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THE WEEKLY UNION
Is a paper of special value. It is issued in semi
weekly part?, each of eight pages, and appsara
WedneEd iys and Saturdays. It is thus the freshest
weekly piper on the coast, and the- only one which
goes out to it- readers tn iel a week. The family,
the farm, the miner's camp, the cnuntry home cm
have 1 0 more thoroughly valuable journal than the
V-r.mi' Ukioh, and for these reasons: His a com
plete news and home paper ; It is arel'able business
journal ; it is a ftarlces and impartial critic ; it is
thoroughly devot.d to tbo best interests of the State
and the people; it is constant in its information
upon art, mechanics, agriculture, hoiticuitarc,min
ing, viticulture, education, popular science, maikct
reports, etc , and is unsurpassed for its news facili
ties, availing as it does of the best graphic and
other news gathering mediums of the world. It is
chaste in character, elevated in tone, scholarly in
diction, and clear, logical and unmistakable in its
criticisms and editorials. On and after the fist week
in November the WstuLT Union will prerent a serial
story, to continue t :t my weeks, written especially
for the Union by Jutius Henri Browne, of New
York, an accomplished literary scholar, writer and
critic. It is entitled "The Wats of the World,"
and will be found to be a vivid picture of various
Shades of life in society and business circles in our
own country, and will be found to be a romance of
engaging interest. The Union is mailed to any ad
dress for Si 50 per year.
THIS MORNING'S NEWS.
In New York Government Bonds are quoted at
120 .'or 46 of 1807 ; 1011 tor Es of 1881 ; 1161 for i__ ;
st-ilin;, 84 SSl®* MJ ; silver bars, 112$.
Silver in Loudon, RJ; consols, 99 7-16 d; 5 per
cent. Batted States bonds, 104J ; 4s, 119J ; 4"s, lie}.
Is San Francisco half dollars are quoted at J
dlsjount to par; Mexican dollars, 90$ ._.
At Liverpool wheat is quoted at lis Id ills Id for
good to choice California.
The mining share market was stronger at San
Francisco yesterday, The febrile rise was the most
pronounced at the 11 o'clock session, when Sierra
Nevada got over tbefS! mark and Union Consoli
dated went a fraction ab»va $19. These are the best
prices since the Uth. The same may- be said of tie
-remainder of the Comstock list.
Iv a shooting affray on Roberts Island, San Joa
quin county, Charles Hightower received a danger
ous wound.
Mrs. Judge Watson died in Douglas county, Ore
gon, Thursday night.
There are four i risoners in jail at Portland, Ore
gon, charged with murder.
Mordaunt, the convict who escaped from an officer
near Astoria, Oregon, has been recaptured. T* ;F
Labor is unattainable at Victoria, B. C, and there
is an increasing demand for real estate.
The fastest four-year-old stallion time on record
was made at Oakland yesterday by ltomero— 2:22£.
The losses by the tire at Austin, Nevada, foot up
about 850,000.
George Marshal! was killed at North American
House, Calaveras county, Thursday, by falling down
a Well.
Diphtheria prevails at Linden, San Joaquin
county.' .yi'
A yr .tug man named Somerset, was drowned near
Lockeford, San Joaquiu county, yesterday. -
Snow fell in Io a a and Minnesota yesterday.
The passenger time between St. Louis and New
York is to be reduced to twenty eight hours.
Albert Hart, Private Secretary of Governor Per
kins, was painfully injured by a fall at San Jose
Thursday.
A soldier was drowned in the Gila river below old
Camp Goodwin, A. T., Wednesday.
Horace Hawes, of San Francisco, ran 220 yards
Thursday in 21 3-5 seconds— the fastest time on
record. ■ ■ ■
Henry Massie, who killed a sailor ia Port Town
send, W. T., a year ago, has pleaded guilty of man
slaughter.
Two earthquake shocks were felt Thursday night
at Port Townsend, W. T. V:
The coal miners at Nanaimo, B. C, have struck.
The fire on Mount Tamalpais, Marin county, is
still raging, but with diminished force. ... -'
The President's condition yesterday and la6t night
was anything but encouraging, and great anxiety
was manifested in regard to the situation.
Tho inside pages of this morning's Record Ukios
are filled with more than usually interesting and
valuable reading matter.
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THE CONDITION OF THE PRESIDENT.
It is only too evident that the condition
of the President is by no means as hopeful
as it was in the early part of this week.
The official bulletins have j a tone of dis
couragement well calculated to produce a
feeling of despondency throughout the
country. Tho recurrence of the sweating
symptom is regarded as evidence of in
creasing weakness. The chief source of
concernment, however, relates to the con
dition of the lungs. Yesterday the cough
ing was less annoying, but the expectora
tions were of such a character as to plainly
indicate the presence of abscesses. The
-wound haa made no progress in healing,
and the encouraging symptoms of Monday
and Tuesday have disappeared.' The words
of the bulletin are : " Altogether the con
" dition of the patient cannot be said to be
"improved." This we sre sorry to be
forced to regard as a cautious admission of
a seiious relapse. Latterly the attending
surgeons have admitted the steady decline
of the patient's strength. : It has been a
long, hard and unequal struggle with death
from the first. _______ml_W%ltlM
A SPECIMEN OF GOOD LETTER- WRITING.
The letter of our regular San Francisco
correspondent, Kate Heath, which appears
ia j this morning's issue ,of the ; Recoed
. Vs io>*, is a striking - example of - the dra
. matic interest to be found in the 1 realm of
common things. True art does not depend
upon heroic action or startling event for
its success.! It creates its own interest by
truthful delineations of i the common place,
and idealizes into beauty, or by touches of
genius brings out lines of grace, beauty and
tenderness in the most familiar objects/ Life
in a street-car is prosaic to monotony, but
whoever reads the graceful* letter of our
correspondent this 1 morning ; will ; perceive
how it may be invested with romantic in
terest and even touching pathos.
NEITHER DEAD NOR SLEEPING.
The report that ex-Senator Conkling car
ried four of the seven precincts in the pri
mary election held ■;' in \ the city ■of Utica
against the friends of the Administration
is plainly indicative of the presence of the
ex- Senator in the coming State Convention.'
This was the . preliminary skirmish before
the battle, and' Conkling won enough to
gain him a position '. in the ." fight. '!£ The
_ truce between ' the factions : in j New York
will be broken so soon as occasion for polit
ical movements occur, and the assembling
of the State [ Convention will witness the
opening engagement of • coming hostilities,
PRESIDENT BUCH ANA N'S LOYALTY.
.. The , patiencs with which i Judge' Jove
Black has eninred the imputations of dis
loyalty, with the means now known to have
been at his command for self-justification,
is almost incomprehensible. '■•' Strange as it
may appear that Judge Black should for so
long a time have allowed the imputations
of .disloyalty ■ to 1 rest upon him, it must
now be fully admitted that his vindication
is complete. But ■ the recent attempt; '0 f
Judge Holt to place Buchanan in th<i va-.ne '
favorable light which now invests Judge
Black, must be regarded as a well-meant
act of generosity, but , none the tan a con
spicuous failure. We ■ reprodu-ce the best
point in Judge Holt's defense of Buchanan'
in the following extract : :,. "It would take
"some. better evidence than the word of
"Jeff. Davis or any other testimony I have
" to convince me that 1 Mr. Buchanan had
" any sort of understanding with tho rebels
"upon that subject, Mr. Buchanan was
" eminently a man of peace. 1 He abhorred
"the thought of war during his : Presi
" dential terra, and was doubtless willing
"to do _ whatever :be could to : pre
" serve the peace within the range of his
"duty under the Constitution and laws
"of I the United 1 States j but , I j should
deny emphatically that he ever had any
"understanding with the Southern people
" which would prevent him from carrying
"out the expressed and well-known policy i
"of his Administration, to refrain from
hostile acts, if possible, but to defend the
" Southern forts to the last extremity if
"they were assailed. I have often thought
" while looking back over that stormy
"period that Mr. Buchanan acted most
" wisely and judiciously in his treatment
"of the Southern question." .
It is one thing to say that Buchanan's
treatment of the case resulted fortunately,
and quite another . to assume that its ac
cidental good result was an evidence of
patriotic intention and motive. The policy
of Buchanan was just such as was most
heartily approved at the South. He re
fused to reinforce the Government fortifi
cations in Charleston harbor. He permitted
Sumter to be invested by batteries built
under the muzzles of its silent guns, with
which that stronghold was easily reduced.
He knew that hostile works were being
erected, and well knew the purpose of their
erection. The mistake of Buchanan was
that he lived in times demanding heroic
action without perceiving his opportunity
to become the hero of the hour. The life
of the nation was imperiled by trea
son and rebellion. With treasonable
indecision he weighed the legal technical
ities in the way of asserting 1 the right of
the nation to live by resisting the assassins
who held the knife at her throat. Patriot
ism astrtcd the existence in the Constitu
tion of the right of national self-defense;
treason . denied the existence of any such
constitutional right. Buchanan agreed
with treason. Patriotism asserted the
right to coerce a State in the enforcement
of national unity ; treason . denied that
right, ' and Buchanan, a life-long apostle
of the doctrine of State rights,
agreed with treason. The question
of the time was, " Would the peo
" pie find authority in the Constitution
'* to preserve the Union of the States by
" force of arms," and Patriotism found it
in the great reserved and natural right of
self-defense ; treason clung to the letter of
the text and "the Resolutions of ! 95,"
With treason Buchanan searched for the
subtle technicalities of legal construction
lest Patriotism should offend against meta
physical deduction. In the interview by
which Judge Holt has sought to place
President Buchanan in a new light, he was
asked, "Was Mr. Buchanan a weak man?"
To this he replied : "By no means. In
" tellectually he was very strong. Mr:
" Buchanan was getting old before he be
"came President. He '■ understood very
" well that a war during his Administra
" tion meant ruin to the Union, and he was
" therefore exceedingly anxious to avert it.
" No man can tell the trials and struggles
" Mr. : Buchanan had after Mr. Lincoln
" was elected and before he was inaugu
" rated President. _ The Secessionists were
"after him constantly. ;,- As we 'went in
" we would find them coming out, and as
"we went out we would find them going in.
"They were persistent with and at times
"almost bullied the : President. In the
" morning ofttimeß yon could see traces of
" the suffering he had . endured during the
" night. ' He naturally felt that he owed
"those people some consideration. They
" were his political friends, and to them he
" was indebted for the exalted position he
" held, and he struggled to keep them sat
" isfied and quiet as well as he might with
" out abating his fidelity to the Union. It
." was a trying place and perplexing times.
jj* No i man f before . or since has been sur
"rounded by such a chaos of conflicting
" demands and purposes as Mr. Buchanan."
> : No one has attempted to deny the pres
ence of a great crisis jat the close of Mr.
Buchanan's . administration or to belittle
the difficulties which beset ; him. „ But
it was:, a! crisis which could -V be
met .only by taking a" firm, unequivocal
stand on the side of national life and unity,
and the difficulties were multiplied a thou
sand fold \by ; giving audience to the im
portunities of ' : treason. . President Bu
chanan was captain of the ship in the ap
proach of a great storm, audit isnow sought
to excuse his indecision by representing him
as listening to the importunities of repre
sentatives ' and T advocates *of . the
storm. '■■-.. -He had asked T Judge '.. Black,
his Attorney-General, whether he
had a .legal ' right to '-. save ; the
national craft from sinking, and that officer
had replied : "The : Union is necessarily
" perpetual. • No State can lawfully with
" draw or be expelled from it. The Fed
" eral Constitution is as much a part of the
"Constitution of every State as if it had
" been % textual^ inserted '; therein. , The
"Federal Government is sovereign within
"its own ' sphere, and acts directly upon
"the individual 'citizens of ,- every Stated
"Within these limits its coercive power is
" ample to defend '> itself, its ! laws ; and its
" property. It can suppress insurrection,
fight; battles, conquer armies, disperse
"hostile combinations, and punish any or
"all ' of ' its enemies. !- It . can : meet, repel
" and subdue all those who rise against it.
' ' But it ; cannot , obliterate a single Com
" wealth ! from ' the map of the Union
" or declare indiscriminate war against all
" the inhabitants of a section, confounding
" the innocent with the guilty." This* re
ply vindicates forever the loyalty of Judge
Black,' but that it should have been asked
at all reveals '- the < treasonable : hesitancy of
the President, and - that it was not made ]
the basis of the Presidential policy at once .
will convict IF^uchanan of a r weakness at
tributable or^(y to enfeebled patriotic con
victions. "tVe fear Judge Holt has under
taken too» mnch in this attempt to un write
history., _
THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLIC IN
PARTY.
Just at the time when the Republican
party .was on the verge of dismemberment
, the President was struck down by the bul
let of an assassin. That shot did not re
store harmony in the ranks of the j party ;
it merely suspended the exhibition of polit
ical animosities. As the leader of one wing
of the party, the sufferings r of rl the ; Presi
dent s would | naturally call a 1 truce. .1 But
the 1 antagonistic ) forces which confronted
each other in mortal political hostility have
not , concluded any treaty of peace. "The
death of the President would have turned
the tables completely in favor of tbe stal
warts by placing the entire Federal patron-'
age in ] their hands. The j confirmation of
Robertson proved the y force of , Exec
utive influence, and the accession
of ' Vice-President Arthur Tto the Pres
idency would : have changed the attitude
of the Republican members of the Senate.
The restoration of the President to health,
and the reassembling of Congress, will wit
ness a resumption of political hostilities at
the point and over the precise issues which
divided the 1 councils of . the party on the
unfortunate first day of . July. , We- are
strongly inclined to the opinion! that the
nomination and confirmation of Robertson,
the defeat of Conkling, and tho j strong
manifestation of disaffection on the part
of General Grant/ were political conflicts
which have engendered irradicablo ani
mosities. We regard any future recon
ciliation between ; Stalwartism and Inde
pendent Republicanism as extremely doubt
ful. I In New York at least we can scarcely
expect again to see the forces which
have contended for supremacy Tin the
party again marshalled . under the same
banner by any measure of compromise.
Leadership is all powerful T with . party
factions, and the wounds inflicted by the
leaders cf the contending factions were too
incisive and mortal to be forgiven. There
are no animosities so irreconcilable as those
growing out of family feuds. When all
a faction of the party may hope for is : to
perform the menial service of aiding to win
victories for the'opposing faction, then the
success of the common enemy is to be pre
ferred. Neither the independent Repub
licans nor the stalwarts | are possessed of
that kind of patriotism which will consent
to place the fruits of victory in the hands
of the other. Recently the Republican
State Central Committee of New 1 York
held a meeting to attend to some business
relating to the organization. The committee
is composed of friends of Mr. Conkling. As
it was an official meeting of a State politi
cal body some resolutions of regret or
indignation at the attempted assassination
of the President, or at . least some indica
tion of sympathy, was expected. ; There was
a significant silence on tha subject. The
committee had not heard of the attempted
assassination, so far as might . be learned
from its proceedings. Politically this com
niittee did I not JJiiij^thiz? with President, j
Garfield, and it evidently did hot care to :
attempt any expression as a committee of
the sympathy felt as individuals. But the
silence T was significant as betraying
a sullen political antagonism, which
only awaits the death or recovery |of
the President to make itself strongly
manifest. To . any who will carefully
consider the reason why the nomination
of ' Judge Robertson was the occasion of
such mortal offense to Mr. Conkling and
his following, the approaching . schism in
the party will become apparent. It was
evidently Mr. Conkling's supposition that,
in consideration of the services rendered
by himself and friends ; in carrying New
York for Garfield, tbe anti-Grant Republi
cans were to be ignored. Mr. Conkling's
action proves conclusively that had he and
his friends suspected that the anti-Grant
wing of the Republicans would receive the
slightest consideration or recognition at the
hands ,of Garfield's Administration they
would not have supported -1 the Re
publican national ticket. The unity
of the Republican j party in T- New
York in the last campaign was 1 the
result of a misapprehension | and not the
outcome of compromise or reconciliation.
The stalwart faction appeared to have be
come reconciled to the defeat of Grant, but
the offense taken at the nomination of
Robertson proves that they believed for
some reason best known to themselves that
they would secure by the election of Gar
field and Arthur what they had lost by the
defeat of Grant at Chicago. In the light
of more recent " developments we cannot
believe that the Grant wing of the : party
in New York would have supported Gar
field ' could they have realized the proba
bility even of Mr. " Blame's promo
tion or . Mr. Robertson's .2 triumph.
The .yl unity of the : : party i- last ■ year
was therefore due to i a misunderstanding
of the relation of the factions in the tight.
Each supposed the other to be in process
of complete extinguishment by the success
of the Republican • ticket. ?-. In reality the
party y was divided then, and ; how hope-'
lessly divided a ■ revelation f of ; the real at
titude of the Presidential candidate toward
them would have proven. : In this view of
the situation it requires no gift of prophecy
to foretell an irreconcilable schism .in the
Republican ranks in New York this year,
and not alone in New York, but in all
other States where stai wartism constitutes a
considerable element of the party.
A CASE ILLUSTRATING MANY THINGS.
A contemporary referring to the fact'
that the jute works at Oakland employ
eight hundred Chinese operatives, suggests
that I the * employment 'of eight ? hundred
white operatives in place of ] these Chinese
would furnish support to a white population
of over three thousand persons. V The facts
are that the jute works could ; not support
this population, and hence if its Chinese
labor was discharged they would suspend at
once. These jute works made a series of
very "comprehensive experiments with
various :i kinds !of ";.:■ labor. "y ' They - tried
white V men y~l and ';- women, boys £ and
girls, and also T Chinese, 1 T and V found
that ly this iir.V was T.y the T •' , ; - only Vy hind
of J labor .V with T which TT the enterprise
could be made successful. * < The chief diffi
culty with the other kinds of labor| tried
was ; its unreliability. ! % The factory runs
twenty- hours per; day, and the labor
ing force in each class of operations must
be perfectly 1 balanced. y The absence of a
single hand from his post disturbs this bai
ance and throws . the whole force into dis
arrangement; It was 1 found ■. to be impos
sible to organize '•' a "-' perfectly reliable force
of 800 white* operatives. j- The entire oper
ations require ■__' skilled manipulation.
After a force has been trained it must re
main intact. Untrained fr hands " cannot
take the places of ' trained ; absentees with
out disturbing 1 the well-balanced produc
tive capacity of the separate operations.
When Ta force is thus ; organized, trained
and ': ll balanced iit must ? be '■': maintained
over a period of years. It was found that
a largo /portion! of the whole force em
ployed would remain only long enough to
obtain 'f sufficient money for definite pur
poses.T As for example' to renew a ward
robe ; to ; take .a _ trip ' East ;, to !go to the
latest mining locality, .etc. - .The : constant
going of those who had acquired skill, and
the consequent coming of the untrained,
greatly _ : reduce the average | productive
capacity of the works. T Chinese labor pos
sesses "the capacity of being massed and
wielded with i facility in compact, . well-,
organized forces. It is worse than useless
to quarrel with actual- facts, T and
worse 1 than absurd to attempt to
combat ... inherent forces.- The com
petition with American * jute factories
is not from Chinese at Oakland, but from
Hindoos and Chinese at Calcutta and on
the Hoo^ley river. }. Even in India, Chinese
labor has been found far more profitable in
the jute factories than that of the native
Hindoos. 1 Gradually v Chinese labor is
crowding the ; Hindoos out of the more
skilled operations of manufacturing fabrics
from f jute fibers. The eight hundred
Chinese operatives ; employed at Oakland
are not in any sense supplanting white la
bor, because the profit arising from that
class of manufacture will not pay white
labor the rate it must have to maintain its
grade of civilization. Our contemporary's
statement carries lon its face its own ex
planation. It says : " The employment
"of eight hundred white men would sup
'' port a population of over three thousand. "
Then the support of that population must
be charged to | the labor bill of the fan
tory, end experiment has shown that the
margin of profit will not sustain that
charge. As between employing eight hun
dred Chinese in Oakland and the employ
ment of the same number in Calcutta,
there is no practical difference _so far as
their labor has a bearing upon the indus
tries of this country. American manufact
ures in jute are protected by an import
duty of 35 per cent, on the value of manu
factured jute fabrics. This is the sole
protection, for since the jute fiber comes
from India, the freight does not constitute
an element of disadvantage to the jute fac
tories ia Calcutta. \ That is to say, the
farmers in California pay over ; one-third
more for the sacks they use in order
that '.- a single corporation in Oakland
may give employment to 800 Chinese oper
atives. The annual consumption' of sacks
agregates 30,000,000, which cost me grain
growers §2,700,000 ; in this 5045,000 rep
resents the advanced price due to tho
existence of the tariff. Thus nearly SI.
--000,000 per annum is taken from the wheat
growers of California to protect a single
jute factory in Oakland and two or three
on the Atlantic seaboard, As already
shown, it is an employment from which
American : labor T can derive no benefit.
Nothing but the most superficial reasoning
and the most hopeless confusion of ideas
will see any advantage in maintaining this
tariff. But even with the protection
afforded by this tariff it is : doubtful
if American manufactures from jute,
even ; with Chinese labor, will be able
to contend with East Indian competition.
This Oakland company importuned the
State Prison Directors to take its entire
plant of machinery off its hands. Sacks
have been imported j for less than seven
cents, and the growth of manufactures in
this line in India, with Hindoo and a
cheaper Chinese labor than we have ever
known in California, affords a certain
guarantee of a gradual and steady decline
in the cost of sacks. The abolition of ; the
tariff duty on jute fabrics would save to
the grain-growers of ; California about
$1,000,000 per annum, and if by that gain
the $00 Chinese now employed at Oakland
in the manufacture of sacks should find
it to their advantage to transfer the field of
their operations to Calcutta, nothing would
be lost to the aggregate refinement or civil
ization of that city. >'- .
WHAT IS HERESY?
■." Mrs. Sarah Cooper has been convicted
of heresy. In proof of the heretical opinions
entertained by her, Deacon Roberts offered
to prove that Mrs. I Cooper on one occasion
gave utterance to the opinion that all who
led pure and blameless lives would go, to
heaven, even though ' they did not believe
in Jesus Christ. If thia be heresy what a
grand! array of noble men ,. and women
march in ita ranks ! There never was a
mother T who '; looked into the grave of a
dutiful son or a pure-minded loving daugh
ter that so impoverished the ; love and
power of - God as to place such limitations
there as would exclude her loved ones from
the hope of mercy. . Honest > belief or 1 un
belief is solely a question of the possession
of evidence or the want of it. Belief coerced
by fear is dishonest hypocrisy. '■ Real
opinions are the irresistible, uncontrollable
conclusions of the reason. The opinions of
men may find honest . divergence, and each
to the other will be equally : heretical. J If
an honest, upright , and benevolent life—
except '. the 'mind , admits of a single con
clusion of | fact which must forever remain
a result of judgment avail nothing in
the final distribution of mercy to the chil
dren of God, then the whole Jewish race is
doomed ■to -■ eternal perdition, and . with
them :. millions whose real ; merits are a3
high as may be claimed for the 1 most un
questioning believer, in man-made dogmas.
The man who denies the possibility of ;' sal
vation to all whose conclusions I upon ques
tions V. of i fact ; differ * from This' own, ,! is
at ; best ' bat ;• a ; mean-spirited 3 bigot. ■If
any, noble and upright : life can be
wholly lost ; >; if i salvation \isto' be . the
inheritance ':: only of , those whose , peculiar
mental endowments enable : them to enter
tain a peculiar kind of faith, * then all the
heads in heaven will be fashioned after a
single pattern, and the repose of eternal
monotony will produce an intellectual con
census of thought as j dreary as the drone
of bagpipes. Now that [ Mrs. Cooper \ has
been ] convicted of heresy it is in order for
Mrs. \ Cooper '. to , declare i that 1 since I the
Ecclesiastical \ Court ; which tried ber dis
sented from what she believed to be ortho
dox, it is.guilty of heresy. As between
the i guesses of Rev.:. John T Hemphill and
Sarah X Cooper < on '- the : one } side and ' the
guesses cf the Presbytery on the other, we '
have no choice. Thanks to an enlightened
liberality y for which orthodoxy ; is" not re
sponsible, neither party to this controversy
can flict upon ; the other the pains and
penalties of heresy. - The "■ fire that con
sumed Michael - ; Servetus is dead forever.
Its unwonted glare" will live again only in
that demoniac ) spirit of intolerance which
will occasionally find!, embodiment "in that
form' of virulent 1 Christian ' meekness and
malignant . Christian charity, so conspicu
ously manifested by Deacon Roberts.
GROWING WORSE.
V On a steamer which landed in New York
last week there were five hundred and fifty
: immigrants bound for Salt Lake, ylt used
T to be thought that the advent of railroads
in Utah would prick the babble of Mor
monism and disperse the Sain ts.Yi lt. used
to be believed that polygamy would disap
pear :at once \ when brought into contact
with the ordinary civilization of this
country. It used to be predicted that the
death of B-igham 1 Young | would scatter
the flock he had collected, and that
a war over the li- successorship —
which . was regarded as "',} inevitable
would divide the modern Zion into many
contending ... fragments. All these things
have come, and Mormonism i 3 numerically
; stronger : to-day than ever 1 before.' The
Gentiles have invaded the very citadel of
the Saints ; they have planted churches,
printed ' newspapers, ' expostulated, "'• per
: suaded and denounced. Still Mormonism
lives . and flourishes. When the bill , to
make polygamy a crime was before Con
gress, there were those to say that polyg
amy was an evil which would cure itself in
; a brief time. Settlement would accom
plish this. l-i' But settlement has come,
and polygamy remains. There- are
more men and . women in the polyga
mous relation to-day than ever before.
Upon the whole Mormonism is more ag
gressive, more defiant, and - more active in
proselyting now than at any time in its
history. The chief error has consisted in
supposing that Mormonism depended for
its perpetuation upon deluding its votaries,
and that a3 soon as opportunity offered for
disillusionizing ; them some benevolent
Gentile would step forward and explain,
and all these -• Latter-Day Saints would be
immediately transformed into latter-day,
ordinary people. Some well-meaning min
ister would some day get a hearing in Salt
Lake and inform the deluded followers of
Brigham that the whole story of the find
ing of the plates by Joe Smith was a guy.
The error all along has been in mistaking
a profound conviction for a thinly dis
guised 1 deception. Whoever sets motes
and bounds to the irrationality of human
credulity will find his limitations too cir
cumscribed. There is nothing too absurd
or too unreasonable for acceptation as a re
ligious faith. If the story of Joe Smith
had 1 been offered as merely a statement
of fact it would have found no takers.
As the basis fable of a religion, however,
it has answered the purpose for organizing
a powerful church, votaries of which
would " count it gain," to be able to die
for the faith that is in them. In brief,
Mormonism is not absurd to a Mormon ;
the mistake has been in supposing it
was so.
PASSENGER LISTS.
Ca&lin, September 16th. — Paased here to.
day, to arrive in Sacramento to-morrows P.
C. Mix, J. Barry. Charles W. Clark, "Sew
York ; D. H. Haskell, Phil. Felsenthal, Saa
Francisco; S. 11. Kearne, P. Kearne, W. H."
Mawdsley, tL. Kearne, A. H. Thompson,
England ;j I. B. Nichols, Salem, j Or.; N.
Pratt. Sacramento ; Miss Hrde, Ireland ;
W. H. Boot, Denver ; Mrs. Ivan Petrol"",
Vermont ; I. Koofman. Germany ; L. Kinps
ley, F. J. Mooses. U. S. N,; Mrs. J. E.
Sayre, Miss F. B. , Layrence, New Bruns
wick ; W. S. Shanebergerand son, Rochester,
Pa. ; A. L. Thomas and family. Salt Lake;
Mrs. E. M. Colt;an, Boston ; Mrs. W. Sum
mers, London, Canada ; Miss M. Steele. Wis
consin ; Naumann Leadhill, H. P. Wolf el, S.
S. Hurlbnt, Chicago ; W. B. Wills, Phila
delphia ;E. Pontappedan, Denmark. 1 1 :' -
ly Newhall, September 10th. — Passed here
to-day, to arrive in San Francisco to-morrow:
L. Arcke, San Bernardino ; Mrs. M. Quenlo
tan, Forest Secury, L. Cahn, San Francisco ;
Mrs. '• Black, Lis Angeles ; Mrs. L. Parker,
Mrs. Sparrow, : Oakland ; -:'•' C. H. Burnett,
Seattle ; W. F. Hitchcock, Alameda ; J. S.
Edden, Merced. • : :!>-;-".
V Omaha, » September 16ib.— Left here to
day, to arrive in Sacramento September 20th:
F. D. Shaw, Boston ; Mr 3. S. B. Freeman,
Oakland; j James 'Bsllis, wife and child,
Kernville, Cal.: L. J. Orcutt, Massachusetts;
Charles H. Jackson, Miss Carrie ;McClay,
San Francisco ; Miss Josie ' Morrison, Miss
Pauline Fairbanks J Miss Ida Palmer, Miss
Maud Russell, New York W. Hennings,
Fiji Islands ; G. A. _ Morgan, Indianapolis;
G. G. Sewell and wife, Santa ! Paula, Cal.;
A. R. Gib.son, L Knoxville, j Term.; George
Perkins, Nipa ; Fred. Perkins, Lock Haven,
Pa.; Miss Fannie Solomon, New York,
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.
I E. W. Lindidey . and Marcelin ] Gaye have
applied to be declared insolvent. j .'•■'■
T .The Boston Consolidated Mining Company
levies jan 1 assessment of j twenty cents per
share.;.".:-," ;.'""; ... yyy y. : y'2 ' '■';', .'"" "TT-"
V The informations of assault with a deadly
weapon ;; again3t Frank McGibbon and of
grand larceny against Aadrea Buzzo have
been dismissed.; 1 , •". 2 ".yy
-■-■ Verdicts of suicide have been rendered by
Coroner's juries in the cases of Anton D. F.
Meyer,' generally known as Henry Meyer,
who shot himself in a Pine street stable on
Tuesday evening, - and ' Gaw I Foong Teang,
who was found strangled | to death in bis cell
in the city prison on tha morning of the same
day. .■■•
V Justice Pennie, ■ acting rin place of Police
Judge Rix, has mledr that there was no
malice evident in the shooting of J. E. John
son by John D. , Sullivan, 1 and | reduced the
chares of murder against the latter to man
slaughter, fixing his bail at 810,000. Being
unable to furnish - bonds, the . homicide was
remanded to the county jail to await trial.
'■-. Mrs. C. A. Preseott, residing at No.' 624
Capp street, stepped off a Mission-street car,
between { Twenty-fourth and 9 Twenty-fifth
streets |a j few minutes ; after ; 6 1 o'clcck jj Ja3t
evening acd started across the railroad track.
Failing to observe the approach of the out
ward-bound 6 P. «. passenger train she was
struck by the pilot and thrown a considerable
distance from the track. She was picked up
by Officer Flinn : and ! conveyed to her home,
where ■ it , was ascertained that 1 her injuries
consisted of a broken wrist, a sprained ankle
and some severe bruises. . ; ,T
| ': Weather T. at ;" Lake Tahoe. — A "corre
spondent at Lake Tahoe, writing on the 14 tb,
says: f "To-day was : the warmest ] day . this
year. T Thermometer 86° in the shade at 2 p.
V.i on the loth at .SI •in the shade at 2 p. v.
We had two days in August when the mer
cury marked 83° and [ 82°.* , The lake is free
from ; winds T during - September. ' -'•;" Fishing
never better than during the months of Sep
tember and October." !;;> T 1
.;' The tplendid new story, written for the
Record-Union arid . ths \Vj___e____lt Union, en-
titled "THE WAYS OF THE WORLD,",
; will be commenced November Ist, and will be
published in twenty installments. .SB»
;.:; Clams ' are now made of India '* rubber,
and painted so artisticalty that: they can
not be told from the genuine article. For
making clam chowders a few dozen of them
will last a'■ restaurant a ' lifetime.[Phila
delphia Chronicle-Herald,
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BOOK REVIEW.
To- DAT is America : Studies for the Old World and
"' the New." By 1 Joseph -Hatton. .': New .York :
I Harper & Bros. ■ San Francisco : A. L. Bancroft
; A Co."' (Franklin Square Library Series.)
Mr. Joseph Hatton is an Englishman. % He
came to America to see these 'United States
and the people therein, and . to record his im
pressions * of T them. ': This latter jhe did in
several • papers and magazines here * and
abroad. 1 He has now gathered : them all into
one volume, added ' other ; chapters '. to them,
and presented '. the whole as a criticism, in
which the new and the old worlds are com.
pared.. Now Mr. Hatton's right to criticise
and compare cannot be questioned, nor will
the expression of his views have any imme- ,
diate, marked effect upon our civilization;
but it is interesting to know what a scholarly
and observant foreigner thinks about vis and
our?, and we may profitably, perhaps, con
sider his views, and cannot fail to be enter
tained thereby. .We glance at "a few of his
expressions to see how we stand revealed
therein. ! Any critical conri deration of his
thoughts which appears to be demanded are
reserved, that an epitome may be presented
indicative of the tone of the whole work.
; In the first X place, he declares that this
great Republic is "marching on," and puts
himself into a graceful attitude by prefacing
that he stands upon the sidewalk of a sym
pathetic neutrality, watching the mighty
procession as it moves. Believing that inter
national amity is promoted ;by a knowledge
of each other ty England and America, he
offers his criticisms I "as 1 a humble contribu
tion in that direction." In his eyes America
looks forward, while England looks back :
America is making money and building cities
—England 13 spending the accumulated
wealth of ages. The story of Colorado is
wonderful, but that of Kansas more extraor
dinary. It is a grand thing to have a hand
in such progressive work as we are engaged
I in, yet he'd rather be an old man in London
than in New York. But as a young man
hod take issue with Mr. Buskin, and live
content in a country that possesses no castles,
for he believes men are more than castles,
and living hearts better than dead stones.
Boston he pronounces the most English of
our cities. Our metropolitan society he
thinks tends to make intellect aristocratic,
and to give knowledge and culture foremost
places ; but this is not so in English
cities, . although it obtains some
what in London. As to the differ
ence of legal liberty in . England and in
America, the latter has only one advantage,
and that is in the matter of "shooting."
For wilflul murder one is certain to be hanged
in England, but in the United Stales the
chances of escape are numerous. The reason
for this is the uncertainty of the law vindi
cating itself here. There is more practical
and certain justice under the law in England
than in America. The higher the thief in
England the more severely he is dealt with ;
the law is sweet for the poor and bitter for
the rich, and this is the result of the work of
the press, under the whip of which Courts
have arrived at an ex ggerated recognition of
the responsibilities of education and wealth
when they let their angry passions rise. In
many cases American houses in cities are
better built than in the old country, but
throughout America, in furnishing them
there is singular uniformity, an absence of
individual taste. If our Government would
admit the art manufactures of Europe free
of duty, American houses, he thinks,
would soon be as well decorated as are the
English, because art elevates a nation.
American houses are generally painfully
blank for lack of good pictures and worthy
articles of sculpture and pottery, He does
uot think this due to a want of taste, but to
the high cost of gratifying it. Bent is double
what it is in England, and taxes are abomin
ally high. The whols spirit of the regulations
of the customs is harsh and offensive with
us. "y The theater is not a necessity to Eng
lish life, as it is to Americans, and while the
stage has a wholesome influence, artistically
it has not advanced here in recent yeais.
The traveler with his eyes and ears r pan is im
pressed in America with the prevalent mis
representation in both countries of the man
ners and customs of each, the desire to be
clever and amusing, leading the writers of
both countries into exaggeration and misrepre
sentation. As a rule, restlessness prevails with
us, but the opposite obtains in England, and
that is why England is attractive to Americans
seeking rest. | The natural gallantry of Amer
ican men toward women, their consideration
for women of every class, puts to shame the
most polished nations of Europe. The very
fact that a woman is alone gives . her im
munity from insult j here ; but in London a
pretty girl or well-dressed woman cannot
walk along any leading thoroughfare without
being insulted by word or look half a dozen
times. It is an evidence of a capacity for
the very highest civilizatiod that this busy
people, in the midst of all kinds of vulgar
drawbacks, with the scum of Europe con
stantly pouring in upon them, has kept pure
as gold its respect for women and true as
steel its love for little children. Ke likes the
open-door manners of our people. The gar
dens of our villas are not fenced from view,
there is a. wonderful ' accessibility about
our stores and our houses. " You ■ can
'walk right in' and "interview' any
body in America, from the President down
ward. Not at home' . and 'engaged'
not belong to the , white-lying 'vocabulary of
the United States." This freedom ef inter
coarse, this frankness of business men, is one
of the most agreeable impressions the stranger
receives. There is nothing like it in London,
In America everybody is considered entitled
to a hearing,'' The clear prospect of advance
ment for youths in business and trades is the
great reason why they look earnest and hope
ful in America in - the establishments where
they labor. The ; idea propagated with lus
that the English nation does not sympathize
with Ireland, has no feeling for her woes, and
is unwilling to do her justice, he deems too
absurd for serious '■ consideration. The food
provided at hotels and restaurants along our
railways is usually bad and dear. Ten years
in the history of America is a half century of
European progress. Ten years ago England
was 1 unrivalled jin all athletic games ; it is
true still, but with the difference indicated.
Ten years ago America could produce no high
class wood engraving ; there is nothing finer
than '• her book and V magazine ';-. illustra
tions to-day. , Ten years ago her manufactures
were comparatively insignificant, to-day they
successfully rival « England's., ' r The smugly
honest English inn-keeper puts the Bible in
your bed-room ; and 1 the devil iin your bill ;
the American 1 hotel ' brigand ' can make the
reckoning just as hot, but does not do it un
der the shadow of the Scriptures. V There is
no more religious freedom' in .America than
in England. '■!. If ministry ; in , America has a
more business aspect,' it is because the Ameri
cans are less reverential than the English,
and . more ' self-assertive in the * mat
ter of general 1 equality."- Class journal
ism is ;..., bolder and ,\_, more original
in America than ; England. Tbe American
artist neither socially nor otherwise occupies
so good a position as his brother in : England.
America seems to have no standard of judg-
? ° in regard to native art. 3 ; Her native
artists must leave their" country :to make a
name before their own countrymen 1 will re
ceive them. America has no school of paint
ing. The mountain lakes of California pre
sent more strangely beautiful aspects to the
lover of nature than any scenes this side the
Atlantic, and California's hills tempt the en
thusiast to pack up and go -West at once. V
Some day a great European master will paint
American scenery, and a great English critic
will proclaim the new wtrk. i T *
T -We have thus glance! at random through
about half of, Mr. flattop's , reviav. His
views on American politic, our leading labor
and social questions, of our tolerance, our
religion?, our landscapes, International comity
between England and America, \ copyright
laws, --he customs and manners of our homes,
our police systems, our cinunercisl relations,
our actors, the .West, agriculture, immigra
tion, investments, rewards to capital, our im
portations and export luanufaoturicg here
and in England, etc., ar- quite as interestingly
treated. , T'-:'-' '"_ - : ' : 'i ''' ' '';t?gsg-gjj
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
. — --'■-..
iTho season ! approaches when partite, balls, social
reunions, society celebrations, et_.\, throughout
i -the State will be more frequent Advance an
I Bounccmentofffocb events, properly vouched for,
will find placo in this colonic, ii sent in. The rule
! docs rot, of course; »pply to such public events
within the city as should pri perly bo first an
nounced in the business columns.]
Mrs.' Wm. Yule, of this city, has gone to Mon
terey.
Ex Lieutenant-Governor Johnson is at the Golden
Eagle. . ■ ...
i Mrs.. S. Bethell, of Grass Valley, is visiting Sacra
' mento. ...' > 1
Mrs. Fred Dassoavilla is visiting the city, the
guest of Mrs. chad on. y
N. Pratt, of Sacramento, a. 11 srrive bom the East
by overland tram this morning.
L. J. Orcu't, the wool operator, passed Omaha
yesterday, to arrive here on tha 50th. .
Mrs. Dr. Hunt, of Nevada City, i< visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Add. C. Hinkson, in this c.ty.
John I. Sabin, of Sao. Franc'sco, President of tin
Sacramento Telephone Company, is in the city.
C. A. Euckaber, of the United States Mint it Sac
Francisco, is in the city and will return home to
day. ._,_. ■"'■ly.TT' "'-vT
John Sharp and wife, of CamptonvilTe, and John
Hogan, of North San Juan, have gune for a visit to
the East.
Miss Scanlon, school teacher at Clay Station, Am
ador count}-, will resign and take charge of Barthol
omew D. strict school, Sacramento county.
Miss Mattie A. Sharp, of Brighton, in to teach the
school in the Center district the present term.
The sessions have already been opened, with thirty
scholars, y . _ .'.."
Mrs. A. A. Wood, who has been stepping with
friends near Red Bluff since her r. turn from the>vi
cinity of Mt. Shasta, whither she had been with the
Bails party, has returned to Chico.
Last evening his friends at Grass Valley tendered
to Lieutenant Griffiths, of the United States Army .
a complimentary party, the Lieutenant having re
ceived orders to join his command in Montana.
Dr. Henry Gibbons, Sr., of San Francisco, Presi
dent of the Stats Boaid of Health, came op last
evening to attend a meeting of the Board, wh cl
took place last evening at the offloe of the Secretary,
Dr. F. W. Hatch, in this city.
The arrivals at Bartlett Springs since last report
are : Ed. Poulttt, Orland : Henry Vm: Loner
Valley ; Ed. W. Ramus, San Francisco ; A.M.
Akena, John Smith, James A. . '•'mil Mr. Bun. m
Cower Lake; D. Clevelr.nl, San Diego; Jeff 0.
Marshall, Bear Valley ; Miss Robinson, Miss Dod-ii.,
D. V. Thompson, William Kerr, Upper Lake.
The arrivals at tbe Grand Central Hotel, Lake
Tahoe, on the 15th, were : J. \V. Sharp, Itev. ■'< hi
li. Hammond, Carson; Rev. William G. Harris.,
New York city: A. V. Porter, Trustee ; ThonraH
Jackson, Lake Valley ; John Kelly, Placer; Mrs.
Thomas Bell. Kiss v. Bell. Hiss M Bell, Master
Frank Bell, Mrs. Hamilton, Miss C. Myor, San Fran
cises; VI. B. -Niinick, Pittsburg, Pa.; Chas. Derby,
William McDonald, Virginia City: Missed Elva
Elder, Mcatie Mnger .wi 1 Kate Jarr.ir., Carson ; W.
S. Haskiur, Oakland; Evan David, Carson.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-MORROW.
Kingsley Chapel, M. E. Church,
I. . nth street, between n an 1 I- Rev. Davie;
DtaJ, ; tor. Preaching at 10:45 A. M. and 7:53 _?_. v. .
Sunday-school at 12:40. Praise service at 7 _ck.
Calvary Baptist Church,
I street, between Twelfth and Tbir'.^egtli— Rev. .7
Q. _(-. Henry, pastor. Preaching at 10:45 A. .- '
and 7:30 r. M. Morning snbjro«< •■ >. Mode! Day in
the Hint if the Gospel,''' Evening: "Con
mines in Modern Faith," A. cordial welcome and a
good seat for all w'_, 0 coma.
Westnvlaster Presbyterian Church,
Sixth -.'treet, corner of L— The pastor. Rev. n. H.
"'.'.*, will preach on Sabbath at 10:45 A. M. and
7:30 p. a. Evening subject : "The Dance, the The
ater, Cards and Wine." Strangers aie cordially in
vited.
Congregational Church.
The pastor, Rev. I.E. Dwinell, will preach to
morrow o. onrf-Og and evening, at the Us'-.al houre.
The public arc invited.
Christian Chapel,
Eighth street, between N and — Preaching by
Elder G. B. Kinkade, of Oakland, at 11 a. U. and
7:30 T. K. Sunday-school at 10 A. M. Seats free.
All invited. '- *
M. E. Church South,
Seventh street, between J and X— Rev. T. H. B.
Anderson, pastor. Services at 11 a. M. and '„., Ji. M
Subjects— : " faith, Hope and Charity."
Evening : " Paradise Shut, Guarded and Ko-opencd."
Sabbath-school at 12:30 P. M. Seats free, and a cor
dial invitation to all.
First Baptist Church,
Ninth street, between L and -A. J. Frost, D. D.,
pastor— Preaching at 10:45 A. M. and at 7 P. M.
Evenine subject: "The Unequal 1.c." a seimon
to husbands and wives, and to those liable to be.
A cordial invitation to all.
Pioneer Eall.
Mrs. P. W. Stevens will lecture in Pioneer Hal
Sunday evening, September 18th, at 7:30 o'clcck.
Her subject, will be: ''The Apparent and tbi
Real.";
SUPERIOR COURT.
Department Onk— Clark, Judge.
Friday, September 16, ISSI.
The People vi Charles Cook, convicted of abduc
tion—Motion for a new trial by counsel for defend
ant ar^iod and taken trader advisement until next
Monday at 3 p. m. ,y. ':'',:.- v "
TT";:" Department Two— Denson, Jcd-c.
Margaret M. C. Held vs. James Reid— Case con
tinued, upon motion of plaintiff, until next s nfan.
Emma LuebbriuK \«._ John Luebbnng— Decree r.i
divorce in favor ot plaintiff, by reason oi failure to
provide.
M. M. Odell <t al. v.-i. H. Wilson et Motion of
defendant for nonsuit overrated ; case partially tried
and continued until next Monday for argument.
Court adjourned.
TO-DAy's CALKNDAU.
ITirech vs. Sperry. ' , " ' TT"
Tiie People vs. Louis Hansche, information for ah.
due ion. :■:.■■■■
Charles vs. Swift. . ,--..■".,-
These cases are all so in Department No. 1.
.. The New Route to Placerville.— En
gineer J. C. Pierson, of this city, has com
pleted the survey of the new railroad line
between Folsom and Placerville, upon which
he has been engaged with a corps of men for
the past two mouths. Mr. Pierson reports
that he found and established a. very favor
able route, starling oat from Pol on, by way
of the State j Prison and following the north
sido of the divide between the American and
Cosumnes rivers to Placerville. The entire
line by this route is but about thirty miles
or eight miles shorter than the Shingle Springs
route would be if computed. The grades are
also comparatively light, the maximum being
90 feet to the mile, whereas there are grades
upon the Shingle Springs route of about 120
feet per mile. The report of the engineer
shows the mule to be thoroughly practicable
and comparatively easy of construction.
There would be but one truss bridge in the
entir; autance, t and ;• no long trestles The
line passes through a fine agricultural and
fruit region along the | whole distance, and
there is also an abundance of timber The
company have the report of ! the engineer
under advisement.
/The 1 Keveshe 1 Case.— A 1 judgment for
So, 158, the fall amount prayed for, was ren
dered Thursday for the Government by the
jury before Judge Hoffman, sitting as a Cir
cuit Judge at San Francisco, in the j case of
the United [ State's^ vs. I Alfred Briggs, who
held the ofhee of Internal Revenue Collector
and Disbursing Agent of the Sacramento
district from 1866 to 1871. The action wan
to recover a total of overcharges in his ac
counts by allowing the difference in the value
of greenbacks and coin when making pay
ments, :! and : charging the Government for
taking money; from ' his *",' office in this
city: to - San -Francisco, 1 and from As
sessors i< in his T district ', to ' his ■-„ office.
The case went off on law : points, • the jury
being instructed by Judge Hoffman to render
the verdict it did. The jurors desired to give
a verdict for tbe defendant, and so expressed
themselves orally, and by the wording of the
verdict. _„ . • . ,;■ -„.;-..;._
.;■.-' House .Burned and Man ', Killed.—
formation was received in the city yesterday
that a residence between Ten-mile House and
the Cosumnes was . burned ; night before last
The. owner of = the place was caught in the
burning building and | killed, but his I name
could not be ascertained. % He was said to bo
Englishman. The Coroner | has gone to
hold -an inquest, but bad not returned last
evening. * *