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Year: 1876

1t is notable that the Morning Herald has
not corrected the false charge that Harry
McMullen collected taxes from farmers and
retained the money. This was the grGoa-
men of its libel upon him. That there was
a tax assessed to farmers, under con
struction of the law made by the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue. but which was
subsequently reversed, is perfectly true.
Mr.. McMullen stated the fact in note to
the Morning Herald Of Monday. But in go
doing he was simply proceeding in the line
of his duty as pointed out to him by those
. in authority, and the charge that he collect
ed the tax and retained it is a totally differ
enJ matter, which, if true, would be scan
daleusly to the discredit of Mr. McMullen,
but, being false, is gross libel upon him
How the Herald, upon any principle of fair
play, can excuse itself for not explicitly
Withdrawing its unjust charge we confess
ourselves unable to see.
Year: 1876

IT is certainly in very bad taste, if moi
untrue, for Colonel Sturgis to be making
publications that General Custer, acted
cowardly in his fight with Sitting Bull
Evidences Of Clusters bravery; his endear.
ment to the public heart, by answering
fidelity, have fortified him and his memory
against such invidious attacks as these
which have been made by Colonel ..Sturgis,
in moments Of grief over the less Of a son
in the same fight that the gallant Custer
fell. People can readily appreciate the
bereavement of the father in the loss of an
afectionate son, but the utterance of what
is known to be falsehood upon the mem
sry Of gallant officer, cannot make it a
warrant for the attack.
Year: 1876

IT will be seen by the report Of the meet
ing held on Saturday by the Democratic
Executive Committee of New Castl,
County that those Hundreds which have
not organized for the campaign are
requested to meet in their respective
places on August 9Th, and effect an organi-
zation. 1t is to be hoped that this request
will meet with hearty response. They
will cast their ballots for or against the re-
vised rules that day,
Year: 1876

| A144 1sAW VA0A AAAS S~AN~ NHs4l
The attitude that the afternoon paper


have assumed through their correspondents


from New Castle, in referring to the, jai


management, is no more than we expected


These correspondents are fierce in denun'


citation from the astounding truthfulness Of


the statements in the article, that has


amazed New Castle with surprise, and set


the thinking portion Of this county to con-


sidering in what way the fund for feeding


the prisoners can be improved. If they
were merely statements that came to our
ears through idle rumor, we should pass
them by as worthless, but when they were
obtained from the mouths of prisoners then
they must be credited; and not from one
prisoner, but from at least twenty.


The correspondent Of the Conner
ciap' goes so far as to say that a
bountiful supply of official pap"
would straighten the whole matter.
We did not publish the article through
any prejudice to Sheriff Lambson, or be-
cause he ever refused in any way to be-
stow patronage upon this paper, but in
justice to those men, who are locked in
their cells, and had no redress against
poor and unwholesome food, until they
mustered courage to rise en-masse in re-
sentiment to the treatment, and then it was
improved. We speak for these un-
fortunate people, and not with the
expectation Of any pecuniary gain,
or because Of disappointment at
not having received as the Commercial"
correspondent terms it Official pap" If
the "pap" to the prisoners had been Of a
better quality there would have been no
occasion for the exposure Of this wrong
upon defenceless people.


The correspondent Of the Gazette" says
that the. HERALD correspondent is an un-
mitigated liar. This should have been
published in card; it would have been
better suited in such form, as we'll regu-
lated newspapers do not allow correspen-
lents to use such harsh language. But be
all this as it may, it does not destroy the
of the article, which stands
in living testimony by twenty of
he prisoners, who are glad to know that
he outrages practiced upon them are made
Known to the public, and will be the means
fpreventing its repetition.
Year: 1876

the midst Of his ruinations, and none but
those who have had sufficient patriotism to
visit the elimination Of the first century in
= grand exhibition, know how powerfully
constituted is this champion physically.
Many smashed trunks tell it in mournful
numbers.
Year: 1876

The true reason that the HERALD did
not have those revised rules was because
there was a combination to keep them
away from the paper. 1t succeeded, but
caused somebody to trip on their word fear
fully.
Year: 1876

and on the other side '.1S76.r On 8
short stick extending above the Lantern
Is small Flag. When In line Of march
every alternate company Is headed with
band Of music. Tho Artillery mans
Brass Howitzer (i2-pounder,) and the
Fire Brigade has charge Of tho fire
works, which is the grandest feature
Of the whole affair. They have had
several professions, the three most inn
portant Of which are as follows: On tho
arrival of Senator Sargent from Wash
ington they turned out about 1900
strong, to receive him. Last Saturday
night they went 1900 strong on IN ex-
cursion to San Jose, distance offfty
miles, where they were received by the
Republicans OF that place, and escorted
to large Hall to replcnish the inner
man with the fat of the land, where
some two hundred beautiful ladies were
in attendance with bib aprons on. God
bless EN-! That was said to be by far
the finest procession that ever formed
on the Pacific Coast. and I don't think
it could be surpassed much in any
country. Last night they turned out
1,500 strong to receive Senator Booth,
who has just returned from his labors
in Indiana. since the adjournment of
Congress. cannot ask space to do
these grand demonstrations justice and
therefore must cut short. But, where
there is so much smoke there must be
some fire, t. c. Republicans are numer-
Gus, and will undoubtedly give Hayes
and Wheeler the 6 Electoral Votes to
which this State is entitled. And now
"Gentle Reader tearing you are wcmy
/ submit the foregoing asa correct por-
trait Of the political situation on this
coast and challenge contradiction.


am, INvINCrBLE.


Who don't Dant to be Post Master.
Year: 1876

TRENTON, N. j., Feb. 1.-The Chancellor to-
day decided the question in regard to the construction OF
the bridge scross the Delaware at Vaudeville The State
had applied for an Injunction on the ground that the
grant the injunction and has refused the order to shoW
cause
Year: 1876

Several cavalry veterans OF the late held meet
Ing yesterday Jersey City and resolved 90 organize
a cavalry company TO be Incorporated in tho State
militia. sixiy-ave names were placed on the rolL Ii
was resolved TO send committee wait Governor
Bedlc in relation TO the matter The movement WIS
originated by Captain John L. Clcary.
Year: 1876

garded as one of the most dangerous
features of building. Another
rule should be adopted, particular
ly in cities that have not extern
sive means of protection against
fire. The limits within which frame
buildings should be permitted should
be so contracted as to prevent the pres
ence of infiamable matter in the shape
of frame structures in the heart of q
large and populous city. In Quebec
there were a large number of such
buildings in the quarter in which the
fire originated. In Chicago the case
was the same, and in many other
places there are the same opportuni-
ties offered by mismanagement for
similar occurrences. There is no inn
munity from the wrath of the fiery
element and these occurrences teach
us that too great precaution cannot be
taken in this regard. 1t becomes our
own authorities to see to it, in these
days of great disasters, that there
shall be nothing left undone in the
way of precautionary measures for the
protection of both property and life.
This is the fourth warning that we
have had during but few years, and
we should heed it here at home.
Year: 1876

1t may be set down as an axiom
that a man who owns fine palace
car and does not own foot of rail-
road, should not quarrel with railroad
companies. A. A. COHEN will doubt
less endorse the correctness of this
theory. He purchased palace car of
gorgeous proportions and extravagant
finish in which he was wont to ride
over the Central and Southern Pacific
roads with all the airs of a shoddy ar
istocrat. But, alas, those princely rides
have finally terminated. The compa-
ny were suddenly awakened to tn e
fact that their confidential agent was
swindling them and robbing those
with whom he was deputized to do


business and the long trusted COHEN
was invited to vacate his position.
With his dismissal from the compa-
ny's employ terminated his road priv
ileges and the magnificent palace car
which cost $50, 900 was suddenly trans
formed into an elephant and it now
stands with wheels half imbedded in
the earth in Mr.. CoHEN's front yard,
a rookery for bats and owls to roost
in. The disgraced agent now con-
templates from his breakfast table the
magnificent ruin and modifying the


remark of WoLsEY to suit his own
case he mentally exclaims. "If l had
served the Central Pacific with half
the zeal that have served Tom SCOTT
my palace car would lot now be the
laughing stock of all who see and un-
derstand. Like most big rascals 1
played my game too bold and with
single torpedo those whom I have
falsely served have blown me beyond
the pale of respectable recognition"
Year: 1876

The Civil Rights question is and
ever will be bone of contention. The
following shows that we have one
Justice that appreciates the situation.
From the Alta we quote the follow
ing:


In the case of Green, colored man
who sued Manager Mcclure for refus-
ing him admission to his theatre,
United States Circuit Judge Sawyer
yesterday decided that that portion of
the Act of Congress providing that
any manager of theatre or similar
institution, is guilty of a misdemeanor,
who shall refuse admission to any
colored person, is unconstitutional and
void. He said that Congress has no
power to make such a law, though the
Legislature of any State might, per-
haps, do so. The management of a
theatre is a private enterprise; the
proprietor conducts it for his own
profit; it is his investment, and he can
lay down the laws by which it shall
be conducted, and the public has
nothing to do with it. IF the defen-
dant had sold ticket and agreed to
let the buyer in, he would be liable to
an action for damages, and such suit
might legally be brought. In the
case as it stands, however, it is beyond
the power of Congress to rule as it has
in passing the Act, and so much of the
Fourteenth Amendment as applies to
such cases is unconstitutional and
void, and there is no ground on which
Year: 1876

When a fire breaks out in a small
community, and few thousands of
dollars of damage is done we used to
think it a calamity. This word ap-
pears now days in regard to confia-
grations to be almost meaningless. The
confagrations of Chicago and Boston
have given the word a weakness of
meaning that it never Lad before.
The telegraph informed us yesterday


that another city was in flames, one
of the richest and most prosperous on
the continent, and one of historic
memory. We learn that hundreds of
families are rendered homeless, and
that million dollars worth of prop
erty has been destroyed, hundreds of
families rendered houseless etc. This


is sad tale both in pecuniary and a
humanitarian point of view, and is
suggestive of question as to whether
in the construction of buildings the
proper rules of architecture are OBJ
served and the rules of philosophy re-
garded that are calculated to protect
the interests of property holders. This
is matter that peculiarly interests
the underwriters, and will in the end
result in reform in the method of
constructing buildings and laying out
cities. Probably there is no city in
the Union that was more substantial
ly constructed than Boston, and yet
when attacked by the fiery elem ent
the better portion of the business dis
srict fell before the flames like tinder,
though many of the edifices were
built of the best of Quincy granite.
The system of architecture has of late
been much discussed and for densely
populated cities the mansard roof has
been discarded. This has been re-
Year: 1876

Day after tomorrow train will
start from New York for San Fran
cisco which is intended to make the
fastest time on record. 1t is expected
to cross the continent in eighty-four
hours. In order to accomplish this
amazing feat it will have to make
from fifty to sixty-five miles per hour
on some parts of the route, and to av-
erage forty miles per hour on the
whole distance. The passengers by
this train expect to take late break
fast in New York next Thursday and


to dine at the Palace Hotel or else
where in San Francisco Sunday eve-
ming. We are not prepared to proph-
esy that these sanguine expectations
will be disappointed, or to affirm that
the entire 1926 miles cannot be made
in three days and twelve hours. 1t
Year: 1876

Our colleague. Hon. p. A. Roach, who, as
the reading public generally know, has gone
to Washington City as commissioners TO
awaken attention to the Chinese evil now
affecting California, writes TO us from Chl-
cago that he interviewed the editors OF the
leading journals of that city and found them
utterly apathetic as To the importance OF the
question, and not at all opposed to the Coo
lie immigration. He could arouse no inter-
est there ON the subject, there being a decided
division of public opinion in the premises,
probably growing out of the action OF com>
munistic element in that city which occa-
stoned trouble there few weeks ago. 1t ap-
pears, consequently, that at this tuneture
San Francisco should expect but little assist
ance from Chicago to aid her in an abate-
ment of the Celestial nuisance


We take the above from the Exam
iner, and it is exactly what we ex-
pected. The people of the East have
no more appreciation of our relations
to the Chinese than we have of the
residents of the Moon. Hence the re-
sponsibility that rests upon those who
are the promoters of the anti-Chinese
movement on this Coast. The great
thing to be considered is how to edu-
cate the Eastern sentiment up to
full appreciation of our practical rela-
tions to this element. 1t must be
done by a logical and rational method
of procedure. We have peculiar
idea of ourselves on this Coast, and
although we have right to indulge
in degree of local conceit, We must
remember that in the national combi-
nation we are but an atom after all,
and yet an atom of strength. Could
we see ourselves as others see us we
would oftentimes be more discreet
than we are in some respects. In this
vital matter we must convince by our
discretion that our Commissioner is
acting in good faith, and that the evil
complained of is of such magnitude
that its removal is indispensable to
the welfare of State that in all Of its
relations to the Union is as important
as any of the more densely populated
or of more venerable age and more
matured influence. We are not sur
prised at the greeting received by our
Commissioner, and in view of the fact
of the circumstance narrated we sug-
gest that our conduct in the handling
of this matter at home will either aid
or interfere with his efforts at the
East. We must be discreet in all
things to gain confidence abroad.
Year: 1876

THE DAILY and WEEKLY HER
AID has more than double the cir
culation of any other paper published
In Southern California. Business men
recognize 1t accordingly as the best
advertising medium South of San
Francisco.
Year: 1876

Gossip About the st. Louis Convention.


ST. LOUIS, June PA portion of the
Nevada delegation arrived last night.
The delegation is unpledged but the mem
bers of it favor Tilden, Hancock and Hen
bricks. They say they have many admir-
ers west of the mountains, but there seems
to be general preference for Tilden, he
being regarded as the most likely to carry
the Democratic party to victory. All the
delegates from the Pacific seem anxious to
have the Chinese immigration question
discussed and there will. no doubt, be an
effort made to incorporate into the plat
form Of the convention a plank on this
subject as individual members desire an
acknowledgement that the people of the
Pacific states are right in their opposition
to mongolian immigration.


A small part of the Ohio delegation has
arrived, The delegation is instructed for
Allen, hut members here say they would
accept Thurman, perhaps Hendricks, al
| though they do not consider him a strong
candidate and could hardly carry Ohio fol
any other thoroughly sound man and
sterling Democrat. There seems to be
very strong objection to Iilden among the
delegates, yet under certain circumstances
they would no doubt vote for him. Han.
cock is considered weak candidate anC
is hardly TO be thought Of, and some Of
them fear the nomination of Hendricks
would be the precursor Of Democratic
| Waterloo.
Year: 1876

each military post and camp provided with
artillery and ammunition, a salute of
thirteen guns will be fired at dawn, and
also at close of day, and national salute
will be fred at meridian. Post com.
manders will prescribe such additional in
expensive observances. such as parades,
etc., as they may consider appropriate to
the occasion. They may also at their dis
erection participate with their commands in
any civil or military ceremonies taking
place in the vicinity of their posts to which
they NAV be invited,
Year: 1876

''THE country's shame," heads the
leading article in a number of our co.
temporaries of late, and the person
but recently setting foot on these
shores would be justified in the con-
clusion that the great Republic had
but just discovered that the party rul-
ing her affairs for the past fifteen
years was made up of knaves and ras-
Gals who We'd with each other in the
task of trying which could steal the
most. This is mistake. The virtuous
spasm which is just now disturbing
the happiness of great many Repub-
licap journals is likely to lead the
new conner into error. This stealing
is no new thing. 1t has been going
on for eight years at least, and what
is more the papers now bemoaning
"the country's shame" were as well
aware of the fact during GRANTS
first term as now. 1t is the exposure
the Democrats are making that is pro-
ducing the rattling among the dry
bones.
Year: 1876

He was teaching lessons of cowardice,
but the very reverse is true. None
but the bravest man can keep this
command, for it requires far more
courage to turn the other cheek than
it does to knock man down. All his
teachings were to keep and not to alb
rogate or break the law. 1t seems to
be a hobby with nine-tenths of what
is called the progressive element in
this mushroom growth of the nine
teenth century to consider all the
former ages barbarians. In their es-
timation they are so far superior to
every race that has gone before that
they would not only abrogate old
laws, but institute new code
of morals and throw away the
old Bible. But we notice that those
nations whose God is the Lord, and
whose laws are nearest like the Code
given to Moses, have the least crime
and are the happiest peoples, the
howlers to the contrary notSith-
standing. These fanatics would
make great show of refinement
and mercy in dealing out the penal
tics of the law. But to whom would he
be merciful? Not to the poor helpless
women, who are beaten and whipped
like so many dogs, until their backs
are lacerated and bloody, but to these
inhuman brutes that do these things
they would be very tender-put them
in confinement and feed them at the
expense of the hard working civil peo-


pie. We say, give them stripe for
stripe, until they learn what virtue
there is in the lash. To those editors.
divines, and law makers, who imag
ined that Christ abrogated the law of
retaliation, we would make this re-
mark: If he intended to abolish the


law by the text we have quoted (and
there is no other text like it) by par
| ity of reasoning we must not only
| turn the other cheek when a man


smites us on one, but if a man COM


mits rape we must tell him to go and


commit another rape-if he kills one


man to go and kill another-if he


whips his wife, tell him to whip anoth-


er woman. The idea is insane, and yet
| ministers and people have adopted it


1t is a sickly sentimentalsm, mista-


ken for genuine piety. Piety is full


of love and pity, but it loves the gooC


and helpless more than the vicious
| and evil.
Year: 1876

Some of our people are blubbering
because Senator RoACH's bill to pun
ish wife beaters at the public whip
ping post has become law. We are
sorry to see them take it so hard.
There are thirty odd States, however,
that they can emigrate to if this law
Expresses them. We have no doubt
there will be considerable exodus of
wife beaters from this State very
soon. We can bear the departure of
all such with great Christian forti-
tude. OF all the crimes that men are
guilty, of there are none so dastardly
and cruel as that of beating an unfor-
tunate woman who has committed
her destiny into the hands of such
wretch. The gallows, the whipping
post, or the rack is none too good Tor
such brutes. We have no sympathy
with that class of maudlin humanita-
rians who are forever howling and
crying over the just punishment of
the poor criminal, which serves no
other purpose than to encourage the
vicious and evil minded in the COM
mission of crime. What the world
needs most is law to prevent crime
and to accomplish this we doubt if
there will ever be one made superior
to that given to Moses-"An eye for
an eye and a tooth for tooth.n This
law emanated from Heaven, and is the
embodiment of wisdom and mercy.
There is no law so merciful as one
that prevents crime, and there will
never be one equal to this to deter
avil-doers. But we are told that
Christ abrogated this law: Mathew
v.xxxviii and xxxvix. Not so. Christ
was not speaking to Legislators, nei-
ther did he design to convey'the idea
that this law was to be repealed. eye
have heard it said, an eye for an eye,


&c. But say unto you, that ye re-
sist not evil, but whosoever shall
smite thee on thy right cheek, turn 10
him thy left Also" 1t was individual
conduct of which he was speaking,
and not the punishment of crime by
legal process. Men in those days, as
they do now, were in the habit of TAX
ing the law into their own hands, and
if slapped upon the cheek they would
smIte back again. The foolish idea


prevailed then, as now, that a mans
honor was at stake if he failed to re.


sent an insult, and it was to abolish
this code of honor that the language
above was used. This command COM
pletely upset the prevailing idea of
what was chivalric and honorable.
At the first glance we are ready to say
Year: 1876

OUR FARMERS contlnue TO report the
most gratifying crop prospects. In
the vicinity of Compton and down to-
ward Santa Monica the grain is very
luxuriant. In the San Jose valley the
rye and barley promise better har-
vest than has been realized for years.
The fields of San Fernando valley are
covered with waving grain, and a
good crop is assured. There will be
more grain harvested in this valley
this year than in any two previous
years within the last decade.
Year: 1876

OF the bank without authority" One OF the
cashiers at Washington is a confessed forger.


The question has been suggested to the freed
men, and is being very seriously considered by
them whether u great deal of this bloody
shirt business is not intended to cover up the
Stolen deposit business of the Freedman's
bank. The vote in Mississippi last year, in
Alabama this year, and the known extensive
detection of the negro voters in Louisiana and
In North and South Carolina at tho present
day. seem to show that the freedmen begin to
uh1erstsud how they came to be plundered
and who got their money. such a perilous
state Of affairs calls for every soldier ut the
command of the War Department. The freed
men must be protected, even from themselves