The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-20

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the unearned portion of the Oregon Central
railroad Company's land grant. This is the
portion which lies between Astoria and Nc
Minnville. The bill next provides for grant
ing right OF way to the Astoria & Winnemucca
nailWay company for the entire line from
Astoria via McMinnvile and through the
willamette valley and southeastern Oregon
10 Wlhnemucca, Nevada. 1t is proposed to
pay that company one dollar per acre for all
lands disposed of by the government IN even
sections within the tract bounded Oh the east
and north by the Willamette and Columbia
rivers, on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and
on the south by base line passing through
fortiahd. Payments are to be made as fast
as railroad sections of twenty miles each are
completed. The lands are to be subject to
ordinary homestead and preemption entry,
anu also to private cash entry at $3.50 per
acre IN quantities not exceeding 100 acres
TO any one person, except mountainous and
tiinoer lands of which 32O acres may be pur-
chased.
The report published in the Washington
Star yesterday that Senator Grover is suffer-
ing from paralysis and dangerously i'll at
wilmington, Delaware, is discredited by his
intimate friends.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 13.-General Grant
and party arrived here at o'clock, and was
met by delegation of prominent citizens.
Or. Porter welcomed him as the greatest mil
itary chieftian of this or any other country, as
twice chosen President, as one of the most
distinguished citizens in the world, and alluded
in thankful words to the charity forwarded to
suffering Memphis during the yellow fever.
General Grant in replying, referring to the
charity that had been showercd upon Men,
phis, said it was a peculiarly of our country
to always take care of those III distress, and
that if the government failed in that respect
the charitably disposed throughout the land
would not let any one suffer. The party were
then driven to the Peabody Hotel where re-
treshments were served.
The procession at 1:30 was of considerable
dimensions, and escorted Gen. Grant to the
court house square, where Col. Josiah Patter-
son delivered the address of welcome, greeting
him i'll behalf of the Union and Confederate
soldiers as the generous soldier who interposed
the shield Of his own honor in defense Of the
unarmed veterans of the South, who in
accepting the surrender of the Confederate
armies, paused midway between victory and
oppression and inaugua"ated policy which
mitgated the passions VI var, and which
forms the crownlns memory of his eventful
life. He declared that but for this policy and
example the South would to-day be the
Poland of America, in open resistance or
PROSTATE beneath the tread of standing
army. He alluded to the peaceful scenes
which are now being enacted in the SoutH
and said that his receiving a hearty wei on>
from every section of this country, after H..
ing received them from every other section of
| the globe, must surely be the fruit of his am
| bition. He closed his eloquent speech with
All earnest wish for the Generals long and
| continued happiness.
General Grant said The reception which
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gratifying. 1t is pleasant to hear such words
of welcome as have heard throughout my
tour of the South. There has never been
day when was not as anxious for their pros
perty as they themselves.
The public leyee then held vast thron.,
estimated at 1900, who surged about the grand
stand anxious to shake the General by the
hand The military companies at l O'Clock
escorted Grant back to the hotel.
Evarts ON the Treaty.
WASHINGTON, April 13.-The President
transmitted to the House the report of Secre-
tary Evarts in relation to Chinese immigra-
ton, Secretary Evarts says: April 23, 1879,
when the American minister was about to
return to his mission in China he was spec
tally instructed that as the Chinese ministers
in this country were understood not to have
been furnished with powers or instructions to
treat in regard to questions growing out of
the presence of their people in California it
would be necessary to conduct negotiations
on that subject in Pekn. The character of
the Chinese movement toward our Pacific
Coast and the contract system under which
much of it was believed to De contracted was
specially called to his attention, and he was
informed that the government shared the an.
prehensions entertained on the Pacific Coast,
so that social and political arrangements
must result from the excessive increase of
that people. He was instructed to press earn
estly on the Chinese government the grounds
of that apprehension and invite full and
frank discussion as to the proper course of
negotiation to relieve it.. But as our own
people resident in China enjoy many impor-
tant treaty privileges and as it was desira lie
to work out the results sought without dis
turbing the good feeling now existing between
the two countries or impair the opportunities
and prospects inuring to us under existing,
treaties, he was directed to ascertain with
precision the disposition of the Chinese gov
ernme Mt and to give assurances which would
enable us to proceed with such further nego-
tiations as might be deemed necessary.
Capital Notes.
NEW YORK, April ia Washington spe-
cial to the Bulletin says it is understood that
the committee on postoffices and roads favors
the proposition for establishing steamships
between the United States and Central Amer
lea and also to subsidlze the lines between
the United States and Europe.
A Herald editorial reviewing and COM
menting on the Circuit Court decision on the
Chinese question, says: "No competent law
yer who reads the opinions can haye any
doubt as to what the decision of the Supreme
Court would be if the case should be carried
up by appeal" The Herald thinks it certain
that from this time forth the anti Chinese pro-
visions in the California Constitution are a
dead letter.
The Produce Exchange received yesterday
from California specimen of the so-called
Pampas rice, recently brought into notice by
the Kansas Board of Agriculture.
Rigorous Measures.
SANTA FE, April 13.-Some important