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They will be entitled to 1 column, confined excslusive ly to their business, with privilege of quarter ly changes. Advertising in all cases exclusive of subscription to the paper. - -.JOB PRINTING of every kind, in Plain AIId Fan..y colors, done with neatness and dispatch. Handbills, Blanks, Cards, Pam phlets, t e., of every variety,andstyle, prin- ted at-the shortest notice. The Baron= I):Ticr. has just been re-fit - tell with Power tr,..se . s; and every thing in the Printing hue can be executed in the most artistic wanner and at the lowest rates. TERMS INVARIABLY CASH. earls I'IF:ORGE D. MON'UANYE, AT x.} TuRNEY --IT L... 1 IV—Office corner of Pine streets, oppi site Port l.'s Drug DOCTOR EDWARD S. PERKiNS, lltirN his prolessiona I servicei 1,1 the citi :casot Frerriehto*h undcrieMity. Calls prompt ly uLled t., 1.‘,7 A . ..DAVIES:, Attorney at, - Law, V • Towanda. Pa. Odiee with' Wm. Wat -1:1•. Pa: Ocular attention paid to Or. Ceurt business and settlement of debe . I Ell.o &MO R,E, OW, Attorneys Towanda, Penn i, Inderhigned having associated themselves in the„practiee of Law, ofTer their pro - rviees to the public. „, MENClifi P. D. Ntonnow. I).ITRICK & PECK, Arrom:Ers AT ()tikes :—lu PArk -, n . P.lock-,Thwanda, :',.:1 - Ick's block, Athens, Pa. They may be at either pLice. •,: Nr. r .a 1.113 t k McKEIN, ATTORNEY 11.0 ctiUNSELLOII AT LA 11", Towan- Pu. Particular attention paid to business. piLir.s . Court., July 20, .1566. I_,• . .NIZY PEET, A- t.f.rney at Law, I 1 P. jua27, IR. H. WESTON, DENTIST.- ..LI Off.i,:e is Pattoz:4 Mock. over Gore's Drug ljan66 yIIWARD OVERTON Jr., Attor- U at Lair, To 0 - 4mla. Pa. Office in the -e IR. R. DAVIES, LERAYSVII-LE, PA. 112 , rerm.caently . -at the effiee oc.Lupied by Dr. G. DeWitt, for the his protees'en. { Slap 9, 1:47. (LUX N. CALIFF; .:ITTORNEY 1...4 IV, Towarilt, Also. Govern• Lt„ A ctrut for the colle;niov. of Pec.3ioni , , Back an ,1 Bounty. No'charce utiless suceeNsful. 01Lice over V. Otce and News goom. Dec. 1, 1!.41-1. I.l'. ti 1 NIBALL, Licemzed Auc • ti• , nk cr. Potter,ville, Bradtord Co.. Pa. t , toe public.. Satis!action .or ro , par required. ill orders uy vc, r. 11: re. eive prompt (1c:. 2, 1?..61.--tina ME JJk.) 11 N MIX, _4 TTOR_YEY A,T • LA rt . T • ,ca - : is Br 2,1"3: - .S Ler - .11 0.1:2 Real ENtate Agcot._ and eolieete,i. N. 13,-311 lw Orph,in . Court attenJed to h d,:re. tirat • .•• c.•.• %Vara . tt,:t 14. lOC COI: DEWITT, PHYSICIAN it ,' o Sraay:oat.—May ht.. found during the otn•;:rwiso "•liin•st ~ a .ara Coddiug Russell's. •.,. ~1 '‘'ill'a e ttn and i)n,si 2.-ata.. late • ~.11pial by E. A. PAraona. A pr,l • AkFISON .CARNOCHAN, AT To Ey.; T LAW. Tr. , y. Bradlord Co e the Co ..irie: the County. Col and rotn: , 4 r,.znitted I=l t) 11. 'tins rerto-s - k-d to State (fir:t S. s- Co's tal a .1:-Iance de,irous A - 1:1 to• mo,t t rind bin on fitter tlOl/ will L the extraction o: h. r;2 , or E , h,r P. hen dc,:ired I". 1-, \UC[UR .cll‘S. F. PAIN E.—Of : 4 t. re. T ,, w2.21a. P. 1- I-4 A': . . t.tt,rs to him A : Rim C %VC; prompt 1, - i:.INTIS E. POST, Pain.'er, Tato ,v,th l 0 pc,:' exi.i.fiface. is Con . . Lt. , in Paint ~rainrng, Waiting. Pi.-ering, pald to .3o;iliing in th , April 9. 1966. -K . G N Architect and er • Eu 4, der.—.4in kin& of ArcoSitectural de work in .tone, a:A Wo , d. ofd . -e Mnai street. over .k Co.'s Bonk. Atzen;ion given to r,d a, ',l3inz o':t of 4round,3. ME 7. N E NV, E L , I'OUSTY SURVEYOR ahead attentiti r. r•-•:cdttg ar.d e..- - •tablishing old or distitt- I to a:in-eying of aI eupatteattd a ari WArr..2:l4 are obtained. ce.3 . 1.7 4 \V lIERSEY WATKINS, Notary T • pub: 4e pn: , parea to take Deposi eaA. elttowle-A.-w i:5....",:t1t1 3'3 of Deed -3, Mo7tz.trze4. Power. of ?etorney. an e.ll other p Ter!, tn.:: svrora to belore . - - OfEce cf S. 1‘.., a fi;-x door= tort :^. of tbeWar.l J.r.. 14. D. K N A 1' I', BM k•. M:Aer , b,l Del:kr b "eats • C'zi:cs, Jew •l4 Silver a re. 7 , e, wir', aal telong,ir.g, to s Jewel- 3;2,-ar:o3 paid to Repalrir.g. 32 .:.! 7 'l7e Y. 02fo:o.W3rerlY. N. • Dec. 3. 1,64.—tt. , 1 , JUN ,VIZAY, NIOTOGi..II'LIER zai•'.7y atte.7.3 t bc‘ir.r..; in b . :* line. g,! - ;ea t,) 4.4.14 :Stem- Fllotcgtaill. Views' of ~ taken is the 1, a..—ataurr, gival to the r,ovel ez3 roprescr.tatoz of ol.,jocts. r y.. :e lv e d Wood E.2:41-az's Photo- Art Clnerv, • AToll MAKERS, JE,'WELLERS, ir,:,35 zs is z:;•37a77.a.5 . zLinu ivied themslytt. e. Car I)eg - it:4. *he ey,ll sbo _ - ; A 1%.;:t07.E.ii e xpeltri ealjles em s•-sz .-1-N! s...n.tietion in .1- .: PArti.• 'ar 3.-'tinti gi T en ran 2.. tag itn-ctry. • E. CO. 131-0631311. VOLUME h.XVII 10. OF O.F.—BR . ;FORD ' , No. 167, I. 0. of O. *., Meets lows Hall, every Moull,evening .1 Monday in April to the rat Monday at 4 p, In., from Octob rl to April at 4. 8.0 : : April 23, 1867. WARD HOUSE, ROWAN AMERICAN HOT Having purchased tida re tell known Bridge Street, 'Aare rnished it with every conveniende for the a. lion of all who may patronize me. No be spared to make all polelsant and May 3, '6B.—tf. J. 8. esTrEriso; ELWELL HOUS , TowA A, PA., JOHN C. WILSON" 1 Having leased this H ravel is now resit? to' ac commodate the Tmvellihg nblic. ro pains nor expense will be spared to give sa 'Brandon to those w o may give him a call. ea - North side of the publio scina: Mercer's new block [nosribuildieg] NEW ARRANGE 1"1 ATE NEWS ROOM ANIi. BOOK .' The undersigned having p_urchased t STORE AND NEWS ROOM of 3• respectfully Invite the old patrons of llsb.ment and the public generally, to. amine our stock. ALITORD a. sr. LLVOILD. I ! V. May 24. I'Ri.—ly-• MRS. , ALLEN : myss CO DRESS .3 ' IIiKERS, Respectfully tender their Services to th of Towanda and vicinity; Ali work teed to give satisfaztion. Particular paid to CUTTING AND FITTING. Rooms in :tasentent of Jaffee Elliott's ; on Second Street- Towanda, Oct, 1 DEEM F.A.SHIOS.A.ULE TAILOI2.I ..• T. DAViDSON, Respr,qinity annonnc4 io the pnblii ;ha , opened a Tailor ShIT Brirlingti .and will ;at and make'llo an i Boys t in the m , istisiabstantial and Fashional nor. CU.T.TING done on; short notice reason aliter testa s Partichlar attention gi'yea to Clew Bep.iiring. Clothes of all Mirk Bo rlington; Sept. 3, 180. F lIIONABLE TAILOiII July .13, 1565 LEWIS RF4LIBEIN Respectfully infurnie_the !citizens of Boro igh, that he has operied a TAILOR SHOP, In Phinney's Building app, site the Meat and solieits a share of public patronage Be is prepared to cut abd make garea the most fashionable style, and the moe , bte manner. Perfect satisfaction will h *raced. Cutting and Itepairiig d one to order notice. Sept. 104 I=l u. ;.: is:l r. 'c. n !, b - ____ I "- -:- - ' . . 1 ' -: • -, . 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They are prepared , td - draw Bills change, and make co Klima in Net Philadelphia, and all po t itions of the States, as also EngU •d. ermany, and To L.Cala money, rece e deposit- and general Banking bu: .ess.. G. F. Mason was one! of the late, Laporte. son C otl Towanda, P his knowit ge of the business men of and adjoimng Counties,and having bee casing business for abonf fifteen is house, ' desirable one, through mike collections, _ _ I G. F. M. Toz - rnds, Ort. 1, 1..Z66: A. G. M 11LLINERY & I) : ZESS MA. iriNTER GOi R.5.5E.41.1..1.4N Desires to inform the laties of.Towa vicinity that she is now prtpared to e NEW STYLEze, ANE *ENV GOOl She has constantly on hand a fall assm and is pi epared to executes orders on thi eat possible notice. Also; a great call patterns, just received. Particalar ati given to dress and cloak rhking. - Rooms over Cohen & Rosenfield's C Store, Idercur's Block. Towanda. Nov. 16, 18674 JEWELRY STO.R AT DES A. YOU G, Informs the citizens of S4ican county has opened a Jewelry Store. in the build posite Welles & Ackley's Store, Dushore he will keep on band an asiortment of JEWELRY, WATCH ES „ AND ,CLO Which will be sold as low is at any oche. in the-country. Particulaf attention p Watch and Clock Repairing. art:lee me a call, as tiny • years' el ease will e :able me ta ,zivetl:l4 - ..utOrk: • DEndiore. Oct. 9. 1i67. • ' ' lI.ARDING & ...3111ALLEY, . , Having entered into a coipartnership transaction of the iIiMOTO,IrRAPHIC be at the rooms formerly occtipied by Wck Harding. would respectful) the ati of the public to several sty of Pictures we make specialties, as : s olsr Photos Plain. Penciled and COlorep, Opaltypes, lain Pictntes. Ac" which wp claim for c 1 'and brilliancy of tone and Artistic flni not beixcelled. We invite ill to examine as well as the more colnindn kinds of PI which we make, knowing full well th will bear the closest inspeetion. This I claims the highest reputation for good rt l any In this section of co , and we termilied by a strict atten on to busin the superior quality of our work, to no retain out increase its ver eficiabfe re We keep constantly on the best cf Framm. , and at loweri plea Outlet anj evablishment -in - town. Also PSJap4 Card frames, Card V 4-is, Holmes'', scopes, Stereoscopic Vis„,and everythi of importance sertaining tad the bcisinew us - axparly •..m . I - . N.M.—Solar Printing to, the trade most reasonable terms. i D.-HARD Aug... 19. '67. F. SMAL THE FIRST NAT ONAL ! The First National Blacksmith Camptown, Pa.. has this day declared der.d oa Horse S.'toeingi of tts per cent. equally divided among customers, owing favorable patronahe received-in the pa. We are prepared to shoe your horses art , made from the best of N.ll. Iron, on ab tee, and we guarrantea to Your entire • bon. I t on. aa we warrant a ll w k at this Farmers and others from a istance will to their advantage to call t this shop; they will find on !tech le reet, bet i 'Avery's store and the 44demy Baildin,t , lOSEPH P. Camptown, Nov. O. IS6t.-3m. AUCTION AND ' COMMIT, aTOREj MOE & CR4NME Perm,nendy located in tbi south end Wsrd Elottse. Goods sold on commission , cistize* made on consignments. Begrdr Bonds s, Wedam.days and &Unisys, side snles promptly suende4 to, by A.lll. 808, Anctio Address To war da or Boa on. Jan. 13, lii6S.-321.4.4,. pt REAKFAST, .EX SION, and Parlor PROS, ME = Publisher. ODGE Odd Fel the fin Octobe p. BeleY• sorrespondence Between Genirld,rant and President Jehnson. WAS/mums, Tuesday, Feb. 4,1868. The. Spefter laid before the House a comniuniOation from the War De partment, iriclosing the following doc ument : mi C="l WAE DZPARTIOCHT, Feb. 4, 1868. SIR*: In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the Bth, I transmit herewith copies furnished me by Gen. Grant of the• correspondence between him and the President relating to the Secretary of Wail and which he reports to be all the!correspondence he had, with the PreSident on the subject. I have had nal -correspondence with the Presideht since the 12th of August last.. After the action of the Senate on his alleged reason for my suspen sion from the office of Secretary of War,. I !resumed the duties of that office 0 required by the act Of Con-' gress,.and ,have continued to die eharge them without any personal or written ! communication - with . the President. No orders have been is sued frpm this Department in' the name of the President, with my knowledge, and I have received no orders from - him. The correspon dence stint herewith embraces all the correspondence known to me on the subject !referred to in the -resolution of the House of Representaives.— I have ;.the honor to be, Sir, with great rlspect, your - obedient servant, EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. -Hon. &hp i ylerColfax, Speaker of the House of Repl'esentatives. HEADQUAIITEII9 ASITT OP THE IitiTTED STATES, Wasttmoros, D. C., Jan. 25, 1868. His &agency, ANDIIEW Jomesos. President of the United States. Sta : tpon the 24th inst. I requested you tq give me in writing' the in structions which you had previously given me verbally, not to obey any order rOm the Hon. B. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, unless I knew that it came from yourself. To this written kequest I received a message that has! left doubt 'in my mind of your intentions ; to prevent any mis understanding, therefore, I renew the request at you will give me writ ten inst actions, and until they are received! will suspend action on your verbal ones. lam compelled to ask these in tractions in writing in con sequence of the many gross misrep resentations affecting my personal, honor, 9rculated through the press -for the list fortnight purporting to come from the President, of conver sations which occurred• either with the Pres dent previously in his office, or in Cabinet meeting. What is written admits of no misunderstand 'ing. Injview of the misrepresenta tions referred to it will be well to state the facts in the case: Sorge time after I assumed the du ties of Secretary of War ad interim, the President asked my views as to the couree Mr. Stanton would base to pursue, in case the Senate should knot concur in his suspension, to ob tain postiession of 'his office. My re ply was,: in substance", that Mr. Stan ton would halve to 'appeal to the Courts to reinstate him, illustrative my position by ‘ citing' the grounds I -bad taken in the case .of the Balti more Police Cdtrimissioilers, In that case 1 did not; doubt the technical right of Gov. Swann to remove the old CoMmissioners and to appoint their &wee he-old. Commis sioners refused to giv up. Howe er, I contendod that no:.'resource was left but to appeal to the Courte.— Finding that' the President was de sirous of keeping Mr. Stant -n out of office, whetlfer sustained in the sus pension Or not, I stated that I had not looked particularly into the Ten ure-of-Office bill, - but that what L had stated was a *eneral principle, and 1 if - I should change my mind in this particular case., I would inform him of the fact. Sahsequently, on read, ing the Tenure-a-Office bill closely I found that I' could not, without vio lation of !the law, refuse to vacate the office of. Seeretary of War the moment Mr.:Stanton was reinstated by the Senate, even though the Pres ident ordered me -to retain, which be never did. Taking this view of the subject, Band learnincr ° on Saturday, the llth!! inst., :that the 'Senate had taken Up the subject of Stanton's suspension, after some conversation with Lieutenant-Gen. Sherman, and some meinbers of my staff, in which I stated that the law left me no dic tion as ' to my action - should Mr.. Manton be -reinstated, and that I in tended to inform the President, I went to the 'President for the sole purpose',of making this decision known,a.nd did so make it known.— In doifig .his, I fulfilled the promise made inleur last preceding conversa tion on the subject. The President, howeVer,!. instead .of accepting my ___ view of . ei th c e e req bill u , ir eo em n e te nta ndeti of th . tileaTtebn e had suspended Mr. Stanton under the top of . authority, given by 'the Constitution, a dirt- and that !the same authority did not to be to the preclude :him from reporting, as an t 7e 3 r. i act of' conrtesy, his reasons for the shoes . 1 1 no • suspensiOn to the Senate. That hay thitac- ing beenlappointed under the author .and P-- It ity giTed by the Constitution, and which not under any Act of Congress, I "n C. i could pot be governed by the, act. s I t stated! that the " law was binding on ii me, cnruttitutional or not, until set aside by the proper tribunal. An - hour or more was consumed, each re- iterating his views on this subject, Until, eiting, late, the President said the would see me again.. I did not agree 'to ?,call again on Monday nor at any other - definite time, nor was I Sent for by the President until the following Tuesday. From the Ilth, to thee4binet meeting on the 14th ins t, a doubt never entered my mind about . ' the President's fully under standing, my. 'position, namely : That prietor am IHotel on . ratted omtooda alns will ble. .-Piop. e. east o ENT TORE e BOOK Griffiths, ie eetab and ex .etaM LEI Ladies raa entlOU idence Ell that he a Boro' armeata .le man " and on tag and FM owanda ;s House eizits in 0 darn- Far o shor 1867. , AVE aa, un- of Ex , York, United to do a *TM 0 and radford , in the . make bleb to .oti f . I N. Mil MEM da and bit her tment • short , .ety of L. ration EM3 ORE t be ng op , when KS. place 'd to MIZIM , n the lON of the A d 1111131411(mt- !TEN 1 s oUxthd. El TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., FEBRUARY 13, 1868. if the Senate refused totconcur' in the suspension of Mr. Stanton, my pow ers as Secretary of War ad interin' would cease, and Mr. Stanton's right to resume" at once the functions of his office, would, under the law, be indisputable, and I acted according ly. With Mr' Stanton I had no coin• munication, direct or indirect, on the subject of his reinstatement during his suspptsion. I knew it had been recoh►mended to the President to send in the name of Gov. Cox of Ohioj for Secretary of War, and thus 'save all the erabarrassaient, a propo sition that I silfcerely hoped he would enteitain favorably. , Gen. Sherman seeing the President at my particu lar request, to urge this on the 13th that. pn Tuesday; the day Mr. Stan ton re-entered the office of the Secre tary of War, Gen Comstock, who .had carried my official letter, an notincing that with Mr. Stanton's re instatement- by the Senate T. had ceased tat be Secretary of War ad interim, and who saw the President open and read the communication, brought back to me, from the Presi dent, a message that he wanted to see me that day at the Cu binet meet ing, after - I had made known the fact that I ° was no longer Secretary of War ad interim. At this - meeting, after opening it as though I were a member of his Cabinet, when remind ed of the notification already given him, that I was no longer Secretary of War ad interim, the President gave a version of the conversation alluded to already. On this statement it was. asserted that in both conversa tions: I , had agreed to hold on to the office of Secretary of War until dis placed by the courts, or resign, so as to place the President where he would have been had I never accept ed the . office. ' After hearing the President through, I stated our con versation substantially 'as given in his letter.. I will add that my con versation before the Cabinet eni-° braced other Matters not pertinent here, and are therefore left out. I in' no wise admitted the correctness of the President's statement of our con versation, thotigh to soften the evi dent contradiction my statement gave, I said, alluding to our first conversa tion on the subject, the' President might have understood me the way he said, namely, that I had promised .to resign if I did not resist the rein statement. I made no such promise., I Ave the honor to , be, very resßect fully, your obedient servant, 11. S. GRAF?, General. /fr.iDQUABTEMS An= or MS nthED Symms, Wassmoros, D. C., \Jan. 24, 1868. His Ereelkney, ANDIUM Joassos, President of th e United States. Sta : I have the honor very re spectfully request in writing the or der which the President gave meyer bally on Sunday, the :10th inst., to disregard the orders of the Hon. E. M. Stanton, as Secretary of' War; un til I knew from the President himself that they were his orders. Mame the honor to be, very respectfilly, your obedient servant, t S. GeAs - r, General. helollowing is Ate indorsement on the above note : ." As: requested in this communion tiipn, Gen. Grant is instructed in -. riting not to obey any order from the War Department assumed to be issued by the direction of the Presi dent unless such order is known by the General commanding the . armies of the• United States to have been authorized by the Executive. ANDREU' JOHNSTA. 1 January 2.9, 4 868, 11.1.4TNEAMIIMIT OF‘ME UNITED STATES, 1-SelV ' GTON, D. C., Jan. 30, 1868. 11i,.3 tlr . e'elleney Asmna• Jormsoic, President, t-:.-w the United Males. = 1 5:14_14 : I have the honor;totacknow `.'l ate the return of tiny' note of the hn - .inst , with your indorsement ereon, " That I am not to obey any circler from the War Department as sumed to be issued by the direction of the President, unless such order is known by me to have b , :en author ized by the Executive," and to reply thereto to say that I am informed by the Secretary of War that he has not received from the Executive any or der or instructions limiting or im pairino• his authority to issue orders to the Army, as has heretofore been his practice under the law and cus toms of the Department. While his authority to the War Department is not countermanded. it will be satis factory evidence to me that my or ders issued from the War Depart ment, by direction of the Preaidett, are authorized by the Executive. I have the honor to be, very respect fully,your obedient servant, • . - T. S. GIANT, General. _ - Exaccrivs Memos, Jan. 31, 1868: Gg.vow.. :. • I have received your communication of the 28th inst., ro 4- newing your request of the 24th, that should repeat in a Written form my verbal instructions of the 19th inst., viz.: '" That you obey no order from the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, as Sec retary of\War, unless you .have in formation that it was issued by the President's direction." In ;submit trwhich' t g this request, with coni plied on the 29th inst., yon take oc casion to allude to recent publica tions in reference to the eircum tanms connected with the vacation hy yourself of the office of Secretary, tif War ad , interim, and with the View of correcting the' statements , • 1 1 vvhich you term'" gross. misrepresen- Cons, and give at length your own Collection of the facts tinder which, ithout the sanction of the Presi ent, from whom you had received sktd accepted the appointment, you Vielded the Department of War to he present incumbent As stated in our communication some time after 4citt had assumed the duties as Sec etary of War ad interim, we 'inter hanged views respecting the course hould be pp tied in the event of the ion-uirence by the Senate 'in the ttspension of Mr. Stanton., I sought at interview, calling, myself, at the :: 4= ec^.+"tea' ai'L:.~.'ri'C+u.eaq{tavws~?++~''~p"~+~'• =I IIIXIARDIA81:01/ DIIIIINCIATION TRAM ANT owns War Department. . My sole bidect in then banging the subject to your at tention was to' ascertain definitely what • would be your own action, should an attempt . be made, for his reatoration,to the War Department. That object was accomphshed, for the interview terminated with the distinct understanding, tbst if upon reflection you should prefer not to become a part,y to the controversy, or should conclude that it would be your duty to surrender the Depart ment to Mr. Stanton, upon .action in his favor , by the Senate, you were to return the office to me prior telt de cision by the Senate, in .order that if I desired to do so, I might designate some one to succeed you. It must have beemapparent to yon that had not this understanding been reached, it was my - purpose to relieve you from the further discharge of duties as Secretary of War ad interim, and to appoint some. other Person in that capacity.. Other conversations upo I the subject ensiled, all of them hav: ing, on my part, the same object, midi leading to the same conclusion as the first. It is not pecessary, however, to refer to any of them, except that , of Saturday, the 11th lust; mention ed in your communication, as it was then known that the Senate had 'pro ceeded in the ape. of,Mr. Stanton.— I was anxious to lea rn pat determi nation. After a protracted inter view, during which the provisions of the Tenure-of-Office bill were fully discussed, you said that as it had been agreed upon in our first confer ence, you would either return the 'office to my possession in time to en able me to appoint a successor before final action by the Senate upon Mr. Stanton's adepension,or would remain at its head awaiting &decision of the question by judicial proceedings. It was then understood that there would be a further conference on Monday, by which time I supposed you. would be prepared to inform me of your decision. You failed, hoirever, to , fulfil the engagement, and on Tuesday notified me in writing, of the recerPt. of ;your official notificap tion of the action of• the Senate in the case of Mr. Stanton,• and at the same time informed me that, accord ingthe act regulating the tenure of certain civil officers, your functions, as Secretary of War, ad interim, coated from the moment at receipt of notice. You thus, in disregard of the understanding between us, vacated the office without having given me notice of your intention to do so. It is but just, however, to say that, in yopt: communication, you claim that yol did inform me of your purpose, and thus fulfilled the promise made in our last preceding conversation on the subject. The fact that such a promise existed_is evidence of an ar rangement of the kind. I have men tioned. You had found in our first conference that the President was de• sirons of keeping Mr. Stanton out of office, whetl]er sustained in the sus pension or not. Yon knew what reasons had induced the President to ask from you a promise. 'You also knew that, in case :your views of du- ty did not accord with his own con iictions, it was his purpose to fill year place by- another appointment, even ignoring the existence of a positive understanding between us. The conclusions were,plainly deduce able from our various conversations. It is certain, however, that even,tinf , der these circumstances you did not offer to return the place to my, pos- , session, but, according to your own statement, placed yotirself in a posi tion where; could I have anticipated your action, I would have been com pelled to ask of you, as I was com pelled to ask ,of your predecessor in the War Department, a letter of re signation, on else to resort tb the more disagreeable expedient of stile pending you by the appointment of a successor. As stated in your letter, the nomination of` Gov. cox of Ohio, for the office of Secretary of War, was suggested to me. This appoint mentas Mr. Staaton's successor was urged in your name, and it was said that his selection would save farther eraharrassment. I did not think that in the selection of a Cabinet,pfficer I ilionld be trammeled by such-consid erations. I- was prepared to take the 'responsibility of deciding the question in accordance with my ideas of Constitutional duty, and having d4termined on scourge which' deem ed right and proper, was anxious to learn the stepsyou would take should the possession of the War Depart ment be demanded by Mr. Stanton. Iliad your action been' in conformity 1 1- ..ith the\ understanding between us, I lido net believe that the embarrass= imeirwould have attained its present j; --- qxtrtions, or that the probability 1:).f its repetition would have been so great. I know that , with a view to , an early termination of State affairs so detrimental to the public interests you voluntarily offered, both on Mon day, the 15th inst., and on the sac" ieeding Sunday, to call upon Mr. Stanton and urge upon him that the good of the service 'required his re signation. I confess that I consider ed your proposal as a sort of repara tion for the failure on youi. part to act in accordance with an under standing more than once repeated, which I. thought_ had received your full assent, and ender which you could have ruturned to me the tike which I had 'conferred wen ; 7yott, thus saving yourielf from embarrass ment, and leaving the responsibility 4 Where it properly belonged, with' the President I who is accountable for i the faithful execution ofthe -lair. . I ' hU. ve not yet been informed by you , hether, as twice, proposed .by your ' ' 1 4 4 m yo ad u e ha4- iiii calid effort uP lo n Mrititiuciii Stanton hlm i ; v luntarily to resign - faun the WIN Departnient. You conclude , . poll communication with . 'a reference to; our conversation at the meeting of the 'Cabinet held on Tuesday, the ti - 14th inst. In your account of what, then occurred ,you say that," after the President had given hisveraion'-df our preirions conversations, you sta ted them 'ircibistantially is . given in your letter, and that in no wise ad- . witted the correctness of his state. cent of them: though, to soften the evident oontrialiction my statement gave, I said, alluding to our first communication, on -the subject the President might have understood in the way -he said, - . viz.,. that I had promised to resign if I" did not resist the reinstatement triode no such promise." My recollection of what then trim- spired is diametrically the.reverse of your narration. In the presence of the Cabinet I asked'you, first, if in a conversation wlrieh took short ly after your appointment as Secreta ry of War, ad interim, you did not agree either to remain at the head of the War Department and abide any judicial proceedings that might fol; low tile. nomeoncurrence by the Sen. ate in Mr. Stanton's suspension, or should you wish not to become in volved in such a controversy to put rue in the same position with respect tothe office as-I occupied previous to `yOur appointment, by returning it to me in time to anticipate , such action by the Senate? This yon admitted. Second: I then, asked you if at the conference one preceding} Saturday I had not, to avoid misunderstanding, requested you to state what you in• tended to do ; and, fturther,if in reply to that inquiry you bad not referred to my former conversations, saying, that from them T underst6od your position, and that your action would be consistent with the understanding which had been reached? To these questions you also replied in the affir mative. Third : 1 next asked if, at the conclusion of our interview on, Saturday, it was not understood that we were to have another conference on Monday, before final action* the Senate on the case of Mr. Stanton? You replied that such was the under standing, but,that you did not sup: pose the Senate would act so soon ; that on Monday you had been en gaged in a conference with Gen. Sher man, and were occupied With "many little matters,"' and asked if Gen. Sherman had'not called on that day. What reelvancy Gen. Sherman's visit to me on Monday had with the pur pose for which you were to have called I am at a loss to perceive, as he certainly did not inform me wheth er you had- determined to retain pos session of the office, or to afford me an opportunity to appoint a successor in advance of any attempted rein statement of ,Mr. Stanton: This ac- count of what passed between . us at the Cabinet meeting on the 14th in stant widely_ differs from that con tained in your communication, for it shows that, instead of having "stated our conversations as given in the let ter," which has. made this reply nec essary, you. admitted that my recital of them was entirely accurate. Sin cerely, anxious, however, to be cor rect m my statement, I have to day read this narration of what occurred on the 15th inst. to the members of the Cabinet who were then present. They, without exception, agree in,its accuracy. It is only 'necessary to add that on Wednesday morning, the 15th, yon called On me in company' with Lieut.-Gen. Sherman. After some preliminary conversation you , remarked that an article in The Na tional bitelligencer of that., date did you much injustice. I replied that had not read( Theintelligeneer of that ninrning. / . You first told me that it was youte intention to urge Mr. Stan ton to resign his office. 'After you bad withdrawn, I carefully read the article of which you had spoken, and found that its statements of -the un derstandings between us were sub stantially correct. On the 17th I caused it to be read to four of the five members of the Cabinet who were present at our conference on the 14th, and they concurred in the general ac curacy of its statements respecting our conversation upon that occasion. In reply to your communication, I have deemed it proper, in order to, prevent further misunderstanding, to make the simple' recital of facts.— Very respectfully yours, ' • -'ANDIIIR JOHNSON. ' Gen. C. 8. Grant, Commanding United States Armies. linewaraammai Azar: at ma U. S. ' Wesarsozon, D. C., Feb. 3, 1868. 1 To hie Flecerkncy Am:ow* domcsas,/Presi dent of the United Rotes. - SLR : I have the honor to acknowl edge the receipt of your communica tion of the 31st tat, in answer to mine of the 28th ult. After a careful read. ing and comparison of it with the article in -The National lotelligencerof the .15th ill, the .article over the initials "JAB. S."-in The New York World of the 27th ult., purporting to be based - upon your statement and that of the members of the cabinet therein named, I find it only to be but a reiteration, only somewhat more in detail, of the many and pees misrep resentations contained in these era cles,and which my statement of facts set forth in my letter of the 28th was intended-to correct ; and here I reassert the =rectum of my state ments in that letter,anythiagin yours in reply to itto the co tra y notwith standing. I confess my rise that the Cabinet 'Officers re 4Fshould so greatly misapprgeml, the fectirin the matter of admissions alleged to have been made by me at the Cabinet Aneeting-oothe 14th tilt., all to suffer their names ,to be made, basis - of - the ch.:.ft in the newspaper arti cle referred.to, or agree to,the awn tact lalsio arm they. do, of Var . account.. of whit'. occurred it that Yoa know - UAL we parted. on, Saturday, the Ilth ult„, w ithout, - any Y promise on MY Part; ei th er ex viegnedoi imPlied, to the erect that Nwiiiitd bold out the office of Sem ta4 Of War aitriuter . Oi against the 'Leticia of the Senate; or, declining to Oa per 4.ittpiaiin . . 1 , in Advance!, El do o myself, would engender it to yon before •such action 'Was had, or that - I Would see you 'again, at any fixed.time, on the s subject. The.per -formance of the promises alleged to have been made by me would have involved a resistance 'of the laic!, and au inconsistency with the whole his tory of my connection with .the sus pension •of. Mr.,Stant9 From our i conversation and my bitten protest of August 1,1867, against the remo val of Mr., Stanton, you must have -known that ay greatest objection to his removal was the fear that some one would be appointed in his stead who would, by opposition to tho laws relating to -the restoration, of the Southern States to their proper rela tiontejthe Government,embarrass the 'armY in the Performance of the duties especially imposed upon it by the laws, and that it was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted , the appointment of Secretary o; War ad interim, and not for the purpose of enabling yen to get rid of Mr. Stan ton by my, withholding it from him in opposition: to the law, or, not doing so myself, surrender to oe who, as The statement and'-'''assqiiptions in your communicatiotiplainFi - indicate, was sought.; and it Was to avoid this I doubt, as well as to :relieve you from the personal-emberfassment in which Mr. Stanton's reinstatement would plebe. you that I urged ahie appoint ment of Gov. Cox, believing that it would be agreeable to yon and alio to Mr. Stanton, Satisfied as I was the good of thecountry,and not the office, the latter desired. On the 13th tllti-, me, in the presence of Gen. Sherman, I stated to you that 'I thought Mr. , Stanton_ would resign, 'but did - not say I wontdadvise hitti , tello so: On the 18th I did agree witlrGen. Sher man to go and advise; him a-that coarbe, and on the 19t1i Thad an Ili:" -terview alone with 3.. Stauton,which I led me to the conclusion' that any .vice to him of this kind would be useless, and so informed. Gen. Sher- I man. Befpre I consented to advise Mr. Stanton to resign, I understood ' 1 from' him, in a conversation on the subject, immediately after his rein statement, that it, was his opinion that the act of Congress entitled "An Act temporarily to supply vacanciei• in the Executive Department iu cer 'tali' cased," approved February 20, 1883, was repealed by subseetuent legislation, which materially:influen ced his action. -Previous to this.time I had _ .no- doubt that the jaw of 1803 was still•in force, and notwithstan ding iny action, a fall examination of the law leaves, a question in my mind whether it is or is not repealed. This being the case, I could not now ad vise hie resignation, lest the same danger I apprehended from his first removal might follow. The course you have understood I agreed to pur sue was in violation - of law, and that without orders fro'm you, whilethe course I will pursue; and, which I never doubted you fully understood, was in - accordance with law and not in disobedience to any orders of my superior. And now, Mr. President, where-thy honer as a soldier and in „tegrity as a man have been so vio lently assailed, pardonme for saying that I can but regard:this whole mat ter from beginning to end 'a; an at tempt to involve mein the re.sistance of law,- for'which you hesitated to as- Isume the responsibility, in order th'a - +' to destroy my character before the country. I am, in a measure, con: firmed in this conclusion by your re,- cent orders directing me to disel.4 orders from the Secretary of Waruty superior, and your subordinate, with out having countermanded'his-atithor ity, lam to disobey. With assurance, Mr. President, that nothing lesis than -a vindication of my personall honor and character could have induced this correspondence otemy part, I hare_ the • honor: to be, very respecttully, your obedient servant, U. S. GE..yr,,,General. HOW LORD Rows GREAT TELE- The London Guardian, speakin i g of the great telescope of the late Lord Rosse, tells bow it was made: "Lord Rome's. speculum is six feet in diam eter,and its focal distance—that is to say ! , the distle of the po l itic at which the reflected image is formed— is fifty three feet This necessitates a wooden tube of rather more than that length, and at least sevetiffet in diameter. Let the reakler figure the difficulty of suspending such a-tube heavily Weighted at one. extremity with four tons of metal cast into the shape of a mirror, • provided at the up per end with the , movable galleries for the observers,and the' whole capa ble of smooth though limited motion, and he will haVe- some notion , of the easiest part of the problem whieh Ito,W. Roane e had to solve. For by far , th most. difficult part, was the cast ing and polishing of the mirror itself. 1 These four tons of tin and copper min- gled in definite proportions, had to-be i cast into the shape of an exact pare,- boloid, and the whole sarfade raised afterwards to- a. faultless polish.- Three huge iron crucible's in three sep arate furnaces held these veer' masses of fusing metal, which, after three hours exposure to the heat, were lif ted out by huge cranes and poured in to the carefuly prepared mould, 'The sectacle of ' that casting must have been a sight fit only to be desCribed in the 'Song of the iielL'— ? It took pl, , at night . Above,—we quote from r. Weld's picturesque description n his a LTaciatiOna in Ire land'--sth sky crineded with stars seemed to look down anspiciortal3r on the work: below thelarnaces poured out: huge, columns of nearly ,. . mono chroniatic yellow Sillies; and the it. sited criteibles, diiiing theirM l through Vie air,wem*intai lightt, , producing on tourers of the caa ile F&t . cb-acciaeuts of, shade 10/8 4 P as might • almost tra*Ort fancy to =OM t. L ~~ '. NUMBER 38. 800 PE WAS MADE. the realms of - onetnurtment. And whea the cracibkai'discsharged their . - mottling contents, for several' min- ~ utak the afeld rolled in heavy'Araves.. , , : like those of beating quicksilver", and !broken . in a, aurf of pre on h thc,ii . sidas of the m ould.' , 1 ' '',- ,-, "This - however . Was only the Aral. ' process. - Foe sixteen weeks the . mod; ded metal was left in the annealing oven and when it was: viithdrawn it had still to, undergo.the delicate and 'hazardous operation of grinding and polishing. These were succeasfuly ef fected by a small steam , engine,imitit ing with the utmost nicety the light . tduch - of the human hand.:---the only in= strnment which was hitherto thought capable, of this work.. Not'even yet, bad the speculum ; passed " ell its dam gem.- The construction of **frame work which was to support it was a problem of no small difficulty. The . slightest strain:or flexure is - stifiloient, , to 'distort the Image of aster. It was , necessary to support the spedalum by a preasure which should tell with ex act equality on every portion of its . surface. Ani ingenious contrivance of a,syqtem of triangles, carrying at their angles eighty one brass bills car . pablo of revolving freely,supplies this want. 'On these balls the speculum- . reposes-with an absolute nniferraity ' of pressure,through the chsnges - of di rection communicate() to it by the Un iversal joint by which the whole mast; apparatus is connected with its-folvt dation in the earth- ."This is a brief sketch of the many difficulties which bad to be overcome and--the many problems which had to-, be solved in the construction -of the great -telescope. We' have enumera led them "in order that due weed of fame may be assigned to . the genius, preserveance, industry' and mnnifi- • °epee which triumphed over all, All this was done by Lord fosse hitaself-, The - po'werful and delicate machinery required for all - these nice and dfffa cult operations was conceived and matured in his brain. The workmen who executed- it ware trained by his - care and worked under his own eye. The whole vast expense was defray ed --_ from his own resources." A EVERILEVATF.I3 ANlMALS.—Associated with human remains belonging to what is now called the pre-historic Ike of the iworld, we find those of mammoths, mastodons, cave hints, bears - and hyena's, with many other -species that have since become ex- tinct. .The - earliest written records make no mention of eitlieie this race of mankind Of firs - 'associates; • but there is by no beans an inconsiderable _ list of; animals, well known in the middle ages, and indeed within• a few - hundred years past, but now entirely exterminated from off the face oft' the earth. Of rhatr.alia the most recent instance is the Rytina or Kamtspaht- ' kan sea cow, formerly abundant on Berhing's Island (west orthe Aleuti ans). it resembles very closely the manatee or sea cow of Florida, and . . . obtains a weight of over two. thou.. ' saud pounds. Of birds, the most no table instances are 'the three kinds inhabiting severally three of the Mat carene Islands (east - of Madagasca-). , Of these the best known was dodo, a bird the size and shape somewhat of - an albatross, although really a kind of ground pigeon. - Toe giant ostrich - of -Madagascar is probably another " instance of the same kind,. although it is by no means impossible that it may -yet'e - xist in the inaccessible purr; of the island: The bird judging from its egg, was probably; five or six times the size of. the African ostrich. - Theelatest instauce of actual eater rnieatien is believed to be that-of the _ great auk, a sea bird-the size of a goose, once extremely abundant-off the coast of. Newfoundland, .Nova Scotia etc., Where it Igerrenebnily called penguin.. o . Wing to',its inca pacity—of resulting from ,its ru- - dimentary fell.an easy vic tim to the attach elf the fisherman on the Newfouadqd. banks ; and at...the 'present 'day it is believed to have -gone out of existence, though known well to many n.)--r living., spec ine,n)3 are are, _awl a bird and the cgg in the - inustrn of dtlphia -Academy nfNstural - Science are arn-ng the trea.e.trers' oes. • its great collection - The last instani;e we shall mention rekte to the West India Islands of Martinique and Guadalouv. At the time of the Ite..overy by Cohnotets of the Weet Ind es, Lola fur some time af ei, t a. mien. d _ a n,un ded in will Aog , , which have sine entirely disippear. , l. • B-sidc-; tt.nse, two d:fferent epec'e , Macaws, fr_)ur kinds of parrots and an triorwuus frog have entirely extei- Minated. Of the cariund apeciea,of oxen, known- in tea earliest EK:riods of Euro pean history and now, er.erminated or represented"nay by a few. herds fully pre served by ruar_order, arid tLe d-,:iappcarance of, the- mink and ~t ier animals frre - Europe and • Baia, wtiiie still hying in North Ame rica, an intrebting paragraph might - be Tirade did or Limits permit. Ix the t - JVIL W—, in the Tree State,lived on of th3se.unfortu na,te lords of creation who had,in_not a very lung life, put on triairning for three departed..wives.. In due time a. Ciarth was iasugurat..-& - raistress of his:heart and 'a Attie.. When the new 'wife was. putting. tl4l,fs to rights, while cleaning up• the attic, sh earn? tterosss.l long pied of bard, and was a:;.‘ont laar.ehin,, , . it out of the window,whe.n little Sallie interposed,_ and said: !L0", , , ".don't! that is die. heatirrll_p_i,p I - dy - s - Ln - t hi.4-wicea on;and ants to save it V' N - evertheTt-ss, cu i t aerf. _ , 8awat...1.34 Youag'itAtutlets-his Coariu tial - anirs on the princ4pLesof '• 4 '..arge ar.d. WHAT ii..the ctlEttreaco betarean • a a glutton? One longs to nrid the other eats to) WHOM. (lift Rot iason -Ctusoe, and en the dater: island? A gnu: are, and s r.••) ruar.:ing ia>ln3 . Wily is .a fat raiolaVe . 3 (wog hut; lile'a i l - sur.day school. teacher? 'Becar„ , ..e 51t, knows so . tmarty hymns Wlsnou i 3 an op n fiJuutain, , witJio waters we no: t 3 b-3 43-t1e4.3 up. b.:: .IL-3p• running for the bezeilt of ail., 11C3B- 1 1 nature is 3) C la 3 titutE4 that all see arAindge better in the aft.t:zs of och e; Mtn thin' in their off. WE:la - is - a: heard a :a an with pre t ,ty ankles and whole st , : yesicr : co-napkin of int aidevralks or nra.idy cr,.ticarv? , Tag :vont& lady , wbri called. at a_ book store for 71 , 11:es 1133 dimpp.irlttd ta and it a tllr.te Law-boak. ~i