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which will be sure to infict no new sacrifice on the
new hope and we'll founded confidence will Ia stem the
restoring processes of nature, aud prosperity will
begin return. The st. Louis Convention concludes
its expression in regard to the currency by decla
ration of its convictions TO the practical results of
the system of preparations IL demands. IL says:
eve believe such a system well devised, and, above
all, entrusted competent hands for uton,
ating time artificial scarcity of currency, and
at no time alarming the public mind into q with
drawal of that vaster machinery of credit by which
ninety hye per cent of all business transactions
performed system open, public, and inspiring
general Confidence, would from the day Of its adop
ton, bring healing on its wings 10 all our harsssed
industries, set in motion the wheels OF Commerce,
manufactures and the mechanic arts, restore employ.
ment to labor, and renew In all its natural sources
the United States, in my opinion can advance to a
resumption Of specie payments on its legal tender
notes by gradual and safe processes tending 70 relieve
the present business distresses. II charged by the
people with the administration of the executive
office, should deem il duty TO exercise the
powers with which IL has been may be invested by
Congress best and TO cOnauct the country
t. that beneficent result.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
The Convention justly afirms that reform Is neces
sary in the Civil Seryicenecessary 10 purthcation,
its economy and its efficiency, necessary
I'm order that the ordinary employment OF the public
business may not be prize bought Tor al the ballot
box-a brief reward OF party zeal instead 81 post Of
honor assigned Tor proved competency, and held for
fidelity in the public employ. The Convention wisely
igher grades Of the public service. President, Vic
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The following is Governor TiIden's letter
of acceptauee:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-08-05

On TUESDAY MORstNG, August sth,
commencing IT 10 o cieck, we will sell In ~
'front.' OF or Store, the above outfit. Sold on <AA
account OF present owner not having any further
use for IL. sae positive.
aue5 q DUNOANsON BROS, Anots.
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FOREIGN.

The drought is severe in Cuba, and is
running the growing corn and other crops.
In the Vuelta Abajo region the tobacco crop
especially is in a very bad condition, and
planters are disheartened.
The three European powers have init
mated to the porte that if massacre should
follow the arming of the Mahommedan popu-
lation military expedition, composed of
Austrian and Russian troops, will certainly
be undertaken.
The revolution in Hayti is triumphant.
Dominique, late president, has fed. Presi-
dent Ramea, and Larquet, the general in
command of the government forces, have
been shot. BirOn Canal, who was exiled
from the country, is now in Port au Prince,
and it is presumed that he will take charge
of the government.
The Chinese have given up the contest
with the Portuguese over the possession of the
island city of Macao. The dispatch relating
to this matter states that the Portuguese oc-
cupy Macao wrOngfully, but three hundred
years ago, it seems, the territory was awarded
them by China for defending the Chinese
coast from japanese pirates.
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possessing schools, churches and various
industrial establishments. A decision in
favor of the railroad companies would have
abrogated the title of these people 10 their
property, which was regularly purchased
from the United States
The February report of the bureau of
statistics, just published, shows that during
that month our imports were valued at but
1928, ,319, while the exports were valued at
$6O,S93,953. Excluding specie and bullion,
the imports were $37, ,746,4 Az and the exports
$54, ,766828. Taking the specie value of our
exports, the balance Of trade in our favor
during that month was nearly $12,OOO,OOO in
gold, or, including the foreign exports in the
account, fully $13,OO0,OOO, rejecting the specie
and bullion movements altogether. As COM
pared with the corresponding month of 1875,
our exports increased nearly fifteen per cent
in value, while the imports diminished more
than twenty-five per cent. Manufactured
goods have increased more than other ar
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Come Just as You Are.

In one of his recent sermons at the
HippUdrOme in New York, Mr.. Moody
said: There are a great MANY men that
want to come, and they say, - Wait
until am a better man, and then / wilt
come" / never knew a man to he saved
that came to Christ in that way. You
can not cleanse yourselves. Every day
and hour that you are staying from
Christ you are getting worse instead Of
better. The very act of you staying
away is sin, and so, instead of trying
to get better, and get ready to come,
Just come as you are and be clothed with
the garments of salvation. He Will
ClOthe you with His own righteousness.
I noticed when our war was going on
men used to come to enlist, and the man
who came with a fine suit of clothes on,
and the hOd-caTrier in his dirty gar
ments, would both have to take off their
clothes and put on the uniform OF the
government. And 50 when men go into
the Kingdom of God they have to put
on the livery of Heaven. You need not
dress up for Christ, because He Will
strip you when you come, and put on
YOU the robes Of His righteousness. My
friends, YOU can not stand before God
in your own righteousness. Come to
God as a poor beggar, and He will have
mercy upon YOU. / heard some years
ago of an artist who wanted model fer
the prOdigal. He went to many institu-
tiOns and prisons, but could not get a
man who suited his ideas of the PTOdi-
gal One day, however, while walking
down the street, he met a poor, mis-
cradle tramp, and ne suited the artist S
eve. so he asked him if he would be
willing to sit for his portrait. The
tramp said he would, if he would pay
him for It. The artist promised, and set
a day and hour for him to come. At
the appointed time, while the artist was
sitting in his studio, the man came in,
but he was 50 well dressed the artist
didn't know him, and told him he had
no appointment with him. When the
beggar told him the circumstances, the
artist said: What have you been
doing?" " Why" says the man,
thought if / was going to sit for my
portrait / would get a new suit of
clothes" " All" said the artist, "yOu
won't do l wanted you just as you
were" So, when you go to Christ go
as YOU are, with all your rags, your
filth and your sin, and He will receive
you. l don't care how bad you are.
He came for that purpose. and there Is
not a man or a woman In this hall to-day
that is so bad that Christ would not
have you if yeu will only come.
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NUMBER 40.

the exposition df Vienna, as regards per
fectiOn of classification, fnethodical and
tasteful arrangement and elegance and
beauty Of all articles. Beautiful palm
trees made the entire section resemble
some fairy grOttO where the delicate gOs-
san1er robes heavily embroidered with
silver, gold aud jewels seemed waiting for
the fairy's presence alone. The Arab
BedOuin's hut seemed cool and inviting
enough to have persuaded more than
one fair lady to leave the pOmps and
vanities of the grnnde monde and become
an Arab chieftain's Fourth or fifth) wife,
while the dreamy quiet and extravagant
luxury of the miniature palace with Its
vision of felicity in the shape of an Ori-
entail beauty reclining inside on the satin
divans was enough 10 turn the head OF
any average man.
His excellency, Brugsch Bey, who was
the chief commissioner from Egypt for
Vienna, holds also the same position
here, and 50 without doubt the exhibi-
tiOn Will be as well arranged as it was at
Vienna. Brugsch Bey is the most pro-
found Egyptian scholar in the world
and il the only person who has succeeded
in deciphering perfectly all the ancient
hierOglyphics, and has made the task of
others easy in having written a complete
hierOglyphic dictionary. Being 40 pro
found n scholar in all that pertains to
that land whose buried and forgotten
greatness so much exceed our widest
fancy, it is impossible for any other ma
tiOn to be represented by any one who
brings 50 sincere a desire to raise their
country to its proper place in the esti-
nation of all the world.
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LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

The Louisville, Paducah and South
western railroad, now in a receivers hands,
has been ordered to be sold at time to be
hereafter specified.
The supreme court of Louisiana has
decided the issue of two million five hundred
thousand dollars of state bonds to the Mobile
and Chattanooga railroad to be invalid and
unconstitutional.
Capt. Eads informs the jetty company
that the depth of water in South Pass varies
from fifteen and half to twenty-eight feet.
The former depth is on the shoals, which will
have disappeared by the first of May.
Diaz writes to Antoine, of New Or
leans, that he has four thousand men with
whom he expects to consummate the revOlu-
ton begun under his name at Matamoras.
He says he will begin at once his advance
upon the capital.
The proprietOrs of the Missouri state
lottery have brought suit against the board
of police commissioners of st. Louis, asking
100000 damages for breaking up their busi-
ness by the late raids upon their offices and
seizure of their property.
The New Orleans Times says the break
at Bass levee, in Carroll parish, is a mile
wide, and the water is flowing through with.
OF making a ripple. The loss there is ire
mendous, and it is estimated that it will
reduce the crop fully two hundred and fifty
thousand bales. This Ievee is the largest
protection levee in the state of Louisiana
On the Mississippi side, at Buck ridge, the
breaks will devastate Bolivar, Issaquena and
Warren counties, and the loss will be equally
as large as on the opposite side.
A heated fight is raging in west-bound
passenger traffic out of Cincinnati. The
contest is carried on by the Ohio and Missis
sippi and the indianapolis, Cincinnati and
Lafayette and Vsndalia lines. The latest
reports were that round-trip tickets from
Cincinnati to Kansas City were selling al
twelve dollars; to Omaha, thirteen dollars
and ffty cents. Fully as heavy reductions
are also made to many other prominent
western points. The opinion prevails thai
still lower rates will be offered before the
war is over.
The Charleston Courier finds that
northern manufacturers of fertilizers have
made large shipments to southern ports
These have generally passed into the interior
and, in some instances, were offered at un
usually low rates. But the greater part o.
the shipments are believed to be in the hand.
of agents awaiting buyers. The Courier add.
that the planters are poor; that the tendency
year by year is to rely more and more OF
small grain, and to make cotton an incident
and not the main object of the years work
and the conclusion is that they who count Oh
a big cotton creP, because of the shipment ei
fertilizers this season, will surely be disap
r,nir,Anl
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Curious transfers in Stewards Estate.

The New York Tribune says: While
the late merchant prince still lay rObed
for the grave in his house on Fifth
avenue, an inventory of his property
was taken, the amount, according to
current but perhaps inaccurate report,
being found to be something lihe twenty
five millions of dollars. On Good
Friday, the day after the funeral, his
widow sold the entire property, only eX-
cepting the real estate in New York
CITY, to Judge Hilton himself, receiving
n pavment the million of dollars which
the dead man had left the judge for his
service "in managing, closing and
winding up the partnership business
affairs
This is a rapid succession Of important
events The business transactions are
of a gigantic magnitude, and, on their
face, seem of so extraordinary nature
that it is impossible to accept them as
embedying the whole case, or as DOS
sible fnality. They are observed by
the people of New York with the keen
interest Of legatees.
For there was given to the public,
with die will. and by the authority of
the widow and heir, a letter from Mr..
Stewart to his wife, renewing his oft re-
peated declaration Of his purpose to pro-
vide for various public charities, init
mating that he had been engaged in
celebrating several plans for the welfare
of his fellOw-beings, and had already
begun some of them, and in the event Ot
his sudden death, should depend upon
his widow in carry them out. lie ad-
ded, that their friend Judge Hilton
would give any assistance in his power,
and referred her to Fhim for details.
There was no intimation that Judge
Hilton was to bestow these charities.
Mr.. Stewards letter informed his wife
thas he must depend upon her to carry
out the plans he had devised. For the
consideration of the million dollars
which he gave TO Judge Hilton, in order
to secure and reward his interest in this
matter, the widow has now, under the
Judges advice, sold all the property, ex-
cepting the New York real estate, to
the Judge himself In other words, the
Judge seems to have traded his own
legacy for the rest of the property.
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IIISCELLANEOUS.

The president has vetoed the bill re-
ducing the salary of president to $25, 900 per
annum from and after the 4th of March next.
A championship bicycle race of fifty
miles, between D. Stanton, English champion,
and w. L. Mcclellan, American champion,
took place at New York Monday night, and
resulted in a victory for Stanton, who fin
ished the fifty miles in three hours and four
minutes.
The ocean carrying trade of the coun-
try was never, according to the New York
Shipping List, in more unsatisfactory con-
ditiOn than at present. The rates of freight
in all directions are declared to be unprofit-
able, and vessels much more frequently come
home in debt than with surplus of freight
money, over and above their running ex-
penses. The steamers are faring worse than
sailing vessels. 1t is the same abro.d. Even
in the mere remote countries, where good
freights have been the rule, the accounts are
very discouraging to shipowners. The com
merce of the whole world appears to be in
condition bordering upon paralysis.
Treasurer New will Issue a circular
Immediately, warning the country that the
substitution of silver for fractional currency
will undoubtably lead counterfeiters to put
out spurious notes of the denomination of
twenty-five and Fifty cents. As a number of
these counterfeit plates are still in possession
of operators in the stuff, the public should
be warned that all the old issue extant of the
first four series will come to light, and as but
few of the genuine notes are to be found in
any one locality, the counterfeiters will the
better be able to successfully put out their
stuff and food the country with it.
The supreme court of the United States
has at length decided the celebrated Usage
land case, the decision being in favor of the
settlers against the railroad companies. The
question involved the title of 900, 900 acres of
land in Kansas, and was the largest and per
haps most important land case ever pre-
sented for adjudication in this country.
There are now on these ceded lands popu-
alton of at least fifteen thousand people,
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Paving Ont the Silver.

The exchange of silver coin for frac-
tionaI currency has fairly begun at the
several assistant trcasuTies and govern
ment repositories, but the amount Of sill
yer paid out Is small in comparison with
what it will be about the first of next
week. when orders from remote or so
called country banks are received. As
fractional currency is received in cx-
change for silver, the paper money will
be destroyed, but it il the purpose of the
department te hold for reissue in case of
future necessity such fractional currency
"a may be presented by banks and other
parties for redemption in grccnbacks, Of
which there Is now on hand about SIjO,-
600. The director of the mint has or
dered the mints TO dOcxtra work in order
to coin silver a fast as possible About
two million dollars per month can be
coined by the mints when worked To their
full capacity. Should the bill pass now
under consideration in the senate, which
provides A new silver dollar, to be- legal
lender except for customs duties and
interest on the public debt, to the extent
of twenty dollars, and with which green
back. NAV be redeemed, dollar for dollar
il will make necessary the establishment
of an additional mint.
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of army officers to administer the affairs of
the Indian branch of the war department;
that the E6ntmandiht Pficcfs Of the geo.
graphical departments shall be ex-ofici0 iii
charge of Indian affairs in their departments,
and shall make details of officers, including
officers on the retired list, to administer the
affairs of the Indian service, and that the
inspector general of the army shall discharge
the duties of inspector of Indian affairs. The
act is not to be construed to authorize an
increase in the number, rank, pay or allow
ances of army officers. All contracts for
Indian supplies and transportation are to be
made in the same manner and at the same
time, when practicable, as those for the
army. All religious denominations are to
enjoy a free and equal right to erect and
maintain churches and school buildings on
Indian reservations. Individual Indians who
have adopted the habits of civilized life may
become citizens of the United States without
fOrfeiting their right to their share of tribal
property. Adjourned.
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FACTS AND FANCIES.


THE ladies of Charleston, S. c., have
given $500 toward the Lee mausOleum.
THE car is the tallest sovereign of
Europe. The Emperor William comes
next in height.
IT is complained that the young men
who frequent the parlOrs of the Paris
nobility are fat.
CHICAGO, ever fertile in novelties, has
a new name for the baTkeePer- He Is
now known as the cocktail architect
The following epitaPh is from tomb
stone in Indiana:
URder This sod our Bahie Lies,
it neither Cries nor HOlErs
It LIVED Just twenty ! Days,
And cost us $40.
LOVE has the tendency of pressing to-
gether all the liEhts-all the rays emitted
from the beloved object by the burning
glass of fantasy-intO one focus, and
making of them one radiant sun without
any spots.
IT IS beacuse gold is rare that gliding
has been invented, which, without hav-
ING its sOlidity, has all its brillianoy.
Thus, to replace the kindness We lack,
we have devised POliteness, which has all
its appearance.
DEATH is the wish of some, the relief
of many. and the end eff all 1t sets the
slave at liberty, carries the banished
man home, and places all men on the
same level, insOmuCh that life itself were
a punishment without it.
A VERY practical old lady having
priced very comfortable looking an
tique chair at a store devoted to the sale
Z ! glrL- -a1 a
fOuncc, Good graciOusl your old truck
costs more than the new"
Col. NICHOLAS SMITH derives the
name Smith" " from Shem; as Shem,
Shemit, Shmit, Smith. This recalls
Jeremy CockIoft's derivatiOnOf mango
from jeremiah King" as jeremiah
King, Jerry King, Jerkin, gherkin, Gu
cumber, maEgO.
Mr.. BUCKLE states that human ma
ture has changed very little in the last
three thousand years, but we do not re-
member any record of a Roman senator
irving to account to his wife for light
deposit of pearl powder on the left shOul-
der of his toga on the ground that he had
been playing checkers in a grist mill.
A MAN may beat down the bitter fruit
from an evil tree until heis weary; whilst
the root abides in strength and vigoT, the
beating down of the present fruit will
not hinder it from bringing forth more.
This is the folly of some men. They set
themselves with all carnestness and dill
gence against the appearing eruPtiOns of
lust, but, leaving the principle and root
untouched, perhaps unsearched out, they
make but little or no progress III this
work of modification.
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ACCORDING to a contemporary, a Gu
rious case has been decided in the court
of justice at Munich. 1t has ALWAYS
been the custom to deck the two towers
of the cathedral with flags upon occa-
siOns of public festiyity, and until re-
Gently this practice had never given rise
to any misunderstanding Since the
unification of Germany the Archbishop
of Munich has always hoisted the yellow
and white flag with the keys of st. Pc
ter upon the towers on saints days,
while upon political holidays the munic-
iPality has displayed from the two tow
ers the black, red, and yellow flag, sur
mounted by the imperial eagle. Upon
the last anniversary of the battle of
Sedan, these emblems of the new empire
fiOated proudly in the breeze" but the
chapter of the cathedral protested against
their exhibition, basing their objections
upon statutes which date from the elev-
enth century. They instituted proceed
ings against the municipal council, and
the trial lasted several days. The Judge
at last decided that while the body of the
cathedral is the exclusive property of
the judges, the towers belong to the city,
which consequently may deck them as
it pleases.
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PUBLIC OPINION. - Mr.. Disraeli is
credited with this reminiscenCe: | re-
member that / once asked one of the
most sagaciOus gentlemen who ever sat
in this hOuse-Mr. Walter, the father of
one of our colleagues now in the house
of commons-and who had great knowl-
edge of the press and Of public opinion
i asked him, '' How do you ascertain
what is public opinion ?" " Well" he
he said, the way I ascertain public
opinion Is this petitions may be got up
and meetings may be got up, or the
country may feel a great deal without
expressing its opinion either by petitions
or by public meetings; but" he said,
sthere is an infaIIible test, and that Is
the post. The way ! always know what
is the real feeling Of the country is the
Ietter-bag." He then had the conduct of
one of those powerful journals which it
il the fashion how to quote in the house
of commons. 1t was never 50 when !
first entered it. He said: / receive
about one hundred letters a day, per
haPs more, when there j. anything stir
ring in the country; and ! understand
and find out what is public feeling from
the post-bag. 81 is that which tells me
what the feeling Of the country is and ]
know it before petitions or public meet
inCs-they follow it."
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The Disraeli ministerin Great Britain
must be considered a success in its abil-
ity to find avenues for the expenditure
of money. 1t does not propose to
adopt the heese-paring policy" of
Gladstone, by means of which expendi-
lures were 10 curtailed that a reduction
in taxation was possible. Disraeli wants
upwards of f78,OOO, 900 for the current
fiscal year, an amount larger by several
million pounds sterling than was ex-
pended in any one year when Glad
stone was at the helm of state. With the
present sources of revenue there would
be deficiency of nearly G800, 1000, and
this the chancellor of the exchequer pro-
poses to make up and have a surplus of
G365,O00 by an increase of penny q
pound in the income tax. This tax is
made a great source of revenue in En-
gland whenever an unusual sum of mon
ey isneeded A tax of penny a pound,
though only a little over twO-ifths of
one per cent. will produce, according to
the chancellor of the exchequer, about
Gl ,OO0,0 per annum. This shows
what immense wealth is concentrated in
the united kingdom in the hands of
the men who have incomes subject to
taxation.