THE TURNIP AND ITS CULTIVATION. BY J. C. sSELI., EDMONTON, C. W. 1 am going to give you my experience in turnip culture during the last ten years, on my father's farm. 1 shall not attempt to give positive proof that it is a profitable or paying crop, but I cannot understand how any one that keeps good stock, and pays attention to pushing forward young ani mals, can well do without them. It is true that if all the labor that must be expended in its cultivation be taken into account, it is one of the most expensive crops we raise, if not the most exjiensive, but it leaves the land in first rate condition for growing future crops of any kind. For it must be well manured to produce a good crop of turnips, and it must be so well cultivated that all grasses and weeds are effectually killed. We can do more injury to Canada thistles by cultivating turnips than by any other course. We get a larger amount of good, succulent feed for stock from the same quantity of land than we can of any other crop. We make an immense pile of excellent manure to keep up the farm, and our stock is healthier and better for a lib-1 oral supply of roots, besides all this there j is more real pleasure in working among j and watching the growth and progress of a field of turnips than can be derived from any other crop ; it is really fascinating,and we consider it by no means an uncertain crop ; in ten years we have never failed to get an average crop. This year, 18(54, in spite of the most severe drouth that the " oldest inhabitants" has ever experienced, we have cultivated twenty-six acres, and never had a better crop. lam quite cer tain they will average 900 bushels per acre. This is considered a good crop, but as high as 1,200 bushels have been grown in Canada. In this, as in the cultivation of any crop, a great deal has to be learned by observation and experience—sometimes dear bought experience. A good crop of turnips may be obtained without the use of artificial or expensive i manures, by using only good barnyard ma- ' nure ; by this Ido not mean the kind of manure generally used by our farmers, such as rotten straw and the droppings of animals that have been fed on straw, but manure made from animals that have been well ted. I think the best time to apply the manure is in the fall, spread and plowed under. In this way it keeps the soil open and loose during the winter, aud becomes thoroughly mixed with it. But if it is lot convenient to apply it in the fall, manure that has been composted during the win ter, and is well rotted, can be applied in the same way in the spring. But perhaps a better way to get immediate benefit from the manure is to open out drills and spread the manure in the drills ; then close them and sow upon the top. This mode requires more labor, but will perhaps pay for it in the crop, as the manure is directly under the plants, and must have a good effect.— If the land ha£ been plowed in the fall, as it certa nly should be, it need not be moved again till most of the spring work is through, about the last of May, when it should be plowed, harrowed and rolled, then let lie for a week or two, so that any seeds of noxious weeds that may be pres ent will have time to sprout ; the land should then be thoroughly worked with the plow, harrow, cultivator and roller, till it is fine and loose ; a fine seed bed is of the greatest importance- If the land is of a character that will break, it should never be worked while wet. The best way to prep tie the land for sowing is to make it out in drills from 26 to 30 inches apart. ' I think the latter dis tance preferable, and for this purpose a double mould-board plow is a great advan tage. A roller should be passed over the drills, lengthwise before sowing ; this flat tens the drills and makes them more solid, to prevent the seed being deposited to deep. You may get quite as good a crop by sow ing and cultivating on the level, but they are much easier to work in raised drills, and the horse-hoe can be used sooner with out injury to the plants. The drill we have used for sow ing is one of the kind used in Yorkshire, England, a cumberous machine drawn by two horses, (sows three drills at a time,) and has an arrangement for sow ing dry manure with the seed, which can be used or not at pleasure. We have sown a mixture of coal -dust, ashes, bone-dust and dry swamp muck with very satisfac tory results. It is certainly a good princi ple to sow manure with the seed, but it is rather troublesome. We have never tried superphosphate, but have no doubt it is a good thing. For covering the seed I think a brush is the best thing ; it may be made of green branches or boughs drawn through a light frame of poles ; a roller packs the ground, and when a shower of rain comes it is apt to form a crust on the surface, which pre vents the plants from coming up. 1 think it better to sow after a shower if possible, while the ground is damp and the crust does not form on the surface as it would if they were sown before a shower, besides the ground is better for being a little solid, as the seed does not need to be so deep. The best time to sow is about the 20th of .Tune; any time between the 15th and 25th will do very well, but if the weather, or other things, are unfavorable to sowing at that time, I would not be in a hurry. I have seen a good crop of turnips that were sown on the 12th of July. We usually sow about 2 pounds of seed per acre; some persons sow or 3 pounds. Of course a much less quantity would be sufficient if it all grew, but it may not all germinate, or the fly may come in for a share, and it is well to have enough, as the additional ex pense is trifling, besides you have a better choice of plants in the operation of hoeing and thinning. As soon as the plants are large enough, they must be thinned by striking the hoe across the drill, cutting out the width of the hoe, and leaving only one plant in a place. After a little practice it will never be necessary to use the hand in separating the plants, and a good hand can hoe three quarters of an acre a day. The hoes should be from 7 to 9 inches wide and straight in the head, so as* to be used in pushing from you as well as pulling tow ards you. Persons unacquainted with turnip culture are very apt to fall into the error of leav ing the plants to thick, but experience teaches us that under no circumstances should they be less than nine inches apart, and 1 think that 12 inches is decidedly pre ferable. It will be seen in harvesting that where they are thin they are much larger, and there is less expense in harvesting large turnips than small ones. In the operation of thinning there is room for the exercise of some good judgment; care should be taken to select the largest and healthiest looking plants, and in order to do this it is better to cut out several small ones even if it makes a much wider blank than usual. The soil should be well moved around every plant so that it will fall over ; they will hear a good deal of rough usage, and be better for it. The crop will pay for being twice handled. The horse-hoe should be freely used from the time the plants are large enough for hoeing till they are too large to admit of its pass age between the drills lam so well sat isfied of the benefit of horse-hoeing that I believe it would pay to run that implement through them once a week. The quickest and easiest mode of har vesting that I know of is to cut the tops off with hoes ; the hoes should be ground pretty sharp ; then plow them out, taking the mould-board off an iron plow for the purpose ; the plowshare cuts off most of the roots, and pushes the turnips out of the ground. For storing, nothing is better than a eel lar. A cellar under a drieing house or barn, with trap doors in the flobr, is very convenient, and here we use an arrange ment to prevent the earth from going into the cellar with the turnips. It is a sort of grete or riddle made of two pieces of scant ling or plank ten feet long and two feet wide, with bars of iron put in crosswise about 2 inches apart, and two legs bolted on to one end to elevate it to a slanting po sition. The turnips are thrown on to this and roll into# the cellar, while the earth falls through upon the floor. It is very im portant to keep the earth from going into the cellar, as it prevents the circulation of air among them, and causes them to heat and rot. Whenever the weather is mild all the doors and windows should be left open, as there is more danger from heating than from freezing where they are stored in such large masses. If they should heat, it can be detected by the smell, and in that case they must be picked over, and the injured ones removed. If the floors of cellars and root houses could be constructed of scant ling or narrow planks placed a couple of inches apart, so that a current of air could pass under and up through them, it would be a great improvement. When sufficient room in cellars cannot be provided, they may be kept tolerably safe in pits. Dig a trench 4 feet wide, and Bor 10 inches deep ; fill in and shape up to a point ; cover with straw 8 inches deep,and then about 7 inches of earth, leaving the top open 6 inches wide, and cover with wide boards, to throw off" the rain. They should be taken out of the pits early in the spring and put in the barn. For young animals turnips must be sliced, but cattle and sheep from two years old aud upwards will eat them very well without being cut, and are not any more liable to get choaked. Young sheep, or sheep that are being fattened, may with safety be fed all the turnips they can eat, but it is not good to give a very large sup ply to breeding ewes. Cows will eat a bushel and a half a day, but a man must have plenty to feed at that rate. Hogs will winter very well on turnips. The above remarks apply only to Swed ish turnips.— Country Gent. NEGLIGENCE IN AGRICULTURE. 1 think a subject of this kind a very proper one for your journal, and by point ing out some of the respects in which so many of our farmers are negligent, may prove of more or less use to a large class of them. I believe farmers lose more by neglect than by bad cultivation. Let me notice some of the most common. When ever I hear a man complain that his land is overrun with thistles, oxeye daisy, wild carrot, mustard, narrow leaf dock, Ac., Ac., I at once say to hiin that there was a time when he might have destroyed all of these noxious weeds by a few minutes labor, but your neglecting them and passing them by has proved the old saying that a stitch in time saves nine. When he first saw that villainous plant on his land, there was but one or a dozen of them, and he might have destroyed them with his hand or hoe or weed-hook, in a few minutes; but he passed on, thinking a few of no consequence, un til at last he found their name was legion. The next year their seeds are scattered by the wind over his neat and tidy neighbor's fields, as well as his own, when once he might by a few minutes exertion have de stroyed the whole army His more tidy neighbor, on whose land a vicious weed was never allowed to grow,is out with his weed-hook, trying to extract the weeds, but finds springing up in all parts of bis land, weeds that have grown from seeds blown from your land, and won ders whence they came. Such a farmer would to justice to himself and neighbor, if in his walks over his fields he should carry in his hand a weed-hook, which is simple and easily constructed by any one, by taking a staff the size and shape of a hoe handle,and putting an old chiseil in one end and a hook with two or three prongs in the other, which will enable one to extract all kinds of noxious weeds; and never allow one noxious weed to grow a moment after your discovery of it, and not do as many of our negligent farmers do when they see a weed of this kind, say—" I will destroy it on my return home, or when I get more time." This is not the way to do. I know this by experience. If you neglect to de stroy the weed at once, you will surely not destroy it at all ; you may not see it again; you may not return that way ; you will wait until you have nothing else to do, and that time will never come ; consequently your weeds will never be destroyed, and what will be the result ? They go to seed —each seed producing its kind and yield ing 500 seeds ; they grow and go to seed, and are scattered over the fields, and each 500 seeds produces 500 more in their turn, and so on until you have millions of weeds growing on your land. In your walks over your farm let the staff in your hand be a well constructed weed-hook ; you can pro tect yourself as well with such a cane or staff, as with any other. This is the true and sure way to rid yourself of all noxious weeds as soon as they make their first appearance. Take them from the beginning and you will conquor. Farmers are apt to let the roadside bordering on their land get seeded down with all kinds of noxious weeds, and this often accounts for their land first get ting seeded with weeds. Keep your road as free from weeds as you would your farm. ll' taken in time it requires but short time and little labor, and with an old scythe you can destroy them or prevent their going to seed. If a large quantity should be cut, save them, as they make an excellent litter for barnyards. Farmers be particular in draining your land. A thorough system of draining is one of the essentials of good farming.— You lose much valuable time aud land by allowing water to stand on your land. Draining thoroughly lengthens the season for crops Moisture is absolutely necessary for the growth of plants, but an excess is injurious. The subject before me opens such a vast field for thought, 1 know not where to stop; but for fear 1 have already taxed your journal too much, I will bring my remarks to a close. E. 0. KF.I.SEY. | CURIOUS FRENCH HARNESS.—A French gen- i tleman has patented a new invention for instantaneously releasing runaway horses from carriages. The driver, iu case of ac cident, pulls a strap, l.y which the trace buckles are loosened and the horse run free i with all the harness except the traces,which j remain attached to the carriage. £lotl#C}. E W FIIt Vi e X MERCHANT TAILORING, aND READY MADE CLOTHING EMPORIUM ! GEO. IP. COON 4- CO.. Take pleasure in auneuueiiig to the public that they have just opened a New stock ot READY MADE CLOTHING, CLOTHS, CASSIM KUES, TWEEDS, S YTINETTS, COTTINADES, BINDINGS, Aud a general assortment of TAILOR TRIMMINGS, FURNISHING GOODS, Ac., Whicli will be sold exclusively for cash at the lowest possible rates. In addition to the trade we will MANUFACTURE CLOTHING TO ORDER. Intending to make this Department of our business a leading one, we have selected with great cart from the stock of the best houses in New York, a rich, varied and full assortment of material for Gentlemen's Gar ments, embracing the newest lines of fabrics. All of which will be made up to order at a small profit. This department will he under the supervision of MR. H. BROWN, of NEW YORK, Whose abilities as a Cutter are not surpassed in this part of the conntry. His garments combine ease, ele gance aud a tasty adaption to the lout ennemble of tne wearer, a union as rare as they are desirable. As none but experienced workmen are employed, our customers will be assured of having their garments well made. tS. Cutting and repairing done promptly. GEO. W. COON A CO., No. 3, Patton's Block, one door south of Dr. Barstow's Drug Store. Towanda. Feb. 10. 1865. QOLOMON'S CLOTHING STORE! O NEW FIRM. M. E. Solomon respectfully informs his old customers and the public that he has taken in partnersnip his son Alexander, under the firm of SOLOMON A SON, and that they will continue business at the old stand, on Main Street No. 2 Patton s Block. They will keep con stantly on hand a lull assortment of Clothing F O R ME N A N D BOY'S W EAR! CHEAP AND FASHIONABLE Also, constantly on hand a full line of GENTS FURNISHING GOODS ! Consisting of SHIRTS, COLLARS, NECK TIES, GLOVES, SUSPENDERS, HDK'FS, And a large assortment of ARMY SHIRTS, Which they oiler to sell at prices CHEAPER than ANY OTHER ESTABLISHMENT IN TOWN. REMEMBER THE PLACE, AT SOLOMON A SON'S. Jan. 1, 1865- if M. E.Solomon requests those indebted to him to call and settle. He is desirous of closing all accounts by the Ist day of March next, as after that time, all un settled matters will he placed in the hands of an officer for collection. /CHEAPNESS, STYLE AND BEAUTY. NOW IS YOKR TIME TO YOUR CLOTHING CHEAY AT YOUR OWN PRICES. PROCLAIM IT TO THE PEOPLE, Just received—a large stock of Fall and Winter Cloth ing at J. CORN'S Eliuira Branch Clothing Store. He Says coolly, boldly and deliberately, that he take- the foremost of the Clothing Merchants of Towanda. Eigtheeu hundred and sixty-one has come, and the light aud beauty of Spring shines upon ns, with all its radiant splendor. I shall continue to sell Clothing, for Cash, cheaper than any other man, as my.goods are all bought cheap for cash, and they will be sold cheap for cash. My goods are all manufactured in Elmira, therefore 1 can warrant them well jmade. Enough for me to say have everything in the line of CLOTHING, GENTS FURNISHING GOODS, ILvTS, CAPS, AO., AC. That is kept in any other Store in town. This is a free country ; therefore it is tree for all to do their trading where they can do the best, regardless ol the cross and sour looks of old fogy merchants. 1 invite you to come and see me—country as well as the city are invited —every person, rich or poor, high or low, bond or ree are invited to call. At JOHN SHLAM'S Clothing Store, next door to H. S Mercur's Dry Goods Store, Main Street, Towanda, Pa. N. B—We wish to be understood, that we are not to be undersold by any man, or combination ot men. AS" No charge for showing our Goods. Towanda, March 12,1862. J. CORN. JJ"EW FALL AND WINTER GOODS ! 11 IP. EDDY, Has a large stock of fresh WINTER GOODS, and would only say to those in want of Good, well-made Clothing, which he will sell to the public at a fair price, and gnrantee every article as represented, leaving the I customers to choose between good goods at a fair price | and poor goods at a high price—believing in the doc- I trine that " one man's money is as good as anothers." ; We sell to all alike. His stock, as usual, consists in GOOD WELL MADE CLOTHING, HATS A CAPS, SHIRTS,COLLARS, UNDER SHIRTS DRAWERS, SUSPENDERS, GLOVES HO SIERY. NECK TIES, TRAVEL ING BAGS, FUR CAPS A COLLARS, SILK HATS, Ac., and the best assortment of fine SOFT HATS in town. We ask an inspection of our Goods, believing we c? n satisfy all as to quality and price. Towauda, Dec. 1, 1864, R. W. EDDY miscellaneous. QYSTERS! WHOLESALE k RETAIL; BY THE HUNDRED OR KEG, AT LAUGHLIN'S SALOON! Towanda, Nov. 30, 1864. MENWAN T E I) ! BY THE FALL CREEK COAL A IRON CO., To Chop, Clear Land, and Make Shingles, or to Clea Land by the acre. Apply to VVM. M . MALLORY", at the Ward House. Dec. 8. 1864. GEO.C FARRAU, President. £GWA ND A ME A T M A KKE T ! STRATTON A INGHAM, Respectfully inform the citizens of Towauda, that they have purchased the well-known Market of Mt-ssrs. Mc- CABK. and will continue to carry on the business at the Old Stand,on Main Street, next door north of Dr. Por ter's Drug Store. They would say to the public that they intend to keep on hand a choice selection of MEATS of all kinds, which they will sell at the lowest possible prices, either by the side, quarter or pound. Meats,delivered on short notice, when ordered, at any place within the corporation. C. H. STRATTON. Dec. 29, 1864. * H. H. INGHAM, jyjANTFACTUKE YOUR OWN* SUGAR. SAP BOILERS, CATLDRONS, SAP SPILES A PAILS , Are now on hand for the Sugar Season at S. N. BRONSON'S, ORWELL, PA. Also, Tons of Stoves, in very great variety. Sleigh and Cutter Shoes, Bent Cutter Seat Rails, Polls, Thills, Felloes, Carriage Bows, Horse Shoes, by the Keg or pound, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps. Palm Leaves, Dry Goods, Crockery, Hardwars, Machinery, in great variety, Flonr and Salt, Fish, Ac., in any quantity, at the METROPOLITAN COMBINED VARIETY STORE. Orwell, Pa., Feb. 6. 1865. w ARD HOUSE. TOWANDA, PA. Direr!/y opposite the Court Houese / GENERAL STAGE OFFICE, FOR THE Waverly.Tnnkhannock,Canton,Troy .Montrose, and other lines of stages, Also general and particular attention paid to forwarding and delivering EXPRESS GOODS, Placed in our charge. YVe remain, as ever. Yours, Respectfully, POWELL A SMITH. Ci ROUND PLASTER & PITTSTON COAL Y The subscribers have on hand, ana will keep con stantly at their Store-House, in Ulster, CAYUGA GROUND PLASTOR and PITTSTON COAL, which they will sell at reasonable rates. Ulster, Jan. 16,1865. A. NEWELL & CO. DRUGS ANB FTLEBIRINCS. ,\ RS T O W• S DRU G S T ORE. The subscriber having purchased the Drug Store No. 4, Pattou's Block, Towanda. Pa., formerly occupied by Dr. T, F. MADILL, is now daily adding to his stock ot goods, and will hereaWr give it his personal attention. FRESH, PURE AND RELIABLE DRUGE, MEDICINES ANP CHEMICALS, Purchased from the most reliable and respectable im porters and manufacturers always on hand and for sale on the most reasonable terms. A large stock of FRESH DRUGS AND MEDICINES A- R. Has just been received, aud 1 am uow prepared, to sup ply the WANTS OF THE PUBLIC WITH ALL ARTICLES BELONGING TO THE TRADE. PURE WINES AND LIQUORS, FOR MEDICAL USE ONLY. A PULL ASSORTMENT OP CONCENTRATED BO I'A NIC, ELECTIC AND HOMtKPATHIC MEDI JCINES. ALL THE POPULAR PATENT MEDICINES. KA-. -' ' PAINTS, OIL, VAKNISH, PAINT AND VARNISH BRUSHES, DYE-STUFFS AND GLASS. FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES OF EVERY KIND. TILDEN'S ALCOHOLIC AND FLUID EXTRACTS, AI. AA I. (J I U AN It It £SI .X U J1) S . All the Best Trusses, A B I) O M I N A L S U P P O R T E It;S , Shoulder Braces, BREAST PUMPS, NIPPLE SHELLS, AND SHIELDS, Nursing Bottles, Syringes and Catheters, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OP RAZORS, STROPS, POCKET KNIVES, SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS OF LATE STYLE AND BEST QL'ALITY. A large supply Brushes for the Hat and Hair. Also for the Teetii and Nails, Tooth Powders and Pastes, Oils, Perfumery, Soaps. Combs, Hair Dye, In vigorators.&c.. Kerosene, Kerosene Lamps, Shades, Chimneys, Wicks, Ac , all of the latest styles. Choice Cigars, TOBACCO AND SNUFF. S~ Physicians supplied at teusmable rates. Medi cines and Prescriptions carefully and accurately com pounded and prepared by competent persons at all hours of the day and night. Sunday hours from 9 to 10 o'- clock in the forenoon, 1 to 2 in the utternoon. D. H. BARSTOW. Towanda, Dec. 1, 1864. TJR. PORTER'S OLD DRUG STORE. Already admitted to be The largest,safest and most approved DRUG HOUSE IN NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA, WITH Auestablished reputation for keeping the best medicine UNEQUALLED In its facilities and apparatus for compounding aud pre paring MEDICINE AND PRESCRIPTIONS, Conducted by thoroughly competent persons, whodi vo the most careful attention ,pay t lie strictest regard to accuracy, and use only selected arti cles, and medicines of unques tioned purity, has become THE CASH DRUG STORE With prices revised to correspond with the market. W II OLE SALE AND RETAIL, ALL ARTICLES WARRANTED AS REPRESENTED. By recent arrangements with the Manufacturers, Impor ters or First Holders of Goods and Cash Purcha ses,the prices will always be attlielow est point for Prime.Goods. LOWER FIGURES THAN EVER IN PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, GLASS, DRUGS AND DYE-STUFFS. Everything in this extensire stock will be sold Cheap far Cash ! PRICES REDUCED, VIZ: OF SOAPS. PERFUMERY, BRUSHES, COMBS. POCKET KNIVES AND RAZORS, LAMPSA X I) M A T E R I A L 8 FOR LIGHT. TRUSSES <& SUPPORTERS, WINES AND LIQUORS, ONLY FOR MEDICINE. TORACCO AND SNUFF. ALL THE POPULAR PATENT MEDICINES, TOOTH, SKIN AND HAIR PREPARATIONS, FANCY ARTICLES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. Eclectic, Botanic, and Homeopathic Medicines Spices, Bird Seed, Lamp Shades and Garden Seeds. FISH TACKLE, AMMUNITION, Ac. Constituting the most complete assortment, embracing the great wants of the People, reduced in Price, aud revised for the Cash System. DR. PORTER'S COAL OIL. DR. PORTER'S CAMPHENE ! DR. PORTER'S ALCOHOL! DR. PORTER'S BURNING FLUID ! Are Fresh, daily prepared, and unrivalled by any in the Market. I I) R . PORTER'S PREPARATIONS FOR FAMILY USE. Known as Safe and Reliable Remedies,are warranted fo what they are intended to give satisfaction, viz : Dr Porter's Pectoral Syrup price 50 cents Dr Porter's Family Embrocation •' 35 " Dr Porter's Tonic Elixer '• 100 " Dr Porter's Worm Syrt'p " 50 " Dr Porter's Comp. Syr. Hypophosphites.. " 100 " Dr Porter's Uterine Tonic " 1.50 " Dr Porter's Blackberry Balsam " 35 " Dr Porter's Tooth Ache Drops " 25 " Dr Porter's Cephalic Snuff • 25 " Dr Porter's Tooth Powder •' 50 •< Dr Porter'sTricogene >• ,-,0 •• Dr Porter's Tricophile " 50 " Dr Porter's Shampoo... 50 •< Dr Porter's Horse and Cattle L0ti0n..... " 50 << Dr Porter's Horse and Cattle Powder " 35 << Dr Porter's Bed Bug Poison " 35 •• Dr Porter's Black Ink << 25 •• Dr Porter's Cleansing Fluid • 371 ■< Dr Porter's Rat and Mice Poison " 35 • Dr Porter's Citrate Magnesia " 35 • Dr Porter's Worm Wafers " 35 < MEDICAL ADVICE GIVEN GRATUITOUSLY AT THE OFFICE. Charging only for Medicine. Of Thankful for past liberal patronage would respect fully announce to his friends and the public thatno pain shall be spared to satisfy and merit the continuance ot theircontidence and patronage, at the CASH DRUG STORE! Corner of Main and Pine streets. MISCELLANEOUS. E W P L A N I N G M I TIT. The undersigned having built a large and commodious Mill in the Borough of Towauda, and filled it with *the most modern and improved machinery, for the manufac ture of WINDOW SASH, A BLINDS, are prepared to fill orders, whether large or small, upon the shortest notice. We have also a large variety ot MOULDINGS, of the latest style and pattern, which we can furnish much cheaper than they can be worked by hand. PLANING, TONGUEING, GROVEING, AND SCROLL SAWING, and all other work pertaining to Joinery, will be done to suit our customers. Persons building, and not living more than twelve or fourteen miles distant, will find it largely for their inter est to buy of us, or bring their lumber and have it worked by our machinery. Bring your grist of Floor ing. or other lumber, and while your team is feeding, have it ground out and take it home with you. We will pay CASH for PINE A HEMLOCK LUMBER delivered at our lumber yard. Come and see us, or if you can't come, write. L. B. RODGERS A CO. Towanda, Feb. 8, 1864. OALL AT HUMPHREY & (JO'S. And look at the finest assortment of LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S SHOES Ever offered fn this market. Also TOILET SLIPPERS AND RETrCULES Just the things for Holiday Gifts. Dec. 12. UAU-FTOAITE. MIME TABLE—WAVERLY STATION, JL NKW YORK AND ERIK RAIL ROAD. Change of hours commencing Monday, December 1, 18N T A \Y E S S T ORE! A' FULL ASS ORT MEN T o. U RICHARD PAYNE, ATTORNEY AI ! O* I.AIV, Towanda, Pa. Where he will transact all j j business entrusted to h'.in with promptness and care. Office with C. L. Ward, Esq., 3d street. Towanda. j j Sept. 12, 1864, JOHN N. OALIPF, ATTORNEY AT LA IV, Towanda, Pa. Also, Government Agent | or the collection ot Pensions, Back Pay and Bounty. 00- So charge unless successful. Office over the ; Post Office and News Boom. Dec. t, 1864. | OH WOODRUFF, Dentist, permanent • ly located in Towanda. Office—No. 3, Brick Bow ( over B. W. Eddy's Store. Entrance one door south ot Powell's Keystone Store. Dee. 1,1864. WA PECK, Attorney at Luw Towanda • Pa Office over Means' Store, formerly oc:u j pied by N. N. Betts Dec. 1. I*o4. W T. DA VIES ATTORNEY ATI •LA IP'. Towanda Pa Office with WM. WAT KINS, Esq. Especial attention given to Military Claims and to preparing papers relating to Exemption irom the Pratt. Pee 1,1*64. rpHOM A S J. INGHAM, A TTORNE Y X AT LAIY, BAPOKTE,SuIIivan County, Pa. DUE. H. MASON, PU Y SIC IAN ANT SURGEON,otter* his professional servicesto the people of Towanda and vicinity. Office t his residence on Pine street, where he can always befound when not protessiunalh engaged. HB. MCKEAN— A TTORNE FAT • LA IV 1 'o WANPA, PA —Having seen service. Military business of all kinds attended to. 00- Office over Moutanyes' Store. April 21,1803. G'EOKGE D. MONTANYE. ATTOL r NEY AT LA IV —Office in Union Block,tornn r ly occupied by JAS.M ACKAKLANE. I J NEW ELL, CO UNT YS UR VI. Y M • OR. Orwell, Bradford County, Penn'a. will prompt ly attend to all business in his fine. Particular atten tion given to running and establishing old or disputed lines. Also to tie surveying of all unpatented lands as soon as warrants are obtained. Orwell, June 17, 1863. WT. DA VIES, Attorney at Law, To • wanda, Pa. Office with Wm. Watkins, Esq. Particular attention paid to Orphans' Court business and settlement ol decedents estates. 25-42. MERC I K & .\l01ll{0\V,.l(/owt/s/ Law, Towanda, Penn'a, The undersigned having associated tbemselvas togeth er in the practice of Law, offer their professional ser vices to the public. ULYSSES MEItCUB, P. I). MORROW. March 9,1865. I UULWARI) T. ELLIOTT, Attorney at Law, JLJ Towanda, Pa.,. 00- Office one door south ot PATCH'S, up stairs, over the room lormerly occupied for the Telegraph Office. March 2, 1865. BACK PAY, BOUNTY AND PENSIONS I can no get Bounty through the Pay Depatrment | in all cases where a soldier was discharged on account ol wounds received in service. Also, the Advance Bounty ot $26 00, and premium of i $2 00, when the soldier was discharged before receiving I the same. W. T.DA 0. LAW CO-PARTXERSHI P7~ The undersigned have formed a co-partnership in law business under the name of ADAMS PEBT. Partic- | • ular attention paid to bnsiness in the Orphans' Court. JC ADAMS. i Towanda, January 33, 1865. 11. PEET. PATRICK & PECK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Offices :—ln Union Block, Towanda, Pa., formerly occupied by Hon. Wm. Eiwell, and in Patrick's block, Athens, Pa. They may he consulted at either place. H. W. PATRICK, apll3 W. A. PECK. insurance. THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA. Office No. 242 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. This Company are now prosecuting the business of i i Insurance Irom loss or damage by FIRE on Buildings, i Merchandise, Furniture, Ac., throughout the State of 1 ! Pennsylvania, on Liberal Terms, lor long or short peri- J ods ; or permanently on Buildings, by a deposit of Pre f miiim. The prompt payment of claims for losses during the : period of nearly Seventy Years that the Company has , been in existence, entitles them to the confidence ol the t public. DIRECTORS.—Arthur G. Coffin, Samuel W. Sones, John A. Brown, Charles Taylor, Ambrose white, John K. Xeff, Richard D. Wood, William Welsh, William E. Bowen, lames N. Dickson, S Morris Wain, John Mason, Geo. . L, Aarrison, Francis R. Cope, Edward H. Trotter, Ed ward S. Clarke, William Cnm'mings— AßTHUß G. COP KIN. President. B. S. RUSSEI.L, Agent, Towanda. 117 YOMING INSURANCE COMPANY, T T Office over the Wyoming Bank, WILKESBAR RE, PA. ! CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $150,000. Will Insure against I.oss or Damage by Fire on proper ty in Town or Country, at reasonable rates. '' DIRECTORS:—G. M. Halleiihack. John Richard, Sam'l Wadhams, L. I). Shoemaker, D. G. Dresbach, R. C. Smith R. D. Lacoe, Charles A. Miner, C. B. Fisher, Charles Dorrance, Wm. S. Ross, G. M. Harding. t G. M. HOLLENBACK, President. L. D. SHOEMAKER, Vice Presid't. B.C. SMITH, Sec'y. W. G.STERLING, Treasurer. Camptown, Dec. 1, 1864. HOMER CAMP, Agent. }Jl)otograpl)s. C GOME TII I N D NE W A T GEORGE H. WOOD'S P II O T O G R A PII I C GAL L E R Y , TOWANDA, PA. "• He lias the pleasure of informing his old friends and patrons, that he is now prepared to make the new and beautiful style of GE M FERROT YPE S , mounted on cards very cheap. " Also, Melainotypes for Lockets, Cases, or Frames, as well as all kinds oi P HOTOGR A P II s AS BEFORE IN THE BEST S T Y I. E OF ART. Views taken of Houses on short notice. CO P Y I N G DONE TO 0RI) Ell 5 In a few days. ; AL L WOIt K WARRA NTE D . ( Albums kept on hand and will be sold cheap. G. H. WOOD. Dec. 6, 1864. > _ ' % Nous Room. QOWLES & GO'S NEW BOOK STORE. NEWS ROOM AND EXPRESS OFFICE, are all in the Post Office building, on Main street, diret ly opposite the Court House. They have the larger and most elegant assortment of BOOKS, STATIONERY, MAGAZINES. PERIODICALS SINGING BOOKS, SHEET MUSIC, LITHO GRAPHS, PHOTOGRAPHS, PHOTO GRAPH ALBUMS, DIARIES, FOR 1864, AC., AC., to be found anywhere in the country. They are COD stantly receiving, irom New York and Phiiadelphia.it the late and most popular publications of the day, diree from the press, such as Harper's Monthly, Eclecti Mngaziue, Rebellion Record, Godey's Lady's Book, Pe terson's Magazine. Scientific American, Gleason's Liter ary Companion, Dime Novels, Song Books, Comic Al manacs, and News Papers: also the Daily Tribune, Times. Herald, Journal of Commerce, Sun, Ledger, Mer cury, Clipper, Boston Pilot, Ac.. Ac. On their counter may be found the following late and highly popular works just issued from the Press, Gen. BUTLER in New Orleans ; Beyond the liues, or a Yam kee prisoner loose in Dixie ; Soundings from the Atlan tic, by Oliver Weudal Holmes: Triumphs of the Bible, by Tulledge ; Roundabout Pasers by Thackery; The Amber Gods, by Prescott: Shoulder Straps, by Morford Freedom and War, by Henry Ward Beecher ; The Res son Why ; Leallets ol Masonic Biography : Our Home* by Hawthorn ; Three years in Japan ; Stories of tie' Old and New Testament; Social Condition of the Eng li-sh People ; The Sioux War and Massacres of 1862 an■ FR' 1 - Book-Binbm). BOOK-BINDERY.— THE PUBLIC • respectfully informed that a Book-Bindery ha- • established in connection with the Printing i i the " Bradford Reporter.'" where will be done BOOK-BINDI N G 1 In nil its various branches, on terms as rea-ona j •• the times " will allow. The Bindery will be u | the charge o! H. C. WHITAKER, ; An experienced Binder, and all work will be pi n: ' < done, in a style and manner which cannot be ex Music, Magazines. Newspapers, Old Bo - 1 bound in every variety of style. Particular..' 5 will be paid to the Ruling and Rinding ot BLANK BOOKS. To any desired pattern, which in quality and dura wil be warranted. All work will be ready for delivery when prom;-. The patronage of the" public Is solicited, and p satisfaction guaranteed Bindery (after Ist December.) in the front i " " Reporter" Building, (down stairs.) north side < Public Square, Towanda. Pa. Nov. 16. I* • il a vii in a re. HARDWARE. CODDING & RUSSI HAVE A LARGE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK OF GD ' To which additions are daily being made, whi ' ' offer cheap for Cash. A large assortment of COOKING STOVES, Among the many desirable and beautilul pattern- i- CELECRATED AMERICAN. This beautiful stove is unsurpassed for en ' : fuel; is a perfect baker; is the best COOK STi'V! the market. Among their heating Stoves may •' - a great variety suitable for every place where stove- > used. STOVE PIPE AND SHEET IRON WoltK Always on hand and made to order. TINW A R E , A large stock manufactured from the very best m3t>'" J and by experienced workmen. A very ful assortni : IRON, NIALS AND STEEL. At New Y'ork prices. HOUSE AND CARRIAGE TRIMMINGS. TOOLS FOR THE FARMER. Tools lor tiie House Joiner and Carpenter Tool- Blacksmiths'—Tools for everybody. WINDOW SASH AND GLASS. PAINTS. OIL* aN ' VARNISHES, MACHINE OM. AND BENZUI.K KDROSENE OIL, LAMPS, WICKS ANDCRIM* 1^ BELTING, TABLE AND KOCKKT CI'TLKRV BRITTANNIA AND PLATED W.UIK Pumps, Lead Pipe, < 'Anin Pumps, " Pipes, (grindstones and fixtures, KF.SO6EN E L A N T E R N * • JOB WORK done with dispatch. Lamps rei'j-V Fluid laim|)saud lauiterus altered aud fitted to b" r rosene. ~r Grain, Old iron, Casting and Wrought Scraps A i Brass, Brittannia, Beeswax, Feathers and Ra/s t.ixv exchange for goods. Highest price in cash paid for Sheep Pelts an • -OUR GOODS have been purchased on tnr down system and will be sold for READY" PAY JOHN A. CODDING, 1 rOtinlNli V Rl'SSfc-1-^* C. S. HCBSELL. ( Towanda, March 10, 1863. PLOVER SEED FOR SALE RY . \J W. A. BOCKWEI