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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 293, 31 July 1865, Page 3

Abraham Lincoln a Teetotaller of more than FietyYears.— lt is due alike to the cause of temperance, and to the sacred memory of that illustrious man, the late President of the United States, to let it be widely known that for more than fifty years he had been a rigid abstainer from all intoxicating liquors—neither using them himself, keeping them in his house, nor on any occasion providing them for his friends or visitors. On one occasion Mr Lincoln, seeing that strong drink was producing most pernicious and demoralising effect in the Federal armies, both amongst officers and privates, sent a telegram to Mr E. 0; Delavah, of Albany, to come up to Washington, to confer with the War Department and himself in Respect to some steps to be taken to put a stop to the frightful and growing evil. The result was that various measutos were devised to prevent alcoholic liquors being sold or supplied to the soldiers. MrDelavan prepared an excel-lent-address to the army, setting forth the evil of drinking and the benefits of abstinence; and copies of the document were sent through the departments to the soldiers in all the troops throughout the various encampments.'—Alliance News.

The Bishop op Oeleahs ok Siayeey. —The Bishop of Orleans has "written a letter to M. Cohin, acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the speech delivered by President Lincoln at his second installation, on the 4th of March. The bishop says: -—“I have read this document with the most religious emotion, with the most sympathetic admiratoin. Whatever may be the vicissitudes and the political complications of this great American question, I, as a Catholic bishop, ought to desire, and do desire, with all my heart, the end of a lamentable civil w ar, and a peace accepted to all j for this war has caused much desolation and mourning. Nevertheless it has also its bright side, and whatever may be the definitive result, it will at least have demonstrated the astonishing energy of a great people ; it will have been a death-blow to the odious institution of slavery. . . . Mr Lincoln expresses with a solemn and touching gravity the sentiments which I am sure occupy all superior minds, both North and South.” The Debate, in reproducing this letter, says that, so far as it knows, the Bishop of Orleans is the only French prelate who constantly and energetically protests against the crime of slavery.—Eastern Weekly News.