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The President's Message, To hit. Senate and House or Representatives : In submitting my eighth and la.-t annua! message to Congress, it seems yroper that I should refer to and in some <.; uret' recapitulate the events ind official r:-^ of the past eight years. It was my fortune, or mv misfortune, to be called to I:it oinee of Chief Executive without any previous political training. From the age of seventeen I had never even witnessed the excitement attending a Presidential campaign but twice antecedent to my own candidacy, and at but one was 1 eligible as n voter. Under such circumstances it is hut reasonable to suppose that errors of uidgncnt must have occurred. Even had they not, differences of opinion between the VY.v^nfiiv l-.mnil hv 011 <?nrh fii thp ctrift performance of his duties, and writers and debater.-; mu.-t have arixn. It is not necessarily evidence of blunder on the part of the Executive because there are the.e differences of views. MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE, as ail can >cc and I admit, hut it seems to me ohencr in the selections made of the aseist ints appointed to aid in carrying out the various duties of administering the government. In nearly every case selected without a personal acquaintance with the appointee, but upon recommendations of the representatives chosen directly by the people, it is impossible where so many trusls arc? to be allotted that the rieht parties should be chosen in every instance. History shows that no Administration since the time of Washington to the present has been free from these mistakes, but I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional within the law, and for the very best interest? of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent. MY CrtTL CAREER commenced, too, at a mo?t critical andTdifficult time. Less than four years before the country had emerged from a conflict such as no other nation had ever survived. -* * If -f .1.. di.i? 1. _ J K. l iseanv one-nau 01 xne ^imes nsa r-voueu against the government, and of t .ose remaining faithful to the Union a larg;; percentage of the population sympathized with the rebellion, aixl .made an "enemy ir>'as'dangerous as the r, ore honorable in the front. The latter committed errors of judgment, but they maintained their* openly and courageously. The former reeved the protection of the government they would see destroyed, ' and reaped all the pecuniary advantage to be gained out of the then existing state of afl'ajrs, mauy of them by obtaining contractu and by SWINDLING "HP. GOVERNMENT in the delivery of their good.". Immediately on the Cessation of hostilities the then noble President, who had carried the country so far through its perils, fell a martyr to his patriotism at the hands of an assassin. The intervening time to my first in- J afjuration was filled up with wranglingi v between Congress and the new Executive as to the best rrvxf? of " reconstruction," or, 1 to speak plainly, t* to whether the control of the government should be thrown immediately into the hands oi thoae who had so recently arid persistently tried to destroy it, or whether the victors should continue to have an equal voice with them in thia V-J control. KECOXSTRCCTIOK, fis finally acreed upon, means this, and only this, except that the late slave was enfranchised, giving an increase, as was supposed, ^ to the Union-loving and Union-supporting _j votes. If free in the full sense of the word they would not disappoint this expectation,; hence, at the beginning of ruy first administration, the work of reconstruction, much embarrassed by the long delay, virtually commenced. It was the work of the legislative branch of the government. My province was wholly in approving their acts, which I did most heartily, durging the legislatures of States that had not yet done so to ratify the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution. The conntry was laboring uader an enormous debt contracted in the suppression of rebellion, and taxation was so oppressive as to discourage production. ANOTHER DANGER also threaten# us?a foreign war. The last difficulty had to be adjusted, and was adjuted without a war, and in a manner' highly honorable to all parties concerned, i Taxation has been reduced, within the last seven years, nearly $300,000,000. TIIE NATION AX DEBT i has been reduced in the same time over four hundred and thirty-five millions of dollars by refunding the six per cent, bonded debt ? for bonds bearing five and four and one half per cent, interest respectively. The annual interest has been reduced from over one hundred and thirty millions of dollars in 1SG9 to but little over one hundred million^ of dollars in 1S76. The balance of trade has been changed, from over one hundred and thirty millions against the United States in 1<$G9, to more than one hundred and twenty millions of dollars in our favor in 18T6. it is confidently believed that the balance of trade in favor of the United States will increase, not diminish, and thai the .pledge of Congress, to resume specie payments in 1S79, will be easily accomplished, oven in the absence of much desired further legislation on the subject. A. policy has been adapted toward THE INDIAN TRIES*" inhabiting a large portion of the territory of the United States, which ha9 been humane, and has substantially ended Indian hostilities in the whole land except in a portion of Nebraska and Dakota, "Wyoming and Montana Territories, the Black Hills region and approaches thereto. Hostilities there have grown out of the avarice of the white man, who has violated our treaty stipulations in his search for gold. ' The question might be asked, why the government has not enforced obedience to the terms of the trealy prohibiting the occupation of the Black Hills region by the whites? The answer is simple. The first immigrants to the Black Hills were re moved by troops, but rumors of rich discoveries of gold took into that region increased numbers. Gold has actually been found in paying quantity, and an effort to remove the miners would only result in the descetion of the bulk of the troops that might be sent to remove them. All difficulty in this matter has, however, been removed, subject io the approval of Congress, by a treaty ceding the Black Hills and approaches to settlement by citizens. The subject of Indian policy and treatment is so fully set forth V the secretary of the interior and the commissioner of Indian affairs, and my views so fully expressed therein, that I refer to their reports and recommendations as my own. The relations of the rxrnrn ?tatr3 tttth rorero* potteri continue on a friendly footing. Questions have arisen from time to time in the foreign relations of the government, but the United States have been happily free during the past year from the complications and embarrassments which have surrounded some of the foreign powers. The diplomatic correspondence submitted herewith contains information as to certain of the matters which have occupied the government. The cordiality which attends our relations with the powers of the earth has been plainly shown bv the general participation of foreign nations in the Exhibition which has just closed, and bv the exertions made by distant powers to show their interest in, and friendly feeling toward, the United "States in the commemoration of the centennial of the nation. The government and people of the United States have not only fully appreciated this exhibition of kindly feeling, out it may be justly and fairly, expected that no small benefits will result both to ourselves and other nations from a better appreciation of our mutual advantages and mutual wants. Congress, at its la3t session, saw fit to reduce the amount usually ap propriated fur foreign intercourse, by withholding appropriations for representatives of the United States ir. certain foreign countries and for ccrtain consular officers, and bv reducing the amount usually appropriated ior Certain other diplomatic posts, and thus necessitating change ?n the grade of the representatives. For these reasons, immediately upon -the passage of the bill making appropriations for the DIPLOMATIC A XT) C05SCXAR SERVICE for the fiscal year, instructions were issued to the representatives of the United States at Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia, and to the consular officers for whom no appropriation had been made, to close their respective legations and consulates, and cease from the performance of their du? ties, and, in Jiko manner, step# were immediately taken to substitute charge* ?. d'affaires for minister* resident in Portugal, ) Denmark, Greece, Switaerland and Faragtay. while thoroughly impressed with the wisdom of sound ecottomy in the foreign service .1# in other branches of the government, I cannot e*6tj* the eoocluiion hit in mm itnucnc* the wftfeieWlnf #f appropriations will prove an expensive economy, and that the small retrenchment secured by a change of grade in certain diplomatic posts is not an adequate consideration for the loss of-influence and importance which will attend our foreign representatives under this reduction. I am of the opinion that a re-examination of the subject will cause a change in some instances in the conclusions reached on these subjects at the last session of Congress. THE COURT OF COMMISSIONERS of Alabama claims, whose functions were continued by an act of the last session of Congress until the first day of Januarv, 1S77, has carried on its labors with diligence and general satisfaction. By a report from the clerk of the court, transmitted herewith, bearing date November 14, 1S7G, it appears that within the time now allowed by law the court will have disposed of all the claims presented for adjudication. This report also contains a statement of the general result of the labors of the court to date thereof. It is cause of satisfaction to know that the method | ^ adopted for the satisfaction of the classes j j of claims submitted to the court, which are i 2 - ? orwl niotlr r\ I _ 1 ui siauuai^ juaw; uiuuvu ^ early consideration, should have proved | successful and acceptable. It ie with satisfaction that I am enabled to state that the work of the joint commission for determining the boundary line between the United States and British possessions, from the northwest angle of the lake of the woods to the Rocky mountains, commenced in 1872, has been completed. The final agreements of the commissioners, with the maps, have been duly signed, and the work of the commissioners is complete. The fixing of the t BOUNDARY UPON* THE PJLCIFIt COAST J by the protocol of March 10,1873, pursuant i to the award of the emperor of Germany bj i article XXXIV. of the treaty of Washing- s ton, with the termination of the work of c this commission, adjusts and fixes the en- c tire boundary between the United States t and the British possessions, except the por- p tion of territory ceded by Russia to the t United States under the treaty of 1867. The c work intrusted to the commissioners and F the officers of the army attached to the com- e mission has been well and satisfactorily d performed. The original of the final e agreement of the commissioners, signed up- I on the twenty-ninth of May, 1876, with the a original "list of astronomical stations ob- 5 oerved," the original official "list of monu- i I ments marking the international boundary I Tina 1f ortrl tli<a Tilnne rpf?nrHe anrl crpnprsil reports relating to the commission, have been deposited in the department of State, j c The official report of the commispiouers on t the part of the United States, with the re- ? port of the chief astronomer of the United ? Statts, will be submitted to Congreis within t a short time. i t THE EXTRADITION TREATT WITH I5GLAHD. [ I reserve for a separate communication t to Congress a statement of the condition of c the question? which lately arose with Great j a Britain, respecting the surrender of fugitive t criminals under the treaty of 1812. ! s FOREIGN TREATIES. ' 0 The Ottoman government gave notice j v under date of January 15, 1874, of its de-1 0 sire to terminate the treaty of 1862 con- 8 ceming commerce and navigation, pursu- ? ant to the provisions of the twenty-second g article thereof. Under this notice the j] treaty terminated upon the fifth day .of r June, 1876. That government has invited b negotiations toward the conclusion of a new p treaty. By the act of Congress of March t 23, 1874, the President was authorized, u when he should receive satisfactory infor- a mation that the Ottoman government or a that of Egypt had organized new tribunals } likely to secure to citizens of the United g States the same impartial justice en- j< joyed under the exercise ox judicial e functions by diplomatic and consular a officers of the United States, to suspend the 1 operation of the act of June 22, 1860, u and to Iaccept for citizens of the United lj States the jurisdiction of the new tribunals, t Satisfactory information having been re- s ceived of the organization of such new tribunals in Egypt, I caused a proclamation 1 to be issued on the twenty-seventh of March v last, suspending the operation of the act of c June 22,1660, in Egypt, according to the a provisions of the act. A copy oi the pro- c clamation accompanies this message. The g United States has united with the other c powers in the organization of these courti. p It is hoped that the jurisdictional questions t which have arisen may be readily ad- y justed, and that this advance in judicial re- c form may be hindered by no obstacles. The necessary legislation to carry into 1 effect the convention respecting commercial ( reciprocity concluded with the f HAWAIIAN ISLANDS | in 1875 having been had, the proclamation to carry into effect the convention, as provided bv the act aDnroved Aueust 15. t 1876, was duly issued upon the 9tJi day of I 1 September last. A copy thereof accom-1 1 panies this message. The commotions I t which have been prevalent in Mexico for [ s some time past, and which, unhappily, J f , seem to be not yet wholly quieted, have : t led to complaint* of citizens of the United States of injuries by persons in authority. It is hoped, however, that these will ulti- . matelv be adjusted to the satisfaction of 1 both governments. The FRONTIER or THE UNITSD STATJM t in that quarter has not been exempt from 8 acts of violence by citizens of one republic s on those of the other. The frequency of ^ these is supposed to be increased, and their c adjustment made more difficult, by the * considerable changes in the course of the i lower part of the Rio Grande river, which 9 river is a part of the boundary between the J .two countries. These changes have placed ? on either side of that river portions of land * which, by existing conventions," belong to 1 the jurisdiction of the government on the 1 opposite side of the river. The subject of c adjustment of this cause of difficulty is under consideration between the two repub- r lies. * The government of the United States of t Colombia has paid the award in the case of v the steamer Montijos, seized by the authori- c ties of that government some vears since, j and the amount has been transferred to the Claimant. , MEXICAN CLAIMS. c It iB with satisfaction that I am able to li announce that the joint commission for the g adjustment of claims between the United p States and Mexico, under the convention of e 1868, the duration of which has been several \ times extended, has brought its labors to a n close. y From the report of the agent of the t United States, which accompanies the pa- g per? transmitted herewith, it will be seen d that within the time limited by the com- c mission one thousand and seventeen claims g on the part of citizens of the United Statei fc against Mexico were referred to the com- t mission. b Of these claims 831 were dismissed or t disallowed, and in 18G cases awards were g made in favor of the claimants against the c Mexican republic, amounting in the ag- ii gregate to $4,125,622.20. Within the same c period 998 claims oa the part or citizens of | c the Mexican republic against the United i ii States were referred to the commissien. Of v these claims 831 were dismissed or disal- p lowed, and in 167 ea?es awards were made i a in favor of the claimants against the United 1 n States, amountiug in the aggregate to | o $150,498.41. h; Monthly payments of a very small part i c of the amount due by the government of s Venezuela to citizens of the United Statei f on account of claims of the latter against j o that covernment continue to be with ! f reasonable punctuality. [ FRACIWMEST NATURALISATION. ! In former messages I have called the' attention of Congress to the necessity of legislation with regard to fraudulent natural-1 ization, and to the subject of expatriation : and the election of nationality. The num- < bers of persons of foreign birth seeking a ! hame in the United States, the ease and i facility with which the honest immigrant, may, after the lapse of a reasonable time,1 become possessed of all the privileges of! citizenship of the United States, and the : frequent occasions which induce such j adopted citizens to return to the country of j their bi^th, render the subject of naturali-; zation and the safeguards which experience has proved necessary for the protection of t the honest naturalized cttizen of paramount j importance. The very simplicity in the re-1 a quirements of law on this question afford . < opportunity for fraud, and the want of uni- j c formity in the proceedings and records of ! J the Tarious courts, and in the forms of the j < certificates of naturalization issued, afford a | 1 constant source of difficulty. I suggest no | i additional requirements to the acquisition 1 of citizenship beyond those now existing, t but I invite the earnest attention of Congress ( to the necessity and wisdom of some pro- 1 visien regarding uniformity in the records i and certificates, and providing againet the j frauds which frequently take place, and for J the vacating of a record of naturalization i obtained in fraud. These provisions are i needed in aid and for the protection of the < honest citizen of foreign birth, and for ' the want of which, he it made to suffer not < infrequently. The United Statee has insisted 1 ipon the right of expatriation, and has >btained, after a long struggle, an admisiion of the principle contended for by acquiescence therein on the part of many oreign powers, and by the conclusion of reaties on that subject. It is, however, nit justice to the government to which such naturalized citizens have formerly >wed allegiance, as well as to the United States, that certain fixed and definite rules should be adopted governing such cases, uid providing how expatriation may be accomplished. While immigrants in large lumbers become citizens of the United states, it is also true that persons both^ia,ive born and naturalized once citizens of he United States, either by formal acts or is the efl'ect of a series of facts and circurnitances, abandon their citizenship and :ease to be entitled to the protection of the LTnited States, but continue, on convenient >ecasions, to assert a claim to protection in he absence of provision on these questions. TATfS or AMERICA* T70MIK. And in this connection I acain invite rour attention to the necessity of legislation :onccrmng the marriages oi American aniens contracted abroad, and concerning the itatus of American women who marry breignere, and of children born of Ameri:an parents in a foreign country. The lelicate and complicated questions conmuallv occurring with refe rence to naturdization, expatriation, and the status of >uch persons as I have above referred to," nduce me to earnestly direct your attenion again to these subjects. CLJJMS OF ALIENi. In like manner I repeat my recommendaion that some means he provided for the learing and determination of the just and lubaisting claim? of aliens upon the governnent of the United States within a reasonable limitation, and of such as may hereifter arise. While, by existing provisions >f law, the court of claims may in certain 'ases be resorted to by an alien claimant, he absence of any general provision! ;overning all such'cnses, and the want of a ributial skilled in the disposition of such ases upon recognired, fixed and settled rinciples, either provider no remedy in any deserving cases, or compels a consileration of such claims by Congress or the xecutive departments of the government, t is believed that other governments are in idvance of the United States upon this [ucstion, and that the practice now adopted i entirely unsatisfactory. COLORADO. Congress, by an act approved the third lay of March, 1S75, authorircd the inhabinntfl of the Territory of Colorado to form a Jtate" government, with the name of the State of Colorado, and therein provided for he admission of said State, when formed, nto the Union upon an equal footing with he original States. A constitution having >een adopted and ratified by the people of hat State, ond the ae^ng governor having ertified to me the facts as provided by said .ct, together with a copy of such constituion and ordinances as provided for in the aid act, and the provisions ot the said act f Congress having been duly complied rith, I issued a proclamation upon the first f August, 1876, a copy of which is hereto nnexed. HE REPORT OF TOE SECRETARY OF "WAR hows that the army has been actively emloyed during the year in subduing, at the equest of the Indian bureau, certain wild lands of the Sioux Indian nation, and in reserving the peace at the South during he election. The commission constituted mder the act of July 24, 187G, to consider ml report on the whole iubject of reform lid reorganiiation of the whole army in Lugust last, has collected a large mass of tatistics and opinions bearing on the sublet before it. These are now under considration and their report ig progressing. In .ccordance with the resolutions of August 5, 1876, the army regulations prepared inder the act of March 1, 1S75, have not >een promulgated, but are held until after he report of the above mentioned commision Bhall have been receivro and acted on. I invite your special attention to the folowing recommendations of the secretary of far. Fjrst, that the claims under the act f July 4,1864, for supplies taken by the irmy during the war be removed from the iffices of the quartermaster and commissary ;eneraltf and transferred to the Southern laims commission. These alaims are of irecisely similar nature to those now before he Southern claims commission and the far department bureaus. Have not the lerical force for their examination no troper machinery for investigating the oyalty of the claimants? Second?That .AJIIKiVSa OtUl^liUH kilb OV.lH.tAAV yi Alt UliUUlkJ una for the benefit of the. families of deeased officers, and that it also provide for h? permanent organization of THI SIGNAL 8ERVIC*, , >oth of which were recommended in mj ast annual message. Third?That the oanufacturing operations of the ordnance lepartment be concentrated at three arsentls and an armory, and that the remaining irsenalsbeaold and the proceeds applied to' his object by the ordnance department. BITER AND HARBOR APPROPRIATIONS. The appropriation for river and harbor mprovements for the current ysar were five iilion and fifteen thousand dollars. "With nv approval, the secretary of war directed hat of this amount two million dollars honld be expended, and no new work hould be begun and none prosecuted which rere not of national importance. Subieluently this amount was increased to >2,237,600, and the works are now progressng on this basis. The improvement of the outh pass of the Mississippi river, under fames JB. Eads and his associates, is processing favorably. At the present time here ia a channel of twenty and threeenths feet in depth between the jetties at t _e ai J i ne mourn 01 me paw, aim eignieco anu me-half feet at the head of the pass. Neither channel, however, has the width equired before payments can be made by he United States. A commission of engineer officers is n?w examining these forks, and their report* will be presented ls soon u r?ceived. TUB VJlVT. The report of the secretary of the navv hows that branch of the service to be in ondition as effective as it is possible to ;eep it with the means and authority ;ivcn the department. It is, of course, not tossible to rival the costly and progressive stablishmenta of great European powers ritn the old material of our navy, to which 10 increase has been authoriicd since the rar, except the eight small cruisers built o supply the place of others which had ;on? to decay. Yet the most has been lone that was possible with the means at ommand, and by substantially rebuilding ome of our old ships with durable maerial, and completely repairing our monior fleet, the navy has been gradually so irought up that, though it does not mainain ita relative position among the proTensive navies of the world, it is now in a ondition more powerful and effective than t erer haa been in time of peace. The omplete repairs of our five heavy ironlads are only delayed on account of the nadeauacy of the appropriations made last ear for the working bureaus of the deiartment, which were actually less in .mount than those made before the war, iOtwithstanding the greatly enhanced price f labor and materials and the increase n the cost of the naval service growing out f the universal uso and great expense of team machinery. The money necessary or these repairs should be provided at ince, that they may be completed without urther unnecesaary delay and expense. Yhen this is done all the strength that here is in our navy will be developed and iseful to its full capacity, and it will be >owerful for purposes of defense and also or offensive action, should the necessity or that arise within n reasonable distance rom our shores. The fact that our navy is iot more modern and powerful than it is ias been made a cause of complaint against lie secretary of the nary by persons who at he sainetime criticise and complain of hi? sndeavors to bring the navy that we have o its best and most efficient condition, but he good senfe of the country will undertanil that it is really due to his practical tction that we have at this time any efiecive navy force at command. THE PO.ST-OrriCE DEPAItTMEXT. The report of the postmaster-general hows the excess of expendituress excluding ixpenditures on account of previous years, iver receipts for the fiscal year ended June !0, 1876, to be $4,151,988.6G. Estimated rxpendi lures for the year ending June 30, [878, are $30,723,432.43. Estimated revelue for the same period is $30,645,165, eaving an estimated excess of expenditure o be appropriated as a deficiency of $3,>78,267.43. Tbe postmaster-general, like lis predecessors, is convinced that a change n the basis of adjusting the salaries of x>stmast?r? of the fourth class is necessary or the good of the service as well as for the nterest of the government, and urgently -ecommends that the compensation of the :laa? of postmasters above mentioned be saned upon' the business of their respective offices, as ascertained from the sworn returns :o the auditor ef stamps canceled, FEARS OF PBRSONAL SAFETY. A few postmasters in the Southern States have expressed great apprehensions of their safety on account of their connection Vilh the postal service, and have specially re- ' quested that their reports of apprehended danger should not b?fj|jBinde public lest it should result in the loss of their lives. But no positive testimony of interference has been submitted except in the case of a mail messenger at Spartanburg, in South Carolina, who reported that he had been violently driven away while in charge of the mailson account of his political affiliations as assistant superintendent of the railway mail service. Investigated the case, and reported that the messenger had disappeared from his post, leaving his work to be performed by a substitute. The postmaster-general thinks this case is sufficiently suggestive to justify him in recommending that a more severe punishment should be provided for the offense of assaulting any person in charge of the mails, or of retarding or otherwise obstructing them by I threats of personal injury. A very gratifying result is presented in the fact that the deficiency in this department during the last fiscal year was reduced to $4,081,790.18 as against $6,169,038.88 of the preceding year. The difference can be traced to the large increase in its ordinary receipt* (which greatly exceeded the estimates therefor) and a slight decrease in it? expenditures. The ordinary receipts of the postoffice department for the last s?ven years have increased at an average of over eight per cent, per annum, while the increase of expenditures for the same period has been about fifty-five per cent, per annum, and the decrease of deficiency in the revenues has been at the rate of nearly iwo per cent, per annum. C0MMI93I0NXR OF AGRICULTURE. The report of the commissioner of agriculture accompanying this message will be found one of great interest, marking, as it does, the great progress of the last century in the variety of products of the soil, increased knowledge and skill in the labor of producing, saving <tnd manipulating the same to prepare them for the useof man, in the improvements in machinery to aid the agriculturist in his labors, and in a knowledge of those scientific subjects necessary to a thorough system of economy in agricultural production, namely, chemistry, botany, entomology, etc. A study of this reT\nrf hv thn*a intprrxitprl in ncrriPllltnrP. and deriving their support from it, will find it of value. In pointing out those articles which are raised in greater quantity than the needs of the world require, and must sell, therefore, for less than the cost of production, and those which command a profit over cost of production because there u not an over production, Tcall special attention to the need of the department for a new gallery for the reception of the exhibit! returned from the Centennial Exhibition, including the exhibits donated by very many foreign nations, and to the recommendations of the commissioner of agriculture generally. The reports of the district commissioners and the ooard of health are just received?too late to read them and to make recommendations thereon?and are herewith submitted. THE CTOTEfNLLL ZXHTBITIO*. ' ' The International Exhibition held in Philadelphia this year in commemoration of the one hundred anniversary of American independence, has proven a great success, and will, no doubt, be of enduring ad vantage 10 me country. 11 nas snown me great progress in the arts, sciences, and mechanical skill made in a single century, and demonstrated tnat we are but little behind older nations in any one branch, while in some we scarcely have a rival. It has served, too, not only to bring peoples and products of skill and labor froui all parts of the world together, but in bringing together people from all fiections of our own country, which must prove a great benefit in the information imparted and pride of country engendered. It has been suggested by scientists interested in and connected with the Smithsonian Institution in a communication herewith that the government exhibit be removed to the capital, and a suitable building be erected or purchased for its accommodation as a permanent exI hibit. I earnestly recommend this, and believing that Congress would second this view, I directed that all government exhibits at the Centennial Exhibition should remain where they are, except such as might be injured by remaining in a building not intended as a protection in inclement weather, or auch as may be wanted by the department furnishing them, until the question of a permanent exhibition is acted on. Although the moneys appropriated by Congress to enable the participation of the several executive departments in the International Exhibition of 1876 were not sufficient to carry out the undertaking to the full extent at first contemplated, it gives me pleasure to refer to the very efficient and creditable manner in which the board appointed Irom these several departments to provide an exhibition on the part of the government have discharged their duties with the funds placed at their command without a precedent to guide them in the preparation of such & display. The success of their labors was amply attested by the sustained attention which the contents of the government building attracted during the period of the Exhibition from both foreign and native visitors. I am strongly impressed with the value* of the collection made by the government for the purpose of the Exhibition, illustrating, as it does, the mineral resources of the country, the statistical and practical evidences of our growth as a nation, and the uses of the mechanical arts, and the applications of applied science in the administration of the affairs of government. Many nations have voluntarily contributed their exhibits to the United States to increase the interest in any permanent exhibition Congress may provide for. For this act of generosity they Bhould receive the tlianka of the people, and Lrespectfully suggest that a resolution of Congress to that effect be adopted. THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT. The attention of Congress cannot be too earnestly called to the necessity of throwing some greater safeguard over the method of choosing and declaring the election of a President. Under the present system there seems to be no provided remedy for contesting the election of any one State. The remedy is partially, no doubt, in the enlightenment of electors. The compulsory Bupport of the free school, and the disfranchisement of all who cannot read and write the English language after a fixed probation,would meet my hearty approval. I would not make this apply, however, to those already voters, but I would to all becoming so after the expiration of the probation fixed upon. For eigners coming to the country to become citizens, who are educated in their own language, would acquire the requisite knowledge of ours during the necessary residence to obtain naturalization. If they did not take interest enough in our language to acquire sufficient knowledge of it to enable them tostudythe institutions and laws of the country intelligently, I would not confer upon them the right to make such laws, nor select those who do. I append to this message, for convenient reference, a synoposis of administrative events, and of all recommendations made by me during the last seven years. Time may show some of these recommendations not to have been wisely conceived, but I believe the larger part will be no discredit to the administration. One of these recommendations met with the united opposition of one political party in the Senate and with a strong opposition from the other members?the treaty for the annexation of SANTO DOMINGO to the United States?to which I shall specially refer, maintaining as I do that if my views had been concurred in the country would be in a more prosperous condition to-day, both politically and financially. Santo Domingo is fertile, and upon its soil may be grown just those tropical products of which the United States use so much, and which are produced or prepared lor market now by slave labor almost exclusively, namely, sugar, coffee, dye-woods, mahogany, tropical fruits, tobacco, etc. About seventy-five per cent, of the exports of Cuba are consumed in the United States. A large peicentage of the exports of Brazil also find the same market. These are paid for almost exclusively in coin. Legislation, particularly in Cuba, being unfavorable to a mutual exchange of the products of each country, flour shipped from the Mississippi river to Havana can pass by the very entrance to the city on its way to a port in Spain, then pays a duty fixed upon articles to be re-exported, transferred to a Spanish Teasel, and Drought back almost to the point of start ing, paying a second duty, and stm leaves a profit over what would be received bj direct shipment. All that is produced in Cuba could be produced in St. Domingo. Being a part of the United States, commerce betwe?b the island and mainland would be free ; theie would be no export duties on her shipment* nor import duties on those coming nere. There would be no import duties upon the supplies, machinery, etc., going from the States. The effect that would hare been produwd up?n Cuban commerce, with raert ?drantaf* to ft rival, is observable at a glance. The Cuban question would hare been settled long ago IX FATOR OP " PREB CUBA." Hundreds of American vessels would now be advantageously used in transporting the valuable woods and other products of the soil of the island to a market and in carrying supplies and immigrants to it. The island is but sparsely settled, while it has an area sufficient for the profitable employment of several millions of people; the soil would have soon fallen into the hands of United States capitalists, and the products are so valuable in commerce that immigration would have been encouraged. The emancipated race of the South would have found there a congenial home, where their civil rights would not have been disputed, and where their labor would be so much sought after, that the poorest among them could have found the means to go. Thus, in cases of great oppression nnd cruelty, such as has been practiced upon them in many places within the last eleven years, whole communities would have sought refuge in Sat Dotningo. I do not suppose the whole race wrmlr) hiivft pone. nor is it desirable that thev ehould go. Their labor is desirable, indispensable almost, where they are now. But the po?session of this territorywould hare left the negro " master of the situation," by enabling him to demand his rights at home, on pain of finding them elsewhere. I do not present these views now an a recommendation for a renewal of the subject of annexation. But I do refer to it to vindicate my previous action in regard to it. With the present Congress my official life terminates. It is not probable that public affairs will ever again receive attention from me furtfier than as a citizen of tht republic, always taking a deep interest in the honor, integrity and prosperity of the whole land. > U. S. GRANT. Executive Mansion, December 5,1876. The United States Navy. The report of the secretary of the navy of the United States shows that there are belonging to the navy 146 vessels of 150,157 tons measurement. Exclusive of howitzers and Gatling gunsv they carry 1,142 guns. Of these, 123, .carrying 913 guns, with a measurement of 120,898 tons, have steam power, and twenty-three, carrying nominally 229 * -"I-* 1_ T_ 1D(!n lU.o. guim, aro uttiiiiig veaatJis. jlu xoua mere were 203 vessels. Of these, there have been sold forty-six; broken up, eighteen; lost at sea, five; makinn sixty-nine vessels, thus reducing the number to 134 vessels. To which add new vessels, ten; purchased vessels, two. Thus making tho whole number on the register at the present-time 140 vessels. Of our present force of every class, forty are built of iron, namely: Five donble-turreted ironclads, fifteen single-turreted monitors ; two torpedo boats, and eighteen steamers of various classes. Of the remainder, sixty-five are of live oak, namely : one ironclad, five steamers of the first rate, tuipty steamers of the second rate, nineteen steamers of the third rate, and twenty sailing vessels. The remaining forty-one are white oak ships of almost every class. Of the whole number, seventy-five are in actual service and four are preparing for sea; sixteen may be considered as entirely unfit for future service, and the remainder are at the various navy yards, some requiring slight, and others extensive ropairs, but most of them could be made ready for any special service in a ihort time. Seventeen of our steamershave been furnished with compound engines and boilers of the best class, and with the latest improvements, and nearly all our other steamers have, during the last eight years, been supplied with new boilers, and their machinery extensively repaired. There is also on hand, stored at the various navy yards, livo oak timber sufficient for thirty-five now shipsof-war, besides a largo quantity of other valuable timber and naval material of every kind. As a remedy for the reduction of the force of our fleet from 8,500 to 7,500 men, and for the purpose of maintaining a trained class of men, skilled in their duties and devoted to their flag, the secretary repeats his recommendation of last year, that Congress shall give necessary authority to enlist annually 750 boys for the navy, under existing laws but in addition to the number of.men now allowed. The system of thus training boys has been successful. The secretary also urges that euliated men of me navy may do auowea an ouincoi olothing and a banking system for the navy such as now prevail in the ormy. The secretary renews the recommendation made in his successive annual reports in reference to our navy yards and stations, and to urge that their resources may be inoreased and that sufficient appropriations may bo made to keep them in thorough repair and ready for any emergency whioh may arise. On the first of July, 1875, the amount of the appropriations applicable to the fiscal year ending June 30,1876, was 318,801,731.27. The actnal expenditures of these appropriations during that period, namely, from July 1,1875, to June 30, 1876, was $17,937,354.72, or about ?364,376.55 less than the whole amount. The appropriations available for the present year, beginning July 1, 1876, are, in the aggregate, 812,961,790. The whole amount of these appropriations, drawn up to the first of the current month, was $7,879,758.19. From this may be deducted the amount in the hands of paymasters and agents of the government, and the amount refunded ] during the period above mentioned, which will reduoe the amount of! thcsa appropriations actually expended j since the commencement of the fiscal year and during the working months to less than 87,000,000. The estimates for the general maintenance of the navy for the next year are 818,646,012. The amount estimated for new boildings and the re- I pairs and improvements necepsary at | the various navy yards, stations and hospitals is $2,908,596. There is also submitted by the bureau of ordnanoe an estimate for the sum of 8775,500, which is deemed neoessary to provide the proper amount for our largo ironolads and other ships now being fitted for sea. This shows an aggregate sum of abont 8300,000 less than tho amount which was asked for last year for like purposes. In regard to the pay of officers of the navy, the secretary says that after careful consideration of this subject ho is convinced Congress, when they fully understand it, will have no desire to withhold from any branoh of the service the pay which would aocrue to it under the ordinary operation of the laws and customs governing the action of the department, and will not wish to deprive well deserving officers whose lives are consecrated to their country's service, and to whom no personal fault is imputed, of the means for tho proper support and education of their families. He has, besides the ordinary estimates for the next fiscal year, submitted an additional one for the sum of 81,550,000 to supply the inevitable deficiency in the " pay appropriation," and to enable tho /lonnrfmont fn racm'nrl ifn nrflpr UVyUifiMVU* "V *" JT O all unemployed officers on furlough pay, and to make up to tliose 'who have been or may be so reduced without fault on their part the amount of pay which they would otherwise have received. Congress will be earnestly pressed to make this provision, and if it do go, the department will have great gratification in carrying it out, otherwise the service and the department will have no alternative but to submit to the deficiency and the reduction which it entails. Mothehs-in-Law.? Bayard Taylor believes in mothers-in-law, but he probably never had one to sing out to him j in the blue murkiness of the night: j " Stop hangin' on that gate." The Great Panacjia.?-In this season of rheumatism, chilblains, frostbites, eto., nothing better can bo kept in the house than Merchant's celebrated Gargling Oil. It is peculiarly adapted to family use, yet it answers equally well for horses and other animals. It is free from stain, and at the same time very efficacious in all instances where a liniment is required.?Booheater (2V. Y.) Daily Union and Advertiser. At our request Or agin 4 Co., of PliiladelDhia. Pa., have promised to send any of our readers, gratis (on receipt of fifteen eents to pay postage,) a sample of Dobbins' Rlectrio Soap to try, Bend it onoe, ST. NICHOLAS. "Tub Ki5o of All Publications Ibsuid fob the You55 05 eltiieil 8ldh of tbi At- . laxtic."?Southampton (England) Observer. ] Tho third volume of thin incomparable 1 Magazine is now completed. With its sight ! hundred royal octavo pagos, and its aix hun- : dred illustrations, its splendid serials, its ] shorter stories, pooms, and sketches, oto., etc., ; in its beautiful binding of red and gold, it is tho most splendid gift-book for boys and girls ever issue3 from the press. Prioe, $1; ia full gilt, $5. " St. Nicholas is full Of the choicest things, i The publication is, in all respects, the best of ! its kind. We have never yet teen a number ' that was not surprisingly good."?The Ohurohman, Hartford, Oonn. ST. NICHOLAS for 187T, which opons with November, 187C, begins A Short axd Vert Entzbtainixo Serial mnw Tirf. T^nrvrn. "Tu* TCTxnnov of the ' Greedy," a Stout Adapted to tub Thanksgiving Season. Another Berial of absorbing , intorest to boys, "HIS OWN MASTER," By J. T. Tbowhridoe, author of the "Jack Ilazhrd Stories," begins n the Cubist:* a? Holiday Number. Besides serial stories, Christmas stories, lively skotchDS, poems and pictures for the holidays, and Borne astonishing illustrations of Oriental sports, with drawings by Siamese artiets, The Christmas Holiday Numbsb or St. Nicholas, superbly illustrated, contains a vory interesting paper, "THE BOYS OF MY BOYHOODf" By William Cullxn Bbyant ; 'The Horse Hotel," a lively article, by Charles A. Barnard, splendidly illustrated; "The Clock in the Sky," by Richard A. Proctor; "A Christmas Play for Hemes or Sunday-achtJfta, "by Dr. Eggleston; "Tho Pecerkina' Christmas Tree," by Lncretia P. Hale; " Poetry and Carols of Winter," by Lnoy Laroom, with pictures. DO NOT FAIL TO BUY ST. NICHOLAS POR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. Daring the year there will bo interesting papers for boys, by William Cullen Bryant, John G. Wnrrmn, Titomas Huohes, Williaii Howitt, Db. Holland, George MacDonald Santoed B. Hunt, Frank R. Stockton, and othor?. There will be stories, sketches, and poems, of special interest to slrls, by Habbiet Pees cott Spojtord, Susan Coolidoe, Sarah Wis teb Kellogg, Elizabeth Stuabt Phelts, Louisa Alcott, Lucbetia P. Halb, Celli Thaxtkb, Mabt Mjlpes Dodgk, and manj others. There will bo also "TWELVE SKY PICTURES," By Pboitssoe Pboctob, the Astronomer, with maps, showing "The Stars of Each Month," which will be likely to sarpaaa in interest any aeries on popular science recently given to the public. Amusement and Instbuction, with Fun and Fbolic, and Wit axdWisdom, will be mingled as horqtofore, and St. Nicholas will oontinue to delight the young and givo pleasure to tho old. THE LONDON LITERARY WORLD Bays: " There u no magazine for the young that ?i? he tnul tn enual th.ii choice production of ScnmKzn's prut. All the article*, whether in prose or rhyme, are throbbing with vitality. * * The literature and arlitlic illtul'-ationt arc both superb." Tho London Daily Newseaya: 41 IVc wish we could point out its equal in our oxen periodital literature. GOOD NEWS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. To moot the domand for a choaper St. Nicholas Gift-Book, the price of vols. I and II ha* baen reduced to $3 each. The three volumes, in an elegant library case, are aold for $19 (in full gilt, ?15), eo that all may give their childron a complete set. These volumee contain more attractive material than fifty dollars' worth of tho ordinary children'a books Subscription price, $3 a year. The throo bound volumes and a subscription for this year, only f 12. Subscribe With the neareai newsdealer, or seed money in check, or P. 0. money order, or in regiitored lotter, to Scbibxeb & Co., 713 Broadway, N. Y. PTirrvPN .unvpna POP SI. Scr.in.NEiis iloxi illy fob Decehbeb biqixb DE. HOLLAND'S NEW NOYEL. "NICHOLAS MINTUItN," which promises to bo even more entertaining than the story of "Sevenoaks." The horo la a young man who has boon always "tied to a woman's apron strings," and everybody is curipua to seo "what he ttill do next f" New sub.'cribera may bogia with tho SIaoxinCEKT lIXDiUMMER HoLIDAT NCIIBEQ (the fines', number of any Magazine tver issued), containing tho oponing oLapters of another splendid aerial, "That Lass o' Loweie's," by Mrs. Hodgson Burnett, and bo get fifteen numbers for $1, ending with October, 1877. Scbibseb's Montolt is tho beat of all the magazines; having finer illustrations and a. greater variety in its contents Subscribe note, with the nearest bookseller (t4 a year), or send check or P. 0. order to ScniBXEn & Co., 743 Broadway, N. Y. Public Lands, The report of tho secretary of tlie interior of the United States says : During the year ending June 30,1876, pubj lie lands in the United States were disj posed of as follows : i Arres. Cash sales 640.6?1.87 Military warrant locations 137,640.00 Homestead entries .* 2,875.909 07 Timber culture ontries 607,984 87 Agricultural oollogo scrip locations 2,320.00 Approved to States as swamps... 1,098,0( 5.53 Certified to railro&ds 1,001,778 34 Certified for agriculturalcolleges.. 42.000.09 Certified for common schools 127,OK 15 Certified for universities 4,460.44 Certified for publio buildings 3.111.84 Approved to States for internal Improvements 53,331 5G Sioux halfbreed toriplocations..,. 1,168.74 Chippewa half breed scrip locations 19,430.27 Total 6,524,326.36 a quantity less by 545,944.93 acres than 1 that disposed of the preoeding year. The cash receipts were 81,747,215.85; a sum less by $32,400.42 than that reoeived the previous year. During the yea* 21,806,517.25 acres were surveyed, making, with the quartity previously surveyed, 702,059,611.47 acres, and leaving yefr to be surveyed 1,132,665,244.53 acres. The quantity of land taken up under the Homestead and Timber-culture acts is 6C1,966.68 aores greater than that reported last year, JAs these entries are generally by aotual settlers, the increase is at once gratifying and encouraging. Origin of the Polka. About 1839 a peasant girl, being in fervice in a tradesman's family at Elbestcinitz, in Bohemia, beguiled, herself one Sunday afternoon in her kitchen by endeavoring to invent a new step, which she tried to adapt to a village song. Whilo thus disporting herself, she was surprised by her employer, who, quite interested, made her repeat the experiment tho same evening in the parlor, where Joseph Neruda, an eminent masioian, happened to be present, who noted the air and step. Not long afterward the new dance was danced at a citizen's ball in the town, and in 1835 came into fashion at Prague, where, in oonsequence of the half step which occurs in it, it was called the pulka, which meaus in Tcheque, _half. Four years later a band of JPrague musicians brought the dance to Vienna, where it had a great success, and, in 1840, a dancing master of Prague, named Raab, danced it for the first time in Paris. The entire coffee crop of the world in 1875 was 900,000,000 pounds, of which the United States imported a full third part. "A Drowning Man frill Catch at a Straw." If he citch it, it will do him no good. Thousand* of people, who have neglected colds and ?-?:i l,.T.n hnnnmn HuneproilB. will CDUIJUO UlUli IUOJ U!>,v ? 0 , ru?h to almost every nostrum for relief. This is way bo many experimeuts are tried by the sufferers. Go to your druggist, luy a bottle of Wiatar'fi Ualeam of Wild Cherry, aud use it with confidence. It will benefit at once and ultimately oure. It is no straw?it is a cable well tried?hoi d on to it * nd be saved. 50 cents and $1 a bottle. Bold by all druggists. Rufus CJaapman, of Liberty, Me., bad a stiff leg, bent at the knee, limbered and strengthened by the use of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. Bubxbit's Oocoaixz allays irritation, removes dandruff and invigorate* the action of the oapillarlei in the hlgheat degree, OTer Forty Miles of Pipe Were laid in fitting Tip the Grand Central Eotel, Broadway, New York. This mammoth bouse has gained a popularity with the travelog public seoond to none on this continent, [te management, cuisine and neatness cannot Fail to be appreciated, particularly since prices have boen reduced from 11 to (2.50 and t3 per day. A New Cereal. Among the novelties exhibited in Agrionlural Hall, Philadelphia Exposition, was a new cereal, weighing sixty pounds to the bushel, as easily grown as corn, and more productive, excellent for table use, for stock and fowls, i It is of South American origin, but has been j acclimated in the Stato of Michigan since 1872. ' where it produced from seventy-five to 150 j bushels an aero, and will ripen where oorn will ripen. Its stalk and leaves resemble corn, it ! is planted three or four feet apart, six to eight '' kernels in a hill, grows seven or eight feet i high, tho kernels being in a cluster,- seven or 1 eight inches long, at the end of the stalk, whioh curls over and hangs down like the top j r\# a onnH Aniftn TfiA IrArnftl la a litfcla laroot> , and rounder than rice, wbioh it mnch resembles. It appears to be a very desirable addition ; to the cereals of the North, aod is to be sold i only in email packages, with cat of grain on each package, and sent by miil, to prevent imposition. It ia called PAMPAS, on UPLAND EICH. 0. B. Kress, of Jackson, Mich , grower and solo proprietor, will send, post-paid, to any addrees, sufficient to produce one bushel for fifty cents, or three packages for one dollar. The Youth's Companion, of Boston, is a thoroughly wide awake paper, having among its contributors suoh writers as J. T. Trowbridge, Edward Eggleston, Edward Everett Hale, James T. Fields, J. O. Whittier, 0. A. Stephens, Louisa M. Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. A. H. Leonowens, Louise Chaudler Moulton. No writers more attractive in the country, and no publication for youag people more enterprising and useful. Heaven Designed the Jnice Of the borehound plant, the tar of the balm of Gilead tree, and healing honey, for the relief oi lrruaiea inngw. lucuu uiroo opcuiuuo ace combined in Hale's Honey of Horebound and Tar, and will core a cough or oold, however violent, with unerring certainty. Sold by all druggists. Pike's Toothache Drops ctire In one minute. ? The editor takes pleasure in calling the attention of sufferers from rheumatism, goat, neuralgia and lumbago to Durang'a Ehenmatio Remedy. It has been before the public for three years, and, it is said, has never failed in a single case. It is taken internally, and odres at once. Sold by wholesale and retail druggists everywhere. Frice, $1.00 a bottle. Consumption Cured. An old physician, retired from aetive practice, having had placed in hia hands by an East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy, for the speedy and permanent cure of consumption, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, and all throat and long affections, also a positive and radical cure for nervous debility and all nervous oomplaints, after having tborougly tested its wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases, feels it bis duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive, and a conscientious desire to rolieve liuman suffering, be will send (free of charge) to all who desire it, this recipe, with full directions for preparing and tuccessfolly using. Sent by return mail by addressing, wish stamp, naming thia paper, Dr. W. 0. Stevens, 126 Powers' Block, Bochester, N. Y. A Congh, Cold or Soro Throat Requires immediate attention, and should be checked. If allowed to continue, irritation of tho lungs, a permanent throat affection, or an incurable lung disease, is often the result. Bnown s Buonchial Tboches, having a direct influence on the parts, give immediate relief. For bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, consumptive and throat diseases, Tboches are used always with good success. The proprietors of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment, Persons' Purgative Pills and Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders havo published a readable and instructive pftnphiet, which may be had free by mail. HAPPY NEW YEAR- . Splendid ksilday novelties, New Yoai'?4|brleB, Row Year'spreseats. New Year's pictuiei, New Year's music, New Year's cabinet gems, New Year's cbromoe, N?w Year's poetry. New Ywr'i ehromo bockmatks, New Year'i household, New Year's fashions. New Years etiquette, New Year'i groetlngs and other holiday novelties, wl.h rare literary gem* and fulnlie patterns, In the splendid holiday January number of Dmortn't Monthly Magatint, 2o cents, u oat-free, yearly 83, with a tplendld Premium. Do not fall to see the Janoan number, wlih three beautiful cabinet end artlatlo oil ohromos. worth several times the cost ot the magazine AddrsssW. JitrMKOg DtMOBKST. 17 E. 14that,N.Y' BKACTIFL'L PATTERNS FOR DOI.LM, 15, SO, aLd 25 Inches In height. The ant Lr cladus thirteen garments?polonaise, basque. jacket, water-proof, nood. chemne, drawers, overaktrt, skirt, apron, petticoat, night-dress,and wrapper.wltn instruction! andde cripHons. Price 10 eta. per aat, post-free. AJdrats Mill DEFOREST. 17 E. 14ta St., N. Y. bold at all Toy stores or at Man. Demoreat's agencies everywhere. m.TIE. D KJIO REST'S Grand opening of patterns of the novel and beantlfnl winter style* tn polonaises, basqaea, clocks, oversklrta, eto , 6 Rne do Traoy, Paris; 89 Queon Victoria Street, London, E. O.; ana 17 B. 14th St., N. Y. Agenele* everywhere. Centennial Award for Patterns over all competitors. Hee Winter catalogue and splendid Christmas and New Year's numbers of Vemorea'i Monthly. The Markets. ?1W T033 Beef Cattle-Prims to Extra Bullocks 07 Q 11 Common to Good Texana. W&? CSj< Milch Cows..,,...,.. .........86 00 ?7# 00 Hogi?Live 05 0?V Dreaacd............. 07 Q 07)tf Sheep os*? w* Lambe C5 9 MX Gotten?Sitddling !2X'9 12* Flour?Extra Wettern.. 6 75 ? 8 90 State Bxtra 6 70 9 7 00 Wheat?BedWestern..... 18) & 1 84 No. 2 Spring....... 1 1 88* Bye-State 94 ? 9j Barley-State 78 9 80 Barley-Malt 85 9 1 20 Oata?Mixed Weetern SO & Corn?Mixed Western.... (7 O 81 Hay,per ovrt.. 60 & 9 Strav, per cwt. 15 9 71 Hopa....76'e?SO 938 75*8 10 9 li Pork?Mesa..... 17 00 ?17 0J Lard 10X9 W Fish?Mackorel Nc. 1, saw........18 00 918 0 M No. 2, 2CT7 0 CO 9 9 CO Dry Ood, perowt..... 6 26 9 6 15 Herring, Scaled, per box 18 9 18 PetTOlecm?Omde, 16X918# BeOned, ICS' Wool~ OaUfcrnla Fleeco 18 9 81 lexai " 18 9 28 Australian " 37 9 <5 Batter?State 80 ? 88 * WeaternDalry............. 83 9 85 Western Yellow.18 9 80 WesloraOrdinary 15 9 18 Obeew?Stito Factory 08 9 HX State Skimmed............ C5 9 07 Western C8 9 Wt Ejg??State 19 9 29 amnruui. Floor 6 23 ? 9 75 Whfiat?ITo. 1 Serin?!. 1 81 A 1 81 Ojrc? 7. ?3>aS 63 8tj 88 67 9 " Barley. 10 00 vaiiukssLsniA. Beef C*tt!e?Extra 0JV4 M3C Bbesp 0l%(4 05H Hogs?Dressed 06Jf? 08 V flour?Ponr-iyUKils Extra,..,,;... 8 12# a 8 (0 Wheat?Weatsrn Bed 1 36 ? 1 80 Bye...&i. ...?<?<.to 73 ? 78 Corn?V?ilOW.,,M8l... accftot ^ ? W Qa3ic?aa?4:o iinus 57* d ?7H OaU?lilxcu M ? 8i Pitio'oum?Crsic. 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Constitutionally administered It renovates the blood, purines It of the add poison with which It Is always charged In Catarrh, stimulates the stomach, liver and kidneys, perfects digestion, msk.es ne\r blood, and permits tbo formation of sound, healthy tissue, and Anally obtains complete control over the disease. The remarkable cnratlve powers, when all other remedies utterly fall, of Saktoiid's Radical Coex, are attested by thousands who gratefully recommend It to fellow-sufferers. No statement Is made regarding It that cannot be substantiated by the most respectable and reliable references. It Is a great and good medicine, and worthy all confidence. Each package contains a Treatise on Catarrh and Dr. Sanford's Improved Inhaling Tube, and full directions for Its use In all cases. ? . Saktobd's Radical Cnta Is told by all wholesale and retail druggists throughout the United States. Price fl. Depot, WEEKS & POTTER, Boston. EVERYBODY CHEERFULLY RECOMMENDS CGLLiNS' VOLTAIC MASTERS, rpEET ?octaln the grand curative element, Zlsotiiottt, combined with the finest compound of medicinal gums ever united together. It therefore teems Impossible for them to fall la affording prompt relief for all pains and aches. "THE BEST*PLASTER," Jfettrt. Wult * PaUtr.Omttemtn, ? Please lend me six Collihs1 Voltaio PLArrms. Send by return mall. I think they are tbe best Plaster I aver used. Please And money Inclosed. 7 TTASITET.T. T.TTVTTH. Miltoxd, Dxu, July 14,1S7S. " AN EXCELLENT PLASTER." X(am. WetlM A Potur, OtnOmen, ? Please send me another Collots' Voltaic Plastx*. I find them to bo an excellent Pluter,?the best that I hare ever used. I am sorry that the druggists here do not keep them. T. M. 6NIDKB. BaoAPTTAT, P., Jnly, 1371 _ BOLD BT ALL DRUGGISTS. Prlee, 2S cents. Sent by mall, carefully wrapped, OB receipt of 25 conts for one, >135 for six, or KJS5 for twelve, by WEEKS & POTTEB, Proprietors, Boston, AAA 4 Hade by one Agent In 57 days. 13 nsw articles. Samples free. Address, WWCT C.X. UKOifiTON.Chleago. bUCtUN! If you have Rheumatism, Neoraiglt Headache, a Burn, or a Braise, prootue a bottle of Enpeon. It will give Instant relief, as thousands can testify Per sale by all Druggists. H. A. HCTFLLBUT & CO., 75 and 77 Randolph" Street Chicago, Agents for the Proprietors. HOLIDAY HDSIG BOOKS. Tvto Splendid Volume* Jot Preientt. The World of Song! Prlc* In Iloard*t 82.50. Clotfa, 83.00. Gilt, S4.0G. Ilarely hare we lamed a book of aonfs lneladin* auoh ft Tariety of really fint-olaa? and popular Vooal Mnaic. 660 paces, fall Sheet Mnalo aire. Soags by nearly alzty different compotera, and among the compnalUona ui many suoq inmi as uomo 10 mo waic*iy, uoiaen Iacks tire Oliver," "My Heart'* betf. Love," "She's a Bosy, Bho'i a Posy," ana Mlllara'a " Whlppoorwill." We publish nineteen valuable oolIecUous, uniform with the WonLD" and "Gems." Send tor Catalogue of" Uovz Musical Lidbauv," and select one or more of lbs books for Christmas. GEMS OF THE DANCE! AjCompanion to the famous " Gems of Strauss /" 82.50 la Board*, 83.00 Cloth, 84.00 Gilt. The " Gems or Strauss " bad a wonderful sncoeis, and this now work Is fnily Its equal, and oontalni the rooant "Btrausa" pleoeo.aud many others by Guug'l, Lamoihe. Fanst, Ooote, Zlkcff, and other eminent compters. 232 ptgss. full Bh?et Music size, well filled with walizse, Galop*, folkas, Quadrilles, eto. Either book mailed, post-free, for Retail Price. OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston. C. H. DITSON <fc CO., , ? ' t 711 Uroadway, New York, J. E. DITSON ?lc CO., c _ _ ? ? Successor* to I*e 4 Walker, Phlla. Mention this paper In ordering. One Dollar. [B|ra One Dollar. CHICAGO [ EDGER THE LEDGER is a large 48-cclumn paper, ably edited, handsomely printed; containing every week choice completed stories, an installment of an interesting illustrated serial, and general reading tor old and young. Send your name and address, plainly written, Inclosing ONE DOLLAR, with < nAstaM ma will IUUCUU vvu?B 4W4 |#V?W(QV| ia*m *vw vram send til* paper to you for on* year. Address THE LEDGER, CHICAGO. ELL. { WOOD'S [improved] HAIR RESTORATIVE; What It Does! It restart., quickly, Grit Hair to It* atony Nitor*l | eolor. It haa the oUcct of Keatorlng the Ilair to prematurely Bald Heads. It Remorea Dandruff, Hmnora and all Eruption, from war theScaJp. It pre rnm. Irritation, IH M REB Itrbiu* and Kcal? Dryness of tho SB N jo E9 W Skin. It iioatorer r.'in T, dry. harsh I II tS g M and fulling Hal: It lenews.dresse*. Ill M H If .rfte:is and glv? ficorlo >hogrowth |H H H SJ'tt of the Hair. Il accomplishes more 1 Kj _P Ez ? |3 desired effects :la short time than 9 Q u B mm any Ksstcratlvv* ernr m?de, always S H B 9Q| leaving tiio hai: soft, lively mid JttJil H M M.m. glossy, nhelhe> ux'd as a Uressin* upon tho natural bair or upon tbn hair in an unhealtny condition ; thus rendering it. for tlm Ol.l and Younir, an article of cne<iualed excellence. No preparation offered to the public produce, .ucb Wf.nia.-ful results. Try it! Try it!! Call for "Wood's linprored!" as it contain, no injuriou. quaiitio*. It waa originally introduced 30 years aroby Prof. O. J Wood,but the recent change of ingredient* in tKL ar tide is making a demand lor 11 in an part* 01 tu; uu.ieu State*, Canada* sad fortijn countries. ANNOUNCEMENT TO CONSUMERS! The ifTMt radical improvement introduced in this article has Induced us to take the ojrency and sdvertise it* rirtues to the world. I'* efT-.-cts ?sa Hf storative are ? ha' has been lcnc viuent for nr.d Hunted lor many years. 'ioInc more decided pir n mi ?JX ? *..! sr.: is factory than has ever be. Dg M BJ m ft fore been attained. No Druggist |S I K |u| in the wo:'J knows its cotni>o- ra 0 h J] bH sit hn. and cannot make it: therefore Hn gl K Bp when you call /or It, "Wood's In- hi ;ij W ?3 Ej ft proven," (to not let any unprinri- H ra M BH hied dealer con riuee you that he B H 53 H m g ims a lleitoi.itlve >r Rrnrwer as K gj QBufl pood, or something similar. there Li none like It! Insist upon having " Wood's Improved," and t.-.ko no othor, for your ltv.il! not be lone be lore all I'alors everywhere will have it. If you should fail to And it, you can send $1.00 tons by mail fur a bottle, or J5.00 for six bottles, andvrow:!! send it to you, prepaid, to any Kxpress Station desired. Address C. A. COOK & CO., Chicago, the Sole Agents for tlie ! nitnl States uutl C'nnndac, who will lill nil order* nnd snpply IheTradent illannfiieturm'Puicct. J. B. Kimball, Proprietor. OTScld In New York by J. F. 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