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been appointed Consul at Rio Grande,

been appointed Consul at Rio Grande,
Brazil.
JEFFERSON DAVIS made an address at
New Orleans, on the 10th, the occasion be-
ing the presentation to him OF gold badge
and certificate of membership Of the Asso-
citation of the Army of the Tennessee. He
reiterated his unshaken belief In the right
Of secession and the duty of citizen to bat.
tie for the cause Of the State, and charged
that every evil which has befallen our In
situations is directly traceable to the perver-
sion Of the compact Of the union ana the
usurpation by the Federal Government OF
undelegated powers"
JOHN L. FRIsBIE, Of Michigan, has
been appointed Consul at Rio Grande, Bra
I'll.
The President has removed Gen.
Chester A. Arthur, Collector Of Customs at
the Port Of New York, and appointed Gen.
E. A. Merritt, present Surveyor Of the Port,
in his stead. He also removed A. b. Cor
nell, Naval Officer, and appointed as his sue.
cessor Silas W. Burt, present Deputy Naval
Officer. The deposed officials were adj
herents Of Senator Conkling.
PROF. F. v. HAYDEN, of Washington,
has been elected foreign member OF the
Royal Academy of Science at Rome, Italy,
and the University Of Rochester, N. Y, has
Just conferred upon him the honorary de-
gree of Doctor Of Laws.
THE President has appointed Alexan-
der Reed, of Ohio, Receiver Of Public Mon
sys at Walla Walla, Washington Territory;
Elliot c. Jewett, Of Missouri, Commissioner
to the Paris International Exposition; Cas-
par H. Stibolt, of Iowa, Consul at Cam
peachy, Mexico; Eugene Schuyler, Consul
at Birmingham, England.
JAMES A. LONG (colored), son of
ex. Congressman Long, is under arrest at
Macon, Ga, charged with robbing the mails
while acting as mail-agent.
LIEUT.. JOHN A. FUCKER was drown
ed in Arizona on the 18th, while attempting
to rescue comrade, Lieut.. Austin Henley,
who was also drowned. Both belonged to
the Sixth Infantry, and had proved them
selves to be brave and successful soldiers.
THE Arkansas Greenback State Con-
vention, held at Little Rock on the 18th, ap-
pointed a State Central Committee, au-
thorized to place in nomination a ticket Of
State officers.
JUSTICE NATHAN CLIFFORD, of the
United States Supreme Court, celebrated
his golden wedding at Portland, Me-, on the
4th inst, he and his wife being surrounded
H.. A. -, f,o ob;l lro,, ood on 0ron doh n ron
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS is now en-
Toying better health than for many years
past. The secret of his strange vitality is
said to be a remarkably sound stomach,
which, during his long illness, has never fall
ed to perform its functions.
GEN. MARCUS j. WRIGHT, formerly
of Memphis, Confederate Post Commander
at Macon during the latter years Of the war,
has been commissioned by the War Depart
ment as an agent for the collection of Con-
federate records for the use of Government.
The Presidents Private Secretary, MIR.
Rogers, is dangerously ill with consumption.
KEARNEY, the leader of the Working
men in California, is coming East. He says
that he expects to help make Ben Butler
Governor Of Massachusetts,; and that he is
confident of carrying the next California
Legislature.
DANIEL STURGEON, ex-United States
Senator from Pennsylvania, is dead. He
served in the Senate from 1910 to 1852 with
Webster and the other great men OF that
time, and, though an influential member Of
that body and an indefatigable worker in
so rarely spoke that he was pop.
ularly known as "The Silent Senator"
ISAAC FRIEDLANDER, the great San
Francisco grain operator, died Of heart dis
ease on the 18th.
The estate of DR.. j. G. Aver, the
patent medicine man, who has just died in
private asylum at Lowell, Mass, is estimat-
ed at between $l5, 900 and $20,OOO,OOO.