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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07
nineteenth century from the first. Take

nineteenth century from the first. Take
away these two and the average man of
the year l is not much behind the average
man of the year 1882. 1t is Literature
which forms the connecting chain between
ourselves and our ancestors which places
at our disposal the best thoughts of the
human race throughout its recorded exist
ence ; which enables us to appropriate and
make our own the laborious meditations of
the wisest of orr species which in fact
alone makes US the heir of all the ages
:" in the foremost files of time" And if
our educational machinery fails to impart
a literary taste, if our children
grow up and enter life without this
taste, how can we expect that the sacred
fire will be handed on to the next gen.
Grafton, and that the nation will be enabled
to hold its own intellectually in the future
We regard this as a serious matter. The
formation of literary taste is essential to
the acquisition of anything like a really
full and complete education. There can
be no intellectual life worthy the name
without this taste; and no life which is
destitute OF intellectual fermentation is
anything better than an animal and bar
barian life. 1t may be filled with material
success. 1t may issue in riches and the
opportunity for ostentation and luxury.
But if it is life in which the knowledge
and love of literature have no place, it will
be failure, and will mark rather retire
erosion than progress. This may seem
hard saying to some, but it is true one
and until its truth is recognized and acted
upon, very much of what is called the ma
terial prosperity of the age will continue to
be mere meretricious, vulgar passion
for display, such as its exhibitors possess
in common with the lowest types of man.
kind, and which indicates no advance IN
the powers of mind whose cultivation and
expansion form the sole criteria of de-
sirable and genuine progress in civilization.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07
WANTING PArERNAL GovsRNnENr

Judging from the telegraphio reports of
the Farmers Congress held at st. Louis.
the President of the Society in his address
advocated policy involving a curious
tendency toward paternal government. He
said the farmers should have a repre-.
sentative in the Presidents Cabinet. and
"that they should have some one at Wash.
"ington whose special training and knowl.
ledge would enable him to point out thu
"eyil effect OF State and Federal legislation
ION agriculture, as well as the results cf
all commercial treaties" It might have
been supposed that the Representatives and
Senators were specially deputed TO look
after just such matters as these, and that
agriculture would be unlikely to obtain any
more protection than it now has from them,
Blu. the tendency in these times is towards
paternal government, and most men and
most interests are disposed to demand that
things should be done for them officially
which in the past nobody would have
thought OF delegating TO others.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07


Is the GeRtlemaHS HagasiRe w. Mattieu williams
makes charge upon the ranks Of the total abstain.
ers with a weapon, which he suingly says he
has forged himself from material supplied by OAR
win. He holds that drunkenness promotes civiliza-
ton and the progress of the race Man has a
tendency to multiply too fast, hence poverty and
social degradation. In the struggle for existence
the inferior is weedcd out while the superior trans
init their advantages TO their offspring. As brute
physical powers are less demanded some means are
required for the elimination of the purely animal
specimens of humanity, to give room for the sur
yival of the rrinei ard intellectual. Now, il the
coarser elements engage in self-immolation by
process peasurable TO them there Is 70 reason for
humane feelings TO DC called into exercise The old
customs demanding heavy social drinking have
passed away, and the drunkards of to day are tie
coarse, gross and brutal. Because nearly all Grim
inals drunkarjs it does not follow that drunk.
Is the chief cause of crime They 20 together
because they are concurrent effects-alcohol only
removes prudence aud develops the true character.
Hence, those fit to survive viii spontaneously avoid
ntemperance and all others, by "the happy dis
patch" of alcohol, viii properly be sifted out Such,
in nutshell, is his ingenious theory.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07
SOCIAL Ann psneoEsL.

c. W. Harvey, Of Gait, in the city yesterday
Clay W. Taylar OF shasta, is stopping in the city
Captain J. P. Brown, of Camptonville, is in the
city
Elijah Comstock aud wife leave to-day for a two
months visit to their old home in Ohio
Mrs Hugh J Glenn, Of Colusa, and her brother, S.
E. Wilson, Of Suffer county, are in the city.
Miss Slllie AcKin, Of Chico, is visiting her grand
parents, Mr.. aud Mrs. Crowoil, in this city.
Miss Ida Smiley, OF Iowa Hill, who has been visit.
ing in this city for weeks, returned home yes
terday :
Mis- Ella Lindley, daughter of T. NJ. Lindley,
returned yesterday from school at Oakland for few
days vacation.
Charles n Feed, Of the Gridley Herald, passed
through this city Yesterday Oh his way from San
Francisco to his home.
John Holliugsgorth 81 Engine No /, and Hubert
Lldd, Of the Hook aud Ladder Company, both mem.
bers OF the Ssc.m nto Fra Department, have gone
to San Francisco for weeks vacation. Il is re-
ported that Mr. HolIingsWOrth will bling q bride
with him on his return
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07
IT Is CONSTANTLY

Increasing in circulation.
Constantly beng improved
Constantly growing IN news Importance.
Constantly widening in influence.
Constantly charging the field Of its usefulness.
1t is she largest and best Of weekies
1t is the freshest and most prompt.
1t is the cheapest and most desirable.
Because it issues in semi weekly parts.
Because it gives the TO its readers in advance
of the old style of week.-Mrs.
Because the country reader receives the latest in
formation through it nearly as rapidly as he could
through the daily press.
Because it is edited in all its departments with an
eye single to excellence, choice miscellany, reliable
intelligence, variety, and clear, scholarly criticism
and presentation Of the leading topics Of the day.
Because its matter is chosen with view to the
chaste in character, excellence in diction, useful
ness, advancement and practical application the
education Of the people, the satisfying of the better
tastes, the culture OF the outh, The elevation and
purity Of the home, and Development of the re
sources OF the State.
In Short all that long journalistic experience, the
highest l:tera skill, the best and completest sys
TEN Of news-gatharing, and the most reliable and
approved methods Of newspaper publishing can do,
is done TO make the WEEKLY UNION tie foremost
weekly Journal OF the Pacific coast.
It is mailed 10 any address, post paid, for one
year, for the rominal sum of 3 SO.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07
TRAIN RoBBERlEs.

Seventeen armed men undertook TO rob
train. l. happened that two Shsriffs
and Deputy Sheriff were on board.
These three officers drew their revolvers,
and the robbers consequently made no ST.
tempt TO rob the passengers. This is not
The first time that show of resistance
has daunted train robbers. On a former
occasion a single man kept jesse James
and his gang at bay, and prevented them
from entering the car where he stood ex-
changing shots with them. The fact is
that these robbers are very seldom really
brave men, and that they are rarely pre-
pared to take any serious risks in their
raids. Passengers, however, generally
prove 50 oowarily that read agents" are
positively encouraged to plunier them.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07

the corruption of municipal politics is not
unique. The truth is that the same
evil agencies are at work in State and Ma
tional politics, and that the venal elements
OF the country cling together, and work to-
gether, and so defeat every serious effort at
reform. Whether any change for the bet.
ter is possible We are not prepared to say,
but we are disposed to the opinion that no
permanent improvement can take place
until the American people recognize the
necessity of demanding reform all along
the Line
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07

THERE isone very practical subject to which the
Legislature may this winter well devote part of its
time, viz the regulation of the sale of WOOD which
in nearly all other States matter treated by stat.
ute, to the reli-f of householders As it is here,
burdensome tax is imposed in the way OF false
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07

1HE Prohibitionists' Convention formulated and
adopted plank against the deposit Of hydraulic
miners detritu7. It IS well that the Convention
was thus explicit and kept in view the distinction
between the detritus OF miners and the detritus
from the mines.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07

THE recent wind.storm damaged the fosthflI
apple crop greatly. The wind came as an ally of the
apple worms to finish up what the cooling moth had
been unable to complies
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07

TIE country pres, TO fill in the glpsn the tedium
Of the present Eeiess campaign, is largely directing
its energies to specuatons as TO the weather, the
cost Of schoolbooks, and the profits Of mule culture
as compared to wool growing.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07

DR.. NoTIcEsR Of Chic 60 the late father-in-law Of
Edwin Booth has written lecture on "Tha Press,
the Pulpit and the Stage" He saws the stage never
was SO opulsnt aud Independent as at present-the
only institution in the country that gives literature
any Tewart!s
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07

THE Empress of Russia said 10 be, in equestrian
exercises quite the rival o. the Empress Of Austrs,
who once distinguish bersen b. riding at a fox
hunt without any saddle.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07

SWEET names some of the Sandwich Island papers
have: as, for instance, the Kuokoa, the Pal ina
and the Etsle PogJusa.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07

A WITTY com1iuE eltion upon the present stylus
says there is but little difference between the picture
of medieval saint aud modern fashionable sinner
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07

lature, declaring Sunday to mean the time between
IL P. Ct saturday aud A. ". of Monday following
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07

tional work which demagogues have passed
off upon the people as the ripe fruits of
wisdom and public spirit, and often, after
years of frothy agitation, what seemed the
very triumph and elimination of power.
full movement is pricked quietly by some
Court, and collspses like spent bladder.
And this is the measure of the value of the
work which the politicians foist upon their
dupes, the gullible voters.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07

TIE New Orleans Times Democrat szys the drum.
mer is as factor in the commercial problem that
cannot DO overlooked" Exactly, and he sees 70 it
that he IS not overlooked st any time.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07
weather Probabilities.

WASHINGTON, October 6 n Indications tor Pacii
coast region Rain from San Francisco northwal
to Washington Territory.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
Redistricting the state The Public
Welfare and Not Personal Interests
The Paramount End.

EDITORS CLARION: As one of the people
interested in good government, and without
any desire for a seat in Congress, wish to
proclaim dissent from the implication con,
tanned in some Of the utterances about the
act lately passed to divide Mississippi into
districts for the election of Representatives
ID Congress, that Representative in Con-
gress has some right which should be re-
garded ia the formation of districts. Never
was suggestion more unfounded and prepos-
ferrous. Members of Congress are servants
Of the people, chosen for the period pre-
scribed by the constitution, and without
any right to be thought Of in redistricting
the State, and the idea that wrong could b.
done toa Representative in Congress by any
arrangement of counties is pernieious in
its tendency, because it gives countenance
to the unfounded pretension that one of
thousands who has been chosen to serve in
Congress has a right to be protected against
the danger of another being called by the
people to the same service. No man, in or
out of Congress, should be thought of in
the creation Of districts for the election of
Representatives. ELECToR.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
A Proper Measure.

Representative Payson, (Rep., OF Hi
uois), from the Committee on Coinage, h#
reported bill providing that thu standar,
silver dollar be, made the unit of value
This silver dollar WAS the unit of value
from the beginning OF the government dowr
to 1878, when silver was demonetizpd a
the instance Of the m ney powers. Tins
subsidiary silver coins shall be made o
full standard value and all the gold anc
silver coins authorized by law are made {
legal tender for all sums at their noinina
value" CLARION.
From the " beginning Of the government
down to 1873" the silver dollar was Away,
worth 100 cents, and occasionally a LITTLE
more. To-day it is only worth SO cents
IF the Clarion has plenty of time we would
like for it to examine and elaborate the
machinery of theory of finance based on a
standard of 80 cents on the dollar.-Green-
vile Mississippian.
What does our contemporary mean
by such nonsensical chatter? Doesn't
he know that the meaning of dollar is
the silver coin of that denomination ?
That the laws of the land under which
money is coined and the value thereof
fixed, make it dollar of one hundred
cents, and that itself is the measure
of other dollars? Why not keep the
horse before the cart and say that the
silver dollar is worth 100 cents and the
gold dollar 112 cents? Before silver
was stealthily demonetized to conform
to the demands of the fundmongers,
the bullion value of the silver dollar
was worth more than the gold dollar,
but nobody ever heard then that a gold
dollar was not an honest dollar.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
NEWS AND OTTER ITEMS.


Judge NJ. NJ. Dufie, of Dallas county
andJ. Q. Stanley, of Woodruff county, are
announced as Democratic candidates fol
Governor of Arkansas
A Pittsburg special says !: The river mer
of this city will take measures to give prac
teal aid to the people who are suffering
from the floods.
The Chamber Of Commerce, Gin, ap
pointed committee OF seven to solicit sub
scriptions and take such other action a:
may be deemed necessary for the relief Of
the sufferers from the overflow of the Mis-
sissippi river.
The Wisconsin Legislature has repealed
the anti-treating law that existed in that
State.
The Attorney General of Texas, has enter
ed suit>at Austin, against the New Or
leans, Texas and Pacific Railway Gould
line,) for forfeiture of charter, the company
having failed to comply with its require
ments
The President has signed the anti-polyga-
my bill.
Tobacco killed boy of 10, at Blair,
Nebraska, He not only chewed great guam
titles of the weed, but swallowed the juice.
Eight thousand dollars in money and a
large amount of provisions and clothing,
has been raised in St. Louis for the benefit
of sufferers by the overflow in the Missis-
sippi river.
l. l. Downing, prominent lawyer and
United States Commissioner at Columbus,
dropped dead on the 25th Ap6plexy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
The Anti-Ch1nese Bill.

The Senate bin to prohibit Chinese
immigration, passed the Lower House OF
| Congress on the 23rd, by vote of 167
yeas, to 65 nays. All the nays were
Republicans except four. The Presi-
Dental Platforms of both parties COM
mitted them to the bill but it is
not unusual nowadays, since politics
have become somewhat mixed, to step
across the platform. In the debates it
was revealed that the opposers of negro
citizenship voted for the bill in the hope
that-as the prohibition was aimed at the
Chinese on account of race dissimiltude
and incongruity it would be the enter
ing wedge to a settlement of the trace
problem" on different basis in the
South; and the advocates of negro citi-
zenship opposed it from the fear that it
would be the initial movement of a cru
SADIE against the Fourteenth and Eff
ternth Amendments. We will venture
to say, the hopes of the one, and the
fears of the other, were all groundless.
The conditions of the African and the
Chinese are wholly different. The ne
gro is already here the Chinese are
not. 1t is one thing to keep the
one away, and an entirely differ
ent thing to ostracise the other
after he has become an indissoluble
part of the country. The negro ques-
ton is economic as well as political.
African citizenship is as much the
organic law of the United States as
caucasian citizenship, and while
individuals may declaim against the
Amendments securing equality of right
to the negro, no party viii ever be
organized TO overthrow them. The one
thing settled is the NEGRO problem. "
The settlement may not be agreeable to
many persons; but it is fact as ire
however, as the law of the
Union. and SO long as the Union exists
the Amendments will stand. 1t was
shrewd game of Senator Jones. of
to throw out the idea Of anti
Chinese legislation first, and settle
ment of a negro problem next; bur it
was only bait to catch votes for anti
Chinese legislation in certain quarters.
That was all. There was nothing in
he suggestion unless it be a renewal of
misehierous agitation. Mark the
,rophesy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

THE following resolutions were offered
in the Senate the other day by Mr.. Tel
Ter, Republican Senator from Colorado,
1t shows how all parties are progressing
to the right point on the silver question:
Congressional Record.
Mr.. Teller submitted the following resolu-
tons, which were ordered to lie on the table
and be printed:
RESOLVED, That the experience of mankind
has demonstrated the necessity of the use
of both gold and silver as circulating medi-
UNI: that the destruction of the money
faculty of silver is in the interest of few
only, and not calculated to. benefit the great
mass of mankind.
RESOLVED, That it is the duty Of the United
States government to provide mintage
capacity equal to the annual domestic pro-
dnction ef gold and silver, so that the hold
ers of bullion may freely convert the same
into money without embarrassing delay.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29
Sac sup't PubIie Educalion.
The Yazoo County News From the
Overflow.


YAzoo CITY, MISS, March 10Th, 1882
EDITORS CLARIoN The water commenc
ed to decline last Tuesday and has fallen
twelve inches to the present time. The de.
cline is much mere rapid for the same pc
riod Of time than in 1867. The last boat
down brought news that few plows were
already at work where the water had fallen
sufficiently. The general impression is that
all the planters along the Yazoo viii be put
ting in crops by April 10Th.
A heavy rain is falling now that may give
temporary check to the fall. Yazoo City
has been very fortunate SO far, and except
ing a few white people and negroes who
were obliged to leave the lower part of town
there has been but little inconvenience.
Some sensational reports as to the extent OF
the damage by the water here that were
published, have caused considerable adverse
comment. The few of our merchants on
lower Main Street, the floors of whose stores
were covered with water, with one
or two exceptions have had access
to the same by means of planks laid
upon barrels. Your correspondent paid
visit yesterday to the refugee camp located
about two miles from town. They are pro-
yided for as well as could be expected and
are fed mainly by merchants and planters
that were previously supplying them those
not so fortunate are cared for by the citi-
Gems committee who dispense the public
rations only to the deserving. The negroes
generally expressed themselves satisfied and
disposed to return to work as soon as the
water should permit. Many have found
work with the hill planters.
The steamer Yazoo arrived yesterday
morning with lot of provisions donated
to the Yazoo sufferers by the ladies of
Vicksburg. Long will their kindness be
remembered. The officers of the '.P" line
have done all that they could to assist the
suffering and unfortunate.
John Meeks, colored, while riding in
dugout yesterday eapsized and was drowned
a petition, unanimously signed by the Bar,
has been sent Chancellor Peyton requesting
him TO defer holding court until April 9th, |
on account Of the State of affairs here.
Cor"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

THE Secretary Of War replied to an
inquiry of the House of Representatives
that $4,000 persons are receiving sub
sistence from The government, ID conse.
quenee of the overflow. The SOC, 100
first appropriated purchased SOC, 900
rations, and this supply vas exhausted
in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas
on the 10th. Out Of the $50. 600 BY the
last appropriation supplies have been
forwarded and are being distributed ac-
cording to the necessities Of the districts
needing them.