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EARL RtrssEix is probably the oldest man of equal distinction who maintaina an active interest in public affairs any­ where in the world. Gen. Dix and Gortschakoff were born in '98, Thiers and Emperor William in '97, but Russsll dates back to 1792. THE lawyers of Chicago are a very bad lot or else the Times is a great libeler. That journal says that "were it within the limits of possibility to send from five to fifteen per cent, of all those who call themselves lawyers, in Chicago^ to the Penitentiary, it would be one of the grandest moral reforms of the age.M WASHINGTON died during the Admin. istration of John Adams. Consequently there was a short period during his term Of office in which there was no living ex-President. From the "'ma that Thomas Jefferson took the Executive •chair of the nation until the death of Andrew Johnson there wast no time dur­ ing which there was not at least one ex- President living. \ AN important discovery in the shape of an electric light to be used at sea has just been perfected by Commander Parker, Chief Signal Offioer of the Navy. In addition to the luminous quality of the light, it is so inanipulated aa to emit ft shower of electric sparks or stars, and by patient experiments the new process has been completed to the entire satis­ faction of the Navy Department. THE infant mortality, of New Tork •city is frightful. The heat is too much for the poor little innocents, and they are dying at the rate of one hundred a day. In Chicago a floating hospital has been institute^, upon which mothers ac- -oompanied by their Bick infants take daily excursions upon the lake, thus giv­ ing the babes plenty of fresh air, which will have the effect of saving the lives of hundreds of little climbs that would otherwise succumb to the terrible rav­ ages of the summer plague. THE events of the late Andrew John­ son's busy life are inscribed on the tablet of time in the following order: Bom at Baleigh, N. C., on the 25th of "December, 1808; Alderman in 1828, 1829 and 1830; Mayor in 1831, 1832 and 1833; member of the Legislature in 1835, 1839 and 1841; Presidential Elect­ or in 1840; Governor from 1853 to 1857; United States Senator from 1857 to 1863; Military Governor in 1862 ; Vice Presi­ dent, 1864; President, 1865 to 1869; ^Senator inl875; died in Carter county, "Tenn., July 31, 1875. POSTMASTER-GENERAL JKWKU, is mak­ ing very liberal arrangements for a Cen­ tennial Postoffice at Philadelphia. The difficulty has been that no appropriation lias been made for the purpose, and that the appropriations for the Philadelphia office are inadequate to the increased service. The Centennial office is to be entirely separate from the Philadelphia office, and will be served by carriers of all nationalities. The attempt will be made, as in London, to allow no stranger to be in the city more than a day before the carriers find him. Besort will doubtless be had to a registry to effect thin, EVERX month adds some 2,500 Chinese laborers to the Pacific coast. They are expert cooks and servants, and make good b<ank clerks, are industrious, but have learned how to strike for higher wages. They care little for politics, seldom get drunk, but gamble and fight universally. They never are idle. Their great numbers already regulate the wages in California, both in the kitchen and on the public works. They control cigar- making, boots and shoes, are carpenters, gardeners, tinsmiths, watchmakers, and altogether are a vast improvement oh the Caucasian tramp element of the day. THE suoeess of the cheaptrains on the road between Boston and Lynn has led to a new thing in railroad enterprise. A .marrow gauge railway has been built be­ tween the two ci*ies, which is to be run the cheap fare principle entirely; The five-cent trains on the Eastern rail?' way are confined to the morning and evening, and make only one trip each way. The fares on the narrow gauge will be somewhat higher--12$ cents to Lynn---but they will apply to all trains. One hundred days b of ore the road was opened, the iron of winch it was built was lying on the shores of Lake Cham- plain; the lumber of which the care are made was piled at Troy; and the ties were growing in Forth Carolina Iraests. Sucb.entorprise'attgurrWell for titosuo- cess of the railway. J Is announced that eveiry mill in Fall River, Mass., has been closed on account of the refusal of the operatives to accept a reduction of wages during the dull season. The city has forty-three mills within its limits, containing 1,258,- 508 spindles and 20,865 looms, over one- eighth of all the spindles in the United States, and manufactures over one-half of all the print cloths. The monthly pay rolls amount to moire than 8500,000, and 15,000 hands are employed in the busy season. • The cessation of Such en in­ dustry will make itself feit throughout the United States." ^ THE death of ex-President Johnson has revived the subject of the vote upon his impeachment and the number of Bepublican Senators voting for acquit­ tal. In the following exhibit of the vote on that memorable occasion, those in fa­ vor of acquittal whose names appear in italics were Ke publicans y Anthony, Cameron, Cattell,. Chandler, Cole, 0 "nkling, Conness, FOB CONVICTION. Morgan, Morton, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Spragtte, Stewart, Frlinghuyaen, Corbitt Harlan, Howard, Wade, Bayard, Buckalew, Davis, Dixon, Pool-iit!",, teftwm, Vickera. Ferry, Morrill, (Me.) Morrill, (Vt.) Nye, Patterson, (N. H.) Sumner, Thayer, Tipton,, Wiley, Williams, Wilson--35. Crsgin, Drake, Tales, Edmunds. FOB ACQUITTAL. Fowler, Patterson, (Tenn.) Grimt*, Row, Hmderwn, Saulsbury, Hendricks, Trumbull, Johnson, Van Winkle--19. MeCreery, • Norton. POLITICS AX1) POLITICIANS. THREE Democratic newspapers in Cal- i .'ornia are edited by women. THE Union Spy, of Rochester, Minn., nominates the Hon. Daniel D. Pratt for the Presidency. THE new constitution of the Statfe of Nebraska gives State and county officers fixed series and no fees. EX-GOVERNOR SEYMOUR announced in a' resent speech that " time had cured him of political aspirations." THE Republicans of Maryland talk of C. C. Fulton, of the Baltimore Ameri­ can, as their candidate for Governor. EX-GQVEBNOB FENTON, of New York, declines to allow the use of his name in connection with a Congressional nomi­ nation. . Two POLITICIANS o| opposite parties have quarreled in San Francisco over a speech which was written by the one for the other to deliver at a mass meeting. The writer has brought suit against the speaker for the price of the oration, which he considers worth one hundred dollars, but for which he i« willing to take half that sum. THE Missouri Constitutional Conven­ tion has voted to exempt the property of churches, schools, benevolent institu­ tions and agricultural societies to the amount of one acre of land, with the buildings upon it, when situated in a town or city; and to the amount of five acres, with appurtenances, when five miles from a city or town. SENATOR SCHUBZ writes to Mends in Washington that he will return to this country in October. He has spent most of his time abroad in Berlin, at the For­ eign Office, studying the correspondence between Prussia and our Government a century ago, intending to use the data obtained in the political history of Amer- ca which he designs writing. TENNESSEE is having a heap of trouble, this year, with her finances. The State Treasurer says he's blest if he knows where the July interest is coming from --let alone the January. It has been proposed to convene the Legislature, but what that body can do about it is not so clear. The taxes falling due in November will be pretty much used up in paying off maturing warrants for money borrowed to keep the pot boiliqg. LOUISVILLE disputes the claim of St. Louis for the next National Democratic Convention. The Courier-Journal says: 4 4 St. Louis already puts in a bid for the next National Democratic Convention. Not if Louisville knows herself, and she thinks she does, for we have special claims in that quarter. This city is on the border. It has better hotel accom­ modations than St. Louis. It is more central and accessible. It has a hall capable of seating 20,000 people. St Louis will llave to stand aside or walk over the dead body of Louisville. As a matter of fact we have set our heart on that Convention, and mean to have it." THE Washington Chronicle has been looking up the facts and figures pertain­ ing to the organization of the next House. The following table, showing the number of candidates for the vari­ ous positions in control of the House, may be set down as approximately, if not absolutely, correct: » Speaker - 6 Clerk 11 Sergeant-at-Arms................. •••• •...... 13 Postmaster - , 10 Doorkeeper 21 "Caterer 82 Employes under Speaker. - 35 Employes under Clerk: .«• .....100 Employes under Sergeaat-at-Axms S5 Employes under Doorkeeper 475 Employes under Postmaster 95 Capitol police.. 50 Total expectants 882 Inasmuch as only about 100 of these, all told, can by any possibility be accom­ modated, a simple operation of subtrac­ tion will show there must needs be about 780 diaappofot^ gentlemen. ILLINOIS NEWS* BoApHotrsK is to have a 910,000 flonv ing mill. DANIEL 11 fintxoxs has been alp- pointed Postmaster at Jacksonville. IT is proposed to convert the Girard Woolen Miii into*a paper manufactory* HENRY X. SMITH, owner of Goldsmith Maid and other fast horses, has positively agreed to have them at the Quincy fair, in September. THE discovery of a splendid bed of porcelain and fire-clay is reported in Union county, in the vicinity of MThe Tunnel," near Jonesboro. THE Governor has issued a proclama­ tion offering a reward of $200 for the arrest of John Hutchinson, who is charged with the murder of Jacob Sut­ ler, of Cairo. A SJTTLE son of Mr. Samuel C. Seward, living near Urbana, was drowned last week by falling into a newly-dug cellar which had been filled with water by the heavy rains. MR. LORENZO Brut, of Quincy, has purchased of Col. Edward Price a one- hftlf interest in the water-works of that city, and will hereafter be associated jointly with Col. Price in the ownership and management of that enterprise. MR. J. B. HOWLETT, editor of.the Lanark Gazette, died last week of con­ sumption, aged 50 years. Mr. Howlett was formerly Deputy Assessor of Internal Revenue. He was an editor of unusual energy and large acquaintance. ROBERT BOBS, living near Virginia, Cass county, was driving to town with a load of oats, when his team started sud­ denly, throwing him off backward, breaking his neck, and causing instant death. He leaves a wife and a family of children. AT Jacksonville, on Friday last, Mr. Isaac Allen was shot in the breast and fatally wounded by his son, Ben Allen, about 15 years of age. Allen had been drinkingj and was making an assault upon his wifo with a carving-knife, when the son interfered with the above result. Young Allen gave himself up to the authorities. Gov. Bei^kidoe has issued a general order organizing all the militia regiments and companies in the State into a brig­ ade, the commanding officer pf each to report to Brigadier-General A. 0. Ducat, of Chicago, who will be assigned to com­ mand them, for orders. THE Railroad Commissioners have re­ ceived notice that the case pending in the Douglas County Circuit Court against the Illinois Central railroad, for infringement of the State law, had been decided against the company, the jury giving a judgment of $1,00%,. The company will take the case up to ^ Su­ preme Court. c To CORRECT an erroneous impre ssion which seems to prevail abroad as to the danger of Cairo from inundation, it is only necessary to say that the levees are considered safe at the highest water mark and, the rivers are still six feet be­ low. No uneasiness is felt there. Nearly all the railroads throughout the State are running on time, and all further trouble from high water is thought to be over. If is said that considerable destitution prevails in Moline. There are some fam­ ilies there who, it seems, would rather starve than make their necessities known. A physician attending a family a few days ago, found nothing in the house to eat. One of the family, a child, had died, and the mother and infant were then sick in bed. (b ordering nourish­ ing food he found they had not the ne­ cessaries of life. The Overseer of the the Poor was applied to. PosTOFFicits were established and dis­ continued in this State as follows during the month of July : Established-- Lee county; Bloomfield, Johnson coun­ ty ; Bladensburg, • Frauklin county; Colehour, Cook county ; Davis' Junc­ tion, Ogle county; Fieldon, Jersey county ; Marvin, Clark county; Bois, Champaign county ; Kirkland, DeKalb county; Helena,. Alexander county. Discontinued--Asbury, La Salle county; Lacey, De Kalb county ; Moscow, Union ,cpunty. c ' < r THE Board of Supehrisors of Macoupin county held a meeting at Carlinville last week, and, by a unanimous vote, sub­ mitted the following compromise to be voted upon Sept. 11: The originalfbonds issued for the purpose of building a Court-House, amounting to over 81,- 300,000, shall be funded at 75 cents on the dollar, by issuing new bon^s to run twenty years, bearing 6 pp|/,Jant. inter­ est ; also 5 per cent, of ,/>he. taxes shrill be applied to payings oie principal. The compromise was firnt suggested by Judge David Davis, of the Supreme Court. ^ MR. A. B. ALLEN has exhibited "at the office of the State Register newspaper at Springfield, a medal which will be in­ teresting to collectors. It is of silver, weighs 4 ounces, is 7$ inches iin circum­ ference, | of an inch thick, coin value of 84.56. On one side appears, "James Monroe, President of the United States, 1817," with a bust of Monroe, and the j signature " Furst f." On the obverse | are. a pipe and tomahawk, clasped hands, j wid the inscription " Peace and Friend-1 ship." Mr. Allen tag refused $100 for | the medal, which, it is believed, was I given to Osoe the Seminolp chief. i If the Bourbon progrsime in Ohio does not express, in tne most unequivocal The Renrbon Prolamine of Repndia- 7 Prom the Chicago "Time*.J What Mr. Allen G. Thurman has fc'ter done that people should think of him as a statesman, passes comprehension. Seven or eight years ago the country had never heard of him. The Bourbon ^ managers in Ohio alone knew that the [ that are capable of expressing the mean- language, hostility to a specie basis, and if it does not express, !n like unequivo­ cal language, the demand for the re- pudiated-promise-tewpay or " legal-ten- der" basis (that is, irredeemability), then the English language contain* not words ancient William Allen--a regular roarer on the Bourbon "stump" in the early port of the present century--had a nephew living at Columbus who was nearly as old and quite as fossilized as himself. They brought forward this venerable nephew of the pre-Adamite Soaring Bill as their candidate for Gov­ ernor. He was beaten in the election. Ing to that average understanding. It is true, there is a senseless clause in the platform which speaks of "leaving the restoration of legal-tenders to par with gold to be brought about by pro­ moting the industries of the people and not by destroying them." It is to this aru>/>moti nlan Thurman undoubtedly alludes when he But the Bourbons got the Legislature by ! says that the platform nowhere says some aocident, and they felt so tickled J that greenbacks should be irredeemable; 4 «4 ytu A T.. AI 1 3 1 j|_ _ A - * i 1 « A il . • about it that they incontinently rewarded Mr. Thurman for his defeat by putting him in the Senate, in place of old Ben Wade. As a member of the Senate, Mr. Thurman has not done or said anything remarkable. He fell naturally into the inveterate Bourbon habit of voting No J upon every proposition from the major- j ity side of the Chamber, and supple-1 meafc^d it, as is the Bourbon habit," by proposing no measure, plan, or sugges- j tion of his own. An ingeniously con­ trived machine could have done the flame; but no one would have thought of styling the machine a statesman. Ob­ struction seems to have been Thurman'a idea of the function of a Bourbon Sena­ tor. As an obstruction of rather more than the average Btmrbon immobility, he attracted some notioe, and in an evil hour one of the Bourbon cabals in New Tork suggested him as a suitable candi­ date of the political fossils for the Presi­ dency. Ever since then Mr. Thurman been afflicted unceasingly with the Presi­ dential maggot in his ear. Mr, Thurman professes to accept the conclusions of reason and the inductions of all the known facts of history and ex­ perience on the finanoe question. He professes to regard an inconvertible paper-debt currency as a delusion and a sham, necessarily injurious to all honest business and industry, and advantageous only to money speculators and stock- gamblers. He concedes the consistency of this view with the teachings of all po­ litical economists who are entitled to the name, and admits that it is verified by the experience of all nations and all busi­ ness men. And yet, professing to ao < oept the truths of political economy for his guide, this man mounts the platform of a party demanding unlimited inflation of an already repudiated currency, labors through an apology for a declaration of war against the national credit, and ad­ vises honest men to give their suffrages to promote the exact contrary of that which he professes to believe to be the only road to safety and prosperity. A more humiliating exhibition of unmiti­ gated demagogism it would be difficult to imagine, Mr. Tliurman's apology for the Bour­ bon declaration of war against the na­ tional credit is astonishingly weak. It has been roundly asserted, he says, that the Ohio Bourbon platform means the indefinite inflation of an irredeemable debt-paper circulation; " that it means an irredeemable paper currency now and forever,! and, consequently, that gold and silW, or caper convertible into gold and sHver, shall never form a part of our circiuatoig medium. But," says this rook-rooted sophist, "certainly no such idea w exprexsed in the plat­ form !" • * * " You look in vain in the platform for a direct expression in favor of irredeemability, or a direct as­ sertion that gold and silver should be demonetized!" When Mr. Thurman spoke thus he was not ignorant of the fact that " green­ backs" are now irredeemable, and that gold and silver are already "demone­ tized," so far as it is possible to de­ monetize them by statute, bv effect of the act of Congress declaring these promises to pay money to be themselves "lawful money." The Ohio quack- moneyites had no occasion to propose what exists already. What they did propose and what is directly and unequi­ vocally expressed in their platform, is that the existing false, mytliical and fraudulent " legal-tender" basis of the circulating medium shall not be changed, but shall be continued and extended. The platform declares falsely, but dis­ tinctly, that " the contraction of the oarrency has brought disaster to the business of the country, and threatens it with general bankruptcy and: ruin." The platform says : " We demand that this policy (of contraction) be abandon­ ed, and that the volume of currency be made and kept equal to the wants of trade." This is certainly an express and unequivocal declaration in favor of two things : First, an abandonment of the policy of contraction--that is, of go­ ing toward currency convertibility; sec­ ond, an application of the policy of in­ flation, or increase of the volume of irre­ deemable currency, without any definite limit. To propose an increase in the volume of an irredeemable currency would seem* to most sensible people to be an expression favorable to the quality of irredeemability. Yet in the face of this declaration of the Bourbon platform, both against the specie basis and in favor of inflation upon the fraud­ ulent " legal-tender" basis, Mr. Thur­ man has the impudence to say that no such idea is "expressed" in the platform. It is still further expressed in the platform, the next clause of which de­ clares that "we oppose the policy of abolishing the legal-tenders"--which is ! exactly the same thing as saying that we are opposed to a specie basis, or redeem- ability--and "demand that all the na- . .. . tional bank circulation be promptly and i 8°; whereas the former proposes no limit permanently retired, and legal tenders ! except such as Congress may from time be issued in their place." As if this J to time prescribe, according to the were not plain enough expression of! changing opinion of a majority of its |heir meaning that they do not wish any j members as to ^the "wants of trade." return to specie basis, but wish to con- | * * * ' t , . * . * tinue indefinitely and "permanently" ] The Democrats of Ohio have^ raised the repudiated promise to pav, or "legal-1 the currency issue and staked their polit- tender" bssis^ they proceed to express it | ical fortunes upon it. Mr, Thurm&n seeks again by declaring that the legal-tender or repudiation act should be further ex­ tended to " all public duesand then on the contrary, it contemplates that they shall bs brought to a par* with gold. The first part of this sentencA is the ut­ terance of a lie; the second part of it is the expression of a subterfuge. Bring­ ing the Kreenbaeks to par with gold is not "on the contrary" of their irredeem­ ability. Why are treasury notes irre­ deemable ? It is net because they are not at par with gold. It is because, by an arbitrary otatute, they are made "legal-tender." There is no other rea­ son for their irredeemability (though there is an additional reason for their not being at par with gold). The Ohio Bourbons propose to continue them as ( ( * > i u A i A ^ A - -- ItgtU-lCliUCiO, lillllli iQ, Uiupuw TO, CPN- tinue their irreedemability, and to in­ crease the volume of this irredeemable debt-paper by the total amount of all the National bank circulation, and as much more as may be thought neces­ sary to equal the " demands-of trade"--in other words, the wiskes of the gamblers. But, while they utterly and positively oppose the policy of making the Treasury notes redeemable--that is, while they repudiate any idea of return­ ing to a specie basis-^-they bamboozle themselves with the crazy notion that these irredeemable due-bills which are npt to be made redeemable can be brought to par with gold by some sort of occult hocus-pocus called "promoting the industries!" And Mr. Thurman seizes upon v this crazy notion and at­ tempts to palm-4t of upon an intelligent public as an expression in favor of mak­ ing Treasury notes redeemable! It is thevery^tliin exploit\>f averycontempti- ble political dema^ogrtfe and qffice beggar Dodging the Issue. [f^om the Chicago Times.] Senator Tliurman's speech at Mans­ field, Ohio, so far as it relates to the currency issue, is partly an attempt te prove that the Democratic platform does not mean whstt everybody understands it to mean, and partly an attempt to Bhow how he can consistently support the candidates of his party, and at the same time spurn the main planks of their platform--the planks which Uncle Bill Allen, the head of the ticket, fully ac­ cepts,. even at the sacrifice of what he used to call hie convictions. Under the first head, Mr. Thurman states it as his opinion thai the platform does not mean inflation, and that the men who constitu­ ted a majority of the Democratic Con­ vention and its Committee on Resolutions do not want inflation. In proof of this position, he calls attention to the fact that the platform "denounces contraction, but does not say, in plain words^ ' Give us inflation.'" He is quite sure that the platform build­ ers understand English, and-have plenty of courage, and, therefore, that they would plainly have said inflation if they had wanted it. The platform itself is a sufficient an­ swer to all this. First, it asserts that the Republican party has contracted, and is v£6nti-acting the currency, "with a view to the forced resumption of specie pay­ ment. " Second, it declares that the con­ traction policy has " already brought dis­ aster to the business of the country, and threatens it with general bankruptcy and ruin." Third, it demands that "this policy niust be abandoned, and that the volume of currency be made and kept equal to the wants of trade." The three things together cannot possibly be made to mean anything but inflation and per­ petual suspension, which is repudiation. They assert that the currency has been contracted until " disaster to the busi­ ness of the country " has resulted--that is, until it has become unequal to the wants of trade, and they demand that it shall be made equal to the wants of trade. That means inflation--all the more so seeing that the assertion that the currency has been contracted is false-- and it cannot possibly be made to me m anything else. The meaning of the platform is substantially the same as that of the vetoed Senate Currency bill, of which Senator Thurman said, when it was before the Senate: "It simply means that no man of my age shall ever again see in this country that kind of currency which the framers of the Constitution intended should be the currency of the Union; which every sound writer on political economy the world over says is the only currency that defrauds no man. It meane that so long as I live, and possibly long after I shall be laid in the grave, this people shall have nothing but an irredeemable currency with which to transact their business--that currency which has been well described as the most eflective invention that ever the wit of man devised ed to fertilize the rich roan's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. I will have nothing to do with it." In fact, the meaning of the platform is worse than that of the vetoed bill^ because the latter proposed a certain limit, beyond which inflation should not l»e reduced slowly, the average cost o the national government for each j> hab itant is not so great as it was 30 jm m ago. Indeed, it has hot been so groat under any administration in that p riod as under the three last Democratic . nes. The figures compiled by a statis writer in the Republic Magazine thow that under Polk, the pet of Am row Jackson, the great Democratic chief­ tain, the cost of governing the country was $2.05 per capita; under Frank Pierce, a model Democratic doughface, it was $2.30; under Buchanan, the last and meanest Democratic President, it was $2.28; but under Taylor and ifill- more, elected us Whigs, it w»» uoly $1.89; under Lincoln and Johnson, elected as Republicans, it was $1.94; and under Grant it is 81.69. Does the country hunger for Democratic "re­ form" in national expenses?--Laming JRqpmb&can, ; • £ v THE BLACK HILLS. Authentic News from the Gold 1%e. Ulnen Scaroety XMTB2B{ S»W.V. rFram the €JWe»go Trftsnae.] In the feverish excitement which i newspapers and adventurers have pro­ voked with stories of the wealth of the Black Rills, perhaps the following can­ did letter from Lieut; John H. Coale, of the Second Cavalry Regiment, U. S. A., now in that region, to his father, Isaao Coale, Esq., of this city, will be read with interest, and perhaps gratitude, by t h o s e w h o h e e d i t : CAMP HARNEY, Black Hills, Jnly 18.--Camp Harney, from, which I write, is situated in the Black Hilla of Dakota--to be exact, in latitude 43 dep. 46 min. 20 sec., and longitude 103 deg. 44 mi u and 45 sec. We have a permanent camp here, and send out surveying parties with Binall escorts to map the countrv within a radios of fifty miles. We are about through with the southern parts of the Hills, and to-morrow will move up to the northward, with a view of es­ tablishing a permanent camp about »isty or. seventy miles from here, where we will COOK plete the survey of the northeastern portion of the Hilla. I notice that the Eastern papers are filled with lies about the gold-discoveries. I have just as good opportunities of knowing as any­ body, and I am satisfied that, so far. tw rich diggings have been discovered, and I don't be­ lieve one nugget has been found. The gold, so far, is in very small scales, and I, not being an enthusiast, have failed to find out what the yield actually is. I am satisfied that most of tbp miliars am aot making 31 a day, aud perhaps one or two parties are making $2 a day, by much harder worn than they would be re­ quired to do on any railroad in the United States. Provisions, as yet, cannot be bought at any Erice - so when the stock which the mmsrs ha*» rought with them is exhausted, they will probably have to call on the government to keep them from starving. I am satisfied that no rich quartz-leads have been found, all news­ paper reports to the contrary notwithstanding. If anybody thinks of comitig to the Black Hills, he had better think twice ahont it. I really be- _ lieve that, so far, all the stones about r>,oh*dig­ gings have been invented by a few speculators, in order to get people out here to buy claims. The miners here are really not doina: anything, but are lying back for the rush, in hopes of selling out their claims at fabulous prices. I suppose there are about 500 miuers here now, scattered through the Hills. We have no in­ structions to interfere with them, because we have other duties to perform. Most of them are a poor, llehided set. who have no idea of the difficulties they will have to contend against. Thev seem to have come out here thinking they would find the gold lying around loose, ana that all they would have to do would be to load their wagons and start home with a fortune. I do not mean to say there are no rich deposits of gold in the Hills, because I am no prophet ; but I know that, up to the present time, they have not been discovered. <:* A Strange Story of tfco Site [From the London Times.] A private letter received yesterday ib Sheffield, from one of the crew of the iron ship Glance, of London, which ar­ rived in the Thames from Adelaide, on Thursday, gives intelligence of a terri­ ble event which recentlv occurred at sea. On the 27th ult. the Glance passed an put-bound vessel, bearing the name of Jesse Osborne,, and was hailed by the captain of the latter ship, who reported that one of his crew had gone mad; that for live days the maniac had stationed himself aloft, and that nothing could in­ duce him to return to deck. The cap­ tain further reported that the madman had armed himself with a large chisel, with which he was cutting the ropes, and that the boatswain had tried to bring him down. The maniac, however, thi®w a block at the boatswain, knocking him on the deck and breaking his arm and leg. As a matter of saletv to his vessel and crew the captain of the James Os­ borne considered that it was necessaxj to shoot the maniac, and after some con­ sultation that course was decided upon. The crew and officers of the Glance were requested to be present as wit­ nesses, and in their presence the man was shot with a revolver. In conse­ quence of the way in which he moved about the rigging three shots had to be fired before he was fatally injured. He fell dead on deck, and luss body vstfl eventually thrown overboard. decLrafacm^lmt ^^^ou^be1"^ Ohio. The candidates nominated on ! your sentence lasts.'--Fret Pram* At the Detroit Police Court. " You nmfe't have no trial over me,** said William Palmer as he toed the " Tou want tot plead guilty, eh ?" " Yes, sir--send me right up.'* "I'll send ypu tip, of course, but hasn't the pure air of liberty any charms for you? Hadn't you rather'ride on the ferry beats and see the women faint away when their hats blow off, than go up to the retreat and make chairs ?" "No, sir; I'm tired out, hunglj» strapped and discouraged." "Will sixty days do yo«f" "I dunno." > " Well, say four months t* '̂ "I'd rather you'd make it six. I want to sit down and think, and get fat, and regain mv health. "I'm shattered all to pieces.*' O " Six it is, Mr. Palmer, and if I could send you for fifty years I'd do that. I see you haven't got anv stamina of char­ acter. You're L old log, content to float with the current. When you sit down you want some one to rig a der- to throw the issue overboard, and raise j rick and hoist you up, so. as to save ex- others that his party has not made. But i ertion. I'll send word up by the anyer, he will not succeed. The platform | and I'll bet my farm in Canada against stands as the opinion of his party in j a hat that you '11 stejp aroundlugu watte paper currency except such as may be issued directly by and upon"--not a specie basis, but--"the authority of the general government." And yet Mr. Allen G. Thurman has the unblushing impudence to say this Bourbon pro­ gramme of repudiation an 1 unlimited in­ flation contains no " expression" against a specie basis, or in favor of irredeema­ bility 1 that platform indorse it fully and accept boldly the principal issue which it pre- j MAST of the Chinese in San lfxancuco " I have gone into the mc ! business. Success has sents. The battle will be won or lost on that issue, and Mr. Thurman has no power tO prevent it. * ".X Democratic MB»Cumu* Omitting the expenses of our army, navy, and pensions, which were swelled JUT [ SO far, and they do a lagge 1 buying and celling the new trade dollar, whim is. aUttdil entirdy superseding the Mexican «« of the same denomination, and they also est*