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TelegraphStatiOnen.
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erstatte den skete Skade.
Saser Anledning af denne Anordning bive at behandle
som ofentige Politisager.
Hvorefter ALE vedkommende have sig at rette.
Gourermementet for de dansk ueshndiske Der,
ST. Croix den l4de JUL 1885.
Under min Hand Og Gouvernementets SegL
, 1885-07-22
Fl. ~GRIESSELICH & Co.,
Weavers' Hall, Wool Exchange, London,
SHIPPING & COMMISSION MERCHANT,
ESTABLISHED 1856,

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sn,s eecteh by buyers with Colonial experience and attend to tn the promp5 a dem he
letters of Credit or partremittme in Bank Drafts or Produce Open Policies OF In
surance for floating cmges to cover tea risks
References: Chief Office of the London and Westminster Bank, or Agra Bank
Lond IN. ad most OF the Colonial Banks.
Current Price Lists, Produce Reports and my necessary samples or information
on application.
, 1885-07-22
Christian Henrik AYendYup,
Gouuerneur for de dansk vestjndiSke Ger,
ObeYst,
Commander at Daanebgvg og Dannebrogsmand

NJ0R VITTERLIGT: i Henhold til Coloniallov
VI af 27de November 1868 : 3 har jeg f~orelobigt stad-
fBstet folgende af Colonialraadet for St. Croix we'd 3die
Behandling den Ste DIS. vedtagne Anordning angaaende
Straffen for at beskadige elektriske Telegraphindret-
ninger paa st. Croix:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-17

But the practical results of the fair will be
of greater interest, since they will give us
in short range OF vision a clear view of
the capacity of the negroes of the South
as inventors, manufacturers, agriculturists
and independent toilers and wage winners.
1t is to inform Us to some extent whether
the negro is forever to be the servitor of
his white neighbor, a waiter at his table,
his scullion and bootblack, his mental
and his drudge Judging from the pre-
MUM list, it will develop that he has
capacity as an inventor, designer, en-
grayer, cotton-grower, machinist, binder,
orchardist, stock-raiser, tobacconist, etc,
instead Of being confined to the roles of
waiter, nurse, scavenger, and servitor on
low levels.
One of the most pleasant things in con-
nection with the proposed fair is the ready
helping hand the men Of the new South
are giving TO the eolored man. They are
furnishing the money for the premium
lists, adding special purses for special ex-
hibits, advertising "the show" urging the
people to visit it, and generally doing their
utmost to make it not only financial sue
cess, but means for educating the public
mind regarding the capabilities Of the
freedmen in state of independently. All
honor to the men Of the new South"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-17
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Further evidence of fraud in the matter
OF Chinese certificates, on the part of Gus
tom-house officials, is coming to light.
AT the Bay District track, Thursday, in
the trot for named horses, for a purse OF
$500, Grover C. won the second, fourth and
fifth heats, distancing Blaine, Kittie L. and
Garfield. Time, 1851 2:553!-2. SSSSi-2:333311
-2::334t.
Attorney General z. c. Marshall has filed
his affidavit with the Clerk of the Supreme
Court in the mandamus proceedings to be
instituted to compel Auditor Strother to
make the 12l per cent addition to the as
sessment roll, as ordered by the State
Board of Equalization. The affidavit re-
cites the circumstances of the case, and
briefly sets forth the need of the proceed
ings.
Consul Bee has just completed the COM
pilation of statistics showing the number
of arrivals and departures of Chinese from
this port since the Restriction Act went
into force, on May 6, 1882. The figures tell
a story which will be of deep interest to
the whole State, and the working man will
hail the announcement that the Monaghan
population is decreasing at the rate of
nearly 10000 year The departures from
this port since the Act went into effect foot
up Al $50, against l ,656 arrivals during the
same time. The present rate of decrease,
by death and departure, with proper en-
forcemept of the Restriction Act, will soon
settle the Chinese question on this coast.
The Yosemite Commissioners, at a spe-
cial meeting Thursday, ordered the pay
ment of S. 500 voted by the Legislature to
Big Oak Flat Yosemite Toll Road Com
pany for the portion of their road within
the Yosemite grant. The Guardian of the
valley was also requested to take climatic
observations during the winter. The Board
adopted the plans submitted by z. l..
Chandler, of Los Angeles, for the new
hotel in the valley. The new hotel will be
Swiss in architecture, with three stories
and an attic. Provision is made for a
porch across the front and balconies to
match. 1t will have sixty-ive bedrooms,
and all the modern appliances. Proposals
will be advertised for, and bids received &C.
cording to the usual method.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-17

no time to be justified. If it becomes
dominant in Cincinnati, we can only hope
that its direction may be against the
guilty, and that the innocent may not suf-
fer But this is almost too much to expect.
for it nearly always results that the mob is
undiscriminating in wreaking its ven
geance, and that those least concerned suf-
fer as much, or more, than the guilty.
There is a broad field for speculation as TO
the causes for and the influence of such con-
ditionS upon the system of self-government.
We have such faith in the attachment Of
the American people to the forms of gov
eminent obtaining in this Republic, that
we cannot believe such outrages as those
charged in Cincinnati viii result in per-
manent injury TO republican institutions
That by reason Of these ills there
may be notifications worked in our voting
system tending to give greater sanctity
and security to the electors ballot, is not
unreasonable to expect, nor will the sin
cere lover of his country wish that such
reforms shall be delayed. There lies at
the bottom of all this infamy, concerning
which the country is now so agitated, the
rule of the baser elements within party
lines. We may expect such recurrence of
wrongdoing in elections as that cited. SO
long as the men who desire an honest
ballot and free, full and unimpeded vote
at all elections, are quiescent within their
respective party organizations regarding
the methods the party bosses employ to
attain personal triumphs in the name of
the party. Within party may be
found the root and core Of the whole evil,
and within party organization must begin
the work of reformation. There IS scarce
ly a voting precinct in the area of the
Union where cause does not exist for
reform. We have had examples in plenty
in California of the need of it, and the
day must come when it will be radically
auDlied
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-17
THE QUESTION AT THE EAST.

The Chicago Current says: We assure
the Sacramento REcoRD-UHIoN that the
Current fayors the improvement of the
rivers of California just as heartily as it
fayors the improvement of the rivers of
the Mississippi valley or the making of
the Hennepin Canal 1t is an article Of
this journals faith that the nation is large
enough for all its citizens Nobody need
stand back to give New York and Penn
sylvania the first chance" Very well.
Now what we want is more journals OF like
high character with the Current that will
insist upon the nation acting in the matter
of preserving that heritage of all the peo-
pie of the nation-the nlvigability of the
chief stream of the chief State of the Pa
cific coast. The nation has expended ten
millions of dollars in constructing works
IN the Ohio river to create deep water
above Chauvine dam, in seasons of water
scarcity in the Monongahela and AL
legheny, into which boats may be admitted
from the Ohio through lock. Thus the
Government expends $10000,OOO to main
tain navigation between Pittsburg and
Cincinnati, and to prevent spectators in
coal from "cinching" the people of Gin
cinnati when low water prevails in the two
chief tributaries of the Ohio. This ex-
penditure the people of the East applaud,
| and on the 9TH inst. its consummation was
duly celebrated. Here however, when it
is suggested that it may cost the Govern
ment four or FIVE millions of dollars to re-
claim the Sacramento from ruin, and save
it to the commerce of an agricultural
valley into which the whole of the
New England States could be cast, and
then with difficulty be found in the mag
nificent expanse of area, hands are held up
IN holy horror, and we are told Congress
will never do it." Such was the exclama-
ton Of one Of our Congressman such is
the iteration of many of our own people.
We are told by Mr.. Knox and the Colusa
Sun, and by the hydraulic mining CAPT
talists, that the river is already beyond re-
demption, and that it will be the hight of
folly to expect the Government to expend
millions upon it. Yet ten millions have
been invested in a single movable" dam
upon the Ohio river by the Federal Gov
eminent. All the fears entertained are
groundless. The Sacramento is not injured
beyond hope of redemption. 1t is worth
saving if it costs fifty millions. 1t would
be wise financial policy if it cost the Gov
eminent slOO,OOO,OOO to reclaim it. But
no such sums are needed. Probably six
millions expended in a term of years
would restore the stream to very nearly its
original capacity. Congress will grant the
aid; it is not unreasonable to ask it.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-17
A NOTABLE FAIR.

In the last week of this month there is
to be held at Jackson, Miss, remarkable
exposition. 1t is to be fair by colored
people, expository of the industries pur-
sued by that people in the South, and the
progress the race has made since the red
letter day when Abraham Lincoln set his
hand to the emancipation proclamation
If, twenty-five years ago. anyone had dared
to prophesy the possibility of such a fair
being held in the South country, he would
have been hooted at as dreamer, and
spit upon as an abolitionist. But now the
fact stares us in the face that the children
of the people who once deemed niger
fit only for burdens and mental services
and whom it was crime to educate, are
doing their utmost to aid this same afnig-
ger in the conduct of an exposition that is
intended to illustrate his genius, his in
ventive faculty, his capacity for self-sup-
port, and his ability to take place among
progressive human agencies. 1t seems a
dream that less than two hundred and
sixty years ago this negro was stolen from
the sands of Africa, Gagged in the holds of
ships, and transported to our shores, to be
sold like merchandise in the market to
masters who possessed over the creature
almost all supreme power, even of life and
death. Two and half centuries have
worked for the negro changes of greater
magnitude than have been written of
any other people. From abiect
slavery and the total darkness of
ignorance, the black man has been elevated
to the dignity of citizenship in the freest
and most progressive nation on earth. We
shall watch for the reports of the coming
fair with great deal of interest, and note
how its opening is received by the fogies
who are so silly as to still hold to the ex-
ploded doctrine that the war of the re-
bellion was waged on the Southern side
for the establishment of the principles of
secession, and not for the perpetuation OF
human slavery solely and aloue-as it was.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-17
NOT A CASE OF DISCRETION.

The story comes by telegraph that the
President is greatly chagrined because the
Mugwumps who aided in his election are
returning to the Republican party We
do not believe he has felt or manifested
any such spirit. The Independent Re
puhlicans did not become Democrats be-
cause they supported principle to which
President Cleveland confessed allegiance.
While they were mistaken, and previously
so, III assuming that Mr.. Blaine was less
sincere than Mr.. Cleveland in attachment
to the principles of civil service reform,
there is no reason whatever upon which to
hinge claim on the part of the President
that these men shall become his partisans
They went out TO principle-mistakenly,
so we believe-not to Cleveland or the
Democratic party. They know now, how
ever mistaken before, that that party
has no love for them beyond the voting
power they exercised. To the principles
for which they were radical it has no at
tachment. On the contrary, it is to-day
an open and avowed opponent of the doc
trines for which they oontended. If there
is to be any going out and coming in at
all, it is for President Cleveland, by adher-
ence to the measures to which he is
pledged, to come in out of the Democratic
rain and follow the Mugwumps into the
camp OF the true friends of civil service
reform.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-17
THE SITUATION IN CINCINNATI

Cincinnati has gained the unenviable
reputation Of being unable to hold an cleo
ton without fraud and rascality becoming
factors in it. The earlier dispatches al
legged that the frauds in the balloting were
chargeable to men of both parties. This
seemed reasonable enough, for while the
Republican party is that of the broader
Intelligence, and representative of the
order and lawabiding element of the COM
munity, it has been unable to keep under
control all the conscionless men who come
into the organization, and the bosses ring
strikers and swindlers in politics have
Availed of it for their nefarious purposes,
whenever they could. To these classes
the ends uniformly appear as justification
for any means they may see fit to adopt.
The latest advices, however, show that in
Cincinnati the Democracy has been true
10 its traditions and is the guilty party.
Nonstrous frauds have been perpetrated
and their disclosure has resulted in state
of excitement that may eliminate in
bloody breaches of the peace There are
always men enough in a great city who
gain by a mob condition, and enough of
1he class to foster disorder for the mere
sake of the excitement incident thereto. to
actively engage in disorder and to bring
about a state of revolt against the law.
The charge now is that Mclean, of the
Enquirer, is at the bottom of the outrage
Gus frauds of Tuesday. He is the pro-
prietor of the leading Democratic organ,
and has long been recognized as dictator
in the party. He has taken fright and is
terrifying his office against possible assault.
The immediate outrage that has turned
the tide of indignation against this political
boss was the casting in one precinct of the
city of 221 more, votes than there are
registered voters within the bounds of the
precinct. The returns show that the votes
east were BY large majority Democratic,
and there is therefore no escape from the
verdict that the violation of the ballot-box
and the register list is due to the manipu-
lations of Democrats. In another precinct
76 men assert that they cast ballots for Re-
publican candidates, while the returns show
that but Il Republican votes were de-
posted. Of course, this testimony cannot
prevail against the proof of the apparent
true ballots actually in the box, in Court
of law, so as to fix guilt; but it is sufficient
with the mass of the people, especially if
it shall appear that these rs voters are
reputable citizens In another ward the
Judges and Clerks Of the poll were driven
out of the voting-room by the police
which is the product of Democratic patron
age-while the count was progressing, and
during their absence the key of the ballot
box was stolen, 80 votes were distracted
from the mass of the ballots, and fraudulent
ballots put into the box. These, with other
similar charges, are quite sufficient to in
fame people that has already shown the
capacity to defy the law and turn loose the
spirit Of mob violence in its worst form
Beyond denouncing such outrages, there is
very little now to be said. Mob law is at
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The Government work Just completed
in the Ohio river, and to which we have
referred, must not be understood, to have
any application and schemes for the
reclamation of the Sacramento river.
It's value TO us is found only in
the fact that the Federal Government
has not hesitated to expend. ten millions of
dollars in saving a river of the nation to
the commerce of the region it traverses.
The Ohio work is known rs the Chauvine
Wicket Dam. The Monongahela and the
Allegheny rivers unite at Pittsburg and
form the Ohio, but the result Of the con-
huence is a capricious one, for these
streams rise and fall with great rapidity,
and thus exceeding high and very low
water stages follow, so that the Ohio river
boats cannot come up to the city except in
mean or very high water. The work CON
structed consists of so-called movable
dam thrown across the stream. When it
is closed, high water, in the nature of q
pool, is secured behind it, while at low
water it is thrown down or open and boats
pass over it. The sub-structure is of solid
masonry, and at its highest point is two
feet below lowwater mark. The upper
works of the dam consist Of series OF
gates, that are raised or lowered with
great rapidity by the operations of der
rick that runs upon track over the dam.
When the gates are all drawn up, six feet
or more Of water is secured above. but
necessarily the plane of the river on the
lower side is much below that on the up
per. To permit the passage of boats, a
lock is therefore necessary at one end OF
the dam. This lock is a novelty, inasmuch
as il is not made with swinging mitre-
gates, but is opened and closed by means
Of truss constructions that run in and out
from the shore side and may be projected
or withdrawn by one man working a
crank. This lock is 600 feet in length
and thus equal to any of the demands Of
river commerce.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-17


The San Francisco Examiner has been
imposed upon, and is the victim OF ras-
cal and wretch. An infamous piece
of poetry recently found its way into
its columns which was filthy in
decent only in its rendering as an
acrostic. The article in question came to
the paper over the purported signature of
a secretary to high Catholic Church Off
cial, the writer stating that it was the
authorship of a Prince of the Church who
Is now visiting upon this coast, having
been written by him some years ago. But
this letter turns out to be forgery. The
Examiner has made reference to il at all
pardonable, by column and half of ex-
PLANTATION, in response to an assault made
by the Monitor upon it, impugning the mo-
tives and questioning the honesty of the
editors of the Examiner. Up to that time
no journal in the State had referred to the
matter. But since it has been dragged to
the forefront by the meanness of the Non
itor and the reply of the Examiner, it is
proper to say that no man of any sense
whatever for moment believes, or for an
instant ever entertained the suspicion,
that an editor of the Eraminer purposely
published the filthy poem, with knowl-
edge of its true character. ANY such an
assumption would be too monstrous to be
conceived by reasoning being. But this
is to be said, the thorough literary editor
should not pass. manuscript capable of
acrostical infamy without scanning the
initial letters, the first words and the finals.
With long-experienced editors this is as
much habit as it is to examine poem
for evidences of its merit Still, under the
pressure of daily duty on a newspaper,
the most cautious may at times be
taken unawares. The Examiner had
far better have remained silent in this
case. The assault of the Monitor could not
injure it in the esteem of any people
whose regard is worth having, because it
Is preposterous to think that any editor
would be guilty of so suicidal and asinine
an act. There is only one thing worse
than the rascality of the wretch who i'm
posed upon the San Francisco daily, and
that is the stupidity and shortsightedness
of the Monitor in advertising the fact to
the world, and in assuming that the e.
aminer printed the thing with intent to
insult churchman.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-17

One of the chief manifestations of hood
lumism in small cities is the charging of the
air with obscenity and profanity. If a
citizen walks out with his wife or daughter
any considerable distance upon city streets
OF an evening he is liable to pass groups
of young fellows whose loud-mouthed con-
versation would shock the ears of the
Sphinx and cause statue to blush. Such
offences are rare in San Francisco because
there is stringent local ordinance against
the use of vulger and obscene language,
and because the police force is so large
that the corner gangs are cowed into
silence-at least on the principal high
ways. The fair fame of any city is a
matter of pride, and that it is at all
lowered is due to the immunity enjoyed by
the hoodlum, the opium fend and the
clover" class, the loafer and the rowdy
jewellers who lounge upon the streets
and in parks at all hours from dusk
to early morning, and whose "choice ~
language is unrestrained in freedom or in
loudness of tone This is the class that
stone houses, destroy shade trees, deface
fences, insult the weak, knock down the
defenseless, leer at the women and indie
Gently follow them on the street, make the
public parks places of designation, revel in
all-night dogseries and are spewed out
only to fight each other and pas5ers-by,
and who howl in the still hours and make
themselves otherwise obnoxious There is
too much of this kind of offending there
are too many of the dissolute and vicious
class in cities too much of hoodlumism
and revellirg; too much of infamy on