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Having recently made additional im provements t< our office, we are pre pared to execute all orders for PLAIN AND FANCY JOB PRINTING, With dispatch and in the most S UPE RI O R STYLE. CIRCULARS, LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, CHECKS, CER TIFICA TES, BLANKS, DEEDS, REGISTERS, RE CEIPTS, CARDS, HEADINGS, ENVEL OPES. SHOWBILLS, HANDBILLS, IN VITATIONS, LABELS, ire. \c. Our facilities fr printing POSTERS, PROGRAMMES, Ac., FOR CONCERTS AND EXHIBITIONS, ARE UNSURPASSED. "PUBLIC SALE" BILLS Printed at short notice. We can insure complete satisfaction as to time and price riHIE INQUIRER BOOK STORE, opposite the Mengel House, BEDFORD, PA. The proprietor takes pleasure in offering to the public the following articles belonging to the Book Business, at CITY RETAIL PRICES: MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. N OVEL S. BIBLES, HYMN BOOKS, AC.: Large Family Bibles. Small Bibles. 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ISAAC LIVERMORE, Treason* Michigan Cen tral Railroad, Boston. ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American Express Company, New York. Hon. JAMES NOXON, Syraeuse, N. Y. 0 H. PALMER", Treasurer Western Union Tele graph Company, New York. FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, Gibbs A Hardcastle, New York. NICHOLAS MICKLKS. New York. OFFICERS. A G. CURTIN, President. N. MICKLES, Vice President. GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com monwealth,) Treasurer. HON. A. K McCLURE, Philadelphia, Solicitor. The Chinese Government having (through the Hon. Anson Burlingame) conceded to this Com pany the privilege of connecting the great sea ports of the Empire by submarine elcctrio tele graph cable, wo propose commencing operations in China, and laying down a line of nine hundred miles at once, between the following port t, viz : Population. Canton 1,000,000 Macoa. 60.000 Hong-Kong 250.000 Swatow 200,000 Ainoy 250,000 Foo-Chow 1,250,000 Wan-Chu 300 000 Ningpo 400.000 Hang Cheaa 1,200,000 . Shang-hai 1,000,008 Total S 910,000 These ports have a foreign commeree of $900,- 000.000. and an enormous domestic trade, besides which we have the immense internal commerce of the Empire, radiating from these points, through ■ its canals and navigable rivers. The cable being laid, this company proposes erecting land lines, and establishing a speedy and trustworthy means of communication, which must 1 command there, as everywhere else, the commu nisations of the Governmont, of business, and of social life especially in China She baa no postal system, and her ecly means now of oommuuioating information is by oouriers on laud, and by steam ers on water. The Western World knows that China is a very . large country, iu the main densely peopled ; but few yet realize that she contains more than a third i of the human race. The latest returns made to her central authorities for taxing purposes by the local magistrate make her population Four hun dred and Fourteen million and tkil is more likely to be under than over the actual aggregate. Nearly all of these, who are over ten years old, not only can but do read and write. Her civili zation it peculiar, but her literature is as exten sive as that of Kurepe. China is a land of teach ers and traders, and the latter are exceedingly quick to aTai! themselves of every proffered facili ty for procuring early information. It is observed i in California tbat the Cbinese make great use of ' the telegraph, though it there transmits messages 1 in English aione. To-uay great numbers of fleet steamers are owned by Chinese merchants, and used by them exclusively for the transmission of early intelligence. If the telegraph we propose connecting all their great seaports, were .now in existence, it is believed that its business would pay the cost within the first two years of its suc cessful operation, and would steadily increase thereafter No enterprise commends itself as in a greater degree renumerative to capitalists, and to our whole people It is of vast national importance commercially, politically and evangelically. . IdTThe stock of this Company has been un qualifiedly recommended to capitalists and busi ness men, as a desirable investment by editorial articles in the New York Herald, Tribune, World, Times, Tost, Kxpre<.t, Independent, and in the Philadelphia North American, Press, ledger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph. Shares of this company, to a limited number, may be obtained at SSO each, $lO payable down, sls on the Ist of November, and $26 payable in monthly instalments of $2 50 each, commencing December 1, 1868, on application to DREX EL J ..-no believed and urged that, aside from the assumed justice of the proceedings, a foreign war, in which both sides would cheerfully unite to vindicate the honor of the national flag, and further illus trate the national prowess, would he the surest and speediest way of awak ening national enthusiasm, renewing devotion to the Union, and occupying a force concerning which grave doubts existed as to its willingness, after four years of active campaigning, at once to return to the pursuits of peace. Wheth er these speculations were true or false, it will be conceded that they existed, and that the predictions of the army were for the time being in the direc tion indicated. Taking advantage of that feeling, it would have been easy, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Ar my and Navy, and with all the power and patronage of the Presidential office at my disposal, to turn the concentra ted strength of the nation against French interference in Mexico, and to inaugurate a movement which would have been received with favor by the military and a large portion of the peo ple. It is proper in this connection that I should refer to the almost un limited additional powers tendered to the Executive by the measures relating to Civil rights and the Freedmen's Bu reau. Contrary to most precedents in the experiences of public nun, the powers thus placed within my grasp were de eliued as being in violation of the Con stitution, dangerous to the liberties of the people, and tending to aggravate rot her than lessen the discords natural ly resulting from our civil war. With a large army and augmented authori ty, it would have been no difficult task to direct at pleasure the destiniesof the Republic, and to make secure my con tinuance in the highest office known to our laws. Let the people, whom lam addressing from the Presidential chair during the closing hours of a laborious term, consider how different would have been their present condition had 1 yielded to the dazzling temptation of foreign conquest, of personal aggran dizement and the desire to wield addi tional power. Eet them, with justice, consider that if I have not unduly mag nified mine office, the public burdens have not been increased by my acts, and perhaps thousands or tens ot thous ands of lives sacrificed to visions of false glory. It cannot, therefore, be charged that my ambition has been of that or dinary or criminal kind which to the detriment of the people's rights and liberties ever seeks to grasp more and unwarranted power, and, to accomplish its purposes, panders too often to popu lar prejudices and party aims. What then have been the aspirations which guided me in my official acts ? Those acts need not at this time an elaborate explanation. They have elsewhere been comprehensively stated and fully discussed, and become a part of the nation's history. By them iam rt*ady to be judged, knowing that, how ever* imperfect, they at least show to the impartial mind, 'h it my sole am bition has been to restore the Union of the tetates ; faithfully to execute the of fice of President, and to the best of my ability to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. I cannot be censured if my efforts have been impeded in the interests of party faction, and if a poli cy which was intended to reassure and conciliate the people of both sections of the country was made the occasion of iuflamiug and dividing still farther those who only recently were in arms against each other, yet as individuals aud citizens were sincerely desirous, as 1 shall ever believe, of burying all hos tile feeling in the grave of the past. The hitter war was waged on the part of the government to vindicate the Constitution and save the Union ; and if I have erred in trying to bring about a more speedy and lasting peace, to ex tinguish heart-burnings and enmities, and to prevent trouble in the South, which, retarding material prosperity in that region, injuriously affected the whole country, 1 am quite content to rest my ease with the more deliberate judgment of the people and, as I have already intimated, with the distant fu ture. The war, all must remember, was a stupendous and deplorable mis take. Neither side understood the oth er ; and, bad this simple fact and ito conclusions been kept in view, all that was needed was accomplished by the acknowledgment of the terrible wrong and the expression of better feeling and earnest endeavor at atonement shown and felt. in the prompt ratification of consti tutional amendments by the Southern States at the close of the war, not ac cepting the war as a confessed false step on the part of those who inaugurated it, was an error which now time only can cure, and which even at this late date weshouid endeavor to palliate. Ex periencing, moreover, as ail have done, the frightful cost of the arbitrament of the sword, let us in the future cling closer than ever to the Constitution as our only safeguard, it is to bo hoped that not until the burdens now pressing upon us with such fearful weight are removed will our people forget the les sons of the war, aud that remembering them, from whatever cause, peace be tween sections and States may be per petual. The history of late events iu our country, as well as of the greatest gov ernments of ancient aud modern Linus, teaches that we have everything to fear from a departure irom the letter and spirit of the Constitution, and the undue ascendancy of men allowed to assume power in what are considered desperate emergencies, tsylla, on be coming master of Rome, at once adopt ed measures to crush his enemies and to consolidate the power of bis party, lie established military colonies throughout Italy ; deprived of the lull Roman franchise the inhabitants of the Italian towns who had opposed his usurpation, confiscated their lauds and gave them to his soldiers ; and conferred citizenship upon a great number of slaves belonging to tnose who had pro scribed him, thus creating at Rome a kind of body-guard lor las protection. Alter having given Rome over to slaughter and tyrannized beyond all example over those opposed to him aud the legions, his terrible instrument of wrong, Hylia could yet feel safe in lay ing down the ensigns of power so dread fully abused, aud in mingling lreely with the families and friends of his myriad victims. The fear which lie hail inspired continued after his volun tary abdication, and eveu in retire ment his will was law to a people who had permitted themselves to he en i slaved. What but a subtle knowledge | and conviction that the Roman people : had become changed, discouraged, and utterly broken in spirits could have in duced this daring assumption ? What but public indifference to consequences so terrible as to leave Rome open to ev ery calamity which subsequently betel her, could have justified the conclu sions of the dictator and tyrant in his I startling experiment ? We find that in the time which iias since elapsed hu man nature aud exigencies in govern ments have uot greatly changed. Who, a few years ago, in contemplating our future, could have supposed that, in a brief period of bitter experience, every thing demanded in the name ol mili tary emergency or dictated by caprice .......in to b-considered as mere matters of course : that conscription, confiscation, loss of personal liberty, and the subjection of States to military ! rule and disfranchisement, with the extension of the right of suffrage mere ly to accomplish party ends, would re ceive the passive submission, if not ac quiescence. of tiie people of the repub lic! It has been clearly demonstrated by recent occurrences that encroach ments upon the Constitution cannot be prevented by the President, however devoted or determined he may be. That unless the people interpose there is no power under tne Constitution to check a dominant majority of two thirds of the Congress of the United States. An appeal to the nation is at tended with too much delay to meet emergency ; while, if left free to act, the people would correct, in time, such evils as might follow legislative usur pation. Titere is danger that the same power which disregards the Constitution wild de prive (htm of (he right to change their rulers, except by revolution. We have already seen the jurisdiction of the judiciary circumscribed when it was apprehended that the courts would