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THE ANSWER TO THE PRO-CHINESE
MEMORIAL.

We are sorry to be compelled to say that
the answer to the pro-Chinese memorial
recently addressed to the Legislature is
quite as unsound and reprehensible as the
document against which it is directed. 1t
is in fact simply an extravagant TRADE
against the Chinese, so wild and reckless
as to be almost Pantagruehan in character.
The trainers of this very undignifed and
Incorporate answer have created an i'm.
possible monster and called it Chinaman :;
and having done this they have pelted
the grotesque and fantastic creation
of their heated imagination with all the
opprobrious terms they could gather to-
gether. 1t is needless to say that the
result is not in any true sense an
answer to the memorial. 1t is merely
an expression of strong dislike toward
the Chinese, and an expression so dis
torted by prejudice as to be entirely
without value. 1t is not true, for example,
as this answer afirms, that the Chinese are
the most wicked and depraved and vicious
and false and ungrateful people on the face
of the earth. They are in almost all re-
spects strongly akin to their fellow human
beings in other countries. They possess a
different civilization from the Anglo Saxon.
They cultivate some vices which white men
are not SO much addicted to. But it is not
at all because of their viciousness that they
are Objectionable, and if there were no bet
ter arguments against them than such kind
Of stuff as this pseposterous answer" con-
tains, it would be perfectly hopeless to ex-
pect that intelligent and enlightened peo-
pie would do anything to help their re-
moval. The Chinese will compare favorably
enough with any other people as regards
morality. They are no more prone to
perjury and falsehood than white
men, and this every Judge knows.
They are a temperate, industrious,
orderly, peaceable people, and it is
because they possess all these essential
qualifications of a progressive race, and be-
cause the struggle for existence has with
them been so severe as to give them great
advantage, in power of endurance and toll
Grafton of squa.or, over white men, that
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they are SO formidable. Add to this the
lack of affinity between their civilization
and ours, and everything is said that can
be with airy seriousness urged against
them. But such abusive and opera bouffe
presentations of the case as that embodied
in the answer of the legislative committee
to the prof. Chinese memorial are calculated
to excite the disgust of well-informed
men, and to give handle to the friends of
Chinese immigration.
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A STRANGE MISSION.

A dispatch from Leavenworth, Kansas,
states that Charles De Young is in that
place, endeavoring to obtain evidence
against Kalloch. for use in his forth.
coming trial. If this statement is true,
the mission of De Young is certainly a
strange one, and forecasts a singular, and
it may be thought an infelicitous, line of
defense. To defend charge of attempt
to murder by raking up accusations against
the intended victim, referring to his career
years previously. is circuitous course to
adopt, and sufficiently unpromising to a
dispassionate observer. The public, how
ever, will probably be most chagrined by
the indication thus afforded of the inten-
ton on the part of the defense to make the
trial scandaleus one.
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THE COURTS.
SUPREME COURT.
Dennrtnient No. L

TUESDAY, February 10TH
G107-Byrres VS. Clafy-ArSued by O'Connor for
appellant and Fox for respondent and judgment
and order reversed and cause remaneed for a new
trial.
10,4S4-Ex parte S. J. Robertson, on habeas cor
pusOn reading and fling the petition herein, it is
ordered that writ OF habeas corpus ISSUE directed
to p Crowley Chief of Police of the city and county
of San Francisco, returnable before Hon. Robert
Ferral, Judge of the Superior Court, Department
No. II, of the city and county of San Francisco at
the Courtroom of said Court, in the C ty of San
Francisco, the 18th day OF February 1880, at 10
o'clock A.. NJ.
10,4s5-Ex parte Maggie Brewer on habeas corpus
On reading and fling the petition herein it is or
dered that writ OF habeas corpus issue, directed to
p Crowley, Chief of Police of the city and county of
San Francisco, returnable before Hon. Rober. Fer
raj, Judge OF the Superior Court, Department No.
r. of the city and county OF San Francisco, at the
Courtroom Of said Court, in the city Of San Fran
CISCO on the 18th day OF February, 1850, at 10
o'c.ock A. NJ
Department No. g.
6O53-Estate of Edmund Brooks deceased Ar.
gued by Townsend for appellant and Rogers for re.
spondent, and cause submitted.
6079-Chamberlain Pacific Wool Growing Co.
Argued by Bates for appellant and Sawyer for re-
spondent, and cause submitted, with two days to
each to file briefs.
6Os2- Smith vs. East Branch Mining Company
Argued by Nourse for appellant and Crittenden for
respondent, and cause submitted.
WEDNESDAY, February 11th
6l04 -Olney VS.. Sawyer ct al.-Argued by Olney
and Cope forappellant and Lawrence for respondent
and cause submitted.
Department No. 1.
George F. Sharp VS.. Thomas S. Mier-On motion
Of Carson. respondent is allowed two days additional
time in which to file brief
6Sl7-ln the matter of Fifteenth avenue Extern
sion-On motion of Crittenden for respondent it Is
ordered that the appeal herein be and the same is
hereby dismissed
6665-In the matter Of Fifteenth-avenu Extern
sion-It is ordered that counsel for appellant be al
lowed five days additional time in which to insert in
their transcript such additional matter as they NAV
deem necessary, certified by the Clerk of the County
Court, and that the cause be set for hearing on
Wednesday, February 18TH instant
5971-Richardsop VS.. Musser-Argued by SAWYER
and Harrison for respondent and Buckley Tor appel
liant and cause submitted
O'Neill VS.. O'Neill-0n motion of McElratb. or
dered that counsel for respondent be allowed five
days additional time in which to file brief
Hughes vs.. Bray-Ordered that this cause be COR
tinued to the foot of the calendar
592s-Shay VS.. Lady Bryan Mining Company
CDiniop filed -fN'
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The other provision, that every COM
pany doing business in the State shall have
$500, 1000 capital, is also aimed at the East
ern companies, large number of which
would be excluded by it. The impolicy of
such provision is shown in the fact that
in the greatest commercial center of the
country, New York, the capital required
from insurance companies is only 5000, 900.
Again, there are many of these Eastern
companies which possess assets largely in
excess of their nominal capital, and whose
surplus is sometimes greater than that of
all the local companies put together. These
are obviously the most sound and safe Of
corporations, but they would be ruled out
under this BILL In fact the bill is a
measure the only effect of which could be
to decrease security, and at the same time
increase the cost of insurance for it
is very certain that the first result Of
the expulsion of the Eastern companies
would be to put up local rates. Nothing
more emphatically hostile to the interests
of the public could therefore have been de-
vised, and its enactment would argue a
studied contempt for the needs of their
constituents fatal to the prospects of any
Legislature. The safety of insurance de-
ponds upon the wide distribution of risks.
The more companies there are, and the
more distant are their main reserves of
capital from the location of their risks, the
greater the security afforded by them. If
we were dependent solely or mainly upon
local companies we should practically be
deprived of insurance altogether. In
this case, however, it is impudently pro-
posed that the people shall pay higher
rates for less security. We confess our
inability to perceive upon what ground of
public policy the bill can be defended.
Local insurance companies have no doubt
the best possible reasons for advocating it,
for it is Enthusiastically in their interest.
But local insurance companies are not the
people of California, and it is the first duty
of the Legislature to protect the latter.
Senate Bill No. lSS is directly against the
public interest. 1t is most impolitic,
dangerous and unjustifable bill. Its adop-
ton would literally destroy the security of
all property insured in the local companies,
and at the same time prevent recourse to
safer methods. The discussion it has ellie.
tied has, however, brought to the front
some defects in the status of the local
companies of SO grave character that we
think it will be necessary to demand RENE
dial legislation against them during the
present session.
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BETTER TIMES AHEAD. EVERYTHING in.
dlcates that the present year will be a
prosperous one for Lake county, and that
with proper economy for short time
longer the day of better times will break
and the darkness of financial troubles dis.
appear. The wool interests of this county
are quite large, and at present prices, which
IN all human probability will be maintained
for year or more, the spring and fall clips
will bring "a considerable sum into the pock.
cts of our sheep men. There will also be
full average breadth of land sown in
wheat, with the same probability that il
VIII again bring remunerative prices and
put another large amount of money in cir.
eulation in the. county. There is also
every reason to believe that the visitors TO
Lake county this summer in search
OF health and pleasure, will run HIGH
up in the thousands, and this Will
place in circulation in our midst MANY
thousands of dollars. And to crown all. the
probabilities arestrong that by falla railroad
wllpenetrateourc county, and fit be so. new
life and activity will be infused into ey.
cry branch of business. We NAV be mis-.
taken, but We feel quite confident that a
tidal wave of prosperity. that shall con.
tlnue for years. is about to sweep over our
delightful little county.-[Lake County
Bee.
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Comstock Mining Matters.

VIRGINIA. February 11th.-The following
appears in the evening paper: 1t became
known on the street this morning that an i'm.
portant strike was made last night in the
Wine on the 2, 400foot level Told $500 level
of the Sierra Nevada mine. This winze is
sunk on the east side of the north drift, at
point about 135 feet north of the incline. 1t
is down about 80 feet. The ore is rich, one
of the assays being reported at 5000. A re-
porter applied to Director Drexler for infor-
nation, but found that Director Drexler is
now apparently as anxious to reserve all in
formation as plain Mr.. Drexler was anxious
to obtain information before he became Di.
rector Drexler, all of which goes to show how
circumstances sometimes alter cases. Super
intendent james was found and Intercepted.
He said, 81 can tell you nothing. Go to
Mr.. Drexler."
Superintendent Kelly, of the Lady Bryan,
says his mine will shut down in few DAYS.
He says they have no money to pay the ex-
penses of running.
The pumps at the Forman shaft started up
this afternoon, and will be running regularly
il day or two.
The improvement recently reported in the
Hardy vein. in the Ophir mine, is on the
2, 100-foot level. The main drift along the
vein north of the slopes has been turned
into an east cross-cut, and is encountering
punches and strikes of good ore.
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DIED..

Sacramento, February 11-Judge Thomas Conger,
native OF New Jersey, II years, month and "a
days.
Funeral notice hereafter
Near Sacramento, February Catherine Hargrave,
native of North Carolina, 65 years.
Friends and acquaintance are respectfully invited
to attend the funeral which will take place from
the A. NJ. E. Church, on Seventh street, between
G and q, this afternoon at o'clock.l
Napa, February 9-Mrs. Lucy A. Bridgman, SO
years.
Vallejo, February 9-Mrs. Alice Dunlap 81 years.
Nevada City, February s-Mrs Elizabeth J. Parker,
IS years and months.
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SAN FRANCISCO MONEY MARKET.-Coin
continues plentiful at all the banks. The
large amounts recently absorbed for taxes
are gradually flowing back into the channels
of circulation, through Disbursements for
public needs. The dearth of local enterprises
and the almost complete absence of specula-
tion render matters very dull at the banks.
Commercial paper is discounted at per cent.
The Savings Banks take mortgages on civ
real estate at 9@11 per cent and assume the
mortgage tax. Call loans against United
Fine Silver is dull at 11@115 per cent. dis
count. Drafts on New York are drawn at
SOC. for mail and size. premium for 500 for
telegraphic. Bankers are selling Exchange
en- London at 49l1d., and buying grain bills az
sod. Mexican Dollars are nominal at Ola
Clio. apiece. San Francisco Bulletin, Febru-
ary 10Th.
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A SUCCESSFUL HUNT.-A large party Of
Indians yesterday returned from a hunting
expedition about Sierra and Long valleys,
and Honey lake. They had on their ponies
the carcasses of over twenty-five deer, and
seemed to have the skins of good many
more. Besides deer, they had large lot
OF rabbits. There were no squaws with
the party. The Indians had a grand feast
and dance last night in their permanent
camp over the river. Reno Gazette, Feb
ruary 9th.
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OREGON.
Work Crowded E0rward-Whsa Mt Market
Indictments Smelf Dying = salmon
NATURALIZATION DISTRACTED.

tInenks en1cAt Dying salmon
characterization 0bstructed.
PORTLAND, February 11th.-Work on the
locks and canal at the Cascades is being
crowded forward. Over $50 men are en-
ployed.
Wheat is little irmer to-day, quotable at
81 80.
The Grand Jury in the State Circuit Court
are in session, and have returned number
of indictments.
From some unknown cause millions of
smelt in the lower Columbia are dying. In
many places the shore Of the river is lined
with these dead fish.
From present indications it is thought there
will be an unusually heavy run of salmon the
coming fishing season in the lower Columbia.
Extensive preparations will be made by the
canneries to accommodate the run.
Navigation on the upper Willamette is OBJ
structed in many places by fallen timber,
Frustrated by the recent heavy wind storm.
By order of Colonel Gillespie, United States
Engineer, these impediments are being re-
moved.
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AFFIDAVIT.

CSTATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAC
- ramento-ss. II. S. BEALS, being first duly
sworn, on his oath deposes and says that he has
been Usher at the Metropolitan Theater in the city
of Sacramento, for the LIST twenty-six years, and
during all Of that time he has asked, received
offered to receive any money Of any person in
exchange for a reserved seat in said theater, and
never authorized any person in his employ to re-
ceive, offer to receive, to ask Tor any money for
the of such seats. He further says that if any
person did on last Saturday offer to receive, or
receive on der and any money or valuable thing in
exchange for the privilege of occupying seat in
said theater. such person did without authority,
and was not employe in or about said theater.
H. S. BEALS.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day
of FEBRUARY, 1850.
[sEAL.l F. H. MOORE, Notary Public
fl2-lt TB. CT
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Meaiher Reporfs.

Chico. February 1lth.-Y yesterday morn
ing we had a few showers of rain. To-day it
is blowing strong and cold from the north,
with prospect of a heavy frost this evening.
GONZALES, February 11th.-Last nights
rain yielded 80 of an inch, making for the
last three days 40 of an inch
GEORGETOWN Gel Dorado county,, Febru-
airy 11th-Rain fell here all day yesterday,
and this morning snow to depth of about
three inches lay upon the ground Total
rainfall for the season, IS inches.
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State Prison Commissioners Probable
nj


GEORGETOWN Gel Dorado county, Febru-
airy 11th.-One hundred and thirty-ive dol
lars have been subscribed in Georgetown and
vicinity, which will be forwarded to the Irish
relief fund tomorrow
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The will of the late David Ballentine, an
old settler of Illinois, by which he gave
Henry A. Ballentine and other of his chill
dren a life interest only in his estate of
$500, 200, has been declared void by Judge
Upton, in the Circuit Court at Waukegan,
on the ground Of the mental incapacity of
the testator.
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CALIFORNIA.
Suicide with CarboIic Acid-FatalIy Shot
by an Officer.

Suicide with Carb8Iic Acfd-FatalIy Shot
by an Officer.
SAN Francisco, February 18th. = Henry
| Hartman, Swedish sailor on the British
ship Pleione, committed suicide this morning
by drinking carbolic acid. He swallowed the
poison while lying in his bunk and was OBJ
served in the act by his shipmates, who sum-
moned assistance, but to no purpose.
Shortly after midnight officer Dryer, while
attempting to arrest a suspicious character
on West Mission street, near Twelfth, was
set upon by crowd of hoodlums, knocked
down and badly beaten. In the melee the
officer drew pistol and fired, bringing down
Michael Wynne with bullet in his side. He
was taken to the city hospital, where he died
this morning.
Tne WOrkiHgEncn of san Francisco and
Chinese Employees.
SAN Francisco, February 18th. The
| Workingmen are assembling at the sand lots,
with view of marching in procession to the
headquarters of the principal corporations,
| to demand the discharge of Chinese employees,
in accordance with the provisions of the Con
stitution.
Demonstration of Unemployed Working
| men.
| SAN Francisco, February 11th.- Some
| O,UUO dSSt1uDleu at
the sand lots this afternoon, and after listen
| ing to number of speakers about half of the
crowd formed in line and marched to the Of
fee of the Central Pacific Railroad Company,
and committee appointed for the purpose
sought an interview with President Stan
ford and Vice-President Crocker. Both were
absent, and the committee was received by
General Superintendent Towne, to whom
they stated that the object of the movement
was to ask the company to comply with the
provision of the new Constitution forbidding
corporations to employ Cinnamon. and give
work to unemployed whites, and intimating
that if the request was not complied with and
the distress continued, it would be difficult to
foretel the result Mr. Towne replied that
he would refer the matter to the Directors,
and return an answer on Monday next The
procession then returned to the sand lots, and
subsequently dispersed Other corporations
will be called upon tomorrow. The pro-
ceedings were quiet and orderly.
State Prison Commissioners - Probable
Appointments.
SAN QUENTIN, February 11th.-The Com
missioners are in session here to-day. The
probable appointments are Captain of the
Guard, Perkins, of Solano; Commissary,
Fulton G. Berry, of Marin; Commissary's
Clerk, ellison, of Butte Prison Clerk, Joe
Ellis of San Francisco,
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NEVADA.


CARLIN, February 11th. = The following
passengers passed Carlin to-day, to arrive in
Sacramento tomorrow J. II. Leighton and
wife, San Jose; S. Broonberger, D. Bloom,
San Francisco Edward Suhr, Germany ;
Isaac Reynolds, New York S. w. Richards,
London; Geo. G. Beckwith and wife, Dem
yer, Col. L. G. Nichols, Boston, Mass. Z.
Jeffers, Loversville, n. Y. f.; 40 emigrants, in
Guiding S3 males, to arrive in Sacramento
February 18th
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TIE INSURANCE QUESTION.

The provision of Senate Bill No. ISIS,
compelling all foreign insurance companies
to deposit certain amount of capital IN
the State before they are allowed to do
business, is one for which no rational JUS
LITIGATION can be found. The undoubted
purpose of it is to drive out of business
the fifty-two or three Eastern companies
which now have agencies in California. 1t
does not affect the foreign companies, the
majority of which would probably be will
ing to meet the requirement, but it is
aimed at, and would strike, the Eastern
companies, which now constitute the ma
jority of the insurance corporations doing
business here, and to the extent that it
expelled them it would be a public disas-
ter. Last year seven local companies car
ried risks amounting to $4,000, 900, and
fifty eight Eastern companies carried risks
amounting to S5S, OO0, 900. The result
of the proposed law would therefore
be to compel the redistribution OF
the SIS, 900, 600 carried by these Eastern
companies, among the seven local COM
panies, giving them about Sll0, 900, 600 of
risks, on total capital Of 81, 200, COO
These local companies are now carrying
risks IS times greater in proportion to then
capital than those borne by the Eastern
and foreign companies. It's now proposed
that this already dangerous excess of risks
over assets shall be doubled, and this de-
mand is made of the representatives of the
people-that is to say, of the insurers.
The fact is. that the business of the local
companies is not now upon safe basis.
They carrying far heavier risks than their
capital justifes. They ought not only to
be estopped from taking more risks, but
they ought to be compelled either to in
crease their capital or to cancel large
percentage of their present risks. What
they require of the Legislature, through
Senate Bill o.lSS, specifically thedestruc-
ton of all security for the insurers in this
State. 1t is proposed that of s. compa-
MES now represented here, 60 or more should
be driven out, and that the property of
every insurer should be placed at the
mercy of seven local companies, who
would every one be bankrupt if great fire
should ever occur in San Francisco. We
have no hesitation in asserting that this
bill is against public policy that it EN-
bodies one of the most mischievous and
unjustifable propositions ever brought be-
fore legislative body.
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squaw Burned to Death.

Chico, February 11th.-The squaw who
was married to Chinaman in Red Bluff
three or four weeks ago, and came to live in
Chico, was this morning burned to death by
the bursting of kerosene lamp in her room,
the burning oil going all over her clothes.
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CHINA AND JAPAN.

Arrival Of the Steamship Gaelic
at San Francisco.
HONGKONG AND YOKAHAMA NEWS.
Official Presentation of the Portuguese
Claim to Macao.
ANTI-FoRgIeN POLICY OF THE CHINESE.
The Emperor Of China Displeased with
His ambassador to Russia.
PROGRESS OF EDUCATION IN JAPAN.
Evidences Of the Influence Established by
Grant
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BATTLE MOUNTAIN, February 11th-The
first Nevada Central railway train from
Austin to Battle Mountain arrived here to-
day, with Vice-President Hall, Chief En-
gineer Bridges and Contractor General Jas.
III. Ledlie, and thirty passengers. The train
arrived here at 5 P. NJ. having run forty
miles an hour. Conductor Lovejoy and en-
gineer Golf were in charge.
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SUPERIOR COURT.

I-'oo-' 'IIu OIaaNhi JUuSeS.
WEDNESDAY, February 18th.
Cox d Clarke vs. Ellen Murdoch, administrator
Decree as prayed for.
Robert Wittenbrook vs. John Bellmer-Mot;on for
new trial argued and submitted
John Reel VS.. His Credtors-Decree Of final dis.
charge entered.
Peter McGraw vs.. His Creditors Same order.