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Young Ladyhood.

We were sitting on the piazza this
morning after breakfast, in the law
manner. peculiar to that hour. Nv
brother Ned had all his temporal
wants fully supplied, in cigar and
newspaper. Tie children were
sprawled about in striking attitudes,
engaged in the criticism of a paint
box that papa brought them up from
town last night. had my work on
my lap, but was just in the first chap
ter of "Charles O'Malley," which
aia trying to appreciate; for my
brothers have been so much disgust
ed with my sty lie of light reading,
that 1 meekly assented, when Tom
threw Charles O'Malley at me as he
went out to fish with the Arthers this
morning, at the same time giving
sJohn Halifax" which lay beside
me, brotherly kick. He hated to
see girls shifting over such trash as
that-there was a book worth read
ing. I was trying to think so, hut 1
don't know n great deal about books
girls don't generally, you know.
So I was quite glad when Ned got
up, shook himself, and told me 10 go
put my bonnet on and / might take
a drive with him. / ran up stars
and was very soon dressed--very
soon for me, that is-I'm always q
little behind the time. And / was
rather longer than ] meant to be even
this morning; for I knew we should
drive towards D., because of the
Miss Chaffs being there, though Ned
always says it is on account of its
being such good level road. 1 like
very well driving that way; for We
always meetthe young Ratteltons-
they're forever on the road--so OF
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THE PRESIDENT AND HIS
CRITICS.

That the President knew exactly
what Mr. Blair wished to say to
Jefferson DAVIS, that he is at the
bottom of all the movements for
peace-that he will finch and falter
when it comes to the point-are as
sertions made and emphasized by
some ardent friends of the Union.
The one person they are not sure of
IS the President The one thing
they doubt is his fidelity, or il not
that, then his sagacity. They fill the
air with grumblings and growlings,
and the newspapers with insinua-
tons, and when they have done all
they can TO depress AID discourage
the popular heart they sigh and
groan with renewed vigor at the
want of persistence which the public
displays.
If these gentlemen had but little
ofthe Presidents unswerving faith
and cheerful good sense-if they had
but their own moderate share OF the
steady earnestness Of the people,
they would spare Themselves much
dismal croaking and their friends an
incessant Indignation. What was
probably true upon consistent view
of the Presidents whole course is
now proved by his own word. In
his Message upon the conference he
says distinctly that he did not know
what Mr.. Blair wished to say TO the
rebels. His word disposes of that
assertion; The correspondence he
transmits shows exactly how much
he 1inched or was disposed to falter,
and effectually annihilates the idle
slander that he will betray the nation
al honor in the least degree.
Indeed, nothing but the foolish as
sumption of four years ago, that Mr..
Lincoln was unfit for his Office, can
excuse such aspersions and rehec
tons upon his honesty and capacity
as are implied in the kind of twad-
die Of which we are speaking. Those
who cling to that assumption reveal
their incapacity to judge of public
men and affairs. II there is any
man IN the country who compre-
hends the scope of the war more
fully than the President. who is hef
II any man in the country has shown
greater skill and sagacity in dealing
with the rebellion, where is he? If
there Is any public man now living
in the United States whom the gos-
sips of which We speak would place
in Mr.. Lincoln's chair. whaa. is his
name! venture to say that tnere
is no man in our history who has
shown a more felicitous combination
OF temperament, conviction, and
ability to graphic with a complics-
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NEW PARTIES.

There is a present end of political
parties in the country. There is 9
body of representatives,, indeed, in
Congress and in the State Legisla-
lures, which votes and talks in favor
of human slavery. jeers at negroes,
insults the Government, and virtual
ly justifies the rebellion. But these
individuals do not form agreat polit-
ical party. They are merely fac
ton; a band of adventures; The row
ing, maraudlng remains of an army,
holding together until they can adj
vantageously ally themselves to some
other organized and effective force.
Single individuals like Long and Pen
dleton can not claim the name OF
Democratic for a political body with
which Griswold, Ganson, and Odell.
for instance, do not act. The posi-
tion of these latter gentlemen shows
that the late Democratic party no
longer exists. The name will belong
hereafter to those leaders who are
most skillfui in pereeiving the prin-
ciples upon which party can be raj
lied
Ofthe parties that existed when
the war began the name Democrat
ic" alone remains. The Constitu-
tional Union party survives ouly in
John Bell drinking success 20 the
rebellion in bad whisky. The Re
public n party, IS such, has secured
its great object of limiting the exten-
sion of slavery. Tho necessities Of
the case, in nation waging a civil
war, divide US all into two bodies;
those who support the Administra-
ton III its war policy, and those who
do pot But the old party lines do
not separate US, Tho party of the
Administration is composed Of men
as different as the late Edward Ever
EFT. General Butler, John A. Girls
Sold, Thurlow Weed, and Charles
Sumner, who were respectively lea
ders of the Bell Everett, and Breck-
inridge, the Douglas parties. and
both wings Of the Republican party,
before the war We are at the end
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CEREpo, WEST VIRGISrA.-S

/ CEREpo, WEST VIRGISrA.-Since
the breaking out of the rebellion,
II give bread" town has been sub
jected to many vicissitudes. It's
prospects when projected, in 1854,
and later, was that of n great manu-
featuring city. Early il 1862, many
of the Yankee citizens anticipated
the coming storm, and either dispos-
ed of their property or LEFT it to tho
despoiler At one time it had 4 reg
iment quartered in its midst, but OF
late no troops have been nearer than
Guyandotte. Disloyalty has crop
ped out under drunkenness and per
sonal hate, until ones life is eudan-
gered at any moment. Guerrillss
and rebel sympathizers occupy the
principal houses vacated by the own
ers. Not public building stands
untouched. The window and door
frames, flooring and every sleeper Of
the hotel have been torn ou. and
burned up. The dismantling of the
steam saw mill, and Match and Glass
Factories, have long since been ac-
complished. Night is made hideous
by the continued debaucheries of
certain desperate characters, such as
Jack Meddows and Pete Jefers.@
There is not a loyal family left in
Ceredo.-iTonaos Register.
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Road Notice;

A PETITION win be presented to the com
a missioners, of Gallia county, at their
March session, A. d 1865, praying for the
establishment ola new county road, in Sprin-
field township. commencing at the county
road, near Thomas Whites where a township
road intersects said road, thence westerly
direction, with said township road, 10 the
northwest corner of v. T. Cherington's land,
thence southerly directien. to the seuth east
corner Of VIM. y. 0haington,s % acre lot,
thence southwesterly course, through The
land Of David Hanks heirs to the north line
OF 7: W. Biake's land. thenee west, with
said hne, as near as q good road can be had.
TO VIM; n. Cherington's tefd, southwes-
terfy course 70 !. W. Bi2ke's line, thencs south,
with said line, uptiiit intkrsectst the wiikssifie
road, near Westsrmsn Chapel. -
FEB. 2, 1e65.-5vs.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1865-03-02

A COMPLIMENT TO PElSTERs.-AD
address, recently delivered before
the Typographical Society at Wash,
ington, stated these facts about hon,
ors to printers:
sThe United States Senate has
chosen printer fbrsecretsry, . prin-
ter for sergeant alarms, While .
printer occupies the vice presidents
chair. In tho House, printer has
been elected clerk, a printer pestmas-
ter, and on the drst Monday of Do
cember, 1888, the House or Repre-
sent tives chose q printer for their
foreman or speaker; and also of the
fourteen gentlemen who had filed
the office Of Mayor of Washington.
six were printers, namely: Rapine.
Gales. Seston, Wightmap, Force and
Towers"
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Number Is.

NHoe III WHICH lulS country
Is involved than Abraham Lincoln
"hen the war began there were
impatient people who cried. .Oh. for
an hour of Jacksonl" But does anv
man who truly comprehends the
character and antecedents of this
great struggle, and the infinite M.
tlence and wisd m which the settle
ment of its various questions do
mands, really think that Andrew
Jaekson's qualities were those which
the situation requ res? 1t is the
great fact of no significance that the
vast and threatening opposition to
the policy of the Administration has
crumbied awsy before the steady
development of that. policy, and
crumbled without the FEAST yield;no
OF the Administration? It is an in
cldent of no meaning that In the
week of the passage of the emanct-
patton amendment by Congress, s. S.
Cox, a representative of kind of
''war Democracy" moves the thanks
OF Congress to the President. and in
thesame week the notorious Fernando
Wood, the most unscrupulous dema.
gogue and peace apostle in the
country, declares for strenuous war?
1t is nothing that the shrewdest iour-
nais of the Opposition. which. from
the first shot of the war, cried out
with Horatio Seymour that to touc h
slavery was to destroy the Constitu-
ton, now complacently announce
that the Constitutional amendment
was always n Democratic" meas
ure, sand that the Democratic party
was always an anti slavery party?
Does any body mean seriously to as
sert that the active head of an Ad-
ministration which, in country like
this, frenzied with party-spirit like
ours, torn for four years with a vast
sectional civil war, and necessarily
menaced with foreign Interference,
has directed public affairs until the
army and nrvy are every where vic
torious, and the most malignant Cd
ponentS Of the war now openly ad-
yocate it and thank the President,
who has carried steadily forward a
policy which they have steadily de
nounced-does any one mean gravely
to asserv that such head is shift
less, undecided man, ready to saeri-
flee any principle, forever housing
ronnd for peace, and anxious to bay
it at any price2
There is no man of us al probably
who wishes for peace NOR Yearnestly
tkaA the Prdsident. There Is
cef3Ainly no man who IS so little
likely to surrender any essential
point to secure it. The purpose in
the war, which he understands the
people to cherish, ho has plainly
iterated and reiterated. The con-
ditions upon which peace is possible,
and without which it is impossible,
he mas as often repeated. Peace can
not be made upon the sly or in a cor
ner. Shall we not say plainly, what
every loyal citizen sees with pain,
that it is the Tribune, which has so
long and nobly fought the good fight
against the subversion of the Gov
eminent by the slave power, that
now speaks of peace in q strain of
cringing obsequiousness to the slave
lords in rebellion, which inevitably
suggests that it would be willing to
make peace upon terms of conces-
sion to those lords which the Presi-
dent and all faithful citizens would
reject with scorn?-HarPer's Weekly.
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sALtTATIONS.
THE PARTING.

Her face she lifted me to greet,
And DER her ips | softly bent.
Where kisses rose more soft and sweet
han breath from wildwood flowers sent.
In vain would jealous Land, or Sea,
Or time endeavor US to part;
The farther dwelt my love from me,
The nearer lived che in my heart.
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OF parties Upon what grounds are.
they to be recOosfr,,cfaS7S

" ParueS. Upon wnat grounds are
they to be reconstructedY
There are various speculatlons uuon
this point but they all seem to us to-
be premature. Parties in a free gov
ernment divide upon the policy of
administration Butuntil the admin
istration of the Government is se-
cure, it is too early to discuss poll
cies. There may be differences az
to the means Of securing the author.
ity of the Administration. That ia
to say, the friends of the war may
differ as to how it may be made most
effective. But that is not division
into political parties.
Nor is it easy to infer from the
previous history of the country what
the division will be. The political
struggle of this country from the be-
ginning has been that between the
Southern policy and the essential
principles of the Government. Bua
now that the latter have triumphed
absolutely. and have DESTROYED the
foundation of that policy, there must
be entirely new issues. These ara
likely to arise; in the first place, from
the peculiar structure of our Govern
mentS and, in the second, from the
methods necessary to carry it on
The relative rights and powers Of
the States nd the nation, and the
fundamental question >of protection
and free trade, and the probable
grounds of future party division.
The Eveaing Post, one of the oldest
old-fsshioned Democratic organs in
the country, is of opinion that if-the
proposition of universal free trade
as the permanent national policy had
been made to the rebel agents in
Hampton Roads. 1t would have seri.
ously tempted Mr.. Hunter. an old
free trader But however probable
it may be that this question NAV
hereafter divide the country politi-
cally, it would certainly have been
an extraordinary suggestion from the
President to the rebels. Nobody
knows better than the Post that there
is the utmost radical difference upon
that very point among loyal men,
and all that the President could have
said would be no more than an ex-
preston of the probability that there
would be large free-trade party
hereafter. But whether tree trado
wonld be adopted as a permanent
national policy the President could
no more tell than Mr.. Hnnter. If no
badzssosen 70 indulge In political /,
sPecc cfatfun OF that Kind the Presi-
dent might have added, that, in his
opinion also, the doctrine of supreme
State sovereignty would be effectu-
ally exploded. But snch topics
would hardly have been timely or
judicious. What the President could
officially do, was one thing. What
Mr.. Lincoln supposed the popular
decision upon 4 vital point of differ
ence might be, was quite another.
In the present situation of tho
country there arc no grounds upon
which to construct great parties; but
there was mover more favorable
moment for the discussion of tho
cause which has brought US to this
condition, that we may not only win
victories but secure their fruits
The great fruit will be the establish
ment of the Government upon or
iginal principles. When that is ac-
complished, parties viii aturally
arise. .-Rarpsr's Weekly.
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OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR or STATE,

OFFICE OF FTHEAUDITOR or STATED
COLUMBUS. ONO, February l. 1865.
1t is hereby certified that the foregoing is
q correct copy of the Statement of Condition
of the Metropolitan Insurance Company made
to and filed in this Office, for the year 1865.
[sEAL WITNESS, my hand and seal officially
[sTANP.l JAMES H. GOODMAN.
Auditor of State.
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY.
ITO expire on the 3lst day of Jan. 1861
OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR OFSTATE)
Insurance DEPARTMENT,
COLUMBUS, ONO, February l, 1865.
WHEREAS, The Metropolitan Insurance
Company, located at New York, in the State
of New York, has filed in this Office a swofz
statement of its condition, as required by the
first section of the Act ITO regulate Insur-
ance Companies not incorporated by the
State Of Ohio" passed April 6, 1856, and
amended February 8, 1864; and whereas said
Company has furnished the undersigned sat
isfactory evidence that it is possessed OF at
least one hundred thousand dollars of actual
capital; invested in Stocks, or Bonds, or In
Mortgages of Real Estate, worth double the
amount for which the same is mortgaged; and,
whereas, said Company has filed in this office
a written instrument under Its corporate seal,
signed by the President and Secretary thereof,
authorizing any agent or agents of said
Company, according to the terms of said law
Now, therefore, in pursuance of the first
section of the aforesaid act. | JAMES II.
GOODMAN, Auditor of State for Ohio, do
hereby certify that said Metropolitan Insur-
ance Company of New York, is authorized to
transact the business of Fire and Marine In
surance, in this State, until the thirty first day
of January. in the year one thousand eight
hundred and sixty,six.
In witness whereof, / have shereunto sub
seribed my name, and caused the zeal Of my
Ofica to be affixed, the day and year above
written. .-fa $50 -.il
(sSALl isrAsP.] JAMES Il. GOODMAN.
Auditor Of State.
-WN- G. HAYWARD Agent, -Gallipolis
Ohio
Feb rs. lss5-sw. = sti 30 i
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Xxx. e. GALLIPoLIs, OHIO, MARoH 3. 1855.

,tucn, ana the balance of power be
Destroyed Whether It IS not on
the whole, fortenate thing that so
clety IS our career, and that We don't
look too deep into things? Whether
greater knowledge would be greater
blissf Whether, if dress and vanity
did not I'LL our hearts anything better
wouldf Whether, to be held s.Some-
thing better than his dog, a little
dearer. than his horse" would salts
~ n true woman's whole iheart7
Whether, to look for ANYTHING
In the future but an establish
ment, is not to prepare for ones self
weary disappointment? Whether,
with this In view, it pays to cultivate
ones mind and sentiment? Whether
it is not better for us to ignore the
existence of anything deeper than
vanIty-anything more lasting thon
pleasuref o
What is left for q woman in this
enlightened nineteenth century; what
can she attain to, higher than admi-
ration in society, and, from thence,
on towards the dizzy pinnacle of a
great match? 1t is her only road to
power, her only hope of gain; if she
have ambition, so only can she graf
ify it. 1t is contemplate for a man
to exert himselfto to secure admiration
In society-that is one of the fine
things that follow in the train of his
other successes. His talents and his
fame give him this without an effort
on his part. But, for poor woman,
it is her only chance of temporal adj
vancement and glory-a glory as
brief as it is brilliant, that will fade
with her fading cheeks-that will die
with her short youth. 1t is the slip
perry little by path on which she may
scramble up to influence; her delicate
feet pierced with numberless vexa
tious thorns; her white hands soiled
with her eager grasps at whatever
may help her on. And what does
she gain when she has reached this
eminence--t this coveted height-from
which she sees below her the fair
scenes of youth and innocence, with
the blue mist of memory and distance
around them, as far from he- as if
she had never passed through them
las impossible to regain? For the
descent is upon the other side of this
eminence, where lies the dark valley
ofthe shadow of death. The trou
bled face, in many splendid car
70 aas told me the story often.
Pretty women. put ambi-
4efeis any
iSiere; 1t does not. pay There's no
arrangement made for it in a woman's
existence--it's only meant for men,
with whom it may become a virtue
whom it may lead to splendid things
But for us, women, we must say our
prayers, and tell the children stories,
sew buttons on our brothers shirts, :
and be patient.
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Public Sale.

r WILL offer at public sale at my residence
i IN G cen township, Gallia county, Ohio,
on Thursday Feb. %, 1865 The following
property consisting of horses. cattle, sheep,
hogs 6gggys farming 5, utensils
hay and many other articles too numerous TO
mention. .s.ss..i..-....
Sale to commence at 10 o'clock of said day.
Terms made known OF the day ofsale.
ANDREW CAMPBELL.
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TIE RETURN.

l spoke but softly in the hail;
Yet torrent-like, her rushing feet
Dashed, like hurying waterfall,
Adown the stair my step TO greet
l scarce could whisper in the hall,
Nor end the words so oft begun;
Form that happy interval
Her beating treest and mine xere one
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To Soldiers Heirs.

The subscriber continues the prosecution OF
all claims against the Government He is not
fettered with a multiplicity of business, pre-
venting hie proper attention to the claims in
hand. From late r gulations in the pension
Office, the labor and time required IN establish
ing pensions is greatly increased, but with
no other business in hand he devotes his whole
time, to the business in which heis engaged.
He has been Notary Public for the last ten
years, and continues to execute deeds, mortga-
ees, and all other instruments to be acknowl-
edreGbefore such officers
he NAV be found, at his Office on Front
street below the steam boat landing
LEWIS NEWSOM.
Jan. IL, 1665.-3ms
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LYRIC FOR wAsHINGToN's BIRTH.
LAY,
~ WILLIAM Ross WALLACE.

RY WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE.
t"When /, an American. living under tn
Government founded by the immortal Wash
ington, visit his tomb, let me not stand .here
stranger, an alien, by the consent Of gov
eminent founded by rebels anC traitors. -
From Union Speeck. deliueFed in Uaior
Square, Netc York, by tie Hon. Chaunce1
ShgfT.l
Words OF beauty, power. glory,
How through all the land they ring.
Broad and mighty as the music
Rolling from our eagles wing
As he battles with the tempest,
Scatters clouds that veil the plain, :.
So the glorious sun may sparkle
On its allowed homes againl
What Americans be aliens
Were his native forests bloom7
Begs permission for an hour
By their mighty fathers tomb?
Whmf resign our rights to treasure
Worshipped by a whole wide world
See another nations banner
On the sacred spot unfurled7
Sooner Shall exultant Heaven,
When the very noon is wen,
Let the tempest fiends of chaos
Rob her bosom oi the sun!
No! We eimpious rebels, traitors.
Ye who rend the very Trust
Lett by hihl-no, never, never
Shall ye only own that dustl
Al Americans shall guard it
Even We when Battles fires
Shall have burnt out Of your bosoms
Their disloyal, vile desiresl
Words of beauty, power, glory,
Ring along the loyal sod!
Loudly ring as when archangeIs
Smiue the thunder-bels of God
Bells of warning, to the peoples
Who in Truths white castles dwell,
When their ramparts are assaulted
By the rebel hosts of hell
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HI Oase aadL LOtin GaIEipo-
lis-EOr Sale.

CSITUATE on the corner of Short and
y Front Streets, at the upper end of town.
Good cottage House. we'll Of excellent water,
and ssme fruit trees on the premises-would
make an excellent business stand; Possess
ioa given onthe lst If April Terms ressona-
Bile. Inqures at the Real Estate Agency Of
Jan. IS, 1855. r. L. STEWART.
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tsEALl Subscribed and sworn before me,
this 3lst day of Jannary, A. d. 1865
fsTANP.l MOSES B. MeCLAY,
Ohio Commissioner in New York
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
CITY AND COUNTY or NEW YORK
JAMES LoRIMER GRAHAM, President, and
JoHS O. GooDRIDGE, Secretary of the Metro
politan Insurance Company, being severally
and duly sworn. dcpose aud say, and each
for himself says, that the foregoing is full,
true and correct statement of the affairs Of
said Company; and that they are the above
described officers thereof
JAMES LORIM r GRAHAM. Pres.
J, C. GUODRIDGE, Secretary.