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 <srdtr The vote was unusu<
ally large, the polls were crowded, the
passions of men were excited, and had
the negroes desired riot, Gen. Thomas
had no force in Tennessee that could
have prevented it. That the almost
unauimous vote they cast for the Repub
lican ticket is a proof of their fitness for
the ballot, may be called a partisan argu
ment; but wt can do without it. We
take the grand spectacle of a raco of
slaves, just from the whipping-post and
the market, despised, ignorant, poor, sud
denly clothed with freedom and intrusted
■with political power, who yet go side by
side with their masters and persecutors
to the polls, as peacefully as if for gen
erations they had been the children ol
the State, and not the beasts who bore
its burdens. Is not this appreciation of
the meaning of the ballot? There are
men in Teunessee today who never felt
that they were men till they cast their
votes for Brownlow last Thursday, and if
we dared believe that the Democrats of
this city had half the sense of their re
sponsibility as voters, and half the res
pect for the sacreduess of the ballot that
the negroes of Teunessee possess, we
should not despair of see : ng thieves ban*
ished from our Government, from the
City Councils, up or down, to the Courts
held in the interest of Rum.
Tenuessee, Audrew Johnson's own
State, has utterly repudiated his policy,
and declared that not upon his plan is
reconciliation possible. The new Leg.
islature will choose the successor of Sen.
• tor Patterson, and every one of the
eight Congressmen chosen is a Radical.
This victory is one for Amnesty, lor that
must be the certaiu result of the unity
of thy Republican party, North and
South—the acceptance by the Rebel
States of the natural results of the war.
So loUg as men like Monroe. and Perry,
and Hill, and Herschcl Y. Johnson re
fuse to acknowledge the defeat of the Re
bellion aud the abolition ot Slavery, mil
itay ralft and disfranchisement will con'.
tinHC" The Ropublicao success in Ten-
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
nessee is the first great step to the resto
ration of civil government; it solves the
problem of reconstruction. The great
experiment of impartial suffrage, of equal
rights, has been tritd' and has succeed
ed ; nothing remains biit to work out with
patience,l m(deration.justice and good
will, the same grand result from Yirgiuia
lo Texas.— N. Y Tribune.
Professor Huxley on the Negro.
In the course of a series of lectures
on " Ethnology," at the ltoyal Institute,
in London, Professor Huxley, on the Ist
instant, arrived at the subject of Africa
and the negro. In closing his remarks,
he said, that the negro is not the " miss
ing link" between men and monkeys; he
is further removed from anthropid apes
in many respects than the English are.
For instance he has woolv hair, and no
monkeys are so ornamented, except per
haps a few scarce fpecies in South Amer
ica. The spur heel of the negro has
b<>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 k<sep my head above wa'er," said a hus
liaud tlie other night to his wife, who was
importuning him fur a new dress. "No."
she replied with some asperity, "but you
can keen it above brandy and water easy
enough "
BSjyA clergyman, who was consoling a
young widow upon tho death of her hus
band, spoke in a very serious tone, remark
ing that "lie was line of the few. You
eann it find bis equal, you know." To
which the sobbing lair one replied, with an
almost broken heart, "I don't know, but
I'll try.
BSaiyA venerable lady of a celebrated
phy- cian, one day casting her eye out of
the window, observed her husband in the
luneral procession of one of his patients, al
which she exclaimed: "I do wish my hu»s
band would keep away from such processions
—it appears tin much like a tailor carrying
home his work.
A lady found occasion to call up n
a dentist to have her teeth tiilled. Among
those filled were two front ones and when
in a pleasant mood, tho lady's face shone
with smiles, whoso polished gold glittered
from the upper incisors. Those were obsrv
ed with adiuiraiiou by her little niece, who,
by and by seriously remarked:—Aunt Mary,
I wish I had copper toed teeth, like yours."
ftr<?" !'he proprietor of a cotton factory
put this notice on his gate: " No cigars or
good looking men admitted." In explana
nation ho said : " The one will set aflame
agoing among my cotton, and the other
among my girls. 1 won t admit such dan
gerous things into my establishment- The
ri-ks are tuo great.
THE VICTIM or FASHION. —(Jones has
been telling Robinson one of his splitting
stories). Kobins in—"Ya-as, its very fun
ny !" Jones—" Then why the deuce don't
von laugh?" Robinson—" Why, my dear
fellah. I would with pleasure, but 1 darn't
display my emotion—these trowters are so
tremendously tight."
ttrxf" ' John, lily son," said a doling fath
er. woo was ah mt taking his son into bu
siness, wbst shall bo the style of the new
fiiut 't " Well, Governor," said the one-and
twenty youth, looking into the heavens to
find an answer, " I don't Know—but sup
pose we have John 11. Sampling & Fath
er." The old governor was struck at the
originality of the idea, but could'nt adopt
it.
Slay A Blunt, wealthy farmer had six
daughters; a young man of equal frankness
come to him and asked him premission to
address one of them. The farmer replied,
" do you wish to marry in or out, sir, for I
have about as many now as my hearth will
hold." " I wish lo marry out, sir," was
the reply.—" Then take one," said he "but
mind you, no picking and choosing ; take
them us they came into the world."
young fellow, whose better half
had just presented him with a pair of
bouncing twins, attended church ono Sun
day. During the discourse the • clergyman
looked right out at our innocent friend, aud
said, in a tone of thrilling eloquence,
" Young man, you have ail important re
spon«ibility thrust upon you." The newly
Hedged dau, supposing the preacher allu
ded to his peculiar home eviot, considera
bly startled the nndienne by exclaiming,
" Yes. I have two of 'em."
A good story was recently told at a
temperance meeting in New Hampshire-
A stranger came uptja true Washingtonian,
wiib ti» inquiry;
"Can you tell me where I can getsomc
thing to drink?"
"Oh yes," said the other, "follow me-"
The man followed him through two or
three streets, t'lt be began to be discouraged.
'■ Is it much further?" said he.
"Ouly a few Sotps further, there is the
pump," replied the Washingtonian.
The man turned about and moved his
boots.
—lt is again rumored that Sir.
Frederick Bruce and Mr. Seward
have been trying to agree ujlan a
plan of cession of British American
Possessions adjacent to Walrussia in
settlement of the Alabama claim?.
Worth, Better than Show.
A young oriental prince was visiting
at the castle of a duke iu one of the fin
est counties in Englnud. He looked from
his window into the beautiful garden,
and inhaled the fragrance which w»s
wafted towards hiui by the gentle breath
of June.
"What exquisite perfume," he cried ;
"bring me, I pray you, the flower which
so delights my sense- See you you state
ly stalk, bearing on its shaft those gor
geous lilies, whose snowy petals are vein
ed with blood-red lines and with violet
shade; that is undoubtedly the plant I
seek.
They brought him the curious lily of
Africa.
"Its odor is nauseating," he said, "but
bring me that flower of a hue so much
deeper and richer than even the beauti
ful roses of my own fair land. See how
it glows like flame! surely a rich odor
should distil from that regal plant.
It was adahalia, and its scent was even
lets agreeable than that of the lily.
"Can it be, then, the largo white blos
soms clustered on yonder busb, or the
blue cups on the neighboring shrub?"
he asked.
No, the snowball and campanula prov
ed alike scentless. Various plants yiel
ded their odorless buds or broad-spread
iug petals for inspection, Hut he lound
not he sought.
"Surely it must be that golden ball,"
he said; "for so showy a bloom should
at least charm the nostril as well as the
eye."
"Faugh!" It was a marigold
At leugth they placed in his hand a
wee brown blossom.
"So unpretending a thing as this can
not surely be that for which I seek,"
exclaimed the prince, with a vexed air
—"this appears to be nothing better than
a weed."
lie cautiously lifted it to his face.
"Is it possible T" he cried. "Is it re
ally this unobtrusive brown weed which
gives forth so precious an odor 112 Why,
it hangs over the whole garden, and
con es fanning in at my window like the
very breath of health and purity. What
is the name of this little darling?"
"Precisely that, your highuass," an
swered his attendant—"this flower is
called 'migonette, the little darling.'"
"Wonderful! wonderful!" repeated
the astonished prince, placing it in his
bosom.
"Thus your highness perceives, re
marked his tutor,gravely, "that the hum
ble and unpretending often exhale the
most precious virtues."— Jjillle J'ili/rtm.
LESSONS OP WlSDOM. —Frederica
Bremer, the charming moralist, speaks
tenderly and truthfully to those occupy
ing the several family relations :
"Many a marriage has commenced
like the mushroon. Wherefore? Be
cause the married pair neglected to be
as agreeable to each other after their
union as they were before it. Saek al
ways to please each other, my children,
but in doing so keep heaven in mind.
Lavish not your love to-day, remember
ing that marriage has a morrow. Be
think ye my daughters, what a word
house-wife expresses. The married
woman is her husband's domestic trust.
On her he ought to bo able to place his
relianc in house and family ; to her he
should confide the key of his heart and
the lock of his store room. His honor
aud his homo are under her protection,
—his wellare in her hand. Ponder
this! —And you, my sons, be true men
of honor ; and <:oo 1 fathcis of y >ur 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<l
in which he lives—by the law of civil
ized nations—he is the rightful and ex
clusive owner of the land he tills, is by
the constitution of our nature under a
wholesome influence not easHy imbibed
by any other sonrce. He feels other
things being equal, more strongly than
anotber, the character of a man as lord
of an inanimate world. Of this great
and wonderful sphere, which, fashioned
by the hand of God, and upheld by his
power, is rolling through the heavens, a
part is his—his from tho center of the
sky. It is the space on which the gen
erations before moved in its round of da
ties, and he feels himself connected by a
link with thoso who follow him, to whom
he is to transmit a home. Perhaps a
farm has come down to him from his
fathers. They have gone to their long
home, but he can trace their footsteps
over the scenes of his daily labors. The
root which sheltered him was reared by
those to whom he owes his being. Some
interesting tradition is connected with
every enclosure. The favorite fruit tree
was planted by his father's hand. He
sported in boyhood beside the brook
which still winds through the meadow
Through the fields lies the path to the
village school iu earlier days. Ife still
heaM from the window the voice of the
Sabbath bell which called his father to
the house of God ; and neir at hand is
the spot where his parents laid down to
rest, and where when his time has come,
he shall be laid by his children. These
arc the feeling-) of the owner of the soil
Words cannot paint them ; they flow out
of tho deepest fountains of the hoart ;
they are the life spring of a fresh, healthy
and generous national character.— Ed- i
ward Eveteit.
THE MISSISSIPPI KIVKR. —The Mis
sissippi river is developing a new won
der,in view ofwhich it lias been sugges
ted that at almost any moment the stream
may disappear In a mysterious watery
abyss below. At Memphis unmistakable
signs exist of an under-ground channel,
and facts are related going to show that
constant and remarkable chauges are go
ing on. Many years ago a «aw mill was
at wirk in the swamps of Arkansas, 20
miles from tho Mississippi. The owuer
awoke one bright morning to fi ul his
well dry, in which the day before there
was three or four feet of water. He cut
a trench to a broad, long surfaej pond,
not far away, and was again suppl ed with
an abundance of water. This trench con
nected the pond and well. Threo days
elapsed and pond and well were both
empty. Tho old man of the mill was
amazed. The story was told a traveler
from Memphis. "It is plain enough,"
ho said, " tho river is lower than for years
past, and your well and pond have emp
tied themselves into the groat sewer of
tho Continent." Tho Mississippi not
only overflows, but " underflows" all
the broad valley through which it passes.
Its channel, however broad and deep,
could not contain all the rains that fall
and stieams that come down from the
Mountains, Territories and States of
America.i
PRUSSIANS AT HOME. —A vory
credible, -ind we dare say. correct
view, is given of the common people
of Berlin by a correspondent of the
Times. Moving in the clean streets
of the city, they appear well dressed,
orderly, sober and industrious. A
drunken man or a beggar is rarely ;
seen, nor any one whoso conduct is
offensive to a correct senso of pro
priety. This is reckoned the result,
in part, of the excellent system of
public school instruction, and still
more, of the military system in Prus
sia, which, although apparently op
pressive and attended with many dis
advantages, has the effect of estab
lishing the young men in vigorous
health, and in habits of cleanliness
and order, while it develops the sense
of honor and accustoms them to re
spect and obey law. Such results
are worthy of being regarJed some
offset to the inconvenience and loss
of spending, as every man is required
to do, sevecal years as a private sol
dier in the army. To the discipline of
the army, in connection with the
school education of an early age, are
to be attributed many of the manly
qualities which pertain to the Prus
sian character, and make the nation
the leading one in Germany.
BITTEN nv A SNAKF.. — A man by the
name, of Schrara, while binding wheat
in a field near BuchannaD, Mich , gath
ered up in a sheaf a rattlesnake, which
bit hiui on the finger. With temarka
blo coolness bo immediately took his
pocket-knife and out open the end of the
finger through the wound made by the
snake's tooth, quickly wound a horse
hair tight around tho finger to prevent
as much as possible the circulation of
tho tlood, and drank a glass of liquor.
Tho next day he was nearly well, hav
ing suffered very little inconvenience
except beiug vory sick for a short time
—By direction of the President a proc
lamation has been prepared, in accordance
with the resolution of the House, warning
filibusters that the penalties of the law will
be visited upon then), etc., but, unless
there shall be more evidence of move
ments in the direction of Mexico by the
filibusters, tho proolanntion will not bo
promulgated.
NUMBER 34
THE PUBLIC DEBT
WASHINGTON, August 6. The official
statement of the publio debt to the Ist
of August, sho&s the following i
Debt bearing coin interest ..11,678 906,961.80
Menrlng carroncy interest 674,964373,00
Matured debt not (presented for pay
Debt hearing no Intureat 3«9,164,864 00
112 ract looal currency. 28,664,729,72
Oold certificate I of deposit 19,457,W0,00
Total llel.t $2,886,686,896,30
AMOUNT IN TRKASUHY.
Pota
Currency 72 474,'.!96.3<
The amount of debt less cash in th 4
Treasury has decreased 8430.919,98.
The debt bearing coin interest has in
creased 870,262,750, while that bearing
currency interest has deofeased?3o,726,-
901. The matured debt, not presented
for payment, has increased 83,923,795,-
55. The debt bearing no interest has
detreased 81,814,258,74. The amount
in the Treasury in coin since June Ist
has increased 84,140,746,39, and the
amount in currency less than that ex
hibited in the last statement, 8919,868,-
60.
KRINOLBS LOCALS. —Wantad—a skilW
ful incendiary. Apply at Yewuion St.;
opposite the skule.
Muzzle your dorgs- Muzzles on tho
end of Kolts revolvers are considered the
most effectual.
Our city wuz threwn intew a grate
state ov excitement yesterday bi the speo
takle ov a couutryman emerging from a
J u tailers in a neat fittin soot ov tioo
Klocs. Upon Eggsamination, however,
it wuz found that ho merely went in for
a paper Kollar, having got his wardrobd
other whears
Thare iz a foarfdl amount of Kourting
goin on in our city, while marriages air
cz skarce az dyspotics in a poor hous.
We air informed that, the gentleman
'uoo stood ou hii head tinder spile driver
for the purpus ov havin a tite pare uv
boots driv on, shortly afterwards fonnd
himself in Ohiny perfectly naked with
out a sent in hiz pocket. He rites that
it IZ hiz intention ov returning homo by
the wa ov the Paris Exl'osishun.
We hev Understood Jef. Davis, tha
goast ov thfi ■' lorst Koufce" haz safely
reached his dcStynashun. Another start
lin proof that the devil izin league with
railroads.
T HE MORAI. oondition of London is graph*
ically depleted by one of its clergymen;
lie says :
''My friends do you wish to know tho
dreadful condition in which more than sit
hundred and fifty thousand of your oountry.
women are vegeiating ? Listen and tremble.
In the midst of our city, twelve thous
and children are cradled by oritne, silokled
by vice, and are, as it were, reinforcement*
destined to perpetuate the great ryjtern of
iniquity. In the midst of our city, thero
art Upwards of forty thousand men specula
ting in the deprivation of morals; four
thousand persons aie annually sentenced to
hard labor, and we havts in London more
than twonty thousand swindlers, thirty
thousand thieves, and forty thousand beg
gars. And this terrible army of vice which
never ceases to oomrtit its fearful ravages,
spends annually upwards of three millions
of pounds sterling for spiritous liquors.
Twenty-three thousand soldiers of this army
are evnrv year picked up doad drunk at
the daors of the grog shops j one hundre.l
and fifty thousand are gin drinkers, and two
hundred and fiifty thousand more live in
debauchery.
It may well be doubted if any "heathen"
city, in proportion to population, presents a
more revolting spectaole.
PROTEST AGAINST SHERIDAN'S ASB
PJPE'S REMOVAL.—A delegation of
Southerners, including a prominent
officer of the Johnson Provisional
Govarnmept of Alabama, has called
upon tho President to protest against
the removal of General Pope and
Sheridan. They advanced the argu-:
ment that the time for the removal of
these officers had passed, and admit
ting themselVS to bp thoroughly sub
dued, advised Mr. Johnsbil not to at
tempt to interfere with tho execution
of the reconstruction acts Under a rad
ical construction of their provisions.
They feel assured that Congress,
when it assombles in November, will
nullify all such Attempts, and that
the onl» results will be to increase
the severity of the laws for their fu
ture government. The President
gave them but little satisfaction, and
they left him under the impression
that he would act independently of
thein or of any other men oF common
sense.
—On Sunday J uiy 1-Mi, while tho
freed people of Sterling, Robertson coun
ty, Texas, were worshiping in their
church, they were attacked by four des
peradoes, who said the " d d negroes
should not hold church." They theU
drove the colored people away, shooting
dowu in cold blood three of tbeir num
ber —two men and one woman. Tha
agent of the EVeedmeu's Bureau in one
hour collectel a hundred of the freed
men. who, mouuted and armed, pursued,
overtook and captured two of the vil
lains, who are now in custody.
—To calculate the distauco of a storm
from the place you are standing, multi
ply the number of seconds which trans
pire between the flash of lightning and
the SoUnd of the thunder by 1142—tho
product will be the distance in feet.
—The Cretans have unexpectedly found
an ally in I'russia. Bismarck's official
organ pleads for tho interference of the
Great Powers of Europe in behalf of
the struggling patriots.
—After many years of exile, Kossuth
has been restored to the council of his
country. Ho has just been unanimously
elected to the Hungarian Diet.