Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-23

Persecution Of the Jews In houmania.
Late foreign papers state that the fol-
lowing are the principal heads of the
infamous bill recently presented to the
Roumanian Chamber to regulate the
position of the Jews in that country:
I. No Jews shall fix themselves in any
urban district without the consent OF the
municipal council. Under no pretext
whatever shall they fix themselves, even
temporarily, in any rural district.
III. Jews guilty of having offended
against the preceding article shall be
treated as vagabonds.
III. Jews shall not be permitted to
hold either rural or urban freehold prop
erty. The purchase or sale of real prop
erty by a Jew is null and void, in both
law and equity; and thirds of the
price shall be confscated for the benefit
of charitable institutions, and the remain
ing third given to the informer.
~. Any person having lent his aid to
the violation of the aforementioned
articles shall lose his polital rights for a
ueriod of not less than three years, and
shall be mulcted in twenty per cent. OF
the value of the property bought or sold.
V. No Jew shall hold or rent land,
wine shops, distilleries, bridges, vine
yards, sheep runs, cattle stalls, or hotels
ON the high road. In like manner no
Jew shall be allowed to undertake con-
tract for any State, communal, or public
works whatever.
vi. The authorities are forbidden to
accept any request emanating from q
Jew for permission to associate himself
with others in such a manner as may in
any degree contravene the terms OF ar
ticle v.
VII. Before Jew shall be permitted
to undertake any business or commerce,
he shall obtain from the local authorities
o special permission. Without such per
mission the authorities are forbidden to
take notice Of any claims raised by Jew
for the recovery Of debts, etc.
VIII. Any business, the object Of
which is providing, directly or indirectly,
food and drink for Christians, is wholly
forbidden to Jews. They may, however,
| trade in these articles with their co-rell'
gionists.
The Pail Mall Gazette says: /" The
bill containing these and other similar
articles was signed by more than thirty
deputies, and, though opposed by NJ
Bratiano on behalf of the ministry, yet
at the same moment, the agents OF the
government were carrying out its Prov
sions and evicted upwards of five hun
dred families from the single district Ot
Bacon. Is it surprising that the lovers
of justice and humanity should at times
revolt against religion, when they see
such atrocities committed in its name z
As light is let in upon the causes which
endanger the Presidents conviction, the
indications of corrupt motives become
stronger and stronger. 1t is now stated
that the impeachment managers have
come into possession of Information
which induced them to hold a meeting
yesterday morning, and that the mos
astounding developments are expected
| to follow the clue they have obtained
being nothing less than that two SeDa'
tors have received large sums OF money
in purchase of their votes Chicago
Republican. d,
Our dispatches from Union men IN al
1 luQlCdtC n OStP htNh1rf
shadow the storm that any Republican
Senator must expect to breast who shall
accept the Whisky Ring thirty pieces o
silver-Nep York Tribune.
The above seems to justify what ha'
been charged over and over again BY
the Democratic press that the Radica
party is composed OF the most corrup
set Of human beings on the face OF th'
earth. Mark the differences on the othei
side Of the House-no Democratic Sen
ator has been charged with selling hi
vote.-PiffsbVrg Post
Indian kffairs.
Every mail from the Territories bring
information Of depredations committed
By insignificant bands OF Indians, ans
rsmonslrances on the part Of the white
to the effect that the military are no
disposed TO protect them. Bat, IN con
neciion with this information, there i
evidence that while men sell or trAd'
i whfEkv 10 the Indians. aud when thl