Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-31

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life belonged not to himself nor to Ser
geaut Mason, but to the violated law Of
the land, and it was an outrage upon that
law to attempt to wreak individual venge-
ance upon him when jury alone had the
power to decide upon the question Of his
life or death.
SECRETARY FoLGER toddled off to New
York state yesterday for the presumable
purpose of mending his fences. The
gubernatorial bee is said to buzz in his
bonnet in the most alarming fashion.
GEN. ROsECRANs pronounces the dis
patch purporting to have been sent by
him from Chattanooga to Secretary Stan
ton, and stating that his army had been
whipped and routed" an absolutely and
unqualified forgery, whether on record in
the war department or out of it.
The ST. LOUIS Post Dispatch tells quite
a long story in these few short para
graphs
Two years ago Jay Gould cared nothing
for Missouri.
Now he controls $1Oo, ,oOO, 900 of corpor-
alton capital and employs 40, 600 employees
in this state.
The real head of seven railroads, the
telegraph monopoly, iron interest, river
transportation, elevators, &c.
He is able to elect Missouri legislators,
make our laws and control the state.
The Mississippi farmer who supplies
the World with an account of his expert
ments in silk culture which we reprint
may have a climate better adapted than
this to that branch of farm industry, but
his story is we'll worth reading and con.
sidering. Despite the ridiculous memory
of the morus naulticaulis movement of a
generation ago, many farm in this vicin-
ity may yet be crowned by successful
efforts at silk culture, realizing the early
colonial idea when the Virginia Assembly
offered prize of fifty pounds of tobacco
for each pound of wound silk produced,
when every land owner was required to
plant and fence twelve mulberry trees fol
each $50 acres, and when Gov. Law, Of
Connecticut, arrayed in the fine dress of a
hundred and thirty years ago, had silk
coat and stockings of domestic manufac
ture.
A CONTEMPORARY calls attention to the
fact that if anybody will suffer from
China's resentment, in commercial way,
of the violation by Congress of the spirit
of the recent treaty between the two gov.
ernments, it will be California. which has
so strenuously demanded anti. Chinese leg
islation. Half of the entire Chinese trade
of the United States passes through
Pacific ports. During the past year oul
total imports from China and Hong Kong
amounted to twenty -four million dollars,
of which more than ten millions were en-.
tered at San Francisco. Our exports
reached eight million dollars, ofwhich six
millions, or three-fourths, went from Sar
Francis co. The Chinese trade constitutes
one fourth of the entire foreign commerce
of California, and. it is yet in its infancy,
Both as a producer and a consumer China
is a boundless field for American enter
prise. In the development of this vast
commerce the Pacific states must DO the
greatest gamers. As commercial port
San Francisco is to Asia what New York
is to Europe. Its commercial prosperity
and growth as we'll as the commercial
development of the Pacific slope must
ever depend largely on it's West ern com.
merce.
PERSONAL.
Secretary FoLGER has left Washington
for few days. Assistant Secretary
French will act during his absence.
The health Of Governor HAMILTON, of