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■Until—Andrew Johnson.
S. Foster.
State—Wm.H. Howard. oVP
■Hrjli of Interior—Jas. Harlan. nbo’’
of Treasury—Hugh McCulloch. I -
HKK- of war—Edwin M. Stanton.
1?S of Navy—Gideon Wells.
■Kster General—Wm. Dennison.
MW 1 ,?. General—James S. Speed.
HKnstlce of the United States—Salmon P,
■|| STATE GOVERNMENT. .. ml<-’
BlLor—AndrewG. Curtin. -sw
■ffiry of Stale—Ell Sllfer. ebow
■HKor General—James P. Barr.
General—lsaac Slenker. a. lov'
■Bhov General—Wm. M. Meredith. '
General—A. L Russell. .
Henry D. Moore. I
■Sijustlce of the Supremo Court—George W
Thompson, William Strong,
HSi Bead, Daniel Agnew.
■pi COUNTY OFFICERS.
Tudce—Hon. James H, Graham,
■jK judacs-Hon. Michael Cookllu, Hon.
■^? a lttemoy— C. E. Maglaughlin.
■HKnnSry— tiamuel Shlreman,
KSKnd Recorder— Ephraim Cornman.
KSior—George 0 r—George W. North.
■Ssuerllf-John Jacobs.
Kfflv Treasurer—Devi Zelgler.
KsKpr—David Smith.
™™ Commlssloners-John McCoy, Henry
■X. F. Mcclc.
ames Armstrong,
f—M. C. Herman.
ise Directors—C. Hartman, W. Wherry,
Snyder. .
-Henry Snyder.
i—D. B. Stoviclc, J. A. Heberllg, Chrla
nto Jail—Dr. S. P. Ziegler,
nto Poor House—Dr. S. P. Ziegler.
BOROUGH OFFICERS,
rgess—John Campbell,
tßurgess—William J. Cameron,
luncll—East Ward, J. W. D. Gillelen,
. Ziegler, Geo. Wetzel, Chas. U. Holier,
tlDnan: West Ward, A. K. Reem, John
,U M. Black, S. D. Hillman ; Clerk, Jns.
sammer.
Treasurer—David Cornman.
ratable—Emanuel Swartz; Ward Con
rat Ward, Andrew Martin; Westward,
Iner.
—William Noaker.
-A. K. Sheafer.
actor—Andrew Kerr; Ward Collectors,
1, Jacob Goodyear; West Ward, H. R.
immlssioner —Patrick Madden,
of the Peace—A. L. Sponsler, David
jrm. Dehull, Michael Holcomb,
ghters—Alex. F. Meek, Levi Albert.
CHURCHES.
sbytorlan Chnrcb, northwest angle of
are. Rev. Conway P. Wing. Raster.-
ery Sunday morning at 11 o clock, A.
clock, P. M. • , ..
resbyterian Church. corner of south
ad Pomfret streets. Rev. John C. Bliss,
irvices commence at 11 o clock, A. M.,
2k, P. M. _ . , v .. •
i Church, (Prot. Episcopal) northeast
intro Square. Rev. F. J. Clerc. Rector.
, ll o’clock, A. M., and 7 o’clock P. M.
Lutheran Church, Bedford, between
Louther streets. Rev. Sami. Sprecher,
ervlces at 11 o’clock A. M., and 6^
Reformed Church, Louther, between
nd Pitt streets. Rev, Samuel Philips,
rvlces at 11 o’clock A. M., and 0 o’clock
jt E. Church, (Urst charge) corner of
Pitt streets. Rev Thomas H. Sherlock,
jrvices at 11 o’clock A. M., and 7 oclock
jt E. Church, (second charge) Rev. S. L.
Castor. Services In Emory M. E. Church
ik A. M. P. M. , r ,
if God Chapel, southwest cor. of west
Chapel Alley. Rev. B. F. Beck, Pas
ces at 11 A. AI., and P. M.
lck'B Catholic Church, Pomfret, near
Father Gerderaan. Services every
iath, at 10 o’clock. Vespers at 3 P. M.
Lutheran Church, corner of Pomfret
rd streets. Rev. Kuhn, Pastor.—
,11 oclock A. M.
m changes In the above are necessary,
: persons are requested to notify us.
DICKINSON CODLEGE,
rman M. Johnson, D. D., President and
of Moral Science and Biblical Litera*
D. Hillman, A. M. ? Professor of Matlx-
Staymau, A. M., Professor of the Latin
h languages. „
nesH. Graham, LL. D., Professor of
?. Himes, A. M., Professor of Natural
id Curator of the Museum.
aes A. McCauley, A. M. Professor of
and German Languages.
nard H. Fadall.D. D„ Professor of Phi
id the English Language.. . .
xry C. Cheston, A. M,, Principal of the
School. . ,
Immer, Principal of the Commercial
nMcKeehan, Assistant in Grammar
d Teacher of Penmanship.
YRD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS.
nan, President; James Hamilton, H.
, C. Woodward, Henry Newsham, C. P.
, Sect.y: J.W.Eby, Treasurer ;■ John
ssenger. Meet on the first Monday of
h at 8 o’clock A. M., at Education Hall.
CORPORATIONS.
Deposit Bank.—President, R* : M. Hen-
Si; Cashier, J. P. Hasaler; Tellers, L. A.
U. W.A..COX. Jno. L. Waggoner; Messenger, !
lilnderwood; Directors, R. M. Henderson, |
ttent; R. C. Woodward, W. W. Dale, William
KJolin ssag, John Stuart, Jr., Abm. Bosler,
ly Saxton, Sklles WooQburn.
pi National Bank.—President, Hon. Samuel
pburn; Cashier, Joseph Hofl’er, Tellers, Messrs.
wlOic, and Brenneman; Directors, Samuel
Burn, william Kerr, John S. Sterltt, W, B.
|n, John B, Leidig, Isaac Brenneman, W. F.
Biberland Valley Railroad Company.—Pres-
Ul Frederick Watts; Secretary and Treas-
Iptiward M. Biddle; Superintendent, O. N.
3 Passenger trains three times, a day. Car
faccommodation, Eastward, leaves Carlisle
& M., arriving at Carlisle 5.20 P. M. -Through
1 1 Eastward, 10.10 A. M., and 2.40 P. M. West
at9.27 A. M., and 2.55 P. M.
Stale Qaa and Water Company.—President,
Biel Todd; Treasurer, A. L. Sponsler: Super
deut, George Wise; Directors, F. Watts, E.
ddlo, Henry Saxton, R. C. Woodward, J. B.
on, Wm. M. Penrose, Peter. Spahr,
| SOCIETIES.
[ iberland Star Lodge No. 197, A. Y. M., meets
rion Hall on the 2d and 4th Tuesdays of ev- i
I ‘oath. ' i
I folm’s Lodge No. 260, A. Y. M. t meets on the
Thursday of every month, at Marlon Hall.
Lisle Lodge No. 91,1. O. of O. F. Meets Mon
t Trout’s Building. .
I ort Lodge No. 63,1.0. of G. T. Meets every
j iday evening in Rhepm’s Hall, 3d story.
FIRE COMPANIES.
Union Fire Company was organized in
House in Louther between Pitt and Hano
lUuilberiana Tire Company was Instituted •
»ty 18, 1809. House in Bedford, between
Nd Pomfret streets. •
I Good WUI Fire Company was Instituted in ;
P. 1355. House in Pomfret, near Hanover
Empire Hook and Ladder Company was
uted in 1859, House In Pitt, near Main st.
fatness and despatch.
E JOB PRINTING OFFICE
eeled with the. American Voujntebu, has
supplied with the most modern apod
!ofTypQißauedfromthe Eastern Foundries
with the Jobbing Office of the
which has been united with It, com
ithtf greatest variety of JOB TYPE to be
Lkan.v Office In Southern Pennsylvania.
'vorkmem, In taste and promptness, cannot
«Ued in uhe County.
me now prepared ,to execute all sorts of
Usually done in a First Class Office, such
bills.
posters,
CIRCULARS,
PROGRAMMES,
BUSINESS CARDS,
INVITATION CARD S
BANK CHECKS,
LEGAL BLANKS,
PAPER BOOKS,
BILLS OF LADING,
1 AMPijletq
<c -, io.
IX I'IXG IN COLOES
AND
, _ PLAIN PRINTING,
" I’IUNTiKG OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
notice and reasonable rates,- . '
tiers sent by mail, accompanied by the
WUI Promptly attended to.
JIY DEBORAH LEE.
’Tla a dozen or so of years ago,
Somewhere In the West countree,
That a nieo girl lived, ns ye Hoosler’s know,
By the name of Deborah Leo;
Her sister was loved by Edgar Poo,
But Deborah by mo
Now I was green, and she was green,
As a summer squash might bo,
AjUd we loved.as warmly as other folks,
I and my Deborah Lee—
With a love that the lasses of Hoosierdom
Coveted her and mo.
But somehow it happened a long ago,
In the aguish West countree,
That a chill March morning gave the shake*
To my beautiful Deborah Leo;
And the grim stem doctor (curse him) came
And bore her away from me—
The doctor and death, old partners they—
In the aguish West countree,
Tho angels wanted her In heaven,
(But they never asked for me.)
And that is the reason, I rather guess,
In the aguish West countree,
That the cold March wind and the doo’r and death,
Took off my Deborah Lee— *
My beautiful Deborah Lee—
From the warm sunshine and tho opening flower,
And bore her away from me.
Our lovo was as strong os a six-horse team,
Or the lovo of folks older than we,
And possibly wiser than we;
But death, with the aid of doctor and steam,
Was rather too many for mo;
Ho colsed the peepers and silenced the breath
Of iny sweet Deborah Lee, -
And her form lies cold in the prairie mould.
Silent and cold—ah, me!
The foot of the hunter shall press her grave,
And the prairie’s sweet wild flowers,
In their odorous beauty around it wave,
Through all the sunny hours;
The still, bright sunny hours;
And the birds shall sing in the turfted grass,
And the nectar-laden bee,
With his dreamy hum on his gauze wings pass,
. She wakes no more to me:
Ah I never more to me I
Though the wild birds sing and the wild flowers
spring,
She wakes no more to me.
Yet, oft in the hush of the dim, still night,
A vision of beauty I see.
Gliding soft by my .bedside—a phantom of light,
Dear beautiful Deborah Lee-
Adorable Deborah Loo—
Tiiat"angels should want her up In Heaven
Before they wanted me.
AN ADVENTURE IN THE CARS.
There were five of us—yea, five as hap
py fellows as were ever let loose from
college. It was * vacation,’ and we con
cluded to take a trip to the Falls. We
got aboard the cars at N., and were soon
traveling very rapidly towards our desti
nation. *
iWe had just seated ourselves and
prepared for a comfortable smoke, when
in came the conductor, and who should
it be-but our friend Fred B. After the
common salutation— ‘ How are you, old
fellow,’ oto., —had puutf-d, Frod said-lia
had some business for us to attend to.
, ‘ Out with it, old chum,’ said we, ‘ any
thing at all will be acceptable, so let us
have It.'
. ‘ Well, boys,’ said Fred, In » very con
fidential tone, 1 in that next car there is
as lovin’ a pair as it was ever my lot to
see. They are going down to H., to get
married, and now if yp,u can have any
fun over it just pitch in. They must be
cared for and I don’t know who can do it
better than you.’
; In a moment Fred was gone, and we
set our beads together to form a plan for
1 taking care of the lovers.’
1 1 have it, boys,’ said Bill Steevers,
‘ we must make the girl think that her
lover is married ’
1 That’s it, that’s it,’ said we, not giving
him time to finish the sentence.
i 1 That he is a married man and the
father,of children,’ said Bill.
‘ That’s the game, boys; now let us
play it.’
Itdevolved u pon me to commence opera
tions. Accordingly, I entered the car in
which we were informedthe lovers were.
The girl thinking, I suppose, that she
must give her lover all the seat, had
taken a seat on his knee; and he, for the
purpose of protecting her, of course, had
thrown his arms around her waist; and
$o they sat, iii real soft lover’s style.
. All this I gathered at aglance. Stepping
up to them, I said;
i • Why, Jones what in the deuce are you
doing with this girl ?’
; The girl arose hastily and seated her
delf on the seat.
• ‘See her, stranger,’ said the fellow,
‘you’re a mite mistaken ; my name isn’t
Jones.’ ; . .
; 1 Why, Jones,’ said I, 1 you certainly
havn’tleft your wife and children, and
tried to palm yourself off for a single
man have you ?’
) 1 1 tell you my name ain’t Jones; it’s
Harper. It never was Jones; ’tain't a
goin* to be, nuther!’
i I merely shook my head, and passed
on to another seat to see the rest of the
fun. The girl looked ‘ wild'.aftcr I sat
down : but Jones alias Harper, soon con
vinced her that I was mistaken.
About the time they got feeling right
Well again, in came Elliot Gregg. Walk
ing up to Harper, he accosted him with:
1 vul iy, I mi.iu, von . her.a? Hoiv did you
leave your wife and babies ?'
1 See, here, stranger, you ain’t the first
man. that’s called me Jones to-day, an’
I reckon I must look awfuly like him;
[but I ain't Jones, an’ more’n that you
musn’t call me Jones. I han’t got any
wife, nor babies either; but this gal an’
me is a goin’ to splice, an’ and then you
can talk about my wife. . ,
This retort brought forth vociferous
laughter from the spectators, and it also
brought blushes to the face of the 1 gal
that was goin' to bespliced.’
‘ Ah, Jones,’ saitUGregg, 1 you will re
gret this in the future. I pity your wife
:and this poor girl.’
‘So Mr. Harper, your real name is
Jones is it, an' you’ve been foolin’ me,
ihave you? Well, we ain’t spliced yet;
an’ I don’t think we will be soon,’ said
the girl, and her eyes fairly flashed Are,
‘Jane, Jane,' said Harper, ‘don’t you
know I'm Bill Harper. Thar ain't a
darn drop of Jones blood in me, an’ I’ll
prove it.’ _ ,
At this moment, Jeff - . Jackson, Bill
Seevers, and Jim Byers entered, and of
course their attention was called to
Harper by his loud talking. They
stepped up to him and said:
•Why, Jones, what is all this fuss
about?'
This ib more than. Harp®* could stand.
He leaped upon a seat,
* Now, 1 said he, 4 my name is not Jones,
an' I can lick the fellow that says it
i s# »
By this time we had gottoH,, and our
friend Fred came Into the car and made
Harper keep quiet. Thegirlthatwouldn t
be 1 spliced'requested Fred to help her
on the train that was going back to
which he did, and the notorious Jones
alias Harper, followed her, We learned
after, that he proved himself to ;b6 Bill
Harper instead of Bill Jones, and he and
his gal Jane 1 got spliced.'
HOW TO AVOID A BAD HVSBAND,
Never marry for wealth, a woman’s life
consisteth not in the things she poaaeas
eth. ■
Never marry a fop, or one who struts
about Handy like, in his silk gloves and
ruffles, silver headed canes, diamonds in
his bosom, and rings' on his lingers.—
Beware, there is a trap.
Never marry a niggard, close fisted
mean, sordid wretch, who saves every
penny or Spends It grudgingly
Never marry a stranger, or one whose
character is not known to you or tested.—
Some females jump right into the fire
with their eyes wide open.
Never marry a mope or a drone one
who draggles and draws through life, one
foot after the other, and lets things take
their own course. .
Never marry ,a man who treats his
mother or sister unkindly or indifferent
ly.' Such treatment is sure indication of
a mean and wicked man.
Never on any account marry a gambler
or a profane person. Such a man can
never make a good husband.
Never marry a sloven, a man who Is
negligent of his person or his dress, and
is filthy in his habits. The external ap
pearance is an index to the heart.
Shun a rake as a snake, a viper, a very
demon.
Finally never marry a man who is hab
itually addicted to the use of ardent spir
its. Depend upon it you are better off
alone, than you would be were you tied to
a, man whose breath is polluted, and
whose vitals are being gnawed out by al
cohol. •
An Illinois Lawyer 1 Doing Well.’
—There were few able lawyers in the
State of Illinois during the past quarter
of a century than the late Judge Purple,
of Peoria. He was the author of several
law books. By his entire devotion to
his profession, he had attained merited
celebrity as an advocate and a jurist.
Some years since Judge P., when in
the city of Washington, met with a gen
tlemen from Boston, who, upon learn
ing that the Judge was from Illinois,
made particular enquiry as to the suc
cess or a young sprig of the law by the
name of B , who had emigrated
West some five years before.
‘He is doing well, very promptly re
plied the Judge.
‘He Is? Well, I am glad to hear it —
glad to hear it, indeed.'
‘ You think he has a good practice, do
you, Judge?’
‘ Don't know any ' thing about his
practice,’ replied Purple ; ‘ but he is do
ing well —succeeding finely.’
1 Making-money, then, is he ?’ persist
ed Boston. .
‘ I tell you I don’t know any thing
about his business,’ said Purple.
‘ Well,’ said the Boston man, ‘ you
seem to think that he is doing well, and
yet you know nothing about his practice
or business. What do you mean ?’
‘ I mean this,’ said Purple, ‘ that any
man who practices law in Illinois five
years, and who keeps out of the peni
tentiary, is doing well, whether he has
practiced or not.’
■To Mothers—Speak Low.—There
are houses, well built and handsomely
furnished, where It is not pleasant to be
a : visitor. Sharp angry tones resound
through them from morning till night,
and the influence ia as oantogious as
measles, ana muon more to tie dre»aoUi«»
a household. The children catch it, and
it lasts for life, an incurable disease. ; A
friend has such a neighbor within the
hearing of her house and even the poll
parrot caught the tune, and delights in
screaming and scolding until she has been
sent into the country to improve her hab
its. Children catch cross tones quicker
than parrots, and it is a more mischeiv
ous habit. Where the mother sets the
example, you will scarcely hear a pleas
ant word among the children in their
plays with each other. Yet the disci
pline of a family is weak and irregular.
The children expect just so much scold
iiig before they do anything they are
bidden, while in many a home where
the low, firm tone of the mother, or a
decided look of her steady eye, is law,
they never think of disobedience either
in or out of her sight. Oh mothers, it is
worth a great deal to cultivate that ex
cellent thing in woman, a low, sweet
voice.
The Honey Moon.— Why is the first
month after marriage called the ‘ honey
moon ?’ Doubtless on account of the
Sweet lunacy which controls the beads of
the parties during that brief and delight
ful period. What a pity that they should
ever get quite rktional again I That Sen
timentality should give place to senti
ment, sentiment to sense, love yield to
logic, and fiction to fact till the happy
pair are reduced from the Eden of ro
mance to the Sahara of reality—from
Heaven to earth—and perhaps a peg low
er!
’ Strange as it may seem, there have
been couples who have quarreled In the
first month of matrimony, and have got
back to their astonished - parents before
the good mother had fairly got done
weeping, (and rejoicing, too,) at her
daughter’s departure. Their ‘ honey
moon’ soured at the full of her horn
and become a moon of vinegar instead.
iA bad omen, that! There was much
Sense and propriety In the text which
the ancient clergymen chose for a .wed
ding sermon. It was taken from the
Psalms of David, and read thus: ‘ And
let there be peace, while the moon en
dureth.’
• - I\onrivimc X3*sV«vDaiixi> X.gowa Kni? a
rose and a ring, and asked her to marry
me then; but she sent them all back, the
■insensible thing, and said she had no no
tion of men. I told her I’d oceans of
.money, goods, and tried to fright her
with a growl: but she answered she
iwasn’t brought up in the woods, to be
scared by the screech of an owl. I called
her a beggar and everything bad; I
islighted her features and.form; till at
,length I succeeded in getting her mad,
and she agreed like a ship m a storm.
And then in a moment I turned and
smiled, and called her my angel and all;
she fell into my arms like a wearisome
child; and exclaimed: 11 We will marry
this fall.”
An Honest Life— The pittance of
seventy years is not worth being a villain
for. What matter if your neighbor lie
in a splendid tomb ? Sleep you with in
nocence.. Look behind you through the
the track of time. A vast desert lies open
in retrospeot; wearied with years and
torrow, they sink from the walks of man.
You are to leave them where they fall;
and you must go a little further, and you
will find eternal rest, whatever you may
have to encounter between the cradle and
the grave, every moment big with events,
which come not in succession but burst
ing forcibly from a revealing unknown
cause, fly over this orb with diversified
influence.
jjgy* A physician has discovered that
night-mare, in nine . cases out of ten, is
produced by owing a bill for a newspaper,
and that the best cure is to pay up.
iQy Benefit your- friends that they may
love you still more dearly; benefit your
enemies that they may become your
friends.
THE PRESIDENT.
A VIRGINIA DELEGATION VISIT
PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
ADDRESS TO THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE.
THE REPLY OF MR. JOHNSON,
Feb. 10.—This afternoon
a committee from the Senate and House
of Delegates of the State of Virginia, call
ed hpoix the President for the purpose of.
Presenting him with resolutions adopted
y the General. Assembly of Virginia.—
The following named gentlemen consti
tuted the Committee—From the Senate—
Messrs. E. P. Keon, A. J. Gray and Dale
Carter. From the House of delegates—
Messrs. John B. Baldwin, James Mar
shall, P. R. Gratten, A. G. Pendleton and
Win. T. Joynes.
They are mostly gentlemen of acknowl
edged ability, and, it is claimed, fully
represent the State geographically and
politically, being ftom North, (South,
East and West Virginia, and of every
shade of past and present politics.
James Marshall, a venerable looking
gentleman, is a nephew of the celebrated
Chief Justice of that name. Marshall,
Gratten and Judge Joynes are among the
ablest lawyers of the state.
ADDRESS OP MR. BALDWIN.
Mr. Baldwin, speaker of the House of
Delegates, as Chairman of the Commit
tee, presented the resolutions ap4 deliver-:
ed the following address on behalf of the
committee:—
Mr. President—We are a committee ot
Senators and Delegates, sent to present to
you, in persop, certain resolutions which
have received the unanimous approbation
of the General Assembly of Virginia.—
We come as representatives sent by one
of the States of this Union, to confer with
our Constitutional President in regard' to
matters affecting the common good, and
therefore of interest to all the States and
all the people. We come to you, Mr.
President, for the reason that you recog
nise our common interest in the Govern
ment under which wo live, and because
thus far we have been denied the consti
tutional means of communication ' by
which other States and other people make
known their opinions, purposes and feel
ings in the councils of the nation. In de
claring that the people ot Virginia ana
their representatives accept and abide - by
the results of the late contest, and that
they intend in good faith to meet all the
obligations thereby incurred, the General
Assembly expresses a sentiment and a
purpose which have been uniformly rec-'
ognized by bur people individually and in
masses, and in regard to which there is
no hesitation or division in all Virginia.
Chief among the results thus accepted is
the universal conviction that the union of
of these States is an established and en
during fact, and that, the whole future of
our people ia indissolubly bound up for
weal or woe with the success or failure of
the Government of the United States;—
We recognise that Government as our
Government; its Constitution as our Con
stitution; the duties which it promises are
our rights. Another great reaultulike ac
cepted by our people is the final over
throw of the institution of slavery. This
has been completed by a constitutional
Amendment, the binding force of which
is universally admitted; for, although we
.Wm-« not renresented in the Congress hv
which it was propoaca,u«i laUurelo oe so
represented was our own, choice. The
condition of the freeedmeri among us,
and the policy, to be adopted with regard
to them, will be recognized,by you as cal
ling for the exercise of theihigbest facul
ties of the statesman and tl)e best feelings
of the Christian philanthropist.
The General Assembly pf Virginia is
engaged earnestly in . the consideration of
these subjects; and in anticipation of the
result of their labors, we tan only say that
whatever policy may be( adopted will be
addressed in good faith and with kind
feeling to the improvemlnt of the physi
cal, intellectual and mfral condition of
our ffeedmeu. You can(understand and
will readily believe tha) the feelings of
our people towards these freedmen are
those of kindness, sympathy and good
will, and that to treat tiem with harsh
ness or injustice is opposed as much to
our feelings as it is to (for interests and
our sense of right. Th» policy pursued
by you, Mr. President, toward Virginia,
and other States in like rendition, has its
strong loundatioh in bipad and compre
hensive views of constitutional right and
of natural policy, and must look for its
ultimate success upon me conservative
sense of Justice or the people uf «u ti.o
States. It is due, however to you and to
our people to assure you that when our
General Assembly declare the universal
approval of that policy by the people of
Virginia, they express what each of this
committee here, present knows to be a
living proof.
It happens that your position‘places
you between us aid a threatened danger,
and the General' Assembly have but
given voice to the real feelings of our
people when they tender to you the
warmest thanks of Virginia for the firm
stand you have taken against the facility
with which it is proposed to change the
fundamental law. we vould not, how
ever, claim as the only oi even the chief
merit of the course you are taking, that
it affords to us protection in a time of
trouble. It is as defendir of the general
Constitution that you deserve and com
mand the confidence and support of the
people of the United Stages; and it will
be hereafter remembered as your highest
claim to the character of a republican
statesmen that, under all the trying cir
ly wUA yrtii nrn surround
ed, you have not onlr proclaimed the
Constitution of the United States to be
the supreme law of tills land, but have
defended it alike froja violation and
from innovation. j
RESPONSE OP THE’
Th'e President: —In rtply, gentlemen,
to the resolutions you have just present,
ed to me, and the clear and concise re
marks which you have made in explana
tion of the position of Virginia, I shall
not attempt to make a formal speech, but
simply enter into a plain conversation in
regard to the Condition of tilings in
which we stand. As a premise to what X
may say t permit mo, first, to tender , you
my thanks for tl is visit, and next,'Jo ex
press the gratification I feel ' in meeting
so many intelligent, responsible and re
spectable men of Virginia bearing to mo
the sentiments which have been expressed
in the of your Legislature and
in the remarks accompanying them.
They are, so far as they refer to the Con
stitution of the country, the sentiments
and the principles embraced in that
charter of the Government. The preser
vation of the Union has been from my
entrance into public life one of my car
dinal tenets. : ■ , ,
At the very incipiency of the Rebellion
X set my face against the dissolution of
the Union of the States. I do not make
this allusion for the . purpose of bringing
up anything which has transpired, which
may be regarded as of an unkind or
unpleasant character, but I believed
then, as I believe now, and as, you have
most unmistakeably indicated, that the
security and, the protection of the fights
of all the people were to be found in the
Union; that we were certainly safer.in
the Uuion than we were out'of it.; Upon
this conviction I based my opposition to
tlie efforts which were made to destroy
tlie Union. I have continued these
efforts, notwithstanding the perils
through which I have passed, and you
are not unaware the trial has been a se
vere one. When opposition to the Gov
ernment came from one section of the
country, and that the section' In which
my life had been passed, and with which
my interests were identified, I stood,, as
I stand now, contending for the Union,
■ and asseverating that the best and surest
way to obtain our. rights and to protect
oui; interests was to remain in the Union,
under the protection of the Constitution.
The ordeal through which we have
p»ssed;during the last four or five years
demonstrates most conclusively that that
opposition was right, and to-day, after
the experiment has been made, and has
failed, after the demonstration has been
most- conclusively afforded that this
Union cannot be dissolved, that it was
not designed to be dissolved, it is grati
fying to me to meet gentlemen as intelli
gent and as responsible ns yourselves,
who are willing and anxious to accept
UDd do aonopt tKo laid down in ific
Constitution and obedience to the laws
made in pursuance thereof. We were at
one period separated; the separation to
mo was painful in the extreme; but now,
after having gone through a struggle in
which the powers of the Government
have' been tried, when we have swung
around to a point at which we meet to
argue, and we are willing to unite our
efforts for the preservation of the Gov
ernment, which I believe is the best in
the world, it is gratifying to me to meet,
you to-day, standing upon common
ground, rallying around the Constitution
and 'the Union of those States, the preser
vation of which, as I conscientiously and
honestly believe, will result in the pro
motion and advancement of this peo
ple.
I repeat, I am gratified to meet you to
day, expressing the principles and an
nouncing the sentiments to which you
have given utterance, and I trust that
the occasion will long be remembered. I
have no doubt that your intention is to
cany out and comply with every single
principle laid down in the resolutions
you have submitted. I know that some
are distrustful, but I am of those who
have confidence in the judgment, in the
integrity, in the intelligence, in the vir
tue of the great mass of the American
people, and, having such confidence, I
am willing to trust them, and I thank
God we have not yet reached that point
where we have lost confidence in each
other. The spirit of the Government
can only be preserved—we can only be
come prosperous and great as a people—
by mutual forbearance and confidence.
Upon that faith and that confidence
alone can the Government be successful
ly carried on. On the cardinal principle
of representation to which you refer, I
will make a single remark.
That principle is inherent. It consti
tutes one of the fundamental elements of
this Government. The representative of
the States and of the loyal people should
have the qualifications prescribed by the
Constitution of the United States, and
those qualifications most unquestionably
imply loyalty. He who comes as a rep
resentative having the qualifications pre
scribed by the Constitution to fit him to
take a seat in either of the deliberate
bodies which constitute the National
Legislature must necessarily, according
to the intendment of the Constitution,
be a loyal man, willing to abide by and
ik-- lT —*-•“ 3 *!■«/> Uf - .! til"
tion of the States, He canpot be for the
Constitution, he cannot be for the Union,
he cannot acknowledge obedience to all
the laws, unless he is loyal. When the
people send such men in good faith they
are entitled to representation through
them.
■ , In going into tho recent rebellion or
insurrection against tho Government of
the United States we erred, and in re
turning and resuming our relations with
the Federal Government, I am free to
say that all the responsible positions and
places ought to be confined distinctly
and clearly to men who are loyal. If
there were only five thousand loyal men
in a State, ora less number, but sufficient
to take charge of the political machinery
of the State, those five thousand men, or
the lesser number, are entitled to it if all
the rest should be otherwise inclined.
I look upon it as being fundamental that
the exercise of political power should be
confined to loyal men, and I regard that
as implie!d in the doctrines laid down in
these resolutioiis, and in the eloquent
address by which they have been accom
panied
I may say, furthermore, that after
having pnaQfid thrninrh the great strug
gle in which we have been engaged, wo
should .be placed upon much more ac
ceptable ground in resuming all our re
lations to the General Government, if
we presented men unmistakably and un
questionably loyal to fill the places of
power. This being done, I feel that the
day is not far distant (I speak confident
ly in reference to the great mass of the
American people) when they will deter
mine that this Union shall be made
whole, and the great right of representa
tion in the councils of the nation be ac
knowledged. Gentlemen, that is a fun
damental principle. “Notaxation with
out representation” was one of the prin
ciples which carried us through the Ee
volution. This great principle will hold
good yet; and if we but perform our
duty ; if we but comply with the spirit
of the resolutions presented me to-day,
the American people will maintain and
sustain the great doctrines upon which
the great Government was inaugurated.
It can be done, and it will be done; and
I think that if the effort be fairly and
fully, made with forbearance, and with
pruaence, anu wrtu uiscietiou ami T»-io
dom, the end is not very far distant.
It seems to me apparent that from every
consideration the best policy which,
could be,adopted at present, would be a
restoration of these States, and of the
government upon correct principles. We
have some foreign difficulties, but the
moment it can be announced that the
. union of the States is again complete—
that we have resumed our career of pros
perity and greatness—at that very in
stant almost all our foreign difficulties
will be settled; for there is no power
upon the earth which will care to have a
controversy or a rupture with the Gov
ernment of the United States under such
circumstances. If these States be fully
restored the area for the circulation of
the national currency, which is thought
by some to be inflated to a very great ex
tent, will be enlarged, the number of
persons through whose hands it is to
pass will be increased, the quantity of
commerce in which it is to be employed
as a medium of exchange will be en
larged, and then it will begin to approxi
mate what we all desire, a specie
standard..
If all the States were restored, if peace
and order reigned throughout the land,
and all the industrial pursuits, all the
avocations of peace were again resumed,
the day would not be very far distant
when we should put into the commerce
of the world $250,000,000 or $300,000,000
worth of cotton and tobacco, and the va
rious products of the Southern States,
which would constitute, in part, a basis
of this currency. Then, instead of the
cone being inverted, we should reverse
the position, and put the base at the bot
tom, as it ought to be, and the currency
of the country will rest on a sound axid
enduring basis. And surely that is a re
sult which is calculated to promote the
Interests, not only of one section, but of
the whole country from one extremity to
the other. Indeed, I look upon the res
toration of these States as being indis
pensable to our greatness.
' Gentlemen, I know nothing further that
I could say in the expression of my feel
ings on this occasion, and they are not af
fected more than to add that I shall con
tiuue in the same line of policy which I
pursued from the commencement of the
.Rebellion to the present period. My ef
forts have been to preserve the union of
the States. I have never for a single mo
ment entertained the opinion that a State
could withdraw from the Union ot its own
will. That attempt was made. It has
failed. I continue to .pursue the same
line of policy which has neen my constant
guide. I was against dissolution. Disso
lution was attempted t it has failed, and
now I cannot take the position that a
State which attempted to secede is out of
the Union when I contended all the time
that it could not go out, and that it never
has been out. T cannot be forced into that
position, nence; )vlion the Ototca ami
their people shall have complied with the
requirements of the Government, 1 1 shall
be in favor of their resuming their former
relations to this Government in all re
spects. Ido not intend to say anything
personal; but you know as well os Ido
that at the beginning of the recent gigan
tic struggle between the different sections
of the country there were extreme men
South and there were extreme men North.
I might make use of a homely figure
which is sometimes as good as any other,
even in the illustrations of great ana
important questions, and say that it has
been hammer at one end of the line and
anvil at the other.
And this great Government, the best
the world ever saw was kept upon the an
vil. and it has been hammered since the
Rebellion, and there seems to be a dispo
sition to continue the hammering until
the Government shall be destroyed. I
have opposed that system always, and I
oppose it now. The Government, in the
assertion of its powers and the mainte
nance of the principles of the Constitu
tion, has taken hold of one extreme, and
with the strong arm of physical power
has put down the Rebellion. Now, as
we swing around the circle of the Union,
with a fixed and unalterable determina
tion to stand by it, if we find the counter
part or the duplicate of the same spirit
that played to this feeling and these per
sons at the South, this other extreme,
which stands in' the way, must get out of
it, and the Government must stand un
shaken and unmoved on its basis. This
Government must be preserved!
I will only say, in conclusion, that I
hope all the people of this country, in
good faith and in the fullness of tneir
hearts, will, upon the principles which
you have enunciated hero to-day, of the
maintenance of the Constitution, and the
preservation of the Union, lay aside every
other feeling for the good of our common
country, and, with uplifted faces to Heav
en, swear that our gods and our altars,
and all shall sink in the dust together
rather than this glorious Union shall not
be preserved. (Great applause.)
1 am gratified to find the loyal senti
ment of the country developing and man
ifesting itself in these expressions; and,
now that the attempt to destroy govern
■ meat has failed at one end of the line, I
trust we shall go on, determined to pre
serve the Union in its original purity
against all oppose™. I ttont von.
r nr Hu, paid
me, and I respondmost cordially to what
has been said.in your resolutions and ad
dress, and I trust in £!od that the time
will soon come when we can meet under
more favorable auspices than we do now.
Mr. Baldwin—Mr. President, as an as
surance that we represent the sentiment
of the State, I beg leave to introduce to
you the members of the Committee, and
to name the parts of the State from which
they come, in order that you may be cer
tified that this is a fair representation of
all parts of Virginia. I introduce to you
Mr. Keou, the Senator from Spottsylva
nia: Mr. Joyues, the delegate from Pe
tersburg; Mr. Carter, Senator from the
county of Russel; Mr. Marshall, delegate
from the county of Fauquier; Mr.,Gray,
Senator from the county of Rockingham;
Mr. Pendleton, delegate from the county
6f Giles; Mr. Gratten, delegate from the
bounty of Richmond. We claim this to
be a fair and equally distributed represen
tation of the people of Virginia.
The gentlemen named, as their names
were mentioned, stepped forward and
Shook the President by the hand.
The President added:—l am happy to
meet you, gentlemen. As I said to auoth
v.er delegation the other day, I have no
ambition and no object beyond the restor
ation Of this I fool that X
am in a position where I can afford to do
right. I have occupied during my career
many different posts in this government.
I started at one of the humblest cabins in
the country, and have passed through the
State Legislature, the Gubernatorial chair,
both Houses of Congress, the Vice Presi
dency of the United States, to the posi
tion which I now occupy. The climax,
the acme to the summit of my ambition
has been fully reached—yea, more than
reached. If now I can only arrive at a
point at which these States are all restor
ed, each having its representation in the
national councils, with the Union restor
ed, so that we can once more proclaim
peace and good will among the people of
the United States, it will be to me a hap
py day. I care not what way be said in
taunt or jeer; I care not what may be in
sinuated ; hut I tell you that whenever X
shall have reached that point the measure
of my ambition will have been filled and
more than filled. I have no object beyond
it. Oh, how proud and gratifying it
would be to me to retire front this place,
feeling and knowing that 1 had been in
strumental .in consummating this great
end. (Great applause.)
The delegation then left the President’s
room, after each delegate again shook
President Johnson by the hand.
Money. —Men work for it, fight for it,
beg for it, steal for it, starve for it, and
die for it. And ail the while, from the
cradle to the grave; nature and God are
thundering in our ears the solemn ques
tion —“What shall it profit a man, if he
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul?” This madness for money is the
strongest and lowest of the passions j it
is the insatiate Moloch of the human
heart, before whose remorseless altar all
the finer attributes of humanity arc sac
rificed. It makes merchandise of all that
is sacred in human affections, and even
traffics in the awful solemnities of the
eterjjn^.
Power op the Pen. —The pen, in the
hand that knows how to use it, is one of
tlie most powerful weapons known. As
the tongue of the absent, how charming!
When self-respect gives it a new vigor,
how pleasing! When virtue guides it,
how beautiful! When honor directs it,
how respected! When wit sharpens it,
how fatal! When scurrility wields it,
how contemptible! Tis the weopon of
the mind.
fig?" A Southern man of Beaufort, South
Carolina, is boarding at his own house at
three dollars a day. The war has floated
his property into the possession of a Yan
kee man, who believes that a rebel has no
rights that a “ loyal" man is bound to re
spect.
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How long did Cain hate his brother ?
As long as he was Able;
To rob a man of his money is to wound
him in the chest.
May n o t the bird wile sleeps upon the
wing bo said to sleep upon a feather bed.
Women are said to be mere delusions;
but it is something pleasant to hug delu
sions.
, Every man is involuntarily original
in at least one .thing—his manner of
sneezing.
Flattery Is like a flail, which, if not
adroitly used will box your own ears in
stead of tickling those of the com.
Don’t be cross because you are turning
gray. If you are grizzly, you needn’t be
a grizzly bear.
A smile la ever the most bright and
beautiful with a tearupon it. What’s the
dawji without its dew ?
Why do recriminations of married cou
ples resemble the sound of waves on the
seashore 2—Because they are murmurs of
the tied.
Daniel Websteb used to say that the
word would, in Rufus Cheat’s hand wri
tlng, resembled a small gridiron struck by
lightning.-
A contemporary says the article which
produces so many deaths from “unknown
causes” is sold in every town and villnge
in the country.
A clasic southern editor says that If
the Naiads were constantly bathing, he
presumes from their name that the Dry
ads were the ones who brought them their
towels.
Cardinal Wiseman’s dying-vwords
were: “Well, here lam at last, like'a
child from school, going home for the
holidays.
They manage things funily in Califor
nia-military funerals for Instance. Af
ter burying the defunct, the band comes
back and serenades the widow.
: Jones says a person’s character depends
on a good bringing up; for instance
(says he,) a man who has been brought up
ty the police seldom turns out respeota’-
The best literary notice we have seen
in some time is that of Rockland (Vt.)
Gazette, which in announcing the receipt
of a new book, speaks thus briefly.and to
the point: “We have receivedabook en
titled ‘ Arabella, a Tale of Tenderness.’ —
The auther is a fool.
JoifNYaayshe supposes dwarfs could’t
get euough to eat when they were young,
so they went short; but giants must have
been better fed because he cannot think
how they could be so long without food.
Toast to the Ladies.—We append
the latest toast to the ladies, which was
got off at a recent public dinner:
“The ladies—May their virtues over
exceed the magnitude of their skirts,
while their faults remain smaller than
their bonnets.”
When a man and woman are made one
by the clergyman, the question is, which
is the one. Sometimes there is a long
struggle between them before this matter
is finally settled.
:w lusn may a ship be said to bo foolish
ly in lovof-rWhcn she So attached to a
buoy. When madly in iove ?—When she
is, anlcering after a heavy, swell. When
ambitiously in love ?—When she is making
after a pier.
A youngster, while perusing a chap
ter in Genesis, turning to his mother, in
quired if the people in those days used to
do sums on tho ground ? It was discov
ered that he had been rending the pas
sage, “And the sons of men multiplied
upon the face of the earth."
There is a boy down East who is ac
customed to go out on a railroad track and
imitate the steam whistle so perfectlyas
to deceive the officer at the station. His
last attempt proved eminently successful:
the depot master came out and "switched
himon.”
“Most ennybody kan write poor sense,”
says Josh Billings, “ but thare ain’t but
few that han write good nonsense —and it
always takes an eddykated man tew ap
preciate it after it iz writ.”
A Frenchman, on coming to Ameri
ca, and finding himself utterly unobserv
ed, no official asking for his passport, no
Soliceman dogging his steps, no mayor
emanding his business, felt sad and lone
ly, and exclaimed that he was taken “ no
more notice or man If ho was a little dog. ”
One day Freddy’s little sister, Carrie,
hearing her mother talking about a name
for. a new little- baby-brother that had
been given to them a short time before,
said: “ Mamma, why don’t you name him
Hallowed? It says in my prayer, ‘Hal
lowed be thy name,’ and I think it is a
very pretty name, too.”
A Loving Wife.—a farmer going to
get his grist ground at a mill, borrow
ed a bag of one of his neighbors, the poor
man was knocked under the water wheel,
and the bag with him, he was drowned.
When the melancholly news was brought
to his wife, she exclaimed, “ My gracious,
what a fuss there’ll be about that bag.”
“ Mother,” said little Ned, one morn,
after having fallen out of bed, “ I think I
know why I fell out of bed last night. It
was because I slept too near where I got
in.” Musing for awhile, as if in doubt
whether he had given the right explana
tion, ho eaid, u No, that wnun’t tho roa
son, it was because I slept too near where
I fell out.”
A physician, who is a truly pious man,
was speaking in a prayer meeting lately
of the duty of imposing the idea of salva
tion upon those near death, and of a phy
sician's opportunities in this way, and
made use of the following language:
“For my own part, I am never called to
see a-patient without fooling delighted to
learn that he is prepared to die.”
11 Saratoga and Newport—you’ve seen
’em,”
Said Charley one morning to Joe,
“Pray tell me the difference between
’em,
For bother my wig if I know.”
Quoth Joe : “’Tis the easiest matter
At once to distinguish the two;
At one, you go into the Water—
At t’other, it goes into you-”— Saxe.
Question in Pastry.— A sub-commit
tee of a school board was examining a
class in a primary school. One of the
committee, to sharpen up their wits, pro
pounded the following question ;
“ If I had a mince pie, and should give
two-twelfths to Harry, two-twelfths to
John, and two-twelfths to Isaac, and
should keep half the pie myself, what
•would there be left ?”
There was a profound study among the
schollars, but finally one lad hold up his
hand to signal that lie was ready to an
swer.
“Well sir, what would there be left?
Speak out loud, so that all can hear,"
said the committee man.
“The plate!” shouted the hopeful fel
low. The committee man turned red in
the face, while the other numbers roared
aloud. The boy was excused from an
swering any more questions.
ODDS ANl> ENDS.