VOLUME 4. 1 •GEN. CARY IN WASHINGTON, He is Serenaded by Trades' Union. RESPONSE TO THE COMPLIMENT. WASHINGTON, D. C., November 19 General Cary, representative elect of the Second Congressional District of Ohio.was serenaded this evening bv the Trades' Unions o 1 " Washington In response to loud calls he appeared on the balcony of the Seaton H<use, aud spoke as follows: FELLOW CITIZENS :—ln behalf of the woikmg men of the Second Congreseioin al District of Ohio, I thank you for this generous aud hearty welcome of their representative. [Applause ] I accept this expression, not lor iryselt, but as sig nificant of your earnest sympathy Willi the principles which were the basis of mv recent canvass and id jour gratifica tion at the result. [Applause.] 'lhe pride of my position as the representative of the working men is only mo lifted by a sense of uiy unfitness for the high trust reposed in me. Deeply impressed with the belief that by far too much of our legislation, both State and National, dis criminates iu favor of capital and against the rights of labor, tending to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, my hum ble efforts shall he directed to correct, as far as possible, this growing evil. [Ap plause ] % I It was contemptuously said in my dis ict that I was supported by the " tin toket brigade," meaning those who went Ijtiteir daily toil with their dinner in fcir hands. It is trite, my countrymen, fat these sons of toil did, without re- M to their polities or the r religion, ive mo their united support. Of this Constituency I am not ashamed. [Ap plause.] Those who obey the divine de cree aud eat their hreid in the sweat of >ir own lace, are God s nobility, and coworkers in making " the wilder- J>lossom as the rose " W licther 112 elsewhere, whether in or out of ,1 shall be true to the interests and of the laboiing million. [Ap plause.] Do not understand me as be ing in favor ol class legislatii n, or ot makii'g war upon the possessors of wealth. There should be uo conflict between the rich and the pcor, but capital and labor ] should be so harmonized that each should have its just and equal proportion ol profit. [Applause ] That capital gets the lion's share of the product of labor, aud that labor is required to bear an unequal pro portion uf the burdens ot Government is susceptible of the clearest demonstration Whatever tends to emancipate labor from the unjust exactions and give to it its lull measure of reward, shall command my jealous support. [Applause.] That you understand more fully the is sue made in my canvass upon which I was successful, I will give tho three planks which constituted our platform.— First. The adoption of the eight hour rule in the government workshops. [Ap plause ] Second. The preservation of the public domain for actual settlers and oppositiou to itsibeing donated to corpo rations, aud gr.inted to speculators and monopolies. [Applause] 'lliird. '1 lie {layiueut of the ootidi d debt of the gov ernment in lawful money, greenbacks, ex cept where the law and buud provide for payment in coiu, and the equalization of the taxes. [Applause ] It is believed by many that in alt these eslabli-huicnts where brain as well as handwork is re quired, that eight hours is as Ion:! a p. nod for lab r as it is piofitalde lor th'- employer aud sate lor the employed. I o make the experiment and te-t the sound .less of this opiuiou, it i- pro,use Ito adopt the eight hour rule in the National Dock Yards aird works ops. [Applause ] ihe second plank ol this plailorm is broad enough, aud fraught with import atico euougit to command the attention of ail who look to the iuturj greatness and glury of the Republic The lavish, not to say reck lest' disposition ot oor public lands is tiaught with incalculable mis chief Laud uiouo| olios iu this country are already assuming giant proportions The inau of small means, whether native or foreign boru, who wouid build him an altar aud a home, cannot within the reach of civilisation find a seetiou uf laud at u dollar aud a quarter per acre. The unl lious of unoccupied lertile lands in the States of the North west are in the hands of laud sharks. As au illustration : The llliuois Central Railroad is now adver tising fifteen thousand farms tor sale. be ing the remaining portion of the lands bestowed upon that single corporation My constituents believe, and 1 sympa thize with them, that Cotigro-s has no right to make such disposition of the peo ple's inheritance, but that these broad aores should be held iu sacred trust lot actual settlers. [Applause.] Ou the third proportion, viz; Pays ment of the national ucbt iu greenbacks, more time would be tequircd for its dis cussion than 1 now have to devote to it Permit tne to say in the beginning, that uiy constituents are not iu lavorr 112 repu diation . The nauou'n honor must be preserved at whatever cost. Public faith is the foundation of private faith, aud public repudiation would result in uni versal demoralization. The debt, as large as it may be, must be paid to the last farthing. [Applause.] We are in favor of paying it <u the manner aud form as it provided by law, aud as uomiuateJ in the bonds. [Applause ] An insignifi cant amount of bouds is made payable in coin, and must be so paid. The great majority of these bonds are payable in "lawful money," ana as greenbacks are lawful money they are legitimate curren cy for the bondholder as well as the peo AiYIK.RI.CAN CITIZEN. pie. Their amount should not be dimin Ished until the bonds are paid, or other wise funded iu others bearing a smaller rate of interest. [Applause] Those who demand payment in coin are the real repudiators, lor the sure foundation of faith is justice, and when the sense ol justice is outraged, the sense of obliga tion is weakened, if not destroyed. [Ap plause] In conclusion. General I'ary promised, at some future time to address the work ingiuen of Washington at greater length The Southern Convention The delegates from the genuine Dem ocarcy of the South, who are already en gaged in or will soon attempt the task ot • raining for their respective States cou "titutious based ou Msiihood and loya ty, undertake that respousibi'ity uuder great disadvantages. Most ot theui are poor aud hitherto obscure men,who utterly lack familiarity with I gisUtive proceedings and constitutional history; some are of the despised, destested Black race, aud have scracoly learned to read, having beeu field-bands, to instruct whom was felony by statute not three years ago.— Tliey are watched with unconcealed con. tempi and malignity by a large majority of tne old I'lauiiug Aristocafcy aud its legil, fuercantile aud clerical satellites, who ex pect to overthrow, on the heel ol the next Presidential election, the goveruiueut now to bo erected, aud replace theai by sub stitutes of their own construction, based on the assumption that lllacks have no rights that Whites are bound to respect. Oa the side ol the Aristocracy is nearly the entire l'ress —able, unscrupulous, anil envenomed—-aud utariy all who send tol egrauis to Nortbren journa's Of course, the so called 'negro governments" must expect to have all they do misrepresented to their pr-judice, aud very much evil charged to them and believed iu which they never thought of Judging by what has been, they expect to find themselves charged with nil maimer of evil deeds and purposes, even in the columns of journ als which would treat theui fairly it tliey could. We entreat the Southren conventions, therefore, to eschew carefully even the appearance, of ovil, and especially what ever might seem to savor ol revenge or proscription. Make Equal Rights for All Citizens your coruer-stoue, and bury in oblivion whatever is hateful in tho past, while taking the amplest security against opprea.-ian iu the future. Dissapoint those who predict a new Civil Warns the result of Black Enfranchisement, and nil: proof upon proof that Universal Justice is enduring Peace. Show the world that you comprehend the exigency, and can read the lesgou involved in the fate ol the late aristocracy, who, iu seeking to extend and streoghen Slavery, destroyed it. The assured predominance of Republican principles, alike at the South aud at the North, imperatively requires that the Froeduicn should prove safer, discrector, more competeut depositories of power than their late masters did. We believe tile Conventions will be fully justified in exacting of every voter a promise or oath that he will not hence forth seek to disfranchise the Blacks Liberty and Equal Bights for Ail being tho corucr stone of the new political ed ifice erected on the downfall of Secession and Slavery, it may be well to qu et ap prehension, preclude danger, and " toko a t,olid of fate," by such a requirement"— And this, we aie eon fid en t, will sntfieo No confiscation, no spoliation, no ven geance ! let tho changes be so many as are requisite to secure and maintain Kqual rights; and there stop L,t ihe changes be few and perspicuous, though far reaching; let the Constitutions he as brie' and rumple as may be, and as near ly like those they supercede as is cousis. tent with the great end of making each ot them a Gibraltar of Human Liberty Then let the wo'k be consummated at the earliest practicable moment, and let every State be fully represented in Con grcss bet ire the Ist of March Our en emies assert that we wish to keep the South out of Congress : lot us show them lisw utterly they are mistaken Aud, as each resumes her proper position, reo n strutted and regenerated, let the au-pi cious event be fitly hornred iu every State of the Uuion — N V. Tribune. TKN FOLLIES. —To think that the more a man eats the falter aud stronger he will become To believe that the more hours chil dren study at school the faster they will learn To conclude that if exercise is i*ood for the health, the more viol rot and ex hausting it is, the more good is done To imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained. To act en tho presumption that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in. To arj-ue that whatever remedy causes one to feci immediately better is " good for"the system, without regard to more ulterior effects. To commit an act in itself prejudicial, hopiug that somehow or an other it cau be done iu your case with impunity. To advise another to take a remedy you have tried yourself, without making special inquiry whether all the condi tions are alike. To c it without in appetite, or continue to eat after it has been gratified merely U> gratify ths taste. To eat a hearty supper for the pleasure expeiienced during the brief time it is passing down the throat, at the expense of a whole night's disturbed sleep, and a weary wakiog in the morning. "Let us tiave 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. liUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PENN'A, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1867. AT ANDERSONVILLE. The first thought that occurred to me when fairly inside was, " How small! — Can it be possible that thirty thousand men were ever thrust in here ?" I be lieve there are twenty-seven acres in the enclosure, but I can only say that it seemed fearfully small. Just within the stockade are some sheds, which might possibly shelter one hundred men —these were put up, I believe, during the last four months of the prisoners' stay, and they were the only covering provided for the poor fellows except what they sooop ed out with tl eir own hands. And now, with solemn and eager cu riosity, I glanced around An uneven piece of ground it is, sloping from both extremities towards the centre, where it is crossed by a little purling stream, at which thirty thousand dying soldiers lap ped, or longed to lap. A large plot on both sides of the stream is marsh land, impossible to be used. Inside of the stockade, and close at its loot, is a toler able deep ditch, while portions of the " desd line" stili remain, forming an in ner circle. The ditch is grown up with fl >wers and ferns, many ol thsui very pretty, but I fell disposed to quarrel with (h.! soii for producing such lovely things. Oh, how could it do so ? Thorns and thistles, with the deadly uight shade, should aloue grow in the stockade at An dersonville ! As I glanced around, my eyes were met in every direction by those glariug sentry-boxes; aud I felt that, had 1 been a prisoner, I should have delved into the earth, if only to escape the relentless gaze of those pitiless guards. When once I cast my eyes upon the ground the fascin atlon was so intense that 1 had difficulty in raising them again. Every spot 1 trod was consecrated by suffering and death. The ground was everywhere strewn with rags, old shoes, and bits of leather, washed into the soil by raiu and trampled in by feet. At every few pa ces a little hillock, or a hole, told the story how a man, accustomed to a New England or a Western home had learned to live in a space a trifle larger than a Coffin. — Hours at Home. Dill)- on'.Viaii ti fuel urea. The Detroit Manufactures' Association have taken grounds in favor of exempt ing Manufactures, except articles of lux ury, from taxation. In this they have struck the right note. In lurtherance of this object a National Convention has been called to meet iu Cleveland, ou the 18t'n cf December, at which it is hoped there will be a general representation.— The Detroit Association, which has taken the initiative in this importaut move* merit, passed the following resolutions : /('timlved, That the present burdensome and exhausting internal revenue taxation should bo speedily roduced to the actual necessities of an economical administra tion of fiscal affairs, n"t exceeding the amount required to meet the interest on the public debt and the current expenses of the Government. Resulted, That tho notional revenue, under existing laws being estimated at 3150,000,000 more per annum than the necessities of the Government require, tho internal revenue tax on all the man factureS and productions of the country (except luxuries) should be removed. Resulted, That tho tariff ou iin porta t.ons of foreign manufactures should be revised so as to protect well home indus try against the unequal competition of ihe cheap capital and obeapor labor of foreigu countries. Resolved, That a return to specie pay ments can be neither permanent nor ben eficial to the industry of the country so long as our importations exceed the amount of our exports, and so long as we c mtiiiue to be the debtor nation. Resulted, That the payment of the public dobt should not be attempted in the present unsett'ed slate of public af fairs, and not until all the States in the Union are in a financial condition to pay their due share, and then its reduction should be slow, commencing with the payment of a small sum annually, and gradually increasing the amount with the increase "112 tho wealth and population of the country The Committee alsorequest that sign ers may be procured to the following pc titian. and forwarded to Jasper E. Wil liams, Cleveland, Ohio, by December the 10th proxiuio: To the Semite anil House of Representa tires uf the United State*, in Congress assembled : The undersigned would respectfully, yet eamenly, urge the impoitanceof a repeal of the internal taxes on manufac tures aud productions, except luxuries, with such situplilving aud changing of tba tax list as shall remove burthens wholly unnecessary, and thus relieve and stimulate the productive industry of the oountry. CROUP CURED BV SULPHUR. —The Medical Gazette of I'aris states that M. Laogautrie of Paris, after observing the effect of sulphur on the odium of grape vines, was led to administer it iu several cases of oroup, He mixes a teaspoonful of sulphurin a glass of water, and gives a teaspoonful of of this mixture every hour. The effect is described as wonderful. The disease is cured in two days, the only symptom remaining being a cough arising from the presence of 'oose pieces of false membrane in the traches. Mr L says he baa follow ed this plan in seven cases, all being se vere, especially the last in which the child was cyanotic, wth protruding rolling eyes and noisy respiration. WIT AND WIBDOM. —The poorest man in the world is one who has nothing but money. —Why is fire paradoxical ? Because the more it's coaled the hotterit gets. —Time is gold ; throw not a minute away, but place each one to account. —Gold gives a readjr passport to any gate except to Heaven s. —God has three hodses —one for in struction, another for corruption, and a third for destruction, . —Live so as to prepare for a short life, and you may oruainent many years liap pily. —The greatest best evet made has bees decided by the printer to be the alphabet. —He is truly prudent, who looks upon all earthly things as nothing : that he may gaiu Christ. A true heart will work in somo way for the Master of its affections. Let the reader consider this and inquire, "Aui I working for Jesus?" —Ono man asked another why his beard was brown and Ins hai;,so very white ? Because, said he one is twenty years younger than the other. A youngster who wanted liquor at the Portland City Agency for a "mechan ical puipose," further explained that it was needed for sawing wood. —Gratitude for kiudness shown, ac knowledgment for favors received, are unerring marks of gotd breeding and in dications of Christiau character. —The newspaper is a sermon for the thoughtful, a library for the poor, and a blessing to everybody. Lord Brougham called it the "best public instructor." An idle man always thinks he has a right to be affronted if a busy man does not devote to him just as much of his time as he hiinsolf has leisure to was;e —Among the actors in a circus which srntcd in.in lowa town, some time since, a woman found her son froiu whom she had not heard for eighteen years. —"lsn't it pleasant to be surrounded by so many ladies ?" said a pretty woman to a popular lecturer. '• Yer," said he, '•but it would be pleasanter to be sur rounded by one —We cannot all of us be beautiful, but the pleasantness of a good humored look is denied to none. «. e can all of us, increase and also strengthen the fam ily affections and the delights of hjrne. A man boasting in the company of young ladies that he had a iuxuiiant head of hair, a lady present observed that it was owing to the mellowness of the soil. —Women get married because they don't consider it respectable to be siu gle ; and men because they think a wife u good thing to have about the house, and, like furniture, to be both useful and ornamental. —An editor never leaves any money at home for fear of fire, end never carries any with him for fear of robbers, nor deposits it in bauk for fear of speculi ting officials. His money is gcuerally in the hands of his subscribers. A lady took her little boy to church for the first time. Upon hearing the or gan he was on his feet instanter. "Sit down," paid the mother - 'T won't," ho shouted "I want to sec tho monkey." —Dr. Chalmer was wont to say, a house-goiog minister makes a church go ing people ; as the people are euro to show ths courtesy ot returning the min isters week day visits by their Sabbath day attendance. —lf a bee sting you. willyou goto the hive and destroy it ? Would not a thous aid come upon you ? If you receive a trifling injury don't be anxious to avenge it. Let it drop. It is wisdom to say little respecting the injuries you have re ceived. —A young lady, possessing more van ity than pcrmnal charms, remarked in a jesting tone, but with an earnest glance that she "traveled on her good looks. A rejected lover being present, remarked that Uecould "now account for the young lady never having been far from home." —At a social gathering ot ministers, a Baptist minister objectod to the Meth odist policy because 'hero was "too much machinery in it." John Allen, of cawp meeting celebrity, responded in this wise: "Yes, there is a good deal of machinery, but it don't take as much water to run it as the Baptist docs." —A Lady residing on "Hemlock Side," went out shopping, promising her little son she would get him a cocoa nut. She procured one with Ihe husk on, in which state he had nevar seen one On arriving at home, she gave it to the boy,who looked at it curiously,smiled,and laid it down Pr<iently he said/'Mother, whore's my cocoa-nut ? "I just gave it to you," she replied. Taking it up again he viewed it contemptuously for a mo ment, and exclaimed —"That thiuv a cocoa nut! 1 thought it was a waterfall!" A very natural mistake. —Oh ! the bonnets of my girlhood the kind 1 wore to school. I really thought them pretty —I must have been a fool. And yet I used to thiak myself on hats a jaunty miss; perhaps I was, as fashion went —bu' what was that to this? Oh! the lovely little buckwheat cake—the chaiming little mat! it makes my head so level and so very, flat. Oh' a sister's love ia eharmhg, as every body knowt r and a handsome oouain's love is nice (that is, I should suppose); and the love of a true lover is a love that cannot pall—but the love of a new bonnet is the dearest love of all. Mr, Pendleton's Financial Vagary. The W»rU calls our attention to Mr. Pendleton's so called •' Plan for paying the National Debt" in fifteen years. It is as follows: '■Three hundred and thirty-eight millions of these bonds are, by the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, deposited to-day ns security In the vaults of Ihe Treasury. Three hundred millions of bank paper is is sued on the faith of these bond . Now, gentlemen, I maintain that this circulation ought to be called in ; that these bonds ought to be redeemed with legal tenders, whieh will take the place of that bank cir culation. What would be the effect of this ? The seventeen hundred millions of interest-bear ing bonds would be reduced to 112 rurteen mil lions ; nnd twenty millions of dollars would be saved to the Government from the inter est which is paid to the bankers for the bonds which they have deposited. Nww, then, suppose you take these twen ty millions of interest which is saved, and add it to the forty eight millions of dollars which these gentlemen say they can pay from the current revenue, and you have six ty-eight millions of dollais, year by year, and if you convert that sum into green backs, at 140, you have a hundred millions of dollars a year, and if this is appropriated as a sinking fund, you cau pay off the whole debt in less than fifteen years, without ad ding one dollar fo your taxation, or one dollar to jom circulating medium. Bear in mind that 1 am arguing a propo sition that these bonds can be paid in green backs without inflating the currency." The ouly portion of this plau which is Mr. Pendleton's is that relating to the twenty millions of dollars which he thinks can be saved by abolishing the National Banking system, and making the Treas ury Department issue all the ouirency now issued by the National Banks. This would convert the Treasury Department at Washington into a United States Bank, without other capital than tho general re sources of the couutry, but commissioned to furnish tho couutry with all its paper money Now, we maiutain that there are practical reasons, growing out of the na ture of a Banking and paper money sys tem, why the Treasury Department can not thus supply the currency of the coun try. The ordinary mode in which a pa per currency is kept afloat is that the notes aud drafts arising in oourse ot trade end business, and having from thirty days to four months lo run, are received by the banks, aud held till they mature, the banks giving in exchange therefor their own uotes, payable on demand, and the latter pass into circulation as curreti cy. Apart from this system of ditcount iug private paper, a currency cannot be kept in circulation. This business the Treasury Department could not transact, cither directly or indirectly. The at tempt to do so through the old Uuited Slates Bank broke down the party that committed the error. Banking, though necessary to our public and business life, must be kept distinct trom the Treasury Department and all Government influen ces. Let us suppose Mr. Pendleton's plan carried out —the present National Banks recall their currency, and sell the bonds now deposited with the Govern inent lor about $300,000,000 in green backs. This transaction has swept the National Banks out of existonce. Theie is the same amount of currency held by the people, but there are no banks, no places of redemption, no agencies for keeping it in circulation, no security has been given for it by anybody, and nobody knows how much of it there is in circu lation except at hearsay. The profit on circulation, which is the ouly considera tion which oan induce a bank to give its circulating notes, payable on demand, in exchange for notes of private parties, at four months, is gone, and hence the banking business is stopped. All this would involvo an immediate depreciation in the value of the greenbacks them selves. Either the Government must em ploy the banks as agents lo resume their discounting, using its greenbacks instead of their own notes, or else the system of State banks must be revived. Assuming that the revival of the Slate banks is not what Mr. Pendleton is driving at, we are brought to tho question, On what terms would the banks resume discounting and circulate greenbacks instead of their own notes ? It is essential to the safety of the banks that the discounting shall be done at the risk of the banker. This cannot be, unless the banker ia responsible for the redemption of the notes. It is es sential to the safety of the banker that when he gives demand notes for notes payable at a future time, he shall have the lull interest on the currency. This he cannot do if the Government charges him anything for the use of the curren cy. it is essential to the safety of the community that if the banker furnishes the currency at his own risk, and has the interest on it wlfile it ia outstanding, he shall give seourity fos, its redemption ; and DO security could be so good as that of Government bonds. Thus r unless we reestablish State banks, which nobody desires, or abolish banking altogether, which is impossible, or convert the Uni ted States Treausury into a gigantic Bank of Issue and of Discount, with agencies in every city, like the Bank of KngUud, which we don't like, the very necessities incident to the maintenance ot a paper currency drive us right back to the three fundamental features of the National Banking system, viz.: that the currency shall be furnished without in terest by the Government; that it shall be issued at the risk of the banker, and than it shall be secured by Government bonds. Our objection to Mr. Pendle ton's crude thuory is that it is utterly ab surd, unsophisticated, and impracticable; that it ignores the faot thi t paper money can only be maintained at par b; making it redeemable : that it can only be kept in circulation an 1 made redeemable through some banking system ; that Mr. Pendleton proposes to destroy our pres ent National Banking system, and, to substitute nothing in its place; that his policy would depreciate the greenbacks to a third of their present value, and would immediately precipitate > disas trous collapse iu our financial and busi ness interests, without accomplishing a single beneficial result. We must hare a banking system of some kind. We could do better without railroads than without baLks. The only question is whether the Government has driven a good bargain with the bankers under the present system. If they have not, thoy have the power to amend the bargan at any time. They can drive it closer and closer, until they drive the banks out of the business. It has been shown that the banks now pay in taxes about all the interest the Government pays them on their bonds. The profits of the banks have been about proportionate to those in other k?hds of business. But we de not object to any amendments to the Na tional Banking law whoreby the Gov eminent will drive a closer bargain, give less aud get more; but Mr. Pendleton's so-called plan simply destroys the bank', ing system and substitutes nothing for it. The theory that Government can save any sum whatever by destroying all the banks is preposterous. It is one of those oru le destructive vagaries which men out of power, and divested of all re sponsibility, may advocate, but which, if they were themselves in power, they would have too much sense to carry out. N. Y. Tribune. Why (lie People are for Grant. The Philadelphia J'uxt, a spicy paper, lately established in the interest of Mr, Chase, prints a Washington telegram which, speaking of the Grant movement, says : " It is the opinion of the best in formed politicians thai the 'hurrah move ment' will soon die out." The writer could have known little-of the temper of the country, or the real character of the Grant movement. Never was there one with which the politicians had so little to do. It «riginuted with tho people, and it is among them ; and whoever is unable to interpret it observes not well, and has but a feeble comprehension -of the philosophy of popular action. It is ihe moderation, the firmness, the proven capacity aud tried fidelity of General Graut, far more than hiu military fame— great and solid as that is—which mak* him popular with the people and an avail able candidate. These *re reasons which will not soon die out. Of all men in the world Grant's fame rests on no epheme ral basis. For more than six years the eyes of the nation have been turned on hiai more fixedly than on any other man. He has been the foremost actor, shoul dering mountains of responsibility, in the greatest drama in modern history. There could be no severer test; and lie went through it all with increasing satisfaction to the people at every step, and came out with such applause and homage as intel igent people give only to first rate capa city and great deeds. When these deeds are forgotten, and the history of Grant's part in the war of the Rebellion is sffa ced, will the movement in favor of him for the Precidency "dio out." We ask our Philadelphia cotemporary to remem ber tliis.— 'Pitt. Com. AT the recent election in Virginia th e negroes voted almost to a man in favor of a constitutional convention, and for just such delegates to the convention as the majority of Whites did not want. There was nothing suprising in this, at least to any one who had credited the Negroes with sufficient judgment to dis criminate between friend and foe. That he should want to exercise the rights of citizenship, since he is campelled to bear its burdens, is natural, just as natural as it was for him when a slave to covet his freedom. That he shouid use his ballot so as to secure the former, might be ex pected just as naturally as that he should have used his legs in days gone by to se cure the latter. Any other course on his part would have indicated a stupid igno rance or sottish indifference that would have satisfied all minds of his utter un> fitness for the endowment. But just be cause he did just what he ought to have done, ai-d what would have degraded him in the estimation of the rebels themselvs if he had not done, they turn upon him with a ferocity that would disgrace even the negroes were the situations of the par ties reversed. They propose to drive him from employment, to deny him the common right of all God's creatures, that of toil, and to bring uppn him all the horrors of absolute anu hopeless want. Such madness and stupidity combined, hare seldom been equalled in the same people. Even supposing that there ex isted a necessity lor some vindicatory measure, the thing proposed is the very r refinemeni of nonsense itself. The com munity that would attempt it would aoon find that its own was the greater punish ment, and we know of no people who woyld be likely to discover the unpleas ant truth sooner than the Virginians them selves. They, can least of all, afford to do thi* thing ; yet they have cammeiced it in downright earnest, and today there are thousands of Negroes in Virginia in enforced idleness and perhaps want. Idle ness is the Devil's work shop ; want is his opportunity. Whatever of crime or violence results from this mean course, let the responsibility for it be correctly fixed. That considerable of both will come if the present purpose of the white people ot Virginia is presisted in who CM doubt ? I —Frank/in Riporitory. NUMBER 4 CHANCES OF LIFE. An old document contains soma in* (•resting information unknown to many Among other things, it contains a table exhibiting: an average age attained by persons employed in the various popular prolcssions of the day. In this particu' lar, as in tnost othern, (he farmers have the advantage over the most of mankind; their average is 65 years. Next upon the docket comos thejudg es aud justices of the peace, the dignity of whose lives in lengthened out to 64. Following them immediately in the catalogue of longevity is the bank officer who sums up his account at the age of 63. Public officers cling to their existence with as muoh pertinacity as they retain their offices—but few lorsake them at 56. Coopers, although they may seem to stave through life, hand on until they are 58. The good works of the clergyman fol low them at 55. Shipwrights, hatters, lawyers and rope-makers, very appropriately go to gether at 55. The "Village Blacksmith," like most of his cotemporarios, nails on hn last shoe at 51. Butchers follow their bloody oareer for half a century. Carpenters are brought to the scaffold at 49- Masons realize the cry of "mort," at the age of 47. Traders cease their speculations at the age of 46. Jewrllors are disgusted with the tinsel of life at 44. Bakers, manufacturers and various mechanics die at 43. The paioters yield to their oolie at the age of 42. The brittle thread of the tailor's life is broken at 41. Editors, like *ll other beings who come out under the special admiration of the good, die comparatively young—they ac complish their errand of mercy at 40. The musician redeems his "dying fall" at 36. Printers become "dead matter," at the age of 38. . The machinist is usually "blown up" ot 36. The teacher usually dismisses his soholars at tho age of 34, and the clerk . is even shorter lived, for he must needs prepare his balance sheet at 33. No account is given of the average longevity of wealthy unoles. The infer ence is fair, therefore, that they are imv mortal.— Albion. A Conner rati re Argument. I'he Democratic papers and orators ves hemently denounce the ignorance of the new Southern voters. The World, espe cially, has a great deal to say about the "barbarism," Ac. Hut, if it be danger ous to allow ignorance to vote, Is it sale to encourage drunkenness? Just before the late election in New York, the World quoted an earnest appeal to temperance meu from a Republican paper to support the Republican ticket; and added, that the paper might have strengthened its appeal by stating that General James B. M'Kean, at the head of tho Republican ticket, was a Worthy Grand Patriarch ot Temperance. The stutement was untrue ; but what was the object of the World ? It was to rally the "Conservative" grogshops against the Republican nomination. It was to stigmatize a candidate in the Dem ocratic mind by proclaiming him—not a prohibitionist —but "a temperance man." It was an appeal, harmonious with the whole Democratic policy, to the meanest prejudices of the most worthless class of the population. Was Gen. M'Kean like ly to be a worse officer because he was a temperance man ? How the check of an honest man must tingle when knowledgo of what will persuade his party compels him to say as an argument against a can didate that he is a friend of temperance, and consequently of public order, and of low taxes ! — Harpar's Wtelclei/. WHAT A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL EX PECTS. —The New York World indulges the foliowing version of the things that are to be "Within four months after the Presidential election a heavy battering ram will tumble them (the negro gov ernment!,) into shapeless rubbish. The Southern people will immediately reor ganize, hold new elections, oust the ne groes, send their own representatives to Washington, and tho House will at onco admit them. The Southern Senators plus the Conservative Senators from tho North will farm a majority of that body organize as such, and neither the House nor the President will recognizo any oth er Senate. TMs course is entirely fea sible, will be perfectly constitutional and, beyond all question adopted, If the Rad icals are insane or wayward enough to recognize the negro governments after this great rehuke. The only thing that could prevent it, would be acquiusoenae by the Southern whites in the Radical scheme. Whoever expects that, is bet ter entitled to a straight jacket than a refutation. We may therefore conside" it as demonstrated that the present re construction scheme is foredoomed.— But until its destiny is recognized by a considerable portion of tho Republicans, it will b« vain to expect their <?o opera tion in a wiser plan." WHAT IS TRUTH 7— What it truth ? We answer, God and His glorious attris butes, Christ and His great salvation, the Holy Spirit and his heavenly grace, the Bibl* and it* revelation*, the prineK pies and duties of a Christian, and the ample sad glorious realities of a iutore state.
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