VOLUME 2. Failure of immediate Reconstruction We have all along been opposed to immediate Reconstruction, considering that the Southern .States needed a longer probation and were not ready for re ad mission to the Unions the old, rebel i>u. ieeliDg being as predominant as ever— The Union State Convention, which nominated Hartranft and Campbell, took precisely the same view, ttnd upon t issue the canvass was carried to a success ful conclusion. There were many, however, who desirous of giving the rebel States a full chance"to show a returning sense of loy alty, before consenting to shut them out; and these have waited, and waited anx iously, for the evidence of that repent ance and renewed security which was ex pected from those to whom the Govern * ment had been so generous. This waiting and watching they have kept up until now; but gradually, one by one, thev give it up, and admit that the confidence re posed in these unrepentant rebels has been sadly displaced. The course of Gov Perry, of South Carolina, in denouncing the Concession :tl Test Oath and demanding a lllark Code for his State; tbc election of Wade Hampton, a conquered but unsubdued rebel, to succeed him ; the election of Humphreys and Alcorn in Mississippi; the choice of such men as 11, H. 11. Stu art io Congress in Virginia; the hesitation about repudiating the rebel debt all these have contributed to biing about this feeling. The people of large faitli begin to see that it is idle to expect grapes from thorns, or to look for figs from thistles. A bail tree, it is now plain, cannot bring forth good fruit. "Last June " says llogcr A. Pryor, '•the South was willing to concede every— tiling—abolition, taxation, universal suff rage, and whatever else the Government chose to demand; but vote we feel as if we stood on different ground." \\ by ? Simply because the confidence in them to believe that they need not concede anything and could get back into the Union upon the old basis. Hence, the politicians of the South, from being hum ble supplicants, have become insolent in their threats and dictate the terms of (heir return instead of accepting them. It is time, therefore, to wake up to the fact that there is-no real loyalty in the South, and that, iustead of admitting the rebel States back into the Union they must be remitted to a territorial condi tion, until their people can be .educated into a proper conception of their condi tion and duties. AB an evidence of the changed feel ing among these who were so hopeful for the' better, we cite the following from the Albany Ercning »Tounifif. Kcrferrin'j; to Gov. Perry's denunciation of the test oath it says : '•The test, oath was enacted.by Cong ress as a safeguard, and is designed to be held as a rod over the South, to compel it to confirm its policy to that of the Fed oral Government. During its discussion, it was contended that, without some such proocss, the Rebels when beaten might merely lay down their arms, and without changing the spirit of Southern laws, come back into the Union, and control the policy of the Governineut. Precise ly the condition of affairs apprehended, has arisen South Carolina, North Car olina and Alabama, have all taken meas ures iu their so-called work of orgauiza ti m, which arc opposefl to Federal policy. Until these are abrogated, their recon struction cannot be considered complete, and their members will not be recognized upon tht floor of Congress. " General Howard warned the Charles toniaus of this in an address delivered before thorn the other day, when he told them that while the President is extremely anxious for the restoration of civil law in 80 itli (Carolina, he cannot consent to abandou the martial control of the State, until substantial guarantees have beeij giv en that the freedmen will be secured in all the rights to which he is entitled un dor his changed condition. Gov. Perry and the other statesmen of the late insur gent Commonwealths, are very much mis taken if they suppose the test oath will be rescinded, until the South has given security for future good behavior. We feel entirely Bafe in predicting that not a member Irom South Ourolina will secure admission upou the floor of Congress, so long as the laws now in existence remain upon her statute books." Referring to the elcctiou of Wade Hampton, it further says; •' His clcetion is disagreeably signifi cant, as sli jwing that the rebel spirit Btill dominates in South Carolina Hampton having been chosen Governor, aud Perrv prononcing against teat oaths and in fa~ vor of a black code, we probably mutt cease to hope for the choice of men like AMERICAN CITIZEN. Governor Aiken and Mr. Boyce to the U. S. Senate, until the Palmetto Com monwealth has been considerably more " reconstructed." The Philadelphia Prest. alluding to the insolent denunciations of the test oath by Governor Perry and A, 11. 11. Stuart, says: '• It is a different thing to ask for the repeal or modification of the law enforc ing this conditional covenant; bnt, when they come with words of insult upon their lips, charging upon the authors of this legislation anything but a sincere de votion to patriotic duty, they only .prove that their professions of loyalty are false hoods, and that they are unworthy of the confidence of the Government." " Occasional" is more emphatic. In discussing the course of the Northern Copperhead leaders, he s ys : " They se«%the shameful and open prof ligacy of a number of the pardoned lead ers of the rebellion, ij regard to the rebel war debt and the congiessional oath.— They admit in private conversation that this profligacy should keep all men guil ty of it out of Congress. And yet the Democratic politicians hnr< not hail the courage or plain good tense to say as much in public, and to declare that these un grateful men hare shown themselves un worthy of the magnanimous treatment (hey have received at the hands of Presi dent Johnson. iLtellegent men will re fuse to act with party chiefs who have •i d farewell to everything like discretion and statesmanship. What interest has any American citizen in voting with p. li ticians who are silent before the receut seandajpus and treacherous conduct of some of the rebel leaders, notwithstand ing they have received the forgiveness they begged for at the hands ti the I - x ecutive ?" — Pitts. Gazette. The Doom of the Demo; ratio Party. The Democratic party is doomed. The Federal party fifty years ago opposed a popular war and disappeared. The Dem ocratic party opposed a vital and inevita ble and glorious war, and'it is perishing before our eyes. In the State of Xew York it professes to hope for a little lon ger life. Hut it is' the profession of dim pair. No well-informed man believes for an instant iu the recovery of so exhaust ed and worthless a frame ; and its own hope is based upon the fact that it has formally recanted, eaten its own words, and confessed its own disgrace and defeat. It is only right that, the rebellion hav ing been defeated, its great ally should be annihilated; and tjie character of the American people is shown as proudl iu their steady union for the overthrow of a false party as it was in the destruction oi a foul conspiracy. M:iine, Vermont, California, Pennsyl vania, Ohio, lowa and Indiana arc the States that have thus far voted, and,l kc patriot soldiers when the roll is called they answer one after anojhej- to the Un ion call, and even louder than last year, '■Here! here!" Kven New Jersey, hith erto the perfect type of modern "Demo cratic" State, begins to blush that she his so long falteied in the good race; and in the total rout of the Chicago plat form party at Newark give" hope that she will uot much longer be chained to the eorpse'of slavery or modern Democracy. The Democratic leaders arc receiving the severest lesson of their lives. They thought thoy could trifle with the nation al safety, and the people do tiot forget it. They thought they could oppose and thwart a war for national life, and when the indomitable patience and power of the people conquered, could turn round, throw up their hats, shout victory ( de clare that they had be»n heart tnd hand in the war, and so bamboozle the people they had done their best to ruin. Do they suppose the people haver** turned from whipping rebels in the field to bo fooled by Copperheads on a plat form ? Do they imagine they can de ceive the popular intelligence by hiding a General. Hut whether the platform were too large or the General too small the cheat was plain enough, and was heartily and contemptuously rejected. The Democratic party was opposed to the war. Individual Democrats, indeed, boldly broke with their party togo with their country; but the party was ruled by Horatio Seymour, Vallaodigham, the Woods, and men in sympathy with them. Its votes in Congress, its national conven tion pronouueed agaiust the war. It was not only destroyed at the election, it was despised, and uow the same old leaders ask confidence of the people. This year it makes a feeble show of supporting the I'resident. We say fee ble, because although in the State of New York it declares for hini unreservedly, and like a desperate gamester John Van Bureu calls him his candidate for the succession, yet in the other States the "Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end, dare to do our «jty as we understand it"—*- Lincoln • BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 ISIIS. support was conditional, and in New York it is offered by Seymour, Green, and his most malignant tradueers of last year.— It is hero only a transparent trick to come into p6wer. But the times are too serious for tricks. Every voter asks himself what will these men do if they come into power. He finds the answer ; n John Van Buren's speech. That gentleman throws the blame of the war upon the.Jforth, upon the loyal States. He shows the same old truckling servility to the late rebel chiefs that originally brought us into trouble. — But Mr. Van Bureu and all his associ ates upon the Chicago platform will learn that the plantation whip has lost its ter rors. If the fate of the party which op posed the war of 1812 has not instructed them, the elections of this autumn will teach them that the peole of this coun try will not trust a party which played into the hands of the national enemy, until it has changed cot merely its pro fessions but the leaders who have in spired universal contempt and distrust. —Harper's Weekly. & Soa»ra Story. The following rich story is related by a Sonora 112 aper. at the expense of a queer genius who vibrates between that town and Oregon as "advance" agent of a con cert troup, and who, though pretty clever in "selling" the curiously docs not always come off' first best: Frank Ball traveling iu a vehicle bear ing a strong resemblance to a cart. Old lady rushes i. ut from a house by the roadside. The following collo quy ensues: Old Lady.—Say, what have you got to sell ? Hall.—l am traveling agent, madam, for the greatest menagerie of ancient or modem times, which is shortly to be ex hibited in this section affording to the inhabitants thereof an opportunity of viewing the most stupendous collection of animals ever before exhibited. Old Lady.—You don't say ! Have you an elephant ? Ball.—We have, madam, six elephants, but these constitute a comparatively un important part of the show. We have living specimens of bipeds and quadru peds, who roamed over the earth not only in the antediluvian, bul also in the plio cene and postmiocene period, embracing the magatherium with six legs and.two tails ; the ieliyyosarus with four eyes aud three tails ; the eyasticutis with no eyes, two noses and for tails; the phesios arus, resembling Satan in shape, which spits fireand breaths sulphur, and many other species, too numerous for enumera tion. We also have a pions lawyer. (.Mil Lady.—Well, I declare. Ball. But, madam, the greatest cif riosity by far of our exhibition is a learn ed and classical monkey, who was brought up by a Mohammedan priest in the mys terious regions of the dreat Bescrt of Sahara. This monkey speaks with flu ency all the modern languages, besides Latin, Greek and Hebrew, lie can re peat the Ten Commandments, the Eman cipation Proclamation, President Lincoln's last message, and performs the most intri cate examples in mathematics with rapi dity, ease, and accuracy. While being exhibited iu Washington, he actually repeated along speech of the President. This monkey corresponds— Beautiful young lady suddenly sticks her head from the window aud calls out: "Mother ' Mother! ask him via/ they they let the monkey travel *o far ahead of the other critters ! —Some few years ago" there was a no tary public in Washington, an old and highly respectable gentleman, who had held his office through ail the political twisting* and turniugs of our capita! for nearly twenty years. A young friend was in his office one day, and while sitting by the table picked up a small old leather covered book, which upon beiug opened proved to be "Thadeus of Warsaw."— He cautiously remarked to Mr.'Smitb, the notary: "I see you have a copy of "Thaddeus of Warsaw," here." "Thaddeus of Warsaw !" was the re ply. "What do you mean ?" "Why, this is a copy of it." "Thaddeus of Warsaw!" exclaimed the old gentleman. He snatched the book gave one glance, at it, and cried out, "For twenty year* I have been sweajing peo ple on that book, thinking it was the Bi ble ! All these oaths ain't worth the pa per they are written on !" —A Son of Ex-Gov. Pollock died in Philadelphia Thursday. He lknd been Chief Clerk of the Mint, up to the time of his death, and was uni versally beloved for bis virtues. THE NATION'S DEAD. Four hundred thousand men. The brave, the good, the true. In tangled wood, in mountain glen. On battle plain, in prison pen. Lie dead for me and you ! Four hundred thousand of the bravo Have made our ransomed soil their grave, For me and you ! (Tood friend.*, for me and you! In many a fevered swamp, In many a blak bayou. In many a cold and froaien camp, The weary sentinel ceased his tramp, And tiled for me and you I From western plain t«< <>ceaa tide Are stretched the graves of those who died For mo and you ! Quod friends, for mo and you! On many a Moody pl.iln Their leady swords they drew. And poured their life-blood, like the rain, A home, a heritage to gnln, To gain for me nad > <u ! i Mir brothers musteied by our side. They marched, and flight, and bravol / died, For me and you! Good friends, for me and yon! Up many a fortress wall They charged—those boy* In bluo ; 'Mid smoke and volley'd ball The bravest weie the first to fall! To fall for me and you ! These noble men—the nation's pride— Foui hundred thousand men have died For me and you! Good friends for mo and you! In treason's prlson-nold Their martyr spirit grew To stature like the saints of old, While amid agonies untold, They starved for me and you ! The good, the patient, and the tried. Four hundred thousand men have died, For me and you ! Good friends, for me and you! A debt we ne'er can pay To them is Justly due. ♦ And to the nation's latent day Our children's children still shall ■ »y, " They died for me and you!" Four hundred thousand of the bravo Made this, our ransoiaed soil, their grave, For me and you ! Good friends foj me, and yon ! —(Tho Round Table. President and the Colored Troops. It should be the merest matter of course that the President of tho United States, speaking to any body of citizens, and es pecially to those who had risked theii lives in the common defense, should ex press his faith in equal'lights. But so long has the Government been under the control of the party which denies and insults the American principle that its plain affirmation by the President is a striking and significant fact, showing that the country is rapidly returning to the simple faith of the fathers, who held that every man has natural rights which eve ry other man is sacredly bound to respect. Such a speech is still more impressive when uiade by a President who has learn el by the most bitter personal experience that the denial of that principle leads logically and inevitably to the unimagin able horrors of civil war; and who, dur ing that war, acting as military Govei nor of hir. own State, and holding her bai k from complicity in the effort to destroy the National Government, proclaimed universal freedom, and declared that lie would be the Moses of the enslaved raci to lead them out of bondage into liberty. And such a speech is stifl more strik ing when uttered by a President i/ho, it was hoped by the party hostilo to equal rights, would forget his own life, his own acts, his own solemn pledges, and join in the futile attempt lo annihilate the rights which the people had guaranteed. It is for such reasons that the/emarks of the President to the returning col red veterans of the D : strict of Columbia have produced so profound an impression, so cheering to every man who believes that the peace of the country can be perma nently established only upon universal justice, so confounding to the political hucksters and wreckers who hope by pan dering to the hatreds of baffled rebels to obtain a temporary party ascendcnoy. Tho colored tnen who stood before the President on their way from the battle fields in which they had sustained the Government, were tho rep*escntatiVeß of the race who in all the rebel States were steadily faithful during the war; of those whose color was a sure sign of loyalty, and to whom every Union soldier esca. ping from the cruelties of Andersonville. of Uelle Isle,' of Salisbury, turned in perfest confide nee which was never betray ed; of those whom the Democratic party would now thrust helplessly back into the power of the jailers of Andcrsonville and the Llbby to troat as they choose. ['resident, to the dire contusion of that party, called them "my friends." He said to th-»m, "This is your country as well as any body else's country." lie declared "This country is founded upon the prin ciples of equality." He said : "lie that is most meritorious and virtuous and in tellectual and well-informed must stand highest without regard to color." He announced that "Liberty means freedom to work and enjoy tho products of your own labor." lie called them "my coun trymen," and thanked them for the com pliment they had conferred upon him bv their call. Those who have counted upon the I'res idcnt's treachery to the principles upoD which he was elected have reckoned with out thair host. Those who hoped to gee in his acts and hear in his words an illut tration of what they foolishly call the "instinctive antipathy" and "unconquer able loathing" to my honest uien whatev er their ooior or condition have l>een fa tally mistaken. President Johnson who. in bis letter to the uucuqditiunal I'uiou men of Illinois, anticipating the glad day of victory in whose pray dawn he *as translated, said with prophetic truth: \ "And there will be s me Mack men who can'remember that wish silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, an 1 well-poised bayonet, they have, helped mankiud onto this great consummation ; j while I fear that there w'll be some white men unable to that wth malignant heart an !' ileee'tf'ul bjeecl. they hare stiireti t'. hinde it." last hoped • 1;-• t thr sm'crsMir of Lincoln, who has faitbl'-illy continued bit; policy wonld fall helples-lv into 1 1 i• .r 1 clutches. Bur turning i«:ii from!!.•■ uialignaut heart uuu deceitful eeeli I the meu of the steady eye itud w«!l pois ed bayonet, he says 'My frieuds and countrymen, this is your c "tTitry as much as any body's."— flarper'n M h'y Grant and Sherman. Opinions of the Military Vhiejtaim of Eurh Other. The following letters have just been made public: OENFR.U. GRANT TO OKNLRAI SIIERMA.N. l)e»r S! ermati : The Mil revivng <b« ttrade of lienMmrt •j?m*ral ; t> the rtiij ll «U. r ll>i H 'lif 'in ti ill < ' W«' ' Milt to the Semite ( . flu- p'ace 1 li « receive orders to report in \\ ifthinut.m immediately iu person. who hind cate.- :i confirmation or a 1 k>-I l>• io! ol' etnli: t:ia tion I start in tNp loom _ [o <■ no ]y villi the order. Whilst 1 liavebeen rm iomh iu l • - ful in this war—in at least gaining the confidence of the public—no one feols more than I how much of this success is due to the energy, skill, and the harnlon inns putting forth »112 that enemy and sk'll, of those whom it has been my good for tunc to have occupying subordinate posi tions under me. There are many officers to whom these remarks are applicable to a greater or lew degice proportionn l * to their nhil'ty as soldiers; but what I want is to c'ipri-s my thank* to you an ! .Mel'l >n. a- the men to wb -in, abov" a) otb. ' ■ I I - • I illt ed fur whatever Ib :i ■hi II w fur yi-iii ' o.l'c have been if help ! \ • v "' kit w ilow far your <•••:•« itl .• ■»» of wh.itevet lias been given v u to do entitles \on to the reward I am receiving, v u einnot know as well as I. I feel all ihe _nti!u V this letter would express, giving ti die tno-t ff.tieiiug eon structiou. The word "you" I use in the plu I. iutending it for Mcl'herson also 1 should write to him, and will sonic day but starting in the morning, 1 do not kti'W that ! «id tiio t'lne jiut li w. Yin ■lieu :. I'. <iHANT >d..jor fiener >1 gi.ni:;',!. .-ti I.it ma no Shetui..u leeeiveo ilm tancr ueur >leu» - phis on the loh ol March, and imujeoi ately replied : Jjcar General: 1 have your in re 1 1.mi kind and charactt',is,ic I uti ol tt.t >. iust I will send a copy to Lionelal Alt I'hersou at oucc. You do yiurgfU itiju.-tict an i us ton much h >uui in uasi«niug to us too I irge a share ot the merits which have led lo your high advancement. 1 know you ap prove the friendship I have ever profess ed to you, and, will permit me to continue as heretofore, t • manliest n mi ail | rope • oceasio g- You are now W ash itigtnu* legitiui.no fuccetsor, and ocoujy it pomirjii of aitui'i: Jatigerou* elevn'l: n: *>tit vTI R u CMJ tinue. a• hereto! > e V l '' •'it. -rnit-I<* honest, and uupreteii'. II..: y i wi!i i -j •> throngh life the respect alui lovo >1 I'liends and the hmnigc < i >ln in Mi.nn- ..j' human beings that will ,IW.H i y <ti a I :fge SWJIRE in securing (o tlici . n i iheir descendants a govenini 'tit of i..w an l -..'ability. I repeat, you do (iuneral Mcl'herson and myself too much honor. At Belmonl you manifested your traits, neither of us being near At Douvlson, also, you illus trated your wh le character, 1 was not n ar, and General Mcl'lierson in sub ordinate a capacity t > ii fluente you. Uutil you had w >u Uooelsou t conl'es- I was almost cowed by the terrible array of anarcbioal elements that presented themselves ut every :• .in:, but that ad mitted a riy of ' i ' I h foil iwcd hi nee. 1 Lflievo you ;ire a.- 1..•, pnii-idc, aQilju.it i- lie > " i Wanh ingtou; a* un*elfi<h, tin: h&u'ieit. nmJ IU.QM' ai. ui in «Y)->uH to 15ut the chief i-tle i* » « *i|Ujle f'iith iu IUOCUM) yu v<ialways nun Hwtud.whie'i 1 elk ll ~k f 1 1 n> li'ii- ihmi the ftitl: r. ( hru-liiiii li. *TI tin* Saviour. 'J Inn t iiili vtv yu vij-tory at Shiloh anl V'rek \ U when v u nivu yout >uu go into buttle without hesitation, as at Chatta nooga —no doubts, no reserves; aud I tell you it was this that made us act with confidence. I knew, wherever I was, that v 11 thought of me, and if I got into a tight place you would help me- out, if ;t' ve j My only point of doubt was in your knowledge of grand strategy aud of books of 'nice and history; but I coufess your c oiiio 'ti sense seems to have supplied ad t!l*V!. N '\v as to the future. Don't stay in U t-h'ng'on. Dome West; take to your '• the whole Mississippi valley. Let 1 - make it dead sure, and I tell you the A' ot ■ slopes aud the Pacific-shores will j ■ l-.liow its destiny, assure as the limbs of ! a tr»e live or die with the main trunk.— j We have do te much, but st l inuah re mains. Time and time's influences are with u« We could almost afford to sit I still and let these influences work. I llete lies the seat of the coming em pire; aud froui the West, wheu our task is done, we will make short work of Chorleston aud Richmond and the impov erished coast of the Atlantic. Your sin cere tfieud, W. T. SHERMAN. A Mistaken Idea. One of our coteinporaries most truth fully remarks that a popular idea among nil- people is that all of their sons should adopt clerkships, aud the adoption of ob taining their livelihood, and every 1 flort j is made to give them an education of | their children in the scieuce of kcepiug properyieeouuts is concerned, tho idea is a good one, as every young uian should have a sufficient knowledge to properly manage his own books, should he ever embark in business, but to make book keepers and clerks ol all our boys s a great ui i tike. Utter place tiieui in aw r» shop, mill or foundry, where they can learn independent trades, which at all times will secure for them employment, and the pecuniary compensation for which will be at least as much, if not more,than the busiuess of accounts. We %lirnestly advise all parents to teach their sous trades, no m;ttter what, so that it is au industrious pursuit, aud let us in the future be spared the pain ol seeing so many stout able bodied youug men out of employment, and seeking situations where 1110 pen can only be used. There is dig uity in labor, and an honest trade is tho be t legacy a parent cau bestow upon his child, for it will secure his bread where all else nmy fail. We base our remarks upon tho act that'iicaily one hundred ap plications from young men wero received by a firm in our city, who recently adver tised in our colunms but twice for tin as sistant book keeper. This fact alone ta ken in connection with the well knowu scarcity of labor in the mechauical bran ches ot industry, speaks volumes iu con demnation of the popular error of making book keepers out of all our boys.— Ex. Little Children. We th'nk them the poetry of the w ,rld—the fresh flowers of our hearths and homes —little conjurors, with their natural magic, envoking by their spells what delights and eur'chet all ranks, nd equalizes the different classes of so ciety Often as they bring with thttin anxieties and can s, and live to occasion sorrow and grief, wc should get on very badly without them. Only think—if there was never anything anywhere to be seen but full-grown men and wouien, how we should long for the sight of a little •diild! Every infant comes into the world like a delegated prophet, the har- Vnger and herald of good tidings, whose lliee it is to turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and to draw the disobe dient to the wisdom of the just. A V child softens and purifies the heart, warming nnd melting it by its gentle presence; it enriches the soul by new leelings, and awakens within it what is favorable to virtue; it is a beam of light a fountain of love and a teacher whose lessons few can resist. Children recall us from much that engenders and encour ages selfishness, that freezes and affect ions, roughens the manners .and indurate* the heart; they brighten the hnrmv'ceps:) love, invigorate exertion, infuse oourgge and sustain the charities of life. LANDLADY (deferentially)—'• Mr. •Smith, do you not suppose ihat the first steamboat created much surprise among the fish when it was launched ?" Smith, (curtly)—" I can't say madam we her it did or not." Landlady—r" Oh! I thought fiom tho way you eyed that fish before you, that you might acquire somo information on t ..it point." Smith (the malicious villian) —" very likely, marui, very likely; but it's my opinion, maim, that this fish left its na tive clement before steamboats were ijj veuted." NUMBER 47 Death of Lor 1 Palmerston. "rtie steamship City of BISU4I, \iL'eli arrived this morning, from Liverpool, barings the intelligence of the tica!h oi Lord Palmers ton, the Premier, which occurred on the 18th instant, after a brief iliuess. Lord Paluitrstoti au able statesman, and exercised a controll ing power in thi management of the af fairs of the hnglish Oovernmebt flir a long term of years. He was born at Broadlands, near ItomKer, Hampshire, October 20, 1784, aud wo«ld havb becu' eighty-one yeare of age ou the 20th of the present month. He commenced his eduction at Harrow, went-thence to the University of lidinburir, and fin illy L MD 1 uated at St. Johu's College, at Cauibridj.e in 18U0, and succeeded to his title i th age of eighteen. In the year IS.G he contested the repro«tnfatiou ofCaia r'.d r e University with LoH flenry ]', tty, and although unsuccowful was returned for the proprietary of Uletohiugly, and in 1807 was made junior Lord of admiralty in the tory cabiuet of the Duke of Port land, lletween 1807 and 1811 hesatfor borough of Newport, Isle of Wight and in the latter year he succeeded fti sccur iu 1 'he representation of Cambridge uni versity, which had been the object of his ambition from the outset, ami which he retained for the next twenty years, lu I 'BO9 he succeeded Lord Castleragh as Secretary of War in the Perceval Cabi ►net, and held the office uninterruptedly during five administrations—,l j eiad 61' Hjnetecn years In 1830 he alvoa'.J Lord John Russell's Reform Bill, ~ which he lost his seat at Cambridge I n varsity; but in 1831 lie was relume 1 lor IJlcehtingley, From 1832 to 1834 he represented South Hants, aud fiom 1835 he was regularly returned »o I'mliament by the electors oi Tiverton. In having in the meantime held responoibW positions under various uduiiui-trutious, be was oalled upon to for*u a ministry. by which the Russi.in war was brought to ft close. In February, 1808, h 'W. Ttr. his government wa< overthrown. in 0,, i; (juence of the introduction of the "con spiracy to murder bill," shortly after tliu attempt of Oraini toass i siaatcthe French j Kmperor. In June ol tin succeeding I year, he again formed a ' J ;i.i.y. which I remained in power up to the time of his death. Jjor.J Pal merlon WAX the ol FIL.e British statesmen an>J I. s pui i; c lie . * tended through it period of » xt\ \eai>. during fifty of which he has held ..fli His appearance, notwithstanding his , t 1 vanced yours, was comparatively jouth u' and his pergonal habits those of physical activity and much out door exerciso. Uis great success was duo not less to his in dustry and talent than to his shrewdness and skill as a parliamentary leader, to his appreciation of th« Eiiglish character, and to his abilities «g a public speaker.— These qualities Wer» retained«p to tlio time of hig death, and while his cotempo raries gave evidence of decay his activity energy and akrewdness were unimpuirel. Lord Palmwston wxs married Lecem! ci ■ 15th, 1838, to the Ifowagor (VunV' Cowper, daughter of the first. We. u. t Melbourne, but the w'th u; issue, his title expire with him. Lord John Russell, who has been Secretary u ' Foreign Affairs under I'almerston, is aj , pointed his successor. LF.BRNI.NO A'I'LTADE. Ft was a wise law of the ancient Jews, that the sons of even their wealthiest men should be liged to serve an apprenticeship to gome useful occupation : go that, in ease of re verse of fortune, they might hare some-, thing to "fall back upon." The satno still exists in Turkey, where crery man, rich or poor, even the Sultan hiingelf, must learn a trade. How fortunate would it be now, had it been»a law r;i this coun try I "Would to God I had a trade !'' is tho cry of thousands of returned sol di em, North and South, who find tlurn selves ruiued in pocket, with no imme diate prospect of gaining a livellhoo It ghould tench parent* that whatever else they may give their gons, tbeysb ul<| uive them a jrnod tr.de. —A Chrigt.au ig a man that ig living to perfect in himself a 112 etter luauhmxi. He is living, not to waste his understand ing either by dissipation or by a selfish and perverse use of it, but to enable him to use it for the worthiest [ urj«"'»j. He is living to carry higher and higher in himself the moral sentiments—conscience bcnevelence, faith, hope aud love. IJe is living so as to Le belter. There are a great miny persons wh ; ara living sun ply for wealth, or for honor, or for pow er; but these are not tho things that he is living lor. He is to 1- one better in every pait of bit .Uiu. The coo»e --queaoe .a that the highe•: rule— tLaij is (Jod'alaw— to Lieasure big eouii' ct a.vi di=poemon by hit th« vuuu b -.a oi i»:e,
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