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Year: 1875

prefers to keep it in hand, ready to turn II
into gold and bury it whenever there Is q
| prospect that Mr.. Phillips and General But
Ter may carry the day. He lets it lie in the


bank OF he lends it on short time at low
rate and accepts a greatly diminished IN
come rather than risk it. And he is un-
doubtedly right.


4 But give him assurance Of stability Dy
putting the currency on the only stable basis
it can haye-on a gold basis, which is recog-
nized all over the world-and he eagerly
launches out into new ventures, for
he is hungry for an increased in
come he viii be rash rather than
prudent He will summon workrnen
around him from every part Of the country.
The demand viii be SO great that wages, in
stead Of going down. must go up; there will
BE- more people with means to buy, and con
sumption will increase. Thus the rewards
Of the producer in every branch will be
greater, and wages and prices, 50 far from
falling by resumption Of specie payments,
must inevitably and quickly rise.


They cannot rise in any other way A new
expansion Of the currency would not induce
enterprises; it would only still more fatally
check them The mere prospect Of it, the
threats Of Allen and Pendleton, Butler and
Phillips, have only made the times harder
and duller AT the very time when it
seemed probable that Governor Allen would
be elected and that the friends Of initiation
would sweep the country, the Fall River
operatives had to give mp their strike and
re-enter the factories with disagreeable CON
ditions. They may rightly blame General
Butler and Mr.. Phillips for this, for the price
Of the Fall River products has fallen almost
every time these two gentlemen have spoken
for imitation.


Our condition is as that Of a Western
colony would be, if, after having built their
houses, raised their crop and completed
their road, they should fall into a dispute
about the size Of the bushel measure one party
desiring to enlarge, the other to diminish il.
While the dispute lasted everybody would
refuse to sell his grain because he could
not tell how much Of it would 90 TO a bushel
next week, and mechanics and farmers
would stand idle, and production would
cease, and consumption would be checked
until the dispute was settled-until some day
a sensible man made the suggestion that the
bushel measure which was used by their
neighbors and the world at large was the
only and true bushel for them, and that they
could not increase their stock Of corn by
measuring it out in smaller bushels But it
is plain enough that when the great bushel
question was settled, then industry
would revive, people would go to work
with confidence in the future laborers and
mechanics would find employment; and
consumption or demand, which rules the
price Of labor and Of products would revive.


The only way to higher wages is by the
resumption Of specie payments, which means
stability Of values because thus only can
capital be induced to new ventures, which
will increase wages, which will enlarge the
power Of consumption, which alone can re-
'viye general industry, and thus raise the
WAGES Of labor
Year: 1875

Inc increasing tendency of our popula-
ton to congregate in cities, which has re-
celyed new illustration in the recent State
census OF New York, besets the politics of
the country with danger which grows con-
stantly more alarming. During the first
half century Of the Republic our population
was chiefly agricultural, with a great ap-
proach to equality in property, intelligence
and morals The scum and dregs which
were almost unknown. But at present the
dangerous classes in cities often hold the
balance of power, and it has become serious
question whether we can preserve our in
stitutions without interposing new checks on
the power OF demagogues over the criminal
population. The art Of politics in a great
city like New York, for example, has de-
generated into the creation or maintenance
Of organizations for enabling crafty lead
ers to consolidate large masses of
the lowest class Of voters in COM
pact phalanx, to be moved at the
Tammany organization is a case in point. 1t
was easily controlled by Tweed it is con-
trolled with equal ease by Mr.. Kelly both
maintain their ascendancy by the same dis
reputable means of favoring the wishes
Of the worst part Of the population. We
happen to have in our most important crimi-
nal court Judge who has made himself "a
terror to evil doers," and has incurred the
enmity Of the whole body Of rowdies, thieves,
burglars and cutthroats. Mr.. Kelly finds it
necessary, as O means of preserving his
power, to appease and satisfy the criminal
classes by making war upon this upright
and efficient magistrate. These classes are
formi dable in our politics only by combina-
ton under leaders who use them as tools.
If we could break the combination we
should escape the danger. The democracy
Of the rural districts have long been sensi-
bic that such organizations as Tammany are
a great nuisance, and few years ago the late
Mr.. Cassidy offered resolution in the State
Convention with q view to shatter the in
fuence Of Tammany. That resolution, which
was adopted, made it a standing rule that the
party should recognize no such organization,
and that all delegates to the State Convention
should be chosen in the cities, as they are in
the country, BY the democrats Of the separate
Assembly districts, without any outside in
terference This rule, though kept in force,
has been evaded in substance by the Tam
many organization but it is nevertheless a
valuable democratic testimony to the evil Of
political organizations which destroy the
individual independence Of voters and sub
vert the first principles of democracy. 1t is
for the honest voters Of the city, without dis
tinction Of party, to remedy the evil with
which the rural democracy made vain at
tempt to cope There has never been moro
favorable time than the present for sue
cessful assault on an organization which has
been for twenty years the plague of demo-
cratic State conventions, which came near
running the party under Tweed and has now
made bolder bid than he ever ventured on
for the support Of the criminal classes.
Year: 1875

if possible at trade that may be useful to
them when they regain their freedom.
Economy for the State and humanity toward
the convict alike urge reform of our pres
ent system. There is no reason why our
prisons should not be made self-supporting
or why the industrious convict should not
be turned out of Jail with trade to follow
and little money in his pocket to support
him until work can be obtainad
Year: 1875

THE BAR OF New York should unite with.
out distinction Of party in demonstration
in favor Of the peoples candidates, Hackett
and Phelps All who favor an upright
judiciary and an honest administration Of
the laws should unite in denouncing John
Kelly's attempt to degrade the Bench for
partisan purposes.
Year: 1875




The depositors Of the Third Avenue Saw
ings Bank appear to be resolved to adopt ac-
tive measures for their own protection.
Naturally they have no faith in the receiv-
ership Of Mr.. Carman, who, as secretary Of
the bank, connived at the dishonest act of re-
coiving deposits when it was known that tho
institution was bankrupt and that the de-
positors must lose the greater portion Of their
money, and who is said to have signed and
verified some Of the false reports Of the condi-
tion Of the bank made to the Banking Depart
ment. The proposition to apply to the
courts to set aside Mr.. Carman and appoint
some other receiver meets with favor. 1t is
urged as a reason why this step should not
be taken that Mr.. Carman has not long been
associated with the bank; that he is
capable man to wind up its affairs and that,
if the receiver is not interfered wieh and al
lowed time, the depositors may get eighty
cents on the dollar Indeed, even brighter
prospects are held out to-day to induce the
depositors to leave Mr.. Carman alone. But
any capable receiver would be able to secure
quite as much for the victims as can be Sc
cured by Mr.. Carman, and the depositors
would be likely to be more patient under the
receivership Of q man in whom they have
confidence than under an old officer of the
bank.


We believe that in the public interest the
course Of the Bank Superintendent in the
affair should be very closely scrutinizod. He
knew that the bank was hopelessly bank
rupt: he knew that the managers had
been dishonest in incorporating its con-
dition. by what right did he suffer the
bank to continue to extend the area Of its
victims and to cntice new depositors? What
Y is his clear duty in such a case? !? BY what
4 right was an officer Of the bank appointed
its receiver secretly, without the knowl-
edge of the creditors, and IN such
a manner MS to catch the depositors in
a trap before they dreamed Of their danger?
+. DO the existing laws warrant such proceed
inps? If So they certainly need revision
rs the singular course pursued by Mr. Ellis
consistent with the duty Of the Bank Super
intendent? If so the people would be better
protected without than with such an officer.
It is believed that proceedings of criminal
nature will be instituted against the officers
and trustees of the broken bank in order to
test whether it is not criminal act to take
peoples money on deposit under false pre-
tences. Such proceeding would probably
result in good. Meanwhile is there no
authority that can reach the Bank Superin-
tcndent and investigate his share in tho
whole questionable proceedings3


Two CITIZENS were assaulted and robbed
by a pana of rutiiana ON. SatuTdaY eYeplpl
Year: 1875

NEW YORK, November 1.-THE
Trunk Lines have agreed to advance the
rate of frnrght West, on Monday next
on basis of 80 per cent of those of The
past few months. The claim for this
advance as put forth by railroad men, Il
that rates are much lower now than they
have ever before been at this time OF the
wear, and with the advance there is very
little margin for profit. when severe
weather sets in. The following Is the
schedule OF rates to principal points oi
shipment:
Year: 1875

1t is understood that the above advance
has not been coused by nor Is 1t IN any
way connected with the recent compact
that has taken place between the Fort
Wayne, Lake Shore and Michigan Gem
trul railrnNls
Year: 1875

The custom Of preserving our own fruit is be-
coming great feature in housekeeping. Few
good heusekeepers neglect TO put up q sufficfent
quantity of fruit during the summer to avoid the
necessity Of purchasing from time to time during
the winter. While we consider this q good idea,
Economical to say the least,) myst not fail to
q large stock Of Jars of all descriptions which
they sell at very low rates. This firm deserves
the patronage Of the public in general from the
fact that they Of the first houses in this city
that have made speciality of fruit jars. In con.
sequence Of their large trade in this line they
have reduced the price thereof at least fifty per
cent, thus enabling every body to buy.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Gwynn, Of Virginia, is dead. His last mem
orsndum provided that he should be buried with
his head eighteen inches higher than his feet that
his cane and sheepskin should be placed In the
comm with him. and that the coin should be care
fully wrapped in blanket
Year: 1875

attempts to dodge the issue by setting
up the fiimsy and untenable excuse
that the State Central Committee had
made his appointments for him and
that he could not change the pro-
gramme. Then when Mr.. WIGeINToN
offers to conform to the programme
of the State Central Committee, Mr..
HoUGHToN finding himself pushed to
the wall and further evasion out of
the question fatty refuses to meet
him at all. This places Mr.. HoUGH-
Ton in an awkward position, yet he
has done the best that he could do un-
der the circumstances. He is well
aware that he is no match for Mr..
WIGGINToN on the stump, and he
knows that to canvass the district
in company with him is the worst
possible thing that he could do towards
securing his election. HoUGHToN's
record cannot be defended before the
people even by himself, and he knows
that WIGGINToN would keep him on
the defensive from the first speech
to the end of the campaign. He knows
that WIGGINToN is an able speaker,
thorough Democrat and, a man of
unspotted record and he dare not
chance the issue of canvass with
him.
Year: 1875

THE Jonesville organ affects serious
concern about the circulation of the
HERALD. 1t pretends to think that
our expose of the Santa Monica lot
speculation has lost us subscribers.
This is an insinuation that our people
endorse misrepresentation and decep-
tion, and is an insult to their honesty
and intelligence. We take pleasure
in assuring our little evening cotem-
porary that the HERALD's circulation
in this city alone has increased two
hundred copies since we commenced
warning the people against the Jones'
vile lot enterprise. We nave gained
many subscribers and to our knowl-
edge have not lost u single one. We
might, however, lose a subscriber for
every one the Eapress has and not
feel the loss.
Year: 1875

The Democratic County Committee
met yesterday and called Democrat
ic County Convention, to take place
in this city on Wednesday the 4th day
of August. The primary for the elec-
ton of delegates to the Convention will
be held throughout the county OH Sat
urday the 3lst inst. The proceedings
of the Committee will be found in
another column. This action of the
County Committee is in accordance
with the wishes of the Democracy of
Los Adgeles county. There is no
doubt but that full delegation will
be present and that a ticket will be
nominated composed of as good men
as can be found in the county. 1t will
receive the unanimous support of the
Democracy and be elected by hand
some majority.
Year: 1875

In his plea for Jonesville last night
Tom FITCH followed the programme
we predicted he would. He went for
the Southern Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny with the vindictiveness of fellow
who had lived off of their aims and
had been refused further allowance.
The HERALD was the ocean to the
river of his thoughts. He returned
to it again and again and applied to it
the choicest epithets he could find in
his extensive stock of Billingsgate.
He plead for the election of HoUGH-
TON, asked that the hat might be
passed around for a donation to the
Los Angeles and Independence Rail-
road by begging every body to buy
share of stock in the road, or lot in
Jonesville, and made a personal at
tack on Governor DowNEY of char
acter such only as one might expect
from a fellow who could write a
speech against SHARON and announce
that he intended to deliver it in Ne
vada unless an opportunity offered to
sell it for $I9,009999. We do not know
that SHARON was blackmalled, but
we never heard that the speech was
delivered. We have known Tom a
long time and we will do him the JUS
tice to say that he never deserts one
cause until he finds another
that pays better. He was
the friend of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company so long as
that company thought the game
worth the candl e. He is now with
the Jonesville OF spectators because
those schemers may have thought it


was better to have him with them
then against them. The HERALD
mapped out TOMS speech, and adver-
tised the time and place he would de-
liver it free of charge, and in that
speech Tom advertised the HERALD
quite extensively. But a species of
ILL uoGiCc has OCCh uOlC VbC Int pf COO,
to which we respectfully call atten-
tion. For weeks tina paper has filled
its columns with assertions that the
HERALD's expose of the Jonesville
scheme did not affect the success of
that doubtful enterprise. Now, Tom,
if your little organ has told the truth
why have you put your hackers to the
expense of so much platform and so
much gas light to give you an oppor-
tunity to try your hand at the task
which your little organ so signally
failed to accomplish-refute the HER
AIDS facts. And, finally, Hon.
THOMAS FITCH, since you have
thought it necessary to make coarse
personal attack on one of Los Angeles
most worthy citizens, we will go into
the personal business with you, and
ask if you did not, some years ago,
basely desert a wife in this State, and,
like a cowardly cur, leave the poor
woman within few weeks of her con-
finement, to the cold charity of the
world? When you have answered
this question, Mr., Silver-tongued, Hon.
THOMAS FITCH, we will ask you an
other
Year: 1875

the Republican State Central Com
mittee and Secretary of the Los An
geles County Republican Committee,
and they did their work well, for we
are informed that they won the fight.
So the great Independent party of Los
Angeles was run down and captured
by old line Republicans and Federal
office holders.
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.
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. jel7
Year: 1875

WINNEMUcCA, July 23d.-The trial
of Rover for the murder of Sharp is
drawing to a close. The evidence is
all in, and the arguments commence
tonight. It is expected that the case
will go the jury tomorrow. There is
great difference of opinion as to what
the verdict will be.
Year: 1875

'Tis time you drew the curtain, child, nd


latched the open door,
Put out the useless candle-there is day


light on the moor;
And II he comes back In the day, be il ear


ly, be It late,
He VIII find the track across the heath that


Leads him TO our gate.
III lay me down upoH the bed, but / shall


wake 20 hear
The faintest football ON the grass, or ever it


drawn near;
'Tis many a year; yet 1 should know bis


step as well to-day,


die away.
'Tls many a year ! sometimes wish, the


while watch at night,
And feel my heart grow colder with the


coming OF the light
wish my hope could die away as dies the


lamp at morn,
1 wish could sit down and weep and know


myself foriOrn.
I wish that could shut my heart as you


bar out the sun,
And sit In darkness. yet in peace, until my


life were done
I'm weary listening all the night for what


never hear;
I'm weary counting how the days make up


another year,
And If he comes, 1t is so hong, so long I've


waited now,
Oh, will he know me with these lines deep


traced upon my brow?
He'll look TO see knot OF curls, like one


that he has kept,
And worn l know upon his heart. the while


he walked or slept.
He'll look to clasp little hand that once


was firm and white;
Feel how 1t shakes, child just TO think If he


should come to-nightl.
For scanty nair and lined face and figure


shrunk and bent,
How could he guess the beating heart,


whose love Is all unspentl
It would be worst OF all TO see him try to


hide the pain,
TO hear the old fond words, and see the old,


dear look again;
70 hold his warm, brown hsndIclose pressed


and know at heart the while,
That when he turned his face aside. the lips


forgot their smile.
'm faint 70 give mp hope. and rest from


weary day and night
N soft gray glooming, that may end, who
knows, in sudden light;
There are soms joys most near, they say,
when every hope seems past,
nd IN cease IN watch and wait my love


may come at last
Year: 1875

[rhe author of the following original poem
seems SO penitent in his lonely cell that II
would be Injustice not TO give publicity To
his poetical petition. The writer is in jail
for stealing We give IL perbQffla Il
Year: 1875

An improved self-stokIng smokeless fur
mace has been introduced with success IN
some Of the English establishments the
plain, it is stated, meeting the case more
thoroughly than anything u the kind hith
erto brought forward. and is az simple in
construction As it Ia efficient in operation
The coal is placed IN q hopper over the
front part Of the furnace into which il falls
in small quantities through a couple Of
apertures. II is not necessary 10 open the
front door Of the furnace, except TO ascer-
tain the condition of the fire, for, by sim
pie mechanical re adjustment, the man in
charge of the furnace may regulate the
quantity almost at once. As IL = added to
from above, the coal sinks down and glides
slowly inward until it reaches the bars
forming the bottom Of the furnace. These
bars are acted upon by plungers which
carry them forward together, with their
layer q coal on top, and then an eccentric
being applied every third bar in the series
in brought back to receive fresh supply,
the movement being in every way adapted
to the purpose. I'm this systematic and con
tinous way the furnace In fed with coal,
which passes night through in slow and easy
stages, the same quantity Of fuel being al
the time IN exactly the same state. Com.
bustiOn is therefore rendered in the high
est degree perfect, the smoke Is completely
burnt up, and all the waste fuel is discharg
cd ut once, In the form Of elinker or alag
directly into the ash pit
Year: 1875

Mr.. A. McMartin recently stated, at the
American Institute Of Mining Engineers
that the use Of the spectroscope, in the
Zwlckau process, was one Of the most beau
tlful expedlents IN metallurgy


He says that one never tires watching
the brilliant changes in the spectrum, blow
after blow. The specific causes of these
changes have been the subject of dispute
and unsatisfactory investigation But Ii
are agreed that carbon has something to
do with them, whether AS such, or in gas
eous form in such nitrogenOus compounds
cyanogen. Whatever be their cause
these changes do take place and that So
regularly, that an experienced eye can
place full dependence upon them as indica-
tors Of the state Of preparation Of the metal
bath. The spectrum at first appears with
out lines but soon as the spark period
begins to give place u its successor, and
the clear flame t. extend out Of the mouth
Of the converter, the bright orange yellow
sodium line quickly makes its appearance,
and remains clearly visible TIL the blast il
turned of. After the sodium line appears
the red lines, EhIch represent calcium lith-
lum and then beautiful series Of perfect
ly graded green lines in the green, and pale
blue lines in the blue section Of the spec
trum, manifest themselves, one after anoth-
er, each in its series, until, at the climax of
the operation, when the greatest heat is
attained, the spectrum rivals that Of chlor-
Ide OF copper in beauty and brilliancy. A
very experienced eye can also see beau
tiful violet line in the violet section at this
point.


But the characteristic lines Of the Bress-
emer spectrum are the beautiful band-like,
graduated series, IN the blue, and espec-
tally IN the green, section. In the inverse
order to that in which they arose 70 their
climax, these lines gradually diminish in
brilliancy, and at last vanish. But some
Of the green lines still remain, after the
blue series has entirely vanished and at
this point nothing must be allowed to dis
tract the conductor Of the operation from
closely watching the spectrum for the only
ind K Though a perfect One) Of thu exact
end Of The operation, is the degree Of bril-
hancy Of certain green lines, which remain
when the charge has arrived at the point
Of desired decarburlsation. For different
mixtures II pig-Iron n slight difference in
the appearance Of the indicating green
lines is notice able at this point; and to
secure with the same mixture a desired
slight difference in the grade Of steel pro-
duced in two different blows, proper allow
ance must be made, on one orthe other side,
Of certain degree Of brilliancy Of the green
lines. EJchdnge