The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
BY the President of the United States:
PROCLAMATION.

ny bIe ITCSluenN OF bne OnlbeO ObhJebs
A PROCLAMATION.
In the year which is now drawing to its end the
art, the skill and the labor of the people of the
United States have been employed with greater
diligence and vigOr and on broader fields than ever
before, and the fruits of the earth have been ga
thered into the granary and the storehouse in mar
vellous abundance; our highways have been length
ened, and new and prolific regions have been occu-
pied. We are permitted to hope that the long pro-
tracted political and sectional dissensions are at
no distant day to give place to returning harmony
and fraternal affection throughout the republic.
Many foreign States have entered into liberal
agreements with us, while nations which are far
off, and which heretofore have been unsocial and
exclusive, have become our friends. The annual
period of rest which have reached in health and
tranquility, and which is crowned with 80 many
blessings, is by universal consent convenient and
suitable for cultvatng personal pety and prac-
1 therefore recommend that Thursday, the 26th
day of November next, be set apart and observed
by all the people of the United States as a day of
public praise Thanksgiving and prayer to the
Almighty Creator and Divine Ruler of the uni
cious providence alone States and nations no less
than families and individual men, do live and have
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to be
Done at the city of Washington this 18th day of
October, in the year of Lord 1868 and of the In
dependence of the United States the ninety-third
BY the President. ANDREW JOHNSON.
WIN. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State
Army Orders.
The following officers have been relieved from
duty as Assistant Commissioners of the Freedman's
Bureau for the States set opposite their respective
names: Brevet Brig. Gen. o. O. Sibley for Georgia;
Brevet Major Gen. N. A. Niles, for North Carolina;
Major John II. Lewis, 44th infantry, Veteran Re-
serves, relieves General Sibley, and Capt George
w. Gale, 45th Veteran Reserves, relieves Colonel
Sprague. The two last-named officers are assigned
to duty in accordance to their brevet rank respec
lively, as colonel and lieutenant colonel
The following officers retired have been ordered
to report to the commanding officer of the Fifth
Military District for court-martal duty: Colonel
M. b. Walker, Major Charles ID. Jordan, Brevet
Colonel W. III. WalcOtt, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
James POWELL Brevet Major Il. G. Bailey, Captain
John Mcdonald, Brevet Captain w. .. Douglass,
and First Lieutenant w. F. Haleck.
Diplomatic.
Senor Don Julian Valio, Secretary of State and
Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of
Costa Rica, accompanied by Don M. Gulienez,
Charge d'Affares of that republic, were presented
to the President to-day by the Secretary of State.
conversation took place, which showed very
decided sentiment of harmony and good feeling
between the two countries. 1t is understood that
Senior Valio proceeds to Europe, having been fur
nished with cordial letters by the Secretary of
State
Internal Revenue Appointments.
Franklin Phillips, twentieth district Pa, was
appointed gauger to-day.
Hiram McClenehan, seventeenth district, Pa;
H. Q. Crawford and Townsend Yeardsley, fourth
district, were appointed storekeepers to-day.
A Washington Canard.
The Evening Express publishes an article, with
large headings, GA Plot to Assassinate President
Johnson" The story causes much comment, but
the community generally is incredulous to its
truth, and hence there is no excitement.