The Lake County star., 1876-06-29

From the national Capital.

The correspondence between Mr.. Bristow
and the President on the occasion OF Mr..
Bristow's resign ation, has not been given to
the press for publication. The formal reply
of the President TO the Secretary's letter
was.written June 10. The correspondence,
it is understood, is brief, but contains the
usual formal expressions in communi-
cations Of this character. Mr.. Bristow
saying in his letter that he hereby
rendered his resignation, to take effect
on the Goth of June, and thanking
the President for the honor OF the appoint
ment that he had conferred upon him, and
also stating his desire to give attention to
his private affairs. The President accepted
the resignation with the expression OF q
hope that in his retirement from public
Office the Secretary will find that rest which
he could not have in his present position,
and desiring that the personal relations be-
tween them shall remain in their present
pleasant attitude.
The President, on June 20, rendered to
Lot NJ. Morrill,, Senator from Maine, the
Secretaryship of the Treasury. Senator
Morrill, asked for two days to consider.
. The last official act of Secretary Bristow
was the awarding, under the act of Congress
of June 20, 1874, of three life.saving medals
of the frst-class, to three brothers, named
Hubbard, residing at Marblehead, Ohio, who,
on the 1st Of May, 1875, at the great peril OF
their own lives, rescued two men from the
main top-mast rigging of the schooner
Consuelo, which, in terrible gale had sunk
of Marblehead, in Lake Erie. The action
of the Hubbards is one of the most heroic
on record.
An order has been issued by the Secretary
of War, relieving General Schofeld from
the command of the Military Division of the
Pacific, and assigning him to the command
of the West Point Military Academy, reliev.
ing Colonel Ruger. General Mcdowell will
take command OF the Military Division Of
the Pacific. The Division Of the South will
be discontinued. The Department of the
South will be under the command OF Colonel
Ruger. The President has nominated
William p. Hopper, of New York, to be Sec
retary of the Legation at London; James
Day, of New Jersey, Second Secretary, and
George p. Fisher, United States Attorney
for Delaware. ...... Mr.. Blaine's physician, in
consideration of his exhausted physical con-
dition, has prescribed absolute rest for sew
eral weeks.
western Items.
The Crow and Snake allies having joined
General Crook on Goose Creek, the COM
mand moved on the 18th of June, expect
ing to strike the combined Sioux under Sit
ting Bull and Crazy Horse inside of four
days. The Crows report having seen large
Sioux village on the Tenane River. Gen.
Sheridan arrived from Fort Laramie, and
left for the East June 20. The Fifth Cavalry,
at Fort Laramie, were ordered to move
nothward along the Powder River trail, and
cooperate with General Crook, more partic-
ularly in intercepting Indians coming
southwark. Colonel Stanton joins this COM
(NnvarumQnt a
Russell have been totally destroyed by fire.
The engineer, named Knight, was burned to
death.
southern Items.
The New Orleans Picayuse reports the
hanging of FIVE negroes at Mount Pleasant,
La, by the White Regulators.
Disasters by Fire.
A dispatch from Virginia City reports that
a fire broke out there lately, destroying the
Globe Hotel and about twenty-five dwell.
ings. Two or three lives were lost. Nomin-
ing property was damaged, although Hale &
NorcrOss' works were in great danger for a
time. Loss $4,000.
The Bay Sugar Refinery, seven-story
building at the corner of Battery and Union
streets, San Francisco, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, three hundred and fifty thou.
sand dollars. Insured for two hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars. 1t was owned
by an incorporated company, Herman
Lessee, President. Refining capacity, twelve
thousand tons, annually.
Political.
f. II. Rollins, Republican, has been
elected United States Senator by the New
Hampshire Legislature. In the House the
tuo
Sinclair, one hundred and seventy scatter.
ing, five. In the Senate the vote was Rol
lins, eight; Sinclair, three.
Items In GcneraI.
AS soon as the New York vote on the
seventh ballot was reported, Blaine sat down
and wrote his congratulatory dispatch to Mr.
Hayes, and il was on the wires to Columbus
before the fOotings of the ballot were re-
ceived in Washington. Immediately after
the formal announcement Mr.. Blaine rode out
with his eldest son, and was received with
loud cheers wherever crowds were assembled
on the streets. Blaine received dispatches
throughout the day in his library, in company
with some dozen friends, whom he con
tinually assured that Mr.. Hayes would be
ultimately nominated. He was fully i'm
pressed with the probability of successful
combination against him, and except during
the twenty minutes following the sixth bal
lot, did not expect nomination. lie was
altogether the coolest and least excited OF
thesc0mpany. During the evening his resi-.
dence was crowded with callers, whom Mr.
Blaine received with cheerfulness, exhibit,
ing no trace whatever of disappointment
discussing events of the day. He says
the immediate. cause of the failure
of his friends to secure his nomin.
alton was the holding back of votes for
him from Pennsylvania after the third bal.
lot. This Blaine attributes to the fictitious
strength temporarily lent to Hartranft from
time to time by the Conkling forces, which
made it possible for a minority of the Penn
sylvania delegation to urge that their condi
date could not properly be dropped while
he was still apparently gaining votes. Sen
ators Morton and COnkling aud Sec
retary Bristow acquiesced in the result
with many complimentary expressions
concerning the successful candidate.
June IL, the anniversary of the battle OF
izens OF Boston. Stores were closed, salutes
fired, and there were several parades.. In
an alteration the other evening, at Wheel
ing, West Va, Thomas Welch struck Dick
Hennegen on the head, killing him in.
stantly. The murderer fed across the river
into Ohio.......A special train on the Ander
son branch of the Greenville and Columbia
-. C., hdllrOau was wrecked June IL, on Q
broken trestle, and the engineer, conductor
fireman, and two train hands, the only
persons on the train, were killed. ........
Christian Klotz, aged seventeen years, a
Baltimore, recently killed Elmira Street
also. seventeen years old, daughter of hi
employer, residing near Clermont Mills
Confessing his crime, he was taken to
neigh boring tree and hauled up; but, bein,
cut down, he asked for a gun to shoot him
self. It was suggested that he might as vel
hang himself, when he Immediately climbe,
a tree, placed q rope around his neck, bi,
the company goodbye, and dropped....
Governor Hayes has formally accepted hi
nomination. n.........Secretary Bristow sent il
bis resignation on June IL, to take effec
June 20
William Foster was hanged at Warren
town, Missouri, on June 10, for the murde
OF an unknown colored man in WarreI
County last August. Foster had two trials
and was convicted on both.
Senator Lot M. Morrill, has been confrme,