Reconstruction.-—-£.ct Well
Enough Alone.
Wp are., informed <hat the President
and liia Cabinet are about to consider the
condition of the Southern States, under
the recent acts of Congress, and to pro
claim certain rules in reference to the
conduct of the Major .(ienerals Com
manding. It is furthermnre rumored
that the action of Ottneral Sheridan in
' removing Governor Wells led to an angry
discussion at a recent Cabiuet meeting,
and that Mr. Stanbury is preparing an
opinion to justify the President in re
moving General Sheridan It is also
rumored that General Grunt has expres
sed anxiety in regard to Sheridan, and
while he will not recommend his removal,
be still lee Is that he might be repre
manded. We are happy to welcome any
expression of General Grant that seems
to indicate an expression of opinion ou
any national question; but we believe
this rumor to be untrue. General Grant
will hardly care to interfere with his re
downed subordinate. At a criticll por>
tion of the war, he found it necessary to
give Sheridan but one order : "Go in."
If ho ha» any order to give let him re
peat that.
We do not think the country will view
patiently any interference on the part of
the Pres'dent with the provisions of the
Reconstruction act. That act was passed
in defiauce of the President, lie came
into office with the settlement of the war
upon his hands. Instead of talcing the
advice of Congress by calling an extra
srssion, or even the counsel ot statesmen
who might be presumed to speak the
opinions of the party dominant in Con
gress, he created a policy of his own. I'.
was offensive to the nation. It proposed
to sacrifice the loyal men of the South to
the spirit of rebellion. It would have
surrendered to Davis more than Lee
yielded to Grant. Still it was a "polio}."
Mr. Seward supported it in his reckless,
gladsome way. Mr. McCulloch went out
of hU way to be its persistent minister.
Mr. Stauton countersigned the order*
which sent Terry and Saxton into dis
grace, and conferred honors upon Fuller
ton and Custar. A few people like Dix,
created by Almighty God apparently lor
no other purpose than to hold office, aud
gifted with a ravinous instinct of power,
supported the President. Then came the
wholesale removals from office. Intrepid
Republicans were stricken down by hun
dreds for daring to believe in the teach
ings of Lincoln ; men were rewarded f>r
betraying their party, and even in for.
eign Courts spies and informers were per
mitted to wander aud collect gossip for
our Secretary of State. All the powers
of the Presidential office—its terrors and
blanishments—were used for the purpose
of insuring the success of ihc "policy,"
Well, what cainc ot it ? The Presi
dent met with disastrous and humiliating
defeat. His "policy" was overruled.
The creatures he placed i t office as a
reward of treachery weie driien .iut.—
Nay more, the great office which ho held,
and whose patrouage lie wielded with
more than the impciial will of Jackson,
was trimmed, and cut, and shorn of the
greater part cf its strength. It would no
longer be a menace to a 112 ree people. II is
"States" were overturned. The Recon
struction law wa9 passed, and its duties
assigned to generals of the army. This
was well understood. The President op
posed it furiously. lie threw his vetoes
before Congress step by step. So reck
lessly was this done that at one timo it
was almost certain that he wtuld be im«
peached, or that his powers under this
act would be assigned to General Grant.
Mr. Stevens desired this, and a large par
ty followed him. We believe this would
have been done but for the assurance
that any law Congress would pass the
President would execute in letter and
spirit. This a^urancc—or, rather, ihis
well founded belief—did everything to
decide Congress, If it had not existed,
the President would most probably have
been removed.
This was the situation when Congress
abjourned. Suspicious of His tixcel
lency, not altogether trusting his sincer
ity, its members provided for a Summer
session. But tho President has done so
well, he lias obeyed tho law so faithfully,
that impeachment has died, the Sum
ner sjsion will scarcely be held, and we
find ourselves quietly drifting into an era
of good feeling. lieconstruction pro
gresses. Impartial Suffrage has been
established in the South. The various
problems that sorely tried our statesmen
are being gradually solved by events.
With suffrage to the slave we have had
amnesty to the Ret el. Evon the greut
Chief of tho Rebels has been released
from prison and permitted logo to Can
ada, with but a trivial (?) expression of
dissent. Mr.Chase presides over a South
ern Court, and tho process of habeas cor
pus has been resumed. The frecdmen
are giadually becoming freemen. Citi
tenship sits easily upon them. The
country is at rest, and considering the
question of political reconstruction settled
addresses itself to the finances and tariffs.
Our political sky is serene with the ex
ception of a little cloud that steals over
it, scarcely larger than a man's hand.
We know the Ptesidcnt must be sorely
tempted to use whatever power he may
possess to oppose a measure which he
assailed so vindictively last Winter. That
is well understood. The country appre
ciates the fidelity with which he performs
bis most unwelcome work. But he mutt
perform it. His administration will not
be permitted to interfere with reconstruc
tion by removing the generals who have
the confidence of the country, and ap
pointing men in whom it has 110 confi
dence. Let the President but attempt
this— let him oppose his executive pre
rogstive to the operations of the Military
bill, and in a day this era of good feeling
will become a season of rage and hate—
this little cloud will cover the heavens
-with blackness. The country is intersely
earoest on this subject. Let Sheridan or
Sickles, for instance, be removed, and a
• Sutnmor session of Congress will be inev
itable. With a Summer session the Pres
ident's functions will most assuredly be
"so limited that it will not bo in his power
prer after to remove any General Coins
warding. All the bitteincss that pre
vailed last year will be renewed, a hund
red questions will suffer, and the work
of national pacification be stopped merely
fMtt OM I'resident and Qgrigrw* ro*y
have another ooutr JT irsy. Snoh a con
troversy can have but one result—for the
people are with Congies<, and will susta n
it. The danger is that the wise and
temfcate measure of last session, under
which the country is doing to well, will
be succeeded by a measure has wise and
temperate. Everything is doing well"
We entreat the Piesident and his Cabi*
net, for their own sskes. as well as for
the sake nf the country, to let well enough
alone.— N. y. Tribune.
Erery Man tats own Vice-Pres
ident.
Mr. Phillips ssys that he will not be
lieve that the prejudice against the negro
has disappeared until he sees a negro
nominated for the Vice Presidency or
competing favorably with Major Generals
Now, one reason why there is a prejudice
against the negroes is that they have ss
yet as a race accomplished nothing great
in war, or politics, or art, or literature
If anybody will take the trouble to listen
to an ordinary leoture or speech against
negro equality, he will fiud tha» it is this
absence of performance and of what the
French call " preuves," in the great
woikof civilization, which forms the
basis of the wole argument. Were there
ono or two or three flourishing negro
States built up by negro industry, hon
esty, skill, and valor, the negro color and
conformation would go for nothing. It
is the fact that there is uot, and hus not
been in historic times, any such state
which causes the negro to be reviled,
persecuted, and enslaved, and which lias
created the current belief in the'r moral
and intellectual inferiority. Whether
this is a good foundation tor such a be
lief, we cannot discuss here. Hut we
must remember that all individuals of all
races t are judged by this self same stand
ard. We all owe any special respect wo
may meet with from our fellow-men to
our performance! and uot to our promise,
or supposed capacity. In other words,
everybody has a " prejudice" against the
arm who has achieved nothing.
Therefore we say that, now that the
American negroes are free, their true
friend is he who says to them: " Work,
work 1 show that you are industrious and
can get rich as white men do; obey the
laws and respect your proper
ty —that is, show that you have the po
litical sense on which States are formed,
and by wlvch they are preserved ; culti
vate your minds, show that your intel
Icetual inferiority has heretofore been
accidental and not real. When you are
rich and shrewd uud educated and nu
merous you will be powerful, and power
will bring you inevitably political and
social honor, and nothing elxe will or
ouylit. Peoples are great and respect
ed when they have done the things on
which greatness and respectability are
founded."
Therefore the nomination of a colored
man to the Vice Presidency will be,
whenever it comes, the sign uot of the
dis ippearance of prejudice only, butnlso
ol the things which cause the prejudice.
Colored men need not, therefore, trouble
their heads about it any more than about
the Presidency. It is not necessary
either to their happiness, comfort, or
respectability. It could not make them
happy, comfortable, or unless
they had other things previously ; and
when they have the other things the
Vice Presidency is sure to follow, or
even more honorable positions than the
Vice Presidency. When the ablest men
at the bar are negroes we shall, we hope,
have a negro Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court, but not, we trust, one
minute sooner. Negr es arc not entitled
to high rewards simply for being black
any more than they deserve slavery or
ill treatment for not being white. We
want fair play in this matter for every
body, but we cannot have fair play if
the gammon of the negro's injudicious
friends cannot be checked. It is no
more a hardship to the black to be ex
cluded from high office beoause he does
not command the confidence of his fel
low-citizens than it is to the white man.
If a negro has a right to be made a Vice
Pre.-ident in order to show that people
have no preju .ice against him, so has
everybody else in the community, and
exclusion from high office isasiur. Ihe
only remedy for this sort of thing i9 the
admission of every adult male and female,
not insane, a pauper or a criminal, to the
Vice Presidency or some other post of
honor. The thing may be done by a
simple amendment to the Constitution
declaring every citizen of the United
States to be a Vice President on taking
the oath of office. Whether we should
be any better off when this was done
would remain to be seen ; but we caoh of
us at least would have the consolation of
knowing that it was no longer in the
power of nominating conventions to ig
nore our claims. If we stood on Mr.
Phillips's ground we should i'o further,
and insist on having a negro Vice Admi
ral. As long as this office is monopolized
by a white man we should, reasoning
from his premises, assert fearlessly that
there can be no security for 'he colored
race.— The Nation.
Kx Gov. WELLS on Saturday yielded,
under protest, to a note from Gen Sheri
dan requiring him to surrender his office,
and Gov. Flanders has quietly succeeded
him. General Sheridan reminded Mr.
Wells that he had uot only acknowledged
the right ot the District Commander to
remove civil officers, but had urged it in
other cases, only disputing it in his own.
Gen. Grant deuies that ho had censured
the action of Gen. Sheridan, and we can
see no reason for expecting any interfer
ence ou the part of the Government. Mr
Wells has written to the President, how
ever, accusing Sheridan of malice, and
another letter to the General containing
a couuter charge
—Whito men having refused to aocept
reappointment to the City Government of
Mobile from Geo. Pope, Gen. Swayne
has directed the vacancies to be fided
With <J(slor£ti men. This is right, but it
shows that loyal men should have been
chosen at fiist.
—Two colored men have been appoint
ed to offices by the City Council of
Washington.
—A convention of the Republican
party of North Carolina is oalled for
fepWmbw 4tlf.
she guucrirau CitUm.
f®- The LargeU Circulation oj
any Paper in the County.
rANDERSON, - - - Editor.
BUTLER PA.
WEDNESDAY, IVXE 10,1807.
"Liberty and Union, Now and F®ro»or, Ono
and ( fisaparabla."— D. Wabator.
Union Republican County Ticket.
ASSEMBLY:
JAMES T. M'JUNKIN,
JOHN EDWARDS, [LAWRENC* CO.]
[Subject to District Nomination.]
TREASURER:
HUGH MORRISON.
COMMISSIONER :
CHARLES HOFFMAN.
JURY COMMISSIONER :
CHARLES M'CLUNG.
AUDITOR :
J. CALVIN GLENN.
Complimentary.
Our coteuipurary, the editor of the
sublime and inimitable sheet, miscalled
the " Union Herald," in noticing the
Republican nominations of this county,
makes use of the following beautiful and
complimentary language: "Greeley's
blockheads held their primary election
ou Saturday last, (June Ist.,) and the
Convention met on Monday." If the
man who penned this language was not
known to possess a very great amount of
blockheadism, and to be about as igno
rant as the least educated of the Repub'
lican party, it might be necessary to
notice "him. We do not believe in whole
sale denunciations and base vituperation,
but we think it ill becomes a man who is
connected with as much ignorance, big->t
ry, and superstition, politically, as the
editor of the Herald, to call a large,
respectab'e and enlightened portion of
the citizens of Rutler county, "Greeley's
blockheads." " Men who live in glass
houses should not throw stones." Men,
who all their lives have advocated sla
very, whiskey an I ignorance, should be
the last to call their peers and superiors,
" blockheads." The language, to say the
least, is indicative of a narrow, vindictive
and contracted mind, nod could only
euienate from ignoiance or wilful hatred,
as no gentleman, or man of good common
sense, would be guilty of applying such
low phrases to those who ate his equals,
and in many cases his superiors. When
the editor of the Ilerald speaks again,
we would advise him to remember his
political status.
Bull ltoad.
Our people appear to be much concern
ed with regard to a Railroad which shall
pass through our county. We art often
asked, "What about the Railroad ?" and
we are as often compelled to answer that
we have no reliable information to the
effect that there is the least probability
that we are to have a road under any
present arrangements. So far as we are
informed, we are about as far from get
ting a Railroad as we have been at any
previous period. We have had so many
promises,and have as often been deceived,
that we have no confidence in anything
that is said by the corporations having
control of thi« matter, and we have set
tled down to the conclusion that, if re
are depending on the power that has cons
trolled the Legislature of Pennsylvania
for so long, to build a road through Rut
ler county, we ate sold for less than Esau
got for his birthright. Provisos, which
wo were 'old were binding upon the Pa.
Central Railroad Company, and would
compel them to build us a road have,
thus far, not been worth to us the paper
uprn which they were printed. It has
been all promise and no pay. If those
who pretend to know and are in the se
crets of the monopoly of Pennsylvania
have anything to say, that will enlighten
the people on this subject, they will now
be hetrd.
Military Power in tlie South.
Ihe military power in the South not
only corrects the abuses of civil authori
ty in the unsettled State*, but provides
for the general security by strengthening
civil authority. Oa the one hand, Gen.
Griffin has removed the police of Galves.
ton, Texas, lor injustice to the negroes,
and io Georgia, on the other, an order
has wisely been issued by Col. Sibley for
the filling of all vacanoies in civil offioesi
whether they be local or State.
IT i* established that General Grant
backs tip Sheridan in removing Weill
and those who hindered the restoration
of the State on the basis of loyalty. This
proof of General Grant's devot onto ideas
and aims involved in the struggle in
which he won so much renown, was not
needed to satisfy dispassionate observers
of his course, and as an interpretation of
the ground wherever be btands, it will
s il«D«« all ami.
Erie and PlMabnrgh Railroad.
The extension of the Krie and Pitta
burgh Railroad by the Connoquenessiog
sad Pine Creeks, it is said will soon be
oonmenned. The Youngstown (Ohio)
Courier, in referring to this improvement,
remarks that " this road runs through
valuable coal fields, and a large tract of
the territory adjacent is owned by some
of the Youngstown coal operators. It
will also affect, in a measure, the looal
traffic io coal and minerals. From a let
ter before us. containing the reporta of
parties interested in the coal deposit**
along the line of the route proposed above
we glean the following particulars:—
Speaking of the drilling on Pine creek,
in Allegheny county, the report says that
three miles above Sharpshurg, on the
Shaw farm, the upper vfein of coal now
worked by the rolliug mill company of
Messrs. Spang, flerron & Co., is five to
fi-e and a half feet thick. The second
vein, which it sixty feet below the first,
is seven feet thick, and the third vein,
two hundred an I sixtocn feet from the
surface, is twenty-four feet thick. Far
ther up the stream, on the lligby fann.
are reported a vein of upper coal, and
also a vein of Black Scotch Iron ore, 40
fee* thick, which will yield an average
of 70 per cent. iron. About a mile above
this is an exposed vein of rich-Kidney
iron ore, six feet thick, yield about 40
per cent. On the Witezell farm, at the
mouth of Mountain Run, the drill dis
covered at seventy feet below the surface,
a seveu feet vein of coal, and at the depth
of 200 feet, a twelve feet vein.
The Next Prcnitleiiey.
Tfie New York Timet discusses this
question at length, starting out with the
declaration that "the rising tide" is un
mistakably for Grant. It thinks the po
sition of the General makes him stronger
than any other man, both as to principles
and expediency ; that his wish not to bo
considered a candidate is in his favor and
an element of strength, and that in what*
ever light the question of candidacy is
viewed he stauds foremost. The Times
concludes its article as follows:
"We look forward to the nomination
of General Grant by the National Con*
vention of the Union party. That the
most strenuous efforts will be made to
defeat it is sufficiently evident from
movements already made public The
entire machiuery of the Republican party
in the Southern States is in the hands of
bis opponents, and the representatives of
that party in the Convention, elected, as
of oour.-e they will be, wholly by negro
V' tes, will probably be cast against him.
Rut the great body of the Union party
in the North aud West will, unless we
are greatly mistaken, become so satisfied
that the existence of the party, as well
as the welfare of the country, depend
upon his becoming a candidate, that we
have very little doubt of that result."
Democratic Slate Convention.
On Tuesday of last week, the so called
Democracy of Pennsylvania met in Con»
vention at Ilarrisburg, to place in nomi
nation a candidate for the office of Judge
of the Supreme Court, to be supported
by that party at the ensuing fall election.
C. E. Royle, Est]., of Fayette county,
and late a member of the Legislature,
■"■ as the permanent Chairman of the Con.
ven'ion. On the ,'econd ballot Hon. Geo.
Sharpwood, of Philadelphia, was chosen.
A better selection could not have been
made from their ranks. At this writing
we have not seeu their resolutions; how
ever, they profess to have the good and
glory of our country at heart. The peo
pie will expect them to repudiate une
quivocally the infamous Chicago platform
denouncing the war as a failure, and the
plitforiu of their State Convention—
solemnly adopted last year—declaring
the history of our great war to be but
" debt, slaughter, and disgrace." They
ought to take back these offensive insul s
and apologise to the soldiers and the peo*
pie for their treasonable acts.
Closing I'p,
It has generally been the custom of
merchants and business men to close up
their stores and places of business on the
4th of Jiy.
We know of no reason why every
American citizen and individual who is
permitted to enjoy the rich blessings of
civil liberty which was purchased by our
Revolutionary aires, should not refrain
from their usual occupations on our Na
tional Sabbath. Will we not all agree in
this matter, and rest from our laoors upon
that day t No person should be so nar
row contracted in his views as not to be
willing to " close up" shop for one day
in each year, in remembrance of the
great deliverance wrought out for us
through the blessings of God, by our
glorious ancestors. We wish to have it to
say of the citizens of Butler, that we have
a patriotic, libertydoving people; that
the spirit of '76 still courses in their
veins; and that they honor the memory
of the patriotic dead—and that they adore
that Divine Providence who gave us the
victory, the fruits of which we are now
enjoying.
—The Legislature of Texas, in 1866,
having no better way to remove loyal
Judges, and wishing to protect the guer
rillas of the State, abolished the Judi*
cial Districts in which Union men were
elected Judges. Gen. Sheridan has de
clared that act null and void, and directs
the Judges elected to perform their du
i
t&T The Attorney General has pub
lished his opinion relative to the power
of Military commanders to depose civil
officers under the Reconstruction act.—
He decides adversely to such power. It
is thought the President will immediately
reinstate all the officers deposed by Bher
idan and Pope. The Washington Chron•
icle, in a two.column article, imperatives
ly coinma-jds a quorum of members of
Congress in July, to legislate on this sub
ject. Tbad. Stevens has also written a
letter urging members to be punctual in
their attendence. The intimation that
the President would call Congress in Au
gust is regarded as a ruse to prevent the
assembling of a quorum in July.
A jury has been obtained in the Sur.
ratt case. Chief Justice Cartter pres des
on the trial. The examination of wit
nesses was to have commenced on Mon
day.
Latest advices from Mexico say Max
imilian is to be banished.
Crop* In the Went.
A writer in the Chicago Journal com
pares the present with former backward
seasons, and comes to an encouraging
c inclusion as to the growing crops. For
twelfe years he has kept a record, and
from it he perceives that the present is
by no means the most backward. 0.1 the
contrary seasons more backward than this
produced good crops. Referring to lowa
in particular, he says : " The prospect
for wheat was never better iu lowa at
this time of the year than it is at the
present. A great deal of corn has been
planted, and much of it is now coming
up, aud while admitting that the season
is backward, I can but believe (judgiui;
the future by the past) lhat there is ye'
time for an abundant harvest of corn,
wheat an! oats, in 1867.""
The Crops.
Nine-tenths of all the reports icceived
at th e Agricultural Department tluriup
the past month agree as to favorable
prospects for the coming harvost. Never,
according to the Commissioner's summing
up, has there been so general an expres
sion of encouragement.
Information received at the General
Land Office from the rt est states that
the entire country shows signs of plen
teous harvest. The crops of wheat, rye
oats, barley, grasses, and fruits of alt
kinds are said to be in a eondition never
exceeded in this country. The corn is
not high, but good, and gives every prorn
of a great harvest.
TIIE President, it is reported, threatens
to convene Congress in August, if it does
not come together in July, giving as a
reason the trouble growing out of the
reconstruction laws. One would suppose
that the President would prefer almost
anything before a meeting of Congress;
and we question very much if the report
truly reflects the Presidential purpose.
If the South has any influence with Mr.
Johnson, it had better use it to keep
quiet—enforce the law—and hive Con
gress as far away from Washington as
posssible.
NEXT to the perfect silence of the
Democratic State Convention on the Free
Railroad question, is its silence concern
ing Audrew Johnson. For him they
have not a word ; like a squeezed lemon,
he is cast aside. One year ago the case
was wholly different. Then hundreds of
offices fascinated hundreds of Democrats.
Having either lost or won the spoils, they
have no further occasion to speak well if
hi.n.
GOVERNOR WELLS having declined
to comply with General Sheridan's re l
quest to vacate his office, was informed
by the latter that he would, if necessary,
be expelled by fore.!," whereupon the
Governor, to use his own eioqu»nt and
expressive language, " sunendered to the
sword"—this being a figurative aud gub
ernatorial way of saying that hesurrend,
cred in order to save Rrigadier General
Forsyth the necessity of taking him by
the collar of au ordinary black broadcloth
coat, aud draggiug hiui out of the Gov
ernor's room. General Sheridan has
written a letter to Secretary Stanton,
justifying his action and giving un account
of Mr. Well's rfficial career wh oh is
anything but flattering. As we h-ive
said before, we think the country will
heartily approve of Gen ral Sliendau's
course, and will readily believe his ac
count of any Lousiana politic an. The
only question was whether the Govern'
uient at Washington would feel justified
in sustaining what at first appeared 'o
be tbe removal of an officer simply for
having appealed from the military com'
mander's decision but General 3heri'
dan now explains that Mr. Wells's depo.
sition has been due to his general char
acter and that of his administration.
We believe it is the testimony of every
honest man who has set foot in New Or
leans—since General Rutler left it, at
least—that a mor; corrupt, self-seeking
set than many of the leading Unionist
politicians of that city there does not
exist, and worse record of knavery than
a strict investigation of the First National
Bank would reveal, it would be hard to
find, as it wri through this establishment
that they carried on their operations.
That an honest soldier like Sheridan
should have at least got his haud on
them, as well as on their rebel neighbors,
and should as thoroughly understand
their character, will give hearty satisfac
tion to everybody who believef-, as we do,
that no political opinions, however
" sound," can make knaves and charla
tans anything bat a curse to the oominu.
nity —The StHtm. i
(Eammuukatiotts.
For the CitiMa.
Psalmody.
Ms. EDITOR: —After the late discus
sion of this question, we naturally ask,
has any good been dine ? If the prej»
udice heretofore existing between Psalm
and Hymn singers has been decreased,
then, good has been done; but if it has
been increased, then harm has been done.
There is no difference between Psalms
and Hymns, except that the l.itter are
often smoo'her verse and better english*
The ideas expressed and intended to be
expressed are generally the sams, and
God will hear both according to the sin.
cere and good intention of'he worthiper.
If the desire and design be to praise God
for his goodness, justice and mercy, the
matter of the appropriateness of the lan
guage may well be left to each indivi<hi>
aland all controversy falls to the ground.
Let each msn, if be wishes, compose a
psalm or hymn to suit his own particular
circumstances, and a tune of his own
fancy, if the desire and design are good,
all is well. The heart is not the fruit of
the composition, but the composition is
the fruit of the heart.
As to inspired Psalms or Hymns, we
hive none in the English language, from
the simple fact, no Eugl.shnian was ever
inspired. If the Psalms of David alone
should be sung because of inspiration,
then the Jews are the most consistent
worshipers. They use the Psalms of
David to the present day in their Syna.
pogues. but they always use the original
Hebrew language. The identical words
of inspiration: But—That God created
all things ; That man fell; Tha' Christ
made an atonement f"r sin; That he that
be ieveth sh ill be saved ; That the wick
el shall peri-h ; That there will be a day
of Resurrection and of Judgment. These
arc truths of inspiration and may be ex
pressed in a hundred different languages
and in a hundred different I orms in each
language. The inspiration is in the truth,
not in the particular words used. If
we love God wtth all our heart, body,
mind and strength, and our neighbor as
ourselves, then our songs will be songs ol
love, and God will be our refuge.
Let us not quarrel about small things
and neglect the weightier matteis of the
law. OBSERVER.
For tbft American Cltiten.
Mr. EDITOR: My object in penning
these few lines is, to impress upon the
minds and hearts of the youthful readers
of the Citizex, words of great worth, that
fell from the lips of a beloved but now
glorified sister in Christ. Those to whom
were addressed sustaing to her, the
cndearibgrelation of children, will doubt
less accord to them a space on memory's
page, to the last hour of their earthly ex
istence. But language fraught with such
excellent advice we woul 1 wish to im
press on the minds of every youth who
shall peruse the Citizen. They come to
us from one of uiaturo years, with the
shadows of death gathering around her,
and with the yearn ing of a mother's heart
that her farewell words might be as a
beacon li<;ht to conduct them to the bliss
ful port she is so soon to enter. The
words which I would wish all the youth
ful readers of the Citizen to heed are as
follows : " My children, don't be out at
night!" What innumerable snares w mid
the feet of unwary youth escape would
they but heed the advice, " don't be out
at uight." To amplify in regard to the
various temptations that beset the youth
who spend their evenings from home,
would require more space in the Citizen
than we feel at liberty to occupy. Pa
rents, portray them to your children, and
a Imonish them to shun the appearance
of evil. Study the ta-:es of y-iurchil
dren, and provide hem »iti home en
jo.mentg,suited to their tastes, to be.uile
the evening housand ihus prevent their
wandering from the parental roof in
search of happiness. S. A B
THE late Democratic Convention was !
fully in harmony with the party, which j
his but one mission and one aim, and j
that is to get. into power. If there is any I
force in ihe common business maxim I
about fixing the mind aud directing tl e
efforts upon one ihin;/, we think the I 'em- j
ncratic party has reasou to be hopeful,
for it apparently has thought of nothing
else than the regaining of power in the
country even since its own treachery to
the interests of the country forfaited and
lo"t the power. With a single eye to its
chief end —the seizure of the '• sceptre
of dominion " as it was expressed in the
opening of the Convention—the plans
of the party were developed and exhib
ited in the platform. They do not em
brace anything relative to the general
Railroad Law, the great popular meas
ure of the State. Whether this omis
sion results from their opposition tot' e
law, as some maintain, or to an absolute
forgetl'ulness of the interests of the State,
through complete absorption in those of
the party, it betrays a want of public
spirit and of concern for the general pros
perity. that cannot be trusted by the oeo>
pie with the management of their affairs.
THE latent peculiarity developed in the
Tribune , is its frequent thieats at Secre
tary Stanton, of whom it speaks as "sub
servient" to the President. The Tribune
is cons : stent. It could not speak other
wise of Mr. Stanton after the part Mr.
Greeley took in setting Davis free. Could
Mr. Stanton have had his way, the or
ganiser and head of the rebellion wou'd
have had justice done him long ago. Mr.
Stanton's efforts in this behalf reader
bin s fit nark for the Ttibm»'» shafts
Indian Affhlra.
The true ooadition of iffiin is the In
dian country is d : solosed in the following
dispatches from Governor Hunt and Mr.
M'Clura to the Secretary of War, and
the instructions is.«ued by the Express
C< mpany to its agents. We clip thea
fn m the Kocky Mountain Newt of May
28th.
OOV. HUNT TO SECRETART STANTON.
DENVER, May 27, 1867.
To E. M. Stanton, Vtiukington,D. C.
SIR :—Depredations from Indiana, ea
onr eastern and western borders, are of
daily occurrence. The present military,
being mostly infantry, are entirely'inad
equate for the protection of aettlere ami
the great thoroughfares 1 would moat
respectfully ask (as in Montana,) aathor
ity to organize mounted volunteers for a
campaign against the savages. Three
hundred friendly Utes will join the ex
pedition, with your permission.
Respectfully,
A. C. MONT, Got.
HON. A. K. M'CLURE TO Till SAME.
DENVER, May 27, 1867.
To E. M. Stanton, Wcuhington, D. C.
SIR : —I beg your prompt attention te
Governor Hunt's dispatch. I have been
detained here two weeks, bcoause Indians
nid the western route at pleasure, and
l here is no pretense of adequate military
protection. Please give prompt and de
cisive orders. l'Assengers, mails aad
emigrants are wholly at the mercy of In.
dians. A. K. M'CLURI.
Mr. W. 11. Cottrell, superintendent ef
the United States Express Company, Den«
ver Division, has issued a oircular of i«-
struciions to agents and employees on the
plains, urging upon them the utmoel vig
ilance and promptness. One paragraph
contains wholesome advise :
''You will hold no oominunicatloa with
the Indians whatever; and if they wiah
to ttlk, they must goto the regular post*.
If Indians come within sh toting distance,
shoot them ; show them no merey, or
they will show you none."
THE NEW YORK Herald , under the
head of " Increase of Intemperance,"
says :
" Extremes in legislation are bad.—
They increase the evils whijh they ate
intended to suppress When forgery
aud arson were punished with death,
ttu»e crimes were of more frequent occur*
re nee than they are at present. Offend
ers counted upon the scruples of jurors
for immunity. Sumptuary laws have
just the same tendency Whenever as
unnecessary interference with the tastes
or enjoyments is attempted, it is sure te
provoke excesses in the very habits which
it is desired to correct. This has been
the effect of the present Excise law.—
There never was so much drunkenness
observable a* since it came into operation.
I'eople will always resist what they con*
sidur an injustice. The liquor law is
unjust,because it restricts the enjoyments
of the poor, while it favors those of the
rich ; and the poor man will drink all
the more from the desire to oppose it.
The authors of this measure have a great
responsibility to answer for. They have
made more drunkards by it than the
liberty of free indulgence would ever
have created."
We do not copy the above because
we suppose any one fancies it worth
refutation, but because we wish to fix
attention on the fact that rum selling
revolts at any restriction or regulation
whatever. Wherever it is menaced with
prohibition, it pleads for re uletion in
stead ; but it conforms no more to regu
lation than to prohibition. It will either
control the laws or defy them, save as it
yields to the strong arm of compulsion.
If we had a prohibitory act ia operation
today, it would not be denounced and
detested one whit more by the ribald
firess than the present moderate lioense
aw is. Let these facts be carefully
treasured.—iV. Y. Tribune.
From Richmond—Tbe Repab*
11 can Party Harmonized.
RICHMOND, June 12.— The two com*
mittees appointed by the two wings of
the Republican party at the conferenee
last night, met Seuator Wilson and lhrva<
other delegates from Union League-
I .tubs of New York, Philadelphia, and.
Boston, at the Ballurd House, where all
existing divisions of sentiments were ad«
justed. Hun. J. M. Ujtw accepted on
behalf of the Iriends of the Charlottsville
convention, a proposition for a j >int con
vention of the two wings, as follows :
To the Unconditional Union Men »112
Virginia ;—The Republican Stite Con.
mittee, and the undersigned, citizens of
the State of Virginia, who here avow our*
selves un onditional Union men and
members of the great Republican party
of the United States, call on all others of
like condition as common sufferers not to
throw away this golden opportunity to
rescue ourselves, our ohildren and onr
."'late from the hands of those who have
brought nothing but Wir, desolation,
want and wretchedness upon our land, to
meet in council at Richmond as more
convenient thun Charlottesville, on Au
gust Ist. next, at noon, at the African
church, for the purpose of extending and
peifecting the organization of the Re
publican party, commenced by the con
vention assembled at Richmond on the
17ih of April last.
The call is signed by the State Com
mittee, Gov. Pi rpoiut, Hon. J. M. Botts,
Lewi* McKenzie,of Alexandria, and 300
others.
IT would seem from the following that
Ruseian America, lately ceded to the
United States, is not such a barbarous
region as some would have us belive. In
1858 there were nine Othodox Greek
churches in that region. These churches
numbered twelve thousand pirishioners.
Five of the ordained ministry were nativea
of this country, of the mixed foreign and
Indian decent. Religioua bcoks hid
been translated into native tongues.
Several schools were oicnected with the
churches. The "Spiritual Seminary" had
been lately removed from New Archangel
to the Yakootsk. Not one crime had
been reportod in their parishes for forty
years ! This is the information which
comes from Burning statistical return".