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Butler. The Persians. CKIAII CITY PRESS. LIVERY, SALE EXCHANGE STABLES THE UKIAH CITY PRESS UKIAH CITY HOTEL, (Cor. State an Siandley streets.) UKIAH CITY, If.

.1. Prop'r. A Paris paper says General Butler, the great American statesman, who bombarded Fort Fisher and was the hero of the Hamburg massacre in the great rebellion, and has since been a seuaotr from Massachusetts in the American house of representatives, the friend of Kearney and the intimate of Hayes, is as remarkable for his wit as for his courage. When stumping in California an expression which refers to his wooden leg he was asked by a doctor in the hotel in Chicago, liow many men he had killed in war." Sot more than you in peace, and besides it is your practice. replied the general, as he closed one eye and gazed pensively out of tbe other on his bewildered listeners.

Our European readers, perhaps, need to be informed that this habit of wiQking has procured the general the sobriquet of Old Eve-Cock. In South Carolina Butler, when he stumped, was followed by great crowds in red shirts, for the general was a zealous opponent to the gun shot policy, a term applied to the Ku-klux, which latter words signify in politicl slang, men who caught hen-roosters at night. The first word was taken from the note of alarm uttered by a turkey, and the second, substituting the for the is the cluck of a hen. At the railway stations in the southern states the traveler is often astonished at the amount of chickens offered for sale by colored gentlemen who adopt that method of makings livelihood, attending the ballot by day and being "hen-roosters by night. General Butler is the descendant of a Huguenot who settled in South Carolina, and of an Irish Protestant who was wrecked oa Plymouth Rock with Miles Staudisli, and survived to take part in the battle of Bunker Hill, the closing victory of the American Revolution.

It seems very hard for Englishmen, says the New York Time to comprehend the simplest of American institutions. The effort of what are called the grand committees' of local liberal associations to put forward candidates of tbeir own choice for parliament, is persistently treated as analogous to the American caucus system. The London Truth points out that such is not the case, but, as it says somewhat obscurely, precisely the reverse. Then it proceeds to define the American caucus as consisting of delegates from different electoral districts, who impose candidates upon each of the districts represented. And then the Times proceeds to befuddle poor John Bull in an attempt to teach him what our caucus system means.

It should have said that after dividing ourpeople into two hostile camps, and cultivating the deadliest hostility between the two, we have a process called thecaucus, which elevates small and dishonest men into responsible positions, for such suit tlie masses and serve tbe designing leaders. The caucus is composed of men vpho make politics a business, and live on the smaller places or pay of dishonest officials allow them. All the bummers, drummers and loafers engendered by drinking shops are collected to select candidats for the true camps to elect. That is all; and let John Bull, like Dogberry, get himself together and thank God that he is rid of some kuaves. For under this caucus system and a worse civil service we are going to the devil on a down grade without brakes.

All accounts agree in saying that the better classes of the colored people of Memphis behaved nobly during the prevalence of the yellow fever. Two-thirds of the stores and dwellings were in their keeping. They faithfully guarded the property committed to tbeir care, performed other police duty, and officiated as nurses in thousands of instances. For this conduct they have entitled themselves to recognition, and received it from Chief Atby, of tbe Memphis police department, who has selected eleven colored men cf thirty-seven officers, to which he is entitled, to serve in the police ranks. This is the way to break down the color line.

A Chicago dispatch dated November fourteenth says: The Tribune's Washington special says: The Indian department is indignant at the apparently concerted attack made by army officers in their anmial reports upon the management of the Indian bureau. The truth of the charges made is specifically and generally denied by officials in that department. They consider it a plan to secure the transfer of the management to the war department. An Oshkosh (Wis.) dispatch dated November eleventh says: News is received here that Adam Haber, a German farmer of this section, who lately revisited the Fatherland, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for speaking disrespectfully of Emperor William. The attention of Secretary Evarts will be called to the case, as Haber is a naturalized citizen.

CodsuI Churchill, in his report on the trade of Ghilan in 1877, gives an interesting account of the people in that part of Persia. He says it is a mistake to suppose that the Persians are oppressed by their rulers, and so kept down in the scale of civilization that they may be styled barbarians by the more favored nations of Europe. Almost every child in Persia, male or female, is sent to school to learn to read and write, or at any rate, to repeat certan favored passages of the Koran; and the natural intelligence of these children, be observes, is so vastly superior to that of their brethren in Europe, and the development of their intellectual faculties at an early age is so astounding, that small children will hold their own with grown-up persons, and talk upon subjects that would make our little folk of the same age stare with wonder. But owing mainly to every book in Persian being a manuscript, and consequently inaccessible to the lower classes because of its high price, so that few new books are ever read by the people, the Persians as a nation, are still what they were five hundred years ago. Though altogether a clever and industrious people, capable of imitating almost everything that is produced in Europe, they will talk to this day of the four elements believed in the days of Plato fire, water, air and earth and will not be convinced that ail such notions have long been superseded by scientific discoveries.

They still cling to the notion that the sun and all the stars revolve around the earth which they believe to be motionless. But the lower classes are far from being miserable. Tilling a rich and fertile soil they get an ample portion of the produce of the land for their pains. If they engage to clear a piece of jungle they divide the produce of the I land with the owner of the soil. If mulberry trees are planted and silk produced, the peasant rears the worms and gets a third of the produce for his trouble.

As little supervision can be exercised over the villager, lie naturally contrives to secure for himself a good portion of the crop. He has advantages from his agricultural vocation which are not inconsiderable. He can cut wood in the jungle that is, the neglected parts of his landowners estates and sell it on his own account. His cows and sheep can browse freely in those parts that are not under cultivation. lie can make charcoal, produce vegetables around his hut, rear and sell poultry, and dispose of the fruit that grows in abundance on tlie estate, without consulting the owner of the land.

The taxes are not farmed out in Persia as they are in the Ottoman empire, and though the collectors contrive, as a matter of course, to extract some 10 to 20 per cent, more than they are entitled to from the tax-payerg, they are satisfied if those limits are not exceeded and there really is not a system of oppression, though here and there cases occur in which complaints are made to superior authorities. When the tax gatherer grows rich he is pounced upon by the governor, who makes him disgorge, and who, in his turn, is called upon by the shah toqiay large presents on his appointment, or heavy fines for reported malversations. It has been calculated that iu India the native peasantry averages 2 a year, in Ghilan it is from 5 to 9. Rice, the principal food, is abundant and very cheap. Mutton is at 3d and beef per lb.

The clothing of the villager in summer is scanty; in winter he wears a homespun woolen cloth of a very coarse but substantial quality. The peasant is far superior in courage to the villager, who, it must be owned, has gained the reputation of pusillanimity. The villagers may often be seen in summer wrestling, and in winter they hunt the willd boar with dogs and no other weapon than a short spear. There is very little crime in this part of Persia. A person may go from one end of the province to the other without any danger of being robbed.

The doors of a house may remain open all night with impunity. Infanticide is a tiling unknown. The consul attributes these virtues very much to the mildness of the climate. A single days labor is sufficient for all the wants of an individual during a whole week. The mendicants are very few, except the cripples and blind, and they receive ample charity.

Every winter some thousands of mountaineers come down into the plains of Ghilan for shelter and some employment upon the land, and earn a small sum which they take back in the shape of cotton wares. The year 1877 was disastrous to the trade of Ghilan. The Turco-Russian war made communication with other countries difficult; and for eight months there prevailed an epidemic, which European doctors pronounced to be the plgue, but native doctors said was only the hot and dry fever. It carried off 4000 victims in Resht and its neighborhood, and twice as many were attacked but recovered. J.

HAXDLY, Editor. Ukiah City, Not. 22, 1878. Keaults of the Louisiana Election. The Chicago Tribune' New Orleans special of the fourteenth confirms the reports of election frauds sent from that city a week since, and says: The results of the elections are not complimentary to Governor Nicholls, who has often assured the country the colored voters should receive ample protection.

There are quite as many political refugees in New Orleans, seemingly from the country parishes, as in 1874 They report themselves now, as then, driven from their homes because of their political affiiliations. Their affidavits have been taken, probably for nse in the near future, and show up badly enough tfose from Coricor-dia and Tensas parishes in particular. The parish of Concordia has a registered colored vote of 8,600, against 275 for the whites. Affidavits show that the whitee organized into militia 4 companies, and the blacks were completely terrorized. A showing is made of something like fifty blacks as murdered within the three weeks immediately preceding the election.

They are represented as found hanging in aome cases two on a tree; in others, as banging to gate posts; in others, again, as found in fields, through the agency of turkey buzzards, feasting on the remains. The parish, withal, is shown to have gone Republican by better than six hundred majority, but has been counted for the Democrats. The Uuited States commisssoner, too, aeems to have been forced to leave. The showing for Tensas is still worse, the number killed being claimed at not less than one hundred, no Republican organization being possible, and no attempt being made, as a conse-quence, to put a Republican ticket in the field. The affidavits of actual facts are certainly specific, and in view of the late utterances of the president are likely yet to play their part.

It is stated the Citizens Association will not contest the late election, but will prove fraud and prosecute civilly those who defeated them. The Anny. General Shermans report shows that the portion of the army which Is stationed west of the Mississippi Is kept pretty busy. He evidently shares the opinion of General Sheridan that it has too much to do. Theopinionof these officers would carry more weight with the public if they had not at tached to them the absurd assertion that no other nation in the world would attempt to do the work our army has performed with less than sixty or seventy thousand men.

Our army, including officers and ail branches of service, is less than 25,000 atrong. It is perhaps relative to this subject to mention that previous to 1860 our army consisted of 12,500 men We had no full-fledged general in those days, as now. General Scott was lieutenant-general, the office having been created for him in recognition of his brilliant Mexican cam paign, in which that republic was brought to terms with a much smaller force than that which now bolds the Indians in check west of the Mississippi. While our national boundaries have not changed eince I860, except to let in it is quite probable that the settlement of the country has exposed more square miles of territory to the inroads of Indians. The general recommends larger appropriations for feeding the Indians until they can be taught to feed themselves.

Captain Tyson, who recently re turned from an Arctic expedition with the steamer Florence, expresses the opinion that there is no such thing as an open Polar sea. He thinks it impossible for such a sea to exist in a region which has no sun six month in the year. He is of the further opinion that the cold is too intense at the pole to admit of such a thing, ana that ice nothing but huge mountains of icf will be found there. This comes in direct conflict with the theory of a polar summer, based on the northward flight of birds. A Danceress celebrated of the oan-an, returning from the Garden Mabile meets one of her female companions.

are you satisfied Was there a good attendance to-night? do not speak to me thereof, my dear, replied the artiste, I am altogether disgusted. Imagine yon that the place was literally jammed with economical clergymen. A DISPATCH from Columbia (S. dated November eighth says: While Governor Hampton was hunting yes-. terday bis male became frightened, and the bridle breaking, the governor leaped from the saddle.

By the fall hi right leg was broken in two places, the bones protruding, and his ankle i badly hurt. IS THE PAPEB FOB THE BUSINESS MAN, FARMER, STOCK RAISER, MINER, MECHANIC. It will do all that ia possible to please its pa-trona. It will give the latest and moat reliable reports of domestic and other markets. It is the paper for The Business Man TO ADVERTISE IN.

Job Printing DOUE AT THE UKIAH CITY PRESS NEW TYPE, a l.D NEW PRESSES. GOOD WORK GUARANTEED. Prices Suit the Times. W. H.

FORSES GRAND STAGE LINE THROUGH FROM Cloverdale to Eureka IN 72 HOURS. SUMMER ARRANGEMENT ONLY FOUR HOURS' STAGING FBOM San Francisco to Ukiah City, TRAVELING OYER THE NEW TOLL Road through Russian River Canvon, a route unsurpassed for the wild beauty of ita scenery and the easy grade of the road. No route in California offers more attractions for the Pleasure Seeker and Tourist than this. The finest hunting grounds and fishing streams on the Pacific Coast lie upon this route and ita connections. Close connections made with the SAN FRANCISCO AND NORTH PACIFIC RAILROAD AT CLOVERDALE.

Leaves Cloverdale at 5.30 a. arriving at Ukiah at 10:30 a. connecting with daily stages for Little Lake, Sherwood Valley, LoDg Valley, andCahto. Also connecting at Ukiah with stages for Lakeport. Bartlett Springs, Potter Valley, Covelo and Round Valley.

Rrtnminrj-, Leaves Ukiah at 1 p. arriving in Cloverdale at 6 p. u. Leaves Ukiah at 11 A. m.

arriving in Little Lake at 3 p. m. Returning: Stages leave Little Lake at 8:15 A. M. arriving in Ukiah at 12 w.

Through Ticket, to be had at the Doth in Sian Francisco and at Cloverdale. This ia the only Overland Route to Humboldt Bay. W. H. FORSE, J.

HART, Agent. Proprietor. Scotts Valley House. At the Jnnetion Valley and Red of tlie Potter wood Valley (loads, Stage G. W.

Coates, Proprietor. THE STAGES RUNNING BETWEEN Ukiah and Covelo atop at this house over night. Here passengers change coaches. There is every accommodation, and the proprietor will Hpare no ains for the comfort of nig guest. THE BEDS are all new and under special care.

The Bar-Room in connection with the house is kept by CHARLIE MAUPIN. The health of location and ploastnoss of scenery cannot be surpassed. 45 The undersign fd most f.espect- fully announces to las friends and the public gcnerallv, that he has repurchased the above house, and re Jilted the same in first-class style, and is now prepared to accommodate guests equal to anv house north of San Francisco, at MODERATE RATES. THE TABLE Will always be supplied with the best that can he found in the market. TIIE SLEEPING APARTMENTS Are supplied with the best of Spring Beds, clean and well ventilated, and will always be kept so.

In connection with the hotel are the PALACE CLUB ROOMS, Under the supervision of WtU Hagans. Choice Brandies, Wines, Whiskies, and all Liquors of the best brands Constantly on hand, ALSO CIGARS and TOBACCO. Tables and Beading Boom in connection wrth Hotel. A GOOD BATH BOOM is attached to the house with hot and cold baths. The proprietor hopes by strict attention to business to merit a liberal share of public patronage.

jy6-y HOPLAND HOTEL, Cloverdale HOPLAND, Stage Road CALIFOPtMA. PROPRIETOR ORRIN HOWELL, This house has been lately re- paired. newlv refitted, and is now in a first-class condition, having every ccnvenience about it desirable. It is situated in a delightful region, lias all the advantages of excellent water, romantic scenery and salubrious climate. It is an excellent place for Travelers or Pleasure-Seekers And the invalid would find it a good place to seek health, strength and recreation.

TIME T.IISEE Will always be supplied with the best the market artords. Vegetables always fresh from our own farm, which is adjoining the hotel. Til Beds Are all new and cleanly kept. Every effort will be made to make travelers and boarders comfortable who may favor us with their patronage. THE STABLE.

In connection with the Hotel there is a good Stable, where teams will always receive proper attention, as none but reliable men are in my employ ORRIN HOWELL. Hopland, August 17, 1877. 1-7-y PORTRAITS IN OIL COLORS! OF LIFE SIZE. -A. J.

SMITH, PORTRAIT PAINTER Is now in this city and will be happy to wait upon those who are desirous of obtaining BST GOOD PORTRAITS' Of themselves or friends, either from life or photographs. By the fixed and definite principles of science in outlining, and a NATURAL ARTISTIC TALENT Highly cultivated by long practice and close observation of The Truthful In Nature! I am able to produce portraits that in perlec-tion of outline, and fidelity of lights, shades and colors, are only surpassed by the living model. Those -wishing to avail themselves of this opportunity of securing life-like portraits, will please call and confer with me at my study, on State Ukiah City, Cal. Peoples9 Hotel, Lately Reeves' Hotel.) UKIAH CITY, D. Tanner, Proprietor.

The undersigned informs his friends and the public that he has leased for a term of years the hotel property known as TIIE REEVES HOTEL This house has been renovated and newly furnished. The undersigned will give his personal supervision and attention to THE TABLE Which will always be supplied with the best that can be found in the market. The Sleeping Apartments Have recent been refurnished and refitted, are well ventilated, and under the supervision of the undersigned. Visitors may rest assured of comfortable lodgings, and every other accommodation that can be found at a first-class house. A FIRST-CLASS BAR, Behind which will be kept the choicest brands of liquors will be kept in connection with the bouse.

ALL STAGES Arriving at or leaving Ukiah, stop at this house. D. TANNER, Proprietor. Notice to Trespassers! A NY PERSON HUNTING, FISHING. OB xX.

using fireams, or trespassing on mv prem-isea, in any manner, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent ot the law. J. H. BURKE. Ukiah, September 18, 1878.

T2-4t! GIBSON SMITH, Proprietors STATE STREET, Ukiah City Turnouts of Every Kind ALWAYS ON HAND. Horses taken at livery on the most reasonable terms. We have everv" facility that can be offered for the care of Jlorses. All Horses in Good Conditio and Reliable. Prepared to furnish drivers to go to any partof tlie County or State at any time, The addition of a 100 Feet by 30 Has lately been made, and now there is no stable nortii of San Francisco that ia better prepared to take care of horse flesh than we are.

MUSIC! MUSIC! Sewing Machines. ON OR ABOUT TIIE 20th OF JUNE, I will return to Mendocino county where I will carry on my former business for a abort time. Pianos and Organs Will be sold TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT, cheaper than you can purchase the same of any other dealer. Can furnish the Decker, Weber, Emerson, Miller, Or any other you may choose. Also the celebrated Mason Hamlin Organ, Tne NEW AMERICAN SEWING MACHINE, best in the world, ill be sold cheap for cash.

This is positively my last visit to Mendocino county. A word to the wise, etc. GEO. F. WELLS.

48 Hawaiian Islands. UKIAH LIVERY AND FEED STABLE, STATE STREET, IKIAH CITY, L. S. SULLIVAN, Propr. 1YHE UNDERSIGNED TAKES TniS method to inform the public that he has as good accommodations as can be found in California.

ABUNDANCE OF STABLE ROOM AND EXCELLENT PASTURES. The best of teams, Saddlo Horses, Buggies, Ac. FOR HIRE. LARGE SHEDS For Heavy Teams. Best of attention given stock by the day or week.

Patronage ri spectfully solicited. Stable opposite Post Olliee ill north end of town. 12y L.B. SULLIVAN. COVELO LIVERY AND FEED STABLE.

Opposite Cunningham's Hotel.) TOM CHAMBERS, Proprietor. ItYERY' ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE -A care of hors. Horses boarded by the day, week or month. Livery outfits in the best of order As I oversee the stable myself and attend to all its arrangements everv one can feci assured that hors6 will be wi II eimd for. If you want your horses well taken cars of give me a call.

l-ly. TONI CHMABEIIS. New Stage Line. IH AYE NOW A REGULAR LINE OF STAGES running between Ukiah and Lakeport. via Upper Lake and Witter Springs, three times a week.

Leaves Lakeport every Sunday (going as far as Witters Springs), Wednesday and I- ridav. Returning leaves Ukiah every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, connecting at Lakeport with stages lor Calistoga and Clover-dale, and at Upper Lake with the stage for Bartlett Springs. nl4 J. 0. RADCLIFF.

Propr. GO TO C. Hofmans roa WARBE2CS HEALTH CORSEl. It is cheap, durable and healthy. Dressmaking 0 and Millinery AT MRS.

M. PRESSEYS, Hi I All CITY CAL. All work done in the latest and most approved sty and at reasonable figures. BUSINESS YOU can engage in. So to $20 per day made by any worker of either' sex, right in their own localities.

Particulars and samples worth $5 free. Improve your spare time at this business. Address Stingos A Portland. Maine. 38 UCAN MAKE MONEY faster at work for us than at anything else.

Capital not required; we will start von. $12 per day at home made by tbe industrious. Men, women, bos, and girls wanted everwbere to work for ns. Now is the time. Costly outfit and terms free.

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