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NUMBER 49.
LIST
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OF POST OFFICES.
Pott Mattert. Vxttrxctt.
Steven L. Evans, Carroll.
M.D.Wagner, Chest.
A. G. Crooks, Taylof.
R. n. Brown, Wa3hint'n.
John Thompson, Ebensburg.
C. Jeffries,
ImatTi Mills, Peter Garraan,
Wm Tiley, Jr.,
E. Roberts, -M.
Adlesberger,
A. Durbin,
M. J. Piatt,
Stan. Wharton,
George Berkey,
A. Shoemaker,
B. F. Slick,
Wm. M'Connell,
J. K. Sbryock,
'.litzm,
klock,
nstown,
e'.to,
jter,
teville,
Angustine,
pLevel,
meiam,
nmit,
White.
Susq'hari.
Gallitzim
Waaht'n.
Johnst'wn.
Loretto.
Stanstef. .
Snsq'tian."
Clearfield.
Richland.
Washt'n.
Croyle.
Washt'n.
S'merhill.
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i School at 9 o'ciock, a. m. . inj mvv.
Thnrsdav evening at 6 o'clock.
:,roif Episcopal Church Rev. A. Baker,
cher in charge. Kev. J. i ebsuiau, n?
nt Trenching every alternate Sabbath
ain'ir at 10J o'clock. Sabbath School at 9
ick, A. M. Prayer meeting every Wednes
trrnine, at 7 o'clock.
Vu'ti Independent Km Ll. U. Fowkll,
.rreaching every aDoam mornmn u
,V0Ck and in the evening at C o'clock.
mli School at 1 o'ciock, r. ji.
ire on me iirst uuhuj v..Aw.
th-and on every iuebu, xuu.sv.j , .
iv evening, excepting tne ursi wees. ia
month.
JfethodittHzr. Morgan Ellis,
or
Fiaver meeting every tnday evening,
ociocK. aocieiy e crj i utju; ..,......4,
o'clock.
Rev. W. LLOVcTastor. Preach-
ivcry Sal bath morning at 10 o'clock.
r. Preaching every Fabbath evening at
xk. Sabbath School at at I o'clock, P. M.
hoUcRtv. R. C. Chbistt, Pastor.
: every Sabbath morning at 1 0 J o'clock
'(fpcrs at 4 o'clock in the evening.
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Vil.e, Grant, &c, arrive on Mondays,
irifS'hiv and Fridays.
m,'j l'r Carrolltown leave daily, Sun
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COIWTY OFFICERS.
;?i of the Courts President, Hon. Geo.
Huntingdon; Associates, George W.
Henry C. Devine.
Mnotart Geo. C. K. Zahm.
r . "Ivuttr and Recorder James Gnmn.
jl-Jamfs Myers.
U7 ril Attorney. John F. Barnes.
Hy Commit siontrt John Campbell, Ed-
01ns?, E. R. Dunnt'gan.
'nrtr Barnabas M'Dermit.
lloute Direetori George M'CulIough,
!0rri, Joseph Dai'.ey.
'House Treaturer George C. K. Zahm.
i!oriFran. P. Tierney, Jco. A. Ken
Etpanuil Brallier.
M(y Surveyor. Henry Scanlan.
ontr.-AYiUiam Flattery.
IntiU Appraitcr John Cox.
"J Comrion Schoclt J. F. Condon.
pSBrilC BOB. OFFICERS.
AT L1BGI.
James A. Moore.
r" of the react Harrison Kinkead,
"i J. Waters.
5' Director D. W. Evans. J. A. Jloore.
J- Davis, David J. Jones, 'Villiara. M.
u Jones, jr.
i Treasurer Geo. W. Oatman. -
Council Saml. Sinerleton.
.' Committioner David Davis.
P
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EAST WARD.
i Council A. Y. Jones. Jnl, n Ci. T!vnn.
1 Davis, Charles Owens, R. Jones, jr.
'aokThoruas Todd.
'of Election Wm. D. Davis.
'nrt David E. Evans. Danl. J. Davis.
j!or Thomas J. Davis.
WEST WAHD.
1 n7--John Lloyd, Samnel Stiles,
0a Kinkead, John E. Scanlan, George
able Barnabas M'Dermit.
Election John D. Thomas.
c(6r8.wiUiam H. Sechler, George W.
'orJofibua D. Parrish.
SOCIETIES. Jt.
J. Summit LodcrK Kft ai a -v r
Masonii. TToll
i. - KucuouurR. on ine
lsday of each month, at 7 J o'clock,
- Hicrhland Lodiy V- 4o t r
Ce 8hlf .d Di-ViSin X0' 84 Sons of
meets in Temneranp. TT.n
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iXLSGIIANIAN
MM W ADVISOR.
Address of the National Union
CohiniiUec, to tbe American1
People.
Fellow-Citizens : Very grave differ
encea having arisen between your imme
diate Representative? in Congress and the
President who owes his position to your
vo'es, we are impelled to ask your atten
tion thereto, and to suggest the duties to
your country which they render impera
tive. We shall avtid the use of hard words.
Of these, there have already been too
many. And, that the matters in issue
may be brought within the narrowest com
pass, let us first eliminate from the con
troversy all that has already been settled
or has never been in dispute.
The Republic has been desperately as
sailed from within, and its very existence
eenouoly imperiled. Thirteen States were
claimed as having withdrawn from the
Union, and were represented for years in
a hostile Congress meetiug at Richmond.
Ten of these States were, for a time,
wholly in the power of a hostile confeder
acy J tbe other three partially so. The
undoubtedly loyal States were repeatedly
and formidably invaded by Rebel armies,
which were only expelled after obstinate
and bloody battles. Through four years
of arduous, de?peratc civil strife, the
hosts of the 'Rebel Coniederaoy withstood
those of the Union. Agents of that Con
federacy traversed the civilized world,
seeking allies in their war against the
Republic, and inciting the rapacious and
unprincipled to fit out armed coairs to
prey Upon her commerce. Ry State au
thority, and in the perverted names of
patriotism and loyalty, hundreds of thou
sands of our countrympn were conscripted
into Rebel armies and made to fight des
perately for our national disruption and
ruin. And though, by the blessing of God
and the valor and constancy of our loyal
people, the Rebellion was finally and ut
terly crushed, it did not succumb until it
had caused the destruction of more than
Half a Million of precious human lives,
not to speak of property to the value of
at least Five Rillions ot Dollars.
At length, the Rebel armies surrender
ed and the Rebel power utterly collapsed
and vanished. What then ?
The claim of the insurgents that they
either now reacquired or had never forfeit
ed their constitutional rights in the Union,
including that of representation in Con
gress, stands in pointed antagonism alike
to the requirements of Congress and to
those of the acting President. It was the
Executive alone who, after the Rebellion
was no more, appointed Provisional Gover
nors tor the now submissive, unarmed
Southern States, on the assumption that
the Rebellion had been w revolutionary,"
and had deprived the people under its
sway of all civil government, and who
required the assembling of "a Conven
tion, composed of delegates to be chosen
by that portion of the people of said State
who are loyal to the United States, and
no others, tor the purpose of altering and
amending the Constitution of said State."
It was President Johnson who, so late as
October last -when all shadow ot overt
resistance to the Union had long since
disappeared insisted that it was not
enough that a State which had revolted
must recognize her Ordinance of Seces
sion as null and void from the beginning,
and ratify the Constitutional Amendment
prohibiting Slavery evermore, but she
must also repudiate " every dollar of in
debtedness created to aid in carrying on
he Rebellion." It was he who ordered
the dispersion by military force ot any
legislature chosen under the Rebellion
which should assume power to make las
after the Rebellion had fallen. It was he
who referred to Consrress all inquirers as
to the probability of Representatives from
the States lately io revolt being admitted
to seats in either House, and suggested
that they should present their credentials,
not at the organization of Congress, but
afterward. And finally, it was he, and
not Congress, who suggested to his Gov.
Sharkey of Mississippi, that
" If you could extend the elective franchise
to all persons of color who can read the Con
stitution of the United f tutes in English and
write their names, an 1 to all persons of color
who own real estate valued at not less than
$250 and pay taxes thereon, yoa would
disarm the adversary, and set an example
that other States will follow."
If, then, there be any controversy as to
the right of the loyal States to exact con
ditions and require guaranties of those
which plunged madly into Secession and
Rebellion, tho supporters respectively of
Andrew Johnson and of Congress cannot
be antagonist parties to that content, since
their record places them on the same
side. '
It being thus agreed that conditions of
restoration and guaranties against future
rebellion may be exacted of the States
lately in revolt, the right of Congress to
a voice in prescribing those conditions
and in shaping those guaranties is plainly
incoutestible. Whether it take the shape
of law or of a constitutional amendment,
the action of Congress is vital. Even if
they were to bo settled by treaty, tho rati
fication of the Senate, by a two-thirds
vote, would be indipensable. There is
nothing in the Federal Constitution, nor
in. the nature of the case, that counte
nances an Executive monopoly of this
poirer .
What, then, is the ground of complaint
against
Congress I
Is it charged that the action of tbe two
Houses was tardy and hesitating? Con
sider how momentous were the. questions
involved, the issues depending. Consider
how novel and extraordinary wa9 the situ
ation. Consider how utterly silent and
blank is the Federal Constitution touch
ing the treatment of insurgent States,
whether during their flagrant hostility to
the Union or after their discomfiture.
Cousider with how many embarrassments
und difficulties the problem is beset, and
you will not wonder that months were re
quired to devise, perfect, and pas?, by a
two-thirds vote in either House, a just
and safe plan of reconstruction.
Yet that plan has been matured. It
has passed the Senate by 33 to II, and
the House by 138 to 36. It is now fairly
before the country, having already been
ratified by the Legislatures of several
States and rejected by none. Under it,
the State of Tennessee has been formally
restored to all the privileges she forfeited
by Rebellion, including representation in
either House of Congress. And the door
thus passed through stands invitingly
open-ijo all who still linger without.
Aro the conditions thus prescribed in
tolerable, or even humiliating? They
are in substance.,these :
I. All persons born or naturalized in
this country are henceforth citizens of
tho United States, and shall enjoy ail
the right of citizens evermore ; and no
State shalj have power to contravene this
mo3t righteous and necessary provision.
II. While the States c!aim and exercise
the power of denying the elective franchise
to a part of their people, the weight of
each State in the Union'shall be measured
by and based upon its enfranchised popu
lation. If any State shall choose, for no
crime, to deny political rights to any raci
or caste, it must no longer rount that
race or caste as a basis of political power
in the Union.
III. He who has once held office on the
strength ot his solemn oath to support the
Federal Constitution, and has nevertheless
forsworn himself and treasonably plotted
to subvert that Constitution, shall hence
forth hold no political office till Congress,
by a two-thirds vote, shall remove or
modify the disability.
IV. The National Debt shall be nowise
repudiated or' invalidated; and no debt
incurred in support of the rebellion shall
ever be assumed or paid by any State ; nor
shall payment be made for the loss or
emancipation of any slave.
V. Congress shall have power to enforce
theseguarantees by appropriate legislation.
Such, fellow-citizens, are the conditions
ot reconstruction proposed by Congress
and already accepted by the loyal Legis
lature of Tennessee. Are they harsh or
degrading ? Do you discern therein a
disposition to trample on the prostrate or
push an advantage to the uttermost ? Do
they embody aught of vengeauce, or any
confiscation but that of slavery 1 We
solicit your candid, - impartial judgment:
What is intended by the third section
is simply to give Loyalty a fair start iu
the reconstructed States. Under the
Johnson policy, the rebels monopolize
power and place even in communities
where they are decidedly outnumbered.
Their Generals are Members elect of
Congress ; their Colonels and Majors fill
the legislatures, and officiate as Sheriffs.
Not only are the steadfastly loyal pro
scribed, but even stay-at home rebels have
little chance in competition with those
who fought to subvert the Unioni When
this rebel monopoly of office shall have
been broken up, and loyalty to, the Union
shall have become . general and hearty,
Congress may remove the disability, and
will doubtless make haste t" do so.
We do not perceive that tbe justice or
fitness of the fourth section prescribing
that .the Union Public Debt shall be
promptly met, but that of the Rebel Con
federacy never is seriously contested.
There remains, then, but the second
section, which prescribes in substance
that political power in the Union shall
henceforth be based only on that. portion
of the people of each State who are
deemed by its constitution fit depositories
of such power. In other words : A State
which chooses to hold part of its popula
tion iu ignorance and vassalage power
less, uneducated, unfranchised shall not
count that portion to balance the educated,
intelligent, enfranchised citizens of other
States.
Wre do not purpose to argue the justice
of this provision. As well argue tho
shape of a cube or the correctness of the
Multiplication Table. He who does not
feel that this is simply and mildly just,
.would not bo persuaded though one rose
froiu the dead to convince him. That
there are those among us who would not
have it ratified, sadly demonstrates that
the good work of Emancipation Li not yet
complete.
"Rut," say some, "this section is de
signed to coerce tho South into according
suffrage to her blacks." Not eo, we
reply ; but only to notify her ruling caste
that we will no longer bribe them to keep
their blacks in serfdom. An aristocracy
rarely surrenders its privileges, no matter
how oppressive, from abstract devotion to
justice and right. It must have cogent,
palpable reasons for so doing. We say,
therefore, to South Carolina, "If you per
sistently restrict all power to your 300.000
whites, we must insist that these no longer
balance, xrx Congress and the choice of
President, 700,000 Northern white free
men, but only 300,000. If you koep your
blacks evermore in serfdom, it must not
be because we tempted you so to do and
rewarded you for so doing."
Fellow-citizens of every State, but
especially of those soon to hold electious !
we entreat your earnest, constant heed to
the grave questions now at issue. If
those who so wantonly plunged tho Union
into civil war shall be allowed by you to
dictate the terms of Reconstruction, you
will have heedlessly sown the bitter seeds
of future rebellions and bloody strife.
Already, you are threatened with a rec
ognition by the President of a sbam
Congress made up of the factions which
recently coalesced at Philadelphia on a
platform of Johnsonism a Congress con
stituted by nullifying and overriding a
plain law of tbe land a Congress wholly,
inspired from the White House, ana
appealing to the sword alone for support.
IbVieYeri more criminal than absurd.
tiappiiy, tne if eopie, oy electing an over
whelming majority of thoroughly loyal
representatives, are rendering its initia
tion impossible.
We cannot close without a most deserv
ed tribute to the general fidelity where
with, in view of the President's defection,
the great body of the People, and even of
the Federal office-holders, stand fast by
their convictions and their principle?.
The boundless patronage of the Execu
tive, tbough inoat unscrupulously wielded
against those to whose votes he owes it,
has corrupted very few, either ot those
who shared or of those who would gladly
share in it3 enjoyment. Not one of the
22 States which voted to re-elect Abra
ham Lincoln has given io its adhesion to
the President's policy; while New Jersey
the only Free State that voted against
him has added-herself to their number.
Our great war has taught impressively
the peril of injustice; and the lesson has
sunk deep into millions of hearts. The
American people, chastened by sufferiug,
are wiser and nobler than they were, with
a quicker and more open ear for every
generous suggestion. The fearful lessons
of Memphis and New Orleans have not
been lost on them, as is proved by the
result of the recent elections in Vermont
and Maine. We cherish no shadow of
doubt that Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Iova first, then New York, New Jer
sey, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kan
sas and Minnesota, will do likewise, and
that a true restoration, a genuine, abiding
Peace, will thus be secured to our coun
try a Peace that will endure because
based on the everlasting foundations of
Humanity, Justice and Freedom.
Marcus L. Ward, New Jersey, Chn.
John D. Defrees, Indiana,. Secy.
Horace Greej.ey, New York.
S. A. Pcrviaxce, Pennsylvania.
William Claflin, Massachusetts.
N. B. Smithlrs, Delaware.
. II. W. Hoffman, Maryland. .
H. II. Starkweather, Connecticut.
R. B. Cowen, Oh.o.
John B. Clarke, New Hampshire.
Samuel F. Husset, Maine.
Abraham B. Gardxer, Vermont.
J. S. Fowler, Tennessee.
Burton C Cook, Illinois.
Marsh GiDDixos, Michigan.
D. P. Stubbs, Iowa.
A. W. Campbell, West Virginia.
S. Judo, Wisconsin.
D. R. Goodlob, Vorth Carolina.
S. H. Boyd, Missouri.
W. J. Corxing, Virginia.
Thos. Simpson, Minnesota.
C. L. Robinson, Florida.
Newton Edmunds, Dakota.
A Passage in History Corrected.
Genera! Dix has had the exclusive
credit of the famous dispatch to the uaval
commander at New Orleans : "If any man
hauls down the American fl;ig, ehoot him
on the spot V The Philadelphia Bulletlr.
says: At the time the dispatch was writ
ten, Geueral Dix was Secretary of War
and Judge Holt was Attorney General.
When General Dix received the news of
the rebel demonstration at New Orleans,
he went to Judge Holt n much perplex
ity, seeking his advice. In answer to his
anxious question "What shall I do ?" the
bold and patriotic Attorney General at
once dictated to him the words of the
famous dispatch. It seemed too strong
to the Secretary of War, and he remarked :
"Would you really send that order?"
"Yes, sir I" firmly replied Judge Holt,
and the noble dispatch which has made
General Dix so famous was sent. Rut the
credit of it belongs to Judge Holt and not
to General Dix.
Mr. Xasby Travels vrith
Presidential Party.
tbe
3K, "I
jigan.J V
Hh, t8C6. )
At the Biddle House,
f which is in Detroit, Mich
September 4th
Step by step I am ascendin the ladder
uv fame step by step I am cliinbin to a
proud eminence. Three weeks ago I wuz
summoned to Washington by that emi
nently grate and good man, Androo John
son, to attend a consultation ez to the pro
posed Western tour, which was to be un
dertaken for the purpose ur arousin the
masses uv or the West to a sense uv the
danger which wuz threatenin uv em in
case they persisted in centralizin the pow
er uv the Government into the hands uv
a Congress, instead uvdiffusin it through
out the hands uvone man, which is John
son. I got there too late to take part in
the first uv the discussion. When I ar
rove they had everything settled, ceptin
the appointment of a cheplain for the
excursiou. The President insisted upon
my fillin that position, but Seward object
ed. He wanted Beecher, but Johnson
wuz inflexibly again him. "I am deter
mined," sez he, " to carry out my policy,
but I hev some bowels hft. Reecher he3
dun cnuff already, considerin the pay he
got. No I no ! he shel be spared tbij
trip indeed he shel."
" Very good," said Seward, " but at
least find some clergyman who indorses
us without hevin P. M. to his honored
name. Ik would look better."
" I know it wood," replied Johnson,
" but where kin we find such a one ? I
hev s'wung around the entire circle, aud
heven't ez yet seen him. Nasby it must
be."
There wuz then a lively discussion ez
to the propriety before the procession
started, of removin all the Federal office
holders on the proposed route, and ap
pointin men who beleeved in us, (John
son, Reejher and me,) that we wight be
shoor uv a sootable receptshun at each
pint at which we wuz to stop. The An
nointed wuz in favor uv it. Sez he,
" them ez won't support my policy shan't
eat my bread ar.d butter." Randall and
"Taking all things into considera
tion," writes a correspondent, " the cable
is working very well. As many as six
teen words per minuto have arrived, but
the average number is eight, and more
may not be 6afely sent. Indeed, it can
hardly be expected that even with the
most delicate apparatus any great increase
ot power can be arrived at, as the los9 by
induction is so great. As to its mone
tary success, I, of course, cannot speak
positively, bui I am satisfied that up to
the present it has notbeen so great as was
anticipated."
When was it ever known, iu the his
tory of the world, that after a great battle
tha defeated party was allowed to dictate
tb terms of peace ?
Doolittle chimed in, for its
got
to be
part of their religion to assent to whatever
the President sez, but I mildly protested.
I owe a duty to the party, and I am de
termined to do it.
"Most High," sez I, "a sctlin hen
wich is lazy makes a fuss cut its beau
off and it flops about for a while lively.
Lincoln's office-holders are settin hens.
They don't like yoo nor yoor policy, but
while they are on their nests will keep
moderitly quiet. Cut off their heads and
they will spurt their blood in yoor face.
Ez to bein enshoord of a reception at
each point, yoo need fear nothin. Cal
kerlatin moderitly, there are at least
twenty five or thirty patriots who feel a
call for every offis in yoor disposal. So
long, Your Highnis, ez them oflisis is
held just wherethey kin see em, and they
don't know which is to git em, yoo may
depend upon the entire enthoosiasm uv
each, individyooally and collectively. Io
short,, ef there's 4 offisis in a town and
yoo make the appointments, yoo hev se
koored 4 supporters till yoo make the
appointments yoo hev the hundred who
expect to get them."
The President agreed with me that tin
til after the trip the gullotine rhood stop.
Secretary Seward sejosted that a clean
shirt wood improve my personal appear
ance, and ackordir.gly a cirkular wuz sent
to the clerks in the Departments assessin
em for that purpose. Sich uv em ez re
foosed to contribute their quota wuz in
stantly dismissed for disloyalty.
At last we started, and I must say we
wuz got up in a highly conciliatory style.
Every one of the civilians uv the party
wore buzzum pins, et settcry, which was
presented to em by Southern delegates to
the Philadelphia Coavention. which wuz
mado uv the bones uv Federal soldiers
which had fallen at various battles. Sum
uv em were perticke'y valuable ez anteek.s
fiavin been made from the bones uv the
fust soldiers who fell at Bull Run.
The Noo York recepshiin wuz a gay
affair. I never saw His Imperial High
ness iu better spirits, and he delivered
his speech to better advantage than I ever
heard him do before, and L believe I've
heard it a hundred times. We left Noo
York sadly. Even now, ez I write, the
remembrance of uv that percjshun the
recollection uvthat banquet lingers around
me, and tbe taste uv them wines is ftill
in my mouth. But we had to go. We
had a mishun to perform, and we put our
selves on a steamboat and started.
Albany. There wuz an immense
crowd, but the Czar uv all the Ainerikas
didn't get vS his ppeoch hero. The Go
vernor welcomed him ez the Chief Magis
trate uv the nasbun, and happened to drop
in Lincolu's name. That struck a chill
over the party, and the President got out
uv it ez soou ez possible. . Beio rcseeved
ez Cheef Magistrate, and not ez the great
Pacificatpr, ain't his Eggslency's best holt.
It was unkind uv Guv. Fcnton to do it.
If he takes the papers ho must know that
his Mightiness ain't got but one speech,
and he ought to hev made sich a recep
shuo cz wood hev enabled him tog$t it
off. We shook the dust off uv our feet
and left Albany in disgust.
Skenectady. The people of this de
lightful little village wuz awake when the
imperial trtin arrivtd. The ohaogea
heven't bru mada in the offices here, and
consekently there wuz a splendid recep
shun. I didn't suppose there wuz so
many patriots along the Mokawk. I wu
pintod out by sum one er the President'
private adviser a tort uv Private Secre
tary uv State and after the train started
I found 211 petitions for the post-offi in
Skenaktedy in my side coat pocket, which
the patriots who hed hurrahed so vociffer
ously hed dcxteromly deposited there.
The insideut wuz a movin one. Thank
God," thought I, " so longer we hev the
post-offises to give we ken allnz hev a
party." The Sultan swung around the
cirkle wunst here, and leaving the con
stitooshun in their hands the train moved
off.
. Rome. Here we had a splendid re
cepshun, and I never heard His Majesty
speak more felicitously. He rsenshuced
to the audience that Le had swung around
the Southern side uv the cirkle and wuz
now swingin around the Northern side uv
it, and that he wuz fightin traitors on all
sides. He left the onstitooshun in their
hands and bid em good bye. I received
at this pint only 130 petitions for the
post-ofBs, which I took ez a bad omen for
the comin election.
Utica. The President spoke here with
.greater warmth and jerked more original
ity than I hed before observed. He in
trodoosed here the remark that be didn't
come to make a speech that he wus
goin to shed a tear over the tomb of
Douglas; that in swingin around the
cirkle he hed fought traitors on all sides
uv it, but that he felt safe. He shood
leave the Constitooshun ia their hands,
and ef a martyr was wauted, he wuz reddy
10 uie wun neeiness ana aispatcn.
Lockport. The President is improvin
wonderfully. He rises with the occasion.
At th is point ho menshuned that he was
set on savin the country wich hed honored
him. Ez for himself his ambishun wua
more than satisfied. He hed bin Alder
man, member uv the Legislacher, Con
gressman, Senator, Military Governor,
Vice President and President. He hed
pwung around the entire cirkle uv offices,
and all he wauted now wuz to heal the
wounds uv the nashen. He felt safe in
leavin the Constitooshun in their handa.
Ez he swung around the cirkle
At this pint I interrupted him. I told .
hi&i that he had swung around the cirkla
wunst in this town, and ez yooseful ez tbe
phrase wuz it might spile" by too much
yoose.
At Cleveland we begun to get into hot
water. Here is the post to which the
devil uv Ablishnism is chained, and his
chain is long enough to let him rage
over nearly the whole State. I am pained
to state that the President wuznt treated
here with the res-peck due his station.-
He commenced deliverin his speech, but
was made the subjeck Uv ribald laffture.
Skarsely had he got to the pint uvswipg
io around the cirkle, when a foul-mouthed
nigger lover yelled "Veto," and another
vocifferated "New Orleans," and another
remarked "Meaaphw," and one after an
other incerruption occurred until Hie
Highness wuz completely turned off- tha
track and got wild: He forgot his speech
and struck out crazy, but tbe starch waa
out uv hira and he wuz worsted. Grant,
which he had taken along to draw the
crowds, played ditt on us here, and step
ped into a boat for Detroit, leavin us only
Farragut as a attraction, who tried twice
to git away ditto, but wuz timely preven
ted. The President recovered his eka
nitnity and 3 svung around tbe cirkle wunst,
and leavin the Constitooshun In their
hands, retired.
At the next pint we wuz astounded at
seein but one man at the station. He wut
dressed with a sash over his shoulder, and
wuz wavin a flig with wun hund, firin a
saloot. with a revolver with the other, and
playin "Hail to the Chief" on a mouth
organ, all to wunst. "Who are you, my
gentle friend ?" sez I. "I'm the newly
appinted Postmaster, sir," sez he. "I'm
a perceshun a waitiu here to du honor to
our Cheef Magistrate, all alone, sir. There
wuz twenty Johnsonians in this hamlet,
sir, but when the commission came for
me, tho other ninoteen wuz soared and
ed they didn't carj a d n for him nor
his policy, sir. Where is the President ?"
Androo waz a goin to swing around the
cirkle for this 1 man and leave the Coo
stooshun in his hands, but Seward checkd
him.
At iremont w hed a handsome recep
shun, for the offises hevn't bin changed
there, but Toledo oidn't do bo well. The
crowd didn't cheer Androo much, but
when Farragut was trotted out they gave
him a rouser, which wuz anything but
pleasin to tbe Cheef Magistrate uv thu
nasbuu, who bleevs in bein respected.
Finally we reached Detroit. Thi bein
a Democratic city the President waa his
elf agin. His speech here wuz wun of
rare merit. He gathered together in one
quiver an tne sparkJin arrows he had used
from Hasbingtou to this Mint.
em one by one. He swum? aroui.j
cm n
cirkle he didn't coaie to make a speech
he hed been Alderman uv bis native
town he mite hev been Dicktater but
wooJent and ended in a poetiokle cota
shun which I coodent ketch, but whwh
ez neer ez I cood understan d wuz :
"Kum wun Kum all this rock shel fly,
From its firm base in a pig's eye."
Pstrolzum V. Nasby, P. 3I