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JUtt gjfttltnrg flaindtalfr. I J. VAN SLIKE, PTTBLMM*. JfoHENBY, ILLINOIS. THE SEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. * A. DISPATCH from Augusta, Me., says: " Mr. JHsine has now been home eight days. So far, there has been no special change in his case. The nervous prostration is still a marked char­ acterise. Ko in not »ui6 to isavs iiis room, and ie almost entirely confined to his bed. His nhyuician thinks it will be many weeks bp fore Jtewill resume active work. An European trip is strongly recommended as soon as his strength is sofScient." CASTTJE OABDEN, the famous old wooden structure whereat millions of immigrants lading in New York have first set foot On the ahores of America, has been destroyed by fire. THE potato-bug, which has been busily at work in New York and Pennsylvania during the "early part of the season, is now literally destroying the potato crop in Connecticut and in some other parts of New England. MAITT cases of sunstroke are reported in Eastern cities, attended by fatality to an alarm­ ing degree.....The number of immigrants landed at New York last month was 35,008 less than during June of lasi: year. The total last month was only 10,558, as against 45,566 La June, 1875. DB. J. 0. ATEB, the millionaire patent-medi- ooe druggist, of Lowell, Mass., has lost his reason, and is now an inmate of Dr. Clioate's rvate insane asylum in Westchester county, Y., the institution in which the lamented Horace Greeley died. THE W®*T. Cser reports from 238 points in Ohio, In­ diana, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee are published in the Cincinnati Gazette. From these reports it appears that the season thus far has been very propitious for growing most kinds of grain, but just as the harvest ap­ proaches there iB threatened disaster from con­ tinued rains, from all points except Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. Fears of the destruc­ tion of a portion of the crops from this cause are entertained. As the crops now stand, wheat promises a yield of two-thirds ; oats less an average crop; corn, an unusually large crop ; hav in abundance, but rank and weedy, and whea't suffering considerably from the rav­ ages of the weevil. THE feeling of excitement and indignation over the massacre of Gen. Custer and his com­ rades is intense throughout the West, particu­ larly in the Territories, and thousands of men are eager to organize for the punishment of the red devils. There is a general feeling that the Indians ought to be wiped out The movement to organize a force of volun­ teers to take part in the Indian campaign has assumed a definite shape in Utah. A regiment of 1,200 frontiersmen, armed to the teeth with weapons which they know how to use. well mounted and equipped, will be tendered to the Secretary of War, and, if accepted, the regi­ ment will be recruited without delay and put in readiness to march against the hostile Sioux. Jacob Rehm, the arch-conspirator of the Chicago whisky ring, haa been sentenced to six months' imprisonment in jail and ordered to pay a one of §10,000. His punishment was ligh« in consequence of his having turned Mate's evidence. ANOTHXB daring railway robbery took place in Western Missouri on the night of July 8. The express train which left Kansas City on the Missouri Pacific railway at 4:45 o'clock on the evening named was boarded by highway­ men near Otterville Station. The bandits seized the United States Express messenger, and, with pistols pointed at his head, compelled him to open the safe. They robbed the safe of all the money and valuables it contained, some $15,000, and after dumping their plunder into a sack, which one of the robbers car­ ried, quietly left without interfering With any of the passengers. As they were leaving the leader said to the passengers: "If you see any of Allen Pinkerton's men, tell them they bad better come and find us." There were eight of the bandits, and tliey are believed to be a part of the notorious Younger gang. Parties were organized, and at last ac­ counts were in hot purmit of the bandits The reinforcements ordered to join Crook and Terry will give each of these commanders at least 2,000 effective fighting men--a force that should suffice, under judicious handling, to give a good account of any bands of Indians they may encounter. THE propeller St. Clair, from Duluth to Ontonagon, was burned on Lake Superior, off Fourteen-Mile point, on the 10th inst. The fire caught in the hold, and in lees than five ' minutes the boat was enveloped in flames from •ne end to the other. Owing to the rapidity with which the flames spread but one boat was launched. Life-preservers were brought on deck, aud all succeeded in putting one on, when a rush was made for the yawl, which was swamped six or seven times. The water was very cold, and it was not long before all Jrat one of the passengers, sixteen in number, perished, together with tea of the crew. When the boat caught fire she was about five miles from shore Hie Crow scout heretofore reported as having escaped massacre at the Custer charge proves tope the only survivor of that terrible slaugh­ ter. He was in the fight, but escaped to the river, washed off his Crow paint, changed the drees of his hair, put on a Sioux blanket, and charged with the Sioux,escaping,however, when an opportunity presented. He says the Sioux completely enveloped Custer, who killed his horse-s using their remains for breastworks, and fought desperately, the Indians charging his position time and again, losing heavily, the Crow believes more than Custer. One company, that of Capt. Smith, tried to cut its way to the rear, but all Were killed and their bodies lay some rods from Custer, all in a little knot. Custer was among the last to fall. Col. Cook, with his heavy, flowing beard, was the last one standing that the Indian recognized. Custer and command were all killed within an hour. Custer's com­ mand having been finished, the Indians gath­ ered their entire force about Reno, leaving the squaws to mutilate the dead and torture any who proved to be living. The remains bear many evidences of torture. The tortures practiced npon some were of an unmentionable nature. The heads of nearly all had been crushed with stone clubs, while in other ca^es their heads were severed from the bedv. The entrails bad been taken, and from many the limbs were chopped off. Other bodies were partially burned, a few were not found, but clothing belonging to them waa found and recognized. .... Advices from the grasshopper region of Min­ nesota are to the effect that the troublesome pests have taken wings and are flving awav in • northwestern direction. The fanners "are represented as happy over the unexpected torn of affairs, and calculate upon at least an average yield of grain Sioux City, Iowa, is red hot for war. The city tenders the Gov­ ernment, for the Indian service, 1,000 men, with horses and bridles, and a transportation train, to be ready to move within ten days after their acceptance. THE agency Indians along the upper Mis­ souri, who have received an account of Custer's •fight through some hostile Indians who took part in it, say that Custer shot three Indians with bis pistol, and killed three others with his saber, when he fell, shot through the head by 41 Bain-in-the-Face," a chief whom Custer had forciblv arrested some time ago for murder. The Indians lost seventy killed, among them many noted chiefs. The fight was hand-to- tianct. The Indians say they did not fear the pistols as much as they did the sabers. They are nearly out of ammunition, and will not fight again until they get a supply from the agencies A Fort Sully special says the In- 3f»na who were in the fight with Custer's troops assert that his remains were shockingly jnntiiatedi; his heart torn out, placed on th» end of a pole, and a war^danoe held around it, and that the chief Rain-in-the-Face still has possession «f it. POLITICAL. GOT. Oomroii, of Maine, had cppotftfeed Mr. Blaine, to suoceed Mr. Morrill in the United States Senate from that State. POSTMASTER GENF.RAI, JEWELL has left the Cabinet at the request of the President, and Mr. Tyner. of Indiana, late Assistant Post- mimtor General, has been appointed to succeed him, Mr. Jewell resigned at the request of the President, and the change was a genuine surnrise to almost everybody in Washington. Mr." Jewell called at the Executive Mansion on the evening of the 11th inst., to trans­ act some business with the President, vhAn the latter, much to his surprise, in­ formed him that his resignation would be de­ sirable. Mr. Jewell immediately wrote the following letter of resignation, which is all the correspondence that transpired upon the sub­ ject : _ 8M : I hereby tender my resignation oi ihe uince of Postmaster-General. Your obedient servant, MARSHALL JEWELL. To the President. Gov. Jewell asked no questions of the President, and is therefore not aware of the reason for the request, and members of the Cabinet also say that they are alike ignorant of the motives that controlled the President. It is asserted, however, in some circles, that, in addition to political con­ siderations. the President was influenced by Gov. Jewell's avowed friendliness to Mr. Bris- tow. On the same day Commissioner of Inter­ nal Revenue Pratt tendered his resignation, to take effect on the 1st of August. There ap­ pears to have bean a disagreement between Mr, Pratt and the President touching the ap­ pointment of revenue officers. President Grant has removed D. P. Dyer from the office of United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. - , THE Democrats of the Third Indiana District*1 employed against the Indiana,' limiting have nominated George A. Bicknell for Con gress, to succeed Speaker Kerr, the latter hav­ ing declined!a reelection Monroe Heath (Rep.) has been elected Mayor of Chicago..... Henry Wstt-erson, of the Louisville Courier- Journal, has accepted the Democratic nomi­ nation for Congress from that city, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Mr. Parsons. WASHINGTON. * EX-SECRETAEY BBISTOW was before the sub­ committee of the House on the 6th inst., and, after a few preliminary questions, was asked what attitude the President and Attorney Gen- end assumed at the outset of the whisky pros­ ecutions. Gen. Bristow answered that, without affirming or denying anything as to the rela­ tions which the committee sought to inquire about, he held that all consultations between the President and his Cabinet officers should be treated as matters of high privilege, and, on that ground, he respectfully but emphatically declined to answer. WASHINGTON advices say that it is probable Congress will adjourn about the 20th of July. A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 8th says: "Gen. Sherman arrived here last evening, and, in company with several prominent army officers, had a consultation with the President. It is decided that there is but one course to pursue, and that is to make a more active war­ fare against the rebellious Sioux until they are severely punished and made to live upon their reservation." THE recent hot weather in Washington has alarmed members of Congress, and there is expressed among them a general desire to get away from the capital as soon as possible. THE House Judiciary Committee met the oth­ er day to continue their investigation into the matter of the Fort Smith and Little Rock Rail­ road bonds, but postponed it, so far as Mr. Blaine's connection with it is concerned, on ac­ count of the receipt of two dispatches stating that perfect quiet is desirable and, perhaps, neces­ sary to insure his recovery. Warren Fisher, Jr., and James Mulligan were, therefore, dis­ charged from further attendance until the next session of Congress. This action of the com­ mittee was unanimous. THE Washington correspondent of the Chi­ cago Times gives this partial explanation of the causes that led to the retirement of Post­ master General Jewell: "On Saturday last, Jewell said to a friend that he had submitted to Grant's interference in his department long enough, and at the next Cabinet meeting, meaning the one to be held on Tuesday, July 11, he intended to beard the lion in his den and make an issue in the presence of the other members of the Cabinet. Of this Grant was advised on Monday, and, being opposed to dis­ cord in his Cabinet, concluded not to allow Jewell to exercise his temper in the presence of the Cabinet.".... An unusually-large number of members of Congress are sick, several of them seriously, owing to the effects of the heat. GENERAL. TWELVE companies of troops have been or­ dered west, to reinforcement Gen. Terry. THE purser of the steamship Tybee, from San Domingo, has forwarded to the Secretary of State, from the American Consulate at that port, the details of an insult to the American flag. It seems that the Tybee. when on the way from New York to San Domingo, took on board, as a passenger at Cape H&ytien, Gen. Pablo Villanueva, the ex-Minister of War and Marine under President Gonzales, of San Domingo. When the Tybee was lying at the latter port ehc was boarded by armed soldiers, who, despite the remonstrances of the American Consul and the Captain of the vessel, seized Villanueva and carried him ashore.... Western Congressmen are urging on the War Department the acceptance of State volun­ teers for the Indian war as the most effective and economical plan for the speedy subjuga­ tion of the hostile tribes. U£ to the 11th inst.--two months--2.076.106 persons had visited the National Centennial Ex­ position at Philadelphia, and the total cash re­ ceipts were $684,530 Dom Pedro, the Em­ peror of Brazil, and the most sensible " great man " from abroad who has ever honored this country with a visit, sailed from New York last week for Europe. FOREIGN. THE venerable ex-President Santa Anna died in the City, of Mexico on the 24th of June. ....Ar cable dispatch announces the death of Cassimer Perier, the distinguished French statesman The English cotton trade is seri­ ously depressed. A SERVIAN victory of considerable importance is announced in the cable dispatches. After ten hours of desperate fighting at Rachka, the Turks fled, and the place fell into the hands of the Servians... .The Americans in Constanti­ nople enthusiastically honored the Fourth. Horace Maynard, American Minister, presided, read the Declaration of Independence, and made a speech. % THE war upon which the Servians were in such haste to enter, has been rather disastrous to them thus far, if tl • accounts of recent en­ gagements are to be believed. Dispatches from Belgrade admit a loss of 700 in the fight on the line of the Drin, and other accounts assert that the Turks were also victorious in a battle at Novi Bazar, where the Servian loss was 1.500 in killed and wounded. A COLLIERY explosion near Saint Arold, Ger­ many, recently, killed forty-two and wounded forty-seven miners. THE most important news from Europe is a report from Berlin to the effect that Russia, with an understanding'with the other great powers, wdl not interfere in the present Ser­ vian-Turkish war. and that, therefore, there is FORTY-FOURTH COXflBlSS. THTTRSDAT, July 6.--Senate.--A resolution was adopted providing for the appointment at a oommittee of three Senators to visit the Pacifl* coast and Investigate the character, extent and effect of Chinese immigration to this country.... The Senate resumed consideration of the articles of impeachment against W. W. Belknap, late Befretarv of War. Lynda made the opening argument on the part of the managers. Some half-dozen witnesses were examined, princi­ pally with reference to the moneys parting between Marsh and McDowell. Htuse.--The House paaaed the Geneva Award bill.... Randall reported that the conference wu4ui:tvco en the Lcgismtivc, EACCUUTO »UU Ju­ dicial bills had been unable to agree. After a long partisan debate, participated la chiefly by Garfield and Cox, the conference report was agreed to, and a new committee of conference appointed, «xm»i»Uug of lUndsil, Morrison, and JUsson... Conference committees were ordered on the Silver bill and on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill.... The Senate joint resolution for the completion of the Washington monument was taken from the Speaker's table and passed unanimously. FRIDAY, July 7.--Senate.--Windom intro­ duced a bill extending and continuing tot a period of ten days the act recently passed to provide tem­ porarily for the expenditures of the Government. .... A bill was passed providing for the sale of the Fort Kearney military reservation in Nebraska...• There was an acrimonious partisan debate in the Senate on the general subject of appropriation bills. Morrill, Logan and Morton bitterly assailed the course of the House in adhering to its reductions, which they claimed would cripple the Government, ttiid TirtuElI^ to liiillificatloii sjsd. r^volu-- tion. Thurnian and Bogy replied with great warmth, and defended the action of the House in reducing expenses, arguing that the Senate had no right to asaai! the motives of tbe lower house. That body, they claimed, had acted in obedience to the Tolce of the people. New conference committees were then appointed upon the General and Sundry Civil Appropriation bills....A bill was passed to remove the political disabilities of G. T. Beaure­ gard, of Louisiana Paddock introduced a bill au­ thorizing the President to accept the services of volunteers from the Territories, to be the number to five regiments and the term of en- stment to three months The impeachment trial was resumed. Belknap's counsel changed their tactics, and sharply cross-examined the wit­ nesses, but no new facts were elicited. The man­ agers appeared especially anxious to prove the I I V.-- t > A 1 U w . n J 1L» . . » H A receipb U1 Uic rnuuc^ UJ wiaua^, ouu tucj ceeded House.--Bills were passed establishing the rank of Paymaster General in the army, repealing the law authorizing the appointment of civil engineers i tbe navy, and compelling the Pacific railroads to set apart out of their earnings a sum to apply in tbe payment of their debt to the GovermrfesL \ SATURDAY, July 8.--Senate.--A/oill continu­ ing for ten days the act recently passed to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Govern­ ment was passed; also a bill extending for the same time an act authorizing the Congressional Printer to continue the puolic printing Logan moved to take up the House bill to equalize the bounties of soldiers who served in the late war for the Union. Lost; yeas, 20; nays, 25. Logan gave notice that he would move to tike up the bill every morning, and he would call for the yeas and nays on the motion Sherman introduced a bill providing for the com­ pletion of Washington monument A mepsage was received from the House announcing the death of Edward Y. Parsons, of Kentucky, and,on motion of McCreery, the Senate, as a mark of respect, ad­ journed until 11 o'clock on Monday. House.--The House was engaged the greater part of the day in debating the bill reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs, declaring the country north of the North Platte river and east of the sum­ mit of the Big Horn mountain, in Wyoming Terri­ tory, open to exploration and settlement Knott announced the sudden &nd unexpected death of his colleague, Edward Y. Parsons, and offered resolu­ tions for the appointment of a committee to super­ intend the funeral and to attend the remains to Louisville. The resolutions were adopted, and Blackburn, Hopkins, Hartsell, Walker, Fort, Law­ rence and Clark were appointed such committee. MONDAY, July 10.---Senate.--Wright, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported a bill to ex­ tend the duration of the court commissioners of Alabama claims until Nov. 1 next.... After the transaction of some unimportant business the im­ peachment trial was resumed. The witnesses ex­ amined were Mr. Reid, the editor of the New York Tribune, Mr. Marsh, the original post-trader of Fort Sill, on whose testimony before a House com­ mittee the impeachment of Belknap waB based, and Gen. Hazeu, who was instrumental in the exposure ofV the Fort Sill rascality. Their testimony was vary damaging to Belknap. uloxise.--The House passed a bill continuing for ten days the act defraying tentf>orarilx the origpary and necessary expenditures of the Government.... Banning offered a resolution calliug on the Secreta­ ry of War for information in regard to the object of the military expedition under Gens. Terry, Crook and Gibbon against the Northwestern Indians. Adopted The Speaker pro torn, laid be­ fore the House a telegraphic dispatch from the Governor of Maine stating that Mr. Blaine, having accepted the vacant Senator- ship from that 8tate, had resigned his seat as a member frcm this day Bills were introduced and referred, as follows: By Scales, appointing a com­ mission to visit the Indian Territory, and report the condition and management of the Indians ; by Gariield, appropriating $10,000 for preparing and publishing a brief history of the several surveys and scientific expeditions made duriug th(j ctntury just closed ; by Steele, of Wyoming, authorizing the,President to enlist recruits for the army, to serve no more than six months, to aid in suppress­ ing ilie hostility of certain bands of Sioux Indians... Singleton, from the conference committee on the- Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill, re­ ported that the committee had not yet been able to agree. After an animated debate a new conference was appointed... .Holman moved to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution instructing the Com­ mittee on Banking and Currency to report for con­ sideration and amendment a bill to repeal so much of the Resumption act as provides for the resump­ tion of United States notes with coin. Negatived-- yeas, 105; nays, 96 | not two-thirds in the affirma­ tive. TUESDAY, July 11.--Senate.--Allison, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported with amendments the River and Harbor Appro­ priation bill Mr. Thurman, from the Committee on the Judiciary, moved that the Senate disagree to the amendments of the House to the bill to amend the Bankrupt act, and ask for a committee of conference. So ordered.... The impeachment trial was resumed, and after the examination of two or three witnesses, the man-, agers for the prosecution announced that they were through, with the exception of two witnesses, Evans and Fisher, and he thought it probable that one of them would do. House.--The House was not in session, having ad­ journed out of respect to the memory of one of their members recently deceased--Parsons, of Ky. WEDNESDAY, July 12.--Senate.--The Chai laid before the Senate the House bill to amend the Pacific Railroad acts, which was read by Mr. Little. A lively contest occurred over the reference of the bill. Edmunds and Thurman opposed its reference to the Railroad Committee on the ground that this oommittee was hostile to the bill, and favored its reference to the Judiciary Committee. West and Mitchell repelled the charge of favoritism toward the Pacific railway. The bill was finally laid over The joint resolution to authorize the President to accept the ser­ vices of volunteers to aid in sup­ pressing the Sioux Indian hostilities in the Northwest was taken from the table and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs... .The impeach­ ment trial was resumed, and many witnesses were produced and examined by the defense, to prove the previous good character of Belknap. Ex-Gov. Ralph B. Low, of Iowa, Senators Allison and Wright, Gen. Ruger, Gen. 8. V. Benet. Gen. A. A. Humphries, Gen. R. B. Marcy, Judge Advocate General Dunn, Associate Justice Miller, of the Su­ preme Court, and the Hon. John A. Kasson all tes­ tified to the integrity and ability of the late War Secretary. , House.--'The House passed a bill for the stab- lishmcnt of two additional military posts on the Yellowstone river, in the region of the hostile In- dians Haines, Chairman of the Committee on Elections, reported a resolution on the Louisiana contested-election case, declaring Darrell, the ait- ting member, entitled to a seat ...The bill pro­ viding for the sale of the Fort Kearney military reservation, Nebraska, was passed.... Hewitt, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, re­ ported back the resolution declaring the action of Robert C. Schenek, while United States Minister to England, in becoming a Director of the Emma Mine Company, and his operations in connection with shares of said company and renders thereof, as ill-advised, unfortunate and incompatible with the duties of his position. Adopted without discus­ sion or a division. at present no danger of a general European war over the "Eastern question." Miss BENNETT, sister of James Gordon Bennett, lias retired to the seclusion of the Sacred Heart Convent, at Manhafe- tsnville, where she expects to devote hev life to self-sacrifice. Paid in His Own Coin. A few evenings since a young couple called upon a clergyman at Oneida, Wis., and stated that they wished to be united in the holy bonds of matrimony. Before the ceremony commenced the young lady excused herself from the room, saying that she would return in a few moments. She handed the minister a note which he read soon after her de­ parture. It was as lollows : "Arthur --" You will wait for me in vain, for the longer you wait the further away I'll be. I shan't marry you to-night. You went back on me a year ago, and I'll get even with you now." The bridegroom took the hint, bade the clergyman good-by, and started for home. HATES. Hie Letter Accepting the Nomination for the Presidency. COLUMBUS. 0„. .Tnly fi. The Hon. Edward McPherson, the Hon. William A. Howard, the-Hon. Joseph H. R-iiney, and others, Committee of the Republican National Conven­ tion : GEKIMIIES--In reply to yonr official com­ munication of June 17, by which I am informed of my nomination for the office of President of the United States by the Republican National Convention at Cincinnati, I accept the nomin­ ation with gratitude, hoping that, under Prov­ idence, I shall be able", if elected, to execute the duties of the high office aa a trust for the benefit of all the people. I do not deem it necessary to enter upon any extended examination of the declaration of principles made by the convention. The reso­ lutions are in accord with my views, and I heartily concur in the principles they an­ nounce. In several of the resolutions, how­ ever, questions are considered which are of such importance that I deem it proper to brief­ ly express my convictions in regard to them. The fifth resolution adopted by the conven­ tion is of paramount interest. More than forty years ago a system of making appoint­ ments grew up, based upon the maxim, "To the victors belong the spoils," The old rule --the true rule--that honesty, eapacitv and fidelity constitute tbe only real qualifications for office, and that there is no other claim, gave place to the idea that party services were to be chiefly considered. All parties, in prac­ tice, have adopted the system. It has been essentially modified since its first introduc­ tion ; it has not, however, been improved. At first the President, either directly or " through the heads of departments, made all the appointments. But gradually the ap- • pointing power, in many cases, passed into the control of the members of Congress. The offices in these cases have become not merely rewards for party services, but rewards for services to party leaders. This system destroys the independence of the separate departments of the Government. It tends directly to ex­ travagance and official incapacity; it is a temp­ tation to dishonesty ; it hinders and impairs that careful supervision and strict account­ ability by which alone faithful and efficient public service can be secured; it obstructs the prompt removal and sure punishment of the unworthy; in every way it degrades the civil service and the character of the Government; it is felt, I am confident, by a large majority of the members of Congress, to be an intolerable burden and an unwarrantable hindrance to the proper discharge of their legitimate duties; it ought to be abolished. The reform should ba thorough, radical and complete. We should return to the principles and practice of the founders of the Government, supplying by legislation, when needed, that which was formerly established by custom. They neither expected nor desired from the public officer any partisan service. They meant that pnblic officerB should owe their whole service to the Govemment and to the people. They meant that the officer should be secure in his tenure as long as his personal character remained untarnished, and tbe performance of his du­ ties satisfactory. If elected, 1 shall couduct the administra­ tion of the Government upon these princi­ ples, and all constitutional powers vested in the Executive will be employed to establish this refowa: The declaration of principles by the Cincin­ nati Convention makes no announcement in favor of a single Presidential term. I do not assume to add to that declaration, but, believ­ ing that the restoration of the civil service to the system established by Washington and fol­ lowed by the early Presidents can be best ac­ complished by an Executive who is under no temptation to use the patronage of his office to promote his own re-election, I desire to per­ form what I rega d as a duty in stating now my inflexible purpose, if elected, not to be a candidate for election to ft second terra. On the currency question I have frequently expressed my views in public, and I stand by my record on this subject, I regard all the laws of the United States relating to the pay­ ment of the public indebtedness, tlie legal- tender notes included, as constituting a pledge and moral obligation of the Government which must in good faith be kept. It is my convic­ tion that the feeling of uncertainty inseparable from an irredeemable paper currency, with its fluctuations of values, is one of the great ob­ stacles to a revival of confidence and business, and to a return of prosperity. That uncertainty can be ended in but one way--the resumption of specie payments ; but the longer the insta­ bility connected with our present money sys­ tem is permitted to continue, the greater will be the injury inflicted upon our economical in­ terests and all classes of society. If elected I shall approve every appropriate measure to accomplish the desired end, and shall oppose any step backward. The resolution with respect to the public school system is one which should receive the hearty siippert of the American people. Agita­ tion upon this subject is to be apprehended until, by constitutional amendment, the schools are placed beyond ail danger of sectarian con­ trol or interference. The Republican party is pledged to secure snch an amendment. The resolution of the convention on the sub­ ject ef the permanent pacification of the coun­ try, and the complete protection of all its citi­ zens in the full enjoyment of all their consti­ tutional rights, is timely and of great im­ portance. The condition of the Southern States attracts the attention and commands the sympathy of the people of the whole Union. In their progressive recovery from the effects of the war, their first necessity is an in­ telligent and honest administration of govern­ ment which will protect all classes of citizens in all their political and private rights. What the South most needs is peace, and peace de­ pends upon the supremacy of law. There can be no enduring peace if the constitutional rights of any portion of the people are habitu­ ally disregarded. A division of political parties resting merely upon distinction of race, or up­ on sectional iines, is always unfortunate, aud may be disastrous. The welfare of the South,1 alike with that of every other part of the coun try, depends upon the attractions it can offer to labor, to immigration, and to capital. But laborers will not go, and capital will not be ventured, where the Constitution and the laws are set at defiance, and distraction, app rehen sion and alarm take the place of peace-lov- ing and law-abiding social life. All parts of the Constitution are sacred and must be sa­ credly observed, " the parts that are new no less than the parts that are old." The moral and material prosperity of the Southern States can be most effectually advanced by a hearty and generous recognition of the rights of all by all, " a recognition without reserve or excep­ tion." Witn such a recognition fully accorded, it will be practicable to promote, by the influence of all legitimate agencies of the general Gov­ ernment, the efforts of the people of those States to obtain for themselves the blessings of honest and capable local government. If elect­ ed. I shall consider it not only my duty, but it will be my ardent desire, to labor for the at­ tainment of this end. Let me assure my coun­ trymen of the Southern States that if I Bhall be charged with the duty of organizing an admin­ istration, it will be one which will re­ gard and cherish their truest interests, the in­ terests of the white and of the colored people, both, and equally, and which will put forth its best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which *will wipe out forever the distinction between the North and South in our common country. With a civil service organized upon a system which will secure purity, experience, efficiency, and economy, a strict regard for the public wel­ fare, solely, in appointments, and the speedy, thorough/and unsparing prosecution and pun­ ishment of all public officers who betray official trusts; with a sound currency; with education unaectarian and free to all; with simplicity and frugality in public and private affairs; and with a fraternal spirit of harmony pervading the peo­ ple of all sections and classes, we may reasona­ bly hope that the second century of 'our exist­ ence m a nation will, by the blessing of God, be pre-eminent as an era of good feeling and a period of neae. d of progress, prosperity, and happl- Reepectfully, your fellow-citizen, R» & SELF-SLAUGHTER. A Suicide Elaborately Planned and Ac­ complished--Seven Different Ways of Facing Death. A young man named Frederick Addi­ son jeffeiy, aged 24 years, called at- the Palmer House, Chicago, on the 3d of July, and engaged a room, paying for it until the morning of the 5th. At half- past 12 on that day a chambermaid noticed the gas btuinii»£ in his room and gave notice of the fact, when a man was sent to see about it and presumably to request the sleeping, and it may have intoxicated, occupant to turn it out. But after continually rapping and receiving no response the messenger procured a ladder and looked through the transom into the room. A sight met his gaze which made him shudder; for, dangling from a rope so suspended as to hold it in the middle of the bath-tub, was the body of a man evidently quite dead. Assistance was called, the door opened, and the scene of horror exposed to view, and that terrible sight proved to the astonished beholders that Chicago, which has furnished so many wonderful incidents to the history of the nation, had in this tragic episode contributed the prize centennial suicide to the an­ nals of death. Upon investigation the corpse proved to be the body of Frederick Addison Jeffery, presumably a member of the firm of Wyckoff & Jeffery, general agents for the "American plaiting ma­ chine," of Peoria, III. Further disclos­ ures in reference to the melancholy affair tend to show that the suicide is one of the most remarkable, if not the most remarkable, ever on record^ both from the motive which prompted it, the number of deadly agents employed, their wonderfully ingenious arrangement, and above all for the cool deliberation and elaborate preparation which was appar­ ent in eyery detail of the work of self- destruction. Ordinary mortals, seduced into tast­ ing of the unknown joys or sufferings opened out by an .indulgence in euthan­ asia, are apt to depend upon one or at most two agents of death to accomplish their purpose, but this young man suc­ cessfully experimented upon his unfor­ tunate body in no less than four ways separately, namely, those of hanging, poison, Bnooting and throat-cutting, and would have indulged in a fifth--stab­ bing to the heart with a small dagger-- had time permitted. In addition to this he had saturated all his clothing with alcohol, and had placed alcoholically- saturated cotton on some soft substance upon secured wires running lengthwise of tbe bath-tub, to which he intended to set fire, and thus render his remains a charred and unrecognizable mass. The deceased had taken three slats from the bedstead, and had carefully, as is plainly seen from the ingenious knot­ ting, bound them together with several thicknesses of fine cord. He had screwed a hook into the center "of this improvised gallows beam so that the cord which should terminate his life should not slip from its place, but would be kept exactly in the center. He had soaped the line so that it should slip up quickly and tight. This beam he had placed between the edge of the bath­ room partition and the wall of the room, tilting it up against the wall of the room somewhat so that it might not slip. On one side of him hung a blood-smeared razor, depending from the beam by a string, and on the other side, attached in the same way to the beam, hung a small pistol, which, upon- examination, was found to have been fired off. Upon the little side-table were two small vial bottles and a glass, around the rim of which a long string had been tied. Both bottles were empty, as was the glass, and it is supposed from the fumes from the bottles that one contained whisky and the other chloroform. A small bit of looking-glass hung upon a nail, evident­ ly placed tliere by the deceased, for it was ingeniously wired so as to hang straight, and had doubtless been used to aid him in making a fearful gash in the throat at the proper and most fatal place. The bath-tub was nearly full of water, and in it the corpse hung suspended by the cord to the beam, having , evidently token poison first, gashed his throa with the right hand, and fired off the pistol into his body with his left one, then slipping from the sides of the bath­ tub upon which he stood, had been jerked into the water by the fatal noose he had previously arranged about his neck. Jeffery left two letters, one addressed to the clerk of the hotel, and the other, which is a description of his plans in prose and verse, addressed to the Chi­ cago Times. He was undoubtedly in­ sane, though the manner of his taking- off was methodioal enough. He gavo no reason for going to his death save that he was too happy to continue in this state of life. Directions were left by the deceased as to the disposition of his remains and effects, which were lully complied with by the proprietor of the hotel. . The poem addressed to the Chicago Times is written in a plain, legible hand. Herewith an extract is given : If you respect one'a dying wish, Then bury not my corpse ; But let it then dissected be In Buffalo, by R. V. Pierce. M. D., Who wrote with common sense The People's Medical Adviser. To him an order I have sent. That he my body may procure. What worse can come to it Than that I will have done ? Will I not hang the body up « To poison, stab, an4 shoot" To carve a bit as well. Twill burn until the cord give way And lets it fall into the tank, Where it, will scald and drown. The flesh you could not recognize, So let him hack away, And do with that just as he will, But save the bones, I pray. Into the earth they must not go I cannot, will not, have it so. I want my skeleton to stand Where now I might have stood. The frame that's carried me about, To-day I want with you, To-morrow will be soon enough To put it out of sight. t If this is done--and I do beg That you will let it be-- Then dirt will never cever bones That were inside of me. To-morrow you can never eaten 5 Twill always be to-day, To-day and I together then Will outlive ail the world ; Of use my bones you'll suiely And, If you'll but let them stay. But weak shall Jeffery ever be If you turn them into clay. May cursei. rest upon the head Of him who would my will deter ; 6 May Heaven's fittest blessing fall To those wha will my wish confer. In a moment now all ties I'll sever Faithful friends, farewell forever. A. immmat. Kaiser wilhelm. Hie Writes an Autograph Letter to President. Mr. Schlozer, the German Minister to the United States, on the 4th of July presented to ; President Grant an auto­ graph letter of congratulation from th» Emperor of Germany. Mr. Schlozer, in presenting the letter, stated that h» was instructed by His Majesty to deliver upon the 4th day of July to the Presi­ dent, in person, an autograph letter of congratulation npon the th© Centennial anniversary, and wished to add his personal good wishes 'ftfT'the United States. The President briefly replied, assuring him of his satisfaction f in receiving this evidence of good feel­ ing on the part of His Majesty; thai his " kind expressions for the United State® were fully appreciated, and that the letter should be properly acknowledged. A translation of the letter is as follows s William, by the Grcux of God Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia, etc., To the President of the United States of America-- GHEAT AND GOOD FRIEND : It has been vouch* safed to you to celebrate the Centennial fes­ tival of the day upon which the great repub­ lic over which you preside entered the rank of independent nations. The purposes of its founders have, bv a wise application of the teachings of the history of the foundation of nations, and with an insight into the distaat future, been realised by a development with­ out a parallel. To congratulate you and the American people upon this occasion affords me so much the greater pleasure, because since the treaty of friendship which my an­ cestor of glorious memory, King Frederic TT , who now rests with God, concluded with t$0 United States, undisturbed friendship his continually existed between Germany and . America, and has been developed and strengthened by the ever-increasing imposts ance of their mutual relations,and by an inter­ course being more and more fruitful in every domain of commerce and science. That the welfare of the United States ana the friend­ ship of the two countries may continue to increase is my sincere desire and confident hope. Accept renewed assurance of my un­ qualified esteem. BERLIN, June 9. 1876. WITT JAM (Countersigned) Von BISMABCK ' Why Long Branch is a Failure as a Summer Resort. Long Branch was too near New York" The reporters, lynx-eyed, sleepless, and as numerous as the great American grass­ hopper, were always swarming down from the city. Above all, there came in what Ben Butler called the "she cor­ respondent," whQ put a new face on the politico-social question. This addition to our current army of meddlers has played such havoc this last season in Washington that no pblitician or politi­ cal woman can henceforth hope to hide his or her inner soul from the public. Until the she correspondent lit on the political perch there was always some immunity for the social side of the most dastardly politician. He used to say : " Interview me, expose me, de­ fame me as much as you please while I am in my bureau or office, but when I shut that official door let me alone." And, as a rule, he was let alone, until within a few years. Now he not only has his public transactions turned inside out, but his private emotions as well. If his wife gets a little present of a diamond necklace, there are sure to be half a dozen of keen women with pencils in their hands at his reception, or sitting on the fences of Pennsylvania avenue, waiting for him to drive by. If he gets tripped up, his wife's tears, her ward­ robe, underclothes, her false teeth, h^r glove bills, her whole physioignomy, be­ come public property.--Cor. New York Herald. - The Postal Appropriation Bill. By a section in the Post Office Appro­ priation bill, relating to third-class mat­ ter, all transient papers, magazines, books, all printed matter with the excep­ tion of circulars, unsealed, are restored to the former rate of 1 cent for every two ounces, while merchandise and un­ sealed circulars will remain at the pres­ ent rate. The bill appropriates for the tranaportion of mails $15,837,581. That embraces the "Star" routes and steam­ ship lines, at $6,737,851, and railroad routes at $9,100,000, against the esti­ mates of the department of a little more than $17,500,000. The reduction upon the item of transportion of mails is $1,662,149. There is nothing in the bill which affects the fast mails, such being run by special arrangement be­ tween the Postmaster General and the railroads. CHAKIIES W. CHCBCH, a real estate broker of Glastenbury, Conn., having been convicted of obtaining money by false pretences, carried his Case up to the Supreme Court, but he died, and the Supreme Court, not having heard of his death, granted him a new trial. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BKEVM 9 25 @10 75 Hons 6 75 <£ 7 00 COTTON LL%FT 12 FX.OUB--Superfine Western 3 00 @ 3 90 WHKAT--No. 2 Chicago 1 05 @ 1 07 CORN-- MixedWestern 51 (3> 52 OATS--No. 2 Chicago 37 @ 38 RVE--Western 72 @ 78 PORK--New Mess 20 00 @20 10 LARD--Steam CHICAGO. 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