Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-14

crats snd Greenbackers, but such cpmbina-
ton could not win, unless the Virginia
Readjnsters join in, provided the Rspubli-
cans succeed in electing two of the four
members TO be chosen in New York. Should
the Democrats capture Mr.. Miler's or Mr..
Lapham's district, it might be fatal to the
Republican ascendancy, as it would enable
the opposition. by q combination, to muster
a majority. The chances are favorable to the
Republicans for the organization, but the
vote Is likely to be so close that sudden
death or case of Illness might upset all calcu-
lations.
Disorder ut New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, September Ssh.-This fore
noon Jim Wilson, a driver, was stoned. and
be shot John Linskev. and then delivered bis
load of cotton at the Kentucky press. A large
crowd gathered around the press. Three
teamsters are reported being driven off. Oue
of them was struck with a rock. The police
drove the vehicles TO their destination in the
lower district. twenty men employed at the
Natchez press armed themselves with double
bsrreled sbotguns. and went to work Or
Tchaupitoulas street. Several pistol shots
ware fired. The police arrested two men for
firing at the teausters. Men loading the ship
College with cotton having been driven away,
the mea boarded the vessel and fred through
the hatchwsy at the men in the hold. The
acting Governor, at the request OF the Mayor,
ordered the State National Guard to assist in
preserving the peace and dispense all congre-
cations of persons on the street corners. The
city has been placed under military protec-
ton.
SECOND DIsPATCH.l
NEW ORLEANS, September 13th.-It is re-
ported that the British Consul asked protec-
ton for the steamships Historian and Celia
and the bark George. The Governor promised
to send troops this afternoon, hut none were
sent. Ii none are sent by 10 o'clock to-mor-
row the Consul viii communicate with the
British Minister at Washington. It is also
rumored that the Spanish Consul wired the
Spanish Minister at Washington relative to
the affairs Of the steamship Gallego.
The SAN Francisco Mint Investigation
Complete Exoneraiion of superinfsnd-
ent Dodge.
WASHINGTON, September 13th.-The Com
mission, consisting Of Hon. Alexander Ram
sey, Thomas l.. Young and s. 0. Houghton
appointed to investigate the charges made BY
II. T. Page against II. J.. Dodge, Superin-
tendent of the United States Mint at San
Francisco has concluded its Investigation md
submitted its report to the Secretary of the
Treasury. The report fully exonerates Dodge
from all the charges preferred against him.
An Unknown Country Expiored-Infers
esting Details.
CHICAGO, September 13th,-First Lieuten-
ant John s. Bourke. Third Cavalry, U. S.
a, Aid-de-C Camp to General Crook, was one
of the officers selected by Lieutenant General
| Sheridan some months since to make investi-
cations into the habits of the Indians living
within or contiguous to the military Division
OF Missouri. The district assigned TO Lien
tenant Bourke was the southern half of the
division, the northern portion being allotted
to Captain W. z. Clark. Second Cavalry
| BouIke has penetrated into country never
before traveTsed by white man, and
has written to General Sheridan a
long letter, which contains a graphic
account of curious and terrible religious
ceremony among the remote and almost un-
known Indian tribe, the Mcquia of North
western Arizona, people whose identity has
been preserved since they were first seen and
partially described by the Spanish Catholic
missionaries in 1886. The rite referred to is
the snake dance. Lieutenant BOurke states
that they danced around in peculiar manner
with snakes in their hands and mouths
There were about hundred venomous rattle
snakes, and these were handled carelessly by
old men and boys. The scene was horrible
i'll the extreme These people are greater
snake.charmers than the Asiltics.