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
h<uong other things, allundcd to the fact
that three natives of the State of North
Carolina —Jackson, Polk and Johnson
)iad passed from obscurity aud poveity
in North Caroliua to comparative opu
lence ip Tennessee, and tbctice to the
highest poitjt of honor in the Union and
world.
Dr. Swaine concluded his very able
and eloquent address as follows .
Of the history ot the son of Jacojj
Johnson, who commenced life under com
paratively unfavorable auspices, this is
not the time to speak. The companion
of his boyhood, Leonidas polk, whose
character I hayc attempted to portray, has
passed the pot rain of the grave. The
President of the United States is before
you, scarcely more time worn than the
Lieutenant General seemed at our last
interview. His career in life thus far i»
ADe of the most remarkable of any age
or nation. Hi* country and the world
have decided between the t«'o parties
which divided North Carolina and South.
He who achieved success, if not more
pure and patriotic, was as brave as disins
tcrested, and wiser than his compeer.—
'fhe monuments of the sires ar« before
you. Tfce crossed swords may be sus
pended ai a memento of the pasi, and a
warning of the future. The blood of the
noblest heroes on both sides of the con
flict will soon form a union in the veins
pf the descendants of those who met in
deadly atrife on many a well fought field
The most patiietie hearts, North, Sonth,
East and Wert, already beat iu unison.
The time hat arrived when patriotism,
not less than Christianity, requires for*
giveuess of all that we canuot forget,—
Jiet the crossed swords of the monument,
surmounted by the Sturs and Stripes,
form an appropriate memorial association
for Confederate and Union dead, and no
strife be engendered above their graves,
)>ut 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
in<li) trial activity ami accumulation.
The constant stream of immigration from
Europe lends additional aid to our clforts
while our mines add #100,000,000 in
gold annually to our ic&oarccs. The
people can do much if they tnkc courage.
15ut everything does not depeud upon
the people. The people are williug to
meet heavy taxation squarely, but they
i do not wish to see the exnenditures of the
government''temporarily increase," right
in the face of theirefforts. They can not
comprehend why, for instanco, a year's
expenses of the War Department should
reach 8284,640,701 in time of peace, or
why they should be 8'<2(i8,000,000 larger
|in 18Q6 than they >vere 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 <l
and will glisttn with joj; and even ourchil
dren will cease to think of us, and will no!
remember to lisf our naoee.
INTEMPERANCE.
The ferocity with which Governor Au
drew has been assailed by some persons
as a reprobate and a lost leader beeause
he differed with theui as to the best meth
od of promoting temperance is very umw
ing. It is the comical side of what was
so tragical iu the Southern States iu the
good old times when slavery, which Mr.
Charles OHlodnor described as BO blessed
and beautiful, had full swing, and any
man who questioned its divinity was
mobbed, riddeu on a rail, huug or burued
amidst the applause of " the great pern l ,
oerutic party," which has such a whole
some contempt for M moral idoas." But
this intolerance, which is natural in
barbarous state of sooiety and uuder the
auspices of a party depending like the
Democratic party upon iguorance and
passion, is rediculuus in any enlightened
community- If men may uot differ upou
the methods of diminishing or restrain
ing'vice, upon what may they differ ? If
a man may nut object to a method of
dealing with intemperance, which in his
judgment merely increases its evils and
produces countless others, to what is it
proper for him to object?
There are certaiu general statements
maue in regard tq the nature of ardent
spirits, and their effect upon the human
system, which are Constantly repeatod
and undoubtedly honestly believud.—
Some of these Governor Andrew ques
tions, and sustains his doubts by ample
authorities. Are such points not matters
of discussiou ? Must a man think »t his
soul's peril that every kind of stimulent
under all circumstances is pernicious ?
The question of stimulents is one of
which not one in rive hundred of the
most pugnacious teetotalers has 'any
knowledge whatever, and those who have
no riiiht to an opinion.
The Temperance reform can uo more
leavp pommon sense behind than any
other. When good men are agreed upon
a great object their business is to agree
upon the best method of it, and
that is to be done by ascertaining the
facts and comparing views—not by curs
ing those who think differently. It»is
said with great vehemence that Governor
Andrew's argument cheers every grog
gery iu the country. What then ? Tin
abolition of the death penalty for many
offenses cheered every roguo in England.
Was the reform therefore uuw'se ? That
which the rogues approved has resulted
in the surer punishnient of roguery. The
advocates of hanging for stealing a joint
of meat denounced Sir Samuel llotuilly
as opening the jails and gi«itig up Jsug
land ta thieves. So the opponents of
Governor Andrew iusist that lie favors
druufceuuess aud Governor An
drew replies, " I mean to diminish drunk
enness aud misery." Is the loud sneer
that answers him an argument? "My
lords, we shall bo ruined," croaked the
old Tory leaders when the reform was
imineut. The reform was carried, and
Knglaud will stand a great deal of such
ruining.
The Court of Appeals in this State
(N. Y.) when dpeiding the Cou«titi)tion
ality of the Excise Law, said truly that
the regulation of the liquor traffic is an
undoubted right of society. l>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'