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Av2IDANCE OF THE CHINEsE RBsFRIC-
TON ACT.

1t is alleged that nine out of ten of all
the Chinese arriving on the steamers from
Hongkong are of the identical class in
tended to be excluded by the ten-year
Chinese Exclusion Act; that by means of
certificates issued by the Chinese Superin-
tendent of Customs, hundreds of Chinese
come to the coast under the guise of
traders, students, merchants and travellers,
who are really under the ban Of the re-
striction law; that our own Customs
officers have no discretion in the matter,
and are, under the law, compelled to accept
the Chinese certificate of the right of the
Chinaman bearing it to land, and that
there is no check whatever to the issuance
of these certificates by the officials in
China. If these things are true, and the
evidences certainly appear to substantiate
the allegations, then so far as our Restric-
ton Act is concerned, it is wholly at the
mercy of Chinese officials in China, who
have no care whatever regarding the en-
forcement of our laws, and probably
secretly enjoy the power they possess to
nullify our enactments. The San Fran
cisco Bulletin relates how these certificates
of right to land are procured accord
ing to reports which come from Cinnamon
themselves, certificates are secured in this
way The Chinaman wishing to come to
this country makes application to the
gives his name, occupation, etc. He does
not obtain his certificate then goes away,
and in the course of week or two two In
spectors are sent out by the Chinese Su-
perintendent to look into the case and
to ascertain whether or not the applicants
story is correct. They hunt up the sppli.
cant, and no case Is recorded, SO far as
known, where certificate has been re-
fused" The exclusion of Chinese accorf-
ing to certain restrictions was entitled to
be fairly and honestly tried. If the law
can be and is evaded as stated, then
tDeFe mas De6u anu Can DG uO beSb VI bHO
system of Chinese exclusion, and which it
is most desirable, alike for the friends of
the law and the system, and those who
doubt and oppose the policy of both, shall
be fairly tried. The ten-year limit is Slip
ping away, and very little has been gained,
because between the freebooters and snug
glers Oh the north of US, the sentimentalists
of the east and the certificate business
in China, the operation of the law has been
retarded, and in several respects practically
defeated. This is much to be regretted,
and it would seem to be the first duty of
Congress when it assemblies to take steps
to close the loopholes by which one of its
most solemn enactments is entered and de.
spoiled OF its vitality.
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PASSENGER LIsTs.

NEwuALL, October l5th.-Passed here to-day, 10
arrive in San Francisco tomorrow G. Boca, Monte
video ; s. s. Austin, Mobile, Ala; NJ. McAnarney,
New York L. A. NewlnarCk, Los Angeles Miss
Mackey, Los Angeles, DR.. Shorb, San Gabriel; T..
f. Atkinson, san Francisco Eugene heher, \. X.
Eiserbach, Los Angeles j. F. COgfrie and wife,
san Francisco; G. W. Wells, Los Angeles; c. C.
Brown Pasadena; A. G. Jefferson, Hudson, Wis.
$ c. Mot and wife, Los Angeles; John COmstocks
Hudson, Wis, H. NJ. Wildis, San Bernsrdino W. G.
Walker, Santa Ana o. $ GoodnOw, wife ana
child, Dallas, Tex; Mrs. Barlor and child, Topeka,
KS: W. T. Rolf, New York Q. II. Leayitt and wife,
Ohio 7. J. Cuddy, Los Angeles.
CARLIS, October 16th.-Passed here to-day, 10 ar
rive in Sacramento tomorrow: A f. Thomson and
wife, New York E. NJ kinman and wife, Illinois I;
D. j LINDSAY and wife, Belfast, Ireland J. G. KEEL
logg, San Francisco; Miss Sheppard, Oakland Miss
Barber, Germany Wallace Mott, Angel Island, Cal. /;
Mrs NJ NJ. Stillwell, New York F. Swart ard wife,
Chicago ; P. Sheffield, London, Eng; F. A. Wilmer,
United States navy A Musgroye, Halifax II. P.
Coon, San Francisco; A. AYscough. Boston A
Kendrick Australia; Miss E. PembletOn, California;
A. Robertson, Glasgow, Scotland; B. F. Weston and
wife, Milwaukee; Mrs f. Thomas, Cincinnati NJ.
Eyne and wife, Baltimore Mrs. f. A. Dement,, Miss
Grace Dement,, Milwaukee; Mrs o. Liddell and
two children, Salt Lake, Utah; o. BehTus and
wife, Iowa A NJ. Morrison, Illinois T. l. Carlow,
p T. Phillips, New York city ; c. L. Booth, Call
fornia c. Lehner, Buffalo, h. Y; II. R. Peck,
Denver, Col. A. c. Tufts, Sacramento, It. Balm
bridge, Iowa VIM. Moss, Ogden p CHM, Mrs A.
Slack Oakland ~. B. Estes, Missouri G. W.
Evans Washir gton Geo. Mason, Mrs. Geo. Mason
Canada A. Mason, London, Eng; c. Baxter,
Washington Territory L. Lucus, Indiana G. l.
ShoreS Canada D. T. Lucus, Indiana a. j. Syne,
New York city Lieutenant OYter, Lieutenant
Bailey, L. s A; E. D. Decow, Philadelphia; C. H.
Willett, Chicago; 126 emigrants, including 81
males, to arrive in Sacramento October 18th
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checks are all within one department, still,
if those over the clerk were prompt in
duty, and daily examined the entries and
balanced the whole set of books,
as should be done in all such
departments, no fraud would be possible,
except by collision. If there should
be collision, however, it must be assumed
the rascals would be sharp enough to cover
their tracks by forcing balances, or by
emitting entries in the first instance. But
nothing of this kind was done. Carroll
simply received the money, made the en-
try and put the dollars in his pocket,
trusting to good luck and the chance Of the
cashier or head of the bureau ever looking
over his books. Had they done so they
must have discovered the theft. Mayor
Edison says. &c 1t makes me sick to think
such fraud could be perpetrated, and go
so long and not be discovered it makes
me sick to think there are such dishonest
men put into Office" 1t is sincerely to be
hoped that Edison will become SO sick,
and the citizens of New York SO i'll, and
the people of all the municipalities in the
Union SO grievously unwell, that they can
secure no relief except by divorcing poll
tics from municipal affairs. This must
come in time. Under the system now in
vogue by which ward managers name our
officials, who in turn must reward with
clerkships those who work for them and
strike at the polls under the system that
seizes upon part of every salary as
means to defray party expenses, reward
"the boys" and fee ticket.peddlers and
bullies, we must not be so foolish as to ex-
press surprise that clerks steal, officials
rob, and bosses plumber the cities OF the
country. There is no reason why such
things should be. Politics have nothing to
do with the keeping of streets, the i'm
provement of parks, the lighting of high
ways, the drainage of town, with sewer
age systems, the disposal of sewage,
with debt-discharge or municipal financial
economy. We mistake ; politics do have
much to do with all these purely business
affairs, and that is the matter with most
of our city administrations. The remedy
is not difficult of application; it is at the
hand of every man if he will but reach
forth and apply it. As New York
paper puts it, "any reform which stops
short of the complete elimination of poll
tics will be at best oulY halfway rem
edy. The service should be reconstructed
thoroughly, and all appointments and pre-
ferments be based upon merit and fitness
alone. This would simply be introducing
into the municipal departments the ordi-
nary methods followed by every merchant
and banker in his business. There is not
business house in the city where such
frauds as Carroll's could pass undisc overed
for single day"
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sey blood is brought into our American
stock of dairy cows.

sey blood is brought into our American
stock of dairy cows.
In almost every dairy herd there are one
or more COWS whose product does not pay
cost of keeping and expenses. II the milk
is sold or taken to a creamery, these I'M
profitable cows are quickly discovered and
weeded from the herd, but in ordinary
farming, where the milk is mixed with that
of other cows, it is not easy to decide
which animals are profitable and which are
not.
A Kentucky paper says the breeding of
fast horses has been much condemned, but
it has done immense good to agricultural
interests. 1t has turned the farmers pot
bellied, bang. headed, stumbling, stagger.
ing plug into smart, bright, quick-step-
ping horse that can do twice the amount OF
work his predecessor was capable of, and
trot off to market or to church IN quar-
ter of the time.
Il is poor practice to be continually dos
ing animals. When we see farmer fire.
quently visiting the drug store for medicine
for his stock, the impression is that there
is something radically wrong in his man
agement. He is the D." sick one, " and needs
the aid of good physician-some one to
show him that the sickness rarely happens
on well-ordered farm that clean, warm
stables and plenty Of good feed, pure
water in abundance, ETC., are far better
than their oppostes, with all the physic
that the largest drug store can supply.
Nothing is more clearly proved than the
Importance of care and keeping of the right
sort for the health of the farm animals, and
their profitable growth and increase. Sick
ness will sometimes come with the very
best management and when it does, it is
better to employ skilled hands to cure than
to doctor and "physic and perhaps
kill the valuable animal yourself, which
under proper treatment might have been
saved at trifiing expense.-[Agriculturist.
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OREGON.
AdYLces from Portland.
insurance..

PORTLAND, o ,tober 16th.-An alteration
occurred yesterday at SiIverton between Pc
ter Francis and G.. W. Cox. Francis was
dangerously stabbed in the breast, and during
the row Cox made his escape.
Last night NJ. Dones. engineer at the coal
buukers at Albina, accidentally fell into the
river and was drowned. He is supposed to
have bsen intoxicated. The body was not
recovered.
Owing to some disagreement with The men,
bers Of the Board OF Trustees, Mayor Morris,
of East Portland, rendered his resignation
last night, which was accepted. This pro-
duces a te nplra,y disruption of the city gov
eminent of East Portland
The suit of Miss Clara Woods against DR..
&. II. Davis, for breach of promise, is now
on trial in the State Circuit Court. Plaintiff
asks for $4,000 to soothe her lacerated heart.
The suit is attracting much attention.
The special committee appointed to iDses-
tigste the charges against Mayor Chapman
will hold It's first meeting Friday afternoon,
and will be public. The committee express a
determination to sifl the charges thoroughly.
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BOLD STEALING IN NEW YORK.

A most singular state of affairs has de.
veloped in the New York Bureau of Ar
rears. a clerk named Carroll ia q heavy
defsulter. Had the most ordinary precau.
tions been taken, the most ordinary
business system been observed, the theft
would not have been possible. The fraud
was so bold-faced, SO easy OF detection,
that the wonder is it ever escaped atten-
ton for an hour. Whenever payment of
arrears is made in the department, it is the
duty of the clerk to receive the money
and enter it on his books. He must then
pass it to the cashier who enters it again,
and from these the ledger entries are made
up, while the money passes on to the head
of the department, who retains the custody
of it. Now, while this is not very secure
system of checks and balances, since the
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SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

DIR. Tsun Yuen, an aged Chinamsn, was
found dead in his bed at 651 Clay street Mon
DAY afternoon. d.
Verdicts of suicide were rendered by Cor
ener's jury in the cases Of Charles Lockhardt
and Nicholas Halden.
Officer William Doyle was tried before the
Police Commissioners, Monday night, for
having been asleep while on duty, and dis
missed from the forcs.
The Newbern's yellow fever patients hsv-
ing recovered their upusl health, the steamer
aud barge, after being thoroughly fumigated,
have been released from quarantine.
Superintendent NJ. J. Heating. of the
Aims house. has enriched the county treas
ury by 1854 50, the proceeds of the sale of
twenty-three hogs, weighing 6, 800 pounds,
raised at that institution.
On stipulation Of the parties in the case of
the People Vs. Leland Stanford ct al, with
reference to the Potrero Railroad fran
chise, Judge Finn has SET aside his order
overriding the demurrer, and the case is re-
submitted.
Monday afternoon the tenth annual ses.
sion OF the Grand Chapter of the O;der of
Eastern Star was begun at Laurel Hall, A.
f. Hitchcock presiding. The reports of the
Grand officers were received as follows ::
Mary A. Flint, G. W. Mat-on Mary NJ.
Holtz, G. Treasurer; Kate J. Willsts, G.
Secretary. Committees were appointed to
investigate the affairs and progress Of the
Chapter during the past year.
At the annual conference Of the Ancient
Order of Foressers Monday, District Chief
Ranger J. 3. Tungate presiding, thirty dele
gates from thirteen districts were present.
The COMMITTEES on Credentials reported, after
which Chief Ranger Tungate made his ad.
dress. The membership of the Order is l, 400.
The following officers were elected: Chief
District Ranger, II. Beaver Assistant Dis
trics Ranger, Alexander Nicholson; Treas
urer, M. Goldman; District Secretary, R.
G. McLennan; District Beadle, Holton
Webb Trustees, John Nolan, Charles Kin
ME aud J. Watt; Orators, DIR. Dewitt, A.
Froment and James Graf Arbitration
Committee, w. II. Williams, J. S. G9rrett,
J. A. F4ulkner, A. Sands. Walter Ayling
and Joseph Moscrop.
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or property without due process of law,
should give power to Congress to provide
the due process for the protection of life,
liberty and property. 1t was intended
only to prevent State laws obnox'
ious to the constitutional amendments
from being enforced, to the deprivation of
the rights and privileges secured to citi-
zens. In other words. we are to under
stand that Congress cannot within the
scope of its authority affirmatively enter
the domain of the State to provide the
process for the protection guaranteed. II
State by law sought to deprive citizen
of right secured to him under the Con.
stitutiou, then the Federal power would in
tervene to enforce the constitutional pro-
hibition. The Thirteenth Amendment re.
lates only to slavery and involuntary servi-
tude, and hence did not confer upon Con-
gress the authority to pass the law at
issue, for the power given Congress, says
the Court, extends only to the subject
matter of the amendment itself-alavery,
and its necessary incidents and conse-
euences, and has nothing to do with diff
ferent races or colors. A speaker, we
may here interpolate, at the recent COL
ored Convention, referred to the equality
recognized in France, but he did not go
further and point out that it is not the re-
suit of an affirmative law, but rather OF
social conditions. The Court says that the
whole question of legal equality OF races and
classes of citizens is confined to the Four
tenth Amendment, which prohibits the
States from doing anything to interfere
with such equality that is to say, then,
it must be assumed that the equality ex-
lists, and the guaranteed rights are enjoyed,
and are undi sturbed except by adverse
legislation.
As far back as the celebrated case of
Mum VS.. Illinois the same Court held,
where it was objected that State statute
was opposed to so much of the Fourteenth
Amendment as prohibited State from de-
nying to any person the equal protection of
the laws, that the amendment simply pre-
vents State from doing that which will
operate as a deprivation of right without
due process of law-it is, in short, linn
itation upon the powers of the States.
The decision, therefore, does not limit or
narrow the guarantees secured to colored
citizens, who in their recent Convention
declared that they "have had enough of
class legislation Mr.. Douglass, speaking
in that body, was commended for his state
ment that "the amendments to the Con.
stitution establish freedom and abolish all
unfair and invidious discrimination against
citizens on account of race and color, SO far
as law can do 80. In their view citizens
are neither black nor white, and all are
equals" And, again, when he declared,
"We leave social equality where it should
be left-with each individual man and
woman. No law can regulate or control
it." The Civil Rights Act goes to its death
without injury to guaranteed rights, and
the decision does not signify retrogression.
But it has served purpose as an aid in
breaking down political prejudices which
can never again exist in the Republic.
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TRANSACTIONS IN REAL ESTATE.
F1Ep MovpAY. October 15. Is

FILED MONDAY, October Is, 1883
October I5-People's Savings Bank to Jane Griffin
Lot 8, L and VI, and Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets, city; grant.
October I5-Freeman s. Bates to Jane Gritfn-W-
OF lot 3, L aud NJ, and Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets, city; grant.
October 5-Leland Stanford to R. Croker
Land in city. 5 acres $780,
October l2-E. NJ. LeItch and wife to C. Schaefer
Lot 2, X and L, and Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets, city; S3 900.
October 2-J. o. Sherwood to Mary J. NcCabe-
Lot 4, F and G, and Eighteenth and Nineteenth
streets, city; grant.
October l5-John Neal and wife to J. P. Counts
Fraction of lot s, L and NJ, and Eighth and Ninth
streets, city; grant.
September i-Sabna c. Bernhart to Sarah Allen
Land in n. 4. of &c. p, T. 5, Gait, acre $3.50
October is. :. McCaughiey and wife TO Sacr3-
mentO County-Right OF way for public highway
grant.
October 40. Harvey to Sacramento County
Right Of way for public highway grant
October 15--Joseph Hall to Alexander HaI-Land
in Sacramento county, 1873. 81 acres: grant.
September 26-Rufus Swift to L. NJ. Saippee and
Fred. NJ. wes, trustees of Stockton Savings and
Loan Soeiety-Land in San Joaquin county, ,497 81
acres $50, 0C0
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NEVADA.
Severely stabbed.

VIRGINIA, October 16th.-At 11:30 to.
night Owen Flannery, of Gold Hill, was Sc
verely, if not fatally, stabbed in the lower
part OF the abdomen by William Slavery, in
a row in Hennessy's saloon. on G street. Sa-
very was arrested also William Delury, who
was mixed up in the affray.
SECOND DISPATCH.l
VIRGINIA. October 16sh.--At II o'clock
Flsnnery, the man stabbed by Slavery, is
vomiting blood. 1t is supposed that the
knife, which entered an inch above the navel,
penetrated the stomach. His case is hope.
less, and priest is now with the man.
Incendiarism.
VIRGINIA, October 16:h.-A small unoccu-
pied house on South a street, belonging TO
Mrs. Wood, was destroyed by fire at 2 o'clock
this morning. The fire was incendiary; no
insurance.
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ARIZONA.


PHOENIX, October 16sh.-In the HHschuca
barley conspiracy case against the United
States which went to the jury on Saturday
evening, thu jury came into Court yesterday
morning and reported themselves unable to
agree. snd were discharged. In the case Of
the United States VS.. Charles eastman,
charged with sbstracting letters from the
mails, a trial was had and the jury brought
in verdict of guilty as charged.
The mining suit, which has been pending
for two years, entitled Philes ct al. VS..
Hickies, concerning a group of mines on
Coal creek, was called in tbs evening, and
judgment, with costs, rendered in favor of the
defendant. This sets at rest the title to val
uable property, and insures its speedy devel-
opment.
Maniac Drowned.
Tucson, October 16:h.-Louis Schoneberg,
German, aged about 50. while suffering
from deiirium tremens, escaped from the
County Hospital yesterday and was drowned
in al irrigatiug ditch.
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evening by Deputy Sheriff. on complaint Of
District Attorney Thomas J. Geary, for libel.
The parties were released on $500 bail, and
the preliminary examination is set for Thurs
day at 10 o'clock.
Jury Obtained In the Glenn Murder Case.
CoLUsA, October 16th.-A full jury has
been obtained in the Miller case.
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WHAT THE FARMERS SHOULD STUDY.
The farmer should study the law of con-
centration. He should lesru how to con.
centrate his crops on the best paying arti-
Giles. Does he consider that butter, beef,
pork and mutton represent only certain
amount of hay, grass or grain that his farm
produces? That instead of selling the raw
com modities he can, by putting them into
these articles, get much better returns for
his products? His study should be how to
transform the products OF his farm into
something that is concentrating and will
bring him the most money. What he
raises has got to 90 to some market. By
concentrating it little freight will have to
be paid and thus much Will be saved. A
farm is not only farm it is, or should be,
factory for changing the products into.
articles of general consumption that have
commercial value the world over. that
are of the best quality, that will keep well
and sell well, and bring prices that will
pay well for the skill, labor and capital en-
ployed in producing them. Petersburg
Messenger.
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UTAH.
The Murphy Lynching T..

SALT LAKE October 16th.-A letter was
received by acting Governor Thomas, of
Utah, to-day, from Senator Ingslls, Of Kan
$685. making an appeal in behalf of John
Murphy, who was lynched by vigilantes in
Park City, Utah, several weeks since.
The Senator says that Murphy was former
resident of his county in Kansas, good
neig hbor, and he appealed to the Governor to
offer reward for the apprehension OF the
vigilantes. There are no funds in the hands
Of the Governor for this purpose. The sym
psthy of the people in the community where
The lynching was done as with the vigilantes,
and the Grand Jury, which adjourned yes
terdsy, failed to indict any'of them although
Murphy's case was brought before them.
This is the case in which the vigilsntes COM
PEELED railroad conductor to take his train
at midnight and carry them from Park City
to Coalville, where they took Murphy from
Jail, conveyed him back to Park City and
hanged him to telegraph pole, for the muir
der of miner by the name of Brannen.
A New Beparturc-BIshop nI-Presidency
OF the Mormon Church.
SALT LAKE, October 16sh.-This morning
q Pullman palace car, conusining thirty Nor.
men mission aries, bound for the East, left
this city. Apostle Cannon, st the last Con
ference announced that the Elders going on
missions lnVerlSoly traVel5d WITHOUT purse OF
scrip. This palace car luxury is regarded by
saint and sinner ss a new departure. George
Q. Cannon and Delegate Paine accompany
the missionaries.
Bishop Edward Hunter, presiding Bishop
of the Mormon Church. and at the head Of
the tithing department, is very i'll, and will
not be able TO survive the night He is 81
years of age, and the oldest Bishop in the
Church.
There is a report current in the city to the
effect that John Taylor, by reason of his fee
BILE condition and advanced age, proposes re-
signing the Presidency of the Mormon
Church. Ii the report is true, and many be-
lieve it is, George Q Cannon will be his sue
cessor. This change will strengthen the
Church,
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NEW MEXICO.
Bad state OF Affairs

LAS VEGAS, October 16ih.-A bad state
of affairs exists along the advance of the
Mexican Railway. Six men have been muir
dered during the past two wesks. Parties
returning from the front say life is at a great
discount there. Two men to-day found the
skeleton of three Texas cattle thieves, muir
dered on the Glorietta four years ago. The
exact fate of the thieves was unknown until
NOW.