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Ineligibility of A. T. Stewart.
' rFince the confirniKtion of the Cabinet ap
pointnienU, it has been discovered that, ac
cording to the Treasury Act of 1789, Hon.
A. T. Stewart is ineligible to the position of
Secretary of the Treasury that act specify
ing that no pemon concerned or interested in
carrying on business of trade or commerce,
on land or in vessel, shall be appointed to
said office. President Grant, upon being in
formed of this fact, at once sent a message
to Congress asking for the passage of a joint
resolution exempting Mr. Stewart from the
operations of said act. A bill, for the re
peal of mo much of the act as to enable Mr.
S. to hold the position, was introduced into
the Senate, but it is doubtful whether it can
be carried through both Houjcs many of
the members being averse to meddling with
so important a provision of the Treasury
law. It is presumed, however, that Mr.
Stewart will resign before action can be had
on the bill.
The Indiana Muss. The Democrats of
the Indiaua House of Representatives
"bolted" the other day in order to prevent
the ratification of the Constitutional Amend
ment by that State that is, they resigned !
their places and thus deprived the House of
the Constitutional quorum of three-fifths.
Governor Bakek has ordered an election to
fill the vacancies thus occasioned, to be held
on the 23d of this month. A special session
of the legislature will be held in April, when
the Amendment is to be acted on. Although
the action of the Democratic bolters is inex
cusable, the result of their action is not un
desirable. The new members will be elec
ted with special reference to this issue,
and thus the verdict that will be given,
whatever it may be, will come more directly
from the people than would otherwise be
the case; and this,on the Democratic theory,
must always be a gain.
A Worthy Record. The Fortieth Con
gress has passed into history, with its last
hours signalized by such a decisively em
phatic proclamation of an Inviolate Public
Faith, asto disarm the criticism which might
point to its short-comings upon other cjues
tions of deep interest to the country. The
broad, cloar terms in which it affirmed, on
Wdnedey last, the plainest of the public
obligations to all creditors who have trusted
the public faith, will put a final end to the
infamously impudent quackery of "green
backs for bonds." When Congress declares
that the public creditor will be paid exactly
as ea.di party understood the contract when
the obligation was incurred, that simply just
enunciation was in itself a splendid triumph
over the most insidious, and therefore the
most dangerous of temptations. Let hon
esty be honored I
The Lkoal Tenders. The Supreme
Court seems to be cautiously paving its way
to a fin! decision upon the Legal-tender Act.
First, it held, iu the Oregon case, that State
taxes may be made specifically payable in
coin; next, that private contracts, ante-dating
the law and made similarly payable, may
be enforced, and now, in the case from Bal
timore, on Monday, March 1st, that the law
not only does not prohibit but impliedly
sanctions the validity of such contracts made
since. After the Court shall have thus ex
hausted the wide range of exceptions to the
operations of the act, it will leave so little
of its body remaining that the remnant may
be squarely endorsed without any terrible
fahock to public or private finances.
Kl.ECTtoss. At an election for council
rnau, in the Stb ward, Harruburg, ou Wed
nesday, March 3d, Patrick Ryan, Republi
can, waa elected by 5 majority. In Octqber,
1S0S, the Democratic majority was 110. A
Republican victory.
The city election in Des Moines, Iowa, on
Monday, March lit, resulted in the choice
of J. H. Hatch, Republican, for Mayor,
over ShatTord. Democrat, the present incum
bent, by 35 majority. Most of tbe city
officers arc Republicans.
The Prune Debt. Secretary M'Cul
locV statement pf the public debt for
MareV lit, should not be overlooked in the
general interest attending- the inauguration.
It happily presents adecreas in the burden
of nearly eltven million of dollars during
the past mooth, while the vaults of the
Treasury are cttut&rtabiy lined with nearly
one hundred millions of dollars in coin, to
gether with a moderate fortune of currency.
A Pardon Stopped. The day bctore
Mr. Johnson went out of offiee, he pardoned
the twojhipuys, of New York, eonricted of
fraud in wh.ii.kcy. A protest having been
entered by Mr. Uoliios against this proceed
ing, the Secretary of State, by order of the
President, revoked the pardons, and the
prisoner remain in duress.
Promoted. W. T. Sherman has been
made General of the Army; Philip II. Sher
idan, Lieutenant General ; John Schoficld,
JIajor General; and C. C. Augur, Brigadier
General These promotions will content both
the army and the people.
Tor Scffraue Amendment. The 15th
Articleto the National Constitution, has al
ready been ratified by the Legislatures of
eight Sure, to wit: Kansas, Louisiana,
?ltsscmri, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, Wis
consin, West Virginia.
Hon. Olunibus Delano has been appoint
ed Commissioner of Internal Revenue, by
Tha He Cabinet.
On Friday last President Grant nomina
ted to the Senate the following Cabinet offi
cers:
Secretary of State E. B. W.4SHBCRNE,
of Illinois.
Secretary of the Treasury A- T. STEW
art. of New York.
Secretary of War J. M. ScHOFlELD, of
Illinois.
Secretary of the Xa vy ADOLPH BoRIE of
Pennsylvania.
Secretary of the Interior. J. D. Cox, of
Ohio.
Postmaster General 3. A. J. Cress-
well, of Maryland.
Attorney General VL. R. HoARE, of
M sachusctt&
As some of these men are but little known
to a large majority of the people, the follow
ing brief sketches,takcn from the Pittsburgh
Commercial, may be of general interest
In selecting Mr. Washburne to be Secre
tary of State, the President has done what
almost any man would have done, who re'
alized the importance of having first among
his counsellors one in whom he had learned
to repose implicit confidence as more than
a friend, and who at the same time was ful
ly equal to the position selected for him to
occupy. Mr. Washburne, besides being ful
ly equal to the post of Premier, from his
long continuance at the capital probably
knows the public service as well as any man
od the present stage of action. There is em
inent fitness in this selection, and it is a good
start in the formation of a Cabinet devoted
wholly to the public good. In a political
sense, Mr, washburne is a representative
Radical of the advanced school, and this
fact probably President Grant took fully in
to the account when he chose hiui for the
first position in his Cabinet.
If to be successful in financial and busi-
liesd affairs, beyond almost any other man
in our country, is proof of capacity and fit
ness, then is the selection of A. T. Stewart,
the great New York Merchant, for Secreta
ly of the Treasury, eminently wise. In his
own business and in his relations with the
business and financial world, he has showu j
skill and intelligence which few who have fil
led the post of Financial Secretary have
equalled and none surpassed. Mr. Stewart
u not a mere merchant. In the manage
ment of his vast business the greatest of
anyjangle individual in the country he has
cultivated the habit of viewing questions re
lating to public affairs, especially the finan
ces, in a broad, comprehensive light, philo
sophically as well as practically, theoreti
cally as well as in detail. To him many
things that to most of men would seem of
stupendous proportions, are matters of ev
ery day thought and action. Few men in
our country know so well the moneyed
world or have so good a standing in it as
Mr. Stewart, and if he will consent to give
his powers and time to the affairs centering
in the Treasury, even till our Finances have
been brought into a stable system, Presi
dent Grant will have made a most fortunate
selection in naming Mr. Stewart.
The naming ot Gen. Schofield to fill tem
porarily the rost ofSecretary of War, was a
compliment due to his faithfulness in that
and every other position to which he had
been called. It is understood that he will
shortly resign.
Adolph Borie, for Secretary ot the Navy,
is a new man in public life. He is little
known outside of the business circles of
Philadelphia, where he has long resided. and
is esteemed as a solid and successful busi
ness man and worthy citizen. Gen Grant's
intimate personal acquaintance with him
probably enabled him to perceive in Mr.
Borie the qualities of intelligence and fidel
ity, joined to executive ability, which he
was chiefly anxious to introduce into his
Cabinet. Although Mr. Borie is a pronoun
ced Republican, he doubtless was invited to
a seat in the Cabinet for other than politi
cal reasons.
The selection of Ex-Govenor Cox,ofOhio,
for Secretary of the Interior, all who know
his firtt-class abilities, high-toned charac
ter, liberal culture, and perfect fidelity to
every trust, not to speak of his services in
the war, will applaud most cordially. The
indorsement which he has secured at the
hands of the Republican party of Ohio, set
tles his political orthodoxy. We doubt not
President Grant selected him with special
reference to his known fitness for the very
responsible potation of Minister of the Inte
rior, and for his aggressive hostility to
wrong and every description of corruption,
and especially to the rings which have come
to roost in the Interior Department. Ex
Governor Cox is a man of sound practical
statemanship, and his appointment is an
other proof of Gen. Grant's ability to select
the right men for responsible ositions.
The selection of Ex-Senator Cresswell, of
Maryland, for Postmaster General, while it
secure the services of a gentleman thor
oughly competent to fill the position, is a
proper recognition of the claims put forth
by the gallant Republicans of that State and
the South. He is well known to the coun
try tor practical statemanship rnd unswer
ving patriotism, not in sunshiue merely; for
in common with the gallant Republicans ot
Maryland he has been tried in an ordeal to
which scarcely another State has been sub
jected.
J mitre Hoare, who has been named for
the Attorney Generalship, is one of the
foremost men of the legal profession in Mas
saebusetts. Standing deservedly high as
a jurist, his name is honored throughout all
New England and the country at large, for
its association w ith liberal sentiments, pure
patriotism, personal integrity and sterling
worth. He is a good type of the New Eng
land character, and will bring to the dis
charge of his duties the highest persona
qualities, large experience and great learn
ing. Thus it will be seen that the Cabinet is
thoroughly Republican, every memler, with
the exception or Mr. Stewart, perhaps, hav
ing been identified with the Republican par
ty from the start were earnest supporters of
Mr. Lincoln while he lived, and no less ear
nest supporters of Gen. Grant in the late
Presidential canvass. As a supporter of the
war, from the firing of the first gun to tha
surrender of the rebels, Mr. Stewart can
show a record which no civilian can over
the principles of the Republican party as
General Grant himself..
The Cabinet may not?at first please the
class denominated politicians, but it will,
in all probability, be acceptable to the mass
of the people feeling assured that the new
President has made his selections with .a' view
to honesty and capability, and to the general
good and prosperity of the whole country.
Terrible Death-Bed Scene. Mention
has already been made relative to the death,
in Patterson, N. J., of Mr. Eckerson. The
Patterson Guardian gives the following ad
ditional facts: "A neighbor who was engag
ed holding Mr. Eckerson after the symp
toms of hydrophobia began to manifest it
self, gives a touching incident of the last
scenes. Just before his death, while tem
porarily relieved from violent spasmodic
struggels, Mr. Eckerson desired to see his
wife before his death. Requiring from four
to six men to hold hira all the time, of course
it was not prudent, his wi'e being ill in the
other room, and even if she were able, it was
thonght his dreadful condition, held by men
all the while to prevent instant injury from
his sudden fits or spasms, might make her
woie. He begged and continued to entreat
them to let bim look upon his wife once more
before he died, and finally his friends and
neighbors could hold out no longer, and con
sented to take him to her, he expecting to
die in the next spasm, which he knew would
not be long delayed. He carefully wiped
off the froth which was foamin? all the
while from bis mouth, lest any of it should
get upon her, and closing his lips tightly
ith a desperate effort, was borne to her
bedside. Bending down, his lips met those
he hhd so often kissed in joy, love and holy
affection. And then with one long look up
on a face he well knew he ought not to ask
to see again, he bade her a last adieu. The
strong men who gazed upon the scene wept
like children as they saw the dying man,
who with lips still compressed, signified the
necessity of being removed again from her
presence, and was then ready to die. Short
ly afterwards, in renewed paroxysms of the
dreadful complaint, death came to his re
lief.
'Actions Speak Louder tban Words."
If we are to judge the President's future
course by his first acts upon assuming office,
we are not permitted to doubt what it will
be. That portion of the public who have
been clamoring for some evidence of his real
sentiments are doubtless satisfied by this
time. What with his sharply outlined ad
dress, and his disposition of the depart
mental commanders, there is little room left
for doubt, either as to his convictions or in
tentions. Sherman has been made General ;
Sheridan Lieutenant General, and sent back
to New Orleans ; Terry sent to the Depart
ment of the South ; Reynolds to Texas ;
Canby brought to Virginia ; Hancock or
dered to the Department of Dakotah ; Gil
lem sent to his regiment, and affairs relating
to reconstruction so far as possible restored
to the condition they were in when Grant,
according fully with Congress, ceased to have
have his way. At a single stroke, the Pres
ident wipes out, as far as lies in his power,
the evil resulting from the mal-administra-tion
of his predecessor, and furnishes ns
another illustration of the inflexible will
which characterized the man who hammered
away until he pulverized Lee's forces. And
in this way we shall have peace.
The Indian War, It is reported that
notwithstanding the recent severe punish
ment of the Indians on the Wachita river,
there are now about two hundred lodges of
Cheyenues, ninety lodges of Arapahoes.and
sixty lodges of Camanches on the war path,
together with a few Apaches and a few Kaws
and Dog Soldiers under Tall Bull, the chief
of the band, numbering in all about one
thousand warriors. General Sheridan, it
is stated, has given orders for the disposi
tion of his troops in such a way as to drive
the hostile Indians towards one common
centre, till one or all the commands can
reach and punish them, or compel a surren
der and submission to settlement on their
reservations on the terms proposed by the
Government. Dispatches received in San
Francisco from the Territory of Arizona
state that the Apache Indians were commit
ting depredations in every direction, and
that the troops were unable to pursue them
on account ot the condition of the roads
from recent rains.
A New State. The Senate of Wiscon
sin has passed a resolution civinir the as.
sent of that State to the formation of a new
State
from that portion of Wisconsin lying
north of the line commencing at the mouth
otthe Menominee River, thence running up
the centre or said river until it strikes the
dividing line of townships number 30 and 31
(per Lapham s map of Winconsin), thence
west on said line to the centre of the Mis
sissippi river, and that portion of the State
of Michigan bordering on the same, and on
Lake Superior and Michigan and Green
Bay." The population of the territory pro
posed to be ceded is very sparse ; but the
country is covered with dense forests of pine.
For agricultural purposes it is not regarded
as worth much, but for lumber it is of great
value, lhe Upper Peninsula of Michigan,
called the Lake Superior region, it is pro
posed to unite with the Wisconsin cession.
The two will make a State of about the area
of Indiana.
The Philadelphia 1'rcss corrects a number
of exchanges for terming A. J.'s affecting
farewell address a Parthian shot. The ex
ception is well taken. But the Pre forgot
to give a better name to the "address." We
supply it. It is, correctly speaking, a very
happy imitation of a boomerang, a weapon
that often proves most disastrous to the
pwkward or inexperienced marksmen who
use it. Commercial.
Johnson. It is a matter of sincere con
gratulation among all good people that the
reign of this prince of demagogues is ended.
Andrew Johnsou is once moie an "humble
individual" so "humble" indeed that the
meaner citizen of the Republic is more than
his equal. May th people of the United
States never again be afflicted with a similar
scourge.
slthv exercise ra5Jroadia on foot.
The LoatlgTiration,
The inauguration of President Graut was
indeed a gala day for Washington city. The
concourse of people is admitted to have been
the largest ever assembled to witness an in
auguration. The streets, and every availa
ble position, were one mass of liviug beings.
At 10 o'clock the procession formed, and
reached the Capitol about 12 M. The scene
from the capitol, as the brilliant procession
came up the avenue, is described as beauti
ful beyond conception. But we have not
space to give a more extended account of the
procession suffice it to say that it was the
most grand and imposing demonstration ever
witnessed in the country.
At precisely 12, m. the XLth Congress
adjourned tine die. All present then went
to the Senate Chamber. Vice-President
Colfax at Once appeared at the President's
desk and read in a loud and distinct voice the
following brief inaugural, after which the
oath of office was administered to him
Mr. Wade :
Senators : In entering upon the duties
of this chamber, to the performance cf
wnicn i nave been called by the people ot
the United States, I realize fully the delicacy
as wen as tne responsibility ot the position.
Presiding over a bodv whose members are in
so large a degree my seniors in age, not cho
sen Dy the DOJy itself, 1 snail certainly need
tne assistance of your support and your gen
erous torbearanco and confidence. But
pledging to you all a faithful and inflexible
impartiality in the administration of your
rules, ana earnestly desiring to co-operate
with you in tnakinsr the deliberations of the
senate worthy, not only of its historic re
nown, out also ot those states whose com
missions you hold, 1 am now ready to take
the oath of othce required by law.
The inaugural procession then proceeded
from the Senate Chamber to the eastern
portico, where the oath of office was admin
istered to the future Chief Magistrate of the
nation by Chief-Justice Chase ; after which
he read the following
INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
Citizen of the United States: Your suf
frages having elected me to the office of
President of the United States, I have in
conformity with the Constitution of our
country, taken this oath without mental res
ervation, and with the determination to do,
to the best of my ability, all that it requires
of me.
T he responsibilities of the position I feel,
but accept them without fear. The office
has come to me unsought; 1 commence its
duties untrammcled. I bring to it consci
entious desire and determination to fill it to
the best of my ability and to the satisfaction of
the people. Ou all leading questions agita
ting the public mind I will always express
my views to Uongress, and urge them ac
cording to my judgement, and when I think
it advisable will exercise the constitutional
privilege of interposing a veto to defeat
measures which 1 oppose. But all laws
will be faithfully executed, whether they
meet my approval or not.
1 shall on all subjects have a policy to rec
ommend, none to enforce against the will of
the people. Laws are to govern all alike
those opposed to, as welt as those in favor
of thc:y. . I know tro method to secure the
repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective
as their stringent execution.
The country having just emerged from a
great Rebellion many questions will come
before it for settlement in the next four
yoars, which preceding Administrations
have never had to deal with. In meeting
these it is desirable that they should be ap
proached calmly, without prejudice, hate.
or sectional pride, remembering thai the
greatest good to the greatest number
is the object to be attained. This re
quires security of person and property, and
for religious and political opinion in every
part of our common country, without regard
to local prejudice. All laws to secure this
end will receive my best efforts for their en
forcement.
A great debt has been contracted in secu
ring to us and our posterity the Union. The
payment of this, principal and interest, as
well as the return to a specie basis, as soon
as it can be accomplished without material
detriment to the debtor class or to the coun
try at large, must be provided for.
To protect the national honor every dol
lar of the Government indebtedness should
be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly
tipulat.d in the contract. Let it be under
stood that no repudiator of one farthing of
our public debt will be trusted m public
place, and it will go far towards strengthen
ing a credit which ought to.be the best in the
world, and will ultimately enable ns to re
place the debt with bonds bearing less inter
est than we now pay. To this shall be ad
ded a faithful collection of the rcveuue ; a
strict accountability to the Treasury for ev
ery dollar collected, and the greatest prac
ticable retrenchment in expenditures in ev
ery department of Government. .
Wheu we compare the faying capacity of
the country now, with ten States still in pov
erty from the effects of the war, but soon to
emerge, I trust, into greater prosperity than
ever before, with its paying capacity twen
ty-five years ago,and calculate what it prob
ably will be twenty-five years hence, who
can doubt the feasibilty of paying every dol
lar then with more ease than we now pay for
useless luxuries ? Why, it looks as though
. ...
t ruvidence baj bestowed upon us a strong
box, the precious metals locked up in the
sterile mountains of the far West, which we
are now forging the key to unlock, to meet
the very contingency that is now upou us.
Ultimately it maybe necessary to increase
the facilities to reach these riches, and it
may be necessary alaothat the General Gov
ernment should give its id to secure this
access. But that should only be when a
dollar of obligation to pay secures precisely
the same sort of dollar in use now, and not
before.
While the question of specie payments is
in abeyance, the prudent business man is
careful about contracting debts payable in
the distant future ; the nation should fol
low the same rule. A prostrate commerce
is to be rebuilt, and all industries encouraged.
The young men of the couctry those who
form this age and must be rulers .twenty
five years hence have a peculiar interest
in maintaining the national honor, A mo
ment's refection upou what will be ourooaj
manding influence among the nations of the
earth in their day, if they are only true to
themselves, should inspire them with na
tional pride. All divisions, geographical, po
litical and religious, can join in the common
sentiment
. How the public debt is to be paid , or specie
payments resumed, is not so importaot as
that a plan should be adopted and acquiesced
in. . A united determination to do is worth
more tban divided counsels upon the method
of doiug. Legislation on this subject may
not be necessary now, nor even advisable.but
it will be when the civil law is more fully re
stored in all parts of the country, and trade
resumes its wonted channels. It will be my
endeavor to execute all laws in good faith
to collect all revenues assessed, and to have
them properly accounted for and econonii
cally disbursed. I will, to the best of my
ability, appoint to office only those who will
carry out this design.
In regard to foreign policy, I would dea!
with nations as equitable law requires indi
viduals to deal with each other, and I would
protect the law-abiding citizen, whether of
native or of foreign birth, wherever his rights
are jeopardized, or the flag of our country
floats. I would respect the rights of all na
tions, demanding equal respect for our own.
If others depart from this rule in their deal
ings with us, we may be compelled to follow
their precedent.
The proper treatment of the original oc
cu pants ot this land, the Indians, is one de
serving of careful consideration. I will favor
any course toward them which tends to their
civilization, Christianzation, and ultimate
citizenship.
The question of suffrage is one which is
likely to agitate the public so long as a por
tion of the citizens of the nation are exclud
ed from its privileges in any State. It seems
to me very desirable that this question should
be settled now,and I entertain the hope, and
express the desire, that it may be, by the
ratification of the Fifteenth Article of the
Amendment to the Constitution.
In conclusion, I ask patient forbearance,
one toward another, tbronghout the land,
and a determined effort on the part of every
citizen to do his share toward cementing a
happy union, and I ask the prayers of the
uation to Almighty God in behalf of this
happy consummation.
Exit Johnson.
The loyal people of the United States, with
but few exceptions, have now heard of the
withdrawal of Andrew Johnson from the
Presidency to private life, where he can be
gin again, it ne sees nt, as ' alderman ot a
village," that upward career which has now
drawn to its unregretled close. That this
last stage in Johnson's official progress has
been no more creditable to him and satis
factory to the people was owing wholly to
himself, is apparent to every dispassionate
observer. All that an able, public spirited
man wants in this life is an opportunity,
Ana wnat man ever nao a oetter ana more
. , . . , . .
glorious opportunity than Andrew Johnson ?
When the sudden removal of Abraham Lin
coln called him to the Presidential Chair,
the war bad ended, the exultation of the
North was tempered by the uncertainties
caused by the assassination, while the South
by that event was humiliated to the utmost
degree of docility. At that juncture a pa
triotic President of but fair talents and
steady self-control would have had the way
open to him of speedily reconstructing the
Union on a just basis, to the entire satisfac
tion of all well-disposed citizens.
It was even true that the accession of Mr.
T 1 . . ...
onnson, alter it. Decame inevitable, was
positively hailed by a large section of thj
Republican party, who had feared that Mr.
Lincoln was too tenderly disposed toward the
rebels, whom, it was thought, Mr. Johnson
had a better understanding of, from his
Southern experience, and with whom he
could deal to better advantage. All those
high hopes were shortly dashed to the
ground.
Beginning with loud talk about making
treason odious." the accidental President
soon revealed his perverse nature by quar
reling with Congress, reviving the worst pas
sions of the rebels, re-uniting the old Dem
ocratic elements of the North and the South
which had originally brought on the rebel
lion and proved its strongest support, and
by seizing every possible pretext to divide,
discouage and demoralize the adherents of
the loyal cause. If he had his way, every
Southern State would have been instantlv
restored to the Union without giving any
guaranties of loyalty; the freedmen, de
prived of the franchise and put at the mer
cy of their old masters, would have been re
duced to a state scarcely distinguishable from
slavery ; and it would have puzzled mankind
to have told what possible benefit had re
sulted from the deluge of Union blood, or
herein the state of a traitor was not as
good as that of a patriot. Thanks to an
upright and resolute Congress. Johnson was
largely neutralized and defeated in his mis
chievous aims. Still, the evil be actuallv
wrought was only second to that achieved by
the master spirits of the rebellion, whose
executor he became, and with whom he will
be forever associated.
A Sharp Hit. During a recent interview
between Gen. Grant and a delegation from
the South, the spokesman of the latter said
to the President elect that while they had
no one to suggest for a Cabinet amnl.
ment, and no offices to ask for. they would
bo gratified if some one could be taken trom
the South who understood the situation, and
could on that account assist in remedvinp
their troubles. Gen. Grant responded that
he thought that the south ought to be con
tent, after four years' experience with a man
at the head of the Government of their) wn
selection. That was hard on A. J. nd tiU
friends.
The Cabinet Qitaxdarv. By the news
from Washington, received by yesterday's
mail, it is pretty evident that Mr.
ill resign the Secretary of the Treasurvshin.
and that the President 6eems inclined to name
Mr. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, for the po
sition, if he will accept. Should this be
the case, Mr. Hoar, iu all probability, will
also resign otherwise Massachusetts would
have two representatives 5n the Cabinet
Time alone, however, wiH reveal the fatte.
Grant, who shot Pollard in Richmond
has been acquitted. " "
A Little of Everything.
Chicago U supposed to have 10,000 rati per
acre.
Scarlet fever hu been prevailing in Harris-
burg.
An Alabama paper announces that it takes psy
ment in dogs.
A huckster in Reading recently sold wooden
imitation-eggs.
The first raft of the season arrived in Marietta
on February 24th
The "Pick Quick Club" is the name of an eat
ing club, at Yale College.
Since Grant's in-ar-ation it is said, he tally
realises what it is to be bored.
Gen Banks is spoken ot as a candidate fur bis
old position. Speaker of the nous.
The velocipede and treadmill are very much
alike ; the motive power in both is Irgs.
A fresh batch of twenty-five and fifty cent cur
rency has been put in circulation in the east.
Secretary McCulloch, it seems, talks of start
ing on "his own hook? in Wall street next moot tr
A man named Tease has married a Miss Cross.
He Teased her till she wouldn't be Cross any
more.
It is said that a fine quality of anthracite coal
has recently been discovered in Shenandoah ooun
Virginia. Candidates for collector at Havana are already
appearing. Cuban annexation being regarded as
a probability.
On the first of January last, one of the soldiers
who shot Marshal Ney, in 1815, died in the alms-
bouse at Meti.
The Crawford county system of making nomi
nations has been adopted in ISlair county by a
majority of 103.
A school teacher in Chicago has paid $15 for
beating a little girl, a pupil, because she broke
her slate pencil.
Detachments of militia have'been sent to Jack
son and Overton counties, Tenn, where martial
aw has been proclaimed.
.Wagon Box, Mike, Fatty and Stomach, were
the four leading belles at a squaw ball at Fort
Benton, New Year's night.
A bill has passed the Georgia Legislature per
mitting ail maimed soldiers to peddle without li
cense in that State. Union or rebel soldiers ?
President Grant has given a New York benevo
lent society the exclusive right to publish for its
benefit a foe simile of his certificate of election.
A schoolmistress requesting a little boy who
had been whispering, to step into the next room,
is spoken of as starting on a "whaling expedition.
A man recently appeared in a Kentucky town
attired in the simple costume of a straw hat and:
belt, carrying a bundle euntaining his purse and.
pocket-oomb under bis arm.
One hundred and five German authors have
signed the petition prayiDg General Grant to
recommend to Congress the adoption of a good
international copyright law. ,
A man in Boston advertises for a horse "for a
lady of daik color, a good trotter, and of stylish
action! The horse must be young, and hare a
long tail about fifteen hands high "
Fifty Russian otfioials, imitating their Ameri
can bretbern. recently robbed the Government of
24,000 tons of salt. Unlike their American bieth
ren, however, they got caught at it
Over two hundred complaints have been made
to Government special agents at New York by
widows of soldiers and sailors that they bave been
swindled out of money collected by lawyers.
A New Yore paper, speaking uf lhe polioe of
that city, says they are an object of admiration to
the servant girls, an object of awe to the children,
but to the rogues a standing, or rather walking
joke.
Col. John Van Horn, an ex-alderman of Chica
go, was arrested iuesday mgnc for snooting at
his two daughters.one of whom he slightly won nd-
ed. lie was held in S 6,000 bonds to keep the
peace.
Of three applicants for the Postoffice at Du.
bugue, one e laims it because his w ife is a cousin
of Grant, another says' he can ''go him two nieces
better," and the third wants it because he is a
tanner.
Rev. John Kobb. a member of Gen. Jackson's
staff, died at Washington on the 25 ult. ' Under
Jackson's administration he was chief jlerk-of
the war Department, and Irequently acted as
Secretary.
Dudly Randall, who makes "Hash" for the
Aurora Beaton and spices it well, is guilty of the
following: As Colfax had Nellie Wade, why
didn't he bave her uncle weighed, also ! Because
he's Ben Wade.
A man in Kansas City. Mo., pleaded before a .
Justice that he wasn't drunk by any means he
had only been made diny by watching the move
ments of a velocipede. He was left off on the
payment of costs. ,
John C. Breckinridge visited Washington a few
days ago, and was immensely lionized by the De
mocracy and Ex-Rebels. Breckinridge seems to
be to the Confeds,' what Grant is to the Republi
cans their bright particular star.
The amount cf United States bonds held by cit-
zens of Lubeck. mostly men of small means, is
so large that one banking house in that city re
ceives. every six months, upwards of seventy five
thousand dollars, worth of United States cou
pons. The inauguration ceremonies were not marred
by the presence of Andrew Johnson . After hav
ing made forty-one dying thrusts at the Constitu
tion, be concluded to be the first President who 1
refused the courtesy of attending the installation
of his successor.
A recent writer in China says that the Chi
nese ladies of the better classes formerly play
ed on various musical instruments as an accom
plishment, but now-a days the custom is almost
obsolete and the ladies spend ther time chiefly
in talking gossip. :
Mr. Sumner has entered upon his fourth full
term in the Senate, having served more years in
it than any other member. Mr Cameron was in
the Senate some years before Mr. Sumner, but has
been out of it two periods, so that he has served a
less number of years.
There is in Nashville, Tennessee, a woman.
aged 114, who has outlived three husbands, all of
whom served in the revolutionary war, and for
whose services she draws three pensions. Her
name is Dinah Viet ; she has 400 descendants, and
ber daughter aged 90, lives with her.
The West Virginia Legislature adjourned mm
die on Thursday, after passing the appropriation
bill, which appropriates 5240,000 for all purposes,
or a quarter of a million dollars less than the x
pendituresof the previous year. Her is a lesson
in retrenchment for the Pennsylvania Lial-
ture.
Gen. Grant received the other day by express a
stout, new three stringed broom with red, whit
and blue handle. Several tiersona ware nreunt
n the General's room when it waaihanded to him.
and numerous jokes passed as to its being an in
timation that he should "sweep clean ; but th
General himself expressed no opinion..
With 00 000 men in the field, one-third of then
well armed, and occupying two-thirds of tha, ia
land, it is fair to presume that the Cuban Insur
gents are able to sustain themselves n ruler an
and alt ciroumstaneea Th explicit eeotradi
tion of the atrocities imputed to them washardTy
neoesaary. Coming through Spanish channels,
the stories were generally discredited Th state
ment that th Bishop of Havana and. the Catho-
lio elergy hare offered a sixth of their income for
three months tp aid the volot cause is aignifi.
caut ' - - - .
SPRING GOOD-S.-JustopenlnrasolendiH ..
ofne. good, .t C. KRAf Zr jfe
CLOVER, Timothy and Orehard-gra., u.
. C. KRATZER A SPSS
CANNED FRCIT.-Ca.ne4 PlamsTpTwhiT
K.e CmnU'4 Corn ,c fwr Drus
More or '. A I kuii
March 10, 18o. . - I.bHAV
fJAUTION.-All person are hereby can
vtioned against purchasing or in any wav
eupied by A W. Lee.or with the timber ther".".00"
as the same belongs to me. A. W. PATCHI
March 10, i860.
To T WonKue Class: I am now preparri
to furnish all classes with constant employment
at their homes, the who'oof the time, or for th.
spare moments. Business new, light and profits
ble. Fifty cenU to Si per evening, is easily earn
eu by persons of either sex, and the boys and rirl,
earn nearly as much as men Great inducements
are offered those who will devote their whole
time to the business: and. that every person who
sees this notice may send me their address snl
test th business for themselves, I make the fol
lowing nnpsralled offer : Ts all who are not well
satisfied with the business, I will send SI to par
for the trouble of writing me Full particulars
directions. Ac. sent free. Sample sent by mail
for 10 cents. Address E C. Alls. Augusta Me
REMOVAL-
AND
CLEARANCE SALE,
Having found our present Store too small for oir
business, we will remove to 811 Liberty street,
about April 1st. To save trouble and expense cf
of moving, we are now closing out our Stock ot
HA R D W A R E
AND
CTJTLERV.
AT
Greatly Reduced Trices.
LINDSAY, STERRIT A ECWER,
337 Liberty Street,
Aug. 26,'68-ly riTTSBUKGH. PA.
Selling at Low Prices,
at the fcitore of
ALEXANDER IRVIN.
Market St., Clearfield, Pa.,
Choice Eastern flour, from th counties of
Juniata, Centre and Huntingdon.
Western flour, such as City Mills. Snow
flake, White-water, and other selected
brands.
Eugar-oure-1 Hams, (best quality). Bacon,
and new Mess Pork by th barrel.
A few toss of Plaster, by the tn r huadred,
in bags or barrels warranted pure.
Ity chop, Cora ideal. Mixed ouof and Mill
ieea
Must be dosed out before the 1st of Aprfrntx.t.
March 10, 1369 ALEXANDER IRYI.f.
Vegetables and Fi.-h.
Having made the necessary arrangements, tks
undersigned wuld notify the cittxeu of Clear
field and vicinity, that n ani after .Mar.'h 4t.
1869. he will have on hand at d for sale at h
shop on the market lot. Presh fi-h, Sweet and
white potatoes, and all vegetables in sea-ou,at
low rates ai they can be bought at thecr
March 4, It69 l. K. FliLLERTON'.
A DM1NISTRATOR S NOTICE-!-r-
ters of Administration on the estate of
John W. Hale, late of the City of Rea.liug.de'd
having been granted to th undersigned, notice
is hereby given I oat all persons indebted to s.id
estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment, and those having claims against the laist
will present them, properly authenticated, for
settlement to DAVID McKMGHT.
Reading Pa . or
W. YT. HALE, Philips burg Pa.
March 3, 18ft9-t Ad uiini"tralort
T-V THE COURT of Common Pleas of
A Clearfield County, Pa. :
Reese Bbitxr, ) No. , Sept. Term, 1?67.
vs.
A Rbitxk. ) S4 Sur Vivoru.
The undersigned Commissioner, appointed by
the Court to take testimony in the above ease,
hereby gives notice that he will attend to tbtis
ties of his appointment, at hl offiee. in the Bor
ough os Clearfield, on SATURDAY, MARCH
!3th, 1809, at 2 o'olock, P M . wbere all paniri
interested can attend. J. BLAKE WALTKK&
March 3, 18t9. CominiMionsr.
Agents Wanted.
Q1 f lTwoJ "0 MP for St. Lloyd"!
O 1 yJ Patent revolving double Maps of Amer
ica and Europe, America and tbe I'miod Staiai
of America. Colored in 41100 Counties
These great Maps, now just completed, shoe
very place of importance, all Kailroads U date,
and the latent alterations in the various Europe"
States. These Maps are needed in every School
and family in tbe land tbey occupy tbespaoeof
on map. and by means of the Keveraer. either side
can be thrown front, and any part brought level
to the eye. County Kights and large discount
given to good Agents.
Apply for Circulars, Terms, and send monev fur
Sample Maps, to J T LLOYD.
23 Cortland Street. N. T.
OSCEOLA,
The Most Thriving Town in
Clearfield Countv.
The undersigned offer the following described
Property at PKIVATE SALE. Lot No 31 iu ike
general plan of th above named Ifomuh T,D
thereon erected a good and comfortable two ana
one half story
HOUSE
finished throughout painted in tbe fall of
ha ing five rooens and hall with bauair kiicaen
and duaib waiter. A well of exeellcat " l
the door under cover
A good fiarae Offioe painted same eolor as tb
house plastered and papered. Ice House. itafc.
and other outbuilding s in good repair.
Chore Arvte, Peath oxrf Prar Trees, and
Grape Vines sailed to the climate Silaeted
the best business street in tbe Town sod ""'
tbe best locations for busee For iernMapp'710
A. BLATTXEUtKtJtR,.
Feb. 2. 1809 Oaeeola Fs
JUST RECEIVED,
A new stock ol Ladies' and' Gents' Fornl-
iag and Fancy Goods, comprising
novelties of th Spring seasoa:
all
Collars, Cuffs, Handkerchief!, Gloves, Kii
Gloves, Trimmings of all kinds, Lsces,
Edgings. Buttons, Corsets, Jet Sets,
Bracelets- etc.
Ajo, ocs pie to assortment of Ladies,' Msei
andChildrens'ahoesofth riBiTorstm..
U which we ask examination.
Batterfttas, Neckties, Casehaer and
Shim of a superior quality. Also l
styles ei Hats and Caps.
WM REED CO.
' ' Clearfield, Msrch S, ! ?