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Year: 1879

The Truckee Republican, descrlb-
ing the mode Of getting out logs in
the mountains, says: "a chute is
laid from the rivers brink up the steep
mountain to the railroad, and while
we are telling it the monster logs are
rushing, laundering, flying, leap'ng
down the declivity. They come with
the speed Of thunderbolt, and with
somewhat of its roar. A tract OF hre
and smoke follows them fire struck
out by their friction with the chute
logs. They descend the 100 feet OF
the chute in IA seconds. In doing so
they drop 700 feet perpendicu'arly'
Logs fred from canon could scarce
ly have greater velocity than they
have at the foot of the chute. Their
average velocity is over 100 feet in
second, throughout the entire distance,
and at the instant they leap from the
mouth their speed must be fully 200
feet per second. A sugar pine log
sometimes weighs ten tons. Whata
missile How the water is dashed
into the arr Like grand plume OF
diamonds and rainbows, the feathery
spray is hurled into the air to the
height of two hundred feet. 1t forms
the grandest fountain ever beheld.
How the waters Of the pond foam ana
seethe and lash against the shore }!
One log having spent its force by Its
mad plunge into the deep waters, has
floated so as to be at right angles with
the path of the descending monsters
The mouth of the chute is perhaps
fifteen feet above the surface OF the
water. A huge log hurled from the
chute cleaves the air and alights on
the floating log. You know how a
bullet glances but can you imagine a
saw-log glancing' The end strikes
with a heavy shock, but glldes quickly
back for a short distance, then with
crash like the reverberation OF artll'
lery the falling log springs one hun
dred and fifty feet vertically into the
air, and with curve like rocket falls
into the pond seventy yards from the
LOG it struck.
Year: 1879

some Of tho honors, emoluments, aud offices
which justly belongs TO her MS great section.
We claim rights on sectional ground, we
claim rights ON account of numbers, position,
wealth, and influence Nor docs the South IN.
tend to be the tail end of any party or tho
tail end of q government administered by
hostile majority section.


The Okolona Southern States has not ut
tered words more offensive than these to-
ward the people of the North. This shows
that the attempt to ignore and repudate
that journal as representative Of South
ern Democratic sentiment was as hypocrlt-
ical as the pretended surrender at Appo-
mattox. The States was honest and bold in
its utterances of Southern sentiment and
feeling and refused to be cried down or
hushed up by the Democrats wl) desired
more time to practice their deceptions upon
the North. The Southern States has kept
up its trnitorous and rebellious din without
cessation, until the Savannah Recorder takes
up its refrain aud joins in tho anthem Of
| treason in chorus, and with full organ ac-
compartment. 1t not only contends now
that the North was the aggressor and is
responsible for the war and its results, but
it intimates that the country is in danger
of repetition unless the majority of tho
people of the United States succumb to the
minority and confess their aggresslons apol-
ogetically. This is the attitude now as
sumed toward the North showing that
the South has determined not TO be
friends of the North, but is willing
to assume the role of ruler and oppressor of
that section. The Recorder, with marked
modesty, intimates now that nothing short
of President or Vice-President in division
of the honors and responsibilities of the
Government they could not destroy, will
satiate sectional ambition and secure ma
tional peace. Mark well its words:


Timid, cautious, policy-seeking and policy
talking politicians may be willing to sell out
their interests and character, but the great
South is no party to any such bargain. We
are now talking out and we intend to give our
politicians back bone" or ask them to keep
silent, as they speak for 10 one but themselves.
The South is entitled from her position, wealth,
influence, and Importance to the office of Presi-
dent or NIce-Presdcnt. We do not feel dis
posed to recognize sectional prcjudiccs, for a
principle Is involved-a principle Of equality
in the Union.


This is the voice of the conqueror, not oi
the conquered. 1t is domneering in spirit


defiant in attitude, and offensive in utter.
ance toward those who have saved the


Union when the South would have broker


it in pieces and who conserved the Republi,


when the South would have reduced it tC


ruin. The South tried the experiment o


having both sectional President and Vice


President in 1861, and after period of re


bellion and war, which cost the Nation


billions of treasure and more than u million


of lives, they gave up their experiment as
sad failure and affected to accept the situn
ton when that act was clothed in the bases
hypocrisy. Will history repeat itself? Thi
the South must decide. The North is read.
| for the issue.
Year: 1879

IF you will consult Democratic authority
you will find that there has been no back
downs by the Democrats during the present
session. But go among the people through
out the country who are close observers Of
public events and there is no diversity of
opinion on this point Democrats and Re-
publicans alike agree that the Democrats
have retreated from every position Of any
importance taken by themselves at the out
set of the session. They threatened to wipe
out all the measures born Of the war. They
threatened to starve the Government if
their riders" were not respected by the
President. And these are not all the threats
that have been Illuminated by Democratic
orators in Congress and their organs
throughout the country; and yet not q
"rider" survives Nor have the war meas
ures been wiped out. Nor has the Govern
ment been subjected to starvation. Some
body, then, must have backed down, and it
isn't the President. So the people think
Year: 1879

bear no burdens here, and hence the people
are divested of all power and have nothing
to do but to submit tamcly to the inevitable
No people on this continent are so humili.
ated in governmental relation rs the people
of Washington and it is not strange that
they should become inert in their humilia-
ton Make citizens of them again, and


then they will have some authority for in


tcresting themselves in public affairs. Now


they are mere aliens.
Year: 1879

Mr.. BoRIE, who has just returned from
General GRANT says he will not seek
nomination. OF course not. He would no
doubt prefer not to have it; but the will of
the people is law with him. He will sub
nit to it.
Year: 1879

SUNSET Cox is said to have been in NOR
tai terror ever since the discovery of the
murderer of Mrs. HULL for fear that some
one will congratulate him upon the addi-
tional distinction thereby shed upon his
family name. 1t is...to be hoped that his
sensitive feelings may be respected,
Year: 1879

THE President is ready with his veto of
the little judicial bill; but the Bourbons
Rre not ready for it. 1t will be thrust upon
them some time to-day, and they will be
rs unprepared for it as if they had never
dreamed of such possibility.
Year: 1879

TIE quarrel between GLOVER and SIN
GLEToN leaYes the poorest possible chance
for taking sides. They are probably as
nearly matched in point of contemptibility
ns any two men possibly can be--both be-
ing far below the respect Of decent people
as men and statesmen.
Year: 1879

A SUNDAY cotemporary expresses some
surprise that the people Of Washington
seem to be inert with regard to the location
of our city post-oflice. Inertness, it should
understand, is the normal condition of a
people who have no voice in the conduct of
public affairs, The people Of the District of
Columbia and the government which is
placed over them have been handed over 10
the caprice of those who pay no taxes and
Year: 1879

IT strikes us that the press generally and
Congress in particular has been wasting
more time in discussing GLOVER aud his
squelched report than the defunctness thereof
would seem to warrant. Both GLOVER and
his discoveries are so dead that they have
even ceased to smell bad, When he was
permitted or induced to eliminate from them
all allusion to the Democrats he had
Caught" there was nothing left to print.
Year: 1879


ated in governmental relation rs the people
of Washington, and it is not strange that
they should become inert in their humilia-
ton Make citizens of them again, and
then they will have some authority for in
torestng themselves in public affairs. Now
they are mere aliens.


TIE Harrisburg pa Patriot has levitated
itself so far above the ordinary level OF
Northern Democratic Doughfaceism as TO
speak of its Southern masters here in WASH
ington as Bourbons. This must have been
the result of an accident or, possibly, the
Patriot editor was dcsirous of emulating the
example of those masters aforesaid, and
therefore attempted to do something from
which he would be compelled to back down.
He certainly will be expected to apologize
sooner or later for this incidental betrayal
of absolute truth in his mudsill columns,


FRANK HURD was in Congress while its
speeches were printed in the Globe. He has
returned and has recently made speech,
which the Record says is withheld for re-
vision, though the aforesaid effort appears
in ertenSo in the Democratic organ of Sat
urday morning. A Democrat suggests that
HURD is yet ignorant of the fact that the
speech-printing business has been trans
ferred from the Globe Office to the Govern
ment Printing Office, and hence he sent his
manuscript directly to the old Globe Office,
and as it was not furnished to the Record
the usual stereotype announcement Of
withheld for revision was made.


THE rural districts, so to speak, are now
being heard from regarding the CoNKLtNG-
LAMAR affair, and it is amusing to note the
comments of some of the more belligcrent
stalwart editors of that widespread region
thereon. The Iowa State Register, for ex-
ample, thinks Mr. CoNKLTNG missed his
"never-dying opportunity whatever that
is by not pounding the sass" out of La
MAR. This bellicose remark is especially
notable because it is an indication of great
change of opinion regarding such matters in
the rank aud file of the Republican party
change that will now sustain, instead OF
denounce, retort in kind as well as more
extreme measures by Republicans when
they are assailed by the Southern Chiyalry
THE Hon. DAVID DAVIS has been invited
by the Dallas (TeNas) Herald to mako the
tour" of that State, and the invitation is
accompanied by the assurance that "oul
barbed wire fences are few and far be-
tween" There are stupid people who
would imagine that this allusion to fences
is in the nature of q political slur, aud il
intended to draw attention to the honora


bic gentleman's habit of straddling sucl
things; but this is a mistake, We are con


fident that it was designed to assure hin


that he can walk about with freedom il


the Lone Star State untrammeled by cir
cumscribcd Enclosures as it were. But


more important question remains to b.


solved: How are the bridges? The circu


season is over down there, it is true; bu


have the bridges been repaired since tn


last drove of elephants passed over them
Year: 1879

The poor Empress, writes CORES
pondent Of the Boston Journal, In her
melancholy secluEion at Camden House,
has the sympathy of everybody, includ-
ing the old ladies who are her enemies,
aud who would not admit once upon q
time that she was q good wcfe and
mother. She received the Queen Of
England the other day in the famous
blue boudoir, where she has collected
all the souvenirs which may hereafter
have only a tFagical interest to her.
There under glass can she keep the
casss Of the right hand Of the Rmperor
and the young Prince, and these two
hands ara represented as holding the
adoption Of the law ordering the recon
struction Of the column in the Place
Vendome. There also, on a dainty
shelf, is little white satin rosette that
the Prince Imperial wore ON the day Of
his first communion. By singular
stroke Of luck this tiny piece Of ribbon
was found intact in the midst Of the
ruins Of the Tuileries, preserved in some
miraculous manner from q single stain.
And there, too, on pedestal, and care
fully shielded from harm, Is q marble
bust Of the Prince, which was likewise
uninjured by the FIRE. The grief Of the
ex-Empress is overwhelming, and she
wanders from room to room weeping
the whole day long. As the bed cham.
Der and the study of the Emperor have
been kept exactly as they were on the
day Of his death, 80 are the rooms oi
the young Prince left precisely as he
quilted them, never to return, and the
beds Of both the Emporer and Primes
are constantly couered with fresh vio
lets. In the chamber of the Emperor
stands large wardrobe which contains
every object which Napoleon III. tool
from the Tuleries when he went to tn,
war that on the 4th Of September, l $40
he would call his own, namely, his uni
form. What q comment ON the insecu
rity of human greatness.
Year: 1879




The man who wants his name kept
out of the psper is just the man y ho
processes not to believe in the virtue
of advertising. Ask him for local
notice and he will tell you no one
reads the paper-but just let him
get found flirting with some other
mans wife, walking off with funds
that don't belong to him, or trying
to hold up lamp-post some dark
night, and he'll climb seventeen pair
of stairs and beg on his bended knee
that the item should be suppressed.
It makes difference in the minds
ofa great manv men whose OK is gored
when an article is to appear in public
print.-Elmira Gazette.
Year: 1879

Ip the general excitement to goods at old prices our
customers may assured that large force will do their best
to supply all waited these short days. The increase
Of our clerks quite noticeable but at times in the day ar
from ample Please kindly any disappointment in not being
served and come again. We lately gotten hold Of some lots
Of Dre Goods that late for oders and were sold to
us at sacrifice very desirable quote in Ladies' Dress
Goods
Year: 1879

The Democrats IN G Congress are
preparing another part Of the machi-
nery BY which it is proposed to steal
the 5Preside dency in 1880. This branch
of the scheme concerns itself with
the counting Of the electoral vote.
The majority Of the House Commit.
tee upon that subject have agreed
upon a bill which declares that where
there is a contest over the electoral
vote of a State, the decision Of the
highest judicial authority Of the
State, if given, shall be accepted as
final xnless both houses Of Congress
shall concur IN reversing the decis.
ion. Where there is a contest, and
there is no such judicial decision the
electoral vote Of the State shall not
be counted unless both houses con.
cur in ordering it to be counted.
Every one who remembers the in
sane attempts that were made to de.
feat the electoral count in the House
in 1877 by trumped-up charges Of
ineligibility against electors Of States
which had cast overwhelming Re-
publican maiorities, can easily ina
gine what we might expect in 1881
under such a law from the present
Congress. The same curious rela.
tionship of the great parties to the
question Of genuine State Rights is
presented now as was presented then.
Senator Edmunds's bill which was
passed by the Senate in the last Con.
gress but defeated in the House, de-
clared that the decision Of the high
est judicial authority Of a State as
to which is its true. electoral vote
should be final. This right Of the
State, and the State alone, to say
what it's electoral vote shall be, was
upheld by the Republicans during
the electoral controversy, and would
be upheld by them III Congress to-
day; while the Democrats, the pro-
fessed champions Of State Rights,
who have just passed a bill to make
the National Government .subordi.
nate to the State Governments,
have upheld the theory-and have
now embodied it in this bill-that
the two Houses Of Congress shall
have the power to say for whom the
electoral vote of a State shall be
cast, even in opposition to the de.
cision of its highest court.
Year: 1879

FRIDAY, August Sc p. M.


Stocks went balloonng again to-day. and good
many Spectators who not prepared for the
ascent 'left." Among these were many old
stagers in the street. who had calmly settled it in
their minds that the highest prices of the year had
been seen and that they might leave the market to
simmer down while they abandoned the parching
precincts of the Stock Exchange for brief sojourn
IN q cooler region. With the first whirr OF
the tickers this morning, however. visions of
mountain peaks and sherry cobblers were
dissipated like fash. Lake Shore stared them
in the face ut advance Of u per cent the clos
ing figures OF yesterday. and in few minutes in
creased the gain to Ia. The general list followed
with surprising strength and. excepting brief pc
rio of reaction toward the end of the first hour.
prices persistently advanced throughout At the
close Lake Shore had ascended 31a per cent above
the price for the last sale of yesterday Northwest
aud St. Paul, galvanized into life, followed with
81 advance over opening figures Of ia and
1 per cent respectively. The telegraph stocks also
displayed considerable strength and c., c. and I. G.
appreciated 1s per cent and Michigan Central ia.
Under heavy sales the coal stocks suffered slight
decline, and they offered the only exception the
general strength of the market 1t is safe to assert
that those who have been manipulating the bull
movement during the past week intended yesterday
TO let the market sell of. The refreshing change in





them with fresh vigor, aud entirely move
ment was resolved upon They bought calls upon
the granger stocks in large quantities from
well known operator. whose faith in
their speedy decline has been talked of in the street.
and this morning they began to hoist the prices for
the purpose Of squeezing him. Most of the orders
for heavy purchases OF the stocks in question. as
well as tor the Lake Shore and Michigan Central prop
critics. came by telegraph from Saratoga. When these
dispatches began to arrive the attention of the
operator referred to called the matter, and it
is more than likely that perceiving the trick. he
hastened to a considerable proportion OF his
'short' sales. Small speculstors sold short yes
terday in considerable numbers and are now in a
quandary what to do Meanwhile there is ga fresh
hand at the bellows" and the speculative kite is
puffed high that many may get stiff necks trying
to keep 1t in sight


The extreme fuctuation in the prices Of leading
nhoro To ;ut Fovta axrsvI xahl
Year: 1879

lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBONEl


WASHINGTON, May 2S.-A leading Democratic
Representative, who is member Of the Committee
on Appropriations. said tonight that he has no ex-
pectation whatever that the House will consider
any more appropriation bills until the fate of the
Warner Silver bill has been determined. He SAID
that one thing is certanthe majority of the Appro-
priations Committee can be depended on to adhere
firmly to any course laid down by the party, and
that no more appropriation bills will be reported by
that committee until majority of the House de-
sires it to be done. The same gentleman indicates
probable purpose on the part of the Democrats to
pass imperfect appropriation bills; that is to leave
and supervisors of elections and to prohibit the use
of any of the money appropriated for that purpose
He thinks the President dare not refuse to sign
Democrats may finally conclude to pursue the
course above indicated.
Year: 1879

The following are the resolutions adopted by the
convention:


]. Resolred, That the Republican party of Ohio,
reafirmng the cardinal doctrines of its adopted
faith as heretofore proclaimed especially pledges
itself anew to the maintenance of free suffrage,
equal rights, the unity of the Nation. and the
supremacy Oh the NhtoIai uosoininemt IN e. e.
control.


ii. Res0lred That we earnestly appeal TO the
people IN the exercise of their power through the
balotbOx TO arrest the mad OF the party now
controlling both branches of Congress, under the
domination of n majority of men lately III arms
against the Government and now plotting TO regain
through the power of legislation the cause which
they lost in the field. namely, the establishment OF
State sovereignty by the overthrow OF National
supremacy.


i'll Resolred, That the Democratic party. having
committed itself 10 attempt To break up the Gov
ernment by refusing toapproprlate 10 legitimate
objects the public moneys already collected from the
people unless the Executive shall give his official


Bee Eighth Page
Year: 1879

THE RACE WON by COLT or MODERATE PROMISE


THE MEXICAN EXHIBITION ABANDONED


In the race for the Derby stakes yesterday tho
favorites were all beaten, the prize being won by
Sir Bevys, a colt which had lost three races as
q two-year old. The new Governor of East
Roumelia has arrived at the capital, and
received an enthusiastic welcome. IL has been do
cided not to hold a Mexican Exhibition next year
In France, the contemplated Radical attack on tho
Government in the Chamber of Deputies has been
abandoned.
Year: 1879




After the Lieutenant-Governorship had been dis
posed Of there came forward upon the platform
sturdy, broad shouldered man. with strong genial
face high, broad forehead. brown hair not touched
with gray brown chin whskers and mustache, and
the walk Of one accustomed to pushing his way in
the world. This was Charles Foster. He gracefully
acknowledged the compliment of repeated cheers
and launched out into a speech of nearly an hours
duration. This was something of chill TO the en-
tbusiasm of the convention, but the success
full candidate knew that he talking
TO the newspapers and through them TO
the people of the State. and had carefully
Guarded himself from committing q mistake like
TINT which defeated Judge West two years ago, the
mistake of saying what he did not mean to say.
The speech was evidently prepared with care to
serve as the keynote of the campaign and there is
not a line in il which the Republicans of Ohio will
not indorse The following are some of the salient
points in Mr. Fosters address:


The issues In the pending campaign both National and
State are sharp and easily defined The Republican
Marty stands the honest and faithful enforcement OF
Inc Results OF the War; and the execution bOh In letter
and sprit of the amendments TO the Constitution We
as it does life liberty. the pursuit OF happiness ana
equal rights 20 all the people irrespective OF race or pre-
vious condition. We care not how poor or Dlack man
may be- shall enjoy every political rght accoroed 10
the highest and whitest.


AT the beginning OF President Hayes's adninistra-
On. Ibeevcd that the policy he adopted wOuI1 Iesu
in division OF public sentiment boutn whlch WOuIu
lead 10 an easy enforcement Of the CONSTITUTIONAL amend
ments and the revival OF prosperity In that section
saw a year ago that my hopes In this regard
were doomed TO disappointment. knew tneh as