The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18

1 AA00Ac AOA OOAu PAASAey Al eA0Ah WASOAAAS
on the Iron Mountain railroad.
It is understood General Swaim's re-
port, submitted on the 9th. recommends
mitigation of Lieutenant Flipper's sem
| tence.
| A Washington special says: The Chi
nese minister is watching the debate on
the anti-immigration bill very closely
and informs his government daily of the
| progress made. In an interview on the
9th he admitted the right of the United
States under the treaty to restrict immi-
| grafton, but did not think it exactly fair
| or Just to prohibit Chineses coming here
for SO long period as twenty years. The
Chinese government he said, had no OBJ
lection to ten year limitation, and he
was surprised that the amendment of
Senator Ingalls,, backed as it was by the
eloquence of Senator Edmunds, did not
meet with the approval of the senate.
The q. s. marshal has received dis
patch dated March Sd. from his deputy
John Healy. that he is prisoner among
halfbreeds and Indians in their camp on
Milk river. The country is full of snug
glers and illicit traders and he had ar
rested six of the leading men and cap.
tured $4,000 worth of robes, when the
Indians captured him and his outfit. He
asked aid from Fort Assiniboine, as there
are not troops enough at Poplar river,
and the Sausac Indians are ready for
war. Marshal Bolkin has directed aid
to be sent. Later information is that Gen.
Rucker, commandant at Fort Assinibolne
has sent seven companies of infantry and
two of cavalry, numbering 400 men, un
4 Ont 10 1T
trouble, with instructions to rescue
Healy and drive the halfbreeis and Crees
back into British territory, whence they
came. 1t is feared Healy and his COM
panions may be butchered before the
troops arrive.
+. IL. Moore, attorney for Bolivar
county, Tenn, reports breaks in Hush.
pukana and Lake Charles leyees on the
9Th. Hushpukana is the largest levee in
Mississippi, and the three breaks sub.
merges the entire country of Bolivar.
/ At Rosedale the water is ten feet deep in
all dwellings. OF three hundred inhab-
itanss only three families remain, and
they are Living in the garrets of their
houses. All others sought safety else
where. The lesee Immediately in front
| OF Rosedale is crowded with negroes.
mules and cattle. The negroes number
about 500, have no shelter, and are ex-
| isting on the cattle which they killed.
Their condition is terrible, having been
exposed for the past two days to cold
drenching showers.
| The supplementary report of the Union
Pacific Is to be issued in few DAYS. It
| will state that the substitution of steel
| for iron rails for 1880 and 1881 cost
2.81O 900. The company has completed
laying of steel rails on the Union division
| with the exception of 40 miles. The
total expenses to complete the track with
steel rails for 1882, including the Kansas
division, will be about half million
dollars. This will materially reduce the
cost of operating the road in the future.
The first trip over the eastern divisisn
OF the New York, Chicago & st. Louis
Railroad has been made and an inspec-
tion made by small party of gentlemen
interested in the road. The syndicate of
which this road is part now controls 8
total OF 1880 miles of railroad and owns
2OO ,OOO acres of the richest lands in the
| country. AT Chicago, connection will
be made with the Milwaukee & st. Paul
for the northwest. A close alliance has
also been made with the Northern Pacific.
At Buffalo connection will be made with
the Delaware, Lackawana & Western ex-
tension now nearly completed, and with
the Erie and the New York, West Shore
u Buffalo. These lines so Joined will
form continuous line across the CONT
nent connecting New York with Port and.
Or. BY order of the syndicate, the Pull
man company is now building at Chi
cago a special outfit of palace, hotel and
sleeping cars, which are to be run over
this transcontinental line from New York
to Portland. They are to be of special
style and distinguished from other cars
now in use.
The Tribune announces the purchase
by Ex-Governor Stanford of California of
the celebrated trotting stallion Piedmont.
record 2:1714, owned by s. J. Morgan of
Chicago. Mr.. Stanford saw Piedmont
last Tuesday for the first time, and after
short ride behind him closed the trade.
paying $50, 900 for the animal Pied
mont is by Almont, and ia 1876 won a
four year old stake, getting record of
2:3OL. He didn't trot again until 1879.
when Re was defeated in two races. The
following spring he was handled by
Peter and Johnson, and since then has
trotted seventeen races; winning fourteen.
taking second money in two and third in
| one. In 1851 he won stake for 2:30
stations here, time 2:21 4 and last year
| captured the free-for-all stallion race.
trottlng the fourth heat in 2:174. Santa
Claus Is the only stallion that ever beat
Piedmont in race, and Piedmont beat
him there last July. The governor has
purchased from Mr.. Morgan the six year
old mare Happy Dream, by Happy Me-
| dunn, and will breed her to Electioneer.
The Chicago Journal of the 9th pub.
sished letter written by Garfield in
1863, which reflected somewhat on Rose
Grams. The letter was seen by the latter
who said: ''I had no idea at the time.
that was harboring person capable OF
such falseness and double dealing, or
| there would have been court martial at
once. did not look for such an exhi-
bition OF Garfields character as this.
and am sorry that the letter ever saw
light. 1t should never have been written,
for it is compound of untruths and ex-
aggeration.
The star route cases came mp in crimi-
nal court at Washington on the 9th FOL
| the purpose of giving defendants an op-
portunitv to give bail. Bliss called the
case of T. J. Brady, ex assistant postmas.
ter general. indicted for conspiracy, and
said the history of the cases is well
known. Brady had been an officer of the
/ government, and the indictment against
him was on charges as an officer by
which the government had lost about
half million dollars. The punishment
was two years imprisonment and fine
of $1,000, and he submitted that the bail
should be SOC, 900. Wilson. counsel fol
Brady, said they had examined the in
dictment and he would state that there
was no charge in it which could not bt
/ successfully met. He Thought S1O0{