VOLUME 1. The American Citizen, IgpahlMied<- Great New York Meeting. ' * '£* ie great meetiuu held on Saturday evfwi'ng. in Union Sqiiaic. New York, to express the nation's gratitude to General Grant and to the army, and to aid the na tional cave. w.,* upon a very large scale, ami it was one of the most enthusiastic gatherings of the peopte ever held in that city. There were two stands, bullion the lower end of the Square, one on the east side of Broadway, and the other ou the ■ west, near the Washington Monument. At the stand un the west. Itichard l>. Ltv throp called the meeting to order at six O'IC oek, arid nominated James T. Brady for chairman. At the east stand, Fred erick A, Conkliuf; called to order, and nominated ex-Mayor Opdyke to preside. During the progress of the meeting there were displays of rockets, and at the close an exhibition of pyrotechnics specially adapted U> commemorate the services ol General G rant. A • lub was present, and. with a fine band at each of the stands, varied the exercises with very patriotic music. At stand No. 1 a likeness of Lieutenant General Grunt, painted oil a white ground, and having a .frame in the form of a shield, I occupied a place til front of the main stand. Banners on each side bore the j motto— '• Unconditional Surrender." and the lines: The raptured h*ij(ht« <>f <'hattan.-»ica proT* Ili« re»lin«M on rebel work* to muff. ]{ l 4 WPN nnd ilwith equal luntr# idiine, W hi It- flunking L««* ->n th.» \ ii ilne." Over the likeness of General Grant there was a banner with a likeness of Ma- : jor General Meade and the following in scriptions, including appropriate lines: " Gettysburg." Potomac I.inc." " ltapidan." On the right was a likeness of General Hancock and the inscription— " The Ilapidan to the Chickahominy. ' j On the left a likeness of Gen. Warren, with the words : '• Tlie baUl«-fMd> nf IVnnnvlvaniai\tul Virginia." At one side of the platform there wasa ! likeness of General Burtiside and the in- ; scription : '* Roanoke," " Netrbern," " Knoxville." j "On ever, field 112. .. Rij.i.lm t» Kichm .nl." A banner with the likeness of General Wright, occupied the other side of this Stan I. It had the words : *■ Vil lc"uo*.," " Bpoft.vlVftnift, M " Itan i*«r." { An I these insenpt mi were accompim- 1 ie.l by lines referring to the various but tles of the Generals au l the armies under their command. At stand No. two t lie arrangement was j similar to that at Stand .No. 1. The posi- j tion c.irrespoii ling to the one occupied by General Grant on trie first was given to j Major General Sherman. It had these j inscriptions: " Yicksburg," Kmxville," •' Atlanta," | with the lines— Far In t»«<- 8 uith. henrith the mimmcr nkie^, Thf vict »r slinitu nf SIHTIII iD t ri«c : Still milling onw.irtl, with the .■tpwil of l»gl«t, j Tht-y h'lil Atl'inla 112 >r (lie e«>uiuig H|(hl. • '• Fighting Joe liooker" had the place of hun.ir above. The inscriptions were : '■ Williamsburg," Chancellorsville." " Lookout Mountains " On the right was a likeness of Gen. Thorn-j " Mill Spring." '• Murfreesboro,' j '■ Chattanooga." To the left was a banner with a likeness | of Gen. Mel'herson : '•Chattanooga," •• ltome," '• Iteseca." j Next was a likeness of Major General But-j ler, with the following inscription and ! lines: Baltimore—New Orleans—City Point. First in the field to aid kiw country'n cause, Firmly he nlood defender of UM law*; When t.ei-.»n di uin-les-H throughout the land His wii \utltnnit! •I'lrt ii, Jr., Secretary, if'*' 1 .; 1 have to acknowledge your le ter of the 31st May, which 1 received this morning on my return from Pittsburgh. 1 am much chagrined that the pressure of public business here prevents me from accepting the invitation to be present at the meeting tomorrow in honor of Gen. Grant. It would afford me the highest pleasuic to participate in the expression of grati tude which all our jieople feel for bis ser vices. great and unequalled as they have beun. The following resolutions were adopted by the meeting: . A''WtW, That the serios of military successes —the Capture of l'Vtt Donelson, the tukaig of Yicksburg, the seizure ol the mountain fugtucsses of Chattanooga, and finally, the advance" of the Army of the Potomac against formidable natural obstacles, a heavy opposing force and a skillful general, to within sight of the city of ltichrillond—-are events so import ant in their bearing upon the successful issue of the war. us to call tor a pnblicex pression of the obligations which the American people are under to Lieutenant General Grant, and to every officer and soldier under his command. /texofreif. That the co-operative efforts of the Army of the Cumberland, under Major General Sherman, in its recent pus sage over the mountains aud descent upon the plains of northwestern Georgia, call for au expression of admiratiou for the stragctic skill and ability displayed by it* commander, and fur the dauntless cour age and indomitable perseverance exhib ited by both officers uud uien. Rraolvett, That from the commence ment and throughout the war the Amer ican navy has maintained its high char acter. To its co-operation we are indebt ed for the opening of the Mississippi.— In its streugth and efficiency we have found our chief security ugaiust foreign interference; and the emulative character of its deeds have been such as to claim.iu equal proportion. the tribute which is due U* our soldiers aud to our sailors. Retolvrd. , That the movemeuts which arc now taking place in compelling the enemy to retreat within smaller geograph ical limits, while our forces have the abil ity to advance uptn his vulnerable points from several quarters at the same lime, show the wisdom of confidiug the sole di rection aud management of military ope rations to one general officer. That hav ing reaped little but disaster from entrust ing important military commands to civil ians, who, whatever may be their general capacity, have not the necessary military education or experience, wc congratulate BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1804. tFfri country upon this ... ... T«li -6y. and upon the fact that so responsible a trust lias been placed iu the bands ot a uian who has the universal confidence ol the nation. /{•si>/vei/, That no period since the be gining of hostilities has the prospect been so favorable as at present of a speedy and successful termination of the war ; but,to insure that end, it is necessary that our army should be efficiently and rapidly re inforced. th.it every effort should be made to stimulate enlistments, and that the young men of the country who have the requisite vigor and nerve should come forward and share in the honors which will follow them through life, ot having fought in the ranks of that noble army by whose courage and patriotism the republic was saved. Remlvert, That, independent of all dis tinctions of party, and irrespective of all political preferences, we declare our unal terable determination to unite in the pros ecution of the war with all our Vigor ami all our might, until those who have raised their bauds against t he freest and most lib eral government upon earth, shall lay dotvn their arms and submit to the consti tution and the laws. The following poem wrtssung: *r.M v, viR« M»jrr cA!»o. Cbtumhia't Riffit: yielf " plume, }'mir mu« woM now itulit". Some r,r.iteful tornU t* Grunt, for whom The »t'ft to-night; Our r<)tvint Cniff. V'hn brt'lrtt the storm And t-rovrM the n'«l wrath, Suy* •* Thnmohi-nt all the season Ufarm 111 batttr on the potb /" A Chaplet lot us tvavc. To grace tlit- Victor* brow ; Do-.rvlng to receive llCountry ■ tribute »"tvl llf 112 .ught on southern Atdd-*, \\ lien» triumph-* cn.wued his arin»; Hi- gallant action shltdd* The nation from war * harms. (Hall! Columbia'* realm— \\ here milk ami honey flow, Delighting heart* of them \\ ho •iich We*tci»in*irt» know; And kn 'Wing, warmly love Thee with their heart ami soul— Tilting our land above. All lunds, from pole to pole!) Let them In fr enr.v ravo Who w mill thy Peace disturb, ( The Peace thy Sage* gave, W ho tyrannv could curb) Their cunitfog'iiktll will fill To cleave thn In mil in twain ; Thy might shall much avail— Thv gl«>ry shall not wdhel The chariot wheels of Marc. The Sabbath silence break— Laml of the Strips* and Slurs, Thy Life i< held at stake! pi 'iv<*fjk rdsare drawn 112 »r thee; fert the blow— Who . abut Liberty Shall thy swift vengeance know! The honorM Flag of old, Float- o'er the Inutile ground ! Eeach dav bright deeds we told, V hieh the wide Karth astotmd! Brave* fighting f»r that Fl tg, Whfrh leads • ohtmbia's war*, Defeating be and Beneath the Flag of Stars! Tbi Spangled IVninor rai-e, And let the imnlr Sound ; The name of Urnnt we'll pral«o On Freedom's happy.ground! Laml of unr Washington, ( lloiwting heroes gallant.) Horice in thv History**spun The aph-inUd 112 tine of Grout I Addresses were undo by Senator Pom- j eroy, Congressman Rollins, Cieneral Woll bridge, General Meagher, and others. Speech of Hon. Thomas Williams ! on It c-co ii struct ion. We have received a copy of the Con - <)rational GUAtr containing tlic very able speech of tlie Hon. Thus. Williams, tfe livcred in the llou.se of Representative-*, on lie-eonsti uetiou. It has been pro nouuued one ol the ablest delivered at ihe present session. We select suine pas- j sages at random, which indicate the elo- j queued and ability of the entire speech. Coming to us at a moment when our col umns aie occupied with the incidents ul' a local event of great iuterest, we regret wo cannot give it entire. — I'itts. turn. *■ Mil. Lincoln's caution. \ Yes. the world does move, ?nd the Executive along with it. Looking as he does now from a dittcicntataiiu-poiut from that occupied by hiin eighteen months agy. 1 woulil not despair ot In approval ol a bill to repeal absolutely the uuiortu | mite. amasculnt.Bg, and, as 1 think, lil- I advised joint resolution ol ISO-. Willi j all his habitual caution, yielding slowly to j his strong convictions of duty anu taking no step backward, he has maue even grea ter strides than this. L have continence I in his judgment, as the nation has in his i integrity. 1 have sometimes thought thai ! he was a little slow in a cause wlieie j promt it ude was worth armies, although t could well appreciate the scn-'e of iespi.ii- ' sibility that must necessarily -weigh u]hiii 1 the uiau who holds atiu.J the most rea|iou- { siblc and novel that has been cast upon any man in the world's history. 1 drcaU nothing but the cxee.-sof that conserva tive element which is so ill-suited to occa sions like the present. '1 liese are times when men cannot afford to doubt, anu l'car cannot be safely allowed in public counsels. The aphoiisui of Junius is bu: the translation of the thought of a greater than himself: " Our doubts are traitors. That make* U» i< *h tbe good wo oft uiight win. By feai iug to attempt." THE RIGHTS AND PROPERTY OF THE EN EMY. The result of these authorities, then, is that the present is not a civil war only, but a real war; that by the law of nature aud of nations in such cases, the treatment of the couijiiercd on the particular circum stances of the case; that everything is lawful; that everything belonging to the offending party is conliseatod; that the practice of nations has authorized the for feiture even of the real estate of individ uals; that this was more especially au thorized in quarrels between republics; that where the quarrel is not with the sov ereign, but with the nation, and the in tention is to subdue fierce and savage people, the conqueror may lay burden* on them, not only by way of compensation but of punishment; fliat if they have taken up arms ngaiust hi i. • he may de prive them of their rights, uudowes them no more than what humanity and equity require; that he may do himself justice respecting the object which has given rise to the war, uud in lcinn fy himself for the expense and damage he has sus tained; that he may render them incapa ble of further mischief, lmlemnitg, tr >•nriti/ and punishthnit are all. therefore, means of self-defence which may be legiti mately used. WHAT REDRESS WE MfST SEER. I think I may safely say that human history presents no parallel to this rebel lion. Since the revolt of the rebel angels there has been no example of an insurrec tion so wanton, so wicked, soutterly cause less, and 60 indescribably ferocious and demoniac as the pre-etit. It was not the case of the oppression of a government whose weight had borne heavily upon the people, ll was none of a violation of the fundamental law. Ihe object was not redress, like that of our Revolution, but ilcstruction. It was a rebellion against the majority rule for the purpose uot ot retoiiniiig, but of overthrow.ng the gov ernment, andereetftigupim itsruinsan itii er of oligarchic cast, whose cornerstone was property in man. It wis the product of a system which threw all the lands ol the South into the ban is of a few men. It involved UII aci of aggravated treason against a humane, paternal and unoffend ing government.. It has been eouducted with a degree of inhumanity that has no example except iu barbarian wars. It has involved to us au enormous expenditure of money and of blood. Its suppression has become impossible without removing the cause of strife, and disabling our ene my by liberating his slaves, and arming themagaiuat him. It can not be repaired, i'hure is possible that would be commensurate with the injury. Can youi breathe new life into the bones that ornament the necks and fingers of south ern dames, or bleach unburicd, without even the humble privilege of a grave, on southern battle-fields? Can you reclothe them with the connly vesture that has been given to the vultures of thesouthern skies ' \\ ho shall restore the shattered limb; who fill the vacttht chair at the fam ily fireside; who give back the husband and the father, or dry theteuisof thewid ow and the orphan? What triumph, but that of the dread archangel, who gathers the tribes of the earth for the lastsolemn judgment, shall awaken the gallant dead who sleep in bloody garments in their beds of glory, from their deep repose?— Mock not the grief that is unutterable by the subject of indemnity or reparation.— "Give uie back my legions!" was the. passionate exclamation of the lonian Au gustus, when a swift messenger brought to him the tidings of thuslaughter of Varus and his brave companions iu the forests ol Germany. "Give me back toy children!" is the walling cry that will burst from the bosom of the American mother, whowceps like Rachael for her first-born, by the Wa ters of the .Meriiuiac and the Oh o—or mock me not with the idea ol' reparation. There is tin reparation for it, as there can be no punishment, except in the divesti ture of the rights and the seizure of the estates of the guilty leaders, there is no security except 111 the distribution of the latter, ajid me complete exorcism of the hell-born aiid iLll-descrving spiritthut has wrought all this world-wide ruin. M A VE'OUT NEW t SCI.AMI IN THE COU). Leave out New Ijigliiud in the cold ! We'll, lam 110 Yankee. No drop ol' my blood hiu ever filtered through that strat um of humanity. I claim, however to be ji man. I think I love liberty above all things. I know that I can respect and admire courage, and constancy, and high thought, and heroic achievement, where ever I may find them. I would uot quar rel even with an overstung philanthropy. I can always excuse the ertors that lean on the side of virtue, and find fanaticism much more readily iu liiut devil-worship nf slavery, that would be but even the I'liion itself, upon its horrid altars, than in these noble spirits whose sin is 01113 tlieir excessive love for man.l may speak, therefore, without prejudice. Leave out New England in the cold! I doubt whether even this would chill her brave heart, 01 quiet its tumultous throb biugs for humanity. Though no ardent southern suu has quickened her pulses,or kindled her blood iutolava, no frigid uev trality has ever frozen Iter into stoue. when the interests of liberty appealed to her flir protection. She has been ever faith ful to the memory of . the great idea which brought her founder* aoros- the ocean, us the only colony that landed in this newly discovered hemisphere ttpon any other er rand than the search for gold. 1 cannot forget that it was this prescribed race that inaugurated the Revolution by forgiugin their capital the thunderbolts thut smote the tyranny of England, and dying their garments with its first blood upon the commons of Lexington. Leave out New Kngland in the cold ! You may look unkindly upon her, but you cannot freeze her into apathy any inure than you can put out the light of her eyes, or arrest the missionary thought which she has launched over a continent. It was not New Kngland that stood shiv ering iu cold indifference when the boom of the first rebel gun in Charleston har bor thrilled along her rock-bouud coast. Taking no thought of cost or consequen ces, she ru>hed down like an avalanche to avenge the insulted flag of our lathers, and Massachusetts was glorified by a scc oud baptism when the Uood of her sous dyed the paviugsloues of the city of Bal timore. I would it had been my own great Stn'e, whose drum-beat was the first that waked un echo in these halls, which had won the honorof that sacrifice. But t it was uot so ordained. Leave out Massachusetts in the cold ! hat matters it that no tropical sun has fevered her northern blood into the deliri um ot' treason ? 1 know no trait of ten derness more touching and more human than that with which she received back to her arms the boilios of her lifeless chil dren. " Handle ihem tenderly," was the message of her loyal Governor. Massa-' chusetts desired to look once more upon the faces of her martyred sons, " marred us they were by traitors." She lifted gent ly the sable ball that covered them. She gave them stddier's burial and a soldier's farewell; andthcnlike Davidof old when he was informed that the child of his af fections had ceased to live, she rose to her feet, dashed the tear drop from her eye, and in twenty days her iron-clad bnt tulions were crowning the heights, and her guns frowning destruction over the streets of the rebel city. Shut out Massachu setts in the cold ! Yes. You may blot her out from the map of the continent"; you may bring back the glacial epoch, when the Artie ice-drift that has deposit ed so many monuments on her soil swept over her buried surface —when the polar bear, perhaps, paced the driving foes.and the walrus frolicked among the tumbling icebergs—but yon cannot sink her deep enough to drown the memory of Lcxiug ton and Concord, or bury the summit ol the tall column that lifts its head over the first of our battle fields. " With her,"in iho language of her gicat son. "the past is ut least secure." The muse of history has flung her story upon the world's can vass iu tiuts that will not fade and cannot die. I'UESERVINU THE UNION. It is suggested, however, by a gentleman from New York, 011 the other side of the House, (Mr. Fernando Wood,) that while wu ou ibis side are clu lung to be for the Union, the enunciation of these doctrines by my able colleague (Mr. Slovens.) amounts to u declaration that we are nu longer u Union parly. The meaning ol this, if it means anything, is, that because the rebel States are nu!, withoutuny agen cy of ours, but with a large share of the responsibility on the heads of those who, like the gentleman himself, encouraged the defection by their servility or by the assurance that they were opposed to coer cion—as they oppose it now—and taught them to believe that they would go out with perfect impunity, undthatNcw Yoik and Pennsylvania Would go out along with tlieni—the mere statement of the fact that they were out in evidence that the party of the Administration 011 this floor is not iu favor of the preservation of the L'uion ! Well, we ate in favor, at all events, of preserving all that is left of it. and intend, with the biessings of God, to win back the residue, and pass it thro' the fire until it shall cuuie out purged ol the maliuuuut clement that has unfitted it tor freedom. But what docs the honor able gentleman himself, what do those who vote w.tli hint ieally think on this subject? does lie, do they believe that the rebel States arc not out? It he docs not look upon them as a newatid independ ent power in the commonwealth of nations why docs he propose to treat with them, not with the velolting States singly, but with "the authorities at Richmond?" Ilow is it that in bis own resolution he proposes, hi h/liifirn in'bi *, the "oiler to Ihe I nion ?" Who are the "authorities at Richmond ?" Will he inform us wheth er they arc a people known to our Con stitution, or how these States artf to return to the Union if they were uevcrout of it? Ilis tongue confesses it unwittingly—l will not say like Balaam's, who blessed when he attended to curse—but just as did that of the Lousiuna claimant who, professing to rest on the same doctrine, stood before this House unconsciously testifying in the same way. lie stands, therefore, self condemned by his own log ic, as uo Union man.l will allow him. however, the advantage of the admission that it is but a slipshod logic that cannot distinguish between the taw and the Juct. But that is true of himself and his party which lie unjustly charges upon my col league '1 he d i tie re lice Unjust this, that although the icbels have spurned uuU spit upon their northern auxiliaries, re jected all the.r oven uies,and declared that • Ley will no longer associate with them upon any terms, and are uot willing that they should even come " betwixt the wind atiu their nobility," he wishes to triot for the privilege of >eriiny them, while we propose Ui Jij'ht for the purpose of chast ising them into submission. This may be the result only of a difference in taste; but all history attests that 112 here always are, as there always will be, men who love to wear the livery of a master, aud are un Comfortably without it; who regard the collar as a badge of distinction, aud would, at all events, rather carry it than quarrel with it. No wonder, therefore, afc the opinion so often expressed by men of this sort in relation to the black man, that he would neither run away, nor bear arms against his master or anybody else They did him injustice iu suppoeingtliat he was like themselves. Pompev, who was an im-ij-untary slave, is tending toward the north star with a musket in his hand, .vhile his white non-combatant substitute, a vrt untnry slave, in rushing southward with the olive branch 111 his hands, into thepa triarchial arms. WHAT IS TO BE THE END ? But wnat is to be the end? Who doubts it that trust iu Providence ami knows that God is just ? Iu the darkest hour of our trial, when the gallant bark that bears our fortunes bad disappeared among the mountain billows that threat en to engulf it, aud the lowering clouds shromlod in tpmjiorary darkness the glo rious constellation of our fathers—when all monarchical Kurope ciapdcd its hands and sang peans of joy as the gieat Re public reeled aud .-taggercd under the iclou blows tnat were so treacherously aimed at her life by the hands of be{ own unnatural children—l never doubted or faltered. I kuew that its timber might be strained and its prow dip deeply into trough o* the sea, but I read "ro-urgaui" on its keel. 1 believe it must rise again with ti e old Aug—that God-blessed ban ner of our fathers, type of degenerated humanity, symbol of hope to the nation— still flying at its peak, iis only staiu wash ed out. like the star that guided the magi over the plaiusof Bethleheui, to light the oppresssed of the old world to a knowledge of their rights and capabilities. If it might be permitted to the great captain who conquered the liberties of Rome, to say to the trembling pilot, " whyfearyou? You carry Ctesar," how much more may we—with such a freight as no vessel bore s : nee tho ark of the patriarch rocked upon the heaving tides of the deluge,or ground ed upon the lofty summits of Ararat— say to the trembling cowards who despair of the Republic, and even yet sit down and wring their hands like women over the possibility of saving it. ''o yc of little faith! Up, if ye are men! A woild's hopes are staked upon your man hood !" Yes, there is no throb of this great heart that does not pulsate through the nations as they stand at gaze. looking with suspended breath, upon tho swaying fortunes of this Titantic struggle. It is the groat battle of the ages. It is uni versal humanity in its last death-wrestle with the powers of despotism. It is a narrow view of the controversy to suppose it a question of fioedoru to the negro on ly. The chain that binds four millions of' black men and as many white, both North and 'outh. reaches not only to far distant Africa, but grasps in its iron links the men of all climes ami complexions, from the green island that hangs at tho belt of Britain, to tho gorges of the snowy Cau casus—from the ' itidoo, who bathes in in the Ganges, to the Kalmuck who pas tures his flocks upon the steppes of Tar tarv. Trotf the Waverley Magazine. I IMPROMPTU. A rain-dr< j> on my window pane 1* trembling where It fell; An angel n tear (a ih»d n vain, Methink* 1 hear it tall. Oli. Icvely rain-drop, clear and bright, Like diamonds clustering near, Unites the Ktiiibenm* in delight both arch rich r.iinbowft theie. We lore their misaion. young and old, And hltftxiiigii round thorn ea^t, Yet . ere It* hciiutieo d th unfold, 'Tis fled into the past. 80 all the rain-bow* in thin heart From te:iMr«'pa kindly gl- w; Vet. ere their pleasure* thev Impart, Our llvet witji clouds o'eiflow. KDJ*A SMITH. , WIT AND WISDOM. UK who doth a kindness to a good iiiau. doth a greater to himself. HAVE money, and you will find kin dred enough. GEN. GHAAT says lie is going to stop smoking after the war is over. I r is credible to barn-vard nature that , while curses conic h.ome to roost, roosters • never come home to roost. JI K.N often attempt, by the light of rca j son to discover mysteries of eternity.— j 'J hey might as well hold a candle to KCC 1 the sun. . THESE are out West a couple of sisters, who have to be told everything together, they are so much alike that they cannot be told apart. DON'T despair girls. Jabez Knapp, , aged 03, and Thankful Williams, aged i JSI, were recently married in Washington j county, N. Y. Fit l QUENTERS of concerts, who are in j the habit of beating time with their feet, arc reminded that the Stamp Act has been repealed. " Is that a lightning bug in the street? asked a short-sighted old lady. " No, grand ma," said a pretty little .\li.-s, "it's a big bug with a cigar." SOME people aie never contented. Af j tor having all their limbs broken, their j heads smashed, and their brains knocked out, they will actually goto law and try to get further damages. A LITTLE boy, disputing with his sis ter on some subject, I do not now remem ber what, exclaimed.— •' It's true, for ma says so; if ma says so, it is so, if it ain't so A WESTERN editor was receutly re quested to fend his paper to a distant pat ron, provided he would take his pay in •' traid." At the end of a year he found i hat his new subscriber was a tofliu ma ker. " HAS your son Timothy failed ?" in quired Gubbcns of Stubbcn?, the other i day. " Oh. not at all, he has only assigned over his property and fallen buck to take j a better position," was the reply. " You have not a drop of the great N'apolean's blood in your veins," said a j to*ty old Jerome one day in a pet to bis nephew the Kmperor. " Well." replied Louis Napoleon, "at all events I have his whole family on my shoulders." TEACHER. —" How many kinds of axes are there ?" Boy.—" Broad axe, narrow axe, poet axe, axe of the legislature, axing price, and axe of the Apostles." TEACHER. —'■ Good !go to the head of I your class." NUMBER 26 The t'le vela luli'ouvvutioii. W « have lead the proceedings of the Cleveland Convention with 'interest, but without uppreliuiiMon to its results po litically. It appears to have been what is popularly known as a "tiizl«." 'lhere was quite a luspectuble number of people in attendance, but they represented uo one but themselves. 1 hey called themselves '•delegates but they were self Appoin ted and w.thout constituents. It Would be perfectly easy to get together thesuuie number of discontented politicians any where. at any imaginable question. Look, for instance, at tho ''delegates" from Pennsylvania. Who appointed them ? Whom did they represent beside themselves? Were they appointed by the haudl'ul who responded to tho call for the formation of a Fremont Club, in Wilk ins' Hall, or did tlicy go simply of their own motiou, and with tho sitisfied con sciousness that in representing themselves they represented enough self importance fur a laige party? We eau safely say, from our knowledge of public septiment here, that.they lcpreseuted no political organization of the slightest importance in this county J and tho public will look in vain for any authority outside of it to act as delegates. They assumed, wiih that political modesty for which they aro notorious, to speak for Pennsylvania; but neither tho opjiosition to the Copperhead Democracy in this State nor any portion of it, has ever made them its mouth-pioce. 'llia old-time "Liberty Party" Nation al Conventions were much more respecta ble gatherings, both in numbers and per sonal. 'lhey were not, it is tiuc,nttcuded by Parker Pillsbury, Stephen 8. Poster and Weuoell i hillips, who were too pure, in tlioso di.ys, to delilo their hands with politics. they contented themselves, then,withdenouncing tho Constitution »112» "a league wi'.h ern>nal one Kvidently John C. Fremont isdeteiniined to run for Pi evident, and despairing of a nomination elsewhere, has this one uianu lactured to order,sundry discontented mon, ambitious of notoriety, seek it through this channel, as seeming to offer the best opportunity lor that purpose, whiloothers, dislike Mr. Lincoln, geek this the on ly way of venting their dislike. Them iss of those wh<> supported John C. Fremont for the Presidency in 1800 will unite with us in the express on of a deep regret that, he should sufler himself to be placed in this possition. For,some time past, however, it has been evident that he was bent one of two things—either to compel the Administration party to nominate liiui, or to create a breach in its ranks to secure, if possible its defeat. The nomination at. Cleveland is the re sult of his conviction that he was certain uot to be nominated at Baltimore ; and since he is determined to run, we ar» glad to notice that the sell-created. con vention which nominated him contained no one of any note and represented no element of nny political importance. The ' delegates" themsdvea appeared to have been clearly of this uiind, that the move was an utter failure. The nom ination of John Cochrane for Vice Presi dent—a man without a particle ofstrengh or character, and who lives in the same city with Fremont—shows that no one, even of thrm, was williug to be offered up with him as a fellow sacrifice, not a voice being raised even for the delegate who per sisted in running duublc with Dayton for the same place in I&3G. Ihe >ameanxi ety was shown to escape from all possible future responsibility lor the affair in the appointment of the National Committee. The ' delegates" from Pennsylvania jjave the honor of a place on that Committee to the least distinguished of their num ber, and the delegates from other States seem to have acted from a like impulse. We do not, as we stated at the outset, feel any apprehension as to the results of this Convention, politically. The masses of the friends of the Uuion aud the Gov ernment will rally around tlie nominees of the Baltimore Oouveution. satisfied that its platform will be radical enough, and that every vote cast in opposition to its nominees, for a third candidate, will be. in effect, a vote for the Chicago Cop perhead nominees.— PliU, Gaz. " FATUta," said a young lisper ofsonje four snmtnors, " when wuth the flood •• Oh. my son." replied the parent, -that happe a long time ago." " Wath we all alive then ? persisted the little inquirer. "No dear," was the reply. i; the flood we read of in the Bible happened many thousand years ago." " Well, now." rejoined the boy in great disgust, - that is too bad! I thought Torn Brown (another youngster of the same age) wath fibbin. He thaid to me this morning that he was there then and wa ited through." Artiomus Ward says: experience is an excellent schookuaeter, but charges , dreadful »agos