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Year: 1879

This week all owners OF telescopes would
do we'll TO follow Prof. PRocToR's advice, and
keep a sharp eye upon the constellation An
dromeda. ii peradventure they may detect the
on-coming swarm OF meteors that are now rush
ing TO their meeting with the earth on the 9th
inst. 1t is possible that these meteors may
have been scattered since they were last seen in
our sky. but the probabilities are the other way.
and It is regarded as almost certain that they
will be promptly at the rendezvous In that
case brilliant display may be expected.


Even il they fail to detect the coming meteors,
those who train their telescopes upon the quar-
ter Of the sky from which the fireballs are ex-
pected to burst into view will be well repaid for
their labor. The constellation Andromeda.
which derives its name from one OF the most
charming fables OF antiquity. is nearly over
head at about 10 o'clock p NJ 1t may be recog-
nized by three bright stars lying in q curved
line Just south Of the W shaped figure in Cas-
siopeia. The radiant point OF the meteors is
near the star Gamma, which is the middle one
OF the three stars Just mentioned. This star Is
ono Of the most wonderful in the heavens.
telescope OF two Inches aperture easily separates
it into two one deep yellow and the other sea
green. These colors are Of rainbow depth and
purity A larger telescope separates the green
star also into two one blue and the other golden
hued There can be little doubt that here are
three suns. probably larger than ours. each
glowing with different colored light. and all
apparently connected in one system. The effect
upon the worlds lighted by these suns OF such
contrasts Of color can hardly be imagined.


Andromeda contains many other interesting
objects. chief among which is the great light
cloud that has been called the Queen of the
Ncbule. and which no telescope has ever yet
| been able to separate into stars.
Year: 1879

Deacon RICHARD SMITH tcegraphs his paper
that dirty the oil Cincinnati sometimes are
they never compared for mud and nth with those OF
Chicago.-Lincinnuh Commercial


But for real filth. black. tenacious and dan
Gerous. New York is far ahead of both these
Western towns.
Year: 1879

THE Republican press is very
much exercised just now because
Ben Butler has chosen to record
himself in q special report as con-
vinced that Hayes was counted
into the Presidency by uneXam-
pied and indefensible frauds. They
may rest assured that the verdict
rendered by the strabismic states
men from Massachusetts, will be
that of history. Charles Francis
Adams condensed into an epigram
the gravamen of Buffers lengthy
report when he spoke of Hayes as
"the man who bore upon his brow
the stamp of fraud first triumphant
in American history"
Year: 1879

WHILE the situation in California
is highly fayorable to u Democrat
10 success in the State and Con-
grssgtonal elections this fall, every
thing will depend upon the char
acter of the nominations made.
The party needs to put forward its
very best men. The veto has un.
douttedly paralyzed the Republic
can party and re action has set
In which will leave the Working
mems craft stranded high and dry,
q fit subject for the attention of po-
litical wreckers. With proper
nominations-nominations which
will represent the brains and in
tegrity of the party-the Democ.
racy can hope not only to regain
the adherence of the great mass OF
those who have wandered from the
fold but large Republican vote as
well. Indications are not wanting
that everything will not be lovely
In the Republican camp. Gorham
will be able to utilize bis utmost
talents as marplot without the
distractions which his duties as
Secretary OF the United States SEN
ate would have imposed upon him.
Sargenps occupation, also, is gone.
Both OF these Republican lumina-
ries will find field for their un-
Questionably fine energies in un'
dertaking to carry through a slate
of their own. Republican disaf-
fection cannot fail to be great, in
consequence. The Democracy, with
the prestige which it derives from
having been the champion of the
sentiment OF the Pacific Coast on
the Chinese question, and with a
Presidential election at hand, is in
finitely stronger than it was year
ago andits strength will go on in
creasing. 1t needs nothing but
standard bearers who inspire con-
/ddence amongst the people by their
ability and character to achieve a
signal victory.
Year: 1879

have seen the worst. There js al.
ready apparent limited demand
for property. The farmers have
sold a great many hogs and other
products Of the farm, and little
streams of money are beginning to
circulate. In about three weeks
the wool will begin to come into


the market and very considerable


sums will be realized from its sale.


There is good crop and it will
command good price. Three or
four hundred thousand dollars may
confidently be looked for from this
source. The orange crop though
not up to the highest standard is
fair. Altogether we have seen tie
worst and business will undoubted-
ly begin to feel the quickening inn
pulses arising from these facts aud
that before a great while.
Year: 1879

ATTENTION is being attracted to
the incisive ability and fearlessness
with which the Call is handling
the question Of the adoption or re-
lection of the new Constitution.
We should not be surprised, if the
Call shall continue as it has begun,
if the people were to discover short
ly whether that journal is for OIL
against the adoption of the pro.
jected new organic law.
Year: 1879

THE Chronicle lately seems to be
halting between two opinions.
Perhaps, unlike the ordinary gay
Lothario, it has some compuuc-
tions about being on with the new
love before it is off with the old? A
week ago there were well defined
signs of a new political departure
in the columns of that journal but
again We are obliged TO see its
course as through glass darkly.
Year: 1879

THE extra session called for
March 18th will test what amount
of truth there is in the assertions of
the Republican press that the two
great national parties are equally
balanced in the House of Repre-
sentatIves, with tho balance of
power in the hands of the Green
back and Labor Reform Congress
men. We have seen no reason to
change the impression formed
months ago that the Democracy
has a small working majority over
all parties. A number of the Re-
publican candidates, supposed to
have been elected in Pennsylvania
and in other States, were shown by
the official returns to have been de-
feated, and in order 10 reduce the
Democratic roll to 1872 members, as
the Chronicle did the other day, q
view of the matter will have to be
taken with which the Democratic
Clerk of the House, who complies
the list, will hardly be prepared to
sympathize. When the smoke of
battle escapes through the ventila-
tors OF the House of Representa-
tives compact Democratic major
ity will be found in possession of
the benches, with the Speaker,
Clerk and other officials of the
same political persuasion. AS to
the Senate, it will be Democratic
by a majority slightly larger than
1t was Republican during the pas.
session.
Year: 1879

much less the house. There is only one
way to find the treasure" continued he,
" and that is to dig bitches all over the
place until We strike it, and what good
would it do yeu or me? The govern
ment would take it away from US, and
would in all probability dispose of US
with less formality than did Walker ais
those who disp,eased or crossed him in
his plans"


Ned Lyons, who informs the New
York Herald of the buried treasure, is a
first,rate fellow and a particular friend
of the writer hereof, and was here in
Los Angeles about four years ago, on his
way to lower California to inspect a gold
mine of fabulous richness discovered by
him while there with Walker in 1853
Ned came back with his pocket full OF
rocks, and made my old legal friend, Fred.
Stanton, q millionaire by giving him gra
tuitously a few shares in the new bonanza
Ned also acted the part of the generous
benefactor toward his old filibuster friend,
the writer, by taking him in as well
Fred. A filibuster has grand soul, and
he will take his friends in at every laT
vOrable opportunity. Ned Lyons was a
filibuster, every inch of him, and am
more than happy to hear from him, even
if he is living on the laurels of his past
achievements on the field of adventure
and spinning yarns about the buried
treasure, which believe to be reality,
but which I greatly fear, like the swag of
the ancient Kidd, or like Ned Lyons
wiie's cousin, will become a misty tra>
dition or a mysterious myth.
Year: 1879

What this country most needs at
present is a species OF honey bee which
will work ali winter ana give Us spring
honey. The idea of bee lOafng away
six months of the twelve is absurd.
Year: 1879

Midlothian.-The quiet village Of NIidlo-
THAN was the scene Of an incident several
DAYS ago the like of which rarely occurs.
In the spring Of 1855, Robert Cox, negro,
belonging then to Il gentleman in this vi
cinitv, was married to woman OF the same
neighborhood. Several months after his
marriage he was sold to trader from
Georgia, and was carried to that State,
leaving his wife in Virginia. She, too, was
sold few years afterwards to'a resident OF
another State. Though they were sepa-
rated. and each ignorant OF the others
whereabouts, they both concluded to
start out in search OF each other.
For more than six years they were sepa-
rated; but the war being ended and
they being set at liberty, began the task OF
finding each other. The man having heard
from several sources that his wife had LETT
Virginia, thought it useless to visit his for
lner State; but after long years OF search
throughout several of the southern States,
and not having any clue to her whereabouts,
he concluded to visit his old home before it
would be too late. But fortune favored
him. His wife. having given up all hopes
| OF meeting with him again, had returned
here, and occupied the same old log cabin
that she once resided in years before.
When her husband came back again to the
old cabin, and he beheld the one he had
spent wears OF sorrow and toll endeavorine
to find, they recognized one another, and
the shout that arose from that cabin and
rang through the forest near by will be re-
membered by them as long as they I'VE
After finding his wife he carried her doWf
| to Georgia to live. and they are at present
residing in that State.
Year: 1879

THE PEOPLE have been so much imposed upon
by several worthless SarSaBarilas that we are glad
to be able TO recommend a preparation which can
be depended on as containing The virtues of that
Invaluable medicine and Is worthy Of The public
confidence. Or. AYERS aSARsAPARILLA cures
when anything can cure the diseases tina, require
an Alternative medicine.
Year: 1879

Mr.. Lilly gave an encouraging account Of
affairs in Fluvanna. He stated that they
already have complete organization in that
county. He was bold enough to say that
many of the funders were honest and pa
triotic men, and that be had respect for
their convictions, rs he hoped they had for
hi,
Year: 1879

The English pay but slight attention to
the trade competition of other European
countries; this competition they have al
ways had at their doors, and they know
how to deal with. 1t is the United States
which seriously threaten their commercial
supremacy, and the more candid English
journals readily acknowledge it.
Year: 1879

The silver dollar is now sixteen cents
below par, considered with reference to its
bullion value. Here are sixteen irrefraea.
BILE arguments for the repeal of the Bland
bill, or for the restriction of the legal.
tender quality of the bob.tail dollar to
such reasonable limit as shall make it per.
sidiary coin.
Year: 1879

The Emperor and Empress of Germany
have given notice that they do not desire
personal gifts at their golden wedding,
which will be held on June IL, but thev
would rejoice if money instead be devoted
to charity.
Year: 1879

The peach buds are reported destroyed
out West by the exceeding cold. The
thermometer registered ten degrees below
zero all over that section, and this is
sufficient to seriously injure if not ruin the
croO
Year: 1879

When the negro exodus began in the Mis-
sisspp Valley, the Democratic press repre-
sented it to be the result of wicked con-
spiracy plotted in Boston, or some other hot
bed of abolitionism, between Radical politicians
and grasping SPECTATORS to entice the cooied
people away from their comfortable homes.
The object was two-fold 1t was to colomze
Republican voters in the Northwest. and to
open q market for otherwise unstable rail-
road lands. The emigrants almost invariably
directed their steps toward Kansas, where $50
effectualy did the old -Ruffian Democ-
racy settle the politics of the State for all time)
the importation of Republican voters would
have been about as useful rs n project for
iIrigating the Atlantic Ocean but to this fact
the Democratic journalists shut their eyes.
With equally calm dlsdain they surveyed the
further fact that the land alleged TO be III the
market was III a region lar away from the
fugitives' line of march indeed, that it lay
behind them. In time these misrepresenta-
tons were silenced principally perhaps be-
cause nobody would believe them. The negroes
found work and shelter In Kansas, and their
simple story of the wrongs they had suffered
and the reasons for their removal convinced
everybody who heard it.


At the time of tns Kansas immigration il
was stated by many persons who had investi-
gated this curious movement that the cOlored
people all over the Cotton States were rest
less and dissatisfied, and that much more
extensive exodus might be looked for at the
close of the Winter 1t has begun sooner than
we expected. Large parties have set out from
North Carolina and have passed through
Washington, their objective point being the
State of Indiana. Some hundreds are moving
toward the same destination through Ten
nessee. The Bourbon newspapers treat the
subject now as foolishy as they did in the
Spring. We are grayely assured that the
flight from North Carolina has its
origin in the Vaccinations of two or
three colored men who had TO run
away on account of bad conduct These fugi-
tivcs from justice have organized the move
ment of a whole population. Somebody has
Year: 1879

given them money Somebodv hes hired
"negro preachers 10 ge. up crusade me
Radicals mean TO send nigscrs cGoush INTO
Indiana TO overcome the Democratic vote.
A score of snch explanations are oif red, all
agreeing that the negro has had nothing 70
do with the scheme himself. except 20 get up
and march whenever and whithersoever some
n,vsterions villain bids him. The absurdity
is self-eyident. The colored people are
not of migratory habits. AS rule
they are strongly attached to the
soil on which they have been reared. They
submit to great deprivations rather than break
off old habits aud associations; and-individual
exceptions apart-they lack the enterprise
which inspires emigration. There must he
some very strong feeling of irritation ana
fear. or else some long-contlnued pressure
from poverty, much more severe than anybody
at the North suspects, to account for move
ment so much mt variance with what we know
of the negro character.


Ii is not the least serious feature of the
case that the exodus has been regularly
organized in advance and with the
utmost secrecy. No white people seem
TO have been aware of the project.
The freedmen discussed it among them
selves, in their church meetings or by other
agencies of communication which they learned
how to employ in the days of slavery, and
then they sent forward one or two discreet
men of their race to spy out the land. If
these explorers did not purposely conceal their
object, they went about it at any rate very
quietly, and the public had no suspicion of
what was going on until the emigrants sud
denly forsOok their cabins, and in parties of
two bundred or more followed these leaders
to the new homes which had been selected
for them. In some instances families
went together; in others the men went
alone, purposing to send for their wives
and children as soon as they found work and
shelter 1t is impossible to tell how far the
preparations for removal have extended but
all over the South the planters are dreading
the Spring. The fact that the few thousands
who have already gone North have generally
prospered is OmnOus of further disturbance.
We can hardly doubt that full accounts of
the experiences of the Kansas parties have
been sent back to their friends at the South.


Ii the whites are wise they will cease trying
10 persuade themselves that this movement is
and, looking at the situation calmly and rea
sonably, will inquire into the evils which have
caused the exodus and the remedies which
will stop it. They have treated the negro
with cruel injustice believing that he could
never assert his political rights against solid
superior race" Ii never occurred TO them
that if he could not overcome wrong he would
evade it by moving away.
Year: 1879




The conduct of Chief Ouray since the White
River massacre has done much to remove pub
lie prejudice against his race. Every fair
minded man must acknowledge that he has
acted with moderation, intelligence and
stern sense of even justice which would do
credit to q greater ruler. For Ouray, we
should remember, is in his petty way ruler,
and apt to he prejudiced in favor of his own
subjects The tie between him and the guilty
Utes is even stronger than that between a
king and his subjects, and resembles
more the kinship of Scottish chief
Tain and his clan. Under these circum-
stances it argues exceptional moral courage in
Ouray that he has insisted on giving up the
murderers at all. against the evident fierce
opposition of the fghting men of the tribe,
and he certainly had the right to ask that
they should have q fair trial


The most ignorant white men in the coun-
try are now beginning to look upon the Indian
as q human being, and TO judge him by the
same laws of right and wrong as other men
whom God has made; and even they can
see that the red devils in this affair have
acted pretty much as men of lighter skins
accused of capital crimes would have been
likely to do in the same circumstances.
Neither CoorOw, Douglass nor Jack knew any
thing about the massacre; and what white
man placed in the dock would be allowed by
his counsel 60 inculpatc himself? ? As for the
demand that the muiderers should be- brought
East for trial, any white man III Their posi-
ton would be- q suicidal fool ii he would
consent to stand trial among a people as
bitter in their hate and prejudice against him
as are the people of Colorado against the Utes.
These men. cowardly assassins though they may
be, are entitled to change of venue when they
demand it. Even the heather Festus did not
refuse to send Paul, at enormous cost, to Rome
when he appealed unto Caesar.


TIE tribune has always urged the necessity
of reducing (or elevatlng) the Indian to the
condition of any other citizen. Let these
murderers be tried like any other murderers
not by military commission or the President,
but by jury in Court, in a common sense,
practical way. Ii they are innocent lcquit
them; If guilty, hang them. The time has
passed for dramatic effects, paiayers about
Great Fathers and gifts of blankets with these
people. Plain justice is the best policy now
on both sides. Ouray has shown hls dlspOsi-
ton TO be just at great cost to himself; let
us do our part and not grudge the expense
of bringing these men to Washington. An
orderly regular, impartial trial of these
twelve men would do more toward prevent
ing further massacres like that at the Meeker
Agency than dozen bloody, inbuman and
costly Indian wars.
Year: 1879

Statesmen who all at once are troubled
with nervous dread of disturbing the
currency-or mcdding with the currency, y
as the phrase goes-would do well to remind
themselves that the currency is in chronic
danger of disturbance so long as 1t has
no changeless value of its own. The
sure way to secure stable currency and put
il above being "medded with " to the coun-
try's hurt by Congress. is to prepare at once
for a return to first principles, so that a
promise to pay dollar cannot be legally
made to do duty as a genuine dollar.


Statesmen who say that they favor the
recommendations of the President and Sec
retaIy of the Treasury, but yet advise the
policy of waiting for better times, or some
more convenient season, should remind
themselves that the Democratic party al
ways opposed the Resumption Act on the
same theory. They wanted to " drift into y
resumption, or "grow up into " resumption.
People are not in the habit of growing up OF
drifting into the payment of their debts.
Some rule of action must be carefully laid
down and sternly and persistently followed.
Without the Resumption Act there would
have been no resumption. Nor will
the payment of the debt represented by the
Treasury notes ever be accomplished without
legislation. The retirement of these notes is
as the President put 1t sharply in his message
Year: 1879

n step in our progress toward safe and stable
currency" That is just the line in which
We ought TO travel. Every dictate OF prudence
and honor and honesty should prompt our
legislators to immediate actitu, and there can
be no excuse for any delay in stripping from
the greenback its compulsory power as legal
tender. There never comes again so favora-
bic an opportunity for doing good work MS
to-day.


Statesmen who pass fiuently from the advo-
cacy of one system of finance to the support
of another, and statesmen who stand ready
TO adopt any financial opinion, or WHO
desire to conceal the opinions they pos
sess, so that they may inhict no INJURY
upon their party in the next Preslden-
tial canvass, should remind themselves
that the party which wins next year
will be party with convictions, ana
party which does not shrink from expressing
them. This is one question which must be
sauarely met II cannot be kept out Of a Presi-
Dental canvass. Senators and Representa-
tives must take sides, and it would be
the part of wisdom to choose the
right side and choose it at once.
There is q dominating moral element III the
financial questions which have been before the
people for the last twenty years, and with the
history of these years fresh in mind, the
man who cannot trust the moral sense OF
the people is worse than an intdel.
The country has collective conscience. 1t
believes IN paying debts, and paying them in
the spiit of the contract. The Republican
party has achieved its most signal successes
when it has declared most openly and earn
estly for honest money. even in States which
have been swept over by financial hereses.
II that party wins next year, it will win be-
cause il takes the highest moral ground on
this and every other question at issue. The
fact, therefore, that 1880 is Presidential
year, so far from justifying or excusing
the chosen Republican leaders for hesita-
tion in taking advanced ground on this sub
iect, is the most urgent reason for prompt
and vigorous assertion of their faith. The
men who serve the party best are the men
who stand ready to fight for the best ideas OF
the best element of the party, and not the
men who skulk to the rear in the hope OF
keeping in the good graces of the moral
stragglers