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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
A NATIONAL CURRENCY.
me Editor or Fhs Tribune.

SIR: AS you submit to the public rough
sketch Of plan Of paper currency in your article
luca Economy-irredeemabe in coin-aliow Inc to call
your attention to the following plan OF currency redeem
able In coin
Let counter in every subTreasury Office be devoted to
redeemng greenbacks in COIN banks used 20 redeem
bills presented at their counters Let the gTeenbacks
thus redeemed be paid Immediately out for Government
dues for gold offered in exchange for greenbaoks.
the balance, II any occurs for our bonds. You will see
by this plan tbeGovernment will thus banking fer
enough 10 keep healthy currency at par but not inter
fere with tho National Banks which should be continued
after their present charters expire, only in sufficient
numbers, properly distributed, TO furnish tho facilities
for exchange and coin for legal tender at distances from
Sub Treasury offices. Then, Onr advance In prosperity
demands larger circulating medium let the greenbacks
be increased, and thus change much OF interest
bearing debt into noRiutercst bearing greenbaeks.
Yours respectfully, II. HUTCHINGs
West Duubu. "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
THE GOVERNMENT BAsIN-LAYNG THE CORNER
STONE.

Yesterday afternoon, the first stone OF the
great wall which IS nclose the Government Basin at
the Battery laid in IS feet OF water at distance OF
200 feet from the old shore line. The work was done
without display, under the direction of Mr. A. b. hue't'
the Supervising Architect assisted by Mt Easerbrook
and Cant Pratt The Basin 10 cover an area OF ABOUT
~ Ooo %et-nearly an acrc-aud will be inclosed by
yebult wall OF Connecticut granite. The wall VIII be 10
thickness and o feet from the bed OF the bas 20
the coping Each block measures 10 Feet ln ehgtb IN
width and q In thickness and weEs 1857 po Ls
Tho corning VIII be n feet thick and wide. Two KINDS
Of granite are be usedthat FOR the foundation from
the Nyanto Uuarries; that for the upper part from TX
Island on the coast OF Maine. The latter Is from TIE
same quarry that furnished the store for the iIesu
Exhaustion aud is supplied under contract Dy u z.
Dixon-the same who has recently Iainhed DIV
aereement with the Governments 10 quarry
s1d prepare for laying those immense pi9eAs
which cap the pillars OF tho new Treasury 0ulu,,s
a. WasburtOn The DIX Island granite, as wei as ths
Ccnnectcat granite, nsed by the Lighthouse Boas1
10 the Xclusion OF all other building stones j. houghI
the Basin will be completed within year, ana Ihat rs
soon as It is finished preparations VIII De made lo nc
erection OF new barge office, 10 take the place 81 the
t,me.honored but dilapdated White Hair WINCH as
for so many years been used W tAe |gs'oh nV'Ho
authorities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
THE CITY OF PARIS AND HER PASSENGERS.

The Commissioners of Emigration have re-
eeved the following communication from the passengers
in tho seerage OF the City of Paris aud have in
formally referred the matter ~ the Castle Garden Co'
mitteo for further action:
That tie undersigned passengers hsari the tg II
Paris her om Liverpool 20 NeiUk Jue % DO br
aud complain Of The nature Of the provisions supplied dnBg sd
That TIE B u Fare pnei passage tickets nos
adhered to 10 particulars That The esh brei served out % u
half baked That the potatoes - he
worst possible kind and os Of dozen than tao could he en
Tbat tue salt cooked WITH the buae s ayt
uheu so very little that scarcely BALI Of the
oft, salt aud cooked badly
quite r that the iS gesers mueh nor to ssa
led 20 expect and IN The mauner lpPl 70 Us 9
un6i hnmaB food that sua convinced tlsi @ se~s
had not accommodation anything Ike the large number 81 csss
paeper taken on board (upWard soa tia, much Of es
aess complain; may traced 70 this fact one COOK and an
assistant we're not aunceut TO cater for persons
Hero follow some 200 signatures and an lndOTseDent'
dated the sd OF July board the CITY OF Paris, claim
ing that the signatures the whole OF the seerge
passengers, and signed j. o. Jephson.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
INDIA.
CENSUS OF BRITISH INDIA.


A number of the Annals of Indian Admin
istration for 1sS7sS just received from india says The
Pail Man Gazette Of June %, contains very elaborate
digest Of the most recent statistical information regard.
ing the numbers empoyments castles and religious pro
fesions OF the inhabitants Of the British Empire IN the
vast and the dependent States. We extract few details
touching the last OF these subjects as II IS one on when
trutworty accounts have been altogether deficient until
very lately ont OF more than 100000 inhabitants OF
the country under direct British dominion. 100000 are
HudOos 25OOOOO0 Mussulmans u much smaller proper.
sion than was popularity supposed while 100000 belong
those strange tribes who descend from he oecnes OF
india before the Aryan migration (as II Is now caed
took place-primeva men, who lived and worshped be-
fore tho great roligens OF days had thelr origin
There are also 100000 OF Buddhsts and few Jews ana
Parsees The Roman Catholics claim 10000 native al.
heTens these are chiefly found In the extreme south OF
the Peninsula and descend from the ancient community
known as the Christians OF st. Thomas The Protestant
missionaries estimated the numbers attached 10 their
persuasion in 1897 but the total Is thought 10
have greatly augmented since the date OF that estimate
chiefly conversion among the aboriginal tribes In re-
mole parts OF India and IN Bumah The Christians OF
European and mixed origin are estimated at about
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
A MocKERY OF JUSTICE.

To the EDITOR Of The TrI6Ene
SIR: poor, though industrious young man,
OF the highest character robbed few weeks
hts boarding house. alleged, by fellowboarder, Of
$780, which had by the sricest economy saved that
he might send it his poor mother and sisters. The
money found on the prisoner when arrested exactly
sponded with that previously described by this young
man. with the exception that of the so bills had been
changed The case came before Of City Judges
Who after hearing tho fac dismissed the prisoner but
ordered tho money found him TO be kept I'm court,
he the Judge felt assured he had claim TO H. having
failed TO satisfy the Court that It his" The plaintiff
had intended the services Of lawyer but
prevented by the DisctAtorney, who promised TO con.
duet the case himself But the District Attorney, from
the beginning the end OF the trial. spoke
word-neither examined nor cross-eXamined n single
witness tho officer who had arrested the prs-
ouer allowed the prisoners counsel 10 carry his
through, and prevent much possible the PLAIN.
tins clear and vigorous statement Immediately after
the trial, the prisoners lawyer sought private inter-
ference was that tho money, which tho Judge had order
ed TO be kept In court handed to prisoners counsel
The Judge hearing OF tls tne dooTiS Gay, assumed an
District Attorney the prisoners counsel and the plain
t that the Clerk had "acted wrongly" that he, the
Judge, would "hOd him responsible for the money" and
that every dollar OF 1t must be refunded the plaintiff"
IL subsequently ascertaned that division had been
made Of the $780, but that the prisoner had received no
part Of IT, In obedience 10 tho Judges directions the
paintif called on him every morning. ~ much expense
and sacrifice OF time, for 10 II days. Gut nothing
seemed TO be doing TO effect restoration OF the money
the old remark was repeated at each interview, the
The last time he called his Honor would not recognize
the unhappy victim exchange word with him. but
young man last persuaded OF tho hopeulness OF
his attempts got his money, the whole affair showed
deception from the commencement and conspiracy to
mock Justice J.Io,
Neie. York July 6, 1869. d..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
THE FIFTY -NINTH-sT. RAILROAD CAsE-THh
RAILROAD COMPANIES CENsURED.

RAILROAD COMPANIES CENsURED.
Coroner keenan, yesterday concluded the IN
yesgarion INTO the circumstances attendants on the
death OF the lad Jason Carson who was fatally Injured
on the 2sth ut by collision between locomotive OK
the Harlem Railroad and car Of the Belt Raiireaa'
The lad was riding the platform OF the car az hs
time OF the collision which occurred at me crossing ~
Fifty-nnth-st and FOurthaye. James Connor OF r0:
I5 West Fftythirdst driver OF car No. 70 OF tne bois
Railroad testified that the day In question When Us
car wasin Fity-uintst near AadisOnaye no ne aIu o
whistle OF locomotive and saw small car coming ~
ward him on the side 81 the FOurthaYe track mo
train was then from two 90 five blocks on no
witnessed the collision; there was notice IN INC ONCE
the Belt Railroad Company directing that All ears OF tat
line should stop when 100 feet east OF the FOuItaye
track when witness approached the FOurthaye track on
the east side his conductor always gets on the cars ana
sees all is right, and then signals the wltuess
10 90 ahead The remaining witnesses gave
no additional Information. The case was then
given To me Jury who, after protTacted session, in
both roads THIS the Coroner considered most IldieH-
ions yerdict and the Jury after little consultation,
decided TO again retire and deliberate on YerdlcG
After an absence OF about half an hour. they
returned and rendered the following: Owe find that the
said Jason Carson TO his death from injuries re-
ceyed by collision Of OF the cars OF the Belt Kali
road with CINE OF the Harlem Railroad; wecehsure
the parties who in charge OF both the Belt car ana
the engine for criminal negligence, Tie driver ahu cOh
ducOr OF the Belt car, who have been IN CUSTODY he
the occurrence were released by the COronerOn 500 pan
The engineer OF the Harlem train will be held TO Dan I'd
tho same amount
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
FIRE IN THE BoYERY.

A fire occurred yesterday morning in the
attic Of No 1888 BoweTy, corner OF Deiancey-st The
building which belongs TO the wlllett estate was dam.
aged $1,000 insured FOR 5000 by the Hamilton Company.
The first floor was occupied by j. j. Brush dealers In
hardware loss on stock by fire and water s3O insured
for s. by tho Continental and $4,000 by the Trades
mems Companies The second floor aud attic was Occu-
pied a disropuable house by Anna Rhodes, loss on
furniture and clothing, 5000 not insured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
ABOUT GOVERNMENT.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir have to-day read your editorial
headed Under Which Kingp reviewing briefly Mr..
stephenss view OF tho Secession question. l am per-
picked. For light appeal to you. Assuming that you
admit that all governments O., all republican gov
ernmentrests upon tho consent OF the governed may
ask this question AT what point does republican gov.
ornmont commence, and where does 1t end
Aeu- York, July o, 1869. AN INQUIRER.
ARSCer.-We understand that republican gov
eminent commences when the People establish
it, and ends when they have overthrow it, 3D.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
CRUSHED TO DEATH IN GREENWOOD CEMETERY.

CRUSHED TO DEATH IN GREENWOOD CEMETERY.
Thomas II. Marsden, aged 10 years, son Of
Mr. Thomas Marsden Of No. II Hamlon-st, was killed
by being crushed beneath monument in Greenwood
Cemetery on Tuesday afternoon Mt MaTsden with bis
,s a, idrs,-a boy aud two girs-prooeeded TO the
@ ~, Sis,t tn family burial plot, and while there
tho little boy climbed n?on the psdSsS Z, , 81 the 0Det
leaned over n when the obesk tOppled over and the
little fellow fen backward 70 the groGd Tue monument 9,s
falling upon him and crushing him 70 deaSh Lhe Iather
bore he body 10 the Keepers lodge where inquest was
held at p m by Coroner Jones. verdict IN accord
auce with the facts was rendered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
POLICE TRIALS

Fifty-two cases were before Commissioners
Smith yesterday. Fourteen Of them were submitted
without trial The lmore important cases were ne
as follows: John Nicholson Of the Fourth Precinct,
charged Mat Alexander with unwarraEable arrest and
threatening 10 shoot him. The officer was dismissed:
william Lester OF the Twenty ninth Precinct of post and
asleep In grocery store; dismissed the department
The other were OF minor Importance OF tho
parties punished with the loss two days
payi and In other the complaints dismissed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
SENTENCE OF KINDT THE GOLD RoBBER.

In the Kings County Court of Sessions yes
terday, Gustaye Kndt, against whom there seven
indictments for burglary and robbery at the gold watch
case mandatory OF Wheeler & Co, No A. Safest,
Brooklyn was brought mp for trial Tho rOhbercs we're
committed In January lst ana the amount otprOpefy
stolen estimated at about $4,000. The prisoner
pleaded guilty 20 two OF the Indictments aud sen
Ienced " the saIe tgy " yeaT-aye On each
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08

ia open from o'clock In the evening til o'clock in the
nornng and the resort OF drunken oafers The pro
nTetor has no license, although he keeps regular bar
aud Is furnish the police on the beat and the night
measures be taken to abate this nulsaneei VoTKR.
i Heas. Y0rk ,Iuly 1, 1859.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08

Uintah or Deseret, in Utah, is increasing in
size and now contains about a canvas houses Not
railroad company would give place, by making It tho
vis and The ony noeeabe evcDt s the arrival OF tho
trains and the departure Of passengers for salt Lake CITY
coaches The citizens have organized CITY GOV
eminent by the election OF a Mayor Aldermen, &c The
Utah Reporter says mat - something like llte boy
thinking that by s0 dCiuS lie vii look Like man.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08

NAV he directed any communication should ifurther IN
formation be required. IL, ,,.u..av fran
the mort of Rosario TO the City Of Ccrdoya WHICH 10
In course Of construction. viii prOpauy 70 'f'
throughout before the Exhibition .N
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-08
WuERE ARE TuE poIICEl

To me Editor OF The Tribune.
SIR have resided at No. East Twenty first
for several years In tho lower part OF the house there
rs an oyster saloon, OF rather y. gialal" Tbls salo9a
Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-08-17

4 DEPLORABLE state Of affairs eX-
lists in Boise. The Statesman says
half the bills presented in that city
are made out On little crumplod up
rags Of paper instead of having a
nice bill -head printed, and that other,
wise respectable business men do
this thing through sheer stinginess.
Not so in Silver; here EVERY liberal
dealer and respectable business man
has nm advertisement either in one
or both the county papers. and
makes out bis bills on neatly print
ed bill-hcads manufactured here in
town, for which thcy pay liberal
prices. No sending 70 san Fran
cisco or Chicago 10 save few cents
on printing bill. The business men
Of Owyhee understand the fact that
the newspapers aud printing Offices
Of the place are necessary TO the
prosperity Of tbe country, and each
is unwilling 10 enjoy the benefits
arising from their presence at the
expense of others, thereby bccom
ing a sponge upon his neighbor e
that extent. We thank God that Sill
yer City is not like Boise City ii
business character; that her mcrch
ants and other business men are no
mercenary, stingy aud mean lik,
those Of Boise.
Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-08-17

SAN FRANCIsCo is relapsing into its
old habits Of 1915. Il is now I'M
safe to travel any dark street after
nightfali. Capt. Shields, Of the bark
Silver Cloud, was knocked down and
robbed on the 9th on his way to his
vessel, and similar outrages are being
committed nightly. The police are
either in with the robbers or drunk
and ont OF the way. 1t is time for
citizens and taxpayers unions to
bestir themselves in the matter Of
changing the city government. 1t
IS reproach and scandal on the
city, which only few years ago was
considered the best governed city in
America, to now fall into the hands
Of band of outlaws and roughs.
Mayor MoCoppin, the head of the
present government, and candidate
for reelection, being himself an ont
law to the extent Of illegally voting,
and holding Office i've years before
becoming = citizen. OF his twelve
years residence in the United States
he has held Office ten and been cit
izen five, according to his senealogy
given in the Bulletin,
Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-08-17

MATCHING on APAcE.--The Stockton
Gazstte gives up the social equality
phase Of he suffrage question and
steps promptly into the cast-off shoes
Of the Republican party Of two
years ago. The right to vote, says
that paper. does rot carry with il
any social privileges. but Is simply
comforting legal rights, which the
party so invested may exercise with
out being on an equality with those
who confer the right. bat the right
to work, Ayl there's the rub. T"
Those dreadful Radicals have en-
ployed a nigger to work in the Navy
Yard here is equality, political.
legal. financial, religious and social.
A negro is allowed to hew in the
Navy Yard, aud straighiway every
Democratic laborer is supposed to
offer his sister in marriage 70 this
black son Of a southern sky, and
each Is in turn expected to propose
to marry tie nigger's sister, grand
mother or daughter. It's awful to
think Of the hariships Of the supe-
rior race in maintaining themselves
in their normal sphere, but they sur
vige everything, AMI by and by we
expect to see them reconeiled to this
labor phase and invent some other
scare-crow to play upon the preju-
dices Of the faithful.
Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-08-17

A. C0MTE, Democratic nominee
for State Senator in Sacramento
county, with a passion for pettifog-
ging, in which he, and in political
matters his party are such adopts,
pompously publishes card inviting
his opponent to discuss the question
of Chinese suffrage with him, hoping
to create the impression that such a
question exists between the two po-
litical parties. What better evidence
of his unfitness for the grave posi-
ton ce Senator than that he would
stoop to such low trickery?
Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-08-17
letter from the New Diggings on
salmon River.
BEAR VALLEY, SouTH FORK SALMON,
August 9Th, 1869.

Br,R VALLEY. SouTH FORK SALMON,
August 18th, 1869.
Ep. WayE: l have just met Joe
CALLAHAN at this place, on his return
from the new mines, and am indebt-
81 TO him for the following items,
as well as for the mailing Of this
hastily written scratch:
A new mining camp has been
struck on what is called Loon creek,
a tributary of the South Fork of
Salmon river, which empties in from
the eastward. The discovery has
been made nearly a month, and about
4 hundred men are already there ;
about two hundred claims have been
taken up which prospect from col
or to two dollars to the pan. Joe
manned out two dollars to one pan
in the claims Of Craig & Smith.
There are reports Of sixteen dollars
to the pan. The diggings are about
seventy miles northeasterly from
Dcadwood basin. The gold is coarse
and looks to be as valuable to the
ounce as any ! ever saw. Joe has
forty dollars with him which very
much resembles the Blackioot gold
only somewhat darker and richer.
This is all / can learn at present. |
will be in the camp this evening and
will write more particularly after |
have examined and prospected for
myself Ii. II. K.
Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-08-17

DOUBTLESS Casserly of San Fran
cisco will be as much astonished as
his friends. if not pleased at the
compliment, to find himself set down
by the Idaho World as a "learned
man." Possibly he may have spent
his time in literary and scientific re-
search among the musty tones of
the classics, etc., which accounts for
his having such crude and ERRONEOUS
ideas of practical and political
craftsmanship. While he has been
eommuning with the dead past per-
haps, Choy Chew has been refresh
ing himself by acquiring a knowl-
edge Of the progression. wants and
necessities of the living present
hence the superiority of the views
OF the latter over the former in mat
ters of political economy as appli-
cable to the United States in the
nineteenth century.
Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-08-17

0. r. RmEfAIRiCK, who was so
successful in capturing the horse
thief at Elko and recovering the
horse, saddle, bride, etc, and SO
unfortunate as to have the thief es-
cape at Winnemueea, returned, on
Friday afternoon after . fruitless
search for the, escaped prisoner,
| When Kirk left Elko there were a
very large number Of rough eharac-
tiers on the train going to Sacramen-
to to be paid of tor wages earned
on the railroad, some Of whom he
thinks must have been friends if not
confederates Of the prisoner. These
were slowed away in cabooses, on
the fiat cars, ETC., and were lighting
and quarreling all the way in spite
Of conductors and everybody else.
Three Of the ex-railroad hands were
knocked Off the fat cars during the
night In their broils and the train
did not stop to look after them. Ar
irving at the depot in Winnemucca,
and impressed with the idea that he
was in no good company with all
these outlaws, Kirk procured the
services of deputy Sheriff Tom Ju-
/ lian and conducted the prisoner to
the lower town and watched him
until about night, when he placed
him in the keeping of the Constable
OF the place with his irons still on
and chained TO an iron axletree,
while hc-Kirk went to the stage
office at the depot to make arrange
menls for starting at two o'clock in
the morning for this place. Soon
after Kirk left a row was kicked up
at a China house across the street by
4
some Of the railroad hands, and the
Constable ran across 10 stop ii, and
was gone he thinks not more than
four or five minutes, and when he
returned his prisoner was gone,
leaving the chain and a ring that
was round his wrist still fast to the
axle. An alarm was at once raised
and the whole town set out to
hunt the thief. Every conceiva-
BILE place where it was thought he
could hide himself was searched,
but it being then quite dark no traces
could be found Of the artful dodger.
Finally a chain was heard to rattle
in the willows below town and sew.
eral shots were fired in to roust hin
out, but without effect. The viii
lows were guarded all night and il
the morning the handouts were
found where the rafting had beer
heard, but no man in them. Still
} the search was kept up. Two day
afterwards a report came that th'
! Indians had seen him forty miles VI
, the railroad, and away Kirk and tw'
: or three others went up there onl.
to find il false alarm. Returning
TO Winncmucca, he heard Of bin
j thirty miles in another direction, a
: a wood-chopper's cabin, and poste
I Off there to ind the report untrue
e Tired and exhausted, he then II
turned to Winnemucca and took th
stage for home. He attaches n
5 blame 10 the Constable who let hir
l. get away, as he thinks the row go
r ten up as a ruse to divert his after
k ton by friends of the thief who ha
4 followed from Elko for that purpos,