1 - v . . . .. -
fci'lllH ol"
1MB ATNE-Rl'IU) RMMDnLICAK, Office. In
layers' bulldlBK, east of the Court House, li pub
lished evry Wednesday morning, it 83 pnr
annum, is advahce, or t SO if not paid with
in thtyitar. Alleahwrtptlon aennt jtost
ar-itied annually. Kq reper will be unt
. out or the Ktato unless paid fur advamck, and
an such subscription will Invariably bu dlscon
unuou u mo expiration of tfcs time tor which
thoy are paid.
.' Oimmunltatlmuon mihjectafrf local or i-nral
inturnt arn rusiwwtfully solicited. To ensure
nttHiitlon favors of thin kind mut invariably be
aoi;onipiuilid by the name of theailthflr, not ret
v . V. """ D1" as aiiaraniy asumxrimr-Qaltli
mi in pnruunniK 10 uumnennf tii
nf (lie clllcc
un oe aauroericti to mo ranter
rOMfIa WITH A UlaL.
'Of all Ilia lore vouchsafed to man
In Ufa's tempestuous whirl,
'There' naught approaches Heaven to near
As romping with a girl i
A frank, good-natured, bonetl girl i
A feeling, flirting. Bashing, doting,
Smiling, smacking, Jolly, Joking,
Jaunty, Jovial, po scr-poking,
Dear littlu darling with a red hat and snow
wlilla feather, who snuggle right up
ajjiilnst your waUteoat, and Ms you as
Ut In holding her muff,
Who laugh at you a mouth of power
A dear little duck of a girl,
1'ileup your wealth as n ninuntuln high,
You aaoering, rcofilug churl,
I'll laugh as I go dashing ly
With my huxom bouncing girl i
,Tho brightest, dearest, sweetest ulrl
The trlnicst, gayest, Dealest girl ,
.The funniest, flusliest, frnnkest.fairtat,
Hounikst, ripest, rogulsliest, rarest,
Bpunklest,. spiciest, Niulrmli-st, spuaiest,
Host of girls with drooping lushes,
Half concealed amorous flushes ;
Just the giil for a chap like ma
'To Court, an I love, anil marry, you se
With rosy cheeks and clustering curls,
The sweetest and the heat of iftrls.
(Original.
for the HarcDi itAX.
aomifs to the tkaciirrci' ixrti.
TITE.OF I'lllCRl.tMU TOWNHHIP,
URKKNECO., PA.
Teachers, Ladies and tJentlcmcn :
In tliu presentation of some thoughts
for your consideration, allow nie to
say, that others than Teachers of com
mon schools may readily ho included
within the pale of our remarks, and
yet it will not bo proper to enter the
multifarious avenues of thought, in
cluded in the ecclesiastic realms of
sacred truth.
But assuming without argument,
that the more thorough the education,
moral and scientific, in early life, the
more likely arc its aims to be'uure.
noble and elevated, and its chances of
success vastly moit! enhanced. As
faithful teachers, you, perluipsreqiiirc
no promptings from outsiders to pro
perly discharge your duties, for hav
ing mentally prepared yourselves for
this important sphere in life, you enter
the list of literary savants with a
degree of hopefulness, and yet you
may at times feel grateful for encour
agement in carrying out your well !
formed plans of youthful cultivation.
The importance of your vocation,
nil admit, it is evidenced by those:
institutions that dot our land in al
most every hamlet, Institutions reared
for the purpose, of giniiuatiiiii soicu-
ti.'io tltouglit. the scliool-li
ouse, like
a well kept lighthouse, points to the
channel of knowledge in the sea of
'human thought, they are visible
from every hill-top, standing as finger
posts, or mile stones, telling the route
along the dusty highway of science,
While Colleges and higher institu
tions of learning open the gateway to
the oriental fields of scientific light.
We arc fast becoming a literary
people. The late war gave an impe
tus to newspaper literature, which is
now being rapidly fixed and improv
ed upon. Very many persons who
never looked upon a map of the
country previously, wore induced to
studv its contour and become fami
liar with its Geography, and thus re
ceived new and definite ideas of its
magnitude, while a more comprehen
sive gtasp w.is given to the public
mind. And it now becomes the Tcache s
province, to improve on the enlarged
views of mankind, to carry ont in
detail those practical ideas evolved by
the intense thought of the last eight
years. Yours, however, is a higher and
nobler sphere than the marshalling of
hosts on the battle-field for scientific
slaughter. Your mission takes hold of
the latent powers of a nation's life
while slumberiug in unconscious
strength. Grasping the tree when but
a twig, it trims to a model of beauty,
making it useiuj as well as ornamen
tal.
Mind, in its infancy, has been com
pared to a sheet ef blank white paper,
ready to receive impressions. But
suppose we change the figure slightly,
auu say mat in is as a snect oi photo
graphic paper, albtimenized, ready to
receive images ot oeauty. i he nega
tive is arranged so as to allow the
light, (nature's great photographer) to
pass freely through it. So sensitive is
the albumen thus chemically prepared,
to the faintest ray of light lmpingm?
its surface, that the minutest lines of
:6FTeauty are traced in all their deli
cacy by the pencil etchings of rosy
fingered light, and images of lieauty
are retained in minature to cheer the
sight. Now applying tho figure to
mental science we find. the mind of
youth so sensitive as to be Susccn
tiblc of the faintest impressions. Our
text-books -are the negatives, upon
which are traced images of condensed
thought, and through which the lieht
of science is made to pass. Now the
teacher, acting ts the center of that
solar system, is supposed to eliminate
those lines nf thought by the efful
gence of mind, so thoroughly that
images of beauty, of power of endur
ance, bo traced indelibly upon the
mind of youth. . -i '-
- But, to my mind, no figure esnvevi
a stronger impression than that of the
' potter's or modeller's clay. ' After
Swing through the proper maninu
tions it comes to the artist's band in
Terr plastic state, pliable mass of
onwroosrht material, to which the true
genits of the modeller at v once be-
OVA VtrVt4. "V -. . Term or.AdTertlUJr
J AS. R SA VEILS,
VOL. XI.
gins to give a life-like animation out
lines the form of beauty, until at
length it stands forth, the personifica
tion of life itself. Perhaps in the
form of Minerva, of Venus, of Terpsi
chore, or some ideal representation of
unman greatness; or the embodiment
of some living truth whose latent
powers find not otherwise, a more
faithful exponent. Then, with what
care should the Teacher guard the
portals ef science, of impressions in
culcated, of principles definitely fixed.
of ideas started that are as lasting as
the mind. Perhaps a germ is plant
ed whose principles unseen, reaching
"far as man is lound," will yet come
forth to bless or curse mankind. Some
intellect, may bo under your tuition
whose future life by false instruction,
may becomo a deserfj a dash mid
dreary waste, of disappointed hopes,
of foiled ambitions, whose cynic nature,
after sweeping the earth, may retire
within its sell : pointing, us did Byron
to past instruction a3 the instrument
which clubbed its mind, or made a
hunch-back of its intellect for life.
Charles Wesley compares our life to
a dream ami our time to a stream,
gliding swiftly away. In the analysis
of human life we find many dreamy
existences, many to whom a life of
activity n myth, which they elude
entirely. And many on awakening to
its realities would fondly wish it were
a dream. But no, it is not a spectre
to down' at their bidding. There it
stands, the giant reality that it is, and
they must meet it or quail before its
I rewning glance. Ana how many eo
down before the hand of fate, let
blighted holies, withered lives, mid
wasted fortunes answer.
Asa stream, our lives glide swiftly
away, some leaping lrom the moun
tain s side, in wild nvijcstic grandeur,
rush along sparkling and dancing in
their rocky beds, retain their individu
ality," ii nd clearness of perception lone
atter mingling with the common stream
of humanity. Others again drag their
length in sluggish silence 'O er slimy
boils, their turbid minds never reveal
ing tho pearly treasures hid beneath
a murky surface. Some lives pass
unmolested the whole length of their
terrestial conrse, others have here and
there a pebble, large or small, thrown
in their channel changing its course
tor all time to come, sometimes a
vicious hand will plant thorns in pref
erence to savory shrubs. How often
you, as 1 eacliers, realize this last re
sult ? Even narent(d authority 1ms
been known to intervene, to check a
proper course, but human governm
nicnt, especially 8:hool government,
is too much of a monarchy to admit ofl
foreign intervention, unless in ease of
absolute iiussguided tyranny. Hap
pily, however, public opinion often
comes to the Teachers' relief, in trying
circumstances when unwise parental
aHcetion would conic between justice
and the object ol its correction. II
the power of instructing the mind of
youth, of expanding the intellect, of
training morals, of cultivating manners
and often of developing its muscle, is
delegated to tho 'XV'Kd'eTj then why
interdict thr.t wholesome restraint
which cmbs the outcropping of the
wayward spiritof children, Sometimes
seen even in prown up children,)
and making it subservient to reason
until at such time as it may reason for
itself. If the Teacher is competent
to instruct, the right to govern .should
not be challenged. I f we delegate the
power of instruction wo must delegate
that of government, else the Teacher
is as a King without a kingdom, a
Governor without a people to govern.
They nro at the caprice of every -childish
whim.-- Anarchy as a consequence
must n igh, and our Coiftmon School
System become an cflctc organism,
powerless fir good. But as human
nature is the same as when mother
Eve partook of the fatal apple, and
will continue, you may not hope to
escape thopc eccentricities of life even
when in contact with the refinements
of the literary world, yet rising with
dignity in the sc.tlc of human intellect,
you may use those uoa-givcn powers
of mind to mitigate some of tke evils
to which human nature ia its frailty is
heir.
How many of us,, in passing along
tne snores ot time s great bnundarv,
gather naught but shells ? No pearls,
no gems, appear in all our vast collec
tion. "We gather shells from youth
to age and then we leave them like a
child. As a class, where is there
another who can so stamp their charac
ter or mould indelibly their impress
upon the coming generation ? Who
so control the world of letters as the
Teacher? Who so readily start the
npung stream oi patient inv.e igatiori
thatmay comprehend with giant mind
a universe of thought, and with the
scalpel of untiring energy, shall lay
bare the deep foundations of nature's
hidden mysteries ?
Tls yours totrt tho txnlns of thought,
Which groppU with all hfcMmi truth
And thus reveal those gtra waboaght,
A legacy to future youths. - .1.
Yon may not see the work that's dona,
Nor get the meaded prairie,
, Yet yours the crown the victor won,
- ' - And yours the welcome lays. - "
O. W. Dacohebtt.
Carrnichach, Feb. 8,1G8."- V
Lha Year Dialogue. "Miss.
will rou take my arm ?"
"Yes, sir, and you too."
"Cnn't snare but the rr." retMth
the old bachelor.""'1
"Then." replied she. "I shan't take
it, as my niotto is, yo Mj vhott hog or
nothing." - .
FIRMNESS IN THE RIGHT-AS GOD GIVES US TO SEE THE RIGHT. Lineom.
WAYMSBlRtt, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, lSCST
gcadinfl.
AKULISV FOB DUO,
Another time we wtro traveling on
grounds we had no right lo tramp
over. Tho only excuse was like that
of military necessity it was better
fishmgthroHgh the farms where the
trout had been preserved than in the
oppn lots where all could fish.
It was early in the innrnine, We
had risen tit 3, ridden ten miles, and
struck tho creek as the trout were
ready for breakfast. Looking care
fully lor a sheltered place to hitch our
horses, we slyly crept on behind fences
etc., till we reached the part of the
stream not generally fished. A larm
house stood a quarter of a milo away.
e saw tue morning smoke curling
lightly from a stovepipe; saw a nmn
and two boys come out to do chores;
saw women busy about the door, and
a ferocious bull dog wandering about
the yard
1 1 ever we fished close, it was then
not a whisper to disturb'the birds or
the owners ot the land. We trawled
through the grass and dodged behind
clumps ot alders, lifting large speck led
beauties out of the water till our bas
kets were full. ,
This was the time to have gone
but the trout were so largo and bit so
readily that we could not withstand
the temptation, so wo decided to
string and hide what we had, and
take another basket full. So at it we
went. No sooner would the hook
touch the water tliRn we had a trout
We forgot the house, the man, the bovs
and the clog 1
Suddenly there was a rushing
through an oat field ns if a mad bull
were coming ! We looked towurd the
house, and saw the fanner and his two
bovs on a fence the women 111 the
door, and the bull don bounding to
wards us. Wo f-aw it all wo had
been discovered. The well-trained
dog had been" sent to hunt us out,
and as the matter appeared it was safe
to bet ho was doing that thing right
lively 1
To out run tho dog was not to be
thought of. There was no time to
loose. lie cleared a fence and came for
u? just us wo reached a tree, and, by
great activity, took a front beat on a
limb above his reach.
1 1 ere was a precious gu ! A vicious
bull dog under the tree, and a farmer
and two big boys ready to move
down upon our works. It was fight,
foot-race or fangs!
Tho fanner yelled to his dog
"Watch hi m, Ti.:c!"
Tig(! proposed to do that little thin;:
and keeping his eyes on us, seated
himself under the tree,
Then spoke the. ugly farmer mau
"Just hod I 011 thar stranger, till we
get breakfast ; then we'll come and sec
you! If you arc in a hurry, however
vmi can go now ! Watch him
Tigo!"
e surmised trouble ; quite much ;
for twice had that bold man of bull
dogs and agriculture, elegantly whol
loped innocent troutisls for being seen
011 his suburban premises. 1 1 is repu
tation as a peace man was not good,
and there arose a large heart toward
our throat.
Time is the essence of contracts, and
the saving ordinance for those 111
trouble. We had a stout line in our
1 pocket, and a large hook intended for
rock bass it wc fail to take trout.
And, lis good luck would have it, we
got a nice sandwich and a piece of
boiled corned beef in ottr other pock
et. Wc called the dog pet names, but
he wasn't u it I Thin we tried to
move down when ho moved up! At
last wc trebled our bass line, fastened
tho great limrick to it, bated it with
the corned beef, tied the end of the
line to a limb nud angled for dog.
Tige was in appetite. Ho smelt of
the beef ; it was very nice. IIo swal
lowed it, and set his eyes on ns for
more, but with no friendly look
beaming from his countenance. Not
any !
Tltei. wc pulled gently on the line
it wasfast! Tige yanked and pull
ed but 'twas no use! The Attention
of canine was diverted from us his
business was being done by another
line!
lie quickly slid down the tree
coining near blistering our back doin
it seized our pull, and straightway
went thence somewhat lively
We found our string of fish, and
reach the bujgv and a commandinc:
spot in the road in time to see the star
dy veoman move forth.
We saw him and his cohorts, male
and female, move slowly, as if in no
haste. We saw them look up the
tree. ' We saw an anxious group
engaged about the dog. We came
quickly home and kindly left the bass
line and hook to the firmer.
A Gor.GKors wedding took place in
St. Louis on Wednesday. The happy
bride wore a 85,000 set of ear-rincs
ami a $750 laco veil. She is worth
kome $400,000 in her own right, and
tne groom is.about as well supplied
with filthy lucre. His present to his
bridowas worth $10,000. His name
is James P. Thomas. He is a barber
by profession, -and a negro. Ttve wife
is a mulatto. .
Thb Memphis Pod asks the aues-
tion in a manner of hopeless despair.
"How many murderers are now as
piring to office in the Conservative
party in this.Slatc?"
1IOHKIHLE IHDiat .
Ceeey. the Irleh Wltn again, Shnrrrt.
the neittorratlr Menator, UnttnUjr Mar.
tiered Democratic Lot e far the Irlth
Illustrated.
The Riiflmtn'a Journal gives the
following account of the murder of a
man named Casey. Two men were
arrested on the 3rd Inst., charged
with the murder. Casey wis a, wit
ness against Shugert, the Democrat
ic Senator from the Cleaalkld dis
trict. Cacy was one of the number of Ir
ish railroad luborera who fraudently
voted at l'hilipsburg, Centre county,
on the 2nd Tuesday of October, 1807.
On Wednesday morning January 23,
1808, Casey and three others were ta
keu to Harrisburg, by proper officers
sent hither, to testify in the contested
election case (Robison vs. Shugart)
now in progress before a Committee
of the State Senate. On the eveuing of
ous assault upon him, (Tuesday, Jan
uary 28th,) Casey was returning to
his home here, when ho was set upou
by a number of unknown persons,
about one mile east this place, and
struck on the left sido of the head
with some heavy bludgeon, and left
helpless and uiiconcious, on the high
way, to perish from the wounds inflict
ed upon him. lu this unconscious
condition Casey was found with his
face buried in tho snow, by a farmer
who took up the injured man, placed
him in a sled, and brought him to a
hotel m tins borough, A physician
waa at once sumraoneJ, who dressed
his wounds, and used every effort to
restore him to consciousness and save
his life; but it was all of 00 avail.
and he died on Saturday morning,
f ebruarv 1st never having recovered
his reason long enough to designate
who were his murderer..
Notwithstanding the facts relating
to the assault upon Casey, and the
great probability of his dying from
the injuries received, were known to
the ollicers of the law, yet no steps
were taken too ferret out and e:ure
the perpetrators of this horrible crime
until alter the death of the victim.
Now why this winking and conniving
ot crime? by this delay to dis
cover and secure the assassins of Cas
ey? Wtis it because the perpetrators
of the deed were so-called Democrats,
and for the purpose of allowing them
to escape, because their vengeance fell
upon one who bad just testified to t lie
election frauds committed in the in
terests ol that party I 1 Jus seeni3 to
be the only plausible hvpotliesi
s, as
mure in no reason wny oincers ot the
law should otherwise exhibit so great
inattention to duty in po plain and
flagrant u case. True, Csicy died
from the wounds indicted upon him
by a number of highway nssasins and
that the guilt of his death is immedi
ately charged to them tor dealing the
fiital blows, yet, had these guilty ones
succeeded in making their escape on
account of inaction, would the officers
have been entirely blameless in the
eves of the law ? Let them answer
this question satisfactorily to them
selves if they can J 1
But again! How fir doe3 ''culpa
bility attach to the leaders of the
Democratic party who concocted and
instigated the causes that ultimately
led to tho murder of Casey! Where
o the persons stand who planned and
ad
vised those frauds upon the ballot
x in l'hilipsburg? How far are
those answerable who foruvd ami film
ished the fraudulent naturalization pa
pers to bring about tbe election of Mr.
Shugart in the Centre county Senato
rial District ? Are all of the free
from the responsibility of the death of
this too confiding anil illiterate inan?
These aro highly important and seri
ous questions. Let those who were in
any way instrumental in brin 'tinnr
about the frauds at l'hilipsburg authe loyal people of the respective
swer them, if thev
can,
to the
saiisiaetion oi their own conscien
ces. - ' ;
That Casey was murdered, tlicro is
no denying for he is dead! That
somebody is amenable for the crime,
is just as true!' We do not pretend
to say who is guilty or not guilty, for
the reason that wc do not know j but
that the responsibility of the crime
rests with members ot the so-called
Democratic party, there is no doubt!
Will cxiy one dare to deny this asser
tion? But we will leave a discrimi
nating, impartial and law-abiding
publio to judge for themselves ss to
who is responsible, or not responsible
for tho sodden and tragic death of
Casey a btrang?r in a strange land
and the victim of a political conspir
acy, because he dared to tell the truth
when compelled to do so by the laws
of his adopted country. - ?
The Legislature has authorized
the State Treasurer to pay two thous
and dollars for the arrest of the mur
derers and Gov. Geary has issued, his
proclamation accordingly. That this
most infamous fraud and murder
shouM be sifted to "the 'bottom' no
w
lover of lawand order can oppoie. "How
many crimes are' perpetrated in thy
name, oh, Democracy. : ,
TliEChincese on the Central Pa-
cifio railroad work for about one dol
lar 1 day and find themselves. They
mport rice and dry fish from China.
live better than at home and save half
of their wages bnt ' upon the whole
they are slow workers, but re!
sieaay. -
llllOUr MEfHB.
A grave, momentous issue nowdi
vides the American People :
On the one side, it is insisted that
all those who participated in the late
rebellion, shall be immediately, un-
conuitiouaily, restored to every poli
tical franchise, while the four millions
of colored people inhabiting the va
rious States shall have no voice what
ever in framing, modifying or admin
Istering the laws under which they are
to live.
This is tho position of the so-called
fader the similitude ofBottom's dream)
Jjemoeratio party.
The Dtmocratio party insists on this
policy, becante it knout that the lltlth
will all vote u-ith that party, ai they do
in Maryland, Kentucky, etc.,) while
me blacks trowd nearly all vote against
it.
The Republicans, on the other hand.
very generally desire that the Blacks
snail vo'e forthwith, while they re
quire the more conspicuous Rebels to
stand back a while. But no one de-
mauds or imagines that this disfran
chisement shall be more than tempo
rary. Gov. Bullock's, Gov. Fair
child's and Gov. Chamberlain's mes
sages, Gen. Butler's late sncech at
Richmond, and every other recent
commanding declaration of Republi
can sentiment, prove that tho party is
rnpioiy gravitating toward tne com
prehensive, generous platform of Uni
versal Amnesty, with Impartial Suf
frage. The Democratio party expects by
siippres-sing the voice of the blacks in
the Southern States, to secure a decid
ed majority in each and every one of
tnem, and thtw elect the next President
and House of Representatives. For
while its adherents are not a majority
of tho whole people of those Stales,
they are, a majority of thp whites; so,
if none but whites vote, they can
pweep every State southward of the
Potomac and tho Ohio.
Andrew Johnson, Booth-inade
President, ia their leader in this effort
to suppress the voice of a majority of
the loyal pcoplo or the South, and
thus give the control of those States to
that portion of their inhabitants who
profoundly regret that tho rebellion
did not succeed.
Johnson's power not being likely to
suffice, they now seek and expect the
aid ot a majority of the Justices of the
Supreme Court; whereby they hope to
nullify the power of Congress over the
subject of Reconstruction, and re-establish
the rebel predominance in the
South, and thus their own in the
union.
The Republicans do not menu to be
put down either by Andrew Johnson,
or the five Judges who aro expected
to supplement an finish his work.
If they are beaten, and tho blacks
crushed into nonentity, the c.x-rebels
and their northern allies take posses
sion of 10 Federal Government, and
reverse the lesulls of Gettysburg,
Vioksbtirg, Five Forks, antl Appo
mattox; making ours such a "Whiff
Man's Government" as the southern
aristocracy sought to establish through
wes'ion and confederation.
This tan only be done by flic Su
preme Court constituting itself sovere
ign arbiter in questions purely poli
tical ; contrary to its own decision in
the Rhode Island case and (positively)
in that of West Virginia, . i
' Understand, then, that it is false
that the Republicans are keeping the
southern States out of the Union.
They are d ing their best to get those
States back mto their proper position
in the Union but not rsbel side up
"That's what's the matter."
It 13 lai30 that the Kepuiilieans are
seeking to prolong military rulo at
the south. Ou the contrary, they arc
trying to hasten the stipercpssirm of
that rule by governments elected by
State. We favor government l.y the
whole people; our adversaries would
perpetuate the rule of a ca.-te.
lTeseek to educate and elevate all
the people of the South. They would
keep the blacks in ignorance, and
make that ignorance a pretext for
their disfranchisement. Judge them
by what they are doing in Maryland,
Kentucky and Delaware, where they
have full swing.
Republicans! Be not deceived by
lltlse charges against Congress; even
though they -emanate I'roni those yon
have hitherto trusted. Congress is
doing justly, nobly what mud be done
if the government is not to be tamely
surrendered to a minority rule of Cop
perheads and rebels. Stand fast by
your faithful and fearless representa
tives in the councils of the nation
A. Y. Tribune.
IIox. Johx Moekibsey was absent
during the drawing for seats recently.
The following notice was tacked on
his desk : "Anv person taking this
seat must bo prepared to put 011 the
gloves." The seat, however, was
diawn by General A. C. Harding, the
member from Illinois, who, being
very near-sighted, did not see the
belligerent notice till after be had
captured the scat. No set-to ha yet
taken plafce, in conseqnence of the
non-arnval or tse merrter lrom Pew
York.
RoiMimc. We knew a rich man
in the West, who called his mansion
"Glenmary," oat of respect to his wife
Miry, who had died. Ont of hk
neighbors, not to be outdone in oonna-
""Uiial affection, builfa new cabin tnd
"Olenbetsr."
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
M. 35.
TUB BOVa 191 BLUE.
Soldier' and Silra Rational Coavaa
tloa.
At an adjourned conference of
Union Soldiers and Sailors, held, in
pursuance to published call, at ash
ington, D. C, on Wednesday, January
8, 1868, it was unanimously resolved
to hold a National Convention of
Union Soldiersand Sailors, at Chicago,
Illinois, on Tuesday, May 19th. 18(18,
lor the consideration of national ques
tions, with the paramount object of
uniting and consolidating the loyal
element of the country for the approach
ing contest with its enemies, and if
deemed advisable to nominate or re
commend candidates for the Presiden
cy and Vice Presidency of the United
States.
Each State shall be entitled to twen
ty delegates at large, and twenty dele
gates for each Congressional district.
1'erritories and tho District of Colum
bia will be entitled to twenty delegates
each.
The disordered state ofpublio af
fairs ; the restoration of rebels to
power ; the designing efforts to repu
diate our national obligations ; the
failure throughout the country to re
cognise th Just claims of the veterans
of the war j these coupled with the de
sire to perpetuate the fundamental
principle of our Government, are
deemed sufficient reasons that the men
who crushed rebellion should counsel
such measures as shall tend to preserve
and protect the civil and political
rights of all the people.
vt c, tnereiorr, invite our late com
rades jn arms to organize in their
might and to express through their
representatives their condemnation of
theeUorts to make treasen, defeated in
the field, triumphant at the ballot
b'jx. Let us stand thouldcr to shoulder to
protect the nation's honor and main
tain the cardinal principles of ouv
Government Liberty, Justice and
Lquality.
By order of the Conference.
Brig. Gen.T.T. Crittesoe:j,
Clmirman.
Will A Short,
Secretary.
Washington-, Feb. 1C, 18C8.
THE AIDIISSID.y Of AUtiHt.
The propleof Alabama rebelled, they
raised largo armies they made war
they contended for years for the privi
lege of destroying tho the Union
they were defeatod. They were rebels
then, for assailing the national author
ity. What are thev now? If we
keep Alabama out of tho Union, wc
will only irritate a hng festering
wound, and adjourn reconstruction
We make necessary standing armies
and arnica oecnpation. 1 his is wn-
poceu upon us in defiance of nationnl
authority, and in spito of the protests
ol tho loyal men. In the large aud
civil sense of the word these men are
not "people," and they have no right
to bo so considered.- They ore no
more "people" than the inmates of
Siu Sing, or theco!iviutson Blackwell's
Jsdand, or a tody of foreigners passing
through our States. They are men
who have committed n crime, and who
are released from its conseqwwecs on
ly by promising obedience to the laws
end an acquiescence in all the' duties
of citizenship. But to say that they
have the right to block tho wheels of
Oovernnient, and delay reconstruction
and impose more burdens upon us, to
grutify their malignity, is as mad as it
would for the ticket-of-leave men in
England to'entcr Parliament and claim
to make laws for the nation.
But the fault is ours, we are told 1
W;iy did we give them tho power to
block the wheels of Government?
Wegrsnt that. We made a mistake-
rWe wore genereus to those people for
their own snkes. J hey reply try an
ellbrt to inflict anarchy upon Alabama.
Such mistakes aro freqoently made,
but in this case wo accept the rebuke
and shall see that it docs not occur
again. Wc can very well postpone
our generosity or.tilt ruse people show
a disposition to accept it. 'We have
no notion of crowding our ' courtesies
where they are despised. We hoped
to have them in the Union, and in a
few years to see every American, Reb
el or not, in the full exercise of ritizen
shipt We can afford to wait if they
can. Wo have opened the door.
They 6!and in the way and keep out
those who wish to enter. Our first
duty is to admit the loyal people. That
done we can rest easy. When the
Rebels filially desire to come in they
may knock at the door, and wait until
wc are ready to open it. Tribune.
Brevity. '
Dr. Aberaethy, the celebrated phy
sician, was never more displeased than
hy tearing a patient detail a long ac
count of his troubles. A woman.
knowing Abernethy's love of tbe la-i
conic, haying burned her hand, called
at his house. Showing him her hand,
she said, ."A burn." "A poultice,"
uickly answered the learned doctor,
'he next day she returned and said,
"Better." ; "Continue the poultice,"
replied Dr. A.. In a week she made
her last call, and her speech was
lengthened to three words, "Well
your feef".- "Nothing," said the physi
cian ; "you art the moat tensibla wo
oan I ever saw." rA Jed Book
Java must t a tleaaat plan tea
residence. Fiaok 19 to- ISO panoaa
ire killed thera by tn Wbtyjmr,
bu By-orooMiies, sa atariy w maaj
by serpents.
J O ! W K .
A Dvrarinrxum inserted at St per ii"re
fortune nwrtlotia, and eewia per eq "ara
fur each additional lnrtioa 1 (ten lines or lM
rrantadatquara). All transleptadmUeealanW '
to l paid for In advanee. .
riw.faj NuticM ml unl tUe header leeal.,
aawe wiu ex eoargeu uiTariauijr uu
A llherai deduction made to (man dvertls
IriRfcythe quarutr, half-mr or r. Bernini J
nntlree charted one-bail more than refmlar ad
vrtueinenu. .
Job l'RiNTtitvof evarrltrnd in Plain a4 fe.
eyeolors; Hand-ldiU, Blanlta,Cards Panipalel
., of itverr Yarlrty and style, printed at tke
shortest nolle. The HjrpcBucak Orrica baa
lust been re-Stted, and erarr thing In the Print
iat line ran be executed In to taoat WUMI
m lunar and at tne lowest ratea.
Read Tke reaer. -
' The following; wkh one word chan
ged, is attributed to Gen. Jackton, ;
and is as applicable-now at wbtn h ;
was uttcredi "The Republican who 1
reads his county paper regularly, is
bullet proof against the falsehoods of
the enemy. The weekly arrival of
his paper is like th4vifllt6f a commit
tee man to warn him nf what is going ;
on, and to prepare him for election
day. It posts not only himself in
what's new and important, but it ena
bles him to post others also, who .
look to him lor counsel and initruo
ln. , - -
' They have queer ways of settling '
bills, and sometimes settling creditors,
too in some pnrts of the South. A Dr.
Skinner presented . his bill to Mr. .
Quick residing in Galveston, Texas.
IheDr. had attended Quick tlurintr
a recent attack of yellow fever and
Drought him solely through, and Tor
these services the bill was rendered.
Quick objected, and that too with a '.
huge knife. Skinner barely escaped ,
whole to the nearest do bee office !
where he succeeded in naving tho
puailistio and war-like Quick arrest ;
ed and put under bonds to keep" the
reacc.
Liect. Ges. Shermajt, in com- '
mon with nearly all the other Gener
als of the army, ia evidently dissatisfi
ed with the assault of the President
upon. General Grant. He has. how
ever, allowed his sensitiveness to carry '
him to extremes in threatening to re '
sign if hs ran. in no other way avoid
taking command of the new district .
carved out for him.' It may be hie '
resignation, under the circumstances,
would suit the President better thin
his acceptance. -
A. T. Stewart, the merchant ,
prince ef Xew York, has entered with
much spirit into' the campaign for
Grant, He his already done much '
good work for the soldier hero.
When such men, so largely interested 1
in the finances of the country, lend ,
their time and exertions to the ad
vancement of Grant's claims on the '
Presidency, weaker capitalists need '
not hesitate. Mr. Stewart has made 4
a collection of all the journals, and
their name, is legion, that have ex
pressed a preference for his favorite. . "
While Mr. Larmer and his sister
were riding in a sleigh last month
something became loose about the
harness, Mr. L. leaned over to adjust
the same, when his pistol fell from
hfe pocket and ws discharged, the .
loa'i passing through his hrenst kill
ing him instantly . With Lnnncr was
obliged to drive the sleigh containing
her brother's corpso several miles to
Lineville, (Mo.) where they lived. '
Amateur dramatic 'associations
which have been so popular in Wis
consin and Michigan this winter, have
have hail mi equal share of popular fa
vor in Mittonri. We heard of several
villages among which are Farmington
and Scdalia, where these social troupea
are making fun and laughter the or-'
dcr of the day. . , ,.
How loving is the TForM toward 1
Vallandigham, thus : "We never ad
mired him, we have merely spared
him, because being neither admirable
nor supportable, ho was nevertheless
as we ourselves had been, a' victim to
the arbitrary and lawless proceedings
of a Republian administration."
' A rwr days ago William Wright
Parker was convicted of the murder
of Willhm Childress, in Wilmington,'
North Carolina. The murder was ac-''
complished a-long ago as 1863, and
the mnrderer will be hanged some
time during the present month.
A Sedalia (Mo.) paner savs that
oue hundred carpenters and builders
mty bnclciayers, twenty-fivo stone
masons, three brick yards and a steam
planing mill are very much needed
in this village, and could find active
and Continued employment. . ;
Robert Johxsox son and private
Secretary of the President, has beea
placid in the iustatio. asylum of the
District of Columbia, to cure him, if
possible, of periodical drunkenness,
which in his case, amounts to insanity.
And so it seems the son tikes after
the father. : - .' -
' It is proposed by the capitalists of
Rochester, N. Y., to build a railroad
from that city to the coal and lumber
districts of Pennsylvania, making con
nect Ton with the Erie Railway, thence
soHth to the cool ficlda;- . -, -, ,
. 8.ea. 1 1 .
As eccentric Parisian left a provis
ion in his will that a copy or one of
the daily papers should be left on his
tomb every day, and - the whim has
been faithfully observed.'--';. ;. ;
Tub Roman Catholics are eieeiinst
a new convent in Brownsville, Texas,
near the old one.' Hie new buildint
is to be much more spacious and con
venient. The old one to to be aatd a
an infirmary and kotpitaL - , . .
'.'. m; m
A raXarr ihoe-perer k Wo
aaadaotored - la Xtorthamptoa, Una.
auiiet which makes 41 hob, en
07 tbe peg ana drin unoeaa, A
workman can easily- peg a sboaot a
boot m a Bvante. - : .