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Year: 1876

to confess the land Of their birth. 1t will
not do for . native Of the
United States to be regarded as
. member of nationality whose only
characteristic Is that Of unprinci-
pied dishonesty. Yet that is the position
we occupy in the eyes Of the civilized
world to-day.


1t is all very we'll Tor US to look out,
even now, or at any time, to rectify the
unhappy financial condition in which the
dominant party has placed US; but sure
ly, other wrongs must, Of necessity, be
righted first. Our National honor must
be restored, and neither can the one
nor the other be done until we get
the power to do so. The Democracy, as a
party, has given 20 the world its position
on this financial problem. Let it go to
work then to secure President and Con-
gress so that its position may be carried
into substantial effect. Otherwise all the
resolutions it may adopt. are but as
sou nding brass and tinkling cymbal.
Year: 1876

OMAHA, March 16.-A telegram from
the west says all trains on the mountain
division OF the Union Pacific Railroad
to-day was abandoned on account of =
snow blockade between Green River and
Evepston. Several freight trains were
showed in on Creston Hill between Bit.
ter Creek and Rawlins and everything
has been blocked ali day. Large forces
of men with snow plows from Bitter
Creek will start in the morning to try
to get through. 1t is still showing and
drifting badly and there is a severe storm
in this region to-day with a gale from
the northwest.
Year: 1876

The apparent phenomenon of plants
surviving after their juices have been
frozen has excited much research for an
explanation among botanists. The prob
lem has not yet been satisfactorily solved,
but some interesting testimony in the case
has been elected through the experiments
of Mr.. Tiftard, which are published in an
English exchange. Some juice OF cab.
bage-leaf, mingled with water, was placed
in a bottle and subjected to a low temper
ature, along with second bottle contain
ing pure water. The latter fluid froze,
but the mixture of cabbage-juice and
water resisted congelation. This result
goes to show that the juices of plants do
not freeze in temperatures which CONCEAL
water, their chemical constituents giving
them power TO resist the ordinary effects
OF cold Where the frost does destroy
vegetable life, the process is in accordance
with the common law by which frozen
liquids expand and disrupt the surround.
ing tissues, causing disintegration and
death.
Year: 1876

Col Kane's driving is marvellous, but it
is an illustration of the influence of
aristocratic ideas upon the police that
they allow this coach and its four horses
to race through Fifth avenue at full speed,
every horse on a gallop, and the guard
blowing long and loud blasts upon his
horn, unnotced, while an ordinary indi-
vidual would be stopped on the first cor
ner for fast driving One of the charm
ing things about this new atfectation is,
that it is considered the proper thing at
the conclusion of the ride to hand both
driver and guard a fee-after the manner
of the English-and, TO make this the
more ludicrous, il is gravely announced
that silver quarter for each passenger is
the precise amount which etiquette de-
mands shall constitute the aforesaid fee.
Verify are we Americans, or, l should
say, we New Workers, celebrating an in
dependence of Great Britain by aping
some of her most foolish habits.-N. Y.
Cor Chicdg0 Tribune
Year: 1876

Eg~ The message of President Grant,
sent to the House yesterday in response
to a resolution of inquiry as to the time
passed by the Executive outside of Wash
ington, was well-deserved and fitting
rebuke to the partisan spite and imperti-
nence which prompted the resolution Of
inquiry. Divested of its diplomatic and
dignified habiliments, and stripped down
TO the plain vernacular, the message
means ats none of your business, and
you were guilty of gross impudence in
making the inquiry" Much has been
said about the frequent absence of Presi-
dent Grant from the seat of Government,
and he has thought proper to furnish
some interesting information concerning
the customs and habits of his predecessors
in the matter, showing that his Admins
tratiOn will compare fayOrahly with those
Of all the earlier Presidents respecting the
average time of absence from the Nation
al Capital. .-Chicag0 Tribune,
Year: 1876

THE question of the admission of col
orcd Protestant Episcopal congregations
to representation, which had agitated the
South Carolina Diocese for two or three
years, was recently settled, after a warm
discussion in the Diocesan Convention at
Charleston by the rejection of the applica-
ton of st. Marks Church for admission.
A majority of clergy favored the applica-
tion, but it was rejected by the vote of the
lay delegates.
Year: 1876

The New York IriJ,Me puts the
case thus: 1.-THE Governor OF Ore
gon issued certificate that Cart
wright and Odeli, Republicans, and
Cronin, Democrat, were the lawful
electors. This certificate CrOnin put
in his pocket. lie organized him
self as the electoral college, moved
that he fill the two vacancies, put the
vote to himself, declared II carried,
elected two Democrats, and made up
the return OF one vote for Tilden and
two for Hayes, which he will bring
on himself TO Washington and deliv-
er to the President Of the Senate.
The two genuine electors met, found
majority OF the electoral college
present, filled the one vacancy, cast
the vote for Hayes, in accordance
with the verdict Of the people, and
made up legal return IN due form.
Tie President Of the Senate Will
open both the returns. lie will find
In tho fraudulent one the certificate
of the Governor. By this certificate
Year: 1876




Now that election is over and the
a~perities Of the campaign are some
what toned down, we feel like in-
iulging Il little in the amenities with
reference to the late candidate of The
Democratic party, or the candidate
Of the late Democratic party, As soa
may please to stateit. And we will
now do Mr.. Tilden the justice to say.
that in our candid opinion he carries
within his dimunitive carcass more
pounds pressure to the square ineh
Of political rascality and simon pure
russedness than any man in America.
lie graduated at the head Of his class
i'll the great Democratic school Of
fammany Hall, and now even its
most eminent teachers like Tweed
and Morrissey may well sit at his
feet and learn of him tricks Of poll
ties they had never dreamed OF. We
can well afford to he magnanimous
i'll the hour of triumph, and it's
sincere pleasure to ssys Just and
true word for the defeated candidate
Of the opposition. That he did not
win wa, not his fault, but his mis-
fortune. lie certainly deserved sue
cess, il ever scoundrell meritsd il in
this world, where many time the
wrong has achieved temporary tri-
umph Honor to whom honor, str.
Year: 1876

What think the people of this
threat coming from Democratic head
quarters.


every resource known to the law
will be exhausted ia reversing the
fraud y in South Carolina, Florida
and Louisiana, and i'm the failure of
constitutional measures, the solution
will be submitted 10 more formidn-
BILE arbiter. !"


This can mean no less than rebel
lion. There is n resource known to
the law" which possibly our bellicose
Democratic fellow citizens might do
we'll not to overlook. 1t will be
found in section 1912 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States, AS feb
lows:


Whenever the United States
are in imminent danger of
rebellion against the authority OF the
Government of the United States, it
shall he lawful for the President To
call forth such number of the militia
Of the State or States most convenient
to the place OF danger. or scene Of
action, as he may deea, necessary
10 suppress such rebellion.
and to issue his orders for that pur-
pose to such officers of the militia as
he may think proper.


Democracy will also do well to rec
ollect who is President. They
haven't a Buchanan to deal with this
time. And more, they will not find
the blacks of the South their lawful
and plant slaves. The Southern
leaders appreciate these facts in some
measure, and are hence much more
mild than their Northern allies.
Year: 1876

The Democratic House committees
in the South are taking Democratic
testimony and excluding that Of Re.
publicans. The plan Is to hear the
witnesses for their own side first,
and then claim that as sufficient and
move to another place and do the
same thing, not giving the Ropubli.
cans an opportunity to introduce II
witness. This Ouc-sided testimony
is then sent by telegraph all over the
country To forestnll public opinion
and make il appear that the only
persons intimidateG were Democrats.
The Senate committees however will
follow them mp and bring out the
truth.
Year: 1876

When the Democracy pretend that
they want the Will Of the people 10
govern By constitutional and legal
methods, and then claim one Demo
cratic elector for oregon, we see the
utter lack Of sincerity in their pre-
lenses. Not one Of them will dare
to say that it was the will Of the peo-
pie Of Oregon that one Of their elec-
tors should vote for TiIden. The
majority for Hayes electors in thai
State was 200. Does not that clear.
~ show the will OF the people?
Year: 1876

--latest news from Europe indicates
that war between Russia and Turkey
is inevitable. Russia Is making
every preparation, and will endeavor
to prof ect the conference and prolong
the grinistiee until her southern
army is concentrated and she can
make q decisive and irresistible
Year: 1876

The Southern Democracy are brave
enough to bulIdoze the darkies, but
they have had more than enough Of
the sort Of war given them by
Nothern legions. The tireeaters who
want war are now to he found in the
Democratic party North.
Year: 1876

bill entitled "An Act to prevent the
cultivation of the untitled lands of
California; to reduce the Value of real
estate in cities; to decrease transporta-
ton facilities; to prevent immigration;
to destroy markets; to impair public
credit; to increase taxation; to inhibit
farming; to prevent rapid travelling;
to destroy prosperity and to reduce the
country to the condition of twenty
years ago?n He would be denounced
as madman, knave or fool, and
Immediately hurried from the Leg
islative chamber to an insane asylum
or the workshops of San Quentin.
Yet the freights and fares bill for
which sixty-six Assemblymen voted
the other day wants only the title we
have named to make it just such a
bill. In spirit it is such a bill and its
effect should it become law will be to
produce just the results indicated.
Within twenty-four hours from the
date of the bill becoming law, the
work Of railroad building will cease
everywhere in the State. The con-
struction force on the California and
Oregon railroad, on the North Pacific
railroad, on the Southern Pacific in
Tehachape Pass, in Soledad Pass and
East of San Gorgonia Pass, will be dis
charged. At least twenty thousand
laborers will be Thrown out of employ
ment and the extremes of locomotive
progress will be fixed for at least two
years to come. The effect of this great
revolution or rather retrograde move
ment in the Industrial pursuits Of the
State will be felt-disastrously felt
to the remotest corner of our domain.
To Southern California the conse-
quences will indeed be serious, be-
cause we are.a a new country needing
population and development, and for
these we are in the main dependent on
railroads. Los Angeles was rapidly
becoming railroad center. From the
railroads radiating from our city and
rapidly extending themselves East
ward and Northward we expected
much-almost everything. TO have
the building of these roads suddenly
stopped and the track now built rem
dered imperative is a blow to our
prosperity that we can hardly stand.
If Senator ARCHER had deliberately
set about framing bill that should do
the greatest possible injury to Los An
geles and Southern California he could
not have accomplished his purpose
more effectively than he has in his
freights and fares production.
Year: 1876

was an abundance of room. The pas
sage of such resolution at this time,
when this question of q Southern line
was pending in Congress, looked like
unfriendly feeling on the part of Cali
fornia against the system lie repre-
sented, and was calculatee to weaken
that system and strengthen It's oppo-
nents. The author of the resolution
does not say but what our road should
receive the same aid as Scott's; but we
do not ask for aid, we only ask for the
privilege to run. 1t seems to be an
endorsement of what is known as the
Scott project.


Mr.. Swan said: / should take it to
be so. i think there is no doubt on
that subject.


Governor Stanford resumed: | do
not, of course, know how far the au-
thor of the resolution intended it
should go, but so far as through
freight is concerned / will say the
construction of competing line
from five hundred miles South of the
Central Pacific will have no effect.
Water competition keeps through
freight at low price and a parallel
line of railroad will not reduce it. The
tendency of dividing the business
would rather be to raise the price, be-
cause L think the experience of all rail.
road companies has been that rates are
decreased by an increase of business
decrease the business and you increase
the rates. If we extend our Southern
road as we desire the tendency will no
doubt be to divert some business from
the Central Pacific, but we will be able
to so develop the reeources of the Stat e
that in the end the Central Pacific will
be benefited rather than injured. We
are pushing the road forward as fast
as we can with our limited means.
The interests of California cannot he
jeopardized by having the Southern
Pacific constructed from this State.


McConnell.-Should Scott succeed
in constructing his road, is there any
other pass than the San Gorgonio?


Stanford.-Yes, but that pass is
broad enough. You can run 90 miles
of railroad through there. 1t seems to
me we have a right to expect that CAL
ifornia will give us at least a kindly
consideration in this matter and not
unnecessarily do US damage.


Archer.~Do you know just what
Scott asks?


Stanford.-He asks that Govern.
ment guarantee his bonds at forty
thousand dollars per mile on his main
line.
Year: 1876

Elsewhere we republish an editorial
from the San francisco Alta of the
5th instant, winch is an unanswerable
argument against the passage of
ARCHER's freights and fares bill We
commend its perusal to all feeling ass
interest in the future prosperity of our
State in general and Of Southern Cali
fornia in particular. The bill is an ill-
famous production because it presents
itself under the guise of an advocate OF
the people, while its real purpose is to
retG rd development, check immigra-
tion.. depreciate property and turn
back the tide of prosperity just now
beginning to flow over the and. What
would be thought Of q Senator or AS
semb smaa who wouti Introduce q
Year: 1876

|


SACRAMENTO, March 7th.-The AS.
sem6dy Committee on Federal rela-
tions held meeting last night to con-
slider Chapman's concurrent resolu-
| ton relative to the Central Pacific
railroad. There were present-Swan,
Chairman, Mcconnell, Archer, Me-
Kenna, Chapman, Jenkins and
Crutcher.


| Governor Stamford appeared before
the committee in opposition to the
resolution.


The resolution is to the effect that
the Congressional delegation of the
Senate be instructed to support such
legislation as will keep and retain to
the United States Government in pos
session OF all the mountain passes be-
tween the Pacific Ocean and the Mis-
sissippi valley, and prevent the ex-
elusive control of any of them by rail-
roads, or of more than their partial
and conditional use, and that they
also support such other just legislation
as will ensure the speedy completion
of a completing Transcontinentul rail-
road to the Pecfic Ocean, on or near
the thirty-second parallel, subject to
such limitation as will protect the
rights of the people,


Governor Stanford said; His princi-
pal obligation TO this resolution was.
that it squnts toward what is known
as the Texas Pacific Railroad in oppo.
slon 10 the Southern Pacific line. From
San Francisco to the Colorado river 1t
was 72O miles, and the rich business
of the Arizona lay there, inviting
a railroad from this State so far.
AlsoG as the railroad system of
this coast penetrated to the East,
/ business would come this way; be-
yond that the local business would 90
East. he thought when the question
was properly understood that every
Californian would desire railroad
from the Southern part of this State
to penetrate as far East as possible. 1T
was tho desire Of the company he rep
resented to penetrate Arizona and 90
over into New Mexico by the Rio
Grande, having in view eventually
some sort of railroad com mmunication
with the city of Mexico. The impor-
tango ~ eupi 0 system on this coast
would be readily appreciated. So far
as the mountain passes Were CONCERNED
the resolution was not Necessary, be-
cause no railroad had control of such
passes unless it be the Central Pacific.
1t would be very difficult indeed upon
the present line of the Central Pacific
to build another line alonside of it, In
the Southern sect ion of the State there
was no difficulty about passes, Three
Year: 1876




Yesterday We dropped into the
Farmers and Merchants Bank to see
for ourselves how the bank looked
after the removal of the county funds.
We had heard that the bank was do
ing business on the county funds
alone, and a person attaching any
weight to the report so industriously
circulated by few individuals who
never had a dollar in any bank nor a
dollar Of their own except as they
sponged il out of poor Mr.. TEMPLE,
would have expected to find only a
beggarly account of empty trays. But
as we knew the anmus which prompt
ed this story, as we'll as the reputation
for veracity of those WHO circulated it,
we did not expect to find these things
and we we're not disappointed. Busi-
ness was going on as usual, and
glance over the counter revealed a
mountain of gold coin. The trays
Were full OF twenty dollar pieces, and
box after box of silver sat on the floor.
There were at least half million dol
lars in sight, with we do not know
how many hundred thousand in the
vaults. This is the condition in which
we expected to find the Farmers and
Merchants bank after the removal Of
the county's hundred thousand dol
lars. which was n mere bagatelle in
the sum total of the banks resources.
We have often stated and will again
rep> at That the Farmers and Mer-
chaus' bank of this city is one of the
safest and most reliable banks in the
State, and All examination OF the
financial status Of its stockholders
every one of whom is worth from
three to ten times the amount of stock
he holds-and an inquiry into the
ability of those to whom are intrusted
its management will satisfy the most
eXactiIg Of the correctness OF our as
sertion. 1t is also proper to state that
the Farness' and Merchants bank Is
conducted on the most careful busi-
ness principles. In pfoof OF this we
point to the fact that it has never sus-
tained Il serious loss, and has never
went Into court except to prevent out
lawry of account. No transaction that
could be construed into the semblanee
of II speculation has ever been in
dulged IN. 1t follows as certainly US
the day fo'lows the night that bank
conducted on such principles and
managed by men of long experience
ami acknowledged financial ability is
a safe and solid institution in whist
the public may with perfect safety
place the utmost confidence.
Year: 1876

AMERICAN BEEF FOR EUROPE.
interesting experiment is being made
at the abattoir on the Hackensaek
river, by DR.. J. Craven, in order to
test the feasibility of transporting
beef, without injury, to the Euro
pean markets. A wooden structure
rendered air tight has been erected,
corresponding to the tween deck of
steamer, with beams and hooks
running longitudinally. Here will
be hung up the dead animals in
rows as closely together as in any of
our abattoirs. The temperature Of
the compartment is Kept as low as
% deg. by means of pipes through
which water is forced by a small
pump from tank containing ice
and salt. The salt is held in solu-
tion in sufficient quantity to prevent
the water from freezing in the pipes.
The experiment was commenced five
days ago, and is to be continued for
eighteen days. Should the test prove
successful, most important prob
lam will have been solved. 1t will
be recollected that one of the Brit
ish steamers plying to the port of
New York carried to Liverpool about
two months ago large quantity of
beef, and when placed in the market
it had not deteriorated. The Abat-
toir and Stock Yard Company of the
former city is prepared to invest suf-
ficient capital to charter steamer
which will carry an immense supply
of meat to foreign markets. They
only await the success of the exper-
iment now in progress,
Year: 1876

And now some one says it is idi-
otic to suppose that the sunstroke
is caused by the stroke of the sun;
that, intact, it frequently occurs at
o time when there is no sun to strike
at all, and that the physical break
down called sunstroke is simply
nervous exhaustion aggravated by
excessive heat, whether in sun or
shade. All this may be true, even
though it does knock over a verita
ble pet theory.
Year: 1876

A candy making party last light set a
pan of hot molasses into the yard to
cool. and in going for it several hours
later were astonished to find an upright
cat in the middle of it. The question
is not SO much how the cat got in, but
how it is to be got from there. If any
of our readers Can suggest a plan, We
hope they will do SO. as the owner of
cat is in hurry.
Year: 1876

THERE are several Democrats in the House
which the majority doubtless wish had been
elected to stay at home. Mr.. Benjamin Hill
of Georgia is one of them. When Mr.. Cox
and Mr.. Randall and number of other
northern Democrats thought they had sue
ceeded in convincing the country that every
thing was lovely, that the South was penitent
and regretted the rebellion, Mr.. Benjamin
Hill jumped up, and notwithstanding several
violent jerks at his coat tail emphaticaly
declared that the South wasn't sorry at all.
Then during the Centennial debate another
Democratic member from Virginia persisted
in Haunting in the face of the country the
rankest state rights doctrines, which made
his northern allies who had been insisting
that the South had abandoned the belief in
the right of secession feel very uncomfortable
again. And now Mr.. Holman of Indiana
while the Democratic magnates east and
west have been assuring the country that the
Democracy was in favor of sound currency
and merely opposed certain resumption
measures from fear that they were too sud-
den and too radical throws off all disguise and
grows loud and blatant in his assertions that
the Democracy do not wish for resumption
at all. A few more Democratic statesmen
as frank as these would irretrievably ruin the
party. aa 4-f ..t-a-..
Year: 1876

DEMOCRATIC journals at the North did no


take kindly to the move to impeach Kellogg.
Not that they had any love for him personal
ly, or any sense of justice which would cause
them to hesitate to assist in deposing any Re-
publican executive on trumped up charges.


But presidential election is near and it
wouldn't do to go before the country with
the responsibility for opening the old Louisi-
ana fight upon their shoulders. Mr.. Woods
experiment at the opening of the present ses-
of Congress taught them the temper of the
country in this matter and they were very
anxious when they saw their southern allies
in the Louisiana legislature repeating it. So
they protested but with bated breath lest
they might offend their headstrong brethren.


Luckily for them the business men of Louis
lana protested too and the Senate had sense
enough to heed the protest and nip the move
ment in the bud before Louisiana was again
in state of anarchy. % Ttt..