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T H E • m a o auFPBAaB. 0 ® X was on tne 4tn oi l Tbo Hon. GJarrett Daifis o f Ken-, i^Iarch inaugurated President o f , the tuchy, made the following jUst cora- h b r k i m b r * h * x . WSBNESBAY. MARCH 3». TIE OABIHII. QMS’S nrjmtiMTBD. Gen. G eaot was on th e 4th tFnited States with ^eihmoai^^'stif- ftdently im p osing,for t^e ,ck>r^niitioi\ qf an Emperor. \ • an Inaugural Address wmch we p i^lish ia our columns. It is tame—in all 1“^ i... t, .. . k s t a t ^ a n , entirely usuroing in its nature. This iaent on the negtosuf&ftge amendment in the late dehate n p n at in the Senate; ' ■ , this is simply ah act o f arevo-' The veil o f amendment that polish hOr the* idea^ o f a Stat^maoV To show4herimmohH% or:::«rnd^^^ his ideas he recommends- Universal Hegro S nffiage to stop * agitation.” H e doeiamt-plaeAith^^ ^ ^ o f humai3ttty,n<mof rightnoT.justice, aa most o f its a d w eates does^ hut re- com meiidajtjim ply .to. stop “_agita* tion.”^' Gn the same priiidpie, h e Will he obliged before the close o f h is terin entirely usui^ing in its nature. ^ This i s n sim|dnpropoationAo .fistahlish-inr the general government a power su preme over the governments of the States, and that can at its pleasure, in any foi its pleasure, >rm that a majority o f tiie ■two houses o f Congress may choose, exercise the power oFamendment to revolutionize our system o f general and. Stale governments, taabol announcement of Tresident G kawxs ’ Cabinet. The members are not such as a wise statesman and skilful politi cian would haye selected. It is -top manifest to be concealed that they are far from being satisfactory to the great body o f leading Eepublican politi- E m hu B. W ashbubk , the Secreta ry o f State, is now a Member o f Con gress from the State o f Illinois and has been for about sixteen conaeGutive years. H is home is Galena where Grant resided when he entered the army at the commencement o f the war. ECe is a native of the State o f Maine and was bom m 1816. He is a lawyer hy profession. H e WPS & warm personal M end of Grant and did much hy bis zealous friendship to advance h is interests. H e is not re garded as a man o f great ability, and no one can say that he has the quali fications requisite for the position to which he has been elevated, A lexander T. S tewart , Secreta ry of the Treasury, is the rich Mer- chantrrinceof^ew Y o rk. H ehasnev- er before held a ny office and has really never been identified with the Kepub* lican party. H e was among the first who brought forward the name of Grant for the Eresidency and was will ing to support him either as a Demo crat or as a Eepublican. H e contrib uted a large sum, (it is said as h igh $60,000,) to aid in his nomiliation and election. H e is worth many mil lions and his wealth alone has secured him the position h e oefiupies. H e was born in the north o f Ireland, and came to this country in 1823. H e first en gaged in teaching and afterward en tered upon his career as a merchant in which he has been so eminently successful. \We d o u b t w b e t h e r b e is such a Cabinet Mmisler as Grant needs, and the danger is that he will administer the Finances o f our Govr ernment in the interest o f the wealthy class to which he belongs. H e is be tw e e n 60 a n d 7 0 y e a r s c J o b n M. S copiei - d , the Secretary o f W ar, held the same position in President dohuBon’s Cabinet durii^ the last year. H e was bom in Chau- tauque County in this State in 1831, and in 1843 moved with his family to Illinois, from which State he was ap.- pointed a Cadet a t W est Point. H e was distinguished during to war for his gallantry and was raised to the grade o f Major General of V-olunteerS before the close of the war. He is no politician and is said to be fully com petent for tb e p o s itio n a s s ig n e d to him . J acob D . C ox , Secretary o f the In terior, was bom in 1828. H is early childhood was spent in New York city, but in 1846 he removed to Ohio, graduated a t O b e r l in and entered tbe legal profession- A t the commence ment o f the war h e raised a regiment and was commissioned Colonel, and before the close of the war became a Major General. In the fall of 1865 he was elected Governor o f Ohio. H e is regarded as a Conseryisive Repub- A jjouph E . jBoEiE, Secretary of the Navy, is a retired Philadelphia merchant o f great wealth. H e is a- bout fifty-five years of age—^is a mem ber of the Loyal League—a French man by birth—^has never held office before— owes h is appointment to his great wealth and liberal contributions to the Eadical cause. J ohn A. J. C eesswele , Post Mas ter General, was born in Maryland in 1828. H e is a lawyer by profession, a u d owes bis position to h i s a llian c e with the Republican party a t the time his State was really under Military R u l e . H e was then elected to Con gress and was in the United States Senate for a short time. H e is said to be an intense Radical o f no great account. S asiuel T. H oar , the Attorney General, is from Massachusetts. H e was bom in 1814—is a graduate of Harvard University—-a lawyer hy pi fesslon, and at the time o f h is appoint ment was one of the judges of that State. He has never miagled much in politics. Smsii is tbe Cabinet. VV*e have » President with no expei*i€n< Statesman and » Cabinet almost equal ly inexperieneeci. Before four years have elapsed, the people o f this coun try will learn to tlieirsorrow thatstab- feorness is not wisdom, and that in- uovaticm is not always progress. U tica C harter E legtion . E eheaim : CJHAMBEKLAiBr, Dem., has been elected Mayor of Utica, by 770 majority- T h e Democracy made a clean sweep, electing e v e iy candidate on the ticket. Constitution to secure suffrage to wo men and minors. W hoever knew fanatics to be satisfied ? ^Remove one caufo oP complaint and agitation and they will immediately g et up another. They live and move and have theijr being in agitation. What short-sight ed Statesmanship to grant what they clamor for to ?top agitation! The truth is that G rant ' s beginning in spire, anything, but confidence and hope in his A'dminiatration. - • pbemi S t H sm t oeb . The pension - b ill before- Congress provides that where information is lodged with the Commissioner o f Pen sions tbat \a soldier's widow is an. un chaste woman, he shall refuse to puy her pension, unless within six months she furnish^ bim satisfactory proof that the charge is false. This pro vision is supported hy representatives of the i>arty o f moral ideas. It opens the door for slander of any soldier’s widow, and- this compels her to go be^ iState governments; to bring those State govemmehts to the feet o f a tyranni cal and despotic faction in' the two is not a strumpet. Pensions are not to be given in consideration of ser vices rendered by the soldiers, but upon the proof of chastity of the widows, A greater outrage was never proposed by even radicalism. ^eSE UPSIN0 ELECTIONS. * The returns o f the Spring elsctioni in this State are exceedingly gratify, in g t o the Democracy., They ^how that the tide continues to run in the right direction-^that fhe Democratic party is gaining in stpugth, apd its b old upon tbe people o f IS'ejv York is stron^r than eyer. W e Poughkeepsie and Newburgh, wMeh never g ave Democratic majorities be fore, and the city of Oswego, which has been against us for years past. We lose Rochester on account o f local divisions and misunderstandings. The results in the country towns - _ - grasp more andtfflwarrantea powers, and, to accomplish its, purposes, panders, .too often, to gopUlar prejudices and party H is official acte show to the impar tial mind that fiis ambition has been to r^tore the’YJnion o f the States, feithfuily to execute the office o f Pres ident, and to .the best of his. ability preserve, protect and defend the Con stitution. He,says- that the :war,-all must remember, was a stupendous, and deplorable mistake. Neither side un derstood the-othec, ahd had.this sim ple, faet and its conclusions b eenkept in view, a ll that -was needed was ac-: compjished by the .acknowledghimit. o f the terrible wrong and fho expr^s- ed better feeling and earnest endeavor at atonement shown and felt in 'the prompt ratification o f constitutional amendments by tbe Southern States. A t the close of the S t i m m a r y o f \N e w s . — Hon« James G. Blaine, Repre» sentative from the Third disttict of Maine, has been elected ^peaicer o f the House o f RepfresontatiVf 3. — Yale has graduated 50 Colleg presidents, 10 Cabinet Ministers, 4 Senators, 30 Govemors and more tha; OMHS'fi JW^OiOML ADUBBSS. C itizens OF the U nited S tates '; Your suffi^ges having elected me to.the meat. Ifo man who understands the principles of our Constitution and our comidtcafod system o f blended govern ments' would ever hazard his judg ment and his knowledge o f the prin ciples of that system of government ’ ■■ : that this power existed lonstitution in virtue of the restricted and qualified right and power that Congress has to'propose amendments to the Constitution. No, sir; it is a bald, naked attempt to power and to bring all the i and reserved powers o f the the feet o f a tyrannical and- despotic faction in Congress. That is the whole o f it. That is the undis guised proposition; and an intelligent and virtuous Supreme Court, if the question could be brought bsSbre them and they, would entertain jurisdiction of it, would SO decide. the war the part o f those who* inaugui was an error whicb now only time can cure, and which, even at this late date, we should - endeavor to palliate, experiencing moreover, as a ll have done, the frightful cost o f the arbitfa-. ment of the sword. L e t us in the future cling closer than ever t.o the Constitution as our only safogui sovereij States ■ernments o f .ancient and mod ern times, teaches that we have, every thing to fear from a' departure fr 9 m th e , letter and spirit of tlie Cohsti’tu- ^ ^ „ sncies, and for verification of this assertion reverts to the result o f the- arbitrj and tyrannous measures adopted- XHii BEQBO AT HOME, A recent letter from H a y ti, where a chronic revolution is still raging, gives g view of some of the eeenes which arc constantly occurring, The fore the p ublic for ceMfieates that she leader of the rebels is one General Dominique, and the letter thus speaks of his a ction; « On the 2d o f Februai ^ large force to the prison where he 1 in Irons many o f Salnave’s principal idherents, and murdered them all in cold blood. A few were killed in tiieir cells and the others were turned loose into the jail yard and shot by boys about 15 years old in a manner too horrible to relate. Boys use muskets : ------- phat it sometimes le to kill a person with small arms. In several instances, I am told, 20 shots were jBred at one prisoner. The women were more to k ill than the men* they struggled apjjfopght for life ip the most appalling manner, and the eycrWitnesses shy thatthejr shtieks neph^v o f t h e Haytier France, Genepnl Mentor, wb 9 was un^ deT medioal treatment at the time, was( placed in a conspicuous position, and obliged to see his fellow prise le power o f bis party. The President then arraigns Con gress for repeated violations o f the Constitution, and the vindictive and malignant spirit evinced in tbeir course toward the South, and says that it has been clearly demonstrated by recent occurrences that encroachments on the Constitution cannot be prevent ed by the President, however devoted or determined he may be; that unless the people interpose, there is no pow- , , er under the Constitution to check a ne sent a majority o f two-tbirds of mere he had Congress of the United States— ,’s principal ;= .Tor,, * ed them a ll in e killed in tiieir \he results in the country towns obliged to see his fellow prisoners raur- highly favorable, and show that dered before h e found relief. Then he ..... . was placed in 5 chair withm a few feet of the muzzle o f a ca ^ o n hlowu the people are returning to the party that has always practic.ed.economy in the government, end maintained popu lar rights and equal taxation, ilS ' T h e Bank of YThitehatl, of which A . H . Griswold is President, brought Suit to recover the face of a note upon which it had taken more than the seyc|i per cent, allowed by law in this State, and wbfoh the mak er o f the note refused to pay on the ground that it was made at a usurious rate o f intbest, a»d consequently forfeited under the State law, The prosecution set up that the law of Congress was superior to the State law, and that the act creating the national banking system provided that the rate of interest should be fix ed by the di^ r e n t S ta to , and that in case of excess the forfeiture should be only tirice the anjosnt thus takei|. They'further claimed that that was the only penalty -applicable to the case of a national bank, and that the State law declaring the note void for usury was inapplicable in tbis case,- 'The court decided that the note was not vitiated by the State law, and tbe plaintiff’bad to recover. \W*. A . Beacli whs counsel for plaijjtifil The decis ion of this case is. o f great Infornst to national banks.^ laiFOETANX yp E ailboai ) T sav e l - EKS.— T he charge of Jjidge Tronkey, o f the .Venango judicial district, to the jury oa the trial o f one qf the conductors on the OiJ Greek and Alleghany Railway at Fr.apkl|n, g few days ago, for alleged assault and battery on a man named Royal A t water, who who was put off one of the trains on the ahoye road by the con, ductor for refusing to pay his fare, is o f eonriderable injportaacfi to pailroqd travelers, and should be generally known. It was to the effect that a passenger who refo§es to pay b is fare and resists the, conductor, canpot v$3 cover damages for injuries he may re ceive while being put off; and when the conductor o f a train demands fare and allows a man reasonable time to produce Ms ticket or pay his fare, apd tke passenger refuses, and tbe conduetoy atyps pli^ tya™, tb e con- dnetor is not then obliged te take tick^-or fare, and that the ringing o f the lien by jibe eQn. 44 Ptor is the stop- ping of the ^ ^ T h e C ase o p S tew aet jn GAUetrsj' r-The subject o f theSecretaty of the Treasury was mentioned in caucus, hot it laid over, it being under stood that President Grant will with draw his recomipcndatJop o f the Treas ury Department law, ia^’hic^ p,i},s,e Mr. Btewari vdll necessarily retire from the position. A cattvass shows |;hat i f brought td vote Congyess Would overwhelmingly refuse to pass the proposed measure qf relief. One bun-- jersons were massa- PBESIDBITE JOIBBOFB ABDBEBS TO TEE oou m Y . A REVIEW AND AST APPEAL. W ashington , March 3.—Presidenl Johnson to-day issues a long farewell address to the people of the United States, wherein he invokes for h is im mediate successor the forbearance and co-operation pf the people in all his efforts to administer the , Feder; ^ isearn- est desire to see the Constitution of the republic again recognized and id happy under its wise pro\ The address is mainly devoted to a vindication of his own official cou: SO C 6 i_ / r., aspersed by p< is own asailed, he says, auu tical leaders to- whose H e says ^bat dRUbticss had be at the commencement o f his term of of fice unhesitatingly lent its powers or perverted them to purposes and plans outeide qf the Constitution, and be come an instrument o f the schemes of flonfisoation an d o fgonem l and op pressive disqualification, be would bave been balled, as a ll tbat was true, loyal and deserving as the reliable bead ftf ^ party, whatever be might have beentes tb® cxepptive of a na tion.. H e xefei^ ty'bis ’ first a.ete on coming into the office of I^resident in divesting himself of the unparalled powers Ippidept to the office, when it would have beep ca p f f q r ’ ' all the power and patron; ,^ Presidential office a t his disposal, to turn the concentrated strength of the nation against French interference in Alexico, and to inaugurate a move- ipent which would have been received with favor by th® portion th e a lm o s t u n l im i te d pow e rs ten d e r e d to the Executive hy the measurea re lating tp ^bp P i p l Rights, and Freed- qien'gBureap, \yhic]i, C 0 utfary to most cords naturally resulting from our civji war. H e then says that with a large army and augmented authority it would-ila.ye beep po difficult task to direct pt pleasure tbs fftytinies pf fh-e Republic, and tio make secure his con- riffUP/ffCe ill the highest office known fo our l^wsf a»4 adds ; Let thepepplo /jopsider d'for®?* roujfi have beep_ th,eh 'pfesent po.nffition uuiuo, tbe pabliu uu.ucuo cresje^ by my acts, ant tber, perhaps ands of lives __..'iflccd to risions pf false glory. cannot, thorefer-e, be cbargqd teas my bition has been of that ordini Dsl kind, which, to the detri peqpte'g Wi libartiPi; ever seeha tv te th events 1G0 Judges. __ - - — A ^ ’ailroad will be completed by July 1st, from Cobleakill to Sharon, in connection with\ 'the *Alhany «nd Susquehanna railroad. — Chinese ruffians in San Franexsr rin^r iy scheme o f murder or plunder Lves a weekly allowance, and dn case he goes to .prison his family is provided for, — Plans are reported for a combin ed movement against tbe hostile In dians of the southwest, which it is thought will put' an end to the war in that quarter. Golden bracelets, anklets and rings were recently found in the stom ach o f a crocodile a t \Agra. The ani mal evidently had an appetite for young Indian girls. — I t is claimed that a law o f 1798 excludes Mr. Stewart as an importer from the Cabinet, — Aaron Palmer, o f Medina, Or leans county, has invented a veloci pede, which can he operated with two wheels, three wheels, one wheel and one skate, or one wheel and a pair o f skates. —'A Richmond lady beiqg asked whether she considered the “ B lack Crook” an ohjectionable exhibition, .t “ she saw no objection to — Miss Coleman, of Brooklyn, swallowed a whistle two years It nearly killed her '*\ thejposition I feel, hut accept them A aew Time Table went inte Withoutrifeari' The Untiirarther no^ That there is danger that the same: which disregardsegj the ” disr will deprive Constitu te people o f tbe tight to change their rulers, except by revolution, and that we have al ready seen tbe jurisdiction of tbe ju diciary circumscribed when it was ap prehended that the courts would decide — linst laws having for their sole ob- ii the supremacy o f party, while tivehyt est a n d p r o t e c t io n o f th e people, a n d exercised by Washington and his successors, has beep rendered nugatory by a ' partisan majority pf twd-thirds ■\ each branch o f the’ national legis- After .a Jong review of the history of Congress, most bitterly assailing each ptemlpept act, Mr- Johnson said, the ifastitution o f slavery 'also found its destruction in a rebellion com menced in ite interest. It should be borne in mind, however, that the war neither impaired — ------ ^ the Constituiidu, preserved its existenc parent its yea], power and enduring; streh^h, tpe rightg gff^nted to the States or reserved to the people are, therefore, intact. Am ong those rights is tbat o f the people ,:of each State to declare the qualifications of tbeir own State electors. It is mow assumed that Congress can control this vital right, which can never he taken away from the States withoui impairing the fundamental principh of the Government. I t ’ necessary to the existence o f the States, as well as to the protection of tbe people.— For the right to select the elector in whom the political power o f the State shall be lodged involves tbe right of the State to govern itself.. -When de prived of this prerogative, .the States will have no power worth retaining. A ll will be gone, and they will be subjected to the arbitrary w ill o f Con- g;ress. G o v e r n m e n t w ill th e n b e cen- trallzejl, i f noj; b y t|ie passage .qi laws, at least h y the qdoptiqn, through par- tizau influence^ of*ai} amendment di- rectly in confiict with the original de sign o f the Constitutfon. This proves bow nejeessary it is the people should reqtrire the admuti.stratio» o f the three great departmmits of 'the government to ho Strictly within the limits oftihe Constitutiofi. Their boundaries bave been accurately defined, and neither should be allowed to trespass on the other, nor above all to encroach the several rig!its th^ Stales, Till compel her husband to leave man with whom he was living, that n and di- yorced from herself. Such is Chica- Brigbam Young has got bis hack up and would lead one to understand that b e has no fear of a locomotive. H e says: “ Tbe Gentiles must think we have a d ------ d poor religion i f it can’t stand one railroad. -^The United States Express Com pany has withdrawn its traffic from the Erie railway and its branches.— On compulsion, i t is said. Tbe Supreme Court in chusetts has ‘ decided that Jews ox f of the people i tro u b le s o f tb e four years will prove to the natii blessings, I f they’produce so desirable a result. After saving that on the young men of the nation, not yet under the con trol of party, must devolve the solemn duty of perpetuating the union of the Ptatec^ and ui’ging the necessity of en- idency tralization, an outgrowth to th< rebellion,' as”the only means by le great ith,th, annualbr nation to pui he concludes weal a tal of the legislation. lase gp8( 3 follows t! Company at accountability to God, hatiug conecienti- set forth in my first and subsequent mea sages. The woes which have followed thi rejection of forbearance, magnanimity ant constitutional rule are known and deplored by the nation. It is.a'matter of pride and ^ratiScalion io retiring from the most ex- dnouB and eventful public life, my action has never been influenced by a desire fur gaip, that I can, in all sincerity, in quire, whom h^ve I defranfiejaT whom with? tegponsi’eijlty {Qt wars that bQ.ve or bloQd tb&t shed rests upon me. My thonghta hare been those of peace, and my effort has ever been to allay contentions among my countrymen. Forgetting the past., let us retrio tq the fira.t principles of the govern Cosntry, jaspnbp’ on It fo characters, .“ Tbe Oonetttotloh’ ana the Union, opo and ipBeparahle,\ She coughed It weighed eleven • ’ ’ong, and nearly out last week. Ins, was h a lf an inch l i a flange. — A lady at Morrisania recently vanquished a burglar, using as her weapon a kerosene lamp. — Mrs. Mary Ann Reynolds, of Chicago, was disgusted to find, last week, on applying for a summons to ler husband to leave tbe wo- taken this oath without ment: vation, find with the determini jq to ------ i-iij..—-V requiK ofth e 1 withou me unsought; I commence its duti( untrammeled. I bring to it a const entiousjdesire and ance one towawN another, throughout the land, and a determined effort on the pfirt o f every citizen to do his share towards cementing a happy Hnioa, and I ask the pjayete of the nation to Alm ighty God in behalf o f ibis happy consummation. ______ determination- to fill it to the best o f my ability to 'the satisfaction o f the people.\ On all leading questions agitating the public mind I t ill always express my views to Congrete and urge them accordii tional prii^f lege o f interposing a veto sasures which I oppose.— But ail laws will be faithfully execut ed, whether they meet m y approval or not. I shall on all subjects bave a policy to recommend, none to enforce against the will of the people. X are to govern all alike, those opp< to as well as those in favor o f them, I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. The country having just emerged from a great rebellion, many questions will come before i t for settlem.ent in the next four years, which preceding ad ministrations have never had to deal with. In meeting these it is desirable that they should bfe appreciated calm- rithout prejudice, hate, or section- ;B, remembering that the great- l o c a l m a t t e r s . tice. Trains win leave the Herkimer Sta? tion as follows :— ■ S t m . ay Express........................ .. ........ St. John8viUctiM^m^m„..,.9 3 S P .K . Boston Mail, (except M^aw,)... 2 27 A. M- LUe Acoonimonatiop..... 7 &2 A . M. LO ST A . M. Night Express,.......... ......... . .......... .• 0 32 P. M .. ly, wit] al pridi The Herkimer Union Factory, H obacb C heistie , Manager, .sold 70 boxes—tail ends—a few days since, at 24 cents, Farmers’ Clab. A t a meeting o f the Club held at l it t le Falls, February 12tb, 1869, the following officers were-elected for the ensuing year ; For President—Harris Lewis. For Vice President—R. B. Brown. For Secretary—X . A . Wiilard. For Cor. Sec. and Librarian—S.S.W hit- For Treasurer—Josiah Shull. — The next meeting of the Club will be held at Little Falla on the 2d Friday (12th] of March, 1869. Geo. W, Fine of tbis village, will address the Clab on the “Ca| bilities of our country lying between t great river and the Pacific Ocean.'” FieeeeilBgs of the fietidaer Cenaty Bible »wlety. The Herkimer Coonty Bible Society, a i^ ia r y to the American Bible Edciety^, edaveped. for its Abnual Meeting in the Pfosbrierlan Church, Little Frill, on Tnea* day A . M., Feb. 23, 1869;\- The train, bringing mosVof the pmeete-and dele'gafes.- bfiDgr delayed, the Sodlety was called to oi^er a t a late hoar % E.RESiNatoK, Presi- ddnt,a&d-onmotion the following persons .w^reuppointed a Committee to neminate officers for the coming year; viz r Kev. W . d^nes, W . Caswell and; S. Aldridge.’ Adjoarfied to o’clock, P , M. ■ 1 ArrkRNoON sKSstox. |rhs Society came t o order at the ap- pc^nted.honr, Devotionri exerciata con- dt|»tQd by Rev. W. Jone§. MinnteS of the fo ^ e r meeting read and approved. Tbe Nominating Committee reported as followst for President, E, -Remin^on,' o f mpn ; V ice President, Hariy Barrell, l i t - ll0 Falla; Secretary, Rev. M. G. Bullock, Little F a ll; Treasurer, \Warron Caswell, Herkimer; Executive Committee, Rev. W . Jobea, Herkimer, Rev. W. B. Parmelee, Liitle Palls, Rev. 0 . H. Beebe, W est Win- fiejd, E , M. Raynor, Ilion, and J. W . Dtyison, Frankfort, jrheie were duly elected. A Committee having been appointed a t th^ last meeting to consider the propriety ofjehanging the time of tha Society’s an- Duri gathering, they reported this reaoln- tion ; Fairfield Seminary. Thfe Spring Term of this excellent insti tution of learning opens on Tuesday, March 30. See advertisement in another column. Discentinnedt ^ The Herkimer Couniy Press, which has Deen pablisbed for a few months past at Mohawk, by Geo. E. L eland , has been dis- ntinned. chusetts has decided that Jew s or others whp.se veligipus belief protects them from prosecution under the Sun day laws from doing genr—' a r e n o t t h e r e b y allo w e d leral business, to se ll l iq u o r on that day. Bishopishop McQuaid ^ u a id ha^uspendedas view o f the recent lances.ai — B M h suspend worship a t the Church of H o ly Fai ily in Auburn, in view o f th e rece disturb — For twenty years Mr. Seward has continuously resided in Washing- ten, fwelvo as Senator and eight as Secretary of State, . ■ — San Fraqclscahas and fresh salmon the year round,^ The latter was not over 15 cents a pound all the last year, and is sold a t nine cents. — President Johnson, i f the N . Y . Times is to he believed, is going to Europe, the offer o f a passage having been made him by one o f tbe Germap lines qf steqiqem,’ and accepted. 4^: ter the 4th of March fie -vrill Tennessee to arrange his affairi, will start around tfie pew about the first o f Apwfi — The Central Pacific Eallro Company find it exceedingly difflm to keep then se c u r ity o f person, p r o p e r ty , a n d i religious and political opinion in eve ry part o f our common country, with out regard to local prejudice. A ll laws to secure this end will receive my best efforts for their enforcement. A great debt has been contracted in securing to us and our posterity the Union; The payment of this, —incipal, and interest, as well as the ;urn to a specie basis as soon aa it can be accomplished -without materi al detriment to the debtor class or to the country a t large, must he provid ed for. To protect the national honor every dollar o f the government in debtedness should be paid in gold, un less otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. L et it be understood that no repudiator o f one farthing’of our p ublic debt will b e trusted in pub lic places, and it will go far towai strengthening a credit which ought be the best in the world, and -will ul timately enable us to replace the debt with bonds bearing less interest than and friends, proposes to leave Little Falls we noirpay. To this should be ad- and establish biffiself mote to his liking in ded a fa i t h f u l collection o f t h e reven- tfie c ity of Bocfiep.ti qe; a strict aecountability to the Treqsuiy for- every dollar collected, and the greatest practicable retrench ment in expenditures in every depart ment o f government. When we com pare the paying capacity of the coun try now, with ten States still in pov erty from the effects of the war, but soon to emerge, I trust, into greater prosperity than ever before, with its paying capacity twenty-five years ago, and calculate what i t probably will be twenty-five years hence, who can doubt th e fe a s ib i l it y o f p a y in g e v e r y d o l la r then with the more ease than we now pay for useless luxuriea? W hy, it looks thoiigh Frovidepce. had be stowed upop ffa a strong‘box, the p p eious metals looked tm m the sterile mountains o f tbe far West, whicb we are now forging the key to unlock, to meet the very contingency that is now upon US. Ultimately i t may be neces sary to increase the facilities to teftch xccounit on accoun oJ e:^citement. They ship car loads olf workmen, who get their ride for noth ing, and strike for tti? gqld len t | e y g et qs pear qs the ro,a4'b£ employes from deserting, )f the W h ite Pine Gold G< loads o carry theqj. ■— An English girl has obtained £ 5 damages froi cQtirting her, squeezed he? fiapd sq hard as to break a finger. Afre# mar: riage fie might have broken fier head with impunity. impunity. — T h e “ A ingas” o f S i b e r ia a n d ortherr -------- - intoxical Northern Asia supplies the means of ■ ■ ■ to 40,or ------- *00,000 people;- O^mn in Southern Asia e n a b l^ 400,- Persia, Africa, with 300,- 000,000 people to get dru India, Turkey, and Afric , ______ (|00,000 people use hasheesp, ’ Coc is popular in South\ pepper among the Pacific and India oceans. The Circassians of Europe and America make use of- whiskey, brandy and other liquors. — Moses H . Grinnell is spoken o f ^ Collector o f the Port o f New York. —: A wife of thirteen has been di vorced in New York. ' — A t Richmond; the jury in the case of James Grant, charged with the murder o f Rives Pollard, broughi iq a verdiot o f not guilty, and th't prisoner was discharged. A move- ment of applause on the receipt o f the verdict in th e coui ed by the judge. — Tfie ■^YqQd Mowing Machii t fioosic Fails, has receiv er from the Emperor of France for a mowing machine for use on h is farm. The General o f the ‘Army has rearranged the department command- —, .— j — G e n e r a l S h e r i d a n t o th e quire, wpoja fiave f defrajj^efiT ^bom for four years from the 7th of Marcu, two eaocers removed, one, wfiioh weighed a pound, from her breast, and a small one from under her arm. The operation consists in the use of a plas ter, which destroys the life of the cati- pe? and causes i t to come put iteelf. ^ Tfie doctors have require^ Grant to moderate bis smoking, Theatrical. J. H. B ddworxh , the great Batch Ooip- median will play at Yarley Hall; Mohawk,- b n Thursday evening, March 11th. Bnn- wosTH is the funniest man on the stage. Go, laugh, and grow fat. B. F rank M axbon Esq., to the great disappointment of his namerona clients cess; TSut that shquld onty .h? when a dollap fif obligation to pay secures prfirisely the sqme sqpt q 1 dollar in fi:se how, and not before. \While the LOW, am . . - lestlon of specie payments is in abey- ice, the prudent business man is ca] ful about contracting debts payah in the distant future; the natii 'minatic than divided counsels upon the n od of doing. Legislation on this jeefc may not he necessary now, nor even a d v isable; but it will be when tfie civil law is iqo.re folly lestored in and trade re- Ibe :ecut6 all laws in ail revenues as- all parts of the country and tra d e . sumes its wonted eliaimels. It will my endeavor to good faith, to col ___ ______ __ seised, and to have them, pronerly dis- buraed. I will, to tKe- best o f ability^ appoint to office only tt who will carry out this design. In regard to foreign policy, I would deal with nations as equitable Iqw re quires jndividuqla deal bith each other, and I would protect the' law- Ljjj...- whether of native or ^ , wherever his rights ate jeopardized, b? the of onr t would respect the righto of a il nations, demand respect for our •m this fule in their dealinj us, We may their precedent. lg«qi 3 depari with own. I f othe in their dea’’ be compelled LUlar teeatyien.t ^ the orig- this land, the Indi* o f Gainful eonsid- Dr p y cquree to- ans, is one deserving eration. I will favc wards them which tends to theii ilization, Ohristianization and ulti- whiefi is likely to agitat'^he public, so lopg as a portion of the citizens of the nation are excluded from its privileg es in any State. ^ I t seems to me very desirable that tbis ‘4u^tioh should-be settled now, and T entertain the hope and express the desire tbat i t may be fir %e qf J % e p t h 1 ^ * - Bishop B oanbw UI holda confirma. tion service in Christ Church, Herkimer, on Friday morning, March 12. at 11 o’clock. In Apology. T he B anfobths , advertised to give a Concert at Fox Hall, on the 27tb alt., failed to appear owing to the sadden ill ness of one of the Troupe. They hop e to visit us soon after Easter, at which time Mme. M arcia B anfortb wiU appear with the Company, Dae notice of tfie time will be given. Saicide, A man named P atrick O’O ohnbll com mitted suicide in the town of Warren, Wednesday last, by catting hia throat with a BCjthe. The- deceased wqs q qtan of steady habits, an^ uq e a ^ e can be ass'gned for tl\e a?t b\it the loss of a child a few days previous. New BookH. “ T h e . Seoreis o / the G r e a t C i t y ; n ■work descriptive of Ihe Virtues and. the Vices, ffte Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes q f. 2 7ew ITorTc C i t y f ia the title of a' handsome voinme, just issaed by JeNSs B rothebb & Go, Philadelphia, F a. It Tellf^ How Foytnues are Made and Lost iq 8 Ikvy—Sow Shrewd Men are Rained in W all Street—How Conntrymen ar« Swindled by Sharpers—How Ministers and Merchants are Biack-mailed — How Dance Halls and Concert Saloons are Managed—How Gambling Honses and Lotteries are conducted—How Stock andOil Companies Originate, and how the Babbles should follow the same T’«Ie- A pros- trqte all iqdqs^ifies eqcoqraged-. The yo.ung mefi qf t% cQ\mtiy-=rtho9h v?hD form t;fiis age and mast be rulers twenty- five years hence— ^have a. peculiar in terest in maintaining thq fienor, ' 4 vefieetiou upon what \Wili be QW commanding in- Burst—and treats of MewYork, its People, fluenCAamong the nations o f the earth its Society, its Rich, its Poor, their life, in th e ir day, i f t h e y are on ly tru e to their habits, their haunts and their pecnli- theraBelves, Bhould inspire them Fith arities; of Ohjirchei, Theatres, Falaces, n a tio n a l p r i d e . A l l ^ v i s i o n s , geo- Hovels, Tenement Honses anU P a b lic graphical, p olitical, and religious, can join in the common sentiment. How the public debt is to be. paid, cie payments resumed, is no! Hovels, Baildtogs ; of Editors, Judges, lawyers. Brokers, Morebants, and Sew- 'ng Girls j of Polioomen, Detectives, ! ors. Firemen, N ews-Boys, Beggars, Thieves, Dead Beats, Swindlers, Gamblers and the Demi-Monde ; o f Hotels,Boarding Honses- Saloons, Beer Gardens, Clnb and Banco H o n s e s ; of Fifth Avenue, Broadway, the Bowery, Wail Street, the Five Points and Central Park ; of Pawnbrokers, Boughs, Fortune Tellers, Qnacks, Gift Enterprises and Humbugs ; of all tbat is great, noble, generous, vicions, m y e taiom , brilliant- startliag, geateei or shabby, and of all that is intej;estiDg and worthy of record in the great City. As the Metmpolitan Centre of the United States, New York City reflects all the good ^nd evil o f the land in their most intense forme. There is no man. however often he may have visited New York, who cannot learn, from this work, mnoh regard ing that great City anditsmany and mighty interasta. This book will b e found especially valoa- ble to those who expect to visit NewYork. and would shun its pitfalls, by studying it in their own homes, withontcost or danger, and yet learn all. This very mtereBting work.ia sold, only by subseriptloD, and the publlsheri want an agent in every County. life and Epistles of St. Fsni. W e have a copy qf the fine edition n f this great work* Isstyfi by S. S. S cranton & Co., o f Hartford, Conn. A}llbenotes,& c., arett^nslated into English—thereby great ly increasing its advantage to the genera! reader. A mutilated editionof thesamework ia being issued by other publishers, and we advise purchasers to make it aspeoial point to get S cranton & Co.’s editiq -other. Agante^qjfi.tpd, W t TelooipedfetriaDisticalittJjaetigDOkb gist is thqlatest addition to the iangn-ago, f.to tto Amt.ofl.S2 That the Eighth Article of the Conatitu- tiop be altered so as to rend, “ The annaak meeting of this Society shall be held on the second Tuesday in Jane, of each year.” W. Caswell, Treasarer, presented his Report. Tbe following is a brief a b stract i Sibles sold during the year, to Value of Bibles on hand,.,., Bibles distributed free............................ j.* ,«■ I SECEIVED FEOil CHURCHES. Presbyterian tJhurch, West Winfield, ..... 8 10(1 Jleformed Church, Herkimer, .................. 1 ^ ----- inrer,*!!!:.\\\\;!.V.Y.'.\ 20 to Little Falls ...................... SO to Boubtless other ebnrehos have taken the collection and report to the Parent' Society. jlev. W m. Jones presented tha follow ing; : Eetolvtd, That we recommend to all pastors o f atronizing Churches in Herkimer County, that ley present pie cause of the American Sible -ooiety to their respective congregations, before the next annual meeting, and rraort their col- Igstjras to the Herkimer County Society through. Adopted. The Exoctttive Committee wereinstruct- ed t o fix the place of tee next AhnnaF Meeting. Time, 2d Tuesday in Jane, 1870.- The President, E. Remington, briefly but very-pertinently addressed the Society;. presenting the claims of God’s Word anJ alluding to the fields opened for its dis tribution. The power of the Pope (the great enemy of the Bible] is being broken in Europe, and even those nations where Roman Catholicism has so long Shut ont the scriptures, are rising and asserting their political and religious liberty. God calls upon na to bear the Bible to all cations. Rev. 0 . J. Squires, of Ballston S i» , District Agent, was introduced and gave a njost excellent and soul stirring address. Hie heart is in the work and if be does not sncceed in arousing the friends o f the Biblo all through the Bistrict, then we entirely misludge his ability and zeaU H is speech cannot be epitomized, there was too mnelt soul in it for that. We hope h« will cofflB this way often. A Band, Esq., of Ilian, fribwed in a few remarks. On motion of W . Caswell, the branch Depositories at Bion and Little Falls were continutd. M. G. Bullock offered tbe following, which was unanimously adopted : coming year. Thanks were voted to the Presbyterian Society for the n se ,of the Church, a n d also to Eev. Bro. Squires for his address. ' Adjourned with Boxology and Benedlc- E. EEJfINGTON, President. M. G. B ollock , Secretary. On Wednesday night of last week, Ingham’s oil mill Was totally destroyed, by fire. It ia supposed tbat the fire oiiginate ed from the stove in the office.- The .los.s- is estimated at.$15,000 ; insured for ..$10,- 000. The grist mill of W m. Saddler wa*. also considerably injured. He was ingucech to the fall amount of his lose. B «1 Masque, ^ . Gascade Engine Go., 1, are making: extensive arrangemento for a Grand Mas.. qneraOe Harty, t o bo given o t EoU e r H a ll, Little FiilJs, on Thursday avenioff, Jtfarch l i . Fine music is insured by the engage ment o f the Utica City Brass and String; B i s a popular fallacy that Sprli)g> commences on the first of March. In re ality it is generally the beginning of the- four most disagreeable weeks o f the wiu- ter. Spring begins at the vernal eqainox:— March 21st. Onr citizens, at least a Bomber eJ thei»r have undoabtedly boeome feelingly aware- of the fact that sugar has taken a b o u n d upwar^in price. This- is accounted for whem we remember that Cuba, from whence » lai^e portion of this staple article is pro- enred, is in great oommotion from inward turmoil and- nebellion, and that the snppty iacafcoffiby an \almost total cessation off its mannfactnret It is a fact perhaps not generalty known, bnt interesting to yonng men. tbak the solitary rlhglet. which floats from so> many waterralis, la a notification on the path of the wearers tbat they are n ot engaged. Iff it is extremely long tha wearer ia supposed. to be very desirous of gettiug ipbcefl ah once; if only moderately long, It shows that only good oSerB will- be enteitcuaed. an extremely short, meagre rlogleti jo d l - . cates that the wearer is very panlcriarns’: to whom she accepts, but aeverthelesa- shows that she is not yet engaged. A few ntgbta ago,aays the Havans* ^Tourqaf, a fair damsel, who was coming' ont o f one of. oar churches, waa- approach ed by a gallant young man, who- reqnestedf the pleasure of seeing her home. Tfie faty <me replied » “ Mo, sir; if you want t6 fiCf fiome with. me,, you must go With’ ms dti&- ing the ex®hi5e8,.and Ihu# show yourself wort^ojf my p^ompaDyl” Seoslhlo that.
