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Year: 1870

The Chinese Six Companies, of this city.
Is combination which possesses consider
able authority here and in China. Short
y after the arrival of the last steamer from
that country, the leading men of the assoc
iation here, seeing about 1900 of their
countymen landed, called meeting al
which circular was prepared setting forth
the reason why Cinnamon and China.
women should cease emigratine to this
country, Copies Of this circular will be
posted in all the principal towns and cities
OF the Empire, for the information of all
classes.


1t is long document, but the substance
OF 1t Is, that California and the ADJOINING
States are not what they formerly were. 80
lar as the facilities for making money are
concerned; that every few Cinnamon can
obtain more than a bare subsistence, and
that only the merchants are able to accum-
ulate riches. The opinion prevails gener-
ally IN China that the placer mines OF this
State afford good field for the labors of
the immigrant. The circular states that
these mines do not pay any longer. as a
general thing, and that if Chinese miners
chance to make money in them there is
great danger that they will be robbed of
their earnings and driven out of their
mines by thieves and robbers. They saw
their people are not respected, but are nut
down to the level of cattle and horses, thew
are IN constant danger of violence and
suner ,Ti Ill usage In every part of tie State
They say OF the threats of riot and blood
shed, that they consider most of them as
idle talk, but would not do anything to
provoke an attempt to execute them. The
condition Of the people is described that
thousands of them are without work, can
get none, and are destitute of food and
other necessaries of life F.; that the merch-
ants have extended Temporary relief to
some, but that all cannot be aided. For
these and other reasons they deprecate the
policy Of sending any more Cinnamon here.
OF the female immigrants they say that
the women who have come here have
brought infinite disgrace, not only on them
selves but on the most respectable Chinese
here. They also are advised to stay at
home. The chief men of the Six ComDan.
les think issuance OF the circular will tend
70 retard very much the further influx of
their countrymen into America; and it
certainly does not afford very attractive
picture of their present condition and pros
Year: 1870

A REMARKABLE CAVE The Corinne
(Utah) Reporter of May llth, says:


Some weeks ago, parties prospecting in the
mountains eight miles north of Corinne, came
upon small hole upon cliff, which seemed
as if it had been washed out into large
| opening below. They tore away the earth
and stones and found what they supposed to
be WELL about five feet wide, and extending
down into the solid rock. They paid no
further attention to it, but a party of Nor.
mons visited it soon after, and report that
they went down thirty feet, where they found
a rocky bottom and two passages leading off
into the the mountain, which they did not
explore, being unprovided with proper
lights, and fearing to come upon some abrupt
descent. Further examination showed that
the opening had been carefully rooted over
with stones and dirt. A party of Mormons
soon after filled in the hole with dry timber
and set it on fire but they gave no explana
ton OF what their object was in this. They
pronounced it merely natural cave, but
from the surroundings others think it the
result OF former attempts at mining Our
| citizens will remember the popular rumor
that considerable party went prospecting
for ores in that region four wears ago, of
| whom no Information was ever received
Some curiosity exists as to whether the two
facts have any connection.
Year: 1870

To cure cough, roast lemon very care
fully without burningit when it is thorough
ly hot cut and squeeze into a cup upon three
ounces of sugar fnly powdered. Take a
spoonful whenever your cough troubles you.


1t is good, and agreeable to the taste. Rare
ly has it been known to fail of giving relief.
Year: 1870

RED CLoUD.-The latest thing in ladies
dresses is the 'Red Cloud" 1t is made by
taking Scotch plaid or pepper and salt
blanket shawl, old or new and forming it into
an over dress, usiog the fringe for trimming
the sleeves and bottom Of the skirt. 1t has
been christened the Red Cloud on account
of its likeness to the costume worn by the
famous Indian chief of that name duilng bis
trip to the eastern States last summer.
Year: 1870

RELATIONS WITH SPAIN.-The Secretary of
State appeared before the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs at their meeting Yesterday,
and gave the committee much valnable infor-
nation: especially with regard to the relations
Of this Government with that OF Madrid, though
it did not at the same time appear that
any new or important steps had been taken
he had received any offer or heard of any offer
having been made to any other member of
the administration from the Madrid officials
proposing to sell to the United States the island
Of Cuba for . certain sum therein named, and
he replied that he had no such information, and
was satisfied from other facts i'm his possession
that the Spanish Regency had contemplated
nothing of the kind.
Year: 1870

IT Is UNDERSTOOD that the clause in the tax
bill, imposing tax OF one and a half per cent
upon the receipts Of insurance companies, will
be struck ont by the Committee of Ways and
Means before reporting the bill to Congress The
Committee are also carefully adjusting the scale
of special licenses and other duties, with a view
of relieving trade from burdens, and to abolish
ing all taxes sales and gross receipts, so far as
DOssible.
Year: 1870

The SAN DOMINGO TREATY.-The Senate
Committee on Foreign Affairs this morning
considered the San Domingo treaty, and agreed
to report against the ratification thereof by a
vote OF 3 to 2.
Year: 1870

Two ELECTION REPORTS will be made to the
House this week, and five or six more will be
ready next week. The new rule applied to the
Election Committee is found to work well, so
far as expedition is concerned.
Year: 1870

LONDON, March 15.-The Times editorial to-
day expresses confidence in the belief that the
House OF Commons will exclude sectarianism.
but not religion from the bill now before that
body.
Year: 1870

AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY to observe the
fidelity with which oil paintings are copied
by the photographic process is afforded
just now at Markriter's, on Seventh street,
where the original Of "A Visit to the Art Gal
iery' and its counterpart are exhibited side by
side. The comparison is well worth instituting
Year: 1870

Tho diur1.al period from noon
of Monday till noon on Tuesday
was noteworthy from the number
of destructive fires that occurred
three large fires-involving a loss
Of nearly a million of dollars. On
the morning of the latter day,
about five O'Clock, a singular phe-
nomenon made it's appearance in
the sky to the northeast, and was
observed by several persons in
different parts of the city. The
sky was perfectly clear and the
stars shining brightly, when sud-
denly an object OF an oblong
shape-a cloud, perhaps was
seen suspended in midair, to the
northeast of persons standing
near Tyron row. It was Il most
beautiful as we'll as curious sight,
having the appearance of a huge
tirebrand, nearly decarbonized,
plucl1ed from a heap of burning 8
logs and hastily transferred to it's
position, the hasty transit impart-
ing an added brillancy. But little
stretch Of imagination was requir-
ed to make it the sceptre of the


Fire God held IN terrorcne over the
spectators, a reality being given
to the idea by the thought that
there were two large fires raging
at the moment. Scientists may


explain the phenomenon on pure


ly scientific grounds, but the fact


that the sky was otherwise cloud
less will render this a difficult
task.
Year: 1870

The New York Sun, whose edi-
tor Mr.. Dana, is one of the sharp
est eyed, shrewdest calculators
ever graduated by the Radical
party, has been casting the rolit-
ical horoscope Of that party, now
that the triumph Of the XVIII
Amendment may be taken for
granted, and the negro taken out
of politics. He sees in this very
fact the seeds of the disease that
will kill the iniquity, and gives
his reasons as follows:


1t is OUT of the final termination
of tho slavery contest that the
main peril of the Republican par
ty arises. At the last Presiden-
tial election more than half a mil
lion of men voted for Gen. Grant
solely because they wanted to see
the pending plan Of reconstruc-
ton carried through. When this
is accomplished they will feel no
special attachment to him or his
party. They are independent cit
, iZens. who never support party
merely for the good it has done.
1t is to these satisfied Republicans
that the party may be indebted
for its early defeat, and even it's
ultimate dissolution.


F.; Then there are the doctri,,aries
of the party, who differ with its
/ present policy on the tariff, the
currency, the construction Of the


Constitution, and the gradual alb


sorption into Congress of an I'm.


warranted share of the powers o1


the government. The cord whict
Year: 1870

has bound all these classes to tho
party is broken. Following close
behind them comes the long pro-
cession of disqualified RepubH-
cans, some of whom ,Ire disgusted
with the administration. because
of its nepotism, its favoritcism,
the unworthy character of many
of it's agents, and its disregard Of
the claims to consideration of dis
members of the party;
while others are indignant at its
failure to redeem it's pledges of
and because Of its fawn-
ing at the footstool of the British
throne, and it's base desertion of
the cause of free government on
this continent. Though the bond


which has united these classes to
the party is not yet severed, it is
seriously weakened, and may snap
at the first severe strain.
Year: 1870

A "merchant prince of New
York, a portly six-footer of great
manly beauty, who never dined
without his brandy and water,
nor went, to bed without a terrapin
or oyster supper, and who was
never known to be drunk, died of
chronic diarrhea, a common end
of those who are never intoxica-
ted and never out of liquor.
Halls journal of Health gives
this account of his death: ss~


Months before lie died-ho was
a year in dying-he could, eat
nothing without distress, and at
death the whole alimentary canal
was a mass of disease; in the
midst of his millions he died of
inanition. That is not the half.
reader. He had been steady
drinker, daily drinker for twen-
ty-eight years. Scrofula had boon
eating up one daughter for fifteen
years, another is in the mad-house;
the third and fourth were Of un-
earthly beauty, but they blighted,
paled and fnded-into heaven,
we trust-in their sweet teens;
another is tottering on the verge
of the grave, and only one is left
with all senses, and each of them


is as weak as water. .'s'7'1
The same periodical instances
another case that should supple
ment the one just given: .s-..-.
A gentleman of 35 was sitting


in a chair with no specially criti-
cal symptoms present; still, he
was known to he dissipated
young man. He rose, ran fifty
feet, fell down and died. The


whole covering Of the brain was


thicken ed, it's cavities were filed


with fluid that did not belong
to it-enough to kill half Il dozen


with apoplexy-a gre ." portion
of one lung was in a state of gan
creme, and nearly all the other
was hardened and useless, blood
and yellow matter plastered the
inner covering ci the lungs, while
angry patches of destructive in
flammation were scattered along
the whole alimentary canal. Why,
there was enough Of death in that
one mans body to have killed
forty. The doctor who talks about
guzzling liquor every day being
"healthy" is a perfect disgrace to
the medical name, and ought to
be turned out to break stones for
the term of his natural life ut a
shilling a day, and find himself.
Year: 1870

natl Gazette of Saturday says:


Humphreys, the new Judge of the Su-
preme Court Of this district, was here to-
day, and made charge to the jury in test
case on the rights of colored passengers III
public conveyances. Douglas and his
brother, colored compositors ut the Govern
ment Printing Office, were elected from q
car on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The defense is that Douglass and his brother,
at the time in question, entered chair car
and took two seats which had been already
engaged, and paid for; that the accused had
informed them that such was the case, and
requested them to vacate, and they
refusing to leave, force was used in
ejecting them from the car. Judge
Humphreys, in charging the jury, re-.
marked that this was an important case to
the travelling public, and that railroads,
steamboats, and other common carriers
could not, after holding themselves out 20
the people, make laws and rules to violate
the comfort and safety of passengers. The
common carrier has the power now to make
any distinction as to who shall take passage
with them. He reviewed the evidence in
the case, stating that smoking car to
which the prosecuting witness was directed,
was not frst-class car, and also said that
while no passenger has the right to bluster
through car or to attempt to thrust aside
the authority of the cond actor to keep Or
der, a conductor has no right to be rude to
passengers or to act hastily. Even had
these seats been engaged, it was an error of
the conductor to act hastily, and he should
first definitely ascertain whether they had
really been taken.
Year: 1870

This is very important decision, and we
hope fast drivers of drays and other vehicles
will heed it:


In recent case in Boston, which arose
from boy having been killed by street
railroad Car, District Attorney May, in
closing for the government, explained to the
jury the law relating to the right of the
road, and cited a number of authorities to
sustain his Interpretation. His view of the
law is somewhat different from that which
generallA prevails, and totally at variance
with thecommon practice. He stated dis
tinctly to the jury that the rights of foot
Passengers in the act of crossing streets are
first and foremost, and superior to those of
any drivers of teams. He said the drivers
must stop to allow foot passengers to cross
streets, no matter whether they were cross
ing on tagging stones or not. and ne told the
jury that IN case either of them were cross.
ing street, and the driver interfered with
or attempted to interfere with their free
passage across the street, to use their stout
canes, if they had any, on the intruding
horse, and intimated that an application
of the cane to the driver might be of better
service
Year: 1870

The official reports of the two meetings of
the City Council, which are laid before the
readers of the REPUBLICAN this morning
with such graphic clearness and complete
ness, will repay an attentive perusal.


Not least among the points of interest OF
the general meeting are the report of the
spirited discussion on the firemen's excur-
sion appropriation; new dog ordinance,
now for the first time made public: an i'm
portant communication on the subject OF
the Southern Paving Companys contract,
and complete list of the appropriations
for the past month.


The special meeting held yesterday after
noon involves the departure of Mayor
Flanders and Administrator Walton for New
York, and the appointment of Mr.. Emley as
Mayor ad interim, as well as the approval of
floating debt obligations to the extent OF
nearly million and half dollars.


This full exhibit of the proceedings of the
city government, down to the smallest peti.
ton, is in marked contrast to the system
formerly iu vogue of smothering all public
information between the two mattresses of
the upper and lower board, with the Mayor
seated atop to keep all quiet.
Year: 1870

The skirmish at Huntingdon reflects as
little credit on the steadiness and prowess
of the Fenian soldiers as the previous
skirmish at Pigeon Hill having been equally
contemplate, though not quite so farcical
and ridiculous. It seems that the men fed
as soon as fred upon, and that their COM
mander, General Gleason, quilted the scene
Of action in disgust. When the men were
put to the proof, they were found to have
no confidence in themselves, their leaders,
or their cause. As soon as they had crossed
the border they took position and in
trenched. Intrenchment is sign of mis-
giving and weakness. 1t was ridiculous for
an invading army to put itself Immediately
on the defensive. The only thing now to
be done by the Fenians to retrieve their lost
fortunes is to do what every sensible man
in New Orleans does-buy tickets in the
Louisiana State Lottery.
Year: 1870

This is much the largest amount collected
in this district in any one month since the
organization of the internal revenue depart
ment. We learn on inquiry that the cost of
collection was nine-twenty- y-tifths, or a frac
tion less than two fifths of one per cent.


Colonel Stockdale deserves credit for the
successful organization of his department,
and his untiring efforts to induce the
prompt payment of internal revenue dues.
We think his is the banner internal revenue
district in the South.
Year: 1870

says:


We have never denied that Theodore
Tilton was a fool; but be is handsome
man, nevertheless. His long, glossy curls,
whether natural or artificial, commend him
to the full extent to which hair can go. If
he has not brains to spare, he has hair
which would sell for seven dollars. Page
painted as page. He is kind of boy girl,
and jast fitted for page; only he is little
too iall, but he is so womanish that he
would get along
Year: 1870

WALL STREET. |


FRIDAY, June l7--0 r. NJ.
Wall street continues quiet. The operators who
expected an active market as the sequence OF


THE PASSAGE or THE CURRENCY BILL
have been disappointed The outside public are now
waiting to see what the Senate Will do with the Dill.
The reports to-day are that Western and south
ern Senators favor it, but that the Finance Commit
tee are opposed to it. Meantime Wall street Is In
muddle as TO the remote effect Of the bill. No one Is
clear as 10 whether 10 means contraction or expan.
sion. The next step that should be taken with he
bill is 10 amend II as to declare how the three per
cent certificates shall be redeemed. On this point Is
Ia not explicit. secretary Boutwell, has currency
balance at present OF twenty millions. He could,
were he so disposed, make that balance forty-fve
millions and redeem the three per cents without
avaling himself OF the privilege given him by an
old law to issue greenbacks for the redemption OF
the certificates. In suffering this important point to
60 without attention the trainers OF the bill have
shown an ignorance OF financial matters which is on
par with all the finance tnkering OF the wiseacres
In Congress- 1t is TO be hoped the Senate Is beyond
the control OF the national bank ring, and that this
and every measure increasing national bank iaclli-
ties on The present plan will be defeated.


GOLD LOWER.


The gold market weakened under the intelligence
OF the defeat OF the Banks Cuban resolution, ana
the price declined from 1877 TO l12A. Here the
spectators for decline who had been expecting
still lower market, suddenly suspended their opera
tions in consequence OF the peremptory counter
manding Of European orders to ship grain. IT,
seems that England and France which have been
visited with a severe drought, that threatened
very short crops were treated 10 extensive showers
all last night, the effect OF which has been
the transmission .of cable dispatches to-day
suspendng the unlimited orders to our produce mer
chants to send all the grain within their reach
We doubt however whether this will more than
temporarily arrest the fall Of gold for the normal IN
fuences at work upon the market are too powerful
to be overcome. AS it was gold ran back to 13, but
closed finally at ll27S. The course OF the market Is
shown In the tablet
Year: 1870

Two good trots will take place at the above
grounds THIS afternoon for two splendid prizes. The
horses engaged are well matched In point OF speed
and belonging TO the members of the club great III
terest IS manifested on the result Of each.
Year: 1870

A New York correspondent writes of
the way people use the book Of the
play" when they go to see Booth $
Hamlet" AS soon as they are seated, ="
he says, they straightway find the place
and bury their noses in the book, and
follow every word of the piece, delight
edly exclaiming one to another, there,
he left out the word, or, as / heard one
intelligent creature say, after Hamlet
passed from the scene, He didn't say
exit did he7 and it's down here for
him TO say it the last word
Year: 1870

As very large edition will be printed on
our hrst number, which will be circulated
through the entire section of country contigu-
Gus to Memphis. and also in the different
cities and towns in the Southwest. the
WEEKLY PUBLIC LEDGER will be a most
excellent advertising medium. Only a limited
numb sr Of advertisements will be received.
Year: 1870

Iuill also continue the publication Of the
DAILY PUBLIC LHDeER as heretofore. e1-
eept that IL viii appear in NEW DRESS.


A synopsis Of all The important news pub
Ushed in the PUBLIC LEDGER from day to
day will be given in the WEEKLY PUBLIC
LEDGER. IS ~ FE .rF Ett
Year: 1870

All the type to be used in our Weekly is
rxunRrY NEW, an d the paper on which it viii
be printed is the finest white bOok-paper'
making 1t the mo. readable journal pub
lished in the South. IlItl5A
Year: 1870

The high price OF camphOr need
not be q matter Of surprise. phe
best comes from Sumatra. The guna
is found in small creYices and knots
Ofthe trunk, making It necessary to
split the tree in pieces, and after alls
half a pound is a good yield. per
tree.
Year: 1870

HIS ExcELLESCY the Minister OF the Interior has
received by the Rirogudy Iron fence which is To
be pun up around the Court House yard. The fence
is fine one, and will greatly improve the appearance
of the gronnds ahnni the Cnnri Hnnsa
Year: 1870

for candy and not bashful in making it
known. One day his mother forbade his
asking for it again he solved the difficult
ty in this wise. The next time he went
to the store he hung around for long
while with entire obedience to the COM
mand, but finally an idea struck him, and
walking up boldly to his grandfather, he
says, Grandpa, wish you would give me
some candy toittoatt ma asking for It, Of
course grandpa took the hint, and the boy
got his candy. But such an evasion of her
order hardly satisfied the mother, and so
she explained to the little shaver that
what he said was really asking for the
candy, and told him he must not do so any
more. He promised obedience, and obeyed
IN this manner: Soon afterward, going to
the store, some one asked him how he got
along this hot weather. He quickly and
ingenuously replied Pretty well; bat
I'm atgtuz seOeaty--tor candy Who
doubts that this perspiration was re-
lieved. if candy would do it ? 1t is certain
that no further candy commands were laid
upon him.