MIER ATIRIVAL
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EIATON'S,
17 Tr'=76'R'7t3 ISPLI.M7EJEIT.
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Lamm , LINZ N HANDKERCHIEFS;
OENT'S Cotlo
TINE LACE TRIMME D RANDKERL'HIEFS;
nzet-smcRED MOUS. in llTllat variety;
LADIES' COLLAR:4 AND CUFFS;
PINE LACE COLLARS;
REAL POINT BORDER;
POINT PENIOD sonars;
POINT APLIQUE BOSSES;
TaRZAD LACE BORNEO;
PANOT - LND lABTAN PLAID STOCKINGS.;
LAMS' AND MISSES' tfLOTit GLOVES:
LADIES' L IN EDISSE RID GLOYBS;
LIMILS' RID GL OVES—.aI I
ants FITIMBITING GOODS
MOTH AND RID OLOVZS;
C 01705, IsIiXOTO AND WOOL SOOKS;
AIRRUCO ARD NOuL CIUDERSHitcrs AND
_BEG U L & i WE U
IITS;
TIEDE TIES, 504 1 / 4 bs,, SUSPENDERS,
Wholesale and Retail.
F. H. EATON,
Sotto/nor to EATON, SIAORIIAt & 00.,
NO. 17 'sprit SYNICLI7
rou win IThd
At th.Ae., the inure PRINTS a cold former
ly at dil4a , at
sailicrat a 00. , 5, fa Market ct
;feu !!'it/rind
At ige. 111321L1:6713. formerly gde.. and et
250, fotolorlli dde., and et Mo., game u gold
formerly at 645. its
EtAIIKJEIR & CO.'S, 6! glazier et.
You Iff - in Find
In abundance, DE LAINES al CU., formerly
1730 , ni.
BASECER Ittarkt,t at.
rou Will Find
AU filadi of DRESS GOODS *imp to pro-
pazttoa, at
DARKER a 00.8, Slatkatat.
You Will Find
FLANNIMS at 1144 4 '0.. and good Twilled do
at st34c.; Barred ditto at a¢ 0., at
itiaißEll no . s;a3/11aket at,
You Wilt Find
ECALMCFRAL SKIRTS for Ladles mut hKbss•
es, $0 4lbeep as to •urprUe you. at
bABILE2I f 1 lUD.* 6$ Market •t.
rots Find
at.enitars at WI Ed Per War, Worth 5 10 .00,
and at Sto.oo. the I argtst. Era, cheap at 5:12,00,
and at $l2 xi, the largest and best, as good as
sae be bought at 016,00. at
BARILXIS St 00.'4 Eh Market at.
You Trill Find
Ssme Flay Thousand Dollars worth of
SILK S, of all MIMS, greatly reduced, at
EAR KEE & CU.'ll, 69 Market st.
.You TirtifFin d
CASHMERE LONG SHAWLS, at neetry
eae•hrlf farmer mites. WOOL LAND
SHAWLS redurea from Str,ro tair,sll, at
HerNIZES Sr (XL'S, a flisiSeL rt.
Xo u TV ili PI ta d
, .
CLOAKS of all !dads very cheap, and that
sou can have 0.6121 lhaao to colter at greatly
minced prtaa., at
BAJIKER b. CO.'S, 60 Idarket al.
7 - au UYR .Find
CLOAKINOS to great variety sad very
'heap, at
BASHES k 00.'3, 63 Market at,
rou IF4II Find
TWEEDS
OiSSISMIES. DADTMESS.
TWEEDS, DLELTOOrti, JEANS, and all
kleula u Dlea's sa4 Boys , wear muff Du
than formerly. at
BALWILER k CO '2, 44 market at.
COI TRY Ele CUAMTS
WILL - FIND BIRDIES
PJLE.WTT'OP ErEllirTiati.ra
3R.:"E" (arc:Dc.:).moiss
W. BARKER 8. CO,'S
. 110 .7(2411.11ET STRIEET.
de2;tt
W GOODS.
& CMIELISLE
80. 19 FMB BZBEBT.
ew Trimmings and Ornaments,
ead Gimps and Buttons
'eh Bonnet and Scarißibbons
sine Gilt and Pearl Belt Bnokles,
fel Silk Belting—a new lot.
1 1 . veins in Linen Handkerchiefs.
-al Lice Collars and Betts
'eedle Work.Edgingemd inserting
1. ~ brio and Hamburg Bands,
agio 'Ruffling and Cash Frillings
..d Thread and French Veils '
eriCan and Enalish Hosiery,
E over and Gauntlets—last dries
!pkvr; Wool and Knitting Yarms,
i •
• dies and Children' Underwear
lmoral Skirts- -new stiles
plea Skirts, French Corsets.
I '
.1, tlemen s Shirts. Collars Ties
limo and Silk Underwear
ems Kid Gloves—PH sizes.
striconeawrs tan DZISEES
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I !ad it to theiradoahtsgo to oat AO4 Wa
• a stcakbatita. - .
I tmcrtunt a. canritime.
U.-.}9 guru STSEM Mtibscrity pti
r W -00tID9 POK THE KOLIpAYS.
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or WOE - W".xre,
• Ims , coaspenzolts.l •
• 111WDZHLIES,L
BEMBIWO SOAttia;:'
:WOODEN HOODA2_-* .
—afraw.isolp - man; sowniCl. ao.
ALOOP 1.48. w So oonsm__
stars I .Nnzemseate.iww -
art EVIIIIY lrautsrve
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110BR1808A8Z s - nuasmarts
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1 DRY GOODS, TRIBTATINrS eke
NEW GOODS,
_TUST
,OPEIVETI At
WILLIAM SEBtIPLE'S,
Nos. 180 and 182 Federal St.,
ALLEGHENY CIT
AT 25 CENTS.]
One Case Polka Spot Alpaecas,
Double Width.
AT 37 1-2 1;1;I TS.
One Case of Printed Merinos.
AT noo,
Two fasts of French Merinos,
AT 25 CENTS,
Two Cases of Dark E4lalaes,
AT 18 3-4 CENTS,
Two Pales Fast Colorzd Prints.
AT 18 3-4 CENTS,
Two Bales of 13nbleachedlins.
GREY ELAN 1C1377c
wn trE BLANiEE9,
PLAIN FLA NNELS,
PLAID FLANNELS,
(limos ridor VETS,
ENAWLN LIALBIORA L SIEIR
1/001)8,
0015IFORTS
COVLRL IDS,
Ete., Leg., Eta.,
Together with a full and eotoplete wannest of
event/dog to tie Dry Goods
9 , I3OLES&LE DEA.LeItS are Invited to te
epees tale stool before making pureasees.
WM. SEMPLE,
Federal Street s above the Diamond,
iffACRUN, GLYDE & CO.,
Nos. 78 and 80 Market Street.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DEALERS /27
TRUINGS,NOTIONS & VARIETY GOODS
Respectfully call the attontlos of
WHOLESALE BUYERS
To nor LARD F. and VARIED STOCIE OF EV
ERYI'LI/NCI PERTAINING to WELL
TRIDIRING IlOtlofo
Our lir. EAGAN //I now In the Eant buying and
sicung burns all Om
NOVELTIE;3
Tkot are to be found. Oste alln will be to AELL
GOODS AS LOW AS ANY OF THE
EnSTERN JOBBERS. •
We een end dll do this se we HWY By TYE
OAhE Reel the SIAN EFAUTURRRA and
Rom FIRST HA ADS. Please eaS
and FSAW_INE ow HOODS
And Compare .?rices.
11,10.11181. GLYDE & CO.,
Nos. 78 and 80 Market Street
AT RETAIL
BALMORALS. BALMORAL'S.
We offer for sale n hoe or 'VERY IMMABLE
BALMORAL which are va r 7 cheap, aa
fellows:
One Hundred $4 00 Skirts for $3 00
One Hundred and Fifty $3 far 02 30
MACRUM, GLYDE & co.,
Nog. 78 and 80 Market Street
ZION
i
BEST
DELAINES
PRINTS
MUSLINS,
GOc for 37c,
50c " 33 c.
404 c ~ 314
40c " 245 c,
BATES & BELL, 1
21 FIFTH STREET. I
JOSZEII 131011,14. E CU.,
11AVE TUST OPENED
INIEW
Drove Trimmings. Cloak Ointments
Real Lace Go oda, New Style Belt
Buokleu, Beat Make Silk Belt
tugs, Head Ornaments, New
fleck Scarfs, Hamburg
Flounclugs,
Efe Linen adkerehlefs,
Balmoral • Skirts,
Breakfast. Shawls, In
fants' Knit-Hoods, Infants"
Zephyr Legglus, New Empress
Skirts: Gloms and Gauntlets, Win
terUndararear for Mar, LadtasandChtl.
dram, Zonotn and Alesandits lad
Gtioses, LadistAVldta Castor
Gloves. Tito above and
many other Goods In
.Groat Vartsty, at
WITOLESALE AND, BBPAIL
••• 108 SORB & CO.
• 17.117 111/14131Eir EITEL=
WZOLESALE *MILS VP SrATIVIL oaf
RIO. wneos..arasen 0411.11..DAT1D lIMANDLO ,
WILSON, OARR &
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Wholasala desam In FOZIGN AND DORM
TIO DRY G O ODS, No. lN Wood street, third
LtKo.agmbiessioadaiteii PitSennitt. dyL
IMIIIIIIMI
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1885
eFIVA zit ti/ timaki Onvi
Dail; [numb:3g 1. O. per ',norm
du. do" served Ls Cal./cl., 1..... u....• a u dean
Deily Evectfing Ss... per leer,
do. d sers et. by csrriern, le cents a weer. F, ecli ly, in 0.,
clubs 01 be per Fees.
to, singles styles slim do.
RATES OF ADVERTISING
CAASQUAII2-.6.TANDTPO NATTE4
~1 7 a a 1 7 a 47;9157
Oaa time
Two times:-.I 125: .... •... ... ,; 125
Three times.. ; I 75' ~.. ' ....
Four tlmes...l 2iu
1
One week ..... 2765175 0 1 25 75 170
75
Two leech...' . 6 Ti• 475 200 125 125
Three 9 eeks .' 110 475 4.75 2 06: 175
One montn...l 021 IS 50 400 2 251 2.0
Two month.. IS 60 800 oon 175 425
Three =withal 'l6 00 , 10 001 7 00, 4 GI 425
Six inonths...l 23 601 11 75 9 501 6 60' 12 00
Nine months I 04 00, 17 70 12 001 8 00, 17 to
One Year ;40 CO: 25 50, 16 00! 10 (V 25 00
Iteport - ot the Secretary of War.
We glee es fall an obetract of the Report of
the Secretary of War as our columns sell!
Permit Itottay.
Ird/1 DnP.tlaTel a.OT WASIIIMITON, CITY, Nor.
22d, 1865.-3/r. Presfilent—The milittry appro.
pristons by the last Coral - Era eitia(Mll3.4ll ho the
sum of five hundred and sixteen millions two
bu.,dred and forty Operand cur hundred and
thirty-ote dollars and severty cents. (5510 24 0..
181.70.) The tnilhary estimates for the next
floral year, after careful revision; amount to
thirtyobree millions fugal hundred and fourteen
ihnumud four hundred and slaty -660 dentin
and eighty-three centr, ( 3 3;814,46481 ) The
national military force on the fleet of May, 1805,
numbered one million &Ye hundred and sixteen
MED. It is proposed to reduce the military ea
tablishment to fifty thoneaud troops, and over
dal hundred thousand have already been mhs
tercel out of service. What has occasioned this
reduction of force and expenditure in the War
Departmens, It is the purpose or this report to
explain.
013? trial reports show that on tDe first°, March
IS6b. the rgeregate on, lona] military force of
all arms. otllc, re and men on, nine hundred and
sixty flee thuusuad d•o hundred aad ninety-ono.
to wit:
Available frrre otesent for dot•
On detached service in the different
LrKetircrsuaalt..,;; iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 1 :41.21
In 'general hospitals or on aid, leave at
Absent on furlough o• as prisoners of war ti,,ss
Absent without leave
-.. 10,883
Grand aggregate
This force wee Augmented on the first of May,
1505, by enllrtmenta to the bumper of one mil
lion tire hundred teed sixteen of ail arms, offi
cers and men (1,000,516).
nnt , tiornEl33 Pon ronmene IYLR.
The war appropriatlans at the last session of
Congress, an has been ranted, amounted to the
snot Of 6516,240,131 70. The estimates for the
'next gagal year, commencing Jane 80, 1866, are
r 33.814,461 SS.
The estimates aro based upon a standing
force of filly thousand men, to organized as to
admit of so Increase, without additional organ
izations, to 59,600 troops of all arms.
- 'lbis estimate has been made after conference
and careaul consideration, and is believed to be
adequate for anytnational exigency, If the coun
try should be blessed with pears. The reduc
tion of the national military force in its rapidity
and numbers, la without example, and If there
be any alarm in the public mini because this
reduction Is made while grave questions at
home and abroad are Unsettled, a brief consid
eration of the subject will shoe that there is no
manse for apprehenalon.
Thiforce to bo retained is small compared
with that which was organized to subdue the
rebellion. lint the only reasons demanding
greater force are—let, renewal of the hesurree
lien; 2d, a foreign war. For either or both
emergencies the national resources remain am
ple. The chief demands for war, as shown by
our experience, are :Ist, troops; 2d, arms and
ammunition; Sd, clothing; 4th, trausporta ton;
and 6th, subsistence supplies.
The troops diabauded were chiefly volunteers,
who wets to the field to uphold the system of
free government Established by their fathers,
and which they mean to bequeath to their chit
dren. Their tolls and sufferings, their marches,
ban les and victories, have not dlmialsned the
value e f that government to them; sn that say
new rebellion would enconeter eyed or' greater
fmce for its redaction, and tone can ever air lag
up whit such adv.:tee, a at the start, or be con
ducted with superior means, eblity, or prernect
of entrees. A foreign war we aid intensify the
natiotal feelmg, and theca tees, coca
wenid r Joke to =Lace their en or by rallying to
she rational flag. The ques•ten of toe in retell
armies et - tied be r...leed to aril Inearrte,:an or
rey,i Ir eas:rn ic. rt.e of re, the only maestian
relating to tree ps. Oa- ex peeler ce In Oats paint
is siert lecar t. When Leta army surrendered,
thousatds of reunite were pouring it, end men
were elethareca from tread:leg rt•pres and
I cm:testi:us In eve ry State. Oa several occasloas,
when troops were prom:rely needed to avert len
penttlee eizever, vigorous exertion brought them
Into the deed from remote States, with Int reffible
speed, Official reports shrew that after the dis
aster en the Peninsula. In 1802, over eighty
thousand troops were enlisted, omeattlead, armed,
tquift.ed and sent tato the field la has than a
month. Sixty thousand traps bare repeatedly
got, to the field within font week.. And ninny
thousand Matter , were sent to the aerates, (cm
the live Slams of Ohio, lodiana, tows
teed Wisconsin, within twenty dare.
When the rehellten coramencid, the canon
was a at: anger to war. Officers had llt.le exPm
rier ce, privates note, Bat the preecet veuera
tine of men la ties country arc now veteran sol
dier, For ILL battle, the march or the sedge
they are already trained. They are as much at
home iu the tented geld as la the farm h se.
the manufactory or the shop. NO time Is re
quired to train them; and the street or the reli
eved atd telegraph dortra tor_ the time real tried
to raise an army to the Lin ted States,
Seeped—As to mite and ammunitlie. Tao
diebanded armies mere allow d to take hone
their Brims at a ncmlesi p - tee, Rat is to;
Itkely o Satter on the wicket or scare borne
through the campaign of 1864 la] 1585. Tao
government remiss in its arsenals more than a
ot the best quality of arms and cqulp
tmeens. The artillery Co bands tacks th, de
partment for Its means of storage. Tae mane
facture of ammunition reiantrea materials for
which we have in some dogrtt, Cohn] Opan other
countries, hirsute they conid he had cheeper.
For this reason, and to guard against any mls
chance, three years' sleek of material far am •
munition hue already teen kept in atere, and Lim
se:telly or hand is ample for any tear that coo
ha waged artiest to by any ra-1
77,i,d. Clothing, trarst ottatioa and straits
Lennie. A iter seine= or eli , treboting amuse
freedmen cod re'rger oil dsertested or irregular
cle thing, the stock of Vl4.lhing and material la
tee quartermaettria derma in airlift:neat far may
ferrates thou may he railed Inter stile:ie. The
water me:nape rts, and rolitieg, stork. muties, wee
nies, and hor ses held by the g o, erninent were ad.
MOS te to the movement and supply of larg er
ere in lea time, than had Ilef,tororc here z e e,
in wee- Tee governmett has diapered or Is dia.
poring of this ixansirmtatine. but it romalas la
this coma try, and can acme:ter any exliteneyi
Army entoistenee Is derived tram the country
In which military operations are carried on, or
supplier] Iron other markets. Daring the war
this most vital branch of the eerviee never fail
ed. It answers to the demand, and is ever rea
dy to meet the national call.
It is plain, therefore, that the abundance of
one Meet? iOr war cantle. the coveroment of
the United Stetest to reduce the standing force to
• lower de Erre than any ocher nation. Unlesa
war be actually raging, the military force can be
brought within vary narrow limits. Ilewever
audeen the exigency calling for en cehlintlett of
military toner, It cam be promptly met. With
oar education, habits. and experience, rho net
tles, while 10 the palest of peace, Is prepared for
war.
ALLEGHENY,
By the hemia of the respective bureaus of the
War Department and their staffs the government
has been served with a Eel and adtellLy not oar
passed by their brethren In !he add_ To then
the honors and distinction of an admiring pub
lic have not been opened, but in their respective
vocations ihey have tolled with a devo•lan, rni-
Ay and tweets for whims they era entitled to
national :,,ra [nude.
C.lU6t9 CP Cart BeceEms,
Bre!dui the ago& cocceae vuochsaled to our
erupt, otbt r routes contributed to ov,rtbrJur the
lolhon. Among uhe chief of there may be
rt.rkoccd:
1. The steadfast adherence of the President to
rte measure of emancipating the slaves in the
rebel State. Slavery was avowed by the leaders
of the rebellion to be lts cons, r stone. By that
system millions of people, conetlFatieg nearly
the whole working popala.lon of the South,were
employed in producing supplies on the plants
lien, in the war kehops and manufactories, and
wherever labor was reqrrred, Ittlf onabarg the
white population to all Um rebel armhs. Too
hopes of freedom, kindled by the emattelpagon
proclamation, paralyzed tae industrial power of
the rebellion. Slaves seleed their chances to es.
cape, discontent and distrust were engendered,
the boons of the 'lase, and the fears of the mar
ter, stimulated by the , seneese of the Foleral
arms, shook each day more and more the fabric
built on btIIIIIAD slavery.
2. The resolute purpose of Commit to tnaln
tato the Federal Union at all hamrde, manifest
ed belts legielntlon, was an efficient canoe of
our success. Ample stipplietaappropriated for
the army and navy, revenue laws for supplying
the treasury, careful revision and amendment
of the laws for recruiting the army and enfore.
log the drift gave practiceldirectiou to the pa
trietic purpose of the people to malrdain if na
tional- eminence that shonld , afford protection
and respect by rtettrunof the Federal Salon.
• -8; Patriotic measures adapted by the Govern
ors.of OS loyal States, and the offfelent aid they
readeked the War Department In tilling up the
ranks.of the army, and furnishing meaner and
Mid to the pick and wohaded, largely contrib.
Iti=Ell
6171/ lIILITART FOROZS
rrn
motion of Mr. Anthony (Ii the Ben
rite prceterie.l to the election of standing cam
rti.Lcve fir the el 15100,
Tt.e ru,ta 7evintring the election of chairmen
f ct m rattlers by ballot were impended, and
tit,l:twirgwcro anconteed NI the Commit-
Foreign Relations—Mr. Sumner, Chairman;
Jiessrs. Doolittle, Marne. liandesson, Wads,
Johnson, Backalew.
Finante—Mr. Irmo:laden Chairman ; Messrs.
Shermaa„ Cowan, Van Winkle, Morgan, WU.
Lams, Gathrle.
Commerce—Mr. Chandler, Cbairtnna; - 31es , rs.
Morelli,Morgan. Howe, Foot, Lane, (Kansas.)
NcFmltb.
Manatee arcs--lir. Sprague, Chairman;
Messrs. Dixon, Pomeroy, 11l die, Wilgus.
Ariculiare— Mr. S crone, Chalrmaa; Messrs
Lane, (Knees.,) csicell, Cowan, Guthrie.
Military Afrairs and the
Chairman ; Messrs. Lace, (lad,) Howard, Nes
mith, Sorach a, Brown, Doolittle.
Naval Affairs—Mr. Grimes, Chairman:
Anthony, Will y, Ramsey, Crag's), Nye, lien.
dr.cks.
Judiciary—Mr. Trumbull, Chairman: Mt. - re.
Ilarrls, Clark, Johnson, IleadrLka, Poland,
Stewart.
Pos; offices and Post Roads—Mr, Dixon, Chair
loan: Messrs. Ramsey, Commas, BEL:Matas,,
Pomeroy, You Winkle. Anthony.
Public Lands—Mr. Pomeroy, Chairman
Messrs. liittwart, Cress ell, Hendricks, Wright,
Grimes, Harris.
Private Land naltns—Mr fl, rrls, Chairman
Messrs. Iloward, Poland, Kiddie, nussston.
Indian Affalrs—Mr. Dool , ttle, Chalrtnin:
Masan.. Lane (Kansas), T , umba!l, Clark, Nor
ton, Nesmith, Bucks/ea,
PCDEiDIIB-Mr. Lane (Ind.), Chairman
Dineen. Van Winkle, Foot, Wlltion,
Stockton.
' Revolutionary Clalme—Mr. Ramsey, Chair.
man: Alums's. Chandler, Wll on , Nesmith,
Wright.
Claims—Mr. Clark, Chairman: Messrs. Howe.
Anthony, Henderson, Williams, Norton, Darla.
District of Coltnbla—Mr.Morrlll, Chairman;
/I "irs, Wade, Willey, Sumner, Ilenderaon,
Patents and the Patent oMce-11r. Cowan,
Oh/shiner; Messrs. Lane, of Indiana; Poland,
Norton, Guthri e, Public Baldlnta and, Grounds—Mr. Pont,
Chairman; Messrs . Brown, Trumbull, Grimes,
Hendricks.
Territories—Ur. Wade, Chairman; Messrs.
Lane, of Emma; Yates, Norton, Nye, Origin s
Davis.
On the Pacific Railroad—Mr. Howard, Chair.
men! Meters , Sherman, Helga; Conners,
Bream, Yates, Omen, Ramer, Stewart.
To Audit - and Control the Contingent Expen.
sea of the Benate—Mr. Brown, Chairman; Messrs.
Foot. Sherman,
Engrossed 8111s—Mr. Wllley, Chairmanl
Messrs. Lane, or Steffan.; Sumner.-
Mlnesand MMlnn—lfe'Conness, Chairman;
Messrs. Stewart, Chandlii, Morgan, Crelwal,
armhole., (intrude.
tet A to the national prezervaticer. Or Lbws
na 1
I -strrea one of the most Important was the std TIRE VINCE OF THE PULPIY,
temirred by the Governors of Ohio, Indiana, II-
Heels, lowa_ %%swoosh; and Michigan, to rya ? Tb eakeeiyin _
opining of th • campaign of 14414. g Its Grounda and Fruits.
Ou the 21st lf A•eii, j 4,14, Governors 13enugh, SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CLIURCH Or
Morton. Yates Stone and h-tv•••, mode an offer PI TT53131710311. .
to Liu Presele t to the r.ll‘,ViDO otb.el :
111 . El V. tr. 0 novrtlill D D rkST.JR.
TIJ.: ~,,, e eee sh..a •1 in - •••• • •••• to: ''...,
, 11 . 1 . 1 , ,;
,Pell m, 01.0 .!.:2 Ar i Mcrdcc.l wrote th- , c
~,,..1...: ~...; ..... ..:--- :, • ' r'• --c- LIMO., 1,0 , rt.{ lttt., onto ell the Joys that
from ULM, 20. 3 fro-n Indmea. the same uln
ter from Ilea ,s, to OJO from 1,r,.. aud 5 1)00
t w h e: L e t l h i l s l ahoui ! ll edt•e2-.; rteheoffolohrti.l.ntgb
di:a:feet::
from WEeous ; the term of .erc;cl to I" rue be th nigh and far, to eatablish this ell:000g them
tethered daye; the Whole n=mbtr to be furnisu-
ed within me ty days; the troops to Ps armed,
.
month Max, and the fifteenth day of the same
equipped, and Irnoeported as other troops, but
no bounty to to paid, nor any credit on mu steely. As the days wherein the Jews :meted
craft, arid el, pending draft to go on until th e from their enemies, and the mouth which woe
~,,c,
State yenta wee, filled.
turned unto them front sorrow to joy, and from
After fell coesideretion and conference with monrnlrg unto a good day ; that the y atemed
the Lieutenant eleeeral e this offer wan accepted woke them dove of feasting and joy. and we-th
ee Prreleent L co.n. The State of Ohio or- leg portions one to another, and gifts to the
ganieee within our weeks, and placed lo the
I field, e. 5,601 o ere need men, below 6,646 troop s After a brief introduction and the en tonere
more than the fpnitted pools , Other Boyce then of acme of the morn coatenon bleaslue aof
ie.en able to mete the coattngeney, coatribated
wile a'areity all that could he rained. Divine Providence, the preacher proceeded to
Although experience had shown that troops
4 ,
c° l n . B Ste r ; of the special grounds of thanks
raised for a abort term were more erpenaire and g i e i eg,.
of less value than those raised for a longer pis- H . The manner l c w hi c h we should manifest
Hod, these troops did important Bonito° in the our gratitude.
eempaign '1 my supplie I garrisons and held aWe arc celled upon teed ay specially to
posts for which experienced troop., would have to thank o{lo, fir the
w ars of the "Br—for the
been re q uired, and th, se were relieved so as to seeersefel close of the war—for the essons of
join the annlea In the field. In several Inman- the war —t h e tLe results of the war.
ces the three months troops, at their own en. 1. F m the close of the war.
treaty, were sent to the trout and displayed The meet etupendoes war of modem% times
thew gallantry In the hardest battles of the cam- ban just been bri ughi to a close. Becht bun
palgn.
deed thousand 'solder's and nearly forty mensal:ld
4. '1 ho result of the residential election of Hamm; have been rellevee from the toils mid
1864 exerted an i mportant influence upon the dangers of bloody battle-ileitis and decks slip
war. Intercepts letters and depatchee be- pony with hum genet.° the bosom of their own
tween the rebel to showed that their hopes females nod th e n pleasant permute' of peace. We
of success rested greatly upon the presidential
hear no more of saeguleary battles, of burning
election ' If the trbibb party preealled, t he he
loathe, of the Luichery, In cold blood, of stud.
prosecution of the war until the national an
lendieg citizens and helpless prisoners of war.
tbority should bo restored appeared inevitable,
We bear no more of Fe; t fellow mawacres, of
and the rebel canoe desperate. Even on tee the horrors of Libby and the deeper honoree of
battle field the influence of the election was felt.
Andersonville. No more Pirated lathe from
The overwhelming voice of We people at the British porta to prey upon your commerce; 1:10
presidential election encouraged the hotel° ear
mere raids are made from British reloules to
leg of our own troops, and dismayed those Who barn your towns and murder your citizens, no
were fighting is a hopeless acmes
more fears that when you lie down at night yon
5, Thu faith of the people in the national Inc. will be wakes; by the war of hostile cannon, the
CC" '
al faith
by their support of th3 g ° Y - bursting of shells and the hunalag of your hone
ere aunt credit, Men contributed mach to the ea. The dark cloud of war has rolled away, and
auspicious recoil. While thousands upon thou-
lanes of brave men filled the glorious inn of peace sheds its blessed light
the ranks or the army, upon ow , whole land.
moiler,
of money were required for the treas.
9. Far tae itiorapful cloth of the war.
ury. These were tarnished by the people, who p oem] . ie , teee.meeney precio,, h ew , W e
advanced their money on government accurldea, njolee In it, emit In it, bless God for it. But
and freely staked their fortunes for the national it peace had been purchased by the sacrifice of
defence.
principle, by the division of oar country, by the
Looking to the ceases that have aecompllthed distraction of our government, how remotes
the eatim of deliverance, there seems no room would have been the cost ! The war has eest us
heneefcrth to doubt the stability of the Federal Much. Nearly three thousand millions of dol.
Union. These causes are permanent, and meat lam, quite three bunared and twenty•flut thou
always have on active existence. The majesty sand precious lives, and wounds, and matila
of teeth:nal power has been exhibited in the Goes, and broken heelth. agony and tears, and
coinage and faith of our eltieenee and the ign°' demisted homes and sufferings to widows and
alley of rebellion in witnessed by the hopelent orpbana which tto arithmerie can compute. Bat
end of the peat rebellion,
our victory!' worth all It cur. This day we
EDWIN 51, EiTiktiTON. Secretary of War.
rejoice oser our country undivided and oar goy
,
ecstasy -a--
ernment unharmed, We were never more firm
ly convlnrea of anything than we are that if we
nary a had nottucceeded In this war It would have
he Ist been the eaddeat day for this country—South as
l Nova
well as North—the saddest day for popular le
atitutloes, and for all the sufferleg and sung
-131-i g peoples of the whole world, that ever cast
• ....—•
Its deep and ominous shadows on human
bled,
Pinnaces ol Pelansylvarda.
The fol.:owing is a stuumnry of the receipts at
the State Tanury Iron the let day of DaeeM
her, 1864, to the SOth day of November, 1883:
I. ande---- --- ..... ----. $32,071 17
Auction comealnions--- ..—..... 17,018 73
Auction drake ..... .--...-- 121,219 It
Tax oa bank dividends—.--. ..... _.. 903,911 19
--
Tax on corporatioc stocks.— 1,277,771 13
Tax on real and personal mtate.—.... 1,939,206 to
Tax on loans-- ---1113,50 r s7
---....
' Talon net earnings or intorno ... 141,077 24
Tax on enrollment al laws —.... • 29923 co
Tax nu surph • fun d s of banks....-- 3,917 M
Tax or tonnage 137,993 90
Commutation tonnage, per act of Foy .
7, /601 330010 00
ro
Tax on bkers arm prlyme banker s ... 40,741 46
Tax on writs, wills, deeds, as 71,407 79
Tex Oa certain offlas 11,419 06
Collateral inaerltenta too ..... ' 391 ,231 94
7 event licenses —..... —... 249,615 19
Rt tabor. , deensea -- 333 819 le
: ample licenses 103 oo
Theatre , Deus said menagerie licenses 2331 ro
Billierd room and tea .pin alley Licenses 3,981 79
noire boon, beer.house and reels,,.
rant llcente• 04,76.5 79 '
Prec!ers'.llecosei . 2,011 al
Broker. , ileensr• .-----,,.... 3,417 23
Patent medicine licenaes 1, 44..• Ti
Distillery and brewery licenses 3._....., D 663 03
Slillete tad WI 23
7,16111, tax—.......—_— 27 14
Poreign insurer re 'groan ---.--. 119,131 N
Premiums on charters 79,73 i 63
Pamphkt lima-- ---... 3 / 1 le
Swig.s of public ino,3crty 919 77
Premiums on leans...--._ 74,631 31
11 , cheats 1,017 44
.... ...
Dividends on moire storks . 80 CO
Free bank tag system
Pc on B. R. Co. bear, Nu. 8, tedottr.td. 1 0 0,033 00
Atenord lotert at. 13 331 RI
Refunded case . .... — 7l
A Lnbuty fur I len of way ....._.... 10033 00
"Thee cud fulletteree 0.093 ro
Pre. c I tar public otilcria. 7,019/ 09
t 'cars cf cbtr clezce. ...; .......... ...... .. 330 00
Irt II I-. T:e.uoty Nov. Igth,
IL L 5,
...... 113
Dept t 41°,0) Op
19,232.1
6141 - 11223, of ;Le Ns LW., a: Cat fits
cO3, re 60
c.,
ore from the Ist day of December, Po:I. to the
.wat day of November, , l!Vl , 3, both claya :nela
[lee •
E. p• ran of Onvernment.......... 1216,272 St
Itllltep expealca, ordmary. 1,01.3 87
31111 a:y rxpeanea, per act .sp,tl la M 2, 42,12-3
311.1taa y "pante., per set 'total 23, '6l 241 103 31
folly:au expense; per act .March 17, 11 5,,,0 to
ll oltary expense., par met May 4. '64_. at 731 10
tlilsty expanse., per art Attg ID, '64. 200 $0
.311111 my amanita, pet act Kay 6.'61. 41,737 ID
Ml:ttalcp r o panne, per ad Ans. 22, '64. 621 72
MLitt/try tot rain, per act Aug. 21. 'GI. 11.283 43
b111114.7y to engem, per act Aug. 23, 'at. 6,213 73
/baiter expenlea, per ant Web 22, •17, 24,560 74
11111:tary topcoat; per not .3I'M 23, 'O. 644 00
Yenalros and 61,6111131 n 6,06121
Chat It abl, Institutions....... 771,1113 25
Pena.* blate &animal . ..o Sowell,— • 2.010 00
Folmar,' High School of Fennla ---. 17,326 73
Caste Normal 15 OW 03
SChOol Dealgo for 3Vemea ...... 4,641 oo
Common school, 4.n631
21
CoMmtnalenm a of oballlng Fund, el,
Loon., a to, redeemed $1,902,767 03
Otkor payment. -...- 1.1375 00
1.304.312 61
70142231 on loan.
_1.341.693 07
posnrauc credit ara......._. ............. 1,162 61
Nalaspea nad oil ..elrl2l/ ... .. .... . .._ 0,241 76
ba217622: la N• 301 ral7a 117 163.1 ... _ .. al 13
Net. Grmee , y A440‘ , 14.04 43 4/13 obarg. 11,13172 00
b 21,2 y L9l/1 euouty 11021, 31.42 140, .. 1;
3 3 41
Spi.,4 euram.aaloL a.a ._. 733 03
41.10 I.:brary 0 611. 06
P.1:216 bUildt4.33 ar.1.1 arnuotla ... ...... .. 11.333 63
Exteustr oof t ~ ... t
... ......611244 - . 6.1,1V3 31
Houle@ t I tieln_ . _ MOO P 11$
Perdtratiatlca...... ....... _...._ 41,736 00
3:628 311$ 77
Dee 060313 63 Iterr. 177 12
Vountel 'OO6 ard tcamla2loo.___.. . 100 00
Alereautlle appral.r....._ 153 73
it ILICOCI2IOIII to 130 4741•11 i utina...... . I,eas 6.$
2, Isvallaacoua 16,163 44
Total
Calance la the rea•ury Nov. 3.4. 1816,
•eallab in 7l l lll4 14
1' , 1 , 11 , 11114,114‘,14 unavailable. al'Al4
•
FU ril.n of Strutling Committee..
3. For the lessons of the war:
This war has been one of the great
teachers of the Century. It has taught
the South—taught It that beeession cannel be
effected by the sword; that an attempt to found
an empire whale coratratone Is human boa.
dm., doeittoemed. the favareaf stun and mere
dial God; that Mastery may be destroyed by mil
limy powers that war was not the way to redress
teal: wrreeme, II they had any wrongs; that bra.
tat threats aed brutal blows are out the mesas to
see ere favors, or even righti from a pewerfel
pee pie.
It has taught foreign nations macy valtnele,
beet moat unpalatable leesons.. The monarchs
r: Ad mot/gel:lan of the old world knew teeny
What they would COl knell) four yearn nee—
the: a republic where citizens are Patelligerat
ltd moral is the etreegest goverement in the
gelid; that our eorernemet Is not a tops of sled
tor our perple a rude and lawless mob; that In
the miens of war we could cougars our elce
te es witnont a Jar, and that even the Ceder
Matisteate, who was the Idol of the people. and
the weeder and admit/aloe of the world, coal I
be struck down by the hand of an assassin and
yet everything rescreen es gamily and as safely
as though It hal been the humblest menu la
the land who had been elan.
It bee taught ,s many lessor* We have
learned to valve more highly than ever our in
satetlevs, became we have discovered they are
test I Mel, nt to time of wet as In time of pease.
We have teethed that when oceaelog reve re ,
it that a enilllCre or 111 ere Of Mee may be called
in their fields and reel:seeps end conrartad
Into ineltelble troops, and when the em ergeney
is over they can Self the umform of their gan
try end retein to peamfal pa/sta./a wild:tont any
danger statism to our free !teeth:en!.
4 Fe, the leen:is of the wear.
The se met tacos hot ..r, eon en. atlul , to
bat to tut one. and ICC very briefly. Thurman
meeifest and, to eves v way, the moat Important
resells or the war le use dertretetloa of Maven
F,tm elmterer print you view .t, this to see of
the Trost motet:toes ciente of theme Cruse.
F one tuilleder of people delivered irons human
tnecage 1 An leetthuthen, the latrodeetien of
welch seas restated by all the powers the people
peaScsbed la their colleen! X.ata; which wan
teetered by :be wises:a-1 best men who (seeded
our covernment; and the at empt to ectead
which and !recce It forever on the Col:M
-iry hem drenched the land with
hl-ode Ins been utterly ow ut away. re-
Joke that it to rem nets, whilst I regret tha t It
,
was necessary to do It by the violence of or.
1 know that In so a upendose a change t ere
meat be great suffering. Many meat petish.
To sr altitudes freedom will be nothing but free
dom to dn. There can be no esre - tiel advance
without tears and agony and blood. A whol
gencretieu melted an - ,y le the passage of the
Jews from Egypt to Canaan—every atop of the
way of the Homan Empire from Paganism. to
Chrlatlenity was marked by the eras of martyr
dom and the settees of the victims In the the s.
tree--a pure church and a free S ate were plait
ed en these shore, amid frosts and famines,
amid Ludlam massacre, nod British nppresilone,
Whirl. drenched the virgin soil with blood and
built elates for the dead before It could boast of
cities for the living. And ho It will be now I
These I reg. °emcee.] children of Afri, a must
peas threuel much te 11/elation to 3 'higher civil
1.311...11, but it will be to a babes chit casino
God w ill befriend these. Tels nation will yet
do them jostler. They neseree mute, at oar
haeda. They here tolled for us. They have eu
riethed our country, They abstainel tram vio
l- are during the war. Th -y took op orma in
our defence. They to great numbers, Lad down
their hems to preamvo our Government. They
befriended them when man of thole Own
rote were hunting teen; with blood -teemed,.
Ow f kflpell theta to esrap.:, Is d them, fel them,
!woad them when rice, itepeellel their owe
ete, re r the coke of or sees ants brothers.
Their deatinles are !inked with our*, asl WC,
e.t.a uplift them or god will frown upon no
And It will he done. Atli when It It d me—
lte., the whole youth is rns"c to ill essem by
neer requited toil; whin the last venters of
11l en;u • f slare-y is removed from the velvet
ar wen ae List Meeks: when that wheels S tulle
eth ce u try Is filled with as le.destri am
intelli, ent, religious popul aloe, aid when great
cities adieu the banks of Leer rivers, and glair
Lm leers are crowded with enerehrentsnan, teed the
p-ople en-lobed as no other pe ply eon be, by
Lim Ineslupble products of their sell, there Is
nut a man to this whole notion who will net re-
Joleethat the way was prepared for this pros
perity by the abolition of slavery.
11. I cannot now detain too to speak at
length at the manner In which we oho 11.1 mo n •
Ife4 our gretende to God for these great Met
tles. In a word, let It be
1. By loving More than eyer our country---ear
es lee, ;emit. y— Soutb as well es Nor.h. Lot as
lay as Wt all bitterly m a- .1 cultlyate the kind
]: cat Iceliugs tewerds those who were recently
In arms against us.
2. By loving even more ord, oily than before,
the Institutions of our country. X,ver did they
appear to precious, never were they so streeg,
ao nettle, as since this tier/ ordeal.
3. By respecting our living, and cherishing
the memory of deportee: berate. What a debt
do we owe them! Teach your elleiren to bow
with respect to those who live, and to bring
flowem and strew them on the graves of throe
who are deed—from that noble man who was
stricken down from the highest place la tee no.
eon by the naenfaln's lined, to the humblest pri
vate that trod the bloody field, or the humblest
sneer that trod the bloody deck.
4. Finally, let us manifest our gratltede to
God, the giver of ell these and all other bless
legs we Cujoy, by unfeigned repentenee of our
sine and a hearty obedience of all We commend
meals. What do our daye o' thanksgiving, our
songs of praise, our farms et worebip amount to
If there Is no fear of God.before oar eyes 1 The
The beet eridernee woman give that we ore thank
ful for the precious blesetega ho has bettewed
epee no, Is to reform our Ines, to lay aside
everything that is offnere to Hint, and to ems
secrete ourselves freely and folly to His carries.
Aa this may be said to he the day of your coma•
le y!e regeneration, merit be the day of your to.
generation. Aed as our country will now, after
baying been purged of much that stained her,
and rendered miser by a terrible ordeal of gaffer
leg, enter upon a new career of usefulness, pros.
peaty and Wordy, tes may you, cleansed from
emu sine by the blood of Christ, and made vela°
Unto /41762°n by HIS Inroad Spirit, enter upon
a new caner of clarity, of filth, and of holy
abedlenee. Amen,
$l,ll - 1.1,U1 63
1.4.21U,9
IZMIE
ft 414,700 14
83,73,1,321 Id
_42 203 23 an
BEAVER STREET M. D. CLIERCH, •LLE,
6IIENr.
nirr. J. A. SWAXIIT, PASTOR.
Text : "fit& not thou, what Is the cause that
the former days wore better than these ? for
thou dolt Dot inquire:wisely coneentiv
Ecclesiastics T: 10.
In oar days of thanksgivings we aced to
dwell particularly on the extent of our territo
ry, hee internal communication ' external eors
merce, the immense amplitude al oar physical
r antecu, our pubic wort v., oarrincreveing pop- t 4 Each &ate, before Rs re-admission, =Las,
eiLitiot , our constantly eciargi. g prc.s,serdy, g* in elide:ye that a majmlty of itt Inhabitants
uter.sc ,eo's, our wholesome fobs or rel.gioa, I are I, psi Mt stns.
our cernblna• ton of Men la one unbroken com- I The states lately in rebellion must be treated
=netts'. and O'er natural position among the as conquered provinces. They forfeited ail the
nations. In all these ways we have had oar rights of states and should not at present be al
our t °neat boast.
lOwett to take part in the matter of governing
Bet sere there the bet ter days? Perhaps not. until they give unmistakeable evidence of their
v We were rejoicing over a v Itsano. Theee vas loyalty. They are out of the Union in tact,
^'l,• - '''•••• to th , .9 ^nth •••• - i-t, std l•eg elle. , ' thcegh they •=e; be l=it in. LITT. They tare
I
i.radi. ng poiscm Into the very v.tais or been wisely treated as terrnories by both
not cotemmett :ft had Wasessed nareasonahle Preddent Licrein and jobeson. Both bare
poiltaid loner In the Melt knewa th•ce has cppainted tellithry or provieloual governess over
vote; It bad demanded and received a law to them. Prezidept Johnson has sent :instructions
make picot le in other parts of the country catch to these elates teggined them to repudiate the
Its soul Invested properly whetitounlng oft ;It rebel debt end ratify the constittatlonal amend
had asked for a line of limit, givitg more than meet tbollshing alsrerf. He sold to -Major
half of the Welted States for the =tension 01 Stuarts , ' 'better to let them reco. aurae% them
slavery., and that win done; afterwards, it asked selves, Ice if they go wrana the power is In our
for the removal of that line, giving fon it 0 rY4 to e.t.a hands and we can check them at any stage."
alarery evert where, and that was done ,• Renal- All going to chew plainly that they are out of
ly d• dared that slaves, should he extended Into the Tinton as states, for they went out through
free terettcry, ate that by the action of the ad• their legislatures or convections and If notout,
,noiliy. or teat the Unime should be broken up If , they were m ver In.
the MI 1' ority did not thus have things their:own G. They must he required to adorer al! the
..Y. We did ant see all this in other days. Eengreuloael legislation had daring the pro.
Bit at last the Son h, In order to extend and efels of the rebellion, Constitutional Amend
peep. tnate slavery, restyled the general govern- meta' sad all.
meet, and catered Into thorough Mtalttll es for 7 Theymnint come In through Congreas. Not
war, They eel, our property, and fired on our •t their own dictation, nor on their own terms,
men. We Raw t e volcanic tree burnt forth. unless these are in accordance with the Constl-
We huo - w now here the slumbering emberz I UtiOZI and lawa. I
are, and by the tp of God we will pat oat the fl. Reconstruction must be effected on the
last spark of tire and bear our children shout, principle that all the Inhabitants of tltls great
"1 hr volcano!. xtlrict."
Ploy:dente it . pine us to work ant the. sea _ bce'ultantpryertolarel
teal li , int la nor eutent to which all cstiona count of their col, and not on account of
ore wailing, na ely, equably of conditions. tleir interi‘ence The Intelligent colored mien
e g uirr ual a b ge efom ltu th t e e l p o w w. ple T v h ot e e re on mn ac s_t
Men may resist lif they will, but ; It will come ahou d rot be prohibited from voting, If the Ilk
1,
ay 1.0 I Cly 1111 the rising of to-mot row's sun. toraut ls ailOWedl.3 vote. The Cal-
Vr6 thou k God to-day ( or victoria which, reed peop'c Whit
eman tke South have proved to ba our
reach ag their long strong arms ti,,o g h ee,,.. teat ffiencle is the dark day of our calamities.
for Shall we reward our enemies by reenamjtbing
turles to come, have shaped oar destiny
that time. Thin' unity of the country, we them Into the talon and rector:nc thin, to their
trust, is forever secured. t•t Mr oyes have seen rivilege., and punish cg friends by
the glory of the earning of the Lord." We have deprivi n g g them of the right of elective fran
a reinterpreted and re-•iraled Declaration of chisel It they were fit to march with our Rohl-
Indeptuflehee, We have been ble,:sed with a lure and brave the storms of war with them,
heroism tunurpei in hiatory, and have most they may certniuly be allowed to vote with
glorous trophies on by valor. Our full hands them.
must now deal on blessings to the needy. The
CI ,
right of suffrage ought to be extended to color
ed men With only such limitations as are Im
posed on other citizens, because, us men, they
ongbt to have a political power equal to their
own protection, because, all the political power
which we unjustly withhold from them will be
most Inparl wily wielded by the late armed
traitors in this country.
We offer all our thanksgivings with a chas
tened mind. We have been bereaved. Bat la
the micst of our to a we thank God for the
heroism displayed. And now, the sacred dust,
in four hundred thousand graves shall speak to
ua la a voice we can never refuse to hear, and
inspire us with perennial patriotism.
Notional Recoristrvellon.
FIRST REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN
CII URCH. PITTSBURGH:
REY. JOUR D 0001.48, D. D., PASTOR.
- •
Ecclesiastes, S S. A time to break, down and
a time to build np,.
There la a season and a time for everything
under heaven, except to commit sin and perpe
trate wrong.
I. There tea time to break doom. Very few In•
dlvldnals, temßlee , comm.:snake, churches and
nations but have their times of breaking down.
Many of them, owing to their Impezdtermi and
folly, are never built op again.
Quiet is the greet breaker: Micah 2. 13.
• breaker Is come up bet: re them; they have
token up and pulsed through the gate, and are
sone out by it, and their king shall pass before
them, and the Lord en the bead of them. In
Lis death be broke down the partition that tem.
rated between Jew and Gentiles—vauguished
ever, enemy—spolled princiPalltlea and powers
and made a show of them openly, triumphing
gloriously In hit cross. When ho arose from the
dead he snapped in sunder the cords of death and
bars'. the ter, m. ale of the lamb. Through the in.
etramec taller of thegcapelmialatry whit:t he efl•
taslislied, he soon broke down Judaism and ;chi
lesephte pride, and went forth Into the Gentile
world conquering and to conquer- Everywhere
Le I tilled down Woe:holds and erected, is It
v ore, his own gloriona kingdom en the ruins.
Fy the tower of hie omnipotent grace he breeke
the sinters hard and etoty heart la converaloo,
and then build, him up in holiness and faith.
Ito st ill yet brae§ down every anti christian aye
tem, annihilate every spiritual rebellion, dash
the nations of the earth to-y.ether as a poet is
vess,l, sca.ter,thcm like cball. consume Ileem Ike
the bay, and, upon their moral ruins, roar a
cew and beautiful kingdom wherele shall dwell
holiness, ristanownma and peace.
The speaker treated the text with peculiar ref
erence; to the present condition :of oar nation.
There may be allusion in the text an the break
leg down of J.russlese by 'Nebuchadnezzar, and
the rebnildll g. in tee days of Zeruustb.l and
NcErml:l - .
Many age emirs and Instrumentalities have
conspired to destroy the velem:ll,y of the Us I.
ted S'a'es. er erneratfd the fePoWieg
I. 57.reery.—Tt I- is the first great cense In
the eiem , mberme, t of the nation. The two
erleepas—Liberty and Slavory—whieh were
planted crimes; el ret oto ae fele ly a: Pi ym
reek and Jamestown, Ta., early began to ex
kohl: their Wait. not-egotism- This ant 3433 ism
grew will their growth cool snreegthened with
their rtrength. 11,eir bitter opposition to each
other le seen In the whole of the slarery agita
tion. It was so strong and drtermlucd that
nothing could allay It. It i.e sees la the Jeff ,
sonian ordinance of 1784, and Rest of the last,
Continental Coneress to 1737 ; the comororno
see of IF2O and road ; the repeal of the kroner
In 1851, and the Dred Sat: decision of 1537,
and the discusaleue Which accompanied them,
and dowrd from them.
3. The doctrl, e of States' rights or Bolles' soy
ereignty bras another powerful agency in break
ing down the Union. Almost every wrong
that has been perpetrated by the South has been
perils mated ender the name of States' Rights.
There woo ouch a thiag uoder the old Articles
of Confederation, which wore made • barmen the
SZaw," and which declared that "each State
retains Its sovereignty." But each a compact
could never wort harmoniously, prosperously
or ter the pull .• welfare. Rene, a canyon lon
leas called to "amend the ar. Mee." This con r-n
-tion framed the present Constitution, and made
It a compact between the people and not be
tween the States. The Government of the
United States—the (ieueral Government—can
alone be rover, lee and supreme. Berate-re new
States can only be admitted into the Union by
Curium-a; "the citizens of each State shall be enti
tled leo all privileges and I 312111111111e3 ore then, in
tile 6,1 arat statee,” and to Congress it behave
to ••est•toise a uoliona rules( natoraligation "
Besides, it is d els re I that the constitution and
t e I swelmade ic'paranatree thereof, and at I res.
the rattle warder the al:shortly of the Vatted
Etatt a. ..shall be the supreme le e of the land."
This has Leen dem roaterted at the point,of the
bayonet
3. Tre third agency need to break down the
nation was Re'ellion. Slavery propitan Team
and States' tiorerelgoey guilty calmeneted In
seressiou and armed rob ill in. tin hod aires ty
about that the hand of Gad was visible from
the ivatienration to the eloe or the rebel:ha,
and he would not now retrace it.
These are ell great evils, and it Is a matter of
r few d thanksi.lvinz co Gal that they have
all brre removed. It Is a mover of deep geati
rade rhea peace ore reigns oenienan tiy where
er., raged furionely twelve months e-i. rue
e , tteutul heed of a li - oral prov.deste Cts pound
out Lemmings in rich alniadancr. Trade, e out -
toterce nod memumetuteng interes's are prosper
ous. And It la a matter or thankagivinZ, too,
that one wing of our great political taboe Is
ha ken down, and La now In ruins. That the
flag 01 the Coin wares over sooty senate inch
of territory claimed by the United Btates—:hat
tie Federal arms heve been everywhere Waco
itheat—the heavy hardens have been undone—
every yoke has been broken—the oppressed are
tree and the nation Is disenthralled and re%rea
crated. lie coned not close this part of his sub
ject without paying a tribe e to the departed
heroes who shed their blood and sacrificed their
lives for their betorei toed. and expresssing a
a word of sympathy for these whore love I once
nave fellen 00,0 the gory hatile field.
11. Torn Brio Merl re Toon. The war
ever. Peace 'miler upon us. Bat the down of
peace has brought ita difileultica with tt. The
work of reconatroctlon Is not an easy one. The
venerable Franklin said in the Convention
which frames] the Constitution, "except the
Lord build the house, they labs In vain that
I build IL" and every chrtatlan, loyal heart re
echoes the same sentiment to-day. da In the
reconstrveted temple of old, "the glory of the
latter house shall be treater than of the former,"
because it will be o temple entirely consecrated
to freedom, and slavery shall not lied an foothold
in a bilnie slche. Thou shalt be called Hcphzt
bah and thy land Beulah; for the Lord delight
ed; in thee, .d thy land shall be married. In
the work of reconstruction we requires wise and
sagacious architect. We must count the
cost. Get good workmen and choose the best
materials. In President Johnson he thought
we Lad a competent architect, although be did
not like all ids pleas and specifications. Untold
millions will be the oost of rebuilding on the
principle of thatea' sovereignty, or the recap!.
lion of slavery in any way.. The present Con
gress was composed of workmen adequate to
the task of reconstructing the 110104 and
up the waste places. Hate we the „materials I
He thought not yet. The time for commencing
the work in his humble opinionku not arrived. •
The smoke of battle Is not elwittd away mall
citnUy. The ruins of the Southern wing have
not yet been removed. When he was in Rich
mond a short time since he round the. waif
rebellion as proud and defiant as qv.. God ' s
time for building ny,'ls - when the people give
sign of repentance and not till then. It, will
not be safe for tis to build sooner, er on a diLfer
mot principle" thus th a t as which the Lord
builds. -•
Wow ere we to rebuild! What ehall be the
termicit mons 'traction?
L Ito supremacy of to general government
Ettest be declared and maintained.
0. Traitors must hare merited and condign
'pi:Millman& meted out to them. Treason must
be made co Infamous that no trait or will ever
dare to miss hand or rolee again.
3. Than moat be a rceoinition of our sacred
obllgaiol3 td discharge thenatmnal debt. There
roust be a repudiation of the rebel debt, if there
to such a thing.
EAST LIBERTY M. E. CIIUP.CH
fir. H. PINSAIILL7OII, PASTOR
"The Lord bath dove great thing% for as,where
of we are glad." Yea. 1.26, 3. We mert to-day
at the call of the highest power In the land, to
offer that praise that &dila the Goa of na
tions, constrained thereto alike by a aeree of
gratitude and duty. Ober calls we have had
In months past to grateful service, bet we re.
irice with trembling; for while the sword with
drawn, and the spirit of war was abroad, we
knew not hoar far the enemy might be allowed
to proceed in punishing a proud and abate! na
tion. But the prospect la changed. To day we
meet =id Slalom of peace sad good will,
knowing there to not en arm lifted to strike%
nor a tongue to threaten an all the land. Oar
roans swell out over a territorial domain, away
foot of which Is more time eve' sacred ander
the protection of our nat:enal 'banner and oar
beneficent laws. God has been with m , we
have not bean moved. God brie helped no and
that right early. He bath made war to cease.
He bath broken the bow and cut the spear in
sander. The Lord path done great things - for
ns, whereof we are glad. A 3 ant:serving as
we are of G , d's favorable notice,--es careless
an we have been about his st•nice,—as indiffer
ent as we hays keen about kels glory, it is the
marvel of all marvels that he should so Inquire
about all our affairs, that he should so interest
tininelf In our happine a, and withheld from
us no good thing.
1. We notice some of the great- things God
bas done for us. He has enduwed us with His
own courage, gifted us with the high faculties
of thought sad/veep, kindled in oar bosoms
the mysteriotus fire of spirittisi being, invited as
to Join Him in the great redeeming enterprise
of the gospel, and made ea one wlth Himself to
maitre and happlocite. He be # gi v en us "the
lire that now is, and th at which Is to come." Ho
Las granted rat the key to all knowledge, the clue
to all rot leery, the tmdispultle to all things.
He has allowed us the patro eof Ms laws,
tie gifts of his bounty, the fa r of fits provi
dence during the who'n rotted of the departed
p ar. Thu Most High Himself hen been our Limb-
Unlit xt. the annela hay, had charge of aa, co that
no evil Lao befallen us.
Same of us have been end Owed with God's
excial favor. He ham breathed upon as the in
timation of faith and love and! hope. Religion
her keen made to us a reality. "We sought the
Laid, and he heard us and delivered us from
all cur fears. The Lord bath done great thlags
for us vs a nation. He bets given us peace,
he hes calmed the waves and the tumult of the
vecple" Blood no longer Ii :We. the Ilamlow
torch /8 quenched, the dratractlon of property is
Renate,. the rude alarms of war bare ceased,
oar er— •
....et, are disarmed, ;our soldiers are at
Lc me, and the arts of peace again prosper. Be
erc'ect fething (volts at all this. War In it
frlf can be (pitted over or. iy by derlie and
wicked men. It can be ;2.7:1 • 2.:.:, only at a
last resell, to keep off something more dreaded
tiess Itself. We could not have endured :or a
aft E:e day. r nly that It was to save national
reit. dere Ita meaning la gone, Its mualtr - and
Military pay:Entry no forger electrify the pa
tina. 'rue oesberate t Hotta of a dezpotic fat
ltun to rend the nation and eharme the govern
ment, to rob teen of the rarmenis of a wonder
ful eh Izer.sidie, to limit the liberty of peva and
speech, to her doge the rice and gag the
toneneet of freemen, by the favor of God has
here PrSlTOltd. A fearful pr:ce has been paid
in heed and utasate, Lot inestimable are OW
gains.
God hes done great thingS for millions:of his
lowly and abused children ha this lend, Chat
telbood in beings for whom Christ ;Mei his pre
cious blood has ceased. Tte prime antagonist
of democratic Idtas and principles has been sub
dued, The disturbing demon of the nation's
peace has been east out. But If we had had no
Andetronville or Salisbury pistil pens, nor Wi
nders or IN Inca to Impose systematic or (atelier's
city on men whose only crime was that they
loved their country. As men and ns Christiana
we telt ice at its overthrow. Were it a thousand
tin,' less repulsive in nature, a thousand fold
more remuneratire, we could afford to throwit
cserooard to save inch a glorious national fab
ric. 'let It go dues to oblivion ander the light
of the nineteenth century, amid the erserations
of mankind;! Never again may It divide tie
body of Christ; lever again may the palolt
need to call the nation to . repentance for the
sake of slavery.
We are tried Is , Cause of the ;great things
God has done for ea. Ile it la that has given no
the rico - try and the Inheritance- Ilia arm has
brought as this salvation. We exult over the
great fortunes we have found, the delirerances
we have realised. We would taste the cap of
our high thanksgiving and call ep ee the cam s
df the Lord. We are glad that oar great sorrow
past, the notion goes forth with new isloOM upon
her cheek, with new tire in her eye, and new
vigor in her arm. We rejoice to day, that the
dear cld flag waves over every ara;q in its
mi re than olden glory • that it waves its wel
come on every coast and seaboard, to the op.
pressed lovers of truth In every clime; that it
lilts Itself grandly as the symbol of freedom,
equality, justice sad righteousness.
We sre g'ad the nation is redeemed, though
has been with blood. So erandly eared, her
dettiny mast be g,loriona. To hoe will be
g•anted the high dignity of giving to the no
11000 the mos! perfttet expression oroddbt will;
to her will be Given the solution of the problems'
tt , social being. Conrlneed, W weare now, by
the bayonet's point, that cilaraemberment•of the
nation Is Impossible, and that these Staten are
r roll er only as they wall/ lovingly together,
let na resolve t bat the bands of beneficent law
like a golden girdle Ebel hind together forever
all the States of this redeemed republic.
PRESBYTER lAN CHURCH, SEWICRLEY
ItEV. J. D lIITTINGIIR, D. D., tASTOII
Judges 14 "Ontof the eater cams forth
meat, and out of the strong (Arable, arnarus,
bitter,) came forth sweetness."
Therm words are vitally connected si , ;e4 sever
al ilwadenta is Samson's life, narrated in the
precedlr g verses, 5--0. The priricipie that un
dw•llre this riddle, has always been a puzzle to
mankind. and though it has often been eatved,
it Is constantly undergoing solution, 1:1/1 still
the MSC Igtaa to so as It was to tile 'Mills
tines—via: hoe, out of roll God con; a good.
• Yet, In a ruined, alienates] and belittle, woad,
where all is rubble and a dead carcass; ill any
good is done, It mast be doneiln keeping with
this riddle and the last result of God's adrnbels
tiaejon in this world,wlllbc the millennitrm s tbe
grand roriduum of gal olive all Irns g if i i . assal
through tie device crucible. In one , pll mage
already God permits us to oleic up sornalgralas
of the One and Anti/ gold, twit we 'should de
spair.
I propose la call your attention toe few facts
and reflections connected with the war Just cbs•
ed, in Illuatration of the riddle—the war part is
the. cercasa o' the detouring lion, atd the fruits
of It, the honey out uttbe carcass, I shall con
sider Its blessings under these three heads:
Attendant blessings.
Immediate b:essity.
Remote bletainCai.
'Mama delaying to speak in detail of rdenty,
k c al,, sad ordinary peace, which would be an
hopertinrrice, if not a hypocrisy—a LIMIDG or
the =an t,anise and ctunzain of our national bless
'lop, while negleethig the greater matters of
justice, mercy and truth.
piur, then, what have been Ai attend i ant
Nueva - of the wart I answer, the spirit of san
itise which It developed lathe American peopbs
We Ease, first of all, fire years of oar time to
matt:niggle. We gave three thousand millions
of donate, one hundred dollars, per capita
,t
woman and child, black and whits, eta a me nd
ker. - We =feigned the Industry and cap ef
our circuitry for tlity years to come. W e sent
Into the field two millions of the choicest oar
ronth--telecting them as the prophet el led
David—the ruddiesf the ,famlly. A quarter
of a minion fell Weep away from boutei and
strange tress grotraon their game. One bun.
dred thousand came back to walkarcuing tit Edith
empty coat sleeves. ' 'The Chrielian and Sanitary
Commlesloas dhuritietted ten mallow nr donut
among the dead and dying—distilling on the
parched field of battle like the dew On Hermon,
From every church, prayer-meeting, Sunday
schcol and tawny sitar, went up prayers, and
-
strong ones, for Me elialeill -- Wia • Ar• ea":
tions, we all forgets hmrseiyes and thotpaf, of oilt
era. iThe pe lee of rialdahnow , for alrhiii%ltcod
et a .. Beleb art • few of the concurrent &es
-1
afteralof the war—Lf those are not most frogs thrt
camas, are they Lot at Mast part of theheatelf
Who hold bare *becalms this sweet mosself
SzeliOND, t he iesnme4Sebtearinya. Thesserethe
liberation of four uklainoa of alerts the , Argon
number o! men ever tel free by &my war. What
this ilbetration Insane cht the tiara can know
far bow can a stranger fotermoddle with the
nurse helore or the 'blessing anal ge maw,
marriage tutored, teanflOod larltrozwiokrect, Ilia
solitary set to families and the Ancona% Of wages
kept back opened. It means that henceforth
men shad no more ;Mt tchite sotto Tocoftito the
Deelaretlon of le.dependence. It 211CIP.a that
ministers shall Lot relit It Into their fermata
and prayers; it meson that commentators shalt
no longer carry it over their hearts Into
the Deealemse, nor tat to tuterpOiallt Ittinto th
golden, rale, the scheme of Redemption.
Another blessing immediate upon this war has
beta the re enthronement of authority, the Lis
enauratlon of law, and revenues for nationality.
'Atother immediate blessing is the kind of
men, civil and military, which it has nlven as.
G rant—descent ,modest, unselfish. Lincoln, the
great ruler, the good man. As we stand and
tare at the splendor Of the eon below the hurl.
mu, fending our eyee on Ito Bewaring glory, so
will coming generations stand and look at Abra
ham 1-Mcolo.
Tallt.te, the rmote el...inns of the war.
Frond this time on ice shall be ant people. We
ate-or were before. flenc,-tew ti. our national life
shell th homogeneorti. Labor, which to the
warn heels of soelet. ,Is now uniform. It will
deter - Mine the ohmmeter of the enperstructlen,
for metal life will be luulnOnientl. Organized
csele is isin.lisbed. Oar civil and political life
will beleeferth be se , . to the edam note. Oar
politica ethics will hereafter herrn half heathen
and halt Christian, but all Christian, and oar
relit to longer adapted to the tte race,
and ea/totaled like an almanac for Southern lat.
Itr.des. ' A long career of honor, peace and
ores pet r , Shall sneered. Generations will
ecm, c to he tieing o our futuremy.
Three r ate aim ,,of the aweete f
of the begat dais.
e This is Soma of the new vintaze of the haute.
el&
A. the L usbandrnan gnu forth with his pionglit,
Le tams down come sweet Clover here, and •
butterlop or golden ol.td them, and air hurts
sigh fo th e things Marled; bat next stammer,
when t golden harvest bends over the deals;
fills the garner and feeds the famishing, Will we
then tank of the delay, the batter cup, or the
olden rod? I Leon ea. do when God drop
his ploughshare thronth our laud, he anted, la
his deo farrow, here a happy home and' Metro a
comely boy—it wan sae, passing end; but, when
future eentranoze sit tinder tea vine and
,figtrn
of neticinal peace, pleat AM rhAtßonatans,wll
they thiek much and bitterly of your pleural
house and brave boy? / think mot. Wonayonl
I know on would not, In those date, Wheaton
,bail no l see, bat would like to on, the `riddle
will be °teed. "Oat. of the eater then skill
have come meat, ands out of the bitter' Mrs
stall hake came &went:"
8311 •/•.F/ ELD STREET hr. E. CEI7/ID/I.
. . .
j
The Lard bath deue•Otreat things for in ;
whereof Weirs glad. halm 120: 3.
We lire weld mercies. • Whieherer way we
leak we are bailed by beial t i'Lctlons. Whieherer
move.way we move . cur road es tbrouoh folds or
et jo3waml. Do we study our Individual lot
Our demotic circamttekes Ow social sir
rour.dinzal Ow national r eternize 7 Oar re
dolent retrilcza 1 GU realind to of oar fortu
nate thy.
Barre have not Inherited- these potaesalow;
nor web/mei them; not einquerei the right to
them; err in anyway deterred Them 'They der!
eeend •to from As skies. Theyeetlit from.
harem. 'They are the efts of the "Father of
Stith a , Benefactor choutd never ibe ent of
mind. Td Him ought to' go up many, liberal
thanksgivings. The whole life should be ai pstlaa
of praise. It Is right that all theca to es be
rmembered this morning—that they hive •
.bare In oar present acknOStiedgelentS:
But theservices of aid' hour ',trete wear •
special arra-kr. We - into ponder - witd par
ticular card and heartiness recent str4dlsplan
of the Divine gnedness to oar beloved land—ti
(insider the great things which the Lord bath
dose for tut.
I. For several years oni nation has been ewe
tending for Its life.
Rebellioh has had its hand on the throat of
the Government. One sectiOn deb:tended nada.
consideration. Theother could not grant it.
War wag the mtg. The whole land felt the
ehork. Pot tome time money was scarce; and
becoming plenty was comparatively valueless;
baldness was . 1 naettlee; civil institution treat
bled In the Storm; religions enterprises wire
shorn of their power; the moral sense of the
community scan blunted • the national ehaznetan
was: wet , d and h.nted . by
• --
ermies, were defeated; taxes oar
greva• to be exurb!.
tart; draft became appalling; hundreds of
thousand. bent down into- soldiers' graves;
thausantlacif_has were draped In the deepest
of mourning—hang Th-the darkest of shadows.
U. dinettes eeriest Is titer. sm
.
battle tine ceased to nisei The tumult of war
rears no longer. Tie 'trite baa tenninsted
the Nation's favor. The rtheMen auhdeed.
Slavery Is dead. There Is &great enlargainest
of human liberty. Our civil Institutions have
put on new grandeur and loveliness- The-world
tap us a profounder regard: We have been •
schooled Into unexampled BtrCrality. There hat
been developed =song ouristritumen an Increas
ed neognltion of the Divine Bain. IndlCathattli
of a revival of religion are multiplying.
In eonner-tieu with these Marlton height
It Is proper to give instranich=os their dam
It Is right to remember Stoll and - McDowell, and
McClellan, and Pope, and fin rr.side. and Hooker.
and Butler, and linsetrans i for their co:dribs
clone to the sidendld Issuet--though it was not
elven to them to accomplish at all times what
'wee expected of them. Olen their Attire aft
because the country ear not ready for victory.
It Is right to remember the mighty and noble
who hare fallen. Lyon, Baker, Mitchell. Enos, 7
Sedgwick. Slack, Foote, McPherson, and thous
ands of othere who did not occupy offintal pa:
anions, but whose work wairas hard,, and whoa,
hearts were as true as and Is right to remember Sherman, Sitertid/U4 ------ ;
Farragut, Thomas, Ho wardi Grant, Stanton sad
leis right to remember the cheerfol temps, ti
-
era; the princely contributors to our Bout,
funds; the supporters of the COM:Ufa/Land San
itary CCIIIMIEbiOL/; the colored labctrma and 1
soldiers; the women and children who performed
the work of absent men; the writers of Intermit
log , e tt, re to friends In the armies; thenuntes'
that went like angels thrOugh our hospitals;
the Editors who rang the clerkrn call In the pop
tiler ear; end the Christian Ministers who
stirred the popu'ar heart, and then ellm*d the
.1
hill of intercession and bronght Amen appropti.
ate tecouratiment. •
•
• It is right to remember odr martyr.Presle.ent,
and ktcp upon hla glare wreathe of ,green and
ewe!! the increalleg volumes:if his mho.
IV. But to Him who ruleth over all la due
axC lel tribute. It is the Ldrd that hack dons
tlic.c great things for us. Tito race is not to Qui
awifii the battle not to the strong. Except the
Lord horde the house, they labor in vain who
build It. There to salvation in•Goother. Hie area
bee brought es 'our trittmph.. To Him are wis
Indebted for the manhood wb have shown; for
the shinlugforth of the lore ;A liberty and hu
manity; forthe wisdom to pinis; for the comnge
to dare; for the patience tp endttre; fonts spir
it of sacrifice; for the Inspiration .of hope, and
for the trust that In the darkest hour .held na
to our work. To Him we Imre oar wise:states
men, our brave soldiers, and : Oar • coMpetent
leaders. To Him Is duo the glory fori,tha aus
cera our policy; for the victories of our, ar
trite2o for the triumphs of tenth and freedom,
and ior the peace that to-day ipmada from short
to shore.
V - . Let Ela show our gladness. • Let thouktda
of praise employ oar minds; e emotions of praise
range the chambers of oar hearts;
of
of
praise tremble on our tongues; deeds' of prate
Illamtuate mar As let pre
iu Etc ourselves as living sacrifices, mate ifim—se
citizens, let us do our beet to make our makasat
habits God-fearing and Gcd-lamaOring--es Chrism
glans, let bur walk worthy ~of the vault=
wherewith we are called; avoid the appe r rizanen
of evil; so deport ourselves that' the way of
Inith shall not bo evil spoken of; and let our
light so shine that others. seeing our good
works, may glorify our Sather lit Beaman.
WESLEY CHAPEL, H. E. CHURCH.
MT. J. COIL, PAYTOSL.
Psalms UG/12. g•Wbat shall I render mute
the Lord, for ell his benedta tteard moll" The
Lord has led 1311 by a way which We hneW not,
turned our darkness into light, and our lorroli
Intoloy. The days of our hurallitition, fasilag
and mourning are pad; and this ' day ornation
al thacksgiviag has come. We eons beibre the
great Eternal to express our gratitude for his
geodness.
1. "For all hl bastifti toward us.?' mote are
many and very great. The Lord has continua
and protected our lives and health 'whir year
2. fluepemd the labor of ear hands; -eyed
our atom and barns with punt;; - geod measure,
pressed down, shaken together end ratutirg:
over. . .
1 / 4
a. Domestic, icicle. intelleetnat, mood ,tart
religions hamsters, kart been freely dispensed
by the magnliieent hand ot a beehltihli bolo ,
This Is a esedsnal thanestet a
great change , bee come oyer taa .Jot of our
natlon.durbig the peat year. and the Lord hint
bend oar prayers, in pea* dedteat frennh.
Prayer was made vino= teasing& fonDirinit
direction mid aid. saldning the rebel:Ulm sait
nthitianitic the dosernMente hisnylarsdiosed
that slavery WP leen= of God. sat
that neither eonla be deatroyel. , God: In hla
wool and try blamlnlttent: Fontein/ea Utonrll
to an men, itit
.manitaders Abel. thadt syn.. --
stopped tbetraion and hardened
against God's a eth.< That the land. Spike to
the n% In the dander lanes of the Omaha -
cameos, and bah ndegled with Bre hit aitrant, 11.
pz d ',pan thent. Then, Us Ptorraoh. they ea
treated. "that there be co mare - mighty i
(Ccitimiett ri Font?. Pipe.)