Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-08-20
EASTERN NEWS
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
SPECIAL TO THE EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL.
WASHINGTON INTELLIGENCE.
llNOtRMAN'S CIRCULAR
TRADE DOLLARS WORTH NINETY
CENTS.
Holders of Trade Dollars Indignant

WASHINGTON, August 10.
The Treasury Department has received
q number Of communications from large
firms, and others, respecting Linderman's
circular OF July 25th, relative to the value
Of trade dollars. The writers, judging
from the tone Of their letters, belong 10
that class of thrifty persons who. before
the Department informed the public that
the trade dollar was only worth It's puiiioh
value, which, ut its present rates. Is Du.
ninety cents and a fraction, were III tiie
habit Of buying the coins In question al a
discount VARYING from five to three per
cent, and then passing them of at par.
This was the case in some large manufac-
turing establishments, where the employees
had been invariably paid partly in trade
dollars. Railroad companies also realized
a large saving by using trade dollars at
their ticket offices, and palminS them OIL
on the public at their par value. 1t was to
check this swindle that the Director Of the
Mint published his circular, cautioning
the public against accepting thet trade dol
lar for ANYTHING more than it was worth,
and now that their harvest is at an end,
the holders Of trade dollars are very indig-
nant at the Government for having inter-
fered with their operations.
A Warm Discussion Oyer John T..
Lecte-s Insanity.
The Potter Investigating Committee re-
sumed its session to-day. John E. Leete's
apparent insanity was warmly discussed.
His wife and children are sick with the
yellow fever in New Orleans, which, with
the excitement of testifying before the
Committee, may have caused a temporary
arrangement of his mind. A dispatch
was received from Governor Kellogg, in
Chicago, denying several statements made
by Leete in his testimony, and saying that
Leete had be,n fer several months past
begging for Office. Latterly he was threat
ening and denouncing him tKellogg) be-
cause he did not receive one. Any state
ment that Packard or himself, OF that the
leading Republicans ever tool Leete into
party councils, would be received with
derision in Louisiana. AS Mr.. Horn, who
was expected to testify, did not put in an
appearance, the Sergeant-at-Arms was di-
rected to compel his attendance before the
Committee tomorrow. General Butler
then called attention to his request, made
last week, in regard to the failure and re-
fusal of Stanley Matthews to appear before
the Committee. He now moved that the
fact Of his service by subpoena, and his
failure to come before the Committee, be
entered on the minutes, and that this
Committee report hin to the House for
their action. Mr.. Potter said he had lost
sight of Buffers motion last week, but
remembered it, and would sustain it now.
He put the motion to the Committee, and
it was unanimously carried, to report Sen
ator Matthews to the House as being in
contempt. There being no witnesses be-
fore the Committee, an adjournment was
taken till tomorrow.
SIS There Nc Person Here 80 Protect
Me:o
NEW York, August 10.
John E.. Leete was brought before Judge
Harver of the Toombs Police Court this
morning. The charge made by the officer
was diSorderly conduct, and before the
magistr6te could interrogate him, he
waived his arms in a declamatory form,
and turning around towards the audience
launched ont vigorous inyectiyes in denim
citation of his enemies. He protested that
there was q conspiracy to immune him
in a foul and loathsome dungeon, where he
could not be heard from again under the
form of star chamber proceedings, and
witt ex~travagant gesticulations he cried:
is there no person here to protect me p
TIL magistrate decided to commit him to
the charge Of the Commissioners of Char
tiles and Correction, with a view to the ex-
animation Of his mental condition.
Military Matters.
NEW ORLEANS, August 10.
A Galveston Neus special from Eagle
Pass says: McKenzie's forces yesterday,
after crossing the river, surrounded New
town, but ONEIDA, whom the Americans
were after, escaped. All the Mexican
troops at Predras Negres, numbering
100, have gone up the river. They are OF.
dered to skirmish with the Americans, but
to avoid a general engagement.
Appeal for AID.
New ORLEANS, August 10.
Rev. j. X. Gatheim, Edwin j. Kursherdi
and other officers of the Hebrew Benevo-
lent Association make the following appeal
Sickness, distress and suffering among the
poor are Increasing daily. Onr funds are
nearly exhausted. In this sad calamity
we deem it our melancholy duty to appeal
to the sympathies Of our brethren through
out the United States for speedy aid.
What They Think OF Kearney al
the East.
New YoRK, August 10.
The Herald's indianapolis special says
Kearney was advertised to speak as the
Patrick Henry of California. He is rap
idly finding his level.
The World, editorially, says: If citizen
Kearney were to die this week his obituary
notices would not be nearly so long as they
would have been had he perished on his
way East.
The Grcat Labor Demonstration.
CHICAGO, August 10.
A Times indianapolis correspondent
says: The great labor demonstration, with
the great California agitator as the lead
ing attraction, was a miserable failure.