Show D V by y 0 telegraph e P h lk r AMERICAN UTICA N Y 13 15 at the afternoon session of bf the meeting of the army of the cumberland the following g officers were elected president general phil phieu til TEL sherida sheridan 12 among the vice presidents were theo thao Z F royn of Us gen wi W lowe of iowa lowa WD whipple of nebraska N debras ka the the next best annual annual meeting will be hed held at philadelphia july julyth ath and ath 1876 G ia president grant 1 in n deply to call cail and cheers made 9 remarks he excused himself eit elt lu making a A speech but said he m guld euld like ta write ian jan dhave ia vast ta the glorious glorius 0 us deeds of the army of the cum oberland Jb berl beri erland nd the president r remarked e m arced malt WALt liere were others waltin waiting walting tb follow him who were not afflicted with his difficulty the want of the faculty of talking in public this point poin was received with laughter and cheers gen GeM sherman was called and the tile audience rose and gave him three hearty cheers general shermans Sher mans speech was wa a magnificent tribute to the army ot of the cumberland louisville 15 detectives tee tec 1 tives report the wounding and capture of a man supposed to be the ond one who recently robbed ther huntington va bank of 10 he be was wits captured at pine hill ky ky on tuesday night I 1 by two residents named williams who had a fight with four toul robbers he is ii s thought to belong to the james younger band and answers to the description of col younger nev NEW YORK 16 charles francis adams has written the following to a gentleman in brooklyn who sent him copies of the times of bf that city containing an article in which it was said we have hopes that an ah aroused p public b k ac spirit will find some way of in making a ng itself potent in the nomination for president next year nna nud that mr adams may be called from his retirement at to the presidency thus restoring its ancient dignity and aud legislative influence flu encell cincy ui ncy sept my dear sir sli JT C cannot but be he deeply moved by the voluntary ary any expressions express fons of or esteem f which I 1 occasionally findan nind find in tb the anew newspapers in reference to my vay self seu I 1 1 trust they baynot may pov pot have the effect bf bt turning my head or making me think of myself better than I 1 ought to think with regard to the suggest suggestion lon ion made in the article to which you call my attention I 1 am sure aure it would be very agreeable to in me to undertake the work but I 1 have I 1 fear already on my hands bands quite as much as I 1 can dare hope to accomplish during my term of life ap approaching roh rod ching ehing so near the threescore and ten prescribed as the limit of f usefulness as I 1 shall have to make haste I 1 or run gleat glent risk of leaving i matters ilat riat t erio ergo in confusion it is fon for this reason that I 1 have been perhaps too indifferent erent to the wishes of many luany who have desired to have me again seq sen nothing there J dust just aist now which prom lyes isea happy results within a short tim lime e meanwhile I 1 am steadly steadily releasing myself from the responsibility lity if not of bf writing a ahls his tory at least of putting Lr 0 dut o ut of reach of accident the va valuable luAle for writing it which iia lih have ve been placed in my hands or which I 1 have hate myself gathered in my own career I 1 doubt whether I 1 could be mad made moie mote more useful to the world dorid in any other way pray excuse me for this egotism and arid believe me mb 7 very ery cry truly y yours ours charles FRANCIS ADAMS ST louis LOUXS 16 A special from galveston axas texas to the globe Demo democrat brat says saya thata large liart biart p arft artt afi af that at city was under water weiter last jast night n ht the effect of hil an bd unusually usually hig his high wind ward from the nartu east eart there was no great damage but some wharves were wern somewhat injured and a considerable number of deop people I 1 e wee fero to vacate their houses senator price of 01 miss Mlis sp and one bue of his associates 0 called balled upon the attorney general today to day and stated mated that they had telegraphed governor ames amea that they thoy were werd satisfied with what wha the attorney general had done in regard to the applications from the governor forthe for jor the interference of th the e general beneral government governments they again the publication in the south the attorney generals letter to governor Ame ames sand and j dent grant consenting to its being weing made P public the the letter is as follows rhe r following Is ls t a continuation of the attorney generals Gene raps dispatch to gov ames amea commenced yesterday in regard to the lesin mississippi sippi 1 I heartily wish that peace and good older may bo resto restored without essul issuing the the tho ciocia phocia proclamation lidil ori oti but if they ate late not tue the proclamation inus t N issued tat if eig wig it is I 1 shail ahall instruct tile the commander of the forces ato have llo no rio c childish fill ilish play if there thele etsity for foil military mill tary interference t ter e i fer ler ference e n go anere dra is justice justlee in such in iner n W f ferenc ferene engel e s so 6 as to de deter evildoers au W I 1 og ifft the sen sending ding ID tu a dispatch 1 at ch or tor letter efter uy by private messenger to governor ames urging him to strengthen lils his own position by exhaust ex hausl his big own resources in iii restoring order before he eee lve ive e fit aid he inight might accept the assistance offered by the citizen citizens s of Jackson and a elsewhere ue where governor ames and his advisers advis ers era can be made perfectly lecure secure as many of the troops now in mississippi as he deems necessary may be sent to jackson then theu if he is betrayed by those who offer assistance asil stance he will be ina in a position posit iod to defeat their ends and to punish them vou you see by this the mind of the president with and every member berof of the cabinet who has been consulted are in full accord you see the difficulties you see the responsibilities which you assume we cannot understand why you d 0 not strengthen yourself inthe way the president suggests llor ilor nor dowe dove see why you do not call cail thelea the legislature Is I 1 together and obeaid fr from am I 1 them whatever lowers jowers and abney and arms you need I 1 suggest that you take all lawful means menny and all needed needa measures to preserve thi the peace by the forces in your own state and let the country see that the inhabitants of mississippi are dav favorable arabie arable to good order and that they who aie are largely republican have the courage and the manhood to fight for their state rights and destro destroy y the bloody ruffians who murder innocent ami und unoffending freedmen everything is in readiness be careful to yourself strict strictly li within the aution and the laws and if there is 13 uch such resistance to your state slate au ha thorl ties as you toti cannot by all alt the means at your command suppress cuppie tess ss the president will swiftly aid you in crushing lawless traitors tini tors to hu man hights rights telegraph me on U the receipt af pf th this is and state explicitly explicit i what you need very respectful ly jours yours 11 EDWARD pierrepont PONT attorney general DENVER C col coi 16 pra Rrb professor fessor gardner and 1 robert 0 ybert adams jr reached here this bv enIng evening mix hix days after the india indian n fight they with alth nive five others returned to rescue of Holin anand dallas la W who ho had beeh been left leff some seme before to guard a supply calip camp on theD tho the dolores river liver the they fiode tode rode three ihno hi indred miles in eight days hoping to reach their C comrades ohi ohl rades the indians us f hould discover them the men were found tane ane afe tare and well weil and the vhoid whole party again success successfully fu li ii 11 retreated retreat eli efi from aon among the tho hol hos bands ng in the uhe lith in irl four weeks they rode eight hundred miles mr arr jacksons so sons photographic hoto graphic division rea rez reached clied the la plata camp camp in safety on the ath Bos nos BOSTON bosta Td 16 W H R heath adeath bor son leather dealers here have suspended the thieves who robbed fhe the he safe 1 of df sargent Ss C co 0 of lot in notes ac yesterday returned today ahr through ough the mail all th the epro property but 73 in cash SAN ban FRANCISCO cisco 16 the statement made yesterday that the as ag saying baying and ana refining works had fiad been transferred to flood obdien obrien en prove proves ia to have cave been premature though the california bank people e state that the bargain will wil wll no doubt be consummated at an early date news has been received from the eiji fiji islands A fearful epidemic prevails among the natives in the form of measles one third of the native population have died from I 1 its effects in about four months the disease is said to havi have come from an english man of war which visited the islands some months bince since tha the natives think the disease was brought there by iby the whites to ex exi i terminate them ahem they were becoming i civilized but when the disease began to spread they be camo came frantic and dand daud will be likely to itco use whites roughly the disease will kill the entire pa tive population in ft short apoe if tin lin checked unchecked charles churles J jast ost proprietor 0 tho lh antioch distillery distiller yi is seized iced by the revenue officials last month mado made an affidavit today to day before p per pery visor isor of internal Ee revenue venue that thai the private books of the distillery had been destroyed this destruct de strud tion of the books ja ia serious difficulty to special treasury agent clarkin mark dark in bl hla hia investigations and nd the sooner hawley arrives bere here the jile better scranton pa a 17 itt the national Jat ional eisteddfod eq with great success goya goyn hart sart a I 1 rt ranft presided yesterday fr at to the af if session at which falli people viera present I 1 I 1 sterling aft 0 kl t sc several vernl veral from rom wo wo to three hundred persons ekar ech IH ha their ther competition for oora fora A ajie e n choral th the prece piece footed ea d for the copte coate it was as nit nim sn rite nite rit 6 e up P A Aris eom orom from mendelssohn Mendes i sohn st paul raul in the ev evening when nil alj an immense throng was present fes j the same piece was sung bung by th the janiten cited of 1500 1590 persons NEW vork YORK 17 7 A dispatch irom from larns lanns states that the normal formal bonfe conference rence of the party pity at arenberg has been abandoned the cause assigned is that the popular excitement was van so threatening it was considered more diore prudent to td rem remain ain aln quiet for the present preg ait hit the rhe organized leaders lenders preserve tho strictest silence as hs to the affair the government is closely w wat ehing ching the movements of bf the B 0 lop vind nind and is prepared to acl act with I 1 vigor al should circumstances require I 1 1 sergeant Edward ild ward ashia t land landward lan ian dYard yard police Lon london doii ilas lias jim ar rived here to testify in inn tho the case of lawrence wild who is 19 awaiting trial triai in ludlow street jail on od a charge of bf defrauding the U S the detectives declare that the combi combination nallon of which lawrence is agent is ve very rv powerful and hid hud defrauded the tho govern government me of ver very y large arge arse sums its operations are checked ed fe fer 1 a time but bul not wholly broke broken if up and it is asserted thab that the silk slik smuggling ring rink includes some commercial firms of tile hl highest het standing here I 1 A special from Hou rou houston ston fre ire texas x I 1 as pron pion pronounces ounces the storm at galvestor Galve ston the heaviest sinco since 1867 1807 the city alty is partially under water several feet deel deep in the tho principal streets several wrecks jiahe be beep 1 ep r reported j the oce ocean A house h ouse on the gulf if beach is entirely surrounded with and the outhouses nut Out houses are gone goue the city hospital ii 14 filled witti water watern 4 thirty workmen on the breakwater being built by the government were cut off and lost the the santa fe railway uridge bridge hero heros across s tile the bay ihly has been een swept sept a away awny w ay I 1 and the houston railway bridge 1 is under water twenty fet fel neet feet et at this thiis end n id of df it has been washed away jhb v ater at virginia point gift has backed U up p for three miles on thie tile tiie main la land lg ang and is still alk aik arising in Th egale is A increasing and tit the baro bato barometer aeter meter falling the bay igo iko is so water thau ihal if the vind wind changes odthe to tho the north tile tho whole island is loa lor lO stand and no jives ean ran be bd S saved tho thel them the shipping piu plu I 1 in n the che harbor barbor i 14 is having a fearful time of ft 11 the tiie following dispatch vaa received at ae the mivy navy department to klo day the t tho yard at pensacola A the 3 ellow never fever is epidemic at dowella station on pensacola bay A twenty n Y five flye mues above boio boig bolg the navy cpr yard yara tho the people have neither neit nelt lier iier food medline tee tae medi dicine lne ine nor attendance ca and they are crying id the tha name name of god for relief the mavy navy naly yard ard A per ner factly healthy 17 the fast mail maii train which left gem sem yaw yew york yesterday morning over tho the new nw york central road arr art arrived ived here athia morning eight minutes minu jea tea a ahead fi ead of time maidia making tile tiie the afifi run between 1 n th the e two wo citie ili ill iii 4 hours aad d fafty two minutes laute washington WASI wasl ANOTON D C 17 ben nen j B 11 calleo Ha lieo lleo accused of the larceny ot 01 froth froid th bhe the a 17 S 1 tig tie abury was brought before the police court today to day for a preliminary t r hearing but tle tie Q waived an examination 1 bail was r require din ilk lik the guidi sum bum of in default was remah remanded ded the preliminary le ede eie theodorew brown accused of the same bame larceny was excluded thi p mandl mandi i he police court held heid himfar meag the action ibel odthe of the grand j ury bal bai ba al 11 1 was p as nixed fixed at 10 to 10 abut buth buthur he dr nf add ibio no atta attempt M bt p to procure it lt and aas was s I 1 V to prison ek lepri utai of alabama uV anda auda has been appointed ah as its for liast llast even evening I 1 gerlemann Gen lemann iemann nii nil the e ex x Cath priest prie sr a lecture pa n the masonic Alason le hall uri uli the thi A toman loman 0 man 4 church hb re h as it its ils IA I A at present 6 e al and id from the beginning cr thull M his as eilt exit arom that village a thero se adm edl eil 10 to jb fi S a disposal aib alb shen sher I 1 IL tile ille the irea trea reat him im buccere niona concluding gerdemann placed himself under an ah ie e s court cournand cour kand and left the tue inato the Tail tall tray s station while a mob co collected ilee and no continued in close proximity to I 1 the party they leached beached that place he ue djs was placed in n u andi both doors were while thel populace opu jace remained d lout outside bidel sidel elle eile wile elie numbering almast a was a danger dangerous ous une tone yone suddenly they e y rallied rall unil leil ieli beat tho officer 0 o th the tho e way ay ap t on in the wd doo raud rand a no comp tent left au on the ex he HO WW a 1 kc ate ed fram senious y by the police pol poi i a faw bruises gerdemann V 4 a 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