IThr the Watchman
THE FREEDMAN% DREAM.
Beneath a spreading sycamore
That shades fair Carolina's there,
A colored freedman lay
The sun waa bright, the aky war clear
The ocean'. billows, tar and near,
Came reaping ep the bay
And from the waves a whispering air
Came, softly playing with hts hair
Or tangy ebou thread, ' -;
While Stortilmus, with on unseen brand,
Ilia potent and mysteries!. wand,
Witted o'er his alambenag head.
There rose ► wind and hideous train
Of ghostly specters on the plain,
Like troopers in the fey ;
The shadowy form of furious man
Strode through the Halls of filutey th n,
In b,ttleie red array.
fiery hog with wild hwrnh!•
Advaneinithrough the din he BIM,
And high their banners ware'
Above the cannon's thundering roar
We heard them Omitting, O'er and o'er,
=
Bet see ! far dowskyon distant slope,
A phantom phalanx dimly op(
Upon the slumberor's view;
The steady t read, ilia Morn sad face,
As ep the echoing shore they pace,
neveltl the brave, the trite.
They tpoet ! Thep kW' And host 'pins
heat,
Each shout along the retro mg coast.
We battle fn . , thr riga t
Bleed leaps at. every 'Are stroke;
The mass of curling, tainted smoke
Lifts black aborts the fight.
The groaning roonJet.l gasp for break,
And maddened roman fall in death,
Lacked in► close embrace,
The charger Ole/ across the plain,—
La! yonder lies his rider, slain,
With gory, gnellily face.
hark' when the conflict's deepeet din
Roar, o'er the wavering ranks and thin
Where blood in stream lets (Imre
-IVhere flereeet gloms of fire and ball
And hereaming shells in terror fall,
The ery of a tetory rose.
There: issuing from tho Geld ofidood,
Delors the frightened dreamer Mood
The victor., rind in blue ;
.Arise," they about, ' . the gyi es no more
Shell find a daro upon this ah, re—
(Jo th,•• to freedom, too."
Dot see! near yonder corpse they stand
Oh Oo I' They're binding, hand to ha
Their captives, wan and pale,
ANS, me, they monk his piteous tones,
That plead for wife and little ones,
Who nn his bosom wail.
Now Morpheus wnred his wand again,
Above the dreamer's head, and then
The ghostly vision fled.
But as the Aadowy warriors want
Adown the shore, they paused and bent
Thous o'er his 'wildered head.
They off-red gifts pf glittering gold,
And promised Joy to young and old,
And said, l'bilio/if yinere per,
Yoter t free ! G., forth' but not as yo
A deeo hound at thy master's door—
Thy iioori rs tibel I . )" •
The vision roniehed. Ile •woke,'
And on hie startled view there broke
A scene of dark ripest;
upon his former master's grave
lies left to starve and die—a eln
With holm and comfort wrec ed.
Ile woke' and round him gazed the whi
ILs erred bentidided with (beguile
That fraught his fancy then,
And as he beard the Auk's,. chink,
And saw •n army's hostile rink,
Ile wept for faults of men.
---- ""They peuisal.reeedom, but he cries,
“Their - p7dges ore the
They protnieed but to win--
Hy staler!, nom is tes fold worse
2 hen what they termed the Au/cocci covet
. Oj refer'. 'ehttery'e
..Far then my master clothed and fed,
And pleasures in In, path-way spread
Tu smooth the dark, rough way ;
Ile gave me hours for laboring,
lie gave me hours to laugh and slag
And blemsed me In my play
..But now, alas! I'm doomed to roam
Without a friend, or guide, or home,
Or /tamer. et 'nun;
111inch'mito' when earned,eneh totleorned
Is, by the plunderer, stole away,
And m pretence of reg At.
•'Where is my, master?' Qed rater...
Ms strong, protecting nrm once more,
To save die negroe's life;
Hat oh' hen rain do I implore
flea slain and buried on lb. shore,
A victim of the ttnfe
"And I most die' Cold Icor-1.1,40 eve!!'
Woes that are rest my dreams expel—
rot slam by trenchery
And here upon my master's grate,
Where eleepe the great, the true, the brat
1 *bib —I foibt—V tese."
Glen hope, Pa., April 1 et, 1311;
A TALK WITH THE PRESIDENT--TEN
DENCY T4` 'REPUDIATE THE NA
TIOINAL DEBT.
And now, apart from tho directly politi
cal, confroued the President, what ix the
maid items looming up in the immediate
future! What issue is deafly foreshadow
ed to be the Aaron's rod 'which must swat
lb
-low up all the minor questions I It is the
"'great financial issue, the issue of the na
tional debt; whether it shall he paid or
repudiated? Tisiatiatine has fibres extend
ing into the pocket of every eitisen ; for
wherever s'inan has a dollar, or can earn a
&oar, the government is now compelled to
go for its portion of his subs ... Vivi', and with
the vast machinery under its control, the
money is fetched.
We have all read history; and it is not
certain that of allorielooracies,thetof mere
'wealth is the most odious, reptile's. and
tyrannical? It gem for the last dollar the
poor and helpless have got; and with swab
. a...rast machine as Ibis government under
it. control, that dollar Mill be fetched. It
is an aristocracy that can see in the people
only a prey for extortion It has no
or military relations with them, ouches
the old.feudal system created between liege
lord syd eagle; it has no such etrotic bond
of self inlorast with the people as existed
of necessity between the extinct alsyshold.
era of our country and their slaves. To an
aristocracy existing on the annual interest
of a National debt, the people are only of
lane in prlyortion to their docility and
pow - e# of patießtly blending golden blood
Milder the tax gaiber's thumbscrew:
To the people the national debt Ina thing
.of delft, in be paid ; but to the •ristoerney
of 'bonds and nation al
. seeurltieo, It is a
pi-welly of more than two thouened fled
hundred millions, from which a revenue of
one hundred and eighty millions a yenr to
to be received into tbolr pockets. So that
we now find that miarialoaracyatthe fitemihj;#
based on three thousand millions of dollars
in Degrees—who were a produsoing du!—
has disappeared and their piece in politi
cal control of the country is assumed by an
arielooney based on nearly three thousand
millions of national debt—a thing which is
not ptoduciog anything; but which goesow-
Ti hr-- :72:' tnintratit . - I(ll,4l,o*arit,
WI
VOL. XII
•iendily. every yenr, and must go 'on for all
time until the debt is paid, absorbing and
taxing at it; rata of six or seven per oer.t.
a yenr for every hundred dotter bond that
is represented in its aggregate.
Now, I 'tin not speaking of this tadoany
thing but deprecate the fearful Niue which
the madness of partisan hatred and the
blindness of our new national debt aristoc•
racy to their own true interests, is fast fore•
ing upon the country Hut it is not clear
that the people, who have to pay oho hun
dred and eighty millions of dollars a year
to this consolidated moneyed oligarchy.
mu'ht sooner er later commence asking each
other;"1Iow much was actually loaned to
our government during the civil war by
these bondholders, whi note claim that we
owe thein nenriy three thouenrul millitme of
dollen'?" You know what thepopular an.
ewer must be—l do not say the tight an
ewer: ..Less than half the amount they
aniin, for gokhangedut An average of one
hunt il premium' while this debt was being
41r6e1:eli
Just think of this annual tax of one hun
dred and eighty millions for payment of in
terest on the national debt ' This govern
went we have, with itsenormous machinery,
iv a pretty hefiy,business in itself, costing
more per capita to the people than the go,
eminent oftngland, which we always here
tofere regarded nv the most tax devouring
on earth But over and beyond the ex
penses of this government proper, as it
should.stand iu 'lie scale or, peace nt abbot
sixty millions 0 year—we have in the one
hundred and eighty millions of interest paid
yearly on our national debt enough to sup
port three such governments as this, with
all their vast machinery anddisbursements'
We have net. cm/ye under the present eye
tam, one g ernment for the people to sup
port, but over and beyond this, we have to
raise by taxation frotrOke people sufficient
to support three similar establishments
every year.
=1
And what Woe been the cones of that
Congress which Les just ended, and widelk
thigOblind aristocracy of national debt sus
to4Ged in overriding my efforts for a return
to sound principles of internal government
Look at the bill giving from four hundred
and eighty to six hundred millions of dol
lnre—nominally for black bounty, or on an
equalization of bounties In soldiers, but re
ally, an all intelligent men most be aware,
to be parceled out ns a prey among the
bounty sharks and cinim agents, who ore
the moat reckless and olamorous adherents
of the dominant majority 111 Congress
Then leok of appropriations amounting to
another hundred millions for improvements,
which should properly be len to the taws
governing private italustrjr nod the pro
green or our national developement. Look
also at the increase of all salaries, with a
prodigal hand; this Congress fleet Betting
an example against retrenchment by voting
to themselvee an Increase of calories
Everywhere, and. in nn ever increasing ra•
tio, lhemotto !seems lo be • "Always spend
and never spare;" . a fresh issue from the
paper mill over yonder (slightly pointing
his pencil to the Treasury Repartmenti, be
ing the ponneein prescribed for every evil of
our present situation
Every Owl to increase our annual taxa
tion is resisted, for increased taxes might
help to awaken the people from their false
dreAin of prosperity under the sway of rev
olutionary and radical ideas; but no addi
tion to the national debt con be proposed,
no further inflation of our inflated eurree
ay, which the preponderating votes of die
Western States will not be certain to favor,
The war of finance is the next war to 'fight;
and every blow struck against my efforts to
uphold a strict construction of the hayseed
Lke Constitution is, In reality, a blow in
favor of repudiating the national debt. The
manufacturers and men of capital in the
F i on!eru Stoles, and the Stales-along the
Atlantic seaboard—a mere strip or fringe
on the broad mantle of our country, if you
will exandine the map—these are in favor of
high protective, and, in fact, prohibitory
tariffs; and also favor a contraction of the
currency But against both measures the
interest p of the great producing and non
manuf4ring Staten of the West stand ir
revocably arrayed , and a glance at the
map, and the census statistics of the last
twenty years will tell everyone who is open
to conviction, how that war must end
The history of the world gives no exam
ple of a war debt that has ever been pia ,
but we have an exceptional country, and
present an exceptional case. Our debt
might easily be Paid, provided the brakes
against excessive expenditures could ho
turned on quickly enougb—but now is the
appointed time, and now or never the work
must be commenced. If the debt is ever to
be paid wo need economy in every bra . nch
of the public service—the reduction, not an
increase of salaries to Congressmen and
other officials; the systematic, reduction of
the national debt; and not its increase by
Web monstrous bills as this lastdemagogue
measure for the pretended equalisation of
bounden. The Congress, forsooth, is so
patriotic, so loyal, that it "can refuse our
gallant soldier! nothing;" but you must
have seen how promptly it rejected 'the
names of nearly every gallant veteran sent
, in by me for confirmation tb any civil office
—a majority of our extremely "loyal ffena
"tors" using their guillotine without remorse
•
in nearly every instance.
Willa! ABM WI PRITTINO ?
• And whither is all this drifting ! 'To
intelligentroen there can be bqt one an.
ewer . We are drifting loword repudation,
end the moneyed aristocracy of the rialtos.'
debt—the very men whose butifttesle'llre
most jeopardized—are so blind that they
are practically helping to amity:ate, not
cheek our course in this downward direc
tion. We need the M
lnetry and enormous
possible products CT tho lately revolted
States to help us in bearing our heavy bhr
den. We need confidence and calm—we
need internal harmony ; and above•all, we
need a return to the unquestioned suprema
cy of the civil laws and constitutional re
atrainte;lf our debt is not to be repudiated
efikirr•the next half score of years.
troanolat prosperity was ,wiecured up to
witliix a recent period Ant •Iready this
delidknaric of public credit—a house of
cards.at best- w begios to totter nudes ttle
conoussiotui of the, "tevolptionary ideas
which base been recently exploded on the
floors of Oengreas. Who is not now made a
-Istriktig stock In the paperi and speeches
sit"'
of the violent revolutionary party, is ho the way elenred for Crnmvetll here rtes n
shall be so hardy telt) claim that, being talo4mtin that plowed deep, rind moistened
again at peace, the sway of civil or milli!. his land with the blood of a king
ry law Should be immediately resumed, if No man did more than lilirabenu lowerdit
we desire to maintain our liberties I "The the starting boll of the French revolution
C.Posliltition is Played edt," we heir on or- Ho was the great hunter that called up from
cry hand ; and every effort to advents the their loathsome kennel4 r the ravenous curs
Just ascendancy of the civil law only fur- Robespierre, Maret antr)oJust, and the
dishes fresh food fur ridicule blood-houtil Delon. Ito was Inking moos
No party as yet, and possibly no party urea to bent batik the debtor°as pack, when
for some years , will openly lapilli/She ban- ' deaths hand was laid uponlitin. Ilia allot
nor of repudiation. But" a mnjority of led task was done. lle had pointed out the
those who shaped the ligislation of thin game and started the pock. Ilk giant
last Congress must know, unless they de- linnil was not-needed forrolling forward the
eeive themsel•os, or are 100 ignorant to up- guillotine nod slelightering victims during
predate their own sots, that wo are drift the reign of terror. Nor was it his allotted
ing in Oita direction, and
, that it is by their task to rebuild the edi fi ce for the destruct
voice we lines been str ung oat into the ion of wioch he had taken a contract from
downward stream Doubtless some cohere the Almighty. The man that was to do
would either be, or aired le feel horrified if that work—that was to reunite the broken
today branded repudintionists, Jost as in' flmgment.—to cell ender out of chaos —to
the infency of the free soil agitation it won divide the dryinnd from the rea—that than
considered n bitter el:rler if Ilia "Free- ass then a ntripling, unknown to fent°, but
;oiler" ehould Inn styled an "Abolitionist, ' tl ..guns were already rust, which tinder
There are steps in everything , and the , his guidance, Were nicotined to thunder at
term of reproach to wi'l be worn es tl the gales of every capital of continental
feather in the cap innie years from now, Europe and—to enter them
unless the true Conservative system of the ' IL [nay seem preposterolis to comonre the
country ens be a Inkened, rind rapidly, late Abraham Litteidlo truth suck men as
from its nsphys tat ing dream that •ottr ••nn- Hampden nod Mirotenu. And we have no
tional debt ion national blessing " intention of doingany such lining Still,we
rrrner or Tilt • lIIYONSTRUCTION RILL. have seen COCO!, null gntliered, not °el .\ by
And look at the recon , struction bill just
men, hat by monkeys.
'tossed over tug unavailing veto I mean The p ower that was Placed in the hands
peculiar effect as a step in the direction of Mr Ah " l ' am l ' tee°l " at the he g atain g
t,
of repudiation, end not its generaleffects of the present revolution, ns fodder io plat,
ed in the rack of a Jack•sv—w talent any
a high handed measure of Congressional
uourpatinn, striking out of existence so effort on the part of the iya—such 'Mower in
establiohing o military
many State•, antisuch bands, was greater than any ever
despotism over one third of our geograph-
wielded by Hampden or o
li h T m
ica' Union. This hill suddenly adds /Nur but for the pistol shot of Bmi t . Anil lr. !Att
minim,e ignorant and pen niless argrne , co/a would 11,10 ruled the presegt
to the •otin . g force of the country—au ac-
lion ye believe be would Inane sgte, or
O
cession of just so much strength to the par ethert would hour seen for lion, that his
ly whose interest it to, and must. increas-
interest Iny in consolidating Lie power, nail
ingly become, to favor repudiations+ a poi not in prosecuting further the work of
, integration Ile would liner out Jolinsoneil
fort should be—it that were possible—to
kr. To secure the public creditor, our ef-
Johnson in opposition to Congress, and
'restrict ratber than to extend the riglit of with more effect lie would have stropped
suffrage ; for money rapidly aggregates fe his long legs around those of.,tpo Pre•idet,
a few hand.; and
whenever the
men
wa i l. ' tint chair and held on with the grasp of a
have nn interest in seeing that our nations twenty foot tape worm Thai ilia mvt
debt Is riot shall have become unit oR-All was removed by Divine Plovidence,
n
proportion few compared with those ,Who no Hampden taut Mirabenti were ri s .-
have an interest in its repudiation, the,moved before him Ile was removed be
votes of the many will carry it; and thedebt cuu, his. big foot was in the way of the
Le
of three thousand millions will be struck re ` elatiemer t new flint ilie"gl4!?'
rtin( existence by ballots, just as lapidlyl bi g "'might lint the Almighty differed
nod utterly as the• similar amount. bloomed haa . "" pal h." out of the way, with
in Southern negroed a s tiolisluid der- Booth not iii P t ' a el 05 ' in '''" ""n"
log the recent war under sooners of ballot, The "'mull" of Jal"”e" to eh l i the
At least Ibis is possible
present revolution will be no Nide no woo
'
That we are to have a greet financial (lint of Duntouriex to poll reign on the 'ev
olution Mark one words, it will roll un'i't
crash this" year, I hold to his inevitable— '
the chair of President lied bench of Suprenle
though deprecating it, nod linving used
Judge rite swept ninny into outer darkness
every effort for 110 avoidance To say thnt
Society at the North needs the lancet, and
it can be etayul off by any legislation, if
the Divine Doctor will not to ailminia
my nail for it, is to assert that water can be ' the •iolated lawn of trade And public eculto
ter it And it may be dint the patient will
wrillp BO under the operation that his sir
made to run uphill, or shell cease to seek
tery will be mit. We shrill nerve ourselves
its own level under the compulsion of a
Congressiobal enactment Perhaps for so for the prospect, and try to stand it without
violent a disease, this violent cure may be ' Or proof of what we say, hear how Nero
the only remedy. It is like a man lint am- IS tuning his fiddle Chnrges are made on
inkhis strength on broody: so long as he
coffins, not only by undertakers, but by
car. increase the dose daily, lie may gel embnyo Peeling: Fiendish laughter, and
nieng in high goad humor — ia , t as we have demon like howl; of triumph are heard in
been prospering on an irredeemable paper the halls of C„„ greq , in 0 . 001 „ p „„h„,„i I „
currency and fresh issues of public seouri- the sol'inds of the befl that tolls the funeral
ties But, sooner or later, the day will/ of the Constitution ; rather last sliced
come in which brandy no longer can shire.- o f that i„,i romen t, w hi c h, i; to b e b ur i e d
Inte; nor can irredeemable promisee tope, out of eight under the bill thal consigned
,pan current as a c irculatin g medi " n t for - ten provinces, whit.) indepentlezVitales.
ever. To the waved] cone a severe fit of to the government of irresponsible n kilns
sloknees, venahlni4uvn that tho lows of hem- Roll on goad of revolution , lune
wane', eau only be VTlVlfflfd ITndtr fearful yNur fiddle, beloved Nero, and keep
penalties; and.l4 the nation will corn , a "Tune, time, tune,
T • tho wrangling and jangling of the
financial crash, teething it thAt riper is belle."
only a representative of value, not value The fire bell, whose pe tls will bring in
itself, and that the ‘ only true iseeurit len of gel her, not Airmen, but incendiaries —No
our public credit mist be looked for Su a tie Troltiur
ayatern of rigidly exacted obedience to all The Murder of Mrs. Surratt.
constitutional reale/tills, and a thorough
ayetegi of economy in all branches of :he There was never a heifer illuntrntien of
public service the truth of the maxim, that the wor lil does
TIM YtentlE more, than (be fact that Benjamin F But ler,'
For the slights and indigni 'e
, itempled to of M i.ichusetts, from his pleco in the
constitutional curinilinent au 'diobonors '
s—the tin-
ss
. Bantle of itepresentatt•es, Pronounced the
which the recent Congress has
: execution of firs Sore it [ n legal noirder
committed by the authority of the United
cast upon me for my unflinching, and anal-
States, remarks the Cideinrinii ' Envier, - ,
terable devotion to my constitutional oath
and to the interests of the whole country What must be the change in public opinion 1
gm:lording to my best judgment and expert-,
that could elicit sucli 0 decl iralion from
the worst, the most unprinoopled and Goo
once—l am only sorry as regards the indig.
i most blood thirsty of all the
aides
lead
nities sought to be imposed on my high of
li
era r Whether fur the sake of making a
lice, lint unmoved as regards myself Con-'
point in the name of humanity and justice
scious'nf only having executed my duly—
conscious of, being denounced for "usurp, , ° V int ' "n- opponent, ^liell-'" Buller, in.
lions," only because refusing to accept un-
,flue instance, gave expression to bin honest
opinionsTil reference to &terrible tragedy
constitutional powers and patronage—and
! ta immaterial, so far as it foreshadows the
satisfied that the day of wiser thought and
future judgment to-be pronotineeil on that
a sounder csilmate cannot now be fur die'
land—l look with perfect confidence for my event That execution of an unfortunate
and helpllls woman is destined to rank a
which I am convinced cannot long be delay
•indication to (110 justice of that future
mong the most scandalous of the horrible
,
Slate trials and judicial/ massacres which
ed Unless all the senses be deceptive ;
unions all Outh bon lie; unless God man stained the annals of Great Britain in the
ceased to live. I ten you that the folly and earlier and darker periods of its history.
, The fate of Mrs Surraii was like that of
fraudfsw dominating the councils of this
Anne lioleyn, Lady Jane Orey, Vary of
distracted country in Congress will ruin it
forever." The President uttered this last 8'9.133.d. and ilfh.*•ictille‘ of the same sex
sentence with great earnestness and fire,bis
who perished on the altar of personal ha
teed, political fears and malignant revenge.
previous remarks having been delivered in
It io by all odds the mosehurrible disgrace
the calm, grave, earnest monotone which is
hie habitual form of expression, which has ever attached to what we call the
,
It is, perflaps, but right to add, thatihe administration of justice. Arrested with
out any legal authority, brought be'ore a
foregoing is ii\report from - memory of re
tribunal unknown to the °constitution and
marks made by Mr. Johnson in en extend-
cd
that
yesterday as o, and laws deprived of every guarantee of liberty
whisk is afforded an Amerionncititen, con
that tbe original did not take the arm of a
damned to death without the least shadow
set speedo, here unavoidnbly given R. It
of ptoof of (ho crime, ^ viond , oremorse 'testy
should also be added, that slew points em- °f
upon the day followinriffif eon , -
sively to thePrenident, may have been,more braced-in the report, and attributed exact-
viol ion, not allowing the soul even lime
or less, suggested by interjectional remarks to prepare for the awful change that n
of tbe person to whom he was speaking;
i waited ii. There were in thee. proceed
but nothing bas been hereset down in which
logs, when we consider the sex of the pe \ rson,
the full assent of Mr. Johnson wan not glv-
an indecency and series of outrages which
en—always provided, of course, that his should make every American blush for
listener understood him and remembers nor-
shams as he reaalls them The lapse' of
reetlr—Sunday Transertpl.
time will only make the tragedy appearof
a ,darker hue, and give to those concerned
in it lip immortality of Infamy. When one
recollects the justice of God, and the re
tribution which po often in this life over:
takes-those who have been connected in
scenes of viee and crime, he will look for
ward with singular interest to the fate
and fortunes of Mrs Surratt's pretended
judges, and others who were instrumental
in bringing Ler to the scaffold. History
is a lie and the laws of justice a my th,Pf
in the sequel there is hot visited capon the
alders end abettors of this tragedy a.,pun
'obi:neat commensurate ton their deserts
and which, in future ages will serve to
'point a moral and adorn a tale."'—ffenlinel
Evantatt led.
NERO TUNING
_AR FIDDLE
believe` in dentiny—in an Invisible
Power that shapes toe course of human
events, using men themselves as the instru
ments. and withdrawing them when they
begin to eut too deep. The royal dragoon
*ho mortally wounded Jab?, Hampden, pas
sed the decree by which Charlet@ I. lost bin ,
bead. The genius, influence and honesty
of Hampden would base held heel(the arm
of Cromwell-would have preserved the
monarchy. Out English society needed a
more thorough @abseiling than it would
have received with the hands of Hampden
on the plowhandle. lie wan removed, sad
"STATE RIOECTS AND FEDERAL UNION."
BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1867
A FEW WORDS ABOUT BOYS
Every close obNerver knowa that tho pre.
portion of shiftless, good for nothing young
men has largely increased within the past
few years. A number of different causes
has been assigned for this ellect, and num
erous pious_ Suggested to remedy lhtnxoL
n our Judgement we - attribute the princi
pal source of this evil to thwspirit of false
priiro which piducea parents 'Alt their
boys in stores mid offices and to have them
study professions rather than apprentice
them to good trades A few y earsago pa
rents generally regarded a trade n 4 some
thing esarnimi in the preparation of their
boys for the battle of life Even menewliose
circumstances did net require them to
manual wbrk made it a point to Vase their
boys learn trades, in order to gist them
practical deceitbout boainess, to make.
them industrioun, and also furnish them
something to fall back upon iu cone of oil
entity flow to it' now! !decline ice and
LibOrittg men, even, have too generally int
bibed the idea that they ought to place their
boys a peg above the drudgery of manual
labor They stein to think Ow [they me
not doing jil•lieo to them in positions
where they con wear ~,,, clothes rind
keep their hands while TM re never nos
n greater mistake
I,o'ok nt the leading men in our country,
from the President ilown,andy on n ill see as
a rule t 1 is the men who have lett-nod trades
in ir youth who have become faeniest
eery brooch of pi ogress and enterprise.
The boy who as placed in a store or office
itsually gets his bend full of vanity and
self concert before lie has been long in his
rC. it i..n Ile acquires an .inordiunte love
of dress, find Peon heroines no p u ll e d op in
hi, own v..1;11,341011 that !Inten~ al common
Sense frill find no !oilment in his brain
Pik aim is to 43i,, no well and live ns high
nit those with whom lie eOnle, In contact
nod hew pods likely to go from habits of
ezi rrtengttoCe to habit a of d ,sipat ion
11,e do nett 'oh 10 be undid stood ns say
ing that this is rho era which all boy.
travel who do not lentil trades IVis imply
nay dint such is the tendency, and it re—
quires a boy of good mind, foil died by good
'early training, tora4tel the temptution The
tley who is put to a trade, on the oWer
hand, gives vanity but little chance to gel
holdwf him. Ife\acquires practical ideas
about busineSsa • his habits are moulded
by frugnli:y nod economy, and ho lays the
foundation'of a good, useful and indostri
old cit iLsti j'ho idea that manual labor is
not rerpeettible is one of tigi absurde•t
th trigs in this ago of absurdities. Ni per
son kith a thimble full of brains will say
any thing of the kind, and those silly crea
tures who do say so nro generally the
de
generate scions of hardworking mechanics.
Boy., whether high or low, rich or poor,
ought to lealii a trade—noteliat they should
nirrny, work et it, hot that they may have
it no a reserve capital, together with its
fluence in foiming their chat/telex —La.
FA lAN TNACCINCiii—LOOK ro a A YAN-
K CC Tit ICH —We Limn that Professor Wick
ersham, now the SnpeWinrendenl of Common
Schools in (his Stole, coritemplaics intro
ducing uniform school books in Peunsyl-
This sounds very harmless, and may ap
pear so to many of our renders ,but like
owlet - Reber things in thin world it contains
a Craig. The books-that ore published for
th s uniform system aro partisan in their
character, and are written for the mere
purpose of moulding the political pleas of
the ehtlaren who etudy them than to teach
them undid nod general knowledge Tho,
already in use under thin system I,nal of
our late civil war nun flipmuit partisan
manner Democrats lire spoken of R 9 "Cop
perheads'. and denotiviced an '•traitors,"
whiie the Itadie l als are held up an patterns
of loyalty nod patriotism Ire object of
thin course of ' instruction is Iy to be
seen. It is In ernate a 'melodic,' on the
pail of the school children towards 'D,in
°crate, by educating them the belief that
they were traitors during the war. These
school beaks come from New lingland, and
are nearly filled with the peculiar ideal
that prevail in that section. It is a part
and parcel of that grand scheme to sober.
dinate the whole country to Yankeedom by
preserving the coining generation to their
print real sews This meludes the cure.,
ott doctrine about negro equality and the
dlokis of ibe Radicals. We nre opposed
to our children 'earning the history of the
war from the expert° testimony of New
England school hooks —Doylestown Dimo
era t
Ltrzerne Union says :
learn ihn( come of the agents have
been (raveling through our county for the
purpose of introducing such - works as are
mentioned above, and we would especially
wee sk director. lo,belln their" gourd, and
eht4e 'ltem from our public schools "
MOVING TOWARDS THE END
The republican party got into power by
arraying One section of the country against
another, and, its present policy is to retain
power, if possible, by keeping the country
divided. Hence it may be inferred that
they love Power more than they love their
country ; that their party zeal is stronger
than their patriotism. To carry their
point, such men hesitateat nothing. Throw
ing constitillions sod laws aster, they set
up some ideal standard of right, duty, and
authority, and preps on to their cads in
_spite 01411 legal impediments The first
step is wrong makes the next more easy,
until usurpation seems j a o derive a sort of
warrant from impunity, and a career that
Is begun with some degree of apprehension,
is pursued at last without either fear or '
shame.
It is quiVlcerlain that two years ago the
leaders of the Republican party would not
have dared even to propose sunlit a measure
as the Stevens-Sherman militarylictAr the
sweeping confiscation project recently ad,
sot:Med by the captain of the Radical for
ces in the house of Representatives. The
first, however, was carried through both
chambers of Congress over the veto of the
President, and the other hie beat postpon
ed until neat December, when, it Is hoped,
it, w.i,lkbe passed by the requisite majority.
Since hes rebel armies laid down their arms
and kluLciell dear actually paused through,
out the land, Congress Lai progressed rap:
idly from a imueiliatory temper, to one that
is positively repellant, and viodidlive
from measures oompassevely moderate and
DEB
conservllive, rb mensorca that are
tngly revolutionary and destructive. Under
this deplorable course of affaire„ the chan
ces of a restored Union have been leased a
hundred fold. The prospect of rweptab
lathed peace and national unity which, two
3 ears agn . appenreillo near s is now retnov.
el 15 a period tudennitely retnel. There
is no one who can say, tvith'any ream uable
probability when or how, if ever, the Union
will be recenstpicted.
And yet dig most marvelous fact of all Ito
this end progression of the republic towards
disorganisation and ilepol!tim, is the grow
ing insensibility of the pepulnr mind to
nets of arbitrary powct. on the part of Con
gress, which ten years ago, would hurled
from power any party that had ventured to
sugght them. Thus it if seen how a free
people mhy be gradually educated to, bear
with patience the encr . oachmen of tyranny,
until the habit of suffering one violation of
consitiotionnl liliert,y and then another,
renders them at last capable, of submitting
with silent indifferenee to any imaginable
measure of outrage and oppression This
lies been the process 13.3 which till popular gov
ernia to hove been overthrown from line
earliest ti d this is line fate threatens
to subvert our own —Sanday-Afcrcory
The Hard Times
The people at the west are sillier togfrom
harder tunes this winter than fey have for
several years The bail crops of lot sum
mer has something to do with this, for it
will always be noticed •n all countries and
at all times that the pert l pte prosper in the
eaget proportion as farmers prosper ; when
it is hard times with them, it is bard times
wifb all ; and when-times are ea.y with
them, it is with all No inconsiderable
amount of the strinlgency this winter results
directly and solely from this Ohne, (sedan
abundant harvest next year will go far to.
scant removing it
Much the larger share of the responsibil
ity for the present distress, however, is to
be found in the unwise legislation of Con
gress, nail thig, instead of mending, prom imes
to get worse oil averse Any farmer-will
teltyk that he could gel along with the
plices lie receives for his hogs and his
produce if this prices oT articlel he has t.
buy came lowa proportionately t • • • s
enable man of course expected alway i s to
get $l2 to $l5 fur pork as was paid one or
two years ago. but it does seem, lined to
have to come down from these rates to less
than one half for what' he tins to sell, and
at the same time have to pay quite as much
for what he has to buy, hie auger, tea,
coffee, Cloth, nails, and in fact all articles .
of commerce as he cli•l when his. received big
prices for his products
The merchant, however, has to charge
large prices , Ueeaas lie has to pay the whole-
sale man large prices.; and the wholesale
man charges high rates as he has to pay
high rates to the importer and the manu
facturer. The Importer has to ehargehigh
rates because he pays a high tariff ; and
th;manufacturer charges high rates because.
he is "protected" against competition'by
the same high tariff enacted by Congress
It is estimated that the average tariff of
dutiable goods is fifty eight per cent in
gold or about eighty per cent in currency,
and this excess has to come out of the
pockets of the farmers to pay for the lux
ury of "protection " That is the amount of
ton, sugar, coffee, tools, 4e , that he new
has to pay one dollar and eighty cols for,
would cost him but a dollar, were it not for
Congress legislating wholly or the benefit
of do manufacturers and against the farmers
And it is now propored to increase (berates
still more and the bull to that effeCT has
already passed the Senate.
So, very much of the present hard times
here at the west is traceable directly to
Congress, which divides its labors ab . out
equally between the nigger and the New
England manufacturem—Dubiie Herald,
lowa.
MR9 PUITIVIIT"I %ND Ins —"For pity 's
sake., what are you two!" soni Mrs. l'art
inglon, as Ike came in, elevating his heels
in the sir, and falling against the clean
buffet in th& Conner, his grnveltr shoes
endangering the ancient china ; "what is
the meaning of this ? Ara your brains so
decomposed that you have forgotten Wlikgh
end you should keep uppermost?"
Ike recovered, and simply said Wilms
trying a little gymnasts* exercise "I
should think it was nasty'exereise," said
she, wiping the ell from the buffet — With
her apron; 'but you should pc. keerful.
Only think of conjestifre of the brain, and
see how many men kill themselves during
operation of mind and let it be a, warning
to you What should you think of my
turning heels aver bend now, cutting up
all sort of antiques like a circuit rider!"
"Bully." shouted Ike; ciapplnghis hands;
'•jest try It ; you•cam't dts it, I bet,"
"I shan't, you diagraceless boy," said
she tolushtneto the roots of her oap ;
"and if I see you trying any more of ylb - ur
nasty tricks, my shoe shall teach you wdlqh
end belongs up "
• She looked athim Nevem'' , as ifehe'ineant
It and the boy went out, sospearing as if he
were regreting she did not try the experi
ment, kicking over the dust barrel on the
sidewalk in his effort to jump ever it.
Ma DAVIS'S PL ANTATION.—A correspoodeu t
of the Weldon (N. C. )State writes from
Mississippi "I mentioned in my letter
below Vicksburg, that I had passed Joe.
and Jeff. Davis's farms. In speaking of
thente . tor, in conversation with a resident
citizen, he told me that President Davis
and his brother's (arms had been confiscated
by the government and sold to • negro, •
former slave of Jeff. Davls's,for $400,000,
on ten yearn, tinee r .aud that the negro would
clear this year $BO,OOO on the land. The
negro is said to be quite an enterprising
man, and is working a large force to great
adrantagp. I do not find here on this
wtiole‘trlp ono man in ten of Sou"tersi birth
or sentiniene - The whole country memo
to be is the hands of Northern men val
foreigners. Even the needs, talk a lingo
that I eau put poorly understand."
—The place where the Joneg chicken'
retire to ought to have s dry Boor and be
kept aorupuloual7 elm, and as the Boor la
the ooldeat pert of a room, their. mowing
box ought' not to be more than twelve
If she' high, and to be *leaking, which will
keep the warm air In the 'roost.
NO. 15.
A.I.FRAGMENT
Broken—the golden chord,
Severed—the silken tie!
Nererpgairowill the old days ( . 3 --
Darling, to you and I
Dead—the beautiful past—
Scattered around its plef; -
Pore thoughts lie thick, and memories
Of days that were so dear
Memories? Poll them op—
Lay them liaised by,
What avail it to dream of the wit ?
Th. future for you and I.
Broken—the silken chord,
Savored—the golden chain,
Linking as with the beautiful put,
That never can some again
—Grren•berg Argo..
- --- ---- -
SENTIMENT.
The square mouthed Thing of Iron shook its
head,
And with a eold,dl l l!TiTeering accent said:
' Pah , 'its bat eenthnent Bentiment
And what is that ?—A w aimed partner bent
Ia agony above the pall—a mother'. kiss
On her young infant's ebesic in sposchiess bliss
A father a e 3 o •blaso upon Los son,
IVIIo panto to hate tome glory laurel won—
Fricndahip i strong band stretched qutokly out
to
The henr a t that higher throb. beside a Bras e,
Where sleeps some patriot wh J died that mid.
M.ght not fore, er wear a bell of chains—
A Howard Charming down great prison psdiss—
Los e even for a dog, or coma old rhea
Where we !issued clilOPhood's innocent tuft
grace—
And more than all, that phrensy sweet that folds
Sweethearts with (leaven's debelle perfume,
Nap, makes them Heaven stsAf—all
Perfeetton's own ineffable full bloom—
A swooning aetagy, tho !Slurs of bliss'
0 Bentatnent, thou art those tel Ibis'
iVhot would tho world without thee be'
4 gress,y et.), a deep, dark, weltering see
Of loathsome monsters—one rest, firtid curse,
Steaming Its stench upon the shuddering hni
rem.
—Er Annge.
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
—Fashionable—The Bellefonte ''Lasaes
—Punt+ thinks the Mormon. have rtaii
tired their Territory
—There Is raid to be a fire engine 200 years
old in Bethlehem, Pa."
—A littlo boy has walked all the way from
Warren, It I , to Sao Francisco
A law suit la pending ;n Chicago show
Ore nil a. half inches of land.
• lOral ehilaitgare hereon(
rated at ,ififllt•nchoels in ?finahville.
*Gen. Sickles has issued an order •utpen
ding elections in South Carolina.
--- 5 -Addiiirowilow has commissioned a col.
°red man to be captain in the Tennessee militia.
—The New York Senate, on Wednesday
voted 5105,000 (or aid to the destitute in the
South.
—Two thoasend men have been thrown
out of employment by the doting of liquor
mho'. in Bog..
—Pursuant to rote, the members of the
Minnesota Legislature visited a circus in •belly
on Wednesday weak.
—The Lousavilleans are enthusiastic ore ,
the project for buildings bridge user the Obl.
iter at that caty.
—The anniversary of the erseution o
Richmond was celeb:ated by the negroes o
That city )esterday.
—There were no deaths in the town o
Scarburg, 'Vermont last year, and there are a.
doctors ih the place.
-4The while vote of North Carolm• uode
the neer/detraction act, is estimated at 90 000
end the colored vote at 35,000
—Ananias William James Andrew Jackson
Jones is a registered colored voter in Washing:.
ton. He ought to vote.
'--rrhe a., of El 3 237 hes been subscribed
in Philadelphia for the starring people of the
ffouth, and Ell 006 In Boston.
--The colored people of Staunton, Ye., have
requested General dohn Echols to addrese them
on the present eituatiop of affairs.
—The Longworth Wine House in Cincin
nati', offers prenrhunr to the amount of SRO for
the beet wine grape of the country.
—Three Charles Smiths were recently uni
ted in matrimony to three Misses Smith. at tile'
same residence in a Kentucky town.
—An aged woman in Illinom who had long
been tortured by eicknees, dehberately set her
melt on fire and burned to death.
—The Spring&ld Republican *ay. G I
Duller is bottling himself up politically es tight
he did in hip mthlary name..
—The fact of next year being a levy year,
has added £l3 000 to the British military esti
mates. This is-oriiillay'e pay for the forces,
—Th o white women of Ohio hive pelltionsd
Congress to alloys negroes to sote. It is not
Ithat.liieck lambs should bare ~•
ballot to marry a while silt...
Southern paper use; "New England
are-an Alabama cotton mill more (bean she
feared all the regiments that Alabama sent to
the geld in the ate war.
Board of Trade banquet, la Char•
I eston, 15. C., on Tneedey evening, Governor On
made a speech. recommending compliance with
ties terms of Cmigress.
—The negroee Toted at a local election in
Jaaksborough, Campbell 000nty, Toupee. , " on
the 21st ult. They were the first votes east by
lorinlyetar. in that State !Inca 1834
—A German count is under arrest in Lou
stale, Kentucky, for marrying„tbree woman
here, two m Baltimma. and an 'benttre brigade
•t lediesin t lcew York. - The papers say he had
Ire on the brain.
—The people of the South cannot defend
their right. by arm., they are not allowed to
rote, and Congress bar. the doors of the COUTO
against them. Was there ever a more mounted
Cyrenny
—There is now 11•Ing la Itookoreek town
ship, Carroll menty, , lidiana, a woman named
Mrs. Elisabeth lidging, aged 110 years. She
1. in the enjoyment of good health and all ber
faculties.
—Lieut. (lea. Sharman haring obtained
no. of absence (or the mummer from the Prig•
dent and Goa. Grant, announces that he will
.ail for Europe early In Jane, aceotopaqed by
hie daughter.
—At a late ball at the Tuileries the Russian
Iglacess Kauai, Korsakow .are • dress this
sestarisl ofwaioh Irns completely invisible, ere
closely nes It severed tgitkitosh hot-house
TOM and almonds.
—Under radical rule tt takes 150 cents to
make one dollar, and seventeen dollars to pur
e WIG one barrel of doer. In democratic times
all the States were represented in Cosigned, led
cents made a dollar and STO dollars would pur
-1 ekes. • burel of dour.
• --,—One hsedred and twenty-three ltrensh
soldiers cantered by the Liberalists in It ortb.
ers4 Mexico, end secreted antil the Prima
troops had withdraws', have mostly been mar
'lend le cold blood, by order et Probela--
They wens taken eat otyrleoe "sad AN down.
one by one, nutll the lest wee belabored.
SINGULAR S Eerierraw. ono
, - ANCE.
- babgnarti dives au abstract of a curious
paper by M. A. Matigell, read before thi
Academy of Selena. It^ states that...am
llloy, 1866, the waters of all the streams
and springs of tke Pavincie of Naples and
the 'adjoiningciaoyr,. to dimialek alit
Juni!. So far there %as nothing remitta
ble, that being about that time an mum)
occurrence, but on Jane 29, to tha.earpria
of the inhabitants, the wain of the wells,
springs, and rivers or rivulets of the rota
try became auddeurdar, and diminish
ed mat rapidly. • ma was the ease
with the Carmignano canal, which supplies
Naples with water, and with another *anal
called Lague di Medici. But what eased
the greatest astonishment was the fact that
all the Osh of these didevent watenoureas •
came to the 'gada half dad, and were
caught in that elate by the maple In pri
digious quantities. On the litikk, Ow wa
ters became clear again, but they had ex- • •
perienoed.a diminitia of at least one fifth.
The wells fed biapriags, which on the
previous day were all dry, to fine water
again had to tie sunk deeper, and even then
the quantity obtained win but one half the
caner Mount. Sorrento was left entirely
without water, notwithetandiag it possesses
eleven largo. reservoirs, built in Julius
Cater . , time, and anaideride theaost re
tuarkable monuments of that period is this,
pal l or the country. Two of the many sr
taiali wells bored by M. Maga In the
valley of the Sebeto were filled with sand at
the same period, and It was with great dlt.
tinnily they were got in order again. One
of them, which generally supplies 2,000
litre. of water per minute, for several days
ejected upwards of 200 cable metres of
pumicestone sal !ratty tic sand. The cause
of these ,striiiiin phenomena is attributed
by M. kfauget to some greet subtenant,
convulsion, whereby a quantity of earbonli
acid must hpa also penetrated through the
large Maas . which diverge from Mount
Vesuvius and poisoned . the waters so as
...,...,
to stupefy the fish.
=
THE MEN WON'T PROPOSE
Because they are afraid of the 'oarsmen'
expenses of housekeeping. requires •
Unto fortune, o6w, to buy •
.hause, and
every artio's of furniture costs about three
times as mach as it did years ago. Young
men of spirit-4 end they are the only ones
worth having now) begin to count - the cost
of wedlock. When limy see Me extrava
gant length to which our daughters go in
their dress ; when 'they look at Ike splen
did mansions in which their , fathers live,
their minds begin to run in this channel:-
11m is a tiliarnr‘ girl ; in fact, too good
far me, but Ito pleas Boobs trustingsresture
to i condition inferior to the one in which
she now ends herself, would be dishonora
ble, slid Ismnat forgo the happiness of mar
rying her, even were she willing, until I
have o. Mined the 1130106 of placing her Id
o social position worthy of her." Aid
while he is bending his energies to bring
about this end, years creep on; opinions
have changed, view,' of life have altered ;
the affections have become chilled and lb*
minbiardened with its attrition, et men;
prefers have been diverted,"and in too
many cases an old bachelor and anold maid
occupy the plain which otherwise might
have been t h e abode of a happy family and
a delightful association.
Everybody ought to get maraled who can
boast of three things, fink a sound body;
second, a sound mind ; third, a good trade.
This as to men, And as to *omen, they
should p good health, tidhies andin
dustry. With these, any young
get as rich as they ought to be, or as rich
as is necessary to an enjoyable life, if they
will only go to housekeeping a little below
their ability
•r to be ede
The young should hard aware, to lies
within their means; to have ntompride in
the consciousness that they have a Willi
spare money at home, than in living In — ll
style which keeps them all the time cramp
ed in maintaining. Better to live in on.
room, with all the furniture your own, then
occupy a whole house with scarcely a their
or table paid Ter.—Ere/togs.
—lt is said (but then the,„Washingtoa
correspondents are such infamous tiara
generally, that we know not what tobelleve)
,thot Iteverd,p Johnson gives se a reason for
his self staa , Fyiug vote on the deetructien
bill et, irTsis bill domino{ beams. a law,
there is dangerthst "the next Congress will
parcel out the lands of the South among the
negroes." Congress has just
, as ,
right to parcel out the wi!eSAind diughtei s
of ell the white people, including Reverdy •
Johnson's, among the negroce. It may just
as well do one as the other. For ohs, we
could wish no swifter overthrow of the
negro party than snob an sot :would bring
about. If Reysrdy Johnson has really giv
en such an excuse fay his tillimobs vote, It
is but an moues, a fitlee mom, to draw of
attention from some real Motive which lies
behind. As Mr. Johnson has net been
looked upon as being Wend the reach of
money, we can better comprehend that as
the prime argument which bee adeeted bis
judgment. As' he cannot be riignrded as
want intellect, the cense °fur yor---
must be sought for at the expense of his
honor. We hays no soft words to wet. u
on any of the 1 wretches who
one after soother. "sold out" to the negro
perry. Lot 'beta be branded so deep that
nothing but eternity man wipeout the stains
of their sham !—Old Gourd.
MIDNIGHT F .—ln amerdance with
the wishes of the late Profaner Job H.
Alexander, who died on Saturday last at
his maiden's, No. 272 Neill Leslogien
street, his funeral took plane lea eastrethet
novel manner. at six o'clock last miming,
the body being removed from his resides.,
carried byalt persons, renewed by his or
lades* and friends on foot, to St. Luke's
Protestant Dpitietipal Church, oa Carey and
Lexington streets, where Ike proper xplig
ious eareineules were read by the Row. Dr.
Pinckney, an old friend and elametato of
deceased. The body then remained le . the
ohnroh until midnigbs,..diterkir after whit*
hour, in "trill compllsoce with Um espremi
ed desire of the demented is his last
was borne to St. Paul's Cemetery, on tits'
dormer of Fremont. and Sanaa streaky
where, after reading of the berhil
services, the vestals' wore etonedgeed to the
tomb. 'As the clock struck ewe this morn
lag, In the midst of a Poltlito hailstorm,
the coin, elegantly dm . 'hi bloat "MA
with luaideam• silver • Vie DM
erenlittrith vaul idalmge
number *fhb; malt friends, who eseolotegm•
Plod the body tole rive. TIM mane at.N
the burial** of -am aseibehmilly s ett is
character, the totems dmiloatee, 'Se Yet
hour, the' lurid *Mad MestinialeS' ilk••
theeemf the attendanta. the , eedimmrilash
far Oa dead, oil eddieel. IDS 'imMrstrirti.
elfeet..—Boltises ans.
—u i onlisootod qW 4 1 ,,,,probpon e
or lows woo onolbol, at 0•10,17
..'grades detios , l 01. AM. V
• bly• bo sorodiod dobips 16* twat
par. • •