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Year: 1875

A prominent citizen of San Diego
writes to gentleman in this city that
the articles in the HERALD showing
the apostacy Of Mccoy and LEACH to
Mr.. WIGGINToN were the chief cause
of the defeat of those two trimmers.
We are glad to know this. We had
rather be the means of defeating a
man who goes into convention and
then seeks to defeat his own nominee,
than to be elected to alucrative Office.
If the HERALD put a quietus on Nc
Coy and LEACH in addition to win.
ming splendid victory at home, the
HERALD is proud Of its &C chievements
and rejoices in its power.
Year: 1875

completed We are reorgani zing the
bank affairs with view to enable it
to pay all its debts and to supply new
capital. Success is now assured be-
yond any doubt, and we confidently
expect to resume our regular business
in short time. Mr. Ralston was in
debted largely to the bank, but he
leaves considerable property, the pro-
ceeds of which will go far towards
paying his liabilities Independent of
new capital now being subscribed:
The community here is showing the
greatest confidence in our efforts at
reorganization. Your truly,


ID. o. MILLS.
Year: 1875

THE Call says the Democracy OF
California now have splendid oppor-
tunity. That is true and one of the
beauties of the situation is that the
Democracy is in no way indebted to
the Call for the opportunity and it
will be no fault of that paper if the
Democracy does not let that splendid
opportunity slip by unimproved.
Year: 1875

have endeared hismemory to all class
es in our midst. Resolued, That the
members of this Board respectfully
extend their heartfelt sympathy to the
family of the deceased, and that in
token Of respect copy of these reso-
lutions be transmitted to the family
of the deceased, and the same be en-
tered on the minutes of the Board"
Year: 1875

SAN DIEGO, CAL, Aprit 23.-How others fare on the Tucson and San Diego stage route, I don't know, but my wife and l came over the road in good shape ill the usual time of five days, without being very weary. In fact the constant outdoor and rough usage, seemed to be medicine for her, and I believe is to any one who will not give way to weariness and take to grum bling. She feels so well that in con- sequence of the wreck of the Ventura, she is willing and over anxious to start on to- day by stage via Los Angeles to the rail way. The unwell portion of mankind often improves faster under endurable hardshipS in the open air, than under the best care in comfortable dwellings. This coast stage and railroad route is the short est in point of time, and as it has recent ly been improved by extension of the rail- way, and better and faster coacher. I'll send THE CITIZEN some notes about 1t from san Francisco.

 On the way from Tucson here, the line is efficiently managed. On no previous trip, have l observed such prOmptness at stations. Teams were in every instance in readiness and in strong condition. With a single exception or two, new sets of drivers are on the road. This l only re- mark by the way, for the former ones, with few exceptions, were very good and always OblIging as are the present ones. Some improvements are being made with reference to stations. Travellers of late could not help observing tne disgusting station at Rock Springs thirty-five miles out from here, but they will soon have the pleasure of passing it without stopping. By it's abandonment by the stage com pany, two mere are established 10 the ad- vantage and comfort Of proprietOrs, driv- CTS, passengers and stock.

 I observed Ed. Richard piling up adObeS between Pima Villages and Maricopa Wells for a new trading establishment. He is evidently going to put up large and good building close to the southern line of the Pima reservation but of 1t. He had dug and found a well of first-rate water, and was working like beaver on the adobeS.

 The Pima agency buildings have lately received some i'm provements, but our stop there was only a few minutes, hence learn ed but little. The general impression IS that the grain crop, not only of the Pimas but the country around them, will be lighter than heretofore. Contractors may have bid too low this year for their own good, to supply the military with barley and corn and probably flour. Quite num- Der of men along the route expressed che hope that they had, so that hereafter the ruinOus low prices lately prevailing would cease for awhile at least.

 InaVe no time to write much in detail. This town is improving substantially. It is quite certain that the Southern Pacific railway will soon reach here--say within two or three years at most. san Diego is an important town and one of much more prospective worth than it yet has credit for. Within few years, both orange and lemon trees have been brought to the bearing age, and everything that can be grown about Los Angeles, can here.

 J. w.
Year: 1875



 EDITOR CITIZEN: At o'clock d, m. Of the 24th l again took the Luck board for Silver City with Kentuck" an old guide and Indian fighter for driver whose yarns and anecdotes helped materially to pass away the time. For fifteen miles the road was across fine grassy plain, where much hay is cut for the Silver City and other markets. On leaving this plain, or valley the road enters the foot hills of the Bur TO" mountains over and around which we wind for some six or eight miles when we reach Knights ranch where we stop for breakfast Some three miles before reach ing Knights we saw a number of bears tracks in the road near where, two mOrn- ingS before, the driver killed one of three which were having a frolic in the road |. We also saw twelve large black-tailed deer within easy gunshot but having no gun with us they bounded off unharmed. The Burro mountains and foot hills abound in game such as bear, deer and turkeys. A good breakfast at Knights and haSty glance at his cattle, of which he has about 1000 head, and we rolled off for this place 32 miles arriving here at ? p. m.,-the road the whole distance being over and around small hills and across splendid little val leys, all we'll covered with gramma and ether grasses.

 To sum up the grazing quality of the country between Tucson and Silver City POO miles or over, it is excellent all the way except the first elght miles out of Tucson, the eastern side of the San Simon valley and the Playa or plain west of RalSton and few miles about Silver City, the exceptions in all extending not over % miles of the 200, or one eighth per
Year: 1875

Mr.. Moody struck the keynote of his re-
yival work in this country in his opening
address at the Brooklyn Rink yesterday
when he appealed in his earnest and peculiar
way to his hearers, LET us go up and take
the land" If, single handed, he was to meet
and overcome an army with banners, his un-
dertaking would not be more difficult In
his revival work he must triumph over the
deprayity and the Indifference of men to
make his mission successful, and the history
Of long line of evangelists and reformers
shows success in an endeavor of this kind to be
almost impossible. Mr.. Moody is apparently
an exception to the list of equally earnest
workers who have little to show for their zeal
and devotion except the sense of their own
faithfulness, and though the revival
is only begun it is already appar-
ent that the evangelist is to make
very deep and perhaps a permanent i'm
preston upon the people Thousands went
to hear him yesterday, and as many as OBJ
tanned admittance to the Rink were turned
away because that immense structure was
incapable of holding them. The scene was
one never before witnessed in any city on
this Continent. Not only Brooklyn, but New
York and all the adjacent towns and villages,
helped to swell the multitude which congre-
gated in the building or gathered in the
streets about it. Something more than mere
idle curiosity was necessary to bring so many
earnest men and women together. Evidently
the popular heart was prepared for great
outpouring of the divine power, and un-
consciously the vast assemblage became ON
impelling force in making the aspiration a
reality. Instinctively the multitude re-
sponded to his stirring appeal and be-
came part of the evangelist's pur-
pose. "Let us go up and take the land"
was as much their desire as it was
his The speaker and his coadjutor, the
singer, showed their earnestness, their en-
ergy and their peculiar gifts; but these were
only one force working upon another, and it
is the people who come under the influence
of these two men, rather than the men them
selves, who accomplish such surprising re-
suits. Moody and Sankey are like the gen.
eral Of an army and his chief of staff leading
the force to victory, but it is the rank and
file who do the fighting. This is why the
keynote which Mr.. Moody struck yesterday
is almost certain to lead to the largest re-
suits, and it will be plain to any one who
morning that more remarkable work can be
accomplished here than was achieved by the
eyangelists in Great Britain.
Year: 1875

The utter incompleteness of the report Of
the commission appointed to investigate the
charges of fraud at the Red Cloud Agency
was clearly demonstrated by the letter Of
Mr.. Samuel Walker which we printed yes
terday. These chargs$ were made by Pro.
fessor Marsh, and their substantial truth
was unquestionable from the beginning
When the testimony was presented the
evidence was unmisSskable, and yet the
commission acquitted Agent Saville in spite
of the clearest proofs. 1t is the truth
of one of these charges against Mr..
Saville which was so clearly demonstrated
by Mr.. Walker The accusation was that ra-
tions claimed to have been issued November
8, 1874, and charged for by the Red Cloud
agent, were never issued at all. The fact
was admitted, SO far as the date was con-
cerned, but it was claimed that the rations
were really issued between the 1st and the
9Th of November. If this had been true thu
date would have been immaterial ; but Mr..
Walker shows that during this time no rs-
tions were issued, because an attempt was
making to coerce the Indians into being
counted. This example not only indicates
the complete untrustworthiness of the
report, but suggests the truth Of
all the other charges against the
Indian Ring If the Commissioners have
been false to their trust in one thing it fol-
lows that they may have been false in all
The work must be done over again and in a
way that will clearly demonstrate the trans
actions of every person connected with this
dishonest business. committee of the
House of Representatives is the proper body
to make the inquiry, as it is not possible thu
country will ever know the whole truth
unless it is obtained with the sanction and
under the authority of Congress.
Year: 1875

FUNERAL OF FREDERIC HUDSON. At the
quiet village Of Concord yesterday all that
was mortal Of Frederic Hudson was laid
away. The clouded sky was in strange
keeping with the solemnity Of tho scene
and the recollection Of Mr.. Hudsons sudden
and violent death. Still in the prime Of life
and in the keenest enjoyment of an elegant
retirement, earned by years Of earnest and
faithful labor, a long and happy future
seemed vouchsafed to him. In an hour all
this was changed, and he was cut of in tho
full fruition Of his manhood. The loss to
his family is bereavement which no one
else can share; but the regret at his demise
is universal, for he was indeed man Of
whom it may be said that none knew him
but to love him or named him but to praise
his high virtues, his great abilities and his
many generous qualities.
Year: 1875

AS the Centennial Exhibition next year is
to be, in q great measure, celebration Of
the growth and progress Of the first century
Of the Republic, it is desirable that all the
information which has been gathered on this
subject should be made accessible to the
people. 1t is within the reach Of the Patent
Office to present succinct history Of Ameri-
can inventions, illustrated by the most strik-
ing models in the possession Of the bureau.
In the same way the Agricultural Depart
ment can give a striking view of the progress
Of agriculture. But what would be even
more interesting is not so easily accom-
plished-a complete history of the material
progress of each Of the States of the Union.
No country could present a more remarkable
story Of development and growth in popula-
ton, agriculture and manufactures than the
State of New York, and yet no country is SO
barren Of statistics relating to its social
and industrial history Even the cen
suses which we have been taking
during the last quarter Of a century
are not within the reach Of most Of the peo-
pie, and the census of 1875 will hardly be
printed in time for the Centennial. In an
other column we present view Of the prog
ress Of agriculture and the increase of pop
ulation in the Empire State, from which it
will be seen how meagre is our knowledge
Of our own condition and how inadequate
our means for adding to the present stock
Of statistical information. We have geo.
graphical and historical societies, which
are doing good work, but we have no
statistical society Of any kind nor any means
Of preserving or presenting even such statis-
tics as have been gathered under the aus
pices Of the State AT least we might have
a statistical Office at Albany, where full in
formation relating to the industrial condi-
ton Of the State should be gathered, tabu-
lated and preserved; and we hope that one
Of the fruits of the Centennial will be to
prove the utility and necessity Of such an
Office in every State in the Union.
Year: 1875

KING ALFONSO seems determined to dis
courage republicans, but he attempts it in
the Spanish fashion. In refusing to allow
the republicans to hold electoral meetings
he is more likely to help them than to help
himself
Year: 1875

KHoKAND. The story Of the recent at
tempt at revolution in Khokand, and of the
journey of the Russians to the capital, is told
this morning in letter which has reached us
from Hodjent. Its inherent interest will be
sufficient TO commend it to our readers.
Year: 1875

The STATE CAMPAIGN is growing more bitter
in the interior counties, and both democrats
and republicans are at fever heat. A letter
from Geneva, which We print this morning,
gives a view of the situation in Ontario
county.
Year: 1875




Herein lie Western and Southern
thrift and independence. The raw
material in boundless abundance is
at our very door. See the enterprise
of Eastern factors. They move
thither our grain, wool, cotton, min
erals, &c, over high freight rate
railways, convert these products in
to manufactured articles, and then
ship to us, to be bought at enormous
profits on their outlay. Why not
save the freight on the raw materi.
al, and that on that manufactured
article by converting this material
into manufactured stuff here. We
have the power, both water and
steam. Our rivers flow by us invit-
ing capital and enterprise, and our
coal fields are filed With fuel to
drive millions of spindles and wheels


While tue cotton fields alone of
the South have added annually to
the wealth ofthe world $3.50, ,OOO, 900
and enriched every other class han
ding this staple those who have
toiled for its production have grown
poorer continually. The agricultur-
lists of the Southern States instead
of being the most independent class,
as they might be, have been the
most dependent. With soil and
climate that will produce every crop
necessary to our comfortable sup
port, we depend upon other States
for much Of. our food even. and up
Oh the merchants whom We have
built up for the means of purchas.
ing it from year to year.


No community, state OR nation can
be prosperous which only produces
the raw material, and then hires
some other to manufacture it. Let
a man grow the wheat for his bread,
pay the freight to a New York mill
to make it into flour and then the
freight back again, and see if that
would be profitable to him. The
same is true of every thing else,
Only that community or section is
prosperous which manufactures, as
well as produces raw material. The
operatives in the factories being
consumers, also give home markets
for products. five can mannfac
ture all we need, the operatives will
use here at home such of our pro
ducts as they now consume away
Off somewhere else where We now
have to slip this produce and pay
high freights on it to them. Wha,
we furnish to them has this freight
added, and they are in turn COMPEL
ed to add this difference to th,
price of the goods they manufacture
ship and sell back to U.S. We pa,
three freights, one, on raw material
one on manufactured goods. sen
back to as, and one on the food W,
send them for their workmen.


| Communities which only produc
and sell the raw material, have al
ternate flush and lean business pc
riods. When the annual produe
ton is beingsold, they flourish, bu
that is soon past, and they are com
PEELED to buy and ship back th
goods manufactured out of wha
they sold, aud then theyshaye lean
ness in business. Production b


home manufacturing equal to d.
- ?


mand makes home markets; say
freights, and keeps something cor
stantly on baud to exchange 70
Year: 1875

THE Paris correspondent Of the London
Times is informed on good authority that
N. Olivier will shortly publish a book
which is likely to make a considerable
sensation, on the Empire Of the coup Fetdt
in 1852, and the Liberal Empire Of the
plebiScite in 1870.
Year: 1875

CINCINNATI, June Postmaster Gen
eral Jewell arrived in the city this morning
and was on the floor of the Chamber of
Commerce to-day and made neat little
speech, in the course of which he stated
that there 1,200 clerks employed on the
postal cars in the Mississippi valley dis
tributing in transitu more than forty tons
Of mail matter per month.
Year: 1875

THE common cry for "a volume of
currency equal to the wants of trade
Is neatly reversed by the Memphis A.
aIanehe, which suggests that it might
be "better to make the volume Of trade
equal to the wants of the currency"
which has not been the fact since the
panic Of 1873.
Year: 1875

IT viii be seen from the notes of re-
cent Supreme Court dscisionsa at Knox
vile, which we copy from the Press aud
Herald, that the business Of conducting
a National Bank is held not to be tax
able by q State, county or corporation
as privilege.
Year: 1875

Federal HOnOrs TO the Norfolk Blues


FORTRESS MONROE, June 23.-The Nor
folk Blues, on their return, were received
with an ovation scarcely less enthusiastic
than that at Bunker Hill. Thirteen guns
were fired from the 10-inch guns, and the
flag Of the fort was dipped as they sailed
past Fortress Monroe.
Year: 1875




The Treasury has in excess Of its ae.
crued gold liabilities only about So
100000 of coin, and of this sum how
much is in gold and how much in sill
yer only those who are IN the secrets of
the Treasury Department are permit
ted to know. Now with the products of
the country so securely held by specu-
latlon through the aid of a superabund-
ance Of broken promises called money.
80 that 1t cannot be shipped
abroad except IN small quanti-
ties, and even that sparingly; and
with the current Of cur securities
generally turned towards US instead of
the other way, as has been the case for
years past, so that we can no longer
pay our interest account from the pro-
ceeds Of the sale Of new bonds, the sit
uatlon seems to point to a continuous
stream Of gold from our shores, only
to be interrupted when the article,
through heavy speculative operations,
becomes so scarce as to command a
high rate of interest, thus for a time
demoralizing the exchanges and caus-
ing a cessation, or rather a postpone





ment Of remlttances, to be again re-
newed, with increased vigor, when th e
speculative movement shall have ceased.
In this view of existing circumstances
it seems idle 10 belittle or ignore the
gold question. And it appears plain
that unless some means be found to
force our products upon the market, so
that they shall perform tue duty of
liquidation, that the exports Of gold
must steadily increase; and if so, there
must come a real, and not artificial
scarcity of gold. Already we have
heard Of banks exchanging their un-
loanable currency into gold coin instead
Of Government bonds, since they can
use the gold in purchasing good |
mercantile gold" paper at re-
rates of interest. |
OF course, if the scarcity Of |
cash gold continues We may expect to |
again see the foreign exchange market
totally demOralized and commercial |
bills unstable, so that the export |
trade will for a time nearly cfase. |
Thus are we every few weeks or months
treated to a demonstration Of the value /
and blessedness Of "the best currency |
the world ever saw"
Year: 1875

GENERAL SHERMAN says 81 don't be-
Heve that Grant was ever drunk when
there was any fighting to be done" lhis
is a limited certificate Of SObriety, DSt lt
certainly ought to 90 a great ways. Tie
trouble with great many men is that they
Get drunk at the wrong time.
Year: 1875

is between the law and a great character
and a great church. If the latte- triumph
ana tie law is trodden down, woe unto
him who eaiieth good evil and evil good.


May it please your honor it needs not
that l should express the common senti-
ment Of my associates and myself as we
recall the indulgent dignity and fearless
bearing with which you have guided US
through the tangled mazes Of this trial.
You can receive no nObler tribute than that
offered by our adveTSaries. Fighting every
step Of the case, sprinkling the record all
over with exceptions, they have scknowl-
edged the entire accuracy OF your Dumer-
oUs decisions. You have the qualification
to know that you have worked no injustice
to this defendant. indulge the hope that
the feeling of regard with which you have
houored NE, viii, as we'll as my own warm
feelings toward yourself, grow and increase
after the close Of these tOilsOme days.


l cannot close without expressing my
grateful thanks to my noble friends and
Year: 1875

Complaint in the suit brought in the
name Of the people against Peter B. SNee-
nev. 10 recover over seven million dollars
alleged 10 have been fraudulently subtract
ed from the Treasury Of the County OF
New York, was yesterday filed IN the
County Clerks Office.
Year: 1875

" NEW YORK, June 3 Tweed was Wis
tied in Ludlow street Jail to day by his
family and counsel but refuses to see any
others. His health and spirits seem much
improved by the change. 1t cannot be as
ceriained when the three million bail
wouId he given but it is generally believed
tbat his IMPRISONMENT will not extend over
two or three dayS.
Year: 1875

WORTH RBMEMBERING.- The Scieatifc American says: If mos quitoes or other bloodsuckers in- fest our sleeping rooms at night, we uncork a bottle of the oil of pennyroyal, and these animals leave in great haste, nor will they return so long as the air in the room is loaded with the fumes of that aromatic herb. If rats enter the cellar, a little powdered pot ash, thrown in their holes or mix ed with meal and scattered in their runaways, never fails to drive them away. Cayenne pep. per will keep the buttery and storerooms free from ants and cockroaches. If mouse makes an entrance into any part of your dwellings, saturate a rag with cayenne, in solution. and stuff it into the hole, which can be re- paired with either wood or nor tar. No rat or mouse will eat that rag for the purpose of opening communication with a depot of supplies.
Year: 1875

A young lady of engaging per sonal appearance, says the Bur lington RG,0keye, who came here last week, from CrestOn, recently announced that she was going to open barber shop on North Hill. The very next day, each married woman on North Hill surprised her husband, whose many virtues she had long known and admired, with neat little present, consist ing of razor, lather-brush and strop. And now, as oft as North Hill man comes home, the wife of his bosom puts her arms around his neck and rubs her downy cheek against his face, in all ap- parent innocence and affection, but if his cheek is smoother than when he went away in the morn ing, she fans him with the rolling pin until he has to wear his hat on which ever lump it will fit best.