Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-03-15
TELEGRAPHIC.
uNFAvoRAsLE REPORTS FROM THE
OVERLOOKED DISTRICTS.
Great Suffering and Destruction OF
Property.
THE GOVERNMENT STILL DlsTRIsuT-
ING RATIoNs.
Thousands of People Driven from
Their Homes.
THE HERA1D's VIEWS ON THE CHINESE
QUESTION.
fsrrcrAL TO THE SENTINEL

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JACKSON (Miss.), March 1.-THE re-
ports from the overfiowed districts are
most unfayorable, and show great destruc-
ton and suffering. The Governor leaves
tomorrow for the scene of trouble, and
will render all the aid possible. Colonel
Hemingway, now at Memphis, is making
every effort to relieve the sufferers Of that
section.
New ORLEANS, March 1.-THE river is
nine inches below the high water mark OF
1874. Advices from abroad confirm the
report Of the breaks Of the False River
dyke, on Saturday night. Some damage
to plantations in West Baton Rouge may
be the result. The river at Vicksburg
yesterday rose 8 inches, the flood waters
from the Yazoo Valley having reached that
point. Arrangements are being made by
the Commissioners for the distribution OF
I6, 900 Government ~rations. Those for
the upper region will be sent by steamer
to-day and tomorrow.
MEMPHIS, March 1.-THE river has de-
clined two inches, and now marks 30 rect
7 inches on the gauge. Capt. j. s. Lond,
one of the army officers detailed by the
Secretary Of War to ascertain the amount
of destitution prevailing in the flooded
counties between Cairo and this city,
arrived Yesterday. He reports great dis
tress among the inhabitants of New Mad
rid and Penniscott Counties, Missouri,
Lake and Dyer Counties, Tennessee, and
Mississippi County, Arkansas. Penniscott
County is a wreck, and has been
submerged for three weeks. Capt. Lond
thinks that Government aid for the in
habitants Of these counties will be
necessary until May l. Commissioners
Mangum and Hemingway to-day each dis
tributed $1,000 additional r~ations, fur
nished by the Government for the relief
of the sufferers in Arkansas and Missis-
| sippi. Three breaks are reported in the
line of the Chicago, st. Louis and New
Orleans Railroad. One near Grand juno
ton, one near Michigan City, where
| Wolf River crosses the road, and another
| further down. The officers and passen-
gers OF the steamer Baton Rouge, which
| arrived here yesterday from New Orleans,
say the condition of things along the
whole length Of the river is pitiable in the
extreme. The river, they say, has an ay-
erage width of 40 miles nearly all the way
| from Cairo down. Above and below Vicks-
| burg the leyees are either washed away or
| covered with water, and are of no particu-
lar benefit. Thousands Of people have been
driven from their homes, and nearly all
| their live stock has been or will be starved
or drowned.
The Condition OF Guiteau.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-A visit to the
Jail to-day shows that Guitesu has lost
much Of his loquacity and has become
t~aciturn. He takes very little interest in
visitors, except to sell them his photographs
and autographs. He is not taking sub
scriptions for his book. He has gained
| flesh since the trial, and his color has
greatly improved. The Warden says he
spends no time in religious exercises,
rarely reading the Bible, and he has never
| been seen praying. At the same time be
| does not appear to be depressed, and II
questioned, asserts that he was and is in
| spired. He has shown no exultation over
| the sentence in the Mason case. He
spends the greater part of the day in read
ing proofs of the new edition OF Truth"
Warden Croker says his prisoner exhibits
no signs Of insanity, and the officers Of the
Jail also watch Guiteau carefully, and see
no signs Of increasing mental disorder.
In conversation he never alludes to his ap-
preaching doom as his death, but says
" G." instead. II suppose I've got to CO."
being q frequent expression with him.
Warden Crocker does not think he will
commit suicide, and is lure that the pris-
oner's health and insolence will remain
unimpsired to the last.
Opposed to the Twenty.Year Limit.
New York, March 14.-In an editorial
the Herald says it is q mistake for Senator
Miller and his friends to insist upon SO
long g limit as twenty years. 1t would be
much better to try the experiment for Ave
years. At the end Of Ave years our friends
OF California will know more about the
Chinese than they do to-day. They will
also know whether they really wish them
to remain or go; whether the evils OF i'm
migration have not been more than com
psnsated for by the increase Of industries
In the State, the building Of railroads and
the rapid development OF the coast. The
whole Chinese question is full Of embsr-
rassments. There Is no disposition, Of
course, on the part Of the Eastern States
to force upon their extreme Western
brethren q population which is inimical to
their welfare, but at the same time IL is
very hard to see how, with our treaties,
our free institutions, our constitutional
amendments and our clearly defined policy
Of freedom and independence, any valid
law can be passed legislating againsta race.
Baptist Ministers Opposed 10 the
Chinese Bill.
New YORK, March 14.-Dr. Samson
fathered . memorial to Congress yes
terdsy. which was quite unanimously
signed by the Baptist ministers at their
conference. the purpose OF which is to OPP
pose the bill how before Congress, pro-
hibiting. or limiting. Chinese immigra-
ton. The memorialists say the country
needs the labor OF the Chinese; that they
are, % q people, quiet and inoffensive; that
under the Constitution they have . right
to come here on the same terms as other
immigrants; that 1t Ia contrary to our
Constitution, and the spirit OF our Govern
ment and laws to preAent them to come. or
stay here as bond servants for Q term OF
years, however limited, and that all re-
strictions, applicable only to the Chinese,
should be obliterated from our statute
books. Other clerical bodies have taken
action in this direction also.
Another band OF Train wreckers.
FoRr WORK. (Texas), March l4.-A
regularly organised band Of train wreck
ers Is operating in this State. Last nigh.
9 rail was removed from the Gull Of Colo
RADIO and Santa 70 track. atty miles south
Of here, on q high embankment. The
express train made q miracu.
lous escape. Going at the rate Of rs miles
an hour, 1t passed over ties. striking the
track all right. Tbs Would-ha wreokara |
attempted to wreck Q train on the Texas |