Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-04-27
THE EXODUS COMMITTEE.
Testimony of Two Their
Statements Broker by Cross-Ex-
animation Biographical Sketch
of Justice FIeld-What His Bio
grapher Says of Him.
By Telegraph to the sentinel.l

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BY Telegraph to the sentinel.1
WASHINGTON, April 26.-Before the Exc
dus Committee, Absalom H. Kennedy, col
ored, of Oxford, Miss, testified that the
laws bear severely on the poorer classes
there, but do not discriminate between the
races. Bull-dozing was common, and the
colored Republicans are ostracised and
hated. He understood that Senator-elect
George, from Mississippi, had instructed
the County Committees to kill off as many
Republican leaders as possible, in order to
demoralize the party. The negro is all
right when out Of politics. Many bitter
Democrats think it a righteous deed to kill
Republicans.
W. &. Horn, Of Alabama, testified that
he gave up stamping the State for fear of
assassination by the armed and organized
body, who are still powerful in the State.
Both witnesses agreed that the planters and
some of the other citizens deprecated the
outrages against the Republicans, but were
in the minority. The force of their testi-
mony was partially broken by cross-exam-
nation.
The Sunday Gazette prints a fine wood
cut portrait of Justice Field, accompanied
by a complimentary biographical sketch,
in the course of which it gives him the
credit of the authorship of the provisions
of the mining laws, upon which rests the
settled policy of California and of all other
States and Territories containing precious
metals. The Gazette also quotes Judge
! Joseph Baldwin, of California, as saying
nf Jp6na Eia1d thof hn hoe r,ora +ban any
other man, given a zone of consistency and
| system to our Jurisprudence, and laid
broad and deep the foundations Of our
civil and criminal law. The land titles of
the States, the most important and perma-
nent of the interests of a great Common
wealth, have received from his hand their
permanent construction, and this alone
should entitle him to the lasting gratitude
of the bar and the people.
Sympathy for Dennis Kearney-
Eighty per cent. of the Art CoIIec-
ton RecOvered-Large Arrivals of
Immigrants.
New YORK, April 26.-John Swinton, in
a letter to the Irish World, proposes that
a great mass meeting be held to express
sympathy with Dennis Kearney, who was
sent to prison through the most shocking
perversion Of justice, and under circum-
stances Of piratical cruelty. The editor
replies that arrangements are now being
made to hold such a meeting. Three gen.
tlemen of the Irish World join with Swim
ton in defraying the expenses of Cooper
Institute for the purpose.
About 80 per cent. Of the art collection
in Madison Square Garden has been recov-
cred, not much damaged. Only ten or
twelve pictures were entirely destroyed.
-Four victims in all have died.
The arrivals of immigrants continue
large, almost beyond precedent. Five
steamships yesterday landed at Castle
Garden with 3,342 steerage passengers, of
whom 1860 came from Bremen. The arri-
walls for the week amounted to 16, 253, and
for the month to SO. 800. If the arrivals
should continue equally large next week,
they will make the present months bust
ness the largest on record. The largest
previous month was about 10000. 1t was
said at Castle Garden yesterday that the
immigrants who have recently arrived here
have been of a better class than usual.
The most Of them have been young and
sturdy peasants and artisans.