OFFICIAL. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, I'luwd at lli« Hr»t Swwlon of Ihc Tnirty-Xiiith Congress. [PUBLIC NO. 04.] An .1.7 Svpfj/rmsn/ury to ikr. Surra? Artf Rchituij to I'ensiont. ]!e it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives uf tho United States «t America, in Congress assembled : "That section fire of an act entitled 'An act to giant peoaioMj' approved July 14, isijj," approved July 4, I>">4, and scc ■ jinn three uf an aeteutitlcd "An nftsup plemeatary t»» thf lievoral net? relating to pensions,' approved March 3. 1804, be and the ssma are hereby repealed, and the following shall stand ill lieu thereof; That, from and nfW th<* pas-age of this ser, nil persons by law to a leas than hereinafter specified. who, while jn the military or navniservice anH in line (if duty, shall have lost, the sight of b'otli eyes, or who thall have lost both hands, ov been, permanently and totally Enabled in the same, iir otherwise so per «imn. mlv and totally «li«ab)ed as to ren .j|r than, ullerly he I picas, or so nearly so aa tQ rebuke the constant personal aid and attvH.laiioc of anothef ]>crßon, shall be ehtltled to a pension of twenty-five dol lara p*r month • and all persons who, under like eii oumstaree*, shall bare lost holli fuel, ur One hand and one foot, or been permanently uu>l totally disabled in the an me, or otherwise so disabled as to be in'eapacitated for performing any man ual labor, bnt not so much so as to rc ) quire Constant personal nid and attention, .hall be entitled to a pension of twenty dollaud per month >, and all persons who, under like circumstances, shall have lost • Vine foot. or been totally and permanently Wisablod in the same, or otherwise so dis abled us to render their inability to per form manual iabdf equivalent to the loss < 112 a baud cr a foot, shall bo entitlod to a pension of fifteen dollars per month. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That any pledge, mortgage, sale, or as signment, or taansfer of any right, claim, or interest in any pension which has been or may hereafter be granted, Hhall be void and of no effeot; aud any person acting as attoincy to receive aud receipt for money for and in behalf of any person aiitilied tQ a pension shall, before receiv idg said . money, take aud subscribe an oath, to be tiled with tho pension agent., and by him to DO transmitted, with the vouchers now required by law, to the proper accounting olfioer of the treasury, that ho ha# no interest iu said money by any pledge, mortgage, sde, assignment, or transfer, and tiiat he does not know or believe that the sutne has been so disposed of to any person ; and tiny person who shall falsely take the said oath shall be guilty of perjury, and.on conviction, shall bo liable to the paina aud penalties of perjury. SUCTION 3. And bo it further enacted, That any person who shall present or cause to be presented at any pension agen ey any power of attorney or othor paper required as a voucher in drawing a pen sion, which paper shall boar a date subse quent to that on which it was actually stgned or executed, such person so of fending shall be deemed guilty of a mis demeanor. and shall, on conviction there of, be punished by a tine uot exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment (or a term not cxeeoding three years, or by botji, at the discretion of the court before whom sttch conviction shall be had, and BO SUN of money d*o, or to become due, to any pensioner under the laws aforesaid, shall be liable to attachment, levy,, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, whether the same remains with the Pension Office or any office or ntfent thereof, or is in conrso of tntbswission to the peaaioner ontitled i here to. butsliall inure wholly to the ben efit of such pensioner. SsrriON 4- And be it further enacted, That no claim agent or other person shall hereafter charge or receive more than 25 cants for preparing the papers nocossary to eoabio a pensioner to receive a semi annual payment of his pension, nor shall any pension agent charge or receive more than fifteen, cents for administering an oath to a pensioner, or his attorney in fact, under penalty of five dollars in each ease. SECTION And. bo it further enacted, That section ope of an act entitled "An »ct supplementary to the several acts re biting fo pensions," approved March 8, 1866, it hereby repealed. SfcOwoN 6. And bo it farther enacted, That if any per*>u entitled to an invalid pension has Murch 4,1861, or sVall hetea!l'tcr die, while au application Wr »neh fiensioh is"pcnding, and aftev the proof has been completed. leaving no widow and no taiiKit child under sixteen yaarti of age, his heirs and legal represen tative* shall be entitled to the accrued pension to whioh the applicant would have been emitted had the certificate been issue.l before his death. Sronw.N 7, And be it further enactod, That in all <3se* when a commission shail hava been tegulurly issued to any person in the military or naval service who shall have died or been disabled while in the liM «112 dutjr. afterKhe date of such cotn t&lfftioß, and before being mustered, such officer or other person entitled to a pen sion for such death or disability, by ex isting law?, shall rroeivo a pension cor r*po»ding his rank, as determined by mob eouuHwaiou. the lame as if he had bfan mfatared provided, that this sec tion shall not apply to any officer who shall have wilfully neglected or refused to be ao nrMtervd. And be it further enacted, Tint ofiioers absent on sick leave, tod en listwi «nes abeent on shall be regarded in.the administration of the pension law's in tho saire manner aa if t*»y wet* in the field or hospital. "Nwrwwt. Anrr«ftia. shall be regarded, in the administration of (he pension laws, as nmi-commi-sioßed offioen o| privates. SKOTIOS 11. And be it further enac ted, That if any officer, soldier, or seaman shall have died of wounda received or disease contracted in the line of duty in the military or naval service of the I'ni tcd Stateß, leaving a widow and a child or children under the age of Ifl years, and it shall be duly certified under seal, by any court having probate jurisdiction, that satisfactory evidence has been pro duced before such eouit that the widow aforesaid ha# abandoned the cArc of such child or children, or is on unsuitable person, by reusou of immoral ciindues, to have the custody of the same, then uo pension shall be allowed to such widow until «ucli minor child or children shall have become sixteen years of age, nny previous enactment to the contrary not withstanding; and the minor child or children aforesaid shall be pensioned in the same manner as if uo widow had sur vived the said officer, soldier, or seaman, and such pension may be paid to the reg ularly authorised guardian of such minor or minors. SECTION 12. And be it further enac ted, That section four of un act entitled "An act to grant pensions," approved July 15,186'2, is hereby so amended that the provisions thereof shall apply to and include the orphan brother or brothers, as well as sister or sisters, under sixteen years of age, and the father as well as mother of a deceased office) s or other person named hi section one of the above entitled act, who wore dependent upon him for support in whole or in part, sub ject to the same limitations and restric tions. SECTION 13. And be it further enac ted, That nothing in this or any other acl shall be so construed n« to repeal or mod ify the sixth section of an act entitled "An act.supplementary to "An act sup plementary to 'An act to grant pensions,' approved July 14, 1802," approved July 4, 1 SCI, or to entitle a persoo to receive more than one pension at the same time, aud in every ease in which a claim for pension shall not have been tiled within three years after the disoharge or decease of the party on whose account the claim was made, the pension, if allowed, shall commence from the date of filing the last paper in said case by the party prosecut ing the same. tiKCTrON 14 And be it further enac ted, That the fourteenth section of an act entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to grant pensions,' ap proved JuJy 13, 1802," approved July 4, 1804, be and the same is hereby re pealed, and that the widows and children of oolored soldiers and sailors who have been or may be hereafter killed, or who have diod or may hereafter die of wounds received or of disease contracted in the military or naval service of the United States, and in the line ot duty, shall be entitled to rcceivo the,pensions, bounty, and back pay provided by law, without other evidence ot marriage than proof satisfactory to the Commissioner of Pen sions, that the parties had habitually rec ognized each other as man aud wife, and lived together as such ; and the children bom of any marriage so proved, shall be deemed and taken to be the children of the soldier or sailor party thereto. Approved Juuc 0, IbOG, Report oT tftv Meooiiatriiotloii The final report of the Reconstrue tion Committee, which was yesterday submitted to the Senate by Mr. Fea senden, anil which we print this morn ing in full, will command the undivi ded attention of the country. The great question of the present year is lleconstruction. To secure Recon struction on the basis of justice and freedom is the task which the party that conquered in the campaigns of 1860 and 1864 has now to perform. The report of the Reconstruction I Committee is the complete, and, we may say, the official declaration of the principles which the Republican party is bound to carry through, and in the advocacy of which, we fell con fident, tho whole party will soon be a unit. The report begins with adverting briefly to the course the Committee found it necessary to adopt. They had been direoted by a resolution of Congress to inquire into the condi tion of the Confederate States, and report whether they were entitled to representation in Congress. The former of these points admitted of no dispute. The South was in a state of utter cxhauetation. Congress hav ing failed to provide for the contin gency, the duty of the President was obvious. He had no power,except to execute the laws of the land an*f to establish, as far as he could, a sys tem of government. All his acts were those of a military commander, but no authority was given him by the law over the subject of rocoD. struction. On the moeting of Congress in De cember, tho President officially an nounced the organization of local Governments, aud the read mission of the late ReDel States.— With regard to this recommendation, Congress must either have acted blindly upon the opinion of the Pres ident, or proceed to collect for itself the necessary information. ThelaU ter course was chosen. Its first d«ty was to cali upon the President for the information in his possession as to what had been done. The infor mation, which was not communicated until six weeks after the Committee had beeu in aetual session, appeared to the Republican members of the Committee incomplete and unsatisfac tory. theerreawetaneef, it appeared that but one course remain ed, viz., to investigate thoroughly and carefully the state of feeling uuiyng .lii« Southern ti inftijr whether it #ns Bafe to reaamijk t hit into Con gi"«s». To obtain tfis information the Committee had recourse to the examination of ivitnaWba whose posi tion had given them the best means of forming an accurate judgment.— The results of tbis examination have been heretofore published. ■ The report of the .G'omroitte* next proceeds to examine the claims of the South for re,admis»ion to Congress. All (HsCusSloh of the question wheth or the* recovered States are out of or within the Union is ■waived, and the report assumes as, bevrwd dispute that the people of the llebel States had infact withdrawn from the Union and made themselves subjects of an the mau who restores health aud appetite, witli from one to two of his extraordinary Pills, and cure* the most virulent sores with a box or so of his wonderful and all-healing Salve. Thotie two great specifics of tho Doctor are fast superseding all the stereotyped nostrums of the day. Extraordinary cures by Muggicl'a Pills and halve have opened tho eyes of the public to the inefficiency of the (so called) remedies of others, and upon which people have «o long bliudly depended. Maggiel's Pills are dot of the class that swallowed by the and of which every box full taken creates an absolute necessity for another. Ono or two of Maggiel's Fills suffices to place the bowels in perfect order, tone the stomach, creates an appetite, iind redder the spiticft light and buoyant 1 There in no griping* and .no reaction in the I'orui oi constipa tion. If the liver is affected,. it* func tions are restored; and if the nervous j system i* feeble, it is invigorated. This I list quality makes the medicines very ! desirable for tho wants of delioate fe- ! males. Ulcerous aud eruptive diseases j are literally extinguished by the disen- I fectant power of Maggiel's Falve. In j (ae», it is here announced that MACIOIBL'S I UILIOUS, DYSPEPTIC AND DIARRHEA j PILLS cure where all others fail. While ! for Burns, Scalds, Chilblains, Cuts and ' all abrasions of the skin, MAGGIEL'S, j SALVZ is infalliablc. Sold by J. MAO ! til EL, 43 Fulton Street, Now York, and fill DruggiaU, at 25 ets. per box j For Sale atDrs. GRAHAMS & HUB - Drug Store, sole Agcats in , K otter Pa. Imaj tt, 'Wk 1 ?hc Jtmmcau Cittern. fl!®- The Largest Circulation oj any Papxr intht Cotinty. THOMAS ROBINSON. - - Editor. BUTLSR PA. W E ONESOAY JPME BQ, M«». flar " Liberty and Union, Now arid Forever, One nd 'nsepa rable."— O. Webtier. i . ulntott JState Jirhet. For Governor: Maj-Gcn. JOHN W.GEARY Of CUMBERLAND COUNTY. Union Republican County Ticket. CONGRESS. K. M'JUNKIN, (Subject to District Von/ereet.) ASSEMBLY. HENRY PILLOW. ( Subject to District Rumination.) ASSOCIATE JUDGES. JOS K I'll CUMMINS, TIIOS. GARVEY, PHEiuiy. J AS. 11. STORY. I'ItOTHoJ^TAJtY. J. B CLARK. REGISTER AND RECORDER. SIMEON NIXON CLERK OF COURTS. FRANK M< EASTMAN. COMMISSIONER. JOHN W. BRANDON. CORONER. JAMKS KEARNS. AUDITOR. 0 11. GUMPPER, 3 yrp, J. CAIiVIN OLKNN, 1 yr. TRUSTEES OF ACADEMY. Rev. J. I). LEGO ITT. Rev. JOHN OAILBY. Soldiers' Mass Meeting. A call has been made by the soldiers of Allegheny county, for a Mass Meet ing, to be held at Rakerstown, on the 2(sth inst. A general invitation is extended to the soldiers of Butler county. All are requested to meet in Rutler, by seven o'clock, A. M., June 20th. The sugges tion is to form a procession, and goon horseback. It is hoped there will be a general turn out of soldiers from Rut ler county. Those south of Butler will concentrate at Glade Mills, and remain until the pro ceAin from Butler arrives. speakers will be in attendance to ad dress us, and a good time is expected. W. O. BftACKENRIDGE, "l W. It . MOORE. I C. E. ANDERSON, G. W. BLEJiGJtR, 1 12( om ' A. BLACK, GEO.PURVTANCE, j The I'niled State** Scnalorgliip. Some uneasiness is manifested by the Pittsburgh (Jaztllc upon the passage of a resolution iu our late County Convention, , on the above subject. Iu that paper of Monday last, we flud the following : " Truttwu/Uy men assure us that the late Rutler County Republican Conven tion neither passed, nor had before it, a resolution upon the United State- Hena torship. Will the Butler American ex» plain this matter 1" Ip the firs' place, wo would like to be informed, as would our readers, as to who are the "trustworthy men who have thus assured the Gazette man ! In the second place we woflld inform the Gazette, and all others concerned, that on observing the above paragraph in the Gazette, we called on our foreman on the subject, who in formed us that the resolutions wore pub lished as handed into tho ofiic. by Doctor Lusk, one of the Secretaries of the meet ing. We found the manuscript still iu the office, and upon it find the resolu tions—all in the order iu which they were printed ! Any one curious enough, can call and examine for himself. Tho following.is the resolution relerred to: , A*«WivW, That we look with pride to the name uf his Excellency, A. G. Curtin, whose exalted patriotism as displayed in his great efforts in behalf of the national cause,- —While treachery elsewhere aboun ded, —-as well as his tenderness of heart, as displayed in bis great care for the comforts and intercuts of the soldier, has won tor him an enduring fame which shall embeiwh one of the brightest pages in the history of our glorious common wealth; that wo yet hope to sec him honor the commonwealth in the councils of the nation, as he has in tho executive chair, by filling with distinction the se«t now disgraced by the traitor Cowan, and our representatives are hereby instructed to assist in this patriotic consummation. We have only to add that we had learn ed from members of the Convention, in ' eluding Major Harris—its Presidtnt, and ! Lieut. Story—Chairman of the Commit ' tec on Resolutions, that such a resolution , had passed. We have just inquired of Mr. T. B. White, who was delegate from ■ this Burongh, and also a member of the ; [ UttMBiMM Re*elati»M, who inform# j us that tho resolution referred to, was re ported by the Committee, anil passed without a dissenting voiee.l Wo make thib statement. nofcip tho interctft of any candidate. lmt in the interest of truth, at the request of the (jfhzctle. Vie lrtlpe it will liberal enough to pablishlthc above for the information of its readers ; as a reply to a very groundless insinuation. Di:sf,nTi:ns VOTIVO. On the first page of our paper this week will be found tho law disfranchising deserters. WtJ published tUTs bill f,oou" after It passed the Legislature. For some time it lay in the fwssossion of the Gov ernor. He has nt>w signed it, however, and atftive preparations are being made to hate its provisions strictly carried out. Duo penalties are attached to its viola tion, so that it cannot be disregarded, ns was the law of Congress last year, while standing alone. We would advise our friends to pro serve this paper, and thoroughly study this law, so that they will bo well prepa red to vindicate it at the polls, on elec tion day. This advioc is especially given to our friends iu Winfield, Cfoaitield, Donegal, Venango, Marion, Rutler and Oakland townships, where we have un derstood this olhh* abound. The observ ance of this law will take about 22,000 oft tho Democratic vote of the State t his Fall. The ContCreKNloitHll'lMii- The supporters of the President's policy have professed to he out of patience with Congress because they had not long since given the country sonic well defined pol icy, as against that of the Executive.— J he result ol their long deliberation is bolore the country, however, in the shape ofjja Constitutional Amendment.. Against this auiCLdmcnt, wo think, it will be hard to raise much objection. At any rate it will be the rallying point of the Repub lican party ut tho approaching election And against it will bo arrayed every Democrat of tho North, joined by every rebel of tho South. The verdict of the people is riot hard to prognosticate The following is the auieudiueut relerred to : A Joint resolution proposing an amend ment to the Constitution of the Uuited States, passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States # of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring. That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of tho. several Stales as an eniondment to the Constitution- of tho United States, which, when ratified by three fourths of said Legislatures, shall bo valid as part of said Coustilutiou : A ttxiCLK—Sec. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the C#tcd States, and sub ject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citi zens of the United States and of the State wherein they may reside. No State shall make or enforce any laws which shall abridge the privileges and immunities of the citizens of the Unitod States, nor shall any State depi've any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Sko. 2. Representatives shall be ap portioned among the ncveral States accor ding to their respective numbers, count ing the whole number of persons iu each State, excluding Indians not taxed, but whenever the right to vote at any eleo tiou for electors of President and Vice- President of tho United States, Rcprc sentativos in Congress, Kxocutivc and Judicial oiliccrii, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male citizens being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of tne United States, or in any wny abridged, except for par ticipation in the rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the. proportion which the number of such male citizens shrill bear to the whole number ol male cifitens twenty one yeart of age in sudli State SEC - 8. No person shall be Senator ot Representative in Comcre?*) or elector ot President pr Vice pre sident or .hold auy office, civil or military, withiu the Unite ! States, or under any State, who, havin : taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer af the United States, or as a member of auy State Legislature, or a.« an Executive or Judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of tho United States, shall have engaged iu n surreetion or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; hut Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house, rornove such disability. SEC. 4 The validity of the public debt of the United Slates, auihorized by law. including debts incurred for the payment of pensions and bounties :or services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shali not be questioned, but neitherthe United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt incurred in aid of insurreerion or reboJlioo against the United States, or any claiju for loss or emancipation of any* slave, hut all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. W&~ We have baen informed by one who know*. that all the employees of the Post Office, in Philadelphia, were assessed with black mail, for the purposo of de fraying the expenses of the Johnston seeting lately held there; and that the employees of another department refuted to contribute to the same purpose because they were unwilling to assist by their mcaus, in the promulgation of principles that were repagnant to their feelings and judgment. This latter course was com mendable. *&• We refer our readers to the adver- j tisement of Rev. J. J. Rocfcyroll, teach er of the Normal Scool. Prospect, Butler county, Pa. JZvery one interested should to read if. Mr, Seward ou the. KWMI or the oration. W,««r e jtartwtfis eriminU with Mr. Iluuter, chief elark of tho Statu Depart- in • fraud tp the extant of two cents on the Goveramebt of the ITfltwd States. We haVe ldgfeivej from that gentleman, under hut frank, generally supposed to cover official business, and to be lawfully used for that purpose alone, a ucatly-exe cuted pamphlet containing >lr. Seward's last Auburn speech, and though the priut has a suspicious look of the govern ment printing-house, wo shall keep it eveu at the expense of encouraging the pious error that our income tax is levied to publish and distribute Mr. Seward's persona) out-givings. We shall do so, for,the purpose of calling attention to these few sentences which oeeur on page and coutain the substKnco of the whole speech : "What, then, does tho nation need? It needs just what 1 have dwelt upon so much and so earnestly in theso remarks ; it needs reconciliation, and just now needs nothing nlore. It needs, moreover, only n very little of this. It needs a re uonuiliatiou between the Senators of the United States who are liow acting and those senators who, being loyal and qual ilied for membership td the Senate, liavo beeh already, or may hefe»fter he, elected by the people of the several Stntbs which wore lately involved in the rebellion. It uceds a reconciliation uf the same kind be.ween the,,mcuiberg of the House of Representatives who are now acting and loyal me'nbors already elected, or to he elected, by the people in the same before inuutionod States. It uceds just this C'ongr: ssioual reconciliation, and nothing ' more.'' It seems to us that this is a very grave mistake. Doubtlces the nation needs re conciliation. But of what? Of the pas sions war usually engenders ? They can hardly be said to exist in the North; and tin* people of the north, who, whether we regard their numbers, strength, fide! jty to the nations institutions, or hope aud faith in a nafioual future, really are the nation, need no reconciliation with the people of the S nth, because, prac tically, they abhor in; hatred toward them Nor is it lair to say that there is need that our actual members of Congress need a reconciliation with those who elut.ii to be members of Congress, aud aro not, from the Southern States. Such men as Sen ators Fcssenden, Trumbull, and Sherman have no bad feelings, and represent none, towards such men as Marvin, of Florida, or his constituents. Messrs. Buutwcll, Coukling, Washbarne, Wilson, of the House,have no quarrel, aud want none, with Maynard or with Stokes—whom a Democratic paper, with characteristic courtesy, ealls the "ribboned ox of the Radicals'*—nor can there be any quarrel between the people of the North and those who sent Messrs. Mayuard anil Stokes to Washington. \Vhat the country needs Is something which Mr. Seward very gayly. but eu tirely ignores—the reconciliation of the conflict between "two radically different political systems," which be declared in IMSB to be impossible, and which lias proved itself so by bringing aoout the late war, and by defying the unstinted pardons of the President and the most powerful sedatives of tho Secretary of State. That these conflicting systems, in their distinctive principles, still exist, is plain from what Mr. Seward himself said about their results. Whero one pre vails, an aristocratic rnling class iii the sure accompaniment; where the other prevails, "universal suffrage obtains { aud the State inevitably becomes, sooner or lutein republic or a democracy." In the Southern States "laiely involved in j the rebellion" tho -ystem recognized by Mr. Johnsou aud his Secretary includes aud, inOoC'l, is controlled by an arist > cratiuruling cl»s-, principally distinguish ed for their violeneV: durinir he ribdllioti. anil their defiant opposition to the pr.n CI pies of .republican govartuadiit since. - The system, OU tb; o'lhji baud, wi.ieh ;he large bodv td inte: i,:ctr are: n etct tious Republicans in he N (b x -n 'J prevail Involve- universal, or ivliar t- a better phase of the same principle im pVtial si.ffr&ge, a.i 1 h- -ki. the eat ;lilksii ment ot u true rupublie It is the conflict be w< t u these '.<*<■ .nat must have reconciliation and though we believo a uiau has a right in a republican government to change his mm l for tl ft better, Mr. Seward wis ♦, jniit h s 1 under in than be is iu Istso that c use words of his spoken ibeiwto bow no iu calculable and inherent suoCi'i t'-ty iii the system of freedom ovet the system which, in all lis forms, is essentially the system of slavery Contrasting the two. be said ol the former : "It « pens all the tiel'U Of industrial euif loyuient and ail the ile partments ot authority to tlie uncNoeke l and e<|ual rivalry of all classes of men. and coi.reu ineni. aud brings lutoLhu highest pus^aduactiv ity all the physical, moral, aud cl ergies ot the whole State.", Does Mr. Seward no# hope forauy better kind of peace than is thus prom scd v Me pleaded, | then, tliat'tbc principle "conforms to the divine law of equality wUieh is written in the hearts aud consciences of men, aud therefore is always and everywhere benef icent." Is there any other principle from which Mf. t-eward can now prophesy any nobler or purer result? No. Mr. Seward i.% it seems to us. , seriously and dangerously mistaken, and if the thoughtful men of the Republican | party are inclined to follow him—which ; we do not fear—let them take warning I from a lesson read to ug as it practiced this principle faithfully it wm invulnerable, i It .became vulnerable when it renounced . the principle, aqd since that time bw I maintained itself not by V?rtu6 of its own strength or even of iUi traditional merit*, but because there as yet had appeared in the political field r>« other party that had the conscience to take up and avow and practise the life-inspiring principle which the Democrat!j pttrty i lad gurrcuJere j." The Nation. DUMMUNICATBUIS. For the CI tlten Reply to Belay JcM Had Bella. Onod morning ! Indies. I hope you have somewhat recovered after your pro found arguments iu the Court of Love. This is a singular case, the lore of con tention being love. The jury have heard our arguments; Venus, sitting on her throno of state, is ready to charge them ; and we must make a Jlntil appeal befero they render a verdict. Su, listen, ye benighted mortals, to the wisdom of Un known. I will not sj.euk to yo in para bles, or with uuibiguou* words, but glial' tell yo the unvarnished truth, which is always hard for iguorunt and sinTul peo ple to swallow. This is a case where I am charged for* disbelieving in love. Was a man ever arraigned for such an offence before* This is the boasted land uf liberty. Lita erty indeed ; if a man says .there is no love, ho is immediately seixed upon by the A masons of Venus, and held up to the gaze of the ' fair sex," as a monster, a heathen, a hen peeked Jiusband, a wilt ed bachelor, aud a variety of other do lightful epithets. Oh, ye gods and little Oshes, preserve me from such Ivvintj crea tures as women hold themselves to be ; and in particular from old maids, with their inevitable cats and knitting. Speaking of my disbelief in love, Bella says, '-woe to the lady who trusts her hap piness to him," Pray do not throw your self iuto unnecessary hysterics, my dear, on that score. Ido not intend to take uny one, not even you, as you advo cale love so strongly, your nature is nee. essutily opposite,J"for better, for wjrse," for worse it certainly would bo if I was to make such an egregious fool of myself. You ask me if 1 ha\e never known an instance of a happy married life No one, except by actual experience, can answer that. ''Still waters run deep," you know, and under the calmest exterior often throbs an aching heart. Hella also says, ''she would rather burn the few thousands— meaning gold—than havothcui influence any gentleman in her favor." Hello t that is what I call a downright absurdity. Who ever heard of a woman throwing away money for love, when wc all know that they would sell their dying grand father's wig and old shoes to obtain money to buy a new undowri. The idea is pre posterous. She says she has heard of persons dying of love, and that it must have been trur love. / think so, too; but it was such love as was never heard of before, and never will bo again whilo women aro so mercenary, and men such fools. Betsey Jean, tho Head Defender of tho love passion, and originator of words, "punkinism," for instance, —she should have spelled it puuipkiuism—asks, "can a groveling passion for beauty and riches, bo called lovo ? Certainly not; mid there fore 1 hold, as beauty and riches are the great objects in marriage, now a day), that Cupid, disgusted, has dopartcd out of the land, arid left in the hearts of men a "groveling passion." Betsey in auother part of her mighty article, say* she thinks -Bella" is her old schoolmate J , and if she is she knows that slit has found the ''priceless jewel," a true heart. Bella denies it. Which aro we to believe? Now Hella, you should turn tho tables, and say: ' rf Hcfspy Jean is my old school | nate , tho.need not deny being an i 'id 111,. ;. .Vr T kn w she is one, an 1 only told on me beeuu ■ -he has no beiu." I hat W"uM shi'ft her that she must out tell lie* tj.it ol school fl>e greut Tain" ut i'etersvijle s>j|s, she ut-ier hear! of ladies boasting 01 "conquests <1 th« iietris of gentlemen. W iiy, what kind of a country ilo you live in ? I guess the ladies down your way ,:et so few Hers that they are afraid to. n fuse one for fear they will not got an other; and so they snap at the first fool who a ks tliem pa share his ldt, and they think ihey aro in love. So .they are, w.th his lot of land, bat not with his lot in society. Now Betsey, as you are such a stanch 'fefender of love, to save yourself frou* being an old maid, you should seek, out some softhearted swait, who believes in the "holy passion cast your irresistible fascination upon him; and if ho has not j the mora! courage to pop'the question, you should do it for him, and thus make yourself miserable. And in the years to come, when your heart has become sepulchre of buried and withered when lovo has fled your bosom forever j. when your weary spirit beats against the bars of its earthly prison-house, and to soar away to join the kindred spirits above the quiet stars in the Goldia (jiij of God ; when you. have found that mar riage is not true happiness, and that it too often clouds tho lift) and visions of girlish dreams; then, when all this shall have come to pass, let your memory turn back to this time, and think what fife mljht have been if you had hearkeue^ U HKNOWH,