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THE DAILY RECORD-TOON. QUINTUPLE EDITION; {For the Recob.d-U.niox.] THE SOCIAL AND MATERIAL FU TURE OF CALIFORNIA. Whoever deals with the future of even the most conservative and steady-going country must speculate • boldly. The surprises of human progress are so many that calculation is baffled by them, and facta laugh to scorn every day the fanciful estimates of the closet philosopher. It is not very far back to the time of Qaeen Elizabeth; the nineteenth century is really but as yesterday in the world's history ; yet at that time the popula tion of all England and Wales was less than five millions, and the Government viewed with increasing alarm the enormous growth of London, whose population of 300,000 was thought to becoming unmanageable, and be yond any commissariat talent to feed and care for. And now "radon alone contains within leas than a million as many souls as England and Wales could muster then, and its sup ply of necessaries and comforts is far beyond anything that the subjects of good Queen Bess could have conceived pos sible. And in modern times States grow very much faster than formerly. The force of en terprise, of commerce, of life in every shape, is quicker. Colonies no longer have to struggle for bare existence a generation or two. There is no longer any such thing as isolating a community. Commerce and art and science penetrate the remotest regions, and follow and support and assist the adven turer. Wherever in these days Man finds the raw material of wealth he can transmute it into gold, and can change that gold again into all the luxuries and comforts of a sensual and self-indulgent and exigent age. As for Cali fornia, she has been dowaied with peculiar gifts, acd at the same time menaced with peculiar dangers, and he who would estimate her prospects aright must comprehend and fairly gauge the conditions of her progress. If we are concerned merely with the ques tion of material growth, none can doubt that the outlook is most promising. The whole tendency of American development, invest ment, exploitation, b now Westward. The Atlantic States are practically exhausted as fields for new enterprises. Possessing great unexpended resources, their future growth will be comparatively slow, though eminently prosperous. It is in the West, and especially in the Far West, that the large possibilities of the future loom up. The rapid and com prehensive expansion of transportation lines is piercing all the tributary regions of thb side of the continent, and gradually bringing them under the control of one gigantic rail road system which will unite the West and South, and bring Europe and the Orient into intimate connection. This system, extending from the Alaskan frontier on the North to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and gathering from both sides as it passes southwards the rich and varied produce of Oregon, Washington Territory, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas and Mexico, will create and stimulate, not only at its principal termini, but all along the main trunk and all along every feeder of it, a new and unexampled commercial activity ; will induce settlement ; will evolve unthought of markets ; will in all the ways through which improved transportation agencies oper ate conduce to Ihe growth of population and the increase of wealth and comfort through out the immense area embraced in its workings. It would be idle to try to estimate the precise results of the completion of this great railroad system, nor is it necessary to know more than that it must produce consequences in all respects analogous to thoie which sim ilar enterprises have produced elsewhere. The material growth of California then is as well assured as anything can be. The wheat-producing capacity of the State has not so far been tested seriously. The crops of to-day, though relatively large, are really insignificant when the available cereal area is considered. It is not an exaggeration to say that when our wheat lands are all under cultivation, California will produce enough grain in a good year to keep the world from starvation if even all the harvests of other countries should fail entirely. With wheat must also be placed wine and wool. .Regard ing the first of these it may be said that provided the phylloxera can be excluded there is no reason why our viticulturists . should not in a few years inherit the enor mous wine trade which the devastated hills of France are now vainly endeavoring to retain. The wholesale adulteration at pres ent practiced by the French wine-makers must shortly accelerate instead of averting their ruin. Skill and drugs will not long compensate for the absence of pure wines, and if our viticulturists pay attention to the improvement of their vintages they must succeed in securing the markets of Europe. The wool interest will grow without special fostering, and so long as those who are engaged in it seek to produce the best samples in the market, instead of merely trying to make sales regardless of quality or the truth of their representations, they will have nothing to fear in competition. As to our mineral wealth, it is evident that while it will continue to be a considerable factor in our prosperity, it must henceforth occupy a subordinate position. It is true that possibilities of great discoveries in this direction must still be reckoned upon. It must not be forgotten that there is solid reason for believing in the auriferous richness of those extinct and long-buried chan nels which formerly carried the rivers of old California. The so-called Blue Leads have been no more than scratched thus far, and no man can venture to predict what is reserved for future exploration. Nevertheless it may be fairly assumed that the agricultural and viticultural interests will hereafter maintain their supremacy, and will be the mainstays of California's prosperity. Whichever way we look there is good reason to conclude that the successors of the present genera tion will find ample resources at their disposal, amd that 'they will be sub jected to none of the difficulties which are associated with barren soils, and unpropitious climates. Bet it must be remembered that no matter what Nature may do, Man is always able to frustrate her boun ties and bring her beneficent purposes to naught. The fairest and most prolific regions under the sun have been turned into howling wildernesses by the persistent action of hu man folly and malignity ere now ; while under the vivifying : and restorative influence of human thrift and industry the most arid and ungrateful deserts have been forced to yield an hundred fold, and to furnish from their hot and stony bosoms the subsistence of ex tensive communities. The hardy peasant pro prietor who toils over the sandy plains of Flanders draws from those unpromising fields a far richer reward than the deep alluvial soil of Sicily yields to the brigand-cursed and superstition-barbarized culture of that island. It is not, therefore, enough to show that a country possesses material resources in abundance. It is necessary to show that the tendency of its civilization, the character of its laws, the temper of its society, co-operate to produce and maintain the conditions most favorable to progress. _ .'_ ... , , It must be said of California that she be gan :in more than one essential respect, where older communities have only arrived by slow gradations, and this must be com prehended clearly in order to form an intel ligent estimate regarding her future. Take for illustration the proportion between city and country population. The natural ten dencies in,thb respect are shown by the fact that in England, in the time of Edward the Second, . the population 'of :". the cities was only , ten per . cent, ;of the ; country , popela ' tion." ' • This is ascertained from the Assizes of Arms, which show how many military con- \ scripts were demanded from the | urban and rural districts respectively. From that time onward the relative position of the popula tion was slowly changing, the cries gaming at '.. the i expense of ," the country; >, until, in 1 the " present * reign, it sis ; found f. that • the situation .; is '% almost ? " reversed,* .s and tha* the country population ia but twenty per cent. of the whole. _ Now California began where England ended. Her city population - has been and is altogether disproportionate ;to that of the country. The connection between this fact I and - another peculiarity of this State is quite intimate. •We have also begun where other countries have left off, in the ac cumulation of landed property in a few hands. The tendency to which so many of the most irritating abuses of old countries are ascribed, the monopoly of land, has with tte been a mushroom growth. Connected with thia, though not necessarily caused by it, is another California peculiarity commonly sup posed to belong more naturally to long settled communities ; we mean striking social in equalities. The adventurous spirit which necessarily ex isted abnormally in a population selected by virtue of special energy and enterprise from all the world, has produced more remarkable material successes here than are to be met with usually in such new communities. The immense prizes won in the manipulation of the Comstock mines, the opportunities for daring combinations afforded by the all pervading passion for gambling in mining stocks, the splendid rewards of pluck, skill, perseverance andsagacity which have crowned the exertions of the Pacific Railroad builder?, the frequent heavy gains of those who have cultivated wheat on a colossal scale, have contributed, far more than the steady re sults of continuous application, to build up those gigantic fortunes whose outward mani festations throw each an _ atmosphere of lavish opulence over California society. And it ia impossible for the candid historian to refrain from pointing out that in many instances the acquisition of great wealth on this coaat has been associated, at least in the popular belief, with the perpetration of acts of perfidy and immorality calculated to rankle deeply in the minds of the masses, aad above all of a character to create and foster those communistic and socialistic theories which have already found so bold and aggressive an expression here. The idea that Communism is the last resort of desperate destitution is a complete mis take. As has been proved in this State, it flourishes most rankly in a proletariat possessing exceptionally good wages, wanting for no substantial comforts, possessing cheer ful bank accounts, living in their own houses, and, generally speaking, elevated above the more sordid exigencies of life. For it has been shown that labor in California bas not only been better paid than anywhere in the world, but that it has actually saved more of its wage-fund. It is in fact the possessor of a large capital, not less than 875,000,000, and it is an active agent in the loan market. Not withstanding this, or perhaps because of this, California labor has been remarkably tainted with Communistic theories, and has, in con junction with the class of small farmers, im posed upon the State an organic law which contains many invasions of moral principles in relation to equality of taxation and regard for the rights of property. The great social inequalities which have grown up are, as we have intimated, less tolerated than they would be in an old country, precisely because so many people are here able to remember the poverty of those who are millionaires to-day, and because in such cases the con temporary who has failed to get rich always resents the success of his neighbor as a tacit reflection on his own capacity. There are other causes of complication and possible future difficulty, such as the entangled con dition of the whole question of water rights ; a vital question throughout the southern counties, where irrigation is needed, and ap parently demanding a radical reconstruction of the law from the standpoint of interests and conditions to which the existing statutes were never intended to apply. But while the rank and rapid growth of California society has exposed it to assaults and agitations resembling outwardly those deadly movements which have so often un dermined European governments, it is evi dent to the observer that there has been wanting in all our outbreaks and demonstra tions that subtle something which consti tutes the essential difference between reality and imitation in such matters. The explana tion of this is not far to seek. All genuine up risings of a communistic and revolutionary nature have been the final expression of phys ical as well as moral despair. The masses never throw off the bonds of society until they have become, not figuratively, but lit erally, unbearable. It may sometimes hap pen that the perception of the suffering does not reach its supreme hight until the suffer ing itself has somewhat abated, and thiß was the case in the first French Revolution. But there must always be real physical suffering, real outrage, real breaking up of homes, real famine and destitution, real grief and sorrow and affliction of the deepest, before the people can be moved to attack the foundations of society. And none of these just causes of popular discontent ex isted here. True there have been once or twice short periods of commercial depression, during which it was thought necessary to ex tend substantial relief to applicants at San Francisco, but there has never been such widespread suffering as has often been experi enced in many of the Eastern States because of panics or lock-outs or strikes, and yet we know that the worst suffering at the East has never produced any communistic agitation. The truth is that our demagogues have aroused only the intellectual faculties of the masses. They have stimulated the popular brain, but as the popular stomach was not empty they have caused none of the seri ous effects which such appeals as they have made might have produced if urged upon famine-wasted crowds. This is the secret of the innocuous outcome of all our communistic thunderings and light nings. We have in fact been playing at rev olution, not capriciously, not altogether irra tionally, but bseause our young society has strongly become affected by the principal causes of real revolution — all save one. There has been the exasperating inequality of fortune. There has been the exasperating monopoly of land. There has been the im pression or the conviction that many great fortunes were acquired by infamous means. There has been the demoralizing agency of the stock market, so accustoming all classes to extreme fluctuations between wealth and destitution that the less intelligent might well cease to attach much importance to the sta bility of the social fabric. But all these in centives to restlessness and discontent have been practically impotent because of the absence of the grim reality of oppression and suffering which precede and cause genuine revolutions. The influences which we have referred to will, naturally, continue to act in the future, though it remains to be seen whether they will become more or less powerful. If the Chinese question is determined in accordance with the wishes of our working classes, there is no reason why they should not prosper far more than their fellows on the Atlantic Coast. We see no probability of any imme diate accession of manufacturing industry, for neither the National nor the State laws at present favor such investment. The true interest of California is Free Trade, but it may be long before she will be enabled to secure that interest. The complete col lapse of the Comstock would perhaps be the very best thing that could happen to her now, for it is doubtful whether the gambling spirit which pervades all classes of the people will ever yield to any less drastic remedy. A chief evil of this gambling spirit is that it leads the working classes to invest their earnings in stocks ; that these investments go to swell the win nings of conscienceless rogues ; that the dis honestly-acquired wealth of these rogues in tensities popular prejudice against all capital, and confirms popular ideas about the natural disposition of rich "men to rob poor ones ; and that all this -kind of thing is apt not only to find its way to the surface in Sand-lot ora tory, but to seek expression' more danger ously, in Sand-lot legislation. Meantime there is great and almost fever ish activity in all circles of society. The desire to seek a higher civilization is present, bnt the choice of means is not always felicitous. What can be accomplished through Free Libraries, and multiform Liter ary and Scientific and Social organizations, and Societies for Mutual Aid, and Building and Loan Associations, and Art Reunions and Societies is done. It at least exercises socisty somewhat, and finds, in many cases, sufficiently useless employment for hands which, being otherwise idle, might or not be be worse occupied. Whether the ac tivities of California society reach the length of stimulating . the public morals or elevating the tone of public thought, is we fear open to doubt. Cer tainly there is in thb community an indiffer ence to the sanctity of human life which must appear shocking to the foreigner. Certainly the fierceness of competition and the magnitude of the prizes contended for, have accustomed us to view many flagitious practices with easy complacence. Certainly there is among parents an alarming disposi tion to shoulder upon the public .schools the responsibility for that moral training which the public schools neither can nor do supply. Certainly our educational system does not produce the results which a contemplation of its great cost might induce us to anticipate. llt must, however, be borne in mind that California is | notbolated ss heretofore, and that therefore ths defects of her society, while in some respects indigenous and pecu liar, are largely those of j the country and the age. X And the restlessness of , our pro letariat, which has caused very exaggerated ideas of the situation here jto obtain outside of the State, is in no small measure an indi cation of one of the most dbcocraging features of the century. 7.: " The tendency," says Dr. Woolsey. "is not to the discharge of duties in "'these times, but to the enforcement of claims, ' '. which, society cannot admit because J they .*-' would be attended with immediate financial, " social and political ruin." It b this tend ency to -.the enforcement of claims instead of to the discharge of duties which b the worstsign of the times. Tnere b a disposition' abroad , SACRAMENTO DAILY RECOBDIJNION, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1881. to demand everything from the State,' and to | impose no obligations upon the individual." | The only results of such a policy would ibe ! anarchy |of the most hopeless description. ; And it is very certain that without a higher j sense of individual duty than now obtains, no State can be long held together. When ' parents cease to think it incumbent upon I them to give their children any moral train ing ; when Society ceases to think it incum- j bent upon it to recognize any distinction be- i tween right and wrong ; when the philosophy of the Sophists becomes the fashionable be lief of the nineteenth century ; it is not un reasonable to apprehend some further de generacy, and to expect the consequences which such social decline brings with it.' - But we are not concerned specially with the tendencies of . the age. It is California over whose future we have ventured to cast a speculative glance, and when we endeavor to sum up the great opportunities and the evil influences which mingle in her prospects, we do not see reason for - serious alarm. There is room amid free institutions for the growth of social inequalities, and corruption, and many vicious and debasing agencies. But where the government is really free, and where human activities are unhampered, there is a curative forca in society which will frequently overcome the most menacing evils, and out of critical-seeming situa tions evolve progress and purification. The student of history knows how often such salvation from impending ruin has been wrought out in the mother country of this republic. Again and again has England appeared to be .on the brink of collapse, and yet each time the vis muli catrvt naturte has proved more than a match for the danger. And the same indomitable Anglo-Saxon spirit which has breasted so many crises in the old world, dominates the situation here. We cannot conscientiously express the opinion that the future of Cali fornia will be smooth and untroubled. We cannot satisfy our conscience by brushing aside all the indications which justify uneasi ness, and proclaiming, with fast shut eyes, that the prospect was never so serene and clear as now. We see very plainly that in many respects there must be a return to higher and purer principles be fore a table condition can be reached, and we 5 ;- .re convinced that hard strug gles and resolute and persistent endeav ors must be made to bring about these re forms. But when the worst baa been taken into account we need not hesitate to say that the future of California is full as promising as that of any State in the Union or any country under the sun, and tbat so soon as it discards Communism from its Constitution it will occupy, iv virtue of its material re sources and its place in the great system of international transportation now being de veloped, a position of almost unexampled advantage. O 3Ch I V E.X&'-S :p a ten CHILLED PLOWS, MANUFACTURED AT SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. Triumphant in a Thousand Field Tests ! Every Competitor Distanced ! AND BY UNIVERSAL VOICE ACCORDED THE PROUD POSITION —OF THE— "BEST PLOW IN AMERICA!" Holman, Stanton & Co S-A.CB^. BS 23 _ES" "3? O, SOLE AGENTS FOB CALIFORNIA.. - jallt THE BAIN WAGON! 33___a_.j£s::e2:e& &z n^Li^a:_zx_i s 3?osa", •/' AGENTS FOR CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA. j? AST This Wagon has been in market for th<» past ten years and has no equal. It is the BEST WAGON made, and as cheap as any. We carry a full line of these Wago 8 in stock ; also, ' SPRING WAGONS, manufactured by the SWEEPSTAKE PLOW COMPANY, and a line of EASTERN SPRING WAGONS. Call and examine our stock or send for prices. ja-lt m___m__-_-________^m__m_m-^_____m_-_-m—m_mm-_---_—-______^___.^___m_____________m WAfITED, LOST MB FOUND. Advertiaementa of five linea in this department are alerted for 25 cents for one time : three timea for 60 «nta or 75 oenta per week. INFORMATION WANTED— OF JOHN LITTLE or LITLE, who came to California in 1852. Was la't heard of in Sacramento, working at his trade of Carpenter, but had become interested in mines. Wrote often, and sent money for the support of his mother until about six or eight years ago, when letters suddenly stopped coming. An aged mother in the East will be grateful for any informa- tion, which may be sent to J. K. COOPER, No. 746 Market street, fan Francisco. d3l-lw* WANTED BY A YOUNG MAN A FlRST- class barkeeper and hotel clerk desires a situ- ation ; city or country ; best of reference. Address BARKEEPER, this office. -■,-■: --■ .. dSO-St' WANTED-PINE, COAL, AND DRY WOOD of all kinds, at D. GARDNER'S Wood and Coal Yard, corner Fourth and I streets. Terms Cash on delivery. d'23-lm FURNITURE WANTED.— I WILL PAY ONE- ' third more for Household Furniture, Stoves, Carpets, etc., than any other cash buyer. S. POSKA, No. 717 J street, between Seventh and Eighth, Sac- ramento^ '_■■':' ■ dl-lplm TO SHEEP MEN. WANTED TO PURCHASE— FROM 2,000 TO 5,000 EWES. " Address, with particulars. GEORGE REYNOULDS. this office. . dz7-tf ■ EMPLOYMENT OFFICE. ANTED— ALL KINDS HELP, MALE AND \\ Female. Particular attention paid to Furnis!.- aig Hotels, Private Families and Farmers with U.lo, ?ree of Charge to employers. HOUSTON & CO,, me door south cf Fourth and X streets, Sacra- nei'.w city. nl3-lpU M^a-_---_a-----W_-W---a-awaawg-gwwggtgEjgaiig^Mgiiggwiß^ija SACRAMENTO HOME SCHOOL, Hi STREET (NORTH SIDE), BETWEEN THIR- ~-r teenth and Fourteenth. - Desks may now be secured for the Term, beginning JANUARY 8,1831. d3l-2plw* ■ MRS. F. M ROSS, Principal. REOPENING fwyy — -° " m ~~^SftTHTBrHT German-American School, CORNER X V AND • TWELFTH ; STREETS, 4 . ; Monday, January a/188irS^«« p-: P - p ■'■':' .■ ply ./; ;_ K. HENRICH. Principal. S ; . N. B.— Private' Lessons in Music. Also, Evening aases. x-y '_, -- " 431 2t • 1 New 1 Railroad Construction. - - The Bailroad Gazette of November 26th gives a total of 286 miles of new railroad. The construction thus far this ! year is j 5,342 miles, against 3,150 miles reported lat the same time ;in 1879, 1,947 miles in 1878, 1,945 miles in 1877, 2,102 miles in 1876, 1,150 miles in 1575, 1.656 miles I in : 1874, 3. 355 miles _. in 1573, and 1 6,31 1 . miles in 1872. The preceding total includes 40 miles of the Southern Pacific, which brings it eastward to Rio Mimbres, New Mexico. If Your Throat feels sore or uncomfort able, use promptly Dr. Jayne's Expectorant. It will relieve the air passages of all phlegm or mucous, allay inflammation, and so give the affected parts a chance to heal. No safer remedy can be had for all coughs and cold, or any complaint of the throat or lungs, and a brief trial will prove its efficacy. ■V /'DftVAI NAKtrwri >\ >Sfl (t< HOTAUjFiiwD«S h *4KIM c -■■-,-•,;-. MH BE m.-y. POWDER Absolutely Pure. Made from Grape Cream Tartar.— No other pre- paration makes such light, flaky hot oreads, or luxurious pastry Can be eaten by Dyspeptics without fear of the ills resulting from heavy in- digestible food. Sold only in cans, by all Grocers. Kr.yal link In/ Powder Co., New York. dIS-ly MISCELLANEOUS. LADIES WHO DESIRE A CLEAR, NATURAL AND Beautiful Complexion should use PHOSPHATE SOAP, And nothing else. No other TOILET SOAP is so cleansing, soothing and healing. It Cnre* Skin Diseases of every kind. For sale by Druggists and Grocers generally. Ask for PHOSPHATE SOAP, andtake nothing else. n2O-2pt_l Turkeys ! Turkeys ! Turkeys ! f^ O TO P. R. KESTNER, *^_^ 613 J -Slreel. betwren Sixth l££-^ and Seventh, M ___ It you want an excellent CHRISTMAS TURKEY. f onif and jiff ! d-34.8t A POSITIVE CURE WITHOUT MEDICINES. ':■.-.. UUUjra SOLI RLE MEDICATED HOICIES, r.y. 7: Patented October 15, 157(1. One box. f '■ No. 1 will cure any case in four days or less. . - '.* Mo. 2 will care the mast obstinate case, no matter of bow longstanding . y yyy. -■:-•.:, • H No nauseous coses of cubebs, copaiba, or oil of sandalwood, that are certain to produce dyspepsia by destroying the coatkgs of the stomach. .- /, -* Price. Si 50. : Sold by all Druggists, or mailed on receipt of price. : For further particulars, send for circular. J. C. ALLAN & CO.. No '83 John strett ■ Sew Ynrk.'r- P O. Uox 1.*33. ■-:■ ... dl4-4r6"iT a Th3 -.- MANHOOD ; RESTORED. A VICTIM OF EARLY - IMPRUDENCE, -j^\_» causing nervous debility,' premature decay, etc., having tried; to vain every i known j remedy,! bas discovered a simple means of self-cure, which lie will send free to bis fellow-sufferers.'''; Address i. H. K_.-_.V-t-:>, No.' *3 Chatham «f»»*. New Yorfc'SiSjg n2-ljTuThS ' ... —-zO FFICE OF-^V ■:.-■■ James I. Felter & Co., Importers and Jobbers in Wines and Liquors, Orleans Building, 1016 and 1018 Second st., bet. J and X, Sacramento. SPECIAL NOTICE TO THE TRADE: We desire to offer to our Customers and Friends thanks for the liberal patronage extended to us during the past year, - And Solicit a Continuance for 1881. With our increased facilities for the transaction of our "SPECIALTY," THE WHISKEY BUSINESS, By reason of our connection in Kentucky, we shall be able, in the future, to offer extra- ordinary inducements to purchasers. We shall also keep a full and complete line of COGNACS, WINES, and other IMPORTED GOODS in our store, and wishing all "A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR We are, yours respectfully, JAMES I. FELTER & CO. a_ws____t__mammsss__sssss_____ms___mas__m_m__m_m GENERAL NOTICES. E. M. Stevens, 239 J street, near Third Fine imported wines, liquors, etc.; also the best bit cigars in the city. d2B-lm Cakes, Plc< and all kinds of Fancy Candy at W. F. PETEKSON'S. d2-lm . All Who Have Tried W. F. Peterson's Ornamental Cakes, Tarts and Mince Pies, say they are the best ever bought. Try them. d'2-lm Go to the Lafayette for not Drinks. Specialties : Tom and Jerry, Peach and Honey, etc. X St., Third and Fourth. J. O. HECTOR. dl-3plm Capital Colonnade, 1017 Tenth St., bet. J and K. Choicest Wines, Liquors and Cigars always on hand. Private Rooms. JOHN HECTOK.dItMin m The tlK.lii-l Imported Wines and Liquors, by the bottle or gallon, at SHEAR'S, Eighth and X streets (Clunie Building). Every article warranted pure. dld-lm . A Card.— all who are suffering from the errors and indiscretions of }outh, nervous weak- ness, early decay, loss of manhood, etc., I will send a recipe that will cure jou, FREE OF CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered by a missionary in South America. Send a self-addressed envelope to the REV. JOSEPH T. INMAN, Station D, New York City. 014-TbSTu6m ft A. LEONARD, ft Insurance and Real Estate, No. 1012 Fourth street, Represents Both Home and Eastern In- surance Companies. 2ES» ES -SJ TP, THE ELEGANT TWO-STORY AND BASEMENT FRAM-i HOUSE, No. 1215 L street (FRONTING CAPITOL PARK). The house is entirely new, hav- ing never been occupied ; has seven large rooms, bath and closets, hot and cold water, gas and gas fixtures throughout. Rent, $45. also The ■-__:.?? Frame Ilonse, So. 2113 I. street, between 'I'wsnt ."-2rst and Twenty-second containing Eight Hard-finished Rooms and Sum- mer Kitchen, with Lot 80xlt>0, Stable Chicken house. Rent, $"25. . also Bonne on Corner of Fourteenth and F streets, C room? ; Rent, $16. Also, Hou-e No. 1325 F street, C rooms, bard- finished ; Rent, $16. FOX SALE— Houses and Lots in various portions ol the city. dB-2plm FOR iS^_k.Za3E3 AT A BARGAIN, FOR A FEW DAYS, : . ';■ That desirable elisibly located Twc_^ STORY FKA.Mc DWELLING, containing Wjjl nine rooms, double parlors, bath-room "liii gas, etc. Lot SOxlfiO, with choice fruit trees, grape arbor. Has a good new stable upon the premises. Situated northeast corner Nineteenth and J streets. SWEETSER .V ALSIF, Real Estate and Insurance Agents, 1015 Fourth stree dgj 2ptf FRIEND&TERRT LUMBER COMPANY. MANUFACTURERS, WHOLESALE AND RK. tail Dealers in every kind and varieij oi BUILDING and FINISHING TIMBER art! LUMBER, KILN-DRIED DOORS, WINDOWS AND BLINDS! SXT Special Orders and odd-sizes promptly filled, and shipped direct from the OREGON, REDWOCI and SUGAR FINE MILLS of the Company. Gbssral Omci, No. 1310 Skcoxd Strict, nsar M. Bruicb Yard, Corn TwHurra and J STRBsn aul3-2ulm FOB SAliE^ A Of* ACRK 3 OF LAND, EIGHT MILES 4t/wO below Courtland, fronting one-half mile on Miner's Slough on the east, and one half mile on Prospect Slough on the west. A portion of the tract is CHOICE VEGETABLE LAND. For price and particulars, apply to the d!7-2plm SAORAMENTO BANK. FOR SALE, OAA ACRES 0F FIRST-CLASS RECLAIMED ,_s\f|/ IULE LAND, situated about one mile south of the town of Isleton, on Andrus Island, and fronting on Jackson Slough. For price and par* ticulars, inquire by letter or in person of the nll-2ptf SU'BA-WESrO BAKU. REDEMPTION OF BONDS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT IN Ac- cordance with the terms of the bonds issued by the Pacific Rolling Mill Company, the Directors of said company have determine i by lot the num. bers to be rodeemed at its office, No. 202 Market street, in the ci*v of San Francicco, on the 15th day of JANUARY, "A. D. ISil, with the following result: 16 120 230 325 451 30 137 232 327 452 70 159 268 344 461 91 170 282 365 489 p.. iy : 93 185 309 408 497 V.;" Which bon''s will be paid, in United States geld coin, on said 15th day of JANUARY, A. D. 13-1, upon surrender of the same with coupons attached, and interest thereon will cease from and alter that date. C. M. KEENEY, Secretary Pacific Rolling Mill Company. Office, No. 202 Market street, San Francisco. di4-2ptd yy NOTICE. " THE UNDERSIGNED, TRUSTEES UNDER THE Land Mortgage of the Central Pacific Rail- road Company, made to them as Trustees for the Bondholders, and dated tbe first (Ist) day of OCTOBER, 1870, hereby give notice that they hold four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000), in gold coin, with which, in accordance with the terms of said mortgage, they propose to redeem so many of said bonds as shall be offered at the lowest price. , All bids over one hundred and fire (105) fiat may be rejected at the option of the Trustees. Sealed bids for the surrender of bonds will be received at the office of the Trustees, corner of Fourth and Townsend streets, in the city of San Francisco, ! California, until noon JANUARY FIFTEENTH ' (15th , 1881. J. OB. GUNN, , 8. W. SANDERSON. ' San Francisco, California, December 13, 1880. ' ■■ - d!3-2ptd Removal ! E. GREER & CO. —HAVE Eemoved to their OLD STAND, 812 X STREET, i;i :rm:i:\ eighth and SIXTH, Where r they will be pleased to see their .'-." old customers, as well as new ones. Mho may favor them with their patronage. ON AND AFTER. JANUARY 1, ISSI, WE \-J -i intend to conduct our business on a . CASH BASIS ■P tST After years of experience in the GROCERY' BUSINESS, we have become fully convinced tbat * te CREDIT SYSTEM is injurious and detrimental to the best interest of the public at large. X' •''',' p.- ,. We feel positive that the public of Sacramento and vicinity will feel gratified to know that another ■' CASH House will be put in practical working order, , where they can buy their Grocery Supplies at the < Lowest Price for CASH. piy :■' -y y. y X . :\ 'Ip ; i.i ii. street, bet. Eighth and Matt. V* 1 i ';. - - .y:-r'.y:i2B4plmyyy*yyy -■■:•■ i'; . ;^ * '* -.-"- ■''■P.y-'i. ,■:'-. * 7---. "\ J.yi,..-y\i'-'-2y"'i, t ?'Py/; ''■'•'■' -~ ; - '-''si£*- r ~ '-'i. MISCELLANEOUS. Christmas is Coming I Toys!" ■ »■■ . - -■"■"■ *2 : Toys! _ Toys ! — ASD Fancy Goods ! ! COMPLETE ASSORTMENT AT DALE & GO.'S, J St., bet. Sixth ami Seventh, Sacramento. d2-3plm S. GOLDMAN, WHOLESALE A.YD RETAIL GR OCE 3a, Northwest cor. Second and J streets. ALL DESIROUS OP ' Choice, Fancy and Staple Groceries, FUR THK _EXC»__a_l_D____*sr&, '.yy sccu as: Atwood's i'lnui Pndding, Atwood's Miner Meat, Bitter's Apple Bntter. A Box choice Fine Ten (fancy boxes), % : : Bravant, »ardellew had Extra Preserved Heats and Fruits. \ . Can find them at the LOWEST MARKET PRICES, --' iy at my store. "-«. KS" Orders from the country solicited and promptly filled. dls-3plm t_T FIFTEEN SECOND-HAND BEDROOM SETS, from $20 up, for sale at SHERBURN & SMITH'S, No. 323 X street. itffi- 01-tf y?~~ HORNE\|j>WEST's~^< ? . fir Electro *M*°wE.Tie Bfi^-^P^ Eeceived First Premium State Fair. PRICES REDUCED! AX-VANIC MEDICAL BELTS, NEW STYLE, \JC $10. Galvanic Medical Belts, extra appli- ances, $15. Galvanic Medical Belts, 9 improve- ments, $20. Guaranteed one year. BEVF IN TIIE WORLD. Will positively cure without medicine Rheumatism, Paralysis, Neuralgia, Piles, Kidney, Liver, Spinal Diseases, lmpotency. Rupture, Ague, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and other Diseases o either sex. HORNE & WEST ELECTRO-MAG- NETIC 8ELT C0.,703 Market street, San Francisco 029-jsp3m&sw3mSW SEWERAHD CHIHEYPIPE, TEBBA COTTA AND STOXEWABE. SOEBT" .___•_= Sl^U'X'll., No. 317 J street. Sacramento, Cal. 7 : .' -r. d7-3olm HEWES' ELECTRO-BALSAMIC INHAIENT CURES PNEUMONIA, ASTHMA, CATARRH, BRONCHITIS, INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION, Dyspepsia, Diphtheria, Membraneous Croup, Swollen Tonsils, Quinsy, All Throat and Lung Troubles, KIDNEY DISEASE, AND, IN CONNECTION WITH THE BATH, MIASMAL FEVER, CHILLS AND FEVER. t3T Also, by Cleansing the Blood, cures Car- buncle, it directions, as given in pamphlet, are rictly followed. If persistently used in place nt Cigar, the aroma cleanses the poison from tbe Lungs, and cure* the hinker for Tobacco. .-.«_; HEWES' ECLECTIC EYE SALVE ; GIVES INSTANT RELIEF! t&" Send for pamphlet. f:-l J. HEWES. M street, bet. Fifteenth and Sixteenth, Sacramento, Cal. --■■■■■■ all-lawtfS . . ' : THE GREAT SAUCE OF THE WORLD. <^sy^s2uj Signature 13 on every bottle of GEITOINE WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. Imparts, the most delicious taste Mid zest to . of a LETTER from IW rjMED ICAL GEN- H TLEMAN at Mad- ■ rasto hi« orotberat ?- HI ■-'.'< SOt'PW, WORCESTER. Ml May. 1861. .^Rkk. GRAVIES, "TeIILEA & PER- ___W_it__\ . BINS that tneIrHSSBJI^ 1 * 11 ' eauce is highly K^fcf aOT & COLD esteemed in India, tiPL~~rim and ie, in my opiir Bf»-;jfflM MEATS, ion, the most palat- KBw?-»jW3| able, as well as the HESf?|l'*^''*^' *-" c ' moet wholesome Hjp -j earn-*.- that Is made." : . Sold and used throughout tbe world. . ::.'; JOHN DUNCAN'S SONS, AGENTS ■ FOR '•*> THE « UNITED :" STATES ■,-.: NEW YORK. ■.-■•.■■.."" :.'■'" ■- ' ju!9 lawlyS x... i_x.i 7,:.:.: ::•■; EIN WAY & SONS' PIANOS. VAs* HEYMAN, SOLE AGENT, I^^ajii^ J\ % street, be*.. Sxth and Seventh, • SS opposite Court-house. PIANOS TO* Mfl I VST £ Planoe sold oa Installments. '. ■.•,'":_■ * (!»--_ ,f .--__. yyy' ACKEBMAN & CO. _____ .we — kilt mi ■-w-M^^y^fc."w «BPi ■» \ ■tgjf^lf You Want TO MAKE YOUR WIFE HAPPY, BUY HER A. French China Dinner Set § Li inrsiflr tear, v WHICH ARE SOLD f|||Pliu FOR $25 AND $30! AT ACKERMAN & COS fc 629 and 631 J street, Sacramento. 1 THE BED HOUSE TRADE UNION. r " \ OUR GREAT SALE INAUGURATED! A. PERFECT SUCCESS ! Goods being slaughtered, and going rapidly ! Not an article in any Department but what is marked down from js§||i our regular low prices I " What a chance there is now open for the poor and those with limited means. Over $140,000 Worth of Goods j . 7 ii^2iy : yi2yiiyyy'yyi2'yiy2i Thrown upon the market, to be retailed out to the thousands. The popular and well- known house— a by word for all— is the RED HOUSE TRADE UNION. Known for thousands of miles away, and one of the most successful and strongest oppositions ever opened on this coast. THE GOODS MUST BE SOLD AS NEAR AS POSSIBLE BY FEBRUARY 2, 1881, as there will be a change in the firm on that day. SEE OIK I_HUE)I.SE 111 l>l< TION IS MEN'S AND WOMEN'S BOOTS AND SHOES I SEE aid GBEAT BEDICTIOX IN -;' : . |>: - '-'''•'-*.->- £&§£& -OEib Uln uKtiAl UtUI 1/llW.i »-l ,y.- -^fffgaffi MEN'S AND BOYS' FURNISHING GOODS SEE THE Fill HE* PLACED OH OIK HATS FOR MEN and BOYS! | SEE OUR SLAUGHTER IN DRY GOODS ! 2 yyyyyy:.. yryyyyyyxyyyyyy y. yg^BßMMlMW||Bß<|^^^^f^ The FANCY GOODS Reduced Nearly One-half , COMFORTERS, QUILTS and BLAHKETS— A Terrible Overhauling I i-iipy?. ':'r..rn 7pp2i ■■:.'.:■:■ -.2- "■'_:' '^^S______S__^^^^^^ THINK- VALISES V N !» BAGS OF ALL KINDS, AT MAM FilTI rBICES tP X Saddles of all kinds, Halters, Bridles and Harnesses-all >: marked way down ! CARPETS and OIL CLOTHS, less than wholesale prices. ta COUNTRY ORDERS FILLED WITH DISPATCH, AS USUAL. "Sa C. H. GILSVBAN, t-» • .__!_. jl ___-i -r->-T7i-_r\ tirrf^TTGlTr 1 Proprietor of the RED HOUSE. I THE ORIGINAL OSE PiSIC'E HOii. 9