Newspaper Page Text
7 JIB W t DM IA l ' ;T ON.
%
-*i’KE‘II 01 PBKSIDE.M ~’OHa
IMPOBTA»T»I vi
~, v'l ii mtiM) VSA DKLK«ATIO.>
IlfollKFlA lo ’Mnvn. ,
r Sw , CJiA i correspondence New York Ilerald.] j
The delegation from Ohio having retired,
ton was ushered in.
Governor Morton, in a speech of Home length
greeted Mr Johnson aa Preaidant of the Uni
ted Mate- and assured hint of their full con
fidence and support. He referred appropriate
lT to the inhuman murder of President Lin
coln. and to the confidence aud affection with
which he had inspired the people of the Uni
ted .States. lie also referred appropriately to
tho approaching end of the rebellion and the
duties imposed upon the President and the
people, and tne moral'and legal responsibility,
of ip c«... who are guilty oi the crime of trea-
Hon. He said :—As the crime oi treason is in
dividual in its character, ho must be its pun
ishnent. Rebels have the power to foifeit
their own personal rights, civil and political;
hut they have no power, directly br indirect
then ret erred to lire statute of State rebellion,
and discussed the powers and mode of recon
• . ... ~ . lu covei/Tmcntfi
The President then stepped a little forward,
and began by ntatiug that he did not desire to
make any exposition of his suture policy more
thaM lie had already made, but that it was
clearly to be derived from the history of his
]il.;, adding that he might adopt the Govern
„rV\, raiment- aud address them to bun as ins
own, indih'-n ad ;eil< Bui -n entering upon
the disctiarge ot the duties devolving upon mo
by the sad occurrence of the assassination of
tiro Chief Magistrate of the nation, and, as you
arc aware, in surrounding circumstances which
are peculiarly embarrassing and responsible, I
doubt whether you are aware how much 1 ap
predate encoura ernent aud countenance fr«m
my fellow citizens of 'lndiana. The most
courageous individual, the most determined
Will, might, justly shrink trom entering upon
the discharge of that which lies before me. But
were 1 a coward, or timid, to receive the coun
tenance and encouragement J have from you,
anti other junta of the country,
would make me a courageous and determined
man. 1 mean in the proper sense of the term ;
lor there > much in m «r : c.*urngt*;i»d the
firm calm discharge of duty as in physical
Cauiage. Bui in entering: upon the duties im
posed upon me by this calamity 1 require not
only coumge, him determined will; and I as
sure you that on this occasion your encourage
ment is pecubaih acceptable to me In refer
ence to what my administration will be while 1
occupy my pru-eut position .1 must refer you to
the past. I ‘'ii may look back to it as i valence
oi v/nat my c arise will Ire. And in reference
to th■ 'h bolieai and fiendish rebellion, sprung
uoon the country, fill I have to do is to ask
you Him 10 j'o back aud lake my course in the
i.iibl, and trom thai. ifeLumine what, my future
will be Mine has beeu but one straightfor
ward and unswerving course, and 1 see no rea
son now way I should depart trom it.
As to making a declaration, or manifesto, or
message, or what you may please to call it,
my pari ii; al; tic forshauowiug of my future,
com He than any statement on paper that might
be made. Who, four years ago, looking down
the stream of time, could have delineated that
which has tran-pired since v tlida ? Had any
one done so, and presented it, ho would have
t„ ,‘i) looked upon at; Insane.; or i; would have
beeu thought a labie fabulous as tho stories of
flu; Arabian Nights as the wonders ol tho
Lamp ol Aladdin and would have been about
aS readily behoved U via knew so little lour
years ago of what’has .passed hiuce thou, wo
kuow aS little what events will arise in Hie
next four years. But as these events arise 1
shall bo controlled in tho disposition ol them by
those rules and principles by which I have b. eu
guided heretofore. Had it not boon foi extra
mdinary efforts, in part owing to machine
ry ol Ibo State, you would b ivo ha 1 rebellion
us rampant iu Indiana as wo h id it in Tennes
see. 'Treason ia none the less treason,whether
it be’in a free .State or iu' a slave State ; but i!
t here could be any dill', renco in such a est mo,
ho who commits treason in a free State is a
greater trailer than he who commits it in a
h! ivo State, i hero might be some little excuie
ior a man who based his treason on bis posses
sion ot slave property ; but the traitor iu a lice
Stati lias no excuse, but tuthply to be a trai™
tor. Do not, however, understand mo to mean
by this that any man should be exonemted
irom the penalties and punishments of the
entile of treason. The time liob' arrived when
•
crime is, aud that it shot’hi be punished, and
its penalties enforced and indicted.
We say iu our statutes and courts, that bur
glary is a crime, that murder is n crime, that,
arson is a crime, ami that treason is a crime ;
and the constitution of ihe United Stales and
the laws of she United States say that tieasou
shall consist in levying wav against them, and
giving their enemies aid and eomfoit. 1 have
|w«t retnui ked that butglury is a crime and has'
its pciiatihs, tlmi, murder is a crime and has
its peualti s, and oon through the ior.-!’’ cata
logue of crime. To illustrate by a sad event,
which is bei./ie the minds ol all, and which has
draped this land in mourning, who is there
here who would - y it the assassin who has
stricken trom onr ndds;t q|in beloved and re
vend by all, and pa-sud him from time to
eternity'- to fi:..t bourn whoiue no drooler ic
turns —who, 1 repeat, who here would say that
the a. s;u-sin, it' taken, should not suffer the
penalties oi his crime? Then, ii you take the
life of o:ic individual tor the murder of anoth
er, and believe that his property should be
confiscated, what should I: % ■ with one who
is ti v lug U -i •■ ition ' Wh u
should be done wall Iran ca »: r.i who have at
tempted the tile oi a nation , •nipored of thir
ty miliums o! people? Wo weie living a: a
tune when the public utiit- L almost become
oblivious of what treason ;
The lime has arrived, my <. mtrymet'. when
the Auicaeau pnopie t.houal i educated and
taught what is Cl une. red n liviso.i is a
crime, and the highest emnu 1 vvn to the law
and the constitution. Vw;, ; .>u against a
•
on against the United trs is the
highest eliiro lhai i in ..ud, and
those engaged in it should sue t and ,ts penal
natiiV and seu.iuieiu wls human blood i
abou{ to be sited--r;.s> to a ue a leoilla
tion tor ienieaey and kuidue but sometimes
.
misery and wo to t.ae massot n.ankiua. brine
times an individual win m tin aw has ovei -
taken, and on whom us pcna are about to
bo imposed, will njiprai and plead with the
Executive lor the exs r .se ei e-eu:. i.ey : hut
bt lore its exetc.se he <ughi to arcer -in v,im
is mctcy. It is a very imports'.!, question, atm
one which d< serves the eohsideiatton of those
Who moral r.e upon crime id the morals o! a
nation —whether, iti'srnic cases, action suomid
not be suspended here and transtened to llim
who controls all. i here, it otuoceace • has
been invaded, it wrong has Veen done, the
Controller aid Giver oi ail good—one of whose |
attribu es is mercy—will set i. right. It is
totoi'e said to say that traitors must be made
rrauois must he punish! > m ..' napoveri. heel
l hey mu si not ouiy be pm.e,l. b, ’ ihtii po
maimaui an a teudancy. :u,o ta.iv again he- I
Com* Luuieioua and power,ui . for. in the I
.
-When traitors become num. v.-oih enough’
tieasou becomes respectal to
And 1 *ay that, alter making treason odious
every Union man und t:.n >.uv- uim m should’
bo remunerated out of th. ju cko*s of those
who have iLtliCted ti.is giv ■: -uii ’tiLg upon
the country. But do not i;: ,er> ■ T ‘
saying inis in a ;pirit ot anger ; for, it luu
deistaud li.y own ; . art, the .cvo.a is ibe case.
Aud while 1 say that ihe penautes of the law,
in u stem ana inflexible .manner, suou’.d lv
executi J upon conscious, intelligent an.: influ
ential traitors—the leaders, who h&re (Revived j
thousand: u;«. a thousands ■. t laboring men v\ i>o j
have been drawn imo this re';-, .nun : and vrh.lv
1 say as to the leader;: punishment, I also **y
m fvlvvd.
Aud iu jrcleuncc 4o this;, as a remarked, 11
i Lo e " iopte* your ipeech a*
- • Oe ‘• ■end k. .• r. I 1 -
, , <1 th nt inis B sV“i .;ui f, nt was sent
• mission among tne nations oi the ;
i i,;!. -that it had a gient woik to perform, j
iL , ; ’ fit in starting it, it was started iu peipe- i
L mk back for one moment ® the-arti
• i ( . B r ,f confederation, and then come down to <
fyny v, in n the constitution wasfoimed Whs*
.1,, vou find ? “ That we, the people of the j
United States, iu order to form a more perfect j
government/' Ac. Provision is made for the !
adu:i.-sion of new Spates to be added to old i
i.es embraced within the Union. Now turn
to the constitution. We find that amendments
may be made by a recommendation of two
thiida of the members of Congress, if ratified
by three-fourths of the States. Provision is
! made for the admission of new States ; no pro
! vision is made for the secession of old ones,
i hu instrument was made to be good in per
p.-luity. and y*'u can take hold of it, not to
bicak up the government, but to go on per
fecting h more and inure as it runs down the
j m-, mi ot tim«. We find the government
I comisised of integral parts. An individual is
an integer, au l a number ofiudividuals form
I a State, aqd a State itself is an integer; and
tl. c various States lorm the Union, which is it
self an integer, they alt making up tbe gov
en.men- of the United States. Now we some
to *i;e i'oittt of my argument so far as concerns
the pei ;>-tu.ty of the government. We Jiave
-ten ilia , the government is composed of parts
each essential t. tho whole, and the whole es
sential. to each part. Now, if an individual
part of a Sta e declare war again .t y the whole,in
violation of the constitution, he, as a cit.zen,
h s violated the law, and is responsible for
the act as an individual. There may be m o
than one individual. It may go on till 1 ey
In come paits ot States—the rebellion may g<>
on increasing in numbers till State mar him ■ v
is overturned, and the country becomes like a
man that is paralyzed on cne side. Bu. we
find in ihecousti'ution a great panacea provid
ed It provides that the United States that
is, the great integer—shall guarantee to, each
State the integers composing the whole in
tnis Union a republican torur of government.
Yis, if rebellion has been lampant, and set
side the machinery of a.State for a time there
si nds the great law to remove the paralysis
and revitalize it, and put it on its feet again.
When we conie to understand our.system of
government, though it be complex, we see how
beautilully one part acts in harmony with an
other 1 hen we see our government is to be a
perpetuity, there being no provision lor pull
ing ii down, the Union being its vitalizing
power, imparling life to the whole of the States
ifiat move around it like planets round the
sun, receiving thence light, anil heat and mo
tion. ■ Upon this idea of destroying States my
position has been heretofore well known, and I
•on no can- e to change it now ; and 1 am glad
• o hear its reiteration on the present occasion
Some are satisi ed with the idea that States are
to be lost m territorial and otto r divisions—
nr to lose their cnaracter as States, But their
life breath has beery only suspended, and it is a
hi :h constitutional obligation we have to se
cure each of these States in the posse.-siou and
enjoyment of a republican form of govorti
nii. A State may be in thy government with
a peculiar institution, and by the operation of
rob -ii-ion lose that feature. But it was a State
weeii it went into rebellion, aud when it comes
cut without the institution it is still a State.
1 hold it as a solemn obligation in any one of
the-e States where the rebel armies have lican
beaten back or expelled—l care not. hoyv > mall
the number of Union men, if enough lo man
the ship of State—l hold it, I say, a nigh duty
to protect aud ecure to thorn a republican
form oi government.
This is no new opinion. It is expressed in
conformity with my understanding t* ri<o
genius and theory of our government. Trum,
in adjuff ing arid putting the government upon
••its legs, again, I think the progress of this
work must pass into the bauds of its friends.
If a Stale is to be nursed until it again r ,.-is
-V (‘“gfb/it must be nursed by its frieuds, not.
smothered by its enemies. Now, permit me
to r-m,.- ii i:< I, while i have opposed dissolu
Loh uni ult integration on the one hand, on the
. oihflr 1 a; ii van aAy imposed to consolidafii.n
or the cSncflteOTfifci of power iu the hands of
a few. Sir, all this has been extorted from me
by rile remark:; you have offered; and, as I
have already remarked, 1 might have adopted
you; speech aw my own. I have detained you
longer than i expected ; but Governor Mortorr
is responsible for that. I scarcely know how
to express my feelings iu view of the kindness
you have manifested on this occasion. Per
haps I night not to add what I am about to
say ; but bumaii nature is humau nature. In
diana first named me for the Vice Presidency,
r though it was unsolicited by mo. Indeed, 1
there is not a man cau say thai 1 ever ap |
preached him on the subject. My eyes wove
tinned to my own State. If I could restore
ne- ( he measure of my ambition was complete.
1 thank Ihe .‘state of Indiana lor the confidence
aud regard she manifested towards me, which
has resulted in what is now before you, plac
ing me in tho position i now occupy.
in conclusion, l will repeat that he vigor of
my youth lies been spent in advocating ihose
gnat principles as the foundation of our gov
ej anient, and therefore I have been by many
.iCcounce-d as a demagogue. I was striving to
please the people. I am free to say to you
mat my highest ambition was to piease the
people ; ior 1 believed that when I pleased
theui I was pretty nearly right ; and, being in
the right, 1 did not care who assailed me. But
1 was going to say that I have always .yivora
led to,- principle that government was uiaue
t( r man, not man lor government—even as the
Good Book says that the Sabbath was made
ior man, not man for the Sabbath So tar as
in me lies, those principles shail bo carried
out And. iti conclusion, I tender vou my
profound and sincere thauks for your respect
ami support in the performance oi liie aiduous
dulies now devolving upon mo.
FLIU.R’ SUiEiIMI l\ OUL.6.TIIOKFK OOl'V
TV.
A meeting et the citizens of Ogfethovoe
county ( envened in the Court House Uua day,
aud upon motion Dr. James S was
i ho:a n chaiiman, and F. J. Robinson was re.
quested to act as {Secretary. After organiza
tion the Chairman iu a iew lemailis explain, and
Lie o. j'.i tof the meeting—-aud was followed
by sever*l g< utiemen upon the neceiLitics aid
itquiiemeuts ot the hour. . *
;Ui. \V B. Brigluwell then offered the follow
i«g resolutions, to wit:
lies Iven l>t, That we request tho Governor
oc. .! L:e Legislature together forthwith, to
I mke info 0 iisidcratiou tbo condition of the
eouairy.
Resolved 2d, Tliat it is the opinion of this
! ad: tii.it a Convention of the people ehou and
: ca ini, did mat wo request ear hanaiois
; Ktp - uvativt sto vote ior the call of a
Convcnuoa ot ihe people.
And cu uioiion ol.\V. G. Johnston, Esq ,
si’CLku by Dr. v\ ii-is Willingham, pn-faced
■ .. • w juuicious remarks from both -eiitle
meu, the resolutions were adopted with but.
j I’.vo (Items' j-iug voices. 4
Ou motion, u was it-solved that the Editors
f ii. On i nu:i’ A Sentinel and C •uloi -
. :-1 be io-pecii'i iy requested to pa. a•. ....u,
• ueceevitngs m their papers.
lire uu ting was tht-a mljourued tii.cd-e.
i>. J. Rebiusiu’, Jamls s. Sims,
Secret city. Cliainnsu.
Lexington, Ga., May 2d. 18G5.
Rrji ed-y f.’.u riot! L'HoLeua. —Tiie following
ir-v. c ic. ••••g cholera has been tried ami
found tv be &n infeilibio spec.fie ior, as well
. i >r- la nrive against the diseasb. Wet some
sindi...in in a b.v.-iu v> spirits of turpentine,
. ; ;hn.,, 1 udiul ol tne co: to each hog
verv t;• o or !hr daytqior two : rinve limeo.
i c corn ill'lhe spirits—simply
aer i:. . it wifi immediafely urv agftio, but
leave tin: corn i'uqireguati >1 with the tur
pentine.
~ t Summary. —The old line of Boston and
. .v.nnv ; e steamers which wr.s suspended at the
' Ull T- the war, has been put iu operation.
’■ grnt mill ever erected in Pennsyl
-1,1 ”, '->*a m exit tent- . It is a quaint old
-e i ~:.dui; i . and bears d«to about 1680. kit
. iwaiol on a small stream near Germantowa.
oi ;tu oi'.ginal machinery i nported
! vla e—g.uik., is stm retained in me mill.
’ ; . Black
'• iwn v - -at.y .msircyeil by tire at Mound
City, April 22d.
1: we wish children to revere high things—
, i.ii-gs siiupi-', and pure, and lovely, and of
good report —we must set them the example.
• 'cc iHvmivoK pit amo a "ir joh\-c
VVASU' .orpx. Are if 11 1865
Y- , y mo-iin.. A.i/* G .■ e, I Speed
wait and upon Hon. Andrew Johnson. Vice Pie
iderst o: the United States, and offiaalfy in
iorraed him of the sudden and unexpected
decease of Bresideul Lincoln, and stated that
an early hour might be appointed toe the in
augu'-afiion of bis successor. Tne following is
a copy of the communication refened to:
Washington Citv, April 15 1865.
Sir : -Abraham Lincoln, President ot the
S Unite 1 states, was -hot by an assassin last eve
I n'ug at Kurds’b theatre, in this city, and died
at the hour of 7:22 o’clock. About the same
at whi h the President was shot, an en
tered the sick chamber of Hou W. II Seward,
Secretary of State, and scabbed him in several
places in tho thioat, neck and face, severely if
not mortally wounding him Otbe*- members
cf the Secretary’s family were dangerously
wounded by the assassin, while making his es
cioe By the death of President Lincoln the
cilice of President has devoled, tinder the con
sijiution, upon you. The emergency of the
Government demands that you should imme
diately qualify according to the requirements
of the constitution, and euter upon the duties
of President of the tfnited States.
If you will please make known your pleasure,
such arrangements as you may deem proper
will be made.
Your obedient servants,
High McCulloch,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary of War
Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy
William Dennison,
Postmaster General.
J P. Upsheh,
Sec re; ary of the Interior.
James Speed,
Attorney General,
To Andrew Johnson, Vice Pres and nt of the
United States.
Mr. Johnson requested that the ceremonies
take place at bis rooms at the Kirkwood House
i.i this city, at 10 o’clock in the morning
The lion. Salmon P. Chase. Chief Justice oi
the United States, was notified of the fact, and
desired to be in a tendance to administer tho
oath of office.
At fLu- above named time the following gen
tlemen assembled in the Vice President’s room
to participate in the ceremony: The Urn,
Salmon P Chase ; the Hen Hugh McCulloch,
Secretaiy of the Treasury ; Mr Attorney Gen
eral Speed ; F. R. Blair, Sen., the lion. .Mont
gornery Blair ; Senator Foote of Vermont;
Yates of Illinois, Itamsey of Minnesota, Stew -
art of Nevada, Haleot New Hamp hire, and
General Farnsworth of Illinois.
Alter the preparation of the abov ; ie(;er,
the Chief Justice administered the following
oatii to Mr Johnsou :
I do solemnly swear that I will laitbfully
execute the office oi President. , f the United
States, and will to the best of niy ability,
preserve, protect and delend the « (institution
of the United States.
After receiving the oath, and being declared
President of the United States, Mr Johnson
remarked : w
Gentlemen -I must be permitted to say That
1 have been almost overwhelmed b\ the an
uounc meat of he sad event which has so re
cent :y occurred. I feel inc.mpeteut to per
form duties so important aud responsible as
those which have been so unexpectedly thrown
upbn me. As to an indication of my policy
which may he (formed by me in the adminis
tration of (he Government, 1 have tos-iy that
that must be left for development as the Ad
ministration progresses Tbs message or dec
laration must lx* made by the acts as tiiey
transpire The only assurance that I can now
give of the future, is reference to the past.
Tho course which I have taken iu the past in
connection' with this rebellion must be regard
ed a; a guarantee of the future.
My past, public life, which has been long
aud laborious, has beeu founded, ns I in good
conscience believe, upon a great principle ot
right, which lies at the basis of all things
The best energies of my life have been spent
in endeavoring to establish and perpetuate
•he principles of tree government, and I be
lieve that the Government, iu passing through
its present perils, will settle down upon prinei
pies consonant with popular rigbis, more per
manent, and enduring than heretofore. I must
be permuted to say, if I understand the feel
ing of my own heart, I have long labored to
ameliorate and elevite tho condition ot the
great mass of the American people. Toil aud
an h-.nest advocacy of tho great principles of
free government have been my 101. .he
duties have been mine, the consequences are
; God’s.
This has been the foundation ot my politi
cal career. I teel that in the end tho govern
ment will triumph, and that these great prin
ciples will be permanently established. In
conclusion, gentlemen, let me say that I want
your encouragement and countenance. I shall
ask aud rely upon you and others jtt carrying
the government through its perils I feel; in
making this request that it will be heartily res
ponded to by you and all other uatriots and
lovers of the rights aud interests of a free
people.
At the conclusion'of the above remarks, the
President received the kind wishes of the
friends by waom he was surrounded.
A few moments were devoted to conversa
tion. All were deeply impressed with the
solemnity of the occasion, and the reeent sad
occurrence that caused tbe necessity for the
speedy inauguration oi the President was grave
ly di cussed. Mr. Johnson is in line healih, and
has au earnest sense of the important trust
that dus been confided to him,
Wm Hunter, Esq , the Chief Oleik of the
State Department, has been appointed Acting
Secretary of State.
A special meeting of the Cabinet was h#ld
at the Treasury Department, at ten o’clock
this morning.
Toe President and the Cabinet at the meet
ing to (lay. intrusted to A.-sistaut Secretaiy of
the Treasury Harrington the general arrange
ment of the programme lor the funeral of th*
late President, Major French, the Cemmis-fion
er of the Public Buildings, will attend to the
carrying out o so much of it as directly ap
pertains to the coips; and Major General Au
ger, in ehai ge of the defences of Washington,
will be in charge of the military part of
the precession. Assistant Secretary Hanington
has b eii in consultation o night, relative to the
arraog ment with Governor Oglesby, Senator
Yates, aud ex Representative Arnorld, of Illi
nois, and Generals Grant, Halieck aud Auger,
and Colonel Nickols, and Admirals Farragut
and Shubriek.
The ftmeial ceremonies os the late President
will ta-.e place on Wednesday. The time for
ihe remains to leave tbe city, as well as the
route by which they will be taken to Spring
fieM, is as yet, undetermined.
Tbe procession will form -at 11 o’clock, and
the religious services will commence at noon,
at which hour, throughout the wboleland, the
var ous religions societies have been requested
to assemble in their lesnective places of wor
ship for prayer. The precession will move at
2p. ni Details will be made known as soon
as per tec ted.
The Acting Secretary ot State has issued the
following addtess :
To the Peddle of the United States :—'lhe
undersigned is directed to annouuce that the
funeta! cermonies of the lamented Chief Mag
istrate will take place at the Executive man
sion in this city, at 12 o’clock, noon, on Wed
nesday, the lfHh instant, lhe various relig
ious i«?nominations throughout the country are
invited to meet in their respective places of
worship at that hour, for the purpose of sol
emnizing the occasion with appropriate ceie -
monies.
W. Hotter,
Acting Secretary of State.
To Make Tomato Wine —Take ripe to
matoes, press 41 nil strain them, then to one
quart of the juice add one half-pint of sugar,
bottle and let it stand until it ferments, then
it is ready for use.
To Stop a Leaky Cask.—The best thing is
whiting, beaten up with common yellow soap.
If the mixture is well rubbed into the leak, it
will b) found to stop it after everything else
law failed. Air slacked lime will do as a sub
stitute for whiting.
It is no disgrace not to be able to do every
thing; bnt to undertake, or pretend to do, that
which you are not made for is not only shame
, ful but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
‘ Pr ta rho New York Herald. April 2o ]
A'mu vv JOItftSO.X watt DEMOt-tt \T—
-01.1 Vo'tt i -a POLICY U *D£tt Is HCCh
the m .re we study Anrhew Johnson’* char
acter and antecedents, ihe more strongly arc we
led to b lieve that be is eminently the r go,
man in the rigbt place at the present situatios
of our affairs, bAh domestic and foreign. Hi
type of mind, while devoid of religious can n
seems as direct and forcible as that of Oliver
Croniw-Hl ; and -lie deaily entertains for the
rebellious, slaveholdiog aristocracy lately dona
inant in the South, ascom as bitter and deep
rooted as that which inspired the words and
acts of England's Lord Protector in his forci
bie dissol.'tionV the Long Parliament : “For
shame,’’ said Oliver, stamping witn his foot as
a signal for the soldiers to enter ; “for shame
Get you gone ! Give place to more honest men: ‘
to those who will mote faithfully discharge
their trust . Yon are no longer a government;
I tell you, you aimo longer a government.”
Very much in the spirit of this incisive
speech have beeu President Johnson’s repeat
ed iterations that it. was the slaveholding aris
tocrats of the Sojith who had incited and car
ried on war against the lite of the nation ; that
their continued existence was “ant goni6tic to
the principles of free democratic government,”
and that “the time had come when this rebM
lioug element of aristocracy must be punish
ed ;” when it must “give up the ghost,’’ and
when “its possessions musb be divided out
among the loyal and worthy laborers of any
and ail colors.” The wholesale measures of
confiscation herein suggested will require no
interposition of the national executive or leg
islative powers for their enforcement There
wine but few huge slaveholders in the South
previou- to the war, whose plantation? and hu
man chattels were not heavily mortgaged ; and
wilh the last four years ot closed ports, and
the exch tuge of all their goods for worthless
rebel scrip or currency, there can be to-day
scarcely half a dozen large landhMdeis iu the
rebellious States wh. s i overburdened posses -
sions will not be swept into new hands by the
natural and peaceful action of the laws en
forcing payment of just debts. Except in a
few flagrant cases, no other steps, to produce
an entire change of the Southern proprietorial
class, will be required than to allow a just and
prompt enforcement of the laws tor collecting
debts as they exisUyl in each State previous to
Ihe rebellion.
In attempting to forecast what will hi the
toreign policy of President Johnson's adminis
Irutiou, we have to guide us his emphatic de
claration that he is “in favor of the Monroe
doctrine throughoutand his opinion, baldly
expressed last June, “that the time is not far
distant when, with the rebellion crushed, we
shall say to Napoleon that he cannot establish
a monarchy in Mexico.” It must also be re
membered in this connection that Andrew
Johnson s not, and never has beeß, a member
of the republican party. He has been a Jack
sonisn democrat ail bis life, believing iu State
sovereignty to tho extent of allowing each
State to regulate its own domestic concerns,such
es the right of suffrage &c —provided only
that the authority of the Union shall be para
mount in all national issues It was as a war
democrat that he was nominated for the Vice
Presidency to balance the renomination of ou:
late Pre ident, who was a republican of whig
antecedents; and as a vigorous and perhaps
rough handed war democrat of the mixed
Uromwelliau, Jacksonian, “manifest destiny”
and “Monroe doctrine” types, Andrew John
son by faithfully representing the genius of our
people will carve out for . himself a splendid
name in the world’s history.
We have seen that confiscation, or an entire
change of the Southern proprietorial class, will
be enforced by tho natural course of the laws
relative'to debt, even without any direct inter
ference on tbe part of our national government;
and, in like manner, the Monro# doctrine will
enforce itself by the spontaneous acti nos our
enterprising merchants and disbanded soldiers,
under the precedents established by France
and England in conceding belligerent rights
to tbe South, without involving the United
States in any just cause of quarrel wit i for
eign nations. We have never recognized
Maximiliau’s usurpation, while we have ex
pressly ree ignized and held relations with the
national republic of Mexico Oui- merohauts,
therefore, may sell ships-of-war, arms and all
the munitions ot belligerency to the populai
Mexican authorities; nor can our government
be well beld'responsible if a third or hall the
veteran soldiers, of both sides, iu our rt *ent
civil war choose to drift over the Rio Grande
after their disbandment, aud to take part in
diiving back across the Atlantic a foreign
usurper who was imposed on an unwilling
peonle by foreign bayonets agd domestic fraud.
It is a ell known that the Canadas would long
ago have striven to secure admittance into the
Union but for the bugaboo of slavery in the
South, and the fear of the fugitive slave law
to be extended over their territory—two points
which have been constantly heid in terrorem
before them by the subtle agents and stipen
diaries of the British connections. Now that
the whole Union is tree, it requires no seventh
son to foretell how lankily the Canadas must
gravitate towards annexation; nor does it ueed
auv very powerful sprit of prophecy to teach
us that the now dominant anti slavery sen i
meatof the United States cannon for any great
length of time, tolerute the existence aud rival
ry near our shores of the slaveholdiug and
slave importing colonial government of Cuba.
Spain has never been so wisely governed as
to avoid giving us once or twice in each year
just cause o! wai ; aud should a movement for
achieving independenoe of European thrall'
break out suddenly some fine day in th« entire
group of West India islands—French, English
and Spauish— we have the j>recedents of their
respective governments in our late struggle to'
justify our merchants in equipping war vessels
aud privateers for the belligeient” insur
gents ; nor could our national au.horities be
properly or successfully called upon to take
active measures for the prevention of a large
migration of veteran military pilgrims from
our shores to take part in the conflict for pop
ular institutions in all neighboring islands.
. Andrew Johnson has already given the rebel
chiefs of the South notice to clear out of the
country as rapidly as possible. Our people
do not thirst lor their blood, and will be glad
if a majority m the ringleaders escape to the
obscurity and protracted punishment oi exile
in foreign lands. But if thev remain here and
permit themselves to be captured, President
Johnson, reflecting tbe sentiments of the nation
is fii miy resolved that they shall be held to
their full legal responsibility for treason—that
highest of a l .crimes known to the law of na
tions On some such basis as this, together
with the enforcement of tbe “Monroe doctrine’’
and an adherence to the policy ot territorial
expansion or rnanifi st destiny,” Preeident
Jehus,.", as a war democrat, will command
the confidence and promote the highest inter
ests of oar whole country.
* Seven-tenths’ot our Boldiers in the field are
members of the war church, who
never held anti slavery principles previous to
the liriDg on Fort Sumter. It is in the civil
servipe and the non combatant branches of the
army th.it the original a!- oiiiiou j romoters of
our civil strite have Chiefly burrowed Let our
new President give us a guietai clearing out <>!
these drones by a resolve thai none who have
not taken active part in the war for the na-
life shall be fed at the nation’s table,
while equally competent, disbanded or wound
ed soldiers remain unprovided for, and he will
hatft? taken a long step towards purifying our
political atmosphere and enthroning himeelt in
t he. affections and respect of the American peo
pled r
A cheerful wile is a rainbow iu the sky, when
her husband’s mind is tossed on ‘the storms of
anxiety and care.
The right map in the right place—a husband
at home in the evening.
It is very rare to find ground that produces
nothing ; if it is not covered with flowers, with
fruit treeo and grains, it products briars aud
pines v It is the same with man ;ifhe is not
virtudfae he becomes vicious.
If vou will love others they will love you.
If you will speak kindly ~tr> them, they will
speak kindly to you. Love is repaid with
love, and hatred with hatred. Would you
heat a sweet aud pleasing echo, speak sweetly
and pleasantly yourself.
We exaggerate our weakness when we' mag
nify the strength or confess the omnipotence f
temptation. In the warfare of life—in the
struggle against its temptations, we should not
be like soldiers that go forth to battle willi a
conviction that the enemy is stronger than
themselves, for this is to carsy with us into
every encounter the assurance of defeat.
THE PL.fliiElN EXTJSNT
-V VISITATION.
Tbe city ni c Petersburg, the capital oi
the Ru'Sian empire, has been afflicted since
the- Unt days of Mir, h with the presence of a
sevt ie aud verj fatal epidemic, which has car
ried off a large number ot the inhabitants; amt
culminatius recently in a. frightful mortality
among the la •<>nng and more destitute class's,
its ravages have assumed the proportions and
reserved m some quarters the classification of
a plague
Tne malady has been called the Siberian
plague, and some of the enthusiastic friends of
freedom in Europe have not hesitated to as
sert their belief ih*t it has beeu s.-nt as a
maik oi Divine retribution on Russia for her
executive severity in driving so many persons
yearly to sicken, die and wot ia those dreary
wastes ia which the disease has, as they al
lege, originated, and trom which it has been
blown to the more thickly inhabited frontier
pasts and thence to tho gilded city of th<- Al
ex mders. Be this as it may, there is no
that, St Petersburg, as well as many other parts
of |Russia, suff.'r unJer an affection which is
at once suideu in ils appearance, acute, lebrile
and mal grnait in its attack, aud very mo: tal
in its consequences; aud although -we do not
belive that this “plague” will ever be number
ed with those which have desolated, at differ
ent periods in the history ot the world, Egypt,
Syria, Turkey, Italy, and the cities of Rome,
(Jonstantino{ 10, London aud Paris, we do not
hesitate to say that the presence of the disease,
-fast at this moment, will have a very damaging
effect on the commerce aud finances ol
Russia.
Tracing the course of the malady, it appears
to have originated ou the Asiatic side of the
Ural Mountains, whence it slowly threaded its
way to St. Petersburg, increasing as it went by
feeding on numerous victims taken from an
impoverished, under fed, ill clad and over-
Wherever it appeared all
employment was at once suspended The
alarmedand excited people fled hefoie it to
waids tne towns, and thus aggregated the con
tagion in municipal centres, from which it
spread to the metropolis, So numerous were
the deaths in Sc Petersburg for some days,
that the’publication of official returns of the
number of oases ceased about the lid of April,
the hospital accommodations failed, and hun
dreds of thousands ot rubles, taken irom the
government treasury or private parses, were in
process of appropriation, with the view of se
curing shelter and relief appliances lor the pa
tients. Physicians reached tho city from Cra
cow, Warsaw, and some of the towns of Poland,
to tender their services to ihe sick ; but, not
withstanding all this liberal and charitable ex
ertion, the disease advamJed s'eadily westward
until it reached ihe Prussian frontier and show
ed itself, but* in a mild r form, in the towns of
Konig berg, Dantzic and Gnmbinsen. In the
Waldai hills, lying southwest ot St Petersburg,
whole villages are said to have been depopula
ted. There was no trace of the epidemic in
Poland, a severe form of typhus fever existing,
however, in Ijm district of Konin ; the town of
Kolo, the seat of government of the place, h iv
ing a great many deaths.
Such was the situation on the morning of the
4th of April At this moment tho English,
French. Austrian, Prussian and Italian gov
ernments addieased official inquiries by tele
graph to the Russian authorities, as well as to
their own representatives resident in St. re
tersburg and iu the coast towns of the Baltic,
as to the nature and extent of tbe disea-e, and
the prospect of its alleviation, extension or
subsidence
Taken as a Whole, the replies indicate that
the complaint does not possess the very conta
gious character first ascribed to it; that it was
wrong to designate it as a plague, but that its
true character ii not really known. The Union
Mcdicalo of Paris, speaking on the subject,
says :—“The newspapers have announced that
Russian ships have been put in quarantine at
Dunkirk as a measure of precaution agaiust
the epidemic prevailing in Russia. Thu infor
mation we have obtained enables us to declaro
that no order prescribing this n easure has
been sent from Paris. Tbe moat recent infor
pmation shows that this epidemic, the nature of
which is still unknown, has begun to de
creasela tha British Uouao ot (Jommomi on
the 6th instant. Bir George Grey, Secratary of
State, anitounced that England—ever Wive to
the security of her commercial interests—had
sent instructions to Sir A.Buchanan, her min
ister at St Petersburg, to make without delay
tte fullest inquiries into the subject, and to
send from time to time all the information he
Could obrain as to the origin, nature and pro
gress or the disease, and the treatment of it
Instructions were also sent to her^represent*
lives at Berlin, . Vienna, Copenhagen and
Stockholm, and to the consuls at the Baltic
ports, to send full information as to the dis
ease, should it appear in any ol those parts of
Europe. A medical officer was also directed
to proceed to St Petersburg to investigate and
report upon the disease, and the officers of
customs ordered to exercise the utmost yigi -
lance in the examination of vessels coming from
the Baltic
In reply Sir A. Buchanan said that the dis
ease instated to be a fever new in Russia, but
not uukuowarin other parts of Europe, and it
is said to be' diminishing. Lord Napier said
that the Prussian Minister of the Interior had
toid him that an unknown disorder had appear
ed along the valley of the Vistula; but that he
was not aware that it came from Russia. The
consul at Dantzic says that the disorder preva
lent in that diatrim is a complaint of the brain,
chiefly affecting children. Theoonsul at War
saw said that some cases of typhus occurred
there; but no disease having the proportions
of an epidemic disorder had appeared in Po
land. The con ml at Konigsbcrg reports that
no particular epidemic disorder existed there,
and the consul at Mernel said that no symptoms
of the disease appeared in that district nor in
the adjacent Ru3siau provinces: and a tele
gram from the consul at Stettin reported that
no epidemic disorder prevailed there.
Our latest reports item Vienna assure us that
the imagination plays a tolerably large part in
the propagation of the tumors which depict
the horrors of this new plague. Late and re
assuring despatches had. to a great extent, qui
eted the public mind in £aris. in face of the
fact that very many RdjSWans were daily arri
ving there in an endeavor to “run awav frcm
the plague.”
What, then, is the nature of this visitation?
What the main exciting o arise-of the malady ?
Dr. Charles Murchison,of I tondon—than whom
no higher authoriiy nn iiuch a subject exists in
the Old World—replies to these queries in 3uoh
a lucid manner that we borrow his words He
says* ‘‘lf the details furnished by foreign
physicians are to be relied on, it is not anew
pest which has invaded the world, nor has the
disease any relation whatever to AsiaKtic chol
era . The malady is evidently fe'apsing fever,
which under different designations, ha i beep
well known in Britain and Ireland for nearly
two c> nturies, which constituted a groat part
of the Irish epidemic of 1847, and which about
the same time was very prevalent in Uppur
Silesia and in other parts of Cm many. The
Russian disease corio3poiids wit., relapsing fe
vei in every particular save one viz, its gre it
Utaiity ; but this difference is apparent lVther
than real, and is attributable to on admixtu~e
of ordinary typhus. The mortality from re
lapsing fevei has rarely exceeded three per
cent; bnt almost all epidemics ol relapsing
fever have co-existed with epidemics of typhus
of which the average mortality is nearly twen
ty per cent. Hence the aggregate mortality of
an epidemic of the two cLicaocs vanes with the
proportion of typhus.
And again ‘‘The causes assigned for the
Russian epidemic are the crowding into St.
Petersburg of forty-three thousand iaboiers in
search of work, bnt more particularly* tha un
usual destitution among the poor, and their
recourse tf> unwholesome food, such as bread
containing a large quantity of horned rye.
The epidemic, we are told, is “exclusively
confined to the poorer classes.’ In this in
spect the relapsing fever ot Russia is not singu
lar. In this country the disease has always
been confined to the. poorest classes. Inmost
of the accdutrts of Irish epidemic* of relaps
ing fever, arrtl in that of the Silesian epidemic,
it is stated that the inhabitants were not only
starving, but that they subsisted on unwhole
some articles of diet—such as the roots of
trees, grass, fungi, &c. The public need be
under jjttle apprehension as to the importation
of the Russian epidemic into England. The
more formidable of the two diseases compos
ing ft is here (in London; already.”—Vow York
Her&ld. _ _ ‘ _
| IMPOK 1 4!\T LBTrNH FROM J W. i
His Original PurjXise re as to make Mr TJ>-
coin a Prisoner Hi s’ Rrasoni for HL- Action .
[From the Philadelphia P;ess, April ly ,
We have just ieci ived t .e following i ttt r
written by John Wilkes Booth, and c ac< <i i y
bun in ihe hands of his brother-in-law, J s
Glai ke, iu a sealed envelope, and addressed io
himself, iu his own bandwriting. In M e ssrs:
envelope were some United states, bends and
oil stocks. Ibis letter was opened bv M
Choke for the first time on Monday last and im
meJiately handed by him to Marshal Mdlward !
who has kindly placed it in our hand- Me :
unmistakably it proves that he must for many
months have contemplated seizing (he person
of the late President It is, however, doubt
fnl whether he imagined the bisck di ed which
has pluuged the nation into tho deepest gloom
and at the same time awakened it to just and
righteous indignation:
» 1 1 1864.
Mr Dear Sir :l T ou may use this as yon
think best. But as some may wish to kuow
when, who and why. and as I know not how
to direct, I give it tin the words of your mas
ter ) - -
“To whom it may concern.”
Right or wrong, God judge me, uot man.
For be my motive good or bad, of one thing
1 am sure, the lasting condemnation of the
North.
I love peace more than life. Have loved the
Union beyond expression. For lour years have
I waittd, hoped and prayed for the darkclou is
to break, 'and for a restoration of our former
sunshine. To wuit longer would be a crime.
All hope ior peace is dead. My prayers have
proved as idle as my hopes. God’s will be
done. Jgo to see and share tbe hitler end.
1 have ever held the South were right. > in
very nomination of Abraham Lincoln, four
years ago, spoke plainly war—war,upon South
ern lights and institutions. ' His election prov
ed it. “Await an over act.” Yes, till you
are bound and plundered. What folly! Tho
South were wise Who "thinks of argument or
patience when the finger of his efcemy presses
on the trigger t In a foreign war, I too, could
say, ‘ Country, right or wrong.” But in a
struggle Bucias ours (where the brother tries
to pierce the brother's heart), lor Gill’s sake
choose the right. When a this
spurns justice irom her side she forfeits the al
legiance of every honest freeman, and should
leave him, untrammelled by any fealty soever,
to act as liis conscience may approve.
People of the North, to hate tyranny, to love
liberty and justice ; to strike at wrong and op
pression, was the teaching of our fathers. The
Btudy of our history will not let mo fqjget it,
and may it never.
This country was formed for the white not
for the black man. And, looking upon Af
rican slavery from the same standpoint heid
by the noble framers of our constitution, 1,
for one - , have, ever considered it one of the
greatest blessings (both for themselves aud us)
that God over bestowed upon a favored na
tion. Witness heretofore our wealth and
power, witness their elevation and enlighten
ment above their race elsewhere. I have lived
among it most of my life, aud have seen less
harsh treatment from master to man than I
have beheld in the North from lather to son.
Yes, heaven knows, no one would be willing
to do more for the negro race than I, could 1
but see a war to still better their condition.
But Lincoln’s policy is only preparing the
way for their total annihilation. The South
are not, nor have they been fighting for the
continuation of slavery. Tho first battle of
Bull Ruu did away with that idea. Their
causes s nee for war have been as noble and
greater far than those that urged our fathers
on; Even sbbuld we allow they were wrong
at the beginning of this contest, cruelty and iu*
justioe haye made the wrong become tho right,
and they stand now (before the wonder and
admiration of the world) as a noblo band of
patriotic heroes. Hereafter, reading of their
deeds, Therroopylce will be forgotten.
When I aided in the capture and execution
of John Brown (who was a murderer on our
western border, and who wa,s faiily tried and
convicted, before an impartial judge and jury,
of treason, and who, by the way, has since
been made a god,) I wus proud of my little
fthftVft in iVlfl trsiridnotion, tor T Jfc cay
duty, and that I was helping our common
country to perform an a:t of justice. Bat
what was a crime in poor John Brown is now
considered (by themselves) as the greatest and
only virtue of the whole republican party.
Strange transmigration! Vice to become a
virlue simply because more indulge in it!
I thought thhn, as now, that the aboli
tionists were the only traitors in the land, and
that the entire party deserved the same late as
poor old Brown ; not because they wish to
abolish slavery, but on account of the means
they have ever endeavored to use to effect
that abolition. If Brown were living i doubt
whether he himself would set slavery against
the Union. Most, or many in the North do,
and openly, curse the Union if the South .are
to return and retain a siugle right guaranteed
to them byeveiy tie which we once revered
as sacred. The South can make no choice.
It is either extermination or slavery tot them
selves (worse than death) to draw irom. I
know my choice.
I have also studied hard to discover upon
What grounds the right of a State to secede
has been denied, when our very name, United
States, and the Declaration of Independence,
b )th provide for secesrion. But there is no
time for words. I write in haste. I know
how foolish I shall be deemed for undertaking
such a step as this, where, ou the one side, I
have many friends and everything to make
me happy, where my profession alone lias
gained me an income of more than twenty
thousand dollars a year, and where my great
personal ambition in my profession Ims such a
great field for labor. On the other band, the
South have never bestowed upon rao one kind
word ; a place now where *i have no friends
except bemath the sod ; a place where I must
either become a private soldier or a beggar.
To give up all the former for the latter, be
sides my mothei and sisters whom I love so
dearly (although they so widely differ with me
in opinion,) 6eems insane ; but God is my
judge I love justice more than Ido a coun
try that disowns it; more than fame and
wealth, more (Heaven pardon me if wrong,)
more than a happy home. I have never been
upon a battlefield; but oh! my countrymen,
could you but see the reality or effects of this
horrid war as I have seen them (in every State
save Virginia,) I know you would think like
me, and would pray the Almighty to create in
the Northern mind a sense of light and jastion
(even should it possess no seasoning of mercy )
and that he would dry up this sea of blood bo
tween us, which is daily growing wider. Alas !
poor country, is she to meet her threatened
doom.'
Four \ ears ago i would have given a thou
sand lives to see her remain I had always
kfcown her) powerful ajid unbroken. And
even now I would hold my life as naught to
see her what she was. Oh ! my friends, if the
fearful scenes of the past four years had never
been enacted, or if what Las been bad been but
a frightened dream, from which we could now
awake, with what oveiflowing heaits could we
bless God and pray for his continued favor !
How 1 have loved the o.d flag can m*ver now
be known. A few years since and the entire
world could boast of none so pure and spotless.
But I have of late been seeing and hearing of
the bloody deeds of which she haß been made
tue emblem, and would shudder so think how
changed she had grown. Oh: how I have
longed to see her break from the midst of blood ,
and death that circles round her folds, spoiling
her beauty and tarnishing her honor. But no,
day by day has she been dragged deeper and
deeper into cruelty and oppression, till now
(in my eyes) her once bright red stripes look
like bloody gashes on the face of heaven.
I look now upon my early admiration of her
glories as a dream. My love (as things stand
to-day) is for the South alone. Nor do I deem
it a dishonor in attempting to make for her a
prisoner of this man, to whom she ewes so
much of misery. If success attend me Igo
penniless to her side. They say.she has found
that “last ditch” which the North have so
long derided and been endeavoring to force
her in, forgetting they are our brothers, and
that it is impolitic to goad an enemy to m id
ness. Should I reach her in safety and if irae,
I will proudly beg permission to triumph or
die in that same -‘ditch’ by her side.
jjsst < *‘'
It is one of the advantages Os practical vir
tue, that, tlOJgh in flta coime, there may be
first and last* yet nobody who r&a it fairly ever
failed.
sri..iV ii.iv • i s.\u£ -
Pcs-in'i , v ,T take so go ahead
WllUi.g to •:
v v* s t;> r;j.. *ijf yoii
ft id i.. yod: u * tu. the ;»:s3oiuit of wait
iwatitifni iorm i. battei (ban ab(
| lf r ; ■! !m> lU iiiti iviu’vior is better
ffi u . ii! iorm : it gives a higher pleasm
n-i;. r pictures; it L the finest of ?
arfs.
I w hi> lias not anvUring to n
bill Jits i itinii tons a ivsiors,” says Thomas
' 1 ' a P ftt *toe th« only pood
fie.oncii gto :m is under ground.”
L >o is not ali sunshine, nor yet all gloc a •
the darkest night must close and tier, mV
glad day appear.
Axo m.tj wear aud waste a mothei's l«r,v.;v.
ml . s ; but her relation as rncitb
er ii as Fit an when it goes forth in all ir a
might; for it is always in the meridian aud
knowc th no evening.
I he laurels that bind the brows of the good
an-; great do not H urish in gardens of pleas-
We muff look downward as well as upward
} n human li e Though many have passed you
ia the. race, there are many you have 1 ft j,-
bind.
Fine sense, and exalted sense.au not half
so valuable as common sense. There are forty
men of wit for one man of sense; uno he-that
wfll carry nothing aboutJhim but gold, will be’
• very day at a loss lor want of chang -
U bile Ins mother lives, a man ha.i one tiianJ.
on earth that will not desert him wfcc-c be ia
needy Her affection flows Irom a pine
tain, and ceases only at the ocean oi
Gratitude is a species of. justice. Ho that
requites a benefit may be said, iu some
to pay debt ; and < t course, lie that for
gets favors received, may be accused of aeg
ieciing to pay wiiat he cannot be denied lo owe.
A ioviug heart and a pleasant coufffefanca
are commodities which man should uever fail
to take home with him. they will betd a*a*oa
b» rt food and soften his pillow. It vu-u a
great thing for a man that his wife and chil
dren could say of him, “He never brought a.
frown m unhappiness across his threshold 1
Hath any wronged thee':—bo biuvely u
venged; slight it, nud the work is begun ; for
give it, and Tis finished. He is below himself
who is uot above an injury.
I* not what we earn, but what we save ibutr
i tubes us rich. It is not what we eat but what
we digest that nukes us fat. It is not what
wo rea l, but what we remember, that make*
uh learned. Ail Hub iB very simple, but it is
worth remembering.
Fun is tlie'most conservative element of so
ciety, a;d ought to be cherished ami euoouar
aged t»y ali lawful means. People never plot.
uLsehiei when they are meriy. Laughtey is uu
enemy .to malice, a foe to t-oandal, ami afriouil
to every viitna. It promotes good temper, ea
livens tne heart and brightens the inteUcKtfe.
Let us laugh when we can.
Nothing sols so wide a mark between a vul
gar and a noble soul as the respect utyd lever
entia! love cf woman A man who j a aUays
sneering at woman is almost sure to be a coai.se.
profligate or a coarser bigot,
A celebrated philosopher used to say, ••The
favots id fortune are tho steep rocks, only ea
gles and creeping things mount to the sum
mit.” •
A mother’s love is the golden link ttial binds
youth to age, and he is still but a'cLiid, how
ever time may have furrowed his chtek or sil
ver. and his brow, who can yet recall with a soft
eued heart the fond devotion or the geut’e
chidiugs of the bestiriend that God e er give,
us.
Poverty is the pur te of manly energy and
heaven climbing thoughts, attended by lovo
and failh and hope, around whose steps the.
mountain breezes blow, and from whose coun
tenance ali the virtues gather strength. Look
around you upon the distinguished men ia ev
ery department of iil'e who guide and contrail
the times, aud inquire what was their origin
aud what was their early fortune,
NTrtV4ii’ ffiiin a wnmonef c.amm
If bhe becomes attached to you, it wili from
seeing and valuing similar qualities iu your
self You may trust her. for she knows the
value of your confidence; you may consult her
lot she is able to adviso, and does so at once,,
with the firmness of reason, and the . onsidera.
tion of affection Her love will be lasting;,
ior it will not have been lightly w 0..; it willi
be strong and indent, for weak minds are uott
capable of passion. If you prefer attaching
yourseif to a woman of feeble understanding,
it mu.t be either irom fearing to encounter a
Kn .ei L.i person or from Ihe poor v> nfty of
pieh-trlng that admiration which springs irom
ignorance, to that, which proaches l.> appre
ciation.
•fitG O.VFTUUG OF MOBILE.
Official Digpatch.
SECRETARY STANTON' TO GENERAL D/Z
War Department, t>
Washington, April 22, ISCS [
Major General John A. Dix, New York :
In a dispatch dated Mobile, five o’clock I*.
M , Apri' 14th, Major General Canby reports
as follows :
We find in Mobile and ils defences ou the
west side of the bay over 150 guns and a rery
large amount of ammunition and suppli. sos
all kinds, and about one thousand pusouers
Jnveul cries are now being made, and a detailed
report will be ior warded as soon as they am
completed The quantity of cotton wii; piot*
ably reach three thousand bales, and there ia u
large amount of provisions and forage, Ac.
Major General Hancock reports that nearly
all of Mosby’s command have suner.dered,
including nearly or quite all of the < fficeis,
except Mosby himself. Some of Mosby ’s own
men aie hunting for a reward of two thousand
dollars, offered tor him by General HaLtcck,
who has been directed to establish his Lead
quarters at Washington.
Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary cl War.
FREES HI&PATCH.
New Orleans, April 16, f
via Cairo, Apiil 23, 1865. y
1 he I lines contains the following m leiuiton
to the surrender of Mo ile : *
(J. ti Canby established his headquarter i iu
the Custom House. General Granger com
mands the Departments. General Yeitch com
mnndj ti e post
No cotton or things were burned, because it
was i-itid that General Granger would burn the
city if tflo cotton was burned.
it is estimated that from twenty to thirty
thousand bales of cotton have been capturc-d
in the city. Large quantities of pitch have
also been secuied.
The city is quiet and orderly. Many citi
zens are anxious to take the oath of allegiance,
glad to be released from rebel rule.
Deserters are arriving in large numbers.
The Post Office wiil be immediately opened.
The * iiarves and docks are in fine order
The Mayor of Mobile formerally surrendered
the city on the I2th instant, tendering
the services of the police to bring the
fleet safely up to the city.
General Granger met a most enthusiastic re
ception upon entering tbe city. He ret#arked
he had never met so waim a reception iu any
place before.
inree hundred guns, in good condition, and
a large amount of ammunition were captured.
Twelve bundled prisoners, sick and strag
glers were found in the city, including two
hundred and fifty officers. All were sent to
Ship Island.
The contents of the rebel commissary de -
partment were tinned over to the poor of Mo
bile. .
Thirty-eight hundred prisoners were captur -
ed in the Spanish Fort.
Several rebel gunboats were also captured-
The Mobile papers having Suspended publi
aation, Gen. Granger authorized E. O. Hinde,
correspondent of the New Orleans Times, to „
issue a daily paper, and he has commenced
publishing the Mobile Daily News.
Gen Comstock, of (Jen. Grant’s staff,arrived
here last evening from Mobile, and goes North
with despatches for the latter.
The receipts of cotton and sugar are light
and there are no buyers.
Late Papers. —We tender our thanks to
Gen. Alexander, of Washington, fora lata copy
of the New York Herald. j