Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1883 — Page 12

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GOV. ABRAM A. HAMMOND, The Occupant of the Gubernatorial Office Just Before the War. Bis Early Political Life and Services—His Relations to the State Debt and to the Peace Congress of 1861. Written for the Journal by William Wesley Woollen Abram A. Hammond, once Governor of Indiana, was born at Brattleboro, Vt, March 21, 1814. He came to Indiana when six years old, and Was raised at Brookville, where he studied law with John Hyman, a lawyer of note of that place. In 1835, having previously been admitted to the bar, he removed to Greenfield, in Hancock county, and commenced the practice of his profession. While a resident of Greenfield, he was chosen prosecuting attorney of his circuit, and acquitted himself with decided ability in the office. In 1840 he removed to Columbus, Bartholomew county, and soon afterward formed a partnership with John H. Bradley in the practice of the law. In 1846 Mr. Hammond and Mr. Bradley removed to Indianapolis, and the next year to Cincinnati. But not being satisfied with their location, they returned to the former city in L 849, and resumed their practices. In 1850 the Legislature of Indiana passed a law creating a Court of Common Fleas for Marion county. Mr. Hammoud was chosen the first judge of this court. He, however, held the office but a short time, resigning it to form a partnership with Hugh O’Neal, a celebrated criminal lawyer of his day. In 1852 Judge Hammond went to San Francisco, Cal., and became a partner in the practice of the law with the eminent Rufus A. Lockwood. The next year he returned to Indiana, and in 1855 removed to Terre Haute and formed a partnership with Hon. Thomas H. Nelson in the practice of law. He lived in Terre Haute until elected Lieutenant-governor of the State. In 1856 the Democratic State convention of Indiana nominated the late John C." Walker for Lieutenant-governor. Soon after the nomination had been made it was discovered that Mr. Walker was not eligible for the office by reason of his not having reached the constitutional age. He therefore withdrew from the ticket, leaving the vacancy to be filled by the State central committee. On the dissolution of the Whig party, xfter the disastrous campaign of 1852, many of its members entered the ranks of the Democracy. There was but little difference in the national platforms of the two great parties in that year, so these recruits had not far to go. Judge Hammond was one of the most prominent men in Indiana who took the new departure, and as there was a disposition to recognize this element of the Democratic party, the State central committee put him on the ticket in the place of Mr. Walker, lie had not been a prominent politician, but he was well known over the State as an able lawyer. He made an active canvass, speaking in the principal cities, and when the election came off was chosen Lieu-tenant-governor. He made a most excellent presiding officer of the Senate, his rulings being so fair and his decisions so just that even his political opponents bestowed encomiums upon him. During the time that Mr. Hammond was Lieutenant-governor and Governor, the Democratic party was greatly distracted by the slavery question. The President, Mr. Buchanan, and his cabinet held the doctrine that the constitution of the United States protected slavery in the Territories, and that slaveholders had the legal right to take their slaves into the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Mr. Douglas, the great apostle of popular sovereignty, controverted this posi lion, and contended that the people of the Territories had the right of determining the question for themselves so soon as they had organized a civil government. In an elaborate paper, published in Harper’s Magazine, he argued to this effect with great force and plausibility, if not with irresistible logic. There was an ‘ irrepressible conflict” between the two wings of the Democracy, which culminated at the Charleston convention in 1860, and severed the party in twain. That convention adjourned without making a nomination, and subsequently reassembled at Baltimore, where one wing of the party nominated Mr. Douglas for the presidency, and the other John C. Breckenridge. The fight between the factions was bitter and relentless —more bitter than against the Republicans. The mass of the party in Indiana followed the lead of Douglas, but many of the politicians tried hard to compass bis overthrow. Previous to the meeting of the Democratic State convention of 1860, Governor Hammond went to several county conventions for the purpose of using his inti uence to have administration delegates sent to the State convention. The writer saw him at the convention in Jefferson county, and well remembers his elTons to have delegates chosen who would sustain Mr. Buchanan. He Was fully in accord with Senator Bright, Governor Willard, United States Marshal Robinson, and others in their opposition to popular sovereignity as exixninded by Douglas, and, with them, he favored the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution. But he did not follow Senator Bright into the Breckinridge movement. The organization of the party in Indiana was for Mr. Douglas, and Governor Hammond stood by the organization. He, however, gave Mr. Douglas but a passive support, his heart not being in the fight. A Breckinridge electoral ticket was formed, which received 12,295 votes in the State, but had these votes been added to those cast for Mr. Douglas, Mr. Lincoln would still have carried Indiana. His vote was 139,033, that of Mr. Douglas 115,509, that of Breckenridge 12,295 anu that of Bell (Uni0n)5,306. It will thus be seen that Mr. Lincoln’s majority in the State over all opposition was 5,923. Governor Willard died at St. Paul.. Minn., Oct. 5, 1860, and Mr. Hammond became Governor. On Friday, Jan. 11, 1861, he delivered his first and only massage ] to the Legislature. In it he refers to the death of Governor Willard; to the borrowing of $125,000 of Winslow, Lanier tt Cos., of New York, to nay the semiannual interest on the State debt, the necessity for which he declares was occasioned by * the failure of the Senate of Indiana to pass *i revenue bill for the years of 1857-8.” He recommends legislation to protect the bul lot-box. a law requiring “the collection of the debts due the State in gold and silver,” I and the establishment of a sub-treasury in j which to keep the funds of the State/ He says "the establishment of a house of refuge upon the ground selected and purchased for ' that purpose [one hundred acres lying four j miles west of Indianapolis, bought of Col. i Drake,] is imperatively demanded—demand- 1 ed alike by good morals and sound policy— \ and 1 recommend that prompt and adequate . action be taken by the Legislature in the matter, and that an appropriation for that ;upose be made.” lie clones his message as follows: Ii gives me great pleasare to nay that Indiana, i • estate, Inm hitherto faithfully kept the hottil • oi>i..n with all her lister Bi*tcp. 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never attempted, directly or indirectly, to evade or avoid any ot the requirements of the Federal constitution, and no man can doubt that if the same could he said of every other State, instead of discord, peace and harmony would reign throughout our borders. Let take pride in maintaining the high position we have thus far occupied as a conservative, union-loving State, and while we throw our wenrht into the scale in favor of any practical mode of battling the present trouble, let us endeavor to aid in that more permanent .and lasting settlement that must flow from a restoration of amity and cordiality among all our people, North and South. Then, as you have met in a legislative capacity, yuu should place Indiana, in this controversy. where she rightfully belongs, as a conservative, law-abiding and union State. Show to the people of the Confederacy that Indiana will maintain the constitutional rights of every State in this Union; that she will extend to the South all rights in the Territories belonging to this government that she would claim for herself; that she will look to the constitution and the laws to determine rights of property, and not permit any moral Question to interfere to cfFeetthat determination, and that all property recognized by the constitution and laws shall be alike protected. This position, although it may not affect the action of the extreme Southern States, yet it may do much to bring about a convention of the border free and slave States. And regarding, as I do. these States to be conservative, and in favor of maintaining the Union as it is, it would be well for the peace of this country If they could meet in convention and consult together in regard to the pre.eeut unhappy difi* renoes existing between the North and the South. They might, by their conservative action, induce the extremists of the North and South to pause and reflect upon the consequences which must necessarily result from their fanatical course, and if, by their action, this much could be gained, there would then be hope that by a union of the conservative elements of the country these unhappy differences might be saMsfactorly settled, and the best government under Heaven saved from the horrors of disunion and civil war. These recommendations of Governor Hammond were favorably received and acted on by the Legislature. Subsequently a subtreasury law was passed, and is still upon the statute books. Although the Legislature he addressed failed to provide for the creation of a house of refuge for juvenile offenders, a subsequent one passed such a law. It was during the administration of Governor Baker that the institution at Plainfield was established, but a part of the honor for its creation justly belongs to Governor Hammond. Governor Hammond’s recommendation that Indiana should be represented in a convention of the border States, then about to be held, was adopted. Five days after the delivery of his message, Lieutenant-gov-ernor Morton became Governor by reason of the resignation of Governor Lane, who had been elected to the United States Senate. Governor Morton was opposed to Indiana’s sending delegates to the Peace Congress, but the Legislature passed a joint resolution for their appointment, whereupon the Governor named Caleb B. Smith, Pleasant A. Hankelman, Godlovc S. Orth, Thomas 0. Slaughter and Erastus W. H. Ellis as the delegates. The Peace Congress met at Washington city, Feb. 4, 1861. and organized by the election of John Tyler, once President of the United States, as its president. Much was hoped from it, but nothing obtained. There were several propositions before it—notably the one named for Mr. Critteuden—looking to a compromise of the differences between the sections; but they were all rejected. The delegates from Indiana opposed all compromise or concessions to the South, and after several days of fruitless efforts to reach an accommodation the convention adjourned. Governor Hammond was in favor of the Crittenden compromise, and if lie had had the selection of the Indiana delegates he would have chosen men who would have supported that measure. About the time Governor Hammond went out of office his health gave way. Rheumatism fastened itself upon him and never let go its hold. After this time he suffered almost continuously and was compelled to walk with crutches. He tried all manner of remedies to get relief, but to little purpose. After awhile asthma attacked him, and in the summer of 1874 lie went to Colorado, hoping to be bennefited by its climate. But the dry air of the mountains failed to work a cure. He died at Denver, Aug. 27,1874, and four days afterward his remains reached Indianapolis and were taken to the house of John M. Talbott, an old friend of the Governor’s. On the dav of their arrival Governor Hendricks issued an order for the closing of the State offices during the obsequies. On the afternoon of Sept. 1, the funeral took place at Mr. Talbott’s residence. Rev. F. M. Bird officiating. The pall-bearers were Governor Hendricks, Major Gordon, Judge Roache, Aquilla Jones, Captain Dodd, Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, William Mansur and Simon Yandes, who escorted his remains to Crown Hill cemetery, where they were buried. Gov. Hammond was the first Lieutenantgovernor of Indiana to become Governor, on account of death. In 1822 Lieuteuant-governor Boon became Governor, succeeding Jonathan Jennings, and in 1825 James Brown Ray, President of the Senate, became Governor, as the successor of William Hendricks, but in both cases the vacancies were caused by resignation and not by death. Governor Willard died October 5, 1860, and Governor Hammond served until the inauguration of Governor Lane, Jan. 14, 1861. Two days afterward Governor Lane resigned and Lieutenant-governor Morton became Governor. Thus it will be seen that in u period of 103 days Indiana had four differeutGovernors, a fact without a parallel in the history of the country, so far as my knowledge goes. Governor Hammoiul was not a showy man, but he was an able one. much abler than the public gave him credit for. He had an analytic and logical mind, and was remarkably clear instating his positions and drawing his conclusions. He had not great learning, but he was a close observer of events, and during life gathered a mass of information not found in books. He was not particularly well read in the law, but he was a good lawyer, for he comprehended principles and was able to apply them in his practice. While Governor Hammond’s residence was at Indianapolis from 1819 until he died, except the year he was at Terre Haute, yet he made several changes in the location of his business. He would have succeeded anywhere, for in ability he was far above most of his competitors at the bar, but he would hardly be well settled at one place before he would close his office and open oue elsewhere. He was not content to ‘watch and wait,” but wanted the business to come at once. Until he became afflicted with rheumatism Governor lluinmor.u was an unusually fine specimen of physical manhood. He walked with a spring and moved with the agility of an athlete. He was of medium height, comfiactly built, and of dark complexion. His lead was large and well-shaped. While the expression of his countenance was kind and gentle, it never betrayed passion or emotion. He was cool, deliberate and self-possessed, keeping his feelings nd temper under perfect control. He was frank in his manners, honorable in his dealings and dignified in his deportment. Although not one of the most learned Governors of Indiana, he was, by nature, one of the ablest

Polltlclaim on the Road. PittoMirg Commercial-Uazette. The President has the most elegant turnout to be seen and the fastest horses. He drives a pair of dark-red thoroughbred horses that came all the way from the “bluegrass” Slate of Kentucky. General Arthur is a skillful horseman and is seldom passed on the road. Mr. Blaine is very different. He knows almost nothing about the art of holding the ribbons behind a spirited animat; ITe rides in a family carriage drawn by two inoek-looking horses. He keeps his head out of the carriage window as if preparing to jump on the slightest notice. He frequently calls to his driver to “slow up.” TtlK Cleveland, 0., Comrresaman-eleot, Hon. M. A. Forafe, aaye: “i have used Bt. Jacob* Oil in my fafnily, aud bare always found it safe oad reliable. I have been euflVriug for soma time with lame knee, and St. Jacobs Oil affords me pp*at relief.”

TILE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 18S3.

: CHURCH NOTES AND NEWS. Sweden has sent Christian evangelists to Spain. To-day is ours; the future belongs to God. —Horace Greeley. If we make religion our business, God will make it our blessedness.—Dr. Adams. The Congregationalists of Great Britain have raised $1,400,000 as a jubilee fund. God writes the gospel, not in the Bible alone, butou trees and flowers, on frie clouds and stars.—Luther. There are fifty Methodist churches in Washington, with 12,998 communicants and 11,245 6a o bath-school pupils. The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of the spirit of God.—Spurgeon. “O. Lord, keep us out of hot water this day!” was the prayer of the president of a female college, at chapel exercises, several years ago. Priests and religious teachers have been expelled from 136 schools in Paris during the last three years,and 128 Christian free schools have been maintained. Whatever may be said about the prayer of faith healing the sick, it is a sure preventive of what is known among weak Christians as “Sunday sickness.” The Archbishop of Canterbury speaks of his present office as “unsought for and unwished for” by himself. He has been “walking in a dream” ever since it came to him. The Bombay Guardian, in an editorial on the signs of the times, well says; “There never was such a call to the people of God to wait upon the Lord in prayer, and show themselves strong in behalf of the right and the good.” The Christian Herald, of London, says that a gentleman has offered £I,OOO to any Roman Cotholic who will prove that the apostle Peter had no wife. If the thine: could be done at all, it would be gladly done for nothing. A mask of the face of Bishop Peck was taken by Mr. H. O. Outsell, the instructor of modeling in the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. All the necessary measurements were also taken, so that hereafter a bust can be made of the Bishop. Canon Wilberforce has received five anonymous donationsjof £I,OOO each towards the fund for the completion of St. George’s Church, Southampton, of which he is rector, the gifts being intended to mark the appreciation of the donors of the Canon’s labors in ! the cause of temperance. Bishop Burnett preached before Charles II on one occasion, and at a certain point he brought his first, down on the pulpit cushion with great emphasis, saving: “Who dare deny this statement?” The King quietly rejoined: “Nobody, Bishop, who is within reach of such a blow as that.” The path of duty in this world is not all gloom or sadness or darkness. Like the roads of the South, it Is hedged with everbloora, pure and white as snow. It is only when we turn to the right hand or to the left that we are lacerated by piercing thorns and concealed dangers.—James D. Kerr. The Presbytery of Idaho covers an area of 100,000 square miles. They have fourteen churches and but ten ministers. The work of church extension is greatly hindered by want of pastors. The Presbytery protests against the government’s action in taking from Chief Moses and his tribe their lands. The British and Foreign Bible Society shows no sign of decrepitude. Nearly two million copies of tbs Bible, either entire or in its principal parts, have been circulated during the year, and the number of issues from the society since its commencement now reaches the enormous total of nearly 100,000,000 copies. A New York clergyman went to Boston and visited a colored church. “How are you prospering?” he asked the sexton. “Tings ain’t so good as dey was, boss,” was the reply. “We got anew minister, and iie ain’t so good as de old one.” “What’s the matter with him?” “Well, boss, you see, he’s kind of illiterate—comes from New York.” In Brazil there is no color line, Indians, negroes, Spaniards and Portugese meeting on the same footing as the native Brazilians. In our own republic alone is it a question of any importance. The best authorities advocate the admission of negroes to ail the privileges of the white population, believing that natural inclination will keep them divided from their white brethren.

The Rev. Dr. R. A. Holland, of Chicago, who has just been called to the rectorship of Trinity Episcopal Church, New Orleans, was known at the early age of sixteen as the “Boy Methodist Preacher.” At the age of nineteen he entered the Confederate service, volunteering as a private in Morgan’s scouts. At the end of the war he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Miss Jane Pickaflaw, on hearing the church soprano break forth into “Lord, now iettest thou thy servant depart in peace,” turns around in her seat for a glance at the choir, and then whispers triumphantly to her sister: “I’m not so bad at guessing. I reckoned ’twas something new and satisfactory in the bonnet line, but it appears to be a seal-skin.” Miss Maria Pickaflaw, having also turned around for a view of the soloist: “A woman of any refinement would have held in her voice for a week or two. At least until that new look had worn off.” Providence Star: It is said that the Rev. Dr. Behrends, late of Providence, was riding down to his church on the horse-car, last Sunday morning, and that in the same car were two well-dressed young men unknown to him. Shortly after two other young men. also unknown to Dr. Behrends, entered the car, and greeted the other two passengers as acquaintances. Said one of the latter couple to the former twain, "Where are you going to church this morning?” “Oh,” replied one, “we are going down to the Central Congregational (Dr. Behrends’s) Church. They say they have a devil of a preacher down there. He’s anew one. ” Dr. Behrends did not reveal himself. The Indian Witness states that “evidences multiply every year that the Holy Spirit is moving upon the great deep of Hindu and Mohammedan thought in India. Many thoughtful men are found who are deeply impressed with what they know about Christ, and the spectacle of devout Hindu worshipers in Christian churches may be witnessed in Calcutta every Sunday. We have recently heard of a ‘panchayet’ being called to excommunicate a number of Christians, not one of whom had been baptized. In another place a Christian friend found a company of Hindus assembled together for the purpose of seeking the way of salvation. They seemed to be earnest and sincere, and were more than half Christian in their faith.” Even ministers are sometimes merely human. and are subject to the same passions which make common people do ridiculous things. A good story is told of Dr. Newman Hall, of London, which we do not remember to have seen in print. It has had quite an extensive private circulation, having gone from mouth to mouth in a quiet way, and it nas excited merriment whenever told. Dr. Hall is, as is well-known in religious circles, the author of a tract entitled “Come to Jesus,” the circulation of which by the Tract Society has been simply enormous, the copies printed running up beyond tho hundreds of thousands into the six ciphers. Some very severe criticisms had been passed upon him on account of his words or conduct, and he became greatly excited over them, and replied, or rather wrote, a reply replete with sarcasm and bitterness, and Carried it to Dr. Binney, of London, since dead, for suggestion and approval. Dr. Hall read it, bringing out the pitter things with peculiar emphasis, and when he had

finished be said, “Well, Dr. Binney, bow do you like it?” “Oh,” was the careful reply, “I think it is remarkably well written, and and there are many sharp and biting things in it. By the way, Hall, have you fixed upon a title for it as yet?” “No, I have not,” replied Dr. Hail. “Perhaps you can assist me in that matter.” Then Dr. Binney said slowly and deliberately: “While you were reading some of those hard hits it occurred to me that this would be a good title, ‘Go to the Devil,’ by the author of‘Come to Jesus.* ” 11 is needless to say that the hot-tempered manuscript was never printed—indeed, the story goes that it was torn up in Dr, Binney’s study. Prof. Francis Bowen, of Harvard, brings to notice an almost-forgotten translation of the Bible by Charles Thomson, who was secretary of the Continental Congress, and published his work in 1808. Thomson was a distinguished teacher of Latin and Greek in Philadelphia, and he spent the better part of twenty-eight years on his version of the Scriptures. Prof. Bowen has been examining the book, and it is bis deliberate judgUient that in many respects it is better than the revision of 1881. Thomson anticipated some of the changes recently made. He printed the texts in paragraphs, and the songs and poetical citations as poetry in lines of unequal length. He also omits the passage in the first epistle of John concerning the “three that bear record in heaven,” and he prints In brackets the Doxology at the close of the Lord’s prayer, mentioning in a foot-note that in “many ancient manuscripts” it is not found. “The Methodist Way.” St. Louis Christian Advocate’s Report of St. Charles District Conference. The incisive and wide-reaching questions of the Bishop drew from one brother anew and valuable innovation in the manner of pastoral visiting. Being asked if he prayed with his people when he visited them in their homes, he replied: “Yes, Bishop, I have prayers, and then take up a collection.” The vocal smiles which followed this naive statement of the case were interrupted by the earnest remark of a delegate, “That’s the Methodist way!” followed by the Bishop’s emphatic commendation of the practice to other preachers. Christianity in India. In a speech made at one of the anniversary meetings in London Dr. Bevan, recently of New York, gave some instructive figures regarding Chris:ianity in India. The question, he said, no longer was how India shall be taken for Christ, for it is already His. The number of native Christians in India, Burmah and Cevion in 1851 was 102,000; in 1861, 213,000; in 1871, 318,000, and in 1881, 528,000 an increase in thirty years of 436,000. In India alone during the ieriod referred to the number had swelled from 91,000 to 417,000. Iu that country the number of native Christians in thirty years had quintupled. Dr. Bevan spoke hopefully also of the progress of Christianity in Japan, in Madagascar and other regions from which at no distant period it was rigidly excluded. When one remembers that in the Queen’s Indian empire there are 250,000.000 people one cannot close one’s eyes to the fact that the Christians in that land are as yet sadly in the minority. It is hard to believe that the day of victory is close at hand. But nations are not to be born in a day. Bismarck and the Kaiser. There is a valuable religious lesson in the following little story about a great statesman: Prince Bismarck, when a boy, was rebuked by his father for speaking of the King as “Fritz.” “Learn to speak reverently of his majesty,” said the old ’Squire of Varzin, “and you will grow accustomed to think of him with veneration.” Young Bismarck laid the advice to heart, and to this day the great Chancellor always lowers his tone ami assumes a grave, worshipful look when he alludes to the Kaiser. If a message is brought to him from the Emperor by word of mouth or in writing, he stands up to receive it. Bismarck’s father was right about the principle of reverence and its cultivation. The man who indulges in irreverent speech about religious things, will soon show a serious loss of right religious feeling; while, on the other hand, there is a great religious power in habits of reverence that seem to be only forms. It would be well for us if we could all treat the Almighty with the venerating and sacred respect which marks Prince Bismarck’s relations with his earthly sovereign. PRAYING BY PROXY. Business Men Wlio Draw a Line- in Petitioning for Temporal Blessings. Pittsburg Dispatch. A big building on William street extends from Fulton to Ann, New York, and reaches seven stories into the air. Its exterior indicates, by a multiplicity of signboards, that its inside is crowded with business; and so it is, except that right in its center, removed alike from the ground, and the outer walls, is a chapel. If the visitor seeks his way up stairs at noon, he will see a gathering of twenty or thirty men, mostly gray-haired, and possibly a woman or two, of a city missionary iook. A chairman sits behind the pulpit. He is brisk and businesslike, for the meeting will last only half an hour, and if he wastes time he will not be chosen to lead again. He prays briefly, reads a passage of scripture, and then takes up a bundle of letters, which lie handles as though they were on the desk in his own office. He reads several rapidly. They are request? for specific prayers. They come from widely separated places. One is from a woman who desires that her drunken husband shall reform; another expresses a mother’s concern as to her irreligious son, and so on through various moral and religious needs and aspirations. “Will some brother pray?” he says. A responsive voice is raised, devoutly, but in a hasty, concise manner. The desires of the correspondents are reiterated, much as the speaker might dictate to a clerk the orders received by mail from customers. But this is done without loss of devotional spirit. These men firmly believe that their prayers are often answered. The chairman occasionally reads letters telling of the most remarkable cases, not only of religious conversions, but of miraculous recoveries from illness. It is frequently ciphered out that the cure has been wrought, perhaps, thousands of miles away, at the very instant when the prayer was offered here. The fame of these wonders does not fail to excite cupidity. Letters are received daily by the dozen in which the prayers desired are for wholly temporal bless!ngs. The number of young men who ask to be prayed into employment in New York is large, And the other day a Wisconsin widow wrote that if the brethren would pray for it she felt sure that a well-to-do neighbor would come to the point of popping the question. Her request was not granted. The line is drawn at illness. A Relic of Aadrew Jackson. Nashville Manner. W. 11. Wilkinson, while looking over some papers a few days ago belonging to his grandfather, John Francis Wilkinson, found the funeral invitation that was printed inviting friends to the funcrul of General Andrew Jackson. The ticket was in the old style, the letters in black type, surrounded with a heavy black border, and more like a handbill than the funergl notices of the present day, but all the fashion then. The wording of the ticket was as follows: The friends and acquaintances of General Andrew Jackson are invited to attend his funeral at the Hermitage, on to-morrow (Tuesday) morning, at II o’clock. Divine services by the Rev. Dr, Edgar. His death took place last evening at 6 o’clock. NaBHVILLK, Monday, June 9, 1845. The ticket is in excellent state of preservation, nnd looks nearly as fresh ns when it came from the press. >lr. Wilkinson will turn over this valuable memento to the Historical Society.

SPRING AND SUMMER STYLES The favorite flowers for children’s hats this season are daisies. Flower dog-collars, and fans to match, will be a pretty feature of summer evening dress. Some of the prettiest gixghams for seaside wear are those with tiny check patterns, in light pink or blue and white. The most satisfactory way of making them )9 with the Norfolk waist and plain gored skirt, trimmed with shirred flounces. For children from two to six years of age the priettiest little mull hats are iu fashion. They are in various cdlors, and also in plain white edged and trimmed with lace. The salior shape is the most popular, the flat brim being lined and shirred. Amber is a very fashionable color, and one of the most beautiful importations from Worth is an amber satin reception costume. The court train opens over a petticoat of ruby velvet covered with very deep amber lace flounces. The bodice is pointed and sleeveless, and is trimmed with a magnificent embroidery of gold, ruby, and amber beads, which glisten like gems in the gaslight, this embroidery heading afa il of amber lace. The effect of this dress is beautiful beyond description. Anew material has found a good deal of favor in London; it is known as the Tel-el-Kebir cloth, and is something like nun’s veiling, only considerably thicker. In consideration, perhaps, of its Eastern name it exhibits the most gaudy colors and startling contrasts, scarlet poppies, brilliant sunflowers and highly-colored roses being the usual designs upon black or dark grounds; ribbons and silk to match are equally brilliant; it is not a very serviceable material, and its popularity is likely to be even shorter lived than most fashions. The most stylish collars for all but evening wear are of plain narrow embroidered linen, with cuffs to match, to be worn over the sleeves of the dress. For home wear in the evening a good many young ladies give a preference to those in Spanish embroidery ujion fine batiste, the shape remaining the same. Little girls wear very deep collars either of linen, edged with embroidery of lace, or embroidery appliqued on to scrim. Some of them are so large that they have the appearance of shoulder capes, and for children in arms are always deep enough to cover the the upper part of the sleeve. The magpie fashion is again popular, and black and white toilets abound. This is noticeable, first, in the great number of checks, plaids, stripes and blacks in this combination, in medium-priced fabrics. Then come summer silks, merveilleux, surahs, foulards and satins, and extending to rich evening dress. Some of the most elegant and uncommon imported toilets consist of white ottoman silks combined with black Lyons velvet, white surahs covered with superb flounces of black lace, and, most novel of all, trained dresses of snowdrop white satin or silk adorned with broad bands of black ostrichfeather trimming, and India silk mulls nearly covered with embroideries in black silk floss. Fabrics for Summer Wear. Boston Advertiser. All the veilings are to be ip fashion this season, and will be worn either singly or in combination with merveilleux, white polka dotted foulards, fine patterned brocades, and also with fine French moire. The charm of these sheer wool fabrics is that they are so light in texture that they are not burdensome, and are almost, if not quite, as cool as the old-time bareges, which were once the idle summer gowns. Then, too, the veiling meets so many occasions. It may be used in plain fashion foi simple morning toilets, made still more dressy for the afternoon, or, carried to a height of elaboration, made suitable for evening toilets. For morning wear there are the bordered nun’s veilings of white with blue or cherry colored stripes near the edge, or with mottled colors like the Indian cashmere. These morning toilets are made up with a short, festooned polonaise on a pleated skirt, which is an effectively pretty fashion of treating the fabric, or it has a short basque and wrinkled apron overskirt that shows the colored or mottled lines around the overskirt and on the front of the pleatings. Cherry-red veiling is used for the basques where the skirts are of the i white and red striped material. This soft cherry color, brilliant and effective, is newer than the strawberry, terra-cotta and raspberry shades, and threatens to supersede them in a great measure, especially for summer toilets. This is a relief, for we have had the latter shades ad nauseam. For afternoon toilets the plumetes and plain embroidered veilings are used in combination with plain veiling, satin surah or marveilleux. Both dark and light colors arc used, but there is a special fancy just at present for the blue shades. When this embroidered or brocaded fabric is used in combination, it is employed for the underskirt, while the basque and draperies are of the same material. For evening costumes there is a quantity of lace used, as for instance, in a model which was shown by a private modiste in this city. The round skirt of old rose-pink was covered with ruffles of lace of the same soft, exquisite color. The skirt Itself was of the veiling over a thin lining silk of the same color. The draperies wore of the veiling, and they were arranged quite high on one side, and held in place by graduated loops and ends of pink ottoman ribbon about two inches in width. The body was a close-fitting cuirass basque, the edge simply piped with pink silk; the body was square both back and front, and was finished with soft frills of pink lace; the elbow sleeves were entirely of the lace, finished with frills of the same. It was a very dainty costume. For black nun’s veiling dresses anew fancy is to have the skirt of blocks of black and white, which is also one of the novelties in the veilings; this is made in deep pleatings. and the plain black overskirt is quite untrimmed, except by the large square jet buckles that catch it upon the hips. Black Breton lace is preferred to Spanish laces for these wool dresses.

Modernizing Old Dressee. New York Evening I’oet. ’An excellent way to model and modernize an old silk dress, black or light-colored, is to take all the old trimmings off the skirt and bodice, leaving it perfectly plain. If there is enough material and sufficient ingenuity to form the old shape of the waist and breadths of the skirt into a plain prin cease slip, the way is then clear. Trim the skirt with flounces of Oriental lace, which now comes in beautiful designs at remarkably low prices. If there is sufficient goods to make an alternate ruffieor fan pleating of the silk, it will make all the less lace to buy. If the silk is black, Spanish lace can be purchased for as reasonable a sum as the Oriental. For the overdress, place over the silk skirt paniers made of Oriental net, edged with a fall of the lace. The drapery in the back may boos the untrimmed net alone, or may match the trimmed paniers. If the silk of the bodice is in good condition, a bertha of the net. finished with double frills of the lace, will elegantly complete the trimming. If not, cut the bodice out half low in the neck, the sleeves short, and veil the arms and neck with the net; knots of gay-colored ribbon, or sprays of flowers aud foliage, will then complete the magical effect of the renovation. Thus can be had a a very dressy, a very tasteful, and an exceedingly fashionable toilet, which can be obtained at a moderate expense from a dress which even your great-grandmother wore. Emperor William's Wardrobe. Hatter’ Gazette, An interesting and extensive wardrobe is that of Emperor William His uniforms comprise one of each of the regiments of the

guards and of the body regiments, oue eaoht of Baden, Bavaria, Saxony and Wurtemburg; four Russian uniforms and one each of hia Austrian regiments of line and hussars. The civilian suits are elegant and chiefly dark, although a light pair of punt'doons is now and then tolerated; the regular head covering is the high silkjhat. The hunting suits are rarely renewed, on the principle the older the better and more comfortable. Most of the interesting pieces have long been sent to different museums, except the dress worn on the day of Nobiling’s attempt. Perhaps the most remarkable piece is the Emperor’s browish-gray havelock, which he wears in the spring and fall on his drives, and with which, although twenty-five years old, he is not willing to part. All his uniforms and suits are made by a member of the same family whose predecessors presented th# young Prince William with his first uniform. Numerous as the contents of the wardrobe hare been and still are, it has never held an article which nearly every citizen looks upon as an indispensable one, viz., a Jdresainggown. THE DOLLAR OF 1804. What Collectors Have to Say About It—9l Sold for 8740. Philadelphia Record. In the recent sales at Bangs’s in New York the most valuable specimen sold was a silver dollar of 1804, which brought $740. It was a well-preserved coin and was pronounced genuine by experts. There has been some discussion among collectors as to the 1804 dollar recently, and it has been asserted that some of the coins bearing that date and prized by proud owners had been altered by clever manipulation from earlier dates. It was said also that absolute counterfeits had been placed in the hands of collectors by designing persons, and that the really genuine 1804’s coaid be counted on the fingers of one hand. The dollar of 1804 weighed 412% grains. The coin that was sold in New York belonged to a Baltimore collector and has been for some time in the hands of a well-known Philadelphia numismatist. It is said to have come from Vienna, but how it found its way there no one is able to tell. It is in splendid condition. The price expected was at least $1,500 (some predicted $2,000), but it is probable that recent publications relative to restrik3 and adulterations weakened to some extent the confidence of collectors. According to the best authorities, there was more than oue restrike of the 1804 dollar. Oue was made by an employe, and the coins were recovered with the exception of two. What became of these is not known. They were distinguished from the genuine by not having lettering on their edges. Another restriKe was made sometime in 1840, at the request of the Pennsylvania Bank, one of whose foreign customers wanted to complete his collection. Only three were struck, of which one went abroad, another was obtained by a collector of that day, and the third is missing. Any one of these restrikes would sell at S4OO if its pedigree were established. A collector said last night that, judging from the number of 1804 dollars that are coining to light, they cannot be so rare as some people think. He says that if they turn up as rapidly in the next ten years as they have in the past ten the 1804 will cease to be the rarest of American dollars, and the 1858 will take its place. The latter never got into circulation, and the mint books are silent as to silver dollars in that year, but eighty or ninety proof coins were struck, amt most of these are in the hands of collectors. They sold ten years ago lor from *io to sls each, but now they bring $35 or S4O, and a proof set of the silver coinage of that year is worth from S4O to SSO. A JOKE ON BISHOP PECK The Undergraduate's Idea of Imi Thirty Years Ago. Pittsbnrg Dispritch, The death of Bishop Peck recalls an incident that made national mirth at hisex)-na over thirty years ago—a clever trick of the undergraduate boys of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., perpetrated soon after liis ucccsdon to the presidency of that institution. -Moncure D. Conway, then a Methodist preacher in prospect, has the traditional credit of being one of the devisers oF the scheme. In the spring of 1849 the Baltimore Methodist Conference held its annual session in .Staunton, Va., the seat of one of the three Suite lunatic asylums. While President Peck was on his way to the conference the young rascals in the college of Carlisle wrote to the superintendent of the Staunton asylum that a lunatic bad escaped from confinement in Pennsylvania, a large man, very bald-headed, with great, round, staring blue eyes, whose special form of madness was that he was a Method is threadier and president of Dickinson College, answering to the name of Dr. Peck. The friends of this gentleman would be obliged to the Staunton superintendent if he would watch the cars and quietly take charge of him. The superintendent was on hand, singled out his man readily, and courteously addressed him, “Dr. Peck, I believe?” “Yes, sir.” “President of Dickinson Colleger* •‘Yes, sir.” “I have a carriage in waiting for you.” “You are very kind,” said the unsuspecting stranger, as he took his seat in the vehicle, and was forthwith whirled off to the lunatic limbo,, where he would have been incarcerated as a dangerous maniac if the preachers of the conference had not interfered and assured the incredulous keeper of Old Dominion cranks that the Falstaffian doctor was as sane as the average of humanity, aud only the victim of a ridiculous hoax.

Grace at Hotel Tables. W netiington Correspondence Dubinins Herald. 1 have known but two men who would ask a blessing upon a table in a hotel or boarding-house. One of them was Gen. Wiltse, Jof Dubuque, and the other is Charles Lyman, the chief examiner of the civil-service commission. When General Wiltse was interested in a Rig flouring-mill at Pickwick, Minn., he sent his family to Dubuque for the summer, and went to the village hotel for his meals. I was there when lie took his first dinner with the Wen. Coopers, teamsters, millers and all hands rushed to the long table and began a hasty American scramble fortlic hash when the old General pounded the table with his fist and shouted: “Order, here, men; you’re a ungrateful lot to act like hogs at a trough in this way. Thank God for what He gives you.” Thereupon he said grace before eating. This was continued during bis stay at the hotel. About a year ago I hoarded at the same place with Mr. Lyman and family, and he never failed to be on time at breakfast and ask a blessing. He is a very good man, and can he relied upon to do his duty in n conscientious manner. He is a sturdy New Knglander, broad shouldered, large headed, with long, black beard, which does not conceal the big red birth-mark which biases upon the left side of his face and forehead. The Difference TSetween Hlue ami Graf. ltev. 11. A. Gobin at Greencmtle. There is a disposition to seek for reconciliation, but we must not seek for it by a confusion of terms. We must not say that those who wore the gray were equally patriotic and fought for their country the same as those who wore the blue, Tiie difference is as great as between white and black. The cause for which these men fought was justice and right. If wo concede for the pun pose of reconciliation that those were equally right, we abolish all the distinction there u. between right arid wrong. We arc willing to concede that they were brave, and made a gallant light, and we might be wdling to put flowers on their grave as a testimonial to their bravery and crdurance, but never as a concession that they were .right Such an action would be unjust to our fallen comrades.