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WEST AND SOUTHWEST.


Kansas, held at Bismarck Grove on the 18th
and 10th, was a grand success, fully 10000
people being present. Col. John w. FOrney
of Philadelphia delivered the principal ad-
dress. Other prominent speakers were Gov.
st. John, ex-Gov. Charles Robinson, Col.
Anthony Of LeavenwOrth, Mayor Usher of
Lawrence, George W. Julian Of Indiana,
and Edward f. Hale of Boston.
Gen. John A. Logan delivered political
speech at the Opera-house, Des ,Moines,
Iowa, on the 18th.
jefferson Davis has written letter to the
editor of the Brookhaven (Miss.) Ledger in
reply to the question whether he would per-
nit his name TO go before the next Legisla-
ture as a candidate for United States Sena-
tor. Mr.. Davis says no, and gives number
of reasons why. The vital issue before the
country, he thinks, is the contest between
State rights and consolidation; all other
questions he considers subordinate and east
ly adjusted. He says: ain the Northern
mind there is an unreasOning opposition to
the doctrine of State rights; and my asser-
ton of il, with whatever conclusions were
necessarily deducible therefrom, has made
1t has, therefore, followed that others could
say, without creating excitement, that, the
like Of which, if uttered by me, would be
swollen and distorted for uses in partisan
agitation. r......" Did desire to return to
political life, the considerations herein pre-
scented would outweigh that desire. But the
fact is the reverse. To the public consider
ations given might be added private reasons
which, conformity, under the circumstances,
render me averse to public station. You are
authorized to announce that my name viii
not be, with my consent, included among
the candidates for the United States Senate
TO represent Mississippi in that body"
The Corbin Hotel, occupied by Henry
COrbin, at Westerville, Franklin County, o.,
was blown up by gunpowder on the night of
the 14th. The building was occupied by
number of people, but fortunately no one
but Corbin was injured, and he not fatally.
1t is not known who placed the powder in
the building, but Corbin asserts that it was
done by some Of the villagers, and that it is
the result Of his refusal to cease selling
liquor. Four years previous building &C.
cupied by him as a saloon was blown up in
the same manner. The temperance
people of the place Indignantly deny the
charge that they had any knowledge of
either affair. The injury to the hotel and
adjoining buildings is said to be about
$6,OO0.
Charles Glass, cOlored, was hanged at
Cairo, ILL.,, on the 10th, for the murder of
Carter Newman, also colored, in March last
The trouble that led to the murder originat-
ed in jealousy.
Indian Agent Meeker, at the White River
(COlo.) Agency, reports that the Ute Indians
have revolted, burned the farm buildings,
and declared they will do no more farming.
Mr.. Meeker was personally assaulted and
driven from his house by Chief johnson. The
Indians are since reported to be raiding along
White and Bear Rivers. Troops have been
ordered to the Agency. 1t is supposed that
the prospecting and mining in National Park,
which is the hunting ground of the Utes, has
excited the outbreak.
More complete returns from the Fourth
Congressional District of California show the
election Of Berry, Democrat, instead Of Nc
Kenna, Republican, as heretofore reported
Hon. A. II. stephens attended the Louis
Il
grand reception, military and civic. He
made speech, referring principally to the
industrial progress of the country, and not
touching upon politics further than to eX-
press the hope that all partisan feeling
would be wiped out and the people of the
whole Union united for promoting the COM
mon good.
A ,,o,-fH- q Sitting Dullfc Indiopo
crossed the line after buffalo and were at
tackled by the United States troops. Nine
Indians were killed and three Americans and
two friendly Chiefs wounded.
The Wisconsin Deaf and Dumb Asylum,
at Delevan, was burned on the morning Of
the 10th. No lives lost. The building cost
$3.50, 200, upon which there is no insurance.
About 90 families have been rendered
homeless by a recent fire at Caribou, Colo.
John b. Ramer, aged :, died in Cleveland,
o., on the 18th, of hydrophObia. He was
bitten by a mad dog about the first Of Au
gust. Policeman Cowen was bitten at the
same time by the same animal, and he has
likewise exhibited symptoms of the dreadful
malady.
President HAYES made an address at
Youngstown, O., on the 18th, the occasion be-
ing reunion of his old regiment, the Twenty
third Ohio. He spoke mainly regarding the
political issues determined by the War, chief
among which, he said, was the doctrine of
State rights, which he construed TO mean that
each State was sovereign and supreme and
might nullify the laws of the Union or secede
from the Union at pleasure, and the
recent Constitutional amendments. These
questions, through generally regarded
rs settled, he said, had been revived by re-
cent events, and there still remains in some
communities dangerous practical denial to
the colored citizens of the political rights
guaranteed them by the Constitution as it
now is "No man. he said, lean truth
fully claim that he faithfully accepts
the true settlements of the War, who
sees with indifference the Fifteenth
Amendment practically nullified." In con-
elusion he said: "All that is needed for the
permanent pacifcation of the country is the
cordial cooperation of all well disposed cit
liens to secure the faithful observance of the
equaI-rights amendments of the Constitu-
ton"
Governor Wallace Of New Mexico, on the
18th, telegraphed the Secretary of War that
the Indians were committing horrible atroci-
ties in Grant County, and asking for authori-
tv 10 put three or four regiments Of volun-
teers in the field. Secretary McCrary re-
piled that he had NO legal authority to au-
thorize the recruiting Of volunteers, but
would order the disposal of regular troops
in such way as to meet the emergency if
possible.
President Hayes made an address at the