The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-04
WASHINGTON.
A National Thanksgiving.
WASHINGTON, Ncv. 3.-Presdent Hayes has
nod the following.

National Thanksgiving.
WASHINGTON, Ncv. 3.-President Hayes has
issued the following:
PROCLAMATION.
At no recurrence CT the season which the
devout habit of religious people has made the
occasion for giving thanks to Almighty God
and humbly invoke his continued favor, has
the material prosperity enjoyed by our whole
country been more universal than during the
past year, and the unbroken peace with all
foreign nations, the general prevalence of Edo
nestle tranquility, supremacy and security of
the great institutions of civil and religious
freedom, have gladdened the hearts of our peo-
pie and confirmed their attachment ito their
government, which wisdom and courage our
ancestors so fifty = framed and the wisdom
and courage of their descendants SO firmly
maintained to be the habitation of liberty and
justice to successive generations. Now, there
fore, 1, Rutherford b. Hayes President of the
United Estates, Ga do appoint Thursday, the
9th day of November, as day of National
Thanksgiving and prayer, and l earnestly rec
ommend that, Withdrawing themselves from
secular cares and labors, the people of the
United States do meet together on that day in
their respective places of worship, there to
give thanks and prai9> to Almighty God for
his mercies, and to :vontly beseech their con-
tinuance. In witness3 whereof have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Sd day
of November, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine,
and of the Independence OF the United
States Of America, the one hundred and
fourth. (Signed)
RUTHERFoRD 3. HAYES,
BY the President,
VIM. M. EvARTs, Secretary of State.
The Importation of Canadian Cattle Pro-
hibited.
A circular was issued today prohibiting the
importation of neat cattle from Canada.
Naval Matters.
A despatch from Commodore Shufeldt re-
ports the Ticonderoga at Alden, from Zanzibar.
All well.
Gen. Sherman's Report.
Gen. Sherman's annual report was complet-
ed today. 1t is prefaced with the usual tabu-
lar statements and returns compiled by the
Adiutant General. He gives figures to
show that only 20,779 men of the army are
available for active service, and recommends
that Congress be urged to SO legislate that 49,
600 men provided by law be allowed exclusive
ly for regiments of the line. He devotes a
large portion of his report to the Ute troubles.
He says the Indians are of the worst class and
occupy the toughest portion of the country and
relates the causes of the recent outbreak. He
pays tribute to Thornburgh's character. The
various orders and correspondence between
Thornburgh and Meeker are quoted and Sher-
man says both acted right, and the crimes COM
mitted rest wholly on the Indians. 1t is Sher-
mans conviction that very soon the progress OF
events will make it absolutely necessary to
move all the Indians now on the upper Mis-
souri, to the Sioux reservation and open up for
actual settlers all land in the region north and
west of that reservation. The report closes
with various recommendations looking to the
improvement of the service.