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Year: 1869

Ocean telegraph cable projects are
springing up ike mushrooms. Captain
Armstrong is now in Canada examining
the coast for a cable to be laid between
Canada and Europe. This is in addi-
ton to the North German cable project,
the ireland Nova Scotia cable project,
the West India cable project, and the
two cables-the Anglo-American and
French-already in operation. That all
of these should be profitable is impossi-
BILE for many years to come. 1t IS only
a question which will lose the leass.
Year: 1869

Without any special complaint, except a grad.
ual declination of bodily strength and nervous
erergy, will find in the TONIC A FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDEYIG0R AS RE
PRESSING AND EXT HILERATING As
A POOL IN The DESERT TO THE SAND
SCORCHED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER
Year: 1869

A SLIP OF THE PEN.-Tbe San joaquin
Republican thinks bat If The Reporter had
kept mum. no one would ever have known
that the Examiner and HERALD we're discuss.
ing the national debs queslion-,hat is to
say, no one reads the HERALD and especial )
Iy the Examiner. We had Supposed the
Eram'ner had more readers than any other
Democratic paper in the Stale, but the
Republican knocks all such foolish ideas out
Of us. Wbew
Year: 1869

VERY STRANGE The State Capital Re
porter, in speaking OF discussion between
the E'raminer and US on the national debt
question, said in effect that it bad 10 interest
in the discussion, and advised US TO turn our
batteries against the common enemy. This
sounds wonderful strange to us. The HER.
AID and Eroneioer had differed upon what
was the true construction Of the national
platform. The Reporter, Democratic pa
per, and whose chief editor was a delegate
TO the national convention and helped to
make the platform and yet lacked the cour.
age or disposition 10 decide between us, is
indeed too strange circumstance to pass
upnoiced The Democracy have no secrets to
keep from the public and ii the editor Of the
Reporter bad an opinion, the public, and es
peciay the party should have beard
from it. Democratic platforms are adopted
and agreed upon after thorough discus
sion, and when dis isagreemeut springs up,
the very men who were peseut and helped
to make the platform, should be the FIRST to
speak out.
Year: 1869

Az ExpLAxArIoS.,-T The Sacramento
Union speaking of some complaints OF the
Bulletin that it was not fairly treated on
the cars Of the Central Psc fc Railroad,
makes a revelation extremely damaging TO
the Company, ard one that calls for
further and fuller explanation. 1t is but
proper that the present Legislature should
know in detail what Infamous measures the
Company, through ex Governor Stanford
sought to swipcle the people Of the State
by. We think we know what the sch eme
was, but the Union should, now that i, has
awakened intense interest 10 the matter all
over the State, tell the whole story. The
Union has said enough to demand the rails
ing of Legislative Committee Of inyssti-
CATION, and the hold over Senators owe il
to themselves to see that such committee
is raised. party that would attempt to
bribea newspaper conductor, probably reach
ed some Senators pocket and tried their
hand on others. Here is an extract from
the Unions article:


about two years ago, Governor Stan
ford, IN bshalf Of the railroad company,
made an in famous proposition to The pro.
prie'ors of the Union, the purport Of which
was that we should advocate or withhold op.
position to scheme to lie presented 10 the
Legislature for The benefit Of The company
and OF parties in interest with it, Of which
1t was proposed to make US participants
We rejected the offer and opposed the prof
ect when it was brought before the L-gisla-
ture From that time to this the Influence
OF the company has been used to annoy
and nJnre us in every possible way. They
have descended to means utterly contempt.
BILE, the last. and perhaps least injurious
from h ancial point Of view, being their
prohibition OF the sale Of the Union on the
cars. 1t we ire right as to the motive Of
this treatment, the reader will agree with
us that The company is ameDab!e to the
charge of being malignant and unscrupu-
Ious public enemy. The measure we were
solicited TO support, or at least not to OPP
pose, WAS one clearly against public policy
We could have prof ed in pecuniary way
by advocating it or neglectiug to notice it
AT all; but not without dlshonoriDy the
character OF independent journalism and as
sentlng 10 manifest wrong to the 81 ate
and people. Because we declined to assent
to This d,shonor, the Union is driven from
competition with other journals on their
cars and wherever the agents and employees
of the company bavs control Of such mat
ters.
Year: 1869

PRESIDENTS MEssAoE.-1bs document
surprises no well informed man; where
there is little given little is required, and
Grant and bis message are up to holy writ
ia this sense Of the word 10 a dot.
Year: 1869

The Grass Valley Union is correct as TO
The probable advantages that would follow
a subdivision of the public lands in The min
ing districts in tracts Of ten acre lots. Now,
when we agree on this matter thus far, We
should not disagree abou, The mode or means
Of securing the object sought to be accom-
pIished. Without occupying much space
or going into an argument on the subject,
we will here say that Congress, the Secre
tary Of the Interior, nor the commissioner
Of the general land Office will ever sanction
plan for subdividing, plotting, selling and
palenting public lands that does not provide
for surveying by United States officers The
idea Of the Surveyor General being directed
to approve survey by this or that county
surveyor will not work. The establishment
of such policy will not and cannot be in
augurated. Even in the survey ing Of quartz
mines, ii can only be done by a regularly
appointed and commissioned United States
Deputy Surveyor. Any plan for the subdi-
viding Of the public land into ten acre lots
must be based on the work being done by
United States officers Now we are with
the Union this far, and if the Legislature
memoraizes Congress on the subject, let it
confne itself to asking for the subdivision
and the reasons for the application. and not
encumber the memorial with any absurd
suggestions about how and who is 10 do the
work.


We say this without any disposition for
unnecessary discussion but because we know
that the land system of the government
cam OF and will not he distuI bed in its mos,
important and material details.


New TYpE-1be Sacramento Daily Union
appeared on Monday last in new typo
graphical dress throughout The Union as
newspaper and in makeup bas no
superior on the coast, bot politically it IL
stepped 10 the very core in blue light mon
greism. Personally we wish its proprie,ors
success- politically, the country would be
gamer by its political principles always
being in the minority.


PRESIDENTS MEssAGE.-Tbis document
Year: 1869

PHILADELPHIA, May 10, 1869.


At halfpast two O'Clock precisely Philadelphia
time) the news was received OF the driving OF the
last spike OF the Pacific Railroad. Word was sent to
the Mayor and in few minutes the bells on Inde-
pendence Hall and various fire stations were runQ,
drawing crowd into the Streets thinking general
alarm OF fire was being rung. The people soon
ascertaned OF the ringing OF the bells and
flags were Immediately hosted everywhere. A
large number OF steam fire engines we're ranged in
front OF Independence Hall with screaming whistles
hose carriages, bells ringing &C. Joy was expressed
IN every face at the completion OF the great work OF
the century. The sudden nocking OF the people to
the state House reminded one OF the reception OF
the news of the surrender OF Lees army, when q
similar scene was enacted.
Year: 1869

plorable for some months past. Will give one ex-
men. entirely without means got on the cars at the
end of the track win the intention OF returning to
Omaha II possible. The conductor nnding they
ing place. They got on again and the conductor
permitted them to ride to point on the open
PRAIRIE halfway between two stations, when
calling the brakemen to his assistance he seized his
victims and thrust them from the train while going
at full apeed-sOme twenty or twenty-five miles per
hour What became Of the poor creatures never
learned. Whether they were killed BY being thrown
from the train or by the Indians have not heard.
NV Informant saw them thrust from the Train while
going at full speed as here stated.
Year: 1869

The final match which was to decide the award OF
TIC tAird and fourth prizes. was played yesterday
afternoon between snyder and Foster. IL was the
best game Of the tournament the loser making
hteaer average than had been made by any player
ncforc not excepting the winner OF the cue ana OF
the second prlze Foster won the game by 32s
points making an average OF 3sS. snyders ave-
rage was ~. Fosters best run was 4e2. snyder's
game received the third prize and the loser the
fourth
Year: 1869

II there was no jammed crowd upon Broadway
yesterday it was not because Of any indifference on
the part Of metropolitan population at the COM
pletion Of so gigantic work as the Pacific Rail-
road. Everybody felt happy over the event and
expressed their pleasure in that quiet, thoughtful
and dignihed manner peculiar to the citizens Of the
greatest city In the New World Nevertheless, yester
day fags were flying from all the public and many
private buildings in New York. BY order Of Mayor
Hall 100 guns were fired on the City Hall Park The
booming Of the cannon and clouds Of smoke that
rose upwards with each discharge attracted a
goodly number of persons TO the spot; but this
was the only crowd-if IL could be called
such-seen IN the city yesterday. On Wall street
some excitement was manifested. The bulls, aided
by the news Of the road being completed managed
TO toss the stocks of several roads t0leraby high.
This morning New York woke up calm and serene.
The Pacific Railroad is O matter Of course. Every
preparation Is complete to receive and ship the pro-
ducts Of nations from and to the Orient
Year: 1869

ST LOUIS, MO- May TO. 1861.
The alarm bells of this city struck at six min
utes to two this afternoon in response to the blows
OF the hammer which drove the last spike In the
Union Pacific Railroad. Much interest was mani
tested, and everybody was rejoced
Year: 1869

A very sensible woman makes,
in the Revolution newspaper, the
shrewdest suggestion We have en-
countercd in regard to feminine
costumes. In the first place, she
pertincntly asks if the Sorosis Ia.
dies in condcnning " fashions that
expose the person more than good
taste or good sense would warrant" I"
allude to the tight waists and
tight basques which give such i'm
modest prominence to the bust ? or
to the hoops which, upon the slight
est provocation, make such un-
secmly displays?" That is a good
hint at piece of indelicaoy very
common among ladies, for nothing
could we'll be more suggestive than
the fashion, in this hat-chested
country, of stuffing the bust of a
dress out like the breast Of pig
con, or that of a military coat. .
We have seen lady furtively con-
ceal . variety of household "small
ware - in her bosom, merely to
make believe that nature had form
ed her with a special plumptitudc
in that region. But tho sensible
woman we allude to says :


Exposure of that which was
intended to be hidden attracts at
tention and excitcs coarse thought; !;
but that woman should allow the
world to discover that she is a crea-
ture with arms and legs, is not ex
posure.


This is true. and in countries
where woman expose their limbs
habitually, the exposure occasions
less observation than it does here.
where it is OILY dono as If accident
al and when it becomes fashiona-
BILE.


:" A dress that more nearly re-
sembled that of q man would rem
der woman less conspicuous. and
therefore more at ease in public
places. She would not have to
brazen her front as she does in her
present attire, which seems to
be particularly designed to attract
attention to her sex"


There is much food for reflection
in this paragraph. although it does
Year: 1869

An innocent young man, reading,
an advertisement that ladies' hoes
were coming down still lower,
wished to know why the wearers did
not endeavor to prevent such cal
amity by wearing elastics.
Year: 1869

GENERAL BUTLER on Monday offered
a resolution instructing the committee
on Ways and Means to prepare and re-
port bill forthwith to place the taxa
ton of incomes from United States
bonds, by the holders thereof, on the
same ground as now provided for the
payment of tax on the incomes from
railroads and other corporation bonds
that is, that a tax of FIVE per cent. in
come tax shall be deducted from the
interest on all Government bonds paid
by the United States to holders thereof.
Taking into consideration the fact that
BUTLER represents the State of Massa-
chusetts, such conduct as this may well
be considered eccentric, to say the least
of it. Is it not questioning" the sane
tity of the public debt!
Year: 1869

A gentleman who resided in Indiana
at the time the infamous divorce law OF
that State was passed informs the New
York JournGlof Commerce that the Leg
islature of that year was under control
of women-in other words it was q
Legislature elected upon a strong TEN.
perance issue, in the advocacy of which
the women of that State had taken
great interest, and when a relaxation OF
the divorce law was sought majority
of the members, yielding to the pressure
of public sentiment among their fair
friends, enacted the statute that has
since done so much mischief The
Journal, dwelling upon these facts, saws
that the intimate connection between
the woman's rights and female suffra re
movement and the facility of divorce
may be seen any day in the reports OF
woman conventions held in that city
and elsewhere. Most of these meetings
are now devoted TO denunciations of the
existing marriage code in New York
and other old and conservative States
A greater impulse and a wider latitude
are remarked in the discussions since
the Observation-Disclosures case oc
Cured to supply the needed occasion
for the entire unleosing of female
tongues and the unbottliDg of female
indignation against the laws that now
fetter the elective affinity. The "free
love" discussions at the so-called
woman's suffrage meeting are then
| cited in evidence.
Year: 1869

A gentleman of Buffalo has engaged
10 perform the following difficult feat
A cork will be loosely placed on the
neck Of an ordinary bottle, and on the
top of the cork bullet will be rested
The gentleman will then undertake, a.
distance of twelve PAGES, to fire pis
tol so that four times in ten trials ht
shall shoot away the eork and drop III,
bullet into the bottle.
Year: 1869

without any special complaint, except a grad.
ual declination Of bodily strength and nervous
erergy will find in the TONIC A FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDEVIGOR AS RE
FRESHING AND EXT HILERATING As
A POOL IN ! HE DESERT TO THE SAND
SCORCHED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER
Year: 1869

POPULAR RIGHTS AND POPULAR SovE-
REreNTY.-Our Spanish friends are rather
illogical in the courses they are pursuing in
different localities. In Spain the whole nation
Is reused on the question Of revolution, and
the recent election Of the Cortes for the
purpose Of forming new government is q
complete acceptance Of the doctrine Of popular
sovereignty. In Cuba the denial Of the same
right to the Cubans is contradiction and
denial Of the right Of popular sovereignty.
Logically viewed, the fact appears that when
the Spaniards overthrew the throne the
powers Of government returned TO the peo-
pie, and Cubans and Spaniards each hold
the right to reconstruct their political scheme
as to each shall seem best.
Year: 1869

CARRY Our THE RULE. The Toledo Blade
very sharp paper latterly-says there
is lawful reason why Mr.. Clapp, the propri-
etor Of Buffalo paper, should not be ap-
pointed public printer. A law is revived
like that of 1889, which was exhumed to meet
the exigency Of Mr.. Stewards nomination for
Secretary Of the Treasury by General Grant,
to the effect that such an officer shall not have
an interest Of any kind in public business con-
nected with his department. Mr. Stewards
case may prove precedent for decision in
regard to that Of Clam.
Year: 1869

SPAIN-A KING AID INTERM.-A COM
mittee properly enough appointed has given
in its report to the Spanish Cortes on
new constitution. Some of the recon-
mendations are good enough, but all the good
recommendations are old. One recommends
ton at least is old-that king, or queen, or
emperor or empress should have . trial Of
eighteen years. Eighteen years is pretty
good term for the incumbent, but it might
prove very inconvenient for the people. Louis
Napoleon did not require so long period
to make himself Emperor Of the French. A
shorter period might prove a weaker man than
Louis Napoleon a bore or something worse.
1t does not appear from any present mani
festations that the Latin races are improving
in the art of selfgovernment. A king for
eighteen years is a king only ad interim, but
the interim is unconscionably long.
Year: 1869

To THE PACIFIC VIA vroKsBURa The Vicks-
burg Herald, commenting upon the statement
that the Pacific Railroad was showed up and
remained so for number of days because the
employees were too lazy to shovel their way
out, remarks :--"Why will not Congress-,
which has been SO lavish in It's expenditures
Of national capital for the building Of this
road, do something towards constructing q
Southern line from vicksburg to the Pacific,
where these annoying obstacles would be
obviated2" General Grant once laid siege to
vicksburg with successful issue; now lei
vicksburg lay siege to him for the attainment
of the above object.
Year: 1869

How THEY HANDLE THE MoNEY.-As the
Board Of Education and Its doings are now up
for popular review it would be apropos to
have the full history Of that celebrated forged
check for seventeen thousand dollars, and we
are glad 10 see by the reports that the whole
story Is promised in an investigation soon to
take place. As II Is claimed on one hand that
the falsity Of the check is ridiculously palpa-
BILE, and on the other that the paper is genuine,
the details will doubtless be piquant.
Year: 1869

THE POSSIBILITIES OF CoMBTNATIoN.-H all
the railroads, banks, telegraph companies and
other large monopolies of the country acted
together for some common purpose they would
thus combine capital at least equal to the
whole national debt, and in addition to the
control Of such an immense money force could
control directly from half a million to million
votes. What could resist such "balance of
power?" What arrangement or division Of
parties could there ever be in the United States
where such combination could not always
and absolutely determine victory in favor of the
party II decided to act with Could not such
power, in forming the alliance that parties
would be so eager to make, dictate the party
policy? Is not our republic, then, at the point
where IL inevitably falls into tie hands of o
financial oligarchy?
Year: 1869

encouragement Of American Maritime In.


tercsts.


The prompt action in the House Of Repre-
sentatives on the resolution of Mr. Lynch to
create select committee of nine to inquire
into and report upon American maritime in
terests shows that this important subject is
likely to receive at last some consideration.
The committee is to inquire into the causes of
the great reduction of American tonnage
engaged in the foreign carrying trade and the
great depression in the navigation interests Of
the country; also to report what measures are
necessary to increase our ocean tonnage,
revive maritime interests and to regain for our
country the relative position which it once held
among nations as o maritime Power. There
will be little difficulty in ascertaining the cause
OF the decline Of our tonnage; the war and
the Alabama and her fellow corsairs explain
that. But the question is how are we to get
back to the position we held before the war.
No country is more favorably situated than ours
for erecting and maintaining vast mercantile
marine. Our immense seaboard, numerous
harbors, the seafaring character of large





portion Of the American people, our skill in
shipbuilding and our vast forests Of fine timber
and exhaustless mines Of iron, all contributed
to make this country, few years ago, first In
maritime importance, and will do so again
under proper laws and encouragement.
Everything possible should be done to en-
courage shipbuilding; but until we are in q
situation to compete with foreign builders the
government should permit our citizens to reg
lister vessels built by and purchased of foreign
ers. If Americans can build or purchase
vessels abroad cheaper than at home let them
do so, and let their property become American
and under the American flag and protection.
If we cannot compete at present with foreign
shipbuildefs let US do, then, the next best
thing-get our ships elsewhere; and, at all
events and under any circumstances, let us
restore our lost maritime position among the
nations. We hope the committee will take this
broad and liberal view of the subject and
report accordingly.
Year: 1869

for one dollar month.


The postage being only thirty-fve cents .
quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement
can receive the HERALD at the same price it is
furnished in the city.
Year: 1869

THE ROOSEVELT HosPrTAL.--Mr. James II.
Roosevelt left very large property In the
hands Of trustees for the purpose Of founding
hospital in this city. Some Of the provisions
Of the will making It possil Q that II was not
valid, and that the executor applied any por-
tion Of the funds to building a hospital he
might be liable in his own fortune to the claim
ants who should come In In case the will was
not sustained, the points in question were
brought up lcfitiously for judicial revision,
and the will is pronounced good one. Tho
court decides that the bequest did not lapse
because Of being left to an institution not in
existence at the time Of the testator's death,
but that property can be left In trust for On
institution TO be founded as well as in trust for
a child to he born.
Year: 1869

Sometimes at the theatres we are called
upon to observe as special wonder" that
"a woman keeps secret" Perhaps that is
a wonder, unless, of course, the secret chance
to be some peculiar bit of the dear creatures
personal history; then it is not SO rare thing
for her to keep it, perhaps. But that old won
der having served long time, the comedians
Of city journalism have paraded a new one
that seems to us less startling. They call
upon us to be astonished that the women of
their acquaintance can dine, can pay for their
own dinners and can make the occasion agreea-
BILE with entertaining chatter. We never
doubted the appetite Of even literary ladies',
and certainly no one can question the ability
and readiness Of the sex to pay when he re-


fleets that fully two-thirds Of the money spent
in this extravagant town is put in motion from
hand to hand solely to decorate the persons
and crafty the vanities of women. Neither
have we ever had any misgivings as to that
cheapest defence of her rights, woman's
tongue defence, indeed, so cheap that she
is never economical with it. Man has recog-
nized the wealth OF woman in all the moods
and lenses from the time that Socrates was SO
patient with his spouse. What then, was the
wonderp Only the Bohemians themselves, AZ
we can see it. There they sat, thirty or forty
dreary creatures, and ''munched, and
munched, and munched," like the rump fed
runnion Of the play, and never an idea shot
forth from any one of the number. Safer in
their dulness than st. Anthony in his virtue,
they sat and fed, and woman was charming
and brilliant in vain. How could so many
men so prose and drool in the very face Of all
that temptation Of feminine wit and beauty
and that provoking play Of piquant fancy2
Here Is the true wonder.
Year: 1869

SPECIE PAYMENT REsToRED.-The driver
Of Third avenue car swore the other day that
policeman paid his fare of six cents in small
silver, and that he, the said driver, heard the
said silver jngle