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Year: 1870

THE CHINESE ORGAN-Thc Sacramento


Union is certainly entitled to the credit, such


as it is, of being the Chinese organ ON the Pa


cihc coast. 1t never misses an opportunity to


say something complimentary of that race and


is persistent in its denunciations of all labor


unions. societies for the protection of working
men, ana anti-Chinese clubs An article in a
late issue of that paper, referring to the recent
ant-Chnese Convention which assembled IN
San Francisco, states that the leaders, and
probably majority of those concerned in this
opposition to Chinese labor, are-themselves of
foreign birth, and uses the following significant
language, which embodies the sentiments and
feelings of leading Radicals towards white for
eigners:


If there is any class of Europeans who can't en-.
dure the presence of Asiatics and pagans notwith-
standing the Constitution of the United States and
treaties ander it invite them to come they have their
ready remedy in emgratng to some other country
where there is less OF religious and political freedom
allowed than here.


This same paper, which claims that the i'm
portation of Chinese is an advantage to the
country, and that their labor will not come in
competition with white labor to any serious
extent, has recently made raid on the Typo
graphical Union at Sacramento and, in con-
junction with several other Radical papers, is
endeavoring to break up that organization. The
proprietors of the Union declare themselves
of the Typographical Union and
will not pay the prices fixed by that organiza-
ton. They would undoubtedly employ Chinese
if they could find them, and we
believe that the time is not far distant when
Cinnamon will be crowding white compositors
out of the printing Offices
Year: 1870

They that would be rich suddenly,
fall into divers temptations. For
the love of money is the root of all
evil, which some conveting, have
pierced themselves with many sor-
rows"


Many years since, a sea-faring
mcn called at q village in on the
coast of Normandy, and asked for
a supper and bed. The landlord
and landlady were elderly people, and
apparently poor. He entered into
conversation with them, and invited
them to partake of his cheer, asked
them many questions about them
selves and their family, and par
ticularly Of son who had gone to
sea when a boy, and whom they had
long given over as dead.


The landlady showed him to his
room; and when she quilted him, he
put purse of gold in her hand, and
desired her to take care oft till
morning, pressed her affectionately
by the hand, and bade her good
night. She returned to her husband
and showed him the gold. For its
sake they agreed to murder the
traveller in his sleep, which they ac-
complished, and buried the body.


In the morning came two or three
relations, and asked in a joyful tone
for the traveller who had arrived
there the night before. The old
people seemed greatly confused,
said he had risen early and gone
away.


'impossibler said the relations.
1t is your own son, who is lately re-
turned from France, and is come to
make happy the evening of your
days,and he resolved tolodge with
you one night as a stranger, that he
might see you unknown, and judge
of your conduct toward wayfarine
mariners.


Language would be incompetent
to describe the horror of the murders
ers when they found they had dyed
their hands in the blood of their long
lost child. They confessed their
brine, the body was fonnd, and the
Year: 1870

The st. Louis Dispatch, of July 30tli says =
aour readers will remember that Mike McCooie
was accidently shot in the arm some time ago.
during the progress of little disturbance winch
arose in his saloon. but in which he had no par
ticipancy Mike was very badly hurt at the time
and has been confined to his room ever since,
We went to see the injured hero this morning
We found Mike in a cool, well ventilated room,
living on rather hard bed. His wound looks
very bad, and is sore and painful but is rapidly
growing we'll. Some days ago the wounded man
was unable to sleep night or day for six days and
became in a manner sem-delirous from want OF
rest. He sleeps well now. and is taking good
care of himself following his physicians orders
in every particular. .,,.


His arm has to be kept i'll an immovable
position, aud during such weather as this to be
confined to room and obliged 10 nurse a
wounded lnb is tedious and dsagreeabie to
none more so than to a strong vigorous man IKE
| McCoole. The surgeon cannot yet say to GER
| tanty if the arm when well will remain stiii
| McCoole himself is of the opi;sion that the
wound will be healed in about two weeks, and
| that in few weeks after that it will be as wei
and as serviceahle as ever. He says that had ins
wound necessitated the ampntation OF the arm
he would as seon be dead. Now that he thinks
| he may yet enjoy the perfect use of the limb II,
| is more patient and is quietly biding his time'
Year: 1870

The heart bowed down by weight Of wo'
To weakest hopes will cling,
To thought and impulse while the flow
That can no comfort bring;
with those exciting scenes will blend
Ger pleasures pathway thrown,
But memory is the only friend
That grief can call its own!
The mind within its worst despair
Still ponder 0er the past,
On moments Of delight that were


Too beautiful to last;
To long, departed years extend


Its visions with them flown,
For memory is the only friend


That grief can call It's own.
Year: 1870

THE REGISTER OF wIIIs-How THE REPUBLICANS


CAN GET RID OF THEIR OLD MAN OF THE SEA
THE SOUTH BROAD STREET ouTRAGE-THE Ma
THAN MURDER AND THE PHILADELPHIA cANARD
WAR TALK--NATURAL BOUNDARIES AND uNNAr-
Year: 1870

AN INDIGNANT CoLoRED DEACON.
old Daddy Mingo Pickney
was one of the colored deacons Of
the May River Baptist Church, near
Bluffton South Carolina. One sui
try Sunday in August, the church
being crowded to hear a thrilling
preacher, the intense hest of the
weather proved too strong for Min
COS strict religious principles, and
be fell without a groan into the
arms of Morpheus. The preacher
was laundering away from the text.
Pillow up your fallow ground, and
SOW good seed" For some length
of time the happy deacon merely
nodded am unconscious assent to
whatever the pulpit said, but at last,
suddenly springing5out of his sleep,
he yelled out before the frightened
assembly, "Look yeah, mass preach
er! You white bruca always da hol-
Ter out to we cullud folks, Pillow
upl hoe up! plant upr as if liberty
was all cuss and a delusion! Now
1 tell you not a niger in dis church
shall hit lick on de Lords davr
That ended that Editors Drawer.
IN Harpers Magazine for August.
Year: 1870

Last Saturday sad affair happened


at Otisville, Genesee county, Michi-


gan. which resulted in the immediate


death of a young girl, and the injur


ing of a man probably bevond


recovery A man named Brown,


in the above town, was filling a


lighted lamp with kerosene oil.


when the fire communicated with
the flaid, causing an explosion and
setting fire to the, clothing of the
man, his son and little girl stan
ding near. The girl was burned to
death, an the father and son will
probably die To add to the horror
the occasion, the house took fire,
and was burned to the ground. Mrs
Brown leaped from window with
her babe in her arms, and thus
escaped with her life, while father
and son managed to crawl out of the
burning house in time to escape be-
ing burning up in it.


On seeing her boy on fire. the
mother picked him up aud threw
him out of the window, jumping out
herself with her infant in her arms. |


The boys clothing was sheet of
lame, and his mother used all the
means in her power to relieve, by
rooling in the grass, etc. The
unfortunate father, meantime, es
capped from the house, his clothing
4 mass of flames, which nothing
could quench. The little girl had
been forgotten in the confusion, and
after having made several unsuc-
,essful attemp to escape from the
burning house, the poor little child
sought shelter under the stairs,
where her charred remains where
'ound in the morning. MIR. Brown
fingered in nterrible agony until mon-
lly, when death ended his suiferings
1t is stated that the little boy can
not live.
Year: 1870

An Injun sat in Il garden drink
ing his lager beer, he had left his
wigwam on the plains, and his
squaw she wasn't near; and Dutch
girl stood beside him to hear what
he should say, and replied to his
Iniun iargon, mix cum heraus, unit
nix verstay.'' This beery Injun
blundered as he took that DuCch
Gil hand, and said: ME never
more shall see me own, me native
land bear a message and scalp or
two-to those distant friends of
mine, for l am Big lnjun-Big
Injun over the Rhine. Go tell my
brother warriors, as they sit the
camr fire round, and listen to my
story, all squatted on the ground.
That l drink my lager braveiy from
morn till set of sun-beat every
mothers son; for sprawled among
the empty kegs were some grown
old ON beer-Injun never tasted
none, until he first came here. Not
one amid this throug can say, he
ever heard me decline-I tell you
I'm Big Injun-Big Injun over the
Rhine. Tell my mother that he.
other sons shall comfort her old
age, chase the buffalo, scalp the
drivers Of the Overland mail stage;
for my father was warrior bold,
and even as a papoose l Ijoyed to
know that the olS man, was sound
upon the goose And when he
died and left us to divide his scanty
board, l left them take whatever
they would, but kept my fathers
gourd now take it and fill it high
with beer, let's see the lager shine
Gross glass for the big Injun-
Bio Iniun over the Rhine.
Year: 1870

offices to which, according to the Stand
ard, none but natives have right to aspire.


They have plunged into our politics. ana


have sought to represent people to whom
they are strangers, and whose character
and wants they, of course, cannot UNDER
stand. They have melted us to political
strife that they might fatten upon the popu-
lar distress. They have enriched themselves
at the expense of the inhabitants of Ken
nebec. And yet they talk of carpet bag
gers, We feel obliged to demonstrate and
to remind them that before telling of the
mote in their neighbor's eye they should
first pluck the beam from their own eyes.
We do not, however, wish to treat them as
they declare they should be treated, but
we are willing to allow them to live where
they WILL comforting ourselves with the
reflection that what is our loss is Frank
Inns gain. I
Year: 1870

The Democratic papers of the North,


true to their old toadying instincts, have


Joined the rebel papers in crying out
against Northern men who go South to
live, or to enter into business. The North
ern Democrats have never yet gotten rid
of the idea that the South is holy ground
upon which it is sacrlege for the foot of
a Northern man to tread. Before the war,
following the bidding of their Southern
masters, the Democrats howled about abo-
ltionists. Now, playing lickspittles for the
favor of their old masters, they raise the
cry ''carpet bagger," 'carpet bagger,'
at every Northern man who chooses to
live in Southern State, forgetting that by
the Constitution and the Civil Rights Bill,
enacted in pursuance thereof, a citizen of
one State is free to live in any other State,
and to enjoy all the rights and privileges
enjoyed by any other citizen. The reason
of rebel and copperhead dislike of North
ern men moving South is easily explained.
They tend to neutralize the efforts of the
traitors of the South, and to assure the
oyaity Of the districts in which they live.
They go among the people, and by their
efforts prevent the uneducated masses
from being driven like cattle by the aristo-
Gratis who have hitherto ruled the work
ingmen of the South with rod of iron.
This hurts the rebels of the South and they
curse the carpet baggers. That which
hurts the rebels hurts the Northern cop
perheads, and they curse the carpet bag
gers. But the people do not join them.


The people do not forget that these North


ern men, who are SO unjustly reproached,


were good men North. They know that


these 'carpet baggers' were Generals,


Colonels, Captains, Lieutenants and SOL
diers in the army OF the Union, and they
do not believe that the mere fact that they
cheese to live in the South makes them
bad men. On the contrary, they feel that
every Northern man IN the South makes a
Southern citizen who is true to that govern
meat which the North was obliged to sus-
tain by force of arms. They know that
many of these men carried South more
thousands of dollars than the editors who
assail them are worth hundreds. The very
fact that every Northern citizen is abused
by the Southern Democrats and Northern
eopperheads. but proves to the Northern
people that these men are doing good in
the States in which they have settled.


We see that the Maine Standard feel,
deeply on this subject, and that it abuses
carpet baggers. We are both astonishet
and grieved to observe this because WI
like consistency. and in this attack on car
pet baggers the preaching and practice o
the Standard men fail to correspond. !
there ever was carpet bag paper tha
paper is the Standard. Both OF its pro
prietors and editors are of the rankest kin'
of carpet baggers. They have no respee
for county lines. Like locusts they hav'
stripped their native country and have pre-
cipitated themselves upon the unhapp.
people of Kennebee. They have io'ce'
themselves upon a peop,e who don't wan
them. They have set themselves up 10
Year: 1870

The Universalist Society in Dexter have.
recently had set up in their new church a fine
toned and elegant organ manufactured in
Boston, which cost sixteen hundred dollars,
and is all paid for.
Year: 1870

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, is reported to
be excited over the discovery of gold mine
there. The chief obstacle to the mining Is
that they are obliged to blast through four
feet of solid silver to get at the gold!
Year: 1870

The Pennington Chronicle says; eve are
constantly hearing of the devastating works OF
grasshoppers in this county. Some localities
are being greatly overrun with them.
lady in neghboring town, few days since
said she could not get out of her house or
into it without crushing them beneath her
feet They are devouring grass, potato
crops, corn husks, in many cases even eating
the kernels; and unless frost or something
else kills them off, there will be absolutely
nothing to harvest in some sections of the
county,"
Year: 1870

A story is told, illustrating how the cities
are built up in the West, to the effect that
traveller laid down on a vacant lot in Chicago
to sleep and in the morning found himself in
a cellar with five story building built over
him.
Year: 1870

Some Of the more prudent Of the Par
isians are watching for the approaching
Germans from a balloon. This is, We
fear, the only resource left whereby the
French can escape capture. The last
hone Of successful defense is gone
M" Let them now rely on the efforts
oil the SCARED. Firs Ia balloon.
Year: 1870

If it were not for the personalities that have
been thrown into the political campaign in this
State, and the fuss and furry created by the
movements Of the government to sustain a
law of Congress, we should hardly be led to
think that we are almost on the eve Of an
important State election. 1t is true that in
some Congressional districts bitter excitement
the tenor of our correspondence and the tone
Of the interior press, the Sth of November
next is likely to prove as quiet an election
day throughout the State as any that have
preceded it for a number of years. The
Tammany regency in this city have been
uncommonly successful in the selection of pop
ular men as nominees for the several Offices
from Robert 3. Roosevelt for Congress in
the lower to Fernando Wood in the upper dis
tricts Mr. Woods experience in political
life, and especially in the halls of Congress,
and his knowledge Of the wants of the people
in every part Of the city Of New York, use
fully as well as ornamentally, eminently enti-
tie him to re-election-which he viii un-
doubtedly attain. In Mr.. Roosevelt the city
will have genial, intelligent and worthy
representative. There will be no danger Of
! trouble with Great Britain about the Fishery
question in case he should be honored with o
seat in the next Congress What he does
not know about fishing is scarcely worth
knowing.


OF course we may expect some changes ir
some Of the interior Congressional districts.
This will result in measure from the tendency
to greediness on the part of some republican,
who have held seats for several terms in pas
| Congresses and do not like to surrender tb,
reins Of power and the prospects for more pub
lie plunder. These cases, however, are really
but triaing family quarrels, and we should no
be surprised to hear that they have all beer
healed before the period Of voting arrives.


In any event, we advise all parties to keel
cool--especially democrats, who, in their hos
tility to the new Election law Of Congress
should remember that there was another Law
coming from the same source, which they de
manded should be rigidly enforced--namely
the defunct Fugitive Slave law.
Year: 1870

The ORLEANIsrs MovING. The fate OF Metz
has to all appearance impaired fresh life to
the various political factions in France. The
imperialists have made o sad .fasco. The re-
publicans now in power do not seem to be able
to save the country. The Oreansts, who all
but abandoned hope when the Emperor granted
his recent political reforms, seem to think
that they have found in the present condition
of things a fresh opportunity Such leaders
as NM. Theirs, Guizot, Grevy, Montpeyrouxe
and Portals have come prominently forward.
Their purpose is no longer concealed, and
new journal under the title of La Conststudnte
is about to be established as their organ. The
elections, which must take place at no distant
day will reveal the strength Of the different
factions, and will go far to settle the question
whether France is TO be republic, mon
archy or an empire. Meanwhile, each OF the
three great parties viii do its utmost TO mako
victory SECURE
Year: 1870

The execution of Margaret Waters, profess
sional child murderess, in London, took place
on the l1th of October. The jury could not
resist the conclusion that she had been for a
considerable time engaged in carrying on
regular system of obtaining money by pretend
ing to "adopt" or take charge of children,
mostly illegitimate, with deliberate intention
of destroying them as soon as possible, in
order that large part Of the money paid with
them should remain to her benefit, and, more
actually guilty Of murder. She was sentenced
to death. The Lord Chief Baron, who tried
the prisoner, informed the Home Secretary
that he could not sec any circumstance that
would justify an interference with the carrying
out of the sentence. The London Post says
that it was pretty well understood from the
first that the authorities considered the offence
of such fearful character that, III the event
of conviction, they were determined to make
a terrible example, in the hope that it would
have the effect of putting an end to the fright
ful system of wholesale and deliberate murder
of Infants which they had reason, from the
evidence that was disclosed, to believe existed


in London. There is too much reason to
believe that similar atrocious system exists
also in some American cities. The hanging Of
Margaret Waters may prove wholesome
example to guilty parties not thousand miles
from New York.
Year: 1870




The political excitement, In view of the
approaching election, daily grows hotter and
hotter. Torchlight PROFESSIONS, target excur-
sions, parades and meetings are multiplying.
What with the busy preparations Of Marshal
Sharpe to enforce law and insure order, with
the struggle Of the Young Democracy to flank
Tammany and Of Tammany to flank the Young
Democracy, and with the determination of the
republicans to cast as large a vote as possible,
very lively triangular fight is going on.
Among the latest party demonstrations the
most notable are the meetings, on Saturday
evening, of the Young Democracy Of the
Twentieth ward, Of the Sixteenth ward adher-
ents Of the Young Democracy and of the
Republican County Convention AT the first
of these meetings Mr. William G. Barrett used
what he said might be regarded as strong Ian
guage from one who has been member of the
General Committee Of Tammany Hall, Hercely
denouncing "thieving, public plumber and
deception of our fellow citizens, as practised
by the Tammany Ring" but declaring that he
felt it his duty as a naturalized American citi-
Zen to expose the wrongs Of the party with
which he has been engaged for the last thirty
years General W. s. Hillyer interspersed
bis eulogy Of Judge Ledwith with personali-
ties more piquant than polite, going beyond
even the wide license which an electioneer-
ing campaign comedies to partisan abuse.
Judge Ledwith declared that ''if proper Justice
were dealt to some men who hold high posi-
tions State Prison would be their doom, and
announced himself the champion Of ''the
people arrayed against the moneyed aristo-
Gratis and thieves Of New York" Judge
Ledwith was also present at later hour in the
Sixteenth ward Young Democracy meeting,
and in brief speech expressed his thanks for
the honor proposed to be conferred on him.
At the meeting of the Republican County
Convention Mr.. Charles Spencer complained
Of what he termed ''the meanness of the
opponents of his party in securing the Cooper
Institute for every night during the campaign
except one, and cheers were loudly given for
the Sixty-ninth regiment, an Irish regiment,
who had resigned to the republicans the use of
the hall for ratification meeting on that
night Another lot Of meetings is set down
for tonight, and, in fact, for every night until
election day. One good thing about the
meetings which have already been held by all
parties is that they have not been disgraced
by any disturbance. We hope this will con-
tinue to be the case until the closing of the
polls. Against the active and strenuous
exertions Of all the opponents of Tammany the
Tammany turnout the other evening was a
perfect crusher, threatening inevitable and
overwhelming defeat by sheer force Of num-
bers.
Year: 1870

| thage her western equatorial coast regions
OF boundless fertility need only the stimulus
and discipline Of civilization to her native
blacks to develop in time trade greater
than that OF India; her great equatorial basin
and upper valley of the Nile may be made to
yield hundreds Of thousands Of cattle and mil
lions OF bales Of cotton, and the broad, fertile
basin Of the Zambez on the Indian Ocean side,
may be made to rival In It's tropical products
the valley Of the Amazon. South Africa, how
ever, from Its inviting climate and its great
variety of products, Is surely destined at no
distant day to bring into tho front rank of
civilized States prosperous, Independent con-
federation.


England, as a naval outpost and commercial
depot, may still hold fast the Cape Of Good
Hope; but as she has gained the amplest
profits in trade from the United States as an in
dependent nation, so she will in good time
find it her true policy rather to encourage than
resist the will of the people in the New Do
minon, in Australia and in South Africa. In
deed, the basis of republican confederation
already exists in those free South African
States. England, meantime, can do nothing
better than to encourage in every way the
settlement Of the New Dominion and of South
Africa from her redundant population at
home. But, whatever she may do or may fail
to do, we expect these diamond fields of South
Africa to play the same r6le in the enlarge
ment of civilization as that of the gold fields Of
California and Australia and the silver noun
tans Of Nevada.