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Year: 1875

"There now; we told you so.u The


Southern Pacific Company are hunt
ing that 'loop-hole' to avoid the con-
tract with the citizens of Los Angeles.
We are not surprised, and more, we


do not care whether they comply or


not. If they comply with their con-


tract we shall soon have rail connec-
ton with San Francisco, and if they


fail we can recover all that we prom


ised, and have paid them to build


these roads. Even Congress cannot


pass law to impair contracts be-


tween parties if such contracts were


not violation Of the Constitution.


Therefore we are not frightened by


Mr.. Houghton's bill. Indeed it would


be of infinite advantage to us If we
can recover from that company
the railroads we have paid
for, and agreed to give them, which


we are certain to do, if Houghton's
bill becomes law. Every mile of
road in the county ought, in reality,
to belong to the county, for it was
with our money and credit they were
built. If we had these roads in our
possession to-day we would have no
difficulty in extending one to Inyo and
as far. beyond as we would
desire. Perhaps we would not
be connected with San Francisco
so soon, but what shall we lose by
that? We can travel to that city now
as cheap as we ever shall, and if we
were connected with the East by
direct road it would matter very little
with us whether we were connected
with San Francisco at all. We have
never anticipated any great advantage
to accrue to us by a railroad connec-
ton with San Francisco. Neither
freight nor passage would be reduced
any. A few timid people might visit
us that will not come by sea or stage,
But we don't want any timid people to
come here; and if they do come they
will not enrich the country. Whatwe
want is a market for produce and
trade with the richest mining country
in the world. This will make us
people; we will be Southern California
then. But this is just what the s. p.
II. r. Company don't want, and will
prevent it if they possibly can. They
would rather connect us to San Fran
cisco by rail and make us way sta
ton OH the great Southern Pacific
overland route. Then we would oc-
cupy the position to San Francisco that
q tail does to kite. However, if
there are any who are scared, we
will comfort such by saying Mr.
Houghton's bill will never pass Con-
gress. 1t was not presented for that
purpose.


The Southern Pacific Company
would not run the risk Of losing what
they have In Los Angeles county, by
the passage of that bill, for half
million dollars. Their object is to
scare ms, but we "dOn't scare worth a
cent" They intended to have hands
at work en- Cajon Pass yesterday, and
that bill was to be presented to Con-
q ess at the same time, and they ex-
pected we would be so frightened that
we would drop the Independence road
like hot stone, and then they would
stipulate with us for new terms to in
duce them to build the Southern Pa
cific road via Los Angeles. Engineer
Crawford was little too quick for
them in beginning work on Cajon
Pass, and the people of this and San
BernardinO COMMITTEES will be equally
sharp i'm securings the trade of that
mining region. ~ PEEL.
Year: 1875

We will await the final action of the
State Board of Education before we
compare the merits and dement's of
the books substituted for those now in
use. This singular fact, however, may
be mentiened: the readers thrown out
were approved by at least nine- tenths
of the teachers, and the grammar re-
adopted is condemned by almost every
teacher.
Year: 1875

The symptoms of Liver Complaint are un-
easiness and pain in the side. Sometimes the
pain is in the shoulder, and is mistaken for
rheumatism. The stomach is affected with
loss OF appetite and sickness, bowels in gen.
eral cOstiVe, sometimes alternating with lax


The head is troubled with pain, and dull,
heavy sensation, considerable loss of memory


accompanied with painful sens alton OF baV-
Ing lett undOne something which ought to
have been zone. Often complaining OF weak
ness, debility, and low spiIitS. Sometimes
many of the above symptoms attend the cis.
ease, and at other times very few of them; but
the liver Is generally the organ most in volvet.


Nearly alt diseases originate from Indiges


ftOn and TOrpidity of the Liver, and relief is
always anxiOusly sought after. II the Liver
Year: 1875

THE dispatches Of the weather bureau
viii bring comfort and consolation to 8
great many hearts this morning. Plant
ers and merchants, as they read the
good tidings of a general decline in the
Mississippi and his tributaries, will
breathe easier and feel more comforts
BILE than they have in the past two
weeks. We can now safely and securely
count upon an unparalleled fall trade,
and as we hope TO date therefrom the
great future of Memphis, our people can
take fresh heart and hope. All is well.
Year: 1875

Seasonable rains for the past few days
have greatly changed the aspect of the
crop prospects throughout this immedi-
ate section, as five or six weeks of pre-
viOus dry weather had begun seriously
to affect both corn and cotton. AS it is,
the earliest corn will fall considerably
Year: 1875

history of Los Angeles county, and in
the end will bring shame, misery and
sadness upon their authors. Lexing-
ton would now be a lovely town were
it not for these facts. But decay and
death mark it for their own, and all
the blight incident to the deserted viii
lage are apparent everywhere. Aswe
said at the commencement of this ar
ticle, we have no desire to constitute
ourselves critics on land titles. The
Circular alluded to started the matter,
and We propose to expose it whenever
1t tries to mislead and deceive. As to
its threats we care nothing for them.
Good men and good titles have moth
ing to fear. Those interested III bo-
gus claims and frauds are those that the
HERALD make tremble.
Year: 1875

We occasionally notice in the letters
of correspondents writing from this
part of the State the statement that
all the good land in Los Angeles val
ley is under cultivation and cannot be
purchased. Here; these stories, writ
ten as they always are by persons
who are ignorant of the subjects of
which they write, are understood and
pass for just what they are worth
nothing; but In the East and else
where abroad they are liable to mis-
lead and deceive. The fact is that not
one hundredth part of the rich soil OF
Los Angeles valley has felt the
pl6wshare, and should our population
increase in proportlonate ratio with
the past twelve months for the next
ten years there will still be thousands
of acres of good land uncultivated in
this county. The Chino Ranch, to
which we referred few days since, Is
one broad area of rich untitled soil.
This tract alone Is capable of support
ing half million of people, yet it is
now only wild expanse on which
Craze sheep and cattle. Should there
be among our newcomers those who
are inclined to credit the stories of the
homesick letter-writers, they cannot
disabuse themselves of those false I'M
pressions more rapidly and effectually
than by passing over the railroad be-
tween this city and Anaheim. Be-
tween Downey City and the last
named place the road runs through
thousands and thousands of acres of
excellent soil, which will produce al
most anything that grows out of the
ground, without irrigation. The town
of Anaheim, located thirteen miles
from tide-water, is but about one hum
dred and sixty feet above the level of
the sea, and water is found nearly
everywhere at depth of five feet be-
low the surface of the ground. Such
soil does not require irrigation. If
proof that it does not were wanting it
is found in the fact that this broad
extent is covered for the most part
with heavy crop of weeds-the wild
mustard growing to height of from
ten to fifteen feet. This area OF uncul-
tivated land is easier counted by miles
than acres. What we have said of the
land on the Chino Ranch and between
Downey and Anaheim is true of the
San Pedro Ranch and many other Sec
tions in this valley. Let no one be
humbugged into the belief that there
is not an abundance of rich untitled
soil in Los Angeles county.
Year: 1875

The news Of the loss of the Steam
ship Pacific with some two hundred
passengers shocked this community
yesterday morning. Though we have
but fhe story of one man who believes
himself the only surviving passenger,


the meager account is sufficiently ap-'
palling. It's quite probable that 9TH
ers of those on board the i'll fated yes-
sci have survived the wreck and will
soon be heard from. The remarka BILE
part of the account Is the apparent
lightness of the shock and the short
time that INTERVIEWED between the
striking and the sinking of the vessel.
The shockis described as being no
heavier than that produced by an or
dinary wave yet the damage must
have been very great or the steamer
would have floated longer. The sup
position that the jar was caused by a
collision with another vessel Is most
probably incorrect, The survivor says
he heard some one say they had colid4
ed with another vessel and saw what
he thought were three uncolored
lights on a ship moving from the
steamer. But the remark may hav


been made on mere conjecture and the
lights seen were perhaps the. refec.
tions on, the water of those on the Pa
riflc. This conclusion is strengthen.
ed by the fact that they were not col.
bred lights. 1t is almost certain that
the Pacific struck a sunken rock which
knocked q hole in her bottom and that
she almost Immediately filled and went
down. The light shock and the i'm


mense danger Is suggestive that The
hull of the Pacific was not so strong
as her owners had reason to believe
1t is but short time-less than two
years we believe-since the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company overhaulet
and in part rebuilt the Pacific ant
when she passed into the hands o
GooDALL, NELSON & PERKINS 1t wai
on the representation that she was al
Year: 1875

The San Diego Union announces
that the Union Pacific managers in
conjunction with Senator JONES in
tend extending the Los Angeles and
Independence Railroad on East from
this city to Ogden. The enterprise
will cost from fifteen to twenty mill
lion dollars. How the Union captur-
ed this bit OF intelligence before the
Express will remain until the end of
time an unsolyed problem.
Year: 1875

most as good as new. She must, If
the statement Of her surviving pas
senger is correct, have been very weak
in vital part. 1t may be that the
part of her hull which came in con-
tact with the rock was quite rotten.
Ifso her owners were ignorant of the
fact. The Pacific was built in New
York in 1851 and was cons equently
twenty-four years old.
Year: 1875

1T seems strange that the only sur.
vivor of the Pacific's two hundred pas
sengers should be the individual who
assisted the women into the boat and
also the one to apply to the Captain
for blue lights which the Captain him.
self should have sent up Immediately
after his vessel struck. We should
like to record tomorrow or next day
that this whole story was malicious
hoax andwe should not be greatly
surprised If we experienced the pleas
ure of doing so.
Year: 1875

In the Supreme Court OF the United
States, yesterday, the case of the State
OF Maryland against the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company was decided
in favor Of the State. The latter claim.
ed deferred payment of 500, 900 as
due for the period between 1860 and
1870, being one-sixth of the passenger
fares taken on the Washington and
Baltimore branch of the road. The
company refused payment on the plea
that the tax was unconstitutional. The
Supreme Court held that the passenger
tax was different from a tax on inter
state communication, which a State
could not impose. The State had a
right to impose conditions in the grant
ing of the charter for the road, and
it mattered not what became of the
money, which was bonus to the
State. The State had right to i'm.
pose the condition in consideration of
the franchise.
Year: 1875

From The MiIlrdukee Netrs


The reform element of the Republi-
can party will not stand ghost Of q
show in controlling the National Con.
vention, which will nominate the mex,
Republican candidate for President.
The candidate will be either Grant OF
the man chosen by..Grant, and support.
ed by the influences which are now in
favor of third term, if it can be made
eucpeeSful
Year: 1875

Pymouth Church had great accession
OF new converts on Sunday. There were
one hundred and Eve of them by count !:
and OF this large number eighty two
were women and only twenty three were
Year: 1875

which would embroil us with Spain. 1t is
likewise true on the other hand that the
question is regarded in Havana from the same
point of view of unreasoning passion with
which the Peninsulars there regarded the Vir-
ginius massacre and the subsequent surrender
of the vessel. The Diario claims that no in
demnity is due because the people shot were
properly executed, after legal trial and SEN
tence; that they were no longer American
citizens; and adduces other reasons for not
paying, which would be good and;sufiicient if
they were not founded in false assertion. But
the claim will doubtless be presented and paid,
in spite of the fact, on the one hand, that the
Cuban ring are clamoring in Washington for
"a more active policy and on the other, that
the fre-eatng Havanese swear that they Will
die before the nation shall be further degraded
The settlement of this matter need have no
influence upon the insurrection in Cuba. The
indemnity will be paid if our Government
firmly and judiciously insists upon it, and
that will end the matter. 1t Will contribute
nothing to the success Of the insurgents when
they learn that the widows of the Americans
killed at Santiago have received q few dollars
of damages, and the fiery spirits of the
Casino are SO accustomed to the play of
violent emotions in their manly hearts that
they can endure this additional pang without
especial injury. The old situation will remain
unchanged Spain cannot subdue the insur-
rection until the monarchy becomes stronger
and more united at home; and we have no
faith in the power of Alfonso XII. to
effect that miracle. Cuba will never be FREQ
until majority of her people unite against
the Spaniards with more energy and harmony
than they have yet displayed.
Year: 1875

Heretofore Spiritualism has been investi-
gated with very little investigation. Even
hard-headed scientific men have seemed to
think it necessary to approach the matter in a
mood of consderate reverence, and to deal
gently with humbugs and swindlers and
mountebanks and charatans who, profting
by the absurd Difference thus shown. have
hedged about the inquest with all manner of
arbitrary limitations, and have precluded an
unfavorable judgment by themselves predict
Year: 1875

The late revolution in Spain ought not to
have and probably has not, any relation
whatever to the claim of our Government for
compensation to the families of the men muir
dered by Gen. Burriel and his officers at San
tiago de Cuba after the capture of the Vir-
ginius. 1t Is a claim which it would be proper
to press with the utmost energy as well under
the Presidency of CASTELAR, or Figueras as un-
der the monarchy impersOnated by Don Car
los or Don Alfonso. In cases like these there
are no such things as national sympathies to
bo consulted The Virginius had to be sur
rendered by Spain, or we should have had to
relinqush our position among civilized ma
TONS and the maintenance of the American
republic is after all much moro important
matter than the support of republican ex-
pertinent anywhere else. The situation exist
ing between the two countries has not been
in the least changed by the restoration Of the
Bourbon dynasty. Our case is indeed little
stronger than it was, not because there is now
King in Madrid instead of Pres
ident, but because England has already
demanded and obtained the same in
demnity for the British subjects killed IN
Santiago, which we are asking for our citizens.





have declined in vigor of late years in its
general foreign policy, has never lost its
prompt and effective habit of dealing with
small powers WHICH have offended it or
wronged its people. 1t may trife and delay
for while, in the smooth and easy current
of diplomatic communication, with its wordy
statements and assurances of distinguished
consideration, but the time usually comes when
such rubbish is thrown to the winds and the
British Envoy is told to say that such and
such things must be done in fixed time or
he will demand his passports. This has
several times of late years been found the
necessary course of proceeding with Spain, and
it has always proved effectual. The cOnse-
Guence is that England has been paid in the
Virginius case and we have not. But there is
no reason to believe we viii not be. Our case
is greatly strengthened by the payment to
England, and the kilograms of yesterday indi-
cate that the steps taken by Mr.. Cushing with
the new Cabinet of Don Alfonso are to result
in an immediate satisfaction of our demand.
If these promises should not turn out to be
true, it will rest with our Government to
adopt such measures as will convince the
Spanish Cabinet of tho necessity of settling
the matter at once.


1t Ia not worth while to confuse this subject
with the general question of the Cuban insur-
recton 1t is very possible that Cuban resi-
dents and their sympathzers are anxious
for some demonstration from Washington
Year: 1875

If the Debt Statements give an honest,
straightforward account of the surplus reve-
nues of the Government in excess OF all dis
bursements, as they DurpOrt to do. why Is
there any talk of increased taxation Have
we not been told again and again from the
floor of Congress that there is to be great
decrease Of expenses this year. computed by
Messrs Dawes and Garfield at about thirty
million dollarsi Is there any sufficient reason
to fear that the revenues of the current year
will fall short of last years by any consider
able sunni On the assumption that the state
ments of the Public Debt are what they pro-
fess to be, and that Messrs. Dawes and
Garfield have been duly seconded by the
Executive in their efforts to cut down the cx-
pendtures of the Government, we cannot see
the necessity for any increase whatever i'll the
taxes.


1t Is, however, most remarkable, most diff
cult to explain on the hypothesis of fair deal
ing between the Treasury and the people, that
Secretary Richardson, having asked Congress
a little more than year ago for an increase
of taxation, should almost Immediately take
the back track that he and his successor
should then for eleven successive months re-
port a steady, uubroken series of decreases of
the Public Debt, amounting IN all to
s20,376902 that Messrs. Dawes and Garfield
at the end of June should assure the people
that the finances were all right, and that the
Sinking Fund would be provided for rs the
law directs; that this fair weather should
last until Just after the election, and that
then it should suddenly be discovered that
great addition to the taxes is necessary, the
revenues having fallen below the expenditures
no less than S3,G59,969 for December and
81, ,30O,S7O for last month or S5OjO,s3S for the
two months.


All the facts we have stated are well known
and the figures are taken from the Debt
Statements the most WILDLY circulated docu-
ments given to the public and the ones which
are studied by the people more than all Others
put together for information touching the
finances. We make no charges against any
officer of the Government or any Congress
man, but we should be GLAD of some expana-
ton which will reconcile the demand for an
increase of taxation with the S2O377OW OF
surplus revenue reported by the Secretary of
the Treasury to have accrued between Jan.
I and Nov. 80, 1874, and the promises OF
Messrs. Dawes and Garfield of increased rev.
enues and diminished expenditures for the
current fiscal year.
Year: 1875

The documents which we copy or abridge
this morning from The Sun seem to
show the existence of a scheme of corruption
bolder and more magnificent than even the
Credit Moblier. They have every appearance
of authenticity, and indeed if they are not
genuine that fact must instantly be made
clear, for they purport to be transcripts of
official records. The story is not yet COM
plete, and we are assured that further develop
ments are to follow Immediately. What seems
to be made plain so far is that Gen. FremOnts
Memphis and FL Paso Railroad Company set
aside in 1868 and 1869 stock and bonds to the
par value of nearly $12.e6o,oOO for the
purpose of bribing Congress Only a small
part of the money is traced in the papers now
before us, although several prominent poll
ticians figure in the correspondence in most
questionable light. The prospects of the Hon.
Ignatus DOnnelly in his Senatorial contest
will hardly be improved by these disclosures,
and the voters of the With District of Indiana
will find no reason to congratulate themselves
upon the reelection of Mr.. Hunter. But then
Mr.. Shanks from the IXth District of the
same State has not been reelected, and that
NAV be a compensation. There has been an
interesting story in circulation as to the rela-
tions sustained to this matter by member of
the United States Supreme Court, on whose
order Receiver in Bankruptcy was appointed
for the Memphis and Ell Paso Road. he calmly
sitting at the time, not at any point within
his judicial district, but in Newark, New-Jer-
sey. If this story be true, the subject would
have some curious bearing, and we trust that
the documents yet to be produced may cast
some light upon it.
Year: 1875

In the conflict of opinion between Secretary
Robeson and the House Naval Committee as
to the propriety of abolishing the Pensacola
Navy-Yard, the Committee seems to be on
the right side. All the work now done in our
navy yards could be done as well and more
economically with only half as many. Ger
tainly, tho bare possibility of war with Spain
will not justify heavy appropriation for the
maintenance Of the Pensacola Yard.
Year: 1875

The householders who are trying to effect
an organization to oppose certain feature OF
the tyranny of horse-railroad companies are
engaged in a work which will command the
sympathy of the whole city. There is trouble
enough to keep the snow off the sidewalks,
and to make the carriage-way tolerably clear
without having the great problem of the sea-
son needlessly complicated by these corpora
tions,
Year: 1875

Fuller details than have heretofore been
published are given in our abstract of the
testimony taken by the Alabama Outrage
Committee. There is the usual conflict of
evidence, the witnesses Of one party swearing
to one set of stories and those of the other
to another set. 1t is established that the col
ored Republicans did not rally to the polls in
force on the last election day. some being
kept away by fear of losing employment, and
many more by surfeit of voting; that col
ored Democrats received violent treatment at
the hands of political opponents of their own
race; that the bacon bought with Government
funds for the relief of sufferers by flood was
misapprOpriated to secure votes for tho
Administration candidates; that the United
States Marshals tried to use the military for
partisan purposes and succeeded in frightening
not a few white people; and finally. that the
State officers have failed in their duty Of
bringing murderers and other criminals to
prompt trial and punishment. All these facts,
presented i'll different form, have long been
in the possession of the readers of THE
TRIBUNE, but it is well enough to have them
on record as testimony under oath.