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THIS MORNING'S NEWS.

In New York Government bonds are quoted at lis lor 4s of 1907 ; 11 .}; for 4Js ; 100? forltN ;*■ r. Hag, tl EBHH 801 : **« bars, 114 J.

Silver in Loudon, B21; consols, 100 11-10.1; 5 per rent. United State* bonds, extended, 103! ; 4a, 11D}; <■.■. Oil Pi Pri.-i

In Rn-i Francisoo half dollars arc quoted at J discount to par ; Mexican dollars, SO J 3801 .

Mining stocks were net so firm in San Francisco yesterday, and there was lets business. Sierra Nevada showed a decline of SI, and most other Comstoeks were from r»^ to 75c lower than they were Tuesdayi

Incendiary fire near William?, Colusa county. A discovery of dynamite cartridges Ii is been made in the Custom-house at Limerick, Ireland.

The Circuit Court at Chicago decides that deposits in the hands of private bankers arc taxable.

Two notorious and successful count, rreiters have been arrested at Belle Plain, Pa. • - At Cincinnati during the winter of ISSI to date, 2,aSJ,S7Shoss were packed.

In an unsuccessful attempt to force a pass 13c of the river Drina, Saturday, an Austrian force lost 200 men. .'-..■

The will of Charles .Albert Rea<\f, of Newton, Mass., gives O.COO i .wards 11. reduction of the national debt.

The water at Cairn, 111., is tailing, and the levees still hold firm.

Fire at Greenbush, N. V.; also at Suuol, Alameda county.

A terrific cyclone struck Valley Mills, Texas, Tuesday nigU, almost completely destroying the town.

In an accident on the Chicago, Burlington and Quiccy Railroad ycs'crdjy, a fireman was killed and a motive and four freight cars wrecked.

Atlioogmont, Co., Tuesday night, a man named Berry shot and danger >ns!y wounded Willis l'ullain.

A Democrat was elected to succeed Wagner in the New Fork State Scale, Stanford being defeated by about 1,000 majority. The district has heretofore been strongly Republican.

Polk Wells ai d Bill N..rri3, the cap'.ur. d train robbers, attempted lo escape from the officers while en route to Hivcrton, la., and ware both. mortally wounded.

The Mississippi at Like Providence, La , is higher than ever known before

The testimony in the Mason Court-martial at "Washington has closed, and tin? argument begins to-day.

A nitroglycerine explosion near Bolivar, N. V., Tuesday-night, killed two men and two horsss, and converted a wagon into kindling w00d.:.. : 'v

The English House of Commons— 2oß to 20- has declared the election of Michael Davit void.

fudge F. W. Cole, a prominent Nevada lawyer, yesterday challenged IL I. Foley to fi^l.t a duel, hut the Utter declined.

One of the Chinese Camp stage robbers recently captured by Crtptain Aull lias confessed bis guilt at Sonora, Tuolumne county.

The steamer Oceanic arrived at San Franciico yesterday from China an.l Japan, bringing Hongkong advices to February G.li and Yokohama i.ews to February Hth.

A collision occurred en the Southern Pacific near Maricopa, A. T., Tuesday night, hot ween a passenger and freight train, but no one was injured.

A serious strike of laborers is in progress at Omaha.

The Tonto Apaches recently massacred two Morni'itis, a unman and her daughter, in Arizona.

The loss four fishing schooners on the Massachusetts coast made 2.: widows and C 2 orphans.

The speech of Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, in opposition to tiie Chinese immigration bill will be found in our columns this morning.

SENATOR MILLER'S SPEECH.

Senator Miller's speech on the antiChinese bill appears to have been a very well-digested summary of the staple arguments against that class of immigration, though we ob?erve in his general line some defects which are liable to seem graver at the East than here. The difficulty of dealing with the Chinese question at Washington consists largely in the danger of saying too much, and Senator Miller has not altogether escaped this temptation. Of course the object sought is (o convince a community possessing no practical knowledge of the subject, that it is necessary, in .the case of the Chinese, to adopt a policy -which conflicts most hopelessly with the traditional American theory. There is therefore a strong antecedent prejudice against the prohibitory legislation, and to remove this prejudice it is requisite to make a very clear and strong case against the Chinaman. Now the California Congressmen have all felt this, but in trying to fulfill the requirement they have unfortunately so piled up denunciations and accusations upon ths Chinaman as to produce a positively unthinkable

being, contemplation of whose contradictory and anomalous attributes only bewilders the Eastern mind. For instance, we could, from Senator Miller's speech, easily construct a picture of the Chinese in California which would be Been to represent them as an utterly uncivilized and tincivilizible race, but nevertheless possessed of an almost perfect social organism ; incapable of self-government, yet everywhere establishing an imperivm in imperii ; destitute of culture and of science, yet clingicg with unequalled perseverance to their own civilization ; inferior in all things to the Anglo-Saxon, yet defeating the latter whenever the two encounter; in short such a strange compound of incompatible qualities that the Eastern public might be excused if they failed to comprehend the puzzle. We have before pointed cut that this kind of caricature is the result of reluctance to cay anything good of the obnoxious race. This reluctance, however, is unphilosop'.iical, for it is really by demonstrating tho potentialities of the Chinamen that we can most quickly and cocclusively shew the necessity of excluding him. It is not because we think him incipible that we are afraid of . him. It is because we know that he is very capable, and ia almost all directions. Genera! Miller, however, is right in dwelling upon the alien disposition of the Chinese. It is rot the fact that they are incapable of self-government, but they have no sympathy with American governmental theories, m far at can be ascertained. We lav* always believed the very strongest argument against their admission to bo the fact that they carry China with them wherever they go, and never become absorbed in alien civilizations. That circumstance cscertained, aud their capacity granted, it follows inevitably that {be substitution of Chinese for AngloSaxon civilization on the Pacific coast would be only a question of time if no limit was set to Mongolian immigration. It seems however probable that an antiChinese bill -rill pass Congress this session.

The Supremo Court has decided that the came of the owner of property stolen is not a material part of the offense to be stated. It is only required to identify the transaction so that the defendant, by proper plei, may protect himself agaicst a second charge. The owner in this case went by two namta. An owner may have a name by reputation, and if it is proved he is better known by that than by another, the charge in the information by that came is sufficient. :'

A NEW CLAIM . FOR PROTECTION.

. The San Franciico • Chronicle', has '■_ apparently undertaken to convince its readers that the Tariff is, in p its own language, " the natural foe of monopoly." As this is a literary enterprise equivalent to the making proof that 'things' which are equal to themselves are not equal to one another, we venture to predict its failure at •an early stage of the experiment. The purpose of the Chronicle is to hoodwink the farmers of California, and to ciuse them to waste energy and time in pursuing phan-

Toms, wuile the real and substantial evils

which affect them most nearly continue untouched. But there is no sophist on this coast sufficiently ingenious to maintain our contemporary's thesis, which has the misfortune cf being absurd on its face. And to demonstrate its absurdity it is only needful to define Protection to home industry. It is the exclusion of foreign products by taxation, for the purpose of enabling domestic manufacturers to charge abncimal rates for inferior articles. The right of every freeman to buy in the cheapest market is one of those obvious verities which ought to belong in the category of constitutional heritages.. The right of the Government to interfere with this freedom of purchase could neve* in this country be claimed save on the plea of a paramount necessity. - When the Morrill tariff was enacted that necessity existed. A revenue had to be raised for the defense of tbe Union, and it mattered little what injury was done to commerce for the time being. But since the close of the rebellion the whole fabric of Protection ha-) rested upon a pttilio principii, and it is becoming clearer every year that it no longer possesses any real justification for existence.

Protection, from its nature, operates to create monopolies. It ecu do nothing else. It has in the United States built up a series of the- most greedy and rapacious of them. We may instance the Quinine Monopoly, which was only broken down last year after a tremendous fight. In that case two firms secured a monopoly of the immense quinine supply of the country, and they became immensely wealthy by taxing the medecine of the poor, the remedy of the frontiersman, the invaluable specific of all dwellers in valleys and newly-opened agricultural regions. Every draught of this drug bad to pay tribute to these two Pennsylvania firms before it could be availed of to restore health and preserve life. Yet the Chronicle impudently asserts that the Tariff is "the natural foe of monopoly." Again, the iron and steel trade have been erected into monopolies by the same nefarious agency. The steel-rail makers a short time ago held a meeting, estimated the public demand for the ensuing year, and their own productive capacity, and then deliberately agreed that about half their number should close down and remain idle, to the end that a higher price should be obtained for the output of the working furnaces. Of course the idle furnaces were to be paid for doing nothing, though it is to be noted that in these cases the workingmen are discharged, and it isthe owners only who share the profits. But this costly and wasteful arrangement was possible and profitable because the steel and iron makers have a monopoly of the business, and because they can make their customers pay all their expenses. Here is another pregrant refutation of the Citronicles ridiculous , assertion that the Tariff "is the natural foe of monopoly.'' But it is really not worth while to deal seriously with so preposterous a statement, for no intelligent Protectionist would have even dreamed of making such a claim. That a protective tariff fosters monopoly is one of those self-evident facts which cannot be denied without dishonesty, and if it is necessary to make so outrageous a claim in order to persuade the farmers that they ought to favor Protection, the very fact shows that the policy is a hopeless one. There is indeed no cla;s, save the workingmen, upon which the Tariff entails so much injustice and wrong, as the agricultural class. Deprived as the farmers are of everything in the shape of protection for the products of their toil, they are made to pay heavily in order to bolster up industries which have for years been drawing these bounties under the most fraudulent of false pretenses. And the argument that a protective tariff is as good a way as any other to raise the necessary revenue is utterly false. There is no fiscal system so wasteful, extravagant and ineffective as a protective tariff, and it possesses the peculiar demerit of fleecing the taxpayer twice as much for the benefit of individuals as it does for the benefit of the Government. That is to say, that a protective tariff robs the producers of thousands of millions, in collecting hundreds of millions for the Government. Nor is it possible to show wherein the farmer gains the slightest advantage in return for this constant injury. Kurope at preeent sustains him, and he in turn supports the manufacturers. But these latter, instead of recognizing their dependence upon him, labor to cut down and appropriate his earnings, by methods which differ in no sense, as regards ethical principle*, from highway robbery. The. Tariff is a system which aims at enabling industries which could not subsist on their own merits, to grow up, by letting them charge high prices. If the farmers who have failed to cultivate the lands on the west aide of the San Joaquin were to demand the privilege of selling what little wheat they can raise, at live times the market price, they would be justified on Protectionist principles, and that would be Protection. The Tariff has undertaken to stimulate production by high prices when otherwise it could not have been kept up. That is, it has sought to divert capital from natural and paying businesses into those which did not pay ; and in order to make believe that they paid, money has been taken out of one of the country's pockets and put into the other. The farmer has nothing in common with this system. It is his deadliest enemy. It plunders him at every turn. It reduces the value of his land, the proceeds of his harvest. It makes him pay the enormous bills which the Bessemer steel men charge for steel rails. Last }esr the American farmer was taxed *1 1,000,000 for that single item. It makes him pay, fit only the nominal amount of the tax upon each item, but all the multifarious burdens imposed by reason of the enhanced cost of the " pro- " tccted " article. He pays in fact invariably two dollars to the monopolists for every one which finds it way into the national treasury, and therefore when ho finds a paper which pretends to be his particular friend, assuring him that Protaction is " tho natural foe of monopoly,' it need not take him long to make up his mini that the author of this nonsense is trying to pull the wool over his eyes for some reason. /'zff//i.

Lieutenant Hayes, who lost his life with General Custer at the time of j that fearful massacre, left two orphan sisters, who am now in Washington in destitute circuinsUn;e3.

THE STATS LIBRARY.

- The new '-Board'- of State - Library Trustees have strengthened a wholesome precedent in electing Mr. T. H. Wallis Librarian, to succeed Mr. R. O. Cravens. The latter gentleman has held the office ' for many year?, and . he " has , more than once been rescued with difficulty from the ravening jaws of hungry partisans, to whom no [dace is sacred, and who " care neither for experience, special preparation, educational- capacity, or any other thing than the salary of the office. We have ■ often been surprised at the impudence of the many utterly'• incompetent persons who have announced themselves as candidates for State Librarian. Of course "•- the politicians, the "machine" fueu, were always disposed to ignore fitness, and to class the State Library among the other spoils, to be given to some campaign " worker," whether or not he could read. By vigilance and opportune protest, however, these various schemes for degrading the office have been overcome, and we have the satisfaction of knowing that it is to be held by a gentleman who has served a long apprenticeship to his work, who knows the whole Library as thoroughly as Mr. Cravens, and who will \ not have to lose any time in learning the duties of his position. And this is the only way in which the best results can be obtained under such circumstances. Even as it is, Mr. Wallis has not chosen his own assistants, and though we ate confident that he could hardly have made a better selection than Mr. N. E. White, nevertheless the Librarian ought not to be fettered in this connection, seeing that the main responsibility for the condition of the institution rests upon him. This defect, however, belongs to the methods by which State Library Trustees are at present appointed. Experience shows that their selection by the Legislature is not a good plan. It inevitably imports politics into the affair, end it causes the really important considerations to be lost tight of. Ia the present instance indeed there is no ground for complaint. A thoroughly competent Librarian lias been chosen, .and Mr. Cravens can resign the trust be has guarded so faithfully to his successor's hands without misgivings. Mr. Cravens indeed has been so good a Librarian that it was the mora necessary to choose a competent man to take his place. He has raised the State Library to a condition of efficiency as a reference collection at least five times as good as it was when he entered office, aud be has more than doubled the number of books on the shelves. For several years he has been at work on a catalogue, which we understand is now quite or almost completed, and which we hope the next Legislature will direct to bs printed, as in the absence of such a guide the library is at present very much weakened in usefulness, and the demands upon the Librarian are made correspondingly heavy.

THE MUTUAL UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Mr. Gamble gives a very prosperous ac count of this new company, which already owns 30,000 miles of wire, and which is about to build a particularly substantial triple- wire line across the continent, from New York to San Francisco. Mr. Gambia says that his company has no intention of selling out to Jay Gould or any one else. It believes that there is enough business in the country to pay two lines, and it intends to act on that belief. We hope that Mr. Gamble's prediction may prove correct, though the tendency toward consolidation is nowadays so poweiful that it is difficult to believe in the possibility of two rival telegraph companies permanently co-exist-ing. There is moreover oue weak spot in the armor of the Mutual Union, though Mr. Gamble appears to think it a point of extra strength. He says tbat his company, with a capital of less than §8,000,000, proposes to do what the Western Union has invested §50,000,000 in. If that is the case the probability of consolidation is very much greater than might have otherwise appeared. For the Western Union has too much capital embarked to be content with merely half the business of the country, and it has seventy millions more reasons than the Mutual Union can adduce, for wanting to absorb the latter. The press of the country, and particularly that of the Pacific coast, would welcome any condition of things whi:h promised lower rates and better terms and arrangements generally, but of course such arrangements would be of very little benefit unless their permanence could be counted upon.

CONDENSED SAN FRANCISCO NEWS

The Supreme Court has decided that the Superior Court has not jurisdiction of the crime of petit larceny.

. James Forrester, charged with subornation of perjury in the Kalloch case, has been tried and acquitted. Some one Monday night burglarized the rooms of the San Francisco Bar Association and got off with SIS.'! in coin and a lot of liquor and cigars.

Michael Redmond has been held to answer for the murder of John H. Coleman, 70 years of age, by kicking him in the head and fracturing his skull.

The Public Administrator has been appointed special administrator of the estate of Edward A. Bancroft, tho miser, who died of destitution, self-imposed.

During the past week Tax Collector Grady has collected $18,000 on personal property taxes. The payments were small, ranging usually from twenty-five to fifty • jnts. - Vi r -»"V-

In a private garden on Russian Hill can be seen an almond tree, a plum tree and a pear tree, all in full bloom. "■ The almond tree commenced flowering as early as the 10th of January.

The work of cleaning out the city sewers progresses slowly. It is found very difficult to hire men to go into the sewers at $2 per day. Nearly all the sewers south of Fols.om street are of wood, aud have not beep cleaned out for over four years. '/PP/

M. J. Keating, Superintendent of the Alms House, has filed his report for the month of February. Ou January 21st there were . >66 inmates of the institution. During the month of February 20 were discharged, 10 died, 7 ran away and 40 were admitted. The number o"f inmates on hand to-day is 573. v---:-

The police arrested 1,727 persons in this city during the past month, and 262 indigents wete provided with ; lodgings at the City Prison. Of the arrests 749 were made for drunkenness, 12.3 for battery, and 33 for burglary ; 1 13 were arrested lor gambling and 9S for theft ; 3 arrests were made for murder and 22 for attempted murder.

There were 400 patients at the City and County Hospital on January 31, ISS2. During the month of February ; 285 were admitted, '202 discharged cured, 26 dis.ri,'cd improved, 30 died, and 1 was sent to Napa. The number of patients at the institution to day is 420. Daring the month of February there were ten births two males and eight females. T '/ P-iP

Consul Bee has filed a protest with the , Board of Health against the compulsory vaccination of Chinese immigrants, as being in coLtlict with Articles V. and VI. of the treaty with China, and in conflict with the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and with the Civil Rights Act. and that it is not in conformity with any Statute' of the State, and gives tho quarantine officer a power unauthorized by any law, and is not a measure for the protection of the public health.

GENERAL NEWS.

: LA3T MGnr3 DISPATCHES TO THE RECORDUNION*. r /'-////-. /'PP -■_ ■ - ■'■'/■ :'..- ■

: DOMESTIC.

lulled Males Senate. 7 Washington, March — Wisdom's resoi lution from the Committee on, Foreign Relai tions forau investigation ot the lo.es of certain state papers, and to the improper connection of Government officers or members of Congress with claims or grants in connection with the , Governments of : Chile and Peru, was taken up. " yard moved, to amend by adding,--aa a specific subject < f ;ir quiry, the following : "Whether any promise or stipulation, : by which the intervention of the United States in th» controversies existing between Chile rand Pern, or Chile aud' Bolivia, has been expressly or implicitly given by any person or persons officially connected wish tiie Government of the United States, or whether its influence has been in any way exerted, promised or intimated in connecticn with or in relation to said contract?, by anyone officially connected with the Government of the United States." . . ■_ - - _ Bayard's amendment prevailed without objection, and the resolution as amended was adopted. '"/./. . ~ * After the morula? hour the unfinished business—the Chinese bill — was temporarily laid aside for a speech by Voorhees upon the urgency of better accommodations for the library if Congress. : Ac the conclusion of Hoar's speech the Senate adjourned. House or .Representatives. Washington, March Ist.— The following bills were reported : To make Denver a port of delivery ; to provide for the exchange of trade dollars for legal tender dollars, and to stop the coinage of trade dollars. Calendar. Also, adversely, for retiring the trade dollar and for its recoinage into tha standard dollar, and for the redemption of fractional silver coinage. Table. . - ; .ol. li ■:-.'- .Nomina; lon. Washington, March Ist. The Post states positively that Conkling has declined the Associate Justiceship, and suggested Clarence A. Seward for the place. '.-..//: [SECOND DISPATCH.] Washington. March Ist.— Tbe report that Cockling bad declined to tbe President, and signified his desire of the appointment cf Clarence A. Satvard to the Supreme Bench, was printed here to-day, but is not credited. The Senate expects to act upon Conkliny's nomination this afternoon. If Mr. "Conkling has signified his declination to the President, the Senate has not, yet received any notice of tho fac-, hence it is not believed. Several attempts to organize an opposition to Conkling in the Senate have been made, but without success. There wa3 some talk this Ir.ori.ing of Democratic opposition, but the Senators on that sido are evidently not disposed to make any fight. Leading Democratic Senators were advised- that if they c mid get^heir side if the chamber to oppose Conkhngrenough Republicans would join to reject htm, and some ". Democrats tavored such a coalition ; but it seems now to have been abandoned. Conkling has some strong friends among the Democrat?. Voorhies has spoken in his favor, aud Harris, Cockrell and other Democrats are counted among his friends. The present indications are that only two or three votes will b-j cast against him. Bayard, on the Judiciary Committee, declined to report favorably on the nomination, but said he would not make a minority leport against it. Xo Executive Session. Washington, March Ist.— The movement for aa executive session of the Senate to-day was abandoned, owing to the two hours' speech of Hoar carrying the ope^ession beyond the Usual hour of lurnmtnt. Public Debt Statement. Washington, March Ist. — The debt statement shows a decrease of the public debt during February of (9,783,611 ; cash In treasury, 1252,617,648; gold certificates, $5,188,---1:10; silver certiicates. 168,674,480; certificates of deposit, $11,550,00!); refunding certificates, 554G.450 ; legal tenders, $34,668,100 ; fractional currency, $7,005,877 ; caeh balance available, 5155,147,338. - The t'hri.silaiiry Divorce Case. Washington, March Ist. — Counsel for exSenator Christiancy in the divorce case have filed depositions of a large number of persons at Liming, Mich., snd New York city. The depositions from Lansing contain testimony of prominent citizens as to the ex-Senator's habits and his treatment of his wife in the summer of 1877. All agree that he was not under the influence of intoxicating liquor (hiring that time. He was sober in his habits, and kind and considerate in his treatment of his wife and her mother. The depositions from New York city are all in contradiction of tbe statements made by Mrs. Christiancy's witnesses, Charles Goodman and Mary Chamberlayne. serious Strike of laborers. ' - Omaha, March Ist. — somewhat eericus strike is in progress in Omaha among labor-ing-men. It began 'last Monday by about 100 graders striking for SI 50. They were employed by contractor James Stephersao in grading the Burlington and -Missouri freight grounds, and were getting $1 25. They would not let auy one else go to work for $1 25. Thi3 morning they, with 100 other recruits, proceeded to the Burlington and Missouri erounda and drove off tho=e who were working, and threw Stephenson's, tools, scrapers, etc., into a pond of water, and otherwise damaged property. This afternoon the number had i .creased to 300, and they paraded the streets behind a band of music and a banner with " One dollar and seventy -five cents per day " printed on it. They forcibly compelled a targe gang cf men, who were at work on the city sswerage system at $1 50 per day. to quit, and they cruelly pounded three or four who refused to quit. They also stopped a gang of graders on St. Mary's avenue. At one lime a serious riot was imminent, and Mayor Boyd and several policemen had a hand-to-hand fi/ht with them in arresting three of the ringleaders, who were lodged in jail amid great excitement. The Mayor commanded the mob to dispense, which they slowly did. To-morrow morning the sewer men will resume work, and Mayor Boyd will protect them with a large force of special police or militia, if necessary. He will also pn tect all who wish to work for Stephenson, and threatens to make a wholesale arrest of any riotous - assembly. The Flood In Ibe Southwest. ■..-:':■ Cairo (III.), March Ist. The situation has taken a decided change for the better. The Ohio river has fallen three inches md the Mississippi four. The levees still hold firm. Helena (Ark.), March Ist. — The river did not rise here today as expected. Tho water from above began increasing tonight again, and will continue. A big break is reported in the levee jast below Concordia, which occurred yesterday mortiop, and the pec pie are panic-stricken. Four negroes and one white man were drowned. W. Blackburn, of Laconia Circle, arrived to day, and is negotiating for a steamer to remove the stock and people from that fiaodod district. He -says many negroes have been drowned. A number of negroes are starving, and others are feeding on the putrid carcasses of drowned cattle and puch game as can be procured. Whole families are subsisting en half a peck of meal per week. The people of this section are off *riog milch cows at 25 cents per head, as the poor beasts are dying of starvation. Mr. Blackburn will move his family, hands, stock and ail movable effects to a plantation back of Helena till the water subsides. Tha distress all along the river below is unparalleled. News reached the city this 'afternoon that the water in the St. Francis river bottoms, or sunken lands, is rising an inch per hour. This, if true, will put us to thinking bef-re the week has parsed, pr. / j'. r~ -' Vicksbubg, March Ist. — The river is rising slowly. The weather is clear and warm. Very serious breaks have occurred at Con-co^di*,-"Clay,, Wade, Baggot's and Clark's levees, which will put the northern part of Washington and tha bank land of Isaqueia and Sharkey counties under water. A cumber of people were drowned at Riverton, and there is considerable suffering «nd loss of life at other points. Terrific Texas Torcado. Galveston, March Ist.— The Naof Valley Mills special uays : I A Revere cyclone etruck tb:s pl.ee last night, almost completely destroying the town. Only one business h«use is standing. Brinknan's Hotel, a two-story building, wa3 carried some distance . and smashed to pieces. Ten persons were in the building at tie tirtie of the accident, but no lives were lest. . • j.v'iPl Dishonest Employe— ShßOtlns Affair. Denver (Col), March Ist.— Tha Sepublican furnishes the lolloping : . Morris , Noel, who came from Indianapolis two years »go, and has tinea been employed as book-keeper for G- ddings & Wood, cmbt zzled about $8,000 from his employers. -Twelve hundred dollars of the mouey was I paid for a house and 1 it. and a largo portion is still supposed to be in the possession of Noel, who, it is though", is at !l pi COO lit ; in Indianapolis. J., He is ' said to have wealthy relatives, and was ; given until yesterday to rtturn the money, but the house and lot, which was transferred to the firm for $1,400. is all that has been paid. .<* At - Longmont last night, Willis Pullam was shot aud dangerously wounded by a in.in named Barry.* Tho causa was a quarrel at cards. ' r'z'rr z--- — ;.-\ -.-.."'■ - A Bldbop's rancrnl. .:-;-;. Charleston (3. C. ), March Ist.— Tito funeral of Bishop Lynch took place to day.

J*! chbishops_ Gibbons ; : and ; ~ Carnigan, six Bishops and S twenty piiests ?, were -, present. The .vathedral ( was : crowded with mourners-. No faa».."al sermon was preached, in accordance with k.'ie wish of the deceased. /

V Jlwuiiiiup Massacred by ladling. . Denver (Col. \ March ' Ist.— The Tritium says : Thomas Malheson, a | Mormon of St. George, Utah, arrived here to-c'ay . from a tiip through < Arizona, and ' reports that his wife, daughter and two | Mormon men were killed by Tonto Apaches near Colorado ChicquiU, ,- in j the '■ T San -: Francisco • mountains. Slatheson ' was oat -hunting several ■ miles from camp when the Indians made the raid. After the massacre the Indians went . south toward Tonto Bay. -

Horrible Instance of limit's Work. 1 Chicago, March let— (Xville B. : Hie, of Labile, 11!., an idle, drunken carpenter, shot his wife because she refused longer to support him, and then killed himself. Five children were found clinging to the woman's body as she lay upon the floor. I She . will probably die. pP : .pTi7/pßallroad Accident.';'-; : «-.; Davespokt (Is.), March Ist.— An accident occurred at Opheiin station, on the Chicago, Burlington and liney Railroad to-day, in which a fireman was killed and four freight cars and a locomotive badly damaged. '.'»■- Destruction by Fire. ....... .Albany '.(tf. V), March Ist.— Ruyter & Son's tannery at Greenbush, and the adjoininn buildings, were Lurked to-day. Loss, $30,000. «;r:iotl Dinner lo "Our Nov Minister to Berlin." Washington, March " UK— Sargent, as " our new Minister to Berlin," was entertained at a grand dinner this evening by exSenator Mitchell. The Cabinet officers, Senators and Representatives, and Supreme Court Justice Field were present. r i-i_. Storm at Sew York. New York, Mirch Ist.— The heavy rainstorm, which set in early this morning, continued with. brief breaks through the day. The wall of a new bui'dirg on One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street was blown over upon the residence of Mr. Juris, and his daughter was fatally injured. Tee storm wes severe along the Hudson, and the ico v:t.s set in mo! ion. :.i

The Connect lent Rlv.rontkc Rampage. Bellows Falls (Vt.), March Ist.— The Connecticut river is rising rapidly. If the weather holds warm, disastrous results are feared. : . .- - v - Vppi-P.P/i'i

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.llj-i.lcrious nisnjipearaiirc Explained. Brussels, March Ist. — A warrant has been issued on a charge of murder against a German merchant named Pelfzer, supposed to be the person who, early ia January, sent a lettar signed " Vaughau " to the judicial authorities here, declaring that he accidently shot Btrnay, a well-know barrister of Antwerp, who had left the latter town on the 7th of January fur Brussels, for the purpose of pleading, but had not thereafter been heard of until the receipt of the letter. Thereupon the apartments designated were visited, and on forcing an entrance the body of Bernajp Was found reclining in an arm-cba<r. Peitz is supposed to have Aid to San Francisco. •

The Condemned Xilil'ikt*. St. Petzesburo, March Ist— Jest before tho Nihilist prisoners were sentenced, Klye-tsnlohr.ikofit struck Mercnloff, who testified against several of the others in the hope of e.-capirg a sentence of death, 6ajing, "Take that from your fellow prisoner*. It is reported that the sentences of death will be commuted to penal servitude. The prisoners sentenced to De hanged were convicted of complicity in the assassination of the Czar. The rest were sentenced to indefinite terms of penal servitude, except Luskig, who.-c term is four years.

- Floods In Canada. Warkwoeth (Got.), March Ist.— Heavy rains have caused a fl.od in Mill river. Considerable damage has occurred to property. St. JaQOCS Aciiigan (Q-atbrc), March lit. Heavy rains have prevailed since early morning. The water is so high that people are movirg their cattle away, and s .me are forsaking their- houses altogether. It is the highest flood ever seen here. ; „'?

MlslELLi\£OIS.

The English Cabinet Council has decided that Footer, Cbirf Secretary for Ireland, .-hould not accept the invitation to appear before the House of Lords committee, to give evidence regarding the working of the Land Ac*. Iv the Circuit Court at Chicago, Judge Tulley has decided that deposits in the hands of private bankers are taxable. The total number of hogs packed it Cincinnati for the winter of 1881 to date was 2,---384,878— decrease of 137,547 from the previous season. '-/-■/■:

An Austrian force from Foca lost 200 men Saturday in an unsuccessful attempt to force the passage of the Drina. A member of the Court-martial at Washington trying Sergeant Mason, said yesterday that the Court will finish the trial to-day. He said that all of the case is that a guard fired at a prisoner he was guarding ; that his guilt is clear and admitted, but he could not say what punishment will be inflicted. The will of Charles Albert Reade, of Newton, Mass., gives §30,000 to the Treasurer of the United States, to be applied to the reduction of the public debt. Dynamite cartridges have been discovered in the Custom-house at Limerick, Ireland. Ira Hunted and B. Toby, two counterfeiters, who have successfully plied their trade for fifteen years, were arrested yesterday at Belle Plain. Pa. The coinage executed at the Mints in February amounted to $9,049,870, of which ■¥2,300,000 was in standard dollars. A London dispatch says that Dr, Carver, the Ameiican, killed 38 birds and Wibster TH',, in a "jO-bird match. The recent loss of four fishing schooners en the Massachusetts coast makes twenty-two widows and sixty-two orphans.

PASSENGER LISTS.

Carlis, March Ist.— Passed here to-day, to arrive in Sacracento to-morrow : Major F. A. Small and wife, U. S. A.; 11. H. Johnson and wife, Trenton, N. J,; Joseph Hensler, Mrs. Heneler, Newark, N. J.; .T. M. Welch, wife acd three children, Walla Walla, W. T.; R. De Paieer, London; J. A. Laidlaw and wife, British Columbia; Miss H. L. Libby, Miss H. M. Libby, BoatnD, Mass.; W. H. Chevers, C. C. Line, M. Rowlinson, San Francisco; S. L. BurbrHge, Globe, A. T.; H.Louis. Erpland ; C. H. P. Mason, Brooklyn, N. V. ; Frank Wendrotb, Denver; George L. Fish and wife, Oakland ; W. L. Wooduett, Montana ; members of Leavitt's Gigantean Minstrels J. H. Surrilge, Manager ; David Schiff, Treasurer; Billy Arlington, Frank Moran, L?w Benedict, Harry Armstrong-, Carl Rankin, Will Rankir, John Rankin, John Connor?, James Kelly, Burton Stanley. P. C. Shortis, Joe Pettingiil, P. Gale, P. Daily, James Hoev. Bernard Sicilian. Arthur Cook, William Kellogg, -Robert F. Tyrrell, James Lament, E»rnest Sinclair, Wm. Sknse, Charles Hshn, I/. F. Page, Charles Sante, Jack Koenig. Frank Shepherd, Frark Biwles, Wm. Fellings, Wm. E. Lincoln, El. Cunningham, Jas.' Blsmphin; 52 emigrant pas.»engers, including 37 males, to arrive in Sacramento March 31. Kansas Citt . (Mo.), February 28'.h.— Passed Topeka to-day. to arrive in San Francisco March 4th:- H. J. Campbell and wife, Kansas City ; George Kj lly and wife, G. T. Chase and wife, Hartford, Conn. Kansas City (Mo.), March Ist.— Passed Topeka to-d:iy, to arrive in San' Francisco March sth: J. E. Luther, J. H. Luther, Arrow Point, Ind.; H. W. Syz, G. Muckie, Sau Francisco ; S. W. Learcy, Portland ; Mr?. W. T. Farewell and dsnghter, San Francisco ; J, S. Crittenden, Grand Rapids, Mich. z/i/PTT . /'.-;-

MARRIED. Sacramento, February 23 -By Rev. T. H. B. Anderson, D. D., CamiliuH N. Burton, of Wildflower, Fr.-sno county, to Jennie 11. Dickie, of this city. (Fresno Expositor please copy.) . S '. '--' San Francisco, February 27— Peter Brown to Elizabeth McFarland. . BORN. Sunny South, February 22— Wife of K. M. Sparks, a : daughter. _ ". -' -" -. V ; -■ DIED. ■ ■;'/;" '„" Sacramento, February 23— Levi Stahl, a native of - Pennsylvania, 68 years. (Friends and acquaintances -arc respectfully invited ,;.. to attend the funeral, which will take place from \ his late residence, on the southwest corner of B Fifth and S street', this afternoon at 2 o'clock ] Sacramento, February, 23 -Ueory, son :of John . Joseph and Mary Schutidtr, 2 y<.ars, 6 months and •ol day. :■ ://.■/■■: . (Friends and aojuaintaiiees are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, which will take lace from : the residence of parents, Third street, between X • and L, this .afternoon at 2 clock 1 Sacramento, Mtrch I— Thomas Minefield, a native . of Eng:anJ, S3 year?. - : [Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited | to attend tho funcrxl, which will take place from 1 h 8 late residence. Fourth street,' between L and ..'. M, this afttrnoon at 1 o'clock.) Davisvillc, Febtuarv 23 - George Thomas, youngest son of John and Houora o'i.eary, 10 munths and 2 days. - : STEIN WAY & SONS' PIANOS. \ A: HEYMAN, SOLE AGENT, I^ ? *K|'*»~ z\. btreet, bet. Sixth and Sevcnth,^~««fe*J or-FOPOto Court-house. PIANOS Tejf J # f ! I lis!'. Pianos said on installment*. . - . fe9-2plm ; [

| m^: : fWi' : -i : ' NEW ADVERTISEMJgfe. v .' : i ~~ ' * ~ WEINSTOCK&LUBIN . ■■-■.■. -* /r i : ■■•"■.- : i THURSDA V, MARCH 2, 1882. SACRAMENTO TEMPERATURE. TsMTEEATuns Y«tSTERI>AY I ■ '. j TEnpssATtrßß CorjUpMposdino Day, 1SS): Highest,. .....CI j Highest '.. 01 Lowest, 45 I Lowest, 63 " j ..._..-....... >■ TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY IN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO. [Special by Telegraph— Courtesy of the Record-Uniok.} NEW YORK. CHICAGO. .* ' ; Highest, '„ 48 .Highest, 60 Lowest .42 Lowest, 39 A Word on Footwear. We arc not the only Dealers who keep the best SHOES made. Nor are ive the only House. who sell Low-priced SHOES; but we are the only concern who combine the best goods with the Lowest Prices. We stand prepared to prove this by showing what we have and naming our prices. We pay the same attention to those who only come to see, as we do to those who come to buy. Children's Day! Children's Kip Shoes, Full-stock, - $100 " B Calf Shoes, - - - : .75 " Genuine Goat Shoes, — 100 " Solar Tip, Pebble, Button Shoes, - - - - 135 " Solar Tip Boots, - - 150 Infants' Kid, Button Shoes, - - 50 " Goat Lace Shoes, Tipped, 50 " French Kid, Button, - 70 " Pebble Goat, Spring Heel. 100 ■ ■ . • .. • ■ . „ -_ ZrJ- :. ■. ■ ■ -.'-' ■ - WHY! -r 1 • _iT • 1 ■ ''{Pip/ • T . Ladies, think of making your BOYS' CLOTHING at home as people used to do, and then of the advantage of coming here and selecting a SUIT out of perhaps fifty kinds, saying nothing of the saving in time, worry and expenditure. Now, think of making your own UNDER at home, and then of choosing out of such a collection of UNDERWEAR as we are now dis- . playing. It is agreed to be well nigh perfect in make, finish and design. It is less absurd to make your own UNDERWEAR at home, as a - great many do nowadays, than to make BOYS' CLOTHING at home, as no one now does nowadays - ■ fili — — * - : ■-^S££&____\_\_\\_\_\_\ -■- A lot of Light and Medium Colored Serges, in Wood and Mignonette hues, 22 1-2 cents a yard. ' ' - * .\. A few more Remnants of Embroidery oil the Counters to-day. .'. ■'' • ' Cl" 'ii -'-'J, : V : 7,*- T* 7 Extra size Suits for Large Men, Dark Cassimere, Frock Style, $15. .*. I Cloaks, Dolmans and Suits ready-made or made to order. .'. Boys' Small Brow n Check Blouse Suits, Double-breasted, $£ 75. MECHANICS' STORE, Nos. 400, 402, 404, 406, 408 X St., Sacramento. h a '■■ '■ v. fitipi- a^l- . :: -iy ''^jlriiiP Q ■ \f: y t(%M'-fiPrzriJyz-j m'tyi. ■ .-■' - |!A3*?ltf)hJfto fi \ y^t, :.:_.:, unn^^m ; OME PRIOE.

\ NEW ADVERTISED Slated Meet or tTaslilngton A " Lodge, No. 2D, F. and A. M., at Masonic V\, Temple, THIS (Ihursday) I Vr.MN-.;. jCx at 7:SO o'clock. VUluig brethren are cor / Tr\ diaKy invited. . . J. N. YOUNG, W. M. L. C. Jorpan, r?eere'ao-. 18. C i ni"lt Friradslilp lodge. No. 6-.. «.! the <-r.:*r of Chosen Friends, will holu n eir r. „-:: .,. at Fire'i . .'.-. Ball, Flghtd street, between J and li, THIS (Thursday) LVh.MNi;. March «d, at 7:30 oV-ock. man The Third Waul Bepabllesa Cross « lub organized last Saturday Em. ■.: February SSth, and the unanimous ser,timeut of the Club was, "that that old Pitneer, '4S>*r. Taxpayer, Workingman's Candidate, and Veteran of the Mi xican War, -..J. C R ' 9-' was xb * cho,to of tho Club for Chief of Police ; and the unanimous sentiment tarn thai if he be elceied-whieh. without doubt, be »ill— he would be the right man In Ihe Hgl.t place." The above was put to a vote of the < lab, and cm-ad without a tingle dissenting vote. ... .. „ HENRY CO.\im.FOr,D. VrtAUaat. \t.M. McNiltv. AR-istant Setret-jv. mS-Sf IJWB SALE-A GOOD HORSE. CV I 1 Apply to A.. K.M.MAS * ( ... No-tIiSTX tta> .'Mr,,-. ■■•• i -■.-•■■-" _ m-.'-St £SP2 \. JtRRY. M. V/OODS AXNODNCES aiMSELFAS AC.\NDIDATE FOR i* Ppip/i CHIEF OF pCANDIDAT I -A- CBIEV «F P»LU y. Snbjert to the ilei.i.-ion of the Republican City Himary. - ■ • mi-S-t* FOR CHIEF OF POLICE. IS A CANnioATf: TOO. CHIEF OF POLICE, Subject to the decision of the Republican City Primary. ■ u.--3t G J. CROSS. i:TiK\V AND WORKINGMAN'S FRIEND- > '19cr— announces himself as a candidate for CHIEF OF 1. 1.1 K. snhject to tbe decision of the Republican City Primary. M»KCH 4th. nie-St" JAM?S M'CLEERV VNNOUNCE3HIMSELFA3A CANDIDATE FOR THIUI* IKIIIIBB, Subject to the decision of the Rcpub'ican City Primary. mi-St* ~~ A CARD. mi) THE PACIFIC MUTUAL LIFE (NSCB. A appppa Company — Gentlemen : I take pleasure in acknowledging ths receipt of 810. QQA amount of policy held in your Company en the life of my deceased husband, Mike I'ryte. m-2 3t ELIZABETH I. IK. IN MEMORIAM. WHEREAS, IT HAS PLEASED TUT. SV- \ > premc Dictator of the universe to call from our midst our late Brother, MARTIN BJORN- «:•!!.■% : therefore, be it Resolved, By liilifornia i. li a. No. 15S0, Knights of Honor, that It is but a Just tributi 1 j the memory of tbe departed to say that in legretting his death, we mourn for one who was m every way worthy of ' our i, -]■■-.' and ngard ; Resolved, That we sincerely rondile with the family of the deceased on the disjiensatlon which it has '.'.-. Divino Pnividonce to cfliict tliem, -.nd commend them for conso'atien Him who orders all things fjr the best, and, whose cliajtUemet.ts are mennt in -.-.• '•-. ; Resolved, That these resolutions be spread on tho records of the Lodge, rand a copy thereof lie transmitted ti the family of our deceased Brother and to each -.: the ncivr papers of Sacramento. CAUL STROBEL, ) D. DIERSSEN, I Committee. mS-lt J. M. HENDERSON.) EMMET'S BIRTHDAY. THE LAND LEAGUE OF a <S3?\a this city will rceiebritc the ppTK.TtrtVVAV 104 th Anniversary of the i'.irill j, *-J» \ \t)!MniP of Hiill.-'.ili EMMET, the Irish < «i!«\ ' JR'V f* Patriot-martyr, at 2" , ?lh' V TURNED HALL, '-^t^W"-* On Friday Evening, March 3d, ET A— T" t.riuil Literary Entertainment and Itiill. To add 1 1 the occasion's programme, the HON. T. P. O'CONNOR, H. P., The IRISH ENVOY AND ORATOR, will deliver an ADDRESS on the condition of Ireland anil it] people, aid the motives that led to the. martyrdom of Emmet. The following volunteers will take part In the literary and musical exercises : Miss I.izzic M. Griffin, Mrs. A. T Arens. Mrs. J. T. Godley, . Mr. lt:ullarr,-e..ii. Mr. Auerbach, * Hon. 11. L. Buckley, J. D. Moynahan, Esq. Pianist Miss Lizzie M Griffin Musical Director J. A. Baillargeon Music By Church, Fisch A Wateoa'a Hand ADMISSION..... FIFTY CENTS m2-2t 18. C. ! ■ :i^ TF?S"rrTSTriT» dSs CO., AUCTIONEERS, • : — WILL mi FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 3d, At 10:30 o'clock sharp, . At Salesroom, Ko. 916 J strret. Between Ninth and Tenth,' THE HOUSEHOLD FIIIMIIKE OF TITO gMAI I. BOUSES. .Sale m ithout reserve, on account of departure from the city— consisting, in part, as follows : ONE»7}-OCTAVE PIANO, COI.LARD & CO, makers; two Bedroom Bete, two Parlor Sets, Bureaus, Bedstead?, Tables, Chairs, Spring md Top Mattresses, Wor-Jrobis, Sofas, one "Empire City" Cools Sto-. e and Fixtures, complete; three Parlor Stoves, one "Good Samaritan" Cock Stove, No. 8, . with Fixtures ; one Marble-top Center Table, Crockery, Glass and Tinware. •.---,: At SO, WILL SKLL THE FIXTFHF.3 OF A SALOOV. y'-7J .: S3- Silo Positive. "Si m2-2t [B.C.] BELL A CO., Auctioneers L. 0. MONTI'ORT. R. C. IRVINE. A. A. VAN TOOHRIU. A. A VAN VOORHIES & CO. (Successors to R. STONE & CO.), 322 AND 324 J STREET, IMPORTERS, MANUFACTURERS AND .&-£». Jobber., of all kind! > l i'-'SrSsk Saddlery and Carriage Hardware, LEATHER AXD SHOE FI.\»IN£S. AND — CARRIAGE TRIMMINGS. Keep constantly on hand a full stock of Imported and domestic Harness, Saddle?, Collars, etc Our manufactures war-auto* ' unsurpassed by any house on the cast. mg-jplm CABRIAGES Nevada's Croud Cold Me.lala for l :0, la", *"■■<. ISIS aim un. EIGHT GOLD AND EIGHT SILVER MEDALS, 118 First Class Premiums fcr the best work from the Mechanics' Fair, San Francisco, and the . different Elate Fairs held in this State and Nevada. A3" Jne of my Ulrica la worth Six Cheap Eastern Buggies. HARRY BERNARD. MANUFACTURER, CO SIXTH AND L STREETS, /. *.:, BACSAIIEKTO. fgr I have on hand and for sale at the lowest possible prices, the new style of PONY PHAETONS, the handsomest in the State. Familr . Carriages, latest patterns. Neatest Open Buirg'.<r6 in the State. Light Top Buggies. Heavy Top Buggies for mountain use. Farm rs' Carriages. Trotting Wagons and Sulkies, all cf my own make pCarrisge Paint- .: ing and Trimming done at the lowest prfje. None b.it the most experienced workmen employed Repairing neatly dime, and all work ia warranted pCall at the Factory and see for vaurself. ml-«ptf Iks FumiWii Box Tact'ob? j - Still Aliritd of AH Competitors. « «3> o' as: 353 -y&z .."sow pCORKHK or Front and M klrfets BaeractenU). • m-'"tv»f . . A. M0O8»R. pp*- sau,-w. S. CEKSOS A CO., . -- • .--; -a. GENERAL COMMISSION ME».CHANTB, AND Dealers in ported sail Domestic Fralt», Y«zeta» bles, Ns.s, Etc., : . No. 220 J pStreet, between Second and Third, Sacra- \ mento. -■*-• ■ •:-.::■-■-- -z-.r .:-■■:• »02-lm JOHN in: i. ASSATER AND CHEMIST, No. 817 i S"hEET. - Ssicramcn;o, CM. All Assays and Chemical Analysis accurately carried out at short notice and moderate rates. Mining Property Sold - and Gold Purchased. Instructions givoc iv Blow -pipe Assay. - Ing. ' fSPiP FOR CIRCfLAR.) -■ ■■■■-- m2-«plm •'-.; A. PUIttES CiHA.\r,V .--"■ BRASS ' FOUNDER ! AND FINISHER, MANU. "i ficturer of all kinds of Brass Goculps, 818 Third street, between I and J, Sacramento. "All work war- . r* ite J ,On hand Mow< r Boxes, nil kinds. Large r d-.cUon rf all dassts of work freta (onncrprioea. a m2-lplnt ;• ■■ A