Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

Omciat. ret«r«r*Mte'4o the Burea«of Statistic* show that during the fiscal year ended June *i, lOTft, there arrived .In the United States »*7* Chiqesc Immigrants, of Whoa 0n1y258 weVe ftmaics. During the cormpondtng period of 1875, the total ImMigration to the United State* from China win: W,4M, of whom eighty-two were to iWannsoTOi telegram of the 29th ult: say* Geo. U. Cowell, Chief Clerk of the Poe to fllce Department, and a personal friend ofltr. Jewell, had been requested to resign, and had done so, the resignation to take effeat on th« Slat. A Washington special of the 29th ult atstaa that the President said he had it in hit power to completely clear himself from the charges made by ex-Bolicltor Wilson, and that he would certainly do so. Tns public debt statement for July, published on the Ist, shows the following: Coin bonds outstanding 11,096,884,450; total debt, •8,188,700,111; cash in Treasury, $105,249,984; debt leas bash in the Treasury, $2,098,801 All; decrease daring July, 81,188,038. Tns President, on the Ist, issued bis proclamation announcing the admission of Colorado as a State of the Union. A Vauunotok telegram of the 81st ult. says the President had requested the resignation of Supervising-Architect Potter. The Chicago Tr&mtept the Ist states that Mr. Potter had said that he retired from the position Voluntarily and in pursuance of a plan foraod soma-time ago, and denied having received a hint from the President that his resignation would be acceptable. Tan United Btate* Senate, on the Ist, sitting as a Court of Impeachment, voted to acquit ex-Sec'y Belknap, the vote standing thirty-live for conviction, 1 and twenty-flve for acquittal l —less than the two-thirds required to convict. On the second article thirty-six voted guilty, and twenty-flve not guilty. Twenty-three of those voting not guilty stated that their reason for doing sb was a want of jurisdiction. The following Is the vote in detoil: For C'eatiettoaHSayard, Booth, Cameron (Pa.), Cockrell. Cooper, Davis, Dawes. Dennis, Edmonds, Gord -s, Hamilton, Harvey, H tchcuck, Kelly, Kernan, Key. McCreery McDonald, Msrri mou, Mitchell, Merrill, N„rwooi, Oglesby, Randolph, Ransom, Robertson. Sargent, Stuisbury, Sherman. Stevenson, Thurman, Wadlelgh. Wallace, Whyte, Withers. Conover, Craad*, Dorsey, Baton, Bjny, Kreling-hnvi-en, Usman. Howe, Ingalls, Jones (Nev.), Logan. McMUlla. Paddock, Patterned, Spencer, Wret, Windent, Wright ~r Absent or Hot Voting— Alcorn, Bogy, BornMdo, Clayton, Eaglish, Johnston. Jones (Kla.l, Maxey, Mortup. Sosroa. Mr. Juoea.pf Florda. declinedioTOO en the ground Thar fte Senate had no jurisdiction. Messrs. Oowpver and Wright voted for acquittal on the ground that they believed the chargee ware n6t snetained. Tu Secretary of <thd Treasury has in- * structed the various sub-Treasury offices throughout the country to payout silver coin in exchange (pr legal tender notos, and inordinary disbursements of the Gprernmefii . ” *, l . ** ■ ■*} '

wu»*4«A Boston .tele@sm of the 38th s4ys that ■ex-Speakor Blaine was at Windham, Muss., greatly improved In health, and that he would soon be aElejUusiter upon his public duties. Thb candidates on the' Massachusetts State Prohibition ticket hare all withdrawn except those for Governor t and LieutenantGovernor, DcrinO July the Philadelphia mint coined 34,150 pieces of gold valued at $688,000; silver, numbered pieces, 1,154,500; value, $258,800; base metal, number' of pieces, 735,000; value, $15,150; total nufnber of pieces, 1,833,650; total value, $856,450. What is pronoauced to be a splendid statue of Washington arrived atf Philadelphia on the Ist, from Leghorn, Italy, having been 110 days on the voyage. H is twelve feet high, cut from one block ot marble, and will be put on a pedestal eighteen feet high, near the Main Building on the Exposition grounds. At the municipal election in Portsmouth, N. H-, on the Ist, the Republicans elected their candidate for Mayor by a majority of 333. Gold closed in New York on the 3d a IIIK The following were the dosing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, 94e@«J.05; No. S Milwaukee, 95 @1.07; Oats, Western Mixed, So@3sc; Corn, Western Mixed, 5 @s6c; Pork;. Mess, $19.75; Lard, U&c; Flour, good < to choice, $455@5 09; White Wheat Extra, $5.05(37.35. Cattle, BX@lo)fc for good to extra. Bheep, 4>4@6c.

At East Liberty;’ Fa., on the 2d, cattle brought: Best, $5.12*g55.40; medium, $L75@ $5.00; common, Hogs sold— Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphia*, $7.«5® 7.10. Bbeep brought SLOO@S 25, accenting to quality. TiSi ' * WEST Alfß SOUTH. Is the free-for-all trotting race at Cleveland on the 27th, Goldsmith Maid took the first two heats in 2:15* and 2:17*. The stallion Smuggler won the remaining three bents —the third, fourth and fifth—and the race in the extraordinary time of 2:16*, 2 ; 19X * n d 2:17*, Goldsmith Maid coming -in second. ' - ; The Nebraska Republican State Convention i* to be held at Lincoln on the' 26th of euftanaber. TjSVUr. Nathan Gore is the Republican candidate for Governor of West Virginia. ..ySkfi first Prohibition State Convention in ‘ Kentucky waa held in Louis ville on the 27th. "Green Clay Smith, Prohibition candidate for President, was present and made a speech. A State General Committee and Electors were appointed, and the National platform of the party sms read and adopted. Tan Democratic State Convention of Illinois was held at Springfield on the 27th, and nominated the following ticket; For Governor, Lewis Stewart, (Independent candidate for same office); Lieutenant-Governor, A. A. Glenn jj? Secretary of State, 8. Y. Tborntem; Auditor, John Hise (also on the Independeut ticket for same office); State Treasurer, George Gundlaeh; Attorney-General, E. Lynch. The resolutions adopted endorse the platform and nominees of the 8t Louis t Convention, and call on the Legislature to fenlfe some plan to prevent convict labor jOrdti ekming in eoinpctttion with free labor. BrosMetstUl elector* were also chosen. It was reported from Louisville oo the fifth that Col. Wharton, United States Dis-

trict Attorney for Kentucky, had been re moved, ajffffl. P.Tlnley*had been appdffted* as his adpeaaor. A CAUL has bean Issqftd for the Democrat-' 1c Htoth ConventipD of Colorado to mMt at Manftou oafehc 29thof August. W A raw days ago a six-year-old daughter of Mrs. Burge, of Mason CjJt|,lowa, during the absence at a neighbor’s biT her" mother, threw a quantity of kqMftne oil Into the stove, with the usual' terrible result, she being terribly and fatally burned. A nlPbar was published In tU Chicago and 88. 1 Louis papers of the 2Utb ult. that Gen. Crook’s command bad met with a terrible disaster In a light with the Indians. The report proved unfounded. Tnn Arkansas Republican Btate ticket, nominated by the Convention In session at Little Rock on the 28th ult., is beaded by A. W. Bishop for Governor, and W. L. Copeland (colored) for Secretary of State. News was received at Fort Laramie on the 29th ult. that Crazy Bull, with thirty lodges, was on the Way to the. Red Clond Agency, having deserted Sitting Bull a camp, being tired of the war and anxious to make a treaty. A small party of men from the fflack Hills arrived at Omaha on the 81st ult.,and are reported to have brought with them SBOO,OOO in gold dust. One of them, it Is said,had $75,0u0. At Salt Lake City on the 81st uIL, Judge Schaeffer rendered a decision in the suit of Ann Eliza r*. Brigham Young, to recover alimony, the decision reducing the amount made payable by the order of Judge McKean from SSOO to $l9O per month, thus diminishing the amount from $17,5Q0 to $3,600, and giving the defendant thirty days in which to pay the amount, and providing in default of such payment that execution shall Issue against his property. Tun Indian version of the Custer fight agrees in its main features with the accounts from other sources. It was announced on the 81st ult. that all the cavalry on duty In Southern Kansas, Texas and the Indian Territory had been ordered to jqln Gen. Terry or Gen. Crook. Joint Loughborough, a member of the Arkansas State Senate from the Little Roek District, was found dead in his house on the afternoon of the 81st ult., shot through the heart. Investigation developed the fact that he had committed suicide. An official dispatch was received at Omaha on the Ist, from Camp Brown, Wyoming Territory, which gays Indian scouts had bronght intelligence that the hostile Indians were moving southeast, and at last accounts were at the head of the Little Powder River. It was thought they were making for the agencies^

Ox the Ist, a row-boat on Bawbeese Lake, east of Coldwater, Mich , overturned when about 200 yards from shore, mid of the seventeen men, women and children therein, pjne were drowned. The victims resided at Coldwater, and left in the morning to attend a picnic on the shores of the lake. Thb verdict of the Coroner’s jury in the case of the victims of the Hamburg (8. C.) troubles, charges the crime of murder upon Gen. M. C. Butler, Col. A. P. Butler, Pierce Butler and the Rev. J. Meeling, and fiftythree other citizens of Aiken and-Edge-field counties, and also upon thirty citizens of Georgia. Warrants for the arrest of all the parties implicated by the verdict were put in the hands of the Sheriff of Aiken County on the Ist, and would be served it once, and it was said Gov. Cbsmberkin would immediately issue s requisition upon the jjovernor of Georgia for the surrender of the thirty citizens of that State. A. H. Colquitt is the Democratic candidate Tor Governor of Georgia. In a letter to the Chairman of the Indiana Republican State Central Committee, under date of August 2, Godlove S. Orth tendered his declination as candidate for Governor, on the ground that he had Eden tkmvineed he would not receive the united support of the party in the State. Gbn. Samuel F. Cart, of Ohio, has been placed on the National Independent ticket for Vice-President in place of Senator Booth, declined. Mr. Cary has accepted the nomination, which was made by the National Independent Council appointed by the Indianapolis Convention. In Chicago, jOn the 2d, Spring 2, closed at SB@BBs£c. cash. Cash corn closed at 46c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2 sold at 9034@8OJ$c; September optlops were sold at SoJ£c. Rye No. 2, 55@55%c. Cash mess pork closed at $18.40 @18.50. Lard, $10.85(310.90. Good to choice beeves brought [email protected]; medium grade*, $4.25(34.40; butchers’ stock; *2.90@ 3.60; stock cattle, etc M sß.oo@*.sd. Hogs brought $6.90@6 60 for good to choice. Sheep Bold at $3.00@450 fp*-good, to choice. f j

WRRICN INTELLIGENCE. A London dispatch of the 28th says the great powers had definitely decided, to interfere in Servi>Turkish affairs. A telegram from Gala to reports that 70,000 Tschenkessens in Caucassus have revolted against the Russians. Dervish Pasha, the Turkish commander in Bosnia, has issued a proclamation prohibiting quarter to Christians. Special telegrams to a Paris paper of the 80th ult. say 300 Chris tans had been tortured and drowned . in the villages of Pervan and Temar, twelve women cut to pieces at Pavics, sixty chil* dren stoned to death at Rathlovo, 180 girls murdered at Sokolovo, and 8,000 Christians massacred at Prigedorn. A severe engagement took place near Urbleas,on the 29thult, between the Turks, under Moukhter Pasha, and the Servians. The latter were victorious, capturing many prisoners. The Turks who attacked the Montenegrins on the 28th were completely defeated. Sqdhkhaxx, Sweden, has been recently almost enti rely-destroyed by fire. London dispatches of the B<st ult say the Bashi-BazourF atrocities had created intense excitement throughout Greece, and her relations with Turkey were becoming very serious. She had issued a note to the Great Powers, expressing a fear that she would be unable to prevent a war wi h Turkey. A Berlin telegram of the same date says the Russian General Von Kaufman, the conqueror of Khiva, had gone to the Servian camp and would assume the c>mmand of Uie Servian forces. Russia had decided to withdraw her Envoy from Constantinople. A Widdin dispatch of the 81st ult says the Turks entered Bervia at Grain ads, on the 29th, and were driving the enemy everywhere before them. , "" * The London Tima of the 81st ult says Dr, Butcher, Archbishop of Ireland, whose death reported on the 29th, committed suicidcwhile delirious. -*

According to Ragusa telegrams of the Ist The Turkish loss la the recent fight Bcsr •Treblqje was: ScUqi Pasha killed, Osman l'asba taken prisoner, ami two eoloncls, threeiieutenantAloucl*, «4\en minors and froWB,(IO01«» fl.fiW mctrtelled, wounded or missing. Two battalions of Infantry and one of chasseurs were destroyed to the last man. r Paris dispakhc* to tho London, Standard of the Ist saV'tbat Austria had selected England as arbiter In the solution of the conflict between TWkey and Servla. An Insurrection has broken out in Albania, and Is rapidly spreading throughout the province. The headquarters of the rebellion are at Bcutri. Roylton & Dixon, Iron ship-builders, of Mid(tlcsborough, England, failed op the Ist Their liabilities are four and a quarter million dollars. Th* ship Geltwood, from Liverpool for Melbourne, was recently lost with alLop board, off Cape Northumberland, on the south coast of Australia. A Paris telegram of the 2d announces that the Sultan Murad Uffeudi had already signed his abdication of the Ottoman throne. Abdul Hamid, his successor, had declared that he would take personal command of the armies operating against the Sclaves. According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 2d the Arab Shieks at Mecca had offered 200,000 Arabian troops to the Turkish Government. Bblgradb telegrams of the 2d say Russia had sent an army of observation to her frontier. Thr clerks of the Bank of Nova Scotia and the Provincial Treasurer’s office at Halifax, N. 8., on the Ist, locked the doors and went off to see a circus procession. When they returned they found that thieves had been there and robbed the bank of $17,500 and the Treasurer’s office of SI,OOO and valuable papers. / . ;f

CONG R ESSION AL. The death of Senator Caperton was announced in the Senate, on the 27th, and a committee of four Senators was appointed to accompany the remains to hi- late home in West Virginia. out of respect to the memory of the deceased the Senate then adjourned. . In the House, the senate bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for the compielou of the Washington Monument was passed, with amendments, one of which increases the amount to S2O ,0«'. Announcement was made of the deith of Senator C-per tan, the usual resolutions of respect were adopted, and a committee was appointed to accompany the remains to West Virginia. In the Senate, on the 28th, a new conference was agreed to on the Consular, and Diplomatic Appropriation bill. The House amendments to the bill providing for the coracle lion of the Washington Monument were Agreed to, and tire bill was passed The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was recommitted, with instructions tnat the committee report the bill so that toe tot* 1 amount appropriated shall not exceed $5,000,000. The House bi 1 for the etle of the usage ceded lands, is Kansas to actual settlers was tak- a up and amended. Adjourned to ihe 315 t... .In the Bouse, in the Virginia con tet'ed election case of Platt vs. Goode, the minor ty report, that Goode, the sitting member, is entitle lio the seat, was agr ed to—los to 97. The Conference report on the Military Academy bill was adopted. Senate not in sessioa on the 29th.... In the Honse, the bill passed by both fcionses extending the time for the redemption of land sold for airect taxes was called up and amended so as to exclude the possibility of its being construed to affect the National cemeteiy, and was passed as amended. An. evening session was heljl far general debate. In the Senate, on the 31st ult., the resolution prohibiting the supply of special metallic cartridges to hostile Indians waif passed. Bills were passed—authorizing an increase in the cavalry force, not more than 2,500 men to be enlisted under the act; House bills, to provide temporarily for the expenses of the Government, ana to continue public printing In-advance of the regular appropriation, until August 10. The Impeachment trial was proceeded with, and the final question was discussed with closed doors, and au order was adopted that in voting on the question of guilt each Senator might state his reasons for his vote, occupying not more i han a minute in so do ng.... In the House, a number o bill* were introduced and referred. Thehniiiority report of the Committee on Naval Affairs was rejected—yeas 59, nays 115. Bills were passed ex ending the appropriations for Ihe various departments to August IU. A message was TeceiTed from- the President pointing out what be considered some of the defects of the ~ Sundfy Civil Appropriation bill m making inadequate provision for some, and none at all for otherbratiebes of the public service, and staling that he did not feel warranted in vetoing the bill, bnt deemed it Msdhty to show where the responsibility belonged for any embarrassments caused by Us def«c(*. ’ .

In the Senate, on the Ist, a message was received from the President transmitting copies of the corredpdadence between himself and Gov. Chamberlain, and other reports in regard to the recent troubles M Hamburg, 8. C. A new Conference < ommlttde was appointed on the Consular and liiplomatic Appropriation bill A joint resolution was passed providing for the restoration of the w riting pf the original Declaration of ndependence. The Conference report on the Military Academy Appropriation bill was agreed to. House bine were passed- to establish a new land district in the Temtqrv of Wyoming, to be known as the Evanstoa District) to create an additional land district in the Territory of Idaho; providing lor the sale of the Usage ceded finds in Kansas, with an amendment. Messrs. West and Cockrell werfe announced as members of the commission to consider the work of reorganiziug the army. The Imp achmeut trial was concluded bv a verdict of acquittal, the vote standing thirty-.five for conviction and twenty-five uotgmltv. being less than the twothirds required to convict. Eulogies were pronounced on the late Edward V Parsons, member of the Uoase from. Kentucky.... In the Hour», majority and minority reports were made from the Co n; it tee on the Real Estate Pool; accompanying former waa a resolution that the report and accompanying documents be printed and referred to the Judiciary Committee, with instructions to inquire into the alleged violations of law, ind ascertain the liability of George If. Robeapu. Secretary of the Navy, for su' h alleged acta; the m nority resolution was to the effect that the House find no cause of complaint or censure attaching to Secretary Robeson, growing out of hi* offlfeni transactions with the firm of Jay Cooke. McCulloch & Co. The majority report aud resolution were adopted. A bill was reported and paaeed appropriating *227,556 for the pavment of indebtedness incurred in the construction of the New York Postoffice building.

A srßsrmrir* for the House bill granting a pension to E. M. Hanaell, who waa injured while defending the late Secretary Seward from the assassin Payne. Was pa Hied in the Senate on the id—the substitute awards sS,ono. Several amendments to the Rivet and Harbor Appropriation, bill were agreed t 0.... In the House, a nnani-. mous report from the Committee on Expenditures ia the Interior JJepartmeut on tha Insane Asylum Investigation, and majority and minority drum ,«he same committee in regard to the survey of public lands, were made, oraered printed and recommitted. The Mil to trm 4er the Indian Bureau ¥ >ui the Interior to the War Department came up. and Mr. Lamar made a lengthy speech on political subjects. The Senate ameudmeat to the bill providing for the sale of Osage ceded lands in Kansas to actual settlers wen non-concurred in, and a Committee of Conference was ordered.

Ex-Solicitor Wilson’s Statement.

Bluford Wilson, «x‘Solicitor of the United States Treasury, was before the House Com mittee ou the whisky trials in St Louis, on the 27th ult, and gave in detail his knowledge in regard to the late whisky prosecutions in the West, and particularly in regard tQ.the connection of Babcock with,them. Wilson said that there was no lack of coopeAtion on the part of the President In the whisky cases generally, until Babcock became involved, when s coolness between the White House and the Department ares'*. He also testified that, in a conversation with Gin. Horace Porter, soon after the discovery that “ Sylph” telegram was

In Babcock's handwriting, Porter gave an exploration of the diapateL to the effect thqs It related Jo movezjpnts of Oertaln parties going to fit. Louis ou bridge business, mid said that the signature arose from the fact es there bein| a certain woman wlio had given the P/esident much trouble, and whom McDonald bad been requested by Btbceck to get away from Washington, because she had been annoying the President The President subsequently deniod to Wilson the s ory told by Porter. Wilson testified thst when be first heard this story from Porter he believed it to be false, and he still believed so. Mr. Wilson was further examined on the 28th, and gave in de» toil bis reasons for thinking the President did not show tbc same sympathy with the whisky prosecutions after as before the evidence tending to implicate Gen. Babcock in the frauds. The witness read several letters and stated several conversations between the officials and others, which letters and conversations had led him to the conclusion stated. He testified that the annoyance which it was said the woman “Sylph” ?;sve the President was by her cforts to blackmail him in St. Louis. Mr. Wilson stated, in reply to a question by one of the Committee, that he attributed the differences between the President and himself to the fact that the former believed Babcock io be Innocent, and, so believing, he conld not sympathize with the prosecuting officers or with the Secretary and witness in the part they took with reference to BabcockV case. He further stated 'bat his own judgment was that whatever differences arose between the Secretary and himfcelf on one side, and the President on the other, were due on the President’s part to misconception of the motives and purposes which actuated the Secretary and witness, to misinformation as to facts, to willful and deliberate perversions of facts to the President by scoundrels whom they were endeavoring to bring to punishment, and their friends, for the purpose of bringing about a disagreement between the President and the Secretory, to create embarrassment to the prosecution, and, if possible, to defeat their purpose. Wm. O. Gavitt, Special Agent of the Internal Revenue Bureau, was before the committee on the Ist, and testified to the effect that Mr. Wilson had instructed him to go for Bristow for the Presidency, and had given hint to understand that the policy to be pursued wasHo be governed by that idea. Mr. W. had said the President was backing the movements against the whisky rings. Yaryan had alqp undertaken to instruct the witness to work for Bristow, saying it was policy to do so. Mr. Bangs, United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, was also examined on the Ist, and gave an account of the whisky trials at Chicago. No evidence has bden disclosed which in the slightest degree implicated Gen. Logan or Mr. Farwell in the whisky frauds. Mr. Wilson was further examined on the 2d. His testimony was mostly in explanation of his private papers and their subsequent examination by Treasury officials. His statement is substantiated by the afti davits of Messrs. Winslow and Dixon, private Secretaries of the witness, who packed the papers. Wilson testified that he hud never had any evidence implicating Logan or Farwell except the statements of ,local prosecuting officers that those gentlemen' were suspected. He had never himself expressed any belief or opinion that they were implicated, and he preferred not to do so now. In regard to the abandonment of the prosecution against Ward and Wadsworth, ne said that he had always firmly opposed it. Mr. Wilson directly contradicted Gavitt, the revenue agent, who had testified that the Solicitor had instructed him to go for Bristow for the Presidency, and read a letter accusing Gavitt of indiscretion and disreputable conduct while iu Illinois, on account of which, he was withdrawn from that service. Yaryan, however, admitted having l told Gavitt that “ this Blaine business must stop,” because Gavitt devoted more time to polities than to business, while it was contrary to orders of both Yaryan and the Commissioner for special agents to interfere with politics either, directly or indirectly.

The Sioux Account of the Custer Slaughter.

St. Paul, Minn.. July 31. Brevet Licut.-Col. J. S. Poland, Captain of the Sixth Infantry, commanding the military station at Standing Rock Agency, under date of July 24, reports to Adj’t.Gen. Ruggles as follows: Sir: I respectfully report the following as having been derived from eqven Sioux Indians just returned from tlitfhostile camp, July 21 , some of whom were engaged in the battle of June 25, with the Seventh Cavalry. Their account is as follows: The hostiles were celebrating their greatest of religious festivals, "the Sun Dance, when runners brought news of the approach of cavalry. The dance was suspended, and a general rush followed, mistaken by’Custer perhaps for a retreat for horses, equipments and arms. Maj. Reno first attacked the village at the south end and across the Little Big) Horn. Their narrative of Reno’s operations coincides with the publisliod account of how he was quickly confronted and surrounded; how he dismounted, rallied in the timber, remounted and cut his way back over the f'-rdand up the bluffs with considerable loss, and the continuation of the fight for some little time, when runners arrived from the north end <>f the village or camp with the news that the cavalry had attacked the north end,’some three or four miles distant. The Indians about Reno had not before this the slightest intimation of fighting at any other point. A force large enough to prevent Reno from assuming the offensive was left, and. the surplus available XfitSfi. followed to the other end of the camp, where, finding the Indians successfully driving Custer before them, instead of uniting with them, they separated into two parties and moved around the flanks of his cavalry. They report that Custer crossed the river, but only succeeded in reaching the edge of the Indian camp. After he was driven to the bluff's, the fight lasted perhaps an hour. The Indians have no hours of the day, and the time can only be, given approximately. They report that a small number of cavalry broke through the line of Indians in their rear, and escaped, but were overtaken within a distance of five or six miles and all killed. I infer from

this that this body of retreating cavalry was probably led by the missing officers, and that they tried to escape only after Custer fell. The last man that was k lied was killed by the two sons of a Santee Indian, Red Top, who was a leader in the Minnesota massacres of ’62 and 63. ~ After the battle the squaws entered Uie field to plunder and mutilate th« dead. General rejoicing wa&indulged in, and a distribution of arms arid Ammunition hurriedly made. Then this attack on Reno was vigorously renewed. Up to the attack the Indians had lost coin para l ivoly few men, but now they 6ay most serious loss took place. They give no idea of numbers, but say there were a great many. Sitting Bull was neither killed nor personally engaged in the fight. He remained in the Council tent directing operations. Crazy Horae, with a large bund, and Black Moon were the principal leaders on the 25th of June. Kill Eagle, Chief, of the Blackfeet, was at the head of some twenty lodges of this Agency. He was prominently engaged in the battle of -lunc 25, and afterward u braided Sitting Bull for not tak ng an active personal part in the engagement.

° Kill Eagle has sent me word that he waa forced into the tight; that he desired to return to the Agency; and that he will return to the Agenct if he is killed for it He is reported to be actually on the way ba k to go to his Father and Agent and make com session and receive absolution for h s defiant crime aga nst the hand that had gratuitously fed him for three years. ’ He is trulf a shrewd chief, who must have discovered that- “ He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day.”

The Indians were not all engaged at aay one time.. Heavy reserwe wm belAto i% pall losses and renew srUcks sin cepivelfc The tight continued until the thO| da* when runers, kept purpoMly On tup look, •ut, hurried into camp and reported $ great body of tfoops (Gen. Terry’s sonnn)»H[rt) ▼ancing up the river. The lodges having been previously prepured for a move, a retreat iu * southerly direction followed, toward and- along Rosebud Mountain. They marched about fifty miloe, wont into camp and held a consultation, when it Ma-. determined to send into all the Agencies reports of tbeir success, sad to. call upon dwt to com* out and share the glories that there were expected to be iu the (uturo. We may expect an influx of overbearing and Impudent Indians, to urge, by force, perhaps, an a<-cession to Sitting Bull’s demands.. There is r general gathering in the hostile camp from each of the Agei cles on thl*. Missouri River, Red Cloud and Spotted Tall, as also the Northern Cheyennes and Arrapahoes. They report for the especial benefit of their relatives here that In the three fights they had with the whites they have captured Over 400 stand of anus, carbines and rifles, revolvers not counted; ammunition without end, and some sugar, coffee, bacon and hard bread. They claim to have captured from the whites this summer over 900 horses and mules. I suppose this includes operations against soldiers, Crow Indians, and Black Hills miners.

The general outline of this Indian report concurs with the published reports. The first attack of Reno’s began well on in the day, say the Indiana. They report about 300 whites killed, i.ut do no. say how many Indians were killed. A report from another source says the Indians obtained from Custer’s Command 592 carbines and revolvers, i have, since writing the above, heard from the returned hostiles, which they communicated as a secret to their particular friends here, information that a large party of Sioux and Cheyennes were to Jeave Rosebud Mountain, or hostile camp, for this Agency to intimidate and compel the Indians here to join Sitting Bull. If these refuse, they are ordered to “ soldier them” (beat them) and steal their ponies. Very respect ully, J, S. Poland, Captain Sixth Infantry, Brevet LieutenantColonel, Commanding.

The President’s Message on the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill.

Washington, July 81. The following is the message which was sent to the House by the President to-day giving his objections to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill: To the House of Representatirp*: The act making appropriations for tho sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30,1877, is so defective in what it omits to provide for. that X cannot announce its approval without at the same time pointing ont what seems to be to me its defects. It makes but inadequate provision for the service at best, and in some instances fails to make any provision whatever. Notably among the first class Is the reduction to the ordinary annual appropriation for the RevenneCutter Service to the prejudice of the Customs Revenue. The same may he said of the Signal Service, as also the failure to provide for.the increased expenses devolved ui>on the mints and assay efiices by rel ent legislation, and for the ’rote tion. preservation, and completion of public bulldhjgs fqr which there 1* no adequate appropriation. The sum of SIOO 000 only is appropriated for repairs of different navy-yards ami stations, and the preservation of the same, the ordinary and customary appropriations for which are not less than $1,009,0 0. IA similar reduction is made in expenses for armories and arsenals. Thamrovieion for ordinary judicial expenses is much less than the estimated amount for that important service by the actual expenditures of the last fiscal- year and certain demands of the current year. The provision for the surveys of public lands is less i han one-half of the usual appropriation for that service and what are understood to be its actual demands. The reduction to the expenditures for houses. beacons and fog-stations is also made in similar proportion. _ . r ...

Of the class for which no appropriation is made, among the most noticeable, perhaps, is that portion of the general of the'District of Columbia in behalf of the United States as appropriated in former years, and judgments of the Court, of Claims. The failures to make a reasonable contribution to the expenses of the Nation's Capital is an apparent dereliction on the part of the United States, and rank Injustice to the people here, who hear the burdens; W h lle to ref use or neglect to provide for the payment of the solemn jnugments of its own Ccprts is apparently to repudiate. • Of a different character, but as prejudicial to the Treasury, Is the omission to make provision to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to have the rebel archives and records of captured and abandoned property examined, and information furnished herefrom for the me of the Government. Finally, without further specification In detail, it may be said that the act which in its title purports to make provision for a diverse and greatly extended civil service, unhappily appropriates an amount not morn than sixty-five per cent, of its ordinary demands. « . The Legislative Department establishes and defines the service, and d volves upon the Executive Dcpait "ents the obligation of submitting annua ly the needfu l estimates of the expenses of such service. Congress properly exacts implicit ob-dienes to the requirements of the law in the administration of the public service, and a rigid accountability in the expenditure thereof. It is submitted that a corresponding responsibility and obligation rests upon it to make adequate appropriations to render possible each administration. Anything short of an ample provision fora specified service is necessarily fraught with disaster to public Interests, and is a possible injustice to those charged with its execution. To appropriate and to execute are corresponding obligations and duties, and the adequacy of the former is a necessary measure for the efficiency of execution. In this eighth month of the present session of Cong ess, nearly one month of the fiscal year to which this appropriation applies having passed, I do uot feel warranted in vetoing au absolutely necessary appropriation hill, but in signing it 1 deem it a duty to show where the responsibility belongs for whatever embarrassments may arise iu the execution of the trusts confided to me. U. S. Grant.

The Custer Monument.

The Custer National Monument Association, of which Gen. Sheridan is'President, have issued the following circular: Monroe, Mich., July 21, 1876. To the Soldiers of the Nation: Custer has fallen. The gallant chief, the ideal soldier, the warm-hearted comrade, has gdbe. The Nation mourns his loss, and gratefully acknowledges the debt she owes aim. Here at his home, where his dust is to lie, comrades in arms and admiring friends all over the country have determined to erect a monumeht that shall speak as worthily as bronze or marble the honor which soldier and civilian alike; award to the true hero. Bel eving that evefy soldier who has fought under of with him, or for the cause fn which he gained the bright luster of his fame, will count it a' privilege to give some substantial tribute to his memoTV, the Executive Committee of the Custer National Monument Association, led by the suggestion of many of your old comrades. have determined to establish a fund auxiliary-to the general fund of the Association, to be made up of contributions of $1 ea h from (It Is to be hope 1) every soldier in the Union. These coutribu t ons may be sent by mail to T. E. Wing, Cashier of the First National Bauk of Monroe, Mich , Treasurer of the Association, and in return for such contribut on so sent, with the name of donor, a certificate signed by Lieut. Gen. Bberidan, U. 8 A., President, will be sent. Let every soldier regard himself as a special ag> nt of the Association, urging forward this noble enterprise. Chairman Finance Committee. Gen. Georo* Spalding, Chairman Executive Committee.

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miscellaneous items. •; —-jße pfodigal sun—Old Sol. * —Mtugaiity is the corner-stone of prosperim —Spy nothing when nothing ought to ha said. —About all that some people ever want ia to be let aJowL. ~ —More poetry comes from a disordered liver than from JnspimtiQß. YA‘, —A lady hasUeen f&md'iFklncLheartiWY ftlti Aft —Women wtl suggest a thousand excuses to themtolvea for the folly of those they like. —ls you went ta havajieople claim you as a relativfe wlterfron Jle/leave a little money behind ytfcrr " —lAewt Cameron sayattat the whole of Africa is one vast slave-field. The trade.is increasing hwtfefftfdMHWflushing. —The nineteenth 'century doesn’t seem to climb along abofit> ite business near as sprightly since the faat mail has stopped. . —The Big Horn country is*white with air alkali foundation that reflects the sun horribly, and makes the region a hot place for soldiers to fight in. —ln the ice factory at Galveston, Texas, die workmen go abont dr'cSsed in the thickest woolen clothesas they’thovcabout among the columns of solitf iee.

—A total change of diet, with no medicine, is recommended by the Professors of King’s College, London, as an efficient method of treating nervous diseases. —The files this season are equipped with teeth, which is interpreted to mean that, ih the Judgment of Nature, the American people are a pfetty tough set. —Very intellectual women are seldom beautiful.— Neu> Haven Register. Now add, if you dare, that very beautiful women are seldom intellectual.— Louisville Courier Journal. —ls idle people only knew jSiat the enjoyment of rest and pleasure is to be attained only by real honorably, labor, we should have fewer valetudinarians and hypocondriacs in the world. / —An oldjjachefor, who died recently, left a will fflviding all his property equally among die surviving women who had refused him. “Because,’.’ said he, “lo them I owe all my earthly happiness.” —“Gen’l’mon,” exclaimed an old Connecticut salt, as he grasped the brawny ana eAa Yale College oarsman, And called the company’s attention to its muscular development, “gen’l’men, tkar’s. Intelleck for yer.” . add were —New York physicians say &at many of the children trying ia itififftSp v every summer might live if their p«Wts would occasionally change the Intfe fellows’ clothing, and give both children and clothing a bath. —A gentlejmau with full forehead, who has givfce file subject touch thought, says there 1 no mdre striking sight in the world than that of a pretty woman dressed in mourning, bravely defending the good traits .of the man whom she nagged into the tomb. ’

—The demeanor of the playful fly on these warm mornings continues a study. His terrific mental struggle between a desire for ahatomical knowledge and a disposition to makg a square meal reminds one of a young lady meditating upon two styles of hat trimming, r*- • w —lt Is difficult to some if' the great problems of Natn*6v*''Pt is estimated that it takes eighteen centuries' to form a foot of coal, but' it is # "Well-known fact that $ ten left out tec? toAEidewalk will usually, shrink fifty per cent or-more in a single night. - —Same sanguine persons in Montreal have organized a society known as the “ North American Union/’ -whose object is said to, be the “ confedriartphn of this continent of North grand constitutional whole from the#l4tlantic to the Pacific, and from the Atetft Circle to the Isthmus of Panama.” mifH —The’newest things are the campaign neck-ties.' They are white, with the names of the or Democratic Presidential nominees okeach end, and are calculated to silve' a*lood deal of time and trouble in finding*out what a man’s political sentiments areV If you wish to know his politics' aIT you have to do is to look at his neck-tiei<J » * —Tiie Postmaster-General, ‘Suitaiqed by act of Congress, has declared unmailable all letters and Circulars rejaMug to lotterculfcrs to be Bent by mail is tjii offense punmore This applies to lotteries, whether authorized by law or not. —Saratoga correspondents note a new

style of walking adopted by the young ladies there. It Is called ■ the chicken step,” and is only used while passing along the corridors or through the parlors of the hotels. It consists of very many rapid evolutions or steps per minute, vsry similar to a duplex shuffle, the body efcvpu-d on toes and inclined at an angle of’forty-five degrees. - —At the close of a concert, while n young gentleman was struggling with his bat, cane, overcoat, opera-glass, end his young lady’s fan, all of willed he was struggling to retain on his lip, a sus-picious-looking black bottlteCtell on the floor with a thud, ‘ ‘There ‘"pej&xclaimed to his companion, “I shall losejmy cough medictoe".” There of mind for you. —A transaction in stocks, not more dishonest than passes for shrewdness in Wall street, has scat fpnrjnen to,prison in London. They’organized the Eppion Gas Company, announced fictitious sales of stock, and got it quoted in the Exchange. Then sold “short,” and, having all the stock in their own hands, calculated on an enormous profit. The principal conspirator, Aspinwall, an old and heretofore honored London broker, has been sentenced to a year of imprisonment. Another, a bakk manager, gets the same. The two others are more lightly punished.— N. T. P<f*w. ~ ~ VT - ■ ■ » TH® wonderful progress made in our railroads may be seen from the fact that the first railroad to the United States was chartered fifty years ago, and at the close of 1875 there were in operation 74,658 miles, costing $4,658,208,680, or more than twice the present National debt, and earning for the year the vast sum of $508,065,505: The net earntogs Were $185,508,438, and the dividends paid amounted to f 74,204,208. ~ —About 860 newspaper men have been thus far dead-headed into the Centennial, and each of these -has had to do five dollars’ worth of running mound and writing autographs before gaining his pass.