Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-24

Seattle, w. T.; Henry Jourdain, Percy Jour
dain, London; Charles Sitton and wife, Port
land, Or; Captain Thomas Watts and wife,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Twenty-one through emigrants left on last
nights emigrant train. to arrive in Sacra-
mento November Doth.
The New Chinese Treaty-A Positive
and Sweeping Contradiction.
WASHINGTON, November 23d.-Col John
Hay, Assistant Secretary of State, and Act
ing Secretary during Eyarts' absence, au-
thorizes a positive and sweeping contradic
ton of all dispatches purporting to give the
general terms of the new Chinese treaty
upon authority or information ALLEGED to have
been received by the State Department. He
says the State Department has not placed
any information as to the purport of the
treaty, which is said to have been signed, al
though of course it may be safely assumed to
be in accord with the Commissioners instruc-
tions. Any other statement purporting to be
telegraphed from Washington concerning it
is merely imaginary. Your correspondent is
also enabled to say that it is not in the
slightest degree improbable that any such
detailed stipulations as those imagined by
certain reporters could form part of the
treaty, for the Commissioners instructions
contemplated only clearing the way for legis-
laulVe aCblon by congress.
TwO-Edged Sword.
CHICAGO, November 23d.-The Inter- Ocean
says: Should the Democratic programme
succeed in keeping out of his seat by long
winded contest the successor of General Gar
field in the Senate, the Republicans can
promptly retaiiate. James G.. Fair, the
bonanza millionaire, who lives in San Fran
cisco, VIGOROUSLY procured his election to the
10 Nv bo, oboc IF ha
Legislature. Objection can properly be made
to his being seated, on the ground that his
election was procured by bribery His case
is one that would require full as much de-
bate before its settlement as could that of
Gar6eld's successor, and so the plot to de-
prive the Republican side of one vote in the
Senate, while an interminable debate was
continued in the Ohio case, would be baked
by the exclusion through the same tactics of
Fair, Democratic Senator.
The Proposition 10 lease Alaska.
CHICAGO, November 23d. = The Inter-
Oceans special says: The suggestion is deli
cately given out at Washington that it might
be well for the Government TO get rid of
Alaska by leasing it to the Commercial Com
pany. 1t might be as well for the Govern
ment not to restore slavery under such a
guise In the seal fur isles that is what has
Aleuts, permitted to sell what they have for
sale only to the Commercial Company, and
suffered to buy what they want from that
company only, are put in a position to be as
completely robbed of all the fruits of their
labor as though they were under the slave
drivers lash. The lease of the remainder of
the Alaskan Territory signifies an extension
merely of that disgraceful state of affairs.
Present from Queen Victoria TO the
President.
WASHINGTON, November 23d.-A large
box was received and unpacked to-day at the
White House, and was found to contain a
massive desk IA writing table,, a present from
Queen Victoria to the President of the
United States. 1t is made of live oak, weighs
], 800 pounds, is deliberately carved, and alto
gether presents magnificent specimen of
workmanship. 1t is made of timbers of the
Arctic exploring ship Resolute, and the in.
scription concludes, Presented by the
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland to the
President of the United States, as memo
rial of the courtesy and loving -kindness which
dictated the offer of the gift of the Resolute. p"
Effect of the Weather on Change.
New YORK, November 23d.-The CONNER
c,al Bulletin says: The weather is playing
into the hands of the bulls on the Stock Ex-
change, Produce Exchange and Cotton Ex-
change. The sudden freezing up Of the State
canals, catching some 10, 900 bushels of
grain of all kinds in the ice, caused wheat to
advance from 81 245 to 81 Isl. Dispatches
from Buffalo say the ice is three inches thick,
and boatmen accept the closing as final fer
the season. Accounts from Syracuse, how
ever, indicate hope of opening the canal for
some distance upwards, as an ice boat has
been sent to break up the ice. At the worst,
some 6,000, 000 bushels will be virtually
hoisted from the visible supply until May
next. With the enormous stock in the in
terror and still large visible supply remain
ing after this deduction, the effect of this sur
prise upon prices can hardly be expected to
prove very permanent.
New York stock Market.
New YORK, November 23d.-Stocks were
strong this morning at an advance of to
% per cent. During the afternoon dealings
were very irregular, and prices fiuctuated
with much frequency. In the final sales spec
uation became depressed because OF the
manipulation of the money market by lead
ing sellers of stocks, and prices closed at a
decline.
Silver bars 111s money active, at 4(96 /;
Governments quiet; stocks closed weak; West
ern Union, so; Quicksilver, IL; Pacific, AZ
Mariposa, Il; Wells Fargo, III; New York
Central, 145s; Erie 45s Panama, 20S
Union Pacific, 1901 bonds, 115; Central Pa
cifc, S49; bonds, 1l5; outro, 8.
The Rcputed Miracles at Lourdts.
New YORK, November 23d.-Rev. DIR.
Tying, the we'll known evangelist clergyman
of the Episcopal Church. preached a sermon
Sunday evening which attracts much atten-
ton in literary and religious circles. Speak
ing of the reputed miracles ct Jourdes,
France, he said: mo one dare attempt to
deny that multitude of cures took place
there. The lame leaped, the deaf heard, the
blind saw. 1t viii never do in this genera
ton to deny this authenticated fact" The
Doctor related what he himself had seen
there in evidence of the genuineness of the
cures, which he declared were the effect of
simple, unquestioning faith. "Call the Rom
ish system what you will, said he, .a half
truth or truth wholly overladen with error,
here nevertheless are the facts. The Roman
Catholic Church is wise above all other socie-
ties of believers. do not find it in my heart
to impugn their motives, and in my puny eff
forts am striving to attain to the same re-
suits"
The Case of Cadet Whitaker.
New YORK, November 23d.-The Herald
reports a conversation with officers of the
West Point Academy as to the effect of the
petitions now circulating requesting the Presl-
dent to restore Cadet Whitaker to his
former place and allow him to graduate.
The officer said: "While the President can
send the cadet back to West Point as often as
he pleases, he cannot graduate him. No
member of the present Board could or would
sign Whittaker's diploma. He had conspicu
ously failed in repeated attempts to pass the
examination"
FURRY at the Norfolk Navy Yard.
NORFOLK, November 23d.-Tbe officers at
the navy yard are excited and indignant be-
cause the captain of the British steamer
Sandrigham, which was beached eff Cape
Henry, some time ago, and which, by the
courtesy of the Secretary of the Navy, was
allowed to come into the dockyard to repair,
took occasion to launch the bitterest invec-
tive upon the American navy, its officers and
flag. Commodore Hughes, on learning the
once, and no work will be allowed to be done
Secretary of the Navy.
The Proposed Development of the Re-
sources of Mexico.
New York, November 23d.-O. H. La
Grange, formerly Superintendent Of the San
Francisco Mint, has just returned from Mex
ice, and is stopping at the st. James Hotel.
He speaks enthusiastically of the prospect of
developing the resources of Mexico by rail.
roads with American capital. The mines,
though not SO rich as those of Nevada, will,
by the use of the economical methods of min
ing now practiced in the United States, in
crease their product twenty fold with the
helm of railroads.