FROM MEXICO. Maximllllßn Sold to L.iberal» f toy Ills Bosom Friend Lopez. No Prisoner/ Shot, vp to Last Advices. Heroio Conduct of Maximilian. NEW ORLEAWB, Juno 7 —The Ran chero of June Ist, publishes a letter dat ed San Louis Potosi, May 18th, which states that private negotiations, some days previous to the surrender of Quaretaro, had been going on between three Impe rial Generals and tho Liberals, to sell one of the principal forts for 848.000. Gen. Miguei Lopez, who was high in the con fidtince of Maximilian, was the principal actor in this treaty, and caus.-d tha sur render. On sending a flig of truce with his aw'ord to Eseobedo, Maximilian told him he surrendered unconditionally, an i hal only three favors to ask. He wished not to be but to be treated as a pris oner; that if any person was to be shot he should be the first; that if shot, his body might not be abused. Maximilian, and all the officers above the rank of Captain would arrive in Sin Louis in two or three days. None were shot, and it was thought none would be, in consequence of the re quest made by the United States. Saltillo dates tothe2slh of May, siys that the Liberals now admit that up to the 7th the Imperialists were successful in every cngagomeit. From that time to the 15th nothing important had trans pircd. Escobedo says that fifteen thousand prisoners surrendered, including thirteen General officers, and five hundred of in ferior grades. He states that no fight ing whatever occurred, and the only shots fired were by the traitors-upon their com panions in arms. The surrender of the * garrison was complete. Lopez acted as escort to the Empress, was uncle to Bazaine and bosom friend to Maximilian, who was god-father to his first child. By his prowess he won the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Col. Mariana Campas and Mendez are reported shot sometime after tho surren der. A letter from Monterey says that irre spective of the wishes of the Govern ment of the United States, Maximilian and his generals will be shot, and the strong and irreconcilable feelings of Jua rez and his party to all foreigners are that all should be shot like dogs. The schooner Arielis, Capt. Castauza, from Tampico,May 27, arrived at Browas ville on the 81st. Ho reports that at the time he left, a fight was raging between Gomez and Pavon, a portion of Gomez' officers having pronounced against him . The fighting stopped on the receipt of the news of the fall of Quaretaro. MINISTER ROMERO RECEIVES DISPATCH WASHINGTON, June 9. —To-day the following letter from President Juarez, which dispels all doubt as to the capture of Quaretaro and Maximilian : SAN LUIS POTOSI, May 15th. Don Matins Romero, Washington: My DEAR FRlEND—Quaretaro was taken by assault atß o'clock, a. m. today. Max-, imilian, Mejia and Castello surrendered at discretion at Campana Hill, the last place that resisted. I congratulate you upon this important victory. Yours truly, BENITO JUAREZ. Sneeess or the Republicans. The unanimity with which the masses of the Southern people have accepted the wiso and judicious reconstruction policy of Congress, has decided for years to come tho question of party predominance in the United States. This fact was aptly illustrated a few days ago by a declara tion from the newspaper press of Mobile, that Alabama would, at the approaching election, be carried by the Radicals with as much ease as Massachusetts. This is but another evidence of the fact that the entire white population of the South arc not and never have been in sympathy with the leaders who conspired against the government. In Alabama alone there are more than thirty thousand white loyalists enrolled in the ranks of the Union League, and under the health ful influence of free specoh aud a fiee press, things hitherto unknowu in that part of the country, the number is raps idly increasing. From North Carolina we have the most cheering intelligence, and there is every indication that the Re publican party will carry the old Nerth State by an overwhelming majority at the first election. Even in Louisiana, where Union men were lately murdered while peaceably assembled for consulta tion, the registration in tho couutry dis tricts shows seven loyalists to one rebel. These indications point conclusively to the fact tliat the principles of the Re publican party have taken deep root in the South, and henoeforth are to ex6rt a de cided influence, if not entirely control its politics and internal policy. Republican ism is spreading with a rapidity that is truly gratifying, and nowhere more rap- | idly than in the State of Maryland. The extravagance of the Democracy in bring- i ing the Treasury of thatstato to the verge of baukruptcy has created wide spread disaffection in their own ranks, and caused many honest men to link their fortunes with the Republican party who have nev er before acted with it. Their bad faith in trying to secure support from the col ored men, after opposing and villifving them, has disgusted many who have here tofore believed that the Democracy would show some consistency by ocntinuiug to oppose a measure whose adoption they avowed would result in the destruction of the Government. The Republican party is now thoroughly organized in every State in the Union, and is calmly wait ing and working for the great triumph of 1868. When that is won, as it surely ' will be, Democracy will be dead in name as well as it now is in fact.— Frederick [ Md.] Republican. Judge Kelley charges the Mobile rioi to Andrew Johnson, who had appoint ed ;o a post of profit there a recreant Northerner, who provoked the disturb ance by inflammatory statements in the public journals days before his arrival. The riots, he said, were premeditated, •ad were ut Uk«, -;ht on by any words of ; 1»M Wl. The Democratic Convention at Annapolis. The Democracy of Annapolis have been exhibiting a remarkably fine speci men of gymnastics during the past treek. The brains of the iioterrified aro erably muddled, and with nil the wisdom and #stutenedß which they are accustom ed to claim for themselves, the* are un able to determine XVhe*her or not slavery has been abolished in the State of Mar yland. It is no wonder that tho Dcmoi cracy cling so fondly and tenaciously to the negro, for he has been their political stock in trade for the pa9t fifty years.— Through prejudice to the negro they mad® subservient to their aims and wishes, a large portion of our people, who today, can hardly realize that they ever served under such a task master. Ireland was colonized, and with a hatred of the "na gur," which was instilled into them on Irish soil, became one of the pillars of the so-called American Democracy.— When the war resulted in the abolition of slavery, it pronounced the doom of the party that sought to destroy the Gov ernment, and placed the signet of infamy upon it. Without the ndgro, the Demo oratio party is as aimless as it is certain ly useless. It wanted the country against the dangers of emancipation, and pre dicted, in such an event, a war of races. Notwithstanding this kindly proffered advice, the people declared that slavery .should perish, and the result of that de cree has been, a greater assimilation of the interests anil feelings of all classes, and an understanding between the two races that precludes all possibility of an other civil war on this continent for cen turies to come. The Annapolis Demo cracy are unwilling to surrender tho bro ken idol; for they see in the little stone that has been hewn from the mountain, the instrument of their overthrow and destruction. Already they have been routed horse, foot and dragoon, in almost every State, except this aud Kentucky, and here, upon their last battle-field, they ate determined to- illustrate that courage for which their chivalric leaders have been so justly celebrate i. They have been chivalric and daring in raids upon the public treasury for more than fifty years, and we are willing, while we glad ly witness their departuie from the place which they basaiy prostituted to places of blood and plunder, that they shall retire with all the honors which any portion of mankind are willing to accord them. It makes but little difference what opinions these disappointed and embittered demagogues at Annapolis may express. Any declarations in regard to slavery which they may make, will be as powerless, and far less destructive, than their effort to erect a slave oligarchy upon the ruins of the Federal Govern ment. The wrangling which manifests i itself in every day's proceedings, is con vincing proof that they have at least re alized the fearful situation in which they are placed, and of the hopelessness of escape from the dilemma. The conven tion was called through a blunder, and thare is no tet of men in Maryland who would more gladly see its whole pro* ceedings quashed than those who are now engaged in patching up a platform for the Democracy of this State. If there is any person who supposes that there is harmony in their proceedings, we would beg leave to correct tlie erroneous im pression. There never was a political assemblage in this State in whioh there was so much diversity of opinion and bitterness of feeling, and if the proceed ings are brought to a close without an open and decided rupture, it will be more the result of necessity that of good feel ing.—Frede, ick City, ( Md.) Republican. The ratry of Vengeance. How far " Vengeance, vengeance, ven geance " is the animating principle of •he Republican party may bo seen in tho address which the Union Congressional Committee has issued to the people of the Southern States. This vindictive document declares that the party wishes such a restoration of tho Union as will save us from future wars. It revengefully announces that the party will encourage free speech, a free press and free schools. It wickedly asserts that the recognition of equal rights throughout the whole coun try secures peace, progress and prosperity, and that it docs not imply any hostility of races. It atrociously avers that the laboring man, whether white or black, needs the protection of the law und the ballot, by which he secures equal laws and a just administration of them. This incendiary manifesto urges that there rau.it be a cooperation of races to obtain the fair fruit of freedom for the Southern States, and actually proclaims that the exhausted and backward condition of those States is due to the slave-holding aristocra3y which has controlled it for two hundred years. Not content with this,the address pro- , ceeds to fulfiill the party policy of " Ven geance, vengeance, vengeance" by earn* estly inviting and imploring the people • of the Southern States to accept univer*. i sal suffrage, to establish public schools i and to enable the poor to become land holders as fast as possible. Then with bitter mockery the address announces I that Congress will exercise its authority ] of restoring tho States " fairly and gen- j erously" when they give the only evidence , which can be given that they are true to the Union —namely, trustworthy major- 1 ities. Thii furious address, which, as 1 will be seen, breathes the very soul of | hate and wrath, concludes by saying that i "if the people of the States lately in re- , bullion shall cheerfully and in goud faith reorganize their Governments upon the ' laws passed by Congress, there will then 1 remain no causes of differenco between 1 various seotions'of tho country " If this does not show that the party which conducted the war successfully, which emancipated and enfranchised the slaves, and which would rebuild the Union upon justice and common sense, is a party of vengeance and hato, wc do not believe it on be proved.— Harper'i Weekly. —The Treasury Department is pre* pared to redeom United States oompouod interest notes as they shall severally ma ture by the payment of principal and interest thereon to date of maturity, on their presentation to the Treasurers at New York. Philadelphia or Boetcu. gtmcvicau Cittern. fljgp* The Largest Circulation oj any Paper in the County. 0. E. ANDERSON, ~ - Editor. BUTLER PA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1867. and Union, Now and Forevar, On# and 'n»aparabla. M —D. Webatar. . Union Republican County Tioket. AB6EMBLY : JAMES T. M'JUNKIN, JOHN EDWARDS, [LAWRENCE CO.] [ Subject to District Nomination.'] TREASURER : HUGH MORRISON. COMMISSIONER : CHARLES HOFFMAN. 1. 1 JURY COMMISSIONER : CHARLES M'CLUNG. AUDITOR ! J. CALVIN GLENN. JEFF. DAVIS. THR PAST AMD PIIKSF.NT- Since the formation of the Union of the thirteen original colonies, there has been a coustant political struggle between Slavery and Freedom. The former, strong in its cunning, sought at all times to use every political organization, as its agent, in nationalizing a sectional institution The latter, patient in its strength, stood the encroachment of the enemy, not only until sufferance ceased to be a virtue, but until prudence, wisdom and conscience said, the hour for firmness had come. The friends of freedom accepted the issue forced upon them in 1860, of " No more Slave States"—we say , forced upon them, because, had the slave power kept the compromise of 1820, no such issue would ever have been raised. The re sult of this issue was, that a worthy and faithful representative of free institu tions—Abraham Lincoln, was elected President. Tie slave power conscious that, under such an administration, they could never plant their barbarous institution in the virgin Territories of the Nation, sought by treason and robbery to poverize and disarm the Nation, that had cloaked their >hame, and nursed them from infancy and poverty to opulence and wealth de feuding them f'rora foreign and domestic foes, and improving her harbors and post roads at her own expense. Next, they sought by usurpation to form a new Governmeut, with slavery as its corner stone, and its avowed purpose was to tear down the fair temple of free dom and nationalize a sectional evil which had corrupted their own hearts. A strug. gle ensued, for the existence of this na tion, and its enemies were overcome: and during this struggle—wli i was looked upon as the arch fiend of the hellish work ? Who was it that deserved to suf fer most? We hear a million responses, and all 3ay, Jefferson Davis. A nation wrapt in comparative desolation, almost swamped in debt, burdened with taxation, replies— Jcfferso i Davit. The wi Jows und otphana of the Union and Rebel dead, reply—Jefferson Davis. The blood of half a million slain replies Jefferson Da vit. He was a leading sp rii in the con ccption of Treason, and was chosen as its : Commauder in-Chief during the long and \ bloody struggle. The faithful Union army trudged along ] through mud and swamps, from one bat j tie field to another, and tread with ten j dcrness and sympathy over tho rebel j dead and their desolated fields, pitying ■ their misguided enthusiasms, and hoping j some day to reach the heart of the rebel j lion and visit their punishment where it ! justly belonged. As they marched they j sang, " We'll hang J2FF. DAVIS on a 1 sour apple tree !" Four long years of marching, suffering, I privation, misery, starvation, watching, | praying and weeping, at last brought the glad tidings, that the arch fiend of the rebellion, and almost of pandemonium itself, had been captured. Public imagin ation stood on tip-toe to see what was tha greatest puuishment that could be visited upon mortal man. For trifling fiffences comparatively, thev had seen thousands deprived of life ; and now, the demand for summary and just punWhuient came up irom the living and the dead. The captive was conveyed to the most se cure and pleasant fort in the Nation,shield ed by tbc strong arm of the Government, | from the just death-blow which a million 1 arms were uplifted ta inflict—visited, up plauded, caressed and idulized by his friends for two long years under the flag 1 of our country He is then sent on a j tour, for the benefit of hit health, to an- I other country, after being required to give s bond equal to 15 cents for each life that he has taken—to appear at a future term of the United Btates Court—and i Horace Greeley is one of his bonds men.' This is certainly a very remarkable term ination of a great rebellion, costing near ly a million *nd two billions in treasure. jL All this is past We cannot see the future. yule« tt.be that D vis is to run for President and Greeley has been prom ised a position in his Cabinet. So goes the world. The Indian Warfare. The latest intelligence received from Motitana Territory indicate that the peo ple there are making extensive prepara tions for an Indian war, which ihey evince a strong determination to push to the point of extci urination. Acting Gov ernor Meagher has issued a proclamation calling for nix hundred mounted men for immediate service, which was eagerly responded to, several companies having been organized within a few hours. The many Indian outrages upon white set tlers in the Gallatin Valley seem to be the provocation for this movement. The Indians are now threatening the destruc tion of Virginia City and Heleua Intelligence from Fort Kearney st»te» that the Indian war has fairly commenced on the Platte river, the savages burning ranches, stealing stock, and daily mur dering white settlers. A detachment of troops, encamped opposite Fort SeJgwick, were expected to leave that place about the first of the present month. General Custer, with his cavalry force, is now at Eort McPherson. The Government has ordered addition al troops to the frontier, and has de tached four companies of the 38th In fantry, now duty at New Orleans, and ordered them to Fort Harker. Troops from other quarters are being detached, and ordered to General Sheiman's de partment in anticipation of a general In dian war. From Augusta, Georgia. Advices frcu Augusta, of June 6th, state that a meeting of citizens of Ful ton and DeKalb counties was held in At lanta, to form a conservative Union party. A preamble and resolutions were adopted, denouncing the Sherman bill as infamous and preferring military rule to organizing under its provisions. The Press at At lanta have no sympathy with the move ment, and pronounce it ill timed and in judicious. The feeling throughout Geor. gia is to submit and organize under the Military bill. The people are sick and tired of uncertainty, and will conform to the requirements of Congress in good faith. The opposition will be inconsider able, as the great majority of the people arc in favor of voting for a convention. ®. 8. Circuit Court In Raleigh. Chief Justice Chase, at the opening of the United States Circuit Court at Raleigh, gave a formal explanation of the reasons why the Justices of the Su preme Court have till recently refused to attend the Circuit Sessions. lie held that the highest officers of the Judiciary could not properly have exercised their functions under the con'rol of the Kxec utive Department, and could not issue decrees which military order might nul ify. Under the present law he consid ers that the military power is used only under the authority of Congress, and does not extend to the United States C«urts. Washington Charier Election. The Washington Radicals, white and black, had good cause to hold a jubilee over their late victory in the city elec-' tion They celebrated not one triumph, but the many in the future. General Butler well said, in his letter to them, that the election was an earnest of what will be the course of all colored citizens throughout the South. The complete returns of the election held on last Monday week, shows a Re publican Majority for Hall, Collector— the principal office voted for—of 2,898. The Common Council stands—Repub licans. 18; Conservatives 5. Stale Treasurer. The recommendation of the Beaver County Republican Convention, of Gen. W. W. Irwin for State Treasurer, meets much favor elsewhere. Th? Harrisburg Telegraph indorses him as follows: " General Irwin is well known to the people of the State as the efficient, inde fatigable and courteous Commissary Gen eral of Pennsylvania during the war. As a Western man, he now looms up powerfully in the contest for Treasurer, ami as a Republican and a financier no man in the State has superior claims or larger ability for the position." The Cretan War. Late mail advices from Athens state that the Cretan forces hold all the passes. The army of Omar Pacha is so crippled that he will not undertake any serious movements without fresh reinforcements. The typhoid fever is ravaging the Turk ish army. The Fort Kearney Maasacre. General Buford, who is at the head of the Military Commission appointed to investigate the Fort Phil. Kearney mas sacre, has arrived in Washington City, and will soon make his report to the Government National Sabbath. The Fourth of July to every American citisen should be a day of thanks giving and rejoicing, in remembrance of the greut National deliverance which through the.jilessiug of God. was achieved hy our noble ancestors—the rich and In. estimable blessings which we of the present day are permi ttedto enjoy. Thi ß day should be appropriately observed.— Several of the good citizens of oiir bor~ ougli and vicinity have spoken to us with regard to its observance, atfd have sug gested that it could in part, be kept "by having all the Sabbath Schools of our village and vicinity join in a general cel. el ration in some nice grove adjoining the borough. Would it not be well for pas tors, superintendents, and all interested in the Sabbath School cause, to take this matter in hand without delay? Let each Church appoint a committee, and let these committees meet and mature a plan for a general and co-operative celebration on our National thanksgiving day. Severe Storm. On Friday evening, June 7th, a severe storm passed over this place. The wind blew with tremendous force, and was, no doubt, the strongest that has visited this place and vicinity since the great storm of 1856. It was accompanied by heavy thunder aud lightning, and the rain fell in perfect torrents. Several trees were blown down and broken off. There was but little hail, yet the wind was so strong as to force panes of glass from their places in many windows. Tlio residence of A R ckens'ine, on Main street, was struck by lightning, but very little dam age was done to the same. In the vicin ity, we are informed that some of the roaus were, in places, closed up with fallen timber. Crops. We have the most cheering accounts from all parts of our county of the pros pects of an abundant harvest. Corn, although late in planting, is doing well; grass is looking fine; and everything at present promises an aluudant harvest; and we have an assurance now that flour will not long be held at the enoiuous fig ures that has ruled the nuiket for the last year. Speculators in the " staff of life" will be compelled to disgorj/e the vast stores which they have stowed away from the starving thousands. Few tears will be shed for such men. Kentucky Politics. The democratic majority in Kentucky is abou' forty-two thousand against thir ty eight thousand in 1866. Those who are anxious to intrust the government of the country, or of any State to the same party are referred to Kentucky. In that State, as in the municipal government of the city of New York, the- blessings of Democratic ascendency arc manifested as they were in the administrations of Pearcc and Buchanan, in the repeal of the Mis souri compromise:, the attempt to force slavery upon Kansas, the D'ed Scott de oision, and finally, in the rebellion plot ted by Democratic Senators and a Dem ocratic Cabinet with the imbecile conni vance of a Democratic Presideut. These are advantages of Democratic rule still quite fresh in the popular mind. In Kentucky the Democratic majority means simply a majority of those who sympathized with the rebellion. It was a Democratie Governor of that State who returned an insulting reply to President Lincoln's summons for troops, and the Democratic ascendency kept the State from ever being truly loyal. Had the Democratic loyalty of Kentucky been that of the whole land, Jeff Davis and his friends would have overthfown the Government and ruined the country witl« in the first six months of the rebellion. The fiercest of the unreconstructed rebels in the Southern States hailed the result of the Connecticut election, because they thought it showed a tendency in other States to join Kentucky, and they knew that when the politics of Kentucky are those of the country the political woik of the war will bo undone as far as possible, and r pudiation, compensation for slaves, the invalidity ol the emancipation amend ment, aud unconditional restoration to Congress, will not be as dimly distant as they now are. Kentucky is Democratic. It was the only State not openly in rebellion which was thoroughly Democratic through the ' war; and there was no State not in insur rection in which secession has such sin- . cere sympathy. We do not forget th<) brave men of Kentucy who volunteered for the cause, and who nobly fought at home and abroad, and whose patriotic de votion was all the greater because they were greatly outnumbered. But true as they were they did not speak for the Stale. They were the political minority. They are the minority still. But they are now coming to see that they might be the majority if all loyal men, black or white, were votars. The Democracy, i which instinctively hates equal rights and loves caste and privilege, will of course resist such a result. But it is this v*ry resistenee, this steady hostility to human rights and consequent national peace and prosperity, which has fully re vealed the real character of the reaction ary faction which is known as the Denis ocratic party. 'J'ho dominance of that party makes Keutu ky what it is. Those who wish other States to resemble Kentucky will work and pray for Democratic rule.— Ilarper'i Weekly. • —General Grant has accepted an invi tation from the managers of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg, to visit that town on the 20th of June. Gov* ernor Geary has also been invited, and will probably be present. Comtmuueaticms. jygp~" For the Citizen. I*salm6dy. " What has an argument to prove tho Almighty's sword superior to Arlington's knife, to do with answering the question . whether we are commanded to sing Psalms only in Christain worship?" 1 The above quotation from an unknown pen is a complete answer to an article of a half column in length, over the signa ture of William Allen. The article pur ports to be written for the information of one who elaims to be ignorant of any de mands made by the Almighty, upon His followers, to sing only Psalms in His worship. If I had not been acquainted with the precise nature of the request, I certainly would have copcluded that Mr. Allen was trying to convince some luff dei of the authenticity of the Bible I at first considered the quotations so ir relevant that I would give them no fur ther attention. Upon reflection, howev er, I concluded that my first impressions might be correct, and that because I was not willing to inscribe on uiy altar, " To the unknown God' (Psalm singing alone) and ignorantly worship him (for with my present light it would be in ignorance), that perhaps Mr Allen was threatening me with the swerd of the Lord. If not this, the best interpretation I could give his article would be this : " Now, Mr. T , if you do not cease writing against my God, you will be overtaken by something worse than Adlington's knife." I hope Mr. Allen will pardon me for being so obtuse, but I confess I never learned enough from nature or revelation to eon viuce me of the existence of this God. lam pleading for light. It is true there are specimens of sacred poetry in the Bible, and that they were sung, or rather chanted, not to move the auditory with the melody and harmony of sounds, but to impress the hearers with the doctrines and duties of the poetry thus sung or chanted The Bible requires us to sing. It says in tome places that we are (o siug Psalms. The meaning of Psalm is " a song or hymn." The Bible nowhere com mands us to sing inspired Psalms, songji or hj rang It proves too much to say that, because we have specimen Psalms, or songs, i* is a legitimate inference that we are to sing them alone in worship.— By parity ol reasoning, I will fiud many specimen prayers in the Bible, aud will contend (hat they alone are to be used in praying; or, 1 will find many specimen sermons and, on the same ground, I will argue that we are omy authorized to re peat them in preaching. The conclusion is as fair in one case as in the other.— When I am convinced (and I am open to conviction) that Ood requires us losing nothing but inspire! Psalms, songs, or hymns; that is, inspired in word, I will tremble at tho threatened sword of Mr. Allen if I fail to comply with the injunc tion of Jehovah ; but, until thisconvic tiou is wrought in my soul by clearer reasoning than I have ever yet heard from an exc!usi"e Psalm singer, in stolid iudifTcrcnce 1 shall risk my salvation, and with a joyful heart sing away : I Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let m« hide myself in t bee; Let the water and the blood, From thy wotitried side that flowed, Be of sin the doable care, Cleanse me fro* ita guilt and power. 9 Not the labor of my hand* Can fu Iflll the law's demands: Could my zeal no respite know, Could my tear* forever flow, All for sin could not atono; Tbou must save, and thou alone. 3 Nothing in my hand I bring, 81 rnply to thy crow I cling ; Naked, como to thee for dress; Helpless, look to thee for grace; Vile, 1 to the fountain fly, Waeh me, Savior, or I diet 4 While I diaw this fleeting breath, When my eyelids close in death, When I soar to worlds unknown, Bee thee on thy judgirfnt tbroue, Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let uie hide myself in thee. But, as to the Psulins claimed to be a translation by Mr. House, will some one please give us a short history of this man Rouse? 1. Did he understand the He brew language at all ? 2. Was ho a con sistent member of any branch of the Church ? 3. Was he at all times sober, or was he frequently intoxicated ? Was ho not employed to give a piraphrase of the English vcrsiou of the Psalms, rather ; than a translation of the same ? If i Rouse's Psalms are a translation, they 1 fail to accord w : th tacts recorded else where in the Bible. Ps. cri. 19., Rouse has it: Upon the bill of Iforeb they ao idol calf did frame; A molten image they did make, and wersbipped the same. In Exodus, chapter xxxii, we are inform | ed that the calf was made in ttie camp while Moses was on the mouutain. Is there an exclusive Psalm sinyer who believes the first couplet of the first Psalm ? What authority has Mr Rouse for introducing the word " perfect ?" It , is not in the original, and it modifies the , meaning. All ordinary translators of the Scripture are modest enough to put all the words not in the Hebrew or Greek in italics, that they may be known ; but Mr. I Rouse's infallibility precludes the neces j ity for this ; hence, not an italic word is j found in any edition of the Psalms we ever saw. II I can get no light as to the moral ob- 1 ligation of exclusive Psalm singing, will 1 some one give us a bit of Mr. Rouse's history as to the above points? If not given on good authority we may feel dis posed to put the historian right before 1 the community. W.H. TIBBIES. I For th» GKiltn MR. EDITOR .—lf you ~1l allow me the privilege, I will express j -»iitid OD the subject' of education which should I 'Merest every man, woman and child ( Never before in the history of our coun ; try was there as much need of good schools and teachers. The state of our i country during the past few years, was F the lesult of courses, which it is the ob ject of a correct system of education to dispel. Had every man and woman of our land been brought up In accotoanoi with the teachings of divine truth, or "train ed ftp in the way in whiclf tbfcy should go" no corrupt politicians could sway the masses of our people as they have been. Hence, tif> avoid another uncalled for toar let us, as American citizens, set for our motto (rightbeneatb the stars and stripes) the "Arts aud Sciences together with the Classic*,"