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BY S. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1865.
VOL. 11.-NO. 49.
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A deduction triil be made to yearly advertisers. .
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1RVIN BROTIJEXtS. Dealers in Square Sawed
Lumber. lrj Goods, Groceries, Flour, Grain,
Ac , Ac, i'.urnside Pa., Sept. 2:Ji
T FREDERICK LEITZINGEtt, Manufacturer of
V II kinds of Stone-ware. Clearfield. Pa. Or
der? solicited wholesale or retail. Jan. 1, 1 863
(NlMXS .t EAKRETT, Attorneys at Law. Clear
, field. Pa. -May 13- IStM.
n. j. cras. : : : : : : walteb babrbtt.
OCEUT J. WALLACE, Attorney at Law. Clear
field, Pa Office in Shaw's new row. Market
street, opposite Nauglo's jewolry store May 26.
H" rVAUGLK, "Watch and Clock Maker, and
. dealer in Watches, Jewelry, Ac. Room in
Graham s row, Market street. oy- '-
1 r BUCIIER SWOOPE. Attorney at Law.Clear
11 fipld.Pa. Offct inGrahirm's Row. fourdoo s
- .Lnm Uavntrtn'a store. Nov. 10.
IVCitr VI JTfrf,Un "
11
",TSVICK 1ICPTON, Dealers in Drutrs,
' t..i;..; P.iitit. Oils. Stationary. Perfume
rv. Fancy Goods, Notions, etc., etc Market street,
Cl-arfield, Pa Jnno, 2. 104.
-T P KU fTZER, dealer in Dry Goods. Cloth
1 . in?. Hardware. Queensware, Groceries. I ro
Tisi. nAo. Front Street, above the Academy,
CleaiGcld.ra. , APr"
1 ILLIAM ITjKWIN, Marketstrect, Clearfield,
V Pa , De.iler in Foreign and Domestic Mer
c'nandise. Hardware, Queensware, Groceries, a ud
f.tniily articles generally. ov '"
THN GVELICH. Mm.ufiictiiroT ot an K.mas oi
Cabinet-ware. Market street. Clearfield, Pa
lie also makes to order Coffins, on short notice, and
a'tcnds.t'uuerals with a hearse. April), o'J. .
ia M. WOODS. Pbacticino Piivsk ian, and
I J Examining Surgeon for Pensions,
offico ?outh-vest corner of Second and Cherry
btrei t. Clearfield. Pa. January 21, 1SG3.
rnllOMAS J. M'CFLLOL'GH. Attorney at Law.
JL ClearOeld. Pa. Office, east of the - Clearfield
co. Lank. Deeds and other lcal instruments pre
pared with promptness and accuracy. July 3.
C MT.N' ALLY, Attorney! Law. ClenrGeld,
Pa Practices in Clearfield and adjoining
- . . i , i - r i o-
counties. UMe :n new ura uuu'uuk . j
t u, 2-1 street, one door south of Lanieb'a Hotel..
1 ICRARD MOSSOP, Dealer in Foreign and Do
j li raestic Dry Goods, Groceries, Flour, Bacon,
Liquors, Ac. Koom, on Market street, a few doors
we.it ol JoiiDttl Office. Clearfield, Pa. Apr27.
I -R RIMER & TEST, Attorneys at Law.Clear-
I J field. Pa. Will attend promptly to nil legal
and other business entrusted to their care in Clear
Cel 1 arid adjoining counties. August 6. 1 S.;f.
.
riMIOMAS W. MOORE. Land Surveyor and Con-
1 vcyancer. Office at his residence, i mile east
of Pennvi!I l'ostoffice a ldress. Grampian Mills
Decis and other instruments of writing neatly
executed. June 7th, lrt.ij-ly.
"7.M. ALBF.xiT & 1511'J'S, Dealers in Dry Goods,
W t roceries, Hardware, Queensware. Flour,
llacon, etc.. Woodlun I, Clearfield county. Penn'a.
Also, extensive dealers in all kinds of sawed lum
ber, shingles, and square timber. Orders solici
tp,L Woodland. Aug. 19th. Itfii3.
AUCTION KER. The undersigned having
been Licensed an Auctioneer would inform
the citizens of Clearfield county that he will at
tend to calling sales, in any part of the county,
whenever colled upon. Charges moderate
Address. JOHN M QUILKIN.
May 13 Bower Po., Clearfield co., Pa.
AUCTION KER. The undersigned having
been Licenced an Auctioneer, would inform
the citizens of Clearfield county that he will at
tend to calling sales, in any part of the county,
whenever called upon. Charges moderate.
Address. NATHAN TEL RISHEL,
Feb. 22. 188.1. Clearfield, Pa.
T ICEXSF.l Al t'TIONECR. WILLIAM
MJl M BLOOM, of Pike township, desires to in
form his friends and the public generally that he
has taken out a License as an A FCTION'EEU, and
will attend to the cry ing of sales in any part of
the county at the sliorttat notice, and at the most
Ti-aonable charges. Address, either personally
or bv letter, ehiier at Curwensville or Bloom
ingvillc. May I, lStia. If.
FABMBRS'
l V T I' A L FIR K 1SSI1R.VMUE COMPA
NY OF YORK, l'A.
Injures against lo?s or damage by firo. It is the
s iie.-t company in the State, and has made no as-n's.-iuerits
since its establishment, and hence it is
tie Mii.t economical. 6. J. ROW, Agent.
June 21. IStii. Clearfield, Pa
AI7IIISKERS! WHISKERS! Doyou want
Wh'ukers or Moustaohes? Our Grecian
Compound will forca them to grow on the sujfth
"t faco or chin, or hair on bald heads, in Six
Weens. Price, SI. 00 Sent by mail anywhere,
eloselv sealed, on reedpt of price. Address,
WAR'S Ell &. CO.. Box V06. Brooklin,N. York.
March 20th. 1SG5. '
KEYSTONE MAKLLK WORKS,
Woodland. Clearfield county. Pa.
J B1NX Df.HAAS, respectfully informs the cit-
izens of Clearfield, and adjoining counties, mat
he hag just received fine stock of foreign and
domestic marble, which he will work into Monu
ments, Tombs. Head and Foot stones. Door-steps.
Window sills and Lintels, Table, Stand and Bu
reau tops. Ao Ac., on reasonable terms and short
notice AH persons in want of anything in his
line will pleaseeall. or address him by letter, at
Woodland. Clearfield couuty, Pa. Orders by mail
will receive prompt attention. JuIy2C.'65-y.
HAUPT & CO., at Milesburg, Pa.f continue
to furnish castings of every description at
short notice. They have the best assortment of
patterns in the country for steam and wstcr-mills
of every description. AH kinds of machine and
plow castings furnished - NewWorhi and Hatha
way cook-stoves always on hand. They m:ike 4-hor-e
sweep and 2-horse tread-power threshing
machines pric at shop, $150 with shaker ana
i0 feet of strap. Warranted to give satisfaction
in threshing, and kept good to thresh one crop,
free ot charge. June 2-. 18rta-y.
Isaac Hacpt, at Bellefonte, continues to take
risk for insurance in any good stock company in
the State. Also in New York: the Royal and Et
na at Hartford ; and the Liverpool and London,
capital $8,000,000.
PROVISIONS. Flour, bacon, lard, cheese,
dried beef, dried fruit, received regularly, at
the store vf Mar. 22, J. P. KRATZER.
detect goctty.
GOOD NIGHT, MY CHILD..
Good night my child good night !
May angels bright, . -V
ith glorious wings outspread,
Surround thy bed.
And gently scan thy closed eyes
Till morn arise.
With its refreshing beams of light.
Good night, my child ! good night;
Good night, my child ! good night !
May Ha whose sight
Extends from pole to pole,
Wa'ca ovyr thy soul,
And keep thee guileless all thy days
From evil way9,
And learn to walk his holy ways upright
Good night, my child ! "good night!
Good night, mv child! good night !
Let thy delight
Be in the constant love
Of Him above '.
And always in thy daily prayer,
Implore Him there,
That lie would still uphold thee in Ilia might,
Good night, my child ! good night!
THE CHAEACTER OP LINCOLN.
Of all the tributes paid to the character
of AuitAiiASf Lincoln, that, contaiuod ia
the address of Or. Holland to the citizens ot
Springfield, JMjss., i.s the most beautiful
and touching. We extract :i paragraph on
the Christian character of the late Presi
dent: We loved and honored Mr. Limcoln be
cause he was a Christian. 1 can never
think of that toil-worn man, rising long be
fore his household, and spending an hour
with Ills Maker and his Bible, without tears.
In that silent hour of communion, he has
drawn from the fountain which has fed all
these qualities which have so won upon our
lui.h tt iil love. Ah, wtyut tears, u bat pray
ers, what aspirations, what lamentations,
what struggles, have been witnessed by the
four walls ol that room! A3'C, what food
have the angels brought him there ! There
day after tiav, while we have been sleeping,
has he knelt a'id prayed for us prayed for
the country, orayed lor victory, prayed for
wisdom and guidance, prayed for fctrength
for his great. mission, prayed for the accom
plishment of his great purposes. There has
he iound consolation in trial, comrort in ue
feat and disaster, patience in reverses, cour-
age for . labor, wisdom in perplexity, and
peace in the consciousness of Joo's approv
al. 1 he man who was so humbie and so
brotherly among men, was bowed with
mm humility before uod. it was
while standing among those who had laid
dou u their lives for us. that he irave his
heart to One who had laid down his life tor
him. A praying President? A praying
statesman r A praying politician . A pray
ing commander-in-chief of our armies and
navies? Our foremost man, our highest
man, our august ruler, o-ar noble; t uignita
ry, kneeling a simple hearted child before
his Heavenly Father? Oh, when shall we
see the like of this again? Y by should we
not mourn the loss ot such a man as this ?
Wb37 should we not love him as we have
loved no other chief magistrate? He was a
consecrated mau consecrated to his coun
try and his God.
Looking over the field of Mr. Lincoln's
labors for the country, the speaker said :
The destruction of the rebellion and the
destruction of slavery are the two great a-
chievments on which the fame ot Mr. Lin
coln will rest in history ; but 110 man will
write the history of these achievments ju.-t-ly,
who shall not reveal the nature of the
power by which they were wrought out.
The history which shall fail to show the su
periority of the wisdom of an honest, hum
ble, Christian heart ovei commanding and
cultured intellect, will be a graceless libel on
Ma. Lincoln's fame. I do not know where
in the history of mankind I can find so
marked an instance of the power of genuine
character and the wisdom of a truthful,
earnest hearl as I see iu the immeasurably
great results of Mr. Lixco.n'.s administra
tion. I should be false to you, lalse to the
occasion, false- to the memory of him we
mourn, and false to the God he worshipped
and obeyed, if I should fail to adjure you to
remember that all our national triumphs of
law and humanity over rebellion ai d bar
barism have been won through tho wisdom
and the power, of a simple, honest, Chris
tian heart. Here is the grand lesson we are
to learn from the life of Mr. Lincoln.
l ou, Christian men who have voted, and
voted again, for impure men; for selfish
men, for druukards, for unprincipled men,
for unchristian men, because they were men
of talent, of genius, or aeeompli.-hnients, or
capacity for governments, and because you
thought that a good head was more import
ant than a good heart, have learned a lesson
from the life and achievments of Mr. Lin
coln which you canuot forget without sin a
gainst God and crime against your country.
W e have begun to Lea Christian natiou.
We have recognized the controlling power
of Providence in our affairs. We have wit
nessed in the highest seat the power of
Christiau wisdom and might of an humble,
praying man. Let us see that we remain n
Christian nation that our votes are given
to no man who cannot bring to his work the
power which has made the name of Abra
ham Lincoln one of the brightest which
illustrates the annals of a nation.
And here is a paragraph beautiful in iui
magination and usefulness
I dare not speak the thoughts of ven
geance that burns within me, when I recall
this shameless deed. I dare nit breathe
those imprecations that rise co my lips when
I think of this wanton extinction of a great
and beneficent life. I can hardly pray for
justice, fully measured out to the mad mur
derer of his truest friend, for. somehow. I
feel the presence of thnt kindly spirit, the
magnetism of those kindly eyes, appealing
to me to forbear. I have come into such
communion with his personality that I can-1
.1 V l nA It I j 1
11O6 escape me power ui uu tuaui; auu
Christian forbearance ; and the curse, rising
like a bubble from the turbid waters within
me, breaks into nothingness in the rarer at
mosphere which he throws around me.' If
he could sjeak to me from that other shore,
he would say, w hat all his actions and all
his words said of others not less guilty than
his assassin; "My murderer was mad and
mistaken as well as malignant. He thought
he was doing a great and glorious deed ; on
behalf of a great and glorious cause. My
death was necessary to the perfection of my
mission, and was only one sacrifice among
hundreds of thousands of others made for
the same end." Ah! that other shore!
The commander-in-chief is with his army
now. More are they that are with him in
victory and peace than they who still tread
the earth. The largest body of the soldiers
of the republic pitch their w hite tents and
unfold their golden banners and sing their
songs of triumph around him. Not his the
hosts of worn and wearied bodies, not with
him the riddled colors and war-stained uni
forms, upon his ears breaks never more the
dissonance of booming cannon, and dashing
saber, and dying groan, but youth and life
troop around him with a love purer than
ours, and a joy which more than balances
our grief. '
Annexation.
Very strong feeling in favor of annexation
to the United States is reported to be growing
in the Canad.u, despite theprotes s of some
of the journals and politicians, who iru
magiue that their interests require them to
make, for the present, very loud protesta
tionsof loyalty. The Reciprocity Treaty de
monstrated that free trade with our coun
try was of immense service to our Northern
neighbors; and if they cau not sxure its
advantages on any other than annexation,
they will not be slow to favor that measure.
The London fJconomtxt, in a well written ar
ticle published sometime since, demonstra
ted in the clearest manner, that Britain, her
Briti-di-Amcrican provinces, and the Uni
ted States, vr uid all advance their material
interest by the transfer of the provinces to
our country. It will cost Great Britain
much more than her posse sions are worth,
nnaneial y, to secure'y fortify them ; and it
will plunge the provinces into a chronic
state of insecurity to make their fate con
stantly dependent upon the uncertain chan
ces of a war between Great Britain and the
United States, which may at anj' time sud
denly tiri.-c due heonomtxt contends tnui
nnde and sentiment, not interest, maintain
the present relations between England and
her North American Colonies; and it is by no
means improbable that John Bull may some
of these line days grow heartily tired of gov
erning colonies which tax his resources se
verely, and that the colonists will find the
control ol a government in which their in
terests are not represented too burdensome
and unjust to be longer oorne.
Our past historv abounds with instances
in which immense districts of territory. that
are now of priceless value, were peacefully
and honorably acquired. The purchase of
Louisiana, the acquisition of Ilorida, and
the Spanish title to the land west ot the
Mississippi and., north of the fort--second
parallel, the annexation of Texas, the ac
quision of California, New Mexico, and A-
rizona, are some of the fruits ot the past.
The future may yield us almost equally val
uable extensions of territory on our North
ern and Southwestern frontiers. But their
is no necessity fur undue haste or for dishon
orable invasions of the rights ot other na
tions. There is no advantage to be gained
by striving to pluck a pear beforeit is riie.
In due time "manifest destiny" will unite
politically on this continent all the people
whose true Jntersts will be promoted by
such a Union.
The True Man.
He is above a mean thing. He cannot
stoop to mean fraud. He invades no secrets
in the keeping of another. lie betrays no
secrets confided to his keeping. He never
struts in borrowed plumage. He never
takes selfish advantages of our mistakes.
He uses no ignoble weapons in controver
sy. He never stabs in the dark. He is a
shamed of inuendocs. He is not one thirg
to a' man's face and another behind his back.
If by accident he comes in possession of his
neighbors counsels, he passes upon them an
act of instant oblivion. He bears sealed
packages without tampering with the wax.
Papers not meant for his eye, whether they
flutter at the window or lie open before him
in ungarded exposure, are sacred to him.
He encroaches n no privacy ot others,
however the sentry sleeps. Bolts and bars,
locks and keys, hedges and pickets, bonds
and securities, notices to trespassers, are
none of them for him. He may be trusted
himself out of sight near the thinest par
tition anywhere. He buys no office, he
sells none, he intrigues for none. He would
rather fail of his rights than win by dishon-
i-r . ' .11 TT K
or. tie win eat nonest Drcaa. lie msuirs
no man. He tramples on no sensitive feel
ing. If he have rebuke for another, he is
straight forward, open, manly. In whatever
he judges honorable he practices toward
every man.
Polygamy in Utah will speedily be de
stroyed if the reported discoveries of gold in
that Territory are confirmed. The fair sex
nowhere find more numerous or more ardent
admirers than among the hardy pionec-s of
mineral regions. They have a theory that
the Mormons marriage system is valid so
far as the first wife is concerned, but no
further. If they should emmigrate in con
siderable numbers, to Utah, the Mormon el
ders will find it impossible to preserve their
"peculiar institution troni the inevitable
assaults of these chivalrous knight-errents.
"ATtr n-MoSnnol" oTolaimf.1 an nrcliin in
' A j Vi.''
New York, on beholding an English car
riage with three footmen in livery, "well,
if it don't take three British, to mate one
nigger!"
PETB0LEUM HASHBY MEETS A EE
CONSTRUCTED SOUTHEBNER.
A better burlesque we do not remember
to have seen than the following. Its chief
value however, is that it is too troo :
Saint's IIest, (which is in the Stait
uv Noo Gersev.Uulv 12. 1865. f
I hev bin in Washington, aud while ther
was intcrdoost to Gineral Marion Sumpter
Pitzhoo Gusher, uv Mississippy. I wus
anxious 2 meet with a liepreseutativc Diui
ekrat uv the South, 2 interchange views, 2
hev soothin confidencis 2 unbuzzim, becoz
for the past 4 yeers the Dimekratik party
hcz bin trooly seckshunal, and the seckshin
it hez okepied is not the identikle seckshin
unto which the ortices is lokated, and only
by a perfec union with our wunst-loved
brethren uv the South, kin we ever git in
to trooly Nashunal ground.
Gineral Gusher is a troo gentleman uv the
raal Suthern skool. He put C. S. A. arter
his name, unto the hotel register, and his
rings, buzzum pin, and the head uv his cane,
is all made uv the bones uv mizerable Yan
kee soldiers who fell at Bull Run he sez by
his own hand, and it must be so, tor who
ever knode a suthern man to boast vain-glo-riously?
We met and embraced, weepin
perfooselv.
"Alars!" sobbed the Gineral, "wat a
nitemare hez obskoord our respective vish-
uns tor the past 4 yeers. 1 wuz alluz a U
nion man, alluz! alluz! alluz! The old
flag I loved with more nor parental efiec
shun to me it wuz more nor life !"
"Why then, my Ajacks," sobbed I, "did
you raise your parrisidle hand again it?"
"Why ? my beloved. Because my stait
secesht, and I wuz carried along bv a tor
rent uv public opinion which I cood not
stem, and I went with hur. But its all o
ver. We huv a wok, and I am here, in the
capital uv my beloved country, under the
shadder uv that glorious flag which is the
pnue uv Americans and the terror uv all
weak nashuns which hez territories contigu
ous, ready to take the oath and resoom Jthe
citizenship 1 laid ort, and agin run the guv
ment for its own honor and glory."
"Ilcvyooapardin?" sez L "Me thinks
wunst a paper recht my humble village,
wich is uuaniiuously Dimmekratick (it cum
around a nackacre of goods from Noo Yorkl
and in that paper I saw your name ez one
uv the orfishers who killed the niggers at
V. t Pillow. Am I rite?"
"You air. I'm a gushin child uv nachur
1 m enthoosiastick. , Labnn under the
same deloosion that secesht us, I beleeved at
that time I wuz doin a good thing in kilhn
them property uv ours that Linkin hed
shovd blob kotes onto. I have no apologies
to oner 1 m now written a justiticashun.
"I, and I speak for thousands uv the
shivelrous suns of the South who would
like a good square meal wunst more, am
willing to be consihated. lhe oppoortconity
is now offered the government to consulate
us. e are returmn prodygle sons kill
yoor fattid veel aud bring out yoor gold
rings, and purple robes and sich. We ask
condish'ns we shel insist on terms, but wc
air disposed to be reasonable. We are wil
lin to acknowledge the soopreniacy uv the
government, but there must be no humilia
shen. A proud, high spirited people like
us uns, won't stand it no sir, we cannot.
Ther must be no hanking, no conficashen,
no disfranchisin. We are willin to step
back jest ez we stept out, resooming our old
status, trustin the engineerin to git sich uth
er pints ez sir not here enumerated. With
out them condishns the union wood not be
wun uv hart twood be holler mockery.
Wat we are goin for is a union founded on
luv, wich is stronger and solider than nius
kits. Harts is trumps let the platform be
harts and all is web."
"But Gineral," sez I, "in all this wat do
yoo perpose fer us Northern Dimocrats ?"
"Towards them our bowils'melt with luv.
We forgive yoo. Ef yoo kin take the old
attitootP. well and good ef not "
"Hold," sez I, "don't threat. A ginoo
ine Northern Pimekrat wants but little here
below, but wants that little thing. Give
him a small post offis, a nigger driver to
look up to and he is soopreemly happy. Ef
a angel in glory wuz two offer 2 trade places
with" him, harp, golden crown and all, he
wood ask odds."
"Uv course them positions yoo kin hev
we don't want em. All we ask is to make
the platforms, and hev sich oflisis ez hawty,
hightoned men kin anord to take, and yoo
uns kin hev the rest.
"But wun thing , must be understood.
The scenes uv the Charleston Convenshun
must never be re-enacted their must be no
Dudissis. Under the new dispensashen
yoo. dance whenever we fiddle, askin no
questions. Suthern harts must never agin
be fared it wood consume itselt.
"Ez soon ez I hev took the oath, I shel
imniegitly go hum and run for Congris
see to it that ve hev enuff Dimikrat-s ther
that we, jintly, kin control things. Uv
coarse, in a union uv luv. there must be e-
quality. Linkin's war debt must never be
pade onless ourn is his hirehns must never
be pensioned onless our patriots is. ; Wat a
dehteful speck tacle t Men who, yesterday,
wuz a srouzin each other onto the feeld uv
battle, to-day is drawin penshuns amikably
from the same treasury. The eagle wood
flop his wings with joy, and angels wood ex
claim 'Bully !' I am disabled from wounds
..i n 11 1 . ' . it. .i
received on tne ieeia, ana rejoice mat our
penshun laws is so libraL
"Go home, iny frend, and marshel fer the j
conflict. Tell vour central committis to col
lect expend munny, and I and Ginril Forist.
and Kernel Moseby, and Champ Ferguson,
and Dick Turner, and Boregard, and per
hans that noble 'era (take orf yoor hat while
I pernounce his gellorious name) Ginral
liobert E. Lee, will cum up ana stump tne j
North fur yoor tickits. I hev dun. I go.".
'PfnhlA man." thort I. ez he talkt ma- !
jostically away, wakin, in a abstracted man- j
per, my new hat an umorener, leavin nis i
oldwuns; "who coodent foller thee, and
sich as thee, forever and forever."
Petroleum V. Xashby,
Leto Pastur uv the Church uv the Noo
Dispensashun.
Bebollion Bevived.
The value of the military presence in the
recent rebel and slave States, is again strong
ly vindicated. Their confessed poverty and
the generosity of the Government in its civ
il poliey and in its efforts to alleviate the
sufferings produced by their; wickedness,
have not inspired the slightest abatement in
their arrogance and insolence. The conduce
of the traitors of Richmond, and. according
to the late intelligence, of those in North
Carolina, will only damage themselves. The
hope that they would be permitted again to
stab the Government under the amnesty and
reconstruction policy ot the President, has
been sternly dissipated by the summary re
vocation and repudiation of the election at
Richmond, and the same chastisement will
of course be inflicted upon the enemies of
Governor Holden in North Carolina. How
steadily these men are provoking the bitter
est retribution ! How completely they are
fulfilling the worst prophesies of those who
have contended that there was neither faith
nor truth in them ! And how, on the oth
er hand they are disgusting those who have
insisted upon reposing confidence in them!
If, however, the SoutTiern people will have
the iron rule, they must be accommodated.
We trust we shall now have no more judi
cial nonsence and newspaper logic to prove
that the rebellion is at an end. The politi
cians who have been slandering Mr. Stan
ton on the subject of military courts, and
who have been clamoring for the restoration
of the habeas corpus, will revise their judg
ment and cease their clamors, if they have
any sence of propriety or self-respect.
Suffrage and Representation.
A new plan is now suggested by some of
our cotemporanes, says the lelegrah, which
would, if carried out, be likely to settle the
suffrage question without much difficulty.
It is to limit representation in Congress to
the number of voters in each State, or to
base representation upon the voting popula
tion alone. We are not sure but that this
would be just and proper. Then if the
Southern States or any States do not allow
the colored man to vote, they cannot count
them in their basis of representation. -- Here
tofore, they have been permitted by the
Constitution, to count three persons for ev
ery five of their slaves, in fixing their basis
of representation, while every free colored
person, in the South as well as in the North,
counted one, the same as a white person.
Let the Constitution be so altered and a
mended that none are counted anywhere, in
fixing the basis of Congressional representa
tion, but voters and then if the South will
not let her colored men vote, they cannot
count them in their basis of representation,
and therefore will have to lose a large num
ber of representatives in Congress, Rather
than do this, they would, in our opinion,
soon conclude to extend or jiermit the ricrht
of suffrage to the colored population. This
would soon settle the negro suffrage question.
One thing, in our opinion, i.s certain ; they
will either have to let the colored men vote
or else base their representation in the Na
tional Legislature upon the white popula
tion alone. They cannot be permitted to
count tho colored pocple in their basis of
representation, and have that many more
members of Congress, and yet not allow
these colored pecple any voice in the choos
ing of those reprcntatives. - Which will
they do? -
The General Episcopal Convention.
In view of the approaching General Con
vention of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
at Philadelphia, in September, Bishop Pot
ter, of this Diocese, has addressed a frater
nal letter to the Southern Bishops, lhe
most important portion of the letter is em
braced in the subjoined paragraph. Bishop
Potter savs : "I have corresponded on the
subject with the Bishops, and think myself
authorized to state that they sympathize
with me generally in the desire to see the
fullest reprentation of the churches from
the South, and to greet their brethren in
the Episcopate with the kindliest feeling."
If this appeal should be responded to by
the Southern Bishons in the spirit in which
it is made, the result, politic;!1,!;--, as well as
in a religious point of view, will be of the
greatest importance. Opposition will doubt
less lie made bya minority of the Convention
to the representation of the Southern church
es. But there is no doubt Bishop Potter
correctly interprets the feeling of the vast
majority of the members of this communion.
They desire to set an example of peace and
traternal regard. And in doing so they do
their duty both as members of the church
and citizens of the republic
- The Indians.
The whole Indian population within the
limits of the United States is estimated at
about 320,000 to 250,000 : 14,000 or 15,000
of whom are located east of the Mississippi
River, in New York, Wisconsin, Michigan
and Mississippi. A new Indian war has
broken out along the line of telegragh, be
tween San Francisco and the eastern sea
board ; and as the Indiansd eclare they
will make a death-struggle against advanc
ing civilization, it is probable thousands of
them will be destroyed by the contest they
are madly provoking, and that we are about
to have the last great Indian ' war. The
Secretary of the Interior has instructed the
Indian agents, that in all cases of difference
of opinion with the military authorities a-
bout the policy to be pursued to hostile or
dangerous tribes, they are to defer to the
judgment of the latter; and our soldiers will
make teariul havoc ajoong the red maraud
ers when they fairly commence a desperate
conflict with them.
TRUE TO ITS INSTINCTS,
The New York World U now engaged in
the work ot destroying confidence in the
credit of the Government, In this it will
feel at home, for it has had four long years
of experience in the business, and has de
voted itself to the labor with great diligence.
It says :
Secretary M Cullouh, then, is at the end
of his tether. He canuot como into the
market to borrow another dollar, until after
Congress meets and authorizes auother loan ;
and it is currently estimated that, by the
middle of December, there will be three
hundred millions of unpaid requisitions ; or,
in other words, that the excess of the liabil
ities ot the Treasury over its resources will
reach this amount.
After giving utterance to this alarming
statement it adds:
This condition of things prove such a waut
of foresight, prudence and capacity on the
part ofjour Republican ruler-,as demonstrates
the necessity of putting the Government in
Democratic hands at the earliest period the
election will permit. Instead of congratu
lating the country on the success of the late
loans, we are tilled with indignation at the
disgraceful management by which the Treas
ury is brought to the verge of bankruptcy,
notwithstanding the war ended the next
month after Congress adjourned.
To which the Buffalo Express replies that
in such stuff it finds the milk of the cosoa
nut. The government must be put in Dem
ocratic hands. There is one difficulty the
World will find in the way of lt& remedy,
and that, wc apprehend, will prove a very
serious one. The people are to decide the
question of handing this Goverment over
into Democratic hands, and they will have
to forget the history of the past four years.
before they again entrust power with a par
ty which gave aid and comfort to the enemy,
by assaulting the Administration berating
its mismanagement damaging its credit,
and declaring openly that the war was a fail
ure, when infallaey is indelibly stamped by
the record upon its every position. The so
called Democratic Party can never attain to
power in this Government until traitors, reb
els and the murderers of our fathers, brothers
aud sons, are permitted a voice once more in
the ballot-box. When .such are restored to
the rights of citizenship, there may be kin
dred jMjwer enough, North and South, to
take the Government from thoxe who have
saved it, but we do not believe it. The loy
al heart of the Nation will preserve it from
such a calamity. The "indignation" with
which the World is filled, is more on ac
count of the crushing of the rebellion, the
arrest and imprisonment of Davis, and tho
execution of the conspirators, than because
of any financial trouble it honestly antici
pates. Tho Esraat, of Anthwerp, relates "an in
cident which occurred last week in the Zoo
logical Gardens ol that town. In the even
ing, one of the keepers, armed with a long
whip, entered the large cage of the monkey
tribe for the purpose of driving them to
their compartments. All the inmates scamp
ered off to their cages with the exception of
one of the oldest and largest, whicli obsti
nately refused to come down from his perch,
and on receiving a sharp lash with the whip,
it leaped on the keeier, got astride on his
shoulders, and began to scratch and bite him
with great fury. The keeper beat the mon
key with the handle of the whip, and would
soon have got rid of him, had not the other
monkeys come to their companion's assis
tance aud joined in the attack. Thus as
sailed, the man was obliged to cry out for
help, when several keepers hastened to
the spot, and on their approach the animals
took to flight. The man who was terribly
scratched and bitten iu twenty-three places,
lost so much blood that he was obliged to
keep his bed for two days.
Night the Poor Man's Friend.
Night levels all artful distinction. The beg
car on his pallet of straw snores as poundlv
as a king on a bed of down. Night kind,
gentle, soothing, refreshing night, the earthly
paradise ot the slave, the sweet obhvian of
the worn soul, the nurse of romance, of de
votion ; how the great panting heart of so
ciety yearns for the return of night aud rest!
Sleep is God's special gift to the poor, for
the great there is no time fixed for repose.
Quiet, theylhave none ; and instead of quiet
etly waiting the approach of events they fret
aud repine, and starve sleep and chide the
tardy hours, as if every to-morrow were big
with the fate ot some great b ereafter. The
torrent of events goes roaring past, keeping
eager expectations on tiptoe, aud drives
timid slumber away. .
A number of " Federal appointees in the
Southern States have been unable to execute
their bonds and take the required oath that
they have never voluntarily borne arms, or
given aid and counsel or encouragement to
persons engaged in armed hostility against
the United States, and that they have not
yielded a voluntary support to the late reb
el government, kc
East India beetles are iu great request
yi Paris for ladies' ornaments.
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