VOLUME 4. #rigin»l |)ot!rn. Fog TBI CITWZS.' WATCHMAN TELL ME Watchman, tell me, doe* tbe morning Of «>nr coontrkVi glory dawn ? Have you ret forgot the warning % Of tbe timet now jjarft and godef Pilgrim, 10. ariserlook it>«nd the* View the earth and view tbe iky ; If yon lee good times a coming, You are wiser, far than 1. Watchman, what is thai a beaming, To the eastward of the camp? J*, behold, in rays are glearning, J.jJje the flickering of a lamp. Pilgrim, rise and view it freefy, for its grandeur 10.111 will fai.; It is only Horace Oreely, Bailing Davis out of Jail, Watchman, in our dome erowned city, JSeated on the chair of Btato, Is a traitor, whom thly told me, Would bring Davit to bis fate. pilgrim, iav« you not dlscoverd Long ere this tho traitors pleft ? Now, if tears are shod in he tTen, Lincoln weeps for liberty. Watchman, tell me. what of Snrratt, Whom they caught on Egypt's coast! Will thoy try him, a-, thoy talk of ; pr is it a vauuting boast? Pilgrim, I will not ilatphreyov, They will rage him, I've no doubt, Th- y will tend film well, and feed him, Till some wise man bails bim out. Watchman, why was Wfrtx, the captain. Anri those bold assassins h«ng, If Jell Davis and John Burratt, Are allowed togo unstrung? Pilgrim dull of comprehension. Will you never leain to see— We will let thein tfo, for sure it Proves our njifgnaijlmlty. Watchman, is that scourging traitors, Something patented by HI ? Are we thus unto our childron, Making treason odious? Pilgrim. 1 llgrlm, rest confuted ; Lo, this Is our jubal yea». Let us make believe there is no Such a thing as treason hero. May 30, 1867.) w CEREMONIES AT RALEIGH. Indication or tho Monument to tbe Fntherof President Jolui- Mn. Ralkioii, N C., J uno 4.—The core monies at the City Ceme'ery, in connec tion with the dedication of the monu ment to the lather of President Johnson, commenced to-day at noon. The monu ment is a single shaft of red limestone, ten feet high, with ornamental cap, and benrs the following inscription : " In memory of Jacob Johnson ; an Jionest, man, beloved and respited by all who knew him. 1} >rn —=r-; died Janu ary, 18 l'tj, from a disease caused by an over effort in saving the life of h : s friend " The President and party, accompanied by Governor Worth, General Sickles and others, having reached the cemetery in Carriages, were con luetod to :) platform near the monument. A very large num bcr ol spectators were present, all appar ently deeply idterested in the ceremonies. After preliminary rpligious ceremonies Hon. D. Ijf Swainc, L. L. 1)., President of the State University, delivered an ad dress, in which ho traced the history of the city of llaleigh, vfid in thiscmncc tion alluded to Jacob Johnson, who, by a deed of noble daring, saved from drown ing, Hondctson Cotluro, at the estimate cost of his own life, passing away event ually a martyr to humanity. The orator hut patriotie and generous emulation n be first and foremost to pro.iiote harmony ynd good will and restore tho Union to that more perfect Union designed by the (L-'onetitution of our conimp# country. AMERICAN CITIZEN. The ceremonies closed by a benedic tion, when two young colored girls came forward and tenderly laid bunches of the choicest flowers on the grave of Jacob Johqson. The following paragraph was inadvert eutly omitted in telegraphing the speech of the President yesterday ; " I have Come to participate in the cer emonies of dedicating a monument to a uia;i whom you respeoted, though of poor and (lumble condition. He was my fa ther, nn *. of him lam proud. He was an honest and faithful friend, a charac ter I prize higher thaq all the worldly fortuue which could have been left me." The President, accompanied by Secre tiry Sewatd, Postmaster General Ilandall and others, were escorted to the capitol at ten this forenoon, by Governor Worth and Gen. Sickles and Staff, and a num ber of prominent military officers and ci vilians, including the Mayor. A reception took place in tbe hall of the House of Commons. The visitors, after saluting the President, were severally in troduced to Secretary Seward, Postmas . ter General Rantjall, and General Sickles. Tho deaf mutes from the State Asylum, were among the many who paid their re spects to tfce President. White and black vied with each other paying the President every attention and courtesy, and all were received in the most kindly manner. Ralkjqh, N. C., June 4.—This after* noon the President and party attended a State dinner at the Yarborougli House. The entertainment was in elegant style. No toasts were drank nor spccehe? m ;dc The Pressdent, in company with Secreta ry Sewai'd, Postmaster General Randall and others, visited the State charitable institutions in the vicinity. The presidential party leave to-mor low morning to attend the Commence ment exercises at Staler University, at Chnpil Hill, and may sojourn there until Friday. Electricity — Limitnino. Elec trical phenomena arc so strange, and so little understood by the general pqblic, that they stand ready to accept electrical action as the cause of nny obsure occur rence. Klectricify is the great refuge of the would-be-scientific, who any that this and that is duo to electricity, and that ends all further quest oiling. A western write. o:i pruning, in the Gardener's Monthly, will not have the terminal buds j put from the trees in pruning, because they act as '-prime conductors" of elec tricity, which is a very "scientific" way of talking profound nonsense. We have before us two curious illustrations of the way in which electricity is treated. One upon {.he pear blight, in which the wri ter refers this malady to the effect of lightning upon the leaves, and another, by a lady, who considers the potato rot due to the absence of sufficient lightning iu certain years. The last named writer accompanies her article by observations, srhich show that, iu her section of coun try, the years with the most lightning Were the freest from the rot. Now, as the rot is a well known parasitic fungus, brought, comparatively recently, from abroad, and, as in this country, before this unwelcome guest was introduced here, wo probably had years quite defi cient in lightning, as we have since bad; we cannot regard this view as at all sat isfactory. If those who are so ready t if ascribe this and that to electricity, would just take the trouble to first study some of the elementary laws of this branch of physics, they would be less apt to run jn'o speculations respecting the influence of electricity. A correspondent of the Christian In structor lias been inquiring into the religious opinions of the President, his Cabinet and the Senate. The result isas follows: The President belongs to no church. Of the seven Members of his Cabinet, Secretary Welles, whb is an Episcopalian, is the only church member. Secretary Browning at tends the Presbyterian church ; the other five, wlien they gj at all, goto the Epi«eo p.il. Of the nine Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, two only Hre church members; Chief Justice Chase, who isan Episcopalian, mnd Justice Grier, wlio lias long been a ruling elder in the Old School Presbyterian Church. The United States Senate contains at present fifty-four members. Of those nineteen are profes ors of religion, two of the nineteen being Uni tarians. The seventeen others are distrib uted among tbe religious deuominations. thus: Episcopal, I , Reformed Uiitoh, 1; Baptist, 2; Methodist, 2; Presbyterian, 4; and Congressional, 7' General Grant,when in Washington, is a regular attendant \y<»ley M. E. Church. Mr. Tayloi, Com missioner »t Indian Affairs, and Mr. Good ing, Marshal of the District of Columbia, are also Mothodists. Attorney General Stun berry »'a- rlco raised a -Methodist ; lie is an alumnus of Allegheny College. Sec retary Stantoo was former&ly a Methodist, but lor several years past has been a mem her (at one time a preacher) of the Congre gational church. "Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faitfclet us, to tile end, dare to do oup duty as we understand it"—A. Lincoln BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PENN'A, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1867, "PURITANISM," The papers whieb habitually abuse what they are pleased to call Puritanism, are very fund of seizing upon every unusual and atrocious crime which is committed in New England and declaring that such is Puritan morality. The implication is, that the moral influences and efforts which proceed from that quarter are hyp* oeriticul. Indeed, nothing U more com ical than to read the objurgations poured out upon a New England sinner by those whe contemplated the plantation life of slavery and the daily history of Ander sonville \yith perfect oomplacency. We have been ourselves often favqred by the jealons with a list of " Yankee enormi ties," which they warned us with burn ing sarcasm, that it would be well to illustrate; and we remember to have seen a list of some doaen offenses, which was diligently published in the rebel and Copperhead newspapers, as peculiarly fit subjects lor the artists of Harper's V/tek ly. Among these suggestive subjects, however, we do not recall that (he sale of one's chilJren by another man's wife, or the hiring out of other men's labor, or the whipping of women, or a hundred not cxceptioqal but constant and charge teristic incidents of a region and system which denied human rights, were in cludbd. When, for instance, we published rep resentation ot the scarred and welted back of a freedtnan, it was not the story of a single crime but of a criminal sys tem, of horrors which are inevitable in any society to which men and WQmen are abandoned to tho passions of others. Now the test of the moral condition of a com munity is not crime whi?h is common to all communities, but tjie feeling with which it is regarded." If there be no es pecial abhorrence of the worst offenses, it :s fair to assume a general demoraliza tion. Applying this test to a " Puritan " and " Cnvalier " community, what do we find ? A few months since the sarcastic critics publi-hed the story of the savage or insane clergyman who beat his child to death, as if it were an illustration of a certain state of society. If he were upt insuno it jyas nil unspeakable crime, and it was so denounced every where. Or take the late ease in Massachusetts of Sereno" Howe, a clergyman sfhyays fit' good reputation, a man of ability, and a member of the legislature. The Cop perhead papers cried out as if they had lit last discovered the real tendency of Massachusetts civilization. But the truth was that public indignation was so arous ed and universal that Howe was o'liged to fly on the very night of his exposure; (he next day he sent in his resignation to the astounded Legislature, tjieu disap pearcd, and has not since boon heard of. Howe's offenses were indescribable ; but bad as tbey were, can anything be worse than to seduce other men's wives aud sell their children ? Massachusetts instinct* ively spewed out Howe. When did pub lic opinion in any slave State ever exile a man who sold other men's children ? The reason is, that the puritan civiliga turn docs not generate criminals like Howe, while those of the other kind were the natural and necessary product of the Sou'hern social system. Under New Ktigland influences the pangs of Ander .-onville arc absolutely impossible. In r the region where they occurred they were merely natural. When, therefore, you find $ paper which gloats over the fierce punishment of a pupil by a New Eng land teacher, or the poisoning of the fam ily coffee by a New England servant, or the overwhelming shame of a New Eng lapd clergyman, events wholly excep tional, ask yourself what that paper used to say of the daily and necessary crimes of the slave system ; what it said of An dersopville, vLat ;! said of the treatment of the Southern negroes alter the war.— Such critics expose every blot iu the civ ilization of liberty that the foalness of the social spirit they defend may seem less hideous.— Harper's Weekly. <» —Two amendments to the Constitution of Kansas will coine before the people of that State at the next election. By one o! Thee amendments it is proposed to strike out the word "white" from the defining the qualifications of voters. This parsed the Senate 17 to 7; the House, 60 to li. By the other, to strike out the word "wale" from the same clause. This passed tbe Senate 17 to 7; tbo House, 62 to 20. The effect of these two amendinents, if raiified, will be to make suffrage universal, in the proper sens*. Minors, aliens, criminals, idiots,be ing alone excluded. A State Convention has been held to pro mute the movement, at which the Governor presided. Forty-fire meetings have already been held. The movement haj; the supp- rt unexpectedly, of many clergymen, of diff erent denominations. Carl Shunz bus prom ised to German audiences. At least •ixtecu newspapers adyocate both amend ments. POPULAR MISTRUST OF 1867. The figure 7 has so often proved itself a numeral of ill urnen that it js nu wonder commercial enterprise is apprehensive of its periodical recurrence. At three ular intervals, in 1837, 1847, and 1857, the country was swept by financial pan ics; hence the popular miud naturally argues that the fatal decade lies somehow within the influence of the law of panics; and tho3£ persons especially who have been singed in the flame are cautiaus how they allow business projects to tempt them into positions whore they would be exposed to disaster. They prefer to do no business at all rather than run Merchants only buy from hand to mouth, manufacturers work only to fill ordors ; capitalists invest only where the security is unquestionable. Because the people ascertained, last fall, that over expansion was not the highway to prosperity which they had imagined, but was attended with positive dangers, they wisely determined to avoid that rock, but ran into the op posite extreme. When Congress so far indorsed the policy o! contraction as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to reduce the volume of currency four millions of dollars per month, the people cried out ip fear of ths dangers that threatened on that side also. Whichever way they turned, they saw nothing but difficulties. So they •treagthened them selves against the anticipated disaster in every way possible. It is the same superstitious anxiety that makes the public start with alarui at every whisper ol a business failure, and throws it into convulsions when some heavy house actually fails—for, is not this the year 1867, and has not each dec ade for forty years been fatal with fail ures ? So, as mouth after month lapses quietly, we persistently predict that a revolution is certain to come before the year closes; we exhibit the folly of a seaman refusing to embark on a voyage for fear he may be drowned. We permit all our industries to 'anguish and our .-elves to tun in debt through a puerile fear that if we prosecute business we shall becomo bankrupt. The fact is, that so f'tr from being anx ious respecting the future months of the present year, we should have much cause for encouragement if these over cautions laggards could only be stimulated iuto reasonable activity. Instead of our rev enue falling off largely, and the monthly exhibit of the Seoretary of the Treasury showing a constantly increasing addition to the public debt (as it promises to do for a considerable time to come), we should be able to meet all the require ments of the government through our invere in 1860. They would prefer to have less taxes and fewer tax collectors. A more faithful steward ship is required of those who manage the people's money, and a more judicious financial policy. Industry will acs oomplish nothing more decisive or bene ficial than legislation alone, but both to gether, under proper economy, might work wonders.— Harper's Weekly. WE DO FADE AS A Lnr.— As the trials of life thicken and the dreams tf other days fade, one by one, in the (fcrep vista of pointed hope, the heart gr>#ws weury of the struggle aad }ve begin to realiie our insig nificance. Thgse who have climbed to the pinnacle of fame: or revel in luxury and wealth, goto the grave at last with the poor mendicant who begs pennies by the wayside and like hiui are soon forgotten. Qei ora tion after generation, says an eloquent mod. ern writer have felt as we feel, and their fellows were as in life as ours are now They pa-sed away as a vapor, while nuture wore the snine aspect of beauty as whpn her Creator commanded her to be. And ro likewi-e hall it be when we are gone. The heavens will be as bright over our gnvgs up they arc now around our our path ; the world will have the sauie attraction for off spring yet unborn that she had once forour selves, and that she has now for our chil dren. Yet a little while, and all this wi!l have happened ! Days will oontinue to move on,and laughter and song will be hesrd in the very chamber in which we died; and the eye that mourned for us will be 4 r ' e ut how it shall be regulated, whether by partial or total prohibition, is puerly a question of expediency. All the foul names in the world do not chauge the fact. The ma jority of the Massachusetts Legislature disagree with Governor Andrew, and have retarued the prohibitory law. Let us hope they v o "' l ' smile if they were called a body of Torqucmadas; precisely as Governor Andrew and his friends smile when he is denounced as a los l leader.— Harj>*r't Weekly. A GENTJ.* WIFE'S EXPLANATION. — In the police court of Chicago, a wife tlius ingen iously explained a ve y serious charge of harsh treatment towards her poor hus band: One dny w hen she was running across the room, with a fork in her hand, |j« jumped in and struck his wrist against the fork, wrenching it froiu hor grip by the tines, which he ran into his wrist. Then he urdertook tr strike her, but she held up a pan of hit dishwater between fhom nnd he spilt it all pr«r i.is hoad. Then he got still more angry a t this accident, nnd star ted to jump at Iter,hut his head came 11 gains* , her hand and he fell down. Site took hold , of hi- hail to raise him uo, and the hair , wa- moistened by the Ipt water so that it , came off. Then she saw it was of uo uso to reason any longer, and she left tha house. —Young Indies should bewaro if tb*j I would hate a fresh, healthy acd youthfu] i appearance: "Late hours, large crinoline, \ tight corsets, confectionary, hot bread, cold I fjjaught*. pastry, decollette dress, modern I novel*, furnace registers, easy carriages . late suppers, thin slioea, fear of knowledge t nibbling between meals, ill teipper }iasti to marry, dread of growing old."' THE REAI REASON. The feeling of indignation with Sir. Greely tor offering bail for Jeff. Davis has a vciy different source from that which he aud the New York World as cribe to it. It does not spring from any mean hate. It is uot the rosult of any desire of veugeance upon u man whose differences of political opinion led to so frightful a war. Hut its deepest source is the universal conviction that Davis \vas privy to the devclish conspiracy which doomed the prisoners at Andersonvillo aud Salisbury and Belle Isle; aud that, he knew, as, indeed, ho could not help knowing, for they were published to the world, the hideous tortures that were tlicro deliberately inflicted upon Unipn soldiers. Ho is not only a technical trai tor, he not only led the attempt at seces sion, which an honest and mistakcu man might have done, but he attempted it for the foulest of purpose-; and by the most inhuman of means. JJJs guilt is as much greater thap Booth's as a crime against a race, and idiocy, maducs?, aud the most agonizing death inflicted upou a multi tudc are worse than the sudden, painless murdpr of a single man. It is becauso Mr. Greoley was so for ward to take such a man by the hand that the public decency is outraged. Davis is not indeed indicted for the Andersqq ville crimes—it may not be possible to show a single written order of his iu re» gard to that frightful pen, but no inge nuity of sophistry oan persuade intelli gent meu that lie dit| uot know whit other men knew, that Union prisoners were most, cruelly slaughtered by mon who were his subordinates. Because this crime cannot Le technically proved it is no less a crime; and because it is wrong to keep a man in prison without a trial, it does uot follow that the man is not the worst of offenderm It is because Mr. Greeley leut himself to the foolish farce of the bail, because he, identified with Liberty, rusfied to grasp the unrcpenting hand which had slain and tortured thousauds for Slavery, that his friends and political allies arc so pained and amazed. Whcu he says, con»" temptuously, that three years hence they will applaud the act, he merely shows that his judgment is still fatally disturb ed. Have those fricuds and allies ever applauded the articles which ho wrote sis years ago to jnstify the scccssiou of a State upon tho principles of tho Rcvoltj tion, if a majority of its people assented? Have they ever approved tho Niagara uo< gotiations, in which he placed Mr. Lin coln in the wholly false position of seem ing to declino overtures of peaco from the rebels ? Have tlioy ever applauded his letter urging Mr. Linooln to buy terms of the rebels ? We certainly do uot attribute dishon orable motives to Mr. Greeley. He Un doubtedly became bail for Davis because lie thought it would help the Republican party, and himself ns a conspicuous Re publican. AVc think that lie was mis taken, but we are very sure that he never made a greater mistake than iusuppo -ing that indignation with him for embracing an offender against human nature is to "base a great and enduring party upon hate and vcngcan cc ."—Harper's Weekly. QIVINU JOY TO A —lilossod be the hand that prepared a pleasure for a child, for there is no sayiug wlien aud where it may again bloom forth. Does not almost everybody remember some kind hearted man who showed bin; a kindness iu the dulcet days of his child hood 1 The writer of this ree Uects him self at tlii; jnomcnt as a barefooted lad> standing at tho woodcu fence of a poor little gatdon in his natie village, whilo with longing eyes he gazed ou the flowers j which yere hlooniig there quietly in the brightness of a Suuday morning. • The possessor came forth from his little cot> tage. lie was a wood cutter by trade, and spent the whole treck in the woods. He had come into tho garden to gather some flowers to stick i-nto his coat when he went to church. He saw the boy and, breaking off the most beautiful of his carnations—it was btrcaked with red and whife —he travo it to him. Nei ther the giver or the receiver spoke a word, and with bounding step.* the boy ran home. And now here, at a va-st dis> tance from that home, after so many evcuts of so many years, tho feeling of gratitude which agitated thp breast of that boy ex presses itself ou paper. Tho carnation has long since whithered, but now il r blooms afresh. 1 —The '.'life rati," manned by a few rock ' less mariners, with provisions aboard fu 1 thirty davs travel, yesterday departed froit i New York for Havre—or heaven. Suet bravery and daring umuunts to nothing ' short of foolishness. The fuels risk tbeii i lives not to benefit science or navigation,bu; o simply to win aijjpiring plaudits from th< world. NUMBER 26.. —The workrngmen of York have posted this placard in many parts of that jity : We are opposed to ibroign "free trade" for these, among other reasons: 1. Because it drains the c'ouulry af its yotd (o pav I'or foreign merchandise, and leaves ua with a pnper cm fenuj. Because it tills out markets with fbrv tfign made good**, which crowd our own out « ui the markets. 3. Because wurkinguien need the gmatcst possiblo demand f* their labor, which is jheeked bj the importation of goods made by foreign steam engines. " ■l. Because it is to the interest of the wsrk< in-jmeh to have the greatestdiversity of ems oltymeitt.i, tnid the best nmrkot for. tho moat remunerative Jabot. 5. Because !t diversified and skilled try forms theu mj/ element of prosperity in a Ireo and oiviliied country.. 0: Because the man wha buys food ouclit to be a close neighbor to tho man whQ rais* es foiic), so that they can exchange cloth and' iron for corn and beef, with tho lowest cost. 7. Because trade and transportation doub le the rout to those who consume the if the hni)d, of of £he land. 8. Because "ftco trajo" was the dOctrino jf the traitors ami nullifiers of South Oar ilina, fur which lliey endeavored to destroy Ilia Union in 1832, and who filled our try with blood and tears by their rebellion, »nd left tho nation covered with graves, andi filled with widows and orphans. 9. Because "free trade and slavery" havo jlways been companions in the cause of tho irnitnrs, who taught tho doctrine that "cap* ital should own labor." TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. —Tho er« rors which crocp into newspapers tire sometimes odd and queer enough. It iqay bo the fault of tho compositor, but more likely that of tho writer, whojo manu script is ofton outirely illegible. It is «aid flornco Greeley once wrote an edito rial entitled "William 11. Seward," and was highly curaged when the proof came to him under the caption of " Richard the Third." Yet, anybody familiar with chirograph/, if his inky jorks can be so designated, will readily sec not only how such a mistake could be made, but how probablo it would be. Agaiu, he wrote about "three men in buckratni" and tho prosaic typesetter it"three won in a back room." And this, notwithstanding the fact that two compositors of sagacity and experience aro hired at an extra sals iiry, because they can read his copy. But George Ripley has been tha victim of the grossest outrages in this line. In o?c el' his book tjoticcs ho ook tho liLorty of H'toting from Shakspoaro, " 'Tis true,'tis pity ! and pify 'tis, 'tis true," and tho wretched bungler got it " 'tis two, 'tis fifty ; 'tis fifty—'tis fifty-two !" That is Boino wurso than James F. IJabuock's martyrdom, when ho tyro to "Is tiioro na balm in Gilead ?" and rend next momitig, to his consternation, " Is thoro no barn, iu Guilford ?" Mr. Crawford, a monitor of I'ailiauicut, recently sent to ludia the message, '• The news from A morion fa vors the lioldefc," and it arrived thero ; with the information that ('news from America savors of soldiers !" Kvu. COM PAN v. —The following beautiful, allegory is translated from the German . Tjplironius, a wise teacher, would not suffer even his own grown np sons und daughters to associate with those whose con duct was not pure and upright. "'Dear father," sail tl>c gentle Eulalia to him ono day when lie forbade her, in cnm» pnny with her brother, to vi**it the vdatilo. Lucinda, "dear fother, you must think ua very childish, if you imagine that wcsbould be cxpo-ed to danger by it," Tho father took in silenco a dead coal from ihe hearth,and reached it to hii-daugli-. tor- 'ft wiU uot burn you my cl*Uu, tnko it.'' so, and behoM ! bet delicate white iiaud was soiled [and blackened, and as it chanced, her white dress nko.'' "l*e cannot be too careful in handling coals," snid Kulalia, in vexation. ''Yes, truly," said her father; "you see. my child, thot eoals. even if they do p 'not burn, blacken. So it is with tho company of the \icious." —Contrary to a statement made several days since, that Ihe report of the Secretary of the Treasury for tho month of May w >uld exhibit tin increase pf public debt, >' will show a large reduction. This announce ment will prove tho mure gratifying sinpe it follows one calculated to inspire tho public mind with tho belief that our financial »112« fiirs were going backward. —Cayenne pepper with fiua round dust sifted ovor young vines, will prevent their destruction by bugs. Tho same, mixed with nioist meal, will say a young chickons from death by '.'gapaij." —A , weak solution ofsalcratua, pretty strongly tiucturod with alum, sprinkled over gooseberry bushos, is suro to pre vent mildew. So says u friend who has experienced with it four years. —Endeavor to cultivate the gift of thinking well, and acting well in »11 things'