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Year: 1875

Gold Hill NeapS office, and probably
the Chronicle will also resume soon,
though it looks now as if the people
generally were about bankrupt, and
1t will take long time for the city to
recover from the disaster. The only
portion of the city saved is that from
Wells, Fargo & Co. South, which In
cludes the works of the Gould & Curry,
Savage, Hale & Norcross and Chollar
mines, but these works are just now
working but few men, on account OF
water IN the mines. The Andes works
were on fire at one time, but were
saved. From the outlook now
it seems absolutely necessary for four
or five thousand destitute people to
find homes for the Winter outside of
Virginia City, for really almost all
that was this morning of Virginia
City is now but ruin. Many tenders
of hospitality have come from Gold
Hill, Silver City and Carson, and a
train with food and bedding is on the
way now from Carson. In single
sentence, we are in the midst of ca
lamity so fearful that the strongest
minds cannot yet realize its dreadful
magnitude.
Year: 1875

Something Is going to happen. In
the dim far off future speck of war
not larger than a mans hand is dis
cernible. An act of fjustice which has
been tardy and long coming seems
about to be performed. For years
the patriots of Cuba have struggled to
free themselves from the mother gov
ernment and assume an independence
which all the world save Spain tacitly
acknowledge as their right. The Uni
ted States-the greatest Republic the
sun shines on-should have been the
first to stretch forth the hand of assis-
tance to this'littl band of struggling
patriots. But it was withheld, not be-
cause the people were not in deep SYM
pathy with the cause of freedom and
self government but because the pow.
ers at Washington were so far from
representing the wishes of the masses
that they were under the control of
the bond hold ers who would not con-
sent to the depreciation of their bonds
which would follow the declar-
ations of war on the part of Spain. 1t
was a humiliating position. The
great republic with its forty milli on
liberty lover, was forced to stand by
and watch the prolonged struggle for
freedom of people whose home is al


most within the shadow of the Stars
and Stripes, but the will Of the bond
h folders was the power behind the
throne-a power more powerful
than the throne ITSELF Now another
power ore powerful than the bond
holder's-the power which comes OF
party existence and individual agran-
dizement-has overthrown the old dy-
nasty and justice is about to be dealt
from questionably honest tribunal.
From Washington come rumors that
the President is turning his attention
to the Cuban contest; that a large
number of our war vessels are concen-
trating at point from which it will
be easy to move them to the coves and
harbors of the Queen of the Antilles;


that in his message to Congress the
President will urge the immediate
recognition of the Cuban insurgents
as belligerents. This will arouse
Spain. Our next step forward will
bring declaration of war and inaugu-
rate a contest which will end in the
annexation of Cuba to the United
States. This is the effect. The cause
is political. GRANTS ambition tow
ers to the clouds. He has no thought
of abandoning the Presidential chair
and the acquisition of Cuba is the hob
by on which he hopes to ride through
the approaching campaign. He has
said that contingencies might arise


which would render the election of
President to the third or fourth term


necessity. A state of war is doubt
less one of the exigencies to which he
alluded. If in November of next
year we are involved in a war with
Spain, the argument that we should


re-elect the President who inaugura-


ted and is prosecuting the war, will
have weight that no other combina-
tion of circumstances could bring


about and which we may reasonably


fear all other arguments will not ov-
ercome.
Year: 1875

combined may dethrone the mind.
California is full of Adventures, many
of whom are doomed to terrible dis
appointments, and not few of them
to great suffering; hence the over
whelming number now in our State
Asylum, which is daily increasing.
Year: 1875

GreenbackS and Gold Notes.


WASHINGTON, October 26th.-The
commission of Treasury Clerks who
were recently sent to San Francisco in
charge of U. s. notes to exchange for
money which by long use had become
unfit for circulation, have returned
here, bringing with them three mil
lion dollars in cancelled U. s. cur
rency and four hundred thousand in
notes of the National Gold Bank and
Trust Company of San Francisco,
which has reduced its circulation that
amount by deposit of coin in the
Treasury. The gold notes will be inn
mediately destroyed, under direction
of the Comptroller of Currency.


The Mormon Question,


New YORK, October 26th.-A spe-
cial from Washington says that as a
result of the Presidents visit to Utah
during the early part Of this month
more determined policy in regard to
the treatment of the Mormon question
will shortly be begun. The President
is reported as being very decided in
the opinion that the Mormons should
be treated as persons who intention
ally disregard the laws of the country
and should be made to obey them the
same as others.
Year: 1875

1t is recognized fact among the po-
litical economists that bank note is
an element of danger in any financial
system. 1t Is so well recognized in
the Old World that the issue Of bank
notes not secured by the actual coin in
the bank vaults has been abandoned.
In Great Britain Bank of England
note is simply certificate that there
is that much gold belonging to the
holder in the vaults which he can get
on demand. This is practically true of
the notes OF the Bank of France. In
this country the credit system OF. bank
has kept up the deceptive system of
the bank notes. The national bankers
note is secured in the most perfect
manner, so far as ultimate safety is
concerned, but it lacks the real COM
mercial value, that of conversion on
demand. 1t was necessary to keep
at all times cash reserve not less than
twenty-five per cent of the outstand-
ing notes. This small reserve was
abolished by the last Congress, and
the note is now only secured by the
deposit of government bonds. The
National Gold Bank therefore contains
this dangerous element, and is like
ly to be closed up at any time by the
note holders. The people of Caiifor-
MIA have no confidence in paper mon-
ey of any description, and now that
their faith in national bank notes has
been shaken it would be better for
these institutions to at once redeem
their notes, and confine themselves
strictly to discount and deposit busi-
nQSG
Year: 1875

So rapid is the progress of science at
the present day that the widest


dreams of the theorist may be among
the realities of the coming year. Tens
of thousands of active brains are at
work upon the problems of the age,
and the Investigations Of one became
the basis upon which others labor till
they dazzle the world with some crude
discovery, which is soon to be perfect
ed under the stimulous of prospective
fortunes eagerly offered by the utili-
tarean. A single generation has not
passed since the electric current was
applied to practical uses, and to-day
the globe is covered with telegraph
wires, the hearts of all nations beat
responsive to the flash of the electric


spark, and this agency now occupies


position second only to steam in en-


tightening and developing the human


race; and all this though we are yet
ignorant of the origin or character of
this wonderful element. 1t is now
said that this agent is to be devoted


to new use, and work incalculable
advantage to the Pacific Coast. A
scientific gentleman of New York who
has devoted several years to the study
of electricity has discovered process
by which he is enabled to estimate
the body Of ore contained in mine
just opened. Should this be true
hundreds of millions of dollars will be
added to the wealth of this coast.
Less than one fourth the mines work.
ed in this section pay profit on the
investment. The extent of mine is
always a matter Of doubt and the cap
italist most frequently finds that his
outlay is less than his income. Should
the reputed. discovery prove correct
mining will be reduced to a mathe-
matical certainty, and enormous loss
es thereby averted. In Arizona alone
such method of testing the deposit
of silver would be worth at least two
or three hundred millions of dollars.
Our people will therefore watch this
Year: 1875

sion, and Il Democratic platform, no
matter whether formed for State or
National purposes, that does not en-
body an unqualified and unequlvocal
opposition to the diversion of single
dollar of tho public school funds to the
control of any religious sect or denom-
ination, is not a Democratic platform
lis not an expression of Democratic
principles, and as surely as fair ex-
preston of opinion is had the candi-
dates who go before the people on
such a platform are doomed to that
ignominious defeat which is the just
and merited fate of all enemies to n
Republican form of government. If
the Democratic party of California
had ignored this subject or treated 1t
in the coquetish manner of their
brethren in Ohio, their defeat in Sep
tember would have been as over
whelming as their victory was glo-
rious. They met the issue fairly and
squarely and placed themselves on
record in language so plain as to be
unmistakable. There is nor can be no
question as to the position of the De-
mocracy of California OH the school
fund proposition. 1t is uncompromis-
ingly opposed to any change, and it
has the courage to say so in its plat
form. 1t does not hesitate to assert
that only candidates who endorse and
will stand by these principles need
seek nominations at its hands. This
is true Democracy, and the Democrats
of other States must initiate those of
California if they would refute the
ISLANDERS which the Republican leaders
have heaped upon them.
Year: 1875

matter with intense interest. When
it can be determined with certainty
that there are so many millions tons
of silver in our mines the capital of
the world will be at our command,
and we shall be the richest people on
the earth.
Year: 1875

The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As q feather is waited downward
From an eagle in his flight.
see the lights of the village


CLEAN through the rain and the mist,
And a feeling of sadness comes DER me,
That my soul cannot resist.
4 feeling of sadness and longing, r
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
AS the mist resembles the rain. g.. 9
Come, read to me some poem.


Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this restless feeling,
And Danish the thoughts OF day.
Not from the grand old masters,
Not from the bards sublime,
Whose distant footsteps echo


Along the corridors of time.
For, like the strains of martial music,
Their mighty strains suggest
Life's endless toll and endeavor,
And tonight long for rest.
Read from some humble poet,


Whose songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds of sunshine,
Or tears from the eyelids start;
Who, through long days of labor,
And nights devoid of ease,
Still heard in his soul the music
OF wonderful melodies.
Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And comes like the benediction
That follows after prayer.
Then read from the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme OF the poet
The beauty of thy voice.
And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs.
And as silently steal away.
Year: 1875

WHEN, OH WHEN will Mr.. Garrett lift
his dirty old depot out of that mud-hole
near the Capitol, and give us that magnif-
cent new edifce he has been SO long talking
about? 1t is needed as an ornament to our
architecture in that part of the city. A
friend of Nj Garrett's tells US that he feels
very poor just at this time. In a matter of
that kind he has our hearty sympathy; but
then, he has been feeling poor in regard to
this matter such long time. Mr.. Garrett
must build that new and magnificent depot
if he wants US to advocate him for next
Democratic President of the United States.
Year: 1875

THE New York Times is unnecessarily
and nervously fearful that its position on
the question Of a third presidential term
for General Grant will be mistaken. No
one has ever. suspected it of favoring his
re election. 1nasmuch as he is not a can
didate, the self-advertising of the Times is
not only gratuitous, but highly ridiculous.
Year: 1875

FAST MAILS. which compel the great
metropolitan journnls to go to press at 1
O'Clock. are not favorable TO the publica-
ton of late news. The New York papers
of yesterday had but little more news than
the evening papers of the night previous.
Year: 1875




On tho afternoon OF the 18th inst,
Mr.. John Boyer, the postmaster and
blacksmith OF Sloau, a smsll station
on the Sioux City u Pacific railroad,
near the southern line of Woodbury.
county, Iowa, was struck and killed
by lightning. At about 5 o'clock in
the afternoon, at which time not a
cloud obscured the sky overhead or
stood between tho sun and town, q
terrible flash of lightning followed by
q deafning peal OF thunder, struck tho
wires OF tho telegraph office and set it
on fire, Immediately after the stroke,
John H. Boyer, who was at his shop
at the time, ran out into the street
toward the depot, where some boys
had been playing. lie approached
them rapidly and said: "Why, boys,
thought some Of you were struck. 1
was quite frightened on account of
you." He evidently had it in his
mind that the terrible shock might
have frightened his family as he
started toward his home immediately.
When within abont fifty yards of his
housc, from the front window Of
which his wife was anxiously watch
ing his approach, another vivid flash
of lightning dazzled the eyes of all,
and ere the thunder had ceased rolling
the naked body Of tho unfortunate
man was soen to be lying prone upon
the ground. A number Of people,
among them his wife, rushed to the
spot and 80 horrible was tho situation
that 1t WAS not until he had been car
ried to his house that full apprccia-
ton was had of the terrible death
which nature had inflicted upon him.
An examination Of the body, from
which every vestige OF clothing had
beon instantly torn, showed that the
subtle and terrible fatal fluid had frat
struck him on the top OF his head,
whence, though the skull was left ap-
parently intact, the hair had been
burned off spot the size of 4 silver
dollar. Thence the fluid had run
down the side Of the face az was shown
by clearly cut track TO the shoulder,
aud thence TO the heart, where II, ap-
parcntiy, had spread allover the body.
The terrible power of tho fluid was
shown by the presence in the ground
on the spot where the unfortunate
mans body was picked mp, of hole
eight feet deep by actnal measure
ment. The clothing of the deceased
was found to have been shredded and
when first discovered was on fire.
while the silver watch he carried had
been driven into the ground, and when
lifted up, It was found that tho works
had been fused into lump of shape
less metal.
Year: 1875

Democratic journals now seek to
make the people believe that the story,
80 current for month, that LIE tllcr had
challenged Kirkwood to dis
cussion, was Republican canard. Is
1t not singular that 1t took month
for Democrats to find it out, ii such
was the case. The facts are, the organ
OF Democracy at the capital, the State
Leader, was the author OF the story.
Now that it turns out that Leffler has
made no such challenge, it is sought
at this late day TO lay 1t to Repubii-
cans. Doubtless tho facts arc, that
LETTER and Democracy had such a
thing In contemplation and did for
time intend to carry it ont, but they
have reconsidered it and conclude
that they don't want any such discus
sion,
Year: 1875

There will be cheerful times in
Kansas for tho next month or SO. A
whole crop OF horso-thieves, the fruits
of whole years painful detective
toll, have escaped from tho Wichita
jail and rushed forth to devastate tho
land az OF old. There are ten of them
and If they are ever caught again they
will not be Imprisoned Cincinnati
Times.
Year: 1875

Then the sleeper quivered all over,


and started and gasped. and the look


on his face grew wcirder than ever.
The brick was evidently getting very


heavy, and in his dreams. Smith was
transformed into something dismal.
He broke out again
Year: 1875

INTERESTING TESTIMONY OF THE PILOT.


The following testimony taken yesterday by the
United States Local Inspectors of Steamships Messrs
Matthews and Simonson, at their Office in Pine street.
with reference to the loss by Ice OF the Troy steam
boat Sunnyside, on tho LIST OF December, in the
Hudson River opposite hyde Park, while on her way
from Troy to this city. Twelve lives lost The
investigation OF the loss OF the vessefis
now being carried Albany by the local inspectors
there and the evidence taken in this city will be
ruitted to them. The portion found below taken
here on account Of the witnesses being residents in
this city. The following is the testimony


Watson butcher, pilot of tho Sunpyside, being duly
sworn, stated:-f took the wheel at halfpas A. M
when my partner went of watch he told me OF
trouble; half an hour after went on watch the mate
told all right ten or twenty minutes after that
word that the steamer was leaking the captain
and other pilot called this out and heard nothing
about the leak until the captain gave orders
TO run the boat ashore to the westward; did
quickly as could be doIc the boat about
two feet forward and about the time the captain
ordered every one on the hurricane deck;
the steamer lay on tho bank short time
when she slid of and slowed and went out parallel with
the banks blew the whistle for assistance as long
had steam there was propeller above us that did
not come TO assistance tthe Chrstenyah; after.
ward the steamer Walter Brett along but rem
dered assistance we blew no whistle TO her as We
haa steam; lett the pilot house after blowing the
whistle and went aft but did not get forward again
the hurricane deck forward under water the water
being up the middle OF the pilot house window;
nothing OF the landing OF the passengers forward
the after end OF the boat did not 90 down
til day two aiter; there other
place in the river where could put her ashore at
that timei did everything IN my power to save the
boat


Edward Downing, ship carpenter, who made repairs
to the Sunnysde the dock at Red Hook then de-
posed put her the dock on the lst OF October 70
repair hoo stove in her bottom sheahed the boat
from the keel 70 the turn Of the bigc do not know
about her soundncss AZ the water ne she looked very
fine do not know about her general soundness but
believe her 10 have been thoroughly sound.
Year: 1875

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. II, 1875
despatch from Carson City says a man named
Thomas Burt hanged by the Vigilance Committee
last night he found this morning hanging the
gate of the cemetery He had been recently engaged
in many cases Of aud robbery and had escaped
Imprisonment by the want of legal evidence He had
received repeated warnings leave the vicinity which
he disregarded He taken quietly from his bed by
masked men and hanged without any disturbance.
wears o age.
Year: 1875

The following record viii show the changes in the
temperature for tho past twenty four hours in COM
parson with the corresponding date Of last year as in
dicated by the thermometer AZ Hudnuts pharmacy,
HERALD Building
Year: 1875

Fragrant sozoDoSr is composition Of the purest and
choicest ingredients of tho Oriental vegetable kingdom
Every ingredient is well known have beneficial effect
the teeth and gums It's embaming anseptic prop
erty aromatic fragrance make IL toilet luxury
all odors from the breath caused
by catarrh bad teeth &c II is entirely free from the in
which destroy the enamel One bottle lasts six months
Year: 1875

A-A.-A-A-A-A-A-


CHRISTMAS PREsEsrs by the million for the million at tho
Great Original Dollar Store. No ee7 Broadway. Tho
largest varied Stock of articles fitted for CHRrsr
MAS and NEw YEARS Presents are purchased for cash
during tho hard for less than and sold at small
Year: 1875

You may remember that | lectured
lately for the young geRtlemen of the
Claytonisn Society, During the after
noon of the day | was talking with one
OF the young men referred to, and he
said he had an uncle, who from some
cause or other, seemed to have grown
permanently bereft of all emotion, and
with tears in his eyes, this young man
said: Oh, if ] could only see him
laugh once morel Oh, if | could only
see him weep" | was touched. never
could stand distress. | said Bring
him to my lecture I'll start him for
you"


"0h, if you could but do it. If you
could do it all our family would bless
you forevermore; for he is very dear to
US. Oh my benefactor, can you make
him laugh2 Can you bring soothing
tears to those parched orbs?'


| was profoundly moved | said
Ny son, bring the old party around
| have got some good jokes in my lee.
ture that will make him laugh if there is
any laugh in him; and il they miss fire,
| have got some others that will make
him cry or kill him, one or the other"


Then the young man wept on my
neck, and presently spread both his
hands on my head and looked up
toward heaven mumbling something
reverently, and then went after his
uncle. he placed him in full view, in
the second row of benches, that night,
and | began on him | tried him with
mild jokes, and then with severe ones.
dosed him with bad jokes and riddled
him with good ones; | fired old, stale
jokes into him and peppered him fore
aud aft with redhot new ones. | warmed
up to my work, and assaulted him on the
right and left, in front and behind;
fumed and charged and ranted till l was
hoarse and sick and frantic and furious;
but | never moved him once-I never
started smile or tear never a ghost Of
smile, never suspicion of moisture. |
was astonished. | closed the lecture at
last with one despairing shriek-with
one wild burst of humor-and hurled a
joke of supernatural atrocity full at him.
Then / sat down bewildered and ex.
hausted


The president of the society came up
and bathed my head with cold water and
said:


What made you carry on so toward
the last?"


| said, 81 was trying to make that
confounded old idiot laugh, in the second
row."


And he said, We'll, you were wasting
your time, because he is deaf and dumb,
and as blind as badger"


Now, was that any way for that old
man S nephew to impose on a stranger
and an orphan like me?-Mark Train.
Year: 1875

The Boston Journals New York cor
respondent writes: A New York mer.
chant died the other day whose early life
has a good lesson for young men to copy.
He went as boy into the "Swamp,"
and took the rough work connected with
the leather business. At his mothers
request he joined Sunday-school. From
that he Joined the church. He was not
only peculiar for his readiness to work
but his readiness to give. There was
hardly anything started that he did not
help along in a humble way with
his humble means His church
was in a tight place, as New York
churches are apt TO be. The men,
bers were assessed generally, and he was
put down for twenty-five dollars. He
couldn't have raised that sum If he had
sold all his clothes and trinkets. One
day man came into the yard and
showed him the skin of a muskrat, told
him how he caught the animal and cured
the skin. He said nothing, but thatnight
after work was done he went down to the
dock and captured few rats. He kept
the work up for a week. He cured the
skins and found a ready sale for them.
Before the subscription became due he
had twenty-five dollars and handsome
balance over. He was sensible enough
to see the handsome business open to
him. He turned out TO be frst-class
business man, and died leaving fortune
Of half a million.