s'lif Democrat. HARVEY SICKLER, Editor. TUNKHAIfIfOCK, PA. Wednesday. Jane 5, 1867. THI PRESIDENT IN THE STREETS WITH OUT A GUARD. —a telegram from Washing ton says: "The time has come again when the President of the United States may walk the streets in safety. Yester day President Johnson took a walk out on Fourteenth street, wholly unattended— without guard, policeman or anyhing else to suggest the thought of possible) danger. Qe took a quist stroll, unknown to all 6avu those who met him on the way and respectfully saluted him. The good old time of peace are returning indeed." Early in Mr. Lincoln's administration guards were placed around the President whenever he ventured out into the street, and that custom has continued, until now. It is significant and worthy of note that the above custom was not discontinued until of the release of Jefferson Davis. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS AND LIBERTY OF SrtECH. —The military Governors of the South, who are acting as a police in the Southern States, should remember that no legislataion ot Congress can abol ish that clause in the constitution of the United States which recognizes and guar antees the perfect freedom of the press and of speech, if they properly under stand their uuties under the laws of COD gross they can get along with the greatest ease, and will find no delicacy or difficulty in their positions. One editor i'just as muct at liberty to write against the Re conduction laws as another is to write it) their favor. One stuiup speaker has just as much l ight to criticise the act 9 of Con- 1 gress and lo laud the chivalry to the skies as another has to uphold the Congressional policy and ridicule the Southern braves. But no State officer is entitled to use his position to interfere with or embarrass the operation of a United States law, nor has auy man, office holder or private citizen a right to incite a riot to disturb the public peace. Power of an Axe. The other day I was holding a man by the hand—a hand as firm in its outer tex ture as leather, and his sunburnt face was as inflexible as parchment—be was pour ing fourth a tirade of contempt on those who complain that get nothing to do, as an excuse for becoming idle loafers. Said I, "Jeff, what do you work at ?" "Why," sed he, "I bought me an axe three years ago, that cost me two dollars.— That was all ihe mouey I had. I went to chopping wood bv the cord. I have done nothing else, and have earned more tbaD S6OO, diank no grog, paid no doctor, and have bought me a little farm in the lloos ier State, and shall be married next week to a girl who has earned S2OO since she was eighteen. My o'd axe I shall keep in the drawer, and buy me a new one to cut wood with, Alter I h'ft him I thought to myself. "That ax and no grog." These are the things that make a man in the world. How small a capital that ax —how sure of suc cess with the motto, "No grog." And then a farm and a,wife, the best of all. The Principal Witness' Against Surratt. A correspondent of the New York Tribum lately had a conversation with Weicbman, the fellow whose testimony hung Mrs. SurratL We take from his narrative the following in relation to the Canadian, who secured the arrest of Sur ratt and wilt be the principal witness against him : P "In Easter, 1862, we agreed to visit an old|school friend at Ellicott's Mills, and from there I took Surrat to Ellangowan to see my friend the 6chool teacher. Be fore we started a priest asked me to deliv er a newspaper to Mr. St. Maurie, whom I found to be my friend's assistant, and to whom I introduced John Surratt. He was a French Candian, black-eyed and black haired, aged about thirty, very fas cinating in his manners and accomplish ments, a linguist and adventurer. lie was teaching for his boare and spending money only, being entirely needy, and he amused himself by giving concerts in the village, where be was in love with a virtuous and beautiful young lady. When I left Ellangowan, St. Maurie asked me to get him a teacher's place in Washington, aud soon after he came to my room there, say ing that .lie had left his place, disgusted with its littleness, aud was without a meal, a bed, or a penny. I got him a position iu Gonzaga College, and when he came to see m: once or twice 1 found him so un principled that I wrote to the lady he ad dressed at Ellangowan, bidding her be ware. He would tell me in a breath that he had fled from Canada to avoid the con sequences of a most heartless seduction, and he then, at the same time put his new sweetheart's boquet under his pillow. His (•tories of himself were that he had been a member of the Canadian Parliament, a Federal prisoner of State, etc., but at any rate, be decamped from the college after a month, leaving me to pay his board, and enlisted for the bounty in a Delaware regiment, dtserted, fell into Castle Thun der as an object of general suspicion, was released by reason of placing informer up on his comrades, escaped by a blockade runner to England, returned to Canada, and hearing of the $25,006 reward for Surratt, pursued him to Rome, enlisted with him, and gave him up just too late for the reward, which had been already withdrawn," THE LEHIGH VALLEY HAIL ROAD. EXCURSION TRAIN* OVER ITS WYOMING EX TENSION TO WILXES-BAKRE* The following article is taken from the able Rail Road d Mining Regular, now published by HON. THOMAS S. FERNON in Philadelphia. Many of the eitizens in this part of the State, know him as the ear ly pioneer of the Rail Road just opened, the celebration of which he gives an ac count. He faite to mention that he was honored and complimented, and he was forced to forego his accustomed modesty, and reply in a very spirited speech to the urgent and earnest call made upon him by those who do not forget his valued ef forts, in this enterprise, over which the the people of Northern Pennsylvania have •o much cause to rejoice: On Wednesday, May 29, an excursion train passed over the Lehigh Vallej Rail road, from White Haven to Wilkes-Barra. The train left Philadelphia at 7.4 ft A. M , via the North Pennsylvania Railroad, for Bethlehem, where it was joined bv a train from New York, via the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and whance the party pro ceeded up the Lehigh Valley via the Lehigh Valley Railroad to White Haven, where the train passed on to the Wyoming extension and across the Nescopec water shed to Solomen's Gap in the Wyoming Mountain, and thence descended into the valley aud coal basin below, arriving at Willies-Bane aboat 3 P.M. From Solomon's Gap the spectator looks down into the Wyoming Valley lying 1,000 teet below, the Susquehanna meandering its plain between mountains rising and outspreading on either side, their green summits and ragged peaks lifted one above another, whilst far away to the northwest the blue crest of the imperial Allegheny the master-mouctaiu of the Appalachian system, is raarkt-d in bold outline against the sky, form ng a background to a forest of irregular mountain tops. At your feet, and spread out before you is a magnificent panorama of a classic vale, covered with cultivated fields and dotted with thriving towns the whole underlaid with thick veins of purest anthracite, pre senting to the eye a profusion of landscape poetry and beauty, associated with opu lent store of mineral fuel, available to in dustry and art, over outletting avenues in to surrounding markets. Think of the three charms, wisdom, youth and beauty, blended in one gentle being; of health, experience and riches united in one Christian man, and yon may form some sort of approximate conception of the natural loveliness and commercial -excellence combined and centered in fresh and fair Wyoming, with the Susquehanna Hirer in its lap and the northern coal-field in its arm*. The length of the Wyoming extension, from White Havtsn to Wilkcs-Barre, is 30 miles; distance from White Haven to Phil lipsburg 71 miles; whole length of Lehigh Valley Railroad, main line, from Phillipg bug to Wilkes barre, 101 miles. Add branch from Pcun Ilaven to Honeybrook. 16 61.100 miles, and Lehigh and Lebigh and Mahanoy branch from Black Creek junction to Mt Carmcl, 40 miles, and the total of trunk and branch road is 157 61- 100 miles. About one half, or 80 miles of the company's road, is doable track , and there is also in use about 70 miles of siding. With a main road built from the State line at l'hiilipsburg to Wilkes-Barre in the Wyoming coal-field, a branch road in use into the Beaver Meadow coal re gion, with connection penetrating into the Hazelton and Black Creek coal basin*, and a branch road into the Mananoy coal field, the Lehigh Valley Railroad, it is conceded, is a work of rank, profit, present conse quence and future promise. At the opening banquet nt the Wyo ming Valley House, in Wilkes Barre. on Wednesday evening, at which there were about three hundred guests, comprising citizens of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, this fact was appreciated by the speakers, and by the guests, in posi tive remarks and tumultuous applause. The Hon. George W. Woodward pre sided at the table; and among those who made speeches were Judge Woodward, Wm. TV. Longstrect, President of the Le high Valley Company; John Taylor Johnston, President of the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey ; Wm. 11. Gatzner, President of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company ; Hon. Ilen drick B. Wright; Hon. John N. Conyng ham ; Hon. Asa Packer, Stanley Wood ward; David Thomas; Judge Maxwell; V. E.Piollet; Gen. W. W. H.Davis; I. W. Scudder (of the Mt. Morris Canal Com pany ;) H. Ml Hoyt; Sol, Roberts; Dr. Brisbin ; Allen Craig. Judge Packer was the recipient of com plimentary remarks from several of the speakers, in which the guests gave unmis takable signs of hearty concurrence. And among the incidents related during the evening, Judge Woodward stated that, in February last, in the Merchants' Hotel, Robert H. Sayre, the efficient and progres sive Chief Engineer and General Superin tendant of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, told him that he would run a train over the Wyoming extension, into Wilkes-Barre, on the 19th of May, and he did it, as all the guests could testify! And when the unus ually wet character of the spring is consid ered, with the loss of time and other draw backs incident thereto, this was indeed an extraordinary realization of a prediction aud a promise. Under a corporation whose shares they own, the Lehigh Valiey Railroad Company are building a road np the Susquehanna river valley to the New York State line, distance 103 miles.—And within the pres ent year this State line extension will be openedffrom Barclay coal road at Towanda to the Erie Railroad at Waverly, and also from Wilkes Barre to Tunkhanaock. Frotn the State line at Phillipsbnrg to the State line at Wavefly, 204 miles, the Lehigh Valley Company will occapy a river-tide ronte the entire distance, except the mountain division between white Ha ▼ed and wilkes-Barre. And, knowing and appieciating what the Lehigh Valley llail road has already accomplished in the Le high Valley for its investors aud indwellers, the people of Wilkesßarre and the Wyom ing vallsy were as earnest as they were de monstrative in their manifestations of good feeling for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at the banquet on Wednesday night, in their elegant and well conducted Wyoming Val ley Hotel. THK HISTORY OF THE SECRET SERVICE during tho Rebellion. By General L. • C. Baker, late Provost Marshal and Chief Detective of the War Depart ment. Jones Biothers & Co., Phila delphia, Pa, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Da venport, lowa. These revelations of the Chief of the National Detective Police will give a key to many seeming anomalies in the history of the iate War. Its previous historians have narrated that of which we all know a great deal. But General Baker has writ ten a full accoant of important events, hitherto sedulously veiled from the knowl edge of the public. This narration is a startling one, but as true as it is strange, for the General has in his five years of of ficial experience learned tbe necessity of Touchers, and gives them profusely when ever and wherever they are needed. The Secret Service system of the United States War Department during tbe Rebellion was a well organized and powerful one. Gen eral Baker was in a great measure its or ganizer, and for five years its head and hand. What he saw, did an