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FOVBTH DISTRICT, OHIO. Iaytv, July 31. The Democratic Congressional Convention of the Fourth district was held to-day, and nominated Hon. A. MrMahou as the Democratic candidate.

McMahon was notified and came to the convention and made a speech positively declining the nomination, but was renominated by the Convention, that then adjourned aim- die. McMahon declination is generally regarded as final, so that another convention will probably be called to nominate a Democratic candidate. FIFTH IHSTKK'T, ORIO. Cincinnati. August 1.

The Bepubli-cans yesterday at Lima nominated W. K. Boone- of Allen county, for Congress for the Fifth district. THE mm STANDARD A Till KT 1 FX 1 A The Kan tor 111 Hut Confident of sur- New August 1. To-day Dr.

Tanner weighed 1 jH.iuu.ds, a loss of thirty-one pounds since The beginning of hit fast. According to the most careful experiments on the lower animals, he has yet upon his own body something like thirty-three pounds of extra Mesh upon which to maintain the functions of life. His occasional fits of nausea sometimes alarms the midnight watchers, especially when they recollect they may possibly be held responsible in case the fainting man should die on their hands. As for Ir. Tanner himself, these disagreeable spells of retelling and vomiting arouse tro fears of fatal termination.

He says he had the same experience when he fated secretly in Minneapolis. Whenever anyltody shows signs of fear and alarm at his condition he either gets impatient at their "fussy or, if he happens to be good humor, he simply laughs at them. The fasting man now passes the greater part of the time in quiet, repose, which is probably the cause of his diminishing in weight so slowly. He takes but little notice of those around him. Persons who used to meet with a hearty greeting on their daily visit to Clarendon THE UNIVERSAL FAVORITE.

BKIIIN BY HIRE. The census gives Ies Monies, Iowa, a population of 22,5, an increase of 10, General Weaver, Greenback candidate for Governor, spoke at Wheeling on Saturday. Ticket No. 35,924 drew the capital prize. 10, 000, in the drawing of the Louisville lottery on Saturdav.

The Erenitvj Chronicle, a new two cent paper, made it first appearance at St. Louis on Saturday. J. K. O.ikas, aged nineteen, was last night fatally stabbed by K.

J. Kanney, aged fifteen, at Danville, Va. Many contemplated building enterprises in Chicago have been suspended in consequence of the lack of brick makers and lattorers. John F. Espenlteck, aged thirty-five, a saloon keeper, committed suicide on Saturday on his wife's grave in Holy Cross cemetery, Baltimore.

Mary Knnis, fifteen, fell into the canal at Imrhamville. Stephen Murray, twenty-one, her cousin, attempted to save her, and both were drowned. The bitter warfare in passenger rates from New Orleans between the Louisville Nashville and Chicago New Orleans Routes is still waging. The freight house of the old Colony Kail-road, at Brockton Massachusetts, with a large quantity of freight, way hills was destroyed by fire last night. Loss heavy.

Rev. T. P. Miller, Dean of the Phila-adelphia University of Medicine and Snrgery, was arrested to-night upon a charge of forgery. The alleged forgery consists in ante-dating a series of lecture tickers and in writing the names of professors ou them.

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constitutional majority of the Electoral College, or the Senate and House, on the occasion of the count, do not unite in de claring some person legally elected by the people, there is a lawful machinery al ready provided to meet that contingency and decide the question peacefully. It has not been recently used no occasion pre senting itself, but our forefathers provided it. It has been aud has been recognized and submitted to as lawful on every hand. That machinery would probably elect Mr. Tildeu President and Mr.

Wheeler Vice President. That would be right enough, for the law provides that in a failure to elect duly by the people, the House shall immediately elect the President and the Senate the Vice President. Some tribunal must decide whether the people have duly elected a President. I presume, of course, that it is in the joint affirmative action of the Senate and House, or why are they present witness the count if not to see that it is fair and just. If a failure to aree arrives between the tveo botlies tltere can be no lawful ajfirmath derision that the people have elected a President, and thk HOlSR MI' ST THEN' PKO-ceed TO act, not the Senate.

The Senate elects Vice Presidents, not Presidents. Doubtless in case of a failure by the House to elect a President by the 4th of March, the President of the Senate (if there be one) would be the legitimate person to exercise Presidential" authority for the time being, or until the appearance of a lawful President, or fur the time laid down in the Constitution. Such courses would be peaceful aud I have a firm belief lawful. I have no ioubt Governor Hayes would make an excellent President. I have met him and know of him.

For a brief period he served under my command, but as the matter stands I can't see any likelihood of his being duly declared elected by the people, unless the Senate and House come to be in accord as to that fact and the House would of course not otherwise elect him. What the people want is a peaceful determination of this matter as fair a determination as possible and a lawful one. No other determination could stand the test. The country, if not plunged into revolution, would become poorer day by day, business would languish, and our bonds would come home to find a depreciated market. I was not in favor of the military action in South Carolina recently, and if General Ruger had telegraphed to me or asked for advice I would have advised him not, under any circumstances, to allow himself or his troops to determine who were the lawful members of a State legislature.

I could not have given hira better advice than to refer him to the special message of the President in the case of Louisiana some time before. But in South Carolina he had had the question settled by a decision of the Supreme Court of the State, the highest tribunal which had acted on the question, bo that his line of duty seemed even to be clearer tUan in the ac- tion in the Louisiana cae. If the Federal court had interfered and overruled the decision of the State court, there might have been a doubt certainly, but the Fed-eral court only interfered to complicate, not to decide or overrule. Anyhow, it is no business of the army toeoter upon such questions, and even if it might be so in anyevent, if the civil authority is supreme, as the Constitution declares it to be, the South Carolina case was one in which the army had a plain duty. Had General Kuger asked me for advice, and if I had given it, I should of course have notified you of my action immediately, so that it could have been promptly overruled if it should have 1een deemed advisable by you orother superiors in authority.

General Kuger did not ask for my advice, and I inferred from that and other facts that he did not desire it, or tliat being in direct communication with my military superiors, at the seat of Government, who were nearest to him in time and distance than I was, he deemed it unnecessary. As General Ruger had the ultimate responsibility of action and had really the greater danger to confront in the final action in the matter, I did not venture to embarrass him by suggestions. Ha was a Department Commander and the lawful head of the military administration within the limits of the Department, but besides, I knew that he had been called to Washington for consultation before taking cammand and was probably aware of the views of the administration as to civil affairs in his command. I knew that he was in direct communication with my superiors in authority in reference to delicate subjects presented for his consideration, or had Ideas of his own which he believed to bo sufficiently in accord with the views of our common superiors to enable him to act intelligently according to his judgment, and without, suggestions from those not on the spot and not as fully acquainted with the facts as himself. He desired, too, to be free to act as he had the eventual greater responsi bility, and so the matter was governed as between him and myself.

As I have been writing thus freely to you, I may still further unbosom mvself by stating that I have hot thought it law ful or wise to use Federal troops iu such matters as have transpired east of the Mississippi within the last few months, save so far as they may be brought into action under the article of the Constitution, which contemplates the meeting of armed resistance or invasion of a State more powerful than the State authorities can subdue by the ordinary processes, aud then only when requested by the legis lature. Or if it could not be convened session by the Govern and when the President of the United States intervened in that manner, it is a state of war, not peace. The army is laboring under disadvantages and has Vden used unlawfully at times in the judgment of the people (m mine, and we have lost a great deal of the kindly feeling which the com munity at large once felt for us. "It is tune to stop and unload." Officers in command of troops often find it difficult to act wisely and safely where superiors in authority have different views of the law from tbsirs, and when legislation has sanctioned action seemingly in. conflict with the fundamental law, and they gen erally defer to the known judgment oi their superiors, let toe superior officers of the army are so regarded in such great crisis, and are held to such responsibility especially those at or near the head of it that it is necessary on such momentou occasion to dare to determine for them selves what is lawful and what is not law ful under our system.

If the militar authorities should be invoked, as might possibly be the case in such exceptions times when there existed such divergen views as to the correct result, the arm will suffer from its past action if it has acted wrongfully. Our regular army has little hold upon the affections of the peo ple of to-day, and its superior offiwrs shouh certainty, a far a lies in tht-ir power legally and with ri-fhtmus intent, aim to de fend the ri'jht, which to vs is the law aii'l tlte tjisttfntion vhUh they represent. It is a well meaning xustitntion and would. te wen it it should have an oppor tunity to be recognized as a bulwark in support of the rights of the people an of the law. 1 am.

truly rutirp. Slned WispibldS. Hancock Ttea. W. T.

Siibkmas, Commamling Arm of the United tiUtoe, Wadungtoa, D. A Sine Oay Recoiinoisanre and Sim ore Skirni idling in Kussku fttriken Down With Vewr Ayoob Kahn'M Vlrtory. "RUSSIA. SC II Oil EL EPF'S SKIRMISHES WITH THE TEKKKS. St.

Peters iubi, August 1. Gen eral Scobeiefr telegraphs he started on the inst. on a reconnoisance from Bami against Tekk. Turcomans with Soti- nas and one Rocket Batterv and succeeded destroying much graiu and provision stores between Bami and Geok Tepe. After several bayonet encounters, General Scoleletf on the 17th occupied Isgan ifind Batyrkala.

There the Russians es tablished a point and General Scobeleff marched on the 18th with the greater portion of his column to reconnoitre Deuzil, Tepe aud Geok Tepe. Large masse of the enemy horsemen were en countered. The Russians advanced, fight ing wit bin a thousand paces of the out works, beneath the shelter of which thev recounoitered. The Bussians retired at me in the morning nnd despite the fre- jueut and determined oiisiaughts.regaint'd Isgan and Batvrkala the same evening. almost without loss.

Thev reentered Bami the The Russian casualties for the nine davs are thret' privates killed eight wounded The Tekkes at Geok Tepe number AVOOB KAMA'S VICTORY. HIS FAIU'BK TO IM RSI THE 1SK1T1SH. Simla, August 1. Reports from Quetta indicate that Ayoob Khan did not follow up his victory by pursuing the British. It is stated that General Burrows succeeded in bringing a largo body of his troops into Oandahar.

Native accounts do not describe General Burrows' defeat as crushing. Thev state the British cavalry aud artillery were lured on by the enemy's cavalry feigning retreat, into an ambush, where Ayoob Iv hairs army attacked them, inflicting severe loss. General Burrow's whole force then retreated. These particulars require confirmation. The forces retreating from the Uabmau ami Dubrai posts have been relieved from Chamau Choki.

The standard's Bombay correspondent telegraphs: The battle between General Burrows' force and the Afghans is said to have been weJl contested. The British cavalry and infantry were badlv cut up at the commencement of the fight, but the infantry indicted such heavy loss on Ayoob Khan that has not ventured to advance upon atmanar. Hie loeroy of inota telegratmea Suu- lav that Avoob Kuan did not follow up th British retreat- Gen. Burrow's force has arrived at Candahar. When Messengers left- Avoob Khan wa.s -ami ted where the action was fought.

This seems to confirm the news that Ayoob Khan had mj tie red heavily. This news as brought by natives to Quetta. The Viceroy's telegram suvs: Our whole armv is not in the eit- lel. at Candahar, but the word "not," is probably a tWegraphicrror for "now." 1 he 1 1 tnj -s altMitta correspondence savs Everything seems to wint to General Burrow's having been out-generald ami the tie of Phimhki Nakhud -will probablv Im' hereafter cited as one mor instance of he story as old as British history itseit, ot a gaiiant army ing ruined by infatuation aud incompetence of its leader 1 treacherv of of its Alieis as there can be little doubt that Wall's Cavvlrv went ver to the enemy. The T'ffi's' Bombay dispatch reports that Khelati Gilzui is in a verv prwea-rums state.

Tbfr ttn bm are gat hrei in the vicinitv and much anxktv is tclt the garrison unless General Phayre ieves it, which would "delay his march to Candahar. 1 1 11 EE A I 'O PA Pakis, July HI. Manager Abliey's agent has completed a Bernhardt company for America. The xur.k was complicated by the auriferous reputation of the United States and the prevailing idea that any French artist willing to expat riate himself or herself ought to retire rith a fortune in a twelve month, and Iso by the belief that the yellow fv-r de vastates New lork nine months in the year. The last coutravts, however, are now wing signed.

1'he company includes, hy Sarah's express desire, a female proinj-t r. The artists are twenty in number. The salary list wilt exce-d fi.O'iO ptr month. The rehearsals will commence hereon Wednesday mjxt, on the- return of Sarah from Havre, where die has been enjoying a week's repose iu her villa at Ste Adresse. TUB II' 'MP, July M.

The Ossereatare publishes a circular letter of Cardinal Nina, Papal Secretary of State, to ariou.s Papal Nuncios in reply to the circular of Pre re Urban, Betgiau of Foreign Affairs, concerning the publication of documents which passed between Belgium and the Vatican. Cardinal Nina acensr-s Ftvre Urban with premeditatodly oil' relations with the Vatican, adduces numerous fa ts refuting the charge of double dealing against the Vatican made by the Belgian Minister, and accuses Frere Urbau of having party aims. GREAT BRITAIN. GLADSTONE STRICKEN DOWN WITH FEVF.IL August 1. Mr.

Gladstone caught a chill after leaving the House of Commons on Friday, and is now su tiering from congestion of the left lung. The latest bulletin issued on Sunday evening says his condition it less favorable, owing to a slight fever, but that he ia iu no immediate danger. The ynien telegraphed to ascertain his condition. CABLK Tiik reikis are Dolones. SPARKS.

still holding out at The Bank of the Province, at Porto Alegre, has been robbed of 5125,000. Av English Missionary, Doctor Parson a and bis two servants, have been murdered at Ismidt- Rki-orts state 5110,000 gold have beeu purchased in open market in London for export to America. A Scutari dispatch says four battalions of Montenegrins, attacked the Albanians on Wcdneetiay and were repulsed. The London Strirtsman. says: We have received the second deposit of 1T0 for the Hanlan match in behalf of Trickett.

A Constantinople dispatch says it is reported that the Porte has applied to Ser-via tor au explanation of her armaments and considers the reply satisfactory. The P-ritish steamer IIarrs, from Hong Kong. May 8th, for New York, has Iw-en in collision with an Italian bark iu which the latter was sunk. The crew of the bark were saved. The St.

Petersburg reports that a riot occurred yesteMay at a village in the government of Pkof. The soldiery interfered and arrested the ringleaders in the disturbance. A Vienna correspondent says the statement that the Porte intends to' cede Dul-cigno to Montenegro is strengthened by a dispatch of a Turkish naval squadron to I MilcMgno cast to enforce cession. The elections fo Councils up to the present time shows that in sixty-two cases the Kepubiirans nave oeen MtccesstuI, ami in sixteen the Conservatives. Six second batlots in the latter will be neoessarv.

A dispatch Vienna rejKirts that the Vice President of the Bulgarian Committee is now in Belgrade to negotiate an oife.ii ve and defensive alliance between Bulgaria aud tier via. A DriiLlN' dispatch says land meetings were held there on Sunday. The same dispatch says the corn and wheat crops of Ireland promise more than an average yield and that the general aspect of the country cheering. Lf.on Say, President of the French Senate, in an address at the agricultural show at Kprunnes expressed "a hope for better harvests and attributed the present crises partly to the lack of facilities of communication with America. He, advocated the revision of the land tax remission of taxation and improved transportation.

Pier, Dassals A Ox's lager is unrivaled. other brand, foreign or douiaoiic, is its eual. U. Hancock's Louisiana Order the "Spoken Act" Of a Soldier Ulio Saved Civil Liberty, -If WaMhtnctAn Hnd Boen In Hancock" rice He Would Have I tone What Hancock Dirt." Paris, July lb, lSo. To the Editor of the World Sir: A cable dispatch reached me at London, whence I answered it more briefly perhaps than you expected, but I thought inteligibly enough.

Your later dispatch, which came to me here yesterday, I now reply by mail. I inferred from your interrogatory that some evil disjwsed persons had been attributing to me the authorship of the orders and letters issued by General Hancock while he commanded in Louisiana aud Texas. My denial by telegraph was intended to cover the whole ground. I neither wrote those papers nor suggested a word of them; I had no precognition of his views on the subject to which they relate, and heard nothing from him about it until he had taken the public into his conn dence. Indeed, my personal acquaintance with him was then very slight, and our relations not at all intimate.

The opinion that I would offer or he would require my aid in producing such an order as his No. 40 is absurd. His determination to stand by the Constitution and the laws needed no ex pres-sion but what he could give better than any man alive. It was not an argument, not exposition of the law, not an essay on the rights of man that was wanted at that critical time. The spoken art of a a patriot soldier in high command alone could save civil liberty from the destruction with which it was threatened.

That was what Hancock did, and it was the timeliest lift that the great cause ever got from any hand except that of WashiLg-ton. I hope my admiration of the order in question and the gratitude I have felt to him for issuing it can be reasonably accounted for without supposing that I framed or had any share in framing it The belief was generally among the friends of constitutional liberty, and expressed by many others as strongly as by me, that General Hancock had done much, and done it bravely, to rescue the nation and save it alive, first from secessionists, aud afterwards from the more dangerous and more unprincipled oligarchy into whoie hands it fell after the war. At the date of his service in Louisiana the leau ideal of a "stroug government" was in full operation at Washington, conducted by mun who claimed to be absolute masters of the country. State right, and, as a necessary consequence, individual liberty, were violently trodden ilown, and the Constitution whit should have made us free was habitually over-ridden and insulted. What tbo-e men called "the Government" was only wondrous strong, but corrupt beyond ail example in moaern times.

Between its force and its fraud the people were iower- 1 less, ana meir uespair was aggravate! oy an indefinable dread that the whole arny might at any moment be used to sink the nation into still turtner degradation, if below that lowest depth a lower deep could be reached. It was in these circumstance that Hancock spoke out those words of truth and soberness which reassured the friends of free government and inspired them with new hopes. All who were near enough to wau the current of that neuual contest between absomtism and law can remember how the enemies of the constitution were startled and scared when they found that the most brilliant General the mon bad ornciailv declared him self opposed to their "savage policy." They could not goo Kin him, nor send upon him, nor in any manner destroy him, for not only was the law of tb land on his side, but the army was found to be full of sympathy with its conspicuously gallant and faithful leader. So thev were fain to ontent themselves with harmless sneers and petty iersecutions. But they removed him from the place where his devotion to the Constitution was specially interfering with their schemes to subvert it.

When they made hp their minds to strangle the liberties of a State, to disperse a legal Legislature by brute force, to inaugurate for Governor a shameless adventurer known to have been defeated at the to piu were plundered bv alien thieves who claimed to be theirrepresentatives and offi cers, somebody else was employed to do the infamous work. Still more carefully did they avoid his presence when the nation was to be swindled, at a Presidential elec tion. It was for such reasons that the heart of the country warmed to General Hancock as its predestined deliverer. It has ol Sen unopened that hi best Mug1 of the greatest men are attributed to others who are wholly incapable of them. The.

opinion was industriously propagated and accepted by a great many as rue that Hamilton wrote the farewell ad dress of Washington, but the evidence is conclusive which shows that every word of that immortal production came from Washington himself; and Hamilton could not have written it any more than he could have made a world. Some of Jackson's most characteristic papers, bearing the ful! impress of his own mind, were habitually credited to persons ot tar interior aomty. When it was charged against Jefferson that he wrote Logan's speech, he solemnly ileclared that he was unequal to such a composition. I am not affecting modesty when 1 iairu credence ot my present denial for a similer reason. I could not have written Hancock's No.

40 not because I pretend to be dumb or altogether unskilled i in the use of English words, but because I had undertaken to write it the chances are ninety-nine in a hundred that my argumentation would have marred its majestic simplicity and greatly diminished its power. When a public man, es pecially a military man meets a grave re- iponsibiuty, saying no more nor less than ust the thing he ought, but saying that with unequivocal clearness, you may le sure he is the interpreter of his own thoughts. At any rate, the attempt is unjust to bastardize No. 40 by assigning to it an origin totally different from the true one. Why should my opinion be asked or vol-nteered on General Hancock as a civil Anybody else wuo has watched his life is as good a judge as and there are thousands who know him much better.

Hut since the question, is propounded 1 will answer, subject to fair correction, that he has in him the highest and best qualities of a Republican ruler. I think his fidelity to sound principles, coupted with his sound judgment, will entitle him to rank well with the great Presidents of former times. I do not compare him with Washington. for the grandeur of that character is and will remain forever unapproachable, but I do say that Washington, if placed in his situation, would have acted precisely as he did. His patriotism has not the impulsive ardor of Jackson's; but his fidelity to the truth, his love of justice and his scorn of wrong, are quite as unmistakable.

He is not a doctrinaire lite Jefferson, for his busy life has left him no time to study the abstract philosophy of politics, but his practical good sense knows the light intuitively and always catches the nearest way to do it. It he be elected, the ability of his administration will inspire uni verse 1 respect, and his moderation and magnanimity will con ciliate even his enemies. I have the fullest faith that he will not only keep his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitu tion, out will so carry out its provisions tuat rue great otqects of tranters expressed the preamble will be fully ac complished "lo form a more perfect mon, to estamisu justice, to insure do mestic tranquility, to provide for the com mon defense, to promote the general welfare and to secure the blessings of liberty to our selves and our posterity." J. it Miss Belle Clarke of California, and Miss hrmna aeweu oi j.icuncm, Min nesota, who are to ride a twenty equestrain race at Minneapolis on the 7th of September, have both accepted the pro position of Miss Minnie 1'inmts ot Gret-Sy to ride the wiiiner a twenty mile race for f.OoO a side. JAMES KERR, SMITH-FIELD STREET AND FOURTH AVENUE, ApoltaarL ail Dealer in Drip, Mm and Toilet Articles.

All Popular Mineral Waters on draught and in bottles and barrels. And How He Wielded Four Years Ago, It In Defence of the Fundijnental Principles of American Liberty. His Letter to Gen. Slier-man on the Disputed Presidency, And the Duty of the Army in Preserving Peace. His Theory of Adjustment the Same as Tilden's, And One Which Would Have Made Tilden President, Private and Frank Letter That Marks Hancock's Greatness, Just as Kuch as Order 40 or His Letter of Acceptance.

New York, July 31. This letter printed in the H'orM of totlay, was written by General Hancock, in December, 1876, in reply to two letters he had received on the subject of the disputed Presidency from General Sherman. Carohdolbt P. St. Loris.

December mh, 1875. My Dear General: Your favor of the 4th inst. reached me in New York on the day before I left for the West. I intended to reply to it before leaving but cares incident to departure interfered. Then again since my arrival here I have been so occupied with personal affairs of a business nature that I have deferred writing from day to day until this morn ing, and now I find myself in debt to you for another letter in acknowledgement of your favor of the 17th, received a tew days ainoe.

I have concluded to leave here on the 29th, (to-morrow) so that I may he expected in New York on the 3lHt inst. Tt has been cold and dreary itince my arrival here. I have worked 'like a Turk" (I presume that means bard work) In the country, in making fences, rutting down trees, repairing buildings, Arc, and am at leant able to say that St. Louie is the coldest place in the wiuter and It is the hottest in the summer of any that I encountered in the temperate zone. I have known St Louis in December to have genial weather throughout the month.

This December has been frigid and the river has been frozen more solid than I have ever known it. When I heard the rumor that I was ordered to the Pacific Coast I thought it probably true, considering the past discus- Bion of that subject. The possibilities seemed to me to point that way. Had it been true, I should of course hare, presentedno complaint nor made resistance of any kind. I would have gone quickly if not prepared to go promptly.

I certainly wonld have been relieved from the responsibilities and anxieties concerning Presidential matters which may fall to those near the throne or in authority -within the next ionr months, as well as from other incidents or matters which I could not control and action concerning which I might not approve. was not exactly prepared to go to the Pacidc, however, and I therefore felt relieved when I received your note informing me that there was no truth in the rumors. Then I did not wish to appear to be escaping from the responsibilities and possible dangers which may cluster around military commanders in the East, especially in the critical period fast approaching. Alls well that ends well. The whole matter of the Presidency seems to me to be simple and to admit of a peaceful solution.

The machinery for sue a con ti gen as threaten to present itself, has been all careful 1 repa red. It onl req i res lubrication owing to disuse. The army should have nothing to do with the election or inauguration of Presidents TH PEOPLE ELECT THE PRESIDENT. The Congress declares in a joint session who he is. We of the army have only to obey his mandates, and are protected in so doing only so far as they be lawful.

Our commissions express that. I like Jeffer-son's way of Inaiujunttion, It suits our system. He rode alone on horseback to the capitoi (I fear it was the "old tied his horse to a rail fence, entered and was duly sworn. Then he rode to the Executive mansion and tjpk possession. He inaugurated himself simply by taking the oath of office.

There is no other legal inauguration in our system. The people or politicians may institute parades in honor of the event, and public officials may add to the pageaut by assembling troops and banners, but all that only comes properly after the inauguration, not before, and it is not part of it. Our system does not provide that one President should in-auturote another. There might be danger in that, and it was studiously left out of the charter. But you are placet! in an exceptionally important position in connection with coming events.

The capitoi is in my jurisdiction also, but I am a subordinate and not on the spot, and if I were, so also would be my superior in authority, tor mere is tue station of the General-in- Chief. On the principle that a reirularlv elected President's term of office expires with the 3d of March, (of which I have not the slightest douht.) and which laws bearing on the subject uniformly recognize, and in consideration of the possibility that the lawfully elected President may not appear until the 5th of March, a great deal of resitonsibility may neoHsariIy fall upon you. i ou nuiti You will power and prestige to support Thu Secretary of War, too, bably holds over, but if President apears hn may have you. not lie able to exercise functions in the name of a President, for his proper acts ar those of a known supurmr a lawfid HrmiiUnt. You net on your own rwipon nihility, and by virtue of a commi-wmn only rtrictl by the law.

The Secretary of War the mouthpiece of a Collision on Imok Reach Railroad. ew UK, July 31. This evening two Long Beach railroad trains were in collision, and John. Waleott, engineer of one train, was killed. His brother was the engineer of the other train in the collision.

Conductor Daniel Allen had his ribs broken and is injured internally. Brake-man AVm. McDonough received a bad scalp wound. James Kagau and wife of Sixteenth street, New York, were injured, Mrs. Kagan receiving a bad wound in the face.

Mr. Kagan hail his shoulder dislocated. Several women on the train were badiv bruised and cut. ay laid by Robber. St.

Pail, August 1. Three well known men waylaid four Germans looking for work near Lake City last night and fatally wounded one with a revolver and shut aud robbed him of fJM) in money. An- armed party of citizens pursued the roblters and overtaking th em several shots were exchanged. The robbers finally escaped by swimming in the lake. Several ar-ties are searching for them along the shore in lniats.

At least one of the Timbers was wounded in the fight wit tithe pursuers. Be HlHf and Happy. If you ill stop at! your extravagant and wrong notions in doctoring yourself and families with expensive doctors or humbug curtails, that do harm always, and use only nature's simple remedies for all your ailments you will be wise, well and happy, and save-great expense. The greatest remedy for this, the groat, wise aud good wiii tell you, is Hop Bitters rely on it. See another column.

I'ress. 30. To Grain and Provision Dealers. Beinur the only OlfAIN AND PROVISION BkoKEK having teletrmphte com-EUunifHttijQ with the 4'htcavo, Chamber of Oominere, 1 am enabled to ftive my customers every chuntfe oocurrtmr in prices aa aoon as announced thei e. No charge ol lO per cent, of profits lor attending to investments.

W. ii. STAHI, no'J0-A SV3 Idberty atret. TETTEB, KH1. KOM l.A, and all 1 Mates ot the Skin and Scalp, and Taint In the Blood, are effectually cured by KEYSKR, 120 PEA'N AVENUE, C'OK-NEK EVANS AEEEY.

OE'iKfjK' On Sunday. Auirust I. IHSO. at P. at the n-'denee of his lather.

S'lUth avenue, Atie'beny, S. GEOHK. Jr. KK A 1 'n Sunday evening. August 1.

IS, at 6 Kmma infant daughter Geurse W. aud Kbfctfieth Nvftico funeral in evening papers. KI fvrnintf. I. ary daughter of Jef-e H.

aii-i Mary KUgore, in the lourreemli year ci a-e. Notice tuneml hereafter. NH KURT at h'A'o 1'. M. year.

Sunday t151iyj5. AuKTit 1S0, i'. A. Sherhy, inccd forty-two Funeral in tin his MAer's lesidenee. No.

6 Tuwnend street, on Tuesday morning at o'olook, I-'nends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. "EYfcR'S tMKKTAkil ROOMS No. 42 1 Venn Avenue. OPLN DAY AND NIGHT. l-'X-d Hearse and Carriages furnished.

Especial attention paid to Embalming. nf PrrrsnrHfiH, T-iA -r-ipr ietai oi the genuine i the 13 Fl. McLANE'S Liver Vermifuge. B.syer shavM liwa; iook tor t'jcir BiipiaSure above If cm rioi-OT vial of ihe market ii full of imitat tons of the name irfLied didcrttoUy, but hv.nt same UTTEKSON LIVERY AM) 1 SALE STABI.ES, Ni. 2S NINTH.

STKKET an-1 No. 312 an.1 S14 FIFTH AVE-M an.1 FKANKSTOWN AVfcNVE, Ean Fc-i. Flue 'airiace lor Parties, Operas and Concert. rtane and Harris tre for Funerals. Hoies ami kpt at livery: the betol attention icuarHtiteed, Stable open day and nittht.

1'be tKrio are connected by the Bell Telephone. Ail orilexi received, by telephone promptly attended to. OM'E MORE TO THE FRONT I ara prrparrd to eswnfe all orders entruNtetl to promptly, and, we triiNl, alfra4'loriIy. 1 am prepared to Krtntl Katurn, KelMSorn, put iu I'en-Kdife I ados, repair Printing presses and all kinds of a.ig;tit Machinery, at Tiie ENTERPRISE GUN WORKS, 136 AM) 13S HOOD STREET, JAMES B0WX, Agent. AS AUGUST 1, 1S80.

IMPORTED GOODS OPENED THIS WEEK, DIRECT FROM THE FACTORIES IM HAVANA. Weyman Brother, 81 SMMFIELD STRFET. yXClKMON THfc Jj ''lnit KETS. em home seekers arm her? tmri! tnr ttie West, will do well to apply Vi thf uii.Jrrs!triie'l. Kaiima.l In ail lui-iruiiition cheenuHy iciven.

tii'kprs ant! 1mm Kun-pe lea-iinir lilies as hcruloiun. MAX SCHAM HtK( European Stt-ainship UrTiee. 131 Smltlibeid strwt. i'ltuamrjih. estai'lisiied In IH6S.

A TWO 'AKMN, um oi ISO ncn-fi, finely im- pn el; prk'e KMIOO: the mUht imp iuz acres, well improved; price 7.50. Apply stiU. Senl ior larm list. thi out.) J. H.

STKVENSdN, Aarent, a24-ly 10 Fifth aveaae. PttuburKb J. II. JOHNSTON, GREAT WESTERN GUN WORKS Muzzle and Breech-Loading Rifles, VSfHff- PKIMEKS, WAllS, POW. 1 SHOT.

Cj KTKI i MfrlS. ol all best makes. tiHblDK S'lne, Xclx, Kotla, l.lne, HMkN. Hamiuooks, Ac. Ounsaud l'inds Keiaired.

Irices are lwer thaa ever. All Kouds warranted. Call or send ior our n6w IUustraied Caialoirue. J. II.

JOHXMTOW, I8SaUTHHKI.I STK1.LT, Hall are no longer notice! by the faster, ami if they salute him nine times ten the faster will fail to return the salutation, iie can, however, with a little effort rouse up and make himself agreeable. Moreover, at times, all his mental faculties seem to le almost supernal uraliy bright and active, as evidenced by the running comments lie sometimes makes while his letters are lning read to him. The day was rather a dull day for him, and he showed something of the peevishness which was so prominent a symptom a little after the tcgiuniiig. To-night, for example, on returning from his ride through the park, he refused to go into the main hall, as was his custom, but insisted upon remaining in the ante-room. The doctors attending him began to prepare th cot (there are cots in every room by elevating it upon chairs beforo the window.

When asked what practical results they exwcti the fast to yield, one of the physicians said: "It has Imen ascertained that fasting isa remedy for certain maladiesfor exam de, gastric difficulties and enlargement of the heart. Hereafter, when we find a patient who has eaten to excess, we may give bis watchers a bottle of cold water, charging them not to administer any other medicine, and telling them that it is a preparation that Will serve as food, and thus we make fasting an auxiliary in our practice unknown to anybody but ourselves." His medical attendants said he was in a feebler condition than yesterday, that the attacks of nausea were unfavorable, and as they occurred after drinking a small quantity of fluid, it showed the Doctor's stomach to be in a highly irritated ne of the medical men said that lr. Tanner was failing every day, but there was no doubt he would finish his slf impod task. He thought the frequent attacks of vomiting showed the coats of the stomach were somewhat inflamed. Dr.

Tauntr took nothing to-day but a little carbonated ice water. ASH LNbTON. What Is Thought of HanewVs Letter at the Capital. and Turk Kftnecn Ohio ItllnolN for Male." Washington, August 1. The letters of acceptance of General Hancock ami Mr.

ui4liah were received here with genuine satisfaction. Even at the Republican headquarters not a complaint has been made or exceptions taken to a line of General Hancock's. It has become the fashion for Republicans here to ignore General Hancock in discussing the Iem crutic ticket ami heap upon the party for nominating him the abuse which otherwise might fail upon a candidate with whom fault could justly be found. It is in pursuance of that policy that the letter is not discussed by thot who would like to condemn it further than by saying that it is not a Democratic letter in any sense. At the Democratic headquarters and the hotels, on the streets and everywhere that such matters command attention, excepting at the Republican rooms, commendation of the sterling principle! maintained in the letter and of the tere, vigorous, manly exposition of them is general and enthusiastic.

"The letter," said a well known public man, 'is full of sentiments that would honor any campaign or any statemau. Lveu the famous order No. 40 is not richer in epigrams and it is as quotahie as that historical document." Contrasts between tin and Garfield's letter, much to the disparagement of the latter, have been drawn with unpleasant frequency for Republican ears all day. General Hancock's opinions with reference to the amendments are heartily approved by the Southerners here. The President read the letter at the breakfast-table, and, in a conversation wit a caller to-day, gave his opinion that General Hanciwk's acceptance was to say th least, dignified, and iu exceeding Uiste.

Nil AND TCCR. At the Census Oilicethe officials say it is impossible to tell at present whether Ohio or Illinois has the greater population, and therefore entitled to "third place." The per cent, of increase has been a little larger in Illinois thau in Mhio, but whether enough greater to reach uio is A-ery doubtful. TEHSOSAL Postmaster General Key, Burnside, Third Assistant Postmaster General Ha.en, aud the rest of the party arri veil this morning from Cobb's Island. Judge Key is well tanned by exposure to the sun, having devoted much of his time to fishing. He.

will remain here until Minister Maynard arrives from Constantinople, which will be about the latter part of next week. Judge Key is highly pleased with his trip, and returns in excellent health. HFVI I II 1.1 A Kw Between Two Noted Uaiublors KeanltluK in Harder. New Haven, August 1. Turner Wilson and IJeuj.

Johnson, two weil known sports, got into a row here yesterday which resulted in the killing of the former by Johnson. Both men being on the "sport," a bet wa-s promised and the stakes finally put up. Thi.s was about o'clock p. M. Alnjut four o'clock while walking about the ground, the parties met the second time, when the subject of the bet was again brought up and a dispute occurred about it.

The lie was parsed by Johusou, when Wilson drew his pistol, but before aiming it Mr. John S. Fulton, a lawyer of llardstown, snatched it away trrn him, and while this wat going on Johnson Mepjed a sttp backward aud drew his pistol. When Wilson saw the weapon he leaied forward, grasped his opponent about the neck with his right hand and attempted to wrench the pistol from him with his left, hut before this couitl be done Johusou pushed the muzzle a gainst i Ison 's abdomen aud ti red. The bail entered the stoiuarh close to the navel and passed eutireiy through the body, coming out just to the left of the spinal column.

After the slutting, Johnson mounted his horse and fled to his father's house, which is in the suburbs of llardstown, where; he remains concealed, and the otliecrs of the law are afraid to attempt his arrest. Puor Fred Wilson was takeu to his home about three miles west of llardstown, on the road leading from that place to Klizabethtown, where he lingered in terrible agony until forty-six minutes past eleven o'clock, when death came to his relief. Wilr-on was a whole-snulded fellow, but wheu iu iiiii was very troublesome. He came from a high-toned Kentucky family, but has al ways followed the lifn of a gambler. He was about forty-six years old, and Johnson is only about twenty-three.

Johnson is studying law under bis father, tenant Governor, "rOH on Hats" Ask drufririts Sir it. It out rats, iuic-, r.i:i bedbugs 15c boxes. A'iicy 84 Markt-t str-ct. Dov't Til MoeeIhasVw: Want. cents will biiy a pa.

kajf, doses, Weils' May Apple jfills, auti-biiious, liver, cathartic Indiana, July 21, isso. THOMAS BARNES, Dear Sir The Safe came to hand this I. M. all right. Enclosed nnd notes lor same.

It quxf respectfully, JOHN S. HASTINGS. Uahvxlle, July 22, 1 THOMAS BARNES: I'ear Sir The Sule received. Enclosed rind notes and che for same. The Saie is entirely satis lactory.

Yours truly, JACOB SCHUSTER. Nsw Haven, Jnly 23. issft. MB. THOMAS BARNES: HearSir The Safe arrived all riht, and am well pleased with it.

Enclosed find check to cover invoice. Please acknowledge receipt ol same, and oblige K. EONti. PLTTam-TH, July 24, lHHo. THOMAS BARNES: Sir Sate received.

Am well pleased with It. it ts the hne.t Sale in section oi the country. Truly yours. FREDERICK KAY E. THIRD AVENUE.

i.o.sr. OST STOCK CERTIFICATE XO. I i I2. dated April lo. I7.

(r h.ires -STOCK CERTIFICATE ul the mi'itaJ stitck the Braudoek 'l'j-iist 4 of Braddock. to Ke Hujitic, Trustee: havtni; made ajipliealivn a eate certificate, all persuus ar'j warued against, neicotiatmi; tile salue. (MBRm Adm'r. TOR SALE. SALE CITY BOKDS.

1 he uiulf rsiffiio! has for sal a limited amount of Citv of l'itts- burch Five Per Cent. Thirty-Year lionds. THIRD NATIONAL BANK, Cor. AYooil St. and Yirin Alley.

lyaortl OR SALE A LAIUiE LOT OF SEC- rrcm 24 to 42 Inehea diameter, and from lO ia 'in leet, doable tlued and cylinder. Bntler Injector's certificate ol test with each boiler. Also a lariee stock ol new boilers on hand. Kepatrtrg done promptly at the Pint Koiler Worki1. corner Twenty-third and tr.ets.

K. iMVMMIK. I7UR SALE STEAM KNOINES, B01LJLK3 AMI MACHJNKhT At FOrKTH WARD FOfMlKY AMI EKlilNE WtlKKS. THOMAS CAK1.1N, Allexheny. Ha.

QRAI.X AM) PROVISION" SPECULATION IHreetlv on the Chlrairo of Tri-ie. Mar ket reports every two minutes. Kach traDsrtc-tion conducted In euettimer's own name, and National Bank Caiiiier's roceipta Klvn lor money ilepoife-I. fytM) eontrols 5.00 bush, wheat. C-umtbacts1o0 eyntrein tuh.

corn. VnU at offi'ee or send Ior eXiinjtt-ory circular. ntm quotation eicii day, eea Market Kepurt-s altuve. J. W.

DIHM 5U Koom C7. Jerniama Bank Huihllnir. I EC I A NO Tl CES. FSTTK OF Wll.MAM W. MIIYAM' the oi i'hartHTS.

decease I. letters te-staiMi-niarv Lmo bwn by the K.i-l.-r the uy i-tetcheny to me as Kxei'utnr. win-ta ait iviiiic dialing airaiot the sute are the same without dr-lay. and to Whom all debts dUQ tt must be paid. titUUtii; W.

MnTUKKAL. Kxecutor. au re it fit 44 Fayette street. Allegheny. 1 KK.

KSTATK OF I FT Kit deeeaseti. adrninrtrati.rn havtiiy t-een ifraatt'd tiie uii.jer-sitined to al miit iter the state oi alHtVe namc-l decedent, ali person? Imvinjt ciatuis ataln-t entate will tliena withnut delay, uud all mdebied ti the estate will inake pay meat to KKKTKAN lT ti. NPliK KK. Adojiiustnit.tr. 1iqp ward, i itUburU boat and crushed to death The Indians contiuue coming to the Agency at LosPinos ttVsign the treaty.

fearing that the chiefs who have signed will receive all the M000 appropriated by Congress. Tin Commission leaves here next month for the Northern t'to Agency, except Col. Meacham, who remains behind take the census of the ncompaghre Utes. Yesterday morning fire broke out in the stables belonging to the Spring Company at- White Sulpher Springs, and forty four horses, twenty of which Itelnnged to the Springs Company ami twenty-four to the guests were burnt. The fire is supposed fo have len the result of carelessness on the part of the servants.

The building was uninsured. For some time past quite a controversy has been going on between the Union Elevator Company and the Peoria Jacksonville Railroad Company in regard to the right of possession to some switches and approaches, and the B. Railroad being large interested in the Klevator company, took up the fight in their bebaif and began tearing up the tracks of the other road, resulting in a fracas between the workmen employed by the roads aud many arrests. SPANISH Sl'OKT. Bloodless Hull Fighting York.

in New 31 r. Bcrti and His Officer OiorvinK a KiKuitti Holiday. New York, July 31. New York's first bull fight was had here to-day: not the real article, like those in Spain, but near enough approach to it to give a very startling notion of what the genuine is. In One Hun-d red aud i eeii th st ree near Sixth avenue, the Central Park Arena had been prepared.

The place has Veen constructed for these exhibitions. The plan was to fix the bulls and the weapons with which they were to be goaded so that the beasts should not be tortured only euough to give them life enough to fight back. Then the fighters were to show the crowd how the real work of slaying the bull would le accomplished were they onl in a country beyond Bergh's reach. but for Bergh the fun would not have stopped short ot the slaying of the bulls or the agile gentlemen npposed to fe from Spain who goaded them on. But Bergh had served notice in advance that no cruelty must be practiced.

Ue was on hand with a jKsse of agents and the police at his back. The bull-fighters had been all the way to St- Louis to pick out wild Texan bulls suited to the racket. Angel Valdemor, the most distinguished bull fighter of the troupe of professionals, is said to have taken a prominent part in the bull lights at the coronation ant; at the. marriage of King A-honso. He worn the suit of gorgeous apparel which he said was presented to him by King Alphonso, who had it made for him at a cost of There were three thousand spectators in the erena when the bull-fighters stepped out in sight this afternoon.

Mr. Bergh stood in a conspicuous position, with a big silver badge upon the lapel of his coat. The torrs attracted attention. They were all of a size, and were dressed alike. wiih a chinchilla cap and a rosette of black silk and a queue of black hair.

From ne to knee the costume was siik coverett with gold embroidery. There was a jacket aud a shirt-front of linen, a sash, kue-breech- and white stockings. They walked into the erena in pairs, with the great, red cloak streaming behind them. me was in greeu, another in purple, and so ou. 1 hey took positions aud waitod leuce.

Suddenly a white Texan steer, tall, gaunt, wild-eyed one, the tips of whose horns were two feet apart, strode nto the ring. The light blinded him for au instant, and he stot.nl still. A torrei stood within four feet of him, but did no affect to him at all. Suddenly th steer leaped into the air, described the half of a circle and landed his horns within six inches oi the t.orreo's back. At tl me instant the torreo, without having turned his head or exhibited a conscious ness of danger, leaped over the ft ve-toot fence in front of hira.

The bull's horns scraped the fence and made the worn shiver. Then a torr-o blue sprang at the bull, wound his scarlet cloak around his horns, and was off to one side in a twinkling with the bull behind him. Then the first torreo sprang lightly back into the ring, and everv one snouted approval Then the first torreo bowed, aud the second one vaulted the fence to escape the bull. fhev are verv elastic, these Spaniards, bounding when they struck the ground, but not heading their knees either in springing or alighting. 1 he steer was angrv and astonished.

The torreos surrounded him like a band of mosquitos, dancing at. his head, aud then awav frrm it. He scattered them. First he math; a lunge at one and would have him hail not a thrown his big cloak over the steer's eves. Thev kept on bothering him; suddenly he sprang at the man in green, Yaldemo, aud a wonderful display of agility followed.

The torreo launched his cloak at the animal and dodged him beautifully, when he made a pass at the torreo and blinded him with a tiirt of the garment. The pair crossed the arena, the bull snorting and throwing up clouds of sand. As he launched at the spry Spaniard the throng cheered wildly. This sort of sport was kept up for some time, the men growing bolder and the bull madder all the while. First one engaged him ami then another, until he was takeu from the place.

It is plain that he was bot maddened as he would have been if goaded by real spears, and it is doubtful whether the nu were in very great danger. Meantime Bergh stood by the place where the bulls were brought out, oneafter another, and when one scraped his horns against the fence, Bergh would shout: "Take that bull c-ut he's hurt," and he was takeu out. Eight bulls iu all were led in, and the exhibition lasu-d an hour and a half. No one was hurt. The bulls were not goaded.

It was simply an exhibition of the real bull fight might have been. Wheu it began to grow dark, and only two more bulls remained to be led out, Bergh shouted: C-ome we have had enough of this. The show must end." So the show ended there. Two mure txhi-. unions arc to be givey, tliia week.

lEICJIIS. li El) I Tl OXS IX American, French and Linen Lawns. HEDUCTIOSS IX Zephyr, Madras and Canton Ginghams. ltEOVCTIOXS IX SUMMER DRESS MATERIALS. 11 KI I'CTl OXS IX Plain Buntinss and Lace Buntings.

itvin crioxs ix Bnicade Hemanis and all other styles. cri xs ix SUMMER SILK of all Descriptions. VCTIOXS IX BLACK SILK and SATIN ItEDl'CTTOXS IX' EVERY DEPARTMENT TO CLOSE OUT REMAINING STOCK. John Moorloise, 35 FIFTH AVENUE. Paints.

may (xiik PAINTS. Turpentine and lienzme. Uib Ir-ert. Baking Sell-tin inn turn. Tool.

"otton Tie, SfacHae and Furniture VarnWhcrt. Wli le Lead. Ml, Putty, Jse. Wstrranted Fim-i'Iacs and at Inwtat tAiLb PAINT AM) VAKNISU WOKKS, M. H.

rtrtlHKAN. A ent. Box 3. Pittburah. Pa.

Office and Works. ll ilaan stroet, Aiibtbeny. leielioue oonaecUva..