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The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16
A Protective Tariff.

The Owyhee Avalanche thinks protection
can never again become party issue, for the
reason that the diversities of interests have
impossible. 1t says:
This diversity is in one case harmony.
Michigan for example, Joins PENNSYLVANIA in
wanting protection for iron on account of the
Lake Superior mines: so does Missouri. in
order to develop the hidden riches of Iron
Mountain. Illinois concurs because her coal
mines would be made the source of an i'm
mense revenue in smelling those ores. Could
the States named secure protection for iron
alone, they would be content, except perhaps
Michigan, which has an eye on copper, and
Is not Indifferent upon the salt question. But
other States demand protection for other COM
modities, and 50 the different interests are
forced TO combine. The lines cannot be
drawn. Not only do different States have diff
fereut interests, but different sections OF the
same State. Ohio. Tennessee and New York
have some iron ore; sheep are found every
where and bleat for protection; WOODEN mills
dot the land, and they want free wool but
protected woolens- In the Southern States.
sugar cries out against free importation, and
raw cotton is at war with the manufactured
article. The sections, parties and classes
clamorirG for free trade in one respect, us
loudly call for protection in another.
LUIS - 'he very reason why tue tnNfe 81 b
tenn Of protective tariff should be abolished.
Each interest should stand on its own feet
without the aid of Congressional nursing and
tonic legislation. II free trade were estab-
lished, all interests would stand on n perfect
equality, and none could reasonably complain
of favoritism. This nursing one interest at
the expense Of another, is all wrong. 1t is
the product OF local greed and selfishness,
which is natural so long as this pernicious
system is tolerated at all The ak should bG
applied At the root of the protective tree. and
the whole system be tumbled to the ground
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16
GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS.
OTSICE or AcTISG ASSISTANT QuA. rI.HsASrEn, D
CAMP HALLECk. Nevada. July l2ih, $50. 1

OTFiCE OF ACTISC ASSISTANT QCA' TTHSASIEn,
CINP HALLECK. Nevada, July i2ih. 1870.
S'ENIEp PROPOSALS WILL he RECEIVED AT MS
y Office until IL o'clock, NJ. ON MONDAY, the 2jth
dag Of July. 1870 for :he erection this Post Of the
following buildings, viz:
One ~ story Hospital Frame building, four
foot foundation 81 stone. - by 80 feet: one az story
o be IL by 20 feet: and IN story be - by 20
feet ..
AL labor 10 be furnished by the contractor. Mate
riAls will be furnished by the T. s, delivered tho
ground.
bidders will express their prices in United States
gold coin.
All bids TO be male in duplicAts. with a copy Of this
advertisement attached to each bid: aud bid VIII
Dc received unless accompanied by bond deposit
Of one thousand dollars \ guarantee that he will
enter into written to All the contract ia
his bid IL accepted and theT,upon such further
bonds a. may he required in fu!hmGnt OF the con
tact.
The acceptance rejection q any bids l. r,aerved
e. the United States and all contracts III DO subject
% the approval or disposal u: the Department aud
Division Commanders.
Payments tn he made ia sIIch funds may be fur
ulshe'l 10y the I. s Government. ..
!lAus % the proposed buildings be seen at this
Office.
lrpposals to be marked .'ruIo.als for erection 81
rniilins'." etc. and addressed tho uudtrslgncd
At this Post. -.
JSO. C. THOMSON.
Jylah I'Fsi Lieut. Third L. y Cav, \ y Q. NJ
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16
The Results o. =. c,ua,y Debt

The evil results of the extravaganza which
has brought this county in debt to the tune Of
Sl0O0 QUO is already becoming painfully nppar-
ant. Some of the priDcipa! scrip-holders have
recently been endeavoring to negotiate for
money, to be secured by county warrants. 4
financial house In San Francisco WAS disposed
to advance the money on this security. or to
purchase the warrants outright ut fair figure.
Their agent here was astonished to discover
the amount of the actual indebtedness o!
the county, and, We understand, frars
thrt in the present; condition Of affirs, the
company will not advance a dollar on the wnr.
rauts
Another gentleman who is largely interested
in county warrants, has expressed wiling
ness to advance money gu comfy bonds.
shon'd the debt be funded: In, lie recently dc
clared. before he would furnish any more mo-
ney to the comfy, that lac wanted to know the
name of the next Comfy Clerk nui Auditor.
He cares nothing abcut their politics, lint he
does care something about their capacity and
integrity.
The gentleman is right. No sensible man
is anxious to put much money into an insiitu.
ton which is swiftly drifting into bankruptcy
-heaping up Il debt of five thousand dollars
per month over and above its revenue No
wonder scTip-holders have to suirrr stow
away their warrants, and wait until dooms-
day for payment! While all other counties
along the line of the railroad have been rapid
ly eHtricating themselves from delft, Elko
county has been plnnging steadily downward
into the slough: until here. wihiua year after
the organization Of the county. warrants ARE
selling for half their face. and capitalists look
upon them with doubt or contempt Unfcr-
tunate comfy! Nov get you to my lady :
chamber, and tell her let her paint nm inch
thick, tn this favor she has come. Make her
laugh mt that -
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16

The INDUSTRIAL CoSrrsr.-A New York
exchange very foreibly portrays the industrial
coaaict now going ouin the East rs :" a contest
o. the bunk against the bed, the roast rut
against the roast beef the broadeloth of a
gentleman against thenankeen breeehes of the
coolie, the enjoyment of industry against Il g
hardships, the better side of life against tho
baser." This hits the case; and this is the
character of the contest now progressing ON
this coast, with the laboring whites on one
side against S., 900 Cinnamon on the other
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16
The Regis,rr Ae, and the spprene court.

A correspondent calls attention to fact
which is OF much importance TO Registry
Agents in constituting the qualifications Of
electors. lie writes follows:
"A registry law has been in force in this
State for some years, and with its iron clad -
oaths has prevented many u good citizen
from registering - also from casting his vote
in the general election, whether the vote
was for the Radical or Democratic ticket; for
Il must be admitted that many persons were
forced to fight on the Confederate side in the
late war. whether willing unwilling; hence
many who bore arms for no longer time Than
! they had - chance tn get away. could not take
the oath. But 50 far as it applies To register
InG, the las; Legislature repealed the law ON a
decision made N = cnso taken before the Su-
Ur-me Court. which case may be f,TInd in the
Hiih Nevada Reports, - far AZ II applied
{" persons registering. (See stltgtes OF 1850.
The supreme Cour; decision applies to, and l.
complete and full "a 10 the cons;itut.ouali,v
of the uuth, which oath iSthc snmu tor officer,
on qualifying. And il Is held los sunr tu
render any one who has borne arms against
the United States Government ineligible to
any Office. This il erroneous. The decision
clearly deGilest the oath 20 be unconstitutional
"a the amnesty proclamation was n pardon
They further say if the oath cannot be 80
amended as TO admit such TO register the
whole oath must fall.
think the matter ought to he made plain
to the people before registering begius."
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16
Eiko and the Democratic state Convention

The Democratic State Central Committee
will meet on the 30,b of this month tn fix the
time and place for holding the Democratic
State Convention. In determining the local
ity, we trust the claims of Eiko will be for.
gotten or ignored by the committee We
stated, some time ago. some of the reasons
why the convention shonld be held here.
Strong "a those reasons then were. they are
now still more SO. Similar re,ts ms operating
on the Radical party have induced their coin.
mittee to select Elko. The Democratic purity
cannot afford TO lag behind the Radicals, and
allow them To obtain an advantage in Eastern
Nevada. Carson has no special claims for
entertaining Democratic convention, There
is scarcely Democratic public honse IN that
town. But aside from this, the conventions
have been held at the capital ever since the
organization of the State, and il IL high time
some other town and some other section
should have chance We say this without
any unkindness TO Carson. but M n pertinent
fact, which IL entitled to consideration. IF
the convention comes here. II will bc received
with a free-hnnded hospitality by hig.hearted
Democrats. who will make IL their Epeciel
business to- see that every want and Injury ia
promptly supplied. II will afford many Of the
citizens of Western Nevada an opportunity To
visit portion Of the State which IL new 10
them and from which they ruhtfuily expect
material assistance in the next campaign.
Send along the Convention.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16

BINDING THE NATIoS. House of Rep
rescntntlves undertook 10 nail the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth amendments, the other day. by
passing bill making it unlawful for any
State officer to certify hereafter TO any repeal
OF the State Publications., and directing the
Secretary of State not TO make any record
thereof. 1, prescnbes, us o penalty for any
attempt TO repeal such ratification by the
State authority, imprisonment from one to ten
years and fine Of two to three thousand dol
lars. af a... .H ...I.-... ....... #.....
Congress may think II can bind their legis-
la'ion for all time to come upon this country,
butit will find itself mistaken. There arc no
.f"dH'iss in this country. One by one their
numbers in Congress are dropping away. and
some day they win wake up to find them.
selves and their dospotic legislation swept
away, rs n revolutionary broom takes Off tho
cobwebs in an attic. They should remember
Browplow's knot in Tennessee.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16

lSDIASA.-J. A. Beadle, of Utah. a Repub-
licHn in politics, writes to the Reporter from
Washington that "ihe Indications in his own
State-Indiana-pOint TO Democratic vic
tory this Fall" lie remarks that at was
close in 1868. and the local elections go rather
Democrntic this Summer
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16

ACCOMPLISHED FAcTs.-The Radical press is
abusing the Democrats in IL Connecticut
Legislature for refusing to assent to the propo-
sition to strike out the word "whito - from
the State Constitution. The proposed amend
ment was carried, all tho Republicans voting
for it and all the Democrats against il. II
now goes to the next Legislature to be ratified
or rejected by two.thrds vote. The Rndi!
calls claim that the ratification of the Fit.
teenth Amendment has, in itself, nulliRed the
word, and they are frothing at the p,outh be-
cause the Democrats refuse "to acknowledge
an accomplished fact" They also complain
of the Democrats in Congress for opposing
resolution declaring the late amendment TO be
legally part OF the Constitution. will these
Radical politicians never learn that there are
no Analities in American legislation1 There
may be accomplished facts, . ms for instance,
The Elko county treasury once had some
money In II. but has none now. That spelter,
that was andis not. Is an accomplished
fatti' bot no Radical legislation can be- IN
I'll tho last Democrat IL dead in the last ditch.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16

OITIcIAL.-GroYers majority for Governor
of Oregon is G31. Sam. Merritt's majority for
delegate from Idaho is SS4,
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16
EstraV Notice.

TAKEN UP on THE Ieru or JUNE
RAXN. six (Gl head OF stray Beef Cattle-four
q W red. one white, and brindIe-aIi
-A Mexican steers, i've OF them having
brands The owner Is requested to forward
prove property. pay Charges. and take them away
within thirty days they Will be sold in accordance
with Law. GEORGE GASTZ
Apply at Idaho Ranch, Cope road. at Independent
Once. Elko. jyl6im
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16

BEs. BUrIER does not favor the Chinese.
In this he is sharp. He wants Summers sen,
in the Senate. and is currying favor with the
workingmen--a little trick he has played be-
fore in the Lowell district r no.. ... ...
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16

President Grant has appointed John wasson
Surveyor General of Arizona. J..
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16

AN EXTRA SESSION of Congress hes been
called. The regular session expired yester.
day. II will be n question how far the Cuban
matter may interest the United States in the
European conflict.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16
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FAST GaE.sig FREIGHT
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RAS S1HJ G-mES LIN II
TO AIOU \TAIN CIIH
- NIIIIISI

STNGES LEAVE ELEO ENTRY TUESDAY AXD
- FRIDAY, at ocItcE A. 81 ... .
Returning leave Mountain City every Wednesday
and saturday.
Stages run through I'm TWENTY HOURS.
Freight delivered In good order.
jyi3u wM $. VAN pRIELLES. Proprietor.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-16
LECTURE TONIGHT!
MRS. LAURA DeFORCE GORDON

WILL DELIVER LECTURE THIS SATURDAY,
W EVENING, July l6, at the COURT HOUSE, on
the subject OF
The Ballot for Woman and the Relations
OF the Ballot To Labor.
She VIII also answer any objections oral or written
which may be offered In respectful language nv any
person In the audience. ~
viii lecture at CARLIS tomorrow fsundav, Even.
ing on the general proposition Of The EnfrAnChise
Of Woman" aI. .. iy1sit
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-12
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

COTToY. = Yesterday afternoon, in fact
throughout the day, the cotton market was in
active. Holders were tenacious, and buyers
not over anxious Early in the day, as we
stated yesterday, the adyices from the East
were not so good but better news came in the
afternoon, and there was a stiffeninR of prices
and business here grew dull. Holders de-
manded 22c. for low middling with a decided
vim, and 221ac. for middling. We hear of no
sales at these figures, but there will be if the
kilograms this morning do not pour "cold
water with their lightning upon the stiff
market. Middlings may be quoted at 229f@
221zc; low middlings, 2l1z@2l24c; good ordin-
airy, Zoe; stained. 199lg,4c; ordinary 1871 919c;
mixed. lS1z@20c.
UNION DEPoT.-The Appeal this morning
questions the duty of the city to pay for rail
way tracks through the city, by which thesev-
eral roads may have access to common CEN
trail depot. Is it true that Mayer johnson pro-
poses to incur this expenditure? The city will
be benefited by this consolidation and also in
jured. Railroads don't make comfortable
music. Locomotives are horrible serenaders.
The LEDGER couldn't sleep comfortably with
locomotive snorting perpetually under its
windows. 1t is quite enough for the city to
suffer the hard breathing machines to traverse
the streets. But to pay for the blessing is
hardly possible. Stockholders in the roads
are the great benefciaries of consolidation,
and the city should not and surely does not
contemplate any expenditure in this benalf.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-12
Historic Anecdote.

We know not that il is circumstan-
tally true, but it most certainly possesses
the characteristics of truth. 1t is, as
told to us, that when Gen. J. f. Johnston
made his first visit into Maryland, after
the surrender, he was accosted by an
excited individual Who was inveighing
against Congressional usurpations, then
just commenced, with the remark:
General, this thing will not do; it must
be stopped; they will find the war is not
over; ! am not phipped" Here Gen.
Johnston interposed with the query, "In
which army did you serve?" With I'M
due haste and some confusion the irate
individual commenced a long explana-
ton Of the causes which kept him out of
actual service, when he was stopped by
the General with, Never mind your
reasons, sir; ! see you are right, you are
not whipped."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-12

HORRIBLE OUTRAGE BY RADICALS
Last Sunday crowd of Radicals, whites
and blacks, threatened the life Of Rev.
H w. Bays, Methodist Minister, and
prevented him from officiating in Logan
chapel, in Mayville, Blount county. The
villainous crowd was armed with knives,
pistols and bludgeons, and carried out
their threat that that no damned rebel
preacher should speak in that church. /"
The presence of Mrs. Bays and several
young ladies alone prevented Mr.. Bays
from being brutally beaten.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-12
memphis and Little Rock Railroad.
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT, ]
No, 81 SOUTH COURT ST.,

MEMPHIS, TENN, May 3, $780,
The action of the Elliott line of boats
running on White river, as will be seen
from their card which appears in the
LEDGER, has compelled us to make ar
rangements with other boats to ship
freight and carry passengers through to
Little Rock and Hot Springs, and at
greatly reduced prices aud in much
shorter time. The fast steamer Gallatin,
Captain J. J. Edison, master-Charley
Sharpe, clerk-will leave Memphis every
Tuesday and Friday at four o clock p. m,
on arrival of the cars, making the trip
to Duvalrs Bluff in twenty-five hours
connecting with the train for Little Rock.
Time TO Little Rock, twenty-eight hours
through freight to Little Rock, fifty
cents; passengers to Little Rock, $l4;
passengers to Hot Springs (by stage
from Little Rock, $40. Tickets sold at
this Office and on board steamer Gala
tin. We will carry all freights, as usual,
from Duvall's Bluff at local rates.
COT b. d. WILLIAMS, Gen'l Sup't
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-12

KosKoo. This medicine is rapidly
gaining the confidence of the people, and
the numerous testimonials of its virtues,
given by practitioners of medicines,
leave no doubt that it is safe and re-
liable remedy for IMPURlTY OF THE BLOOD,
that speaks in hig terms of its curative
properties, and give a special recon-
mendation of Koskoo to the practitioners
of medicine This is, we believe, the first
instance where such medicines have been
officially Endorsed by the faculty of any
of the medical colleges, and reflects great
credit upon the skill of DIR. Lawrence,
its compounder, and also puts Koskoo
in the VAN of all other medicines Of the
present day.-From the Norfolk Daily
Journal, December IL, 1869. 2-t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-12

The st. Louis Bell Treble Piano
still continues 10 excite the atten-
ton and merit the praise of our
music-IOving public. Whatever RI
valry may suggest TO the contrary.
IL is still nevertheless true that this
Piano il unsurpassed, either in
manufacture. finish. clearness and
correctness of music. Strangers
and visitors should not fail 10 ex-
anime this matchIess instrument.
at wilde a. Collins salesrOOms. 28f
Second street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-12


BEWARE OF CoUNTERFEITERs.- Prose
cution has already been commenced
against several unprincipled parties in
this city for initiating, CONTRIBUTING and
selling a spurious article Of Drake S
Plantation Bitters.
Purchasers and dealers are cautioned
against selling other than the genuine
All persons found dealing in spurious
article will be punished and dealt with
to the fullest extent of the law
None are genuine unless stamped with
our private proprietary U. S. internal
revenue stamp over the cork and fac
smile Of our signature on steel plate Ia
bel of each and every bottle. To initiate
the bottle, to FIJI 1t with any material,
whether sold as Plantation Bitters or by
any other name, is a crime punishable
BY fine and Imprisonment.
Our attorneys, Messrs. Adams, Dixon
& Pike, have full instructions to prose
cute all violations Of our rights, trade
mark, etc. P. H. DRAKE 4 Co,
So, IS 4 81 Park Place, New York,
cod u
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-12

UMoN.-Upon the petition of the
Northern branch Of the Methodist church
to join with the Southern branch, pre-
scented at the General Conference yester-
day. certain resolutions offered by DR..
Kenner of New Orleans were referred to
a committee for consideration. DIR. Ken
ner's resolutions stated that the action
of the Board of Bishops at their last an
nual meeting in st. Louis, in response TO
the message from the Board of Bishops
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church, had
the full endorsement Of this General
Conference, and accurately defined its
position in reference to any overtures
which may proceed from that Church,
having in them an official and proper re-
cognition of this body, that the distin-
guished Commission now present, of the
General Conference of the NJ. E. Church
at Chicago in May, 1868, appointed by it
specifically, to confer with the Commits
sioners from the African NJ. E. Zion
Church, to arrange for union with that
body, and to treat with similar Commits
sions from any other church which may
desire like union, cannot, in their
judgment, be construed, without violence,
as having been constituted by that Gen
eral Conference, committee to bear its
fraternal expressions to the General Con-
ference Of the NJ. E. Church, South;
that this Conference is highly gratified
at the visit of the Commission as indica-
tive of the return of proper Christian
sentiments and relations between the
two great branches of Northern and
Southern Methodism, and it extend to
them, personally, its highest regards as
brethren beloved in the Lord. The
Committee on Union appointed consists
of A. L. P. Green, Thurston Polk, J. c.
Keener, L. G. Garland, R. Alexander,
Judge J. H. Jackson, A. w Wilson,
Geo. w. Williams and E. X. Miller.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-12

A CONCERT will be given Thursday
evening at eight clock in the audience
room of the new Central Methodist
church on Union street. Some of our
sweetest singers, together with many Sun
day School children, will participate in
the entertainment. The exercises will
be opened with prayer by Rev. DR.. Nun
sey. Let all attend, enjoy the treat, and
pay one dollar toward the completion of
the new church 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-12

same city. are coming down on the Dexter. en-
route TO New Orleans.
The body Of Milton Ebert. the late clerk Of
the stonewall, has been found opposite Com.
merce. Missouri. fttf1lt8
Opposition has been inaugurated on the Mo
nongahela slackwater. The last opposition
lasted over two years. How long the present
one will hold out. or whether there will be a
compromise, remains to be seen.
The steamer Louisville has laid up at Louis
Vile.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-12

CHrGYoNs-PARIs. Ladies in want of
any articles in the human hair line would
do we'll to call at the fashionable hair
establishment of f. Lavigne, 1884 Main
street. Mr.. and Mrs. Layigne will start
to Paris by the first of June next, and
would like to see all their stock sold
before leaving the city, in order to en-
able them to make larger purchases
wb;la in Paris eod-80
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-12

CoNFEDERATE PIcNIo.-There will be a
meeting of the Confederate Historical
Society this evening, to make arrange
ments for the picnic which takes place
next Saturday week. Every member is
requested to be present Bids for the
privileges of the restaurant bar and
confectionery stands at the picnic are
open, and will be received by the Amnse-
ment Committee of the Society up to
four o'clock ON next Tuesday evening
This is bound to be the picnic of the
season, and we presume the bids for
privileges will ran pretty high.