sht Warta inn Jtut-£ hfU
—A bark laden with French tobacco
from Richmond, mailed for Bordeaux on
Saturday.
—A man mined Wilkins, formerly of
Lee's army, shota Lieutenant in command
of the guard at Bermuda Hundred on
Monday last. Wilkins was arrested.
—Tbo Grand Jury of the Court of
General Sessions on Saturday, brought in
1 wclve indictments agaiust Edward 15
Kcfchum, .eleven for forgery in the third
■ and one for grand larceny. Hi
aggregate punishment, if convicted, wil.
V>e sixtv-five years in the State prison.
—A large number of staff officers, ap
f.inted early in the war, are being raui
...0,l out. Considerable dissatisfaction
• <ts among them on account of their not
living the three months' extra com
-1 satioß.
-A correspondent writing from Macon,
says the people of the South are very
v, if not quite, as much a unit on the
t : on of slavery as the people of the
h. They regard the institution as
b(tried, and never to be resurrected
fliO Secretary of war has ordered
• mediate discharge of the 75th and
regiments Pennsylvania voluuteei
ntry.
Or. Wm. Clendemin, of New Cas
t resigned his appointment as Con
i St. Petersburg, Russia, to tako thi
-worship of the Miami Medical Col
it, Cincinnati, Ohio.
\ndrew J. Hathaway, convicted of
■i. v, was sentenced in tho Beaver Co
ur >ll Thursday, to undergo twenty
months' imprisonment in the West
i reuitentiary.
—lt is rumored that Hon. Samuel
, President Judge of the Centre Jti
. .I District, will shortly resign, for the
ur: .■•!> of accepting the appointment of
Itepnrter to the Supreme Court.
—'l be following is a complete list of
-vhaiiia rrgiments in the United
tes Service, September i'tli, 180/i
, Ith, f)Bth, 63d, 77th, 188 th, 195 th
. ;t'.i,-loth, and 214 th infantry; 2.
I 3d artillery; independent battery 1!
I th, 19th, and 22d cavalry. It is be
iieved they will all s. e mustered out of
service within the next three months.
—Persons applying for transportation
for the removal of tho bodies of soldiers
in the South, to the North, are informed
by the chief of transportation at Ilarris
•burg, that such disinterments cannot take
place in General Schofield's Department
of North Carolina until the Ist of De
cember, and other Southern departments
until the Ist of October.
—The body of a soldier was found in a
field tier Harrisburg, on Thursday. Doc
uments on his person showed him to be
John Murphy, First Lieutenant of Com
pany G,Second Missouri infantry, enlis
ted June 24, 18(51, and discharged Octo
ber 12 1804. lie was an Irishman, thir
ty- four years old, five feet seven and a
half inches high, Hue eyes and light
hair. His papers showed that he had
been in St. Louis on Saturday. There
was a letter from Helena Murphy, a pho
tograph, and other articles on his person.
Coroner Hummel has his effects.
—Governor Curtin has returned to
Harrisburg, from the Delaware Water
1 >ag, with improved Health. Some harsh
strictures having been passed upon Gov.
Curtin's exercise of the Executive clem
ency, it is stated that between January
Ist, 1804, and January Ist, 1865, the
Governor pardoned only eighty-seven per
sons, mar.y of whom were soldiers convic
ted of offenses committed while in the
discharge of their duty. During tho
game period, the Governor of New York
pardoned two hundred and sixty-one per
sons.
—The examination of the affairs of the
Virginia banks by the commissioners ap
pointed for the purpose by Governor
I'ieirpont, shows a lamentable condition
ol these institutions. Their resources iu
-.me cases consists of millions of rebel
I ends, and only a few thousand dollars iu
s ceie. An important report on the sub
ject will shortly be issued.
—lt is said that A. 11. Stephens, on
t :o occasions, made an appeal directly to
Jiff Davis (or leave to examine the An
dersonville prison, and for authority to
remedy the abuses. He represented to
Davis the wrongs and cruelties commit
ted there, but received for reply, that
officers in coumand wero capable aud
trust worthy men, and should not be in
terfered with.
—As the fall election will soon be com
ing on, it should be borne in m nd that,
by virtue of a proclamation of the Pres
ident, of March 10, issued in conformity
to a law of Congress dated March 3d 18-
6S„ all persons duly enrolled who depar
ted from the jurisdiction ot the district
iu which they were enrolled, or went be
youd the limits of the Unitod States
to avoid the draft, are prohibited from
exereisiug the elective franchise. It will
be the duty of the autorities to enforce
this peualty in all casos at the coming
election.
—As an illustration of the movement
of specie from New York southward, it
may be stated that the Steamer Evening
Star, arriving at New Orleans on 27th
August, carried out S6OO, 427. About
the same date the Meteor arrived with
$l4B, 106, and the Victor with 854,743;
Adams express also delivered $50,000;
making the total receipt for one day $Ol3,
277. The Fung Shuey in the river, and
the Maripose, then due, were expected
to bring considerable amounts.
—General Steadman, in command at
Savannah, has issued an order stating that
he has been informed that fire arms are
distributed over the State, in the hands
of designing men, and directing all such
arms to be turned over to the Provost
Marshals within thirty days. After that
time the Provost Marshal shall seize all
arms they can find and arrest the parties
holding them. It appears Gen. Stead
man's information was of a most impor
tant character, showing that anothef* re
bellion was threatened.
Aii lOiijtllsiiiiisin'M (lieu of TbtK
l onntrj aiid Its Debt.
At the dinner at the Mellenry House,
in Meadville, to Sft Morton Peto and
his English i'riends, on a tour of inspec
tion of the Atlantic nod Great Western
Railway and the country in general, that
gentleman madeaspeech. He said there
wan—there slioul be—nothing hut mutu
al interest between America and Great
Britain, "There is nothing so much to
bo deplored, nothing so much to be av id
ed, as the slightest-alienation between the
two peoples ; but, sir, the frank, manly,
and outspoken manner in which you did
us the honor last night to speak on with
out '.ho slightest reserve.''
He then wont onto say :
You have made great sai ifiaes for your
country. You have expended treasure
and blood in support of the groat princi
ples of human freedom, and lbelievcth.it,
deeply as we may deplore the blood which
has flowed, the result of the struggle will
be to cement a bond of uuion which n<>
future time will ever sever. [Loud cheers.]
The world says you have accumulate I h
mighty debt. Well the figures do h>"k
large; but it may be some convolution to
know that your debt is uot so largo
ours, the figures being as eiijlit hundred
inillhn pounds sterling to six liundre
million pounds sterling. The inteie-M r
preasent will be atagreatSr rate of oh >\u»
in your country than our own; but a>u:
is the enormous extent of your territory,
and such its rapid development, »ud sun.
1 believe, the self-reliant attitude of youi
people, that no difficulty will arise in youi
meeting the annual charge.
Our own progress as a nation was shown
to be so great, in a recent speech by .Mr.
Gladstone since the adoption by us of a
free trade policy, that by the showing ot
the people themselves in their income tax
and property returns, the increase in ten
years has exceeded the total value of our
entire national debt. Let me adopt a
familliar explanation: Suppose each Amer
ican spent on his dinner one shilling a
day for a year, yi ur people would con
mine r.s much as the entire national debt,
and yet it has been subscribed mainly by
foreign capitalists during the period of
your struggle, and the receipt* show it
to bo a highly remunerative investment.
Again, let me rt'ter to another fact: —
We pay in London on cab hire and omni
bus hire yearly, in that single city, as
much as the income and property tax ot
our entire kingdom; ami when 1 look to
the enormoun development and rapid in
crease of tho population and wealth of
your country, when 1 look, for iustance,
at the oil districts over which I have pass
ed to-day, where I saw evidences of un
exampled wealth a.id prosperity on every
side, and whore 1 saw in one place where
on the Ist of Juno last not a single shan
ty had been erected, at the tho present
time, on this !)th of September, four bun
dred houses finished ami inhabited, two
churches built, six banks established two
telegraph stations, and the extension of
tho Atlantic and Great Western Railway,
began only four mouths since; within a
month of its completion—l say. sir, when
1 sec such facts as tlieso, there is nothing
in your debt which need create anxiety,
or mako you feel that you have incurred
responsibility which you cannot honora
bly meet. 1 say, sir, though we cauuot
too much deplore all the blood died and
its lamentable consequences, there is noth
ing for you to deplore in your future.—
You have only to base your taxation equi
tably, fairly, and in such a transparently
honest way that every class may sec that
none are excepted and none are unfairly
treated. Be true to yourselves, and tho
world will not be slow to appreciate your
position and do you full justice. Loud
and prolonged cheering.—A'.r.
WASIimUTO.V li t.US.
—A Nuuihor of parents in New
castle, England, have registered
their children by name "Lincoln,"
as a tribute to the memory of the
President.
A large number of letters are recicved
every day by the Prcsidetn. requesting
: he withdrawal of the colored i o.ip< from
tho Southern States.
—During August nearly c.li'een thou
sand acres of laud were entered ' it the
Winnebago and Minnesota L-wt-l Oiace.
under the Homestead Law. Thirteen
thousand five bund ed acres w re;'s > M
ken up under the same law at St. Clou I
Tho cash sales at the latter office, in Au
gust, amounted to about nine thou-nn -
dollars.
—During the progress of the la'eoourt
martial at the Navy Yard. Philadelphia,
the venerable Admiral Charles Stewar.
was called upon to give testimony In a
certain case. The appearance in tlii
court room of the gallant '-old ironsides"
was the signal for considerable excite
nient. A large number of officers who
happened to be present, many of whom
had served uuder the old hero, rushed
forward spontaneously and c asped the
distinguished by the hand. The Admi
ral now. but who will be known in hist,
ty as "Commodore Stewart," is eighty
five years of age, full of years and full of
honors.
—The Odd Fellows of Mercer will
have a celebration on the 16th at
Charlstown, in that county.
—The news from Mexico is of a
contradictory character. A letter
has been received from Vera Cruz
showing that the Liberal cause is not
near so hopeless as lately reprsente '.
A good position is still maintained
by Juarez in Chihuahua.
—An order has been sent to the
commanding General's Department
of North Carolina, directing that all
organizations of colored troops raised
in Northern States be immediately
mustered out of service
—The recent extinguishment of
nearly three-fourths of a million of
tho State debt, brings down the
amount the Treasury, holds bonds of
the Pennsylvania and Erie Kailroad
Companies to the amount of 310,000.
These are good assess, and will bo
iaid when due, so that the debt may
oe substantially assumesd to be that
much less, or $28,*184,81)1 74.
(The gimmaut Cittern.
ftfcT - The Largest Circulation oj
any Paper in the County.
THOMAS ROBINSON. - - Editor,
M. W. NPKjIR, Publisher.
BUTLER PA."
WEDNESDAY SEPT. 20
Liberty nnd Union, Now and Forever, One
and 'nseparable."—D. Webaier.
UillOfl STATf TICKET.
AUDITOR GENERAL.
JOHN I'. IIARTIIANFT,
of Montgomery.
SURVEYOR GENERAL.
JACOB M. CAMPBELL,
of Cambria.
BErtULICAR TICKST.
STATE SENATE.
R. \UDLEf BROWNE.
LEGISLATURE.
HEVRY PILLOW. ( „ p
'Oil N II NEG LEY. {
JOS I Ml MT'IIERRIN, Mercer To.
SAMUEL M'KINLEY, Lawrence Co.
COUNTY TREASURER.
WM. E. MOORE.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
W. H. 11. RIDDLE.
COMMISSIONER.
WM. DICK.
AUDITOR.
J. C. KEL LEY, 3 years.
0. 11. GUM PER, 1 year
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
NATHAN M SLATOR
TRUSTEES OP ACADEMY.
Rev. WILLIAM 11. HUTCHISON,
Rev. WILLIAM II.TIBBLES.
In another column will be iound
the card of S. G. Purvis Esq., advertising
for an apprentice, any parent or guardi
an wishing to apprentice a boy to tho
carpenter trade, could not find for him
a better homo or opportunity —see the
card of Mr. Purvis.
Sv.:>" In our paper, this week, will be
found an advertisement for the letting of
a portion of the Bear Creek It. It., which
is to co nuicuce at the North-western end
of the road. We would advise all those
who feel like trying their hands on this
great improvement, to examine the mat
ter and "pitch in." This is the com
mencement of a great improvement, that
is destinod to develop the resources of the
northern portion of our county, and will
therefore bo a benefit to all. We con
gratulate the parties immediately Connec
tel with this improvement, on their pro
spective success.
Political MCOMIIK.
A Republican meeting will be held in
theCour; House on Monday evcn'ng, 25th
inst., (being the first day of Court), at
7 o'clock ; which will be addressed by
llev. 11. Audley Brown—our nominee tor
State Senate; Hon. Thos. Williams, and
(ion. 11. It. MeCombs. A full attend
ance of the I'rienJsof the Uuion is solic
ited. Let all turn out and hear the is
sues of the hour fairly presented by these
eloquent patriots.
fcj" Ttie Democracy of New Yo: k hive
determined to out strip the Republican's
of that State, at the coming election.—
Laying aside all consistency, they declare
iu favor of Abolition, in favor of An
drew Johnson ; and as the negroes vote
in that State, they don't even declare
asram- t negro suffrage ! —Looking rather
wise and quite hopeful, they tell us, " we
go into win." Well, we have no doubt
they would like to; but it is yet to be seen
whether their followers in New York city
—those who distinguished themselves in
burning orphan asylums, and murdering
union soldiers will follow their leaders in
their new road to power. These deluded
creatures believed the World honest
when it declared—list yoar, of the Re
publican nomination,—"lt is all of a
prico The tail does not shame the hoad
nor tho head the tail. A rail splitting
buffoon and a boorish tailor, both from
the backwoods, both growing up in un
couth igaorance, &o." What a grand
surprise to see that same paper extolling
President Johnson.
Maine—Vermont.
Usually majorities fall off after a great
national struggle like that of last year.—
So great is the popular indignation at the
course pursued by the Democracy during
the late war, that this rule is reversed this
year, so far as elections have been held.
Not only has this rule applied to munici
pal, but even to general elections. The
two States, whose names head this arti
cle, v are in point, both gaining on the rela
tive vote of last year. The former, even
ro.ling up a larger majority on a smaller
vote! So it must be everywhere, so long
as people reflect upon the dire destruction
that Copperheads would have brought
upon is, had their counsel prevailed.
'• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. —Mr. Mo-
Murry, Treasurer of the Metropolitian
Police, gratefully acknowledges the fol
lowing sums, left at the Cential Office
for the relief of the widow and children
of Thomas Walker, a brave and faithful
policeman in the Twenty-ninth Preoinet,
who was murdered on the night of the
15th of August, while rescuing a woman
from a brutal gang."
The abovo is from a New York paper
The amount announced, was in the aggre
giate SUG'J. Had this faithful officer
came to his death "down south" at the
hands of some "freedinan," we would all
have been duly notified of the fact by
everv Copperhead journal in the country.
But as it takes place in the strong hold ol
the Democracy—in the city where they
can roll up about 40,000 majority, we
may expect to hear little from that quar
ter.
GRI'NITJUKOBS
Drttnn for September Term, '65
| Allen Wilson, Clay; John Pearce, Al
legheny ; Henry Wagner, Boro. Butler;
\latthew Storey, Fairview ; Adam Young,
Connoqucnesaing ; Jacob Ekas, Buffalo;
Daniel Graham, Esq., Brady; ElishaW.
Starr, Concord ; Robert Duncan, Cran
berry ; John Say, Parker; Samuel Coop
er, Wiuficld; Wm. McElwain, Washing
ton ; Joseph Tebay, Muddycreck: Robt.
Allison, Centre; Jos. Douglass, Worth ;
James Brown, of E., Mercer; Jno. Wil
son, Jackson; Andrew Ziegler Lancas
ter ; Hiram Snyder, Slipperyrock ; J. Q.
A. Kennedy, Penn ; Isaac Yetter, Sr.,
Butler; llcury Kirkpatrick, Clinton ; An
drew McCaskey, Oakland; Robert Uille
land, Summit.
TRAVERSE JURORS —FIRST WEEK.
James Richardson. Adums ; Jno. Mc-
Kee, Allegheny,; J. S. Elliott, Buffalo;
Win. J. Ayres, Butler, John Covert, Jr.,
Brady; Andrew Albert, Centre; Charles
Stowart,, Cherry ; J. Sutton, Clay; John
MelJride, Clearfield; William Gibson,
Clinton; William C. Stewart, Concord;
Robert Walters, Connoqucncssing , Jos
Crolt, Cranberry, Samuel Stewart, Done
gal ; John Smith, Fairview ; Benjamin
Brackney, Frankliu; Wm. Fitzsimons,
Forward; Andrew 11. Zicgler, Jackson ;
William Derimore, Jefferson ; Jacob 11.
Ziegler, Lancaster; Hugh Murrin, Mar
ion; David Morrison, Mereor; Robert
List, Middlesex; J. W. Stewa.t, Muddy
creek ; Lewis S. Melliugcr, Oakland ; A.
Storey, Parker; Chas. Hays, I'enn ; Jas.
Jtephenson, Slipperyrock; John Ester
ling, Jr., Summit; Samuel Meals, Veuau
go; 11. A. Mifflin, Washington; James
Simmers, Winfield ; John Buuder, Jr.,
Worth; George Weber, Bor. Butler; Pe
ter Ililliard, Centrcville; P. F. Covert,
Harmony; 11. R. Wick, Karrisville; Pe
ter Frederick, Millorstown.
TRAVERSE JURORS —SECOND WEEK.
Findley Brandon, Portersville; Isaac
Sponsler, Prospect; Wm. Allen, Zelietio
ple; Ilcnry Aderhold, Saxonburg; Jas.
Sproul, Adams; Jacob Ivinser, Allegheny;
Jacob Earmsn, Buffalo; Wm. Bryson,ol
Joseph, Butler; Zephaniah Double, Bra
dy ; Anthony Thompson, Centra ; Jarvis
Tinker, Cherry; Klisha Wick, Clay;
Daniel O'Donnell, Clearfield; Jas. Hay,
Clinton; James Sutton, Concord ; Thos.
C Allen, Connoquencssing; John Davis,
Cranberry Jas. Storey, Fairview ; Bry
son Black, Franklin ; Alex. Douthett,
Forward; Abraham Zicglcr, Jr., Jack
son; Sylvester Cypher, Jefferson ; Isaac
Bellas, Lancaster; Geo. Midberry, Mar
ion; James McFadden, Mercer; Wendell
llickey, Middlesex; R. I). Alexander,
Muddycreek; Robert Mcllinger, Oakland;
Wm. R. Turner, Parker; Jacob Ilartzell,
Penn ; Samuel Taggert, Slipperyrock;
Peter Esterling, Summit; Patrick Mc-
Ilride, Venango; Alex. McNaughton,
Washington ; William Stalcy, Winfield ;
Zebulon Cooper, Worth ; Wm. Campbell
and Isaac Colbert, Bor. Butler.
gor the Citizen.
MR. EDITOR :—The returned soldiors
of Butler, and townships in close proxim
ity, have about completed the organiza
tion of a military company iu accordance
with an ' ; Act of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania of 1864," for the organiza
tion of State militia. Wo respectfully
invite the returned soldiers of Butler
county to join with us in raising compa
nies sufficient to form a regiment. Maj.
John M. Thompson has agreed to take
charge of a regiment if raised; the other
field officers to be eleoted by the officers
of companies.
Respectfully submitted,
BUTLER COMPANY.
—Captain Moors, Assistant Quarter
master, who commanded the Burial Par
ty recently dispatched to Andersonville,
is in receipt of letters fr«m the friends of
the soldiers who died there, requesting
information as to whether their remains
can be found and removed. Captain
Moore desires to state in reply to these
inquiries that the record of burials, to
gether with such other information as
was obtained, will be given to the public
in a printed document on or about the
first proximo.
ANOTHER STATE. —Colorado having
adopted the State Constitution sub
mitted to the people, will speedily, on
the assembling of Congress, come in
to the family «112 the Union.
Dr.JßOktton'a Oreat EU'ort.
The iaiuiituble orator of the century.
Dr. Andrew Jackson, yesterday perambu
lated the principal streets of the city ou
a wagon, accompanied by one of the most
efficient organ grinders west of the Moun
tains and east of the Mississippi, giving
notice to the public that in the evening
he would discourse in the most eloquent
manner upon various subjects of the ut
most importance. As the Doctor rang a
ponderous bell and waved tho flag, crowds
gathered to hear tho last words which
were to fall from his lips previous to hi
appearance in the evening.
In accordance with this antiouncemen
and other respectful indisatlji , the 1> . -
tor was greeted by a large audience 01
highly respectable and duly appreei itiv
citizens at Lafayette Hall, in llio even
ing. The celebrated gong artist, Join
Algto, half an hour before tho lecture
took his station at the street entrance ■
the hall and performed some quaint sele"
tions lrom the music of Macbeth. Dur
ing the same time the orchestra of bell
ringers, under the vigorous leadership ot
Mr. William full wood, discoursed livcl.
airs in the front part of the h ill. Ilun
dreds of passers-by stopped to listen to
and admire tho sweetness of the music.—
Several ot tho most enlightened persuti
in the crowd were beard to observe that
such music must sound more'enchanting
ui. a greater distance, and with a v ; ew to
test it, they took thei' departure.
Shortly alter eight o'clock, tho hall
having been comfortably filled the orches
tra of bell-ringers was divided into two
parties, one 011 each side of the gallery,
as a proper support to the Italian artist
who presided at the organ on the platform.
The great gong artist took his place in
one of the wings.
As Dr. Jackson took his seat on the
stago he was greeted with tremendous
cheering, waving of hats, ringing of bell.-,
sounds from tho gong, the Star SpongleU
Banner by the Italian artist ou the hand
organ, and loud calls of " hats off in
fiont," "stand back and let us hear the
doctor," "sitdown," "speak louder,' "wait
till the doctor takes a drink," and sundry
other expressions indicative of enthusias
tic anxiety.
After silence had been restored, tho
most welcome silence our reporter ever en
joyed, the Doctor began to speak his piece.
He hoped his audience would have batter
manners and more of them than when his
eloquence last burst upon the air in that
hall. He said ho was going to tell them,
if they would behave themselves, about
the poor soldiers, him among others, who
had suffered death in the first degree.—
Yes, sir! yes, sir! yes, sir! [Dully for
"yes, sir !"J Yes, said the Doctor, when
I was in Richmond, where some here was,
I cau tell you who you arc, and you may
laugh, but you didn't laugh in Libby,
down there, where I fed you, and looked
after you, because I was outside and you
was inside, poorsouls that you was [Bui
iy for poor souls.] Yes, sir! yes, sir ! I
remember when tho soldiers, you soldiers,
me among the rest of them, poor souls
Were glad to dig holes. [Hero the Doc
tor became pathetic as h': unfolded to the
almost entranced audience tho following
poem which he had composed on the last
subject named. We give it verllutim el
literatim.]
Poor souls.
I liggin holes.
[Cries of bully lor holes.] Aw, sir,
they ha'l to eat slops and drink vicinal
my mother's hops wouldn't eat when I
was a boy. [Bully for your mother'."
hogs.] See here, stop that tbcie, I know
you, aud if you do that, again you shal.
go out, I nieuu no disrespect to my m t li
er because the lugs 1 spoke about wouldn't
cat what our soldiers, me among them ha .
to eat. I want order,and L come here t<,
rnako it. Yes, sir [Cries for music,
followed by selections Iroui Sijuinti's grc.it
opera of "Pandemonium, 1 ' during which
the Doctor refreshed behind the win,. ]
Another cry of " bully fur your mother
hogs," induced the Doctor to leave tin
stage and attempt a sudden departure, hut
his effort to reach the door was weakened
by an affectionate appeal from Mr. li (i.
Childs, the Master of Ceremonies for the
evening.
The Doctor on resuming his place on
the stage lifted his little finger and the
organ-grinder wound up a beautiful air
with a suddenness so exquisite that, the
houte could not resist the temptation to
come down." The Doctor resumed by
saving : " You may say Lincoln here, and
Lincoln there, but I tell you that Wash
ington was his grandfather in Philadel
phia, when he said to the American chil
dren we and you among the rest, and no
others, this flag is foi you, and, I tell you
children, for you know we are the chil
dren, the Hon. Mr. Washington, was our
grandfather, wo among the rest of you,
ever since that time in Philadelphia these
American children have been coming up
just like gnats. Yes, sir 1 [Three cheers
for the gnats, and musical demonstrations,
strange to all but artistic ears, from the
▼arious performers, while the Doctor re
freshed once more]. Washington is now
lying up in Heaven where I am going
with these here (pointing to the epau
lettes) before long if I live to take my de
parture. Yes, sir ! [Cheers for depar
ture]. And the lata President, whar dv'e
think he has gone? I tell you he'sin
Heaven. I heard him make his last
speech. He came out, you know, a bi<*
long six-footer that he was, and spoke a
speech. I heard him. Yes, sir! He said
"Ahem, ahem, I have one word to say to
the United States ; says he (three cheers
for"says he") "I want you all to have a
place for everything, and everything in
its place." Yes, sir! yes, air? I heard
him. These words fell from the lips of
your father Abraham Lincoln previous to
his departure in this here life. I seed
them, yes, sir! And about the niggers
[bully for the niggers,] yes, sir! belaid,
■ays he, the day is coming when you shall
all respect the colored people," hear that
now, he didn't say -niggers," "when you
shall respect the colored people as I do."
The Doctor then proceeded to consider
the » misfortunes and loss of money of
digging to the United States, the Dutch
Gap Canal. He then thought Gen. But
ler might be a goo<i fighter, but he could
not survey. Yes, sir! [Cries for music,
followed bv terrible response from the cal
a thumpians in the gallery and the artists
on the stage.]
The doctor being thirsty, and there be i
ing uo more water iu tho pitcher, hastec
ed to ,ite fifth and last part of his speech :
■•Showing tho hardest battle fought on
this coutinent, and the reasons why it wa*
the hardest battle." 'i he very enthusi
astic demeanor of the soul-stirred ami
electrified audience left in oblivion some
of the doctor's peroration, but we under
sto 11 him to say that on some other occa
sion ho Would be delighted to spend an
other evening in tho socictyof gathering
so gentlemanly us that was. He then in
vited a general inspection of his medal,
his patent leather boots, and his epnu-
I ttes. Owing to much shaking of hands
the doctor become exhausted, asked for it
ink, and was last seoa in tho bands ol
comme nt protectors, going out tbe back
way When the gas had been kin Ih
ext.ing idled by the olficious and promp'
j nitor. tbe last portion of the assemblage
■ok t'-eir departure, each his various
ays to laugh over the groat speech ol
i'r. Jackson, at Lafayette Hall.— Pitt. a
1 '■ ;n.
Tlie botitliei'ii I'riss.
As newspapers uio the Illinois of pub
lie sentiment and public uffuris, we look
into the Southern papers with considerable
interest, to see something of tho thoughts,
eclings and every day life of tlio peoplo
I here.
\V e read the o</ frrttsemriit* or at least
glance over them, and find buisincss re
viving. Our S< ut'iern bre'.heru, not
withstanding their professions of disdain
towards Yaukeo traffickers are not whol
ly impervious to thoughts of money-mil
king. ( otton principal circulating mo
dium and tho basis of buisiness. lu Ma
con. since Soptembcr Ist, it sold as low
as twenty-six cents a pound. Northern
connections, in buisiuess transactions, ap
pear to be already formed in consideablo
numbers. Trade regulations are not en
tirely out of Goveruuieut control. Un
der the head id'"the game blocked," a
.Montgomery paper lueut ons tho suspen
s on of cotton shipments, the "whys and
wherefores" of wnich it does not under
stand.
Schools appear to bo opening and re- i
opening iu tho South in promising abund- j
mice. Tuition appears to be as high as |
it is with us and, we presume, wich hot- i
ter reason. Twenty dollars a quarter for
tuition, uud iu boardiug schools, enibrac- .
ing all the extras, two hundred and fifty j
d illars for a half year term.
Niijntet do not figure largaly in the pa- !
pers. No auction sabs and uo runaways '
aro advertised. The slave interest ap
pears to bo extinct. A Macon editor
wishes that the article proposed for tho
Mississippi Constitution on that subject,
might be adopted "word for word" in the
State of Georgia. A local in the same
paper says, of the railroad arrivals of tho
day, "there were comparitivoly few white
passengers, but a full cargo of the decern!-
ants of Hani. They woro all hunting
freedom, we suppose, and hope they will
find it." The darkeys must have uarucd
some money, or they could not afford to
rido ou the railroad. In Nashville, a ne
gro bull and dancing liouso is complained
of, as a nuisance.
Politic* engage some attention. In
Nashville, ei- lit candidates appear for
tho office of Mayor. Tho South was al
ways great for offices. A Geor ;ia paper
speaks of Pennsylvania as, ' that sterling
old democratic State,"and commends the
proceedings of the lite Democratic Con
vention, expressing the sanguine hope
that tho Democracy will bo "able to raily
strength sufficient to overwhelm all op
sition in the coming elections." The ed
itor may be pardoned for these wild antici
pations, since be has been too much ae
ctipied with the rebellion to keep track
ofthe politics of Pennsylvania for tbe
pa»t four years. 'I lie famous General
Pillow presided at a meeting in Columbia,
le line see, lately and '-indorsed President
Johnson," as the New York Democratic
Convention has done. So tho Repulican
party which endorsed Andrew Johnson,
last November, is gaining converts all
around.— Pitt*. COM.
—General Howard to-day issued an
important circular to tho assistant com
missioners of freedmen relativo to aban
doned lands in the southern States. Tbe
circular, which is approved by the Pres
ident, revokes all previous orders on the
subject. The following aro its most im
portant provisions: L-.nd will not be con
demned and sold by degree of tho Uni
ted Sintes Court for tbe district in which
the property may be found, and the ti
tle thereto thus vested in tho United
States.
Upon its appearing sotiafactory to
any Assistant Commissioner that any
property under his control is not aban
doned by reason of its owner being vol
untarily absent therefrom, and that the
United States has acquired no title
to it by confiscation, sale or other
wise, he will formally surrender it
to the authorized claimant or claim
ants, promptly reporting his action
to tho Commissioner. Assistant
Commiss : oners arc directed to pre
pare accurate descriptions of all con
fiscated and abandoned lands under
their control, keeping a record them
selves, and to forward monthly to
the Bureau hero copies thereof. They
are also instructed to set apart so
much of said lands as is necessary
for the immediate use of loyal refu
gees and freedmen, being careful to
select for this purpose those lands
which most clearly fall under the con
trol of the Burea, which selection
must bo submitted to the Commission
er for his approval. Abandoned
lands held by the Freedmen's Bureau
may be restored to owners pardoned
by the President, by the assistant
commissioner, to whom applications
for such restoration shoul be for
warded,, go far as practicable, thro'
the superintendents of the districts
in which the lands are situate*}- —
E .cli application must be accompanied
by, First—Evidence of special pardou
by the Presideut, or a copy of tho oath of
amnesty prescribed in the President's
proclamation of May 2d 1£65. when the
applicant in not included in any of the
classec therein excepted from the benfits
ot said oath. Second—-Proof of title.—
The officers of the Bureau, thro' whom
the application passes, will endorse there
on such faots as may a* 1 t tho assi tint
Commissioner in his decision, stating es
pecially tho use made by the Bureau of
the In d No lands under cultivation bv
1 yal refugees or froodmen will bo restored
until tho crops now growing shall be se
cure 1 fir the benefit id' the cultivators,
unless full and just compensation bo made
fir thoir labor and its products, and for
trieir expenditure.
IHuMmcUliiiellH,
The following are among the resolutions
pis«ed at the recent State Convention of
bo Bay State. They have the truo riDg
iu tileni.
Jitsi'cn/, 'ibat went on
fur:her than | ohtieul necessity and Ma
:onal saiety required, when in 1804, in
common wilhiho Republicansol'all States
sb declared in Natioual Convention that
Slavery was tho cause and strength of the
ii billion, H must be always and every
where liosti o to the i r.ueiples of Kepub
l ean Government una ju»tice, and tho
National safety domaiide I its utter and
complete extirpation from tlio soil of the
Republic ; and now in accord with these
declarations, she only that there shall
be on thi. part uf Congress and the ad
ministration no rolaxat on whatever > 112
! vigor or vigilance in tho government of
llio revolted Stutcs, which pdt. at hazard
tho rights of the people to whom the Na
tional faith is pledged, or which leans
in Southern society the seeds of tho Na
tional crime, which brought upon us the
Rebellion which has involved us in a debt
$W,1)00,000,000, for the p lynicnt of which
tbe honor and property of tho country is
! pledged, or which hus slain by the bullet
and by starvation and cruelty 50,000 of
tho best, nion of the loynl States.
JieKoheil, That tho entire pacification
of tbe country and the restoration of or
der is an object of the first importance,
and ou which requires the execiso of the
most deliberate and cautious wisdom, in
order that there may be no necessity of
retracing our steps; and wo agree with
I the Republicans of I'eunsylvnuia, who,
jiu their recent State (,on vent ion, ex pressed
the conviction that tho people lately in
rebellion cannot be safely intrusted with
j tho political rights which they forfeited
i by their treason until they have proved
; their acceptance of tho results of the war
by incorporatingiuto their constitutional
: provisions, and securing to all men with
in their borders the inalienable right to
! liberty and tli» pursuit of happiness ; and
wa call upon Congress, before whom must
spi e lily come tho whole question of re
-1 organizing tho Southern community, to
see to it that tbe loyal people, white and
| black, shall have tbe most perfect guar
antees for thoir safety before any final
steps are taken toward restoring tho re
volted peoplo of tho South to their for
feited rights.
| lirnohnl, That so long as any import
ant political questions glowing out of tho
| war remain unadjusted, no part of tho
powerti of tho Government can be safely
com mil tod to any political party compos
ed of tho Southern men, who were lately
I iu Rebellion and arinn, or of tho North
nion, who, in a National Convention only
| a year ago, declared that after four years
i of failure to restore tbe I'nion by tho ex
periment of war, during which, under the
pretense of military necessity, the war
; power had been placed higher than the
C. n-titution. TheC institution itself had
' ( ten disregarded in every part public and
private rights alike trodden down, and tho
material prosperity of tho country essen
tially impaired, and that justice, humaii
; ity. liberty, and the public welfare dc
j niandcd that iiumedia'e etfmts be made
> lor a cessation of hostilities.
And further rr.Mival, I hat no confi-
I deuce ought to bo placed in tbe profes
. sions of an organization that declared tho
l necessary protection of the polls from the
■ assaults of ruffians and traitors to be a
i shameful violation of tb > Constitution
which ought to be held revolutionary
1 and resisted; au I that now seeks to re
instate itself in power by the nomination
ot s lidicrs and provost-marshals for office
1 au iby passing resolutions of confidence
• iu a Republican administration.'
. DKVASTATIUS IN PI KTARROR DAMNA
TION. — it is reported that as soon as the
; news of tbe d struct ion of our whalers
on the Pacific, by the rebel cruiser She
nandoah. reached Acapulc i. Mexico, tho
. commander of the English war stcuincr
i, Devastation, then lying in the harbor,
. -ought an interview with Captain (!. I'.
1 Scott, of the United States steamer Snr
atiac, and informed liiui that he should
j set sail immediately with the Devastation
j in pursuit of the Shenandoah, and should
. treat tho rebel cruiser as a pirate, and
. capture her wherever she might he found.
> lie was as good as his word, and left tho
> port as Boon as his ship could bo got uudcr
. way.
t —Col. W. W. 11. Davis, the Copper
• head candidate for Auditor General, has
i now resumed full charge of the Doyles
t town Democrat, a newspaper which he
. has owned for many years, and which
heretofore and now synipathzes with the
rebels. The peculiar force of the Dnnu
erat, since Col. Davis has returned to
preside over its columns, consists in as
' serting that the rebels have not been
' whipped; that they should bo received
) back to the Union witn all their rights
j restored ; that slavery is not and can
- never bo abolished, and that justice to
> the rebels, the dedt which they incurred
i in struggling for their "rights" is as le
gal as the debt which was piled on tho
peoplo by the National authorities while
waging a crusade on the peoplo of the
' South, anil if the National debt is
paid so also must the debts of the
1 Southern States be liquidated. Aoocrd-
I ing to Colonel Davis' own theory the tri
• umph of the Copperheads al the ballot
i box would be to wipe out all the disgrace
• of the defeat of the rebels on the battfo
field. Tho l>oyleston Democrat takes this
position, and VV. VV. H. Davis is the edi
tor and proprietor of that pestilential
I sheet.— Ex.
—A little daughter of Geo. W. Mull,
of Newviile, Cumberland county, died
' suddenly, a few days ago, from the effects
'i of eating grapes. Dr. Zitzer, of Carlisle,
says he had several cases in bis practice.
II this season, where persons died from tho
i same cause. Uo believes that there is a
i poison of some kind in a large portion of
1 th« grapes grown this year.