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ril vs i i VOLUME 'C. 1MIILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1879. PRICE TWO CENTS. 0 flnk of 4P Qi ft WASHINGTON NOTES. GOVERNOR HOYT.

CEREMONIES AT HARRIS' una. Population of the Capital Nearly Doubled Fine Military and Civic Parade Seven Thousand Men in Line Phlladelphlans the Observed i of Obserrvers, 1UE GOVERNOR'S IXAVGURAL A D- HRESH. Brief But Able Document-Last Night's Festivities Fireworks, Serenades, Brief Speeches and General Good Humor, SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE Harkisbug, Jan. 21. No other man in Pennsylvania than the genial and magnetic Harry Hoyt could have been the recipient of such an overwhelming and spontaneous tribute of popular affection as that which has been ac- corded to him here for the last two days.

And yet the very enthusiasm, the very magnitude of the demonstration, marred toward the last 1 i. ai i 9 WMt WOU1U OLUWI WlirtJ Uttvo uecu uiio VI vnv most imposing scenes of induction into office that has ever been witnessed in this country. Everythingpassed off charmingly until the time of swearing in the Governor, topics, not inappropriate to this occasion, in which all good citizens feel a deep concern. The question uppermost in $ie mind of the coimtry relates to the revival of business. The last five years will be memorable in our national history as a period of industrial depression anil consequent social distress.

These five years have disclosed the causes of our troubles, and their experience should lead us up to the true methods of recovery. They will be found to lie in the moral forces of society, and not in legislative enactments or executive interference. I shall offer you no discourse upon the financial theories which have vexeu us during these years. We have come, with great unanimity, to rooog nize the actual facts which lie at the bottom of this whole subject. A geueratiou of younger business men had come upon the stage at a period of excitement following the war, and of speculation, fairly reaching the degree of gambling.

The vastly expanded credit which men gave one to another in all forms of business, the result of an inflated currency, led to unnatural values, as measured in such currency. The temptations for contracting debts were great, and not easily resisted. We spent more than we earned; we forgot that the extravagance of the rich was not the gain of the poor" "that profusion and waste were not for the good of trade" and that everything consumed and destroyed was so much lost in the labor which had produced it. Circulating capital was locked up in fixed property. The wages fund was impaired.

We abandoned the maxims of experience and the simplest truths in political economy. We measured values by a standard not common to the civilized world with whom we were in daily and necessary commercial intercourse. We failed to reniemlier that the issue of paper money, whether greenbacks, national baak notes, bills of exchange or chocks, did not add a dollar to the wealth of the nation, and that, while indispensable as a circulating medium, it could only have a representative value. We did not advert sufficiently to the present physical and financial fact, that, by the tacit agreement of the nations, the precious metals are the only standard of value, the only "current money 'with the merchant." We did not seem to know that the instincts of a practical, shrewd and enterprising nation of business men must finally and forever reject the use of an irredeemable currency. At last pay day came, as it always must, and bankruptcy came with it, as it always will undor like causes.

Our capacity to consume was destroyed. The producer was without buyers for his merchandise. Debtor and creditor alike had to pause for the day of settlement. A system of economy and saving was forced upon us, and it was the one process to restore us. It cost us a hard struggle, self-denial and suffering, but the result was health, moral and financial.

The virtues of sobriety and industry, renewed in practice, give us discipline and strength. They widened and deepened our manhood and womanhood. Discarding the cheap devices of mere theorists, the dishonest proposals of mere agitators and the charlatanry of a political economy which undertook to teach us how to create wealth without labor, we are now ready to go forward. Henceforth we are to produce and exchange actual things, and not gamble in merely fictitious values. Resumption has taken place, confidence is restored, and business will flow in healthy channels so long as values are stable and their measure- honest.

Pennsylvania is an empire in its resources, and her people in the past have developed and used tneni only by the virtues of labor and economy. For the future we must accept the same conditions. It is possible that, within our borders, there may be required some readjustment of our population to the centres of industry some i ine D0V8, Wlina mosicoimneuuuuiB aeujr- measure of fidelity to the justice, the power and the right embodied in the State. Under the peace and protection it secures, all our traffic is prosecuted and all our prosperity is shielded. Under it the Bocial principle is allowed scope found asylums, lodges, seminaries and churcfies, aud to perfect the Commonwealth itself.

There can lbe no right citizenship without an intelligent understanding of the principles which the government organizes and of the ideas which it represents. Each citizen should be able on his own information, and not depending on any interested jobber or meddler, to tell when there is a departure from rectitude, where a wrong tendency sets in and where a jeKil confronts us. It a cardinal principal underlying the political creeds of all self governing people, which affirms each citizen to be as fully responsible for he welfare of the State as he is for hi own personal safety and happiness. Private citizeii and mugistrate are equally under this fundamental law of the Republic. As you have heard me bound by an oath to obey the laws of the Commonwealth, so have in turn, the correlative right to hear the voice of the thousands of freemen in Pennsylvania, pledging themselves to obey the laws hich they themselves have mada No strength of soldiery, no wealth of farms and factories, of railroads and coals, no perfection of governmental mechanism can save a faithless people from perishing.

Close of the Proceedings. Upon concluding his address he passed into the Senate chamber and witnessed Senator Stone take the oath of office as Lieutenant-Governor. Escorted by a detachment of marshals, be was driven to the Executive Mansion on Front street, whore General Hartranft surrendered to him its rights aud privileges. Festivities Last Mglit. In the evening the streets were crowded with excited people, with whom the proceedings of the day formed the absorbing topic of conversation.

Interest was pretty equally divided between the Governor's inauguration and the signal success of Senator Cameron, which latter wa.s the occasion for general satisfaction. About eight o'clock there was a grand display of fireworks, at which it Is estimated that at least six thousand persons were present. During the pyrotechnics the various Philadelphia clubs supplied a vigorous musical accompaniment. Subsequently the new Governor gave a public reception, which was ciowded with friends, all eager to tender their congratulations. Senator Cameron also held a levee, which was largely attended.

Iu response to a serenade from his Philadelphia supporters, he, after a little while, consented to make a speech. It was short and sweet. "You have been my friends, and I will be yours," was what he said, and it doubtless proved perfectly satisfactory. A Speech From Simon Cameron. Under the marshalship of William Ellwood Rowan the West Philadelphia Club waited upon Simon Cameron with a serenade.

In response he said that "this was a proud day for him. Sixty years ago he had entered Harrisburg, and cad nothing to distinguish him but poverty, and, perhaps, a little honesty. He wanted to say to young men that nothing they do to earn their fortunes would be so effective as honesty. "I feel proud," he went on, "of the election of my son to the Senate, aud hope he will prove as faithful to his friends as I have been. If he does not he will suffer, and not you.

No man or woman descended from him would, he hoped, dishonor Pennsylvania." The railroad officials estimated the visitors at 15,000. No Cabinet has yet been organized. Howard J. Reeder is being strongly pressed for Adjutant-General. At the time of writing the crowd is rapidly leaving.

The Philadelphia clubs return in home in the morning. FLORIDA FRAUDS. mination, had abstained from any excessive use or the ardent, ana were in me oeat 01 humor. The weather, which had been cold and cloudy early in the morning, became mild and pleasant. The parade took place without any material mishap, and was the delight of thousands of spectators.

Chairman George Handy Smith, of the special, had perfected all his arrangements for a thoroughly successful inaugural. But, in the meantime, an eager and somewhat boisterous crowd had taken possession of the steps of the Capitol, the legislative halls and all the approaches thereto. "When Governor Hoyt made his appearance all semblance of order and decorum had been destroyed, and the formal ceremonies of inauguration had to be rushed through with a most disagreeable celerity. With this single exception a misfortune which was due solely to the eagerness Of the people Governor Hoyt's in- auguration was attended with all the pomp and circumstance becoming so worthy an occu- pant of so exalted a position. A Bewildered Town.

Harrisburg, this morning, was, indeed, a be- wildered town. The politicians from Fhiladel- phia had swarmed down upon the venerable 1 iitl lillL. TT 1.1- Cameron Club, of Philadelphia, Henry Price, marshal. Veteran Club, of Philadelphia, Col. Chas.

8. Green. Hoyt Club, of Philadelphia, Philip V. Brown, marshal. Feronia Club, of Philadelphia, Alexander S.

Skillin, marshal. Hoyt Club, of Lancaster. FOURTH DIVISION. Marshal Captain Charles J. Snyder, 800 men.

West Philadelphia Club, of Philadelphia, W. E. Rowan, marshal. Reybura Club, of Philadelphia, Cyrus S. Detre, marshal.

Keystone Club, of Wasliington, E. C. C. Chapman, marshal. Young Men's Republican Club, of Philadelphia, Harry Deal, marshal.

Continental Club, of Philadelphia, Joseph Mo-Donald, marshal. Iloyt Club, of Mechanioslmrg, Isaac Frazer, marshal. Young ilea's Republican Club, of Harrisburg, Wilson C. Fox, marshal. FIFTH DIVISION (FIREMEN.) Marshal James N.

Blundin, 400 men. A'igilant Fire Company, of York. Friendship Fire Company, ef Harrisburg. Laurel Fire Company, of York. Hope Fire Company, of Harrisburg.

Citizens' Fire Company, of Harrisburg. Washington Hose Company, of Harrisburg. Mount Vernon Hook and Ladder Company, of Harrisburg. Taxton Fire Company, of Harrisburg. Good Will Fire Company, of Harrisburg.

Mount Pleasant Fire Company, of Harrisburg. The Military. Seven thousand men were in line, and never had the old-fashioned city witnessed such a monster dplay. Philadelphia's part in it was peculiarly creditable, not only as regards military, but civic organizations. When the Eighteenth Regiment of Pittsburg, the splendidly disciplined Duquesne Greys, marched along, five hundred strong, with the precise and steady step of veterans, the spectators looked on admiringly, and at some points applauded.

But when the First Regiment of Philadelphia, with five hundred muskets, and carrying blankets and knapsacks, followed them five minutes later, every one thought they hud carried off the palm for excellence of march and soldier-like appearance. But even they had to give way before a Philadelphia company, and, soon afterward, Captain Ryan, at the head of two hundred and forty State Fencibles, arrayed in their brilliant and showy uniforms, and marching with the steadiness and accuracy of a machine in a line that swept from curb to curb, every heart swelled with admiration. The Clubs and Firemen. The political' clubs from Philadelphia presented a fine appearance, but Councilman Rowan's West Philadelphia Club was universally conceded by White Hats, Black Hats, Slouch Hats, and every other form of tile to have carried off the honors of the day. Squire Smith, of the Eighth Ward, as a Philadelphian, commanded the division of honor, ana right royally did he ride his steed.

The rear of the procession was brought up by firemen of Dauphin and York counties, who, in their red shirts and leather hats, drew their apparatus along to the unspeakable gratification of thousands of the Philadelphians who had fond reminiscences of the "masheen." Squire Mc-Mullen's eye kindled with the light of other days when the red shirts first loomed up in view. This feature of the parade was a subject of much jocular remark. The Governor-Elect. When Governor Hoyt stepped into his barouche, in front of the Lochiel Hotel, after the first division had countermarched on Market street, the appearance ot his kindly face was the signal for loud applause. His four-horse team hud not proceeded a great distance, however, when one of the harness straps broke, causing a considerable delay.

The snow and slippery ice in the streets interfered greatly with the rapid movementof the procession. At twenty minutes past five o'clock the arrival of the head of the column on State street was signaled by the firing of a salute from Capitol Hill. The soldiers halted, and drew to one side. Governor Hoyt then passed slowly up the hill, and reviewed the troops. The bands played and the guns boomed, but the enthusiasm of the crowd was singularly tame.

So quietly had the Gulernatorial party appeared on the platform, erected on the western side of the building, that their approach had, by the majority of the spectatoi-s, been unseen. As soon as the party was espied a scattering sei ies of shouts were given. The people then made a great rush for the stand, and almost threw Justice Woodward off his feet. He. with the incoming and outgoing Governor, struggled to reach the front.

The meiuliers of the Legislature and the distinguished officials were, with about a dozen exceptions, crowded out. Rev. Thomas N. Boyle, of Pittsburg, formerly pastor of tho Methodist Church, Wilkesl'arre, of which Governor Hoyt is a member, delivered a fervent prayer, beseeching Div ine grace on the head of the incoming ruler; but, during its delivery, he. was interrupted by half-drunken fellows of Democratic proclivities shouting "Hurrah for Quay." Administering the Oath.

Thf the Chief Clerk of the Senate read the certificate of election, and Justice Woodward, in whose oilice the new Governor was twenty years ago a law student, administered the oath. Amid hearty cheers the new Governor kissed the raised volume. He then proceeded to read his inaugural address, as follows: Governor Hoyt's Inaugural Address. Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives, and Fellow-Citizens: We are associated to-day in the observance of a time-honored custom. To you the occasion which coir venes us is mainly ceremonial in its character.

And yet not only to you who are gathered immediately within the sound of my voice, but to all the citizens of the State, it is an occasion of serious import. You and they are to witness a change in the Chief Magistracy of your Commonwealth. To myself it is more significant. While I gratefully accept my share of the pleasure incident to a pageant like this, it is suggestive of delicate duties and grave responsibilities. Elected to be Chief Magistrate of the State my official life begins here and now.

You have witnessed in my assumption of the oath of office a sacred appeal to Almighty God and a solemn pledge of fidelity in the discharge of my official obligations. "The supreme executive power shall be vested in the Governor, who shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." This is the language of our State Constitution. It briefly, simply and adequately ana Sleepy iapiuu as uiu uie nuns upon uie seven-hilled city, and the spicy and refreshing observations which they frequently made in the corridors of the Lochiel and the Jones, as to how the machine was operated, were par ticularly edifying to the verdant statesmen from the interior. Thousands of visitors, who could LI ,1 ll i i i i i hi i i I i I I Tt I I I I t- i 1 J- Si I i were, The Army Appropriation bill has been completed for a week past, but has been withheM order that the friends of the bill, upon by the Joint Committee on.the Reorganization of the Army, might have an opportunity of testing the sense of the House oi their measure. The committee to-day, however, authorized Mr.

Atkins to report the bill to the House. As agreed incorpo rates the measure that originated in the subcommittee presided over by Mr. Hewitt, which Croposes to reduce the number of officers, oth line and staff, about twenty per and leaves the maximum of 25,000 for tin rank and file unchanged. The details of the proposition were published in the despatche of the 14th instant. Committee Motes.

The House Committee on Commerce heard arguments to-day from ex-Representative Lynch, of Maine, Representative Ward, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Calkins, of New York, against the bill giving registers to foreign-built ships purchased by American citizens. The committee will probably recommend thatj the bill be postponed indefinitely. The House Committee on Indian Affairs ac their meeting to-day authorized General Scales to report to the House, ith a favorable recommendation, a bill relieving the Domestic and Indian Missions and Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention for clothing and tuition furnished to pupils in Kansas in 1860. The committee decided that until the pending bill providing that! all Indian depredation claims shall be referred to the Court of Claims is disposed of by the House no more claims of such character wiil be acted upon by them.

Mr. Page was instructed to report favorably a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to invest the unexpended balance of money appropriated to certain bands of Lake Superior Indians. The Senate Finance Committee to-day made further progress in their consideration of tre details of the House bill amendatory of the Internal Revenue laws, but again failed to reach; the clauses which provide for a rednction in the rate of taxation on tobacco and segars. The House Committee on Expemktures in the State Department, to-day, resumed the investigation into the charges preferred against George F. Seward, while minister to China.

I'roceedings unimportant. Envelope Contract Annulled. The Treasury Department has annulled tho contract with the Morgan Envelope Company, who had the contract for supplying the department with envelopes for the present fiscal year, that company having failed to come up to tha contract upon which it had entered. Yesterday bids were opened for supplying 2,100,000 envelopes during the balance of tha present year. There were a number of bidders.

Woolworth Graham, of New York, and J. M. Jones of Chicago, have been awarded the contract. INDIAN AFFAIRS. Sitting Ball Across the Frontier Willi FiN teen Thousand Followers.

Washington, Jan. 21. At the Cabinet ses sion to-day Secretary Schura stated that ha had received a report from the Indian agent at the Cheyenne Agency to the effect that information had reached that place of the re-crosting of the Canadian line into the United States of the noted chief Sitting Bull, with his) people, and that they are exceedingly anxious to return to this country and come under tha supervision of the Indian Bureau and be distributed in the. Indian country, as are other" tribes. This news was not confirmed by any information at the War Department, but it was thought worthy of serious consideration, and led to some discussion in the Cabinet.

It is reported that some five thousand lodges or nearly fifteen thousand people are with Sitting Bull. The subject will receive the immediate attention of the President and the Secretaries of the War and Interior Departments. Telegrams will be sent to officers of the War Department as well as to Indian agents, requiring them to give the authorities here all the information they can obtain on this matter. The report is that Sitting. Bull comes) with the most peaceable intentiou, but, in tha present disturbed condition of Indian affairs, it is not known what may be his meaning.

The government awaits definite information, upon the receipt of which immediate action will be taken with referenco to the matter. Sioux Scouts Secured. Fort Robinson, Jan. 21. Lieutenant Dodd, who left here for the Pine Ridge Agency on Saturday last for the purpose of enlisting Sioux scouts, returned to-day with seventeen braves, including the chiefs Three Bears ami No Flesh.

He brought a mounted howitzer from Camp Sheridan. The Indians will be armed and mounted here, and will leave tomorrow with ten days' rations, Lieutenant Dodd in command. The latest news from the field is that tha Indians escaped in the night from Crow Ridge, their last position, and their trail, which is being followed by Captain Wessels, leads toward the Spotted Tail Agency, Nothing has been heard from his command since Saturday up to the present writing. BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. The Scranton Trout Company and Savings Bank to go Into Liquidation.

Scranton, Jan. 21. The Scranton Trust Company and Savings Bank at the annual meeting of stockholders to-day resolved to go into liquidation. The depositors and stockholders are fully secured and will be paid at an early day. The affairs of the bank will be closed by its officers.

This institution has been in existence for ten years and has ranked as one of the strongest in the State. This action is for prudential reasons, and was entirely unexpected by the public, its business having been materially affected by the stringency of the times and the increased popularity of government loans. Assignments In New York. Nw York, Jan. 31.

John B. Doblemann, of the Doblemann Flint Glass Works, Brooklyn, made an assignment to-day. Liabilities) estimated at $60,000, and assets nominally valued at $100,000. Wolf Levy, jobbers in cloth, at No. 20-1 Church street, made an assignment to-day.

The firm has been in business for twenty-five years and had a capital of thirty thousand dollars. The liabilities are said to be large. THE COAL REGIONS. Strikers Keturning to Work. Pottsvillk, Jan.

21. The men at Beech-wood Colliery, who struck last week on account of not receiving back pay, have asked permission of President Gowen to go to work again. The colliery was closed for the winter immediately after the strike, but to-day Superintendent Whitney received orders from Mr. Gowen to start work again next Monday. Ha promises the men their November and December wages in two weeks, and steady work foe 1 V.

i me rest ui we wiuujr, estimates of the Postmaster General however, somewhat reduced. SEXATOR BIAIXE ASD yi'ESTIOX. TUB NATAL Opposition to Further Expenditures in Keeping Up Navy Yards The Cipher Telegrams Democratic. Tactics to Prevent Discussion, SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE INQriBER. Washington.

Jan. 21. The Patent Revision bill was pushed from its place to-day by the Naval Appropriation bill, on which Mr. Blaine is going to make a speech to-morrow criticising the proposed expenditures to keep up a navy which is only a navy in name. He Ls in favor of breaking up all the navy yards except one on each coast, and having the government do its own work by contract in private yards.

Of course, some one will want to reply to his speech, and the debate may run for a day or two. Those Cipher Despatches. At lust the Potter Committee have been given full authority and plenty of money to go into a full examination of the cipher business. Mr. Potter apologized for not opening the ball sooner, and Mr.

Butler followed in one of the most adroit, and, apparently, high-toned speeches he ever made in the House, but one well calculated to induce both sides to vote for investigation. Messrs. Hale, Conger and Hewitt struck out boldly for probing the whole matter to the bottom, and Mr. Hewitt foreshadowed very clearly Tilden's Defense His remarks were written out, and had evi dently been carefully prepared. He said it would be shown that Tilden had nothing whatever to do with the cipher despatches, and that he would not only clear himself, but "would show that no member of the National Democratic Committee was in any manner involved in the scandal.

He was pretty severe in his criticisms of Mr. Hayes, and was quite warmed up when the hammer fell, cutting off debate. Taking the Vote A Strange Scene. An attempt was made to reopen it, t'ae Democrats demanding the yeas and nays, and sending out skirmishers in every direction to bring in the absentees who had stepped out for a "little refreshment." The completion of the roll call showed the case reopened by a small majority, and then commenced a very remarkable exhibition at the Clerk's desk. The tally clerk apparently had the names all mixed up, and could not tell how anybody had voted.

After repeated efforts to untangle it, and some insinuations that it was purposely done to give time, another roll call was ordered, and the decision reversed. Debate being cut off, only half a dozen votes were cast against the resolution. As the committee are in possession of the original messages they will only have to send for those who sent them, and ask their which, it is understood, will be promptly given, and Mr, Tilden "sworn out." The Post Route BUI. The House to-day passed, for the third time, the Post Route bill, on which the Senate last session put the Brazilian mail contract, and which they are now likely to do again. BY ASSOCIATKD PRKHS.J ConlrHtt for the Sale of Four Ter Cent, ltonds in Kurope.

Washinoton, Jan. 21. A contract was this day completed between the Secretary of th" Treasury and Messrs. N. M.

Rothschild Sons, J. S. Morgan Seligman Brothers, anil Morton, Rose of London; and Messrs A. Belmont Drexel, Morgan J. W.

Seligman and Morton, Bliss of New Yoi'k, for the sale and delivery in Europe of not less than $5,000,000 per month for four per cent, bonds, upon the same terms and conditions as the popular loan now being offered in the United States, the contract to continue until the 1st day of July, the proceeds to lie applied to refunding six per cent, bonds. The sale was made to promote the exchange of 4 per cent, bonds for per cent. 5-20 bonds held in Europe. Thereupon a subscription of $10,000,000 was made bv the parties, which is included in the call of $20,000,000 made to-day. Another Call for Five-Twenhle.

The Treasury has just issued the eighty-third call for $20,000,000 5-20 bonds, as follows: Following are descriptions of the bonds: Coupon lionds, dated July 1, 1867, namely: foO, No. 48,001 to No. 55,000, both inclusive; flOO, No. to No. 70,000, both inclusive; $500, No.

46,001 to No. 55,000, both inclusive; $1000, No. 60,001 to No. 73,000, both inclusive. Total coupon, $10,000,000.

Registered bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, after the 1st day of Julv, 1872, as follows: $50, No. 1920 to No. 2270, both inclusive; $100, No. 13,851 to No. 16,400, both inclusive; $500, No.

7251 to No. 9300, both inclusive; $1000, No. 27,751 to No. 81.900, both inclusive; $5000, No. 8151 to No.

8300, both inclusive; $10,000, No. 13,251 to No. 15,400, both inclusive. Total registered, aggregate, $20,000,000. Arrears of Pension Hill.

At the Cabinet session to-day the bill for tho payment of arrears of pensions, which has recently passed Congress, was considered. The discussion was not as to whether the bill should be approved or signed, but as to the results of its being carried out. Secretary Sherman and Secretary Sehurz both made statements as to the amount which is was estimated that the bill would call for. Secretary Sherman place I the figure at about one hundred and fifty million dollars, and said that if that amount should go out of the Treasury it would creata a deficit. Secretary Schurz's estimate, which was from Commissioner of Pensions Bentley, differed considerably from that of the Treasury Department.

'It stated the amount that would nave to be paid out under the bill at fifty mi '-lion. There was no decision as to how the biil should be dealt with. The Free Ship Bill. The House Conunittee on Commerce to-day heard additional arguments on the bill proposing to amend the Navigation laws so as authorize the issuance of American registan to foreign-built ships purchased by America, i citizens. Ex-Representative John Lynch, of made a lengthy speech in opposition to the bili.

The Appropriation Bills. The House Committee on Appropriations, (it a meeting held this afternoon, completed the consideration of the Post Office Appropriation bill, the aggregate thereof being in excess of the bill of last year, owing to the necessary increased expenditures of the department. The not obtain beds, lay on floors or reposed in the chairs of saloons, and a many more wandered aimlessly through the streets. Daylight was hailed by the irrepressible brass band, which seemed to start up from every corner. About half past five o'clock in the morning the First redistribution of labor and capital.

Your Bureau of Labor antl Statistics, when adequately organized and administered, will furnish abundant data upon which the intelligence of the people will act. I desire here to liespeak the freest and fullest co-operation of the people with their Chief Magistrate. It is equally their privilege and their duty to niRke their interests and their wishes known through their legislative representatives, by committee, by writing or by direct personal interview with the Executive. Such careful, special, intelligent, unreserved expression upon the part of the people would enable both" the legislative and executive branches of their government to act with a clearer appreciation of their necessities. I speak now for myself alone, but I am at the same time confident that I express the sentiments of every gentleman who is officially related to the State administration.

We are renewing, in part, the personnel of our State government at a period of momon tous interest in our national affairs. The one great question yet to be solved is: Shall government by the ballot be maintained in thi country, with equal political rights- for al legal voters? Pennsylvania's attitude on that question is known wherever her name is known. That she will insist on the enforcement of the aul hority of the National Constitution, in every State of the National Uuion, is as certain as that her mountain peaks point toward Heaven and her rivers roll to the sea. Under no circumstances can she ever recede from this position. Strong in herself, stronger in virtue of the constitutional relationship to her sister States, she will be magnanimous, conciliating and patient.

But justice, in the end, must with her be paramount. Upon this high ground she will demand that the provisions of a Constitution made for all shall bo conformed to by all. This question goes not only to her political convictions, to ner estimate of the worth of our civilization, but to the consciences of her population. Pennsylvania bows in unalterable devotion to the grand ideas of the supremacy, perpetuity and glory of the nation. I hav detained you.

feHow-citizens, beyond my intention, and will, therefore, claim your indulgence but a moment longer for a personal allusion. I should be guilty of insincerity if I affected indifference to the honor of the trut your suffrages have confided to me. I am incapable of expressing my heartfelt sense of its value, or the strength of my purpose to prove that it has not been misplaced. So much, in brief, to those to whom I directly owe my election. One word to my fellow-citizens who preferred and supported my honorable competitors.

It is worthy of a free people that they bear themselves'with propriety and self-control through the contentions aud excitements of a general election. It is gratifying to myself, and, doubtless, equally so to all wh were actively engaged in the late canvass, that there was so little manifestation of bitterness. The debate was conducted with calmness, as it was also with earnestness. For the kindness and courtesy extended to me by my political adversaries, I have to say that if they had voted for me from the same sense of duty which gave their ballots to my opponents I could not le more firmly resolved than I am to be impartial and faithful in discharging the obligations I owe to thorn as Chief Lxecutive of the Uommonwealtu. My pohti cal views and convictions will and ouzht, un Regiment of Philadelphia tumbled, half asleep, out of the cars of the Pennsylvania railroad, and marched wearily to their lodgings.

A great many military organizations from the interior arrived about the same time. Scenes on the Streets. At tight o'clock Market street was thronged with promenaders, and business was, and continued to be, during the day at an entire standstill. Many of the more festive of the "boys" amused themselves by sleighing and by mounting curiously-constructed vehicles called "spi der sleighs." The soldiers were, of course, the centre of attraction. The Procession.

They formed on the north side of Marke street, right- resting on Schuylkill, the headquarters of the commanders being at the Lochiel. The civic organizations got- in readiness for orders on Third street, and the firemen on. South Second street. At eleven o'clock the orders were given to move, and the column proceeded over its route in the following order: CHIEF MARSHAL, General Howard J. Reeder.

SPECIAL AIDS, Sullivan S. Child, Dr. H. H. Buehler, w.

B. J.11UICK, h). M. Hulick. UriKadier-Oeneral H.

S. Huldekoper, Commander of me miniary Division. THIRD BRIGADE. Erigadier-GenenU Joshua H. Siegfried, 800 men.

Washington Light Infantry, of Washington, D. Captain William G. Moore. Seventh Regiment. Colonel Alexander Caldwell.

Twelfth Regiment, Colonel Alfred H. Stead. Thirteenth Regiment, Colonel H. M. Boles.

Wyoming Artillerists, Captain T. C. Parker. FOURTH BRIGADE. Brigadier-General James A.

Beaver, 1000 men. KiKhteenth Regiment Infantry, Colonel Purley Guthrie. Fourteenth Regiment, Colonel Joseph H. Gray. Fifth Repimeut, Colonel Theodore Burchfleld.

Tenth Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel D. D. Lloyd. Sheridan Troop. Knapp's Battery.

SECOND BRIGADE. Brigadier-General Frank Reeder, 1100 men. Eighth Regiment, Colonel J. P. Shindel.

Fourth Regiment, Colonel T. H. Oood. Eleventh Regiment, Colonel Alfred Rupert. Sixth Regiment, Major Henry S.

Smith. Griffln Battery, Captain John Denithorne. FIRST BRIGADE (PHILADELPHIA). Brigadier-General George R. Snowden, 1000 men.

First Regiment, Colonel Theodore E. Weiderslieim, 682 men. State Fencibles, Major John W. Ryan, 240 men. tVeccacoe Legion, Major John P.

Ienney, 100 men. Grey lnvineililes, Captain A. Oscar Jones. 85 man. Black Hussars, Captain John F.

Kleinz. Keystone Battery, Captain J. O. Winchester. SECOND DIVISION.

Marshal Colonel Robert R. Smith. Washington Troop, of Chester county, Captain Wilson M. Mattock, acting as an escort to Governor Hoyt, Barouche, drawn hy four horses, and containing Governor elect Hoyt, Governor Hartranft. Justice Woodward and Senator George Handy Smith.

Carnages containing Lieutenant-Governor Latta, I.ieutenant-Oovernor-elect Charles W. Stone, Members of the Legislature. Judges of the Courts, Bfate Officials, the Clergy and Invited Guests. THIRD DIVISION. Marshal Colonel William B.

Mann. 1 fSS How the Demoerats Carried the Flection. Jacksonville, Jan. In the case of the Brevard county Canvassing Board today, 1. H.

Allen, a lawyer, testified that he went to Brevard county on account of a lett?" purporting to have been written by N. A. Hull, the Democratic candidate for Congress, for the purpose of obtaining a majority of two hundred necessary to elect Hull. He had authority to draw for what money ho needed to accomplish the purpose. The witness detailed how the arrangements were and said a plan was agreed upon to burn the records of the fraud after it was accomplished.

The work of changing the returns was done, said, by the deputy of Lee, one of the defendant. THE ARLIGTOX ESTATE. Aifciiuient OpeDed in the Famous KJeet-ment Case. Alexasdria, Jan. 31.

The Arlington ejectment case commenced here to-day in the United States Circuit Court, Judge Hughe presiding. It was expected that Chief Justice Waite and Judge Bond would participate, but they were not present. There was a large number of lawyers in the court room was crowded. Mr. S.

F. Beach, of counsel for General Lee, submitted a motion for summoning a special jury, which was opposed by Mr. Wdloughby. The motion was granted, and the jury was ordered for to-morrow morning at eleven o'clock when the trial will proceed. DELAWARE.

Inauguration of Governor John W. Hall. Dovir, Jan. 21. John W.

Hall was inaugurated Governor of Delaware to-day, in the presence of the Legislature and a large concourse of citizens. The City Councils and militia companies of Wilmington were als present. Governor Hall's inaugural address was brief. It deplores the continued depression in business, which could not be attributed to misconduct in State affairs, but to the unwise financial policy of Jhe government and an inflated currency, which has shown us the wisdom of a circulating medium based exclusively ou gold and silver. The address also opposes thn Militia law, and considers the civil authorities sufficient for the needs of the State.

BELOW ZERO. Yesterday's Thermometrical Ueports Frozen to Heath. Troy, 'N. Jan. SI.

The thermometer in dicated 7J degrees below zero this morning. A German named Caspar, fifty years of age, man, a tramp, was founu on tue ftaratogi railroad at Summit, afternoon, nearly frozen to death. He will probably die. The Cold Weather at Pottstown. Pottstown, Jan.

21. The mercury reached 6 degrees below ero at six o'clock this morning, the coldest of the season. my principal duty. I fully understand tnese words 1 tuny comprenena me oacu i have just taken. The people of Pennsylvania expect me to keep that oath.

By the help of their prayers and by the favor of Divine Providence I expect to keep it It will be a common pleasure to us to be exempted from giving special attention, at this time, to matters of public business. The conspicuous ability and the long and varied experience of my distinguished predecessor has permitted nothing to escape his attention which concerned the public good, or was of sufficient importance to be commended to the special attention of the General Assembly, or which might challenge the consideration of the people. His last annual message is a document at once so judicious, timely and comprehensive in its review of public affairs and its recommendations as to relieve me, for the present, from all care in respect to that branch of the executive dutv. I mav. therefore, re gard myself as at liberty to glance a some questionably, to influence and shape some ol4wa3 frn to death last night, and A.

C. my official recommendations; but in protect ing the constitutional and legal rights of tho citizens no party distinction can ever for on moment be recognized. In conclusion, fellow-citizens, permit me fc remind you of the individual responsibility of each citizen for the aggregate well-being of the eemmunity, Each of us owes he highest IJDinn RpmihlifYin Clllh nf Philorr.r.m William iK.iJ-' aiiiuuviaUlIM TT (MIH1U Leeds, marshal..