col:rival -sr ACM W.lll.:lrtsi Remarkable Facts. It is a very remarkable fact, says the Hartford Times, that since the days of the second Adams, the opponents of the De ' mocracy have elected but three Presi dents; that each of these Presidents has died in office; and that each of the Vice Presidents who took their places has been compelled to differ from the policy of the President whom he succeeded. That the hand of Providence is mani fest in the most recent change, no reflec tive mind who accepts the doctrine of Providential influences in the affairs of men, and realizes the true situatiotrof our country, can for a moment doubt. The partizan political clergymen who some time ago so noisily affirmed the tact, spoke more truth than they realized. p, 0. Appointment , D. M. Smiley has been *pointed Post Master at Smiley P. 0., In Gibson town ship, this county. An excellent selection —a model for the future. Farmers take Notice. There will be a meeting held at the South Bridgewater Cheese Factory, on Thursday evening, March 29th, 1866. Matters of interest to those interested in c heese-making will be considered. All in terested will please attend. Another Veto. Gov. Curtin has vetoed the Philadel phia and Erie Railroad bill. The veto takes the ground that the privilege accor ded to the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad (to build railroads in near half the State, and preventing all others from building i a road in those counties,) is an infringe ment of private rights, and that its opera tion would be conducive to the fostering , of monopolies instead of the promotion of; the general prosperity. Of course Landon, Cameron and Oster bout were parties to the passage of tlj outrageous bill. Returning Reason. The Ohio Statesman speaks of a clergy man who informed the editor the other day, that a day or two after the assassin ation of President Lincoln he had preach ed a sermon surcharged with vengeance toward the South, and that almost ever since the thought has been ever present to him, " I'm a pardoned rebel, too," and that, therefore, there was no propriety in his invoking vengeance upon the South ern people who had been engaged in re bellion, while alone through pardon from the Almighty can he hope for salvation. There is christianity in this view, and we have been surprised that men assuming to he divinely ordained have not inculca ted it from the pulpit. It is not too late to 1, SO even now. 0 1— The present Congre . ss passed,with ont hesitation, a bill which contemplated the expenditure of twenty millions of dol lars per annum for the maintenance of ne- grow . • Andrew Johnson vetoed it, and the Democratic party sustained him. ~ame Congress has neglected to ar i mpriate one cent to the equalizAtion and payment of bounties due white 601- The Democratic party demand that they shat} do so, and Andrew Johnson is with them. Who are the soldiers' friends'? Those who postpone his interests to the eleva tion of the negro,.9r those who demand that the elevation of the negro shall be postponed to his interests ? The people will answer at the polls. e" The Cincinnati Times, a furious Abolition print, thus assaults Sumner's