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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15,1865.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
There will be a Democratic Meeting
at 'tlie Court House, on TUESDAY
-evening, the 21st day of March next, as
business of importance are to be attend
oett to. The DauMeracy are invited to
Uhl out in their strength..
The battle for the Constitution and
the tri*n, yet demands the active ef
s of
every Democrat, as well as the
Auk -protection of personal liberty and
►iopety, from the usurpation of
pow,:
Fellow Democrats and all lovers of
the prosperity of the country, we may
well be proud of our association with
the party that has among its lights and
founders the author of the Declaration
of Independence, and of the Constitu
lion; a party whose wise administration
acquired all the additional territory added
to the original thirteen States—the pol
'ley of whose Statesmen formed, and
'established the national character at
'home and abroad, and at whose loss of
Tower andjAace the country was disin
legrated. The American character lost--
'and the prosperity of the country ruin
ed—ari"d the power of the Government
SO enforce a just obedience to the laws of
AO land throughout the whole Union im
pairedas well as the indentity of the
States lost in the usurpations of the Fed
,4lild Administration. Ours is the only
'party that can save the county from her
;present imperiled condition.
A. A. PUT MAN,
Chairman Dis. Co. Coin.
Messenger Office for Sale.
The subscription list, good will and
• Printingmaterials of the Messenger are
saferall,for sale, possession to be given
on the let of April. The list is one of
I.llO'beift in 'the State for prompt pay,
a.n4".the Job and Advertising patronage
ja imge and remunerative. The Conn
•tratas,organized in 179 G and is one of
`the most reliable Democratic counties in
the State, having serer given a majority
to the opposition.
There is no better position in the
State for a Democratic paper.
Address soon, concerning terms,
• JAMES S. JENN mos at Waynesburg:
Arbitrary Arrests.
The - discussion of the new conscrip
tion law has given the opponents of
arbitrary arrests in the Senate a good
opportunity to speak their minds, and
they have done so. Democrats and
Republicans, Conservatives and Radi
cals, have denounced that despotism
which deprives a citizen of the great
bulwark of constitutional liberty—trial
by jury. Said Senator Hale:
"If trial by jury is overthrown in this
country, take the rest. I would not
lift my hand, nor open my mouth, nor
counsel one of my constituents to shed a
.drop of blood or pay a dollar of treas
ure, if the Constitution is to be preserv
ed emasculated of this great safeguard
of liberty. In these times, when so
much is demanded, and so much is at
stake, with a genfirous confidence, I
would give to the Administration al
most everything That they want. I
" would consent, and I have consented,
that the habeas corpus may be suspen
ded, and these extraordinary tribunals
May he erected and instituted for the
trial of everybody that voluntarily
comes forward and, connects himself
with the public service. But sir, if you
'are going to throw a drag net over the
Land, if you are a going to bring in this
whole people and subject them to the
~penalties that may be inflicted by mili
tary tribunals and these court rnartials;
then the last step in humiliation and
atradatica of the country is taken,
we shaft be left fit instruments for
any despotism that the bold and law
less may see proper to establish over
us."
rthe people of this country should
ever find themselves, as is not at all
-improbable, bound hand and foot in the
Tower of a hideous despotism, it
nat be ))cause they will not have had
eakilinclaot warning of its approach. If
i.thinthfike:siet bedn stricken with Judi:
. they cannot tint 'ha - ire
"44 T = •rn 'despoiler of the Mei dim
,with deliberate strides from
one gross outrage upon their cantata-
tiont - 6013V to another and "grosser ,
• "1 3 'Yk i4 The y hsi T e `.lo.
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40 3 gramAltitHfilorro#3s4" 2 /10 106
--their. um 'I?.A"--cofi
strued to mean acquiesenee if not
even arproval—and each instance of
submission has naturally invited a new
ass nit.
Oil in Ohio.
We dip the following extract from
an editorial in the Greensburg, West
morland county, Deillorrt. We can
corrobarate the statements in this uti-
cle. During a visit to that region, last
Winter, we found various localities on
Sunday creek, where oil in abundance
could be procured from spring. In
fact the people in the neighborhood or
Sunday creek have, for a long time,
collected this oil from the springs and
used it for illuminating purposes, with
out refining. We gathered a bottle of
this oil which we have now in our pos
session. We have tried it and find it
burns very well without refining. It is
a rich, dark lubricating oil.
The three creeks, Wolf, Federal and
Sunday are connected in their branches.
Upon %Volt and Federal creeps, `much
oil has been already procured:and pre
parations arc now -making at various
points on Sunday creek tai bore fur oil.
We have r o doubt -that this creek will
yield oil as abaudantly as any other
locality in the Ohio oil region
The tract of country extending along
Sunday creek in the State of Ohio, is
remarkable for having the most abun
dant natural flow of oil, not only in
Ohio, but probably in the whole United
States. The oil springs along that
steam were first discovered by a white
man in 1799, although known long be
fore that time to the aborigines. From
the time of this discovery until the period
of the oil excitement and of new uses of
petroleum, the oil had been canted and
sold for medical purposes, and applied
to the cure of divers diseases. The sur
face of the Earth, in the vicinity of the
springs, is rough and full of small ra
vines. Salt licks are numerous, and oil
exudes from the ground and the crevices
of the rocks. The geological confor
mation is tl•e same as that on Duck
creek, and in the oil region of Virginia.
This appears to be the stratification of the
best oil tracts in Ohio and Virginia.
First—the upper limestone formation.
Secc.ndly—the coal formation, situated
some forty feet below the upper layer
of limestone. Thirdly—the fossil rock
formation, lying some seventy feet be
low the coal formation. Fourthly—the
first blue sandstone formation, or oil
rock, which underlies the fossil mock
some hlteen feet. Oil is generally found
in this blue sandstone formation,;beettuse
the rock being loose and porous, ab
sorbs all the oil that reaches it until it is
saturated.
The Constitutional Amendment.
The action t,f the New Jersey Legislature
rejecting the constitutional amendment
abolishing slavery throughout the United
States, defeats the measure. So far, eigh
teen States, including West Virginia, and
that other bogus organization which met at
Alexandria, and claimed to act for the real
State of Virginia, have ratified the amend
meat, and three have rejected it—Deleu•are,
Kentucky, and New Jersey. As it requires
twenty-seven States to engraft the proposed
amendment upon the Constitution, nine are
yet to vote in the affirmative betore the de
sign of the Abolitionists can be consumma
ted.
The Legishtnres of the following States
have ratified the amendment :
► Illinois, F.i, ►
•
2 Rhode !slated, Felt 2 II ()hie, Feb 8
Miehiean, Feb 2 • .12 Miimeso.a. Feb 8
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4 New York. Feb 3 13 Kan , as, FA S
5 Prittisyluania. Feb 3 . 11 Virginia. Fcli 9
6 !Maryland, Feb 3 15 Indiana, Feb 13
7 Massachusetts Fttb 3 16 Nevada, Feb 16
8 West Virginia. Feb 3 17 Louisiana, 1 7 .-1, 17
9 Maine, Feb 7 18 Wisconsin, Feb 54
The Legislatures of the • following States
have rejected the amendment :
1 Del. Feb S 12 Kentucky., Feb :13. N. J., March 1
The Legislatures of the following Sates
have yet to vote upon the ainendinen,t :
-Value of SI lie• Meetinz of Leg WO ure.
Arkansas, Republican, Now• in session
Connecticut Republican, May 3, 1865.
California Rebublican, Dec. 4, 1865.
lowa • Republican, Jan. 7, 1866.
N. Hampshire Repablican, June 7, 1865.
Oregon Republican, Sept. 10, 1866.
Tennessee Republican, April 3, 186-1
Vermont Republican, Oct. 12, 1863.
REC IPITULATKLN
Total number of States
Necessary to ratify amendment (1)
States which have ratified 13
Rejected 8
Of these, Arkansas, as at present organ
ized, is no more entitled to vote through
her Legislature now in session than wets the
faction that met at Alexandria, in Virginia,
'entitled to represent that old Commonwealth.
The whole affair, so far as its legality and
constitutionality are concerned, is an insult
to the people of the United States. Tenn
essee was excluded by the Abolitionists
themselves from participation in the election
of a President in 1864 ; and with what
show of right or justice can it be now claim
ed that her Legislature has a right to vote
upon a proposition to .amend the Constitu
tion of the United States? The claim is
preposterous; and amendments engrafted
upon the organic law of the land by such
means will be no more a part of the Con
stitution, in truth and righteousness, than
if they had been plaeed there by the will of
the Emperor of China.
The Reaction Coming.
The New York Times has got on decided
ly democratic ground in relation to the con
stitutional amendment. 'We minuend its
remarks to its radical cotemprarles. Let
them trim their sails accordingly. They are
as follows:
'•Whatever may be the merits of the prop
osition itself, this is not the fidnefor ihttion
upon it. We do not believe in the wisdom
of amending the Constitution at all now.—
We are in the midst of a war. The whole
political atmosphere is red hot with revolu
tionary fervor.
Men's miode are excited. their resentment
as aroused, and tiler passions are in the as
cendant. This is not a favorable mood for
digging shoat the foundations at our great
- temple of republican liberty."
Demotelortitet, Convention.-
The Dee*Mittellithittee, at Ifs
intlititted as itte'64-
40144Vigrag:**r liiifirext State Weventidtr,
itiarrady-first 4'S:l3 * a Jane.
"The heaviest possible war lax,"
says the New York Tames, "is the de-
predation of currency " This is un
doubtedly so, and the first duty of Con
greas is to take immediate measures to
reduce the currency and thereby equal
ize, as nearly as possible, the value of
paper and gold. The although
Republican, eliord!s its doctrine in true
Democratic style. It says :
''Every man, woman and child now
pays half of their monthly ur yearly
earnings into the coffers of var. It a
mechanic earns his sflok a year; $:-100
are paid away in ttie paper currency ; if
a cLir,iiiyinan or C.illege professor re
ceives $1,500 salary, he now gives s7:1( - )
to sustain the circulation or the country.
It is so with every day laborer and the
poorest seamstress. It is equally so
with the Government itself. Of its
two millions every day, one million is
lost by the depreciation of its circulating;
medium. The nation doubles its debt
every day, because its paper representa
tive of value has lost its worth. Every
person dependent on salaries or trxed
wages is just one half poorer to day
than he should be, because o f th e re
duced valite of the currency. The (14-
lar is only worth fifty cents. Every
one knows this. The people see that
what is called the price ut gold, is to
them the most important of all pecuni
ary matters, and that the tax on the
currency tics out-runs all other taxes.
Indeed it is well seen now that a direct
tax of fifty per cent, on every persons
income (provided it brought the currency
up to par) would lie less exacting and
wasteful than the present depreciation,
because it would not permit such ex
cessive speculation and over charging
by the dealers in connnoditic."
After the Rebel Armies are o,lfeat-
We have repeatedly expressed our
belief that the overthrow of the military
pOwer of the South would be di'Yvover- ,
ed to be but a single, short and uncer
tain step toward a satisfactory solution
of the really vast difficulties which pre
sent themselves to this nation. If the
only problem for us to solve were the
devising of some plan by which the reb
el armies might be defeated and broken
up, our future would present a more
cheerful prospect to the thoughtful
mind. We may, and in all probability
we will, be able to accumulate a milita
ry force before which no organized army
of the Siutli will be able to stand. We
may occupy every Southern seaport,
reduce Richmond, disperse every rebel
army, reach a point in this struggle
when our troops may be able to march
all over the soil of the South without
meeting organized resistance any %vhere.
But will we have restored the Union
and brought back peace and prosperity
when all that shall have been accom
plished ? We ii:ar not Indeed. we
are fully convinced that the very sad
dest disappointments for' the people of
this land are yet in store foi them. A
strong writer in the Lowlm Qqarteviii
Review has sonic remarks upon this sub
ject, which we commend to the consid
eration of every candid reader. lle
Mil
"Any other people would have learn
ed from the history of Poland, of Scot
land, of Spain, and of Italy, what the
f o r c ible sahjugation of a brave nation
means, and at what a prodi ! ral sacrifice
ot blood and treasure, and civil rights,
it has to be maintained. That the se•
ceded States can never return in amity
mirkr the power with those with whom
they have fought in so many bloody
campaigns, the Northern politicians
themselves are beginning to admit. It
they are held at all, they must be held
by force. Their vast exten!, will be
occupied by a people hating their rulers
with the bitter hatred which Poles bear
to Russians, or Sicilians bore to French.
Before-the South can be conquered, a
very large portion of the white males
must have been killed oft' But the
children are still left: and they will
crow up to look upon the hatred to the
Yankee as a sacred tradition, to which
they will cling with all the intensity ot
enthusiasm which trim feel towards a
cause for which their tlitliers died. Tie
reconstructed State will thus present the
curious spectacle of a country ot which
the larger and the more fertile portion is
inhabited by a profoundly disaffected
population. Large garrisons wlll have
to be maintained in all the important
towns ; a huge gendarmerie must be
organized to protect railroads and rivers,
and to raise the taxes which will then
be necessary. The press will have to
be kept up under rigorous censo: ship.
The writ if habeas corpus must be per
manently suspended : an elaborate staff
of police spies must be maintained to
conduct the arrest of possible ring-lead
ers, and to check the first symptoms of
revolt. In fact. the whole apparatus of
repression by which 'order is maintain
ed' in Venice and in Warsaw, will be
the only tenure by which the Govern
ment of Washington will rule over
more than halt of its territory. how
burdensome such a mode of Govern
ment; will be to finance, how ruinous to
trade and industry, how deadly to po
litical
. freedom, the people of the Fed
eral States may conceive themselves
from the experience of Austra and
Russia. It may be safely assnmad that
not much will be left to them of their
own liberty by a Government which is
encoura! , ed to make so little account
of the liberties of others. It seems
hardly possible that a hostile population
can be permanently governed by the
sword, over so vast an extent of coun
try. The cost of doing it, if it be done
efficiently, would be so gigantic that
the -richest nation would pay by a
. speedy iiiikruptcy the just penalty of
pt.
If it were done efficient
!,
ofillyurse the yoke. wonld be thrown
Off iiiris6on Ws the means had been Oil
ked for domg so. Even in the in
10 Migs , wri, Feb 7
Results of Depreciated Currency
ed- -What Then ?
conceivable contingency of such an itn
devtaking beim , sitccessfill in a peiigid
of repose, it clearly must brake down
at the. first approach of troublotts times.
Any disaffected party within the State,
or gily enemy from outside, world al
gttvrs cointnattd certain and sure allies
in the population of the subdued Con
, legit rcy. A proposal Has - been made by
the Not thern papers, and eg•lnge•gl by
nilgcral philanthrophists 110 this side
Atl A nti ( g, to glispos , ,ess all the
gd the South, and ropeople the
('g,iiiilurcy by gg-i•anting their estates to
Northerners. This barbat gots id e a f a r_
igi,hes a ra]r sample of the humanity or
the minds in which it has arisen : but
it is tigrtitnatel impracticabl._g;
it may be sufficient to say that it is
.
" "wit . an) tl/ing "1 1 1" . ''achi"g to a 1"r
-;;11,-1 i n th e history of civilize. t 1 times.
faint of it was 11•aet tse ,1
by Elizabeth. James 1., and Ci'olllWeii,
in 'reit:lel: hell tile esperiuu ut has illet
With Sitee es s.
the emild afford to keep
to l i iroteet eiteil of the lando‘vners, they
have but a brief enjoyment of th e ir
i!1- utitn lgrupirty. lien who have
suffered oppresion of thus lg:ingl are not
usually very squeamish about the time
or lice whi c h they select for their re
venge. The ne \v . landowner get
1 his property }Fee, hut it NVolliit he Upon
tile telltllre it walking targets
to a ll th e ( , i , ..pg>sses , ed:-loittlierne:s with
in the radius of fifty miles. Under
these emiditirms, it is not likely that the
e mit-I.: r at e d estates will be the subject
or a very keen coliiiwtiligin on the part
of intending emigrants."
)i1,41 arc SOlik of the diilieulties
ow• fut)lre pathway, a-) s2ea an)l point
etl out by a foreign observer, one who
111 ay j‘istly 1) rogar)l.2ll as a more dis
inture.-:ted witness than anyone of our
.
gelves, enL , ;agetl ... - e are in the contest
th a t is going on. 7lie eeikritlerations
ire..s2ntc , l are seriuns ones. 111ay we
not \yell ask : After the r(J.A2I
;re defeat(ll--What 1,1,v , !! 2
Tito President's Inugural Address ,
The following inaugural arldress was
reTl by 2111. Lincoln on the -1-111 inst.
FELLOW CoI7NTIZYMEN: At this second
app(aving to take the oath of the presl
•dential office there is less occasion for
an extended address than there was at
first. Then a statement somewhat in
det of a cotirsi_t to be yursued seemed
very fittiug. and proper. ion , at the
expiration of !bur yeast's, during which
public declarations have been constant
1v called forth on every point and
phase of the great contest which still
! absorb; the attention and ent;Tosses th e
energies of the nation, little that is new
could b 2 presented.
The progr e ...s or our arms, upon which
j all else chiefly depends, is as well known
to the public as to myself, an I it is, I
reasonably satisfactory :I:1 , 1 n
cour) in With bi ll liOpu ter
lio prCaititiull to
it is ventured.
On the occasion corresponding to this
four years ago, all thoughts were anx
ionslv directed to au impending civil
All drealcd it: all sought . to
avoid it. While the inaugural address
was being delivered from this place de
voted altooeth-r to saving the Union
with rut war, insurgent agents were in
the city seeking to destroy it without
war—seeking to desolve the Union and
divide the effects by negotiation. Both
pa; ties deprecated war, but one of tli, , tu
would make War rather than let the na
tion survive, and the other would accept
war rather than let it perish, and the
war came. Otto-eighth of the whole
population, were col wed slaves, not
distributed generally over the Union,
but localized in the southern part it.
These ilaves constituted a pcculi , tr
powerrld interest. All knew that this
it was som?how the cause or the
EEO
T o strengthen, perpetuate, and
extend this interest was the object
for which the insnrgents w o uld read
the Union by war, while the govern
ment claimed no right to do more than
to restrict the territorial enlargment of
it. Neither party expected 1;u• the war
ill: , magnitude or the duratiou wliClt it
has al rea, ly attained. Neither anti ci pa
te,l that, the ealse of the c millet might
cease, even but;we the conflict itself
511(141 c:;-tse. L e,h !Joked for an easi
er t itut t ,it, and a result less fundamen
tal, and astoaa ling. Bath real the same
l'Otl e and pray to the sun Gad, and
each, invokes his aid against the other.
It may seem strange that any men
should dare to ask a just God's assis
tanee in wr:igins , their brew 1 from the
sweat of other men's faces ; but let as
jal f re not that we be not judged. The
prayers of bath could r,(lt be aft.were,l.
That of neither has been answered fully.
The Ain*dtty has his own purposes.—
Woe unto the world because of offenses
for it mast needs be that offenses come:
but woe to that man by whom the of
fens?, cometh. If we shall suppose that
Ann,rican slavery is one of the offenses,
which in the Providence of God twist
needs come, hat which having, continu
ed thr,aigh his appointed time, Ile now
wills to remove, and that he gives to
both North and South this terrible war
as the woe due to those by whom the
(anise came, shall we decern there is
any departure front those divine attri
bute.; which the believers in a living
god always ascribe to him? Fondly do
we hope, fervently do we pray, that this
mighty scourge of war may speedily
pass away. Yet, if God wills that it
continue until all the wealth piled by
the bandman's two hundred and fifty
years of unrequited toil shall be sunk,
and every drop of blood drawn with
the lash shall be paid by another drawn
with the sword, as was said three thous
and years ago; so, it must be said, that
the judgments :•f the Lori are trite and
righteous altogether. With malice to
ward none, with charity for all, with
firmness in the right, as God gives us to
see right, let us finish the work we are
in, to ''bind up the nation's wounds; to
cafe for him who shall have borne the
battle, and for his widow and his or
phans; to do all which may achieve and
cherish a . just and lasting peace among
ourselvesand' ilth all nations.
Fhe oath' Was then aArninistere4 by
Chicf-Justic,e Chase.
( Mr. Vice-President Johnson
IV hen Andrew Johnson was nominat
ed by the Baltimore Convention for
Vice-President, we drew upon ourselves
a volley of vituperation for saying
that besides wanting the character and
culture . of a statesman, Mr. Johnson
lacked the sentiments and hearing of a
Since the exhibition of
utiken impertinence by which h e dis
graced himself, insulted the cabinet and
the diplomatic corps, and afflicted his
party-friends, on Saturday last, we are
content to submit the propriety of that
criticism to the decision of the Repuhli
can journals and orators who made such
a handle of it in the canvass. The
Tribmoe is so ashamed of the incoherent
indecency of Mr. Johnson's speech that
it prints no part of it. The reporters
or the (,!ivro,s,ilp i a..? G/o/k. arc sail to
have been tampered with to prevent its
publication in that repertory of debates,
and to give Mr. Johnson an opportuni
ty, when he recovers from his beastly
orgies to substitute for his outrageous im
pertinence something. skit will not so
defile the public records. But, unluck
ily, it was heard by the toicign minis
ters, NN IR) were present to witness the
inauguration ceremonies, and has been
spread on the wings of the press by the
too faithful reporters.
The office of 'Vice-President is the
One which more than any other in our
government requires in its incumbent
decency of manner atid dignity of char
acter. The other great officers of the
government have opportunities to dis
play ability as statesmen : but the Vice-
President holds a place of great dignity
without oily corresponding functions.
As the presiding officer of the Stnette he
is a sort of state pageant—the only one
under our o . overnimmt. There is no
reason why the Senate. more than the
House, should be furnished with a pre
siding officer from outside its own body ;
but as the Constitution took 0 precau
tion against the highest office beconung
vacant, it sought to give to the contin
gent successor of the President a posi
tion which should pi event the dignity
of the government suferinL2; by his in
significance. But when such a man as
Andrew Johnson is lifted into this posi
tion of mere dignity, he dishonors it,
the government, and himself. We
copy the report of the disgraceful scenes
of Saturday, given by a journal whose
obstreperous affectation of ..loyalty "may
exempt it from spicion of exaggera
tion :
'During all this time Andrew John
son—thr such he simply was then, not
having taken the oath of office (would
to Heaven that it could be s rid in be
half of the country that he is still only
Andrew Johnson)--continued his speech.
Such a speech I It might have been ap
propriate to some hustings in Tennes
see ; but it certainly was En- from belie -,
apprortiate on this occasion. It was
nut ()lily a - ninety-ninth rate stmnp
speech, but disgraceful in the extreme.
"He had not proceeded far when sena
"tors on the Republican side began to
hang their heads, sink down in their
'-seats, look at each other with signifi
"eance, as much as to say, 'ls he crazy,
'or what is the matter f They exhib
ited in every teature 0-Feat uneasiness.
There was no mistaking the fitct that
the senators were mortified in the ex
treme. The alnocratic senators lean
ed forward and appeared to be chuckling
with each other over the figure made
by the Republican party through their
Vice-President elect. The foreign
ministers showed unmistakable signs of
amazement as , -the incoherent sentences
"came from Mr. Johnson's lips. Re
"publican senators moved around in
"their seats, unable to sit still under the
"exhibition before them. Some of the
"senators sat sidewise, others turned
"their backs, as if anxious to hide them
"selves. Luckily for the members of
the House of representatives, they did
not reach the Senate until several min
utes after twelve, and they were not
subjected to bat a small portion of this
scene. The speech was disconnected,
the sentences so incoherent that it
impossible to give all accurate report of
his speech. As his sentances came up
in the reporters' gallery, the statements
that your President is a plebeian—l
a plebeian, glory in it—Tennessee has
never gone out of the . Union—l am
e - oit , to talk two rilinutes and a half on
that point—l want you to hear me.
'Tennessee always was loyal—we all de
rive our power from the people—Chief-
Justice Chase is but a creature of the
people—l want you to hear me two
minutes on that point—you, Mr. Stan
ton, Secretary of War, derive your au
thority and power prom the people.
('Who is Secretary of the Navy,' was
then heard, in a voice of less volume.
Some one responded Mr. 'Welles). You,
Mr. Welles, Secretary of the Navy, get
your power from the people. This was
the strain and tone of the whole speech,
mixed with a lecture to the Senate on
the action of the Senate on the rebelli
ous Stifles.
It was impossible to give a fall report
'sitting in the gallery. 'What a shame.'
" 'has he no friends '?"Is there no per
"son who will have mercy upon him ?
'Tell him to stop and save the coun
''try further disgrace,' were so nailer
"ous that i.. entirely prevented a full re
"port being made. The only full report
was that of the official reporters of the
"Globe The senators, however, were
"so chagrined at the speech that they
"notiffied the Glob.: reporter to suppress
''his copy and wait until Mr. Johnson
"could write out a speech, that this af
"fair might not go before the world in
"that form. It is charitable to say that
his condition was such that he was unlit
to make a speech. Ile evidently did
not shun Bourbon county, Kentucky,
on his way here. Mr. Johnson finally
concluded his speech, whereupon Vice-
President Hamlin administered to him
the oath of office. Mr. Hamlin read
the oath by sentence, and Mr. Johnson
repeated it after him. The effort of
"the Vice-President elect to go through
"with the form of repeating the sen
"tences as read by Mr. Hamlin, was
"painffil in the extreme. Ile stumbled,
"stammered, repeated portions of it
"several times over. The moment that
he concluded this ,task, Mr Johnson
turned to the audience and commenced
another speech, giving to those assembl
ed his idea of the oath which he had just
taken. He had uttered but two or three
sentences when some or the officials
standing- near h itn had the go4yl sense
to stop him, he having already occupied
some nineteen ininutes in Iris former
speech, and delayed the proceedings
beyond all usages. They were unwil
ling- that they should be any longer de
layed I , y the incoherent renctrks of this
new off;cial. It has heretofore been the
custom to close all speeches the moment
that the judges o f the Supreme Court
and diplomatic corps reach the Senate
chamber. Mr. Hamlin, in accordance
with this usage, close!t his speech in
time to give Mr. Johnson some seven
minutes to make his remarks before the
arrival of the above dignitaries. But
Mr. Johnson did not appear to under
stand die usages on such necasions, 01
else was not inclined to follow them, for
the diplomatic gentlemen heard the
bulk of his speech, and, unfortunately,
the worst part of it. The moment that
the new Vice-President had been shelle
d. Mr. fandin declared the old Senate
adjtyirned. Thus expired the Senate of
the Thirty-eighth Congress, at fifteen
minutes past 12 o'clock. Mr. Johnson
hnin-diately ca ll e d, th e new t-ienate to
order. Thu clerk of the Senate, John
NV. Forney, then read the proclamation
of the President convenin ,, the ti enato iii
c: , :t•raorilinary session. The newly
elected senators were ord e r e d to ap
proali the clerk's tlCsk and take the
oath of (Mice as their names were an
noune,d. The tollo \Vine, gentlemen, at
this call, stepped forward : 11.essrs. An
thony, Fessenden, Crigin, Howard,
Yate;„ Norton, Gatlirie and-Laic, and
took the oath. Here Vice-President
Johnson made another I ;,o r y pas.—
tic step:ivd forward \vitli the
aheld it out, and motioned to the new
' . senators to touch the Bible. bow their
"heads in assent - , then motioned them
"away without repeating the oath in
"any form. Most of the senators left
the stand when the muddle was dis
covered. The senators were re-called,
and Mr. Forney administered to them
the oath of office. By this time it be
came apparent that some one besides
Mr. Johnson would have to conduct the
business of the Senate. Without giving
an opportunity for any farther disgrace
ful scenes, Mr. Forney announced that
the procession would then be formed to
conduct the President elect to the plat
form at the cast entrance of the build
ing, where the oath of office would be
administered."
Ti l e drunken and beastly Coligula
the most profligate of all the flume
perors, raised his horse to the dignity
of consul—an office that, in former
times, had been tilled by the greatest
warriors and statesmen of the republic,
the Sci.ios, the Catos, by Cicero. amid
by the mighty Julius himself. The
consulship was scarcely more disgraced
by that scandalous transaction than is
our vice-presidency by Cie late election.
This office has been adorned in better
days by the talent a d accomplishments:
of Adams, Jefferson and Gerry, Cal
houn and Van Buren : and now to see
it tided with this insolent, drunken
brute, in comparison with whom even
Caligula's horse was respetable l—tbr
the poor animal (lid not abuse his own
net tire.
And to think that only one frail hu
man life stands between this insolent,
clowish I , runkard and the pres
idency! May God bless and spare
Abraham Lincoln'. Should this An
drew Johnson become his successor.
the decline and fall of the American re
public would smell a rank in history as
that of the Roman empire under such
atrocious monsters in human shape as
Nero and Caligula.
As the presidin4 °Meer of the Sen
ate, it is the duty of the Vice President
to preserve order, relm!;e indecorum,
and maintain the dignity of that bode.
But with what thee can Andrew John
son ever presume to call a senator to
order Were he a member of the
s,2flate, the first duty laid upon that
body by its seise ut self-respect would
b e to expel him for gru,:s ontrae-(,s upon
its di:quty. What a front of brass and
triple impudence must lie have ever to
appear again in his place, to say noth
ing- of checking the slight indecorums
1..t70 NVlliell Senators are sometimes be
travea by inadvertance in the warmth
of debate.-IVortd.
Ci i rThe inauguration ball came off in the
marble Patent (J lice building, Washington,
on Monnay night, with all the brilliance,
sumptuosity, and elegance which such an oc
casion would natundly in shoddy times call
forth, and as it wails of angaislt were not
arising all the while front many an ecsangu-
Med tkltl, ititt•rinitigLA with kite trotziQd la
ment of thousands of bereaved widows and
orphans, scattered throughout the homes of
Northern soldiers and conscrips 7 -the light
of whose existence has gone out forever, in
this `'glorious war for freedom." Dance,
dance, fanatics—dance;
A BAP TONGUE.—As a pebble thrown in
to the water starts a wave, which spreads in
all directions till it reaches the shore, so a
slanderous word sp , q;en spreads through
every department of community, and can
never be recalled. The reputation of many
good men and women has been ruined by
the utterance of a single word, spoken,
perhaps, in jest. A good citizen will always
he cautious in regard to what he says of
others. Ile that bridletli not his tongue is
no Christian, much as he may profess to be
moral or pious.
11,V—tiOn 3,forday, in tie Senate, on motion
of Mr. Wilson, a resolution was adopted re
quiring the iS,Tgoinit at-Arms to remove from
tire Senate part of the Capitol the bar for
the sale of spirituous liquors. This is evi
dently intended as the strongest. kind of a
Lint to the new Vice President, Andy,Tolin
son; but every decent American will say,
atter reading of his disgracetul performance
on Saturday last, that it is none too strong
—it it only happily prove efficacious.
A young lady is the sole owner
of the great petroleum lands in Trimble
county Ky. A company of Eastern gen
tlemen lately proposed to give her $BO,
000 for the price which consisting of 80
acres would make $l,OOO an acre—a
handsome sum indeed, but the fair ow
ner refuses at present to accept the OM
c~ T iwL
From Shenandoah V &ley !
THE ADVANCE OF SHERIDAN!
H S VICTORY OVER EARLY GREATER
THAN AT FiiiST REPORTED,
NEw Yomc, March 9.—The Herald's
Winchester correspondent shys : De
serters who arrived at Winchester,
state that they passed Sheridan on
their w tiy down. lle reached Wood
stock, thirty miles from his starting
point, on the first day, and although
the rain was falling, the road very mud
dy and ,-treams much swollen, his
trOOpS \VCre pushing forward rapidly.
It was expected that on the third day
they would reach Staunton, ninety
ei!dit miles up the Valley, a short dis
tance North of which sown Early and a•
small rel)(1 three then was.
A Tri6 , /,,e's Washington special says
that General F.moroy t e legraphed from
Winchester, that some of our men,
coming in, represent, that Sheridan 's
victory over Early was more complete
than any report we have i_ad. When
last heard from, lie was pushing for the
Canal running from Lynchburg to Rich
mond, which he has doubtless seized and
destroved hefure this.
1. 7 10111 Gen. Slieridan's Command.
Arrival of C:Ttiired Prisoners and Can-
MEE
WrmErAN,:, - March infor
manon from Cuinberland, Md., on the
Rth, states that Col. Thompson, Ist
New Hampshire cavalry, of Gen. Sher
idan's command, has just arrived at
Winchester with forty officers and 1,300
enlisted men, prisoners, and eight pieces
of artillery captured and destroyed.—
The principal battle was fought at Fish
eaville, fire miles front Staunton.
General Early's Presentiment of his
Capture.
[From the Richmond Enquirer, Feb. 27. j
The Yankee Generals Crook and
Kelley, and the adjutant general of the
the former, Thayer Melvin, arrived in
Richmond yesterday morning at 2 o'-
clock by the Central cars. As previ
ously stated, these officers were captur
ed in Cumberland, Maryland, on Tues
day last, by Lieutenant McNeil and thir
ty men. Upon being presented to
General Early at his headquarters in the
valley, the prisoners were received with
homely lint, no doubt, acceptable greet
lug : "Take seats, gentlemen, I pre
sume you are tired after your ride," and
then, added the hero of brilliant victo
ries and stunning defeats, with an in
tensification of that fine-tooth-comb pe
culiarity of his enunciation : "I expect
some enterprising Yankee will be steal
iie off with me in the same way one
or these days." Whether the prisoners
relished the joke or not our inforMant
failed to depose. They were, doubt
less, in no humor for jokes. They are
now in the Libby prison, where, it is
hoped, they will be kept until our gal
hint men arrested .by them as "guerril
las" and confined in chains and dun
geons on that pretense, are relased.
From Richmond.--From Rebel Papers
of the Bth.
WAstuNuvoN, March 10.—The Rich
wood Sentinel, of the Bth, contains the
fallowing : Nothing has occurred to dis
turb the quiet prevailing below Rich
mond, but if the weather continues
good, there will be active operations in
the vicinity of this city, in a short time.
Nineteen car-loads of Confederate
prisoners arrived in Baltimore on Friday
Or elllll,
The Richmond Eranziner, of the Bth
inst., says : For the past few days
there has been little firing on the Rich
mond and Petersburg lines. It will re
quire yet a vast amount of sunshine to
make the roads passable, and put the
ground in any condition for any exten
sive military movements.
We have a very important piece of
news, which comes direct from Kew
Orleans, and implies the prospect of
several difficulties between France and 61
the United States. It is the confirma
tion of previous reports in the Northern
newspapers, to the effect that the Uni
ted States Consul at Matamoros, who
was accredited to the Jaurez govern
ment, has been ordered away by Max
imilian. It is also said that clearances
for the United States, for that port, are
now refused.
Both Houses of Congress have pass
ed a new tax law, and repealed the old
one.
The of the Bth, says : Sher
man is played out. It our leaders do
not hear or read any good news from
South Carolina, it is a nonsequitur that
there is none to communicate. In a
few days they will hear where Sher
man is, or what has befallen him Let
everybody be patient. Sherman's op
portunity to establish a military repu
tation has tied, and we will soon hear of
his discomfiture and disgrace.
Arrival of 3,000 Exchanged Prisoners:
IlAurimonE, March 10.—Nine steam-.
ers arrived at Annapolis to-day, bring
ing about 3,000 Union prisoners, most
of them in a bad state of emaciation..
and nearly , destitute of clothing. Sever
aldied on the passage, and five dead
bodies were taken from one boat. Fif
teen hundred of them had to go to the
hospitals
A large number of rebel prisoners
passed through Baltimore to-day to be.
exchanged. They were all in good
health and well clothed. Many of them,
had carpet-bags full of clothing.
,'Some of the newspapers are tak,
ing exception to the President's °ram,
mar, when he speaks of his "second re-.
appearing to take the oath." It would
be a good thing if all his errors were
embraced in his syntax, for then the
country would be less burdened with
such a vast sin tax to support a war (Or
negro freedom.