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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada Daily Transcript (1863-1868)

May 21, 1869 (4 pages)

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ve yA RIDAY, MAY a1, » 1809, MENTS TO Onn ‘FICE.—The . WwW 6 are most clamorous in denun= ‘ciation st the Administration on ac» : " wheawane snobt bitter in. opposition to. the Civil Service bill, providing for competitive’ examinations before appointments, That there have been some bad appointments cannot be denied,and such will be the.¢ase-sg long us the present system exists. Tliose who have the appointing power mostly rely upon . the recommendations of Senators, and ag they haves greater influence, they are directly responsible for the eharacter-of. the appoiatmente,-with very “few. exceptions, Grant declared at the outset that he would only appoint men to were well qualified, and that when he: found that he was mistaken in ed, he would not hesitate to remove his own appointees. This he Ite y done in several instances, “and % we are satisfied that he will endeavor faithfully to keep-his pledges.— But in the absence of any system by which the Adr istration can be satisfied of the qualifications of. applicants, he must in many instances rely entirely upon the recommendation of others. In thig,State, ‘Cole, by virtue of his position as Senator, has most influence, and nearly all appointn been suggested by him. “He has abused grossly the power he possessed, and in many cases imposed unworthy men uphe.government and the people.— vil will lust: 60 long as men of ‘nel how to use, and who are not act tuated i by any motive but selfishness, The way to disarm such men is to adopt a system by which the qualifications of ‘applicants for offices of government may be definitely known to tlidse who have . — to appoint. , Intelligent and thoughtfal men vent: . ide the fact that the epidemic for office hunting which sweeps over the nation few. years, is sopping the public virtue, and.that the positions are being . degraded to mere crumbs which are thrown to hungry parties by unprincipled Senators as a bid for continuance in office. This system, so_long as it best st intentions of the President and the “heads of the ‘Departments in their endeavors to secure honest-and compe officers. Good men are rejected and —badenes appointed, because the lator can be bought and this is particular is the , and the Civil Service by Jenckes adopted, Then men, well qualified, will obtain witions under government. “4 “Tae Srruation.—The mine ‘owners in Francisco are not idle, ‘says the Grasé Valley Union, but are determined as.over to work their property as they pleageand with whatever means they may Choose. It is understoud that the owners of the NorthS tar and Empire positively instructed “the Superintend. enté to keep the mines as they are, until such tittt® as men can be found who will-work according to directions. The Superintendents are making efforts to find men who vork, and as is right and proper, offering the first chance to miners already here. The Empire advertises that one hundred single hand drillers are wanted, and if they are not forthceming seon from among our own miners, they will be" brought from ather places. Curisty’s Minstrels are performing in South Africa. They travel about in a coach of their own, with four horses, going seventy miles aday. The great inconvenience they meet is that they have no halls to play in. People come . many miles to see their sixteen-sheet colored posters, Mr. LAYARD, the Ninevite explorer, now a member of the Gladstone Admin. istration was married a few days ago in London. Mr. ayard must be over fifty yeatsof age. His hair and beard have long been gray. Memphis, and promi x A Chanps ron. Woukisin—‘Thoso ‘who are peneiog use of giant pow-. have reluied-to: work with’ either, have ample opportunity to get work. they can also do it in their own , has an account of # battle fought near Puerto Principe between . the’ ‘Cubans and Spanish. The ‘bel . The forées numbered four thousand in the beginning of the action, but they were ‘The workmen are not dependent upon ‘mine Owners ‘for employment. “ Many . of them marine up some inate and ize joint stock companies, each man putting ina share of working capital and they can get hold of a number of first rate mines, which they can work in their own way and employ their as sociates who have no capital. A gentleman who ought to be posted, informs us that a number of the strikers have a little capita], and that if a few will unite they can get a chance to work.in their-own--way; The Penhisylvania good, and there are many as good in the vicinity of Grass Valley:. Suppose members of the League should organize into a small company, take hold of one of these idle mines and work it.— They then being proprietors might work in their own way, giving employment to their associates and securing a profit for themselves, No doubt a score of men are inthe League who have sufficient capital to get hold of these mines and take outa crushing. . In this way theywill be able to demonstrate that their manner of working is the best, they will. be képt employed, and even if they should get “busted,” they will have the consciousness that the money was spent in‘an effort to develop the resources, instead of opposing the industrial interests of the community in which they live. There is ‘ample field if these strikers, instead of passing resolutions and striking against employers, would strike out for themselves and endeavér to find and work new-mines. Let the Leaguers ‘show themselves to be men, and abandoning the foolish attempt to control other's business, prove their capability of cartying og basines themesives. MapaME Barnaid, a traveling dresser, who has been sheering the heads of a large number.of ladies in the villages between Hemboldt and g to return their e shape of beautiful silken tresses in braids, brac , &., is non est. A liberal reward is offered for her apprehension ’ A Sunday night reception given recently*by the President of the French Senate, was brilliantly attended and festive, notwithstanding the fact that dancing done, Rev. Mr, Bross is’ an Episcopal clergyman of Indiana, who has been tried by an ecclesiastical court and sentenced . to be admonished by the Bishop, for having gone to see the “Black Crook.” LrBERIA-has reason to be disgusted with Grant. Accustomed, hfmeelf, to smoke nothing worse than the~ most peerless principes, or the most inajestic meerschaums, he puts off the African: volony with colored Clay. “oo A PAPER mil) at Bellows Falls, Vermont, has been leased for ten years, at, $200 a year, in gold. The lessces.are going to make paper out of poplar wood. ALGERIA being menaced by locusts, the-government has offered $100 “for every 200 pounds of their eggs.° eggs will-be-crushed and buried with quicklime. Ericsson, the inventor, has received in Sweden a cup bearing the inscription, “To the noblest representative Scandinavian ever had in the United States.” IMMENSE quantities of bat guano have been found on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. It is believed to be superior to the Peruuian guano, ‘ JaMEs Stark, tragedian, is very ill at Virginia City, of paralysis. _He is not able tospeak, but retains his senses,and has ne use of his right side. THE Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows . for the State of Oregon is in session at r Salem. ° mine and the old. Gold Tunnel are both These réinforced ‘by fresh arrivals and by a battalion of negroes who deserted from the Spanish to, the rebels daring . the . sada, eho commanded the rebels, por a force of seven thousand, yhile General Lesca, who commanded The Spanish, had but three thousand and five hundred. The Spanish were very badly whipped, and in their forced retreat, lost their baggage, ammunition, and part of their artillery. They also Jost a number of their best officers. ~ This victory has elated the Cabans and demonstrated to the Spaniards that they can-_not-rely upon the colored troops to .
fight for their cause. CHINnAMAN SHoT—The Truckee Tribune says: “On Taoesday night a young man by the name of McMillen shot a below town. The Chinaman assérts that McMillan attempted -to rob him and his companion, and that when they resisted McMillan shot him. The young man on the other hand asserts]similar charges—against—the—Chinaman.—He says they tried to rob him and he fired and shot the Chinaman.” We learn that McMillan was examined on Wednesday and the evidence being insufficient to warrant his being held, he was discharged. —— CALIFORNIA WHEAT IN IN GEore1a.— A correspondent-of the Zimes, writing February 28th, says: y “A few days ago, observing an, uwusual crowd around the railroad depot in this city, I inquired the canse, and-was+} told that a cargo of Culifornia wheat had just arrived, which had been purchased by Clark & Sons—one of the largest milling firms in the State—and a crowd had assembled to’ witness extraordinary occurrence—the arri. . val of Californis, wheat to make Georgia baie bread. “Talk about revolutions, sir,” said an old inhabitant, evidently excited by the event and the concourse of people, “if any body had told me twenty years ago, when we were doing a lively business shipping Southern flour to the mines of California, and getting A Barn 1 IN "Sons. <ithe Tniom of! Chinaman through the shoulder, just . from Augusta, Georgia, under date of} . ~ Raroap Eanstnes—The earnings CRAWFORD & eo, ae eee that T should live to see an Augdsta mill grinding California wheat into flour for our people, I should have regarded him as crazy., But I have seen strange sights in my time and this is not the leastof them. Sub“dancing in--mourning was the only +-sequently I made inquiry of the miller as to the success of their enterprise, and they told me that every punce of flour was sold(pardon the bull) before the mill had ground one third ofit, that the venture was most profitable, and that the customers, like Oliver Twists were all “asking for more.” ta reel Froy late railroad statistics called out by the completion of the continéntal railroad, we learn that there are, inthe United States, 52,500 miles of railway track, including double track and ‘sidings. The Iron and Steel Association estimate the wear and tear of tracks at seven per cent, perannum—taking the average ofall the roads together. From . this it appears that it requires the enor. mous quantity of 838,750 tons of iron to make good the yearly destruction and replace the worn-out rails. The mag“nitude of this amount of iron will be bet. terunderstood when it is stated that 338,750 tons of rails will lay 3,670 miles of track, allowing 90 tons to the mile. The length of railway from New York to San Franciseo is 3,300-miles. It, therefore, requires for thé mére renewal of rails on the railroads of the United . States as much iron as is needed to lay a track from New Yorkto San Francisco. “A TRANSLATION of the Mneid which Bismarck made twenty-six years ago, is only now to be published, on the principles, probably, of Lord Derby,that a writer’s success in politics will float his demerits i in literature. —_ A Fast TRaIn.— George Francis 4 arrived in. Sacramento. overland Wednesday, wernn praia ee ding We. 285, Railroad for the . bef aed 28th, were $1,037,472.) DEALERS Pe Ja E x of. this road is three oe =— dred and sixty miles,including the mai 5 ine to the Iowa State line,and the west: H E A AV Y A ND SH HI will pas a@. branch from Maberly to Kansas-City-}hight Hit is also operating twoor three short = pepe intersecting: roads, which increase the HARDY ARE, 2 re 2 wnt hundred} — ae [and 1 nine. The liabilities sof the road on [TRON . ear aree biiitie ‘capital stock, $7,781,000; first mortgage, . their fi $6,000,000; second mortgage, “e 000; ond pens total, $17,781,000. ‘ . button THE little town of Montaban, in STEEL, larger France, tas suddenty become famous, << or infamous, rather. _ Eight of its . , peronge a aven women have been found guilty of ProPOW D ER,. = = curing abortion, and one other woman ive t of haying murdered nine infants, given F USE, bis oat ese time to time to nurse. \ = ae _ QuIcksizver,. a A GRINDSTONE, which was sent to ae England in a bale of cotton, has come ee 2 , back to the same ‘plantation in a cask CANVAS HOSE, iu and ¥ of sugar. : A coNney = and ae parties L. B. Mizner,. President pro tem. of ok . and co the last Siate Senate, declines being a ee ’ false p candidate for re-election to that body. oS IRON PIPE tenced ir © Ah Hu -FrRaNnxk Vaughn, shot and killed E. 2s ‘Mode to order. before . Larkins at. Oregon City, on the 17th e By the che inst. = an — Ss tenced a z Gent THe New York refineries liave 16= 3 try duced crushed sugars to Aifves nts a AGE N Ts F o nt > >. INSA pound. = i terday iene Tiling, _AGgRmaN philologist predicts that . ALLENWOOD'S “Saas ‘aoe in five centuries the English will be the —— ; eka universal Janiguage, . PATENT: GOOsE NECK. at . ee creagin PRIVATE. CIANT pow! DE :R, Bie oy LL ti EE. F.8 ill be esi gn tes por poeta fos'hy Spans & Co, ~-AND— , be: ‘he owners of outlawed accounts, (there . \ . = ies Seema him off are many,) are en to. call-and obtain ee 7 mene ; — sy sreNck . FURTH’S GAST STEEL. an NOTICE. NO. 48 PINE: SeREN ; ae ae KIDD'S BLOCK, a twin : ; NEVADA i — M’ H NOVITSEY hie withdrawn from} _ ia re sacar ba _wits’cei NOVITSKY & SON, . i NEW INVOICE OF ~ ckpons The business will be continued by” MEDICINES . Ske <q ed ove Chas. Nathan & Samuel Novitsky ban i beara they’ hi oS ~~) } PAINTS, O18 AND VARNISH. ‘elt Under the firm name of . Toilet Articles, mit-of' Bis: FLAVORING EXTRACTS : ‘ . . ie it raime NATHAN & NOVITSKY. ARDEN SEEDS, Sc, just received by . the oil _ Nevada, May 18th, 1969, SPENCE & CO, / : locality ~~ to the: ANNUAL : : Pa fruit tr is i ay DaM TARGET EXCURSION! ART NORGE + Leet A . mown Sa Everybody from Nevada County Me Nevada Light Guard -Attention. should buy their aa ney t@ PICTURES ! 23 hel: < YOU are bor by ord ordered to appear at ; materis peur Armory, IN FULL UNL ‘ORM, ‘4 —AND— crops, SATURDAY, ig santo PICTURE FRAMES! Pus At 1 o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of at= Bag — the Annual Target Excursion of the PROM ones. y. n Every member i ted ‘to bd Crucke promptly at the hour paaed ‘By Notes sgsesss CU R Ri ER & WINTER * : . . Gast Comte cndite. 211 Kearney Street, ,_ ta J. F. Carr, 0. 8. 3 " This me ELECTION OF OFFICcERs, . }~ eS Se lavoy fi Headquarters Fourth Brigade, California x« . Because they have the best selectwasupy tional Guard, ina’ z 18 one « Special Order acramento, pril 3nd; 1860. ed stock of Pictures and Lagant a specter te ant intend endonienes nes test styles of Frames that w Lig hry seueras zd 6d. oe he Nevada ; its wor & ra, un a 2 ; to ill the vacansi s that will Seiee by the 1D use. and ut *Tajor Boab will codes aay eumbents. . San-Francisco, April 16th, concets said election according to law and report pro“ stitch i ce gs to these h a th . Y. Brig Gen'l "LJostan Ho i l — W. W. Anderson. Asst. Adj. Gen. ath Brig. JA c ° » aae sé ‘ m : $ aes In accordance with ice : tion will be held at he oni ender ter Le : ile 7 mirabh Saturday, May 29th, 1869. . : .% ad at half past 1 o'clock j place a Comthiseloned Officers of Fie Soil oa sy ra : sewing ILLIAM NEW MEAT MARKET, examir Ww HOLM . On , ae calling MANTAGORER ARD DRALER IN COMMERCIAL STREET, ast MABNESS, SAD ES, &., &c, Opposite Bliven & Potter's. Pine st a) * N F, & of ae pS OTN TAUUSDAY, MAY iach. THe I) H APRESS a Tug Wagon, and Trotting . 5 ao oa te sult hie ‘costeuuiie a vg formal “GOLA ee EO TRIMMINGS, nvites his old customers and as many new rand alle RS, WHIPS “e— will, on pine call and guarantees to THE wen all kinds and CUSTOM is comy WORK sur and _— wath we hand. —. rysville