VOLUME 4.
©riajiml fodrg.
For th. Citizen
CAN THERE HE ANY HARM IN KISSING.
The water® kiwi the pebbly shore,
The winds alt kiss the hill*;
The sunbeams kiss thj tolip bad
For the odor it distills.
The dew-drept. kiss tho rose at mora,
The cereus dew at eve;
The fern and flower in circling claap,
Their mystic beautie* weave.
The moonbea' skiss the rtondsa! oifht,
The star-vem* kiss the sea ,
While shadows dreamy, soft and Ugh*!
Are kissing on the lea.
Ther.ephyis kiss tho budding pink.
That blooms on beauty'* lip;
And ruder blasts, though cold and chill,
Its ruby nectar sip.
The winds, the waves, the budding flowers,
Tho laughing, merry rfH«.
Are kissing all from morn till ®va,
And clouds stili kiss the hills.
Even heaven and earth do meet to kisa,
Through team ot sparkling dew ;
In kissing, then, can there be harm .
I d.n't think »_do you t m , Cawum
USTOS'VILLI, PA,
pißcellaneons.
" THE GEORGIA PETITION.
The argument in the Supreme C >uri upon
the Georgia petition was very skillful on
both sides. The plea of the Attorney Gen
etal was masterly. It wnsclenr, concise a. d
conclusive, and its simple reasoning is com
prehensible by every body. The reply of
Mr. O'Oonor was adroit and able ; but it
did not deny the conclusion of the Attorney
General that the power claimed for the court
\H virtually the absolute supreme power of
the Government. Indeed, Mr 0 Conor,
although asserting the old dogma of the
three co ordinate branches of the Govern
ment, substantially denies it by claiming
power for the Supreme court fo denounce in
advance of its operation a law of Congress
and to order the President r.ot to obey it.
Thathocalls itan "net'' of Congress instead
of a law is of no importance unless ho holds
that no act of Congress is to be considered
a law until tho court certifies its constitu
tionality.
Mr. Stansbery's positt»n in, that the Peor
gia petition claims for the Supreme court a
veto superior to that of the President; a
power to stay ever law of Congress before it
proceeds to execution, and before any case
lias nrisen undei it; a power which may lie
invoked whenever nominal parties can be
found to annul laws which the people con*
sidor wholesome and necessary, and which
they instruct their representatives to pass.
Moreover, it claims that the Supreme court
shall settle the most vital of all our politi
cal questions of the present time whether
the late rebel States ore still States in an
entirely undisturbed relation to the Union,
Mr. O'Conor rejjied that the Attorney
General's argument conceded that Georgia
is a State in the Union. But if it be such
a State Congress l.jisno more constitutional
power to regulate the sufl'iage in Georgia
than in New York or 'pioud Massachusetts.'
Indeed, much of the aiguineut uf Mr, O'
Conor was merely a repetition of the Demo
cratic speeches in Congress against the Mil
itary Bill. Like them he discussed the
question as if there had been no war. Like
them ho entir.'ly omitted to state that Con
gress, which is constitutionally author z d to
make war, can alone determine when war
is at an end, and what measuris the secu»
lity of the country demand. Like them he
omitted to state, that ns the surrender left
Georgia and other States without a civil
government, congrtss is constitutionally au.
thorized to guarantee such a government tc
all of tlieiu. Like theui he docs not state
that Congress is the sole judge of the meas
ures necessary to give effect to the (Emanci
pation Amendment, ilis argument, like
the Democratic speeches, leaves the aotual
ei'uation out.
The doctriue of Mr. O'Conor'* argument
is fatal to the costitution and to the c unity.
It erects the Supreni* court into a political
power. If the judges may control the Leg
isluture. yet are appointed without popular
election and for life, the people are delrMid
•d of their sovereignty and the whole gov
ernment is suoverted. This point is c>>n»
olosively treated in S. G. Fisher's "Trial of
the Constitution"—a remarkable
lished by Lippencott, in Philadelph a, in
1862, when the present questions were still
prospective. Speaking of the very dogma
advanced by Mr. O'Conor, Mr. Fisher say;
" Such a doctrine must in the end destroy
the Judiciary. The people will not bear a
political power whioh is independent of their
control. If the Judijiary exercises such
power, it must become rtprtnenlaliee, which
is thu nature of all political power under
free institutions." If the Supreme court
may decide whether Georgia is a State; if it
may pronounce any law of Congress invalid,
and forbid the President to execute the laws,
then Jefferson was oorreot in saying 'hat the
court would prove to be the chief sou toe of
danger to our liberties. If Mr. O'Conor's
argument be sound the supreme power ot
this nation is lodged in a body of nine men
erho hold their office for life.
It a blind man should affirm that there is
no light, an atheist that there is no God, and
An owl that there is no darkness, it would be
liard to gay whioh was the veriest owl of the
three.
The broker who broke the other day
has hauled up for repairs.
Woman's Crowning Glory— her bounct.
A precious small glory now a days.
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
SUNDRY HUMBUGS,
Th* Am'rican Agriculturalist says: 'Since
our last we have received a'»out two hun
dred letters from difierent parts of the coun
try with swindling xchemes and circulars,
and accounts of imposition and cheating by
the humbug opera'ors Many ot the«e re
fer to parties described in this journal last
month and previously. Oh» rs arc concern
ing parties wi>o hive merely changed their
places and names. Very many of these
letters nsk le-ponses by mail, but the num
ber is so large that it is out of the question
to write to the half of them. Some a>k the
return of tickets, d'e., that tney heve previ
ously forwarded; but thin is not practicable
We have thousands of those ticket*, and can
not afford time to hunt up any particular
man's doeumen . unless it be of special im
portance. Look for onr expo-ores in past
numbers before writing Remember that
if we do rut reply to any inquny. either by
letter or in a toll »wi:ig number, it is an in
dicathn thai the parties inqutied about are
either swindlers, or at best of doubtful char
acter. This rep mse must answer for many
letters asking a response, but which we can
not take time to respond to by letter. We
mention s few new names, reserving other*
for more time and mom than we now have,
and others for further investigation.
We saj without exception, every "gift en
terprise" n»w before thecmntry is a fraud,
and that the investors in them will find it so
in 0,999 cases out of every 10,000. We have
accounts of more than fifty such gift enter
prises now under way in various places. The
soldier', widows' and orphans' 44 sympathy
schemes " are by far the most numerous.
They literally "steal the livery of heaven to
serve the devil"—that is their own pockets.
A. D. BOWMAN * Co., (Van Allen) we re
fer to here, not to pronounce them humbugs,
but to say the u«e of Mr. Judd's name on
their circulars as reference was wholly un
authorized, and would have been refused if
a*ktxl for. Mr. J. d-cs not indosse anything
winch he has not examined with great care,
arid even then he aims to avoid being an
noyed with a multitude of leiters nf inquiry
as to the genuineness of any and every
claimed indorsement, by refusing his signa
ture.
We publish a multiplicity of names of
swindlers, but the operators are compara
tively few in number, and they change their
"busioeV firms and name> at convenience,
ami often run several names and places at
the *ume time. In our calls on the swind
ling gentry in various diigui-es, personally
and by proxy, thesune individual will <»n
successive days turn up in -evcral localities.
For illustration, an old p>>B'-offlce clerk,
whose real name is. or wa-,Thomas Fletcher,
afterwards win empoved in a provoKt mar
shal's a .in In- appeared as "Whit
man & Co."; am.n L> 11 Kellum &Co ,
etc., etc. At er having tried vuri«u* other
names ontill they b« came t o well known,
he latc:y took up his own again.
A MASONIC GIFT SCHEME. (Jborge W.
Homos <& Co., aie try dg tope suade u!l
(Jo d Masons to se id tliein $300,000 tor as
Hiany tickets, proline ng chat c- H at $lO silk
hat",s7s plated tea
all, and c stingpei'tiftp-haif as much. I' lie\
don't tell how much is to goto a " Hail an I
Asylum " fund, and taave the '* time and
place of distiihuti >n to be hercaltcr named."
No intelligent Ma-on will biio at tuia bait.
NL'RSEKT GlFT,— Smith W h lC tier, dating
at Chicago, says lie has "lost th-* head oi his
family,' 1 (he ought to lo*e bis >wnln a *,)
and wants 50,1H)1f i ruiei> to c»n*ole nun ny
sending in SIOO,OOO at $2 each, and prom
is'-s to give them a chance —a til ty thou
sandth cliance— to draw his wondeilul fruit
farm ol 34 acres, somewhere in St. Joseph.
Mich-, hi don't tell exactly where, i'lenty
of other widowers would like a similar con
notation. Goto digging, Smith Whittier,
and not try to humbug honest people out ol
their hard earned dollars by your big pic
tuie and great promises.
SAM'L. lin HTOI.O A Co., of Philadelphia,
ask people to send them $2 each, for a sol
diers' orphans' home, offering in return $2
pictures, and a bonus ot ab> ut half a million
dollars worth of gifts. '1 hai may do to catch
very 'green horns," but not anybody else
Before investing f.»r charity's sake, better
write to Jay Cooke & Co.. and a»k them it
the reference to Geo. A. Cooke is allowed,
or worth anything if allowed.
OF GIFT KNTERPKI-ES, the meanest are
those that solicit patronage ostensibly to aid
soldiers, or their widows aud orphans. A
score t.r more of them are now operating.
Among othera, Tudor, Gates, & Co., of Mui*
berry, 0.. alias Cincinnati, give the pre
tended full ir.dorscm*ui of Governors,
bers of Congress, etc. None but very fool
ish people will pay one dollar for one chance
in three hundred thousand of drawing a val
uable prize, even if sure that s2s6,oooworth
is to be urawu tor. W hen one wishes to aid
soidiero and their families, better »eud the
whole money to resi>t usible paities, and not
let the ticket npeiaiors pocket three-fourths
or iiine-ieiuhs of the money paid into
them.
The "Nassaa Association" off» r 12 silver
spoons lor $3 in currency, and to throw in
gift tickets for watches aud other ariicleß (
*• rnaiked" tram $250.00 to $2 00 each,—
V erv tiny silver spoons they would be at $3
lor 12, to **y nothing of the "gifts." Lead
spoops, very thinly plated with silver, can
he bought fop a trifle, und are worth no
more. W here do the live that
keep "uch ei terprises agoing?
LOTTERIES, i J Furniss, ofOedar s'reet
New Yjrk, like manji others, pretends to
'' Let us have Faith that Right makes Might I and in that Faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it"-- A LINCOLN
BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PENN'A, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 18G7.
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assure a great many people of his ability to
send them valuable ptizes.' Let everybody
having an itching lo try these fellows, re
member Ift, that if they can pick out lucky
numbers, then the whole lottery is a swin
dle, and yuu will be surely swindled ; 2d,
tnat if conducted ta.rly the preteuded
Is a liur, and will cheat jou ; 3d, that if he
had the ability to seleci lucky numbers, he
w./uid BUieiy keep ihcni Inuisel), for he
would make far thus ih.in by the com
missions he could hope lor Irom any custom*
ers you could possibly send; 4th, that at
leant nine in every ten of these lotieiy
'•agents' keep every dime sent them, and
you can never find them nor get a word from
then.; anil finally, thai all lottcnes are un
laii swindles, however tegulaily conducted,
because of every $5 paid in, ihe manigers
and agents pocket from $3 to Rand leave
only $1 11 $2 to be drawn tor by the ticket*.
Beware of New Tea Companies. The no
called "Great American Tea Company "ad
ertised in our column*, though doing an
immense business all over (he country, has
not even been complained of to us more than
two or thiee times in as many years. On
this account, as well us for other reasons we
hive previously stated, we believe general
satisfaction i* given to their customers. Bot
simulated by their success, sever.il of the
swindling fraternity have started or pretend**
ea to have started other "Tea Companies,"
some of them copying very nearly the ad-»
verti-emems, etc., of the old company. Some
ot these we know to be humbugs, (one was
H .ted last m nth,) and as t> others we have
not evidence sufficient to warrant us in ad
mitting their advertisements.
Every man offering watches, jewelry, etc.,
by ticket is to be carefully avoided. Nine
out of ten ot the most plausiblo of the-e fel
lows will send nothing for your money, and
not one in a hundred will give you your
money's worth.
Every stealer of motal*, modesty,end vir*
tue, will be quite likely to steal your money
if sent to him These fellows know you
will not make a fuss about money sent for
imni' dest or immoral books or instiuments,
and they will k«?cp it and send nothing, un_
less pretty sure of making a bigger haul af
terwards.
PLANT*, ETC.— Don't spend your money,
time, and soil, on any of the wonderful for
eign corn*, se< ds, plants, etc., that just now
turns up exclusively in the hands of some
one iniiviluiv. Egyptian corn, Dourah
corn, etc., which were tried and condemned
yeirß ago, are "tip" for speculation again.
Harris Bro her-, of Buxton, received some
thing toward their just deserts in the supe*>
rior Court on April 15th. viz : a fi»ro of £l4,
000 (87000). Good for Button. Now let
New York city take hold of her lottery ai d
' gift enterprise" swindlers.
Midnight Scene in General Grant's
Camp.
The battle of A.t ela was the eloquence
"I daring on the part of the young Mace"
(lonian King That of Tliermopylo was the
eloquence of patriotism on the part of Le
ODidtia ami his Helots The battle of Aus
teriitz was the eloquence of bravery on the
part of t'.e y ung Coigicati. The seme of
Valley Fr.e was the eloquence of faith on
ihc part of Washington. The scene alier
the battle of the W ildi'riicgs combined all
these elements, and added the eloquence of
silence.
Tne well known re till of »ha ; fierce o>n
fiici was adverse to th" army of the United
S ate-. <•» n. Lee had flung one wing of his
army between our foiees and the base of
their supplies, woieli w< ulil requite nnotlier
bit le lo regain 1 hem. Ka.ih division and
corps coin lion der knew this sad condition
of affairs. They were all summoned to a
council of var, to oe held at hea iquarters
at one o'clock at night. They were the
saddest steps ever taken by that band oi
devot'd hearts. Fifteen thousand brave
s 'ldiers, dead or dying, or wounded, were
lying on the fi. Id hard by.
One af er another entered, and after mak
ing a noiseless salute, silently tank their
S'a s. Uenerals Sclnaeld, Meade, Burn
side, Sickles. Howard, and others, 1 believe
were there. Not a word was spoken. A
lull half hour thus passed by. Their emo
tii.ns were too deep for utterance. Hopes
of millions hung on the decision of that
council.
At length General Grant tiek<*d each one
in succession il he had any advice to proffer.
Each one auswered with a-ad monosylahle,
"no!"
The commander then wrote a few lines,
and handed the slip to General Meade, and
he retired. This was repeated until al'
were gone, and the General was left alone.
One of the staff of a division commander,
wno was sick, was the last to retire, and he
is authority for the above.
All were ignorant uf each other's order
Thev felt as-ured that retreat bad been di
rected. Any other alternative would have
been believed to be madt.e-s. Ilad they
known that the older Lad been given to ad*
Vance, instant and universal mutiny would
have been raised. That eloquent silence
l»r which he ha- ever been noted, was the
key IO his success there.
The next morning each eorps moved, and
General Lee, the iusti.nt he perceived it,
with vehemence uxclaimed. "Our enemy
have a leader at lust, and our cau.-e is loatl"
fie had bid bis officers the night before to
let their soldiers .deep long. But now he
saw the army «h"m he thought utterly de
feated, moving around between him ami the
ba-e of his supplies. He hastened to begin
retraeing his course, and confessed to an
artillery offlcer of the confederate army that
the doom of their ctyise was sealed.
Independent Order of Good Temp
lers.
In 1851, this Temperance organisation,
now so popular and so wide spread, had an
obscure origin in one of the small towns uf
Western New York. Fir a few years after
it was instituted little was hi ard of the so
ciety, but for the past twelve yt ars its pro
gress has been steailily onward, until it row
h's Grand Lodges in every State of the
Union but five, also in all the British Pr iv
inees, with upwards of one million members
all pledged to total abstinence and prohibi
tion. As an instance of the growth of the
Order we may mention that in 1863 there
were less than thirtv Lodges, or societies, in
all Pennsylvar ia; now there are over three
hundred of these Lodges in this Common
wealth; and we are inf .imed by one of the
Grand Lodge officials, that there are but six
counties at present in our Sta'e, without
any Lodges, and to thcce the Grand Lodge
lecturers have been dirc.-ted togo and organ*
ize Lodges in each of them at once, so that
at the annual session of the Grand Lodge,
which is to be held in Allegheny city, com
mencing on June 13th, the Giand Lodge
officers may be able to report the Order es
tablished in every county. Rapid as Ims
been the increase of the order in PennsyN
vania, it ha- been equally sueees>ful in other
States, from Maine to Ca'ifornia. In Mich
igan there are four hundred Lodges!
The session of the Grand Lodge, to cme
nff as stateil, will call together about five
hundred delegates from the various Lodges
of the State, and doubtless a portion of the
time will be devoted to public meetings in
the Halls and churches when the Orators of
the Order will have un opportunity or ad
dressing the public generally. Every sub
ordinate Lodge rs entitled to send one rep
resentative to the Grand Lodge. Faery
Lodge having one hundred members on the
30th of April, is entitld to send two mem
bers. The coming Grand Lodge session,
owing to the zreat increase of the Order
during the past year, will be of more :han
ordinary interest.— Ex-
SLANDER.
There is no man who holds n more despis
snt.'le position in the community than the
c >mni'>n slanderer; ond yet there is none
who receive lefs punishment from an indig
nant people, lie seems to enj< j a kind of
immunity in his conduct and claims an in<*
tun ive right to play ihe scoundrel. Occa
sionally. a jury can be empanneicd which
imposes vindictive damans in rare oases,
hut a majority of these rascals either escape
entirely unwhipt of justice, or have but
mere nominal damage* imposed upon them
with costs. And yet the crime of which
they aie guil-j, properly considered, is one
of the highest known to the law- There is
no offence more destructive of the best in
terests of society. It poisons, to a gi«»ater
•>r less extent, every fountain of public health
and prosperity. It assails every ela*>s in the
community; youth, witn its warm blushes
and bu«>vant heart-; manhood, with its high
impulses and bounding energies, and old
age with its wrinkled brow and palsied
hands. None are exempt from its n alicious
and vindictive attacks, It enters the bow
crif of beauty and plucks the roues fr«-m its
cheeks. It looks in upon the door of innow
c n« e, and the flowers which grow upon its
thresh hold wither and die at its approach.
It is a sin, abhorrent toman and condemned
of heaven. It stands arrayed against the
eternal cannon 112 the Almighty, delivered
am d the flame and thunders of Mt. Sinai,
" Thou shult uot bear false witnesa against
thy neighbor/' God protect the pure and
the virtuous from the advance* of this in
sidious fiend. It is sufficient that his poison
should be wasted among the low and prof*
ligate.
IN this country —where lovely women is,
so to speak, ensconeed in A shrine, where*
unto the incense of masculine adoration con*
tinues |o aseend—the idea of their ever
having occasion to exercise their mus.-les
could iK>t, by any possibility, be generated
or e n tertaimd. In England, however, where
the statute permitting the husband to chas
tiuo his wife with a slick uot exceeding the
thicknesii of his middle finger is stiil unre
pealed, it may bo as wuil that the gentler
sex should have their bleepsdevejopedsuf
ficiently f«»r purposes of self-defense. We
are, therefore, not surprised that the ladies
of Warwick —home of Guy and Kiuhard
Neville, famous knight® and king makers of
their time—have organ-zed a Boating Club,
connection with which will solidify aud
strengthen the tihr* 1 that will mostly be called
IDIO action HI the settlements conjugal ho •
tllitie*. Husband* with flaccid thews and
s.uews tu(Ut'g partners froui that neighbor
hood wid no doubt bear the fact in mind.
The Tribune hears "wiih deep regret that
Gov, Seward has decioeu to coutinue the
Mi-sicn at Kome, iu defi-ince of the vote ot
Congress." 4 * That body," continues the
Ti i une , ** had no thougui of censuring Gen.
King in its action ou this subject; it meant
only tu express with emphasm its conviction
that the continueacc ot the missiou to lt<>mc
was unnecessary and improper. We h<>pe
ihe Presideui may see fit to cause this con
viction to be respected.''
UNITING TIIE LAKES. — A number of weal
thy Amtriean gentlemen, m>#stiy Pen nay U 1
vauians, have offered tu undertake the buil
ding of the ship <-anal, connecting the lakes
with ihe St. Lawrence. It is to extend
across Canadian .territory from Lake Huron
to Lake Ontario, and will cost an enormous
amount of money, but the advantages to be
derived therefrom, and the immense an.ouot
ot freight thai will *e«k that channel «112
c«»nveynnce will 1 eider jt one ot ihe most
profitable undertaking* ever attempted in
Araenea.
THE FIRST BLOW.
Cable dispatches may blow hot and blow
cold on the subject of the critical complica
tion ot iiffnirs in Europe; Mr. I'euter may
throw n sop to the bears one day.and pat
bulls on the shoulder the next; but under
lying telegraphic tergiversation and gamb
ling manoeuvres, there seems to be the plain,
hard faot that war between France and
Prussia is a necessity. There is a point of
mutual distrust and doubt, of half fear, half
confidence, to which no two races or nations
can arrive without becoming absorbed in
and infntu ited with the desire to try con
clusions and settle the vexing question of
superiority. France aud Prussia have
reached that point. Both are tossed upon
the sea of popular passion ; both are. so fur
as the course tliey shall pursue, beyond the
control of their hehnswen ; aud like two
grtMt ships drifti»g toward each other on an
angry sea, certain and disasterous collision
ig only a question of time,
War is a neoessity to France as a means
of working off the billion- irritation which
has been accumulating ever since the battle
of Sad iWn. To let Prussia rest up:in tho
laurel-* gathered there and quietly consoli
date her nearly forty millions of population
into a homogenous empire would be to ad
mit that France had lose the commanding
lead in continental politics which with tacit
unanimity had been accorded her. Such a
humiliation is more than Gallo pride can
stand. The typical national bird involun
tarily rußb's his feathers und utters a crow
of defiance at the idea. War is a necessity
to Napoleon. No man can play with fire
with more adroitness and audacity than lie;
no one can perceive more readily the mo
ment when the fire will Imdly scorch, or per
haps destroy him, if it be not permitted in
sonic way or other to burn itsolf out. To
him victory on tho Rhine is tho alternative
to revolution.
War is a necessity to Prussia, as the
speediest instrumentality for combining in
a common cai se the various countries which
now are but loosely united under her govern
ment or protection, liisniark's heart is sot
tip <na compact Herman Empire, not a mere
confederation, and he knows that the only
cement with which liu can successfully build
up and bind together his pet project is the
blood of battle fields. Neither he nor Na
poleon is troubled with asupurfiuity ofscru
ple3. Though both are constitutionally hu
mane and clement men—though Bistnark's
tenure of absolute political authority is un
stained with a single act of cruelty to indi
viduals, and although Napoleon sickened as
he looked upon the Solferino slaughter—
each and both of them have a second na
tore which would not shrink from sacrific
ing the lives of millions in the endeavor to
achieve a given object. There is nothing,
therefoie, to hope for in the interests of peace
from the uharaoter of the two principals in
whose hands the issue is virtually held.
The problem for immediate solution is no
longer, "Will there bo War?" It is Kitnply,
"Who will strike the first bloit?" Tho re
sponsibility attaching to the initial move
ment by which hostilities are to he precipi
tated is so great; the account which, now
n-days, rulots nnd peoples have to render to
the moral sense nf mankind at largo ig -o
exacting, that it has come to bo the chief
end nnd aim of diplomacy for either side to
force from the other the first move that can
be construed into the actual attack. An
impression seems to prevail that, in the
cn?e of France and Prussia, the more ad
vanced state of preparation which the latter
has attained, together with the known bold
nes- and occasional choleric impatience of
Bismark, aie reasons why the first shot
should be fired from the needle gun. On
the other hand it must bo considered that
Prussia has possession of the Luxemburg
fortresses' aud reully has no excuse tor tuk~
irig the initiative, while that occupation is
the very thing that French pride is, in fact,
almost plcgnd to terminate. Then, though
there are discordant elements at work in
the newly cunstituted Prussian dominion,
there is no revolutionary party, aud, indeed,
no spirit of disuouteut formidable enough to
require the distraction of war to keep it iroui
fomenting into domestic insurrection. Now,
iu Frauce, the mercurial nnd capricious
temper ui the people is iu a state that can
be best described a volcanic. They see the
star of ttie second man of destiny they have
tried, looking very much as if it were on the
point of waniug. I'hey see kis, and with
ins, tlioir prestige gradually dnuiui-hiiig ;
they feel the shadow of the great power that
is rising by their side, au 1 are conscious
that it cas.s on thein the appearance, at
least, ot partial eclipse; tney think uf Mox
ico, and canuot forget the paltry part their
emperor played iu the mouieutoos miliia.y
drama of lastye.ir; and, in brooding over
these things, the confidence tney had go iin
plicitly placed in Napoleon, involuntarily
oozes out ot them ; their admiratio ■ of bis
astuteness and administrative skill evapor
ates, and their abiding faith in bis good for.
tunc vanishes away. They are beginning
to circulate <ie# aaium— malicious, bit
ter flavored j ikes—aud this, with your
Parisian, is the first ftep toward downright
contempt.
Napoleon is perfectly well aware of all
this, and, being a prntound jud 6 e of French
human nature —especially the weak side of
it —ho is also aware of the fact that there is
butoue way of neutralizing these alarming
symptoms. The pitient must be phlebot
omized- "France," he will say to himself,
with a grim smile, "is feverish; ghemustbe
bled and he ii not the man to shrink from
applying the remedy. Inasmuch, then, as
French impatience will exercise (in Napo
leon a pressure from which Bismurk is re
lieved by GL'rii.an phlegm ; inasmuch, also,
•s Prussia has tho advantage of a defensive
attitude, which is of itself a standing prov
cation, it tortftinly seeirs as though France
would be compelled to open the tnrrihle ball
whereat, before it lias oootinued long, bnlf
the civilized world will, in all iikelihood, be
diawn into the frenzied Dance of Death.—
Pitt. Commercial.
Jeff. Daris Responsible for the An
dersonville Horrors.
A dispatch from Washington, dated sth
instant. says the Judiciary committee has in
its possession a letter written by a confede
rate soldier on duty at Andersonville, to
Jefferson Davis, while the attrocitie) prac
ticed on Union prisoners was greatest. The
l'tter enters at length into the details of the
barbarous treatment, and says Federal pris
oners wire being frequently shot, and that
the rebel officers wire encouraging the
•laughter. The writer says he hates the
Yankees, was driven from his house in Lou
isiana by thein, but still lie >annot endure a
service which compels him to witness nnd
take part in such cruelties as wire pui poselv
practiced at the prison. He addressed the
letter to Mr. Davis, because be believed him
to be a man of honor and a Christian, and
that the terrible treatment meted out to pris
oners wa9 certainly unsanctioned by liiui.
The soldier urged that ho might be shielded
from exposure for writing the letter, nnd
that President Davis would have the matter
investigated and tho abuses corrected. Tho
indorsement on this letter shows that Davis
received it. The only action taken, how
ever, was to refer it to the rebel General
Winder, tho brute who was directly respon
sible for the shooting and starvation at An
dersonville. The document, with its in>
dorsement, constitutes tho clearest proof of
Davis' personal responsibility for the treat
ment of prisoners that has jot cometo light.
There are also two letters in posses-don of
one of tho authorities, from a rebel surgeon
at Andersonvillo to the Richmond authori
ties, one protesting against the troatment of
Federal prisoners; and a subsequent one
showing tlint the first had been received and
answered, and he consequently, in thi9,
apologized for his previous letter, and sayt
he did not understand when he wrote that
there were ''diplomatic reas ns," and inans
other part of the letter, "international rea*
pons" for the cruel treatment, tho virtual
admission being that the orueltics were de
liberately resorted to for the purpose of
forcing an exchange of prisoners, in order
that the rebel army might be strengthened.
TIIF. Revenue Department has devised an
instrument for detecting whiskey frauds,
whereby the manufacturers will be compel
led to pay the tax on all the fluid they make.
So much for the money consideration—very
important no doubt, nnd, withal, nearly re
lated to a certain moral aspect of the subjoct.
But if the quality of the fluid inanufacturod
could bo ascertained and nil but the very
best destrojed, nearly, if not tho entire mor
al ground would be covered and little would
remain to l;o done; unless, indeed, tho man
ufaotuiß of whiskey were confined to medi
cinal anil mechanical purposes. No doubt
it is very important the Government should
get the taxes—for the money is needed. But
tlfe livesof men are precious, and if the Rev
enue Department will invent an instrument
that will save them as well as the money,
by insuring as much certainty as to the
quality as the quantity of whiskey made,
we think it will be found a state of things
has tieen introduced into the country that
will do more towards paying the national
debt than any Revenue measure yet devised.
—Pilt. Com'l.
THAT there will tie no immediate war in
Europe is rendered certain. The London
conference will insure pcac6—for a time.
That it will secure permanent peace is
scarcely probable, but it will give France
nnd Prussia time to prepare for the contest
which A'ictoria seeks to avert -the time for
preparation which, it is not improbable,
tolh mostdesire. The question of Suprem
acy underlies the whole business, and it is
scarcely probable that any conference will
be able to devise any permanent settlement
of that question. D is the growth and at
titude of Prussia which irritates the French
Emperor ; and it is because she feels herself
strong and capable that induoes Prussia to
irritate him. The elements are n"t such ns
can be handled by a conference to the satis
faction of either Side. Ultimately thequcs
ti"n most be settled ir the field ; the confer
ence is more likely to give t'tne for France
and Prussia—nn - '. as for that matter, all
Europe—to prepare for the stupendous con - I
test.— Pilt. C-m'l.
THERE is considerable sense in the
followsng; A woman is either worth noth
ing or a groat deal. If good for nothidg,
sho is not worth getting jeali us for; if she
bo a true woman, she will give no cause for
jealousy. A man is a brute to be jealous of
a worthless one, but a double fool to cut bis
throat for either of them.
A young couple were married recently.
The bride had an unmarried sitter. After
the two had been made one, tho reverend
uniter of hearts and souls knelt down nnd
prayed fervently, entreating the richest
blessings and meroies of Providence < n the
bride and groom, as well as upon tne ''sur
viving sister."
" Mother, can't I"g > and have my photi
craph taken?" " N'o, I guess it isn't worth
while."' " Well, then you might let mo go
and have a tooth pullod ; I never go any
where."
"Are you the mate ?" said a pts. ; enger
to the Irish cook of a vessel. "No," an
swered Pat, "but I'm tho boy that bo : .l§
thi mute
NUMBER 22
LUXEMBURG.
The 'fory:Ministry fig land hue
done another very dextrous thing.
They have advised the Queen to urge the
King of Prussia to agree to a general
Conference of the Great Powers at L<jn,
don to settle the Luxemburg question;
and the King has assented. In this
happy and timely stroke tS. Tory' Mini
stry have restored the Wming'tofluenco of
Great Britain in European politics by suc
cessfully intervening to keep the psaoo
and by assembling tho Congress in Lon
don.
No other solution of the difficulty was
possible. A more causlcss. useless,'and
nicked war than that im*
minent is not coneeivablo. But the dif
ficulty, so far as Franca and Prussia were
concerned, was passing beyond the rea
sonable point. It was no longer a ques
tion of Luxemburg, It was a point of na
tional honor. In France even Ernilc do
Girardin, whom Louis Napoleon has sued
for criticising the imperial policy, and
nhosc paper has been seized, said, " Pub
lic meetings all over the country should
make jfoown to M. d» i Bismark that if
(bore is a geruian nation there is also a
French nation : that if there is a German
patriotism which is snseeptible, there »•
a French patriotism which is sensitive;
that, in a word, the German people ex
cited, misled, and mado to serve Prus
sian ambition will find itself opposed not
ouly by the French army but by tho
French people, determined to defend
their independence and to tear in pieces
the treaties of 1815." France doos
not desiro war," said an official article in
the Count it utionnel, " and will use all
means consistent with her national
or to avoid it."
These things were said at a time when
it is becoming unpleasantly evident to
Frenchmen that, after all the fino talk
about tearing the treaties of 1815 and
remodeling the map of Kur ipo, Italy has
becotno free by the aid of Prussia, Ger
many is uniting under the vigorous lead
ership of the same power, while Franca
not only had no part in the settlement
but no advantage from it, not even tha
l'.ttle slip of Rhenish territory which is
the traditional desire of France. " Ah,"
sneers Thiers in the Assembly, " yoa
have abandoned the old policy of keep
ing Germany and Italy divided, and what
have you gained by tho new 1 You have
gained a compact Germany to which
Italy owes its and which will
not toleral-e another step in farther ag
grandizement of France. The policy of
the Empire has strengthened the natural
enemies of France abroad, and deprived
France of domestic, liberty at home."— \
The philosophy of the speech is false,
because it assumes that nations aro nat«
urally hostile, but under tiie circum
stances it must have prodigious influence
in France. .It was becoming a question
to France whether Bismarck did not
snub Louis Napoleon as well as outwit
him i whether France had not twice in
the year asked of him as a favor what, if
she spoke at all, she should have de
manded as a right; whether, in fact,
France was not sinking into a subordi
nate position in Europe to the parvenw
Hohenzollern monarchy, and therefore it
was becoming distinctly a question of war
or revolution. For France to withdraw
in the face of the Prussian position was
impossible, and war was inevitable unless
Prussia would yield.
Yet war could not be welcome ta
Prussia, with tho sores of last summer
still angry, and Austria biding her time,
and France aroused from end to etid;
while the treaty questions were by no
means clear, and the feelings of the in
habitants might be favorable to France.
The treaties of 1815 are void by the war
of last year; therefore the right of the
German garrison in Luxemburg was dis
putable. The inhabitants are Roman
Catholics, while Prussia is Protestant,
and they speak French or Walloon and
not German. The question was of policy
rather than of right by treaty or populai
consent, aud Prussia is doubtless glad of
the chance offered by England of dis
cussing the question in a general Con
gress.
That Congress will be the most ira*
por ant since the Congress of Vienna, for
it mce:s U settle many of the question*
which that Congress determined- But
in that assembly the people wo re not
heard. Even England was represented
by L ird Castlpreagh, a Tory of the To
rios, and the map of Europe was modeled
, in the interest of rulers merely. Tho
vast political change of the half century
will appear in the different spirit of the
London Congress—in which a French
Emperor elected by a popular vote and
. a Pin sian Minister who founds Germany
upon general suffrage, assemble under
the auspices of a British Tory Ministry
which has just brought in a Reform
bill. llnrprf'f Wrrf/fy.