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Apvnirriattitirrs are inserted at resectimble;
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trairThe circulation of Tun eras AM" BEM*
L is one-half larger than that ever attained by
any newspaper in Adams county and, es an ati
vertlsing medium, it cannot be excelled. .
Jon WORK of all kinds will be promßtly ei
ecnted, and at fair rates. Hand-bills, 'Blanks,
Cards, Pamphlets, &a., in every variety and style
will be printed at short notice Terms, Owen. '
,rattooional Cardo, &c. .
J. COVER, ATTORNEY AT
• LAW, will promptly attend to collections and all
other Bustnessentnasted to lancers.
Cake tmtweea Fahnestock and Danner and Bieser's
stores, Baltimore street, Oettyebtirg; Pa. play 28,1 867.
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;AVID WILLS, ATTORNEY AT.
LAW,Ofilre nt Ids residence in the South-oast car
t:sr of Centre Square.
Roterence.—llen.Tinekleus Stevens, Lancaster, Pa.
May 'Z9,1807.
I.)AVID A. BUEHLER, ATTOR
-- NEI tT LAW, will promptly attend to - collect/ono
and all other business entrusted to his care.
air-Ofilee at his residence in *the three story building
opposite the Court House. [Gettysburg, May 1867.
CLAIM AGENCY.----The under-
Nigned will attend to the collection of 'clnlme Igraine
the U. S. Government, inclading,Military Bounties, Back
Pay, Pensions. Forage, kc., either in thin Court of Claims
or before any of the Departntents at Washington.
R.G.?IcCREARY,
Attorney at Law, Gettysburg, Pa
May 29,1867
MeCONAUGIIY, 'Attorney and
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• Counselor at Law, and Claim Acrtnl. Office on
Chnntherstonrg street, Gettysburg, one d our west of
Buehler's Drug Store.
During the weasion of the Senate lie will attend at his
°Mee on Saturday., and has al., made arrangements
that We client's and their trebles , . will at all times re•
eive prompt attention.= May 9.9, 1867.
SAMUEL D. SCIIMUCKER Z
ATTORNEY AT LAW
No . 43 Lexington st., Baltimore, Md.
Will give prompt attention to all PiPefeii,i , itial manure ,
11 , well At loans c.lioctionii and
. April 18, 1887.-6 m
J. P. CLARKSON. C. VAN SCII•ACK.
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CLARKSON & VAN SCIIAACK,
ArrouNZYS kND COUNz , ELLORS AT LAW,
No. S 2 keurborti Street, .
0.130 x., 711. CUIC6tIO, ILL
iltltyllehr to the Enlitors of Co , -Star St-nt liter."
Nov. 1,1866.-1 y
DR. J. W. C. O'NEAL •
Ilas hiii Office at Us residence In Idalt law, street
two dotal above the Ciampi/ex Office.
Gettysburg, M 29, 1867.
D R. COO
LIOIDEOPATIIIC PHYSICIAN,
SUIWRON AND ADDOHCIIKIIR,
Idaving pannanontly located in Hanover, Pa., respect
tally otters hie professional services to thepublic. Special
attention given to dinenien oh women and children.
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, ASPERINCIES.
. Prof. Ad. Lippe, 11. D., P4ailadolphia,
• 1. C. Morgan, M. D..
Wrn. H. Cook, 011,1111114
Hon. Edward McPherson, Gettysburg,
; David Willa, Esq.,
' Rev. J. A. Roes, IlanovOr, Pa.
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I Alrer Office on the &Inure. five doors west of Carlisle et..
eethnd dour from Central Hotel. (May 29, 1887.-ly
JOHN LA.WRENdE lIILL, Den',
tist, Office iuChacaliereburg street, one door west cif
the Lutheran Church, nearly opposite Dr. R. Horner 4 s
Drug Btbre, where he ugly be Nutareadly and willing to
attend any case within the province of the Dentist
Persons in.want of full sets of teeth are Invited to call.
May 28,18i7.
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OLIN W. TIPTON, FASHIONA:
e. BLit BA RS Flit, .Icortll-IKast corner of the IMartiond
nest door to IcCiellares fieftelotiettyaburg,Pa., where
ho Coll at ell times be found ready to attend to all bust.
neaain his line., lie has also au excellent assist4ntand
will ensure satisfaction. Oise hip, cull.
May 'AMT. .•
QURVEYOIL AND LICENSED COI
- CF.YANCSJL The undersigned, having taken out
a Convoyaucer's License. will, iu connection with the
cane a COUNTY SURVEYUlt,attemd to the
wat INJ OF DEEDS, BONDS,-RELEASES, WILLS,
ItVOLES OF AOREKSIENT, CLEREII 4 :O OF
• SA lAS, &C.
Haying had considerable experlenreiu this line, bebop,.
to rem.iro a liberal share of patronage. Business prompt
ly attened to aid charges reasonable. Poet °Mee address,
Audi eld, adorns Co., Pa. J. B.WITLIEROW. •
May 29,18157.-1 y
OH ! -YES ! OH ! YES !
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TIIE undersigned having taken out
an Auctioneer's LlCtise, offers his services to the
public,And would respectfully inform the public that he
Is prepared tont tend prou.ptly to all hnsiness in this line,
By strict attention to it 11.941048 he hopes to render entire
satisfaction. Qs _Charges will be very moderate, andsat•
faction guarantied lu all eases. Address— •
111 KAM A LBEItT,
Oicaropr in 4. York Cu. Pa.
May :29. 1867.—1 f
raintrart, &c.
TI N-WARE AND STOVES•
TILE Lmtuv.sT ASSORTMENT OF
Tix-wARE IN TILE COUNTY,
S.G. COOK'S;
(Formerly troll - I.w of
TIU BEST COOI:INLI-1701111:3 IN TUE NlAltlika
alteseg Whieh are the
OLD DOMINION,,
COMPROMISE, ;
PENNSYLVAiCI A,
NOBLE. COOK,
Also, many other articles for kitchen use, which will be
soh, as low as at any other place in the cannty
A 01.12,18013
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STOVES,
TIN-WARE, &C., &C.
TuBpublic are Invited to call mot examine my in;
mown; clock of goods
IN THE STOVE LINE
Waverly, Noble Cook, Royal Cook, Barley Sheaf. Orient ,
Stewart's Cook, Ornamental, Excelsior, Mune }loyal
and the Emerald COolting Stoves, all for coal or wood.—
These varieties are a selection front the best nod meet
popular Cooking Stover the market affords, and are all
warranted to give entire satisfaction. Also, Cvery largo
variety of Parlor, Saloon and Shop Stoves. fur coal or
wood, Including the celebrated Morning. ,Okury. the Vul
can, Oval Meteor, Round Meteor, Dial, Violet, Oem, Eta
gulator, Comet. Egg. New Egg, Parlor Cook, tr., ke—i-
Vire Brick and Orates, for coal or wood, always on hand.
IN THE TIN-WARE LINE
The assortment embrace.' everytiainv
. r.ecesaary for
kitchen or household purposes, including a large num+
bor. of convenient yet cheap article* of new design which
must be seen to tee appreciated. The stock Is so large
and varied oar thou who have not visited the establish+.
meat have no conception or Its extent. In addition to
the ordinary kitchen utensils, it Includes Bathing Vale
Ws, Wiles Caansbor Beta,. ideiti and teary. Chamber,
Buckets, Bread and Spice Boxee, Tea and Coffee Canis
ters, Deed Boxed, Spitioomh Tumbler Drainers, Lead
Boxes,Waitera, Ale Carriers, Water Coolers, Slew Cut
tere,Nnree Lamps, /ally Moulds,!kidding kletilds, Pa
tent Nutmeg Craters, Comb Ompri,Gem Grant Plates and .
A B t 1 Kates, Ash Buckets, Flour Sleeves, Bird Cages . ,
Spout Reads,Coffee Mills, Lanterns, Ba s ting Spoons,
Large Forks , Sticks, (kindle Xonlda, Copper Dip
ries, Wronglkt-lronlikying Pans, ilmoothinclions, Foot
Scrapers, Coffee Roaster*, Wanted ironeAradjear, Dinner
and Auctioneer Bells, Egg Beldam Nett, Fluted Pull
nab, Coal Sieves, 0 lass-top ?milt Casa, Plain-Sep Pratt
cans, Pelf-sealing Jars, Sc.. Ac.; Tlry•lnire node co order,
and repairing promptly attended to, by the best of mpria.
men. '
IN THF. HOLLOW -WAS UV*:
i se
Cant•inon Pote, of evert' ' and variety, for stoves, Pt*
cetaiu lietVee, Ibr air end preserrins, ..Atedinslli .
Kettles, ter ditto i Ca Stow Pans, of every alneg and
"eioti, Porcelain and tinned, with a thousand and'one
oillerarticles Impoeslble to ensmersfe In an ilvertlnd.
:sent. .
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aitehtioh is yr tall dl acted:4l24e valuable pa-
lcutO for milk* be hi arest,aed C wbioh,tberil
loom& fts can be attuned by ICONS
M , OW . 1 1 1 1 2 i usd
Ch. 'ILE THE UNIVERSAL CIATLIF&W OE
DoTrra resuusa meoUrtiz, and rat
DIAMOND C4UPON.
Thepabllc ere invited to .aiLitia 410
prim. US gtuinvito.d to iell ewory 4,10 Übe*
eatetvalus tow figures. Cfitme and sdli, to oat 7O
cetritolty, If yea dv not woad to buy. •Ito ttotaille saw
spook. • - 114
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VOL. LXVII. NO. 42.
• M'CURDY &HAMILTON,. `.
DEAuzrai , IN.
FLOUR, GRAIIII 6,12 0 CE'REE S
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rpl.lll. undersigned are 'pailng at their Wart4toutia, In
Carlisle street, adjoining Buehler'slifall;the hlsbest
prices for . t,
FLOUR, WILEAT, RYE, CORN, OATS,- BUORWENIAT,
GLOVER AND TIMOTHY-SEEDS, FO.
TATOXS, Atc., La., f
ankfterittvproducers le give them a cal before selling.
• - They have constantly on hand for sale,
A LARGE SUPPLY OF GROCERIVR,
Molasses, Syrups Coffees Sugars, Lc.,with Salt, ,Fish,
Oils, Tar, Soaps, isms' and Lard, Tobaros, Ac. Aim the
hest breaths of FLOUR, with FEED of all kinds. -They
likewise have
SEVERIL VALUABLE FERTILIZERS,
Soluble Pacific Guano, Rhodes' Phosphate and, A A.
Mexican 011100.
Whilst they pay the highest market prices for all they
buy, they sell at the lowest living profits. They ask a
share of public patronage, resolved to give satisfaction
in every case.
ROBERT McCURDY,
Wm. S. lIAMILTON.
July 3, 1567.—tf
DANIEL GULDEN,
• DEALER IN
DRY GOODS ,
FLOUR, GRAIN GROCERIES,
LUMBER, COAL,' &c.
'T ilt undersigned keeps on band, at his Were linnet.,
known as *Gulden's Station," in.Altraban towilship,
on the tine of the G ettysburg Railroad, all kinds of ,
GItOCERIES,
including Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, Spices, kr., with Salt,
Fish, Oils, Tobacco, 13econ, Lard, dtc. Also,
LUMBER AND COAL,
tort nding Bu il ding Stuff, Shin Flee. Lithe, atocesu t Black.
smith Coal, Mee,
GUANO,
and a large aseortmen t of
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DRY GOODS 3 BOOTS ) HATS
AND CAPS,
of all kinds, which be is prepared to sell at the lowest
prices.
Ile also pays the highest market price for Flour. Ora in,
Corn. Oats, Buckwheat, Clover and Timothy Staab, Pota
toes, Ate., or will receive and forward the same to market
"11 commi.sion. Ile respectfully asks his friends and the
public to give him a call. DANIEL GULDEN.
Aug. 21,15e7.-tr. -
FORWA
AND COMMISSION HOUSE.
HAVING purchased the extensive
Warehouse,Cars,Ac., heretofore owned by Runnel
Herbst, we beg lease to Inform the public that
I re are
continuing the business at the old stand on the corner
of Washington and Railroad streets, on a moreexiensise
scale thaa heretofore.
We are paying the higlioet market price for Ffonr,
Grain awl all kinds of produce.
Flour and Feed, Salt, and all kinds of a roceriee. kept
constantly on hand and for sale, cheaper than thieY
.can
be bad anywhere else.
Planter, and all kinds of fortillsere, constantly on
hand. or furnished to order.
,Vir& regular line of Freight Cars willlear e our Ware
house every TUES)AY MORNING. and accommodation
trains will be run us occasion way require. By this ar
rangement we are prepared to convey Freight at all
times to and Irons Baltimore. All business of this kind
entrusted to no, will be promptly attended to. Our care
run to the Warehouse of Stevenson & Sons, 166 north
Howard street, Baltimore. Being determined to pay
good prices, sell cheap and deal fairly, we invite every
body togiva us a call. CULP & I3I.It.NSUAW.
Aug. 9,1866.
W. E. BIDDLE
100,000 Bastes. .6raln - Wanted.
¶EW FIRM AT THE OLD WARE
-110175i3. WM. L BII7DLE & CO. would Worm the
public that they hare leased the Warehouse on the cor
ner of Straton street and the Railroad, In Gettysburg,
where they will carry on •
THE GRAIN AND PRODUCE BUSINESS,
In all ite branches. The highest prices will always be
paid fur Wheat, Rye, :Corn, Oats, Clover and Timothy
Seeds,Flazseed, Sumac, Hay and Straw, Dried Fruit-
Nuts, Soap, Hems, Shoulders and Sides, Potatoes, with
everything else in the country produce line.
GROCERIES.—On hand, for sale, Coffees, Sugars,
Molasses, Syrup', Tens, Spices, Salt. Cheese. Vinegar,
Soda, Mustard, Starch. Brooms, Buckets, 'Hacking,
Srsaps,Ac. Also COAI: OIL, Fish OIL Tar. Ac. 'FISH of
all kinds; Spikes and Nails; Smoking and Chewing To.
burros.
They are always able to supply a first rate article of
Flour, with the different kinds of Feed.
Also, Ground Plaster, with Guanos and other fertili
zers. COAL, by the bushel, ton or car load.
They will run a LINE OF FREIGHT CARS from Get
tysburg to Baltimore once every week. They are pre
pared to convey Freight either way, in any quantity, at
REDUCED RATES. They will attend.. if desired. to the
making of purchases in' the city, and delivering the
goods promptly in Gettysburg. Their cars rant.) the
Warehouse of Nathan Roop k N 0.128 North Howard
street, near Franklin, Baltimore, where freight will he
received at anytime. They invite the attention of the
pnblic to their line, assuring them that they will spare
no effort to accommodate all who may patronise them.
. • Apt 1119, 1868.—tf BIDDLE & BENNER.
GRAIN AND GROCERIES.—The
highest Mark et price paid for Grain and all kinds of
Produce. 0 roceri egaertilizerg, ke.,conatantly on hand
for gale at the Warb-honao of
Ang. 9 196.1
LUMBER, & COAL,
AN IMMENSE STOCK!
CORNER OF CARLISLE ST. AND THE RAILP.OAD,
ECOIYOMLST,
BAItt,EY SIDSAF, &c,
N order to give the public something
like an adequate Idea of the immense stock of Lam
er, Coal, Stoves, Tin-ware, de., dc on hand and for sale
by the undersigned, at his mtablialLent, in Carlisle at 4
across the Railroad trom the Passenger Station, be
would et:temente as far as the liMlts of a newspaper ad
vertisemeat will allow :
lEM
Boards and Plank or every grade, from cullings to panel.
Joists and Besotting, pine and "hemlock, Suring, planed
and unplaned, Flooring, Shinglea;Bh Ingle Laths, Plaster
ing Laths, Pickets. ready-made Doors and Bash, Blinds
and Shutters,—in act, everything used for building pur
poses.
Shamokin White Ash and - Lykerts' Talley Red Ash,
these two varieties being . the purest and best '‘for all
domestic purposes. Also the very best Rread•top And
Allegheny smith Coal.
*3.lror particulars of Stoves, Tinware, de., tee adver.
themset under head of Stovall and Tinware.
C. 11. B7ERLIR,
July 3,1Y67.
LUMBER!" LUMBER!
N I
NEW LUMBER YARD N EM
MITTSBURG, MD.
Wt - would respectfully infOrm the
w public that wi have establithed 11. LA,ll4$ Lfl
lIER YARD in Jimmittaburg, ktd. •
LLTAIRSR, SCANTLING, PICKS= ARP LAWDS
FLOOR LNG BOARDS, yiNDows, DQORS,
SITUTTEBS, ram -Ds,
and every descriptiou of Building Lumber futrdshea at
the loweat coat price., b•
WILLIAM uukics,
£gen t for Pottbr 1 Co.
lane 21, 18615.—tr
NEW. LUMBER, YARD.
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T HE undersigned 'has 'opened' A lit/NRE
R
YARD. an the anitrold, • Nina qulnn' A -
Reilly's Lime Kilns, Gettysburg and oaks Nig publo - 1.
give him a c 511.4115 assortment Is one'Of the bast ever
offortei bora, pa 41p Saes &Cord alidsrthissoallset living
profit. He lamp IHTX PINX PL Y, lauk and half
BOARPS.nooKino, TALLINN, ae.44te.; aid Mix:M-
I* l 3 l YsZtag to his •stock..oams and'exasalne.tar
yourselvee
11111 A ply of 9biuglavislowsiriessal ' unhand.
Lure. 1.1866.—tL JA OX : • IS.
HIN LES.--Prime Shingletts, the
L
b e et 14.markm, (or sale at J
w r di llilloMil
now Lam b Yard, on the Railroad, the Lima
Kilitil.Ge rg•;' lifoir. 680,46 '
A it REILLY have erected
are
el. df oo tiosta tter t i film repar lt ed flo4 twin on ' ey th e o; Sai to rithite uppl , 7 74
riteforpe
bow , n Ismer onsll quantal's. i errand
im ieriass . r look for 4 pore prq allot et
metro .AI are' Invited to extend It toottono
their s k "igka OM WWI JO•*llllititftl • Mirott tOofo.
com u l asta them tu Um beet mincer pooorbioi.
They w abotagtour te keep on. haul, foot'. ••I•,•
coda")
the 424f4slat 10+ 11 0 of Catiln Which that'
itill fin calikil Pkagir: -
1 ` Oita 40410144/WiWriqb °WOW o c
i a t m
isn•21, 1 1860.•;-tt • . •
MI
gOrtvartling 14S!$00.
FLOUR AND FEED
G RAIN AND. GROCERIES.
IL S. BENNEIL
CULP k BAICiSIIAW
giant, umber, Time, &r.
GETTYSBURG, PENNA
IN THE LUMBER LINE
THE COAL LINE
ire SD Coal.
EIS
:..,.„
s23f-a1i..:.0.0..0::0:4.
THE NEV.SIX PER=CENT.
PENN SYLVA.NIA
STATE LOAN'.
FREE FROM ALL STATE, COUNTY IND .
MUNICIPAL TAXATION.
Will be tarnished in sunnito mit, on application to the
neatest Bank or Beaker; also by either
of the undersigned.
JAY COE& & CO.,
DREXEL a CO.,
E. W. CLARK CO.,
Bankers, Philadelphia.
GETTYSBURG
NATIONAL BANK.
GOVERNMENT BONDS OF ALL ISSUES,
SEVEN-THIRTIES •
COMPOUND INTERES'T NOTES,
Imught and sold
Orders for purchase and sale of
STOCKS, BONDS AND GOLD,
promptly. execut
Alii-INTEREST allowed on SPECIAL DEPOSITS at
3. 4 and 5 per cent., according to length of time of (la
Posit. .1. EMORY BAIR, Cashier.
July 8,1867.
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First National Baal of Gettysintrl,
ALLOWS
INTEREST ON DEPOSITS
AS USUAL-
Buys and Sells all Kinds of
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES,
GOLD A 2s; D SILVE ,
Converts 7-30 Notes into 5-20 U. 8. Bonds
kr - Orders solicited and promptly at
tended to.
GEO. ARNOLD, Cashier.
April 11, 11107
prugo, Ittediritato,
Drugs and _Medicines.
FORNErS OLD STAID.
THE undersigned haring taken charge of thin
old and popular Store, taken pleasure in in—.
funning the public that he I. constantly receiving frees
supplies of all kinds of DRUGS AND IiEDICINES, from
the meet reliable bonzes, and Is prepareed to accommo
date his customer. with any article in his line
MESH DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
of every description, all the popular PATENT HEW
CINES of the day, with • full supply of chemicals, l'er
turnery, Faints, Dye Stuffs, Varnishes, Fluids. Turpen*
tine, Hair Oils, Ex tracts, Soaps, Ilrushes,tos ether with
a groat variety of Fancy articles—ln short,. everything
usually found iu a.first chose Drug Store—constantly on
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hand.
. Physicians supplied at risailouabh• rates. and pre
acriptions carefully compounded and prepared at all
hours of the day and night—Sunday not excepted. Be
ing determined to sell cheap,he would ask a liberal share
of public patronage. Clive use call and see c.a. your
selves. JOHN S FORNEY .
May a), 1807.
A. D. BUEET_LER,
TIIEOLOGIOAL. CLASSICAL AND MI6CELLA.NEOUS
BOOKS,
DRUGS, MEDICINES,
STA 170/NIER I',
PERFUMERY OF ALL KINDS,
17 4 IRAIES OF EVERY KIND,
1 fur Large Picture.. Marriage Certificates, Church
Certificate+. Mitafunny Certificates, tc, very (+ran at
K. Cr. SHEA} YEWS
Nay Gallery, Hanover. In.
C'kambersburg street, ne ar Diamond. I June
GETTYSBURG, PA.,
Mny W. 1867.-1 y
DR. R. HORNER'S
DRUGS, STATIONERY AND NOTIONS,
GE TT YS LI UR G, P.l.
Ilia own pr.•partioua are nil etaarantl to mower the
pa rpomea iut
Dr. R. Horner's An ti• Cholera and Dlarrllma miz
ture, for all diseasecof the stomach
and bowels.
Olein for Chapped Hands
Fragrant. Myrrh, for preserving anJ beautify
ing the teezh, and for ell diseases of the
MOIL
His Tonic and Alterative Powders. tor ilorrsaand
Cattle, are superior to any in the market.
Pure Liquors fur medical uss. Prescriptions
Medical advice without charge
Jane 6,1847.-tr
Confectiesto t tire grtato f Wogs, fic.
SOMETHING NEW
IN GETTYSBURG,'
The undersigned Mu the pleasant° of` Informing the
citizens of Gett,yaburs and vicinity, the' he le now pre.
pared to iranply them with the famous*
gs>cA>tc moue,
draws' fro* DOW'atanha Ponntain,whicli lass become so
popular in the . Ifyon have !layer tasted this de •
liciowi drink, yorihket - luiow what -yon liwra
Try it. Onco•taaMd,Jon will become a regular potion..
have also opened my • - '
. 101 OMAN •3ALOON,
'with accommodntloa+for Ladiatind Geutiouseo and
. prepared to supply private families . Parties ,' Mn
to., on
rpsonable terms. Abe, eoustantly on banal; Trash' •
CO.NI.III.OTIONS, ,
Cia 0 , 0 1 . okkostablishect ,scan oil Chitin
beratilirg the Lotlientathcireb atfJol tang
tbos•Keystone 110401.
May 29.1887.-3 m A. MINNIOII.
Fresh Confeetioterr, &e.
TH,E subseyiber ;calls -the Atteatjaa
oftbe citiseuiof Gettysburg and vicinity, to MS
Ape Voullectianitry turtabfbhnunit, one door esuit ofthis
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WEIPIESDAY 'SEPTEMBER 11 , . 1867:
GETTYBBURO-;
Wapitts Mitt_ **WIT.
1867:, 'REM' , 1807.
A. R. , FELSTEL;
• Pradteut mita raker,
A2n). DE A.pur IN
WATCHES AND *JEWELRY
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AZABLro vita his Store to York Street, ' ne x t doOr to
' floYer'k Bon's Grocery, and 'directly °melte the
Gettysburg National Bank, where he has uo band, and
is constaatly roceirlog r iarge nippl les of
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from; the Wet Manufactories in the United States; an
sty Iso; Regulator, OM cs,Eight-day and Twenty-four None
Clocks, With • and wide:int Atom Attachment—ail' war.
ranted, aid el II he sold cheap. Prices from Mt 150 to $9 80.
WA.TCHES..
of hmeritan mil Foreign manufacture; Goad and Saver,
Huntinglease and Open-faced Levers, Deracheci,,Lacore,
tnight Line. White Movement, Lepinee„nallroad, Time
keepers Lend 'Fferleg 'Watches, aU warranted—at price'
ranging, from $l3OO to gib 00.
JEWELRY.
A splendid assortment of Rings, chased and plain, , Wed
ding Maws, Rings imitable Or Gifts, Baster Kiwi and
(iutta Parcba Rings, Ladies' Breastpins and Bar-rings of
all laying end prices., Gents' Pins of all Binds, Bbuicedo,
Odd Fellows, Red Men and Templars'. Gold Perm and
Pencils, Napkin Rings, Silver Thimbles Spectacles; sit-
Ter, plated andatea, a large variety of Gold and Slyer
Vest end Curb Chains, Gents' Bosom Studs, 'Sleeve But
ton; Lodlrets, Charms, de, Fold CIIZAPU. ?nor fill
CHLltel.,
111136CUX4 Watches, Jewelry and Musical luetry merits
of every dewription RNPAIRED to order, and satlethetlun
guarantied in all gases.
Thankful fur the liberal patronage heretofore extdaded
to him, he hopes by doing good work, at rettscassble pricer,
to merit; the continuance of the sante.
Oettyaburg, Ang.•_'l, 1867:-1y
COMPARE, THEN JUDGE.
GREAT REDUCTION IN
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRICES
OF VERY SUPERIOR
SILVER and SILVER-PLATED WARES,
OF oUR OWN MANUFACTURE—SneII
as Tea Seta, Urns Ice Pitcher*, ...
.. ? Walters, Goblets,'Coke Baskets, ... I
Castors, Butter Coolers, Vegeta- ' if ,
i 4 2 ble Die Les, lureens, Sugar and '—
Card
Ballets, Syrup and Drink
mi lug Cup.. Knives, Faris, and . N
= SpOl , VC of various kinds, kc ., 4 7.,
- ow° Ac.. WARRANTED TRIPLE'
..... PLATE. on beat of metals, and
equal to any in the market, of the LATEST STYLES
and no goods are misrepresented, at
JOHN BOWMAN'S
New and Beautiful Store,
No. 1 . 04 Arch street, Philladelpbbi.
Ile-Please call and examine our Goods before purchas
ing.
N. B —All kinds of PLATING at mem able prlcee.
Aug. 21, 1a67.-ly
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JOHN BOWMAN,
No. 704 Arch Street,
PHILADELPHIA,
Manufacturer and Dealer In
SILVER AND PLATED WARE,
Our Goode are decidedly th e cheapest In the City .
TRIPLE I' LATE, A No. 1. • '
Mar. 14, len7.-1y
Vhotooraph (4alltrico.
WE are always glad to see our
• • friends at the Excel.for Gallery, It still standilln
the same old place opposite the amok on Tack it.. Oat
tystiurts, I. C. J. TYSON.
PHOTO MINIATURES at the Ex
calaiorOaHery ere
superb mad ate furnished ' at
onu-third city prices. Call rnd examine. speculum's.
C. J. TYSON.
EXCELSIOR is our motto. To
plea. uur aim! and to render satisfaction in erery
instance uur determination. . C. J. TYSON.
CONSTANTLY on hand an snort
meat of tine Thames, Photograph Alhoms,hUiribr and
Baskets for granites, from the Battle-field. Photographs of
on r Generals. and other distinguished individuals. at the
Mt==l
'I I IIE best Photographs made in this
Chanty are walla at the Facelalur Gallery, Getty.-
harg, oyyonrtc the ”Id hank. C.J.TYBON.
DY all tucans have your Photographs made at
I) the Excelsior Gallery if you desire them per
C.J. TYSON.
LARGE VIEWS of the Battle-field,
tingly or in sets, very low,; also Stereoscopic Views
f., et the F:x.celi for Gallery. Do I.ot f it
to see thew. C. J. TYSON.
REMOVAL!
TIIE GETTYSBURG SKYLIGHT GALLERY.
THE undersigned takes pleasure in
AL AnnOnnthig to the citizens of Gettysburg and the
public generally that he has removed from his old MOMS
on West Middle street, to Baltimore street cud nearly
opposite the store of Falinestock Brothers. The room he
sow occupies, has been recently fitted up expressly for
his business. The location is en admirable one, enabling
him to take pictures In all shades of weather. ant eilth a
orrectnese unequal led any where
LIFE—LIKE YIIOIOGRAFIIB,
of every size and description, executed in the finestatyle
particular ettention Riven to the CARTE-DR VISITE, and
in copying AMBROTYPES and DAGUERREOTYPES of
deceumea fi lends. Also— ,
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THE GETTYSBURG GEMS,
a new style of picture which has become 'very popular
with the public, not only fur their beauty, but for cheap
ness and convenience. SIXTEEN for ONE DOLLAR on
ly. Also--THE PORCELAIN PICTURES, which for
their beauty and durability are tutsprpaseed.
We are prepared to carry on the business he all its
various breaches, and having bad cousideribleexperience
we run no risk in
• GUARANTEEING PER FEL,T SATISFACTION:
Our fisellities for stall display of our Ail] are unequal
ed by any other Gallery in the County. and we would
herefore invite every nee to-call at the
NEW GETTYSBURG SKYLIGHT GALLERY.
Call and examluo our Specimens and Jtulge for your
solves. LEVI MIIMPIIR.
June 21,1866
j GURNEY & SON
• PHOTOGRAPII ARTISTS,
707 Broadway, New York.
In addition to our PIIOTOORAIIIC ART OALLittre.
established 1840. We have for the last flue years had ad
vantages superior to any other establishment in obtain
ing sittings from life, of all the PROMINENT CELRBRI
TIRS of the day in CARD PORTRAITS, avid ars now
pt bbiblng a Catalogue of over 2500 SIIRJRCTS, AMERI
CAN AND YORRION, also a large lilt of Copies of
WORKS OP ART AND ENGRAVINGS.
Such as the Right Rev. Bishops of the Bphcopial church,
the. Catholic Clergy, and the Clergy of all denominations;
all prominent officers of the Army; Katy Wad Confederate
States, Actors and Actresses, Profewdonal Billiard Play
ers,Foreign celebrities, Picture, from Statuary, male and
female.
Catalogues sent on receipt of Stamp.
AO order for one dozen picture, from oureatalogne will
be filled at $l.BO, and sent by mall free. Single Pictures
cents each, rap's' of engreetngsAcettra each.
N. $r We also desire to all attention to the advantage
we have tor rniroductwir,or coPYIPpOId/slo l6B4 7Pes ,
Ambrotypei, card Pictures; Ac., o
DIOI4I3RD RELATIVES AND 781511103 5
enlarging them to any size, and lashing in Oil, Water
Colors, or India Ink, with the aid of
" TEN TALRNTED ARTISTS.
Parties desiring copies, should therefore correwpond
with.us Wed.
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piel,Lxxx OpSZ SOIL tpx INAP,I4MON /
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`.`STEVENS HAL'L."
Oration Hof the Hon. I. Russell Mayes',
. OF PHILADELPHIA,
At the toying. of the Corner Stone of
"Stevens Rail; Pexuasylvanisi College,
Gettysburg, Pa., August. 8, IsBs.
Blom the struggle of contending principles,
from the conliiet or hostile interests, from the
ittar of opposing opinions—are brought forth
new truths, new customs, new laWs, new con
stitutions, new. States. The eighty-live years
Which elapsed between the Declaration of In
dependence and the year 1861 present a con
thmons record of these contending forces.—
That at some period the time should arrive
When their relative strength should be tried,
snd when it should be forever determined
whether the principle of disintegration or the
Vrinelpie of national unity should prevail;
whether freedom should triumph or slavery
endure, whether the principles of a class or
the rights of the people should be victorious—
was as certain as that these antagonistic prin
ciples were imbedded in the body politic.—
That a result so decisive was reached at so
early a period in the history of this govern-
Mont is attributable, in a greatmeasnre, to the
aggressive nature of the false principles them
delves.
A. R. FE! STEL
When their appeal to the sword silenced the
arguinent of words, and hostile principles and
irreconcilable theories stood face to face in
armed opposition, it for the first time became
apparent that the' compromises of the past
were, by their very nature, temporary and de
kusive, and that upon the result of the struggle
about to be joined would - depend the character
of the civilivoion and laws, which, through
the long future allotted to the lives of nations;
would prevail upon the continent of America.
A war was made for slavery, and behold,
everywhere, from ocean to ocean, and from
the gulf to the frowning forests of our north
ins frontier, a land Untrodden by a single
slave. A war was made for State sovereignty,
and behold, everywhere, over this vast ex
panse, the triumphant symbol of national su
premacy. A war was made for disunion, and
behold, everwyltere, indestructible unity. A
war was made for aristocracy, and behold,
everywhere, predominant, the elevation of la
bor and the power of the people. A war was
made to perpetuate the most odious restric
tions upon citizenship, and behold, universal
suffrage an accomplhibed fact in the States
ivhieh made the war, and an impending fact
everywhere. •
These are the first thoughts which naturally
arise in this place and at this time, for here
occurred that decisive trial of those grave is
sjues of government in which the human race
had so large a stake, and which, for the better
Parte a century, had been growing and ripen
ing for a final settlement. Here, more than
it any other place, were these solemn clues-
Ocms determined. In this grand forum of na
ture, with the civilized world for spectators,
these opposing principles, matured in their
growth and formidable in their strength, grap
pled for mastery in the deadly conflict. Here
judgment was given between them ; and on
thy grassy slopes and rocky hillsides, immortal
Gettysburg, liberty and union, truth and jus
tice were born anew. On these immovable
foundations behold a new republic founded,
Wherein are to be henceforth recognized the
futity of the nation, the rights of labor, and
the freedom and equality of all men.
These problems were always inherent in
the elements of our condition. They were
deeply planted in the colonial governments
which first dispelled the barbarism of these
Western shores. They broke abruptly out in
the Declaration of Independence. They lurk
ed in the Articles of Confederation. They
Stood confessed in the uncompromising com
promises of the Constitution made to establish
justice and form a more perfect Union. They
were thinly covered up by the legislative bar
gains of 1E450. Step by step, with the tread of
destiny, nearer and nearer to the surface they
came through the lapsing years of our brief
history, until, amid the clash of anns and the
roar of civil war, they stood clearly revealed
to our sight, demanding recognition and solu
tion. By devious passes, through darkened
ways and bloody paths, we reached this con
summation. And so, under the blessing of
Divine Providence, not knowing the way we
went or the end before us, conducted by the
genius of our progressive liberty, like the
tEdipus of Sophocles, led by beautiful and
fafthful Antigone, we have conic at last to
these peaceful seats. If, like him, any shall
Inquire—
C. J. T I 80. N
Tell me, thou daughter of a blind old man.
Antigone, to what land are w e come,'
Or what city?
We may reply, to a land of universal liberty
and of equal laws.
It is not possible to over-estimate the magni
tude or the importance of the changes which
the recent convulsion has wrought in our civil
condition. The conflagration which wrapped
this continent in the flames of civil war, has
Inirnt to ashes the theories and the Watitutions
which vexed our peace and threatened us with
continual dissolution. By its dazzling, light
thp Declaration of Independence and the Con
stitution are to be read henceforth in their
true sense—the one as a charter: of universal
frbedom r the other as the framework of a na
tional goveinrnent. The smoke which rises
from the smoldering ashes of slaveryand State
sovereignty, only indicates the severity of the
,struggle and'the magnitude of the overthrow.
'The vital principles of the Rebellion are burl
ol in the graves'of the Rebellion. They are
Gotornbed at Gettysburg, at Appomatfox Court
and in the hundreas of hatile-fielde
ihich will endure forever'the historic moan-
eats or their destruction. Freedom, the.
•
onion of the States, the flnprentacy of the Na.
onal Gorernment, are no longer queatioha to,
Oecided by courts or hy, urns. They have
ed into the very anbetance of *lie govern-
aut. The &algae which may await na in
I , : future will spring from other sources. '
What the result of the changes which hart
, -on effected shall be in the future depends, in
great measure, riPen ourselves.' The ages
• hich ant to `come can alone • sit in Judgment
I ,
pon th e fruit experiinent upon which , we,
have entered, for,theY alone shall write its ;
tort'.,M iti
`rife continued existence of nonz,
i
ke their growth, is dependent upon moral, as
Well aa physical lows. If the republius °Con
tiguity depayed and perished, it was became
they mai unworthy to live. If the civilizar
Pun of Europe was overwhelpied bythe Goths,
$t was teittuse the civilization of. Rome had
1 ihiled to accomplish the destinies of the peo•
pie she hadoonquered. It has been left for
the ingenhity of man -and the• detnonstrationt
of his experience todisarm what form of
gomlnuttitis beet far his circumstances and
condition; - There is not a civilized 'country
which does not now possess a bettor -govern
ment than It did a lambed yeirs - litio. • The'
rtgreas of min in, tile, ileltition aOdimpraW
mituf fir Brace is ap parent to the Itliaent of
Iliii i t
in die' imla.iveme* Of gov - .
i z,t
ernirier4, d ot the laws of Vs 4 66 4 1 5:4 41 4air
don Otan i 's' 'die discoveries of attience fu/0,i4 .
iiixentiotvt aistigtigicatimi oft
.ate. : , .
In the degree of: rapacity which mtstimr
possesses for selfgovennnent ; in the degree
in which•it the ageend ability to ap
ply the principles of self government, in that
degree is ft succeeded in promoting the wel
fare and happiness of ita people. The prox
imity of its ippon* to true representative
government founded upon ire popular,will, is
the true criterion of national moons and hap
piness. For thie reason the government of
England is freer and better than that .of
France; that of France better than that of
Russia; that of
j ßntisia better than , that of
China. Our own institutions are founded
upon the anpremaey of the people, and their
ability to govern thenaselves. To this cause,
more than to any other, is attributable the
growth of our power, the development of our
resources, and the prosperity of all our inter
ests. The results of our system stand forth be
fore the world the demonstrative proof of the
superiority of our institutions. The only pro
blem of the future is our ability to continue to
maintain these institutions. The principal
agency In this must be the education of the
people.
Our political principals do not differ more
widely from those of the ancients than our
system of education differs from theirs. When
the Roman youth, at the age of seventeen, ac
companied by his parents and friends, pro
ceeded with much ceremony to the forum, and
there, in the presence of the Prtetor, assumed
the toga virilis, his public education was
commenced. He studied oratory ; he studied
poetry ; be studied languages ; he studied arms.
There was little in that education whichlook
ed to qualifying him for general usefulness in
the ordinary duties of citizenship. He loung
ed in the forum, the theatre, the schools of
of oratory and of poetry, and the fencing
schools. If inflamed by a just ambition, the
only avenues to distinction were through the
forum or the field of Mars. The multitudin
ous pursuits of private life, which with ns en
gage the attention and employ the faculties of
the masses of the people, present to him no at
tractions and no rewards. Labor was blasted
by servitude, of which it was the badge, and
even commercial pursuits were regarded as
unbecoming a person of any position In so
ciety.
Thus the ordinary aims in life of a Roman
youth, came to be distinction in arms, distinc
tion in the forum, or a ricer marriage. This was
an education the direct product of aristocratic
institutions. It was partly martial, partly or
namental, partly effeminate, and altogether
selfish and contracted. What better could be
expected of a policy wlleh degraded labor
and encouraged idleness, which alternately fed
and amused a profligate populace at the pub
lic expense, and then sent them forth to perish
in wars in' which they hid no interest?
At the present day edticalicm has a broader
scope and a higher signification. It aims at
the cultivation of all the faculties, the develop-'
ment of the whole man, the acquisition of gen
eral knowledge, and at usefulness and skill in
whatever circumstances of life its recipient
may be placed. It deals not only with arms
and with arts, but with science, with govern
ments, with labor, with industry of all kinds.
It is comprehensive and unselfish in its aims.
It is catholic and liberal in its spirit; it is
independent and self-reliant in itseffects. Its
relations to the perpetuity of our political sys
tem are so clear and so close, that of the future
we might say the shame of public education
Would mean the absence of public virtue, and
the downfall of the State. The Rebellion, in
the home of its origin, - 44ritsOonspiracy of the
crafty and the strong against the ignorantand
the weak. When it encountered the educated
masses of the free States it was dashed in
pieces, like a wave against a rock.
Freedom and universal suffrage demand as
the necessary condition of their contnuance,
the education of the people. One of the great
est evils to which our government is exposed
is the indifference of a large part of the educa
ted classes to the exercise of their political pri
vileges. If it be true, as is asserted by a writer
distinguished alike for his accuracy and for the
breadth of his views upon these subjects, that
at large elections it is a common occurrence
that only 50 or 55 per cent. of the qualified
voters go to th polls ; that 60 and 65 per cent.
show a deep interest in the question, and 75
per cent. a passionate interest, * it must be ob
vious that if any considerable proportion of
those who do go are disqualified by ignorance
from exercising the right of suffrage with in
telligent discrimination, the success of repre
sentative government founded upon universal
suffrage is brought into the greatest danger.—
It is quite possible that under such circum
stances the government might fall into hands
which are incapable of conducting it. '
, Already bas this result been experienced to
a certain extent in some of our large cities.—
While the calamities which would flow fron
such a naultwould probably compel wcorrec
tion of the evil Ily arousing to action those who
habitually neglect' their duty, it must never
theless be obvious that a frequent repetition of
such disasters would seriously undermine the,
confidence of society in the stability and suc
cess of republican institutions. The tyranny
of ignorant masses is the most relentless and
intolerable of all despotisms. In this experi
ence are monarchies founded. Power, in the
bands of an intelligent and educated people,
is like_the amp hnter, invented by Nas- s
myth, which, while it deals with great messes
of iron like putt3s,uuty s hepoderated with suck
nicety, that it will crack a nut without bruis
ing the kerneL Power, in the bands of ighor
ant multitudes, is an ungovernable engine--
blind,-merciless, uncontrollable, irresistible.—
In the education of the people, therefore, lies
the only hope of a government ; founded upon
alsui age
If is a hopeful cirmuestance that.the people
nt . gas matte)y, are apparently hillpu;audl)hr of
thixtrath. Their oystenm of common schools,
their readiness to submit to taxation for the
support of thaw, their generous vohmtary con
tributions' and bequests for the purposes of
general ethical*, are sufficient evidence of
this, and cetalitute the best guarantee for the
citabilityef the immanent.
On the Ist 'day of June, 1860, the whole
thember of public sChools, coligps l / 4
&r.,, in the United States, exchilive of Iraq
laud and the District of Colimibia, Was 118,-
000 ; embracing 8,417,880 pekilb s snd employ
.ng 148,742 teachers. The annual expense of
these *shreds was Mi 90,482. the gene:-
ous Ameriesn mere lnutti Who, bet* - spetit
*like in the ocetimilathiti of a p oely fbr•
tune beyond• eteat*' Ilately bestowed ao
large a pardon of it for the prounitionof edu
cation in the Southern Antes, &serves a mar
ble statue in emeryesoolthinarmskite thanks
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pctor nfay be taught gratis," it was not until
the year 1834 that anything like a general
`system of ednitiation by common schools 'was
established. A school fund had been crested
by the act ofApril 2;1831, and on the Ist of
April 1834, Governor Wolf signed the bill
which for the first time secured to the people
of the Eitate the benefits of a well-digested and
unlversi system of common schools. That
'aft was imperfect in many of its details, but
upon it was founded the whole structure of
our present well-adjusted and successful sys
tem. At the succeeding session of the Legis
lature, a powerful effort was made to repeal
the act of April 1, 1834.
That the effort was not successful was ow
ing to the clear-sighted wisdom and the earn
est patriotism of a small band of faithful men,
who, regardless of threats of political proscrip
tion, determined that ignorance should no
longer. be a reproach to their State, and that
the Constitutional guaranty of education to
the poor should be kept. In the front rank,
and at the head of that rank of these true and
faithful representatives who saved the cbm
mon schools of Pennsylvania when, at the MG
ment they had been planted, they were assail
ed by all the powers of avarice and ignorance,
stood Thaddeus Stevens, then a Representa
tive in the Legislature from Adams county.
The brilliancy and the lower of the great
speech which he made on that occasion, in
April, 1835, are familiar to all who have ta
ken any interest in this subject. It will al
ways be regaded as one of the best specimens
of his eloquence. To the triumphant repy
which he made to the objections raised against
the law, there was, and could be, no answer
which could have a feather's weight in the
scale against the great measure for which he
was contending,
Take, as an example, his reply to the objec
tion founded upon the alleged inequality of
the tax for education :
"Many complain," said he, "of this tax, not
so much on account of its amount, as because
it is for the benefit of others and not for them
selves. This isa mistake. It is for their own
benefit, inasmuc has it perpetuates the govern
ment and insures the due administration
of the laws under which they live, and by
which their lives and property are protected.
Whydo they not urge the same objection a
gair.stall other ticces ? The industrious, thrif
ty, rich farmer pays a heavy, county tax to
support criminal courts, build jails and pay
sheriffs and jail keepers, and yet probably he
never has, and never will have, any direct
personal use of either. Ile never gets the
worth of his money by being tried for a crime
before the court, allowed the privilege of the
jail on conviction, or receiving an equivalent
from the aherff or his hangman officers. Ile
cheerfully pays the tax which is necessary to
support and punish convicts, but louilly com
plains of that which goes to prevent his fellow
from becoming a criminal, and to obviate the
necessity of those humiliating institutions."
Mark his withering reply to the appeal to
to the sordid selfishness of avarice. "It is
said," said he, "that its advantages will be un
justly and unequally enjoyed, because the in
dustrious,, money-making man keeps his
whole family constantly employed, and has but
little time. for them to spend at school, while
the idle man has but little employment for his
family, and they will constantly attend school.
I know, sir, that there are some men whose
whole souls no so completely absorbed In the
'accumulation of wealth, and whose avarice so
increases wilt success, that they look upon
their very children iu no other light than as
the instruments of gain—that they, as well as
the ox and the ass within their gates,- are val
uable only in proportion to their annual earn
ings ; and, according to the present system,
the children of such men are reduced almost
to an:intellectual level with their co-laborers
of the brute creation. This law will be of
vast advantage to the offspring of such misers.
If they are compelled to pay their taxes to
support schools, their-very meanness will in
duce them to send their children to them, to
get the worth of their money.
"Thus it will extract good out of the very
penuriousness of the miser. Surely a system
which will work such wonders ought 'to be
as greedily sought for and more highly prized
than that coveted alchemy which was to pro
duce gold and silver out of the blood and en
trails of vipers, lizards, and other filthy ver
min."
Listen to his denunciation of the attempt to
build up an anti-education party in the State :
"Sir, it is to be regretted that any gentleman
ahould haye consented to place his election
on hostility to education. If honest ambition
were his object, he will, ere long, lament that
he attempted to raise his monument of glory
on so muddy a foundation. But if it be so,
that they were placed here to obstruct the
diffusion of knowledge, it is but justice to say
that they fitly and faithfully represent the spir
it which sent thcmhere
,when they . attempt
to sacrifice . this law on the altars which at
home among their constituents they have rais
ed and consecrated to intellectual darkness,
and on which they are pouring out oblations
to send forth their foetid and noxious odors
over the ten miles square of their ambition.
"But will the legislature—will the wise
guardians of the dearest interest of a great
Commonwealth, consent to surrender, the high
t4vantages and brilliant prospects which this
lawpromises, because it is desired by worthy
gentlemen who,in a moment of causeless pan
ic and popular delusion, sailed into power on
Tartareall flood ?—a flood of ignorance dark
er, and; to the intellectual mind, more dread
,
ful than that seemed Stygian pool, at which
mortals and immortals trembler Sir, it seems
tome that the liberal' and enlightened pro:
ceedlngs of the last Legiltiature have aroused
the dernbn of ignorance from his slumber,
and, maddened at the threatened loss of ;his
murky ealpire;" 'llia:Mutt lOwlings are
head in every' part of the land."
Let Pennsylvania rejoice thvough all her val
leys, in all her hamlets, and in her - drOWded
'cities; that the battle for eommon schools was
fought and won ; and let her reniember, when
her history - shall be - written, the champion
who was the principal instrument in tichierv
big the victory. However slow sbernay lurre
been in the' adoption of this great measure,
she has fully shown that she appreOates the
truth that in the education of the people lies
the chief ticluity of the government. Of the
24,000 pal:6lc schools whickweire in existence
1660 hith&Middie Eitates,llo97were with
in her harden, Wherein were taught at that
time 865,30fichildren, by-13;194 leacher* at
an annual - expense of $Z 500 , 000 , 'of which
$2,160,000 Were raised by taxation, being: a
much huger. amount' furnbthed for, that pur
, pose disallow' rallied by any other-State of the
"'Union. In 18416 her public schools had in
creased, notwithstandingthe mei': to 18 5 146,
pupils in them to 425,312, and thnteachers to
16,141. The total amount of the expense of
twdatahttag the schools in the same year was
114,196,258. IHoW these figures would have
appalled the little pent/alerts who opposed
ceminota school educative In a 95; and make
theta: tremble;petit/sir, power over, "the ten
1 1 00124oRieStriastialmbilicat."•..'
.11**014312EPenisqrhallitt 011011! WW► while
Elf==
the writes, upon her banner "Vince, Überty
and Independence," she =demands the lidl
meaning of those lofty words, and that, while
she l Q : l tlidi l Yo - t oads - (Txdc qi Ir e
44 treithurd, Am
_,
Eget that public virtue is the only foundation
Of republican liberty; and that the education
efthe-People le eserstial for the iiprearvstion
fpublic virtue. It would bes witty °Edam
lira,. in the presence of tbe tmegaitethe
001
sys tlc tem e ttk , *lett er :mid: 13631.615
vidth erahl
derivedto th e nation
,to dWellkete.state,7e the:43 anit
loei 7 .
... . , , .. a .a.
of libentl. education MAO asmumes
ity at large, by the fostering and dhcontl4le
sent of the higher grades of eduaiditi.—
'Pleas are so obvious as to require no discus
ition. , . .
.ill I. tar F
We are assembled to-day to commemorate
another event in the progress of the educe
llonal interests of t'ennsylvsnis;. it is now
More than forty years since zealous, learned
and pious men laid in this now historic val.
11,7 the foundation of a theologicallinstitu
tron of the Evangelical Lutheran
,hurch,
flhich from small beginnings has become a
ourishing seat of the theologiCal learning. A
preparatory school soon followed, which was
kbsequently changed into a gymnasium, and
Which a few years later had so increased in
Members and importance that in 18112 it -was
eirected into a college by a charter from the
ttate of Pennsylvania. In Abe act incorpora
t dg, Pennsylvania College, it is recited that
"the Gettysburg Gymnasium is resorted to by
4 large number of young men from different
parts of this State and elsewhere, and promi
ses to exert a salutary influence s in advancing
the came of liberal education, particularly
among the German portion of our fellow-citi
zens."
By the eleventh section it wspi required
that, in addition to the customary professor
ships in other colleges, "there shall be in this
instution a German Professorship, the in
cumbent of which shall, in addition to such
dther duties as may be assigned him by the
Board, instruct such young men as may resort
tb the institution for the purpose of becom
ing qualified, to be teachers of those primary
schools in which, according to the act pass
ed hog session, both German and English are
to be taught." A provision which ahowabow
intimately the foundation of the College was
associated with the great question of popular
dducation then agitated.
The fourth section of the charter declared
that, "at elections either for patrons or trus
tees, or teachers or other officers, and in the
z!eception of pupils, no person shall be reject
ed on account of his persuasion in matters of
tleliffion," thus placing the College, in regard to
leligious toleration and unsectarian character
upon the same broad foundation with the mo
rn= schools of the State."
i The College thus founded has been so. suc
cessful and prosperous that no resumed now
be entertained of its future. It is, and will
continue to be an institution oflearning,which
Will continue an enduring memorial of the
benefits conferred upon their country by its
!handers, and of which the State may be just
ly proud.
To-day is to be laid, with becoming Cere
monies, the corner-stone of a new balding for
the preparatory department of this College,
and, by a happy design, this new Hall is to be
ealledby a name indissolubly associated with
the foundation of the College, the foundation
of our common school system, and with the
great and now triumphant cause of freedom
and justice throughout our common country.
By a resolution adopted by the Board of,Trus
tees May 22, 1867, this new Hells to be call
od ,ctcrene' Hall, as the resolution declares,
'hn token of our appreciation of the valuable
services rendered to the cause of:placation by
the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, and of his con
shot and active interest in the growth of-Penn -
sylvania College' Peculiar honors are just
ly due from this College to that name, for it
belongs to one of its earliest benefactors and
most constant friends.
Indeed, it may be said that he laid the very
linandations of the success which has attended
this institution, for, it is well known, It was
chiefly through his exertions as a member of
the Legislature trom e Adams county that the
Brant of s;.18,009 from the State was obtained
on the Bth of February, 1834, which enabled
the trustees to purchase a site and erect a
snitable building for the College. In this
graceful act the trustees has honered them
selves in honoring him. For more than thir
ty years, the name of Thaddeus Stevens has
been known to the people of Pennsylvania as
the name of an intrepid champion of human
rights and human progress. With ignorance,
injustice and tyl'anny, he has waged a war as
long, as uncompromising and as bitter as that
which Hannibal waged against Home.
By night and by day, in success and in ad
versity, in the strength of his youth, the ma
tury of mandllood, and the lengthed . years of
aai honored old age, he has been in his iron
*mess contending for the right,always ready
for battle, and always entering it with the
spirit of Luther in his reply to Spalatin, "tie,
tell your master that though there should be
as many devils at Worms as there are tiles on
i a roots I would enter it." With an energy
tag 'As tireless, a devotion to truth. that no
difficulties could discourage, no dangers %a
-*, and no temptations could divert, he has
pursued his principles, and haslived to behold
them triumphantly established.
When slavery was proud, defiant and ag
gressive; when she Lore herself with lordly
ins oleute ; when she held all the keys of pow
er and of place; and from the high places of
tic government, from the Presidential office,
the Supreme Court and the halls of Congress,
Uttered her tyrannical decrees and laughed
scornfully at liberty, the clear voice of this
brave representative of PennsylVanie freemen
was heard above all the coitftudon or the high
carnival which she held, rallying the' broken
ranks or freedoM, uttering defiance fbr deft.
:ewe, and hailing, even amid the obscurity of
that darkest hour before the dawn, the conk
iftg of that better and brighter day, Which has
broken at last and which illumines the Whale
iluld with a great glory! I need not dentin you..,
now by entering into any history litlife public
ar.rvicee of • this' distinguished ' Caftan. Fe
here, in Adams county, he began his proles
4Mal life in your courts. Hers lade career of
rftddle service commenced. Pei live years he
liras your immediate Repreientative In the
I For twenty-six • years he diviltAirthia
Ilge ; and when hie powers were trinilkired
to a broader held, and he began thiWiSkord to
the councils of the nation wide?' 'le mit yet
dompleted, and of which, thereforo.will
uot. speak, you followed his Ratateriat 'With
I ride and solicitude. You are sequaluted
With all. hie conflict.% all his Wahl and all
his: triumphs. , You know hint well as , the
friend of education, the fbarless champion of
, the laborious chalintau orate ;twat
d committee id the Howe of Iterits:
sentatives, and the terror of injustice; fraud
and :oppression. • ; Ris.public service* are the
riroperty of the nation, mil& fame will be.
al part .ot the history of his cottony: 4011 ,
some great crag that beetleeabove the ortesifi
aind which, while it hes:sand Peels the best
g. of the surges which undermine It WWI:
1 rears its head bravely - ah" theousibbit
roto demy or to the tides of sue' '
smoug us, - venetshie iu Yefnixelookte:
'purpose, indomitable In will: Lang May,
he so endure For when he lkiblylioval . pet
Will be lellmitersegood• thisst+ l intUress 'of
r epubmiau I rerdiailLf . .
thie nqw Mal OfrffiWitYillilltkPollegek,
dedicated to Ato oducl4o.llt, pp*, slio
*mould vacattungeite.to rompit l and, thipea,
— F.or Oftflatioli dee - flie Jlw ieV4-11