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Year: 1874




The action of the republican State Sena-
tors on the occasion of the reception of the
Governors Message regarding the currency
propositions before Congress illustrates the
stupidity Of partisanship. After the Message
had been read Mr.. Ganson, Of Buffalo, offered
q concurrent resolution approving the seni-
ments expressed by Governor Dix, and di-
recting copies Of the Message and the legis-
lative endorsement to be forwarded to Wash
ington. This resolution was the more COM
plimentary to the Governor and the more
forcible from the fact that it originated with
q political opponent of the State Executive
and of the majority of the State Legislature,
and any sensible man would SO have regarded
it But the partisan minds Of Senators Wood
and Woodin could only discover in it, to use
their own refined language, "a put-up job for
the democrats to get all the glory possible out
of the Message and resolutions" So the for
mer offered an opposition approbatory reso-
luton, the latter moved the reference of the
whole subject to the Finance Committee and
the republican majority voted in favor Of the
motion. Meanwhile Mr.. Lord, democratic
Senator, claimed the Message as o proof that
Governor Dix is ION his way back to his old
love for the democratic party" With such
brilliant minds in the Senate what wonder
that our State legislation is notorious for
shortsghtedness if no worse.
Year: 1874

Dr. LIVINGSTONE is to be buried in West
minister Abbey, and the government has
undertaken to defray the expenses of the
funeral 1t is graceful and becoming tribute
of respect to the memory of good and true
man. In thus honoring the memory of the
great missionary and explorer the British ma
tion does honor tc itself
Year: 1874

Although we have not received satisfactory
particulars of the loss of the steamship
Europe several points may be assumed as
clearly established Five days after this
ocean leviathan sailed from Havre she was
ready to founder. Not one French officer or
sailor, as it appears from the brief telegraphic
account published yesterday, remained on
board-that is, they all gave up the ship.
But the crew of the Greece was made
of far different stuff, even making
allowance for the courage that may be inspired
by hope of liberal salvage. With twenty men
taken from the Greece the first mate of the
latter vessel remained on board and tried to
save the ship. Two days afterwards, with
eighteen feet of water in her engine room,
which must have rendered all further efforts
fruitless, the Europe was abandoned and the
salvage crew proceeded to England on board
the Egypt. A brief despatch received at late
hour last night says that the cause Of the leak
is not as yet known, although it was said to
have begun in the engine room. Without
discussing this point now, we will simply
observe that if steam lanes had not been o
reality the Europe would have taken to the
bottom the four hundred persons now on board
the Greece, which may arrive at any hour in
the lower bay. Thus steam lanes are actually
essential to the security of life on the sea.
Year: 1874

TEMPERANCE IN PHnADELpHrA-The tenn
perance crusaders in Philadelphia, discarding
the Western notion Of singing and praying
bands, have determined quietly to importune
every saloon keeper in the city to give up his
business. There can be no objection to this
course, and the success Of tho crusaders will
be matter for conQratulation.
Year: 1874

CONCERNING MONUMENTS. now have o
proposition to build monument, at cost Of
one hundred thousand dollars, to the memory
of Sumner, Greeley, Chase and Seward. We
do not oppose that tendency in the human
mind to express itself in monuments. 1t
comes from the spirit Of reverence, one Of
the most beautiful traits in our nature, the
underlying element of truth and religion.
But the difficulty about monuments is the
danger of building them too soon. True
fame is matter Of several generations. The
Roman Church does not canonize its saints
until time has proved their sanctity. We
should build our monuments to men Of the
past generation and leave our own honors to
our children.
Year: 1874




did not shout over him and women did not
give his name to their children. But he sue
ceeded in winning the common sense of the
country, and when he came before the people
for reelection he defeated, overwhelmingly,
one of the most illustrious and widely known
and highly respected citizens Of America. This
convinced us that, great as the republican party
was and had been, the President was greater.
He has confirmed this in his party discipline. He
dismissed the illustrious Sumner like
mutineer and sent Schurz and Trumbull and
Greeley and Fenton and Banks to keep him
company. And yet the time was, and not
very long ago, when the secession or political
outlawry of these men would have been re-
garded as the death Of republicanism. But
the party stood by and saw the bauishment
Of its favorites as patiently as the Roman
rabble viewed the banishment of Coriolanus.
With this tremendous power coming fSom his
own personality as q successful general and
the confidence be had inspired in his posses
sion of the qualities Of honesty and common
sense, with party under military drill obey
ing his orders and the vast army Of civil
servants ready to execute his will. nothing
seemed easier than for the President to 40
shape the policy Of the republican party as to
dictate one Of two results-the continuance
of the party in power or his own candidacy
for third term.


But the time has come for him to see IL
be really possesses this power. Without any
Year: 1874

We printed a paragraph yes
terday, from the KnorgiHe Press
and Herald, which is worthy of
the careful attention Of our pros
pective State Legislatures. It is
stated as fact that wheat is ship
ped from St. Louis through
Knoxville to Petersburg for for
ty-four cents per hundred, while
forty-six are charged from
Knoxville to Richmond or Pc
tersburg. This will probably
explain to farmers why they can
not dispose of their wheat crops
at satisfactory prices. Rail-
roads of Tennessee, built large
ly upon the credit of the State,
and exercising chartered rights
granted to them by the people,
are parties to this combination,
discriminating in a most outra-
Se0uS manner against the Iaim-
ers Of this State and in favor Of
those of the Northwest. This,
indeed, looks like a realization
Of the saying about taking an
adder to your breast, warmingit
to life, and afterwards being Bit
tin by it. We recognize the
value Of railroads and are not
disposed to incite the people
to make war upon them, but
such palpably outrageous dis
ordinations as that alluded to
should not be submitted to by
the people. The voters should
study this question, arrive at
some conclusion upon it, and
take measures to have their
rights in this matter placed in
the hands Of Legislators who are
able and willing to maintain
them. In no question now be-
fore them have the people Of the
State a greater interest.
Year: 1874

A dispatch from Montgomery,
Ala, dated on the 18th instant,
says: This evening, on the Sell
ma train, the conductor ordered a
negro out of the ladies' car. On
his refusal to go, the conductor
took the negro by the arm TO force
him out. Busteed. United States
District Judge, took sides with the
negro aud drew pistol and told
him not to go. Busteed and the
negro left the car and soon returned
with some twenty negroes and took
possession of the ladies car
There were only three ladies and
one gentleman in the car. Two
white Republicans on the train
persuaded the negroes to return,
after they had held possession of
the car for some time. Great liz
dignation is manifested at such
conduct OH the part of an United
States Judge
Year: 1874

The FOrSaken.
This poem, written by "Stella' (Mr
E stella Anna Lewis. at the age of fourteen
Poe said was ''the most beautiful ballad oil
the kind ever written. We have read it.,
he remarked, "more than twenty time:
and always with increased admiration. -
And on the strength of this opinion we re
print it.


1t hath been said, for all who die


There is tear;
Some pining, bleeding heart to sigh


O'er every bier.
But in that hour Of pain and dread
Who will draw near
Around my humble couch and shed
One farewell tear?
Who'd watch life's last departing ray
In deep despair,
And soothe my spirit on its way


With holy prayer?
What mourner round my bier will come
In weeds of woe,
And follow me to my long home,


Solemn and slow
When lying on my clayey bed,


In icy sleep,
Who there, by pure affection led,
VIII come and weep;
BY the pale moon implant the rose
Upon my breast
And bid it cheer my dark repose,
My lonely rest ?
Could but know, when I am sleeping
Low in the ground,
One faithful heart would there be keeping
Watch all night round,
AS if some gem lay shrined beneath
That sod's cold gloom,
'Twould mitigate the pangs Of death
And light the tomb.
Yes in that hour, if I could feel
From halls Of glee
And beanty's presence one would steal
In secrecy,
And come and sit and weep by me
In nights deep noon,
Oh /! l would ask of memory
No other boon.
But ah lonlier fate is mine,
A deeper woe;
From all l love in youths sweet time
soon must go;
Drawn round me my pale robes of white,
In dark spot
To sleep through deaths long, dreamless


night,


Lone and forgot o..
Year: 1874

Whenever you see a small boy
emerging from the house with
his left aim shading bis eyes
and the other soothing the
basement of his trousers, it is
safe to conclude that he has been
chasing the boot-jack around
his father.
Year: 1874

The water was so warm as to
evidence the previous action
of subterranean fire, and so
strongly tinctured with combus-
tible matter as to resemble fluids
impregnated with pulverized
gun powder, and a mountain of
considerable height had arisen
in one night from the level of
what had been before a plain
Similar convulsions extended to
a greater or less degree over the
Year: 1874

s New YORK, Sept. 10.-There is great
excitement in Green Point over the dis
appearance of child of Jacob Hogar,
a wealthy tObacconist. It's nurse, Liz
zie- Menker. had been dismissed on
Tuesday ,.Ia last hoaIg and sohe hfefi lime, asked
permission to take the child, which is
only three months old, for sail. It
was granted, and she departed. Since
that time the chffd has not been seen.
The woman returned on Wednesday
morning with her arms covered with
blood, and could at that time give no
account of herself. She was placed
under arrest, and told a rambling story
to Commissioner Jenson. She said
that when the boat reached the New
York side, and while she was waiting
for it, to return to Green Point, two
men came in, and, after blindfolding
her, carried off the child and dragged
her on shore that they crossed some
other ferry and were taken to a dingy
house, where the handkerchief was
taken from her eyes; that the child
was carried away, and on her making
an cutlery they cut her on the arms,
but she finally escaped and got back
to New York, from where she returned
to Green Point. No credence is placed
in her story, and the police are investi-
eating the affair.
Year: 1874

usefulness was to have been, so wide
spread are the regrets that are caused
by its suspension. But there should
be no giving up in an enterprise like
this. it ought to be made to rise
above all discouraging circumstances,
and this is evidently the view taken
of it by the people of Texas, who are
moving throughout their Granger or
ganization with greater unanimity in
the matter. If the people of Texas
manifest an interest in the enterprise,
how much greater the reason for such
manifestation on the part of the peo-
pie of California. The proposition to
which the Texans are lending encour-
agement is that the general govern
ment shall give some practical assis-
tance, in lieu of the large land grants
which are not available, as things
have turned, even as security for
bonds. They propose that Congress
shall give some limited guaranty of
the payment of interest on the con-
struction bonds of the company. The
large amount of money the Govern
ment is now expending in the country
to be traversed, will warrant some
such action on the part of Congress,
and will, no doubt, prove to be step
in the direction of money saving, in
stead of money expending. The great
est benefit from the work so far as the
Government is concerned, will be in
opening up a vast region of country to
settlement and civilization, and in
promoting foreign commerce. The
General Government cannot possibly
loose in the transaction, while Califor-
MIA must necessarily reap very great
advantages, and especially Southern
California.
Year: 1874

The narrow gauge railroad to be
built between this city and the coast,
will no doubt be completed within the
next six months. 1t will be a valua-
BILE piece of road from the very outset,
but we can fancy the enterprise ex-
panded to dimensions hardly dreamed
of by those who regard the road as a
thoroughfare between the city and tn e
seaside. The capital stock of the Los
Angeles and Coast Railway Company
is $780,, 900, and it is estimated that the
net earnings of the road for the first
year will pay twenty per cent. on the
capital stock. But suppose the road
does not terminate in this city. Sup
pose combination is effected between
the Coast Railway Company and
the Los Angeles and Independ-
ence Railroad Company. Such COM
bination would be profitable to both
companies and advantageous to the
country. The narrow gauge would
begin to stretch out toward San Ber-
nardino, and in q few months the
Cajon Pass would be reached, and
little later the scream of the locomo-
tive would be heard at the bend of the
Mojave. When the track is laid thus
far, the narrow gauge will be
doing the freighting business and
passenger traffic for all Arizona,
the mines of Panamint and of
Cerro Gordo. The road would go
on, through by Independence and on to
meet the narrow-gauge road now eX-
tending south-westerly from Salt
Lake, and thus give the world a Pa
cific railroad through country where
snow blockades are never known and
snow sheds never needed. This long
and valuable road may grow out of
the fifteen miles of road to be built by
the Los Angeles and Coast Railway
Company. That it should have such
growth is not only possible but very
probable.
Year: 1874

A NUMBER of newspapers are eau
tious-over cautious-about publish
ing anything in the BEECHER-TILToN
case that reflects on HENRY or ELIZA
BETH. This would be all right were
we sure that were the parties impli-
Gated some rustic DARBY and JOAN
these careful papers would not serve
up the details in every conceivable
shape and style. There is no toady
that excels the journalistic toady.
Year: 1874

Since our article on this subject, we
have learned more of the particulars
concerning the Asbestos deposit in the
San Fernando range of mountains. II
was discovered by our ubiquitous friend
w. w. JENKINS who has kept it quiet
from his neighbors, and acquainted
some Eastern men of it's existence,
and we learn they are to be here soon
and will probably take it in hand.
The specimens we saw are as fine as
silk
Year: 1874

MokE FIREs.-Last week we had to chronicle
he burning of the Empire Hotel, near Ophir,
which now seems to have been only the first of
series of incendiary fires, previously plotted
against that part of the country. Last Saturday
night tln Ophr school house completely
destroyed by fire and the old Poland building
and shed, formerly hotel, on the turnpike, be-
tween here and Ophir, was, ON the same night,
burned to the ground. That both were set on
fire, there is not room for doubt. The shed
was but little loss, as it was old and rotten, and
unoccupied. The school house, with an addi-
ton which was just being completed, it was
calculated would have answered the purpose for
many years. 1t is estimated that the loss OF the
building cannot be made good for less than
$1,000, say nothing about the loss to the chill
dren, in being deprived of school ben efts, until
another house can be fitted up, Or, perhaps, a
new one erected. There was, we understand,
$500 insurance on the school house and furni-
ture, which will go long way toward fitting up
and furnishing some other building to answer
the purpose, at least temporarily, if such can
be had.
Year: 1874

LADY PATIENT.-An elderly lady. by the name
of Matilda Phelps. on her way, by rail, from
Portland, Maine according to her own story to
California, while getting on the cars at Emgrant
Gap, slipped and broke one of her legs between
the knee and ankle. She was q poor woman,
alone among strangers, with but one dollar in
the world 1t seems she was left by the ex-
press train, of which she was passenger, but
subsequently sent down the freight train to
Auburn, to be treated in the Placer county hos
pital. She arrived here az two o'clock, last
Tuesday morning, and was conveyed from the
depot to the hospital in one of Mr.. Mclaughlin S
easy carriages. This is the first of female
patient in our hospital for many years. And,
rs there is no ward set apart for females. we
should think the situation to all concerned, and
especially to this patient would be rather en-
barrassng. Here is chance for some of our
ladies to perform an act of genuine charity, by
at least calling on this lonely and unfortunate
creature, and carrying with them some little
delicacies, which the nature of her so natur-
ally Graves Even q bunch of flowers, and a
SIN ling countenance,~ borne by one of her own
sex, would be to her an oasis in the desert of her
troubles. Who will be the good Samaritan to
move in the matter :?
Year: 1874

That SORE HEAD-A certain amable youth,
whom it will not be improper to call Adophus.
has been walking the streets lately, with his head
tied up in rag, and many of the knowing ones
are whispering it around that he and Mr.. Sprin-
gle, the father of Syntha Sprlngle, whom Adolf
phus used togo and see, have had trouble and
that the old man has really beat Adolphus over
the head. These wrong impressions sometimes
cause trouble, therefore, hasten to explain
all. The truth is this. Adolphus was badly
tangled in the meshes of loves snares, and
greatly to his delight, but much to the annoyance
of her dear parents, the fair one reciprocated his
tender passions. Finally Adolphus was forbid
den from coming inside the house. Not the
least daunted at this parental cruelty, an ar
rangement was promptly made for meeting at
the front gate, when the clock struck eight and
the old folks shaped for retiring. The shrewd
sire discovered their plan, and the fair one
was sent off to bed. Little dreaming Of disap-
pointment, Adolphus for fear of being late was
seen near the gate exactly at eight. Now, it
somehow happened that an old white cat had
curied herself for the night on top of the gate
post. 1t was very dark night. and when the
youth caught sight of this streak of white, he did
not take to flight. but supposed it handkerchief
tied around the swan-like neck of his love-
Fearing to go directly to her, lest it might be her
mother, he concluded to walk slowly by. On
getting few rods down the street, he stopped
and whispered don't she know me; I'll go clos
er.' Turning around he retraced his steps, this
time passing closer by the gate; as he passed he
observed the white object more slightly, though,
still it spake not On getting a few rods beyond,
the youth again stopped and pondered. ut can
be none other than my love. who wishes to try
my courage, III go directly to her, Thus
saying he made for the gate, On approaching
the spot, he softly whispered, "Syntha, at the
same time reached out his arm to place it
around that snowy neck, when the old white cat
gave g new" and jump towards the house,
and Adolphus screamed and jumped away from
the house. As the poor fellow lit. he fell, and
in the fall he struck his head against a hitching
post, and as he don't 60 there any more. people
think be and the old man had fight
Year: 1874

WATCH OUT for Lubecks return. He has
been below, this last week, for the purpose of
laying in a stock of seasonable goods. EARLY
next week his goods will be here, and then, if
he holds his own, and we have reasons to be-
lieve he will if possible improve the past,
there can be seen, at D. w. Lubeck's, Masonic
Building, corner of Court and Commercial
streets, Auburn, as fine stock, and as great a
variety of Fall and Winter goods, as can be
found anywhere
Year: 1874

NAMEs.--The recent announcement that " DR..
Carpenter will soon return to Auburn, led some
of our people into a warm discussion on the
significance of names. Some held that there was
nothing in a name, while others protested that
the name went long way with some people.
An elderly doctor says, "why, just hate my
name, believe ]. would have been married long
ago, if had not such an outlandish name y
Another elderly professional (Blackstone) spoke
up, and said 'There may be something
i'll that doc- but if you will give me dollar
and half, will trade with you" The doctor
seemed eager for the bargain, and it doubtless
would have been consummated at once, only for
the "tightness of the money market" AS soon
as the amount can be raised, we shall have the
We'll, we'll wait till the boot is paid before wei
tell
Year: 1874

An experimental young lady Of Av-
on is undertaking to develop new and
startling beauties in the spiritualistic
line. For five weeks she has been ly
ing as one dead, without breathing,
eating, drinking or giving any signs OF
life watever. We take the facts which
appear below, from the Rochester
Democrats:


Several months ago an unmarried
woman by the name Of Elenora Bon
ney, announced to her friends that she.
at time not far distant, would go in
to a peculiar trance, the result Of
which would be the revelation Of some
startling facts.


She had been for some time past an
acknowledged medium and clairvoy-
ant, and had, as her friends allege.
through the instrumentality Of the
spirits, been enabled TO perform many
wonderful things.


Miss Bonncy gave notice to those
intimately associated with her that she
was to pass into this mysterious state
so frequently that they began to weary
Of it, doubling that the event would
ever come to pass. At a visit to Avon,
made some time during the summer,
Mrs. Dutton was informed Of what
she expected to take place, and from
her the promise was elected that in
case the event should occur, she wod
remain with the body, prevent any at
tempt at burial, and keep her free from
the gaze Of any intruder, save a few
whom she named. On the 10th day
Of November last, Miss Bonney in
formed her friends that her time had
come. Sending for her brother-in-
law, John Ryan, she informed him cl
what was coming, and TO him and Mir.
Preston announced the course Of con-
duct to be pursued by them, and Ger
tain conditions necessary to be carried
out in order 10 make tie experiment a
success. She stated that she was to
prove that person could die, the 2ouI