VOLUME 2.
(QM BIMCiTIQ>S.
For the American CUMB.
AN ADDRESS,
Delivered to the Bulla County Teachers'
Institute, Nov. &th, 1865,
By Rev. J. J. Rockwell.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Yester
day, I was requested by your worthy Su
to deliver an address on this
(occasion. In compliance with that re
quest I am now before you.
Man can bo viewed in »io light more in
teresting than as a progressive being. His
iourney from the cradle to the grave
is a hurried passage through diversified
scenes of childhood, youth, manhood and
old age. Childhood is much the same to
nil; the happiest portion of our boing ;
made up of innocent joys, intermingled
with smiles and tears, and invested with
golden chamies unknown t%man in after
years. Men begin the race of life much
alike. But'ou in the distance we behold
them traveling in paths widely divergent,
and occupying positions in the strongest
possible contrast. Of a half dozen youths
reared at the .same fireside, enjoying the
prayers and instructions of the same moth
er, and the counsels and restraints of the
same father; one is in a position of hon
or and usefulness, wreathing for his
own brow a crown of just and enduring
fame, and another is in the lowest state of
degradation, an outcast from society, and
lost to jfrys of home, honor, friends, aud
his own highest interest. And what is
the cause of this difleience? It is and
must be found in the fact that "man is the
architect of his own fortune ,* ' or in other
words, that man is the subject of education
Education signifies, to lead out, a leading
forth, and n< eessarily implies that there
are within man certain faculties suscep
tible of development, and powers capable j
of progression. Man cannot be destitute
<if education. To live, is to educate our
selves. To so ai tas naturally to develop
character of some k'nd is as natural as the
sunshine and life giving showersof spring,
li to unfold thebud.and develop theglow
ing beauties of the full blown rose! If man
fail to fill that high and holy purpose of his
creation it is not so much for the want of
education, as for the want of the right
kind of education. One man educates
his intellect, and learns to number the
.stars, to explain the harmony of the re
volving planets, and to trace the course of
the blaziug comet in its eccentric pathway
lhrough the universe. Another individ
ual educates his moral powers and be
comes a 11. ward iu benevolence and phil
anthropy, a Henry in devotion, a l'aul in
zeal and sacrifice for the cause of truth
and righteousness.
A third individual educates his pas
«sions and becomes a giant in crimo, per
forming deeds of horror that shock hu
manity, and render him a terror aud
scourge to society. But these arc edu
•cnted. AH are educated. And each one
.standing high in the line of his education.
That education, then, which man needs,is
that which will fit him for his duties here,
and his high destiny hereafter; developing
those qualities which ennoble and dignify
his being And what is that within us which
is susceptible of, and requires education?
The immortal mind ! N\ hat limit can
hound its desires for knowledge ? *>\ hat
mind can know its capacities; forever ris
ing in the scale of moral and int llectual
refincuiout,pouring a flood of light around
its own pathway, passing from the known
.♦o the unknown, from the visible to the
invisible, from the finite to the infinite,
upward and onward in : ts wondrous flight
to the throne of God. .
With such a view of man's nature how
imperfect and absurd that view of educa
tion which inquires, ''what is to be gain
ed by it ?" Or in other words, how much
jmoncy may be made by an education ?
We should educate, because knowledge
is the natural good of man's mental na
ture. Intellectually, his powers are en
feebled, starved, and destroyed without
knowledge. The man who estimates ed
ucation only in the light of pemniarglost \
and gain, educates but one power ol his
pature, and that the basest. Selfishness
as the controlling pasMon, converts the
juan into a wretched miter, and shut* out
from his soul the sunlight of virtue and
iknowladge; and leaves him in eternal for
gctfuldess,—-thp victim of bis sordid sel
fishness in the estimation of the good and
•wise; "Creation's blot, creation's blank"
We eofaotijnea take an incorrect view
of education, by supposing that it is lim
ited to the short period spent in the school
loom. Education is a life work. The
mrsery, tho Common school, the Acad
iny, the College are but different stages
| the one great progressive work- Many
jp, bat none should lay aside their stud
p when they quit aoJjool. A truer, no
ler sentiment was never uttered than
'ben the poet declared :
AMERICAN CITIZEN
"Ld us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it"— A.. LINCOLN.
•»Wrr* mat Co live k»-9vntmtk ffttftm.
Tbrpatriotic pupil ihonitl be learning Mill.
And dying Iwvf l*»«ena half unlearft."
Whitevei superiority the presc»t age
enjoys ovor the fist; whatever advan
tage out aeintry can boast over other
lands; and the nighty contrast b»tween
the light, hufipint**, freedom and enter
prise of tho nineteenth eenttny, :ind the
dark nets, smxrstitio*, serriturfh »nd mis
ery, of the dtir/: ay* — oil, all liust be
ascribe;! to the inflaence of ecucatiog,
sautificii an 4 directdby the greit prm
ciple of Divine Tvith. The tducated
tnind selves the prol ki»s of phloeophy,
unravels the iuystcrina »112 nature discov
ers the rule? ol art, analyses tht princi
pals of bodict, opew up new fiells of em
ployment fur man, ami guides thi race in
[ its onward mirch Uwari pcrfecton, It
controlls the rtemen s oontractsiailioads,
builds cities, wars iwiniions, senls intel
ligence across the tnvkless wave >f ocean,
j from continent to con inent as if ly magic,
"maps the world witl frandurc.' And
yet, in all this we hme but an Inperfect
idea of the true valu* )f educaion.
This view of the subject man
as if destined here onlylo live aul foi/and >
die and be no more. It loaves ott of view
the important, and higher consllejation,
that there is within us» oaturaland im
perishable desire for kniwledge.the grat
ification of which e m.i 'lutca tk) noblest
and niostlasting happiuMß we ire capa
ble of enjoying. Knowledge istlie food
of the soul. It is as tread to tin hungry,
as the cool gushing fountain to he thir
sty traveler, as freedom to the captive,
and as libo'rty to the prisoner iho looks
out through the moss) bars of lv gloomy
dungeon upon a world of life, bouty. aud
activity. It is a ionrce of lappincss
which can never fail! Even 'ir Isaac
Newton,with his ] own ml caweities so
fully developed, and v h all hi vast ac
quisition of knowledge felt t'lt he was
like a school boy .amuse 1 with t e pebbles
and shell:i upon the shore whiletlie great
ocean of lay undist'd>ed be
fore him. lint his anxiety to i nd his
discoveries was in no n_n a!;4ed, but
each new truth gained, investc the un
known with increased uttnctiois. And
thus,we may be forever prqiresiing in the';
pursuit of knowledge; at every H «pin our
shining pathway, increased desires and
enlarged capacities will ns onward.'
There is one element if true educa
tion too frequently ncglecte\—an element l
indeed with out which no t duration cai,
be rowp/ete. We mean th<^education o!
the heart, or in other lh« cduca
tiou of man's moral nature. 'Why should
not the principals o the seftftcl of hu
man duty —of irrig ' and irfvif —be st-i
carefully and faithfully taujlt in ourf
Common school as the prim ipl* of Aritli
luetic and Knglidi Grammar? I* it be
cause such kuowlcdgo has nnth.ng to drf
with our happiness, and suecev in life '
Is it because it has no eonnccjon wit<
man's character, and no bearing u)bn hit
destiny for time and for eternity! T| j
know and obey the laws of titui an I
morality are as necessary to a sefe vtyagj
on the sea of life, as the baliitt cf llit
ship to enable her to ride in telly tpol
the ocean's waves. Without moral ttiiv
ing, with all his endowments, »ud alius
attainments in knowledge, ro»u wil be
unhappy in himself, a curse to his fe'.o*
crcatures.and as a ship with full tail, ad
without ballast, helm, or ccstoa*, —lis
gigantic powers will carry him iu' fart.hur
astray, until he becomes i miserable
wreck amid the rocks and show of scr>-
ticism and infidility. Then rtliile we ei
ucate the mind, let us not forpt to edu
cate the heart also.
T. achers, a word to yon «nd I a i
done. You are engaged in 4 ardoro »
and noble, but very respousilfc work.-f
Priceless Jewels—imperishabl minds a t
iu your hands to be moulded ( Jour wil.
A single lesson, yea, a singl I idea in
pressed upon that youthful mi d may fix
its destiny forever. Then achers, be
men and women of high and rorthy mo
tives, faithful in the ret>ponsill< duties of
your station, and then multito ss will call
you blessed when your work done, aid
the golden fruit of your lab< i shall be
seen aud gathered through co ing years.
Reciprocity Couiaßy.
A great many people seemto be barn
into the world —according to Iheir own
opinion—for the simple and (tprcsd pu"-
pose of receiving favors. Tht there a
any other view to be taken of the sub
ject never for a moment enter! the he|i
of any individual of this class. Th« iJ»
of a quid pro quo, even if his utellett Is
ah|f to grasp it, seems to him absufi 4-
Isin't he one of the anointed ?
a great part of the duty of the work cm
aist in toadying him, and c#ing up tie
minusulous virtual and par* ? Witt (lit;
deuce else was it rreated'for? Thf etuek ,
displayed by sojpe of tbepe at j
times is pwfewly stupendous »ad no j
BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY. PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1865.
one in a community, perhaps, is obliged
to witness its exhibition oftncr, or endure
its infliction wore constantly than the
editor of a newspaper. People who itch
fur notoriety, corporations who want their
backs scratched, travelling lecturers who
want ticklfng, all come to the editor, who
many times from pure good nature, and
many times lor the sake of being rid of
theirimportunities, gives them what.tech
nically known as a puff. But, eight
times out often, if a reciprocal courtesy
which literally costs them nothing, they
don't "see" it. They arc the parlies to be
favored, and thatend gained, it is all suffi
cient. Now we protest against this sort
of thing. It is void of reason, justice, or
right. A kiss for a blow is very good in
theory, but we have found from a long
series of experiments, that it don't pay
in business traductions.
We have not intended our aboye re
marks to be taken in a sweeping sense.—
Not a bit of it. They are only directed
to a particular class, and in a general man
ner I'.vcrybody ; whatever the position
they fill, have suffered from the absorb
ent qualities of these sponges of society
without being able to squeeze out much
in their turn, and in that peculiar suffer
ing we have had our share. We arc sick
of it—heartsick. It dosen't pay in tho
first place, and in the second place it isiu't
pleasant te feci one's self the victim of
imposition,for its nothing else. It destroy,
esthc feeling of independence, which every
one is entitled to possess, and we believe
wc have as many rights as anybody else.
Hut, yet. notwithstanding the preponder
ance of this element iu many comm mi
ties, we are glad to put on record that, on
the other side, there are many good,squarc!
white men, whoappreciatc and act opou
the doctrine that one good turn deserves
mother. They understand that mankind
was made for mutual support, not for oue
sided swindling. They show at least
common gratitude for favors received,
and that is all wc or anybody else can ask
—or we're not speaking for ourselves
alone. That their numbers may lie in
creased and wax great in the lands is the
prayer of suffering a community.
Let us Understand.
Among the amendments to the Consti
tution which the- Jcffevsonians of eighty
years since deemed estential to the securi
ty of public liberties and personal rights
was the following:
'•Art. 11. A well regulated militia be
ing necessary to tlie security of a free
State, the right nf the people to keep and
bear arms shall not be infringed."
W hen our groat war closed, it was deem
ed advisable that the soldiers of theJJn
ion should be allowed to retain the arms
they had so nobly borne, ou condition of
the payment by each of what was consid
ered by the Government their cash value-
An order was accordingly issued from the
War Department proffering to each hon
orably discharged soldier the privilege of
purchasing his weapon on the payment
of that t urn, ($5, we believe.) So said,
so done ; until now, on the representation
'of the ex-lteLels of Louisana, lieu. Can
by has nullified Mr. Stanton's order, di.
rccting that the Colored soldiers mustered
out of service iu hi* department (Louisi
ana) shall nolbe allowed to buy their mus.
ket3! We presume the Secretary wil
direct the satrap to mind his eye; but
meantime the Black soldiers will be mus
tered out and dispersed and the reitera
fon of the original order will practically
to nothing.
"The wicked flee when no man pursu
etl." The negro-haters at the South have
settbeir hearts on having a Black iusur
recton. They may fail; but it wilt not
be ftr want of diligence and determina
tion. Thus, in the South Carolina IIou»c
of Assunbly, Mr Leitner of Kershaw has
moved tW the judioiary Committoe do
proceed.
"To take into consideration the fact
that numerous arms of various descrip
tions, anc ammunition in considerable
quantities, are in the possession of the
tree negroei of South Carolina ; and that
said Committee bp instructed to rccom
mcud, if poisible, t< this House, the adop
tioa of such measures as will secure the
foil wing results:
"Jirtt —The rendition of such arms and
ammunition as are now in the hand of
said :ree negroes to the proper authorities
of th<i State.
'■Scciind —As will secure the punish
ment of those persons who, in the future
shall barter or in any wise furnish arms
and ammunition tn "aid free negroes.
" Third —As will in the future prevent
said free negroes from retaining in their
possession anns and ainmuuitien, when
ever or huwoTer obtained."
—lt puiiles us to determine why such
propositions are not held in reserve till
, the States lately in revolt shall have been
I fully rccostructd and their representatives
j seated iu ('ortgross. Thn we shall hare
j iota of them: now, they are clearly tui
tWOP»hle.—-.V. 1' TrUntnr.
my FIIWT PO*¥
Ah! here it Is! I'm famous now—
An author and a poet ?
It leally is in printye gods !
How proud I'll be It!
An<i Rentle Annie! What a thrill
Will animate her brewt,
To read these anient lines and ktiow
To whoni they are addressed.
Why, bless my soul!—here's something strange:
What enn the paper mean
llv talking of the -graceful brooks
That gander o'er the green,"
And here's a t i nut end of R,
Which make* It "tipplingrlH; H
••We ll week the •bed," instead of "shade,'
And '-hell," Instead of ' hill."
"They look 80-— what! I recollect,
'TwiK •sweet" and then 'twas "kind J*
And now to think the itunid fool:
For "bland" has printed "blind.'*
Was ever such provoking work—
•Tis curl-.us, by the by
How anvthing is rendered "blind"
By giving it an eye.
"Hast thou no tear*." the T'« BIFT out,
"Hast thou no ear," Instead;
"I hup*! that thou art dear" i* but
'•1 hope that thou art dead."
Who ever saw in such a space
So many blunder* crammed!
"Those gentle eyes \>edimuied" ta apelt
• Those gentle eyes bedamned "^
"The color of the roso" is "no##,"
"Aflection"' is "affliction
* I wonder if the likeness holds
In tact ns well as Action.
"Th.-u art a friend," the t is gone;
W bo ever would have deemed
That such a trifling thing should chang* %
A ' friend"' Into a "lieud !"
"Thou art the same" is rendered "lame
It lealljr Is too bad;
And here, because an I is out.
My ' lovely maid" is "mad."
They drove her Mind by poking iu
An eye—a process new;
And now they've gouged It out again,
And made hor craty, too.
"Where are tho muses fled, th«t thon
Ihouldst live so long unsung"
Thus read my vision—here It is—
• Shonl.l live long unhung "
"The fate of woman's lovo is thine."
And R commences "fate;"
How small a circumstance will turn
A woman's love to hate.
. 1 'll read no more! What shall Ido I
I'll never dare to send it I
The paper's scattered far and wide —
'Xia now t»>o late to nu.nd it. •
Ob, Fame! thouch«»ot of human bliss!
Why did I ever write!
I wixli my poeir. had.been burnt
Uvfore it saw the light.
Let's stop and recapitulate
I've d m'd her eyes, that's plaiu ;
I've told her she's a lunatic.
And blind, and deaf, aud lame.
W as evei such a horrid hash
In poetry or In prose 7
I've said she wan a fiend, and praised
The color of her noso.
I wlhh I had that editor
About a half a minute;
I'd u\>c him to bis heart's ccntont,
And with an H begin It.
I'd JAM his body, eye*, and bones,
And spell it with a n.
And send him to that hill of his —
He apo!ls it with an E.
WIT A ND WISDOM.
—Sail, what time docs your folks dine?
'■Soon as you goes; that's missus' orders."
Why arc the ladies of Missouri so
sweet ? Because they are Mo. lasccs.
—Mankind shouW learn temperance
from the moon: the fuller she gets tho
smaller her horns become.
—Why is a bank-note torn by a dog
sure to pass? Because it's cur-rent (cu
rent) money.
—"Thou rainest in this bosom," as the
chap said when a basin of water was thrown
over him by the lady he was serenading.
—Why is a chicken pie iike a gun
smith's store ? Because it contains foul
in-pieees.
—When may two people be said to be
half-witted? When they have an un
derstanding between them.
—What is the difference between a
gentleman and a tail ? One keeps
a carriage, aud the other keeps a wtgon.
—Frentice says:—" It is not enough
that you are praised by the good ; you
have failed somewhere in your duty if
you arc not cursed b^the bad."
—Mr. Quilp, upon censuring his neph
ew lor bad speculations in "oil," was
shocked at the report that "the money
was well spent."
—Arteinus Ward says, when he hears
the song, "Come where my love lies dream
ing," he don't go. He don't think it
would be right.
—There is a family in Ohio so lazy that
it takes two of them to sneeze—one to
throw the head back, and the other to
make the noise.
—The difficulty of acquiring our lan
guage which a foreigner must experience
is illustrated by the following question :
Did you aver see a person pare an apple
or a pear with a pair of scissors?
—The yonng lady who could read the
following and not " pity the sirrows of a
poor young man," deserves to live and
die an old girl.
"I wish 1 wfrei tnrkey-dore,
K artting on your knee,
I'd kin yonf •mllin' llpe, love,
To alt e.tef-nlfcse"
Why was there a financial panic in
Egypt in the days of Pharaoh t Be
the mother of Moses went to the bank
and made a depoait- After that Phara
oh's daughter went and drew u large draft.
The Bible then says there wer» ruthn on
that bank.
—A Dutchman in Alfeqy, sonjo time
ago, went out to his milkman in the street
with a dish in each hand, instead of one,
aa usual. The dispenser of attenuated
milk ofcked him if he wished him to 011
both vessels. The Dutchman replied,
suiting the action to the word, "Dis for
the milluk and dis for the water, and I
will mix dem so as to shute myself."
—Why is lore like a duck's fo
cause it vftem lies hidden under
The Demoratic Collapse.
The result of the elections of last week
will be, it may be fairly conjectured,to ex
tinguish whatthere was of life in the Dem
ocratic party. Whatever hopes the man
agers may have had of prolonging its ex
istence have doubtless died out siuce the
defection of New Jersey. Its defeat in
that State is to it what the "collapse" is
in cholera, ab unmistakable symptom of
iuipeuding and inevitable dissolution. —
Uutil the occurrence of that untoward
event, there was hope even from such
mustard-plasters as Governor Seymour's
speeches, or such tickling of the soles of
the feet as Mr. John Van Bureu's jokes.
But since New Jersey ling given way, of
course all the doctors have put up their
nostrums and gone home, sadder and, we
hope wiser men. There is now little left
to be done but to prepare for the doceut
interment of the old and once powerful or
ganization.
This sorrowful event can, however,
hardly be said to have taken anybody by
surprise—probably the chiefs less than
anybody else. The symptoms of the
malady which on Tuesday last termiua
ted fatally showed themselves long ago,
and the history of the party for the last
ten years have been little better than a
study in pathology. Such susceptibility
to morbific influences was probably never
before witnessed in a political organiza
tion. There has hardly a single question
come up during the last ten years on
which the country ultimately not simply
repudiated as impolitic or inexpedient,
but stigmatized as repugnant to its mor
al sence.
Not that there is anything very won
iu party managers taking no note of the
moral bearing of the measures they sup
port, but the Democratic leaders have ex
hibited what they and men oftheir stamp
consider far more discredible than want
of goodness, and that is want of skill in
their own calling. The whole art of a
successful politician in a free country
consist# in Binding out either what the
public is likely to do if left to itself, or
what he is likely to bo able to persuade
it to do, and yet in this art the leaders of
the Democratic party, with all their long
experience, have shown themselves fatally
deficient. We hear a great deal of late
of the blunders into which the London
Timet , the Satimlay lirvinr, Lord Rus
sell, Mr. James Spcncc with regard to
the course the American people were
likely to take upon the various great ques
tions which havo agitated the country
during the last fouryears ;but thoir worst
mistake have, considering that they are
foreigners who never set foot in the
country, been trifling compared to those
committed by the Seymours. Pcndletons
Pierces, Vallandighams, and Curtiscs.—
Wc havo no hesitation iu saying, too.
that the worst attacks on our national
which have appeared in foreign journals
during the past four years, have not cov
ered half so much really biting insult, so
nluch deep contempt for it,as popped out
almost from every step taken by the Dem
ocrats in opposition to the Government
during the war, or in opposition to the
anti-slavery agitation which preceded it.
Almost every argument used by them in
deprecation of the anti-slavery movement
was drawn from the supposed indifference
of the people to everything to material
interests. To everything that was said,
or could be said of the moral or political
evils of the growth of slavery, they had
but one reply, and that was to meddle
with it would cause the loss of Southern
custom. Whenever, too, they sought to
present the possible dissolution of the
Union in darkest cclors, its probable ef
fect in destroying trade was tbo consid
eration which they always put most prom
inently in the foreground.
. In their efforts, also, to put a stop to
the war, the relied almost exclusively np
on appeals to the very basest and most
selfish motives, fear, love of ease, love of
money, and local jealousy, and they did
so with a confidence which proved what
a very low estimate they had of their au
dience- They did their best to ruin the
Government credit by talking of repudi
ation as a thing sure to happon. They
laughed at the notion that the American
people would ever be such fools as to
pay such a debt, even if they were able
to do so. And they were not restrained
even by personal pride from soliciting
foreign interference, and trying to impress
foreigh governments with the belief that
nothing else could save the country from
ruin. When we condemn LMIUS Napo
leon for takiDg advantage of our perplex
ity to invade Mexico, it will hardly do to
forget what passed between tjje Demo
cratic leaders and Lord Lyons in this
piijr in th# fall of J862.
The moral of the bUtory of the party
is vecy plain end simple. It teaches, in
most unmist»ki>b)« mioncr; that ltr-
soil which of all others politicians are apt
to be most unwilling to learn, anil that is,
that nothing succeeds in the long run in
America but principle. The plau of
governing by arrangements, compromises,
fictions, concealments, nnd so forth, has
been tried for ages in Europe, nnd has
there succeeded fairly. Social and polit
ical devices based on great wrongs, and
sotting moral lawt at defiance, have, for
reasous too numerous to specify here,
achieved a considerable degree of success
But the two conditions which more than
all others have contributed to their suc
cess—popular ignoraucQ and submissive
ness, and the force of tradition—are here
totally wauting, and the Democrats par
ty has come to grief simply because the
lenders refused to recognize this differ
ence. With all their abuse of Europe
and professions of exemption floui its
influence and from the yoke of its ideas,
and loud proclnmntiotis of Democratic
feeling, the Seymours, Vallandighams,
and Peudlctous are European politicians
and measure the public by the European
standard, popular sagacity and conscience.
It has taken them along while to find out
their mistake, but we presume they have
found it out.
These recent defeats are but il'nstra
tiuns of the truth that in our politics not
Wily is honesty the best policy, but that
it is difficult, if not impossible for any
public man to rate too highly the class
of motives by which our public is actua
ted. In other words, he is pretty sure
to come out best in the cud who acts as
if the people, instead of being selfi-h,
timid, parsimonious, despisers of ideas,
or, as it is the fashion to call them,
"isnm," were chivalrous, opei Vinndedjad
mirers not of what seems likely to pay
best, but of what, in their very best
moods, they think most nearly right, in
the highest sense of the word.
One effect of tlie result of the elec
tions will undoubtedly be to give greater
elucidity to Mr. Johnson'* ideas of what
the North requires as a settlement. This
is all the more importaut, because we
think the evcuts of eacdi day make it
clearer and clearer that he iuei>us to do
right, and that his liberations from the
straight road, whether real or crooked
ways. The dislike of the loyal .States to
half-way measures might, perhaps, have
been revealed more strongly, but still it
has been revealed. The vote of bst Tues
day was a solemn confirmation, as solemn
as could well be uttered, of all that has
been uttered and done for truth, aud free
dom, and justice during tho last four
years. All that is to be feared naw, it is
plain, is too great crcdulty, too great dis
position to rely upon professions and fine
words, where written contracts or formal
enactments can furnish the only security.
As to tho Democrats themselves, wo
do not flatter ourselves, and we do not ad.
vise the public to do so, that we have got
rid of them. Where change has COILC
as it has here, what might bo almost call
ed the animating principle of our politi
cal system, we arc not likely to have, as
in older countries, anything which can
be fairly Called a " vJonscrvatve" party,
and tho Democracy cannot bo converted
into such a party. The two great divi
sions of our political world will consist
hereafter, not exactly of the knaves and
of the honest men, but of thou: who think
the great laws of morality are good polit
ical guides, and those who think they
are for political purposes of little or no
consequence. To this latter party, under
whatever name it may be called, or for
whatever purpose it may bo organized,
the debris of the Democratic party is
sure to belong. We may rely upon it
that wherever wo can see a body of men
rallying around an abuse with a fair
chance of defending it successfully, Mr.
George T- Curtis and Mr. Horatio Sey
mour and their associates will be found
in the midst of them, with their hauds
under their coat-tails, showing that to
touch it would break up the fraiuewo/k
of society. That the Democratic party
was not simply the pro-slavery party,
but the party of rascality and corruption
has, in fact, been thoroughly proved by
tho strenuous opposition it has always
offered in this city to the work of muni
cipal reform *—Jfation.
N. Y., November 22.—Wm Well*;
who was to have been executed at King
ston, N. Y., to morrow, for tha murder of
Mrs. Rockwell, lias received • respite
from the Governor, postponing the exe
cution until the fifteenth of December
next.
«, » ,9.
.—Analyzing dame reports that "she
had heard of but one o)d woman who
her coir—hot she know* of manj
thousands of young ones who hav» kissed
very great calves."
—A woman dies but she never sur
renders her age !
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NUMBER 50
Execution of Wirzi
llenry Wirt' the jailor of the charnel
house of Audersonville, was executed in
Washington on Friday last in the Old
Capital l'rison yard, in obedience to the .
finding and sentence of the military com
mission as approved by the President.
He persisted to the last in denying that
he had wilfully starved, murdered or mal
treated Union prisoners, although the tes
timony on the trial was overwhelming and
cumulative to an extent that precluded
the possibility of doubts as to the fiendish
chracter of the man. lie gave to the re
porters of the press a detailed account of
his life, carefully embellished his good
traits, as though he dreaded tho imputa- .
t ion of the unnatural crimes chagcd against
him next to death. His last tatter wai
written to one of his counsels just before
mounting the gallows, in which he appeal
ed for assistance for his family. He said
in it that "if any one ought to come to tha
relief of my family it is the people of the
South, for whom I have sacrificed all."
After his execution, his body was deliv
ered to Father Boyle, his spiritual advii
er, for interment.
—Thus has the creature of murderous
treason atoned for the monstrous atroci
ties which doomed twenty thousand Un
iou prisoners to loathsome disease, linger
ing starvation and death ; but where are
his principles ? The record of the trial of
Wirz shows that he was arraigned, tried
and convicted for "combining," confedera
ting and conspiring together with Jef
"ferson Davis, James A. Scddon, Ilowel
"(Jobh, John 11. Winder, llichard B,
"Winder, Isaiah 11. White, S. P. Moore,
" —Kerr, late hosptal Stewart at Ander
"sonville., Jaines Duncan, Wesley W.
"Turner, Benjamin Harris and other*
"unknown, to injure the health and de>
"stroy the lives of soldiers in the military
"service of the United States, then held
' and being prisoners of war," &c. Up
on this chargo Wirz was found guil
ty — not guilty merely of murdering Un.
ion prisoners himself, but guilty of "eonv
bining, confederating and conspiring ta
gcthcr" with Davis, Seddon and others
to accomplish the deliberate murder of
prisoners of war. This finding the presi
dent approves with the sentence, a(W up
on this record, Sanctioned by a court mar
tial and approved by tho highest officer
of the Government, the poor creature —
the miserable tool of the chief murderers,
—is executed. What shall be tho fate
of his principals ? When and how will
they be tried ? Is justice to be satisfied
by the punishment ofan irresponsible sub
ordinate, while his snperiors whose bid
ding he was bound to obey, or enjoying
their frcodom and helping to reconstruct
the Government, or calmly waiting i»
comfortable confinement, tho coming dny
when they may be discharged with im
punity 7
The Shenandoan.
The .British Government has on its*
hands a big elephant, the disposal of
which lifts not yet been decided on. The
Shenandoah came all unexpectedly into
the Merpey, like a terrible apparition —■
Its advent boa produced sensation in
England. One of our monitors pawing
up tho stream, paying shotted salutes to
both banks, would hardly produce more-
The gentle commander, it appears, n»
scon ns he heard, in the distant scene of
bis piracies, stowed his guns away and
started for home, paid off his crew in reg
ular business style, and gave up the bu
siness. His mission waH accomplished,
his work was done, and he returned to
England to give an accoupt of his stew
ardship to those who sent hiin forth.
Tho London Times very sensibly re
marks on the appearance of this vessel",
"the reappearance of the Shenandoah in
British waters at the present juncture i*
an untoward and unwelcome event."—
And again, i'it is gteatly to bo regretted
that the ship overcame Lack to England."
We thiuk that this unforeseen event, al
though extremely embarrassing in Eng.
land, will help to a just and speedy ar
rangement of the difficulties between that
country and the United Slates, which
have grown out of the atrocious piracies
on our commerce. Had this "untoward
and unwelcome" arrival occurred soma
weeks earlier, it i# probable that the tone
of Karl llusgejl's reply to Mr. Seward
would have been somewhat modified by
it. But it is not to late yet for the great
and enl'ghtened nations to come to an un.
(ierstarding consistent with justice and
favorable to their long standing friendly
relations. We oonsjdpr the arrival of tho
Shenandoah in England uuder voluntary
impulse, as a seasonable am] fortunate
event »t this juncture.— PUtt. Com.
—Why an the JUiueseslike the
land fisheiws? Ans.-BecauwcUiey about 4
I in JTOOaks.
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