eamil-
ton, New.
ORESeN AND WASHINGTON TERRITORY
Interesting Items of News from Alaska
Territory.
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BORN.

Williams November 15-wife OF c. E. Rice, a
daughter.
cufey Cove, November S-wife of Peder Christian
son, = daughter
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RORN.

daughter. oe's Lo'e'
daughter. - ~ 0asper'
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NOTICE.

a NY VIOLATION OF TIE PROVISIONS OF
"a Sections 800 and goo of the Penal Code (com-
monty called the Sunday Law, OF any other penal
statute OF this State, upon notice being brought to
me, viii be prosecu.edln accordance with the law
w. A. ANDERSON,
City Attorney, Sacramento.
NoYemher q 1881 r95 LIS
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SEDIMENT or mucous in the urine is q sure
indication of diseas,. Take Kidney-Wort.
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Burt's maize of MEMS FINE CALF
SHOES, ac5th either plain, French or bOa
toes. Price. 50. Either Congress or AJecis
style; half double sOles, seaced.
FASHION AND ECONOMYATacee
Ulsterettes, i2a o. black and bTOaC2a broken
checA, eCith f0ncy NOhGi2 H0ing 81. A
splendid rejes,9e for yOata' money.
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BELL & CO., Auctioneers,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Goth,
By order Of c. Brown, at Residence,
Ii2S L street, bet. Eleventh and Twelfth,
At 2P. M sharp, and without reserve, as follows:
YUNwo BEDROOM SETS COMPLETE; EIGHTEEN
4 Bedsteads, assorted two Bureaus six Spring
Mattresses; one Bed Lounge; one Office Desk one
lot OF Milk Pans: one lot OF Oilcloth one lot OF
Stair Rods one Hand Truck one lot of Carpenter
Tools; Crockery, Glass and Woodenware, etc.
81 ale positive. Terms cash. ia
n25-2s [B CT BELL & CO., Auctioneers.
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oREseN AND WASHINGTON TERRITORY

Items Of News from Alaska
Territory.
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OBSERVANCE OF THANKSGIVING.

A TRANSFER RUN OYER AND KILLED.
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DiED.

DIED.
sacramento, November 23-Mrs. llan Massey -,
tive OF Montreal Canada 30 wears IN ,a,t, : 20,
, 1881-02-25
Hint to GARFIELD.

President elect Garfield would proba-
bly, disappoint few funkeys, but on the
other hand he would crafty an innumer-
able host of disinterested and level
headed people, if he should decline the
offer of one of the Northwestern railroad
nabobs who, it is understood, has ten
dered, or proposes to tender, him the use
of his own gorgeous private palace car,
in which to make his journey to Wash
ington for the purpose of being inaugu-
rated. The country is becoming SO ieal-
Gus of the power and encroachments of
the monster corporations which bid fair
to soon control it entirely, that it would
little rather not see its Chief Executive
place himself under even apparent obli-
cations to any of their representatives,
for the hollow pleasure Of making q sort
of garish triumphal march from his
modest home in Ohio to the national
capital. Nothing like that is needed to
add dignity to the occasion, and to fall
in with the idea proposed would rather
detract from than add to the high respect
in which Gen. Garfield is now held
Washington Star.
, 1881-02-25

RICE-Market quoted at China, 5Ia54 Sand
wich Island, s@9.
COFFEE-Costa Riea, l7@2Oc; Java, 2sa3Oc /;
Rio, l64aI7c.
TEASING quote Japan in laquered boxes 5Oa
76e paper, 374a474.
sUGARS-Sandwich Island, l06glIe Golden c,
in bbls, lIcI; hf bbls, lOc; Crushed bbls, II3c,
hf bbls, l2c; Pulverized bbIs, lie, Inf bbls,
l3icj Granulated bbls, HE, hf bbls I2lc
SARDIN ES-Qr boxes, 81 IS hf boxes, 81 rs.
YEAST POWDER-Donnelly, SIS p gross
WINES-White, per doz in ease, 50 50G4 per
gal, zoe to 81 80; SOnoma, per dOz in cases,
S3 90 TO 50; per gal, 6Oc to 81 so
Claret-California per gal, 81 u 81 25; i'm
ported per gal, 81 80 TO 81.
SheTy-Cala per gal, 81 90 To - so; Span
ish, 81 10 Sc; assorted brands, sIZ TO $lS;
imported per gal, 81 SD To 81.
POu-Various brands in or csks. So 50 to S. /;
81 so 10 - imported 81 To 81.
SPIRI fS-Fine old Hennessy Brandy in or cks
and octaves, 50 80 To 81 30 per gal; Dun
Ville's Irish Whisky in cases per doz, Sl2 /;
james Stewart X Co. : Scotch Whisky in or
cks and octaves, 81; Hennessy Brady in
case, per doz, very tne-l star SIG, star,
SIT so, 3 star $l9; Holland Gin, large cases,
SIS To $50; Old Tom Gin in cases, Sl2; RE
Whisky, per gal, 50 80 TO S. Bourbon, per
gal, 81 50 TO 50 A Cutter, So - To 81 so
u Cutter, 81 50 10 s.
, 1881-02-25

The following quotations represent the whole
sale rates from producers or first hands:
FLoUR-Standard brards 81 49, best country
brands, 81 25@$4 80, superfne, $3 75Gl
So 80. 'oSs
WOOL-Valley 25@50c Eastern Oregon 20Gl2 d
WHEAT-Good to choice, 81 80.
HAi-Iimothy baled, buying at $lG@SIS per
P0TAToEs-65Cl a zoe per etl.
MIDDLlNGS-$2 $20@ $224: shorts $ls: chop feed
SlS@2e, fine $25gS27! r ton.
BRAN-Jobblng at per ton, $l4M$I5.
OAlS-Feed, per bushel 40GlI2l cts
BACON-Sldes, lie; hams, Oregon S I2I@
l4ci Eastern, I4(y l5c; shoulders, lO@ lie.
i44aI LARD-ln kegs, II; in tins, I3c
BuIIER-We quote choice dairy at 3Ol3jc
good fresh roll, 37@4O; ordinary, IS@
25c, whether brine or roll.
DRIED FRUlTS-Apples, sun dried, sa 9.;
machine dried, l24c Pears, machine dried
Hale. Plums, machine dried, I3@IJc.
Apples, market overstocked, at 40Ge75c per
box.
EGGS-20c per doz
and roosters. $2IG3! Tur-
keys l4dl6c per pound. Geese, $Sa9 per doz
Oh CHEESE-Oregon, l5!Gl6c; California, l6c.
HOGS--Dressed, 6@6lc; on foot, 4a45Oc.
BEEF-Liye weight, Sc, gross 24Gi &c, per h.
SD EEP-Llve weight, 2lc gross.
IA ALLOW-Quotable at !! !c
HlDES-The market is firm at lGc for iirst-class
dry: 7l9S!c for green; culls, one-third of.
, 1881-02-25

TAIs institute. ON Fidalgo Island. Is prepared to
furnish thorough and economical education 10
students OF both sexes. The lOcsIion Ia favorable
70 health and light expenses, and also because of
the quiet and removal from city alluremenls. Ad
yancenent rapid, by individual attention by com
petent teachers Consideration paid to manners
and morals. Parents notified Cf work done and
correspondence invited
To the corps OF teachers has been added an ex
peffenced photographer and Instructor in modern
languages and art. Special attention 20 music,
there being ten pupils upon the organ last year.
ok-keepi. e, surveying etc, etc.
TeTms-S7 and 9 Tuition per Quarter.
Opens September 1880. Board 81 so per week.