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ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN
CHANCERY,
Towsontown, MJ.
i- Will attend promptly and per sever ingly to all
business entrusted to his care.
Jan. 1, 1896.—tf.
~ B. W. DOUGHERTY,
Attorney at law,
TOWSOWMVN.MD.
April I. —6m, j - j .. .
ft . DR. J. PIPER”
• Office —Residence of the late Dr. E. R. Tidings.
Office hours from 7 A. M., to 9 o’clock A. M.
From 1 o’clock P. M. r to 8 o’el’k P. M.,
and 6 o'clock P. M.
Feb. 25.—tf. ,
DR. SAMUEL KEPLER.
OJftcea/ulßesidence— NEAß EPSOM CHURCH.
Towsontown, Dec. 31, 1864.—1 y
i. SELSOSf WISXBR. R. . VRICB
WISNER A PRICE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
II Office—Ne. 1 Smedley Row, Towsontown.
TTAVINQ formed a partnership, will give
11 prompt attention to all law and chaucery
business entrusted to their care.
Sep. 17, 1864.—1 y
C. UOH.\ SUKCLtIFF,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
No. 3T W. LEXINGTON STREET,
(Basement,) Baltimore, Aid.
. April 16, 1866.—1 y.
Amos P. Musselman,
• ATTORNEY.
Office No. 21 Lexington st., Baltimore eity.
TfrRACTICES in the Courts of Baltimore
X bounty.
.July 8,1894. —1 y _
WILLIAM M BUSEY,
ATYOBIINIIEYAT LAW,
No. 71 Fayette Street, Near Charles,
Baltimore, Md.
> i April 1,1865. —1 y.
Theodore Glocker,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ajcb
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
Ne. 44 St. Paul street, Baltimore, Md.
X)ARTICULAR attention given.to Chancery
I and Orphans’ Court business, in the Courts
•or Baltimore city and county.
AH communications or business left with Mr.
j/fCifLX R. D. BEDFORD, Conveyancer,Towsen
town, will be promptly attended to.
r Mareh 12, 1894 tf.
' O. C. Warfield,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Towsoxtows.
J)RBPAREB applications for
BOUNTY,
BACK PAY and
PENSIONS.
freb. 29.—tf
Jos. P. Merryman.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
T1 West Fayette street, Balt.
Jan. 8, 1864.—-ly
•. UERUruAN. u. r. xuacn, . . s
keech,
DENTISTS,
to. 68 North Calvert street, Baltimore.
:Mareh 28, 1864.—1 y
R. R. Boarman,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Mp. AXD
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY.
v SBmSulley Row, opposite Court Houm,
TOWSOXTOWX.
promptly attend to all business en
wV ’tra#to* io his care.
Jan. 18.-41'
sums m. whubi.uk. william b. xuacu
Wheeler A Keech,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
axi>
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
OfMan Ne. 1 and 3 Smedley Row, Towsontown
rvur AVING formed a PARTNERSHIP for the
1 111 nraetieo of Law, will give p.ompt atten
'■iUcu to the collection of claims and business in
£|W;ueral in the Orphans’Court and Circuit Court
|*or Baltimore county.
Aug. 37, 185-tf
R. W. TaucLaUA*. Chas. J.Prssisotok
Wm. H. Shivluv.
Agents tor nle of Maryland Lauda,
Ojice (up stairs) No. 48 Lexington st., Baltimore.
B. W. Templeman, A Co., **
OFFER their services to the public for the
dale ef Farms, and Real Estate generally.
They have, es Surveyors, a general knowledge
ef the leads ef parts ef the State, and unusual
Ikeilities etherwise for the transaction of such
business. Plats and descriptions of all prop
i •sties they may have for sale, will be kept in
book ferm. Parties wishing to sell or purchase
will please eemmunicete by letter as above.
Del. >I.-ly
’ "CABPBKTEB and builder.
.rrtHE undersigned, having taken up hii res-
X in the Tenth District, on the new Turnpike
I ki4mi from Meredith's Ford to Sweet Air,
respectfully asks vi- the public a share of the
business appertaining to Building and Carpen
-tar's Work ia general.
s* GEORGE H. MATTHEWB.
Jan. §B, IMb —tf< ’Tf >. j.
GEORGE C. McCOULL, j
UNDERTAKER,
-No. Ml Saratoga street, l door west of Howard
Tfl prepared to furnish COFFINS at M por
1 cent, less than the usual price, and of Sue
Xnish, for cash. Jan. 28, 1865. —ljr.
County Advertisements.
WARREN STORE,
In the Thriving Little Village of
W-ARREISr.
, GREAT REDUCTION OF PRICES IN ALL
J KINDS OF GOODS.
'* ffIHE proprietors of the “Warren Store” aro
! X offering great inducements to the citizens
of this neighborhood, that is worthy of their
attention. We offer to the publie the best se
lection of goods that can be found in any store
in the country, and will guarantee to sell them
r- at lees than city retail prices. All goods sold
)- here warranted as represented or the money
■o refunded. Our stack consists in part of
DRY GOODS, iv
GROCERIES.
HARDWARE,
, CHINA WARE,
J CItOCKERYWARE,
’ EARTHENWARE,
STONEWARE,
GLASSWARE, i
BOOTS AND SHOES,
f HATS, CAPS,
* DRUGS, DYE STUFFS, OIL AND PAINTS,
MEDICINES, GLASS, PUTTY, WHITE
LEAD, LINSEED A NEATS FOOT
OIL, PARAPIIINE OIL. KER
OSENE OIL. MACHINE
[ , OIL, MACKEREL,
1 HERRINGS, BA
-1 CON, HAMS,
- BREAST PIECES, SHOULDERS, G. A. SALT,
Fine Salt, Flour, Corn Meal, Mill Feed,. llom
ony Buck Wheat,
TIN AND WOODEN WARES.
* Brooms, Ropes, Plow Lines, Shoe Findings,
Wrot Nails, Cut Nails, Spikes, Rivets, and eve
* ry article that may be found iu a well rcgulat
-1 ed country store.
■ COUNTRY PRODUCE
of all kinds taken in exchange for goods at
eity prices.
H. P. THOMAS.
For Warren Manufacturing Company.
Feb. 18.—ly.
Auctioneer.
THE undersigned having taken out. a Gov
ernment License for 6th as Well as the 2d
Congressional District, is prepared to attend
sales in any part ef Baltimore or Harford count
ties, or any other portion of said Districts, ex
cept Baltimore eity.
Havifg removed from Sweet Air to
Towsontown, persons having business with me
will please address ma at Towsontown. r ap
ply to Mr. Church, Advocate Office, Mr. Lonj
necker A Bone, American Office, or Mr. Nelson
Cooper, at hit store.
SAMUEL G. WILSON,,
Dec. 6.—tAlß Towsontown. Md.
MOTKCK^
THE firm ef ,Longnecker A Sons having beers
dissolved, all persons having claims
against the above firm, of any kind, will please
present them to the undersigned, and all per
sons being in any way indebted either for sub
scription te the Baltimore County American,or
for advertising, are requested to make immedi
ate payment to the above. All persons indebt
ed to John H. Longnecker for subscription to,
or advertising in the above paper, previous to
November 16th. 1863, ojro earnestly requested
to make payment as above. Bills will be sent
to all se indebted. >
H. C. LONGNECKER,
J. B. LONGNECKER,
~ J. 11. LONGNECKER,
Jan. 7.—tf. tov ;
TOWSONTOWN
FEMALE SEMINARY.
Boarding and day school for young
Ladies.
Mrs. MARGARET R. SCHENCK,
Principal.
(Late Principal of the Columbuß Female Sem
inary, Oliie.)
The next term will eommence on Wednesday,
February, B th. Feb. 11.—4t*‘
i7s. CLAIM,
BACK PAY, BOUNTY,
Pension & Prize Collecting Agency.
THE undersigned, for more than three years
past Colonels in the U. S. Army, attend te
all Claims against the U. S. Government, make
up Quartermasters’ and Ordnance Accounts for
Discharged Officers, procure Ration Money for
Released Prisoners of War. Compensation to
Loyal Owners ef Slaves enlisted in the U. S.
Army or Navy secured. Monthly Pay for
Wives and Mothers of Prisoners of War pro
cured. Soldiers’ Check Books Cashed, and
Cash Advances made on Claims.
paid, or apply in person
to SCIILEY A EMERY, ,
Attorneys at Law,
122 Baltimore at., (up stairs) Balto. Md.
March 26.—Sm.
CHINA STORE.
WM. S. WONDERLY & CO.,
HAVE on hand a complete stock of
Pgr CHINA, GLASS,
QUEENSWARE,
Fine and common, at the Warehouse,
76 Baltimore street, 8 doors west of Gay street.
COAL OIL, of She very best quality, by the
barrel or gallon, and a complete assortment of
LAMPS and WICK for burning it.
The manufacture ef STONE and EARTHEN
WARE still continued.
All goods for-the country peeked in a scien
tific manner, and will -ha sold ‘wholesale and
retail, at very lew prieee, to suit the times.
Not. 5,1864.—tf
LEATHER,
LEATHER, ; *
HIDES, &C.
■ '
F. H. GRUPY A CO.,
42 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, Md.,
HAVE always a full assortment of LEATH
ER of all kinds, at lowest rates. Call and
see before purchasing.
HIDES A PRIME TAN BARK
Wanted, for which the outside Cash Price will
be paid. F. H. GRUPY, A CO.S
41 South Calvert Street, Baltimore,
i April B.—Bm.
JOHN D. HAMMOND,
SADDLE, HARNESS, TRUNK,
AND COLLAR MANUFACTURER,
WHOLESALE A RETAIL,
i No. 848 Baltimore st., iRMfi
flUfUfflßsl Oi 3 doors below Eulaw
1 2ZLS, Hou,Baltimore ' Jyggggg
MANUFACTURES and keeps constantly on
hand every description of SADDLES.
HARNESS, TRUNKS, VALISES, CARPET
BAGS, COLLARS, and every other article in
his line. All orders executed with neatness
and dispatch. July 1), 1864.—1 y
PLOUGH CASTINGS !
PLOUGH CASTINGS !!
THE attention of Farmers and Merchants is
invited te my fbll and complete stock, em
t bracing all the various sixes ef the Wiley,
Woodcock, Smith, Atwood, Minor A Horton.
Wisconsin, and other kind#, all of which will
! be aold low by the single piece or ton.
Also, n good assortment ef Ploughs, At less
than regular price#, at No. 142 N. Gay street,
Baltimore. HENRY WILCOX.
Feb. l.—tf .
TAKE NOTICE.
FALL STYLES OF HATS, 1864.
WE aro now prepared te tur
nish our friends and thetfM
publie with the FALL STYLES ■■flßHha
OF HATS, forSeßtlertien’i
which will com park Ihverahljr with sn£ told
In the eity ef Baltimere. ' ' ~ *
ALSO, SOFT PILT HATS,
Latest patterns, fer Gentlemen, Youths and
■ Children, seme very beautiful.
i ’ S. HINDUS A SON,
Oct. 15.—tf Ne. 188 Say str|at.
TOWSONTOWN, MD., SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1865.
BAIJttH’S
RAW-BONE PHOSPHATE,
Heavy Growth of Corn, Oats, Potatoes,
ANI* ALL SPRISO enfips,
J And Permanently Enriching the Soil,
j It contains the Fertelizing Properties of
’ Guano, Bone, Stable Manure and
i* • _ .
Lime.
j U)RODUCING in many cases larger crops by
i L fifty per cent than either of the above ar
l tides, when uged seperately.
' It is a highly concentrated manure, being
made from Bones containing all their original
animal matter. No Burnt Bones are used.
It has been used by thousands of farmers in
this State, with the highestsatisfaction. It has
, proved a perfectly reliable substitute for “Pe
ruvian Guano,” being sufficiently quick in its
action on the crops, and in all cases enriching
the soil, and it is permanent in its effects.
It would be well for farmers to send in their
orders early, either to the subscriber or to any
of his agents, from whofh circulars can be ob
tained, giving a list of many persons who have
usod it, and certificates.
<kEOIME miGDALE,
Sole Agent,
No. 105 Smith's Wharf,
Feb. IS.—3m. BALTIMORE.
Geo. H. Carman. Joshua M. Bosley.
MARYLAND LAND AGENCY.
WE SELL AND PURCHASE on commis
sion, REAL ESTATE of every descrip
tion, in the city of Baltimore, the Counties of
Maryland and other States, —BORROW AND
LOAN MONEY ON MORTGAGE,—and attend
to Collections of all kinds promptly.
OUR OFFICE is centrally and conveniently
located, with all the appliances for a thorough
and energetic dispatch of business; and we
propose to use all proper and available means
to present to the purchasing public aud capi
talists, such property as may be in our hands
for sale.
IF yoii want to Sell a Farm, House or Ground
Rent, inform us of the fact, and put it on our
Books.
"IF yon want to Purchase REAL ESTATE of
any kind, dr Invest in GROUND RENTS OR
MORTGAGES examine our Books before you
do so.
Persons having business in our line, are res
otfully solicited to give us a call, or cointnu
cate with us bv letter or otherwise.
CARMAN & BOSLEY,
Office No. 5 Carroll Hall (up stairs,) 8. B.
Corner of Baltimore and Calvert Sts.,
Feb. 18.—tf. Baltimore, Md.
BALTIMORE & TOWSONTOWN
ON an after Monday, Octobef 10th, 1864, cars
will
LEAVE BALTIMORE EVERY HOUR,
In the Charles Street Cars, corner of Baltimore
and North streets,
FROM 7 A. M. TO 6 P. M., except 12 M.
And will leave
CORNER EAST ANJ) ENSOR STS., Old Town,
EVERY HOUR,
FROM 7.15 A. M. TO 6.15 P. M.,
Except at 12.15 noon.
The cars connect at North Boundary Avenue.
LEAVE TOWSONTOWN EVERY HOUR,
FROM 7 A. M. TO 7 P. M., except at 12 M,
A car will leave the corner of EAST AND
ENSOR STREETS at 11 P. M.
Oct. 16.—tf A. D. SANKS, Agent.
CHANGE OF HOURS.
Baltimore, Catonsville & Ellicott's Mills
RAILWAY.
FALL AND WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
ON and after Monday, October 3d, 1864, ears
will run HOURLY,
FROM 7 A. M. TO 12 M.,
A\n
FROM 2 TO J P. M., DAILY,
Sundays included.
PASSENGERS TO AND FROM ELLICOTT’S
MILLS will leave daily, Sundays included, at
8 and 11 A. M., and 2 and 5 P. M.
Depot west end of Baltimore street.
Oct. B.—tf
The Old Established and Reliable
Substitute Agency,
GEO. COLTON & CO.,
28 Second Street, Nearly Opposite the Post Office,
HAVING bceu for a loug time in the busi
iness of furnishing Districts and individ
uals with Substitutes, and enlisting Volunteers
for the Army and Navy, and being thoroughly
familiar with every department of ouroccupa
tion, we can offer great facilities to those who
may need our services. Those who wantto en
ter the service, either as Substitutes or Volun
teers, as well as those who want Substitutes for
themselves or friends, would do well to givo us
a call.
j/SS- Contracts taken for filling quotas, as
heretofore.
papers of all kinds carefully
prepared and advice furnished. Claims of all
kinds collected with dispatch.
RFMEMRER THE PLACE!
28 Second Street, Baltimore, Md*
Feb. 25.—3 m.
MARYLANDIuG FACTORY,
GAMBRILL, HOOPER & CO.,
S. W. COR. SOUTH & PRATT STREETS,
BALTIMORE,
SHIP Chandlers, and dealers in Sail Cloth,
Netting, Seine and Sail Twine, heavy cot
ton,"Flax and Hemp goods generally. Also,
manufacturers of Cotton and Burlap BAGS,
Tarpaulins', Wagon Covers, Ac.
Jan. 14,1865.—tf.
JACOB HOFFMAN,
SADDLE, HARNESS AND COLLAR MAN
UFACTURER.
No. 176 Ndrth X*ay Street, Baltimore.
MANUFACTERF.S and keeps constantly on
hand all kirtds of light and heavy Ilar
nes, Collars, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, Ac. Old
Harness taken hi exchange. Country work of
SIT kinds punctually attended to. Repairing
promptly executed.
Feb. 4.—3 m. ,
SCHUCHMANN & HEIM,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Traveling Trunks,
Valises and Ladles Bonnet Boxes,
No. 6 W. Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE.
J TRUNKS MADE TO ORDER
Jan. 14, 1866.—1 y. . , > ?
Javks Bkattv. Gkorak R. Skii.lkam.
JAMES BEATTY & CO.,
SHIP BISCUIT, CRACKER,
%
AND CAKE BAKERS,
Nos. 92, 94 and 96 Dugan’s Wharf,
Near Pratt street, Balt.
Mareh 18, 1866.— 1 y.
BEFORE THE DRAFT!
Put In a Substitute!
DON’T delay until vou are drafted, then
your substitute will cost you double.
save money and avoid trouble call
upon • J? 0. DILLAHUNT,
at the Church, 1
Corner Baltimore and Exeter Sts., Baltimore,
Mareh 18.—tf.
Jflwt f oettg.
THE LOST CHIEF.
He filled the nstUn’a ey* and hutOt,
Ayi honored, laved, familiar name!
So ranch a brother f)iat his fame
Seemed of our Uvea a common part.
Hla tovering figure, sharp and spare,
Was with such nervous tension strung
As if on each strained sinew swung,
The burden of a people’s care.
His changing face what pen can draw—
Pathetic, kindly, droller stern?
And with a glance so quick to learn
The inmost truth of all he saw.
Pride fonnd no idle space to spawn
Her fancies in his busy mind;
His worth—like health or air—could find
Xo just approval till withdrawn
He was his Country’s— not his own I
lie had no wish but for ber weal;
Nor for bimself could thinly or feel
But as a laborer for her throne.
1 /
Her flag upon the heights of power.
Stainless and un&ssailcd to place—
To this one end his earnest facs
Was bent through every burdened hour.
* • i *
The veil that hides from our dull eyes
A hero’s worth. Heath only lifts ;
While he is with us, all his gifts
Find hosts to question,dew to prize.
But done the battle— won the strife,
When torches light his vaulted tomb,
Broad gems flash out and CY-owns illume
The clay-cold brow Yindecked ia life.
And men of whom the world will talk
For ages hence, may noteless move :
Aud only, as they quit us, prove
That giant souls hare shared our walk.
i For Heaven—aware what follies lurk
. In our weak heurts —their mission done.
Snatches her loved ones from the sun
1 In the same hour that crowns their work.
# # *
O, loved and lost! Thy patient toil
Had robed our cause in Victory's light;
Our Country stood, redeemed and bright,
I With not a slave on all her soil.
j Again o’er Southern towns and lowers
The eagles of our natioh flew ;
. And as the weeks to. An aimer grew
Kacli day a new success w*s ours.
’Mid peal of bells, and cannon-bark,
f . And shouting'streets with flags abloom
, Sped the shrill arrow of thy doom,
And, in an instant, all was dirk!
* * 4
Thick clouds around us seem to press ;
The heart throbs quickly—then is still:
Father, ’tis haffl to say, “ Thy wiH
Be done!” in such an hour as this.
A martyr io the cause of man.
His blood is freedom's eucliarUt,-
And in the world’s great hero-list
His name shall lead the van. ,
Yea! raised on Faith’s whits wings, unfurled.
In heaven's pure light, of him we say :
“ He fell upqn the ,self-same day
A GasATßa man to savk the worlu.’’
—N. r. Herald,
||islkneons.
Speech of President Johnson.
After the death of President Lincoln, a
number of private citizens, committees and
delegations waited on the new President to
offer their congratulations and pledge him
their support. Among others, there was
a large delegation from Illinois, who
were introduced in a ueat and appropriate
speech by Gov. Oglesby. President John,
son’s reply will give our Readers a good
idea of the man who now stands at the head
of the nation, aud may be taken as, to some
extent, foreshadowing his poliey toward
the leading traitors. It is as follows :
Gentlemen —l have listened with profound
attention to the kind words you have ad
dressed to me. The visit of this large del
egate to speak to me through you, sir,
these words of encouragement, I had
anticipated. Iu the midst of the sadden
ing circumstances which surround us aud
the immense responsibility thrown upon
me, an expression of the confidence of indi
viduals, and still more, of an influential bo
dy like that before me, representing a great
commonwealth, cheers and strengthens my
heavily' burtheued mind. I am at a loss
for words to respond. In an hour like this
of deepest sorrow, were it possible to embo
dy in words the feeling of my bosom, I
could not command my lips to utter them;
Perhaps the best reply 1 could make, and
the one most readily appropriate to your
kind assurances of confidence,* would be to
receive them in silence. The throbbings
of my heart since the sad catastrophe which
has appalled the country cannot be reduc
ed to words, and oppressed as I am. by the
new and great responsibility which has de
volved upon me. saddened with grief, I can
with dilficully respond to you at all. But
I cannot permit such expressions of the
confidence reposed in ine by the people to
pass without acknowledgment. To an in
dividual like myself, who has never claimed
much, but who has, it is true, received from
a generous people many marks of trust and
honor for a long time, an occasiou like this
and a manifestation of public feelings se
well-timed, are peculiarly acceptable.—
Sprung from the people myself, every pulse,
as one with tho popular heart, finds an im
mediate answer in my own. By mauy men
in public life such occasions aro often con
sidered merely formal. To me they are
real—your words of countenance and en
couragement sink deep in my heart, and
1 were I even a coward I could but gather
from them strength to carry out my convic
tions of right.
Thus feeling, I shall outer upon the dis
i charge of my great duty, firmly and stead
• fastly, [applause,] if not with the signal
ability exhibited by my predecessor, which
is still fresh in our sorrowing miuds. Need
I repeat that no heart feels more seusibly
than mine this great affliction ?
In what I say on this occasion I shall
indulge in no petty spirit of anger—nofeel
■ ing of revenge. But we have beheld a no
table event in the history of mankind. In
the midst of the American people, where
[ every citizen is taught to obey law and ob
i serve tho rules of Christian conduct, our
f Chief Magistrate, the beloved of all hearts,
C has been lissussinated, and when we trace
this crime to its cause, when we remember
the source whence the assassin drew his
inspiration, and then 16 jk at the result,
we stand yet spore astounded at this most
barbarous, most diabolical assassination.
Such a crime as the murder of a great and
good man, honored and respected, the be
loved and the hope of the people, springs
f not alone from a solitary individual of ever
so desperate wickedness. We can trace
, its course through successive steps, without
my enumerating them here, back to the
source which is the spring of all our wees.
No one can say that if the perpetrator
. of this fiendish act be ariested he should
not undergo the extremest penalty the law
knows for crime. None will say that mer
cy should interpose. But is he alone guil
ty ? Here, gentlemen, you perhaps expect
me to present some indication of my future
policy. One thing I will say, every era
teaches its lesson. The times we live in
are not without instruction. The Ameri
can people must be taught, if they do not
already feel, that treason is a crime and
must be pnnished. [Applause.] That the
Government will not always bear with its en
! emits. Thai it is strong not only to pro
i teet, but to punish. [Applause.] When
we turn to the criming] code and examine
1 the cztglof ue of crime we there find arson
laid down as a crime with its appropriate
penalty. We there find theft and robbery
and murder given as crimes, and there, too,
we find the last and highest of crimes—trea
son [Applause.] With other and inferiei
offences our people are familiar, bet in oui
- peaceful history treason has been almost
unknown. The people must understand
that it is the blackest of crimes, and will b<
surely punished. [Applause.] I make this
allusion hot to excite the already exaspera
ted feelings efthe public, hut to point out
the principles of publicjustice which should
guide our action at this particular juncture,
and which accord with sound public mor
als. Let it be engraven upon every heart
that treason is crime and traitors should
suffer its penalty. [Applause.]
While we are appalled and overwhelmed
at the fall of one man iu our midst by the
h&ud of a traitor, shall we allow—l cars
not by what weapons—an attempt on the
life of the State with impuuity ? While we
strain our minds to comprehend tbo enor
mity of the assassination, shall we aliew tho
nation ta be assassinated ? [Applause.]
I speak in ne spirit of unkindness. 1
leave the events ef the future to be dispos
ed of as they arise. Regarding myself as
the humble instrument of the American
people in this, as in all things, justice and
judgement shall be determined by them.—
I do not harbor bitter or revengeful feel
ings towards any. Iu general terms, I
would say that public morals should be es
tablished upon the sure and infallible prin
ciple of justice. [Applause.]
When the questiou of exercising mercy
comes before me, it will bo considered
calmly and judicially, remembering that 1
am the Executive of the Nation. I know
that men love to havs? their names spoken
of in connectiou with acts of mercy, and
how easy it is to yield to this impulse.—
But we must not forget thut what may be mer
cy to the individual is cruelty to the State. —
[Applause.]
la the exercise of mercy there should be
no doubt left that this high prerogative is
not used t* relieve a few at the expense of
many. Bo assured I shall never forget that
I am not to consult ray own feelings alone,
but to give an account to the whole peo
ple. [Applause.]
In regard to my futare course, I will now
make bo professions—no pledges. I have
been connected somewhat actively with
public; aflhirs, and to the history of my past
public act, which is familiar to you, I re
fer for those principles which have govern
ed me heretofore and will guide me hereaf
ter. Id general I will say that I have long
labored for the amelioration and elevation
of the great mass of mankind. My opin
ions as to the nature of popular government
have lony been cherished, and, constituted
as I am, it is now too late in life for me to
change them. I believe that the govern
ment was made for man, not man for gov
ernment. [Applause.]
This struggle of the people against flic
most gigantic rebellion that the world ever
saw has demonstrated that the attachment
of the people to their Government is the
strongest national defence human wisdom
can devise. [Applause.] So long as each
man feels that the interests of the Govern
ment are bis interests, so long as the pub
lic heart turns in tho right direction and
the people understand atid appreciate the
theory of our Government and our liberty,
our Constitution will be transmitted unim
paired. If the time ever comes when the
people shall fail it, the Government will
full, and we shall cease to be ene of tho na
tions of the earth. After having preserved
our form of free governmeut, and shown ite
power to maintain its existence through
the vicissitudes of nearly a century, it may
be that it was necessary for us to pass
through this last ordeal of intestine strife
to prove that this Government will not per
ish from internal weakness, but will ever
stand able to defend itself against all foes
and punish treason. [Applause.]
In the dealings of an inscrutable Provi
dence, and by the operation of the Consti
tution, I have been thrown unexpectedly
into this position. My past life and espe
cially my course dnring the present unholy
rebellion is before you. I have no princi
ples to retrqct. I defy any one to point to
any of my public acts at variance with the
fixed principles which have guided me
through life. L have no professions to offer.
Professions and promises would be worth
nothing at this time. No one can farsee
the circumstances that will hereafter arise,
Had any man, gifted with prescience, four
years ago reported and written down in ad
vance the events of the period the story
would have seemed more marvellous than
anything in tho Arabian Nights. I shall
not attempt to anticipate the future. As
events occur and it becomes necessary for
me to act I shall dispose of each as it arises,
deferring any declaration or message until
it can be written paragraph by paragraph
in the height of events os they transpire.
Last Speech of President Lincoln.
The last speech made by the lamented
President, was on Tuesday night the 11th
inat. There was an illumination in Wash
ington in honor of the late victories of oar
armies, and in response to the call of a large
multitude of citizens who had collected
around the President’s House, he appeared
at au upper window aud made aspeecb, from
weich we give some extracts. With his
accustomed modesty he claims no part of
the bouor to himself but gives it all to Grant
and his gallant army. No one cau fail to
note the generosity of heart and the en
larged and practical views of difficult ques
tions, which characterize tho speech. How
the great heart of the President seemed to
overflow with gratitude to God for the pros
pect of a speedy returu of peace and har
mony :
We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but
in gladness of heart. The evacuation of Pe
tersburg and Richmond, and the surrender
of tho principal insurgeut army, give hope
©f a righteous and speedy peace, whoso joy
ous expression cannot be restrained.
In the midst of this, however, He from
whom all blessings flow must not be forgot
ten, A call for a national thanksgiving is
being prepared, and will.be duly promul
gated.
Nor must those whose harder part gives
us the cause of rejoicing be overlooked, and
their honors must not be parcelled out.—
With others, I myself was near the front,
and had the high pleasure of transmitting
much of the good news to you, but no part
of the honor, or prise, or execution is mine.
To Gen. Grant, hit skilful officers and brave
men, all belongs. The gallant navy stood
ready, bat was not in reach to take an ac
, tive part. By these recent successes the
reinauguralion of the national authority,
and the reconstruction which has had a
large share of thought from the first, ia
pressed much more closely upon our atten
’ tion.
It is fraught with great difficulty. Un
! like the ease of a war between independent
nations, these is no authorized organ for us
1 to treat with. No one man has authority
’ to give up the rebellion fer any other man.
\ We simply must begin with, and mould from
, disorganized and discordant elements. Ner
' is it a small additional embarrassment that
we, the loyal people, differ among ourselves
| as to the mode, manner and measure of re
construction.
l Referring to the question as to whether
, the Seceded States, so-called, should be
j treated as still in the Union or out of it,
, he says;
I have purposely forborne any public ex
pression upon it, as It appears to me thal
question baa not been, uor yet is, a practi
cully material one, and that any discussion
ef it while it thus remains practically irn
material, could have no effect other than
dividing our friends. As yet, whatever il
may become hereafter, that question is bud
as the basis of a controversy, and good fo
nothing at all, a merely pernicious abstrac
tion. We all agreeJhat the seceded State?
so-called, are eat of their proper practicfl
relation with the Union, and that the sol
ebject of I ho Government, civil and milite
ry, in regard to those States, is to ugai
get them into that proper practical rein
tion. I believe it js notj only possible, bin
iu fact easier to do this without deciding o:
even considering whether these States hrfv<
ever been out of the Union, than with it
finding themselves safely at home, it wouh
be utterly immaterial whether they liavt
ever been abroad. Let us all join io
the acts necessary to restoring the propei
practical relations betweeu these States am
the Union, and each forever after innocent
ly indulge his own opinion whether in doiiq
the acts he brought the States from withon
iuto the Union, er only gave them propei
assistance, they never having been out of it.
The New President.
Andrew Johnson, who, by the death .ol
Abraham Lincoln, has succeeded to the
Presidency of the United Statos, was born
in Relcigb, N. C., in 1808. Like his lament
ed predecessor, he is emphatically a self
taught man. His father lost his life when
the son was four years of age, from the ef
fects ef exertions to save a drowning friend,
and his mother being left in poor circum
stances, was unable to afford young Jobu
son educational faculties. He became ap
prentice to a tailor atten years of age, and
while serving in that capacity, by hard ap
plication, acquired the rudiinents of ao
English education. His mind was first
aroused in that direction by hearing read
ings, from a volume of speeches, by a gen
tleman who habitually visited tho shop
where he was at work. He took up the al
phabet without an instructor, an<l then by
procuring assistance from the journeymen,
and the gentleman whose reading had arous
ed his faculties, (and who finally made him
a present of the book of speeches;) and de
voting some hours of the night to study, he
accomplished the ground-work of knowl
edge. In 1824 be went to Laurens Court-
House, South Carolina ,working there as a
journeyman till 182-6, wneu he returned to
Raleigh, and after some months, set out
for Tennessee, carrying with,him his moth
er, who was dependent on him for support.
He was now about nineteen years of age.
He settled at Greenville, Tennessee, ?till
working at his trade, where he subsequent
ly married an intelligent lady, under whose
guidance he made further and rapid pro
gress in hiß studies. Ambitious, industrious
and)-energetic, he soon entered pnblic life,
aDd embracing the tenets of the democrat
ic party, was successively elected by that
organization to the position of alderman,
mayor, State legislator, governor, member
of the United States House of Represen
tatives, and United States Senator. He
was always in those positions regarded as
a decided democrat in politics and of his
course on public measures, we gather the
following sinmary from Savage’s sketches
of onr representative men :
Mr. Johnson was a steady opponent of
a United States Bank, of internal improve-
ments by the Federal government, and,of a
protective tariff, In Congress he supported
the annexation of Texas, the Mexican war,
the tariff of 1846, the homestead bN, (of
which he was one of the originators,) an
' economical administration of the govern
ment, the compromise measnres of 1850,
and also acted with the Southern Senators
on tho Kansas-Nebraska question. He vig
orously opposed the doctrines of the
“Know-Nothing” party, and on the demo
cratic theory of the Uncoifotitutionalily of
such measures on the part of the general
government, opposed the Pacific railroad
project and river and harbor improvements.
He always regarded the dissolution of the
Union as an impossibility, and held that
slavery hud its foundation and would find
its perpetuity in the Union, and the Union
its non-iuterference with sluvory, One of
his arguments in favor of the annexation
of Texas was tnat it would prove to bo the
gateway out of which the sable sons of Af
rica are to pass from bondage to freedom,
and become merged in a population con
genial with themselves. He vehemently
opposed secession, and his views and pnb
lic acts since the outbreak of the rebellion
are well known.
It was duriug the second session of the
Thirty-seventh Congress that Mr. Johnson
became so prominent in this connection.—
In three successive speeches, in reply to
le' ling Southern Senators, he argued the
fallacy of the doctrine of secession. On
the day of the final adjournment of that
Congress, he boldly assailed the sentiment
then so rife aud the movements on foot, in
a speech from which we quote as reported
iu the official Congressional debates in the
Globe :
When I was interrupted, Mr. President,
I was tnakiug a general allusion to treason,
as defined iu tho (jonstilution of the Uni
ted States, and to those who wore traitors
’ and guilty of treason within the scope and
meaning of the law and Constitution. My
proposition was that jf they would show
me who was guilty of tho offenses I have
enumerated, I would show them who were
the traitors. That being done, wore I tho
President of the United States, I would do
as Thomas Jefferson did iu 1806 with Aaron
Burr, who was Charged with treason. I
would have them arrested and tried for
tho treason, and, if convicted, by the Eter
nal God they should suffer the penalty of the
Law at the hands of the executioner. Trea
son must be punished, aud the extent and
depth of the offense be made known;”
When in the spring of 1862, Nashville
was captured by our forces, Mr. Johnson,
then still holding his seat as Senator from
Tennessee, accepted the position of milita
ry governor of that State. In the mean
time, he was nominated by the republican
national convention in 1864 for Vice Pres
dent on the ticket with Mr. Lincein ; but
after the election,’ continued to discharge
the duties of his military Governorship up
to the date of his inauguration as Vice
president, on the 4th of March last.
How Nature Covers up Battle-
Fields.
“Did I ever tall you,” says a correspon
dent of an Eastern paper, “among the af
fecting little things one is always seeing in
these battle-fields, bow on the ground upon
which tho battle of Bull Rua was fought,
1 I saw pretty, pure, delicate flowers growing
’ out of the empty ammunition boxes; and
a wild rose thrusting up its graceful head
’ through the top of a broken drum, which
' doubtless sounded its last chaige in that
1 battle ; and a canning scarlet verbena peep
r ing out of a fragment of a bursted shell, in
’ which strange pot it was planted t W asn’t
1 that peace growing out of wart Even so
r shall the beautiful and £racefal ever grow
' out ef the horrid and terrible things that
1 transpire in this changing but ever advan
cing world. Nature covers even the bat
tle-grounds with verdure and bloom. Peace
r and plenty Spring up iu the track of the
i devouring campaign ; and all things in na
, ture and society shall work Out the progress
of Mankind,”
Manufactures of Ireland.
Ireland now possesses large manufacto
ries of machinery, especially for linen, for
steam engines, and of late years, for iron
ships. So much has the character of Irish
woolens recently risen, that between 1851
and 1863 the uumber of mills increased
from nine to forty three, or nearly four hun
dred and sixty-three percent. The cotton
mills in Ireland, since the American war,
have been applied to the manufacture of
flax, and the Irish popliu trade has greatly
revived. But, by far the most important
branch of Irish manufacture is the linen
trade. In 1864, there were in Ireland sev
onty-four spinning mills with six hundred
and,fifty thousand, six hundred and thirty
eight spindles, and there was a similar in
crease in power loom factories. Ten years
ago there were seventeen thousand per
sons employed in the linen trade of Belfast,
while in the present year there were twen
ty-five thousand. There has been an enor
mous increase iu flax cultivation, the total
value of the crop of the present year being
no less than three million, nine hundred and
eighty-nine pounds. The total value of lin
ens exported from the United Kingdom has
increased from five million one hundred and
ninety thousand, three hundred and forty
seven pounds, in 1861, to eight million,
four hundred sixty-nine thousand and thir
ty-six pounds in 1863.
_—t— ——
A Beautiful Extract.
The • following paragraph is from the
Wicwsin Fanner:
To the majority of meu soil is nothing
but dirt; but to the chemist who knows its
nature and its capabilities, it is a wonderful
mixture of those beautiful elements which
in their ever varying forms, become the
ambient air, the liquid ocean, the precious
opal, the amethyst, and the still more pre
cions diamond ; or delicate bine bell and
violet, the amaranth, the lily and the rose
bud, the spear of blue grass and the cedar
of Lebauou; or, again, the ruby lip, the
love-fit-oye, the noble palpitating heart,
and more wonderful brain. These are the
jewels of which the soil is composed, and
outof which the husbandman strives to force
the food hunger claims. Henceforth, as be
turns the furrows of his field, let the sleep
of his thoughts be broken by the reflection
that the earth, thus stirred up by his plough
shear is doubtless composed, in part, of his
ancestral heroes, whose deeds are the his
tory of the past, and whose mortal remains
are the plastic material out of which are
building the bodies of men to-day.
A Noble Act of President Lincoln.—
Many of the readers of the American no
doubt remember the little boy 'that drum
med for the sth New York Regiment whilst
they were stationed at Fort Federal Hill.
His name is Henry Ozarnowsky; his pa
rents reside at No. 664 West Baltimore
street* When that regiment participated
in the ceremonies of inaugurating the cem
etery at Gettysburg, Henry led the dram
corps, and by his superior performances at
tracted the attention of President Lincoln,
who, upon conversing with the lad, was
- much pleased with him, and learning that
l his parents were in humble circumstances,
i he immediately gave directions that he
i should be placed in the Military College at
I Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he is now
receiving an education, — Americm) l