3fo> fauagteir guteUlgenm, PUfiLtSHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY VOOPEB, SAKDEBBON « CO H. Q Smith, Wm. a. Morton, TERMS—Two Dollars per annum, payable all cases In advance. OFFlCE—Southwest corner of Centre Square. , ®3*An letters on business should be ad dressed to Cooper, Sanderson d soou an arching vaulfon high Will srnile on ni below. Above the heaviest clouds we see Th**re still are sparkling stars That promise light to thee and me, And b lgluness from afar. The thunders loud, the raging storms, All. uIJ, will fuissaway, And houu again in all its charms We see unclouded day „ Th*iv learn, t y this a lesson learn, Poor mortal! don’t dlspalr, Thy sorrowing clouds will leave again. Thy sky of life be fair. Trust in thy God uhate'er betide, Then shall thy sorrows cOa.se, And safely He’ll protect and guide Thee to eternal peace. Manor Twi*., ISWS. ptminj. The Bad Little Boy that Bore a Charm. cd Life. A Story not Found In the Sunday School Once there was a bud little boy, whose name was Jim—though, if you will no tice, you will find that bad little boys are nearly always called James in your Sunday School books. It was very strange, but still it was true, that this one was called Jim. He didn’t have any sick mother—a sick mother who was pious and had the consumption ami would be glad to lie down in* the grave and'be at rest, but for the strong love she bore her boy, and the anxiety she felt that the world would lie hiu\sh and cold toward him when she was gone. Most bad boys in the Sunday school books are named James, andhave mothers who teach them to say, “ Now, J lay me down,” etc., and sing them to sleep with sweet plaintive voi ces, and then kiss them good night. But it was different from this fellow. He was named Jim auTTthere wasn’t any thing the matter wilh his mother—no consumption or anything of that kind. She was rather stout than otherwise, and she was not pious, moreover, she was not anxious on Jim’s account; she said if he break his neck, it wouldn't be much loss; she always spanked hiifi to sleep, and she never kissed him good night; ou the contrary, she boxed his ears when she was ready to leave him. .Once, this.little bad boy stole the key of the pantry and slipped in there ami helped himself to some jam, and filled up the vessel with tar, so that his moth er would never know the difference birt all at once a terrible feeling didn’t come over him, and something didn’t seem to whisper to him, “ Is it right to disobey my mother? Isn’t it sinful to dotiiis? Where do bad little boys go who gobble up theirgood,kind mother's jam?” and then he didn’t kneel down all alone and promise never to be.wick ed auy more, and rise up with a light, happy heart, and go tell his mother all about it and beg her forgiveness, and be blessed by her with tears of pride and thankfulness in her eyes. No ; that is the way with all other bad boys in the book, but it happened otherwise with this Jim, strangely enough. He ate that jam, and said it was bully, in his sinful, vulgar way ; and he put in the tar, aud said that was bully also; and laughed and observed that the old woman would get up and snort, when she founditout; and when she did find it out he denied knowing anything about it, and she whipped him severely, and he did the crying himself. Everything about this boy was curious—every tiling turned out differently with him from the way it does the Jameses in the books. Once he climbed upiu Farmer Acorn’s apple tree to steal apples ; and the limb didn’t break and he didn’t falland.break his arm, and get torn by the farmer’s great dog, and then languish on a sick bed for weeks and repent and become good. Oh, no—lie stole as many apples asiie wvnted, and came down all right, and he vus all ready for the dog, too, and knocked him endways with a rock when he,came to tear4iim. It was very strauge—nothing like it ever happened to those good, mild little books with marbled backs, aud with pictures in them of men with swallow-tailed coats and bell-crowned hats and pantaloons that'are short in the legs, and women with the waists of their dresses under their arms and no hoops on. Nothing like it in any of the Sunday school books. Once he stole the teacher’s penknife, and when he was afraid it would be found out and he would get whipped, he slipped it into George Wilson’s cap— poor widow Wilson’s son, the moral boy, the good boy of the village, who always obeyed his mother, aud never told an untruth, aud was fond of hisles sonsand infatuated with Sunday school. And when the knife dropped from his cap anil poor George hung his head and blushed, as if in conscious guilt, and the grieved teacher charged the theft upon him, ami was just in the very aci <4 bringing the switch down upon his trembling shoulders, a white haired improbable Justice of the Peace did not suddenly appear in their midst and strike an attitude and say, “Spare this noble boy—there stands the cowering culprit! I was passing the school door 4t recess, aud unseen myself, I saw the theftcommitted !” And then Jim didn’t get whaled, and the venerable justice didn’t read the tearful school a homily, aud take George by the hand and say such a good boy deserved to be exalted, and then tell him to come and make his home with him, and sweep out the office, aud make fires, and run errands and chop wood, aud study law, and help his wife to do household labors, and have all the balance of time to play, and get forty cents a month, and be happy. No It would happened that wayin the books, buL it didn’t happen that way to Jim. No meddling old clam of justice dropped in to make trouble, so the model boy George got threshed, and Jim was glad of it. Because, you know, Jim hated moral boys.—Jim said he was “down on them milksops.” Such was the coarse language of this bad, neglected boy. But the strangest thing that, ever hap pened to Jim was the timtTke went boating on Sunday and didn’t get drowned, and that other time when he got caught in a storm when fishing on Sunday, and didn't get struck by light ning. Why, you might look, aud look, and look through the Sunday school books, from now till next Christmas, and would never come across anything like this. Oh, no—you find that all the bad boys who go boating on Sunday Invariably get drowned, and all the bad boys who o get caught out in storms, when they are fishing on Sunday, in falliably get struck with Boats with bad boys in them always up set on Sunday, and it always storms •-V£hea bad boys go a fishing on the Sab- J. M. Cooper, Alfred Sanderson VOLUME 67. bath. How this Jim ever escaped is a mystery to me. This Jim bore a charmed life—that must have been the way of it. Nothing could hurt him. He even gave the ele phantin the menagerie a plug of tobacco, and the elephant didn't knock the top of his head off with his trunk. He browsed around the cupboard after es sence of peppermint, and didn’t make a mistake and driukaqua fortis. Hestole his father’s gun and went hunting on the Sabbath, and didn’t shoot three or four of his fingers off. He struck his little sister on the temple with his fist when he was angry, and she didn’t linger in pain through long summer days and die with sweet words of for giveness upon her lips that redoubled the anguish of his breaking heart. No —she got over it. He ran off and went to sea at last, and didn’t come backand find himself sad and alone in the world, hia loved ones sleeping in the quiet churcl&yard, and the vine-embowered home of his boyhood tumbled down and gone to decay. Ah, no—be came home drunk as a piper, and got into thestation house the first thing. And he grew up, and married, and raised a large family, aud brained them all\with an axe one night, and got weaKjiy by all manner of cheating aud rascality, and now' is theiufemalistand wickedest scoundrel in his native vil lage, aud is universally respected, and 7 belongs to the Legislature. So you see there never was a -bad James in the Sunday school books that hud such a streak of luck as this sinful Jim with the charmed life. A eotemporary gives the following amusing account of his experience with a dog which he boughtfrom a dealer, on his assurance that he was “such a rat ter.” He had some trouble at first in getting a rat on which totry his “pup.” He succeeded at last, and says: However, the next day I was so for tunate as to secure from a boy in tiie market, a fine old-line, bob-tailed rat, whose furious efforts to chaw everything within reach gave promise of glorious sport for Nip. ' Took the rat home, call ed my dog and told my wife that if she wanted to see the way that terriers did rats, to come down to the basement. She came down and shut tiie door— just in time, too ; for as soon as Nipsaw the rat, lie, Nip, my rat terrier, for which I paid tiie old gent five dollars, made a most unmistakably cowardly movement toward the hall. Wife, on a chair, said the dog did not appear to see the rat. Told wife to keepherbreath. Thought I would notgiveNip any reason for not seeing tiie rat again, so I tied the string that held the rat to the dog’s hind leg. He saw the rat that time and jumped on the chair by my wife. Wife laughed aud shoved him off. Tried the stove next, (lot off the stove without being shoved. The .at, however, being an old stager, and not being used to sucii treatment, made a demonstration on Nip’s rear, and I don’t believe little Flora Temple ever made a better time in the same limits thau the uog and rat made around the room. First heat, dog had the lead, closely followed by rat, who on striking the half-mile pole (footstool in the corner), broke badly, in fact, nearly broke his back ; and before he could be brought down (he was sliding on his back) dog led him by whole length of string. Didn’t stop for wind, but started on the second heat. Got olf well together (tied) arid went( finely around, aud neck and tail till they reached the judge’s stand, (wife standiugon a chair) against which dog broughtupsolid, bringing the judge down in a style pre-eminently sudden, if not dignified. The heat was decided against the dog you may bet, and it was only after much persuasion that she would again take the stand. The third heat may be aptly termed a dead heat. They got oIF as well apart as the dog conveniently could, and sail ed lively until just as they struck the last quarter, when ttie rat, which ran about as well on his back as on his legs shied tlie track, and got rather queerly around a table leg. Dog kept ou as fast as the string and length of his hind leg would let him. On raising the rat he was found to be non compos , totally de funct,, in fact dead. Nip was not much better off. Wife said that dog couldn’t kill mice. Told her he had certainly killed that rat; but on viewing the fact in a scien tific light, I must confess I did not feel quite satisfied with the performance of my pet, and the next morning gave him away to a milkman, who wanted a rat ter to free his stable from the depreda tion of the vermin. I have not been able to ascertain which left him first, the rats or the dog. It is high time thatsomebody told you a little plain truth. You have been watched for a long time; a certain class of you ; and it is plain enough you are laying plans to cheat somebody. You intend to sell chaff for wheat, and there is danger th at some of the foolish “ gud geons” will be sadly taken in. It may not be your fault that you be long to the “ one idea party”—that the single idea of getting a husband is the only one which engrosses much ofyour time of attention. But it is your fault that you pursue this in the wrong di rection. Yourvenerable motherof Eden memory, was called a “ help” for man, and you are looking for a man to help you ; to help you to live in the half idle, half silly way which you have com menced. Men who are worth having, want women for wives. A bundle of gewgaws with a string of fiats and quavers, sprinkled with cologne, and set in a carmine saucer—this is no help for a man who expects to raise a family of and girls on veritable bread and meat. The piano and the lace frame are well enough in theirplacesand so are ribands and frills and tiusels —but you can’t make a dinner of the former nor a bed blanket of the latter. And awful as the idea may seem to you, both dinner and bed-blanket are necessary to domestic enjoyment. Life lias itsrealitiesas well as its fancies, butyou make it all a matter of decoration, remembering the tassels and curtains, forgetting the bedstead. Suppose a young man of good sense and of course of good prospects, to be look ing for a wife, what chance have you to be chosen ? You may cap him, or trap him, to catch him, but how much better, to make itan object for him. to catch you! Bender yourself worth catching, and you will need no shrewd mother or managing brothers to help you to find a market. —The disbursements for clothing and army supplies in Philadelphia during the war amounted to $97,000,000, “Such a Katter.” Hark Yc, Girls. isfe!tttfen*oUA Tbe Auctioneering of Massachusetts Girls in Washington Territory. From the La Cros.se (Wis,) Democrat. “ A Pacificcoasteditor protests against the Mercer project of shipping Yankee girls to that region, and desires the press east of the Rocky Mountains to speak out and put a stop to this business. He says : ‘Let no more unprotected females be exposed to the peri Is of these shores. ' ’ * People have wondered at the sense of this Massachusetts abolition philanthro py for some time. Jt is much like the olden style of dealing in the handsome girls of Caucasia, wheu hundreds of the “ school-marms” were huddled together and shipped to parts unknown, for the pleasure of “ harem” scarem Turks.— We suppose the mode of disposing of these Yankee girls on their arrival to the Pacific coast is something like this. The arrived in port. Notice has beeu sent to the long-haired miners and rough bachelors of that auriferous sec tion. The girls have been bathed by squads, platoons and brigades in the mouth of some “waterfall” from the mountains; their best raiment has beeu put on. standing ou the poop deck, | the charge d'affaires , wilh-hair pushed back from his receding forehead, and a sharp nasal twang, thus holds forth : “ Neow yeou wild beasts of this ere Pacific strand. I’ve brought youa whole passel of genuine ladies, right nice and fresh from Bosting and along the shore. I have a picked, lot of gals, fresh as a daisy and as lively as a butterfly. I wuii’t sell the entire lot to one man, for that would be too much of agoodthing, but I’ll sell each of you a little charmer, warranted not to cut in the eye, big enough.for the tallest miner, and small enough for the least thereto among you. Walk up fellers Stand up to the taf frail, gals. No crowding on tbehauser. Git eout yer dust and select yer gal. “ The first I’ll offer, fellers, is a freck led-faced school-marm, named Betsy Jane. T’other name aint no matter. You cau gin her\yourn ! She is nine teen years old by the Bible, 4 has good teeth, is twenty-seven inches around the waist, and is warranted kind in harness. How much for Betsy ? .Sold to Jack Louebeard for five hundred dol lars. Good bye, Bet! “ The next gal, ladies and gentlemen, ; I mean fellers, is a sly puss, named Phil la Malura! She is a choice gal, raised in Bosting—poor but honest parents — early inured to the Gospel and aboli tionism, and warren ted perfect as far as heard from ! How much for her,fellers? She can darn a stocking or make a pumpkin pie, in the twinkling of an eye, and she can heave a sigh, you bet ! She is going on twenty years—has a cheek like a spitzenbuag, the sweetest lips and most dainty breath you ever tasted —for six hundred, make it nine, and down she goes to Captain Bull of the woods for nine hundred ! “The next animal—oh, sweetheart! fellers, is a Blue-eyed Yankee gal, named Jerusha Jane—never mind her other name. She is a bustin gal. Knows all her letters—has a constitution like a tea kettle, which is good after its nose is knocked off for all it will fetch, and is an ornament to her sex or any other man! She is twcjitv-fiv** yeursold, and is war rented to last a lile Lime, if she dont die first. How much for her? Come, wake up fellers! Massachusetts wants to en lighten you! HeFe is the best chance for happiness—only a few more left! Sold to dare-devil Tom for fifty ounces of dust! “ Now*, fellers, stand up close. Here is a stunner. Tabitha Marier, as was her mother before her, also her graud mother. She is nineteen years old, poor but honest parents, eats but little — a pine-guui lunch will last her a week. Sold for no fault, but Massachusetts has no further use, and takes this means to pay her war tax ! She never scolds ex cept in anger, and like George Wash ington, never chopped -a tree with her little hatchet. She is warrented genu ine. ” Napoleon’s Household. The French Emperor insists upou re-' taining in hisstudy, in the palace of the Tuileries, the mahogany book-case he had in his chamber at Ham, and he for bade a glass front being put to it to pro tect his books. There is in his study a magnificent collection of meerschaum pipes ; but they have of late years been relieved of duty, his physicians having forbidden their use. The Emperor takes his revenge bygivingthemaway when e'er he has a chance. He iias not a single dressing-gown inhisstudy; when he is in it, he almost always wears an old frock coat. There are often a great many paintings and engravings piled against the walls, and even on the floor of his study. One of his body servants used to resort to a singular trick when ever he wished one of these paintings. He would place it in front of a pile which obstructed the communication with an adjoining room. His Majesty would say, “It seems to me these pic tures are constantly increasing. Can’t some of them be removed?” The ser vant would reply, “Certainly, sire.” and he would carry off the coveted pic ture to his chamber. In this way he formed a handsome collection. When ever his Majesty wishes to retain the memory of anything he hears in con versation, he makes a note of it in a blank-hook, which is always on his writing-desk; he tears out the leaf on which he has written the note, reads it attentively aud then tears it up. This habit oue day greatly puzzled Prince MeLternich, the Austrian Ambassador, to whom his Majesty was giving audi ence. The Ambassador expressed his astonishment and curiosity. His Ma jesty at once gratified it by saying that whenever he once wrote,.and afterward read attentively the written note, he never forgot it. The Emperor superintends with the greatestcare the education of the Prince Imperial, who is very far advanced for his age. He examines him daily iu his lessons, and grants him his favorite spoils only when he is satisfied with his recitations. The teachers of the Prince, during the rides they are daily making.with him, must bring him to ail the museums and libraries, and ac quaint him with all the thousanefre markable treasures which are there accumulated. A lew days ago he visited the Imperial library, and was shown the manuscripts and paliulpsetri, rewarding with an in telligent smile the professors, who ex plained to him their literary stores. Besides, no occasion is omitted where the popularity of the heir to the throne can be increased. A Zouave lately re enlisted for the third time, and received the handsome bounty of 1,500 francs, which he intended to send to his poor old mother. Unfortunately the notes were stolen, and his comrades, pitying their unlucky companion, resolved up on openinga small subscription for him. On dress parade of the following day the Colonel of the regiment handed to him the whole sum in hard cash, as a present of the Prince, accompanied with a little note containing the words, “ A little present from a grenadier to a vol tigeur.” A greater truth was never uttered than the following from the Springfield Republican : “ The men who put down the rebel lion do not join in the demand for the future punishment of the rebels ; but if there is a General who has never won a battle, asoldierwho invariably skulked when fighting was to be'done, a camp follower who was ever on hand to plun der towns, a civilian who was always ready to pour out the blood and money of everybody else to save the nation— these are the men who are now eager to kick the prostrate foe and confiscate his valuables—these are the men who are continually making abortive attempts to arouse old hatreds and Btir the popu lar heart to vengeance.” Ex-Governor Bigler and lady re turned home on the Bth, from Califor nia, where they have been since May last. The Governor had contracted a severe cold on hia homeward trip, and has been confined to his bed since his return, [ LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1866. THE PRESIDENT. His Great Speech at the White House. Denunciation of Northern Dis unionists. He Sanies Some of the Traitors. Stereos and Sumner Among 1 Them. Tlte Irresponsible Central Directory, A Scheme to Subvert the Republic. The Radicals Inaugurating Revolution. The Constitution to be Destroyed. It Hast be Preserved. 'lhe Way to Peace and Union. A Proper and Storing Appeal to the People. Thursday, being the 22d of February, the birthday of Washington, the true Union men of Washington city assem bled in mass meeting at Grover’s Thea tre, for the purpose of endorsing the wise aud statesmanlike policy of Presi dent Johnson. The crowd in the The atre was immense beyond a precedent. Speeches were made by Hon. S. S.Cox, Mr. Kinney, of Utah, Hon. Montgom ery Blair and others. Besides the vast assemblage in the Theatre two other immense outside meetings were in pro gress at the same time. Resolutions endorsing the policy of the President were adopted, and the greatest possible enthusiasm prevailed. After the adjournmentof the meeting at Grover’s Theatre, the assemblage visited the White House to serenade President Johnson. The chairman of tlie meeting at the Theatre announced to the multitude that Mr. Johnsou had consented to address them. Mr. 'Feu dal l said: Fellow-Citizens: I am one of the Com mittee which, on behalf of the people of the District of Columbia, has just wailed on the President oftheUnited States to present to him the resolutions adopted by the meeting held to-day. The committee requested the President to present himself to you to give expression to his sentiments, and he has accordingly come out to do so. A P PE A It A NOE OF TIIF. PRESIDENT. The President, as he appeared, was re ceived with enthusiastic and long continued applause. When it had subsided, lie spoke as follows: Feilow-Citizeiis—for I presume I have a right to address you as such—l come to ten der to you my sincere thanks for the ap probation expressed by your Committee in their personal address and iu the resolu tions submitted by them as having been adopted by the meeting which has been held in this city to-day. These resolutions, as I understand them, are complimentary to the policy which has been adopted by the Ad ministration, and steadily pursued since it came into power. lam free to say to you on this occasion, that it is extremely gratifying to me to know that so large u portion of my fellow-citizens approve and indorse the policy which has been adopted, and which it is my intention shall be carried out. (Great applause.) That policy is one which is intended to restore all the States to their original relations to the Federal Gov ernment of the United Slates. (Renewed applause.) APPROPRIATENESS OF THE DAY This seems to be a day peculiarly appro priate for such a manifestation. It is the day that gave birth to that man who more, perhaps, than any other founded this Gov ernment. It is the day that gave birth to tin* Father of our country. It isthedaythat gave birth to him who presided over that body which framed the Constitution, under which all the States entered into this glori ous Confederacy. Such a day is peculiarly appropriate for the indorsement ofa policy, whose object is the restoration of the Union of the States as it was designed by the Father of his Country. (Applause.) Washington, whose name this city bears, is embalmed in the hearts of all who love free government. Washington, in the lan guage of his eulogist, was first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his coun trymen. No people can claim him, no na tion can appropriate him. His reputation is commensurate with the civilized world, and his name is the common property of all those who love free government. THE MONUMENT OF FREEDOM. To-day I bad the pleasure of visiting an association who have been devoting their efforts to the completion of the monument which is being erected to his name. I was proud to meet them, and, so far as I could, to give them my influence and countenance in aid of the work they have undertaken. That monument which is being erected to him who, I may say, founded the Govern ment, is almost within the throw of a stone of the spot from which I now address you. Let it beeompleted. (Applause.) Let those various blocks which the States, and indi viduals, and associations, and corporations have put in thut monument as pledges of their love for this’Union be preserved, and let tiie work be accomplished. TENNESSEE. In this connection let me refer to the block from my own State, God bless her (ap plause) ! which has struggled for the pres ervation of this Union in the field and in the councils of the nation, and which is now struggling to renew her relations with this Government, that were interrupted by a fearful Rebellion. She is now struggling to renew those relations, aud to take her stand where she had ever stood since 179(3 until this Rebellion broke out. (Great ap plause.) Let me repeat the sentiment that that State has inscribed upon the stone which she has deposited in that monument of freedom, which is being raised in com memoration of Washington. She is strug gling to get back into the Union, and to stand by the sentiment which is there in scribed, and she is willing to sustain it.— Whatsis it? It is the sentiment which was enunciated by her distinguished son, the immortal, the illustrious Jackson, “The Federal Union—it must be preserved.”— ((ireat applause.) II it were possible for that old man, whose statue is now before me, ami whose portrait is behind me in the Executive Mansion, and whose sentiment is thus preserved in that monument in your vicinity, to be called forth from the grave, or if it were possible to communicate with the spirit of the illustrious dead, and make •him understand the progress of faction and of rebellion and treason, he would turnover in his coffin, and he would rise, and shak ing off the habiliments of the tomb, would again stand erect, and extend forth his long arm and finger, and reiterate that senti ment, once expressed by him on a memor able occasion, “The Federal Union—it must be preserved.” 1 (Greatapplause.) HISTORIC REMINISCENCES. We have witnessed what has transpired since bis day. In 1833, when treason and treachery and infidelity to the Government and Constitution ot the United States stalk ed forth in the land, it was his power and influence that crushed the serpent in its incipiency. It was then stopped, but only for a time. The same spirit of disaffection continues. There were men disaffected to the Government, both in the North and in the South. SLAVERY There was, in a portion of the Union, a peculiar institution, of which some com plained, and to which others were attached. One portion of our countrymen in the South advocated that institution while another portion in the North opposed it, EXTREME PARTIES. The result was the formation ot extreme parties, one.especially in the South, which reached a point at which it was proposed to dissolve the Union of the States forthe pur pose, as was said, of securing and preserv ing that peculiar institution. There was an other portion of our countrymen who were opposed to that institution, and who went to such an extreme that they were willing to break up the Government In order to get clear of that peculiar institution of the South. I say these things because I desire to talk plainly and in familiar phraseology. I as sume nothing here to day beyond the po sition of a oitizen; one who has been plead ing for his country and the preservation of the Constitution. (Immense oheering,) These two parties, I say, were arrayed against each other, aud I stand here before you for the Union to-day, as I stood in the Senate of the United States in 1860 and 1861. IN THE SENATE, I met there those who were making war upon the Constitution, those who wanted to disrupt the Government, and I denounced them In myplace then and there,and exposed their time character, I said that those who were engaged in the work of breaking ud the Government were traitors. I have never ceased, on all proper docasions, to repeat that sentiment, and, as iar. as my efforts could go, I have endeavored ; to carry jtout. (Great applause.) I have just remarked that there were two parties, one of which was fox destroying the Government and separating the Union, in order to preserve slayery, and the other for breaking up the Government, in order to destroy slavery. True, the objects which they sought to ac complish were different, so lar as slavery was concerned, but they agreed in the de sire to break up the Government, the pre cise thing to which I have always been op posed, and whether disunionists come from the South or from the North, I stand now, as I did then, vindicating the Union of these States aod the Constitution of mv country. (Tremendous applause.) SECESSION. Rebellion and treason manifested them selves in the South. I stood by the Govern ment. I said then that I was for the Union with slavery, I was for the Union without slavery. In either alternative I was for my Government and its Constitution. The Government has stretched forth its strong arm, and with its physical power it has put down treason in the field. The section-of the country which then arrayed itself against the Government has been put down by the strong arm. What did we say when this treason originated? We said, “No compromise; you, yourselves, in the South can settle this question in eight and forty hours.” I said again and again, and I re peat it now, “ Disband your armies in the South, acknowledge the supremacy of the Constitution of the United States, acknowl edge the duty of obedience to the laws, and the whole question is settled.” (Applause.) What has been done since? THE REBELLION CRUSHED. Their armies have been disbanded, and they come forward now in a proper spirit and say, “We were mistaken. We made an eftort to carry out the doctrine of Secession and to dissolve this Union. In that we have failed. We have traced this doctrine to its logical and physical results, and we find that we were mistaken. Weacknowl eilge the ting of oureountry,and arewilliug to obey the Constitution and to yield to the supremacy of the laws*” (Great applause.) Coining in that spirit, Isay to them, “When you have complied with "the requirements of the Constitution; when you have yielded to the law, when you have acknowledged your allegiance to the Constitution, I will, so far as I can, open the door of the Union to those who had erred and strayed from the Jold of their fathers for a time. (Great ap plause.) Who has suffered more by the Rebellion than I have? I shall not repeat the story of the wrongs and sufferings in llicted upon me; but the spiritof reveng** is not the spirit in which to deal with a wrong ed people. I know there has been a great deal said about the exercise of the pardon • ing power, so far as your Executive is con cerned. THE LEADING TRAITORS. There is no one who has labored with more earnestness than myself to have the principal, intelligent and conscious traitors brought to justice, the law vindicated, and the great lact judicially established that treason is a crime (Applause), but while conscious, leading and intelligent traitors are to be punished, should whole communi ties aud States and people be made to sub mit to the penalty of death? No, no! I have perhaps as much asperity and as much reseutment as men ought to have, but we must reason in great matters of govern ment about man as bins; we must conform our actions and our conduct to the example of Him who founded our holy religion, not that I would make such a comparison on this occasion in any personal aspect. BEGINNING OF THE ADMINISTRATION. 1 came into this place under theconstitu tion of the country and by the approbation of the people, and what did I find ? I found eight millions of people who were in fact condemned under tlie law, and the penalty was death. Was Ito yield to the spiritof revenge and resentment, and declare that they should all be annihilated aud destroy ed? How different would this have been from the example set by the Holy Founder of our religion, the extremities ol whose di vine arch rests upon he horizon, and the span of which embraces the universe! He who founded this great scheme came into the world and found man condemned under the law, and his seutence was death. Whut was his example? Instead of putting the world, or even a nation to death, lie died upon the cross, attesting, by His wounds and His blood, that He died that mankind might live. (Great applause.) MASSES OF THE SOUTH, Let those who have erred repent, let them acknowledge their allegiance, let them be come loyal, willing supporters and defend ers of our glorious Stars and Snipes and of the Constitution of our country. Let the leaders, the conscious, intelligent traitors be punished and be subjected to the penalties of the law f Applause), but to the great mass who have been forced into this Rebellion in many instances, and in others have been misled, I say clemency, kindness, trust und confidence. (Great applause). THE PRESIDENT’S POSITION. My countrymen, when X look back over the history of the Rebellion, I am not vain when I ask you if I have not given as much evidence of my devotion to the Union as some who croak a great deal about it; when I look back over the battle-fields of the Re bellion and think of the many brave men in whose company I was; I cannot but reeoD lect that I was sometimes in places where the contest was most difficult and the result most doubtful; but almost before the smoke has passed away, almost before the blood that has been shed has done reeking, before the bodies of the slain have passed through the stages of decomposition, what do we find? PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS. The Rebellion has been put down by the strong arm of the Government in the field, but is that the only way in which you can have rebellion? Our struggle was "against an attempt to dissever the Union, but al most before the smoke of the battfe field has passed away, before our bravo men have all returnee! to their homes and re newed the ties of affection and love to their wives and their children, we find another rebellion almost inaugurated. We put down the former Rebellion in order to pre vent the separation of the States, to prevent them from flying off, and thereby changing the characterof our Government and weak ening its power, and when that struggle on eur part has been successful, and that at tempt has been put down, we find now an effort to concentrate all power in the bands of a few at the Federal head, and thereby bring about a consolidation of the Govern ment, which is equally objectionable with a separation. (Vociferous applause.) Wo find that powers are assumed, and attempt ed to be exercised, of a most extraordinary character. It seems that Governments may be revolutionized; Governments, at least, may be changed without going through the strife of battle. I believe it is a fact attest ed in history that sometimes revolutions most disastrous to a people are affected without the shedding of blood. The sub stauce of your Government may be taken away, while the form and the shadow re main to you. What is now being proposed? We find that in point of fact nearly all the powers of the Government are assumed by an irresponsible central directory, which does not even consult the Legislative or the Executive Departmentsofthe Government. Resolutions are reported from a committee, in whom it seems that practically the legisla tive power of the Government is now vested. That great principle of the Constitution whiciniuthorizes and empowers each branch of the Legislative Department of the Senate and House of Representatives to judge for itself of the election returns and qualifica tions of its own members has been virtually taken away from the two branches of the Legislative Department of the Government, ana conferred upon a committee who must report before either House can act under the Constitution as to accepting the members who are to take their seats as component parts of the respective bodies. By this rule it Is assumed that there must be laws passed recognizing a Stateas in the Union, or its practical relations to the Union as restored, before the respective Houses, under the Constitution, can judge of the election returns and qualifications of their own members. What a position is that ! You struggled for foqr years to pqt down a rebellion; you denied in the beginning of the struggle that any State could go out of the Union; you said that it had neither the right nor the power to do so. The issue was made, and it has been settled that the States had neither the right nor the power to go out of the Union, With what consistency, after it has been settled by the military arm of the Government, ana bv the public judg ment, that the States had no right to go out of the Union, can any one now turn round and assume that they are out, that they shall not come in ? I am free to say to you, as your Executive, that I am not prepared to take any such position, (Great applause.) I said in the Senate, in the very inception of this Rebellion, that the States had no right to go out j I asserted too that they had no power to go out; that question has been settled, and it being settled I cannot turn around now and give the lie direct to all that I have professed, and all that I have done for the last five years. (Applause.) When those who with the Consti tution; when they give sufficient evidence of loyalty; when they show that they can, be trusted; when they yield obedience to the laws that you and I acknowledge obedi ence to. X say extend them the righthand of fellowship, and let peace and union be re stored. (Tremendous applause.) STILL IN THE FIELD. I foughttraitors and treason in the South. X opposed the Davises, the Tootnba, the SU» dells, and a long list of others, which you can readily fill up without my repeating the names. Now, when I turn round and at the other end of the line find men, I care not by what name you call them, who still stand opposed to the restoration of the Union of these States, lain free to say to you that lam still in the field. (Great ap plause.) lam still for the preservation of the Union. lam still in favor of this great Government of ours going on and on, und filling out its destiny. (Great applause.— Voices—Give us three names at the other end.) THE NAMES ON THE OTHER END. The President—l am called upon to name three at the other end of the line. I am talking to my -friends and who are interested with me in this Govern ment, and I presume I am free to mention to you the names of those to whom I look upon as being opposed to the fundutnenbd principles of this Government, and whoare laboring to pervertund destroy it. (Voices. 4 ‘ Name them !” “Who are they?”) The President—You ask me who they are. I say Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, is one; Isay Mr. Sumner, of the Senate, is another, and Wendell Phillips is another.— (Longcontinued applause.) (Voices,“Give it to Forney!”) The President—ln reply to that, 1 will simply say I do not waste my ammunition upon dead ducks. (Great laugh ter and applause.) I stand for my country ; I stand for the Constitution. There I have always placed my feet from my advent to public life. They may traduce, they mav slander, they may vituperate me, but le‘t me say to you, all this has no influence upon ine. (Great applause.) Let me say further, that I do not intend tu be overawed by real or pretended friends, nor do I mean to be bullied by my enemies. (Tremendous applause). Honest conviction is mv courage*, the Constitution is my guide. I know, my oount.rymeu, that it has been insinuated, no, not insinuated, it has been said directly in high places, that if such a usurpation of power as I am eharged with had been exercised some two hundred years ago in a particular reign, it would have cost an individual his head. (Great laughter;. Of whut usurpation has Andrew Johnson been guilty ? (None. None.) Is it a usurpation to stand between the people and the encroachments of power. Be cause in a conversation with a fellow-citizen who happened to be a Senator, I said that I thought amendments to the Constitution ought not too frequently be to made; that it it was continually tinkered with it would lose all its prestige and dignity, aud the old instrument would be lost sight of altogether in a short time; and because, in tbe same conversation I happened tosaythut if it were amended at all, such and such an amend ment ought to beadopted, it is to be churged that I was guilty of usurpation of power that would have cost a king his head, in a certain period of English history? (Great laughter). From the same source the ex clamation has gone forth that they were in tbe midst of earthquakes ( that they were trembling and could not yield. (Laughter.) JUDGMENT OF THE PEOPLE. Yes, fellow-eitizeus, there is an earthquuka coming; there is a ground-swelling of pop} ular judgmentand indignation. (Great ap* plause.) The American people w*ill speak, and, by their instinct if not otherwise, they will know who arc their friends and who are their enemies. I have endeavored to be tru.‘ to the people in all the positions which I have occupied, und there is hardly a posi tion in this Government which I have not at some time filled. 1 suppose it will be suid that this is vanity (laughter,) butlmay say that I have been iu all of them. I have been in both branches of the .State Legislature. A Voice: “You commenced a tailor.”) NO PATCH WORK, The President—A gentleman behind me says that I began a tailor. Yes, I did be gin a tailor (applause), and that suggestion does not discomfit me in the least; for when I was a tailor I had the reputation of being a good one, and of making close fits (laugh ter), and I was always puuctual to my cus tomers, and did good work. (Applause.) Voices—We will patch up the Union yet. The President—No, I do not want any patch work ol it; I want the original article restored. (Great applause.) But enough of this facetiousness. I know it may be said, “ You are President, and you must not talk about these things;” but, mv fellow citi zens, I intend to talk the truth, and when principle is involved, when the existence of my cuuntry is iu peril, I hold it to be my duty to speak what I think and what I feel, us I have always done on former occasions. (Great applause.) I have said, it has been declared elsewhere that I wasguilty of usurpation ujhieh would have cost a king his head, tin dun unother place I have been denounced for whitewash ing. When and where did I ever white wash anything or anybody? I have been an Alderman of u town, I have been in both branches of the Legislature of uiy State, I have been in both Houses of the National Congress, I have been at the head of the Executive Department of inv State, 1 have been Vice President of the Uuited Slates, and I am now in the position which I occu py before von* and during all this career where is the man and what portion of the people is there who can say that Andrew Johnson ever made a pledge which he did not redeem, or that he ever made a promise which he violated? None. Now point me to the man who can say that Andrew John son overacted with infidelity to the greut mass of tilts people. (Great applause.) HKHEADINO. Men may talk about heheadingnnd about usurpation, but when lain beheaded I want the American people to be the witnesses. I do not want it, by inuendoo ;md indirect remarks in high places, to be suggested to men who have assassination brooding in their bosoms, that there is a fitsubject. Others have exclaimed that the Presidential obsta cle must be gotten out of the wnv. What is that, but to make use of a strong word, inciting to assassination ? No doubt, I say, the intention was to iucite assassination, so the obstacle the people placed here could be got out of the way. Are the opponents of this Government not yet satisfied ; are those who want to destroy our institution and to change the character of the Government, not satiated with the quantity of blood that lias been shed? Are they not satisfied with one martyr in this place? Does lot the blood of Lincoln appease their vengeance and their is thirst still unslacked? l)o they still want more blood ? Have they not honor and courage enough to seek to ob tain the end otherwise than through and by the hand of an assassin. I am not afraid of an assassin attacking me whereone brave and courageous man will attack another.— I only dread him when in disguise, and where his footstep is noiseless. If they want blood let them have the courage to strike like men. I know they are willing to wound, but afraid to strike. Ifmy blood is to be shed because I vindi cate the Union, and insist on the preserva tion of this Government in its original puri ty, let it be shed ; but let an altHr to the Union he first creeled, and then, if neces sary, take me and lay me upon it, and the blood that now warms ana animates my existence shall be poured out as the last li bation, as*a tribute to the Union of these States. (Great applause.) But let the op ponents of this government remember, wheu it is poured out, that the blood of Ihe martyrs is the seed of the church. This Union will grow, and it will continue to increase in strength and power, though it may be cemented and cleansed in blood. I have already spoken to you longer than I intended when I came out. [Go on.] CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. I merely intended to make my acknowl edgments of the honor you have done me; but before I close allow me to say a word in regard to the question of amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Shortly after I reached Washington, for the purpose of being inaugurated as Vice Pres ident of the United States, I had a conver sation with Mr. Lincoln iu regard to the condition of affairs. We talked particu larly in reference to matters in my own State. I told him that we bad called a Convention, that we bad amended the Con stitution, and that we had abolished slavery in that State, which was not included in his Emancipation Proclamation. All these things met his approbation, and he gave me words of encouragement. We talked then about affairs generally, and upon the subject of amendments to the Constitution of the United States; be said to me, “ When the amendment of the Con stitution now proposed is adopted by three fourths of the States, I am pretty near done, or indeed quite done with amending the Constitution if there was one other adopted.” I asked him, “What is that, Mr. Presi dent ?” He said, “I have labored to pre serve this Union. I have toiled during four years; I have been subjected to calumny and misrepresentation. My great and sole desire has been to preserve these States in tact under the Constitution as they were before.” I asked him again, “ Mr. Presi dent, what amendment is that which you would propose?” “ Why,” said he, 14 it is that there should be an amendment to the Constitution which would-compel the States to seud their Senators and Representatives to the Congress of the United States.”— [Great applause.] The idea was in his inind that as a part of the doctrine of Secession one of the means to break up thfa Goyom ment was that the States, if they saw proper might withdraw their Senators and sentatives, or refuse to elect them, He wanted even to that diftculty by a constitutional amendment, compelling the States fo send Senators and Representatives to Congress. But what do we now find 7 The Conatitu NUMBER 8 .tion of the country, even that portion of it which allows amendments to the organic law, expressly provides that no State, with- QQtita consent, shall bedeprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate, ana it also provides that each State Shall have at least one Rep resentstive in the House of Representatives; . but yet the position is taken that oertuiu States shall not be represemed. We impose taxes upon them; we send our tax gatherers ©very region and portion of the States. These people are fit subjects of Govern ment for the collection of taxes, but when they ask to participate in the legislation of the country, they are met at the door and told no, you must pay taxes, vou must bear burdens of Government, but you cannot participate in its legislation which is tonffeot you through ail timetocome. Isthisiustice is it fair? (No, no.) ’ I repeat lam for the Union. I am for preserving all the States, lam for admit ting into the Councils of the nation ull tho representatives who are uumistakably and unquestionably loyal. A man who ac knowledges allegiance to,the Government and who swears to support the Constitution must necessarily be loyal. A man cannot take that oath in good faith unless he is loval. A mere amplification of the oath makes no difference as to the principle. Whatever test is thought proper as evidence and as proof of loyalty, is a mere matter of detail, about which I care nothing; but let a man be unmistakably and unqueatiouubly loyal let him acknowledge allegiance to tho Con stitution of the United States, and be willing to support the Government in its hour of peril and its hour of need, and I am willing to trust him. (Applause.) b I know that some do not attach as much importance to this point as Ido, but I regard it as a fundamental one. The principle that carried us through the revolution was thut there should be no taxation without repre sention. I hold to that principle, which was laid down as fundamental by our fathers. If it was good then it is good now. If it was i worth standing by then, it is worth standing i by now. It is fundamental, and should be j observed as free governmeutlasts. i THE CONSTITUTION I am aware that in the midst of the Re bellion it was said by some that the Consti tution had been rolled up as a piece of parch ment and laid away; that in time of war and rebellion there was no Constitution.— We know that sometimes, in great necessity, under great emergencies, unconstitutional things must sometimes necessarily be done, in order to preserve the Constitution itself; but if, while the rebellion was going on the Constitution wus rolled up and laid away, if it was violated in some particulars in or der to save the Government, and all may bu excused and justified, because in saving the Government you really saved the Constitu tion, now that peace has come, now that the war is over, we want again the benefit of a written Constitution, and Isay the time has come to take the Constitution down, to un rolfyt, to re-read it, to understand iUs provisions throughly. Tn order to suvo the Government* we must preserve the Constitution. Our only safety is in a strict adherence to and preservation of tho Constitution of our fathers. It is now unfolded. It must now be read, it must now be digested and under stood by the American people. lum hero to-day, then, in making these remarks to vindicate the Constitution and to save it, as I believe, tor it does seem as if encroach ment alter encroachment is proposed upon Jt. As far as I can I have ever resisted en croachments upon the Constitution, and I stand prepared to resist them to-duy, and thereby to preserve the Constitution and the Government of tho United States. (Great applause. ) It is now a time of peace, and let us have peace; let us enforce tho Constitution; let ns live under and according to its provis ions; let it be published aud primed in blazing characters as though it were in the heavens, and punctuated lay tho stars, so that all can read and all can understand.— Let us consult that instrument and bo guided by its provisions. Let us under stand its sacred provisions and abide by them. PERMANENCY OF THE CONSTITUTION I tell the opposers of this Government-1 care not from what quarter they come, East or West, North or South, you that are en gaged in the work of breaking up the Gov ernment, are mistaken. The Constitution of the United States and the principles of free Government are deeply rooted in the American heart, and all the powers com bined cdnnot destroy that great instrument, that great chart of freedom. Their attempts, though they may seem to succeed for a time, will be futile. They might as well undertake to lock up the winds or chain the waves of the ocean and confine them within limits>j They might as well undertake to repeal the constitution, and indeed it seems now to be supposed that tican be repealed by a concurrent reso lution. (Laughter.) Hut when the question is submitted to tho popular judgment, and to the mass of the people, these men will find that they might just as well introduce a resolution to repeal the daws of gravitation. The attempt to keep this Union from being restored is just about as feasible as would be resistance to the great law of gravitation, which binds all to a common centre. GREAT POLITICAL LAW. The great law of. political gravitation will bring back these Slates, and replace thgm in all their relations to the Federal Govern ment. Cliques and cabals, and conspiracies and machinations, North or South, cannot prevent this great consutnuialiom. (Tre mendous applause.) All that is wanted is time. Let the American people get to un derstand what is going on, and they will soon manifest their determination. Here, by way of conclusion, let me say, that I would to God the whole American people could be assembled here to-day, as you are. I wish there were a vast amphi theatre here, capacious enough to contain the whole thirty millions, and they could witness the great struggle that is going on to preserve the Constitution of their fathers. They would soon settle the question, if they could once see how things are ; if they could see the kind of spirit that is manifested in. the effort)to break down the real principles oi free Government; when they came to un derstand who was for them, and whoagainst them ; who was for ameliorating their con dition, and who for elevating them by pre serving their Government. If the combat ants could stand before them, arid there could be a regular set to between the re spective gladiators, in the lirsttilt that might be made, you would find that the enemies of the country would be crushed, and the people would sustain its friends and the friends of Constitutional Liberty. (Great cheering.) My fellow-citizens, I have detained you much longer than I intended (cries of ** go on, go on,”J, but we are in a great struggle, and I am your instrument, and I have thought it best to express myself frankly when I ask you, have I usurped authority ? Who is it in this country that I have not toiled and labored for? Where is Lho man or the woman, either in privute life or-pub lic life, that has not always received my attention and my time? Sometimes it has been said [pardon ine for being a little egotistical, but we are en gaged in a friendly and familiar conversa tion], 44 That man Johnson is a lucky man. [Laughter.] They can never defeat him.” [Laughter.[ Now I will tell you what con stitutes my good luck. # It is in doing right and being for the people. [Great applause.] POPULAR INSTINCT. The people, somehow or other, although their sagacity and good judgment are very frequently underrated,and under-estimated generally, get to find out and understand who is for tnem and who is against them.— They do it by instinct, if in no other way.— They know who is their friend. They know in whpm they can confide. So far, thank God, I can lay my hand upon my bosom, and state with heartfelt satisfaction, that in all thepositions in which I have been placed, and I have been placed in many that were as tryingasany in which mortal has been placed. I have never de serted them, norao I believe they will desert me. [No, no, and applause.] Whom have I betrayed? What prineip’e have I violated ? What sentiment have I Bwervodfrom? Can those who ussail me put their finger upon any one ? No.no. In all the speeches that have been made no one has dared to put his finger upon a single principle I over asserted from which I have deviated. Have you not heard some of them, at some time, attempt to quote my predeces sor, who fell a martyr to his country’s cause, but they can give nosentiment of his that is in opposition or in contradiction to anything that I have done. PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S FOLICY. The very policy that I am now pursuing was pursued bv me under his administra tion, I having been appointed by him in a particular position for that very purpose. An inscrutable Providence saw proper to remove him from this to, I trust, a better world, and I came into his place, and there is not a principle of his, in reference to the restoration of the Union, lrom which X have departed. None. Then the war is not simp’y upon me, but it is my piedecessor also. I have tried to do my duty. % know that some are envious and jealous and speak of the White House as having attractions for the President. Let me say to you. the charms of the White House have as little influence upon me as upon, any individual in this country and much less upon me than upon those who are talking about it. The little that I eat and wear does not amount to much, and the difference he- ADVBttUHtHO. "YzE™ 8 ADvx&TißKinarrs,' **l2- & year per WSJ®?* flnea; tea per oent. increase for fractions of-a rear. 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[Great upplause.l In conclusion, let me ask this vast con course here to-duy, this sen of upturned faces to come with me, or I will go with you and stand around the Constitution of our coun ty* , ls ugain “folded. Tho people are invited to ryad aud understand, to sustain and maintain its provisions. Let us slund by the Constitution of our fathers, though tho heavens themselves should fall. Though faction may rage, though taunts and jeers muy come, though abuse aud vituperation limy bo poured out in the most virulent form, I mean to bo found standing by the Constitution of tuo country ; stuudiug by the Constitution as tho ciuel ark ot our safely, as tho palladium of our civil nnd our religious liberty. let us cling to it as tho mariner clings to the last plank, wheu tho night aud tho tempest dose around him. Accept my thanks, mv countrymen, for the indulgence you huve extended to me while submitting to you extemporaneously, and, perhaps, in coherently, the remarks which I have now made. Let us go away forgetting tho past, and looking tn the futuro, resolved to en deavor to restore our Government to its pristine purity, trusting to Him who is on high, but who controls all here below, thut erulougour Union will be restored, ana that we shall have peace not ouly with all the nations of the earth, but peace and good will among all parts of the people of tho United States. CONCLUSIbN. I thank you for the respect you have mani fested to me on this occasion, nnd if tho lime shall come during theperiod of my ex istence when this country is to hedestroyed and its Government overturned, if you will look out you will find tho humble individ ual who stands before vou thuro with you endeavoring to avert its final destruction! 1 lie President retired amidst a perfect storm of applauso, ' Beecher and His Auctions I Once a year the Brooklyn searchers after things spiritual attend the great cheap Jack ” institution presided over bv one flenry, whose other uatne la Ward Beecher, and vie with each other in bidding for front seats, side seats, cushioned seats aud standing places in the Plymouth Theatre. A poor man has no show of getting a ticket for glory from the great Beecher. Unlike Christ, there is a price, and ad—ickens of a price, to hia Christianity! It costs money to get to heaven via Brooklyn. Poor folks—that is, poor white folks, never will have, their heavenly baggage checked from Beecher’s station. Home spun, sheep’s grey and plain calico aro not the apparel for Brooklyn. Beecher has ten thousand dollars a year for con ducting his opera. It is the only theatre or nigger show in the country which pays no license and stock therein must pay a large earthly, if not so much of a kingdom-come dividend. The seats are sold there each year to the highest bidder, and the chiefuidders are those who have no time to pray and do their worship by contract or by past ing a copy of the Lord’s prayer on their head board, writing my senti menta" underneath, and after a nod in that direction, pop into bed as a frog goes into a pond when a boy slings rocks at the head of the watery “ greenback.” The Nalujof pews In Jieeclier’s churcfi comes oil on Hie premises .Snlurdiiy aiternoon and evening. All purchases ot rental to be paid at ©uce.” l’er order— 11. W. B. The auctioneer arrives, fresh from the Club Rooms, and at once begins. “ Now ladies and gents, what am I offered for choice of pews in thiß temple of christiani ty ? Talk fast, for time is cash. Choice of pews remember. Se lect which one you please. Am I offer ed two thousand—nineteen hundred— eighteen hundred—seventeen hundred dollars a year for the choice of pews to hear the god-like Beecher, once a week for fifty-two weeks ? Remember gents that he spouts ultimate and penultimate religion. Thut he discourses on Rihln, nigger, the twelve apostles including old John Brown, statesmanship, bap tism, repentance,Royalty—that he de nounces the devil copperheadism, pov erty and allsuchcrimes ! Sixteen hun dred will you make it for choice of pews. Too bad gentlemen ! Not even sixteen hundred dollars a year? Why fellow Christians if you own a pew hero you can go theatres, opeias, horse races, pret ty waiter girl saloons, faro banks and perhaps the devil! And you can buy and sell gold, and stocks and contraband cotton, toucan keepahandsomehired girl, indulge in wine suppers and enjoy Christianity hugely. Will you say fif teen hundred ? fourteen thirteen twelve hundred —and down she goes to Beacon Goldfish for twelve hundred. Brethren let uh j)r— not the man.—When they prayed from their hearts, not with ly ing lips! Wheu professors of religion lived lives of godliness, and not of dissi pation, extravagance and recklessness. When the “dim old aisles of the forest rang with the anthems” of those who believed in God and the Re deemer as a means of grace rather than a cloak for deviltry. There was a time when Christianity meant something— when the laws were honored—when ex travagance did not take even the rites of burial in itsclinky grasp—when religion a devotion instead of an art. We believe in that religion which seeks God in lowliness of spirit and not in that brass mounted, silverplated style which drives to the church door with a nigger in livery and keeps a private glass as a billiard player does his cue, to partake thesacramentfrom. IfChristshould be born again, not one out of ten of these patent, aristocratic professors of religion would call on His mother during her stay in the stable where the infaut Jesus first saw light for fear of losing caste. We believe in religion, but not in this pomp and glitter—this auction, codfish aristocracy style.—La Crosse Democrat . A Spirit that Appeared when Called. Rather a curious story is told of an American medium who appeared to , conjure up spirits. Atoneofhisseancea a simple-looking Quaker asked if he could raise a spirit. “8y.,a1l means,” was the reply. Who will you have?” Moses, if you please,sir.” Afteralittle preliminary spiritulism the medium exclaimed, “He is here! what will you have?” But just at this moment the light grew dim, and amidst adead silence the side door opened, and a venerable figure with long beard, pale visage, sunken eyes, and long, ancient Jewish garb, tottered slowly into the room, and sin king into a chair, exclaimed in deep accents, “Here!” Moved with horror at seeing that he was sold, the medium had precipitately taken flight, and it took some time to reassure the horror stricken spectators-that it was the actor Susine who was before them, and that ! the simple Quaker was his confederate. —B. F Butler has restored the New Or leans gold—sBo,ooo— with Interest and costa n all amounting to $150,000.