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*? >?w?> ?imwu,.i wumi ?? w - ~i-> " - ??*-*? ! JJf ELEPHANT FIGHT IX INDIA. 4 r ? i f For t<io elephant light proper tho | contending pairs are carefully trained I and prepared beforehand with stimu- j luting food tin 1 (liii *, and advantage , ? i3 also taken of tlmt i<!ri>Houl frenzy , displayed in fho male elephant which ^ is known as nuut. ,\i sig h e time of . natural excitement, the elephant becomes llorco cud fvrmldubU even to 1 his keeper, and only to lead two such ' beasts forth into the arena, and show them for a moment tho waving trunk ot tho distant female, produces a dogreo of pugnacity which wants little ^ additional encouragement. \When tho light do< ;> begin, sueh as can look with plei - .ie on theso 1 things, behold a colo sal duello, Tho 1 enormous creatures charge like moun- > tains rolling* together, their tusks ' clash and clatter, their huge foot < delvo chasms in tho du >t and scatter Jt ill ninl I Ii/.m ? i l "!? ... , ??itM VIIV ir? U 111' HIVU" ] \lucl logs nml wrestle for mastery -Mth nn agility as astonishing as ih their Bonncless fury. The trunk, ear i , ami Hank art) thu weak places, aa tlio beast well knows ; and what v. it h caoh Hooping lii own clear, ami seeling to Bclzo that of ills uppum at, so that ho may forgo hint aside an I drive an Ivory .sword tip under the el how or hook, or wtlng oil* hia leal hen ear, ouoandtho other ] robosois 11 y about in the air like the a rata of tut iufurl* j a led windmill, ?Shiill signals of fear or rago, of xhdory or defeat, accompany the rounds, h?r tho wrathful elophaut blows hi 5 own buttle music i continually, ami s-nvftma v. Ith treiuondous anxiety wh -n ho is gelling tho worst (f it. l'teseutly eomo advan- 1 tugo is gained, ami a blow or dig j which won id annihilate anything but Leviathan i> dealt, whereupon, ordinarily tho sagacious bruto who has fought in vain knows that hols defeated ami guile declines to stand up to any needless puni. hmont llo turns tall and trots off ungainly and discomfited and covered with dust ami blood, and pursued a lit11 o whilo by thn victor, who soon, however, is ; content to trumpet out 1111 insulting blast and range th'MUvim for another ' foe. It wants consi lovable skill at such a moment to slip tho foot ropes ' oti tho trlujni>h;mt monster and get him out of the way; but this is managed by the adroit mahout*, either by cunning apou-mhos or bringing in a couple of female.-), Sometime.* a weak riL-jniani, i? i u>*t i i i t'.'> earth and gorvd or stamped fill die-., hut generally thoy live to light itn^thcr ?lay, | provided that the tinks luivi1 not been fitted with steel points, which is occasionally prucilccd. . ?- ? i???? C*V'* ' OAMIJI.INU IN M.MMO. TUo great game pursued hy tho ' M ft en nose i? called "Vat, ye, sain, so" ?being tho first four of the Chincso numerals, one, two, throe, four. Tho counters employed are small copper coins, called cas/t, w ith a squaro holo in tho centre. Near a pile of each is a square metal \4ate, each jddc ttttm- ; bored -OHO, two t lp rr.; ]\>ui\ On any j of tho."o,^-wwr!'0t*M the gamblers do- ! posttr tneir stakes. When all is ready v iKo president banker takes a hand- , ' full of c;ish from the'honp, and setting j / it apart,draws the coins 0110 by one toward him with an ivorysUck, repeating aloud as ho does so, "Yafc, ye, sam so," ("Oiie, two) throe, four,") when whatover rsmaius Is thw winning number, for instance, Mippvse that in his grasp ho had pieUed up eighty-six; tho fours divided into it would bo twen ty-ono times and two remaining; consequently, two would be tho winning number. Supposing you lmd staked * a dollar, say on number two, an assistant of tho banker would then hand tho winner four dollars (tho dollar staked, and ihivo added) less seven per cent, discount upon tho throo flnllnru vvau nu'i! urn WIIIII 11U CUIUUS as his share. Tlioso houses nro froqucntcd by all classes high and low, rich and poor, and cannot hut bo considered sources of demoralization,? Chamber's Journal. TI1E Sl'ANISII CI! KSTNl'T. * In all the mountain regions of Hpain, JFrance, Italy, and Switzerland, their declivities half way up from tho plains below to the snowy peaks above aro clothed with magnificent forests of a species of chestnut, the edible fruit of which, imported into this country, is known as the Spanish chestnut. "Gardner's Farmer's Dictionary" contains the following brief description of this "famous European tree": "Tho European, also called the Spanish or Italian Ohostnut, is of immense size and longevity, trees being known which have a girth of sixty feet. Tho wood, except in very old, trees, is admirable, being inoro durable than oak in moist situations. The bark is also used in tanning. Tt prefors a dry, silieious soil, abounding in sillolous matters and potash. "Tho European variety is easily raised from tho seed, grows rapidly. and bears in seven years. The fruit is flvo times larger than ours and commands a good price in tho market; chestnuts are used boiled, roasted and raw. In Southern France, Italy, &o., they constitute the bread of a largo population." Trofewor Sylvester, of tho 1 loyal fioelety has rocently given a new sola's tion of the "fifteen young ladles'problem," The problem Is this:?In a ? school of fifteen girls a rule has been laid down that they shall walk out every day In rows of threes, but that the? samo two girls shall never como together twice in the same row. Tho rule Is supposed to have been carried out correctly during tho six working days of tbo week, but, when tho times comes for their going to church together on Sunday it is found to be Utterly Impossible to oontlnuo it any furthei>' Can the rule have been carcorrcotly during the six pro>\\ days? 1 <4 x Til i; vfiynm i;!) ruo.m fiiiwt j\\ot:| egal tender not en l>y gradual :iticl sale j occms v Julio# to relieve tin* presettt )Ui-iiH'?H listro-c*'. Il charged by t!o >eople with tin* adminis! raliou o( the 1 xocutive ollice, I should d? cm il a Inly so to exercise 1110 powers \\ i I. >v 11i?* 11 il h:H been or may be invited >y CongtcsH as best, and icohest t?> ml.duct tlu: country to that beneficent c;J u 11. civil, skuvich i;k; oi:m. The convention justly albums that' Uelorin is in ecssary in civil service, leeossary to its purification, neces.a.y 0 its economy and its elliciency, no* \ es^aiy in order that the ordinary cm- 1 [doyincnt ot the public business may not be "a pri/.e fought (or al the ballot ' i n box, a Uriel reward of party zeal instead ot posts ol honor assigned lor proved competency, and held lor fidelity in the public employ." The convention wisely added that "Reform is necessary oven more in the higher | grades of public* service. ITesident,' Vice President, Judges, Senators, : 1 lenreseutal i ves, Cabinet Otliccrs, ' ? | these and nil others in authority are not a private pot iiui.siti; they are a 1 public li usi." Two evils intent the otlicial service ot the Federal government. One is the prevalent iiihI dcinotnli/.in}; notion that the public service exists not 'or the busine-s ami bencrit ol tlio whole people, but for the interim ol tin* ollicclu'blcrs, who arc in truth but tlio servants ol tho people. I n- j ilor the ii lluenco ot this pernicious error public employments liuvo boon ' multiplied; tin.' numbers ol' those gather'oil into the rank i ol cilice hoiileiH nave been steadily increased bo yoinl any possible requirement ot the the public business, w hile imUb ii ney, peculation, franil, and nialver-aiion i I the public funds, Irom the high plans ol power to the lowest, have our- , spread th'i whole serviee like a lcpu>1 he other evil is the organization ol the ollieial class into i; body of political mercenaries, governing tin; cauensBoa and dictating the nominations of their own party, and attempting to ' carry the elections ?. t the people by j undue ii lluetiee, and by immense corrupt ion-! amis systematically collected Iroin t lie salaries in" lees ol olliee-holders. Tho ollieial class in otlu r countries, sometimes by its own weight and sometimes in alliance with the j army, has been able to rule the unorganized masses even under universal sutVrage. Here it lias already grown into a gigantic, power capable ol stilling the iiifpiraulions of a sound public opinion, and ol resisting an easy! efiuni^o ol adminr.U ration, until mis-j miiK'tit becomes intolerable, and public^ spirit has hot n stuntj lo tho pitch ol" :i oivii revolution. The lirst fclep in relonn is the ok- j valion ol I ho standard hy which the appointing power Hi loots agents to execute otiicial UUHts. Next in im? port.nice is a conscientious thlclils in the exercise ol the authority t<< hold to account and displace untrustworthy or incapable subordinates. The public interest in an honest, skilliul perlormanec ol ollicial trust inusl not bo sacuticcil 10 the usulruct ot the incumbents. Alter these immediate steps, which will ensure the exhibition of bettor exam pies, ! we may wisely go on lo the abolition of im- I necessary offices, and, finally, to the patient*' careful cigunlznllon of a belter civil service system, utuler the costs, wherever praticablo, of proved competency and fidelity. While much may be aoconipllslicd by these methods, it might encourage delusivo expectations if I withheld hero the expression ot my conviction that .10 reform of die civil service in this country w ill be complete and permanent until its cldofmagistrate is constitutionally disqualified for re-election; experience having repeatedly exposed the futility of self-imposed restilotions by cfuididates or incumbents. Through this solemnity only can ho be ellcctunlly delivered from Ids greatest to mi tatlon to misuse t!.e power and patronage with wkibli tlio Exccutlvo is nccessmlly charged. coxci.irsiox. Educated in the belief tint it Is the first duty of a citizen of tlio republic to take his fair allotment of care and trouble in public affairs, I have, for forty years, as a prlvato citizen, fulfilled that duty. Though occupied in an unusual degree dining all that period with the concerns of the government, 1 have never acquired the habit of official life. When, a year and a half ago, i entered upon my present trust, It was In order to consumate reforms to which I had already devoted several of the bust years of my life. Knowing as 1 do, therefore, from lVosh experience, how great the difference is between gliding through an official routine and working out a re tor in of systems and polclcs, it Is impossible for 111c to contemplate what needs to be done in the federal administration without an anxious sense of the difficulties of the undertaking. If summoned by the suilV.iges of my countrymen to attempt this work, I shall endeavor, ivIf.li lioln tfi liA tin* Aninlntit went of their will. SAMUEL .J. TILDES'. To Gen. John A. MeUlornand, Chairman, (icn. \V. it. Franklin, lion. J. J. Abbott, lion. II. J. Spaiiiilu.rst, Hon. 11. J Hcdlichl, lion. F. S. Lyon and others, Committee, &e. GOV. IIEN MUCKS' LETTER. I n 1)1 anal'ot.18, July 24, 1370. Grnti.bmicn: 1 have the lienor to acknowledge the receipt ot your communication, in which you have Formally uoiitied mo ol my nomination ' hy i lie N itional McniocratiO Convention at JSt. Louis, as iheir candidate "" -- - ^ \ UOliUY >VlOL'.'KiiY ] lor the office ? I Yieel'rcsident <>| the I'nited States. It i-. a nomination wliifli I had i oil In r expected nor do- | siicd; and yet I recognize and appro cialo tho high houoi done me l?y tlio CToii\ cntiim. Tlio rlioioo ol ;-tii h a hotly, proiioiiucod with such linn tial unanituiiy, and accompanied wiih so | generous mii expression ol esli cm and contidciico ought to outweigh all merely por.oaal d'.-iris and preferences ol my own. ll is with this I feeling, and I trust also Irom a de< p gense of public dut y, iluit I now acoopt tho nomination, and shall abide the judgment ol'my countrymen, ll would have been impossible for me to ne/'opt the nomination il I could not heartily endorse the platlorm ol tho convention. I am gratified, thercdore, to he able unequivocally to declare that I agree in the principles, approve liio policies, and sympathize with the purposes enunciated in that ; platform, Tho institutions ol our country have ! 1 oen sorely llied by the exigencies of civil war, and, since tlio peace, by n selfish and corrupt management ol public all iirs, which has shamed lis beloie civilized mankind. l>y. unwise and partial legislation every industry and interest of the people have been made to suffer; and in the executive department:* ol' tho Government, dishonesty, rapacity and venal I ity 1 avo dcbaiinclied the public : orviee. t Men known to be unworthy have been 1 promoted, while others have been do- j graded for fidelity to olfcial duty. | Public ofllee has been mudi the means I ol private profit, anil the country lias lu i*n olVeiiiied to see a class ol men who boa-t the trii mPhip ol the rwoin protci*101 s ol tin- Plate amazing lortunes bv defrauding the publio tnais- i urv ami by eoirupting tin- servants ol ! the people. In such a cti.-is ol the honesty ol th* country 1 rejoice tiiat i the convention :it St. l.onsis has so nobly raised the standard ot retoiui.j Not bili'C e III lie well with us or with I our alVnrs until the public conscience, shocked I y ihe enormous e\ i!s and abuses which prevail, shall have demanded and i'i inpelled an unsj aring reformation ot our National .Administration, "in its ),ead ami in its members."' In such a reformat ion the re- i inovnl ol a single olliecr, oven the I*i esideut, is comparatively a trilling mailer, il the system which he represents, ami which has loitered him as he lias fostered it, is snllered to remain. The President, alone must* not be made the scapegoat tortile eiionni. lit s of the system wide.1' infests the \ public tn and threatens the! destruction ol our institutions. 1:i > some respicts 1 bolt! that ll'.u ptev<'i t executive luts been the victim rather than the author ol that vicious system. Congressional and parly leaders have In cn stronger than the President. No one man could have created it, and the removal ol no one man can amend it. Il is thoroughly cortunt. ; and must bo swept remorselessly away l?y tho s> 1 ctiou of ft govol nuicnt compose I ol elements entirely n-.w, and p odded to radical reborn. KitKOKM Nic::niu>. Tho first work ol reform must evidently bo tlio restoration ot thu normul operation of tho Constitution of tho United States, with all its amendments. The necessities of war cannot bo pleaded in a timo oi peace; the i right ot local si lt government sis guaranteed by tho Constitution oi tho [ Union must bo everywhere restored, and the cent ralized (almost personal) t imperialism which lias been practised j must bo done away, or the lit si prinI oipk'9 of the republic will be lo.-u. Our financial system of expedients i must bo reformed, field and jilver i ate the real standard ol value-, and ' our national currency wi'.l not bo a pertoet medium of exchange until it shall be convertible at the plt-asujo ol I tho holders. As I have heretofore said, no one desires a return t payments more earnestly than 1 do; i but 1 do not believe that it tVill or can be reached in harmony wi|h the , . interests of the people by aifilicial ! measures lor the contraction of the j currency, any more than 1 Relieve that wealth or permanent prosperity j can bo created by an inflation of the (currency. The laws of finance ;annot be disregarded with impunity The I financial policy ol the (lovcnment, it, indc d, it deserves the nnmonl policy at all, has been in dimi-hird ol those laws, ami therefore has disturbed commercial and business confidence, as well as hindered a rriurn to specie payments. One toatuiv/ot that policy was tlio resumption amuse ol the Act of 1876, which has eiharrass- i ed the country by the nniici ition ol a compulsory ivmmplion forwhich no j preparation has been made, fid withj out an assurance that ii wuld be I practicable. Tho repeal of that ' dans? is necessary tlut to natural! operation of financial law may ho lectured, that tho husint.H ol tho c "untry may ho relieved frm its disturbing ami depressing inflnnoo, and ! that a rotutn to specie pnytentH may , he facilitated by tho suhiitution ot wiser and inoro prudent egislation, which shall mainly rely ona judicious i system ol public economies and olliI cial rotrenohmenU, and .wove all on tho promotion of proapoyfy in all tho industries of the j/eople. I do not undo/stand fho repeal of tho resumption clause of the A<*t, of U-7r? to he a hukwnM step in our renin to spey*) ]-ivim-nt, hut the recovery of a JMse stop} and alth ;gh tho repeal ma/, 'ot a tirm, ho pro vential, yet if' detetmhiaiion o! the Democratic ty on this subject has YMWri: AlTibST 19 now l>c<*ii distinctly declared. Tin re nlioiilil bo no himlrancts put in the way ol a return to specie payments. 'Assticha hindrance, * says the platform el the St. I.ousis t\>nveuiion, 14 Wo <k nouneo the i esmnpt ion clause ol the Act ol I To, ami demand its repeal." I thoroughly believe that by public econoni) , by < llicial t?Imudimcnts, ami by WHO linat.ee enabling us to accumulate ti e precious metals, resumption at an eaily period is possible, without producing an "artificial scarcity ol current-)" or distuibiug public or commercial credit; ami th it these lelorms, together w ith lher<?toration of pure government, will restore genet al confidence, encourage the useful inveulment ol capita!, Ittrnish employment to labor, and relieve the country Irom the "paralysis ol hard limes," Of It I NDlSTlillts. With the industries of the people there have been Irtqueni intcrlerenccs. Our plullorm truly says that many industries have been in. povci ished to stiboidi/.o u lew. Our commerce has been degraded to an inlet io'r position on the high seas; manufactures have been diminished; agriculture has been embatlussed, ami the distress el the itidusli ial classes demands that these things shall he relortned. The burdens ol the people must aim be lightened by a great change in our system o! public expenses. The profligate expenditures which iutreused taxation liom live dollats per capita in 1 HUO to eight-en dollars in 187o telis its own story e l our need ol fiscal return). Our tieaiies with foreigh powers sliould also be revised ami amended, in so lar as they leave citizens o! IT reign birth in any particular h ss secure in any evuntiy on earth than they would In* it they had been burn on our own soil; anel the iniquitous coolie system which, through the agency ol wealth) companies, import.* e'hinese bondmen, ami estabii-hes a species ol slavery, ami intcrtcres with thejust rewards ol labor on our 1'aeitic tonal, should be utterly abolished. In the relot tn el oil" civil service, I must heat lily imloisc that section ol the platform which declares that the civil serv i :e ouelit not to bo "subicct U> change at i\u y ? -lection," ami tlial it omilii not to be made "the briol ro ward ol |tili*ly zeal," but ought to bo awarded lor j voted competency and la id lor fidelity in the public employ." ! hope nt\( r a*ri >n to see liie e Vile I and remoreloss prosctiplion lor political oniuioiis wliieli lias disgraced the administration ot the last eight years. ]>ad as liic civil service now is, as all know, it has some nu n nl tried inter., rii v and ];io\eii ability. Such in n, and Mali men only, should be retained in ollici'j but no man should be retained on any consideration who lias pi nsslit ut< d his oliice to the purposes oi part isan intimidation or compulsion, or v.lu> has lurnidicd money to corrupt the elections. This is done and has been done in almost every country i)l the lull 1. It is a blight upon the morals ot the land, it is a blight upon the morals of the country, and ought to be reformed. ouu schools' Of sectional contentions, and in res peel i?? our common school;*, I have only this to Buy: That in my judgmuni, lho man or party that would in\ol\o our schools in political or sectarian controversy is an enemy to the schools. The common schools are safer under the protecting care ol all the people than under the coutiol oi any party or hect. They must be neither sectarian nor partisan, and there must he neither division nor misappropriation ol the lunds lor their suppoit. Likewise 1 regard the man who would arouse or foster sectional animosities and antagonisms among his countrymen as a dangerous enemy to his country. Alhtlic people must be made to tecl and know that once more there is tstablished a purpose and policy under which all citizens ol every condition; race and color, will be secure in the enjoyment ol'whatever rights the constitution and laws declan? or recognize; and that in controversies that may ar'ne the government is not a partisan, but, w ithin its constitutional authoiity the just and powcrlul guardian ut the rights and sulety ol all. The strife between the sections and bet ween races will cease as soon as the power tor evil is taken 1 VV I V- I > <> - - 1 .. .. iii ii j>i?ii> i 11UL IIIHKC9 JKJUII? cp.I gain out oi scenes ol violence and bio >dshcd, ami the constitutional nuiho 1 ity if placed in the bands ol men whose political welfare requires thai peace and good order shall he preserved everv where. GOV. TII.DEN. It will he Been, gentlemen, that I nin in entire accord with the platform ol the Convention by which I have been nominated as a candidate lor the ollice at Vice?1'rcsiJeui ot the United Slates, Permit mo, in conclusion, to exptexg my satisfaction ut being associated with a candidate tor the Presidency who is tirsi among his equals as a representative ol the spirit and ol the achievements ol relorm. In iiis otlieml career as the Executive ol the gioat Sialo ot Now Vork, ho lias, in a coniparulivuly short period, rolormed the public servioo and rodnced the public burdens, so as t?> have earned ,?l onoe the gralitu le of his Stale and the aJrnii'.iiuui 01 ttio country, the people know hllll to be thoroughly in earnest; he has shown himself to l>o possessed ol poweis .nid qji ilities \s Inch lit him, in an eminent degree, , 1S7<>. . 1 *?i* ilie great work of reformation ' w 11i? ?i i?iicon: try now needs; ami it ! I.c shall be cb? smi by the people to the high oiiice of 1'rc.sidunt of the I nitio St.itiH, 1 believe that ibe day ol his ii a1. ;c.i ali i) will be the beginll'nj; ol a in w *ra ol peace, purity and j prosperity in a'i departments of our I government. 1 am, gentlemen, your obedient sei v nil, l lto.MAS A. 11 KNDUICK*. To the lion. .John A. MuClcrnantl, Chairman, and others of tHo Committee <. t the National DeinoI emtio Convention. m?9%?P?l vvr-v.-or wunw U N And FOREIGN PATENTS I OILMOitK ? i O., Successors to ( II ?iiior & Co., 8i licttoi'8, Patents produced . ia all connlrh s, NO FEES IN ADVANCE. | I No charge unless Ilia patent Is gianted. No j foes for making preliminary c.\ an it nations. I No aildiitcnal lees for obtaining and conductin;: a rehearing. 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