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Saturday Night Musings.
BY BKICK POMEROY
Blessed night of rest! Soon will the
labors of the week be ended, and then
for respite from toil—a release from the
six linked chain which has held us
prisoners long enough. Worker, waiter
and watcher, sit down with us for a
moment. >- We have one night less to
talk with you, to'hold converse with
earthly friends. One week; another
Haturday night nearer the golden streets
or the dark ravine! One week nearer
opening the envelope which will have
therein a prize or a blank, as we choose
the while. All these prizes are of our
own choosing. There is no law com
pelling a mail to be miserable or friend
less, unless it be a law of his own mak
ing. The weeks shorten as we hasten
on to open the wondrous door which
closes upon us but once! We can make
the road pleasant or gloomy as we
choose. We can preserve the purity of
our hearts or darken the acts of our
lives as we see it, and ours will be the
reward.
How much a week lias brought about!
How bright have been the days since
last Saturday night for some, how dark
and bitter to others. AVe saw to-day a
weeping mother in the city of the dead.
The tears fell thick aud fust upon a little
grave no longer than our arm. But that
little hillock is the door through which
she can enter heaven and regain her
lost idol. Oiie week since the now
weeping heart-broken mother was a
singing, happy mother.
AVe knew her years ago, before tlie
duties of a new responsibility were hers
to bear—we knew her weeks ago as she
pressed the little one to her heart—we
see her uow, us yesterday, in tears aud
sorrow, and we see her to-night, looking
in little drawers, boxes and secret places
for trilles of last week—now the most
prized of all relics of the past.
Go home this Saturday night, brother
worker. Gather strength for the re
newal of that endless conflict. Go home
to those you love, or if you have no
home, sit down with a friend, or draw
the curtains over the window so you
can uot look out, and away from your
heart so you cau look in and see ® e
treasures you have stored there, or the
rubbish you had better remove. Go
home and bless the one who waits your
coming with earnest eyes ami beating
heart. Latch the gate behind you.
Leave your head at the store, shop or of
fice. Stamp the mud aud the cares of
the week from your feet —enter the door
—close it behind you, go in upon the
home circle and tell visitors that you
are engaged —that Saturday night is
your home night and not to be wrested
from you.
And save from your earning a little
to beautify your home. Save much or
little as fortune will allow. Do not
waste the labor of days or hours in poison
aud wear yourself out in dissipation.
Beaman. Beautify your home, glad
den those you love, and make your life
a success instead of a failure.
Not long since we were the guest of a
frank, open-faced, generous man. The
white hairs l\ad found a home with
him. Once he was poor, a laboring
man as are you and us. He toiled man
fully and lived within his means. He
saved his earnings, not as a miser saves,
but to beautify aud make pleasaut the
home where he alone looked for happi
ness. Little by little as the Saturday
nights went by, falling like rose leaves
into the lap of God he took home with
him articles to beautify his home.
Little by little! “How did you get all
of these things ?’ “Little by little!”
How it accumulates, whether of wealth,
wisdom or wickedness! Not all of a
sudden. Here a table; there a sofa;
there a piano ; there a painting ; there
a book-case ; there a window curtain;
there au ottomau; there an hour glass ;
there an engraving ; there a book; there
a painting—here a little and there a
little-all beautiful, andhelpingtomake
the home happy. Week laid itself
down by side of week in the grave of
time. Still he toiled, saved, was happy
and made others happy around him.
Books, paintings, music, luxury, and
happiness are the fruit which the tree
of soberness and economy bears.
And there were others who begau life
with him of whom we write. ! (Jhances
were the same, but others spent their
nights and their earnings in useless dis
sipation while he saved. Their homes
are still uncarpeted and pictureless.
Their faces are old and wrinkled, and
their steps tottering. The home ones
have no happiness, home has few com
forts aud fewer pleasures —life is wind
ing itself upon the invisible reel and
their ticket in the lottery of life is a
failure. God pity those who have uo
manhood, for they need pity.
Be advised by us, working man,
wherever or whoever you are, to habits
of economy, and a desire to make home
pleasant. Home is next to Heaven in
its wonderful meaning. No money
brings so large an interest. Speak
kindly to those under your roof. —
Care for them as they will care for you.
Leave your business behind you—hang
up your hat—draw a chair close beside
her your love—place one hand in hers,
take a book and read the hours away,
or talk over the incidents of the great
voyage as becomes those who are dear
to each other and whose interests are
the same. There are not many more
Saturday nights for either of us, but
there is a Home In the land of the leal
where there are no weeks, and from
whence we can look back to the time or
chances we neglect or improve here in
the dressing room for eternity. Heav
en is as near or far, the ladder is short
■or long, and each Saturday night is a
round in the mystic ladder for us who
are toiling upwards to rest —make new
resolves for good—speak kind words and
plant acts of kindness which will bloom
over our grave and bless the lives of
those we love after we have gone where
there is no Saturday Night.
A Beautiful Illustration.
At one of the anniversaries of a Sab
bath-schoo , in London, two little girls
present themselves to receive the prize,
one of whom had recited one verse
more than the other, both having learn
ed several thousand verses of Scripture.
The gentleman who presidety inquired :
“ And could you not have Jearned one
verse more, and thus have kept up with
Martha?”
“Yes, sir,” the blushing child replied ;
“but I loved Martha, and kept back on
purpose” .
“ And was there any one of all the
verses you have learned, ’' again inquired
the President, “that taught youthisles
epn.”
“There was, sir,” she answered
blushing still more deeply ; il ln honor
preferring one another
Lancaster jlntdligcmrv.
VOLUME 67.
The Business-Swindler.
How he “Operates.”
The Genteel Business-Swindler has at
one time of his lile been clerk with some
merchant, and, having robbed his em
ployer, has been summarily discharged;
and has only escaped criminal prosecu
tion through the lack of sufficient evi
dence, or by the mistaken benevolence
of his victim.
The G. B. S.'knows that it is. useless
to endeavor to find a situation such as
he formerly possessed, and, as he has a
horror of the hard work necessary to re
build his shattered reputation, lie will
not condescend to a position of inferior
gmde; so, necessarily, he becomes one
ortbe thousands who live by their wits
and thrive on the industry of others.
The G. B. S. proceeds to one of the
numerous business-intelligence offices
to which swindlers resort, and, having
paid a small fee to the ’scape jail keeper
of the human spider’s web, gets leave
to lay a trap in the office for the unwary
flies whom he cau lure within his
clutches.
The G. B. S. next writes out an ad
vertisement to the following effect:
THREE THOUSAND DoLLaRS—A
partner wanted in a nice, genteel business,
where the profits will be divided at the end
ol every month, and by which $5,000 a year
can be made easily. No knowledge ol the
busiuess required. To a smart young man
from the counts , who has from $1,500 to
$5,000, this is a splendid chance, as the for
mer purtner has retired with a fortune ip
consequence of ill-health. Apply to Dooem
6l Co., room 2,222, 1,000,000 Broadway.
Josiah Loseali, who has just come of
age and lrom the country, the heir to
some' few thousands, which are the
savings of an over-worked, under-fed,
ill-clad, sweaty lifetime, sees this ad
vertisement in the morning paper.
Wishing to make a fortune in a hurry,
so that he can go back tohisruralhome
anil marry some yellow-haired, pink
cheeked prairie-flower, aud astonish the
laboring rustics, whose every cent is
reckoned valuable, by.liis magnificence,
Josh’s heart beats like a sledge-hammer
when he reads the advertisement. For
tune is holding out to him a golden
apple, aud all that he has to do is to
reach out' his hand aud grasp the prize.
He rushes from his lodgings iuto the
office of the modern Fortunatus who
retails fortunes to young men from the
country at a ridiculously small price,
aud demauds an interview with Mr.
Dooem.
Mr. Dooem knows at first sight that he
has a green customer to deal with, and
with great dignity informs Josiah that
Dooem is his name. Josiah points to
his adveitisement. Dooem says :
“Ah, there have been many appli
cants this morning for thatpartneiship.
The gentleman has just gone out with
another gentleman with whom I think
lie will come to terms. But he will be in
presently, Mr. Swindler will, and then
you can speak to himself. If you don’t
agree with him, there are many other
chances I can put you up to. Mr.
Swindler’s business is the making of
an article in daily use—molasses. There
is an unlimited demand. He can make
out of a gallon of molasses three gallons
by a secret process. There is no risk,
as no one can tell the difference between
the manufactured and the real article.
Or, if you don’t like that, there’s Mr.
Steele wants a partuer in the patent
cider business, and Mr. Ketchit thinks
he will take a partner in the coal busi
ness—makes egg-coal out of coal-dust
by a patent process. Or, perhaps, you
would like to go into the real estate
business with myself!”
Josiah feels like the traveller who ar
rives at a spot where the highway
branches into three paths; he is so
dumbfounded by the offer of so many
roads to fortune he does not know which
to choose. Mr. Dooem, .who has been,
snakelike, eyeing him all the while,
chuckles inwardly as he sees his victim
stupified. Another person has been
eyeing the rurality —the redoubtable G.
B. 8. himself. Through a crack in the
office door he has been prospecting his
placer with all the science of a physiog
nomist and all the care of a gold miner.
AVheu he sees the victim bewildered lie
walks in, takes off his hat, sits down,
and takes a paper from his pocket as if
to read. Mr. Dooem then says:
“Ahem! Mr. Swindler let me make
you acquainted With Mr. Loseali, who
wishes to do some business with you.”
“Ah!” answers the G. B. S., “happy
to do business. I have just left a man
who talked like a fool.”
“ Then you have not come to terms
with him ?”.;
“ Terms—no ; be had no money—
wanted half the profits —no risks and no
outlay. There are some cheeky people
in this world,” says the G. 8.5., in great
disgust, with the world’s devious ways.
“ Then, Mr s Loseall, there is your
chance ; if you were to live a hundred
years you never could find a securer in
vestment for your money. I will leave
you together,” says Mr. Dooem ; and
generously he turns to the window,
that lie may be out of hearing, so that
in case of any little trouble arising out
of the swindle, he may plead perfect
iguorance of the terms of agreement.
The G. B. S. then says that he will
manage all the operations ; all that lie
wants is a young man to keep the books
and to attend to sales. He takes the
victim to a cellar, where there is a boiler
built in brickwork, and term it his
factory. He 9hows him molasses casks,
and in Josiah’s presence men take casks
away and cart them to an auction room.
He even witnessed their sale. Satisfied
Josiah relinquished his cash into the
hands of the G. B. 8.
For a week or two casks empty and
casks full are carted in and out. Josh,
receives at the end of the month sloo—
juststarted, you know,” remarks
the G. B. S. “Next week we will do
something handsome.” And he does
it; for he disappears for a day or two,
aud when tracked, the G. B. S. has a
woful tale to tell of the unprin
cipled doings of some heartless
villaip, who, on the plea of former in
debtedness, has confiscated the whole
stock in-trade justus all the money was
invested. Josh is requested to wait for
a month or so, and the G. B. S. will try
to make it all right —no man will lose
anything by trusting him, &c. Josh
waits in vain in Dooein’s parlor, for the
G. B. S. has gone to another office to
find a fresh victim.
When this money leech has grown
fat from several such little affairs, he
removes to a remote quarter of the city,
and fits up a grocery store. The G. B.
S. now appears to have turned from the
error of his ways, for he pays cash down
to the merchants with whom' he deals.
The store is rather a flashy affair, with
shining scales, spotless shelves, and
brightly polished counters. The name
over the door shines forth in all the
marvelous attractiveness of gilt Egypt
ian text. The windows are filled with
specimens of sugar of immense white
ness aud diminutive price. The wagon
before the door looks so bright in its
varnishy coat of paint that it seemß a
shame to befoul it with earthy barrels
of potatoes or floury bags of buckwheat.
Thehorse, too, looks more likea charger
than a grocer’s pony. Various illumina
ted tickets throughout the store inform
the penurious that this is the place to
get goods at wholesate rates, if not lower
still. The store soon becomes crowded
with customers. The G. B. S. looks
through his spectacles the very imper
sonation of an honest, plodding grocer,
who gives short measure nor
waters hisvinegar. The grocersaround
are iu paroxysms of fury as they see
customer after customer leavethemand
go to the new cheap store. They pre
dict for the poor G. B. S. bankruptcy in
three months, if not Booner, and get
laughed at as false prophets, as ‘doubt
less they are: for an advertisement ap
pears in the papers to this effect:
SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS—FOR
SALE.—A splendid chance for an active
young man—a grocery doing a business of
§3OO to §5OO daily—situated in an increasing
neighborhood, with all the fittings and stock
—horse and wagon—everything almostnew.
Present owner’s health is reason of selling
out. Any one having the money in hana
can realize a fortune in five years. Will
show the books. No agents need apnlv
Address G. B. S., office of this paper ibr
one week only. ’
Borne enthusiastic youth, whose
dreams of easily-obtained wealth have
not yet been rudely dispelled by the iron
hand of experience, replies to the ad
vertisement. Of coarse, the G. B. S.
shows receipts for his rent, his stock,
etc., displays his boobs, and invites
frequent visits to the store, which seems
now more crowded than ever, as the G.
B. S. has managed to add a few bogus
'customers, who open accounts and get
goods gratis—“for this week only.”
The G. B. 8. courts full investigation.
The doctor has ordered him to follow an
out-of-door business, or he would not
leave this Golconda. The bait takes,
the gudgeon is hooked. The G. B. S.
realizes some thousands —and honestly,
too, (as the world goes)—and proceeds
to open stores in various parts.of the
city in the grocery and liquor/enter
prises, which he shortly sells out —all
in consequence of ill-health.
The G. B. 8. has now funds enough
to start more extensive operations, and
he turns his attention to getting up a
joint stock company. Should he choose
to form a petroleum company, he buys
a few acres of land in A r enango county,
and a lease or two of some run-out oil
well, all for a few hundred dollars. The
G. B. S. proceeds next to a broker, to
whom he states his purchase aud his
wish to form a company. The broker
laughs, and asks him if he thinks peo
ple are fools enough to throw away their
time on anything there is no money in.
The G. B. 8. takes the hint, and shows
his bank account, offering a check for
necessary expenses. The broker then
says, “Halves!” At this the G. B. 8.
squirms, but the broker is obdurate.—
They tbeu make a bargain that all the
profits arising from the affair are to be
equally divided, the broker to furnish
( the necessary certificates and references,
and to manage the affair at the Board,
and the G. B. S. to figure as capitalist,
secretary, etc., and to advance all neces
sary expenses and attend to advertising.
In a siiort time the columns of certain
newspapers are lumbered with some of
those marvelous displays of imaginative
writing that have relaxed the purse
strings of the numerous individuals who
are morecursed with money than blessed
with brains. From time to time notices
appear in the “ oily” papers that the
.Sinkdeep Company has just sunk a well
which promises to yield two hundred
burrels. Then thegreedy public,who are
always craving for cent percent discover
that the Sinkdeep Company is about to
declare a dividend, that it is the most
prosperous young company, etc., and
not a share in the market. Also, that
the secretary has been perfectly besieged
with applications from our moneyed
nieu for shares.
In a little while the Sinkdeep Com
pany’s stock is quoted on the list at a
small advance on the par value. Next
day it rises, falls, rises, rises, etc. Then
another two hundred barrel well is in
vented, and up the stock goes. Public
commence to buy. Speculators begin
to look at it. Enough money comes in
to reimburse the outlays for advertising.
A fifty barrel well is invented next, as
it won’t do to pile it on too thick. Pub
lic still rush in. Broker begins to di
vide profils. Stock rises slowly but
surely, and the shares sell splendidly.
So the piscator in AVall street keeps
bobbing his line and using fresh bait,
till he sees that the thingis stale. Then
he commences to wind up. Stock falls
—some inundation or fire has occurred.
“ Stand from under!” is the word now
with the broker and his assistants. The
Sinkdeep shares fall almost to their real
value, which is a few cents. The G.
B. S. pockets his share of the plunder,
and turns his attention to real estate.
The G. B. S. now buys lots in the
suburbs, and contracts with a “carpen
ter and builder” to put up shaky boxes,
which are facetiously termed houses,
for, say $2,000 apiece. These structures
are of the most rickety kind, and are
made less to live in than are coffins.
Still, with the aid of paint and plaster,
they look attractive to tenants who are
suffering under the screws of avaricious
landlords. Only $3,000 is asked for
what cost, at most, $l,BO0 —terms easy
euough in theory, but hard enough in
practice. If the G. B. S. succeeds in
this enterprise his fortune is made. If
he fails, he again resorts to advertising
for the spare change of the community.
Thus:
OLD HICKORY—SI.—A SPLENDID
engraving of the finest workmanship, exe
cuted in steel, being a correct likeness of the
immortal Jackson, will be
sent post paid to any address in the United
States, for the small sumofsL. Address
A. B. L. t Trenton, New Jersey. Money re
turned if the likeness is not good.
The verdant individuals who send a
dollar receive the 1 ‘ splendid engraving’ ’
by return of post —in the shape of a two
cent postage stamp, which, as it bears
on its face the representation of old
Flglit-the-British, it would be treason to
be discontented with.
Intricacies of the English Language.
The construction of the English lan
guage must appear most formidable to
a foreigner. One of them, looking at a
picture of a number of vessels, said,
“See, what a flock of ships!” He was
told that a flock of ships was called a
fleet, and that a fleet of sheep was
called a flock. And it was added, for
his guidance in mastering the intrica
cies of'our language, that “ a flock of
girls is called a bevy, that a bevy of
wolves is called a pick, and a pick of
thieves is called a gang, and a gang of
angles is called a host, and a host of
porpoises is called u shoal, and a shoal
of buffaloes is called a herd, aud a herd
of children is called a troop, and a troop
of partridges is called a covey, and a
covey of beauties is called agalaxy, and
a galaxy of ruffians is called a horde,
and a horde of rubbish is called a heap,
and a heap of oxen is called a drove,
and a drove of blackguaids is called a
mob, and a mob of whales is called a
school, and a school of worshippers is
called a congregation, and a congrega
tion of engineers is called a corps, nnd
a corps of robbers is called a hand, and
a hand of locusts is called a swarm, and
a swarm of people is called a crowd.”
Ask the Captain
While crossing the plains to Santa
Fe, General Kearney wassomdxlistanee
ahead with the advance guard. One of
the officers belonging to the rear di
vision singled Bob out, and sent him
ahead with a letter to the general.
When he came up with them they had
camped, and Bob sauntered into the
general’s marque.
“ We’re gettin’ along right sharp,
General,” said he.
“ Yes, sir,” answeredthecommander.
“ I wish you’d jist look at that hoss
o’ mine, General,” said Bob, “ and give
me your ’pinion how he’ll stand the
racketclar through to whar we’regoin’.”
“ Have you a captain at the head of
your company?” inquired the general.
“Wall, wehev, hoss, and he’s some
pumpkins, too,” answered Bob.
“Whenever you wish to learn any
thing in regard to your movements,
then,” said the general, “inquire of
him.”
“ That’s military, is it?’ ’ inquired Bob.
“That is military’ sir,” answered the
general.
“Well, General, they gin me a letter
for you, but cuss me if I know whether
I oughter give it you in pusson, or send
it through your orderly, so I’ll go back
and ask the Cap’n," and back he went
sure enough, with the letter in his pos
session.
During the past year a smuggling
transaction by the leading wine mer
chants of Boston was settled by the
payment of $125,000. It afterward
became known that the firms paid $157,-
000 to settle the affair, and the Govern
ment is making a legal investigation to
see who received the lubricating $32,-
000. 61
LANCASTER, PA, AVEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1866.
The Spring Fashions.
How Gentlemen are Dressed——The Pre
vailing Styles for Spring—lnteresting
Facts About Color, Cut, Fabric and
Make—Coats, Vests, Pants, Hats, 4c.
Milliners have their “ opening day,”
and why not the tailors, also ; indeed,
it is a matter of regret that this is not
the fact. Gentlemen are not, perhaps,
as much given to what is termed “shop
ping” as the ladies, but that is all the
more reason|why the artists who furnish
their outer tabernacles should devote
one day to,the “show ” instead of “trade. ’ ’
If the man who has scarcely a moment
to spare from the engrossing cares of
business could carefully read in the
columns of the Commercial each spring
aud fall, the prevailing styles, cut, color
and material in vogue, to make up his
outer man, he would be better informed
when he visits his tailor ; and his visit,
when the day for buying came, would
be measurably shorter, and, therefore,
more satisfactory, to busy parties. ■ He
would kuow to a certain degree wbathe
wanted, and select accordingly. As it
is, a customer is at the mercy of the
tailor, and to remedy tne evil to some
extent, the following resume of the
fashions for gentlemen in the spring of
ISUO, is presented, and although some
what imperfect, will enable many pur
chasers to know a little somethiug of
what they may expect aud select for
spring wear :
In gentlemen’s wear the first thing to
be considered comes under the head of
coats.
The garments first in importance to
the masculine “human form divine”
is tile coat, the most superior because
the most costly and covering the greater
portion of the masculine auatomy.
Coats are now cut shorter than hereto
fore ; they are less wide in tile shoul
ders, giving not so much of the Hercu
lean style ; the side seams are more
rounding, aud the entire coat is more
shapely and smaller. The low roll of
the collar continues as before ; during
last winter there was atendeneyto close
them a little higher, but for spring and
summer the low roll continues in favor.
There is, however, no particular style
in this respect, as coats are all made
without stiffening, the breast being so ft,
so as to turn down anywhere upon the
chest. Many coats are made to button
up high, or thrown open to even the
bottom button if desired; while some
are cut wi tli ashortturn, as the tailor calls
it.
The dress coat is cut with alow, wide
collar, which cannot be buttoned up
high. The wide collar was introduced
last winter, but will not probably be
come general uutil autumn. At pres
ent wide collars are mainly confined to
fancy coats. All coats are made plain
and soft, without stiffening or wadding.
Little or no work is bestowed on the in
side, most of them being made without
backfaciug. The edges are made in a
variety of ways to accord with the ma
terial, but the plain edge is in favor. If
bound, the wide braid is the most fash
ionable, either doubled over the edge or
laid flat. Velvet collars are sparingly
indulged in, but there is no indication
thatthedevoteesof fashion will speedily
adopt them. As usual, coats are both
double and single breasted, but the lat
ter have the preference for summer
wear.
The accompaniment to a coat is na- ,
turally a vest. At present vests have a
tendency to be long ; the high roll ap
pears to lead off. Single-breasted aiuK
double are in vogue, but the former with
a small rolling collar, or without any
collar, will be the prevailing style. The
double-breasted vest is invariably cut
without a collar. Busiuess suits are now
made with coat aud vest of the same
color, an English mixture of a brownish
or light Scotch snuff color prevailing.—
The coat, which is generally of the sack
pattern, is quite short, in factscant; cut
without a seam in the back, and very
slightly hollowed in the side seam to
give form to the body. The shoulders
are narrower than former^.
FANTALOONS. ,
They are cut smaller than heretofore,
in many cases quite small; and. the
tendency is that they will continue to
become still smaller. They are cut
plain and straight in the leg, with oc
casionally a spring of from eighteen to
twenty inches at theknee. Pantaloons
have a tendency to be made plain
throughout as they continue to grow
smaller; the welted seams are getting
out of style. Welted, corded and notch
ed seams are also disappearing. As a
new feature a cash pocket is placed on
the left of the pantaloons, asort of com
panion piece to the watch pocket, and
pistol pockets behind, if desired. Gaiter
bottoms are coming into fashion among
the more dressy gentlemem for driving,
horseback riding, street and party wear.
As they make a greater display of dress
than any other pantaloons, they should
be made from elastic goods and worn
with considerable care.
OVERCOATS.
In thiß climate where the nights are
nearly all disproportionately cool as com
pared with the days, an overcoat is a
desideratum at any season of the year.
Especially is this true as regards spring
and autumn. At present the Sack is
most in favor for general -wear, while
the Surtout, or tight fitting coat, is only
worn for dress. The oversaek is quite
short, the level of the knee being its
maximum length, and many of our tai
lors are cutting them several inchesabove
that point. They are made negligee ,
lined with silk and without canvas, so
as to lay anywhere upon the body, as
they fall.
FABRIC'S.
As a general thing rough goods appear
to lead thefashion;searcely any smooth
faced goods are shown except for full
dress, and many express si preference
for pants of cheviot instead of doeskin,
even for full dress. As usual there is
almost an endless variety of rough fab
rics in use; meltens took the lead dur
ing the winter, but now the Scotch
cheviot in its variety of colors appears
to lead off. The goods imported this
spring were mostly of the cheviot weave,
although the newest styles are mixed
goods of English make, which are
known in the trade under the name of
“suitings.” These latter run through
the general range of colors, except blue
which, from army influences, appears
to be losing caste. Min us the brass but
tons of the last five years, blue fabric
relapses to the mediocrity which it knew
before the war. Brown, green, corn
and cuir are the colors most sought this
spring.
As long as masculines indulge in heads
the subject of what shall be worn there
on will always possess interest. This
spring hats are growing a little in the
brim from those light and half-tasteful
affairs indulged in last fall. The crown
also has asserted its rights and objects
to he run down into what might be
come little or nothing if continued six
or eight feet in the perpendicular. The
sides are now equi-distant at crown and
rim, and. as described in Euclid, “ will
not meet now-for-soever either way both
of them be produced.”
Two lawyers in a county court, one
of whom had gray hair, and the other,
though just as old a man as his learned
friend, had hair which looked suspici
ous black, had some altercation about a
question of practice, in which the gen
tleman with the dark iiiur remarked to
his opponent: “A person at your time
of life, sir,” looking at the barrister’s
gray head, ‘ 1 ought to have a long enough
experience to know what is customary
in such cases.” 11 Yes, sir,” was the
reply; “ you may stare at my gray hair
as long as you like. My hair will be
gray as long as I live, and yours will be
black as long as you dye.”
THE PRESIDENT.
He Addresses the Soldiers and Sailors.
Discusses the Questions or the Day.
Ordeals of the Nation.
Oar Strength to Pass Them.
The War for the Union.
Condition of the Late Rebellions States.
Their Right to Representation.
How Traitors Should be Treated.
Is Determined to Maintain his Position.
Charges of Tyranny and Usurpation.
The Powers of Congress.
PROCESSION OF SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
AVashinqton, April IS.—At six o'clock
this eveuiug a procession of soldiers and
sailors, and such ol their friends as sym
pathize with them in their grateful ac
knowledgments to the President for his or
der lately issued, directing the Heads of
Departments to give preference in appoint
ments and promotions to the subordinat®
offices to persous who have rendered hon
orable service in the army and navy, was
formed and marched to the Executive Man
sion with the Marine Baud, to serenade
President Johnson, who had signified to
the committee that he would accept the
compliment.
ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT.
A very large number of persons of both
sexes were previously outheground await
ing the demonstration. At 5.15 the band
played several patriotic airs, when the
President made his appearance, and* was
greeted with huzzas by the assembled
thousands. He took a stand in the coping
of the wall, near the carriage way, on the
north side of the White House, when lie
was addressed on behulf of the soldiers and
sailors by one of their number in highly
complimentary terms, saying, in conclu
sion, “in return for your kindness we can
but offer our sympathies and prayers, and
trust that an All-wise Providence, who has
brought our nation through a baptism of
blood, and to whom we consecrate it anew,
from slavery and by a nation’s tears, will
so guide and direct you that you may calm
the troubled waters, harmonize public
opinion, and restore our whole country ouee
more to peace and prosperity.”
THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH
President Johnson said: It is not affec
tation in me to say that language is inade
quate to convey the heartfelt feelingS'pro
dueed on this occasion by your presence
here, and by the presentation of your seuti
ments, us expressed by your representative
in his address, and in the resolutions which
votl have thought proper to adopt. I con
fess that in the peculiar posture of public
affairs, your presence and address give en
couragement and confidence to me in my
efforts to discharge the duties incumbent
upon me us Chief Magistrate of the Repub
lic ; and in what I have to say I shall ad
dress you in the character of citizens, sai
lors and soldiers. I shull speak to you on
those terms, and on none other.
THANKS.
I repeat my thanks for the manifestation
of your approbation and your encourage
ment. (Applause.) We are to-day involved
in one of the most critical and trying strug
gles that have occurred since this Govern
ment was spoken into existence. Nations,
like individuals, must have a beginning,
must have a birth. In struggling into ex
istence a nation passes through its first
tryiDg ordeal. It is not necessary for me
’now to carry your minds back to the strug
gle when this nation was born. It is not
necessary for me to allude to the privations
and hardships of those who were engaged
in that struggle to achieve the national
birth. It is not necessary to point to the
bloodshed -and the lives lost in accomplish
ing that result.
our nation’s strength,
The next ordeal through which a nation
has to pass is when it is called upon to give
evidence that it has strength, capacity and
power to maintain itself among the nations
of the earth; in giving such evidence we
passed through the war of 1812, and t hrough
the war with Mexico, and we passed through
all the struggles that have since occurred up
to the beginning of the Rebellion. This
was our second ordeal. But a nation has
another test still to undergo, and that is to
give evidence to the nations of the earth,
and to its own citizens, that it has power to
resist internal foes, that it has strength
enough to put down treachery at home und
treason within its own borders. (.Cheers.)
THE PRESIDENT’S POSITION.
We have commenced that ordeal, and I
trust in God we will pass through it success
fully. (Cheers.) I feel complimented by
the allusion of your representative to the
fact that I stood in the Senate in ISGU and
1881, when the nation was entering on this
third ordeal, and raised my voice and hand
against treason, treachery and traitors at
home. (Cheers.) I stand here to-day hold
ing to and maintaining the same principles
which I then enunciated. I stand here to
day opposing traitors and treason, whether
they bo in the South or in the North. (Loud
cheers.) I stand here to-duy as I then stood,
using all my powers, mental and physical,
to preserve this nation in passing through
the third phase of its existence,
Theorganized forces and combined powers
that recently stood arrayed against us are
disbanded and driven from the field ; but it
does not follow that there are still no enemies
against our present form of Government and
our free institutions. (Applause.) I then
stood in the Senate of the United States deny
ing the doctrine of separation and Secession.
I denied then as I deny now that any State
has the right of its own willtoseparateitself
from the other States, and thereby to destroy
the Union and to break up the Government,
and I think I have given someevidenee that
I have been sincere and in earnest, and now
I want to know why it is that the whole
train of slanderers, calumniators and tra
ducers have been barking and snapping at
my heels? Why is it that they array them
selves against me? It is because 1 stand on
the side of the people, and when I say the
peoplo I include the sailors and soldiers !
Why is it they are arrayed in traducingand
villifving and calumniating ? Where were
they" during the rebellion? (A voice—
“ Home in bed !”)
In tbe Senate I raised my voice against it,
and when it was believed that it would be to
the interest of the nation, und would assist'
in putting down the rebellion, did I not
leave my place in the Senate—a place of
emolument, ease and distinction, and take
ray position where the enemy could be
reached, and where men’s lives were in
danger ? (Cheers and cries of “ that’s so!”)
TRADUCERS AND CALUMNIATORS.
While I was thus exposed personally and
publicly, and in every way, some of my
present traducers and calumniators were
far removed from the foe, and were enjoy
ing ease and comfort. But I care not for
them; I care not for that slander. The foul
whelp ofsinjhasbeen turned looseagainst me.
Icarenot forall'tbat, andletmeteUyou here
to-day that, although pretty well advanced
in life, I feel that I shall live long enough
to live down the whole pack of traducers
and slanderers. (Applause.)
They have turned the whole pack loose to
lower me in your estimation. (Voices,
“They cannot do it,”) “Tray, Blanche
and Sweetheart, little dogs and all,” come
along snapping and snarling at my heels,
but I heea them not. The American people,
citizens, soldiers and sailors, know that
from my advent into public life to the pres
ent moment I have always stood unyield
ingly and unwavering as the advocate and
defender of their rights and interests.
(Cheers.)
THIRD ORDEAL,
We are now in the nations’s third ordeal;
we are not yet through it. We said that
States could not go out of tbe Union; we
denied the doctrine of Secession, and we
have demonstrated that we were right; we
demonstrated it by the strong arm ; yes, the
soldiers and the sailors—God bless them!—
have demonstrated, by their patriotic hearts
and strong arms, that States have not the
power to leave the Union. (Applause.)
What followed? The Confederate armies
were overpowered and disbanded, and there
was a willingness, on the part of the people
of those States, to come back, to be obedient
to the laws, and acknowledge the supremacy
of the Constitution of our lathers.
For what have we passed through this or
deal 7 It was to establish the principle that
no States had the power to break up this
Government. It was to put down the Re
bellion. The Rebellion has been put down
and for what? Was ittodestroy tneStates?
(Voices, “Never!”) For what have all these
lives been sacrificed and all this treasure ex
pended ? Was it for the purpose of destroy
ing the States? No. It was for the purpose
of preserving the States in the Union ofour
fathers. It was for that you fought; it was
for that I tolled ; not to break up the Gov
ernment, but to put down the Rebellion and
preserve the Union of the States. That is
what we have been contending for, and to
establish the fact that the nation can lift
itself above and beyond intestine foes and
treason and traitors at home.
MASSACHUSETTS.
When the Rebellion in Massachusetts was
pul down, did that put Massachusetts out
ofthe Union and destroy that State? When
the Rebellion in Pennsylvania was put
down, did that destroy the State, and put
it out of the Union? So when this lust
great Rebellion was put down, and the
Constitution and laws of the country were
restored* the States engaged in it stood as
part of the Union, The Rebellion being
crushed, and the law being restored, the
Constitution being acknowledged, those
States stand in the Union, constituting a
port of the glorious aud bright galaxy of
Stars. (Ch era.)
WORK OF RECONSTRUCTION.
In passing through this ordeal what has
been done? In Tennessee, under the di
rection of my lamented predecessor, we
commenced the work of restoration, and
we have succeeded, before I came here, in
restoringithe relations which had existed
between Tennessee and the rest of the
Union, with one exeeption, and that was
the relation of representation.
RETROSPECTIVE.
I came to Washington, and under an ex
traordinary circumstance succeeded to the
Presidential chair. What then? The Co
ngress of the United States had adjourned
without prescribing any plan. I then pro
ceeded as I had doue in my own State, un
der direction ofthe Government, to restore
the other States; and how did we begin ?
We found that the people had no courts,
and we said to the judges, thedistrictattor
neys and the marshals, “Go down and
hold your courts, the people need the tribu
nals of justice to be opened.” Was there
anything wrong in that? The courts were
opened. What else? We looked out and
saw that the people down there had no
mails, they had been interrupted and cut
off by the operations of the Rebellion. AVe
said to the Postmaster General, “let the
people have facilities for mail communica
tion, and let them begin again to understand
what we all feel and think—that we are one
people.”
We looked out again and saw tbut there
was a blockade ; that the custom houses
were all closed. We said, “open the doors
of the the custom houses ana remove the
blockade; let trade and commerce and the
pursuit ofpeace be restored.”and it was done.
We thus traveled on step by step, opening
up custom houses, appointing collectors,
establishing mail facilities, and restoring
all the relations that had been interrupted
by the rebellion. Was there anything un
dertaken to be done here that was not au
thorized by the Constitution, that was not
justified by the great necessities of the case ;
that has not beep clearly consonant with
the Constitution and vith the genius and
theory of our Government?
TAXATION
One of the great principles laid down by
our fathers, and which fired their hearts,
was that there should be no taxation with
out representation. How, then, does that
matter stand? Who has been usurping
power? Who has been defeating the ope
ration of the Constitution ? What now re
mains to be done to complete the restoration
of those States to all their former relations
under the Federal Government, and to fin
ish the great ordeal through which we have
been passing? It is to admit representation,
and when we say admit representation,
what do we mean ? We mean representa
tion in the constitutional and law abiding
sense, as was intended at the beginning of
the Government, and .where does that pow
er lie?
What remained to be doue? One other
thing remained to demonstrate to the civil
ized and Pagan world that we had passed
through the horrid ordeal of our national
existence, and proved that our Government
was perpetual. A great principle was to be
restored which was established in our Rev
olution. When our fathers were contend-
ing against the power of Great Britain, what
was one of the principal causes of their
complaint? It was that they were denied
ropresention. They complained of taxation
without representation. (Cheers.) v "
THE POWERS OF CONGRESS.
The Constitution declares, in express
terms, that each House, the Senate and
House of Representatives, each acting for
itself, shall be the judges of the returns,
election and qualifications of its own mem
bers. It is for each House to settle that
question under the Constitution, and uuder
the solemn sanction of an oath, and can we
believe that either House would admit any
member into its body, to participate in the
legislation of the country, who was not
qualified and fit to sit in that body and to
participate in its proceedings? They have
the power, not the two Houses, but each
House for itself.
The Constitution further declares that no
State shall be deprived of its equal suffrage
in the Senate of the United States without
its consent. Then, where do we stand ? All
that is needed to lioish this great work of
restoration is for the two Houses respec
tively to determine the question. “Oh,”
but some will say, “ a traitor might come
in.” The answer to that is, that each House
must be the judge, and if a traitor presents
himself cannot either House know that he
is a traitor (applause); and it he is a traitor,
can they not kick him out of tbe door and
send him back, saying to the people who
sent him, “you must send us a loyal man.”
(Cheers, and a voice, “that’s logic,”)
TRAITORS.
Is there any ditlicuity about that? If a
traitor presents himself to either House,
cannot that House say to him, “No. you
cannot beadmitted into this body. Go hack;
we will not deny your people of the right of
representation, "but they must send a loyal
representative.” And when the Stales do
send loyal representatives, can you have
any better evidence of I heir fidelity to the
Constitution und laws? There is no one
learned in the Constitution and the laws
who will say that, if a traitor happens to
get into Congress, the body cannot expel
him after he gets in. That makes assurance
doubly sure, and confirms the action of the
Government to the Constitution of our
fathers. Hence I say, let us stand by that
Constitution, and iu standing by it the
Government will be preserved.
While you have been contending against
traitors, and treason, and secession, and the
dissolution of the Union, 1 have been con
tending at the same time against the consol
idation of power. (Cries of “ Good !”) 1
think the consolidation of power here is
equally dangerous with the separation of
the States. The one would weaken us and
might run imo unarchy, while the other
would concentrate and run into monarchy.
USURPERS.
But there is an idea abroad that one man
can be a despot, that one man can be a usur
per, but that a hundred or two hundred rnon
cannot be. Mr. Jefferson, the apostle of
liberty, tell us, and so does common sense,
that tyranny aud despotism can be exercised
by many more vigorously and more tyran
nically than by one.
What power has your President to be A
tyrant? What can he do? What can he
originate? Why they say heexerecisesthe
veto power. (Laughter.) What is the veto
power? (A voice:—To put down tbe nigger.)
Who is your President? Is he Dot elected
by the people, through the Electoral College?
THE TRIBUNE OF THE PEOPLE.
The President is nothing more than the
Tribune of the people. His office is tri
bunitial in its character. In olden times,
when tribunes were first elected in the
Roman Republic, they stood at the door of
the Roman Senate, which was then en
croaching on the popular rights and putting
the heel of power on the Decks of the people.
The people chose a Tribune, and placed him
at the door oi the Senate, so that when that
bodv ventured on oppressive acts, he was
clothed with powertosay “Veto—l forbid.”
Your President? is now the Tribuneofthe
people; and, thank God, lam and I intend
to assert the power which the people have
placed in me. (Cheers.) Your President,
standing here day after day, and discharg
ing his duties, is like a horse on the tread
mill, and because he dare differ in opinion
in regard to public measures he must be
denounced as a usurper and a tyrant. Can
he originate anything under the veto pow
er * The veto power is conservative m its
character and affirmative. All that can be
done by the veto power is to say, when leg
islation is improper, hasty, unwise, uncon
stitutional, ,: Stay! stop action, wait till
this can be submitted to the people, and let
them consider whetherit isrightor wrong.”
(Applause.)
That is all there is in it; and hence I say
that tyranny and power can be exercised
somewhere else than by the Executive.—
He is powerless and all that he can do is to
check legislation, to hold it in a state of
abeyance, till the people can consider and
understand what is being done. Then what
has been done? I have done what I be
lieved the Constitution required me to do.
I have done what I believed duty and con
science lequired me to do. So believing, I
intend to stiok to my position, relying on
the judgment, the integrity and the intelli
gence of the masses of the American peo
ple, the soldiers and sailors especially.
Then, for my life, I cannot see where there
is any tyranny. It is very easy to impugn
motives and suspect the purest ana best
acts of a man’s lire
If you come forward and propose a cer
tain thing, your motives are suspected and
condemned; andifyouwithholdyouropin
ion, you are regarded as being opposed to
the matter, so that it is very hara to move
one way or the other, so far as certain per
sons are concerned, on all questions per
taining to the interests of the great masses
of the American people, for in them is my
hope and the salvation of the oountry. I
am with yon, citizens, soldiers and sailors,
NUMBER 16.
who have sacrificed or perilled more than
the humble individual who addresses you.
# Has not my all been put upon it? My
Ufe, my property, everything sacred and
dear to man, have been staked upon it, and
can I now be suspected of faltering at the
close of this third ordeal of the nation ?
Where he, in public or in private life,
who has sacrificed more, or who has devo
ted more of his time and energies to the ac
complishment of the great end than I ? and
I have done it from the promptings of my
own heart and conscience.
t O THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
I believe it was right,and withjyour help and
your countenance and your encouragement
1 shall go through on that line; and when I
come to talk about sailors and soldiers,
about this to be done and that to be done,
all I want is for you to wait and see, so far
as the future is concerned. Wait, and see if
I do not stand by you, although others may
falter and fail.
I want to see measures of policy brought
forward that will advance tue interests of
the people, and of that portion of the people
who have constituted the gallant and brave
men who in both branches of tho service
have upheld the national flag andsustuined
the country in the recent struggle. I thank
you for your countenance on this occasion.
It cheers me, and gives me strength to per
form the work before me.
If we are true to ourselves, if we are true
to the Constitution, the day is not far distant
when this Government will be restored.
Let us go ou and restore tho Government;
let-us enlarge the area of our commerce and
trade; let us not only inspire confidence at
home, but respect abroad, by lotting tho
nation resume its career of prosperity and
greatness. I know that some will find fault
with me, and say I am too lenient and kind
and all that. If we are all to be put to death
or punished or thrown away for one offense,
as for the second offense, and were to bo
lost and excluded from society and com
munion with our fellow men, howinuuy of
us would bo lost.
I have felt when I have done wrong and
repented of it that I was as sincere and honest
as if I had never done wrong at all. Then
we must reason with each other, and under
stand onr nature, and what is necessary to
restore peace and harmony to a distracted
and divided people. In time of war it is
right to burn villages, sack cities and deso
late fields, to lay waste a country and crip
pie and reduce the enemy ; but in time of
peace, the reverse of that course is precisely
the right one and the true policy of a nation
is to rebuild its cities, restore its villages,
renew its fields of agriculture, and occupa
tions of peace and prosperity are to be re
stored. I know there are some who have
been at home calculating during the war,
and who bring to the consideration of ques
tions of peace and harmony and the occupa
tions of civil life, all the feelings of resent
ment which animated us when the excite
ment was up and running high, but take the
brave men who sustained the llag in tho
field and on tho wave, and you will find
better feelings and betterjudgmenton these
questions than you will find with those who
have been sitting in tho closet and never
smelt gunpowder.
Yes, from tho private up to the command
ing general, they knew better how to treat
the present circumstances than any of these
elevated patriots and humanitarians. Then,
my countrymen, fellow-citizens, soldiers
und sailors, let us rejoice thut peuce bus
come; let us rejoice that tho relations of the
State are about being restored. Let us make
every effort we can on proper principles to
restore the relutions which existed between
the Federal Government and the States.
I thank God that peace is restored. I
thank God that our bravo men can return
to their families and homes and resume
their peaceful avocations. I thank God
that the baleful planet of fire and blood,
which a short time ago was in the ascend
ant, has been chased away by thebenignuiit
star of peace. Now that the bow of penco
is suspended in the heavens, let us cultivate
the arts and relations of peace, and ull those
associations which appertain to men in
peace.
The time is not distant when we can
have a political millenium, a political ju
bilee, and when we can proclaim to all tho
nations of the earth that we are again a
united people, and that we have triumph
antly passed through our third ordeal,
having peace at home and power to bid de
fiance to all the world
Remember one thing, gentlemen, that in
my past life, though slanderers may have
misrepresented me, no one can say that I
ever deceived or betrayed him. It will bo
for you to see in the future who will be
most faithful. I thank you, gentlemen, for
the compliment you have paid me.
After the President closed liis speech be
was loudly and continuously cheered, the
band performing some patriotic airs, and
the immense crowd dispersed.
Count ’em
Several years ago there was the an
nual three days muster of ;i a certain
Western Massachusetts regiment at
North Hampton in that State. “High
Private” in one of the companies was
the friend I write of; and jolly good
times he and two or three choice spirits
made for their comrades in arms. Now
round about that camp various sutlers 1
showmen and other outside barbarians
had pitched their tents for the purpose
of relieving the militia of their change.
Of course they succeeded admirably.
One evening and some score of
his friends were outside the lines, hav
ing a good time. Roving from point to
point they came upon a tent, outside of
which a hurley man was shouting :
“Walk up! Walk up! Walk right
in and see the great Kentucky giantess,
the horse with six legs, and nary two
alike ; the living anaconda, and a man
that swallows a sword and eats small
rocks for supper—all for ten cents.”
“ By Jove, boys,” said , “ that
sounds good. Let’s go in.”
A smile overspread the features of the
doorkeeper at the “ fat take” before
him.
“Many in?” inquired .
“All right” quoth the guardian of the
show. “Pass in gen’Jemen.”
“ Lots, full of soldiers.” replied the
doorkeeper. “It’s worth the money ;
only ten cents ; Pass right in.”
“ Count ’em.” said .
“All right” quoth the guardian of
the show. “ Pass in gen’lemen.”
And about thirty passed in.
“Have you counted’em?” inquired
“All right! Thirty-two and you’ll
makethirty-three,” Bald the doorkeeper
extending his hand for the money.
“ Oh I’m not going in,” said .
“ You ain’t ?” said the man, a horri
ble suspicion crossing his mind.
“ No ; Pm going back to camp,”
said , “ Good night!”
Then, if you could have seen that in
furiated doorkeeper speed to the myster
ious interior of the tent. There were at
least a hundred persons crowded within
its canvas walls, all in uniform.
“Here? Look a here ? I counted
you , I believe. Didn’t I count you*
Wasn’t you counted ?”
Thus he flew from blue coat to blue ;
but not a soul owned up, and thirty men
saw the snakes and things for nothing.
It was a bad sell, decidedly.
Adulteration
The old injunction, “Eat what is set
before you, asking no questions,” if
complied with, will save one a good
many nauseating reflections in these
days of general adulteration. Some
times. however, the truth is told with
out the questions being asked. The
British public have recently been dis
gusted by the fact that Mr. Hope, ketch
up and pickle manufacturer of London,
has been keeping—to quote the words
of the charge against him —“a large
quantity of putrid livers for the manu
facture of ketchup which he called pure
and unadulterated Leicestershire ketch
up, such being unfit for human food and
a nuisance to the neighborhood.” The
case was brought up in court where a
medical health officer testified that he
found a barrel full of putrid pig’s livers,
which the foreman told him were to be
boiled down to make a ketchup, They
were obviously unfit for consumption,
showing decay and putrescence, and
giving out a stench that remained on
the witness’hands for hours. The mag
istrate thought the case an importunt
one, but discharged the defendant, as
he believed the act of Parllamentagalnst
adulteration did notTapply in this in
stance.—Cincinnati Gazette.
The total number of emigrants arri
ved at New York from Europe during
the past week was unprecedentedly
large, being 10,331. The aggregate
arrivals from Jan. 1 is 45,971.
RATE*' OFiOTHTTrina.
Business advertisements*. 113 a year per
squareof ten lines; ten per cent. Increaseror
fractions of aynar. ./ , . /.Ur..; ..Ulj •
TVwaii Estate, Personal Property,and Gen
eral Advebtisino, 7 osnts a ti&e fer the
first, and 4 oenfie for each subsequent inser
. tion.
Patent Medicines and other adveß by the
column: ,
Onecolmnn, I —. |IM
Half ooluxnn, 1 SO
Third column, 1 year,^ MM .. t * MM ., M .» MM 40
.Quarter 80
Buenntsa Cards, of ten lines or less,
one year, ,r 77 10
Business Cards, five lines or leu* one
year T| [L , 1 5
Legal and other Notices—
Executors’ notices .. 2J3Q
Administrators’ noti^a2.oo
Assignees’ notices, ......... ........ 2.00
Auditors’ notices i.fin
Other “Notices," ten Unes/oiTiau,
three time 5,..;..... .60
Beconstrnctlon.
Hore Testimony Before the Committee,
I GOV. SHARKEY’S TESTIMONY,
i Gov. Sharkey, of Mississippi, testified
that when he went to Mississippi as provis
ional governor a very large majority of tho
people of that State, fifty to one, were per
fectly reconciled to the condition of things,
and very anxious to bo restored to their
former position in the Union. That was the
current sentiment beyond all doubt at that
time. Even the secession party admitted
that they had made a miserable failure.—
Many of them felt very sore over It, to think
that they had involved their country in ter
rible calamities, and they wore as anxious
to get back iuto the Union as any portion
of the community. Being provisional gov
ernor, he says, he had opportunities to know
exceptional cases, and the latter were con
fined to those who had token no part in the
war. The military men were perfectly sat
isfied, and as a general rule they wore tho
most loyal. They gave up honorably, and
were disposed to accept tilings as they found
them.
There were but few men—men who had
done nothing during the war—who woro
dissatisfied. But a Largo minority of our
peoplo (says Gov. S.) were as loyal, to uso
the term in its proper sense, as any people
of the United States—that is to say, they
were willing to obey the laws of tho United
States and support and sustain them—and I
think they are so yet. I should make this
remark, however—tho people came up freely
and voluntarily, and aid all that they sup
posed was required. Thoy met with great
cheerfulness all of the demands of the Presi
dent. Whut changes muy have occurred
since I left 1 cannot tell, but I do not think
any material changes have taken plaoo.
Still, you know when men do ull that is re
quired of thorn and all that they think is
right, pressure does not in any degree con-''
tribute to their loyalty, anu I have been
very much afraid that the condition of things
hero would shake thoir confidence in tho
government. Their condition was a good
one when I was in chargo of tho government
there.
A large majority of our peoplo woro op
posed to secession, and I believe that if the
question had been submitted to tho peoplo
they never would have adopted it. But the
politicians got us in hand and forced usout
of the Union,- and ns a general thing those
who wore opposed to going out first were
in favor of coming back again, and to them
is to be added tho numbor who bocamo
satisfied of the folly of thoir course. (Gov.
Sharkoj’ then gave a history of tho changes
made last summer in tho constitution of
Mississippi.) The amended constitution
was not submitted to tho peoplo. I did not
think it uecussury, as I was so woll satis
fied with tho temper and disposition of tho
people. Tho members of tho convention
were fairly and fully elected.
The freedmon havo gone to work with a
great deal of zeal, and tho people are hope
ful and expect a return of prosperity. I
have a letter from one section tuat there
was not a discontented ; that they had
buried secession out of sight. Tho ireod
men. as I learn from all parts of tho State,
are doing remarkably well. I havo heard
from one of -the counties of tho State in
which there is not one idle freeduian. How
ever, there is no use disguising tho fact that
the Freedmou’s Bureau ana tho colored
troops there have done more mischiof than
anything else. There are men in the bureau
there who are disposedtospeculateon whito
and black. They encourage tho black mon
and discourage the white mon, and wher
ever there is a negro garrison, freedmon
gather around it, and of course orimea and
depredutious are committed. 1 verily be
lieve if when I was there all the troops could
have been withdrawn, I could havd had
order throughout the Stuto.
The mortality among tho freedmon con
tinues as groat as over. Thoy havo con
tracted disease and habits which take a
great many of them off. Wo are all kindly
disposed toward tho negro. 1 think, after
the experiment which has been mado, tho
peoplo prefer tho Union to the Confederacy.
I never countenanced or aided secession, .
and think tho larger portion of tho peoplo
shared my own sontiments. I think tho
peoplo would rather remain in tho Union
thau take the chances In tho Confederacy,
even were it possible to establish it now.
Tho people uo not expect pay for thoir
slaves, and we have repudiated moßt of our
ejebt; and I may say with confidence that
none of our people expect a dollar of tho
debt of tho rebellion to bo paid. There huH
been no emigration from tne State. There
is no organization of home guards, that I
know 01. I organized two companies of
militia for each county for individual pro
tection, to suppress crime and proteot tho
people. The general feeling of tho peoplo
towards tho freedmon is that wo ought to -
elevate them.
(Question.—lfyou have no objection,pleaso
state what you know about persons elected
to Congress from Mississippi.
Answer.—l know Mr. Alcorn, my col
league in tho United States Senate, was an
old whig, and was very much opposed to
the rebellion, and to tho party that Drought
it about. The Representatives elect to tho
House wore, without exception, opposed to
secession. They all belonged to the anti- ,
secession party. Several of these geutlemon
engaged in the rebellion, after it was brought
about. Colonels Reynolds and Plorson had
commanded regiments in the Confederate
service. When the State went out I suppose
they felt that they must go with thoir State.
In regard to Gov. Humphrey, there was ..
no man more opposed to secession. Ho did
not everr believe that tho confederates could
establish and maintain a government. He
told me so. He ultimately got into tho re
bellion by accident, you might say. He
went with a company as captain and was
promoted to be general. Being popular in
the army, lie was elected governor. Ho is a
good man. I regret to say that the rest of
tho State government is in the hands of tho
conservatives. I had no conversation with
a Col. Hamilton, stating, in June, 1865, that
the slate was made out; that the South was
to have its own way, tho object of which
was to give tho President all the political
power of tho South.
GOVERNOR JOHNSON’S TESTIMONY,
Ex-Gov. James Johnson, of Georgia, tes
tifies that affairs are improving there now.
Tho peoplo are becoming better satisfied as
time elapses and the passions subside. Wo
have a few bad men among us. Hostility
to tho freedmon is abating. It would bo
good policy to withdraw the black troops.
Their presence is irritating; a majority of
our peoplo are willing lo submit, it is
natural that they should prefer for office
men who havo co-oporatod with them. Mr.
J. then states thut all of tho Senators and
members elect have been In tho civil or
military service of tho Confederate goverji*
ment. The people were opposed to negro
suffrage in any form.
ARKANSAS.
The evidence in regard to Arkansas is
voluminous, but all of the same tenor, Gen.
Blunt, Gen. Andrews and several civilians
testifying. They all agree thut tho State is
thoroughly reconstructed. The order is
better than it has been for forty years.
More cotton will be raised this season in
thut State than in auy other.
The following charming anecdote
is told of the Empress Eugenie: A
poor artist died, leaving his widow and
children a few water color drawings and
an unfinished picture. The widow re
paired to the artists’ shop of Susse, a
Parisian celebrity, and showed the con
tents of a portfolio. Susse suggested a
private sale as likely to be more remun
erative than the chance his windows
offered of attracting attention, and ad
vised application to be made to the
families in which the deceased artist had
given lessons. I ‘l possess several letters, ”
replied the widow, “ from those my late
husband instructed, amongst others a
note from a Spanish Countess, on her
quitting Paris, in which the youthful
writer promises at any time when her
master required assistance to do all foi)
him thatlay in her power.” “Where Is
the young Countess ?” “In Paris, but
she is now married.” “If I dared,”
added she, as she handed Sußse a note,
the folds of which bore unmistakable
traces of having been often read. Susse
glanced at the few lines it contained,
and asked the widow to trust it to him
for a few days. The Empress, on recog
nizing her own writing, instantly gave
orders that a liberal pension should be
granted to widow and children of the
teacher under whom she had studied as
Countess de Taba.
The Deficiency Appropriation Bill
that lately passed Congress, contained,
among other iteips, the following: For
furnishing and repairing the President’s
house, $46,000, in addition to $B,OOO for
repairing it inside and out ,* for defray
ing the expenses incident to the death,
and burial of Abraham Lincoln, $30,000;
for the 'purchase of Ford’s- Theatre*
$lOO,OOO. .