Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1878 — Page 2

Tie Reussebwr Union. , .. WreCL&n, INDIANA.

General News Summary.

TBbbb WM* htefl in the United States Treui tart* to secure tonk dreulaUon, *13,780,400 towcar* public deposit*. and 94,932,300 to •KBre smtMcrlptions to the 4-per-cenL bonds. Afloomute to a Washington apectal of the 19th, the m* plan of registering thlrd-claaa stall natter, which had been tn operation three weeks, *ad proved to be a great success, and reports front all directions showed that its advantages were appreciated by the public. SbC’t Sbexmax stated, on the 19th, that 400,000 ounces of sOrer would be the amount purchased weekly by Ute Treasury DepartAlludixg to recent alleged political perseeetioe and outrages tn South Carolina, Louisiana sad other Southern States, a Washing ton apodal of ths 90th says the President desired it to be understood that be would protect the colored race in Ute enjoyment of their rights to the utmost of his power. No effort Would be spared to execute the laws and vigorous Measures would be taken to bring violators of taw to justice.. It was feared at Washington, on the 90th, that the Arctic vessel Florence had been lost off the Atlantic coast, with all on board, during recent gales. The vessel sailed from New London, Conn., eighteen months ago, for the "XiSde rajjgioM*, aider the direction of Capt. Howgate, and was to have been followed by another vessel, with additional supplies and men, bet the appropriations asked for not being granted, she returned, and was' at Newfoundland, on the 28th nIL, and should have reached New London in ten days thereafter. She had a clew of three officers and ten seamen. At the Cabinet meeting, on the 23d, the heads of the several Departments presented estimates for the next fiscal year, which were reduced to the lowest figures possible, in view of the falling off in the revenues. The aggregate amount required will not vary materially, from the appropriations made for the present fiscal year, with the exception of a deficiency in the Postoffice Department, and increased expenditures in the Indian Office. Tux Poetmaster-General esti mates the amount required for the Postal Service for the next fiscal year at 936,561,900. The estimated postal revenues will fall abort of this sum by 95,907,876. The amount appropriated for the current fiscal year is 933,256,373, of which *4,98,274 comes from the general Treasury. It is estimated, therefore, that *1,085,602 more than this year’s appropriation from the Treasury will be required for the next fiscal year. Thebe was a coin-balance in the United States Treasury at the dose of business. en tbefifith,of *298,105,000; currency balance •12,377,000, Including 910,000,000 of the fractional currency

rxa east, Admix al Paulding, Senior Flag Officer on the retired list of the Navy, son of the captor of Maj. Andre, during the Revolutionary War. and the last surviving officer of the Battle of Lake Champlain, died at Hunttagton, L. L, on the 90th. —r" Hbxbt Havemeteb, of New York, denies all knowledge of the cipher dispatches relating to the last Presidential election. He says: “I never sent any of those dispatches, and never authorized any one to send them, or any of them, for me. .1 never knew, and do not know, the meaning of the cipher or any of the ciphers, In which they or any of them are written, and could not read them if I would. During a short period immediately after the late Presidential election, a large number of telegrams were sent to my address for other persons, and called for by messengers. The practice was commenced without my consent, and, after a few days, discontinued, by my requirement, because their frequency rendered them a great annoyance. I never knew the contents of those telegrams.” A fearful storm of wind and rain swept over portions of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, etc., early on the morning of the 23d, doing immense damage to property. In Philadelphia nearly one hundred warehouses along the river front were carried away, churches, railway depots, school-houses, dwelling houses, etc., were demolished and the lower section of the city was completely flooded. Several fatal casualties were reported in different parts of the city. At Chester, Pa., seventy buildings were unroofed, and many of them entirely destroyed. At Harrisburg, Pottstown, Morristown, Scranton and other places in Pennsylvania; New York, Brooklyn, Albany, in New York; Trenton, N. J., Baltimore, Md., and other cities, great damage was done by the storm. _ A bbaham 8. Hewitt failed to secure the Congressional nomination in his (the Tenth New York) District. The Democratic nominee chosen in his stead is said to be an antiTilden man. lx Philadelphia, a few evenings ago, some one threw a large stonq, at Speaker Randall, who was addressing a political meeting at the time. The Speaker’s escape is said to have been a very narrow one. The dispatches received in New York, on the 24th, from various points, are to the effect that the storm of the day before was one of the most violent experienced-for years. The storm came from the tropics, and from midnight to noon rapidly Increased in energy, ft was centra] near Baltimore, and was attended by an unusually heavy rainfall. At Washington, the fall was 8.45 inches; kt Baltimore, 9.74; Norfolk, 2.86; Lynchburg, 2.01; Smithville, N. C., 4.32. At Cape May the wind was alghty-four miles an hour; at Mount Washington, 120 mites an hour. The damage in Philadelphia was estimated at 92,000,000; 384 dwellings and stores were unroofed and otherwise Injured; the fatal accidents were six, and thirteen other persons were seriously injured. Many vessels were wrecked and lives jW *be coast and ip the rivera. , Hartwell, the conductor who had charge of the train wbieb met with the recent accident at Wollaston, Mass., on the Old Colony Railroad, has been held In 910,000 for trial for manslaughter, In December next. Engineer Hurlburt, of the freight train, is adjudged guilty of gross negligence in occupying the inward track without giving the proper signal, and Engineer Westgate, of the forward engine of the excursion train, has been declared not a suitable person for the position, owing io a wantof familiarity with tiie track, etc. Gold closed in New York, pn Oct 2&th, at IOOJIf. The following were the cloeing quotaUOM for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat (New), Na 2 Milwaukee (New), 92@92J£c. Oats - Western Mixed, 27X@31c. Coni, Western Mixed, 45047 c. Poriq Mesa, 98.30. Lard, *6.50. Flour. Good to Choice, [email protected]; White Wheat Extra, Cattle, 96.75® W tor Good to Extra. Sheep, At Em* Liberty, Pa., on Oct 25th, Cattle brought: Best, *4.75®5.00; Medium, 94.25 ®4.90; Common, *8.25@3X0. Hogs sold— Yrnksre, 6800®«2.5; Phitedelpblaa, 93.35® Ma »eep brought 93.00@4.(B—according At Baltimore, Md., on Oct. 23d, Cattle brought; Beat, *4.60 @ 5.25;' Medium, •A»®4.00. Hogs sold at *4.00©5.25 for tor Good. ** ■ awes boot**. Browr Rev. Btlvmteh H. Rosecrams, 9*O,W that pty,

<m the night of the 91st, of hemorrhage of TxaChariaetoo (8.C.) Wsws Mtrf Courier of the 19th, alleges that a Republican meeting at LautoavDle, in that State, had been captured by a force of about 800 “Red Shirts,” who proceeded to run the meeting on a divtelon time schedule, making several Democratic speeches. The meeting wax, it is said, originally composed of about 9,000 men, women and children, mostly colored. Thb extensive dry goods house of Dodd, Brown A Ua, of BL Louis, failed, on the 99d, with liabllltiesestimatedat*!,soo,ooo, the bulk of which was owing In New York. Thia was the largest firm In the dty, and one of the largest, in its bus In ess operations, in the West. 7 A St. Louis dispatch of the 23d says DecaE if and Edwards Counties, in the Sappa Valy, Kan., lately raided by the Cheyenne Indians, bad been desolated by prairie fires, and nearly everything not destroyed by the savages had been consumed. Several persons had perished In the flames. The total Democratic vote, at |he recent election In Indiana, was 194,491; Republican, 80,755; National Greenback, 89,448. A meeting of representative Democrats from all over the State of lowa was held at Burlington, on the 23d, and it was decided unanimously that the first Tuesday in November is the only legal election day for Congressmen In the State, and that the omission of the Governor’s proclamation does not de* prive the people of jurisdiction. Ix Chicago, on Oct. 25th, Spring Wheat Na 2 dosed at 79>fc cash; 80Jtfc for November; and 81%c tor December. Cash Corn closed at for No. 2; for November; 33)#c for December. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at and 19%c seller November. Rye No. 2, 43Xc- Barley No. 2,93 c for cash, 95Xc for November (New). Cash Mess Pork dosed at »7.32 - Lard, Beeves —Extra brought *[email protected]; Choice, *4.15 @4.30; Good, »[email protected]; Medium Grades, *[email protected]; Butchers’ Stock, *[email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., *[email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep Poor to Choice, *2.95@3A0.

TDK YELLOW FEVER. Dr. Mitchell, Medical Director of the Howard Association, at Memphis, tendered a banquet, on the evening of the 21st, to his corps of volunteer physicians. It is reported to have been a grand affair. It was the initiatory step toward the disbandment of the corps. The Association was rapidly sending off all the nurses from abroad, their services being considered no longer needed—now that cold, frosty weather had made Its appearance. Twelve deaths—six in the dty and six in the suburbs—were reported on the 22d. Announcement was made, on the 99d, by the Peabody Subsistence Association of New Orleans that no further funds would be needed by them. They return sincere thanks for the noble generosity exhibited in furnishing money and provisions for the distressed of that dty. No requisitions would be issued after the 26th.

Manx sections of the South were visited by heavy frosts on the morning of the 23d, and the yellow-fever scourge was rapidly abating In most of the Infected regions. Absentees were returning to the cities, and business was being resumed. Twenty-six new cases and nineteen deaths were reported in New Orleans. There were eight new cases and four deaths in Memphis, the new cases being those t of returned refugees who had not taken the precantion to have their houses ventilated before occupying them. There were no new cases nor deaths at Cairo. A reduction In the number of new cases and deaths was reported from other .localities. The total number of deaths, to date, at New Orleans, was given at 3,794; cases, 12,599. *. Generai.ly-kncoikaging reports were received from the South, on the 24th, although the weather at Memphis was warm and springlike, and of the fourteen new cases reported within the city limits, a majority were of returned refugees. Dr. Mitchell had again warned absentees to remain away until officially notified that it was safe to return. The deaths in New Orleans numbered sixteen and the new cases ten. The St. Louis Board of Health bad ordered the raising of the quarantine at that port. New cases of the fever and additional deaths were reported at several of the interior towns, one case at Cairo, 111. There were eighteen deaths at Memphis, nine within and nine without the city limits. The weather was again warmer at the South on the 25th. The Mayor of Cairo, 111., gave notice that refugees from that city had betler atay away until the temperature was lower; mercury then indicated 70 deg.; two new cases and one death had occurred within twenty-four hours. Eighteen deaths were reported at Memphis—seven being within the city Htnits; eighteen in New Orleans; one new case at Brownsville, Tenn.; eight new cases and one death at Baton Rouge, La.; ten new cases and six deaths at Jackson, Miss.; four deaths in Vicksburg; two at Holly Spffngs;' Mobile, Ala., and from one to five deaths in each of several other towns in the infected districts.

rOKBIUH INTELLIGENCE. According to a Constantinople telegram of the 20th, the Sultan had on that day declared to Minister Ledyard that he would on no account form an alliance with Russia. A fresh rising of the Turkish Croatians was announced, on the 20th. On the 19th, the German Reichsrath finally passed the Aoti-Sociallst bill by a vote of 221 to 149. The Parliament was then prorogued. Lord Dcfferin, the retiring GovernorGeneral of Canada, left for England, on the 19th. Ox the 19th, the whole management of the City of Glasgow Bank—the Secietary, the Managing Director and the Board of Directors —were arrested and_B£pamtely -confined in the City Prison upon the charge of fraud. They each declared they would have voluntarily surrendered had they known they were wanted. At Pontypool, Eng., on thp 20th, a railroad accident occurred, wbichxesulted in the death of twelve persons and serious injury to twenty — - i The following failures in Glasgow and other parts of the United Kingdom were reported on the 21st: Lacour A Watson, shipping agents; James Morton A Co.; Alexander Bell Son, in the Spanish trade; Cooper, Scott & Co., in the African trade. Aggregate liabilities, about 950,000,000. The distribution of the Exposition prizes took place at Paris, on the 21st. President MacMahon conducting the ceremony. Several American gentlemen received decoration# of the Legion of Honor.

The Sultan has authorized Baker Pasha to employ 40,000 men upon the defensive Hues of Constantinople. '.SEVERALOrangemen of Canada, have entered actions for damages against the Mayor of Montreal for false arrest, on the 12tb of last July. David Grant, County Master, claims •10,000, and the others *5,0u0. TwOA*D.A HALFMU44ON .FRASOb sent by the National Bank of Genoa, Italy, to Ancona, have been stolen en rovlr. Three of the employe® have been arrested for the theft Dubixg the week preceding the 22>), 13,000 Turkish prisoners were returned to the Bosporus by the Russians. _ . Bulgarian insurrectionary movements are reported in the vicinity of Salonica.* ~ • ’> I'llH Tse Austrian budget for 1879 estimates a deficiency of florins. The entire Italian Cabinet resigned on t In- ——~- Besbarahia was formally surrendered to Russia on the 990. The Czar has issued sn ukase directing that military furlough# |>e granted only for

particularly-urgent reasons, and In no case to extend beyond February. , Constantinople advices of the 29d were to the effect that trouble bad arisen between Russia, the Porte and Roumella, over the internal administration of affaire lq the latter country, and fears were entertained of * very serious outcome. The withdrawal of ths British fleet from the vicinity of Gallipoli baa been abandoned for the present, In consequence of recent offensive Russian movements. The latter Government baa notified the Porte that her troops will not leave Adrianople until « definitive treaty has been signed. A Bombay dispatch of the 28d says the British advance on Cabpl had been postponed until next year. The British ' on ti;e frontier was suffering from fever. M, Bucuaxan & Ca, marchanta, of Glasgow, failed, oh the 28d. Liabilities, 96,250,(XJI. The Drumpellier Coal Company also suspended. Liabilities. *400,000. The Albanian League disclaim ail responsibility for the murder of Mebemet Pasha, and declare that he was assassinated by brirands. According to St. Petersburg dispatches of the 24th, it bad been decided to establish the Central Government of Bulgaria at Sofia. Gen. Htolipin had been Intrusted with the administration of affairs in East Roumelia. A Vienna telegram of the 24th says the Porte was assuming a hostile attitude toward Russia. The army was, being rapidly recruited and officers on furlough had beencalled in for active duty. Cardinal Culi.en, Archbishop of Ireland, is dead. He was seventy-five years old and was nominated Cardinal in 1866.* A call has been made on the shareholders of the City of Glasgow Bank for *3,000 per share. The German Government baa forbidden the circulation of Socialist newspapers In Germany. Ainoqg the Interdicted sheets are the two Chicago Socialist newspapers. The Russian press unanimously advise that aid be given to the Ameer of Afghanistan in its present contest with Great Britain. The London Standard of the morning of the 26th has a sensational dispatch fro)n .Vienna, stating that the immense military preparations of Russia compelled the belief there that she was meditating still fnrther conquests. According to a Simla dispatch of the 25tb, the British troops gathered for the invasion of Afghanistan numbered 38,000, with 150 siege guns. d Ox the evening of the 25th, a man shot at the King of Spain as be was driving in a Madrid street. His Majesty was unhurt, and the would-be assassin was arrested.

The Cipher Dispatches.

The cipher dispatches published by the New York Tribune continue to excite lively discussion in the press and among men of all political parties. As an after clap to the Potter investigation they are possessed of peculiar interest, which has been CTgAtly increased within a few days by the publication of Mr. Tilden's emphatic denial of all connection with or knowledge of the suspicious dispatches until he saw them, with their translations, in the Tribune. Mr. Manton Marble, too, has uttered a card denying any complicity in any plot to buy up Electoral votes or Canvassing Boards in the interest of Mr. Tilden, and, to prove bis innocence, has selected one exceedingly unimportant dispatch, which he declares he never senL He makes no afc

tempt, beyond a general denial of guilt and assertion of innocence, to meet or explain the cipher telegrams, and neither does he disclaim the authorship of the most criminating of them all, or his own identity with the “ Moses” of the ciphers. Will Mr. Tilden’s denial clear him in the eyes of honest men?" Hardly. It is true that no proof has been offered, and, indeed, it has not been directly charged that Mr. Tilden ever saw one of these cipher dispatches, either in the original or the translation; but the circumstantial evidence is all against him. The facts as developed thus far are easily grasped, and from them an intelligent public can draw its own conclusions. As soon as it was known that the States of South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and Oregon were in doubt, trusty agents ana confidential friends of Mr. Tilden were sent with all haste to the capitals of the disputed States. Mr. Manton Marble and Mr. John F. Coyle, the latter a most noted Washington lobbyist, were sent to Florida. They were joined later by Mr. C. W. Woolley, of Cincinnati, who appears as a good-natured meddler, always willing to help the cause of Democracy out of pure benevolence. Mr. Smith M. Weed, an Albany lobbyist and a fast friend of Mr. Tilden, went Columbia, S. C- His friendly rela-

tions with the late candidate far the Presidency are shown by the fact that he led the Tilden wing in the late Dem ocratic State Convention at Syracuse Mr. Patrick and Senator Kelly went to Oregon to take care of Gov. Grover and the late Mr. Cronin. Each of these parties carried with him a secret cipher, which he used in sending dispatches back to New York. , Kelly and Patrick used the rather simple “ dictionary” cipher, and the “Gobble” dispatch, announcing that Grover would appoint Cronin, and asking Mr. Pelton to deposit SB,OOO for the purpose of “ purchasing one Republican Elector to act with him,” has been understood for a long time. Air. Smith M. Weed lost no time in Charleston. He began by telegraphing in a most complicated double cipher, addressed to H. Havemeyer—but answered by Mr. Tilden's nephew and confidential Secretary from 15 Gramercy Park, Mr.

Tilden.’s private residence - that the State had beeu carried by Hayes, but that he had secured the Electoral vote of the State for SBO,OOO. He desired that the money should be sent to him at Baltimore, in three packages, one containing $65,000, one SIO,OOO, and one $5,000, the bills to be of the denominations SSOO and SI,OOO. The answer he received made him start to Baltimore, but before he could get back to Columbia, the question Jh*d been decided in favor of Mr. Hayes. "Later, after if' was ascertained that, through some unaccountable delay in closing his bargain, Mr. Marble had let the vote of Hbrida slip through his fingers, a scheme was concocted to buy up enough votes in the South Carolina Legislature to give the Democrats a majority, and then to suddenly seize the Hayes. Electors, and by taeepingl them separated in prison make it impossible for them to meet on the day appointed by law for casting the Electoral votes. The cost of this was estimated at $20,000, and Gramercy Park was asked in cipher to forward half that amount. On December 4 authority was telegraphed to Mr. Weed to draw for that amount, but the plan failed, and the vote of South Carolina w,as honestly cast. In Florida, Mr. Marble and his clerk, were no. IuSB aCiive, auu the aispatcWs sent to. 15 Gramercy Park by them prove only too plainly that they meant business. Mr. Woolley, it seems, had no key pipuer, but wfien jje felt im- ,

pelled to unburden his mind he handed his telegrams to Coyle, who put them in cipher and forwarded them. The dispatches of all these establish beyond a doubt that they made arrangement* to buy ane or more. Electoral votes in hlorida sos the sunr of 190,000; that they sent cipher telegrams to 16 Gramercy Park Conveying this information, and that the proposition was accepted in New York. It failed only, it would seem, because Mr. Marble oould not read the answer empowering him to act, and before it could be repeated the vote was cast for Mr. Hayes. These are the facte ae *hown by the dispatches in question, and it must be remembered that neither Mr. Tilden, Mr. Marble nor any other man connected with the sending or receiving of the ciphers, has denied their authenticity or the correctness of the translations. “On the face of the returns," to use an expression current during the Electoral muddle, Mr. Tilden and his “coparceners” stand convicted of an outrageous attempt to defeat th e will of the people by buying the highest elective office of our times. —Bl. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Tilden's Poor Plea.

The Cincinnati Gazette says of Tilden’ s so-called explanation: “He does not deny the proof of the attempts, directed by his nephew from ins own residence, to buy a canvassing officer in Florida, and to buy the Returning Board in South Carolina; attempts carried on by a numerous series of telegrams, and authorizing the payment of 960,000 in the Florida, case, and actually sending SBO,OOO in the South Carolina case, but he denies that he was knowing to this. His charges, in substance, that his nephew and his most trusted agents betrayed him into this crime, without giving him any inkling of what was going on.” It is a case of a very innocent man, terribly Involved by wicked partners. Surely Mr. Tilden has a cause against these. Can he do less than to kick his nephew, Col. Pelton, out of the house, and to denounce him and Smith Weed, J. F. Coyle, Manton Marble, C. W. Woolley, and the rest, as treacherous friends, who betrayed his trust and plotted to make him accessory to a crime by bringing him into the Presidency through bribery? And surely the least that Nephew Pelton and the confidential agent, Smith Weed, can do is to relieve Tilden by confessing that they treacherously abused his trust. The betrayal of Tilden is much aggravated by the fact that he trusted his bank account and his whole fortune to them, as is shown by their agreeing to accept Marble and Woolley’s draft for $50,000, and by their actually sending SBO,OOO in currency to Baltimore, to meet Smith Weed, to complete the South Carolina purchase. It is possible—so evil-minded is the world— that it will say this shuffling of the responsibility is too thin. Ana this tendency will not be prevented by the manner in which Mr. Tilden tries to get up a diversion by charging that all this negotiation was originated by these Returning officers, and that they tempted his agents. But the cipher telegrams themselves claim that his agents approached the canvassing officers with offers to bribe. And furthermore, although they show that they expected to make the purchase, it is more likely that they were hearing their proposals and drawing them on to expose their villainy. But whether this be so or not, there are the telegrams, which prove that in each of these cases Tilden\ agents began from the first to talk of money as the essential thing. They show that in the case of Florida they had no expectation of a return in favor of the Tilden Electors, if the Canvassers did tfieir duty. And in the case of South Carolina, Smith Weed, as soon as he got on the ground and saw the returns, telegraphed that the Hayes Electors had a majority. Hampton claimed only 1,400 majority, and Weed telegraphed Pelton Nov. 14: “ Best I can figure, Tilden will be over 2,000 behind Hampton, and see little hope.” Nov. 13 he had sent: “If Returning Board can be procured absolutely, win you deposit $30,000? May take less. Must be prompt.” After he had told Tilden that in his own count, the Hayes Electors were chosen, he telegraphed this Nov. 14: “ Shall I increase to $60,000 if required to make sure?” And to this the answer was made by Pelton: “ You can go to fifty if necessary. Perhaps use future

prospects for some part.” Again, Nov. 16: “Try and make portion payable after votes are (cast) and another portion after the final result.” And so the thing went on, with rising price, until Nov. 18, Weed telegraphed: “Majority of board have been secured. Cost is SBO,OOO, to be sent as follows: One parcel of $65,000, one of SIO,OOO and one of $5,000; all to be of SSOO and SI,OOO bills; notes to be deposited as parties accept, and given up on vote of the land of Hampton being given to Tilden’s friends.” And there is every reason to believe that this large sum was sent. But the Hampton party, through the corrupt Supreffie Court, was playing his game, and thus playing at cross purposes with Tilden-’s, and fthis foreed the board to act promptly and thus this bribe failed to connect. In this there was no pretense of Tilden's agent that he was entitled to the vote of the State. He told him from the first that in a fair count his Electors were defeated. Therefore, Tilden’s effort, in the face of this testimony of his agent, te-uwake a diversion, by charging that he was defrauded of his election; and by accusing Congress of abandoning its office, which was to count him in, looks very forlorn. We doubt jf it will do anything to relieve Mr. Tilden, in the popular judgment, from this infamous crime.— lowa State Register.

—The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press wends out the foliowing story concerning Walker H. Brown, late Democratic nominee for Congrees in the Ninth District of Iowa: “It is said that while a member of the Board of Supervisors in Emmett County, lowa, he was made Chairman of the board, which consisted of three members; that at a cer}tain Jneeting he presented a proposition before the botrd for action te which the other two members were opposed. He requested one of the other members of the board to take the Chair while he discussed the measure, which was done; the#, while on the floor, called for a vote on the question, which, of course, the Chairman not voting, was a tie. He said, ‘ I will now resume, the Chair,’and then announced as there seemed* to be. a tie vote, that it became necessary for the the, affirmative, and declared the measure carried.” The handsomest woman in Europe paid to the Queen of

THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

Washington dispatches rive the following synopses of some of the reports to the Secretary of War, which are to be submitted to Congress at its session (in December next: HEPOKT OF THB COMMISSAHT-OBMBKAL. The annual reportof Commissary-Gea. Maefeely baa been submitted to the Secretary of War. It shows that the total amount disbursed for subsistence stores during the fiscal year ended June SO last, was *3,510,551, of which 11,011,747 was reimbursed by sales of stores to officers and enlisted men; *81,824 wss paid by the Interior Department for supplies furnished to Indians; *73,848 was collected for tobacco sold to enlisted men, and the balance was furnished to the Department by the Congressional appropriation. Gen. Macfccly urgently recommends that the appropriations by Congress should bo made sufficiently large to enable the Department to purchase all supplies tor cash, and should be rendered available from the date of the passage of the act, so as to admit of the purchase and shipment of supplies for distant posts eafly In the spring, and thus avoid loss In transporting meats, etc., in the hot months of June and July. Referring to the complaints made from time to time that stores were not purchased In the neighborhood of the posts where they were to be consumed, the Com-missary-General says investigation has shown that in most, if not all, cases where this course has been pursued, it has been done for the reason that stores of a proper quality could not be procured as economically in the vicinity of the posts as from other points. The number of contracts made by officers of the Commissary Department during the year was over 26,000. , ■ Thescost value of the rations issued to yel-low-fever sufferers since the 19th of August last (up to the 7th instant) is stated at *24,649. The Department has furnished supplies for Indians to the amount of about *43,000 in excess of its reimbursements from the Interior Department. Referring to the statements made by the Board of Indian Peace Commissioners, and reiterated in Congress, that the purchase of beef and flour by the Indian service at some points is at less than the cost of the same supplies purchased for the Army, Gen. Macfeely denies that the articles purchased were of the same grades. The Commissary General recommends that the present limitation of sixteen ounces per month as the maximum amount of tobacco that may be furnished to enlisted men, and charged against their pay-rolls, be enlarged to twenty-four ounces, as it appeart that a majority of them desire to purchase more than they are now allowed thus to obtain. The modifications in the Army ration authorize* last year, it is stated, have given general satisfaction.

REPORT OF THB BUIIGEON-OENERAD. The annual report of Surgeon-Gen. Barnes, United States Army, shows that there Were disbursed during the year, for medical and hospital supplies, *46,001.01; expenses of purveying depots, *5,657.23; pay of employes, *85,303.73; medical attendance, nursing, etc., *7,471.81; miscellaneous expenses, *6,111.16; total, *100,545.03; balance June 30, 1878, *99,988.67. The greater part of this balance has since been disbursed, and the remainder will be required in fulfilling contracts made before June 30. There were furnished during the year eighty-three artificial limbs to disabled soldiers, while 1,700 drew commutations for the same. The monthly reports of sick and wounded represent an average mean strength of the Army of 20,194 white and 1,895 colored troops. The total number of deaths reported from all causes was 253. Of these 121 died from diseases and 135 of wounds, accidents and injuries. The proportion of deaths from all causes to cases treated Was one to 107. The removal of garrisons from threatened points, although in some instances deferred later than prudence would dictate, has saved the Army from any serious losses during the prevalence of the dreadful epidemic of yellow feeer which has proved so fatal this year among the citizens of the Southern States. The only eases reported in the Army up to September 1 occurred in a small detachment left at Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, when the garrison was removed. There were five eases and two deaths in this detachment. The Surgeon-General next refers to the work in the Record and Pension Divisions of the office, and says: “ The number of official demands upon this Division during the fiscal year for information asto thecause of death in the case of deceased soldiers and the hospital record of invalids was 21,074, being rather more than the average number of such demands received annually since 1870. The number of unanswered cases on hand at the close of the Srevious fiscal year was 18,697, making the )tal number of cases to be searched during the year 39,771.” He then refers to the increase of the clerical force in this Division, authorized by Congress at the last session, and says the beneficial effect of this increase of force was speedily felt, and that they are now gaining upon the cases in arrear. The requirements of the Army as to medical officers during the past year have been as follows: Number of permanent posts, 160; number of temporary posts and sub-stations, 14; total, 174. The number of military expediaitions in the field during the year was thir-ty-seven. These expeditions required the services of fifty-six medical officers. There are now fifteen vacancies in the grade of Assistant Surgeon. He refers to the act of June 2, 1876, reducing the number of Assistant Surgeons to 125, and says any further reduction in the number of medical officers would be unwise, expensive and to the injury of the service. The present disposition and occupation of troops creates a necessity for additional medical aid, and it has been found expedient, economical and in every instance absolutely necessary, to employ physicians under contract to meet such demands. Such employ-

merit terminates when the emergency ceases. INSPECTOR-GENERAI/S REPORT. The report of the Inspector General of the Army specifically details the condition of the various military posts, and gives ths reports of the several commands as an appendix. It appears that the Paymasters have promptly and satisfactorily rendered their accounts; that the military posts are in excellent condition, the discipline good and the character of the officers without reproach. It is recommended that the enlisted men pay more attention than heretofore to target practice. Altogether, the report shows a gratifying condition of allairs in everything connected with the Inspector-General’s'Department THE NAVY. The reports of the Bureau Officers in the Navy Department show that there are now about twenty naval vessels on foreign stations, and eight or nine more in the course of preparation to be sent abroad. There are none in the Gulf—those that were there having been sent north, as usual during the summer months, on account of the health of the officers and crews, and because there was no special reason for them to remain there. The Navy has now - about fifty vessels of various classes in seaworthy condition, apart from eight or nine monitors, which are intended more particularly for home defense. The opinion is expressed that there should be at least one hundred seagoing vessels in order to meet ait requirements. The personnel of the Navy is represented to be in admirable condition. There are 7,500—1,100 in reserve. These are on leave for three months, liable to be called into service any time; beside, the apprentice system affords a gradual supply of educated seamen for the Navy, and hence there is no necessity for many new enlistments. The policy of the Navy Dspartsnent is not to repair vessels which would cost 40 per cent over their original value. The wear of vessels is estimated to average 10 per cent, per innum. The work in advance is principally ■nnfined to rifling smooth-bore guns, the Rodman and Dahlgren seemingly going out at use. Experiments with torpedoes snow their practicability, and efforts are made to per* feet this meapp of warfare. The fact is established and admitted by foreign military and naval officers that the gunpowder used in our Army and Navy is much superior to any of their own In propulsive force. , , RIVERS AKD HARBORS. r ■

The annual report of Gen.-Aj-A Hum* phreys, Chief of Engineers, is devoted mainly to the two subjects Of fortifications and rjyer and harbor Improvements. It is shown that during the fiscal year ending June 80, the sum of 82,794,583 was expended tor the improvement of rivers and harbors, and a balance of 81,088,878, remaining from the previous appropriations, ii&rallable tor use durpropriating a total of 88,201,700 in addition to the balance available from previous appropriations. Upon the approval of projects submitted bv the various subordinate engineer officers, steps wen taken for putting the works at once into execution, and they are now being conducted under the contract system, or by means of hired labor, and ihe purchase of material in open market, as appeared to be the most advantageous in any particular instance to the Government. Gen. Humphreys describes the work accomplished in the last fiscal year, outlines that which is in progress during the current - tost aaf him mmrui.yir jcbt, Biivi Tn biic course 01 iiiß report reco<n~ mends the following additional appropriations for Western rivers and ports: • Texas- Galveston Harbor, 8150,000; ship channel, Galveston Bay, 8200,000; Sabine Pass, WO,OOO,

Tennwee Memphis Harbor, *134,000. Mississippi—Vicksburg Harbor. *90,000; removing snags and wrecks from Mississippi, Missouri andl Arkansas Rivera, eta, *BB6,(XX). Kansas—lmprovement of Missouri Hirer at Fort Leavenworth, MB.000; at Atchison, ♦15,000; opposite Bt. Joseph, *<B,ooo. < Nebraska and lowa—lmprovement of Missouri River at Nebraska City and Export. lowa, *85,000; at Omaha and Council Bluffs, *130,000; at Sioux City, *33,880; Improvement of the Mississippi River between-*)*-Mouths of Illinois and Ohio Rivera, *500,000. This sum would complete all the works now in progress and allow setae new ones to be be--gun. , Improvement of the Missouri River above the month of the Yellowstone, *55,000. Improvement of the Mississippi River, below St. Patil, *30,000. Widening and deepening the channel, } of the Mississippi River from Dea Moines RapIds to the mouth of the Illinois, *IOO,OOO. Widening and deepening tbe'channel of the Mississippi River from 8L Paul to Des Moines, {improvement above the Falls of St. Anthony, *50,000. Construction of lock and darn on Mississippi River at Meeker’s Island, Mitin., *933,121. Improvement of Red River of the North, *112,000. Des Moines Rapids, *I*3,IMX Minnesota—Duluth Harbor. *60,000; entrance Bay of Superior, *IO,OOO. , Illinois—Chicago Harbor, *195,000; Calumet Harbor, *40,000; Galena River and Harbor, *30,000; Rock Island Rapids, *20,000; improvement Illinois River, *75,060. Indiana—Michigan Crty llartor, *50,000; Wabash River, *30,000. Michigan—Grand Haven, *29,148; Ontonagon, *50,000. (Gen. Humphreys specially commends this estimate by saving: “Title is an important work, being the ortiy available harbor of refuge on a long stretch of coast.") Marquette, *5,000; Eagle Harbor, 12,000; Menominee Harbor. *40,000; Charlevoix Harbor, *30,000; Frankfort Harbor, *3,205; Manistee Harbor, *30,000; Ludington Harbor, *11,000; Pentwater Harj-or, *29,200; White River, Muskfljon. JtsMu Black. Lake, *22,000; (meboygan, *12.000; Saugatuck, *10,000: South Haven, *25,000; Saginaw River. *25.000: St. Joseph, *19,256; Monroe, •7.500; Improvement of Detroit KlVer. *IOO- - Lake Huron Harbor of refuge, *230,000. (To complete the work and for the sake of economy, the appropriation of the full amount is specially recommended.) St. Mary’s Falls Canal, *395 000. (Also to complete the work, and specially recommended for the same reason as above.) =- Wirconsin—For the Improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, *750 000. (The total amount nccereuv to complete the work, is estimated at *2,725,664.) Kenosha H arbor, *20,000; Racine Harbor, *20,000; Milwaukee gm'bor, *15,000; Green Bay, *12,000; Sturgeon Bay Harbor of refuge, *1'0,000; Ahnapee Harbor. 625,000; Two Rivers Harbor, *4O 000; Manitowoc Harbor, *21,682. (This appropriation to complete the work is particularly recommended by Gen. Humphreys. He says this port is the one most frequently sought in stormy weather on tLe northwestern shore of Lake Michigan, and the work shonld be completed at as early a day as possible.) Sheboygan Harbor, *10000; Port Washington, *25 - 000. Ohio —Cleveland, *35,000. (The total amount required to complete this improvement is estimated at *1,660,000.) Monroe, *7,500; Toledo, *3 >,000; Port Clinton, *65,000; Sandusky, *1,000; Ashtabula, *IB,OOO. California—Oakland Harbor, *25,000; Wilmington Harbor, *40,000; San Diego Harbor (repairs). *1,000; Sacramento and Feather Rivers, *20,000. The other branch of Gen. Humphreys’ re port treats of our sea-coast and lake frontier defenses. The appropriations recommended TOr the repair of the various fortifications vary in amounts from *IO,OOO to *200,000. the largest sum being for Fort Schuyler, East River, New York, *150,000; Willett’s Point. *80,000; Fort Tompkins, *75,000; Fort Hamilton, *50,000; Fort Lafavctte, *200,000; Fort Mifflin, Delaware River, *75,000; for construction of a torpedo casemate at Fort Delaware, *75 000; Fort McHenrv, Maryland, *50,000; Fort Carroll, Maryland, *100,000; Fort Scatnmel, Portland, Me., *50,000. During the past fiscal year the amount has been limited to operations for the care and preservation of fortications, no appropriations being available to continue the batteries already begun.

Samuel J. Tilden on Trial.

Mr. Tilden, having entered the plea of “not guilty’,” is now on trial. Though he wrote a letter a column long to say what could have been expressed in two words, it is notable that he has not met a single point in the evidence that has already come out against him. We shall recapitulate some of the points that tend to convict Tilden of the tinal responsibility for the attempted bribery, and challenge any one to produce from his letter a phrase or word that is calculated to impeach the strong circumstantial evidence against him. 1. The transmission of the cipher telegrams and the correctness of the translations are not disputed. They Jire in evidence, and they prove that somebody was bargaining to purchase Electoral votes in Florida and South Carolina in behalf of Mr. Tilden. 2. The authorship of the most important of these dispatches has been traced to Pelton in New York, Manton Marble in Florida, and Smith Weed in South Carolina. These persons were all singularly near to Tilden, and still remain in his confidence. Marble was his “next friend” during the campaign, and his chosen apologist in the Hewitt-Watterson controversy as the man most familiar with Tilden’s secrets. Smith Weed has been a political and business agent of Tilden’s for many years, and even this fall has been recognized as his active manager in New York. Pelton is Tilden’s nephew and heir, his private and confidential secretary, and as nearly a son as a bachelor can have legitimately. These were the chief operators in the business, and Tilden has neither condemned nor repudiated the acts of any one of them. 8. The cipher, dispatches that went to New York were addressed to Hgnry Havemeyer, an old personal and political friend of Tilden’s, who had agreed to act as the agent for their reception. T-T o rr.imoirni* niri nnl ■ nouooofl fnn XJtlt llav UIHLTVI MIXA UUB LUU key to unlock the cipher, and sent th* messages to No. lfi Gramercy Park— Tilden’s private residence. There Pelton was ensconced in Tilden’s private office and library, and during a few days received hundreds of these mysterious messages in his capacity as Secretary. Is it conceivable that Mr. Tilden should never have asked his own Secretary, his own nephew, his own heir, what any one of these hundreds of dispatches contained, when he knew they must relate to the dearest ambition of his life? It would have given Tilden aneurism of theheart to restrain his curiosity under such circumstances. 4. The negotiations for the purchase of Returning. Boards and Electors in South Carolma-aad Fforida Invotved the outlafcof enormous sums of money. The Flonda gang started out by demanding $200,000, and, when beaten down, still exacted sso,ooo;the terms finally agreed upon in South. Carolina were SBO,OOO eash. ft is a hotbrionfe fact that Pelton, who undertook to supply all funds and pay all expenses, was a bankrupt, and had nothing except what his uncle gave him. From whom beside Tilden, a man of great wealth and the chief party m interest, could Pelton expect to receive such vast sums? The 880,000 payment was actually traced to Baltimore, so that much money at least must have been forthcoming; and, even if not one dollar whß -actually used out of the bribery tund on hand, still the transmission of these hundfeds of dispatches and the expenses of the numerous agents, amounted io thousands es doliars wliieb were actually paid out. To whom did Pelton, sitting in the. same room with Tilden and receiving all these messages at an adjoining desk, apply for th*■

money in Tilden’s interest unless to Tilden himself? 5. The ciphers used for the bribery dispatches were the same that bad been previously used 'by Bamuel J. Tilden, and in one oese the same as was oaly recently used by Tilden In communicating with his lawyer in regard to Ute forcible seizure and suppression of account books in Michigan. It is apt every man who is an expert in cryptography; Tilden is, and has always had various complicated systems of cipher at bisoommitotfeL He has been engaged for many years in transactions which demanded the secrecy of communications in cipher. Isn't it strange that Tilden should have loaned his nephew Pelton, his intimate friend Marble, and his. political factotum Weed, all his ciphers and keys thereto without so much as asking what use was to be made of them ?. Is it comprehensible that these cipher dispatches should come into Tilden’s private door during several days, and by the hundreds, while he had in bis head the solution of which he was the inventor, without his evor seeking to know what they contained, even though he was was more concerned in them than any other man on earth? 6. But if all these seemingly impossible conditions be admitted, and it •till be maintained that Tilden remained in profound ignorance of what was going on, then it cannot be denied that he became fully informed of his nephew’s'operations when translations of the dispatches were first printed. It was then the duty of Samuel J. Tilden, assuming him to be an honest man, to torn upon Pelton, and aay:.. .“ Sir, you. are credited with the authorship of ptopositions of an infamous character that have involved me and my good name; unless you can show satisfactorily that you had no connection with this bribery business, I can only vindicate myself by kicking you out of doors.” It does not appear that Tilden has given his nephew this alternative; in fact, thre is not a word in Tilden’s public letter which reflects upon Pelton, Marble, Weed or any of the others whe sent and received the dispatches. He has never yet intimated any intention of visiting any of the guilty parties with his displeasure, and has never called upon Pelton to explain where the bribery money was to come from, or who paid the expenses of the negotiations, though it is only in this way that Tilden’s skirts can be cleared. 7. Tilden admits in his open letter that he did hear something about bribery, but it was not “ till after Dec. 6, 1876.” That was nearly two years ago. If he heard anything of it, he must have heard that Pelton was one of the parties. Why is it that he failed to demand from Pelton an elucidation of the whole project? Why is It that, if he received such an elucidation, he did not make it public? Why is it that, if Pelton showed his innocence of all corruption, Tilden does not now produce that evidence? Why is it that, if Pelten confessed to having conducted negotiations for purchasing Electors, Tilden still permitted him to act as his confidential secretary and agent. 8. Tilden’s spasm of virtue, which seems to have come upon him after t vo years of guilty knowledge to whieb he confesses, has induced him to denounce as scoundrelstheLou isiana and Flor id a

Republicans who, as members of the Returning Boards and Electors, cast the votes of these States against him. He bases this denunciation on the theory that the Republicans were influenced by hopes of reward. That is not unlikely; most men in politics are Influenced by such considerations; it is the offices and spoils which they are after. The Republican members of the Returning Boards and the Republican Electors would naturally favor their own candidate, if they codld do so fairly, just as Democrats in similar positions would favor the Democratic candidate. There is nothing of bribery or corruption in all this; but it. was corrupt in Mr. Tilden and his agents to seek to induce these men to desert their party and sell out their legitimate hopes of reward for so much cash down, . . / ■ 9. One more point may be made. The final failure of the negotiations in South Carolina and Florida, after the terms had been agreed upon, has generally been attributed to Tilden’s procrastinating habits. But isn’t there a better explanation of it? The Florida dicker would have cost $50,000 and the South Carolina purchase SBO,OOO. Had not Tilden reason to suppose, just at the time these terms were accepted, that he had made arrangements to secure in Oregon the one Elector necesnecessary, and at a cost of only $8,000? Pelton, it will be remembered, was also the financial agent in the Oregon case, and the money was actually sent forward. Wasn’t it just like Tilden to call the $50,000 and the SBO,OOO trades off when he made up his mind he could get the article he wanted for $8,000? The fact is that all the tracks in this disreputable business lead directly into the private library of Samuel J. Tilden, at No. 15 Gramercy Park, and his letter has not effaced a single one jrf them?— Chicago Tribune.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—The wife of Principal A, P. Kelsey, of the State Normal School at Plymouth, N. H., has just inherited S4OO,—Miss Belva Lockwood, the Washington female lawyer, has been refused permission to practice in the adjacent .circuit of Maryland. —The life of the late Bishop Galberry, of Hartford, Conn., was insured for $20,000 payable to St. Mary’s Church, in Lawrenae, Mass., of which he was once pastor. —Sir Garnet Wolseley, the British Governor of Cyprus, has"ordered from Quebec twobuck-board” wagons, as he finds that these strong vehicles are the only ones that can be used on the bad roads of Cyprus. ..... —Mr. Gillette, who has been elected to Congress on the Greenback ticket in the Sevehth lowa District, is a son of Francis Gillette, of Hartford, Conn., ; who used to be the Free-Soil candidate ‘for Governor of Connecticut thirty year* ago and later. of cpolrory, has asked the National Commissioner of Education to collect information through his agents in the South and West concerning the style of cooking there, and the Commissionei has consented to do so. -Mr. Brown, the mind-reader, exhibited his powers before a committee chosen from t the faculty of the loWa AgribulturaV College the otherday. They investigated the.nhenomena closely and finally reported that Brown wasguidedby theunconscious muecucar movements of the subject. Brown denied that this was the case, whereupon one bf the professors repeated exactly the fests of Brown.-Jy- F-