Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 38, Number 5894, 16 February 1870 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Sentiment in Nevada on the Immigrant Scheme. — Nevada Transcript of February loth has the subjoined sensible remarks on the new immigrant project: Many thought that the Immigrant Union's scheme of j getting $300,000 of the people's money was dead, and I the association gave color of truth to this opinion by reI solving that, the project might as well be given up ; but | recent events have demonstrated the friends of the bill were only waiting to recover from the blow given the project by the press and people, for an opportunity to make another attack upon the treasury. A twenty-six page pamphlet has been issued, in which the Union endeavors to show that the opposition to the scheme is trifling, and that no good reason has been given why the Legislature should not pass the bill. This statement is backed by a number of extracts, nearly all of which were published before the draft of the bill ■ proposed bythe Immigrant Union. If our memory serves, we do not think the scheme was advocated after the bill was published, by more than one paper in the State. The merits of the measure have already been thoroughly canvassed, and a less expensive substitute has been suggested by us, and we do not propose again to go over tbe same ground. The people are clearly opposed to a scheme for the creation of officers who should be paid in the aggregate $100,000 a year from the State Treasury, as well as the maintenance by the State of a diplomatic corps abroad worthy of a small Republic. The Legislature has already projects for enlarging the number of officers far beyond the needs of the public service, and all these are to be maintained at public cost. The first work should be to so amend our laws that the people now in the State may be relieved of oppression and unjust taxation. Well adjusted codes and a prosperous population, with abundance of work and growing resources, will do more to bring population than all the money that could be absorbed by the Immigration Union in twenty years. . — : * — >_ — ; — : The Courts and Newspapers. — Commenting on Mandeville's Litigant bill the Grass Valley Union remarks : The Nevada Transcript of Sunday morning contains a correspondence between Its proprietors and George K. Farquhar, County Clerk, in relation to the matter. Farquhar, in reply to a question of Brown A Deal, says of Judge McFariand's course in this matter, that Judge McFarland did allow attorneys to bestow their patronage wherever they saw fit, without distinction of party. The Transcript refers, also, to all tinDemocratic lawyers of the county in substantiation of its statements. Our recollection of the matter is that Grass Valley lawyers, as a rule, had their publications made in Grass Valley papers; and Nevada City lawyers had theirs made In Nevada City papers. The Democratic lawyers of Nevada City seemed in the past to have Ignored politics in dispensing their patronage, and to have regarded locality entirely. ' We recollect no instance of a Nevada City Democratic lawyer throwing any sop to a Democratic newspaper. We mention this fact to show that the Nevada City Democratic lawyers cannot be in favor of the Mandeville bill. Judge Reardau, as a lawyer, never practiced, when he had a right to do so, the course that bill would compel him to practice. It is said that the Mandeville bill has failed In the Democratic caucus, and if so we doubt not that the lawyers in the caucus opposed that scheme which deprived them of their rights. « Butterworth vs. Mayor Selby. — S. F. Butterworth published a card in Monday's Examiner, in which he took occasion to insult Mayor Selby. The alleged provocation for the insult was that the Mayor had said the Democratic party "were banded together by corruptionists and unprincipled speculators." We do not know when or where Selby made this remark, if at all, or how it was applied or qualified. But if it alluded to the Democratic party in San Francisco, not all the protests of S. F. Butterworth can convince the intelligent public of its untruth; and we think the Mayor merits a compliment for the timely discovery and the frankness with which he has expressed his opinion on the subject. » Immigration.— The San Francisco CaU of February 15th has the following : Persons are still at work in Sacramento striving to arrange an immigration bill which will give several profitable offices to the chief managers. The people do not believe in being taxed for such a purpose, and as for immigration, the best way to promote it Is to furnish employment to persons who are already here! , It is not so easily seen how the inhabitants of California would be benefited by promiscuous and crowded immigration from Europe. Suppose labor could be made as low in San Francisco ' as in London ■or Paris ; where would be the advantage? We might commence a few manufacturing establishments a little sooner than under ordinary circumstances, but shall we not lose more than the gain ■._:. — ; ♦ — — . — — : "y Punctuation. The importance of care in punctuation is well illustrated by the following quotation, verbatim et literatim et punduatim, from the official report of Dr. Taliaferro, Visiting Physician of the State Prison, to the State Prison Directors : I must' put in here a good word for tcetotalism, and say that perhaps the good sanitary condition of the prison is due more to total abstinence than to any other cause, with the exception of the mumps, during the months of January and February last ; we have been most luckily free of all epidemics ; most fortunate were we in escaping the small pox during its fearful visitation of this State. -.". ..AA. A : -A .A-"''. ■ By placing a semi-colon after the word " cause" and a comma after the word " last," quite a different meaning will be given to the sentence. ■~ " ; — ~~— — ~* : — : ■ '■- Scarlet Fever.— The Nevada Transcript thus refers to the progress of this disease in its county : ''■■-, ''A A number of cases of this disease have ■■ occurred in this county. On the ridge and at Grass Valley the epidemic was severe, but in Nevada : it '. was ; much milder, ] At San Juan one ; physician ■ has one hundred I cases! Quite a number of children in this city have it at the present time.

Prize Fighter. Shot.— The San .Francisco I Bulletin of February loth relates the following : About two o'clock a. si., to-day, W. P. O'Riley, who fought Cannon in ' Marin county, a few months' ago, went into the Hibcrnla House, on Davis street, and asked permission of the proprietor, John Murray, to leave a valise there. As he did not desire lodging for himself, Murray refused to take charge of his valise. O'Kiley thereupon became abusive, and Murray went to the office of the Harbor Police, and officer Burns went to the house. O'Riley was there, and burns advised Murray to put the valise behind the bar. He did so, and the fighter seemed satisfied. Shortly before six o'clock this morning he went to Murray and awaking him demanded a drink of whisky. It was given him. He then continued a tirade of abuse against a man named Murray, who keeps a sailor boarding-house on the opposite side of the street, and said he could whip any man of the same name. Murray said he was no fighter and wanted no trouble with him. O'Riley, with an oath, seized a glass tumbler and hurled it at Murray's head. He dodged, and O'Riley threw more tumblers. ." Murray ordered him to desist, but as he continued the assault, Murray drew a live-shooting revolver and fired once at his assailant. The ball took effect in his right cheek, and inflicted a very severe and painful wound. As soon as he was shot, a man rushed in and by shoving O'Riley out of the house, prevented him from being shot again. Officers Devlin and Bums were soon on the ground. O'Riley, though wounded badly, tried hard to get back Into the house, but Boms held him. Devlin went in and asked Murray if he fired the shot. He replied that he did, and gave up the weapon. He was taken to the station-house and the officers conveyed the wounded man to the hospital. The surgeon who attended him states that his wound is not a dangerous one. yy- - '„ ♦- ! — The Hall and Garrison Claim.— Marysville Appeal of February 14th says : It is said that Hall and Garrison have no interest in the bill which the Governor vetoed, they having sold out long ago ! We are glad that some fellow has been bitten. immmm — mm^mtmm — — — i^— — — a— b^^m