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A NOMINAL CONVICTION.

In the United States District Court
Thursday, Gabino Calongo, brought from
San Bernardino by Indian Agent Lawson,
was on trial for selling whisky to Indians.
1t was shown by the prosecution that the
defendant had on certain day gone into
a saloon in the town of San Bernardino,
bought bottle of whisky, and given it to
an Indian woman named Maria. CaIoDgo.
who proved to be unable to speak word
of English, testified, through an interpre-
ter, that he had immigrated into this State
about five months ago, and upon his arrival
had obtained work upon the railroad. One
day while walking through the town of
San Bernardiuo an Indian woman asked
him to buy her two bits worth Of whisky.
He did so, not knowing that he was violat-
ing any law, was arrested and had spent
about two months in Jail. He concluded
by requesting that the jury would convict
him, as he did not desire to be acquitted
and turned loose in the city without friends
or money and not understanding word
of the English language. He also said that
he had wife and two children dependent
upon his labor in San Bernardino.
J. L. Crittenden, appointed by the
Court to defend the man, said that the
Agent unquestionably had some concealed
motive in arresting him and bringing him
ali the way to San Francisco for trial for
such trifing offense.
Judge Hoffman, in order that the un-
fortunate man might be sent home, in
formed the jury that they could find him
guilty and recommend him to the mercy of
the Court. They did SO, and the man will
be- sent back to San Berpardino with a
nominal sentence imposed upon him. This
transaction will cost the Government about
$500, including Marshal Poole's expenses
down to San Bernardino and the expenses
of the witnesses and those of Lawson him.
self. In response to a question asking
why the Agent did not avail himself of the
stringent State law against selling whisky
to the Indians, and prosecute such trivial
offenses at home, one of the Court room
officials said to reporter that in such case
the Indian Agent would not be able to go
on pleasure trip to San Francisco at the
expense of the Government.
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us moRnTEe,s NEWS.

n Eclg York Government bonds are quoted at lis
Cor As o. 1897 lls7 for As; 1908 for 3ls sterling,
O. s694 Sa3 silver bars. 1l3l
! liver in London, 81 IA lGd; consols, 1ol Lied; ;
Der mt. United stateo bonds, extended, 1C4 as,
1l95; ~
Ia san F-z-a.soo half dollars are quoted at dis
count to pr; Mexican dollars 80 cents.
Mining stocks were in moderate request at San
Ffanoi.co yesterday morning. Values showed but
little change from Thursday, though on the whole
they ware trine higher. The advance on leading
.Comstgeks varied from cents to 80 cents.
John Kimball, Mail Agent of the Utah and North
.en Railroad, has been arrested for embezzling
letters.
Best, clark Of the Lighthouse Board, pleaded
guilt Of forgery at San Francisco yesterday.
According to ldvices from Guaymas, everything is
IN a f 1urishing condition throughout SOnora, Mex
leo.
The North Pacific Railroad Company yesterday
paid their delinquent taxes 81 ZOO under protest TO
the Marin county Tax Collector
Charles Puatt, aged 10, was drowned ir Goose
creek, near Elliott, San joaquin county, yesterday.
During the week ending at noon yesterday, l22
deaths occurred in San Francisco
TIE long suit between the Richmond and Albion
Mining Companies was deci ed yesterday by the
Supreme Court Of Nevada in favor of the defendant
Two ohildren-one a baby-were drowned near
Dunnville Ky, yesterday.
At Lebanon, Ky, Thursday, house was struck
by lightning, and man and boy killed.
The Rhode Island Republican State Convention
nominated the present officers.
Fourteen men were drowned by the wreck OF a
fishing schooner of the Massachusetts, coast
Smallpox Is spreading at South Bethlehem, Pa,
and thirty FIVE houses have been quarantined.
Lieutenant schwatka, the Arctic explorer, thinks
there is no chance foi the survival Of De Long and
his party.
Rev. T. H. NcCrsth accidentally shot himself at
Vi inia, New, Thurs day morning.
Taeat5 ave Of the Omaha rioters have been in
deed by the Grand Jury for assault to commit
r..u-ier.
.udolph Heinrich killed himself at San Francisco
Ia. evening.
. L.a.- demonstration, attended by 5000 people,
te,E s'i.. at Philadelphia Thursday night.
rl oily Of an unknown man was found floating
3. .ia Of San Francisco yesterday.
Eu-. las determined to annex Bosnia and Her.
,av.e.
Gg5-a Victoria has arrived at Mentone, Italy.
gde Fi-.er letters, in connection with the Peru
Wan G. sandal, missing from the State Depart
iueut Q. aasaington, have been found.
Fiyr ora we're buried alive in a tunnel near st.
Tase-b 10 on Thursday.
Thr sr.g 5io;ka lie in the Sierra Nevada has not
yet be1 lied and at late hour last night it was
Isa7o to state when it would be, as the snow
>sasst ..liing- At Eniigraut Gap depth OF twelve
feos Ys. reported, and at Blue Canyon ten feet
TIse Inside pages Of todays RECORD UNION contain
-tlu b interesting and valuable reading matter.
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QUITE A MISTAKE.

In his speech on the Chinese bill Page
said that ''as he supposed, high pro-
" tective tariff was not for the purpose of
taxing the people of the country, that
e. the rich might become richer and the
"poor poorer, but for the purpose of pro-
"tecting American labor, not against
"cheap money, but against the cheap labor
&" Of Europe and Asia" If Page supposes
this it shows tha5 he does not understand
the question at all. a high protective tariff
does not "protect American labor" On
the contrary, it tends to injure American
labor. Under high protective tariff the
wages of American workmen have sunk to
the level Of European wages, and at the
same time the cost of living to the Ameri-
can workman has been enormously in.
creased. Whoever therefore pretends that
the protective tariff protects American
labor against the ''pauper labor " OF
Europe, is guilty of serious misrepre.
sentation. Neither does the high tariff
have any tendency to protect American
labor against that of Asia. In fact it
does not protect American labor in any
way, but it robs it in many. 1t has
brought the state of American working
men to such pass that they are not at
present, in many industries, as well off as
they would be in Europe, for they receive
no higher pay, and it cos them verymuch
more to live. The American workingman
owes no thanks to the tariff, and he is be-
ginning to realize that fact. He is ready
enough to accept real protection, but
spurious kind, which does him actual harm
under the false pretense of benefting him,
cannot be expected to appeal to his SYM
pathies when he comprehends the truth.
Ia fact the less said by the Protectionists
about the "pauper labor" OF Europe, as
the case stands, the better it will be for
them, for such references suggest questions
and comments which cannot be conven.
iently answered or explained away.
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THE IRoQUoIs CLUB.

The meeting of the Iroquois Club at
Chicago to celebrate the anniversary of the
birth of Andrew Jackson, was made the
occasion for a liberal outpouring of those
lofty and statesmanlike sentiments which
the Democratic party somehow always
reserves for such opportunities, taking par
tical politics. And advice as to the future
course of the party was proffered with an
unstinted hand. The venerable Tilden,
the sprightly but eccentric Watterson,
the decorous and somewhat dismal Bay
ard, the progressive Palmer, the adroit
Randall, the polite Seymour, the military
Hancock, the ponderous Jere Black, the
gallant Lamar, together with host of
other celebrities, great and small, con-
tributed freely to the literature of declina-
ton. 1t is difficult to gather from these
epistles what the course OF the Demo.
cratic party will be hereafter, and chiefly
for the reason that while its leaders are
now overlooking with Jacksonian senti.
ments, when platforms have to be made it
is expediency which controls their utter
ances. Henry Watterson is for Free
Trade, first, last and all the time. Tilden
is for decentralization, and so are the
majority. All are for the grand old
Jacksonian principles. 0ne exceedingly
bold correspondent actually proposes
Civil Service reform as leading
issue, bnt it is evident that this
particular Democrat must have abandoned
all hope of holding Office again, and that
his mind is consequently soured. Yet
though many Of the suggestions are very
fine, we have no hope that the party will
adopt them. Ever since the close of the
rebellion the Democracy has been doing its
best to tread in the footsteps of the Repub.
lican party. Its platforms have for the
most part been attempts to steal the Re.
publican thunder. Ithas not been taught,
even by monotonous succession of defeats,
the folly of this line of action, and every
year it comes up smiling, but groggy,"
and repeats the performance, apparently
deriving some real qualification from it on
each repetition, but never finding out, I'M
til the polls have closed, that it is impossi.
BILE to win in that way. 1t is indeed posi-.
BILE that Henry Watterson has come nearer
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CHARGE and that M pilshnrx Ike MANY

charge, and that Mr.. Pilsbury, like many
another Office holder, has fallen under the
pressure TO which members of the Legis.
lature subjected him. But if Governor
Cornell removes him for this weakness
he is bound in consistency to fill his place
with non- political appointment. He has
not done this. On the contrary, he has
exposed the insincerity of his complaint
against Mr.. Pilsbury by nominating an
active politician for the office, one Isaac
V. Baker According to the New York
Erening Post this person has no reputa-
" ton except as politician, and his repu.
'ttation as politician is bad who knows
" science of prison management in the rest
"of the world than he knows of the pres.
cent condition of the evolution. contro-
'versy who was State Senator in the
"Tweed days, and retired to private life
under strong suspicion of completely in
"Tweed's operations, and has since then
"won no distinction, except as an active
"henchman in small way, skillful in
political intrigues, and in the various
lodges and devices of the more hidden
"political ways" That is promising
successor to the Pilsburys, father and son,
who during the past generation have done SO
much for penal science and criminal reform
alton in New York. To appoint such a
man Superintendent of Prisons is scandal
GUS, but it was quite what was to have
been expected from Governor Cornell, who
is a machine politician of the lowest
and worst type, and who therefore natur-
ally looks upon the prisons as ''spoils
It certainly requires somewhat abnormal
degree of brutality in politician to hold
this view, but there are politicians sufi-
GENTLY embruted to look upon insane
asylums and hospitals, as well as upon
prisons, in the light OF legitimate spoils,
and some OF these have even come to the
surface in California. 1t is deplorable that
the Governor of New York should be so
blind to his responsibilities, but the voters
of that State have been so submissive to
the rule of the machine for many
years that it is impossible to sympathize as
deeply with them as if they had made
serious or sustained fight against that
kind of misgovernment. Meanwhile Gov
erpOr Cornell is in n fair way to destroy
the work of half century in the New
York prisons, and in doing that he will
perpetrate more mischief than the service
of his whole life can counterbalance.
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BRIEF SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The printing of the delinquent tax list
cost 81, 755 70.
The Knights of ST. Patrick held ban.
quet at the Baldwin Hotel Thursday
night.
The second annual reunion of the Prince
ton College Association of the Pacific
coast took place at the Palace Hotel on
Wednesday evening. Their roll now com.
prises sixty members, scattered through
our Pacific States and Territories.
A citation has issued commanding ex.
Public Administrator Doolan to show cause
on the l4th of next month why, as admin.
istrator of the estate of Harriet Skilman,
alias Williams, he should not deposit with
the Treasurer 81, GAO IL belonging to the
estate.
The Geographical Society of the Pacific
held its first annual dinner at the Msison
Doree Thursday evening. At 1880 the
seats were taken, the table being laid for
fifty, and about forty being present. Pro.
lessor George Davidson, the President of
the Society, presided.
The first annual reunion and banquet of
the Dartmouth Alumni OF the Pacific coast
was held at the Baldwin Hotel Thursday
evening. There are sixty-five members on
the coast, of which number sixteen at.
tended the reunion that evening, their
classes ranging from lS43 to 1881.
The fire on Clay street On Monday night
was not SO serious as at first reported. 1t
started in the rear of saloon adjoining
the Spafford Packing Company's establish
ment. The building in which the fire
originated was badly burned, and the in.
surance upon it was small, SO that William
Korts, the owner and occupant, is the
principal loser.
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THE WEEKLY

UNION sued this morning appears in two parts
each of eight pages Part " one is dated each
wednesday, and part 90 two" each Saturday TINS
enables The reader Of the weekly to peuSe the news
reports earlier than would be possible for him under
the once a.weok system. 1t gives him also sixteen
pages per week Of first class news aud reading mat
ter. As newspaper and family journal the
WEEKLY UNION is unsurpassed by any competitor.
Its matter prepared for its departments by skilled
editors o. long experience; its news is gathered
from the best oh'ainable sources. and through me
medium Of the best news agencies of the world In
the coming campaign the WEEKLY UNION will fairly
and faitI y present the political news OF all the
parties before tins people, and will report the con-
vel tions and meetings Of all political organizations
with periec, iupartiality. This will give the UNION
readers an advantage to keep abreast with the cam
paien movements of the year, aud to be well IN
formed on al political topics The WEEKLY UNION
will be mailed to airy address postpaid Tor one year
for - so
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SHERMAN AND THE CONTINGENT FUsD

The Congressional Committee report on
the charges against Secretary Sherman of
using the Contingent Fund for private pur
poses, and of employing persons in the
service Of the Government to do work
about his house. when he was Secretary,
exonerates him from all knowledge of
or connivance in the irregularities al
legged. but seems to treat the irregularities
themselves as being proved. Sherman him.
self. In fact, admits that Pitkin did use the
Contingent Fund for his (Sberman'sl bene-
fit, but that he was ignorant of what was
going on, and when at last he discovered
it, was very angry, and insisted that Pit
kin should pay the money back As some
at least Of the expense appears to have
been incurred expressly in Mr.. Sherman's
own interest, it is rather odd that he
should not have thought Of paying the
money himself. AS it is, he seems to have
been willing that Pitkin should be out of
pocket Oh his behalf, though he would not
allow the Custodian to use Government
funds for such purposes. Altogether the
report Is a curious document, and it is not
quite clearly explained in it why Secretary
Sherman is to be held irresponsible in
matter which at least concerned the dis.
cipline and upright conduct of an Office in
his department, very closely. 1t does not
I L L
deserved dismissal, if not prosecution, for
what he had done, and it does net appear
to have occurred to the committee that
there was anything strange in this con.
donation OF corrupt practices on the part
of the head of a department.
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s,n. nronositien tban apv Of the others.

sane proposition than any of the others,
in his letter. The issue of Free Trade GER
tainly promises to be burning one in the
near future, and it is on the cards that it
may sweep the West. Hitherto both par
ties have lodged it. The Republican lead
ers have made the mistake of concluding
that they were somehow pledged to the
maintenance of the Morrill, Tariff, which
was strictly war measure, and which has
never had any justification for existence
since the rebellion collapsed. A time
has been reached, however, when,
the bulk of the debt being paid of,
the demand for surplus revenue of hun
dred millions a year has ceased to be APP.
parent, while on the other hand the burden
of the Tariff is being felt more forcibly
every year. The producers of the West
realize at last that they have been sacri-
feed these many years to the manufactur-
ers, and they are kicking. Should the Re-
publican party therefore again declare
itself in favor of Protection, and should
the Democrats muster courage to take the
side of Free Trade, it is quite possible that
political revolution may take place in the
West. The Republicans can prevent this
if they have the sense to do so, but it re-
mains to be seen whether they have. Thus
far they have been saved more often by the
stupidity of their opponents than by any
skill or judgment of their OWL, and now,
as for years past, their strongest depend
ence is likely to be upon the Democratic
talent for political blunders. The expert
ence of the past does not warrant a belief
that the expressions of opinion read before
the Iroquois Club the other night can be
taken as Indicative of what the Democracy
will do 1t has missed so many opportu-
mites, in short, that if it failed to miss the
neyt one that appears the result would be
a genuine surprise to the country.
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quietly, and let the Dwarf pummel away TO
doubt that the Evolutionary Theory and the
Undulatory Theory of Sound viii continue to
hold their ground, and will continue to de.
velcp steadily, and that bye and bye the
theologisns who have been congrstulating
themselves upon the acquisition of a new and
powerful weapon wherewith to assail Skep-
ticism, will discover that after all their gun
was only loaded with blank cartridge.
TuS Coxcxrrs AND TnsoRlrs or MopERx PHYSICS.
BY J. B. Stale. New York Appleton s Co.
San Francisco James T. White
This is a very different kind of work from.
that we have reviewed above. We have
here to do with writer who has received
thorough scientific education who is familiar
with the evolution of all the scientific theo-
ries !; who has mastered the pivotal works of
all thinkers in all languages and who brings
to the work of criticism not only full bat
well-bslanced mind. The main o. jsct of his
treatise is TO call attention to the instances in
which scientific leaders have ovarstepped the
Just limits of their discoveries, and in which
they have seemed to draw erroneous conclu-
sious from known facts through precouceived
bias or other Influence. The author how.
ever, proceeds throughout in the most modest
and dignifed and deh6erAtive manner. He
takes nothing for granted, bsgs 10 questions,
makes no misrs presentations, indulges in 10
bubbles. does not attempt to pick TO pieces
those with whom he differs b. taking frag-
ments of thsir writings and distorting them
to suit bis own purpose. What he has
to say is put forward as possessing no
other title to attention than the intrinsic
strength Of the argument constitutes, and
il the book has fault from the public stand
point it is that it presupposeS il the reader
an amount OF scientific information which
perhaps the generality do not possess. Never
thsless it is very tiu ely and valuable con-
tribution to scientific researsh, for it is GER
tainly true that scientific men, being only
human, are liable to contract error, and that
they are also liable to become too conserv-
ative by lorg working in one direction.
There is in short always danger Of impart-
ing too much fxedness and solidity to theories
which. in t. e present state OF human know
ledge at least, should be elastic and mobile,
and such thoughtful and scholarly works as
Judge Stallo's are well calculated to restrain
this disposition, and to preserve our leaders
of thought from the mortal sin of undue
dogmstism. The present valume forms one
of the International Scientific Series, which
it enriches and adorns.
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TIE GARFIELD LETTER.

Hitherto we have assumed the genu-
ineness of the Garfield Rosecrans letter,
but if it is true, as now alleged, that it is
dated subsequent to Rosecrans' forward
movement, and at time when the Head
quarters of his army were at Winchester,
instead of Nashville, as stated in the let.
ter, these facts would constitute almost
conclusive proof that it was forgery. The
circumstance, however, that it was given
to Dana by man who had received it as
private secretary of Judge Chase, points,
on the contrary, to its commences. unless
1t is to be charged that he himself forged
it for purposes at present unknown. The
outradictory character of the reports about
ne letter has continued throughout to
render clear Judgment on the matter un.
a. unable, and all that it is quite safe to
sly is, that however it came into existence
Is has failed to injure the reputation Of
Garfield.