American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-02

Il CAPT. A. X. LONG, Commissarv G
Subsistence at Washington, committed sui
eide on the 22d. Long was Pardon Clerk a
the White House under President .Johnsou
4 and assigned to dutywith Mr. johnson whel
? the latter was Military Governor of Tennes
| see. He married daughter of Hon. Henrr
a ID. Foster, eX-Representative from Penn
sylYania. The cause of the suicide is no
stated.
A SOLEMN requiem mass for the late
King Victor Emanuel was celebrated in the
, Church of st. Aloysius, Washington, on t he
I'D. The President and Cabinet, and Other
representatives of our own and foreign Gov
ernments were present.
The Attorney General denies the
truth of the report that u. S. Grant, .Jr.
had been appointed Assistant District At
torney in New York City. 1t seems that
Secretary Sherman requested that he be
given such position, but the appointment
was not made.
/ JUDGE VAN BRUNT, of New York. on
the 22d granted an order of publication of
summons in hinacy proceedings by his chill
dren against Thomas Lord, Sr., who recent
ly married Mrs. Hicks, requiring him TO ap-
/ pear before the Commissioners February 3
IT Is said that canvass of the House
| and Senate shows that the Eastern and
| Western Democrats, as well as MANY of the
Republicans, are unitedlv in favor of the
Beck and Buckner proposition to asIispend
for five years the operation of an act redliir-
ing the payment or purchase annually of
one per cent of the debt of the United
States.
THE President has nominated Benz.
F. Peixoto, of California, to be United
States Consul at Lyons, and StillwelI Fl.
Russell as United States MARSHAL for the
Western District of Texas. !
WALDRoN, nominated by the Presi-
dent at the instance of Postm aster- General
Key, for Marshal of West Tennessee, was
rejected by the Senate on an unfavorahte re-
port from the judiciary Committed The
reasons assigned relate chiefly to his person
al character.
The lower house of the Mississippi
Legislature has by an unanimous vote pass
eda resolution instructing their Senators
and Representatives in Congress to vote in
favor of remonetizing silver.
SENATOR ALLISON, of Iowa, has been |
re- elected.
GEN. SHERMAN has written a letter to |
ex-Indian Commissioner j, @. Smith, ex-
tolling his administration of the Indian Bu-
reau, which he declares has been most satis-
factory to himself and to army officers gen.
orally. 81 assure you," he concludes his
letter, "of my great personal and official re-
spect, and feel sure that the more your acts
are examined the more reasons you and Your
friends have to be satisfied.'''
SENATOR PLUMB, of Kansas. has ad-
dressed letter to the President on the sub
ject of the Civil Service. He believes that
4 Tar. aI,ft.
except the Judiciary, should be
limited to fonr years; that the prerogative
of selection rests exclusively with the Ex-
ecutive Department, and that no dictation
from any quarter should be tolerated: at
the same time the President should avail
himself of the knowledge of members of
Congress regarding the fitness of aspirants
for positions from their several localities
MAJOR-GEN. AUGUSTUS WILLICH. a
we'll known German of Ohio, formerly
resident of Cincinnati, was found dead in
bed at his home at st. Mary's, O., on the
morning of the 23d. His deathis ascrfbed to
1eart disease.
+. X. COLLINS, founder of one of the
irst of American steamship lines to Europe,
lied at his home in New York on the 22d.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON has writ
IN % 1O1OOA " tAC 1IOH- w ILL., C0dQQlef, | '
If New Hampshire, mdorsing the latter's
ecently published manifesto against Presi- !
lent Hayes.
GEN. THOMAS EWING addressed the
Maryland Legislature, by request, ON the
I'd, on the silver and currency question.
The Connecticut House of Repre-
entatives has adopted resolutions against s
he Bland Silver bill and the repeal of the t
resumption act. !
THIRTEEN of the eighteen banks com
posing the Chicago Clearing house have
igned and forwarded to the Illinois Con- |
a protest against the passage of {
he Bland Silver bill. y -
The Wisconsin Assembly has adopted t
memorial in favor of the reconciliation of
yer. .
THE new Senator from MARYLAND
ames b. Groome-will be one of the young t
st members of the Senate, being now in his $
ortieth year. He is said to be- an accom- s
lished orator and one of the most populat
nen in Maryland. :
Mrs. FREM ONT writes from Paris that p
he French trials resulted in giving Gen. +
'remont complete release from all obliga- v
onS. o
The application of J. Madison Wells a
nd the other members of the Louisiana Re- y
lrning Board, to have their case transferred t.
} the United States Courts has been over "
lied by Judge Whittaker.s Iss C.