The fittutingdon Journal. IC 1,1:1:BORROW HUNTINGDON, PENN'A. Wednesday Morning, March 12, 1873 , Circulation LARGER than any other Paper in the Juniata Valley. REPUBLICANS, PREPARE FOR THE SPRING ELECTIONS If you have not already made your nominations make them at once—to-night : or to-morrow night! The League will be at every election precinct with a full tick- et. Make your nominations and do not touch a man of them. They will try the old deception dodges. They will lie and swear to their lies to carry their point, but doi't be deceived. They will try to con trol every dollar of public funds in the various districts. and you will Lave the rascality preticed in Porter repeated in every district in the county. There is i no honest man belongs to the League! No honest man would take an oath to defraud hit fellow Republicans ; and this is what every scoundrel has dens who has ever joined it. The Thugs have comeout of their holes, now let the honest people settle their little business for them ! Get everybody out to the election ! Honest Democrats are as much interested in this bueiness as Repub licans. They have to pay their share of the plundered taxes. They will give you a helping hand when you need it. Smite the scoundrels hip and thigh, and save your money and your liberty ! Go in ! The Leaguers have come out! A WORD TO OUTSIDERS, "There is a hitter personal quarrel now be ing waged betweea the Republican journals of Huntingdon, that must be exceedingly agree able to the leaders of each. Such encounters are very disgraceful to journalism, and the community, when they take place, ought to kick the belligerents beyond its limits." We clip the above handsome compliment from the State Journal, for the double purpose of showing our readers how such encounters, as we have been compelled to engage in, for the past few weeks, are re garded in other communities and to ex plain our position. We feel keenly this thrust, and we think we have good cause to do so, and were it in reference to any shortcoming of ours, we would hurl it back with interest. But we wish to explain : No one has done more, we believe, to elevate the character of country journalism, iu this section of Pennsylvania, than the editor of this paper. He is confident, in making this statement, thathe will be sus tained by the senior editor of the Patriot, who has been his immediate opponent, for a number of years. We have made it a point never to attack the private character of any one, and on the other hand we have never replied to any attacks upon our pri vate affairs. Political acts, and the con duct of officials, in the discharge of their official duties, we have always regarded as public property. In holding up to the public unfaithful officers and base politi cians, we have sometimes invoked their malicious defamation in return. The only answer we have made to such attacks has been ate effort to live right, to treat all who approach us as one gentleman should treat another, and to do our duty tot the public. Now and then we have been obliged to do some unpleasant duty. We did this a few years ago when we dischar ged, from our board and office, a young stu dent whose conduct became intolerable.— In revenge he commenced a malicious pros ecution against us. If our clients had been the prosecutors the matter might have been differently regarded. But they were not. If we have been guilty of any thing that is discreditable we are perfectly satisfied that the community should know it. We do not seek to hide any public er private act of our life. We have struggled and fought the battle of lite, with all the energy which we have been able to devel ope, and, though we have made, now and then, some unfortunate blunders, we have the satisfaction of knowing they were made on the side of mercy and charity. A few words more. We have no "per sonal quarrel" with the Globe. We ex pected to treat the new editor courteously and gentlemanly. We had done so before his connection with it. But in the first issue of his paper he threw down the gauntlet and with it a positive insult. It was general. We determined to pay no attention to it. We were informed that he subsequently apologized to the editor of the Monitor, by stating that the insult was net intended for him. Week after week he assailed our friends and the lead ers of the Republican party. Senator Scott was assailed outrageously. ' His friends felt the force of the outrage : Yet we did nothing more than publish what cur neighbors said of these vile attacks.— We were badgered and bullied on every street corner. Taunted and rallied by the sneers Of those who like this kind of thing, until we hardly knew whither to turn, yet we kept our peace. At last the author, dell this vileness and the disturb er of the community, set:himself up and by forged substitutions, bad himself elected a delegate to the State Convention. We saw in this an effort to reinstate the infa mous "Peoples' League." Forbearance had ceased to be a virtue, and we determined to show the honest people, whom we re present, the character or the men who, in sworn conclave, were sapping away their political and civil liberties; filling their offices, their placet of trust and their jury box. We attacked the official and politi cal character of the editor of the Globe and his confederates, and in return we have been slandered without measure. We care nothing about such trifles, but we mean to continue to show up, to the best of our ability, the itifetueus League. Edi tors who will not take the trouble to in form themselves is regard to the nature of the contest ? we would suggest, will do well to attend to those things which immedi ately concern them. is.. Woods calls his League the "Peo ples' League." It were better Quailed a "League to Pheat the People !" THE TRUE ISSUE, The Globe of last week contains an arti cle purporting to be editorial, which starts off by saying : EDITou "There is a com'oination of corrupt politi cians in this county who have been controlling its politico, its a great measure, for years, fill ing its offices of profit and trust, and who, du ring the last fifteen years, have taken from the public treasury thousands of , tollars. It was done by giving the public patronage to their political favorites, making fealty to them the only road to public favor and by hounding and persecuting all who would not do their bidding." Now, this is a fair description of the "combination" whose league and covenant we publish on the fourth page of this pa per, and had the editor added, tampering with the jury list, and a regular "combi nation" with the leaders of the Democratic party to bribe and carry Republican Con ventions, the picture would have been complete. The Globe man, whoever he is, goes back fifteen years, which is back of the period when he was spewed forth from Juniata county and wo were "im ported from Bedford county," and we will be excused if we quote some history in addition to our own personal knowledge. The article referred to does not deny the ex istence and purposo of the "League," but by a perversion of fasts, for which it has a wonderful capacity, attempts to excuse its formation. It is the snivelling of a convicted boy, "somebody else began it!" It was first the "McMurtrie ring" they pretended to be fighting, next the "Oriady ring," and now it is Senator John Scott.— It may as well be understood at once, how ever, that the leaders of the League mean to control the party and its nominations through their secret organization, and their alliance with Democrats, and their malignant attacks on Senator Scott. and others, is only one of their measures to ac complish that object. It is not a question of individuals! The public is not partioularly interested in knowing how much Guss and his coadju tors hate Mr. Seott. or how hard Mr. Scott hit the League in 1869, when he appeared before the County Committee, at its request. The real issue now pre sented concerns the very existence of the party. No party, however strong, can afford to be ruled by such men as rule the League and the Globe. Intoxicated by a little temporary success, accomplished by the basest trickery and dishonesty, they seem determined to force the party, to which they profess to belong, to either kick them out or acknowledge them as ru lers. No man, with a spark of self-respect , can adopt the latter course. , In 1869 the League made its nomina tions before its existence was known or believed by the party at large. When its workings were exposed the party promptly repudiated u ticket made up in that way, not because et' personal objection to the individuals nominated, but because the nominations had been made by a fraud en the party. Mr. Scott and his friends sup porting John N. Swoope, Col. McCoy and every other man on that ticket, who had any claims to a fair nomination. When this expose was made Mr. Scott considered his duty done and from that time forward left the people to set as they saw proper. Though some nominations have been made since, of the same men, and by the same means, those who took grounds against the ticket of 1869 have given them an honest support, believing the whole party was responsible for nominations made after the ventilation of the League through the newspapers. Now, gentlemen of the League, we hare put up with a great deal at your hands. Every year, since 1869, you have done all you could, without com ing out openly, to defeat every man on the ticket who did not bow to the supremacy of your band. It is only because you had not the numbers that you did not succeett in erecting Democratic county officers as well as district officers. our rotten sys tem of pocket boroughs, petty bribery, and wholesale falsehood, aided by the 'three to eight" active politicians in a township, has enabled you repeatedly to override the will of the majority, but there is a point where forbearance ceases to be a virtue.— If you would but give us honorable, or even tolerably decent men, for our rulers, we might still wear the yoke, but when you set up for your leaders and our rulers sueh creatures as A. L. Gass, Robert A. Laird, John Logan, and that treacherous Dr. Dunwiddie, of Warriorsmark, who vi olated his positive instructions and misre presented every man in his township, then you are asking a little too much. Perhaps you are giving us the best men you have, but this only shows the desper ate materials composing your organiza tion. We are disposed to leave the whole matter in the hands of the people. If they are content to let a few political oat-throats rule them, and boast of it, while their• hard-earned taxes are devoted to private gain and providing a corruption fund to bribe delegates and carry Conventions, then they have only to stand off and let these would-be rulers have their own way. They understand that business well. itter There are not less than half a dozen of men that W. H. Woods has promised the office of Sheriff to, for the next term, provided the parties will help him to elect delegates in anti-League districts. He has repeated this dodge fifty . times over, and yet there any number of fools to be caught with this fait. None but members of the League get his support, or he vio lates his oath. gm. The man who says he does net be long to the League, and yet acts with it, is either a very stupid fellow or a knave. Because if he does not belong to it, those who do, have sworn. to support ONLY their• fellow members for o f fice, and no sen sible man is going to act with a set of robbers unless he sees en opportunity to share the plunder. ma_ The What-is-It went to Washing ton last week, ostensibly to attend the in auguration, but more particularly to con sult witk It. M. Speer, the left-bower of the Peoples' League. No doubt he and R. Milton will devise plans to 'dere the Republican party. GER-G ues says that he is "sole editor and proprietor" of tho Thug's Own, while Woods is soliciting subscribers to "his pa per." Why 15 this thus? THE WAY THE LEAGUE WORKS The idea of a secret, selfish organization, inside of a politioal organization, is exclu sively American. It could. not exist else where. And the probabilities are that it would be impossible, outside of Huntingdon county politics, to find men, even in Amer ica, eu dishonorable, as lost to all sense of justice, as to resort to such an infamous plan to defraud their fellow partisans. The worst baud of cut-throats, highwaymen or out-laws, that ever cursed the world, would shrink from such conduct toward each other as they would from au apparition of death. Yet here this is practiced, year in and year out, and at last it is opetkly .de fended. A few years ago every . Thug denied, until he was blue, the existence of such an organization ; now, however, its existence is admitted and palliated. Since we have wrung out the admission let us show our readers exactly how it lies been conducted. The. idea originated with the man who desired to dictate the politics and transact the business of the county. It was entirely a matter of personal preferment with him. He cared only for himself. The party was only a vehicle to advance his selfish ends. But without the aid of others he could accomplish nothi4. He cast about him to find material to suit his pur pose. He saw that every election district contained a few who conducted its politics. Such men are generally aspirants. This is so in two cases out, of three. It was these aspirants that he wanted. If he could control these, and get them to enter into a aolema oath to• support none but those who were similarly bound, he would be able to accomplish his designs. The machinery was manufactured and the League was put to work. It was only to contain from three to eight in each pre cinct. This number would cover every active man in nine-tenths of the districts. One of the first and greatest duties devol ving upon them was to earry nut the fol lowing provision of the Constitution, viz : "12. It is the imperative duty of each m.emt►er of the League to at tend all delegate meetings of the Republican party and take with him all he can influence to vote as he does, and elect as delegates to the county convention members of the League, whenever itis possible, and in default of this try to secure the election of such delegates as the League can control." This was the chief end of its being.— And with ail the active men in the respec tive precincts, i;i the organization, there was no trouble :iu carrying out this man date. The people knew nothing of it; they were in Egyptian darkness. And if some old, broken-&own party hack was an nounced for delegr-te, at whose very name the people revolted, fresh members of the League were set Itp, so it made no differ ence who were elected, they were members of the League! If now and then an honest man turned up, who could not be induced to join, in defrauding his political parti sans, he was urged to he a candidate for some important office, and the League pledged him its support, on condition that he would( secure certain delegates. These tactics w ere used successfully with a dozen men for the same office, and over and over again, in the face of the glaring fact that these mini had sworn to support only mem bers of the League: Thus they controlled . the enti re politics of the county. Its Lead, Wm. H. Woods, not satisfied with th is triumph, in the political arena, detenni oed to control the business or the comity.. Having secured an admission to the bar he determined to control the jury in all cases in which he was concerned.— ' For this purpose, he handed the Jury Com_ missioner, who was one of his sworn con ' federates, a list of his co aspirators, through ' out the comity, and had them placed in the jury-box. Is doing this lie overreach ' 'cd himself. It was in this connection that the conspirators drew the attention of Hon. John Scott, who WOl3 loath to believe that any apparently honorable men would band themselves together for such an in famous purpose. Mr. Scott saw thejury-box however,filled with the men who rumorsaia ' belonged to the League. He, in behalf of his clients, moved to quash the array of jurors, and in the examination of the mat- I ter, before the Court. his suspicions were fully vindicated and the array was quash ' ed. Mr.. Woods' testimony, before the , Court, OR this occasion, was the subject of universal comment. The League had sworn hint to secrecy and he determined not to violate his extra-judicial oath. From this moment the iniquity began to decline. A short time afterwaads the whole plot, to deceive and defraud the honest voters, was exposed. [See Mr. Scott's speech on the fourth page.] It is this organization, in all its naked ugliness, that the honest people, both Re publicans and Democ:ats, are called upon to strike down. No man will be safe un til this is done. There is scarcely a case tried in our Courts that is not influenced by these men. Hundreds of eases have been influenced by them. An oath has lost its sanctity. They lie and swear to their falsehoods. The" are treacherous and cannot be trusted. Such is the state of morals produced by this infamousaffair Will our people tolerate it longer ? ifir The result of the elections held so far, on the local option question, is as _fol lows : For fAcense. ..4yttinst Liceac. Forest, Clearfield, Schuylkill, Bradford, Northumberland, Blair, Cambria, Tiogo, Jefferson, Cameron, Lycoming, Centre, ' Warren, Wayne, Susquehanna.% II The counties in the balance of the State vote on the third Friday in March. The city of Reading has voted f©r license. M., The poor dunces who have been fighting for the League, for the last ten years, without getting any of the fat offi ces, now begin to learn that ONLY the sworn members that concern hare been the fortunate ones. The Legislature is taking up its time passing private bills. THE NEW BASIS OF REPRESEN- News and Notes from Washington, TATION Our article in the JOURNAL three week, ago seems to have frightened the What-is- It of the Globe. He beats about at a fearful rate, and says a great deal, which, wlum summed up, amounts to just—nothing. We will be frank enough to admit, that upon a basis of representation as we pro posed, the coterie of from three to eight" : will be forever wiped out, as the What-is- It acknowledged to a certain person : "that if the Scott faction succeeded in changing the basis of representation, we (the Peo ples' League) would he wiped out for all time," or words to that effect. We pass over his slang and his twaddle about "dogs," "cellars," de. , &.e., for lie has worn the collar of his master so long that be imagines everybody else the same ser vile tool and time-server he is known to be. We care nothing about his threats, his inuendoes, his bombastic utterances— they are bosh, but he wilfully misrepre sents the truth, to such an extent, that we desire to call attention to the fairness of our proposition and the unfairness of his. It is not necessary to follow him through . for we presume that every intelligent man can figure as well as we can, and much more correctly than the What-is-It does- To show the false reasoning and the utter fallacy of his whole attack upon what every fair-minded, candid man must admit to be nothing but just and right, he supposes there are 500 Republican votes in Hun tingdon, when, if he had wanted to tell the truth and not deceive, he would have said. there 'are 402 Republican votes in Hun-• tingdou, which, under the basis proposed by as, would give us eight delegates, in stead of 10, as he would have our country friends believe. He talks about the equal ity of the present system and the inequality of the system that would take away the power from a handful of men, fey lie is well aware that any system whereby the majority would rule (the principle upon which our government is founded) the lit tle band of sworn Leaguers would fade away. and. like Othello, their occupation would be gone. He next wanders off to New York, and in fact over the whole coun try but suddenly remembering that he is stillin Pennsylvania, he exclaims : "Look at the equality of the Senitorial and Representative Districts in this State, et our State Conventions—Some largely Democratic and soma largely Republican, yet who ever heard that the strong Republican districts ought to have two or three more delegates simply because they had two or three times as many Republicans." In the first place, what hue Democrats got to do with Republican primary meet ings ? As to the inequality of Representa tion, carrying out his own assumed idea, has Huntingdon county as many Senators and Representatives in the Legislature as Philadelphia, as Allegheny, as Lancaster. as Berks, as Dauphin, and a number of other counties? No. Consequently-, have we as much power in the State Convention as any of the counties named ? Nobody but a fool or a conceited twaddler would attempt to make anybody believe it. His calling our farmers and ethers living in the rural districts "country clod-hoppers," we denounce as a vile slander and insult, and we are very much mistaken in the temper of the country folks if they do not burl the vile slander back into the false teeth of their defamer. • Thus the whole harangue is made up. It is false is the beginning, false in de tail, and false in the end. We ask a care ful comparison of our article three weeks ago with the one in the Globe two weeks ago—then the verdict. We trust that a change will be made so that 16 Republi cans in Shade Gap will not have the same power that 252 BAepublican6 in Porter will have. THE `QUARTER SESSIONS LAW- YER." in a legal point of view, what position, as a lawyer, does Mr. Speer occupy in kis uncalled for attack on Wm. B. Kelley ? Suppose Mr. Speer tube the self-appointed prosecutor or attorney for the Common wealth, and A, B, C. B, E, F, G, H, I, J, and K, are charged with the same offence. Information is made againt them, and a bill is laid before the grand jury against all of them, and after a full and fair hives_ tigation, the indictment is returned a '•true bill" es to A and B, but "iywranuts" as to all the other defendants. A and B are then tried before`the traverse jury..and are acquitted by the jury, but made to pay the costs as a mark of censure. As soon as*this is all over, up jumps "John Milton Speer,"and in a fit of virtuous indignation, moves the Court to pass a similar sentence on Mr. Kelley, as to whom the bill was returned, "Not a tree Lill", by the grand jury, but whose name, with others, was mentioned, by some of the witnesses, be fore the grand jury. What position would he or should he or any ether attorney oc cupy who would be guilty of such non sense r Well might Mr. Dickey call him an "ex traordinary Quarter Sessions lawyer." and well might the louse of Representatives, by a very emphatic rote, concur with Mr. Dickey in his estitnato of "John Milton Spoor." Read Mr. Dickey's: speech on the first page of this paper. Wh en we took change of the Ole6e, we de termined, notwithstanding the vile assaults that had been made upon us by John Scott and his satellites, to make no defense unless assailed by his organ.—Globe. The above is such a bald-faced lie, that it needs no reply. Every issue of the Globe since the What-is-It took charge of it, bears the evidence of the lie in almost every column. From his introductory to the present, he has slashed about indis criminately at those who do not belong the Peoples' League, and especially John Scott. We only ask a perusal of the Globe, to sustain the truth of what we say. SQr• Hon. R. N. Speer sends whole bundles of Globes to Democrats who do not swear by him. I - To wants to coax them away from the Monitor. This accounts for the new snlascribertc Speer has no in terra in that concern! DV— Every Republican who supportep the• Mule ticket last fa , l, or who supports the Glebe new, can be set klown as being a member, or at least in the interest, of the League. Wateh them ; Clo , c of the Forty &rend Cenwecce—All law°, toot B.'lle Pus,d fort 12 O'clock ro-day. WisnrAT.ox. D. C.. March 4, 1573. . CLOSING HOURS OF CONGRESS. Twelve o'clock, noon: Precisiely when the dial of the clock indicated that the hour of twelve had arrived the gavel fell upon the presiding officer,' desk in each House, and the XEIId Congress expired. In each branch the closing act was a brief address front the desk in reply to resolu tions of thanks for tke faithful manner in which the duties of the respective presi ding officers had been discharged. For a week past both -branches of Con gress labored night and day, almost with out intermission, the sessions on several occasions extending through the entire night. The last three days were devoted almost exclusively- to the passage of bills without debate. The result is that a per feet avalanche of bills were hurried through, and among theta all those of material im portance. It will be a marvel if some measures have not been smuggled through in the hurry that should have been defeat ed, and would not have passed in either . _ _ ouse if more time and attention had been bestowed upon their consideration. One of these is the increase of salaries, a nicas-1 ure which is decidedly unpopular here and will he so, it is believed, throaghont the country. This measure was attempted and defeated a few days before; but with some un important changes, it was brought up again as an amendment to the legislative appro priation bill, in which shape it was carried through. It gives the President $50,000 par annum; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court $10,500 ; Justices of the Supreme Court, the Vice President, Speaker of the House and Cabinet officers also $10,500; Assistant Secretaries of State and In terior Departments $6,000; Senators, Members and Delegates 87,500 each, with an allowance of actual expenses incurred in coming from and returning to their Ihomes once for each session o Congress, but without mileage, or extra allowance for stationery or newspapers. The increase to Congressmen, and an increase of 15 per cent. on the salaries of all the officers of the Senate and House dates from the com mencement of the present Congress. Garfield, Farnsworth, Niblaek and oth ers in the House opposed the measure, but the opportunity for each Congressman to pocket an extra 83,000 at the end of eve ry Congress was irresistible, so the bill passed. Butler was the chief engineer in this movement and it has already detracted !from him much of • that confidence in his integrity hitherto enjoyed. THE INAUGURATION CEREMONIES, At the close of Speaker Blaine's remarks at noon to-day, the members of the House filed out into the main ball and marched to the Senate chamber where the Presi dent, Vice President, Justices of the Su preme Court and other distinguished offi cials, bad already arrived. The usual oath was administered to the President and Vice President elect, when the audience marched out upon the portico on the east front of the Capitol, and the President de livered his Inaugural Address. It will make about a column in au ordinary sized newspaper, and occupied sixteen minutes in its delivery. The audience in front of him would number 25.000. The address is straight-forward, out spoken and to the point. Four years ago his inaugural address was delivered under doubts and misgivings; but now he evi dently understands his duties fully, and means to perform them. The procession to-day was very imposing, and the Inauguration ball to-night promis es to be a brilliant affair. These and other subjects will receive attention in a letter by to-morrow's mail. N. H. P. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5, 1873, THE SENATE CRAIRBER YESTERDAY Being unable to attend and witness the dosing scenes in both brandies of Con gress, I remained in the House until the gavel fell and the members filed out into the main hall and proceeded to the Senate chamber, where they remained during the short time preceding the delivery of the Inaugural Address at the East front of the Capitol. The Senate was called to order at 9.30, but it was sonic time after before a quorum had assembled. At 10 o'clock the members had nearly all taken their seats, and the Senate proceeded to finish their work. Two hours only remained. A message •was received from the II ace an nouncing the signature of the Speaker to sundry bills, which the Vice President signed, and the Senate went into executive session. The doors were again thrown open at a quarter before 11 o'clock, but no one was admitted without a ticket. The galleries were soon filled by ticket holders, many of whom were ladies. The members of the Senate left their seats and were seated at the left of the presiding officer, leaving those on the right for the Diplomatic Corps. In the rear of the Senators' seats sat a large number of distinguished officers of the army and navy, including generals, admirals, commodores and colonels, in fall uniform, together with prominent members of the bar. ex-Senators, Senators elect, State Governors, &e. The Senate continued to pass bills and attend to the last duties of the hour pre. vious to the expiration of the 42d Congress. At 11.35 o clock the Diplomatic Corps, headed by the British Minister, Sir Ed ward Thornton, walking, with Blacque Bey entered and occupied the seats assigned to them on the right. A few minutes later Mr. Wilson, Vise President elect, entered, and was welcomed by Senators Ciagin, Bayard and Logan and conducted to his seat. The members of the Supreme Court entered, escorted by the Sergeant-at-Arms and the U. S. Marshal, and were received by the Senate 'standing, after which they took seats at the right of the desk. At. 10 minutes before 12 o'clock Sena tors Conklin!: and Trumbull entered and announced that they had informed the President that Congress was ready to ad journ. Senator Sumner, long absent by sickness. now entered and was cordially greeted by his peers in the Senate. Five minutes later the President and Cabinet entered, and were seated in front of the desk. The retiring Vice President now rose and announced the termination of the 42d Congress. Duringhis brief, but very appropriate and impressive address, or val edictory. the members of the House enter ed, headed by their Sergeant-at-Arms, who succeeded, with difficulty, in seating them upon sofas and chairs in the rear and sides of the chamber. Mr. Colfax administered the oath of of fice to Mr. Nilson, when the former left and the latter occupied the chair of the presiding officer as Vice President of the United States, when he in turn 'adminis tered the oath to the incoming Senators. The President, Court, Senate, House, Diplomatic Corps, Press and spectators then rose and proceded to the platform in front of the East entrance, where the in augural oath was administered to the President elect. This was at 12.30 o'clock. About 300 people were seated upon the platform, and not less than 20;000 were assembled in front of and around the sides of the speaker. In the ceremony of ad ' mittistming the oath, the President and Chief J ustice Chase arose, and the latter, with the bible in his band, administered the oath, during which every spectator's head was uncovered and silence prevailed. As the Chief Justice concluded the Presi dent. bowing. kissed the BibJe. after which a similtaneons outburst of huzzas went up from the ::::sembletl, multitude.- inter mingled with the booming of artillery to the left of the itudine r. The Pre,:ident then unfolded preeeeded to teal his imtugoral tohlre-,, with firm and st,AV During the r,mding-, salute was tired, which, with a cilium of bells playing a le* squares away, prevented the speaker from being hard excepting hy those in the im mediate vieinity of the platform. The object of the:, present was ratite- to ,ec than to hear, and in this they were folly gratified. At the dose of tile address the proees- Sion Waft reformed and escorted the Presi dent back to the White House. the ave nue through which it passed being lined with thousands of spectators as it was when the procession with the President passed down to the Capitol between 10 and 11 o'clock. FAREWELL ADDRESS OF VICE PRESIDENT COLFAX, SENATOItS : The time fixed by the Constitution 1 fur the dissolution of theForty-secondCongresshas arrived and with a few parting words, I shall re- sign this gavel to the honored eon of Massachuset t 1 who has been chosen by the people as my nieces- ear. Administrations terminate and congresses • expire us the years pars by, but the nation lives, and grows, and prospers, to be eery.' in the future by those equally faithful to its intends and egnalle preund of he growing influence among the nations 1 of the earth. To be called by the representatives of the people, and afterward by the people them- selves to the responsible duty of presiding sneers- ' nicely over the two Houses of Congress for thepast ten years, from the era of war. through the , Ira of reconstruction, to the era of peace, more th a n tilts the measure of an honorable ambition. Looking back over these ten exciting years, I can claim, not only that I have committed no set which has prov ed the confidence misplace) that caned eta to this position, but also that I hare striven in ifs official duties to administer the parlinseutary law with the same impartiality with which the upright judge open the bench decides questions of life and liberty, to faithfully protect the rights or the minority, Its well es to support the rights of niajor ity in the advancement of the public business, to remaiu calm and unmoved staid the excitements of debates to temper and restrain asperities, and la guard against reveals! antagonist.. To per fortn acceptably the complex, and often perpiexing duties of the choir without partisan bias has been my constant endeavor. It is gratifying,, therefore, that of the many hundreds of decisions tondo by me often on the instant, none have been reversed anti scarce any • seriously questioned. How much I owe to the uniform kindness and support of the members over whom I have presided is difficult to express in words. It has been bounded by NU par ty line, and eontroned by no political affiliations ; and 1 rejoice that I have beet, able to attest toy appreciation of this rapport while zealously de fending principels before the people. This defense has never been coupled with personal assaults on any of the eminent public men with whom I have Idiffered. No aspersions on their eltaramer have dishonored my tongue: no epithets Or invectives have fallen from my lips. But the clock admonisher um that the Forty- Isecond Congress has already passed into history, and wishing you, Senators, useful lives for your country, and happiness for yourselves, and thank- I ing seater the resolution spread on your journal, and invoking the favor of trim who holds the des ! tiny of nations and of men in the hallow of this hand, titan ready to administer the oath of office to the Viet , President elect. whom I now introduce to you. VICE PRESIDENT WILSON'S ADDRESS. Viee President Wilp.on elect, then ad• yenned to the desk and addressed the Sen. ate as follows: SENATORS : Its assuming the petition assigned use by the voice of ihe nation, lam not, I trust, unmindful of the obligation it imposes. A service here somewhat prolonged, covering a period mewed with great events, and association here with nearly twohundred and thirty Senators, many of them statesmen of large 'Lief varied experience, have impresses upon toe exalted ideas of the re sponsibilities resting upon the occupant of this chair, under the rules of the Senate, parliamentary law, and the Constitution. fa passing, then, frym the seat I have held far more than eighteen years to this chair, I trust 1. comprehend something of its just .requirements, something, too, of the tone and temper of the Senate. In presiding over your deliberations, I shall ever strive to he free from personal prejudice and partisan bias. A sense of public duty, and the obligations of personal friend ship, alike require that I shall be as considerate, as just, and as impartial, as the lot of humanity permits. To the justice, generosity, and friendly rettard of Senators, I truthfully appeal for that counsel and eneouragement, that forbearance and' indulgtince, which I am sure r shall often require as your presiding elEcer. The retiring Vice President, then said : 'The time for the expiration of Forty-See ond Congress having arrived, I declare 'the Senate of the United States adjourned zinc die. After 31r. Wilson administered the oath of office to eighteen Senators elect, all together, the President's preclamation was read, convening the Senate in extra ses sion, the session to date from noon to-day. The Senate then adjourned to meet on Thursday, and all proceeded to the inaugu ration platform outside. President Grant's .Inaugural FELLOW -CITIZ ENS : Under Providence I have been called a second time to act as Executive over this great nation. It has been my endeavor in the past to maintain all the laws, and 30 far as lay in my power, to act for the best interests of the whole people. My best efforts will be given in the same direction iu the future, aided, -I trust, by my four years' experience in the . office. When my first term of : the office of Chief Executive began the country had not recovered from the effects of a great internal revolution, and three of the fernier States of the Union had not been restored to their Federal relations. 'lt seemed to Me wise that no now questions should taised so IoM , as that condition of affairs existed. Therefore, the past four years, so far as. I could control events, have been consumed in the effort to restore harmony, public credit, commerce, and all the.arts of peace and progress: It is. my litho con viction that the - civilized world is tending towards republicanism, or government by , 'the people through their chosen represen tatives, and that our own great Republic is destined to be the guiding star to nil others. Under our Republic we support any army less than that of any European powet.of any standing; and a navy less than that of either of at least five of them. There could be no extension of territory on this continent which would call for an increase•of this force, but rather • might such extension enable us to ditninish it. - The theory of government changes with the general progress Now that the tele graph is made available for communicating thought. together with rapid transit by steam, all pdrts of a continent are made contiguous for all purposes of government, and communication between the extreme limits of the country made easier than it was throughout the old thirteen States at the beginning of our national existence. The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave. and make him a citizen. He is not possessed of the civil rights which: citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be correct ed. . . To this correction I stand committed so far as Executive influence can avail. So cial equality is not a subject to he legislat ed upon; no: shall I ask that anything be done to advance the social status of the colored• man except to give him a• fair chance to develop what there is good in him. Give him access to schools, .end. when he travels let him feel assured • that his conduct will regulate the treatment. and fare he will receive. The States lately at war With the General Goierinuent are - now happily rehabilitated, and no executive_ control is exercised in any one of them. that would not be exercised in any other State under like circunttances - • In'tbe first year Of the past AdMinistra don. the proposition came ttp for the ad mission Domingo as .a territoey of the Union. It was. not a question of my seeking, but Was a proposition from the people of canto Domingo, and which I entertained. 1 believe now,,tis/ cljrl thgn, that it was for the hest interests of this Country, for the people of Santo Domingo, and all concerned, that the prepositson should he received favorably. It was. bow- . . ever, rejected ermstitutionally, and there- tire the subject was never brought up again by me. In future, whilel hold my present office, the subject of acquisition of territory must have the support of the people before I will recommend any proposition looking to such acquisition. I say here, however, 'that( I