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Collections and all business pertaining to his office will be attended to prompt •v• w Hi also attend to the sale or renting of real c-'tate. Instruments of writing carefully preptt- I Also fettling up partnership* and other ac ouatt. April, 1861—tf. IYLANK MORTOAOM. BO.NDH, FBOMINAKY 1 ' AND JITDOMKNT NOTES constiintly on I hand and for sale at the "Inquirer Office. ,u 1865. DFKBORKOW A LI'TZ, Editors and Proprietors. §tetnj. FOB THK 12W1.18R. WAITING FOB A BITE. I ascribed to Kate and Heckle. BY ESURIOR. Dear girls, you well remember, When we so gaily hied, To the "bright-eyed Juniata" To angle in its tide ; How on its grassy bank we sat And fished with all our might, But rainly threw in and out, Waiting for a bite. Old Sol ttnt down his scorching rays— Oh 1 'twas most awful hot, 04r heads were fairly in a broil, But not a bite we got. Yet still we plied the rod and line, Tossed in both left and right, But not a fin there seemed to be Waiting for a bite. The day wore on—we lingered still, In fact, 'twas growing late, But still we hoped some friendly fish Would, in pity, take the bait, But nary one was green enough— Couldn't see it in that light, Determined all to keep us there Waiting for a bite. Tie true full many a bite we got, Which made vexation worse, 'Twas only for your sakes, dear girls, I didn't rave and curse. Gt ats -and musketoes sucked our blood, Fell vampires in their flight, We looked as though we measles had Waiting for a bite. We plodded on from "hole to hole We crottcd to 'tother tide ; We scratched our faces in the brush, And waded mud beside, Until at last quite worn out, And in a sorry plight, Despair within our hearts we felt Waiting for a bite. The perspiration poured in streams, Like butter rolls we felt, Our cases seemed alarming, girls, I feared that we would melt. But still this desperate state of things Though causing some affiright Our purpose fixed did not divert, Waiting for a bite. Confound the fish ! they "wouldn't take," Oh ! 'twas a bitter cup, And mortified we turned toward home Most loth to give it up. Away we threw the rustic rods, Each gave a sigh outright, And thought we'd had a wretched time Waiting for a bite. Wo strode through many a weedy field, We crept o'er ditch and bank, Until we reached our home again, Most hungry lean and lank, But there a sweet—a tempting scene Did greet our longing sight, Rich viands on the table spread Waiting for a bite. Like odor from Arabia's iand, That coffee's perfume rose, And, oh! delicious fowl and ham Their incense filled the nose. We did not keep them waiting long, We ate with appetite, And felt that we no longer were Waiting for a bite. But, yes, we e'en are waiting still, And will to end of life, For in this funny world of ours There seems to be a strife— All strive the hujijent bite to get— Each has a prize in sight, Active, doing, stili pursuing Waiting for a bite. A young lady recently remarked that she could not understand what her brother George Henry saw in the girls, that he liked them so well, and that, for ber part, she would not give the company of one young man for that of twenty girls. DOWN ON THE IRISH. —The Chicago Times a howling Democratic organ in the North West, has commenced the abuse of the Irish population of that city, for the active part they took in the war to crush rebellion, and for otherwise supporting the National au thority. It is a little strange that after the Democratic leaders find they can no longer use the Irish, they should resort to abuse of that class of our fellow citizens, as the best way of exhibiting their spiteful resentment. CONUNDRUMS. —Why cannot two slender persons ever become great friends? Be cause they will always be slight acquaintan ces. Why is a crow a brave bird ? Because he never shows the white feather. Why is a person who never lays a wager as bad as a regular gambler ? Because be is no better. Why is dough like the sun? Because, when it rises, it is light JiajfA young lady of New Bedford was in timately acquainted in a family in which there was a sweit bright little boy of some five years between whom and herself there sprang up a very tender friendship. One day she said to him— 'Willie, do you love me ?' 'Yes indeed!' he replied, with a clinging kiss. 'How much?' 'Why, I love you—l love you—up to the sky.' Just then, his eye fell on his mother. Flinging his arms about her and kissing her passionately said — 'But, mamma, 1 love you way up to God!' SUCCESS IN BUSINESS.— Twenty composi tors in a printing-office, twenty apprentices in % work-shop, twenty young men in a vil lage ; all want to get along in the world, nnd expect to do so. One of the composi tors will own a newspaper and become an influential and prosperous citizen; one of the apprentices will become a master me chanic , one of the villagers will get a hand some farm and live like a patriarch. But which is to be the lucky individual ? Lucky! There is no luck about it: the thing is al most as certain as the ' 'rule of three. The young fellow who will distance his competi tors is he who masters his business, who preserves his integrity, who lives cleanly and purely, who never gets in debt, who gains friends by deserving them, and puts his money into a savings bank. There are some ways to fortune which look shorter i than this, but the staunch men of the com munity, the men who achieve something really worth having, ull traveled along this road. A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION. LITERATURE AND MORALS. PIWTTIMEMTJSI. THE PUBJLIC DEBT ON SEPTEM BER Ist. The present exhibit of Secretary MOCUL LOCH affords the gratifying news that the Treasury of the T nited States paid its own way through the month of August The Taxes ana Customs begin to telfmost sub stantially against any further considerable borrowing. There is no increase of the Pub lic Debt since the close of July, save a tri fling difference in the grand total of less than a half a million. The Gold balances on hand have been increased about ten millions and the Treasury now holds the large totffl in Gold and Silver of forty-five una a riafy muuontj a sum un in the history of the Department. The Currency balances are not so heavy as at the close of July, but the unadjustea requisi tions on the Treasury are more closely set tled up than on any previous report during the War. The Funded Debt bearing Inter est in Gold is a few hundred thousand dollars less than on the first of August. The Legal Tender Notes a million less. These facts are most cheering in several points of view, but chiefly because they point to an early maximum of the Public Debt, rather below than above the prevail ing round estimate of three thousand mil lions, when everything fe. settled up. If, as we now believe, the Secretary can carry on his finances through the next three months as he did in August, to the meeting of Con gress, on his resources from Taxation and Customs, there would be a strong probabili ty of a permanent arrest of borrowing, ex cept to fund previously outstanding obliga tions in the shape of Currency and Certifi cates. The authorized limit of $150,00*), 000 on the line of Deposits has not been reached, and we have no aoubt the Secretary will be offered in the meantime, a sufficient sum in currency on 6 per cent, interest, and also Gold for safe keeping, free of interest, (pro vided he should conclude to accept the last named trust, which, we suspect, has been urged upon him since recent events in Wall street,) to give him on deposit the full total authorized by law. The internal revenues in September and October, if not in November, must, from the present prospects of trade, and the cir cumstance that a large share of the last in come tax remains to he collected this month, continue on a large scale. The Customs in Gold will scarcely continue so large as in Au gust—about seventeen and a half or eigh teen millions at all the ports—hut Septem ber will probably yield quite as much as Ju ly, say thirteen and a half or fourteen mil lions, and place, with his present Gold bal ancesj a reserved power ot at least fifty mil lions in Gold to raise Currency, by its con version or gradual sale in the market, if needful for the general conduct of the Trea sury or to prevent his Customs accumula tions from stimulating the premium on Gold, lhat Mr. McCuiaoch thoroughly under stands this last important consideration — important to the interests of trade as well as public confidence in the Currency —is at tested by the steadiness of Gold since the 20th July, and the decrease of Gold gam bling, on what is called the Gold Exchange in Broad street, since it was discovered that he would not suffer the very richness of his Customs revenue, to promote an upward speculation. There would be less cause for rejoicing in the present remarkable buoyancy in trade and neavy_ receipts in Gold tor Customs, if the latter indicated an overgrown, and in the end, exhaustive importation of foreign mer chandise; we mean, exhaustive of the reas onable ability of the country to pay for the goods otherwise than by greatly diminishing its Gold and Silver resources of sixty mil lions a year. But such is not, yet at least, the case. Our tariff duties are Working, by the amplest revenue standard, to a different result, and the adjustment being for the greater part by specifics, rather than ad va lorem*, they are not so much affected as un der the system of 1864, by the constant changes in foreign and e.ucn, J values. They are the same on sugars whether the East In dia crop be a large or a moderate one; the same on iron, whether British production be overstrained or held to a fair average. At this part, in July and August, the Govern ment collected $23,000,000 in gold customs on $46,000,000 or $48,000,000 foreign mer chandise taken for consumption, In July and August,! 860, before the war, the value of Foreign Goods taken for consumption at this point was .$48,889,261, on which the Government received only $8,994,358 in Customs. That the present Tariff is not more prohibitory than the old one, so far as prohibition is judged practically by the needs of the country, is made quite apparent by this comparison. But our purpose Is not to discuss the Tar iff, but only, while congratulating our read ers on the state of the Public Debt and the prosperity of our Customs revenue, specifi cally devoted to its support, to say that no part of this prosperity is due to over-impor tation, any more than our increasing income and excise revenue are due to exhaustive taxation.—JY Y. Times. MEN FIND THEIR. OWN LEVEL. The flattery with which our assembled working classes are apt to be served, un doubtedly contributes .to keep many of them content to make no higher attainments. If they are not received with open arms by the educated and refined, they attribute it to their occupation, not to themselves; to the unreasonable pride and prejudice of others, and not to their own deficiency. But water is not the only thing that will find its own level. Genius, wit, learning, ienorance, are each attracted to its like. Two persons were overheard talking in the room where they were at work- Lord 1 knowed him well when a boy," said one. "He used to live with his grandfather next door to us. Poor as Job's turkey; but I ain't seen him since till I hearn im in hall t'other night, Don t s' pose he'd come a nigh me now with a ten foot pole. Them kind o' folks has short memories, ha! ha! Can't tell who a poor working man is, nohow." No, no, good friend, you are in the wrong. There is, indeed, a great gulf between you and your early friend, but it is not poverty. To say that it is, is only away you have of flattering your self-love. For if you watch those who frequeut your friend's house you will find many a one who lives in lodgings as plain as your own among them. No, sir; it w not because you work, for he is as hard a worker as you are; but because, (begging your pardon) you are vulgar and ignorant; because you sit in your sittiug room at home with your hat on and smoke your pipe or spit tobacco juice on the carpet floor ; be cause you plunge your own knife into the butter and your own fork into the toast, having used both in your eating with oqual freedoms because your voice is ioud, your tone swaggering, and jour grammar horrible; because your two paths from the old school hou,*c diverged ; his let! upward, yours did not; and the fault is noi his. You both chose. He chose to cultivate his mental powers; you chose not to do so. BEDFORD, Pa.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1860. THE POLICY OP ENGLAND. > There is no historical fact better estab lished than that the British government, more than two centuries ago. instituted a system of protection to the infant manufac turers of England, and maintained it per sistently until a very recent period. So rig idly was the principle maintained for a long time that the importation of many fabrics was absolutely interdicted, while skilled ar tisans were introduced from the continent at heavy expense, in order that the several branches of industry in which they were skilled might be established in England, and her own people be instructed in them. This was done, not in a few branches, but many, and the holicy was persisted in as long as it was neede J to enable the English people to compete successfully with those of other countries more adv&ced in loth skill and capital. And this policy was eminently successful. Under it the English people became at length among the moat skillful in the world in a vast variety of avocations. But this was not all. It was necessary, in order to gain a su premacy which could not be rivaled, that capital should accumulate to such an extent that her prineely manufacturers could com mand as much money as they wanted at very low rates of interest, often as low as four per cent As for labor, the supply kept pace with the demand; for, populous as England was rectoned to be at the beam ing of the 18th century, its people quaaru- Sled in number bttween that time and the ate at which the protective policy was re laxed, some tweny- years ago. Had England alopted the policy of free trade in the middle, or even towards the close, of the last century she would have been ruined. The competition of the conti nental countries would nave borne down her manufactures, for their growth was slow, and she jabored under many disadvantages. But, under her steady system of protection which no changes of party ever disturbed, her coal and iron asserted their power; her resources and the skill of her people were developed; her agriculture flourished amazingly; all interests advanced in an ever increasing ratio, until she became the most opulent and powerful nation on the globe. Her manufactures built up and rave employ - ment to her commerce; her ships carried away her various and valuable fabrics and brought back raw materials to be worked up and increased ten, twenty, fifty fold in value, and then sent hack, perhaps, to the very places they came from. Without her man ufactures what would the commerce of En gland have amounted to? Comparatively nothing. And without her long-continued protective policy, what would her manufac turing industry amounted to? Just about as little. She oould not have begun t® man ufacture. But now England is so rich, so strong, so thoroughly established, that she can afford to challenge the world to adopt the policy of free trade, her statesmen well knowing that no country can successfully compete with her. Npw the United States is in this reepeet, relatively, just about where England mm t the middle of the last century. We say rel atively, for we are just about as able to dis pense with protection now as she was then. The day will come, however, when we too shall be able to challenge the world to a 1 . ~ r .Jr— .t.n —v„t,u. game ot tree craue; uu we duU not be half so long in reaching that period as England was; but we have not reached it yet by a long way. There is an unerring criterion by which to know when we may sifely adopt the policy of free trade with Eunpe, and that is, when the average prices of both labor and capital shall be the same there and here. The dis parity between these prices here and there mark the degree of protection that this country needs. So long as the European manufacturer can send his fabrics here at a satisfactory profit to limself just so long is our tariff of duties too low for our own na tional prosperity. England has set us an excellent example in this matter; and we will show our sagaci ty by doing as she did, and not as she now preaches. THE FKEEDMEN IN TENNESSEE. -NEW YORK, September 2.— The Time* Washington special says: A communication has been received at the Freedmen's Bureau from General Clinton B. Fisk, Assistant Commissioner for Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, dated Augußt 26th, from Chattanooga, in reference to Freedmen's affairs in Tennessee. He states that it has been his continual effort to break up all contraband camps in his District, encourage the freedmen to seek labor in the country, and not congregate in citigp and towns, and he has been measureably successful. He has broken up every contraband camp in East Tennessee, and at this date not one hundred colored people, and eastward from Chattanooga are drawing rations from the Government. In this region he finds fifty whites to one colored person subsisting off the Government. The camps at Huntsville and Tunnell Hill will be immediately hroken up. Those at Gallatin and Henderson are colored. The colored people who came into East Tennessee from North Carolina, are returning to their old homes. The Legisla true of Tennessee at the approaching re-un ion, it is expected, will conoede the right of colored people to prosecute in the civil courts, and give testimony in all the courts. The desire on the part of the colored people to be educated is indeed marvelous. They literally hunger and thirst after knowledge, and in many places are themselves contribu ting liberally for the support of schools. The immense wagon trains, numbering five hundred wagons, with an ambulance train, which was recently organised for an over land trip to Leavenworth, Kansas, have started on their journey. They are exnec tcd to reach their destination in the middle of November. A WRITER'S RESPONSIBILITY. He who proposes to print his lucubrations should in the first place have something to say, and then he should study how best to say it. No man should write a line intended to meet the public eye who does not appre ciate the moral responsibility which he in curs by that act The tastes and capacities of the readers of a publio journal are as widely different as those q[ the writers who cater to their literary necessities; and every article, however illogical or poorly written, strikes home somewhere, and exerts an in fluence upon some one for good or evil. Your words once printed cannot be recalled. —They float out on the great sea of human ity, whispering in a thousand read? ears les sons fraught with life or death. They raise a ripple in the boundless sea of huinam thought which will expand and flow on forever. By the very act of writing you as sume superior knowledge. Keep the grave responsibility steadily before you, and en deavor to make your generation wiser and more virtuous than it would have been if you had not lived. "Let all the ends thou aim'st at be'thy country's Thy God's and Truth's." GEN. LOGAN'S APPEAL TO KEN TUCKY. . Itio* General Logan, in a speech at Lou isynta urging the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, argued thus: It is said if the slaves are made free, Ken tucky will be without labor. This is a great mistake. If made free, the probabilities i are that they will remain, and for wages, la bor with much more energy than heretofore. If not made free, with no laws to protect the institution, surrounded as you are by free states, offering to them an asylum and wa ges for their labor, thoy will desert their i masters and find for themselves a home in a foreign state, where the spirit of freedom is universal. And would it not be better for Kentucky to show her magnanimity, her patriotism, her desire for a bating peace and the return of fraternal iteettngs, by at om* doing that which, if she does not do, will soon do itself? Think of the great desire on the part of the civilized world that the chains of slavery, still clanking in your State, should be stricken from the limbs of the black man by the generosity and Christian spirit of your own people. Let your cloud kissing hills and smiling valleys once test the energies of free labor, and ere Long the number you are behind your sister states in population you will gather, the deficiency in wealth you will accumulate. Enterprise, capital, intelligence, and Christianity will leap for joy over the new and bright pros pects before them. Kentucky will then take the poiition she ought to occupy among her sister States, and claim rank and respecta bility second to none. Our land is swarming with thousands of cripples; some have lost legs and others arms: why do not these men go abroad among the people and hold up their shatter ed limbs and tell the slaveholder, "This is what your institution has cost me. While you were basking in the sunshine of safety at home I was at the front. I return now to my home to drag out, through a few lingering years, a miserable life." Oh, that I had the power to-night to bring together all the slaveholders of this land, and have them look on in solemn si lence, while the crippled, the widows and orphans that have been made by this war, could pass before them in grand review and tell their tales of misery and woe that slave ry has brought upon them; were their hearts net made of stone, they would melt while (razing on such a scene, and with one voice ct the land be at once rid of the curse that has caused such a dreadful scene. Let us cast our eye down along the banks of the mighty father of waters, and then returning start again at Perryville, and glance along that broad and deep channel over which the red tide of battle rolled through the gorges of the Cumberland and down along the plains of Georgia on to the sea. Then pursue it around through the Carolinas, to Raleigh, and all over the crimsoned soil of Virginia, and as youjeount the almost countless graves that lie along the banks of that river of blood, thick as "autumn leaves in Vallam brosa," pause for one moment to contem plate tha xoax of team, tbe par*yKßa of unutterable agony, all these must have cost when "somebody's darling" had to fall at every blow, and then tell me, if you can. when you know that slavery caused it all, can you still cling to it ? It has filled all the land with mourning. It has deluged your lanu wiut intunuu utouu. it nas snapped in twain the tondcrest ties of social society. It has caused desolation to reign in princely palaces, where happiness had always held its revels. It has smitten with want and woe millions who were born in the lap of luxury. llow can any mortal man desire to see such a cause of sorrow and suffering, injury and infamy, hypocrisy and hate, perpetua ted among the institutions of his country? In heaven's name I implore you, strike at once and deal it a death-blow. Let it lie f>roclaimed to the ends of tne earth, that we ive in a land of universal liberty, where the fires of patriotism, being rekindled, will flow on as brightly as over, in a Union that as battered down the walls of treason. OUT OF ONE'S ELEMENT. I have thought of a swan, clumsily wad dling along on legs that cannot supports its weight, when I have witnessed a great schol ar trying to make a speech on a platform, and speaking miserably ill. The great schol ar had left his own clement, where he was graceful and at ease; he had come to anoth er, which did not by any means suit him. And while he floundered and stammered through his wretched little speech, I have beheld fluent emty pates grinning with joy at the badness of his appearance. They had got the great scholar to race with them, they in their element, and he out of his. They had got him into a duel, giving them the choice of weapons. And having beat him (as logicians 3ay) ricundum quid, they plain ly thought thev had beat him mnpltaUr. You may have been amused at the articles by which men, not good at anything but very fluent speaking, try to induce people infinite ly superior to them in every respect save that one, to make fools of themselves by miserable attempts at that thing they could pet do. The fluent speakers thought, in fact, to tempt the swan out of the water. The swan, if wise, will decline to come out of the water. I have beheld a famous aoatoiaut unim a goose. He did it very ill. And the faith of the assembled company in his knowledge of anatomy was manifestly shaken. You may have seen a great and solemn pßloso pher seeking to make himself agreeable to a knot of pretty young girls in a drawing room. The great philosopher failed in lis anxious endeavours, while a brainless cornet succeeded to perfection. Yet. though the cornet eclipsed the philosopher in this one respect, it would be unjust to say that, on the whole, he was the philosopher's supeii or. — The Country Parson. Tim INCOME RKTI HNS.—It is a mistake to imagine that because a person's income does not actually exceed the amount author ized by law, he need make no returns. A knowledge of this fact will prove a benefit to those so situated who have received no blanks, but who have not supposed it nec essary to return them with the requisite statement Kvery one who has received a a blank, no matter what may be the amount, of his income, or even if, in fact, he have no income at all, must make a return with his blank before the time has expired, or he will be assessed by the District Assessor to the amount he may deem proper, the law al lowing no appeal from hit assessment. Tut TONGUE.—A white fur on the tongue atteuds simple fever and inflamatiou. Yel lowuess, of the tongue attends a derange ment of the liver and is common to billions and typhus fevers. A tongue vividly red on the tip or edge, or down the centre, or over the whole surface, attend* inflamation of the mucous membrane of the stomach or bowels. A white velyet tongue attends mental disease. A tongue red at the tips, becoming dry, brown ana glazed atteuds ty- j phus state. VOLWjXff. S* A REFORM NEEDED. [\V clip the following from one of our exchanges because it is equally true in our columns, and the subject deserves more at tention than it usually receives, j There is scarcely a sheet in any of our cit ies fit to be taken into a respectable house. The advertisements of wretched quacks dis figure one column. Another is filled with, 'Wanted—Correspondence." Still anoth er contains notices of rile "Books" and ' Circulars.' The morning paper will bring more corruption into the hands of a man's children than any other like amount of prin ted Matter going. We have the protection of law against a certain style of literature. 1 he ordinary newspaner is rapidly approach ing a point where it will be necessary to ; bring us the provisions of that law in defense ! oi outrage .1 jtUc Uiccr.oy. | \\ c know where foui books have been in j traduced among the young people of our public schools, and have circulated among tuem for months, to the ruin of many, and the morning paper which the fathers took had informed the children where to send for these issues of the devil's presses. It is the duty of every man who at all re gards the morals and purity of his children to shut out every newspaper which contain, these advertisements. It is purely a ques tion of money with the publishers. They, oi course, must have no principle on the matter. They would publish anything whatever, it is clear, if they could make it pay. The decent part of the community must take the matter in band and make its wishes imperative in this respect. It is done. Stop the paper at once. V lthdraw your advertising patronage. Let the merchant and banker and manufacturer refuse to have his honorable business adver tised side by side with the cards of "Satan's recruiting sergeants.'' A course treatment I of this sort wili soon mend the matter. The appeal to the pocket is unfortunately about tne only appeal that many conductors of "a "O®-press' are capable of appreciating. If quacks and villains must advertise their wares and their wants, let them be forced to do it in sheets which shall go forth as the professed organs of the wretched classes. The police will deal with them as with other nuisances. And let the community, iu self defence, force publishers to take their choice. Let us insist on having ratsbane labelled. >\ e have weekly, al most daily applications for the insertion of advertisements of the class referred to. We always put them in— our waste basket. If we cannot sustain a paper without thus pandering to the low and devilish appetites of depraved human nature we prefer to dig gravel for a living. THE THINKING-CAP. "There is no time lost in sharpening the scythe," is an old maxim among mowers, and the same principle applies to every de partment of activity. The tourist who would take an intelligent view of the scenes through which lie is to pass, first sits down and studies up the geography of the ooun try, and also the historical associations with tbc different localities. The farmer who would do his work to the best advantage must first think well over it, even if it is only laying out the beds of a garden. There is nothing but what we can do better by thinking over it A great mathematician said if his life de- j ponded on working & problem in two inin utes, lie wonld spend one of the minutes in thinking what was the best manner in which to do it Knowledge is a great nower in the world which works such marvels. It was thinking over it that brought to perfection the won derful steam-engine, whose might exceeds all that is fablea of the giants of classic his tory. Your thoughtless "hit or miss" sort of people would never have hit on such an invention. Boys think—think hard—over whatever comes in your way that is worth a second thought. No one can tell who of you will strike out the next great invention. There will be a great many in the next twenty years. But if you never come out inventors whom the world delighteth to honor, you can certainly be superior workers in your respective callings. You can command respect for your thoroughness in business. You can get a name for a reliable sound judgment on matters in which you are en gaged, because you thoroughly understand ail the principles and are familiar with their application. This can only be the case after patient and continued obser vation. There is no fact that bears on the point that you can rightly call of no impor tance. The most trifling facts have lea to the most impoitant results. There is noth ing seemingly more fragile and useless than a spider's web, yet one suggested to an ob serving mind the idea of the suspension bridge. Be sure to put on your "thinking-cap" as soon as you wake in the morning, and do not put it off till sleep seals up your eyelide for the night.— Country Gentleman. LEGALITY OF MILITARY COURTS. The Attorney General, in response to the inquiry of President Johnson, whether per sons charged with the offense of having as sassinated the late President, should be tried before a military tribunal or a civil court, gave a written opinion sustaining the former mode of trial. This opinion has been prin- Idl. It lu*l uUal.ua tlutMi exist under and according to the Constitu tion in time of war; that the law of natious constitutes part of the law of the land, and that the laws of war constitute the greater part of the law of nations. The laws of war authorize human life to be taken without legal process, or that legal process contem plated by the provisions in the Constitution are relief on to show that judiciary tribu nals are the Constitutional law of nations, which is the result of experience and wis dom of ages, has decided that jayhawkers, bandittis, &c., are offenders against the law of nations and of war, and as such amenable to the military. Our constitution has made these laws part of the law of the land. Obedience to the constitution and to the law requires that the military should do their whole duty. They must not only meet and fight the enemies of the country in open bat tle, but they must kill or take the secret ene mies of the country, and try and execute them according to law. The civil tribunals of the country cannot rightfully interfere with the military in the performance of their high, arduous and perilous, but lawful duties. The Attorney General characterizes Booth and his associates as secret, active public enemies, and he concludes with the opinion, that the persons who are charged with the assassination of the President, committed the deed as public enemies, as I believe they did, and whether they did or did not. is a question to be decided by the tribunal before which they are tried. They not only can, but ought to be tried before a military tribu nal. If the persons charged have offended against the laws of war, it would be palpa bly wrong for the military to hand fchvm over to theoivil courts, as it w<.iilx. —Costly ap paratus and splendid cabinets have no mag ical powers to make scholars. In all circum stances, as a man is under God the maker of his fortune, so is he the maker of his own mind. The Creator has so constituted the human intellect that it can grow only by its own action, and by its own action it will most certainly and necessarily grow. Every man must therefore in an important sense educate himself. His book and teacher are but helps; the work is his. A man is not educated until he has the ability to summon as an act of emergency, all his mental powers in vigorous exercise to effect his proposed object. It is not the man that has seen the most, or has read most, who can do this; such a one is in danger of being borne down like a beast of burden, by an overloaded mass of other men's thoughts. Nor is it the man who can boast merely of native vigor and capacity; the greatest of ail ths war riors that went to the seige of Troy, had not the pre-eminence because nature had given tim nfrpnortV, vried *h< Uuwesf ow, out because tey-ductplme had taught him hove to head it. W HTIB N DOWB. —The Democrat* party ' is just now engaged in raising the ery or "ne gro equality,' 1 negro toting," Ac., in or der to distract the attention of the peorle, and pore especially the soldiers from their damning record of the last three years. They hope by raising fhlae issues, to escape the merited obloquy that rests on them on account of their traitorous course during the existence of the rebellion. It won't win. The people cannot be humbugged in that manner, and the soldiert are not children to be frightened by the cry of negro equality, raised by the Democratic party. They have not forgotten the party nor the men who de nounced theui as 'murderer s," "thieves," "Lincoln hirelings," as will be pretty well ascertained by the vote this fall. The sol diers have not forgotten their old enemies, and honeyed words, and "soft-soaping' generally will not help the Democratic party any, when applied to the "brave hoys in blue." BEAUTIFUL AB TRP*- R ~^ * teraaid: "Flowers art noi Di. ufs ' might know from the eaxe betaken or them everywhere ; not one unfinished, no* one bearing the marks of a brush or Fringing the eternal borders ot mountaia winters, gracing the pulseless bread; of tM gray, -; d granite eTeowhere tbey we Murderers do not ora J Wjar roses ia their buttou-hofcs. v tUaunj Ast ; jnuugandfi" SaII tmubi q they are JM