VOLUME 4. The Lesson of Tennessee. The Republican triumph in Tennessee ends all discussion in regard to the col ored vote of the South. Nor promises nor threats could win the freednien to the support of the party which had opposed their liberation, and given all its sympa thy to the Rebellion. Yet Tennessee is the only State in which general concess it ns have been made to the colored men by the Democracy, they were invited to send delegates to Democratic Conven tions, and at a time when timid ltepubli« cans in the Legislature were afraid to al low black men to sit on juries, there were l)emocrats shrewd enough to offer them a share of the offices in the gift of the people. On the other hand, the planters of Western Tennessee used stronger means to secure the colored vote for Kth eridge ; dismissal lrom employment was the penalty ot a vote for Brownlow, and so universal were these threats that Gen. Thomas was compelled to interfere for the protection of the colored men. But terrorism could not drive, flattery could not betray ; the frtfpdmen ot Tennessee knew that the Republican party was the only partv they dared trust, and cast their votes solidly for the Republican candi dates. This unanimity is prophetic. If the blacks are Radical in Tennessee, there can be no few that they will be Conserva tive in Louisiana or South Carolina. The result of this election, therefore, means the triumph of the Republican party in •the.South. Nothing can pre vent it but the faithlessness or indiffer ence of Republicans in the North ; it is yet in our power to make or mar success. The full and perfect confidence of the colored voters of the Rebel States is giv en to us, and to keep it we have only to deserve it. But if the Republican party in New York, New Jersey, ami Pennsyl vania denies the right of suffrage to the colored citizens of those States, the faith of the South in its sincerity must be in evitably lost. Two opposiug principles cannot co exist; there cannot be one rule of justice for the South, and one for the North, but that policy which in the name of freedom we impose upon others we must ourselves accept. Conviction of hvpocrisy, before the bar of the nation, is'the alternative, and nothing could do more to check Republican enthusiasm in Alabama or North Carolina than the an nouncement that New York had refused the ballot to her own citizens. If we want to build up a Black man's party thai is the surest and speediest way, nor could wc have the effrontery to complain of a political organization based on dis. tinctions of color, which we ourselves recognized and proclaimed. Yet we have no fear now that justice will be long de nied to the colored men of the North ;' let them vote as they may, it i< not with their politics that we are concerned, but with their rights. Kven were t certain that every col red vote in New York would be cast for the i-cmocratis ticket, ! our voice would be for impartial suffrage. And upon lower grounds, surely, the de votion of the freedmeu ot Tennessee lo the Republican cause should be ao argu ment with those politicians who never fully accept principle till time has proved that it is also expediency. Tennessee has taught that lesson. This is the first State election at which the blacks have taken full part, and though the canvass was fierce and personal, and overy provocation to riot was given, or der was maintained throughout the State. The precautions taken by the civil au thorities, and by General Thomas,"it is true, were excellent, yet they were notor icusiy insufficient had theie been any truth in the Democrat c dogma that the equal rights of black and white cacessi tate a war of races. The free linen were not only orderly, but it is plain that thoy preserved en spoken of to his disadvantage; but it is doubtful whether his heel projects more than an Englishman's, and that it is not an indentation of the part above the heel, which sometimes gives the ap pearance of unnatural projection to the latter. Many foolish things are said by opponents of the negro, who frequently quote as a fact what has often been re futed, that the brain of a negro is cov* ercd with a black membranous envelope. It is not so, and if it were, is that the reason for condemning him to slavery ? The friends of the negro likewise say foolish things, and argue that England would be all the better for an infusion of negro blood. lie did not believe so One thing is certain, the negro is im provable, because he can now till the ground, smelt iron and work gold, which he did not do originally. How far ha is improvable is a question yet to be s >lved. It must be remembered, however, that certainly for tive or six thousand years, perhaps more, as proved by Egyptian monuments, the negro has lived in Afri ca much as at present, without in any degree civilizing himself. No nation can elevate itself by condemning another to slavery ; and no nation can do its duty to inferior races, or itself attain the high est point of ci-vilizition. without trying to raise less favored nations to the high est point they are capable of reaching, be it high or be it low. This concluding remark was received with much appluuso. N. Y. Convention. In the Convent ion yesterday (Friday, August iiA.) fifteen memorials against the appropriation of ui mcy tor sectarian in stitutions were presented. The Commit tee upou the Powers aud Duties of the Governor aud Lieutenant-Governor re ported in favor of having tin Legislature determine the amount of the Governor's salary ; also recommending that no bill shall be sigucd after the adjournment of the legislature The Joint Committee upon Ranking and Currency and Insur ance reporti d provisions for the forma tion and control of corporations. Section 4 provides that the Legislature shall have no p iwor to piss any law direetly or in directly authorising the suspension of specie payments oy any person or corpo l ration, and section 6 makes stockholders individually liable to the amount ot their stock for the debts of the corporation.— A resolution was adopted looking t > a prohibition of all gift cnterprizes or lot teries. Mr. Stratton's resoluiioti of in quiry as to the amount of police attend ance upon Criminal Courts iu this city was called up and adopted. A resolu tion that it is the duty ot the I'uitid Slates to pay the outlay or the debts of the loyal Slates in support of the war was otdered sent to each Senator and Representative in Oongress. A resolu tion for final adjournment upon the 10th of September was adopted.— New York Tribune. Tn>: PIUNTEII'S ESTATE.— The prin ter's dollars— Where are they ? A dollar here, and a dollar there, seatterod over numerous small towns all over the coun try, miles and miles apart —how shall they bo gathered together? The paper maker, the building owner, the journey man compositor, the grocer, the tailor, and ail his assistants to him in carrying on his buisiness have their demands, hardly ever s> small as a single dollor. But the mites from here and there must be diliigently gathered and patiently hoarded, or the wherewith to discharge the liabilities will never become suffl cicntly bulky. We imagine the printer will have to get up an address to these widely scattered dollars something like the following : ''Dollars, halves, quarters, dimes, and all inauaer of fractions into which ye are divided, eollect yourselves, and come home ? Ye are wanted ! Combination of all sorts of men that help the priuter to become a proprietor, gather such force and deuiaud with such good reasons your appearance at his counter, that nothing short of a sight of you will appease them. Collect yourselves for valuable as you arc in the aggregate, single you will never pay the cost of gathering. Coice in here, in single file, that the printer may form you into battalion, and send you forth again, to battle for him aud vindicate his credit. Reader, are you sure yoil haven't a couple of the printer's dollars stickiug about your " old clothes ?" —Science,in the hands of infidelity, becomes uiere materialism; pootry in the power of infidelity, degenerates into sensualism, and nations, without Christianity, become and mis erable, and blind, and wretched in deed. "Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it"— A. LINCOLN. BI TLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PENN'A, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1867. Chained to a Corpse. The speech of Mr. Gross, editor of the Democratic German paper, the Staals Z'ilung, delivered in the Convention at Albany was not fulv an admirable state ment of the propriety of manhood suff rage, but it was an illustration of skill ful party tactics. It took exactly the position which the Democratic party as a sagacious organization should have ukcu at the end of the war. The logic is sim pie. Slavery, upon which, as a special issue, parties rested, being gone, the true policy Was to abandon all the old preju- ! dices ond measures founded upon it, and to accept the situation. With the fall of slavery, and in the situation of the country, it was evident that the colored i man would be politically au equal citizen. I Slavery being gone there was uo re&son for insisting upon keeping him disfran chised; and could the managers of the Democratic party have been sagacious enough to perceive it,there was a chance ot restoring the old party under a new name. As it is, the Democratic party is an or ganization of opposition upon a principle which wholly reverses the eourse of re construction, repudiates the theory of the war, and leaves every great national question uusettled. The Democratic policy is to treat the States exactly as if nothing had happened but a riot ; it has been suppressed, and that is the end of it. Nothiug more puerile can be coa ceived than such a view of the sitilatfon. It is a statesmanship which omits all the facts. It is a folly which finds no signi ficance in the terrible 'vords spoken to a king: "Sire, it is a revolution." And until the mind of the country is utterly confused no such party can hope for res toration to power, except by some chance of an alliance with a vote at the South unfriendly to the Government and the Uuion. So long a3 this is the course of the Democratic party ; so long as its organs sneer at loyalty and applaud treason by innuendo; so long as men who honestly gave time, money, personal service, and uneompi omisiug devotion to the eouni try uuring the war perceive iu those pa pers, with distaste and disgust, the sym pathy with the utteily un-American spirit which has so long rulod the so ciety of the South, just so long they will suspect and spurn the Democratic party. Everywhere, as in the New Yolk Convention, it appeals and panders to a hostility of race which can lead to nothing but evil when the subjects of it are tqual citizens. Even Democrats of character aud position servo an imagi nary public which demands the sacrifice of liberty or justice ; or knowing their constituents, tliey stultify themselves by yielding to an ignoblo prejudice. Could they onec cast this kind of subserviency aside wo could hope for a sudden restj ration of universal prosperity. As it is, however, the better men are in fear of the worst. The demagogues, who have no object but personal advan tage at all hazards, would instantly ex po-o to the indignation of ignorance a man who took high ground and sought to plant the party upon it. Aud from this springs one of the chief perils ol our politics. For when the intelligent aud catholic c mscientiously defer to the dictation of the ignorant and passionate tht. Government becomes essentlly base iu itself and humiliating to every hon orable citizen. Nothing is certain than the intimate relation between morals and politics. As the sense of a moral law dies out of the mind of legislators ti e state approaches anarchy Yet, if legis lation is to bo diciated by the worst pait of the population and by the worst feel ings, how long can we hope that morali ty will linger iu politics ? Now, there is this essential difference between the two great parties iu this country, the one has the inspiration of the moral sentiment and the other has not. Wo do not nieau that all llopub licans are good men, or all Democrats bad men ; but we do mean, as wo have said before, that the tendency of the Republican party is to lift its worst members up to its best principles, while that of the Democratic party is to drag its best men down to a wretched policy. This is unavoidable, but it is uudenia ble. Thus the Democratic policy for a generation may have been interpreted by its wisest and sinecrest men as mere ly State rights, while the Democratic rallying cry has been,, " Down with the nigger!" On the other hand, the re proach incessantly urged against the Re publican party by the most acrimonious Democratic journals is that it was really led by the extreme radicals. But sure ly, even if this should lead to the cry of " Up with the nigger !" which is the more inviting of the two cries to an in telligent and generous man ? Is society, iu this country, likely to be morej bene fitted by a feeling and a policy that de grade or that elevate any class in the community ? So long as the Democratic party chng to the old issues they are chained to a corpse. and thev have no secret charm to make the dry bones live.— New Ynrfe Weekly. m —A young man, agent fir a PhiladeK pliia buisiness house, stopped at Latroba last Saturday, and hired a horse and buggy to visit Greensburg. On reaching the lat ter place the young man become intoxicated, and on becoming sober found himself ,in Pittsburgh. In the meantime a warrant was issued for his arrest for larceny. lie returned to (ireensburg and was arrested, j but could not tell where ho had "lost" the horse and buggy. The missing property was fianlly found at a tavern in Greensburg, where [he young man had left it, and on paying all expenses he was discharged' EVENING BRINGS US HOME. Upon the hills the wind in sharp and crtld. Tiie sweet young grasses wither on the wold, And we, O I«ord have wandered from Thy f<*la; But evening brings us home. Amoagflt the mist we stumble, and the rocks Where the brown lichen whitens, and the fox Watches the «traggler from the scatter* d flocks ; But evening brings us home. The shsrp thorni prick us. and our tender feet Are cut and bleediny. and the iambs repeat Their pitiful complaints—O. rest is When erc-ning brings us home. We hare been wounded by the hunter's darts, Our eyes are very heavy, and our hearts Search fertile coming when the light departs, At evening bring us hoins. The darkn»-«s gtther*. Through the cloom no star KisM to guide us. We have waud -red far. Without Thy lamp we know not where wo are— At evening bring u« home The clonds are round us, and the snow-drifts thicken, O Thou, dear Shepherd, leave ns not to sicken In tho waste night—our tardy tojtsteps quicken, At-evening bring us home. WIT AITD WISDOM. SIGNAL FOR A BARK —Pulling a dog's tail. gSjfWe see in a recent statement, that the Census embraee* seven millions of wo men. Who wouldn't he Census! IfS~Prejudices are like rat*, and, man's mind like a trap; they get in easily, und then perhaps cfcu't git out at all -0&-" If w came such a greasy me*s in the oven ?'' said a fidgety old spinster to | Iter maid of*all w<>rk. " Why,*' replied the girl, 4< the canities fell into the water, and I put tbem in the oven to dry.*' gentlemen once asked, 14 What is woman?" when a married man replied: 44 She is an essay on grace, in oae volume elegantly hound. Atlhough it may bedear every man should have a copy of it." fine head your boy has?'' said an admiring friend. " Ye", yes," said ihe fond father, 4 he's a chip ot the old block, 'aint you sonny?'' 41 I guess so dad dy, 'cause teacher said I was a young block head. " I say, Jones, how is it that your wife dresses s > magnificently, an i you aN ways appear out at the elbow ?" Junes, (im pressively an i signilicantly,) 44 You see, Thompson, my wife dresses according to the Gazette of Fas hi on, and I dress avcirding to my Jjedyer. fjQT* 'Sir," said an indignant husband to a restless friend, i4 you have abused my hos pitality, you have kicked me down stairs, and you have kissed my wife before my faee. Beware, sir! A few more such out rages, and by Jove/you'll rouse tho lbn." lie tim-8 are so hard I can scarce ly kur fam ilies. Act in such wise that your wives respect aud love you.—And what more shall I siy to you my children ? Peruse diligt ntly the word of (Jod ? that will guide you out of storm and dead calm, and bring you safe into port. And as tor the rest do pour best!" SILENT INFLUENCES. —It is the bub bling spring which flows gently, the little rivulet which runs along, day, and night, by the farm house, that is use ful, rather than the swollen flood or warring cataract. Niagara excites our wonder,and we stand amazed at the paw er aud greatness of God thereao he pours it from the •' hollow of his hand." But one Niagara is enough for the continent or the world, while the same world re quires thousands and teus of thousands of silver fountuius and gently flowing rivulets that water every farm, and mvadow, and eveiy garden, and that shall flow on every day and night with gentle, quiet beauty, So with the aeu of our lives. It is not by great deeds, !ik« those of the martyrs, that good is to be done, but by the daily and quiet virtues of life, the Christian temper the, good qualities of relatives and friends. THE SOI'L MADE VlSlllLE.—Every one knows that in every human face there is an impalpable, immaterial some thing, which we call "expression," which seems to be, as it were, " the soul made visible." Where minds live in the region of pure thoughts and happy emotions, the felicities and sanctities of the inner temple shine out through the mortal tenenieuj, and play over it like lambent flame. The incenso makes tho whole altar sweet; and we can under stand what the poet means when he says that— '• Heatfty b>rn of murmuring *-muJ Shall paM iiito her face." On tho other hand no man can lead a gormandizing sordid or licentious life, au 1 still wear a countenance hallowed and sanctified with a halo of pence aod joy.— Hiraa Mann. The Owner of the Soil. The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels that by the laws of tho 'un