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CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1865.
VOL. ll.-NO. 47.
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giusfacitf gjiwtorg.
IRVIN BROTHERS, Dealers in Square A Sawed
Lumber, Dry Goods, Groceries. Flour, Grain,
4c , Ac, Eurmiide Pa., Sept. 23, 1863.
REDERICK LFITZINGER, Manufacturer of
: II kinds of Stone-ware, Clearfield, Pa. Or
ders solicited wholesale or retail. Jan. 1, 1S83
CRANS A BARRETT, Attorneys at Law, Clear
field, Pa. May 13. 18t3.
i.. j. crans. ':::::: Walter barbett.
OBEliT J.WALLACE. Attorney at Law. Clear
field, Pa Office in Shaw's new row, Market
street, opposite Naugle s jewelry store May 2rt.
HF XAITGLE. Watch and Clock Maker, and
. dealer in Watches, Jewelry, &e. Room m
iirahaui s row, Market street. Nov. 10-
HBUCI1EU SWOOPE. Attorney at Law. Clear
. field. Pa. OfF.et inGraham'a Row. fuurdoo s
wetof Graham A Boynton's store. Xov. 10.
-Tr RT?WICK t 1IUSTON, Dealers in Drugs,
1 I Medicines. Paints. Oils, Stationary, Perfume
ry. Fancy Goods, Notions, etc., eta., Market street,
Clearfield, Pa. June 29- 1
7 ?
KRATZER, dealer in Dry Goods. Cloth-
visi" vs'&e. Front Street, above the Academy,
(ii;-oTi9ware. (iroceries. i i-
Cleat field. Pa. APr"
XJ I LLIAM F.IRWTN.Marketstreet, Clearfield.
W Pa., Dealer in Foreign and Domestic Mer
chandise. Hardware, Queensware, Groceries, and
family articles generally. Nov. 10.
JOHN GUELICII. Manufacturer of all kind.' ot
Cabinet-ware. Market street. Clearfield, Pa.
lie alsomakes to order Coffins, onshort notice, and
attends funerals with a hearse. AprlO.'oU.
TTR 31. WOODS, Practici.vo Phvsicias, and
J Examining Surgeon for Pensions.
Oftc. South-west corner of Second and Cherry
Sir t, Clearfield, Pa. January 21, IMS.
nHOMAS J. M'CCLLOUGII, Attorney at Law.
J Clearfield. Pa. Office, east of the "Clearfield
co. L;ii.k. Deeds and other legal instruments pre
pared with j-romptness and accuracy. July 3.
B MEN' ALLY, Attorney at Law. Clearfield,
p lr..t;.-.nq in Clearfield and adjoining
counties. Office :n no w brick building of J . Eoy a
t n. 31 stroot, one door south of Lanich'a Hotel.
7) rCUARD MOSSOP. Dealer in foreign and Lo
j V -nestle Dry Goods. Groceries, Flour. Bacon,
Liuuors. Ac. Room, on Market street, a few doors
rtel ot Journal Ojjicr- ClearSeli, Pa. Apr27.
f" .A 11 RIMER A TEcT, Attorneys at Law.Clear
IJ field. Pa. Will attend promptly to all legal
and other business entrusted to their care in Clear
eld and adjoining counties. August o, ISaS.
rpilOMAS W. .V.OOEE. Land Sr.rveyor and Con
J vcyaneer. 'ffice at his residence, 4 mile cast
of Pennvilla Postoffico address. Grampian Hills
Deeds and other instruments of writing neatly
executed. June 7th, lSia-ly.
"TM. ALBERT A BRO S, Dealers in Dry Goods,
V i rocerics, Hardware, Queensware. Flour,
Bacon, etc.. Woodland, Clearfield county, Penn a.
Also, exiensive dealers in all kinds of sawed lum
ber shingles, and square timber. Orders solici
ted. WoodlandAug. l'Jth, 1863.
AUCTIONEER. Tbe undersigned having
been Licensed an Auctioneer, would respect
fully inform the citizens of Clearfield county that
he will attend to the calling ot sales, in any part
of the county, w hen desired. Terms moderate.
Address Z. C M'CCLLOUGII.
June 14, liitia. Clearfield, Pa.
AUCTIONEER. The undersigned having
been Licensed an Auctioneer- would inform
the citiiens of Clearfield county that he will at
tend to calling sales, in any part of the county,
whenever called upon. Charges moderate
Address, J01IX M QUILKIX,
- May 13 Bower.l., Clearfield co.,Pa.
4 rCTIONELIt. The undersigned having
j been Licenced an Auctioneer, would inform
the citizens of Clearfield county that he will at
tend to calling sales, in any part of tie county,
whenever called upon. Charges moderate.
Address. NATHANIEL RISI1EL,
Feb. 22, 1 SCO. jTlearfield, Pa.
LIC ENS E 1 1 A TCTIO N E K It. WILLIAM
M BLOOM, of Pike township, desires to in
form his friends and the public generally that he
has taken out a License as an AUCTIONEER, and
will attend to the crying of sales in any part ot
the county at the shortest notice, and at the most
reasonable charges. Address, either personally
orbv letter, cither at Curweusville or Bloom
ingCiHe. ' May l 1365- tf-
BANK NOTICE.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, V
Office or the Comptroller of thb CrrtREScY,
Washington, Janruary 30th, ISnj. J
MIEREAS. BY SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE
H presented to the undersigned, ithaabeen
ma e to appear that "T HE FIRST NATIONAL
ISA ,K OF CLEARFIELD," in the Borough of
Clearfield, in the county of Clearfield, and State
ol Pennsylvania, has b en duly organized under
and according to the requirements of the Act of
Congress, entitled "An Act to provide a National
Currency, secured by a pledge of United States
bonds, and to provide for the circulation and re
demption thereof." approved June 3d, 1S64, and
has complied with .all the provisions of said Act
required to be complied with before commencing
the business of Banking under said Act ;
Now, therefore, I, Hugh McCuIloch, Comptrol
ler of the Currency, do hereby certify that "THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CLEARFIELD,'
in the Borough of Clearfield, in the county of
Clearfield, and Stale of Pennsylvania, is author
ised to commence the business of Banking under
the Act aforesaid
rrr-.. In testimony whereof, witness my
I Sea unhand and seal of office, this 30th day of
V7x"January, A. D. 1S65.
. HUGH McCULLOCn,
Feb. 8, 1865. Comptroller of the Currency.
SPECIAL NOTICE. All persons knowing
themselves indebted to the subscriber, either
J note or book account, are requested to pay up
immediately, as further indulgence cannot be
given. May27-p G. H. HALL.
FARMERS'
ACTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPA
NY OF YORK, FA. .
Insures against loss or damage by fire. It is the
safest company in the State, and uaa made no as
sessment since its establishment, and hence it is
the mod economical. .B. J. ROW, A gent
le 21, 1355. Clearfield, Pa.
Select iVctnj.
A LITTLE GE1L
There is a form of girlish mould.
Under the spread of the branches old.
At the well known beachen tree,
With the sunset lighting her tresses of gold.
And the breezes' waving them fold upon folcl,
Waiting for me.
There is the sweet voice, with caddnce deep.
Of one that sigheth our babe asleep.
And often turns to see
How the stars through the lattice begin to peep;
And watches the lazy dial creep,
Waiting for me.
Long since thoso locks are laid in the clay,
Long since that voice has passed away.
On earth no more to be ;
But still in the spirit world afar
She is still the dearest of those that are
Waiting for me.
COffffELLSVILLE EAILEOAD CASE.
Legislative Action Declared Unconstitution
al by Judge drier.
Yesterday morning Hon. Wilson M'Cand
less read in the United States Circuit Court,
the following opinion of Judge Grier, in the
case of the Mayor, &c of Baltimore vs. the
Connellsviiie and Southern Penns3rlvania
llailroad. The cane was argued before the
Circuit Court, at Williamsport, in June last,
and the decision was reserved until the
present time. As the case has excited con
siderable interest, we publish (he opinion of
the Court entire :
The single question for decision in this
case is correctly stated in the argument of
the learned counsel for the respondent, as
follows :
The charter of the Pittsburgh and Con
nollsville Itailroad Company contains the
following provision, viz: "If the said Com
pany shall at any time misuse or abuse any
ot the privileges herein granted, the Legis
lature may resume all and singular the rights
and privi'eges hereby granted to such cor
poration." Under this clause the Legislature, by an
act passed in 1SG4, revoked and resumed all
and singular rights and privileges granted to
said Company, so far as the same authoriz
ed it to construct any line or lines of rail
way southwardly or eastwardly from Con-
Is this repealing act repugnant to the
Constitution of the United States, on the
ground that it impairs the obligation of the
contract between the State and the company?
The objections made on the argument to
the form of the pleadings and rights of the
complainant to have the remedy sought in
his bill, will be found over-ruled in a similar
case by the Supreme Court. We refor to
the case of Dodge vs. AVolsey, 18th How
ard, MSG. In;; that place the complainant
was a stockholder in the corporation, whose
interests were likely to be injuriously affect
ed by the State legislation, if it should be
carried i ito effect. In this case the com
piainant is a creditor, who, on the faith of
legislative acts, granting certain franchises
and privileges to the Pittsburgh and Con
nellsviiie Itailroad Company, has advanced
large sums of money, which have been ex
pended in constructing their road. If that
corporation submit to this act of the Legis
lature, divesting them of a most valuable
part of their franchises, the security and
rights of the complainant would be materially
injured. The bill is in the nature of a bill
qtu'if timet, and the complainant has a right
to the remedy sought, if the Court should
be of the opinion that the act of 18G4 im
pairs the obligation of the original contract,
or act of incorporation granted to the Pitts
burgh and Connellsviiie llailroad Company.
The only question then is as to the validi
ty of the act. That the act repealing the
franchises of the corpoiation, or a material
part, and transferring its franchises and
property to another corporation without its
consent impairs the obligation of the orig
inal contract, is not, and cannot be denied.
Nor is it denied that an act granting corpor
ate privileges to a body of men who have pro
ceeded on the faith of it to subscribe stock
and bon ow money, and expend it in the
construction of a valuable public improve
ment, is a contract, and that it is not in the
power of either party to it to repudiate or
annul it without the consent of the other.
The State claims no sovereign power to
repudiate its contracts or defraud its citi
zens, and the Constitution delegates no such
power to the Legislature.
If in the act of incorporation the Legis
lature retains the absolute and uncondition
al power of revocation for any or no reason ;
if it be so written in the bond, the party ac
cepting a franchise on such conditions can
not complain if it be arbitarily revoked : or
if this contract be that the Legislature may
repeal the act whenever in its opinion the
corporation has misused or abused its priv
ileges, then the contract constitutes the Leg
islature the arbiter and judge of the exist
ence of that act. m
liut the case before us comes within
neither category. The contract does not
give an unconditional right to the Legisla
ture to repudiate its contract, nor is the
Legislature constituted the tribunal to ad
judge the question of fact as to the misuse
or abuse. Moreover the case before us ad
mits that the condition of facts upon which
the Legislature are authorized to repeal the
act, does not exist. It admits that the cor
poration has neither "misused or abused its
privileges." A charter may be vacated by
the decree of a judicial tribunal in a power
proceeding for that purpose, without any
such reservation in the act. Then both
parties are heard and a verdict of a jury on
the facts can be obtained, which concludes
the question. But the Legislature posses
eslno judiciaJ'authority under the constitu
tion, and has no established course of pro
ceedings in the exercise of euch power.
The party who is injured by its action is
not heard. The reasons usually alleged in
the preamble to such acts are the mere sug
gestions of some interested party, seeking
to speculate at the expense of otiiers pro
fessional solicitors who infest the lobby are
ever ready, for a sufficient consideration, to
impose on the good nature of honest but of
ten careless legislators, by the suggestion of
any necessary ialsehood.
If any one should feel curious as to the
methods used by agents of corporations to
obtain such legislative acts as- may be desi
rable, they will, find them fully exposed in
the opinion in the Supreme Court, deliver
ed in the case of Marshall vs. the Baltimore
and Ohio llailroad Company, 16th How
ard, 333.
We do not intend even to insinuate that
any such secret service by "skillful and un
scrupulous agents" tlstimvlated to active
partizanship Lj the strong lure of high prof
its" to use "most efficient means" to get.thc
vote "of the careless mass of legislators"
have been used in this case. But we do say
that the recitals in the preamble to this act
exhibit a labored attempt to justify a more
than doubtful exercise of power by an array
of reasons which, even if true in fact, mighj
be demurred to in law as insufficient.
The act doe's not contemplate the exer
cise of the right of domain by which the
property of individuals or corporations may
be taken for some public use on making am
ple compensation. Its object is to transfer
the franchises and property of one corpora
tion, anxious by every means in its power
to complete a valuable public improvement,
to another whose interest is not to complete
the road, and who are not icquired to do so
at any time in this or the next century.
Where in a case like the present the Legisla
ture are asked to take the property of one
corporant and give it up to auother on the
ground that one has abused or misused its
privileges, the just and proper mode would
be to pass a resolution ordering the Attorney-General
to institute the proper legal
proceedings to ascertain the fact of "misuse
or abuse." If such issue be found true
then that the charter be revoked or resum
ed. We do not say that without such ju
dicial proceedings ascertaining the existence
of the condition in which the right of re
peal is reserved, the act is absolutely void ;
out ice do sai that in all such cases the par
ty injured, if he denies the existence of such
"misuse or abu.se," utts a rignc to oe nearcj,
ntiA rn liavs that question .tried tefore ho !
nhrtll surrender his property or his franchise.
We do not thiuk it necessary to notice the
numerous and conflicting cases which have
been brought to our notice by the learned
counsel.
In the ease of the Erie and N. East R.
II. vs. Casey, 2Gth Pa. and 1st Grant, the
Court found, after a full hearing of the par
ties, that the fact of "misuse or abuse"
did exist, and therefore the act was not void.
It cannot, therefore, be any precedent for ,
a case which admits that such facts do not
exist. The principles of law, so far as they
affect this case, are very clearly and tersely
stated by Chief Justice Lewis, in his opin
ion to be found in 1st Grant, 275, with a re
view ot the cases and a proper appreciation
of that from Iowa.
The sum of the whole matter is this :
1. The complainant has shown a proper
case for the interference of the Court in his
favor.
2. That the act complained of is uncon
stitutional and void under the admissions of
the case.
3. The complainant is entitled to the de
cree of the Court on the pleadings as they
stand.
4. That the defendants have leave to
withdraw their demurrer and answer over ;
and if they shall so request, an issue will be
ordered to try whether the Pittsburgh and
Connellsviiie railroad have misused or abus
ed their charter.
I am authorized to say my brother 31'
Candless fully concurs in this opinion.
Bill dismissed to the Governor, as Lis
acts, can do neither harm nor good to either
party. Ilespondents have thirty days to
file, answer and request issue. If not done
in that time final decree according to the
prayer of the bill per curiam.
R. C. Guier.
The Country Gentleman says: Much has
been said about salting hay by different writ
ers, and many think that hay is as well and
even better without salt. We have not put
a lock of hay in our barn for some twen
ty years without applying six quarts of
salt to each ton of hay, which is about the
amount required by stock in the consump
tion of a ton of hay. The result has always
been, that our hay was as bright and fra
grant as tea, and I never had a lock of musty
hay. During haying last year, our hay was
cut, cured and got in the barn without a
drop of rain on it, and we thought in such
good condition we would omit the salt ; and
so we did, and what was the result? Well,
we have not used a lock of hay but what Li
more or less musty. For twenty years we
salted our hay and had the best of hay; and
one year we omitted the Ealt and had the
poorest hay. Hence the above remarks are
not predicted in one year's experience.
Queen Victoria is expected to go to Ger
many in August, where there is to be a fam
ily meeting, and the inauguration of a stat
ue to the late Frince Albert, for whom, as a
London high class journal said the other day,
''she is still pleased to mourn.""
The Erie, (Pa.) Observer says that H. D.
Sherman, of the famous "Sherman well,"
is reported to be worth. $7,000,000. Five
years ago he was a poor man. .
AND EE W JOHNSON'S POLICY.
There is the ring of an Old Hickory proc
lamation in all that Andrew Johnson says
and does, nis instructions to the Provis
ional Governors of the seceded States, his
address to delegations visiting him from
all sections of the Union, his platforms of
Restoration, and his letter to the people of
Gettysburg on the Fourth ot J uly are in
stances that inspire hopefulness in the coun
try and warrant the most exuberant
enthusiasm among all true men. Full
of fervor, free from fanaticism and firm in
the right path, Andrew J ohnson has evok
ed, as no President in thirty years has evok
ed, the grateful plaudits of a patriotic peo
ple. Looking to the restoration of the U
nion as "the primary object of patriotic de
sire," he distrusts rightfully all aspiring to
be his advisers, who "in any quarter, seek
to weaken its bonds. ' ' Believing 4 'the Con
stitution to be sacredly obligatory on all,"
and taking Washington's Farewell for his
guide, he evidently regards the theories of
fanatics as designed "to direct, control,
counteract, and awe the regular delibera
tions of the constituted authorities, as of
destructive and fatal tendency." He can
not fail to recognize in them an attempt "to
organize a faction to secure an artificial and
extraordinary force ; to put in tie place of
tfie delegated ic ill of the nation, the icill of a
small but artful and enterprising minority,
and to make the Administration the mirror of
trie luconcerted and incongruous jrojects of
faction, rather tlfxn the organ of consistant
and tcholsom jlans, digested by common
councils andmodijied by mutual interests."
In a word, with the warning of the na
tion's Father before him, he must see in the
Crongressional combinations and associa
tions which are besetting him at every turn,
the "engines by which cunning, ambitious
and unprincipled men will be enabled to
subvert the power of the people, and usurp
for themselves the reins of government."
His Gettysburg letter is characteristic
-tt,or, onV IT.nlM IUV al,Vv..-F
probation accorded it. Eminent in its pa
triotism and exalted in its appreciation of
the grand and beneficent fruits of our re
cent struggle, it has also a crowning merit in
its fidelity to our race, in its fealty to the
poor white man of the South, from which
class the President sprung. With the tones
of a true man and ths admonition of afath
er.he addresses his countrymen as follows :
. "Since I have seen the love our fellow-citizens
bear their country, and the sacrifices
they have made for it, my abiding faith has
become stronger than ever that a govern
ment of the people is the strongest as
well as the best of governments. In your
joy to-morrow 1 trust you will not forget
the thousands of whites as well as blaclis
wliom the war has emancipated who trill
hail this Fourth of July with a delight which
no jirevious anniversary of the declaration
of Independence ever gave them. Control
led so long by ambitious, selfish leaders, who
used them for their own unworthy ends,
they are now free to serve and cherish the
Government against whose life they in their
blindness struck. I am greatly mistaken if
in the States lately in rebellion we do not
henceforth have an exebition of such loyalty
and patriotism as was never seen or felt
there before. When you have consecrated
a national cemetery you are to lay the corner
stone of a national monument which in all
human probability' will rise to the full height
and proportion of your design. Noble as
this monument of stone may be, it will be
but a faint symbol of the grand monument
which, if we do our duty, we shall raise a
mong the nations of the earth upon the
foundation laid nine and eighty years ago in
Philadelphia. Time shall wear away and
crumble this monument, but that based as
it is upon the consent, virtue, patriotism
and intelligence of the people, each year
shall make fiimer and more imposing."
There is the ring cf manhood in this and
of its synonym sterling patriotism. He
has no concealment of opinion with' which to
delude the populace. Looking the nation
straight in the eye, he speaks his thoughts
and his inspirations with an earnestness
and a heroism that are not to be mistaken.
Free from mawkish sentimentality, and ex
empt from the fanaticism that expends its
sympathies on the negro, while the poor and
humble of our own race are bowed in suffer
ing and misfortune, Andrew J ohnson in
vokes the brotherhood of the nation in be
half of the latter, and predicts from its re
cipients "an exhibition of such loyalty and
patriotism as one never seen or felt there
before." And-his prediction will be fulfilled.
Wade Hampton, in a long letter to the
New York Day Book, dated at Columbia,
S. C, June 19th, attacks Gen. Sherman's
official report of his march through the Car
olinas, as "misrepresenting him in the
grossest and falsest manner." Gen. Sher
man, it will be recollected, charged Gen.
Hampton with being the main instrument
in burning Columbia, S. C. Hampton de
nies all this, and charges Gen. Sherman with
burning the city and allowing all sorts of
atrocities to be perpetrated upon the inhabitant.
Base Ingratitude What Two Massachu
Betts Abolitionists Did.
On Sunday afternoon last, while the still
ness of the sultry Sabbath air wasjbroken by
the pealing ot bells, we witnessed a scene on
Bay street that is worthy of reccord, and tor
two reasons ; first, to show the cruelty and
and ingratitude of one class, and to reveal
the Christian, forgiving spirit ot auother
much abused race ot people. I he sun pour
ed down its fierce rays with an intensity
that caused man and animal to swelterwhile
striving to seek a cool retreat. The streets
were hot and dusty, and all nature seemed
parched and in a feverish condition. At
the foot of a tree on Bay street two parolled
Confederate soldiers reclined in the shade,
both of them clad in the filthy and ragged
uniform that is so repulsive to the eye.
These poor, jaded privates had just ar
rived on one of the steamers from Augusta,
and were on their way home in the interior
of the State. They were greasy, dirty, des
pondent, hungry and exhausted. A great
many people walked leasurely past the spot
where these inendless and pennyless soldiers
were seated, but watched closely to see how
mauy of the most blatant and viudictive
Rebels would approach the poor fellows, for
we felt that indeed it was a pittiable picture
that must appeal to the generous sympathy
ot evcy passer-by.
We saw quite a number of noted Seces
sionists stroll leasurely along the hot pave
ments, and as they passed, gave a careless
glance at the half famished men, but to their
great shame be it said, not one otthem had
enough of the milk of human kindness flow
ing through his bosom to prompt them to
speak to their sunenng leliow-men, men
whom we shortly afterwards learned were
forced into the rebel service to fight against
a benign and glorious Government that had
always protected them. The church bells
tolled their soothing invitations and sum
moned Christians to the temples of Divine
worship, but no one came to those sick and
feeble soldiers to offer as mucb as a
word of sympathy.
A couple of noted and detested Massachu
setts Abolitionists happened to notice a
group of Yankee soldiers in conversation
with their unfortunate and defeated enemies
and supposing the Rebels were sick, they
stepped up to offer assistance. One poor
fellow was just able to tell that he was suf
fering from a protracted fever, and a severe
attack of chronic diarrhoea, while his sunken
ly of nature's final surrender.
The Abolitionists hastened to an adjoining
building and procured a tumbler of fine
sherry wiac, and the prostrated men speed
ily drankthe contents and soon felt sufficient
ly revived to walk a short distance, when
Massachusetts number two escorted them to
an eating saloon, paid for their meal.-5, gave
them some money and departed. The as
tonished men were very anxious to know if
their generous donors were Southern men,
and thev were eajrer to ascertain their names.
The only reply that they received was a mag
nanimous one, according to the mode or
reasoning. "Nevermind the name. We
G mw . .11".. -.1
are men, .Massachusetts ivnoinionisis, wno
have been nghting you lor lour long years,
but the State we hail from has taught her
sons to practice humanity, and that is all
we have done for you. Our creed is to help
our fellow-men whenever we see them in
distress, if we are able. You two men are
privates, and though we have been your en
emies in the field, yet we entertain no hostile
feeling towards any of you now. Our ha
tred and contempt is reserved for the real
guilty ones, the educated, arrogant leaders
who, by their influence, forced such men as
you to battle for a cause which, if success
ful, would only have wrought the chains of
bondage for the poor whites ot the couth.
We have no names to give you, but if any
one asks you who befriended j'ou in your
dark hours of sickness and adversity tell
them two rabid Massachusetts mudsills or
Abolitionists," and saying this with deep
earnestness, the two 1 ankees disappeared,
leaving the grateful hungry Confederates to
enjoy what the soldiers call in the army ver
nacular "a good, square meal," and most
probably the first one these famished men
had tasted for years.
Now that Is the kind of Abolitionism we
like to read about, and doubtless a great
many ot our readers who have been very
willing to believe all the Rebel press have
said about the natural instincts of barbar
ism that dwell in Yankee hearts, will now go
into a fit of hysterics because we have dared
to reveal the particulars of this atrocious
Yankee outrage.
We know one thing, and that is, this lit
tle incident ought to refute the calumnious
charges we so often hear on the streets, in
the drawing room, and even at the public
tables of our hotels in regard to ankec
measures. Here was a strong case for the
exercise of charity, but it was left for Mas
sachusetts men to relieve the wants of two
sick and suffering Confederate soldiers in
the Secession city of Savannah.
It is a glorioift ign of the return of that
fraternal spirit which ought to exist forever
between the two sections of our land, and
we wait for similar manifestations from
Southerners who have been Secessionists.
This incident aptly illustrates the universal
spirit of the Northern people towards the
South, for Gov. Johnson corroborated it, and
hundreds of others confirm the statement.
Then why is it that such obstinate, vindic
tive, unrelenting spirit of hatred is exhibit
ed towards Northern people by the majority
of the Southerners? Is it not high time to
bury the axe, forget the past and link our
selves together in the bonds of fraternity,
and live encompassed with friendship's sa
cred tie ? Who says no ? Savannah Re
publican, July 8.
G. P. Reed, editor of the Indiana Amer
ican, died suddenly in Indiana county, on the
10th inst. He "w-as a faithful man. esteem
ed by all who knew him.
EAPID PE0GEESS OF BETJNI0N.
It is related when De Witt Clinton pro
jected his great canal, one of the doubting
philosophers, who are always ready to hang
on the wheels of progress, commenced writ
ing a scries of essays to prove the impracti
cability of the idea ; but, before he got more
than halfway through, the feasibility of the
work was established and a good part of the
canal actually completed. It looks now as
if President Johnson's plan of establishing
republican government in the heretofore
seeeeded States would be consummated
long before Wendel Phillips had got through
with his harrangucs, or his newspaper
champions had deployed their heavy col
umns of attack and misrepresentations. It
is neither to be expected nor desired th:tt
the government hhould be rebuilt from the
fragments of the rebellion as rapidly as old
institutions have bcefl torn down; but noth
ing is more surprising than to note how
quickly the thoughts enunciated and the
remadies suggested by President Johnson
have been caught up and carried out by the
Southern people. That there was great and
immediate need for help and food in every
neighborhood, and a live and pressing ne
cessity for muiiinclpal, county, and State
governments, is clear, and these imperative
demands forced prompt action, and compel
led improvised arrangments ; but that out of
all this chaos, in so short a period of time,
should grow what promises to be orderly and
systematic customs aud laws, may well be
classed among the wonders of the age. The
correspondent of the New York World,
writing to that paper from Savannah, Geor
gia, thus glowingly describes a receut visit
to the famous Sea Islands, and at the same
time vindicates the employment of compen
sated free negro labor under the system en
couraged by the administration of President
Johnson :
The condition of the island along this coast
is now ot the greatest interest to the world
at larcc, and to the people of the South in
particular. Upon caref ul inquiry, I find
acres of land under cultivation by free labor.
The enterprises are mostly by Northern men,
although there are natives working their
neerroes under the new system, and negroes
who are working land on their own account.
This is the third year of the trial, and every
year has been a success more and more com
plete. 1 he profits ot some ot the laborers
amount to five hundred, and in some cases,
five thousand dollars a year. The amount of
money deposited in bank by the negroes of
these islands, is a hundred and forty thou
sand dollars. One joint subscription to the
beven-tlnrty loan, amounted to eighty thou
sand dollars. Notwithstanding the fact
thatf the troops which landed on the
island robbed indiscriminately the negroes
of their money, mules, and supplies, the
negroes went back to work again. General
Saxton, who has chief charge of this enter
prise, has his hcadqaurters at Beaufort. If
these lacts, and the actual prosper
ity of these islands could be generally known
throughout the South, it would do more to
induce the whites to take hold of the free-
labor svstem than all the ceneral orders and
arbitrary commands thatGencral Hatch has
issued.
Bear in mind that it is only a little more
than three months since the surrender of
Lee and the beginning of the catastrophe
which crushed the rebellious hosts. With
in that period the most balefull and gloomy
prophecies have been uttered and disprov
ed. Our mighty army has rcturnd home
and assumed the garb and customs of pri
vate life. With singular rapidity our navy
has been dismantled. The vast mass of
material left by the war is being gradually
disposed of. The troops that are held are
sent forward to garrison far off frontiers or
distributed at different rosts throughout the
conquered sections. Although the com
mencement of reconstruction has not been
so smooth perhaps as the change of a civil
administration after a peaceful election, it
has nevertheless worked with admirable effi
ciency. Not a Governor appointed by Pres
ident Johnson has refused to carry out hia
instructions ; not one has proved to be
treacherous incompetant. All of them men
of mark and ability, they have set to work
in good heart and hope ; and whether it is
in North Carolina, under Holdcn ; in Mis
sissippi, under Sharkey ; in Georgia, under
Johnson ; we hear nothing but what is aus
picious. When the great empire of Texas
feels the 6trong and healthy influence of A
lexander Jackson Hamilton who, unlike
the provisional Governors appointed for the
States refered to, finds fertile fields, count
less flocks, almost illimitable harvests, with
a people mostly strangers to war, save in the
loss of those who went forth to fight in the
rebellion we shall have a still stronger ev
dence of the irresistable power of the Nation
al Government, and a yet more triumphant
trophy of the practicability and humanity of
the policy of Piesident Johnsen.
Col. W. H. Markle, of Westmoreland
county, is recommended by the Indiana
Weekly Register, as suitable candidate for
Surveyor General.
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