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Year: 1875

THE following is an extract from the
"Secret Circular" SAID by the ''Organ" to
have been written by Judge Alexander.
Its statements are wholly true:


''Thus far one of eur editors at Austin
of the Gazette-who, unfortunately, owing
to the facts that he is New Englander by
birth, that he shared the public printing of
the Thirteenth Legislature with j. p. New
comb, and with him held Lunatic Asylum
commission under Governor Davis, does
not have the weight to which he is justly
entitled, was inpetuous as on the circulars
becoming public to threaten prosecution
in the United States Court! Evidently he
took the common law view, that the great
er the truth the greater the libel, and by
his rashness admitted by implication the
truth of the circular, though thereafter he
obeyed its direction and maintained a Dig
nified and persistent silence. ,.-


''Another, the STATESMAN, almost as in
discreet, though IN the opposite direction,
boldly charged that it was mere jeu Ges
pY-it, or pleasantly, and was written by a
Republican, and by SO doing greatly i'm
paired its credit with those it was intended
to guide"
Year: 1875

The New York Herald says that "the
condition of affairs in the mining regions
of Pennsy lvania is deplorabe. Murder
stalks red-handed through the country, and
men are shot down in broad daylight by
the agents of a powerful secret association
that rules over the lives of all the inhabi-
tants. Such a state of things is disgrace
ful to our civilization, and we are glad to
see that the frequency with which these
crimes are committed is arousing general
spirit of indignation among the law-respect-
ing portion of the CON munity. If the peo
pie will only take the matter earnestly In
hand they can cure the evil"


With this little paragraph the Herald dis
poses of facts which, if they affected any
Of the Gulf States, would give employment
to corps of special correspondents. Grants
intervention would be invoked and MAJ tial
law proclaimed. But those fellows knocked
on the head are only white men, and the
only irreparable calamity that can befall an
individual is to be born white. Lamar and
General Gordon fall IN with the passion of
the hour and would pave the way to uni
versal blackness or an universal haziness.
The Herald closes it's brief but suggestive
article on the desperate condition of affairs
in wide districts of Pennsylvania with this
sentence:


g Besides this trouble among the miners
| gives the speculators a chance to run up the
prices G fuel, and so beaI heavily upon the
poor everywhere"


Plainly enough, if the murder of these
white fellows didn't augment the cost OF
coal, the Herald would never have adverted
to the subject. The very next editorial
paragraph of the Herald is significant of the
fact that however terrible and deplorable
the condition of affairs in Mississippi, soci
ETY. is in no bettsr condition in New, York


The Herald says:


Murder in the slums of the city is be-
coming so frequent that killing must soor
be looked on in the light of slight offense.
1t is certain that the rough element of ouI
population no longer look upon murder as
| anything more than venial sin against pub
lie morality. On the slightest provocation
the knife is brought into requisition, with
the most deadly results. Something must
be done 10y the courts to stop this wholesale,
| coVardy assassination"
Year: 1875

WHEN journal, known not to be an
''organ" does speak kindly and approvingly
of an office-holder is worth something to
him; but the causeless, vapid, senseless,
ever-recurring laudation and horrible adula-
ton of an ''organ" is disgusting to decency
and common intelligence. Judge Reagan
bears good head on his shoulders, and has
thought to some purpose and kept his eyes
open while soddling about through this
rugged world, Other party leaders Should
learn what he is prepared to teach, that a
good cause never needs an "organ" while
good newspapers exist
Year: 1875

A valued correspondent writes from
Washington county as follows:


If the Convention. enacts an usury law
there will be revolution in farming and
real estate and the establishment of facto-
ries in Texas that has never been known
before. Until this is done our State will
be a stranger to anything of the kind.
Give the country stringent usury law
if you desire to see the country and the
farming interest prosper instead of individ
uals. Should the Convention fail to make
such law, the farming interest will Ian
gulsh until it will be only question of
time as to who will be the owners of this
county. There are numbers of farmers in
Washington county (though one of the
best farming counties in the State) who are
anxious to dispose of their farms and move
to town and embark in the business of
banking. The farmer does not make more
than five or six per cent. per annum
on his investment; the banker, two
and half per cent. per month is the
price he charges for the use of his money.
This demoraliZes the farmer when we ought
to encourage the farming interest. The
price for the use of money should be linn
tied so that a farmer could borrow money
10 invest in farming with some hope of be-
ing rewarded for his labor. When this is
done there are numbers of enterprising men
in the country that will go back to their
old avocations. Make usury law not al
lowing the collection of any debt by law,
with the rate of interest above six per cent.
per annum. Old and prosperous States
have such laws. 10 Tennessee and Penn
sylvania six per cent. is the highest rate
that can be collected by law, and most OF
the older States, with but few exceptions,
! "a little higher are the same. So long as
the moneyed man can lend his money al
the present price, just so long will the Statt
of Texas know nothing of manufacturing
establishments, otherwise there will be ac
tivity in Texas, land and real estate ant
manufactures that has not been known
since the absence of a usury law. AL
Christian nations have fixed by law the rat
of compensation for the use of money.


SUBSCRIBER.
Year: 1875

1AE Ddtts1s I1c1 osete
nine indictments pending against number
of our professional and business men. That
this, tax is unjust few VIII deny. For
instance, in the case of lawyer, the lille
gality is almost palpable. He is q sworn
officer of the court, and has been so regarded
for centuries. At the command of the
court he assumes the cares and the response
bility of representing q moneyiess client.
Should he refuse to fiff this Office of char
ity, he Is in contempt of court and may be
fined, or his name may be stricken from
the roll of attorneys. In his case, or that
of physician, it finally resolves itself into
q tax on brains In the easeof merchant
the injustice is not obvious. He invests 50
much capital in the enterprise before him
After, investing this capital he proceeds
to manipulate il as his interest may
dictate Now, the question naturally oc-
eurs, why should this merchant be forced 20
pay this extra tax while the farmer Is per
mitted to pursue his avocation untram-
meled Fhere is no man who would rot
consider il an outrage 70 force farmer to
pay bonus for the privilege Of cultivating
the soil; but slight reflection win shew
that an equal injustice is done when the &C
cupation tax is forced from those who rp-


resent other walks in hfe.T
Year: 1875

THE ACTION Of the Convention upon the
paper question is one entirely satisfactory
to the STATEsNAS. In fact, il was the only
course left open TO be pursued after the un-
reasonable effort made to force the body
into narrow-minded policyof extreme par
tiality. We earnestly express the hope that
the Convention will drop such questions for
good, and keep itself clear Of any disagree
able handling Of the public printing. Let
It devote itself alone 70 the work expected
Of it-that Of making glorious Constitu-
ton for great people.
Year: 1875

people are having free fight on the
usury question. Wesgive an excellent letter
ON this subject this morning, and part of
its excellence consists in its brevity. Words
mean something and are worth printing
when Josh" sings them around. OF
his philosophy others may speak. Another
correspondent, writing of tins subject, says:
The question is whether laws on the sub
ject should not be fixed by the Legislature,
and whether the Constitutional Convention
can properly do more than say that the rate
of interest shall be regulated by law. Dur
ing the next twenty or fifty years the neces-
sites of trade and abundance and scarcity
of money may be greatly different at differ
ent periods, and the Legislature, if any
agency of power, changeful in purpose with
changeful necessities of the country, should
regulate rates of interest,"" We propose to
let everybody talk that chooses on this cues
ton if they viii only write as briefly and
sensibly rs these two correspondents.
Year: 1875

A PARAGRAPH is going through Texan
papers to the effect that the school, asylum
and university lands have been placed on
the market, and are now in process Of sale
to aid settlement by actual settlers. In tine
present condition of the money market, IL
for no other fact, the sale Of these uni
versity lands, If begun, should not go on.
In fact this land should not be sold at all.
Year: 1875

In Jasper county they contine jail-birds
all In one room that has no window. Men
are not entitled, when accused of crime, to
have access even to the air of heaven. Is
the State to suffer such things to be 2
Should there not be prison inspector
Men are murdered outright by jailors of
Texas, and these jsilors are helpless vic
Tins of the thoughtless folly Of those that
these horrible dens.
Year: 1875

THE Democratic party is gaining strength
everywhere on the financial question. Even
in New York City bankers and merchants
are changing their tack, and confess the
absolute impossibility Of specie resumption
as provided by the present law. Every
where the prospect of a Democratic triumph
in the next presidential election grows
brighter.
Year: 1875

THE STATESMAN will not be led into any
discussion Of the printing question. Effort
has been made, by inuendo, to draw 1t into
such position, but We have learned to re-
gard such matter as this as private one,
Of insufficient interest 10 the general public
to devote valuable space to it, and il viii
be thus treated by anyone connected with
the paper.
Year: 1875




OwISG To the extreme heat and press OF
business affairs "What Not" says he could
not furnish items for the Pulaski Column
during the last two weeks, and owing Ia
these aud other conspiring causes, he directs
the undersigned to say that he cannot in
the time to come keep up regular core
spondence for the Htorio, or any other pub.
licalion, but he promises that If like state
of affairs as that which gave him birth
should again occur it may be that he will
be "horn again" lie delivers the quill TO
your humble servant, with the request g.
"rry to promote the interests of your
town aud county


Wa have had many additions to our pop
ulation during the last year, aud We are
glad to note the fact that most or all of
those who are here permanently appear to
be honest, upright, good citizens-who are
worthy the respect, support and confidence
{ Our best natiye-bom citizens. In fact We
think that the general tendency of our
country is upward. Though il is deplora-
Bile that the conling-in Of such food Of
foreign popul tion tended to lower the NOR
al .laiu. Of some palts of the county, and
Year: 1875

There are two questions, or, more
properly speaking, there is one ques-
tion with another directly connected
with, or n part Of the same, which
seems to cut Il conspicuous figure in
bpth State and National politics. We
refer to the currency of the realm. I"
The question is, shall we have an in
fa,ion or contraction Of the same
or shall we pormit it to remain as at
esent,-neither contracting or inila.
ting. Another is, shall we have "hard
money return to specie payment.
The two great political parties seem
10 be, in some States and sections, uni
ted upon one or the other, while in
still different States they are divided


IL we give bank note of the denomi-
nation Of one dollar nominal value
Ofone dollar aud fifty cents. does that
render times easier? Could we then
buy anything that is iol sale as cheap
ly us we could with the value of the
one dollar note placed at an even one
hundred eentsy Certainly We could
buy nothing any cheaper under such
state ofcase. In the proportion that
the currency is inflated, is every arti.
Gle of bargain and sale rendered great
er in price. Give Us two dollars of
currency now where We have one, and
everything purchasable is at once
doubled in price. The foregoing is


the argument used by the aniiinaa,
tionists More than this, they argue
Year: 1875

STRTcK 81 LIGHTNING. During the
storm last night sloop lying at the
wharf in New Castle, was struck by a
fash of lightning which shivered The
mast from top to bottom. The crew
escaped injury.


About the same time Mr.. Frank Pat.
ten, of New Castle was stunned by a
flash which struck close to him, az he
walking along the street He was
taken heme and suffered severely all
night, but this morning was ssemewhat
recovered.
Year: 1875

LAUNCH AT CHESTER. This after.
ternoon, between four and five o clock
has been fixed for the launch of the
new iron Pacific mail steamship City
of Sydney, at the ship yard of John
Roach u Son, Chester, Pa. This is
the third vessel of the last contract
the predecessors, City of New York
and City of San Francisco, being near
ly ready for sea. This ship yard is
employing between 1000 and 1900
hands. and has work enough engaged
for many months to come.
Year: 1875

MILITARY MEETING .-Rast night the
German Military Company held Il
meeting and decided to use The hall of
the old Strimple building, on King
street below Second us meeting and
drill room. The members were received
and the company now numbers VI men
At the next meeting uniform will be
adopted.
Year: 1875

A CORRESPONDENT of the Chronicle
charges that Miss BELLA PATEMAN,
an English actress now playing at the
California Theatre, made remarks on
the Fourth of July uncomplimentary
to the American flag. Miss PATEMAN
denies the charge and says that she
never said or intended to say anything
disrespectful of our flag. We accept
the lady's statement, but suppose she
did give expression to some light and
meaningless remark about the Gamer
lean rag" what are we going to do
about it? Shall a newspaper scribbler
hiss this young English girl from the
stage and drive her from the country
for saying less than HORACE GREELEY
when he wrote, "All hail the Haunting
lie"? We have heard a member of the
Union League consign the Constitu-
tion to his Satanic Majesty's King
dom and swear that no Democrat
should be permitted to remain in the
country; yet the loyal gentleman still
lives and the flag still waves.
Year: 1875

Thanks to the untiring efforts of
their ablest leaders, the chasm which
divides the Independent and Republic
can parties is deepening and widen
ing with that celebrity which marks
the fulfillment of fate's DEGREES. These
two organizations are made up in the
main Of men who only few years
ago trained under the same flag, stood
on the same platform and avowed
their answering adherence to the
same principles. They were the party
of purity and reform, Of superior in
telligence and higher law doctrine.
They acknowledged no power save
that of party and conceded no right


which confiicted with or threatened


their self-assumed supremacy. The
self-styled party of reform, they in
augurated and maintained the most
expensive and corrupt government
that ever the nation has been called
upon to support. Boosting its origin
to be with and Of the people, the Re-
publican party heaped taxation on the
masses until the load became so gall
ing and oppressive that it would have
bred riot and rebellion among any
other people on the face of the globe.
The vaunted preserver of The Union,
this party plundered, oppressed and
sought to crush the life from the re-
bellious States afor a period of ten
years after they had acknowledged
their error and returned to their alle-
glance. While protesting its purity,
this party has appointed thieves to
Year: 1875

SALT LAKE, July l3.-It is rumored
that John d. Lee, with the consent Of
council, has expressed a desire to
make full confession concerning the
Mountain Meadow Massacre, provid-
ing anoUe dr0squi be entered in his
case, which the District Attorney has
agreed to, providing it be satisfactory,
the object of the prosecution being to
discover under whose orders he and
Bishop Dame led the massacre. Much
excitement exists in reference to the
trial. Large amounts of money are
being expended to get at the truth.


The Editorial party after bathing
and sailing in Great Salt Lake, left
for the West this afternoon in high
spirits.
Year: 1875

Poor old Pomposity BIDwELL has
let his vaunting ambition over-reach
itself. If running for Governor costs
twenty thousand acres of land, no
wonder the Independents were at so
much trouble TO find az eligible candi-
date. If the weak, vain old man had
not allowed himself to be flattered into
politics, he might have gone on to the
end of his life holding his land, pull
ing up his wine grapes and raising
cherries
Year: 1875

THE Extention Spring and Sixth
Street Railroad Company" have filed
articles of incorporation with the
County Clerk. The new company is
simply the old one. The route set
forth is from the Arroyo Sec0 to the
Plaza, near the Pico House, thence by
such streets as may be obtained to
Figueroa street, or the depot of the
Los Angeles and Independence Rail-
road. The kind of road to be built is
the ordinary two track or, if desirable,
the Prsmoidal one-rail street railroad.
1t is this last condition that attracts
our attention. The Common Council
refuses to permit the San Pedro street
railroad company to lay down the
Prismoidal road and we are wondering
ifit will treat its pet, the Spring street
company, in the same way.
Year: 1875

Now Is your time No such chance again in
one hundred years! The Bazaar is selling out
their entire stock of Dry Goods % per cent.
below cost, as they intend giving up their dry
goods business and keep only Gents Furnish
Ing Goods. This is no bogus sale, but genu-
Inc selling out of our entire stock of Dry
Cry Goods, as you will find out by calling at
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Requena
streets. opposite the U. S. Hotel. iel7
Year: 1875

IT is understood that the object had
in view by Plymouth Church in rails
ing BEEoHER's salary, was that he
might repair the damage to his pants
sustained by reason of their long con-
tact with the "ragged edge.n
Year: 1875

EDITOR HERALD: The condition of
the country throughout the whole
Los Nietos section is most encourag-
ing. From all parts come statements
of the prosperous condition of the
crops. The amount of corn that will
be gathered this year is enormous.
Year: 1875

DooTHS THEATRE. SPECIAL


JARRETT PALMER respectfully announce that orders
for reserved the performance of ULIUS CESAR
will received at the box Office and filled on next
Thursday morning the 23d inst when the direct sale o
tickets will be begun Regular prices will prevail, and
choice Of places can be made from the diagram
Year: 1875

course, from some Catholic family and handed
it down to his family, thinking no doubt that
it would remain in their hands for ever. But
now-two hundred years afterwards or there
abouts-his latest descendant becomes a
gambler and has to sell out and the purchaser


is member of that religion which the founder
of his family worked so hard to extirpate!
believe, indeed, that the last Coote has now left
Ireland. i. c.
Year: 1875

A serious hindrance in the way of the


successful use of commercial manures in


this country lies in the ignorance Of the


consumers about them. Many If not most


farmers have no better idea of what they


ought to get for a good superphosphate.
or guanO, or potash salt, than a little child


has of what good Oolong tea or real Old


Government Java is; and as the average


grocer would be likely to take advantage
OF such ignorance in regard to the quality
Of his wares, and furnish third-rate tea


and coffee at first rate prices, to the mutual
satisfaction ot both parties, so the average
dealer in commercial manures will, when
he feels that it is safe TO do so, supply
farmers with second or third-rate manures


at high prices; and, unhappily for real
agricultural progress, to the satisfaction


of the farmer as well as of himself. Now


farmers do not pursue the same course in


respect to their other dealings; they do


not buy horses or land, or stock, without


exercising some judgment in regard to


the quality of their purchases, or at least
pretending to be able to do so. If thev


buy without judgment they are soon


brought to realizing sense Of their folly.
Over $4,000 tons of Peruvian guano are
consumed annually in this country; more
than hundred thousand tons of super
phosphate are consumed every year along
the seaboard States alone. Itsis reported
that the State of Georgia laid out $40. .0O0.-
600 in commercial fertilizers in 1873. 1t
is evident from these few isolated facts
that the annual trade in commercial man
ures throughout the whole country must


be measured by millions of dollars. There


are some good reasons for believing that


the consumers of these manures do not.


at least in great many cases, get the best
that manufacturers and dealers can really
afford to give them for the prices paid
The assertion has been made by those who
pretend to know that superphosphates OF


a much better quality than those in our


markets could be supplied at lower rates
than those now charged. while still allow
ing handsome profit to the manufacturers.


But leaving this out. of consideration,


there is no doubt that large share of the


dealing in commercial manures is not


what it ought to be, and not what it would


be If farmers took more care to inform
themselves as to the quality of what they


buy. They are cheated simply because
they know no better, and they will be


cheated as long as they will thus allow it


they will not get goods OF better quality
till they demand them, and back their de-


mand with reasonable care to protect them
selves from frauds. S. CdldGeU ia Ne,o
York Tribune
Year: 1875

It is the merest political moonshine in the
world and the most transparent demagogism
for the dsembodied shadow which grandilo-
quently calls itself the Liberal party to claim
part, lot or credit in the conflict in Connecti-
cut. The Liberal leaders even who started
for the field paused on the threshold. and
there is no evidence that their proftered aid
was asked for or recognized. hiladelphia


Press.


Leaving out of question the camp followers
and mercenaries, the rank and file of the Re-
publican army are as sensitive to moral infu-
ence as ever. No party can be long in power
without attracting to itself some elements
which weaken it. So when the time comes
in an election that tickets seem 20 demand
''scratcning'' it is because the camp-follow-
ers have had something to do with tie CAM
paign.-N. Y. Times.


We have hitherto given our unreserved sup
port to the claims of Evansville as the first
location for the National capital, after it had
once been set on wheels and started West.
We now desire to revoke the support as unre-
servedly as we gave it, and we say that city
that will vote the Democratic ticket is not
safe to be intrusted with such valuables as
the Patent Office, the Washington Monu-
ment, and the sculptured images in the ma
tional marble yard of the Capitol. Lamasco,
thy name is Ichabod.- Louis Globe.
The people living around the Overlook
House in the Catskills, weren't going to have
any April Foops jokes played on them. They
were altogether too smart to be caught in
that way. So when the alarm of fire in that
hotel was raised they remained conscientious
ly unmoved, and offered no assistance till the
flames came bursting through the roof Men
vino stand in such an awful dread OF ridicule
are none too good to be fooled TO the top oi
their bent, and that doesn't extend far
Chicago Tribune.