The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-03

Commencement Exercise.
The President attended the fifty-sec-
ond annual sommencepsnt of George
town College yesterday 80.
Mail Contracts
Yesterday nails on 1000 routes direct
" under charge of the contract bureau
of the Postoffice Departnsent were start
ed on new term of service. E
Bond Purchases.
The Secretary of the Treasury has di-
rected the Assistant Treasury at New
York to receive proposals. till noon on
Saturday for sale to the government Of
net exceeding three millions of United
States bonds, the same to be held by the
Treasury Department, subject to the fu'
ture action of Congress.
Cuban Advices.
Recent Cuban advices state that the
Spanish forces in Cienoville have been
augmented to over two thousand.
Eighty-fve patriots, including several
Americans, captured by large Spanish
force, have been executed. The Cuban
General is concentrating, and heavy
battle is soon expected.
Abont Posimassers.
The President has informed the
Georgia representatives that he should
not change postmasters until. the iacum-
bents prove incompetent.
Ex-President johnson. did not arrive
at Georgetown College until the ceremo-
nies were nearly over. A seat had been
originally reserved for him next to
Grant, but to Johnson's apparent satis-
faction, it was, owing to the lateness of
his coming, occupied by lady.
A. J.'s Speech.
Ex-President johnson was serenaded
last night at the Metropolitan Hotel,
and made speech, rendering thanks for
the welcome. He said the time would
come, and that ere long, when the
American people will be aroused to the
importance of preserving the great prin-
ciples which have been overslaug hed
and trampled under foot SO long. He
believed the CLEAN of the morning of
redemption could now be seen, and that !
the time was coming when the Constitu-
ton of our fathers would be re-
stored. He spoke of the usurping and
tyrannical Congress which dominated
over the judicial department of the Gov
eminent, which attempted to absorb all
the powers of the President, and stood
with the mailed heel of power on all the
i,,f ha ITnifa1 Stafas |
If he were compelled to take his choice,
which, thank God, he was not, he would
take an individual who was honest,
wise, patriotic and ,just as his ruler or
master, in preference to a Congress
usurping, capricious and corrupt. AL
ready feelers had been sent out to de-
yelope the sentiment of the country on
the question of empire. A paper printed
in New York had on the title page,
"The empire is peace" and on the other
side, "Let us have peace" The mean
ing of this was, let us have the empire
with Grant at its head, and we shall
have peace, but you find lurking behind
this debt of twenty-five hundred mil
lions. The great fear is the people are
not to be trusted, and hence We must
have strong government with an
army at our backs, and when the peo-
pie become FESTIVE as to payment OF
taxes, they are compelled to do so at the
point of the baysnet.
Mr.. johnson alluded tolthe deprecia-
tion of the currency, to the measures
looking to reputation advanced in Con-
gress, and to the disappearance of sla-
very aud its temperance in the shape |
of Government stocks and bonds, locked
up in vaults and cOrroding and eating
into the Hitals of the country, instead
of the capital they represent being used
to deeAop the material interests of the
country He said we had a second
Washington. He would like to see
what kind of an animal he was. He
suspected he was as little like the first,
Washington as was Diogenes' version |
in the shape of goose stripped of its
plumage; of Plato's definition of man,
an animal with two legs and without
feathers. Again returning to the con-
stitution, the speaker expressed his de-
termination 10 cling to it as the palla- |
dunn of our civil and religious liberty, |
saying the American people have high |
and noble duties to perform. Let us not
falter, the day is not far distant when
they would meet under more suspicious
circumstances than now. He was much
spplauded.