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Year: 1874

A card from DO1man Is. Eaton,
explains that it is erroneous
to suppose that the civil service
commissioners have abandoned their
labors on account of the recent action of
Congress in reference to appropriations
for their expenses. The commission is
still hard at work. Eaton speaks in the
most confident spirit of the progress the
reform is making, and of the firm support
it receives from the President and his
cabinet, and of the hold it is obtaining
,nnr Tho CON rictinns of tho nnnnln
Year: 1874

The question of imitation of the cur
''rency" or increase Of paper money" was
fairly and squarely put before the Senate by
Mr. Conkling on Thursday, when he offered
his redistributing substitute for the cur
rency bill reported by the Committee on
Finance The burden of complaint from
the South and West had been that they
were without their share of currency and
other banking facilities. The plain infer
ence was that If this division could be
equalized and these sections supplied with
their quota of the present volume of cur
rsncy, they would be satisfied, at least for a
short period. No doubt was entertained
that the forty-six millions which Mr.. Conk-
ling proposed should at once be surrendered
by the East for the benefit of the South and
West was as much or more than capital in
those sections would be found to absorb
during the ensuing year.


The words of the Senator from New
York, in explanation of the offer of his
substitute, are so few and well chosen, so
admirably adapted to the occasion, that we
cannot forbear the temptation to reproduce
them here. They were 81 have few
,.words to say upon this amendment. 1t is
s'ofered in satisfaction of a complaint that
inequality exists between States in respect
s'of bank circulation. Lack of equality is a
''cc cclaint always to be needed. forbear
Year: 1874

The uuwil!ingness to provide for the re-
dcmption of Treasury notes in coin which
is manifested by our National Legislature
is sad comment upon the notions of COM
mercisl honor that rule in the minds of its
individual members. One might naturally
be curious to inquire whether the anti
members would feel justified in
making practical application of the same
principles in their own private transactions.
Is it not fair to presume that what they
deem honorable. just and equitable in na-
ton would also seem fair, high-toned and
justifable in individusls3 What do we say
of men and corporations who, being abun-
dainty able to pay their demand notes, con-
stantly refuse to do so2 They are pro-
nounced trifers and swindlers and conf
dence men, and their paper first depreciates
in value and is shortly utterly
refused-not because the author is
not good, but for the reason that
it is not available. We cannot realize for
it anything like its face value. And then
we force them into bankruptcy and compel
their property to pay their notes. If the
Government were amenable to such treat.
ment would it not be found able to redeem its
Treasury notes in coin? Because the major
ity of the men composing the Government
Just at present hold these loose notions of ma
tional honor and have the power to vote
that Government irredeemablc paper is
equivalent to gold, and therefore should not
be redeemed in gold, is no good evidence
that the whole community is thus demoral-
ized-that as individuals we are either in
sensible or unmindful of the requirements
of mercantile and commercial honor. Low,


indeed, would be the credit Of our mer-


chants abroad if such were the case. 1t is


with the blush of shame that we are obliged


to acknowledge that the delinquencies oi


many of our railway and other corporations


as well as those of some of the sovereign


States of this Union 60 far to prove that we


have one kind of honor for the State or cor


porate authority and another for the indi


vidual.
Year: 1874

THE Philadelphia Press, speaking for Penn
sylvania AMI Philadelphia, announces that the
Centennial will go ahead, and bids defiance to
q niggardly Congress, as follows: "From this
time forward the Centennial will proceed with
out interruption from any source or authority.
Its success no longer depends upon the pccu-
mary assistance of Congress. Pennsylvania
and Philadelphia, whose hearts have from the
first been enlisted in this great work, were
never suppliants, and are no longer appellants.
Their strength is sufficient and their courage
equal to the great work which they have VOL
unfairly assumed. The nation has given the
enterprise its indelible sanction and that is all
that is needed. Its legislators, in Difference to
the icy sentiment of the times and their own
fears, may rehlse to appropriate one cent from
the public Treasury, but the fact that the ex-
hihition with which the Centennial anniversary
Of our liberty will be commemorated will be
international in charaetar cannot be effaced."
1t is certainly no honor to the country that q
single State should be allowed to face this
work single-hsnded and alone. The paltry
considerations which induced timid Congress
to vote down the appropriation certainly have
no weight with the people.
Year: 1874

THE leading Democratic organ in New
York says: 1T was the general opinion of
''the gentlemen who met the other night
'at the Manhattan club that the Republi-
''can party is dead" We have no doubt
in the world Of it; but then it is more than
probable that the gentlemen in, question
were not in condition to form a sound
opinion upon ANYTHING.
Year: 1874

THE Democrats of New jersey intend to
nominate George B. Mcclellan for the
Goyernorship of that State. The last
platform upon which the hero of the PENN
sula ran declared that the war was a
failure. Wonder what the next will be? ?
The same old crowd is beginning to come
out again.
Year: 1874

Fos the honor and credi. Of the country e is
70 be hoped that the widow and family of the
late Captain Hall, of the Polsris expedition,
WIN be amply provided for BY Congress. The
deceased gentleman did a great work for
science, and great country should show its
appreciation of It In some substantial way,
Year: 1874


which, In my opinion-althoueh do not speak
of that as an expert, nor as intputing any neg
ligence to the board-bus IN my opinion the
expense of the whole thing according to the
rate charged 10 me and 70 the other people
along there, is certainly, speaking within
bounds, double what it is justly worth. Weil,
was indignant some more, Of course. Then
I set about inquiring what had become Of my
claim for damages, and Of course gave pretty
speedy notice that did not propose to pay any
assessments whatever, being satisfied, as /
have stated before, that they were wholly ille-
gal in and of themselves, in q place where it
was an improvement. But waiving that ques-
ton, inssmuch as the law only gave them the
power to assess where property was specially
benefited, and inasmuch as my property was
specially injured, I did not see the propriety Of
my paying for It. / found 1t was one of those
mysterious things that "no fellow can find
out" how much had been or could be allowed
to me on my demand for damages. The own-
ers Of the property who might be supposed to
have some interest In the thing did not know
anything about the matter. That was
one Of the things that was
reserved-reseryed for the higher officers OF
was proposed-t don't know whether first By
me or some one else; but viii take the ne
sponsibility Of saying that 1t was who first
proposed settlement In order, If possible, to
get nee from any connection with the Board
Of Public Works. do not speak with any
feeling toward any member Of the board in re-
gard to this, but of the board as body.
was only desirous of getting entirely free from
the Board of Public Works; that If we could
release on both sides all claims, and get upon
an entirely Independents and disconnected foot
ing, would do #, although in doing SO
should lose what, feel as sure now as did
then, / should have obtained II l had chosen to
insist upon my rights-not only not TO pay any
assessments, but recover 1880 or s2,000
damages. But when got my judgment, how
/ was TO collect the amount Of that Judgment
was slight puzzle to me. Therefore the set
tlement was made IN the way i was, l gave
to Mr.. Msgrudcr, who acted for the board,
quittance-I do not know but two papers;
gave him this paper.


No. fsA


OFFICE AUDITOR BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS., I


WAsHINaToS, ID. e., pecsmhsr ID, Ie7S, )
] hereby certify tina. eays lpditet and a.
Year: 1874

From the N. Y. Jour. of Commerce.


We have a very decided feeling that
a political revolution in this State at
present IS OF more Importance than all
the other issues in the canvass. There
will be no revival of trade, and no per-
manent recovery from the present e1-
treme depression in business circles, un-
til there is an entire change in the ad-
ministration of public affairs. When
we stated this, plainly, at the close of the
summer holidays, and suggested our own
remedy for the existing financial troubles,
some of our contemporaries in the parti-
san harness ridiculed our fears, and pre-.
dicted that our representations would be
overthrown by the prosperity soon to be
developed on every side. The season fol-
such activity has gone by, and their pre-.
dictions have not been realized. We are
soon to enter upon O winter VIII: :ch prom.
ises more hardship and enforced idfeness
among the working classes than has been
experienced at any time since the close OF
the war.


If the people are not content to sit
down quietly under such a prospect. it is
high time for them to give some express
sion of their impatience, and we know OF
none so signal, and likely to be of such
essential service to themselves and the
country at large, as q rebuke to the DOM
inant party by the proposed revolution in
this State.


Such a change would be worth more
THIN the most convincing logic of the
soundest political economist in forcing
upon Congress at its coming session the
adoption of some remedial measures to
re-establish financial affairs upon q soun-
der basis. We do not think that any
thing which the majority in Congress
can do will roll buck the tide of reyolp.
ton. We think that the great mass OF
nou- partisan people are heartily sick Of
Grantism, by whatever political name Il
may be called, and of the reign of The
Corrupt horde of office-holders now prev.
ing upon the vitals of the nation,
Year: 1874

The Rep'dlicaa attempts weakly to apologize
for, but docs not undertake to defend, the action
Of the Chairman OF the State Committee in
making his premature AM untimely call for the
Year: 1874

The question of Representative Appor
tionment is one of great interest before th
present Legislature, and none will deny tba
justice TO all demands that they should ac
in the matter. Though we never have OBJ
jected to reapportonment, we re
garded Mr.. Evans bill on this subjec
as one gotten up regardless of consequences
and therefore opposed it, and besought ou
Representatives to do all they could to de.
feat it. Mr.. Norton, as we mentioned last
week, is member of the Committee OF
sixteen on apportionment. and also men,
Der of the subcommittee of five on appor-
tionment, and he assured us that while be
thought the Legislature ought to take ac-
ton in the matter, he should do all in his
power to see that when it did act, its ac-
ton should be acceptable and just. The
acts of this Committee have been presented
to the House in the form of substitute
bill, which bill, to say the least, is in every
respect the best on the subject that has yet
been presented Mr. Norton's abors and
Influence in getting up this bill as it is, has
been immense, and how far he has succeeded
in doing his work WELL the following ex-
tracts will show. Section % of Senator
Evans bill reads:


Sec. %. "Tbe counties of Placer, El
Dorado, and Alpine shall be the Twenty
second Senatorial District Placer shall
elect one Senator and one member of the
Assembly; Ell Dorado and Alpine shall
jointly elect one Senator and one member
of the Assembly; and the three counties
jointly shall elect one member of the As
sembly."


Section ~ of the bill introduced by the
Committee on Apportionment reads:


Sec. o. The county of Placer shall be
the Twenty-second Senatorial District, and
shall elect one Senator and two members
of the Assembly.


Should this latter bill pass, and if any
does it will doubtless be the one the people
of Placer alone, say nothing about other
counties of the State, where, by it, the rep
resentation is confined within their own boun-
daries, and just number of Representative;
allowed, would owe lasting debt to the
wisdom and energy of Mr.. Norton, that graf
itnde could scarcely repay. We have care
fully perused this substitute bill, and we IA
vor it, and believe it will meet with hearty
approval by the people of the whole State
Year: 1874

This session of the Legislature there has
been numerous amendments proposed to the
Codes; and still we suggest another. AS
the law now stands, when the Sheriff COW
ers property by an execution he must take
such property in charge, unless sufficient
bonds can be given by the party owning the
property to guarantee the payment of the
amount Of judgment, such bonds to be
sworn to and approved by Justice of the
Peace. 1t sometimes, and indeed often
happens that the Sheriff and other parties
interested are put to great Inconvenience il
travelling to the place where Justice may
be found. Therefore, we would propose to
have the law amended in this matter, SC
that the Sheriff himself or his authorized
deputy could not only accept such bonds as
they saw fit, but perform all the duties in the
matter now required to be performed by the
Justice. In nearly every case where bonds
are offered as security for the payment of a
judgment, this would save time, troble and
expense. 1t was only short time ago that
our Sheriff attached some property, for
which parties We're on the ground offering to
60 bonds for the judgment. But there be-
ING no Justice nearer than eight Or ten miles,
they could not get to him that night, and
the next day being Sunday (an illegal day.
he was compelled to take the property and
remove it at an expense to the party at
tached.
Year: 1874

FARES AND FREIGHrs.-W publish on
our first page to-day, an exact copy of Free
mans bill "To Regulate Fares and Freights
on the Railroads in the State of California, D
as it passed the Assembly. The. bill as it
is, fresh from the hands of an Independent
Assembly, we are quite sure will meet the
appreciation of large majority of the peo-
pie of Placer, and the State. Any amend
ments from the present form, the Senate will
be responsible for. "Let them be cautious
how they handle it,, is the voice of the
people.
Year: 1874

roads, as he was of all internal improve
ments, and of all measures that tended TO
make country or nation great. The rail-
road company possessed about all the evil
dence on the subject of the running expenses
of their road and bearing on the question
of how much the freights and fares ought to
be; but they had failed, declined or refused
to give this evidence to the Committee on
Corporations, and so they should be obliged
to take the rates as the legislature should
fix them, according to the best judgment of
the members 1t had been said that the
course proposed would scare capital from the
State, and that it would prevent competing


lines from being built; but what would be
the benefit to be derived from the competing
lines if they were to be gobbled up by the
main trunk road company? The power
for the companies to build these great roads,
and the munifcent gifts that had been
showered upon them, sprang from the peo-
pie, and now they should not be allowed to
use these against the very hand that fostered
them. Members were voting for this bill
because they believed that it was right for
the people to control these roads, and not
for the corporations to control the people
And he would tell the gentlemen present
that this spirit had taken root 10 the United
States 1t had been moving into the West
and swayng the States there. 1t had
reached this State, and the great heart of
this commonwealth throbbed in sympathy
with this movement, and that was the rea-
son why he gave it his hearty support and
approval.
Year: 1874

The TRADE.-Smith, at the Depot, is doing
business on the old plan Of selling at light prof
its, and everybody who wants hay goes to him
to buy it-and they always find good stock on
hand.
Year: 1874

ROUGH ON NEsF.-Hon. j Ii. Neff, from
Placer, has introduced bill which proposes
another attempt at the State Reform School
system. The State has made one miserable
failure in this respect, and we think it would
be prudent to exercise great caution how we
move in this expensive business again


The Bencia Tribune don't like the idea at
all, and only excuses our Hon. Senator from
his nonsensical and unwsc action in the mat
ter, as it terms it, by declaring hin to be
as verdant of the matter as he is of the
character of the Toys he proposes to reclaim.
Year: 1874

and the people are IN many places quite ex-
cited at the notion of the Legislature put
ting it off another year. There has been a
bill reported to the Assembly by the COM
mittee, and will undoubtedly pass the Sen
ate.
Year: 1874

Quite recently, the Royal Marionettes, which
are to appear in this city to morrow evening,
gave several performances in williamsport, and
3 local paper thus speaks of their second enter
tainment:


At times the audience was silent, as though
attempting to solve the mechanical problem, and
convince themselves as 10 the particular manner
in which the life-like figures were worked
and then an outburst of applause would
follow, fairly deafening al the clown
and pantaloon of the pantomime became
involved in inextricable difficulties. People
were not delicate in their manner of laughing,
but loud outlaws burst cut all over the audience,
others followed, until there was a chorus
of laughter, such as is seldom heard.
But the admiration OF those present WAS
not complete until the curtain rose upon the
transformation scene, the crowning feature OF
the spectacular entertainment. "What beau
tiful scenery" was the exclamation heard on
every .side, and when the drop curtain
fell upon the birth OF beauty in the bower Of
FERNS" Respondent in colors, and sparkling with
its gold, silver ard pearl borderings, the
audience retired satisfied, and loud in praise OF
the meritorious exhibition.
Year: 1874

The Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald says
that the Southern Pacific railway COM
pany, of that state, intend, in a short
time, to add a good many miles to the
track now terminating at Spadra. The
Herald says:


1t is probable the managers of the
Southern Pacific have heard something
from the other side of the continent
which is acting as propelling power
that will induce the building of few
hundred miles of track as early as
possible. The great necessity for a
southern overland railroad is beginning
to impress itself on the government,
and every day adds to and increases
the demand for that road. The people
of Texas are urging the state and ma
tional government to assist the pro-
jectors of the Texas and Pacific in
building the road as soon as men and
money can do it.


The Herald intimates that desire
to own as much of the track rs possi-
BILE is the reason why the Southern
Pacific people are going to commence
road building.
Year: 1874

lSprlngield (Mass.) Republican.


That is just what it is, and all
concerned may as well face the fact
frs, as last. 1t belongs to Il class
of political phenomena which de-
serves closer study than they have
yet received. Occurring at rare
and irregular intervals, they invari-
ably take the great majority not
merely of voters but of professional
politicians at unawarcs Yet they
doubtless have their laws, like all
other phenomena. This particular
land slide promises at this writing
to turn out one of the biggest on
record. Exactly how much has
been carried away we don't yet
know, but il il morally certain that
the third term project has como TO
sudden grief il is probable, to say
tho least, that the administration
majority in the house is about TO
become a memory; it is definitely
settled that the places which have
known sundry distinguished states
men are TO know them no more for
ever r ext March. Broadly speaking,
they are three in number: First,
popular disgust with an obnoxious
sumptuary code, the partial and fit
fui enforcement of which has been
equally Irritating aud demoralizing
second, popular dissatisfaction with
the way things have been going at
Washington. Third, a popular con-
viction that the state government
has been in the same hands quite
long enough that the flavor of ring
in our state and county politics has
become too strong to be agreeable
that the Buffers and Thinkers and
Lymans have grown altogether too
fat and sassy" and that this is as
good time as any to bint TO them
that the people are still a rather
important factor in political ealcu'
lauons.
Year: 1874

OUR dispatches of yesterday stated
that there had been q collision at Eu-
faula, Alabama. The following is the
fullest information we have been able
to gather about it;


The disturbance was quite sanguin-
ary; six whites wounded, one of them
(William Keith mortally; three ne
groes killed outright, and as far as
heard from seventy-four were wounded,
ten or fifteen of the number mOrtally.
Since the fight five have died, and
three or four more will die during the
night. The difficulty arose out of the
abuse of a negro who had voted the
democratic ticket by several radical ne
groes, among whom was one very bad
negro, named Miles Long.


Several whites rushed up when they
saw abuse being heaped on the demo-
cratic negro, and when he received
several blows they rushed in and Or
dered the mob to desist. Miles Long
offered to draw a pistol on one of the
whites, when he was told not to draw
a weapon there, or he would be killed.
With an oath against the whites, and
daring them to come on, he drew his
pistol and fired.


In an instant general fire from
whites and blacks commenced. The
latter stood for second or two, and
then gave way in one of the widest
stampedes ever witnessed on our
streets.
Year: 1874

WINTER weather and heavy roads
will soon have to be contended with.
The HERALD would urge upon the
county authorities to organize means
of having the principal roads leading
into Dallas turnpiked. There is plenty
of hard rock to be mad, and if all of our
main roads in the county were turn
piked it would be of immense benefit
to the county, and greatly aid trans
portation and travel. Suppose all of
the main roads leading out of Dallas
were turnpiked to the county line, it
would give our farmers the advantage
over those of any county in this section
in getting their produce to market.
Year: 1874

our population as will be surprising
even to the most sanguine Of those
who have lately put their shoulders to
the wheel. The roads are already lined
with immigrants coming to Texas.


A gentleman informs us to-day that,
OIL his way from Missouri to this state,
he saw very large number of movers
with substantial outfits, and unmistaka-
BILE evidences of being thrifty, who
were bound to different portions of our
territory. The tidal wave of immigra-
tion sets toward ous more than to any
other state of the union.


Every section of Texas has awaken
ed to the subject of obtaining popula-
tion for our fertile lands, and all pro-
per and liberal inducements are being
offered to those who are looking for
homes in country where none need
want, and all can be independent.


Our future is to be a glorious one.
Already is our state pointed to as one
that is to shine more brilliantly than
all the Others in this great constella-
tion of states, and 1t will not be long
before, to its fullest extent, we shall
see what Houston fancied he saw just
twenty years ago.