Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-17
HOME AND ABROAD.
STAGE PASSENGERS BURIED BY
AN AVALANCHE.
Ten Workmen Killed in Switzer-
land-Blaine on Massachu-
setts Mugwumps.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-uNIoN.l
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooHD-uMos.l
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Bloated ponaholders, Take Notice.


Bloated Bondholders, Take Notice.
WASHINGTON November 16th-The First |
Comptroller of the Treasury rendered
decision to-day which will be of interest to |
| holders of Government bonds. There has |
| Just been presented for redemption a $50 |
| five per cent bond issued under the Act of
March 80, 1864, which provides that bonds |
of that issue shall be payable forty years
after date, with an option to the Govern |
ment of redemption at any time after the
| expiration of two years. The bond in |
| question was embraced in the call made in |
! 1879, and has Just been presented, with all |
| the coupons detached. The Comptroller
decides that as the nominal value of the
| unnatured detached coupons is greater |
than the face value of the bond itself, the
| bond cannot be redeemed until such
coupons shall have been presented.
| Blaine's Rebuke to the Massachusetts
Mugwumps.
AUGUSTA (Me) November 16th-The
following letter will be published here to-
morrow
AUGUSTA Mel November 16 1856.
To The Editor Of The Kellnebec Journal: l thank
you for calling my attention to a circular issued
by the so-called Independent Committee during |
the recent canvass in Massachusetts, touching |
my position on the question OF civil service re-
| form. Absence from home for several weeks |
has prevented my seeing it sooner. The circular |
embodies singular peryersion of what said |
and still more singular perversian of what l |
quoted in my speech on the 18th October at |
Huntingdon Pa How the error of misrepre |
sentati6n originated it is not for me to say. My
speeches in Pennsylvania were accurately re- |
ported tor the Philadelphia Press by skillful |
stenographers, and personally saw report in |
no other paper. 1 send you herewith thespeech |
of october 10Th, as it appeared in the Press and
respectfully ask you to republish it in your col
umns side by side with the circular issued by |
the Massachusetts Independent Committee. L |
thank you further for submitting TO me the pub |
lie letter of October Goth, from Mr.. Martin Brim
mer, of Boston, i'll which am accused of re- |
pudlatng the Iefotm of the civil service with !
sneer" Perhaps Mr.. Brimmer inconsderately |
based his remarks upon the circular |
of the Independent Committee, and |
has thus cen led into publishing q
statement which does me great injustice: If |
my supposition be correct, Mr.. Brimmer will, as
a gentleman, withdraw his language. 1t is |
scarcely necessary to say that | have never re-
pudiated reform in the civil service, nor abated
my interest therein nor have | ever regarded |
the sneer as forcible mode of argument. Were |
tempted to resort to it, should direct it-not |
against reform of the civil service-but against
the hypocrisy of those who wish the conditions |
of the service to be enforced against their politi
cal oponentS, but not against their political |
friends: In my speeches meant to convey my |
belief that the very worst leaders and guides |!
for the Continental republic are those who per- |
sist in seeing the perfection of human govern
ment in an insu'ar monarchy whose conditions |
are respects radically 0liferent those
of our own land The Massachusetts Independ- |
ents should learn that American inspiration |
ends where imitation of England begins. Very
| respectfully, JAMES G. BLAINE.
Eulogy on Hearst.
WASHINGTON, November 16th.-Senator
German was shown printed statement
alleging that his recent trip to California |
was for the purpose of taking command of
| the Democratic party in that State and Sc
curing the Legislature in the interest of
ex-senator Hearst. Senator German said : |
There is not the slightest foundation for
this statement. l had nothing whatever
to do with the result in California. 1t was
simply the excellent management of the
Democratic Committee. 1t is unjust to
them TO attribute it to any other cause. |
The organization was so complete that
every wing and faction of the party was
| united, and all worked harmoniously.
| Senator Hearst took a very active part in
the canvass, and his services are so well
recognized out there that he WILL in all
probability, be sent back to the Senate"
Liberty's Unlighted Torch.
WASHINGTON, November 16lh.-The ques- !
ton of lighting the Bartholdi Statue of
Liberty was officially brought to the atten-
ton of the President to-day for the first |
time by the Secretary of the Treasury. The |
President and Secretary examined the laws |
bearing on the case, and as a result the |
President directed that the matter be placed i
in the hands of the Lighthouse Board, |
with view of determining the utility of |
the statue as a beacon. Mr.. Goff President |
of the American system OF electric lighting. |
subsequently waited on the Secretary of |
the Light house Bo.,rd and made propo- |
sition to light the statue free of expense to !
the Government. He was told 10 put his |
offer in writing and il would be considered |
A member of the Board, in speaking on |
the subject this afternoon, said. The |
main question to be determined was, |
whether the electric light was an aid or a |
detriment to navigation. There are many |
persons who hold the latter view, and it is
fact that the electric light at He'll Gate is /,
to be discontinued after the 1st proximo,
because it is regarded as dangerous TO navi- |
CATION"
Points for the National Guard.
WAsHIYGToE, November 16th-In his
annual report of the operations of his Of
flee during the past year, Adjutant- General |
Drum deyotes some space to recommended
tions touching the improvement of the
| militia. Referring to the reports of the in
specting officers, he says: While their |
just but kind criticism points out many
defects, there are none that cannot be |
remedied by men exhibiting that military |
zeal and pride that animate the State mi |
lila. The reports give unmistakable evi- |
dence of the slowly maturing temper |
and character destined to still more |
closely unite the regular army and !
the miltia-twin parts of the de- |
fensive power of the Government" The |
Acknowledgement then made the following |
recommendations That State encamp- |
ments, to be of absolute benefit should at |
least he of ten days duration; and while |
established at convenient points, looking to |
economy in the conc ntration of troops. |
should be at sufficient distances from the |
homes of members of the commands in |
order TO overcome business and social in |
huences, which seriously affect the efforts |
of imparting instructions and holding the |
men in hand for drills, target practice, |
guard duty, etc. Camps should be dyested |
of every appearance of a holiday character. |
The programme of military exercises |
should exclude the elementary company
drills, and the time of the encampment |
should be devoted to instruction and prac-
tice in battalion drills and guard duty The |
Adjntant-General goes on at length to give !
his IDEAS concerning militia camp duty.
The Great BlackmaiI Suit.
BosToN, November 16th.-The closing |
arguments in the celebrated case of Levi |
Wilson against the Worcester millionaire.
Philip L. Moen were made to day. Speak |
ing for the defense, attorney Morse said
there was not scrap of written testimony
to uphold the plaintiffs evidence. which is
full of contradictions and equivocations.
He had received nearly $500, coo from Moen,
but does not say why or what was the con-
siderltion. Counsel then took up Moen's
testimony. Wilson said he had gone to
Moen and told him that if he did not pay
500 he would tell in the Police Court Of a
filthy act performed by another person.
Moen would have told the details of that
story had he been asked, perhaps To not
going into this matter Wilson had in his
mind the blackmail laws. When a man
once pays money TO a biackmailer the rule
is that he will continue their payments
When Moen paid the first 500. in 1875, he
thought he was done with Wilson forever.
Counsel then explained Wilson's extortion
methods, and said that Moen was under the
strange power of the black mailer, and when
he paid SO much he paid more to keep
from the public the fact that he had paid
anything Wilson's contradictory testi-
mony was then reviewed to show that his
statements were worthless, especially in the
matter of his handwriting and tile letter he
alleged he had received from Moen.
Rather Hngxashy.