CYt aniatmbiit gpis. ~, • - - d. M. RAMBO. Columbia, Pa. Satu2viay, March 6, 1869. coO: CNICATIONS, letters, contrlbotlerts, generally of merit and interest to the reader, will be acceptable from friends from all quarters. tiniou Pacific Railroad Progress. The new heading to the advertisement of the Treasurer of the Union Pacific Railroad Company tells the story of the continued progress of that work. One thousand and twenty-six miles finished and the cars now running iuto Salt Lake Valley ! The mountain chains and the wild canons which interpose between the Plains and the great interior basin have been surmounted and passed, and• the whistle of the locomotive may he heard almost at the gates of the Mormon capital. Twohundred miles more (in three months' time) and the continent wilt be spanned by the iron rail. The speedy completion cif the whole line calls renewed attention to the popular ieenrities of the constructing Company. The Fist Mortgage Bonds of the Union Pacitie Railroad Company have been sold to the amount of twenty millions. With the completion of the road, the issue of these hands must stop. and their value to holders will naturally and steadily advance from that time. The late decision of the United States Supreme Court, that both coin and currency arc a legal tender, and that all contracts fur the payments of coin an•e valid and may be enforced by law, places the legal liability of the Union Pa cific Railroad Company to pay the inter est and principal of its first mortgage bonds beyond question. What some of the courts have heretofore held was a matter of honor has now become au obli gation,and must enhance the market value of these securities. The present high price of governments offers a favorable op portunity for holders to sell and re-invest in Union Pacifies at a profit of $lOO to $l4O on each bond, and obtain a. security equally as safe and really more valuable, on account of the longer period before maturity. The New A dininistration. Thursday was, we all hope, the opening of a new era in our political history. With .Lincoln we. had four years ,5f war. With Johnson we have had four years of wrang ling. Nay we not hope that the advent of Grant will bring us four years of peace? Although be has been marvelously reti cent, General Grant has let drop en3ugh to induce us to believe that he is firmly bent on carrying out the principles, of which his elsetion was the popular ex pression. Reconstruction in its best sense is to be completed, the South at once pa cified and conciliated ; equal rights se cured anti enftireed throughout the entire country ; a sweeping reform iu the ad ministration of the Government—in the ,army, the navy, and the civil service— inaugurated, provided `the Senate don't 2.tand stubbornly in the way by refusing to repeal the Tenure Act; and economy, tetrenchment, collection of the revenues, and honest payment of the public debt he made the chief aims of the Executive. If this programme be followed by the determined soldier who has never yet de serted the line on which he has once deci ded to advahee, a new era is indeed about to dawn on our country; an era of renewed harmony and unexampled prosperity. God grant it" is the prayer of forty mil lion souls this day. Resumption of, Business Activity. Business is gradually assuming a more cheerful aspect, and we hope that with the opsning spring the usual activity will prevail. We have had a long season of dullness, and there does not now appear to be any good reason why this• dull sea son should not speedily close and "business once more resume its healthful tone. The people are ready and anxious for it. Business men should therefore avail them selves of this encouraging • feeling and do their part. It is scarcely necessary to say that an important preliminary step is advertising. Let the people know where you are and what you have to sell. Do this persistently, and the result will as tonish you. There is, after all, nothing like keeping a man's business prominently before the people. The merchant or manufacturer who does this, and does it judiciously, rarely fails of success. With a view to aiding this movement fur the restoration of busy times, we ask the at tention of all who have wares to dispose of to the advantages offered by the adver tising columns of- the Sr v. With an al ready large and constantly increasing eh: culation, they furnish a most desirable I medium for communicating with the people generally. I )In. lirmunt M. COLEY, an officer of the Freedmen's Bureau, has compiled an instructive table of the voting population of Arkansas, from which we learn that the whole number of registered voters (exclu ding three counties front which the rc• turns are not accessible) is 63,974, of whom 44,332 are white, and only 19,142 colored; and of the white voters 13,365, or 30 per cent. Jo not know how to write. lu some counties half the white voters are entirely uneducated. Tho illitetate.votes in Polk county, for instance (Where there is only one black voter). are 50 per cent. of the whole; in Searcy county (no black voters), 53 per cent ; in Van Kure n county (nine black voters), 48 per cent; in New ton county (no black voters), 44 per cent; and so on. Good Democrats Ivho are terrified at the idea of allowing uneduca ted colored men to vote, may study the ease of the uneducated white men of Ar kansas with profit. IT is not a. good sign for - the Pacific Railroad that, spite of our remarkable open winter, the snows on the Mountains .have completely blocked it. up for over half of the present Month. There has not been asingle train through since the I:th. " The experience of this winter will be sure to give an iMpetua to the Southern routes, and, when the.Dovernment can afford it, they, will iens'p' 'receive 'assistance in some way. - • The Public Good. We are inclined to the opinion that the majority of men have no•thought for any one else's advancement but their own. They live for self, act for self and labor for self.• They care not ; if the feelings of others are sacrificed, so they gain the goal of their ambition. This is certainly a wrong principle by which to square one's life. We should 01 endeavor to bear in mind that mutual dependence is a princi ple which we cannot shirk, and which in a great measure determines our happiness and success in this life. It is certainly strange that we all lose sight of that which is best calculated to advance our interests, and place us in a position in so ciety where we can be useful and labor successfully for the good of all—or, in other words, for the public good. Self interest is one of the greatest evils of the time, and is ruining more, in one sense of the word, than rum. A drunkard is al ways generous, too generous for his own good, and in the proportion that a drunk ard is too generous for his own good, is the selfish man, or the man that has no time to think of any one hut himself, un generous, unkind and unsocial. We long for the time to come when self-interest and all that pertains to it, shall be banished, and the spirit of benev olence and charity be practised to the ex tent that shall ensure the greatest amour of good to all who act a part in the gran theatre of life. .Editor The demand fur aid is heard on every hand, and the public good can best be satisfied by meeting every demand made for aid promptly and without stint. We cannot carry this world's riches with us when oar race here is run, hence let us all labor to do good, using what means we have to accomplish this end, and our word fur it we will all feel more happy here, and enjoy a richer reward hereafter. The public good! how grand the scale In which our lives are weighed, When we can gain _some mighty end, And by success be paid. Tim public good! the public good! Oh, how I love the soul! Forgetting self—that looks ',eyelid To future's coming goal. The future good: ages unborn Will leap the fruits of now, When farms that mighty structure raise Before the white throne bow. 'the public good ! the power divine That teaches birds to sing•, Will surely to the generous soul golden hurvetw bring. The public good! oh. lasting joy, That Um, cannot efface, 'When we improvement's march can bear, Its works of progress trace. Women of Other Days. The women of the present day, who ap pear so conspicuously before the public as teachers and speakers, are not, as one writes us, alone for our day and country. In the early days of Christ there were prominent women teachers, though then as now the cases were rather exceptional than common, and probably they always will be. Sometimes the scarce office, as With Miriam, Deborah and Iluldah (all married women by the way)—the latter a chief among theologians and the leader of the prophetic school in Jerusalem. These preaching women then, however, served without pay or reward, dressed with great simplicity, and generally behaved with great modesty. They were also for the most part as unselfish as the women disci ples who accompanied the Saviour and ministered to him from their substance, as with Mary called Magdlena, Joanna, the wife of Chusa, Susanna, and many others. There were smart women," as the words were from the days of .Tael who first welcomed vises to her tent, then gave him milk to drink, and then smote him with a nail in his temple when asleep, as at the present time, and oar friend need not conclude that, because a score of women are noisy and revolutionary, that the world will, in cotiserprenee, at once be turned upside down. WE liod the following paragraph in the Lancaster blguirer, of Saturday last : A correspondent of the Bcpress suggests the propriety of appointing a Jury Instruct or for Lancaster county, in order that the ignorant and Benighted jurymen may be properly enlightened and instructed 'in their duties. Should this project be carried into execu tion, ro would respectfully and humbly suggest the names of two distinguished per sons for that important position—the editor- In-chief of the above-named journal, and the side-door-editor of the Columbia SPY. Then will the milleniutu have come." "There's a good time a coming, boys. Walt a little longer." If juries continue to violate their oath, iu the face of positive testimony, and outrage the laws by ignoring such bills as were presented to them,arraigning the edi tor-in-chief of that paper for gobbling several hundred dollars of the county funds, while lie had the same in custody; they will need no Instructor but had bet ter be abolished entirely. " Thieves break through and steal Where Angels dare not tread.' AN old English colonel has just had a bullet extracted from his body which he received-at the battle of Victoria, over fifty years ago. This reminds us of Arte taus Ward's hero, who lingered in a lonely dungeon for fifteen years, until a lucky thought struck him one day, when he; . opened the door and walked out. SOME planters iu Georgia, Alabama and Southern Tennessee have ploughed up magnificent fields of wheat for the pur pose of putting the ground in cotton. MERE is a bill before the Legislature of Kentucky to charter a bridge cotnpa nc• for the purpose of building a railroad over the Ohio, at Covington. Jay Gould, of Sew York, is one of the incorporators. SECRETARY McCuur.r,ocrthaspurchased a large farm in Maryland to which he in tends to retire after he letoves the United States Treasury, A 1:::rrio STATES soldier has found a real black. diamond near Atlanta, which weighs two ounces, which is said to be worth several thotaand dollars. ONE wing of the Kansas State-house at Topeka has already cost $290,000, and will cost $llB,OOO more before it is coin fluted. THE statue for the Mexican monument et Barri!,burg is to be shipped from Gel3o:i to-day. It is espected to:arrive about the middle of the month: . ALL the 'orals' or the TJelaware and Hudson Canal were put at how head of water on Saturday, and will, be brought to 'a full bend for boati on Tuesday. - . THE ;Tohnson party is no more. [From the Daily SrY.3 Telegraphic Sumxuary. FRIDAY, Feb. 26 The resignation of Governor Brownlow was formally made before the Tennessee Legislature yesterday. A Spanish war - vessel is off Rey West, watching the Peruvian monitors. Five or persons drank poisoned li quor at a ball, near Alton, 111., a few nights since, and two of them have since died. A Pittsburg, dispatch says five men left Morgantown ou Friday last in a skiff, and as they have not been heard of since, and the ski' has been found floating upside down, it is Jhought they have been, drowned. It has been • found impossible to secure a jury for the trial of Grant for shooting Pol lard, in Richmond, Va., mid a panel has been ordered froth Alexandria and 'Nor folk. A fire in Cleveland, Ohio, on "Wednesday night, destroyed 420,000 worth of property. A fireman was mortally injured. Two fires in New Orleans, on Wednesday night, destroyed 500,000 worth of property. Counterfeit 5.5 greenbacks are largely cir culating in Now Tork. The will of the late Jonathan Burr, of Chicago, leaves 5:300,000 to local charities, and 855,000 to his relatives. SATURDAY. Feb. 27 The Nevada Assembly has adopted a bill looking to the establishment of both negrii and female suffrage in that State. The Maine house of Representatives has concurred iu the Senate bill legalizing dissection of harpan subjects. The Wes tVirginia Senate has rejected the bill removing the capital of that Stat 3 to Parkersburg. The public debt statement for the month will probably be issued earlier than usual. It is expected to show a large decrease. Ex-Governor Henry A. Swift, of Minne sota, died on Thursday, at St. Paul. Dr. Thomas D. Wilson committed suicide, in Louisville, on Thursday night. A Methodist Church was burned at San Jose, California, recently,• after the pastor had received a threatening lett . jr because he taught Chinamen. A fire in Sandwich, Mass., destroyed near :330,000, worth of property. MONDAY, March 1. Several encounters between the whites and Indians have taken place in Arizona, and five whites have been killed.' Tho chief "Little Raven" and three hundred Arapahoes are reported to have surrendered to the military ou the plains. C. D. Robinson, of the broker firm of Wood S.; Robinson, in New York, is said by his partner, Mr. Wood, to have adsconded with securities amounting to 15E4,000. The Park Savings Bank, in Brooklyn. N. Y., was robbed, on Saturday, of a box con taining $15,000 in securities. arres is have been made. J. W. Elder has been held in New Orleans to :111SNYZT a charge of perjury brought by a Revenue Assessor, who made affidavit that Elder went into the whisky distilling busi ness to discover the connection between the whisky "ring" and the Revenue officials. A number of pickpockets -aura going to Vilashingtott to operate among the crowd at the inauguration. Several of them have been arrested at the railroad station in Bal timore. The Court House of Buckingham county, Va., with all the county records, was burn ed on Friday night. The T.Tnion Pacific Railroad has been blocked since the 12th of February by snow, the disappearance of which mustbe awaited before the mails can be sent through. Railroad travel continues tnuch obstruct ed in Canada by the snow. Another severe snow storm prevailed at Ottawa on Satur day. On - Friday night, from one to two feet of snow fell in Northern New Englund, ob structing the railroads. -... . . TOEso.tv, Alareh. 2. Mary E. Clein has - been convicted, at In dianapolis, for the murder of Jacob Young last fall, and been sentenced to imprison ment for life. The dwelling of D. C. St ielzney, express man, was robbed of $32,000 on Sunday. An inmate who bas disappeared is sus pected. Nathaniel C. Wood, jeweler, was robbed of $7OOO worth of valuables in Boston on Sunday morning. An incendiary fire in Jackson, La., yes terday, destroyed the Clarion newspaper office and a book store. The loss is $40,000. The Masonic Hall at Morrisville, Vt., containing several stores, was burned yes terda y. W EsDAy, March The suffrage amendment was ratified by the Missouri Legislature on Monday. The vote was 23 to 9 in the Senate, and 79 to 30 in the House. The amendment has also been ratified by the Nevada Legislature. The Republican caucus of the United States House of Representatives was held yesterday, and the following nominations were made : Speaker, James C. Blaine, of Maine; Clerk, Mr. McPherson, the present incumbent ; Sergeant-at-Arms, Col. Ord way, the present incumbent; Doorkeeper,O. S. Buxton, of New York. No nomination was made for Postmaster. The Democratic caucus of the House yes terday complimented Mr. Kerr, of Indiana, with the nomination for Speaker. Municipal elections were held in New York State yesterday. Auburn and Ro• cheater were carried by the Republicans. Oswego, Utica and Elmira were carried by the Democrats. J. 11. Hatch, Republican, was elected Mayor of Des Moines, lowa, over the Dem ocratic incumbent, by three hundred major ity, on Monday. The President has pardoned the two La mers, convicted several years since of cot on stealing in the South by a court mar tial. Pardon papers for Arnold and Spang ler will be issued to-day. The Boston police authorities have been directed to suppress all public mask balls in that city, on and after the 4th inst. ' Two cars were smashed and several per sons injured by a collision on the Hudson River Railroad yesterday. Wood's building, Including . the Times newspaper office, in Hartford, Conn., was burned yesterday. The loss is over $50,000. The mantel factory of Zerkes& Martin at Lynport, Lehigh county, was burned on Monday night. Loss 525,000. Gold closed yesterday at 132. The Stock market was steady, Governments being strong. TipirtsDAY, Mar. 4. Gen. Grant was inaugurated President to-day. In the House, Speaker Colfax delivered his farewell address. At its close, Mr Wood ward of Pennsylvania, rose and offered a resolution highly eulogistic of the retiring Speakers, which was unanimously adopted. Pomeroy, of Ir., was then unani mously elected Speaker for the rest of the session. General Grant yesterday transferred the command of the army to General Sherman. The New York committee to present a house and subscription of $lOO,OOO to Gener al Sherman, performed that duty yesterday at General Grant's headquarters in 'Wash ington. The commitee consisted of A. T. Stewart, lla m lton Fish, Wm: 11. Aspinwall and Wm. Scott. President. Jollat,on has issued a yaledicto ry address to the people of the Uhited Stales. The U. S. Senate confirmed several nom inations yesterday, among them Arthur D. Markley as Internal Revenue Assessor for the Sixth Pennsylvania District. The Treasury warrants issued during Fe bruary to meet the Government, expense's, amounted to F 014,457,300. Col. Van Horn, au ex-alderman, has been held to answer in Chicago for shOOting at his two daughters.• One ot thetn waislig,ht ly" wounded. . The pardons for Spangler and Arnold wero issued yesterday. A: female suffrage convention is in session at MilwauliPe, Editorial Brevities: —C.xl leo. --Lent is half over. —Nasby has Locke-jaw. —Stanton is in ill health. —The plows aro in motion. —Dore will illustrate Hood. —Spring trade is promising. —Chicago swarms with rats. —Detroit has steam city cars. —Mrs. Grant is a home-body. --Mrs. Rossini has fainting fits. —A Texas railroad sold for $5OO. —Pottstown repots grashoppers. —March will go out like a lion. amore-preventivo is patented: - -Butler aspires to Stevens shoes. —After McClure—the newspapers. —Mississippi protects her sparrows. —Dubuque has contrived a vecycle. —Desicated sweet potatoes are out. —George Teabbily is in poor health. —Butler gets black when he is mad. —Memphis has Sunday prize-fights. —Toni Thumb is exhibiting in lowa. - —Mrs. Scott Siddons is in Cincinnati. —Barnum's "living skeleton" is dead. —Our advice to McClure—"No cards." —Chicago has four medical perilTdicals. —Anna Dickinson is lecturing in Chicago —The snow has stopped marble playing —" Trance" is the latest for drunkenness —Velocipedes for funerals are a failure —Croquet has broken out in New Orleans —Boston has sent its first ice to the Japs —Weldon, N. C., is enjoying white shad —Memphis calls Brownlow "Old Pluto.' pink in the leftbutton-hole is correct —Virginia has 640,000 acres of oyster beds —Calico. —The staff of life--good bread and but. —An agrarian sect has sprung up in Mex —A Nashville pig squea!s Yankee Doo —Thanksgiving was observed in Shang hai. are "mud volocipedesi" in Run- —A velocipede quadrille is the very la test. =—Gough still lectures Boston occasion ally. —The Tennessee peach crop promises well. —Gough lectures in Harrisburg on the 15th. • —The best business to look after—your Own. —North Carolina is exporting loads of shad. —Blind Tom IS in Wheeling, West Vir ginia. —Sentiments for McClure—Let us have peace. -2cortli Carolina lands nre rising in value. —A 1%.7 O%V Raved barber brushes hair by team. —Sir Isaac Newton's tooth brought nigh —Seven e::-governors of Ohio are still —Boston -doesn't tak,e kindly to opera boutfc. —The k'ish•townera are a noble-hearted people. —Reading complains of too many corner loafers. —The Ha to ns are bh.yeling around Sa vannah. —Wabhington is jammed with "Purple women." —Advice for everybody—don't, drink whiskey. —N'apoleon's eyes resemble a deceased mackerel. —St. Paul he 4 burned seventeen hotels since 1832. —Fanny Kemple rides horseback astride e saddle. —A Kentucky hen has luid a three-cor nered egg. —Maine has increased . the bounty on bears to —Boston sells ONO thousand "liurre of flour daily. —Canada railways ant much obstructed with snow. -2 , 7annie-goat velocipedes are the rage clown town. —Erie meditates keeping its library open on Snndaz. - - =Savannah, Ca., is shipping pine lumber to Seotlana. - —ln a few days we shall know all about the Cabinet. —Covington, Ky., has a colored temper ance society. —_Norfolk has recently had a grand Gallic tournament. —A. Kentucky boy had a tooth pulled and bled to death. —;.'iow Albany has unearthed an ele phant's tooth. —A Patterson organ-grinder eloped with a school-miss. —lt does not hurt bags to stick pins !trough them. —The women of Stwingtichl, Ohio, have a health society. —Explorations for iron are being made near Saratoga. —There's a cow in Augusta, Va., which trees squirrels. —Knocking out n tooth in a Chicago fra cas is worth WO. —New York bid. fair to rival Chicagl iu her divorce suits. —Miss Ca9sie Rentz will appear in grand opera next winter. —Kentucky's last production is bogs with invte's hoots. --Victoria meditates erecting a widows' home near Coburg. —At Newport when ducks are shot the seals capture them. —Don't eat pork for a few weeks. There is something wrong. - —French cities are prohibiting veloci pedes on•paventents. —llount Vesuvius is the greatest Globe Smoker in the world. —There's to be no veneer about Grant's Cabinet. It will be solid stuff. —A negro boy of seven has been ColllllliB - to preach at Hodston, Mass. —Cali'o —The Pennsylvania Legislature is said to be without an equal in the tinion—for jobs. —:%Tew York is getting very jealous of Philadelphia, and is afraid of their getting ahead of her. —John Bright wants America to abolish capital punishment as an experiment for England's benefit. —The Vigilant Fire Company Fair, to take place on Monday next, is already creating much speculation. —Farmers in the vicinity should take an interest in the coming fair of the Vigilant Steam Fire Engine CoMpany. —Buy a ticket for Rev. W. S. IT. Keys' lecture. Subject, "The Law of Labor," or the working man and his interests. —Calico. —The belle of a recent ball „at NeW Al bany, Indiana, was recognized as a woman who earned her living by begging at a street corner, dressed in filthy rags. Fifty Per Cent. Dividend Declared January 15t,1860, by "The Amer ican" EAT° Insurance Company of Philadelphia. What does this signify to those insured and those about to be insured in "The American Life"? 1. It shows the prosperity of the Compa ny. -Notwithstanding the general impres sion felt in all business during the pest year, the business of this Company not only suffered no diminution, but was even ex tended beyond the limits of any previous year. It shows that the Company does a safe business. The reckless accumulation of a large number of new risks signifies nothing to the strength of a company or the security of its policy-holders. Only a com pany that exercises the most rigid scrutiny 3n accepting risks can declare such divi dends as the "American" has for so many consecutive years. 3. It shows that the affairs of the Com pany, are well managed. Only the most skillful handling of the funds entrusted to them could enable the Trustees to declare so large a dividend, and this is, after ell; the very best security that can be given to the insured. 4. It shows that the'Company have placed just one-half of the annual premium to the credit of mutual policy-holders, which may be used, in the payment of future pre miums. 5. It shows that Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians need . not go outside of their own City and State to Mid all that is desirable in any Life Insurance Company, and to secure all possible benefits of being' insured. • • Why didn't you go into - the "American" last year f See to it that you go in this year for their next dividend. , . President, Alex. Willdin ; Vice Presi dent, George Nugent; Secretary and Trea surer, 'John S.Wilson ; Actuary, John C. Sim's. , . . , . F, llinklo, Agent for Coluicnblar The Enaugurntion of General MEM The Inauguration of General Grant which took place on Thursday, the 4th of March, 1569, was perhaps the most imposing ever witnessed. The housetops, trees and every available spot along Pennsylvania avenue were packed with people. . The streets were with the greatest difd culty kept clear by the police, and every where Grant was greeted with cheers. The scene cannot well be described. The windows of every house along the route were' filled with ladies, who waved hand kerchiefs and flags. To all these manifesta tions of good 'will General Grant rose and bowed on each side as the carriage moved along. The marching of the various military bodies was very line. On the arrival of the head of the proces sion at the Capitol, General Grant and Mr. Colfax were conducted to the rooms assigu ed them arnla loud cheers from the lin mense crowd. A few minutes after General Grant, had. disappeared from the chamber, immense cheers from without, announced his appear ance, and almost immediately the thunder of cannon, shaking the solid marble of the whole Capitol, 'announced that he had com menced delivering his Inaugural. After moving on to ;the platform and getting arranged, Grant stepped forward and com menced the delivery of his Inaugural. At this moment the hells throughout the city commenced ringing, while the voice of Grant was prevented from being heard by the assembly by the constant roar of artil lery stationed near the Capitol. The reading of the inaugural OVVII pied about 15 minutes, and its sentiments were fregyentlY applauded by the Senators, members and others who were fortunate enough to get on the platfo:m. G GRANT'S 1N.11.7G11.1:AL A DDT U SS Citizens nj the United Statel Your suffrage having elevated me to the office of President of United States, I have, in conthrinity with the Constitution of our country, taken the oath of office pro scribed therein. I have taken this oath without mental reservation, and with the determination to do, to the best of my , abili ty, all that it requires of me. The responsi bilities. of the position I lee:, but atieept them without fear. The office has come to me unsought. I commence its duties un trammeled. I bring to it a conscientious desire and determination to fill it to the best of my ability, to the satisfaction of the people. On all the leading questions agita ting the public mind I Will always express my views to Congress, and urge them ac cording to my judgment, and when I think it advisable I will exercise the constitution al privilege of interposing a veto to defeat measures which I oppose. But all laws will be faithfully executed whether they meet my approval or not. I shall on all subjects have a policy to recommend, but none to enforce against the will of the peo ple. Laws are to govern all alike, those opposed to as well as those who favor them. I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. The country having jest emergedfrom a great rebellion, many questions will come before it for settlement in-the next four years which preceding ad ministrations have never had to deal with. In meeting these it is desirable that they should be approached calmly, without pre judice, hate, or LieCtiOnta pride, remember ing that the greatest good to the greatest number is the objects to be attained. ihi '3 requires security of person and property •and for religious and political opinion in every part of our common country, without regard to local prejudice, and all laws to secure these ends will receive my best ef forts for enforcement. A great debt has been contracted in securing to us and oar posterity the Union. The payment of this, principal and interest, as well as the return to a specie basis as soon as it con be accom plished without material detriment to the debtor class or the country at large, must be provided for. To protect the national honor, every dol lar of government indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated iii the contract. Let it be under stood that no repudiator of one farthing of our public debt will be trusted in public 'place, and it will go far towards strength ening a credit which ought to be the best in the world, and will ultimately enable us to replace the debt with bonds bearing less interest Unto we now pity. To this would he kdded.a faithful collection of the reve nue ; a strict aocounlability to the Treashry for every dollar collected, and the greatest practicable retrenchment in the expendi tore in every department of the govern ment. When we coarem p the paying capa city of the country now with the ten States still in poverty from the effects of war (lint soon to emerge, I trust, into greater pros perity than ever before), with its paying capacity twenty-live years ago, and calcu late what it probably will he twenty-live years hence, who can doubt the feasibility of paying every dollar we now pay for use less luxuries? Wiry, it looks as though Providence had bestowed upon us a strong box, the precious metal locked up in the sterile mountains of the far West, which we are now forging the keys to unlock, to meet the very contingency that is now upon us. Ultimately, it may be necessary to increase the flicllities to reach these riches, and it may be necessary also that the general gov ernment should give its aid to secure this access, but that should only be when a dol lar of obligation to pay secures precisely the saute sort of dollar to use now, and not. before. Whilst the question of specie pay ment is in abeyance the prudent• business man is carol at about contracting debts pay able in the distant future. The nation should follow the same rule. A prostrate commerce is to be rebuilt and all indus tries encouraged. , The young men of the c'euntry,:those who front their age must he its rulers twenty-five years hence, have a peculiar interest in maintaining die Dation al-honor. A moment's reflection aisle what will be our commanding influence among the nations of the earth in their day if they are only true to themselves, should inspire them with national pride. All divisions, geographical, political and religious, can join iu this common sentiment. llow the public debt is to be paid or specie payment resumed is not so important as that a plan should be adopted and acquiesced in. A united determination to do is worth more than divided councils upon the method of doing. Legislation upon this subject may not be necessary now, nor even advisable, but it will be when the civil laws tire more fully restored in all parts of the country, and trade resumes its wonted channels. It will be my endeavor to execute the laws in good faith, to collect the revenues asses sed, and to have them properly accounted for and ecenotn Malty disbursed.. I will, to the best of my ability, appoint to office those only who will carry out this design. In regard to foreign policy I would deal with nations as equitable law requires indi viduals to deal with cacti other, and I would protect the law-abiding citizen, whether of native or foreign birth, wherever his rights are jeopardized, br the flag of our country floats. I would respect the rights of all nations, demanding equal respect for our own. If others depart from this rule in their deidings with us, we :any be compel ted•to -follow their precedent. The. proper treatment of 'the original men paniot this laud, the Indian, is one descry tug of careful study. I will favor any course towards them which tends to their eiviliz.a thou, Christianization aunt ultimate citizen ship. • The question of suffrage is one which is likely to agitate the public so long as u por tion of the citizens of the nation are exclu ded from its privileges in any state. It seems to too very desirable that this question should be settled now, and I enter tain the hope and express the desire, that it muy be by the ratification of the lath article of amendment to the Constitution. . Iu conclusion, 1 ask patient liirbearance, one towards another. throughout the land, and a determined effort on the part of every citizen to do his share towards commenting a happy Union, and I ask the prayers of the nation to Almighty God in behalf of this consummation. ;Ilinr . der ofan Old Man by Two Boys. On Saturday night last, while Mr. MM.- phy, clerk of the Antrim House, in Cairo, 111., was leading an account in the Cincin nati Commercial of the murder of J. H. Rice, of Shamrock, Adams county, Ohio, by Frank Hardy and IV. Taylor, the two boys stepped into the. house. Having re bided in Adonis county, Murphy instantly 'recognized them and called a policeman. A gold watch and chain and $l5O in money ,were found on them. The boys made the following explanation; On the day of the murder, Rico and- the boys were bot tling wine in the barn; the boys Imbibed freely and were partially intoxicated. Rico 'reprimanded them, angry 'words ensued, and at length ono of them seized a hatchet and killed Rico instantly by a blow on the bead. The boys then dug a bolo outside of Atte burn, 'rifled 'the bOdy of a gold "watch and $lOOO, buried the body and tied. Hardy a:step-son of -the murdered man. Tay, -lor was apprenticed lest - Pfiti:AtigLitiia steam 'city cars Presents to General Grunt. General Grant received by Adams ex press, Tuesday, a broom, which was pre sented by an enterprising manufacturer of that article anxious for an advertisement. The giver requested that the General should use it for sweeping out the Augean stable. This article stands beside time General's desk in his office, and acts as a significant reminder to visitors who arc now enjoying government offices. A gold headed cane, the wood of which was cut from the battle field of Shiloh, was presented to General Grant this morning by a lady from that section of the country. The presentation was made with a complimentary little ad dress by a gentleman who accompanied the lady, and who made some allusion to its proving 11 support iu the hour of need. In replying General Grant said, smilingly, after expressing his thanks for so accepta ble a present, that he hoped the time was far distant when he would have to lean upon the cane for support. A magnificent copy of the Bible has been manufactured in New York, under the auspices of Rev. W. J. It. Taylor, Secretary of the American Bible Society, which is to be presented in a few days to General Grant. The Bible is said to be one of the finest specimens of bookmaking ever ex hibited in this country. The movement was set on foot some time ago by George H. Stewart and others, and it is understood that a committee,composed of distinguished. clergymen and laymen, will be in Wash ington to make the formal presentation. Letter from S. J. Beebee. Os BoAra) STEAM SHIP ALASICA, February lGtb, ISGD. FRIENDAinnoi—Wa are now one day's sail from Aspinwall, and having promised when we parted on Monday night, iu Broadway, to write you from there, I will commence now, while on this ship, or else, with the hurry and trouble of crossing the Isthmus, and going on board the "Golden City" at Panama ibr San Francisco, I fear you would be entirely forgotten. 1 was looking for you on the pier the tiny we sailed, but the crowd was so great I gave it up, and contented myself listening to the sad parting words of others—some of these were very affecting, especially with ;Nissen gets bound for China. husbands and wives, brothers and sisters were parting, and seemed to pay no attention to the oft repeated cry of "all ashore ;" but with faces tilled with sadness, would hold each either by the hand, as though determined not to be separated until the lest minute. However, the loosening of lines, and the preparations for lowering the gang plank, admonished* them that th 3 painful farewell must be taken. As for myself having none of this to contend with, looking backwark from the stern, watching , the ships wake in the water, and the city disappearing, I had DO other feeling then that of pleasure, and am sure that nothing reasonable would in duce mete live in :Sew York city. _ - Our pilot left us about three o'clock P. M., and the huge engine was started, not to be stopped for eight days. It has done its duty well, thus far nothing has happen ed to either ship or engine, and we have made the following miles per day : Feb. 10th 2:35; Feb. 11th, 254; Feb. 12th, 255; Feb. 11th, 2.i4; Feb. 14th, 241; Feb. 11th, `1 1 13; Feb: 16th, 262. Distance from Aspinwall 210 miles.- The following notice appeared ou the bulletin board, directly after leaving :New York. Alarms of fire will be given for the purpose of exorcising the crew. This notice is given to prevent any unnecessary alarm among passengers. The ship has the best means tin• extinguishing^ tires, of any steamer altos t, and can bring to bear on lire occurring, almost immediately twelve streams of water, any one of which is as large as a first clans steam lire engine throws. We have on board the Japanese Troup on their return to Japan ; also, one prize light ing gent. and several sports, who make the round trip to China lbr the sake of the game, and judging by the huge chains and large clusters they wear, I should say business was flourishing. Some Virginians and Georgians emigrat ing to California, were relieved of their cash on the morning of the ship's sailing, by "sharpers" who sold them through tickets, and bought their gold. The trans action they told 1110 took place on the ferry bout of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company. (One of them, you may tell ltd. DI once, was front Loudon county, Vat., and lived in the brick house on the Little River turnpike, where we buried Little and rrenchey after the fight with Mosby), The Pacific Mail Steamship Company_ to which this vessel belongs, is, and has been, one of the hugest old frauds ever al lowed to exist in any age or country. You first purchase what they term a through ticket, which in reality is nothing more than a permit to go on board, then you just commence to pay. In rata, by "stamping" them (that's the term used by the employ ees) you will make out; there is nothing that you can rail to obtain from them for stumps. The Captain's barber would steal the head otr him for a consideration, it comes natural, they learn from their toas ters, receiving little or no pay, they must make it up. Thjs is my third trip hy their line, and things are done now just us they were twenty years ago. Ono thing they have which is a multitude or itself, that is a good ship. Let no 'one, however, contemplating a California trip, come this way—better pay to end of the Union Pacific Railroad, and walk the balance, than submit to anything this Company can offer. I will write you again front White Pine, if not front San Francisco. There are several White Pine men on board, and their conversation gives me great enconiage men t Yours truly, S. J. B. —Died of a broken heart—in consequence of his failures to please the public—the Clerk of the Weather. —Evidence of prosperity—the man who tells you that he starttal a lottery scheme and was ruined. SP_ECIA.L NOTICES. The follow•mg remedies are all old and well estab lbied, and thottQands have been ben edited by their nse. They are for sale by di uggists generally. TIIE PERUVIAN SYRUP. A pr, ,, ,te e trid solution of the prof oxide of Iron, sup pile. the blood with its Life I..ement, IRON, giving strength. vigor, and new life to the whole SybtCl2l. For Dyspep.i t t, it i