Work on Greenhouse: Lord Hort Mfg. Co. $49,611 50 Stewart, mason 635 83 Plumbing, painting, concreting, etc. 685 12 Labor, blasting, and digging 4,696 21 Supplies, chairs, bedding, etc. 102 87-- 55,731 53 Wall in front of Greenhouse 945 62 Gardener's Cottage 3,045 88 Farmer's Cottage 6,849 38 Additions to barn 703 27 Plumbing 18,964 55 Allowance Stone Stable 1,500 00 Furniture 19,269 05 Furniture Baldwin House 1,600 00 Plants in Greenhouse 8,901 89 Plants outside 75 25-- 8,977 14 ____________ $394,327 23 JOHN BIGELOW TO HON. WILLIAM H. PECK, EX-SECRETARY OF STATE OF MICHIGAN "NEW YORK, _Febry. 28th, 1879_. "MY DEAR FRIEND,--In your last note you ask me if Tilden will be in the field for the Presidency in 1880. "That is a question which, I presume, no one, not even Tilden himself, could answer categorically at present. I can express to you my own conviction, and you may take it for what it is worth. "Mr. Tilden has scarcely been in a position at any time, since the election, to consult his own tastes or personal comfort in this matter; if he had been, I think he would have notified his friends immediately upon his return from Europe in 1877 that they must look for another leader. He forbore to take that step, because he shared the popular belief that he was the President-elect of the United States, and that he was thereby clothed with certain responsibilities to his party at least, anomalous and unprecedented it is true, but which were of the gravest character and which it was impossible for him to put off. "He was still the commander in the midst of a campaign in which he had defeated the enemy, but had not yet realized the fruits of victory. To leave his soldiers in the field and in the presence of the enemy without a leader was a step which would not stand the test of a moment's reflection. Washington could, with equal propriety, have resigned his command after the battle at Yorktown and delivered his sword to Cornwallis, instead of himself taking the sword of the British general.