• ret'i?r yf Tfre Boldfer. We 5S U glatefili peajde, as is eviDeed by the fact that we 1 i;tvo tendered homes to twogcnerals, and have made provisions for the families ot gome who have die 1. And wo ore a re ligious people, 1 ' tug ol us what the world calls orthodox, that the un-. inverted soul is punishod after death ; bat nnttrftHstatrrßng these high qualities, the majority of the people ol Philadel phia v, • iid rather, during the whole war, have M'UU (he colored population so just ly inlLiiant; tlmt, instead of the eleven i«gim«nt« they gave us atOatnp William Penti, (applause,) they would not have given us a man; would rather sec the -iltlt and woupded suffer; would rather be branded by the world as harshly un grati'.fiit t® the maimed soldiers of the Republic ; anil would rather see the ..iwiiing pit ol hell i warm with new-born demons, than the sanctity of our street cars should 1 • pr< faued by the presence >f a colored clirgytpan hastening to bap tiss-j a dying infant, or a pious wile or lather hurrying to a hospital to sanctify the last moments of her dying husband or s ! (Applause.) This Is the melancholy truth. There is no denying it; there is no concealing it. There is not a man among us—-un less it be on# liko myself, who has been accustomed to riding in the cars ol other cities, whore all races rids together —- who does not fuel something of a prejudice on this subject. If you come to Wash ington, the capital of your country, you will get used to riding in the cars with God's children of every complexi n. I make no arraignment of my native city. 1 love her. 1 cherish her i ■ itjl fit ■ vir tues I boast of Philadelphia fit all times; but 1 cannot help seeing her weaknesses. I cannot help seeing that she if immensely hypocritical, whun she talks about the importance of getting re ligious instruction to igiiorant and dying people, and will allow every ifliito fctrum pet and thief whose Crime famishes them with the lucaUH of paying a fare tori le in a car, and will, as she has recently done, turn out the colored clergyman and other pious people hastening on the lioli «st errands of philanthropy and Christ-, ianity. (Applause). Are we npt, in all this traitors to our own cause aud principles? An: we no! giving aid and comfort to our etienr s.— thos* who are not yet willing to accept the truths of the I'eelnfiltiOn I lude pendenoe, or be citizens of truly demo cratic States ? I pray you reform it ;d --togethcr, and secure your own rights by p oteetirig those of the humblest citizen <it the Commonwealth. Make him >O - and your own rights can never be infringed. Th:- not a mere abstract suggestion. It i- tiie practical qUQStion of the, day.— The government of the insurgent dit tric'u are to be reorganized. When States are organized, they must bo dis tricted upon the'census of IX6O, and they ran only be restored to " their prac tical relations to the T'nion" (to borrow an exi.re-wiou from our lato lamented Pr::-i lent) by the admission of their representatives into the Congress of the t nit: I .States; aud the only manner in which v hi can maintain your right to citui-nsl'ii and to froe travel over the million of Square miles of territory, is t . >ge that their governments arc organ i/,ed in harmony with thotruth that all men are C'IUHI hofore the law, arid those pro visions oi' tho Constitution wliieh guar antee the right of citizenship to tho utiions of each and every State, and !lit l right of freedom nf speech and of llio press Can wedo this? V CM ! J?ut yi>u say that President .Johnson celled only upon the white pcoplo of lie insurrectionary districts to reorgan- ,/fl Pra'tts troftronnnants. ] grant it; and while J doootontbatnccountdoubthispa- ; . 'Min, or assort that bo has made a mis take, I know that 1 would not have done just so, (Applause.) If the people to wliom ho lias committed the charge have thi> wisdom and sense to frame truly re publican Constitutions, they Trill not only .vi ml irate his wisdom, bi;t gratify his per sonal wishes, for his democracy is broad ■enough to embrace mankind. But you ask what would you have done '! I would -have maintained military government Jong onoogh to have come to understand the people, and let them understand their new relations to the government some what. I would at the proper time, have had an enrolment of tho people made. 1 would have had the oath administered to the whole people, and in doubtful ca ses would have taken testimony as to the loyalty of those who took tho oath. When i had ascertained who veto loyal, I would cither, m accordance with Congressional provision to be made in tho mcrtnwhile, or in the method which has been & 1 opt id •by Prosidcnt Johnson, have called upon iho loyal peop.e to elect delegates to a convention to frame a constitution.— This would have been in accordance with ancient precedent; so far as precedent exists, for the Fathers recognized every man who fought and paid taxes as a cit izen I'ou can nowhero find in tho Constitu tijn anything like a discrimination l>o tween white and black. When it was fcdopted.the colored freemnti was a voter iu every State in tho Union except South .Carolina. It is denied that he was such in Virginia uud Dataware, where the ex ercise of suffrage was regulated by legis lative provision : but tlieir Bills of Rights '•overed the case, and I have proof, nbun ■unut an l perfect, that negro suffrage was practised in Delaware. It never was til a ant b>' our fathers of the Revolution ary aud Constitutional era that freemen should be excluded from the exercise of suffrage by reason of color. I would, -thereforQ, have gone baok to Revolution ary tiuir.-i for my precedent ; I would have taken the Declaration of Independence and lliS Constitution of the United Sttftes ns'niy guide; and would have al lowed ail loyal mon over twonty-one years of age to vote. (Applause.) V'ou may say that the President lias •übii' : Ua<3 the question to tho pardoned Rebels. 1 grant you that he has, and I fear, ns I have already said that in this be has made a mistake ; but, if so, it is apt, necessarily a fatal «ne. If those gentlemen should be »o far enlightened as ti fashion constitutions giving tho suf frage to every titan, white pr colored, who •MID read .-or ri'ifl and write, I shall take 110 exception, because ever.y man anion™ Ity eau, year, ed pcopl« sit «itli humility ntjhe feet. 01 any child, or man or ivi'unti, who will teach Uiem. It' thq whites who have been reared 1 in Ignorant'®, and taught that oil hibof ii disgraceful and odiicatioh unnecessary, will not learn, let them be excluded with' hi ark men who may choose to remain in ignorance. •' •- • If the colored citizens do not learn when the opportunity shall bo afforded, le" them be excluded, but lot the law be just and its restrictmns apply rrjSally to all Men who are ignorant can learn : IHOB who are poor, if we Reruns their right, to jicrjuiis laud by. purchase and undiir the iumiestead law in tlie South, eau and will i Cfjuite wealth. Whatever. there- Core, be the wile, let it.l repeat apply to all. v Applause.) I would, were tlie matter submitted to me, give the poor and ignorant the right to vote; the strong, the wise, the wealthy man, can take care of himself. It i* the poor and the in norimt who need the suffrage to protect thoineclvos. >' t- Agriu, throw the mass qf the poor and ignorant people in tbo voting population, ami'the wise, the wealthy, the powerful, will We that they must establish a sys tem of public education ; for if they al low ignorance and vice, to prevail around them, ignorance and vice uiay legislate away their rights and property. Thus it is that the North lakes it* poor child ren from the gutters and the pnrlies of tho city and educate* them : and those who enter our schools in poverty and wuakucsa often leave with minds enlight eued and enlarged, and finally goto the grave uicn ol wealth, their ifames and honorable achievements recorded in his tory. I would ft*y. give the fmlirnge all over the Country to the poor aud the ig norant, and so constrain the wealthy and powerful to look to the welfare ol the poor niid the ignorant. And still a*;atii. I would, as a purely selfish measure, take the poor blacks int>> our political family. Let mo illustrate my meaning. You are sick, bleeding, torn, thieves aDd robbers have been up on you, as they have been upon our Coun try "for four years. You have two person! to choose between. On the one hand j you have a friend—black, poor ignorant, but who knows there is a God and who fears lib punishment.*—who instinctively elnng tn you through all the time when the robbers were stripping and assailing you, —who. in spite of his poverty and ignorance, has been willing to lay down his life to save your*. <hi the other hand, you may seek the aid of a man stronger than you arc, of great intelli gence and learning,—acute, powerful, un scrupulous,—leafing neither God, man nor the devil. You must put your life in the hands of one or the other. Which will YOU choose ? I would take the poor and ignorant friend, and would try. with his aid, to keep the powerful enemy ofl'; and that is what you must do in the South. [Applause.] You must either tako the poor, ignorant masses, who, du ring the war, havo been your friends, have 1 fed you in hospitals, havo released you from prisons, have piloted you by night through marshes aud woods, and havo been ready to lay down their lives for you, [enthusiastic cheers,] or you mint take the brothers and friends and associ atc-i of John C. Brecieiiridgc and Jeffer son I'avis as your rulers; for sutli, by the aid of Northern sympathizers, they will be. For myself, as God is my judge, I will never consciously cast a vote in the American Congress that shall favor the admision of a representative from a reconstructed State uuder an oligarchic or aristocratic Constitution. [Great- ami long-continual applause.] 1 have said, viy friends, that I am pleading our own cause. I will not in sult these kind people of African descent who are hero to-night by pretending that lan pleading for tjhein alone. 1 do not wish them to think, as one did when 1 spoke here last, that 1 mean to throw con tempt upon them in the pica which I make ; but, as 1 havo said, 1 regard five as more than one, and I wish them to understand that 1 plead for ourselves; fur the Almighty has so inextricably inter woven the duty ot justice to them with our own welfare, that in pleading with yon to extend justice to them, 1 plead with you to promote your own peace, pros perity and happiness,—nay, to guaran tee your own fivcdoin here in Philadel phia. " Why," you tnay say. '' the slavery I question is settled, and our fathers ban ished it from this State."l know that slavery, in name, is ended, but you may change thc«*iame without changing the thing. If you leave four millions of la boring people at the South without the right to testify in open court, without the right to make a contract as any other person may. without the right to free ed ucation, such :w is enjoyed by the child ren of Northern laboring people, yon, in fact, leave slavery there. You surren der those four millions of laboring peo ple and their poitority to bp preyed upon by aristocratic- capitalists, and us«d as in struments for degrading whatever other millions of laboring men and women tnay goto dwell among them. The negro question, it left in this con dition, will be in the future what thesla very question has been in the past. But, under the new state <if circumstances, move of the colored people will rise up than could under the Fugitive Slave I.aw, to make known their wrongs, and to ap peal to the hearts of the wise, the hu mane and the just of the North. Thus we shall live in a sUto of constant agita tion, more intense than it hxs been in the past. The negro question will be used by unprincipled demagogues to inis-gov ern us in Philadelphia, as the slavery question has been to our great detriment. l)o you know, yon yonng ladies, who graduated in the Girls' lligh School of this .city, why Cleveland's unequalled " Compendium of English Literature" was taken from you as a class-book ? That work was excluded from the school, and the city of Philadelphia put to the expense of buyingnew books for all those who had üßed it. Why ? .Because Professor Clevclqad had dared .to insert a foot-note-in fawK of freedom I This happened in the Pmladelphia schools less than six years ago. A text-book which England or AnWsrica has not equalled iH titken from our daughters, and the ffjr of PliT : ;i'lcl|>li7ln putin the expense if bityiilg entire new sets of oti inferior work, because .that Philadelphia book •ontained a foot-note against slavery ! If we are to wtitinue the negro <juestion :i3 a SUbj •! ol agitation, t b<; compilers i of oliici school books may chance to say something in favor of the negro, ami t'futir ftxcelleuf works bo hustled out of our schools, because they might offend up Southern brethren,' who hare count !].')■ :.Tl\ mir dry golds, books afid po : I principled. [Laughter and ap pliirt-o/] ■ :l rverfc is iivt o git l or boy in the schools of Philadelphia who has not in this and other matte is been defrauded of essen tin! edui atioiiai Hgti's by our subservien tly l" the spirit <A the South. We must not .l« 112 the negro f|uesiJon enter our auhijolt- in that form again. I would rather see .it sttilk in.in the form of the darkost liued iii : r(j in the world, than fei:l that my children were slaves to the ex-sluve ownersof the Sou til. Have you in your libraries an Ameri- | can (?dit!' : di of CiawpbeH'a poems, publish ed siiuee 185-H If, in purchasing it,; you inquired of tho bookseller whether It was a cohipleto edition, you were prob ably told thnt It wn», that it ertutained all ■ his poems, including tho fugitive ftnd minor pieces—everything that Campbell ever wrote. Yet in uo recent American edition of the works of that poet can you find these lines: "United Ht'tlrn ! yimr tiniiiwr wear* Two'eniblenw—one of ftUiie ; A ISM! (he other I)u4t it bora lientinds in of your Minnie. "Your Rtan<lHr<]'a constellation type* \Vhiti- fr«f'lom by lt« ntar* { Hut whtit's the meaning of tbeHtriponJ They io'K) your negroea'^carn" .Now it is (juite as well for tJie Ameri can purchasers of Campbell's jiooius to ,knuw how we were sneered at by the writer of some of the best poems in our language for our - want of fidelity to our professed principles. The insertion of thise verses in our Americau publica tions could have done the citizens or coun try no harm, but it might have affected the Southern sale ol the book. There fore, although the South would not buy ouo eoppy to our fifty, we Northern peo- I pie were cheated. The South was our master and must be respected. Hut again, arc you an Episcopalian ? If so, have you a copy of the prayor book, embellished with that pious fraud, the beautiful frontispiece ? llaVe you ever seen Ary Scliefter'g picture, entitled Christ us ('onti/la to\ ? I have stood be fore it by the hour, and been peuetrated and inspired by the great lesson of the I Christian artist. He knew that Christ's love embraced aud that his spirit could exalt the humblest member of tho race He came to redeem. The central figure of the picture is tho sublime form of the Consoler, His countenance radiant with his divinity, and before him the huuible people who were consoled by His presence and His influence—whose sorrow aud agonies, physical and mental, he lifted from their poor souls ; and among thein j was tho negro. But when an Aniriricnn artist prepared tlutt picture for an American publisher's ed ton of the prayer book, it was found that, in reduciug the size, all the figures could Mot be included, and so they cut out the poor "darkey!" (Laughter and applause.) Now, I am toid. and 1 accept the state ment jis I rile, that this was not done in— fenti"ii,iily in the direction thai 1 imply; lut what I mean to say is, that if there Ih i bcfn »/ prejudice at the North uaiusi lie i.egtv. Olid it the tivo mil lions it A lean citizens of African oesi •ut n I Heeii in the enjoyment of their • ,'hand in the habit ot reading itll:i atieutiim.' public schools, and a fair share of them the Episcopal church, they too would iutve been purchasers of pray er books; and it is probable that the ar tist might have found that he could take out one of the white figures, leaving the sole colored man there to testify that the Church recognizes Christ's power to im part consolation and immortal hope even to the hundreds of millions of the chil dren of Africa. Sly friends, we have been enslaved with tho blacks of the South. We stand degraded in the eyes of nations and of history. Wo can now redeem ourselves. It is given to our generation, as it has been given to none since th-.it which founded our Government, to be remem bered in the long hereafter as a generation that blessed the world forevor. It is given to us to harmonize the practical workings of our institutions with the sublime truths that underlie them. It is given to us to establish in popular seuti tuent and the usages of the American people the practice of perfect justice.— To do it, we have but to be ti ue to our own highest and best and most Christian instincts—to be true to the great princi ples which our fathers strove to inculcate; and meanwhile, by mercy, by tlic use of those wotideriul ngeneies of this era— the Church, in popular hands; the Mis sionary Society,the Sunday School Union with its affluence of literature prepared for ui-disoiplined or immature intellect; the lJible Society, the Tract Society, the temperance lecturer, the teu thousand moral igencies known only to the people of the North—to be firm and persistent in oua allegiaucc to the right, and genor our in the application of these good in fluences, as we have bccu in pouring out our treasure and our blood during the war; and, with our generation, the dan gers that threaten us will have passed, and our country will be in reality a refuge far the oppressed of all lands—a bright light by flight and a towering column by day, that shall lead the nations onward tifl pelfeet freedom dwells upon the globe. [YtAeinenf and long continned applause, amid <which the speaker retired.] The Grinder Poisiiiing Case. On Saturday morning the Court of Oy er and Termiuer met at nine o'clock, all the judges on the bench. The Court an nounced that the jury iu the case of Mrs. Martha Grinder had agreed upon a verdict, when the prisoner was brought in from jail. At twenty-five minutes af ter nino (t'dock tho jury entered ttie Court room, ami aftefr being polled, rendered a verdict of yuVty 1/ niun/er in thr firtf cleyree. <Thc ipfep tfitiscn. The Largeat Virculafion of any Paper in the County. THOMAS ROBINSON. - - Editor. M. W. NPEtR, Ptiblislirr. BUTLER PA. WEDNESDAY XOV.I, ISflB. fif'Liberty and Union, New and Forever, One and 'nseparable."—D. Websier. Advancing Our neighbor of tho Hrnthl, thinks that we have beon advancing lately in our political sentiments. Wo think if he will look over his own columns, he will perceive equal progress, lie fore the elec tion, every appeal that cdold he mnde to the prejudices of its readers were made, to induce them to vote square, against negro suffrage, ke. After the election he at onco announced that, on th»t issue, they had been beaten before the people, aud as good citizens, having a respect for the constitutionally expressed will of the majority, they cheerfully submitted to the voice of the people! This is cx -1 actly our position to-day. Neither before nor after tho clectiou have wo expressed our opinion on tho nogto suffrago ques tion. Hut being informed by the Iferahl, that the issue had been decided in the affirmative, and that it was the duty of all good citizens to submit. We most cheerfully yielded to the popular verdict, m announced by our neighbor.. Dein wrtTtlt* ('ii (I incii ( ! At a Democratic meeting held in the Academy of Music, Brooklin, Now York, a few evenings siuco, where a number of the leading men of tho party participated. Jas. (J. Gerard, in the course of his re marks, bewailed tho freeing of tho no groes,—al.eging that ho thought many of them wished tliey were back nnder the old order of things,—under tho happy dispensation of that good old time; — Merlljr hoeing biff cefti To t!i a .|ul>ilaut note of tho niavoHlriver* horn; Willi n sfcip nnfl a hop, nutl a \vy mid linkiu, To th* j .viul sound of the whip ! Wc can easily undorstand how such sentiments can be uttered with freedom, aud even approbation in sueii a strong hold of Democracy as New York, but in no place less Democratic could such sen <i«Mcii<s be attended with impunity in tho latter part of tho nineteenth century.— Perhaps not even in Spain. But such sentiments arc well adapted to a locality where Orphan's Asylums and Union sol diers aie alike detected. The President*!* J*oll<-y. We hear a great (leal, just now, about the policy of the President. Not only do the Copperheads make (|uito a fuss about this subject, but Republicanssonio times, seem to think that there in a radi cal difference in the party on this subject. The most of all this noise about the Pres ident's policy, however, seems to us but a weak effort to got a "bit of an office." or at least some government patronage.— For our part, wo would deem it moro manly togo right to the President and, upon our bended knees ask for a few crutns. We must confess that we are en tirely ignorant of the character of Presi dent Johnson, if lie has any more admi ration for the time serving-spirit mani fested by some, than we have. Free dis cussion and a just regard for the express ed will of the majority is tho strength of a llepublicau Government. The Repub lican party will always be willing to ■square its conduct by these principles, and those, whether in the party or out side of it, who attempt to violate those principles, will realize when it is too late, perhaps, that they have o.ily been work ing out their own misfortune. As to our opposition to the poliey of President Johnson, we have to say, that we have confidence in him as President; but, he is only one branch of the Gov ernment. Tlure is also a Judiciary and Legislative depnrtment. It takes these differout parts to make a whole. This is a Democratic Government, —the voice of the people, as constitutionally expressed, is tho supreme law. We have no doubt that "Andy Johnson adheres to thistheo ry. It is his duty to suggest, or if you please, to offer to the rebel States terms, upon the acceptance of which they can oome back into the Union as Sovereign States. But after experiments have been made, and we find that thing* arc no assuming proper shape, it is the right of the people to demand a change of policy. This principle of the right of the people to influence the Executive was recogniz ed, even by the "Tyrant" Lincoln, as they called him. Congress being imme diately elected by the people, is supposed to reflect their judgment; when Congress, therefore, undertakes to express that will the executive that will not respect it will be expected to have a good apjtology for not doing so, or ho will come to grief, soonfr or later. President Johnson is too wise for that. And now that wo lralS#' heard so much ' aLeut the President's policy by our Dein ocratie neighbor. will bg bo £ood cuougll to tell us if be indorses I'iiesidenl John son's reconstruction policy ? An answer Till be expected. Illegal Voting. Previous to tho eleotion we published a list of desorters aud nm-repoitew found on thu rolls in the Provost Marshall's office, of tliis district, aooompunied by an Act of (Congress, declaring till suoh, dis qualified from boing citizens of the Uui tcd States, &<:. We called upou election officers to refuse these if any should offer Ttc readers of the Ilvrala, how ever, were informed that was the right 1 of all such to vote, and were instructed to disregard the Aft of Congress in the promises. The result was, that in most of the Democratic townships, deserters and non-reporters did vote. Wp have heard of them voting 111 Win field, Clear field, Oakland, Venango, Marion and Mercer. l'erhtqis they did even in oth ers. Soon after the election, we were spoken to in reference to this matter.— Tho loyal people of these districts feel much grieved to think that those who failed in the hour of trouble should now be allbwcci to vote down the loyal poople of these districts. Some seem to think that, as these votes ware powerless for mischief, we had as well let the matter pass. We are not qf this number. The constitutionality of the'law of Congress is doulited, it would seem, by some. This fact should be an argument in favor of having it settled by the Courts.— Wo feel confident that the majority of the election officers who,in violation of both their oaths and duty, received theso ille gal votes liad no legal conviction on the subject, only doing tho bidding of their matters. Nor had they any right to havo any, Their duty as officers, was to obey the law. It would then be the privilege of citizens feeling themselves agricved to have carried the matter up to the Courts and tested tho validity of the law. We have not yet had leisure to give the legal questions involved a thorough examina tion, but we moan to urge upon the pro fession, the imperative necessity of hav ing it disposed of at once. If it is to be disposed of under act of Congress it is likely it would have to be taken to Pitts burgh—to the United States Court, un less thore is a provision in tho law. giving, state courts jurisdiction. Our present impression is that it can all be disposed of under state law. \Vp don't believe that tho persons mentioned in the i«it re ferred to, aro "freemen" in tho contem plation of tho constitution. That these men. not only should, but must be pre vented from oxercising the right of citi zens bore or even holding property in our State, all loyal men socm to agree. Let us takoiionie prowi«e<it case there fore, and test it, and if our laws are not already stringent enough, we can have them amended. In selecting a proper subject, we have co choice, but would suggest that the most intelligent culprit, is certainly tho most guilty—sinning against light ami knowledgo. To fill this d scription a proper subject could be found not far from the centre. This mattter will soon take shape. In the meantime, lot our friends feel easy, the guilty must bo punished. £*#"• Mr. Pearcc, the Pension Agent at Pittsburgh, liuviug died lately, there will be, doubtless, some,delay in the receipt of pensions from that office untill his successor is appointed. tprg" J. H. Reagan, Ex-Postmaster General of tho so called Confederacy, recently liberated from Fort Warren, has written an address to the people of Texas; his native State, urging them to lay aside their prejudices and accept their new situation willingly, lie uiges upon them as the only safeguard against future trou ble, the adoption of tho principle of per fect equality before the law, "manhood suffrage," and all. In speaking of thus and its author, The Nation remarks that, Mr. Reagan betrays no prejudices against the negro, accepts him implicitly as a part of the American people, and expects, from the general docility of his disposition, that he would be in the main an industrious citizen. "The holding of these views" it remarks, ''is not perhaps an offset for participation in trcrson, and revolt, but u a be tter excuse for open prison doors, than any oath yet taken by seuthern lipe." Sfeff" In Harper'* Weekly, is found an articlo in repiy to a criticism upon a for mer articlo in the same paper, on recon struction. After replying to the criticism it closes the subject ft>» follows : "Our view is that the United' States Government; is morally bound to require every thing of its lately rebellious citi zens which it deems essential to tlie se curity of the Union ; which it mantain ed by so long and terrible a struggle.— Certainly those who saved that Govern menr are equally bound not to insult their baffled fellow citizens. lint they are also not less bouud to treat with con tempt the charge fhat they aro hostile 'to re-union, "neeuusc they are averse to haste and advise the utmost care and prudence nod eegacity. in the work of reconstruc tion." . , -—The arrests of Fenians in Ire land and England continue. Sever al ' ex-officer's of the United States army have been arrested. €O3IMU9fICATIQ*S. For the AKBRICAM Cirixuv: To tin- TCIM'IMTH of lliitlor co. A cnjl lint been made, convening a Teachers' Institute at Prospect, on tlie 7tli, Bth, and 9th of November.— 'I his will be hailed with joy, by every teacher alive to the wonts of the common scool: as-a move in the right direction I beg leave to call the attention of teaoh ors, and otlier friends of education, to the importance ol encouraging, and sustain ing a County Teachers' Institute in our county. The object of an Institute is to qualify teachers to discharge their duties belter in the school room. The object is certainly a good one ; and the want cer tainly exists. Theu the question arises: Ho Institutes qualify teachers todiscliargo their duties better in tho shool-room ? Teachers that are so lacking in profes sional spirit as not to make sonic sacrifice of time and easp to attend an Institute and remain away for fear of a new idea of teaching, cracking their eraniums (»o fully ciammed already); it is very doubt- 1 ul wlielhcr such are capable of being better prepared for their work. But to tho wide-awake, the earnest, the true teacher, the Institute is of vital import ance. Of the former class I hope wo have but few, of the latter class I hope the attendance in the Institute will prove that wo linve many. That teachers re quire bettor qualifications than they now possess, is a fact that cannot be denied. There is a constaut drain of tho best qualified teachers to other, and more re munerative pursuit*. Thoir places must be supplied by others. Ilence, there ex ists a pressing necessity for tho influence of a good Institute. Tho Teachers' In stitute provokes inquiry. It has taken methods of instruction, and examined them by tho light of philosophy, and rejecting the worthless has shown tho practical value of the good. Every true teacher feels that there is a want of unity oi action in the tcacining fofce of our county. We neod the vitalising inflation of an organiiation. Many of the tsu4h of our schools aro inexperienced ; to such the Instituto furnishes a fund of in formation which they can obfain in no other way so es*i!y. Then let all that feel an interest in tho caueo of education, ruse thoir influence to secure » full attend ance of teachers at the Institute and in tho words of the call, give a "new im petus to the cause of education. 1 ' Let boards of Directors urgo the teachers employed by them to attend. The wel fare of the common schools demaud of teachers that they improve every oppor tunity thus ofi'cred. A bright futurJ is dawning fur the teacher's profession; there never was such a demand upon the teach ers of our country as at present. Tlio war that has just closed so gloriously, haj demonstrated that tho education of the masses is the safoguard, and the only ono, for tlie perpetuity of our political institutions. If a tithe of the treasure spent in the war had been spent in edu cating tho masses of the Mouth, thero would have been uorebellion. The true interest and highest success of any pro fession is Lest promoted by an aotivc and leading interest ou the part of its own members. Tho true teacher will hold himself ready for every word andwwortk t which tends to bring his chosen profea sion into esteem, and place it in its propor light before tho woqd. A TEACHER. Jfor the AMERICA* CITIXBX. A Few Words in Reply to "Justice." Nearly a column of the Citizen was occupied last week with an article head ed, "Honor to Whom honor is Due." It was aimed principally at the Directors of the Butler County Monumental Associ ation. I was very sorry to see such an article on such a subject. In the grave-yard there are no distinctions. We do not quar rel, (or ought jiot,) at funerals. Would '•Justioe" forbid his political opponents to respect the memory of his own father or brother by coming to his funeral ? The grave—the tomb-stone—the monument, has always been considered sacred and common; where alienations are buried with the dead. Besides, the Directors, including offi cers, have All ( with one exception) had near relatives in the army. One lost a brother there. Another had a brother in Andersonville prison. Three others had sons in the army, one of whom was woun- j ded. Another had four sons in the army.. I should be very sorry that a feud should, spring up over the graven of our lamen ted dead. LOYAI. YOUXJ, Preeidoat of the Boaxd. —Genera] Grant has just purchased one-half of the property in Washington,' known as the Douglas Hospital, and Wilt refit it sor a family residence dariog his stay in Washington. The reported price paid is only thirty thousand dollars, al though the other half is held atfifty seven thousand dollars. It is not a tittle singu lar that, notwithstanding several houses have been given to hitu. the General, after all, is compelled to buy one. Hos pitality, to he time, should study the con science of the recipients. What .is to be done with the big house in Philadel phia. —Many I'luui trees in the vicinity,of 'Jfeadville tiavc put forth ,3 cecoud crop of bkte.-oms. Proclamation by the President. Kaltoiuil Tlninknglvliiß. VVABHINOTON, October2B.—The Pres ident to-day issued tho following procla mation ! Uythc President of tho United Stalest of America, a proclamation : * W IIKRKAB, It has pleased Almighty God during the year which is now coming to an end, to relietc otu beloved country from tho scourge of eivil war, and to per mit. us to secure the. blessings ol' peace, unify and harfubrty, with nil enlargement of civil liberty; and whereas, our Heav enly Father has also, durinr the year, graciously preserved us from the calami ties of foreign war, pestileucoamt famine; and whereas, righteousness exuffeth « nation, while sin is a reproach to any pto-. pie, now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnsofi'/ Presidoutof the United States, do here by recommend to tho people thereof that they do set apart and observe the Firtt Tkurtday in December as a day of Na tional Thanksgiving to the Creator of the Universe for these deliverances and bles sings ; and I do further recommoad that on that day the whole people make a con fession of sins against IT is infinite good ness, and, with one heart and otic mind, implore divine guidance in the ways of national virtue and holiness. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affiixed. Done at the City of Washington this 28th day of Oc tober, in the year 18(55, and of the inde pendence of tho United States tho eigh ty-ninth. ANDREW JOHNSON, Prcs't. By W. H. SEWARD, See'y of State. The I/tilc ffiiriU'r nt I'ltliole. The following particulars of the lato murder at Pithule are furnished by the special correspondent of the Meadville PuUy Rrpublicun , under date of the 24th: "A new establishment, to be known as the "Variotles," was opened last night For the first time with a bat). Tho evi dence shows that late at night an actress, who was in company with John .Smith,of Rochester, wont to the dressing-room pre paratory to going home, and while in the room two men entered, one of whom was the deceased, and attempted to ravish her. Her screams attracted Simpson to the room, who, it is alleged, shot ono of them named Mat. Kiut.ee, from Troy, New Yor'„, tho keepor of the Ifeenan saloon there. Simpson was immediately arres ted, and to-day was fully committed for trial. The town lias been tho soene of considerable excitement all day. The friends of the deceased threaten that Simpson shall never leavothe town alive, and the place of his confinement is con tinually surrounded by a crowd. Sever al deputy sheriffs, ate deemed with tho looal police and eitiroi.®, are deemed suf ficient to insure tho accused a safe con duct to Franklin, which will occur some time during the night. A public ii.ee'- ing of the citizens is called for to-morrow night, to ilovise some neins of ridding tho community of the baud of despera does who infest this section."— Pltlibttryli Übnmirrrial. . !/a(e i\«WN Items, —The Johnstown 'J'rilvw is responsi ble for tho following : "In tho summer of 18!!0 Mr. Thomas Jefferson liullor, a resident of Johnstown and the father of an interesting family of young children, departed for Philadelphia nod the Now England States. From there he went South, and when the rebellion commen ced was in Georgia. The other day ho returned to Johnstown, after nn absence of twenty-six years. He had not seen his wife or children in all that time.— What is perhaps equally remarkable,they are all living, although not all present to welcome his return." —The Sharon, Mcrccr county, Herald contaius tho following notice : "Warning.—Oharley Brown, a Gtriran by birth, and barber by profession, but who left his wife and family some months ago as a pedlar, is hereby informed, should he see this, that unless he returns within four months, any attempt to do as a husbadd and a father will be una vailing. Catherine Brown." Charles had better return immediately. —The movement .against the dams in the Susquehanna river, which obstruct the ascent of sbad, salmon and other fish in season, is assuming considerable im portance. A formal call hag beer, issued for a convention to meet in the House of Representatives, Harrisburg. on the af ternoon of ibo seewnd Wednesday in January next, to which all the counties interested In tlie Susquehanna fisheries are invited to send delegates. As tho Legislature will then be in session, meas ures for protection will then be demanded. —General Banks, candidate for Con gress in Massachusetts, announces himself in favor of negro suffrage. —TTie purser erf the steamship Eagle states tho fallowing-: An insurrection has broken oat amona the negroes of Jemaea. The £«glkh .consul at Havana has .applied to the Captaiu General of Cuba for aid to put the negroes down, and four war vessels hare been dispatch ed for that purpose. —Further investigations are to be made by the Government in the man ner rebel prisoners were conducted, with a view of ascertaining who have hcen guilty of a gross violation of the rules of war, in practiceing cruelties on Union priaonera when in their keeping. —Prominent Feniana assert that the President haa bromiged the re-, leijse of John Mitchell. Secretary Stanton, it'is said, is strongly op-, posed to his release; but it 13 goner ally believed that the promise will be kept. —The proprietors of Hie Wheeling Iron are making great im provements iu their mills, in the way of additions to the sail factory, and it is thought ,tluit by the first of Jap nary next, the ■' will have their ina.- cliiacs in working order.
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