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MERCUR & MORROW, Attorneys at Lair, Towanda, Penn'a, The undersigned having associated themselves together in the practice of Law, offer their pro fessional services to the pablic. ULYSSES MERCUR, P. D. MORROW. March 9.1865. PATRICK & PECK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Offices :—ln Union Block, Towanda, Pa., formerly occupied by Hon. Wm. Elwell.and in Patrick's block, Athens, Pa. They tmay be consulted at either place. W. PATRICK, APLLJ W. A. PECK. ÜB. McKEAN, ATTORNEY d • COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Towan da, Pa. Particular attention paid to business in the Orphans' Court. July 20. 1866. HENRY PEET, Attorney at Law, Towanla, Pa. *jun27,66. WH. CARNOCHAN, ATTOR • NEY AT LAW, Troy, Pa. Special attention given to collecting claims against the Government for Bounty, Back Pay and Pensions. Office with E. B. Parsons, Esq. June 12,1865. DR. H. WESTON, DENTIST Office in Patton's Block, over Gore's Drag and Chemical St ors. Ijan66 LMLWARD OVERTON JR.7 Atto7- JEJnet/ al Law, Towanda, Pa. Office in Mon aayes Block, over Frost's Store July 13,1865. JOHN N. C A LIFE, ATTORNEY tl .17' t.AW , Towanda, Pa. Also, Govern ment Agent for the collection of Pensions. Back Pay and Bounty. asp No charge unless successful. Office over the Post Office aud News Room. Dec. 1, 1864. 0 1). STILES, M. I)., Physician and • Surgeon, would announce to the people ot Rom- Borough and vicinity, that he has perma ueutiy locate at the place formerly occupied by Dr. <i. W. Stone, for the practice of his p ofes siun. Particular attention given to the treat ment ot women and children, as also to the prac tice ot operative and minor surgery. Oct. 2,'K6. DR. PRATT bus removed to State street, (first above B. S. Russe': A Go's Bark). Persons from a distance desirous .1 con sulting him, will be most likely to find him on Saturday Df each week. Especial attention will be given to surgical cases,and the extraction ot teeth 'las or Ether administered when desired. July 18. 1866. D. 8. PRATT, M. D. DOCTOR CHAS. F. PAINE —or fice ia GOHB'S Drug Store, Towanda, Pa. Calls promptly attended to at all hours. Towanda, November 28, lsoc. IFDW'D MEEKS—AUCTIONEER. J All letters addressed to him at Sugar Run. Bradford Co. Pa., will receive prompt attention. FRANCIS E. POST, Painter, Toxe anela. Pa, with 10 years experience, is con ddent he can give the best satisfaction in Paint ing, Graining, Staining, Glazing, Papering, Ac. as-Particular attention paid to Jobbing in the country. April 9, 1866. J .T NE W E LL, COUNTY SURVEYOR, Orwell, Bradford Co.. Pa,, will promptly attend to all business in his line. Particular attention given to running and establishing old or dispu ed lines. Also to surveying of all unpattented lands as soon as warrants are obtained. myl7 W R HERSEY WAT KINS,~ Notary • Public is prepared to take Depo-i ons. Acknowledge 'he Execution of Deeds, M rtgages, Power of Gttorney, and all other instruments. Affidavits and other pipers may be sworn to before me. Office opposite the Banking House of B.S. Russell AGs., a few doors north of the Ward H Towanda, Pa., Jan. 14. 1867. D. K X A P P, Watch Maker and Dealer in Gents and Ladies Wat :hes Chains and Finger Rings.Clocks, Jew eiry, Gold Pens, Spectacles, Silver ware. Plat el ware. Hollow ware. Thimbles, Sewing Ma chines, and other goods belonging to a Jewel ry Store. Particular attention paid to Repairing, at old p!a. e near the Post Office, Waverly, N. V Dec. 3,1866.—tf. WARD HOUSE, TOWANDA, PA. On Main Street, near the Court House. C. T. SMITH, Proprietor. Oct. *. 1866. AMERICAN HOTEL, TOWANDA, PA., Having purchased this well kuown Hotel on Bridge Street, I have refurnished and refitted it with every convenience for the accommoda tion of all who may patronize me. No pains will be spared to make all pleasant and agreeable. May 3,'66.—ti. J. 8. PATTERSON, Prop. SNYDER HOUSE, a four story brick edifice near the depot,with large airy rooms, elegant parlors, uewiy furnished, has a recess in new additiou for Ladies use, and is the most conv-nient and only first class hotel at Waverly. N y. It is the principal office tor stages south and express. Also for sale of Western Tickets, and in Canada, on Grand Trunk Rail-way. Fare to Detroit from Buffalo, $4, is cheaper than any other route. Apply for tickets .is above to C. WARFORD. ar stabling and care of Horses at reasonable rales. Waverly N. V , 0ct.36.1866. 3m. C. W. HOTEL, SMITHBORO. N. Y . Having rented and Refitted this well kuown Hotel, I am ready to accommodate all who may favor me with a call. I have a la ge HaTl at tached. suitable for lectures, dances, Ac. Pass - angers carried to any point by applying at the Hotel. No pains will be spared to make every 'king agreeable and comfortable for the t ravel mg public. J. B. VANWINKLE, Jan. 10, 1867. Proprietor. E W ARRANGE ME N T AT TUB NEWS ROOM AND BOOK STORE. Tue undersigned having purchased the BOOK J"ORE AND NEWS ROOM of J. J. Griffiths, respectfully invite the old patrons of the estab lishment and the public generally, to call and ex amine our stock. ALVORD A BARBER. • AbYORD. r. s, liMßi. E. O. GOODRICH, Publisher. VOLUME XXVII. SONG. RV JOHN G. WHITHER. The hiirp at Nature's advent strung Has never ceased to play ; The song the stars of morning snng Has never died away. And prayer is made, and praise is given, By all things near and far ; The ocean looketh up to heaven, And mirrors every star. Its waves are kneeling on the strand, As kneels the human kuee, Their white locks bowing to the sand, The priesthood of the sea! They pour their glittering treasures forth, Their gifts of pearl they bring, And all the listening hills of earth Take up the song they sing. The green earth sends her incense up From many a mountain shrine ; From folded leaf and dewy cup She pours her sacred wine. The mists above the morning rills Rise white as wings of prayer ; The altar curtains of the hills Are sunset's purple art. The winds with hymns of praise are loud, Or low with sobs of pain, Ths thunder-organ of the cloud. The dropping tears of rain. With drooping head and branches crossed The twilight forest grieves, Or speaks with tongnes of Pentecost From all its sunlit leaves. The blue sky is the temple's arch. Its transept earth and air, The music of its starry march The chjnis of a prayer. So nature keeps the reverent frame With which her years began, And all her signs and voices shame The prayerless heart of man. STORY FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS THE LITTLE BROOK, AND WHAT HUGH LEARNED FROM IT. Away up among the mountains, a little stream started out up u its winding way—upon its journey to the great ocean, whither journey all the streams and rivers. Cheerily and merrily sang the little t pring as it bubbled out from beneath the rocks and lormed its own little channel to ruu in, over the stones and dry leaves and broken branches. White and clean were the stones washed by the pure, clean water. And leaves and broken branches seemed quite con tent to lie there and let the waters play among them. On, on ran the stream, singing its pleasant song all through the woods, to the trees and birds and squirrels, to lonely travel lers aud to all passers by—never stopping, always running swifter and growing broader as it drew nearer to the river that would lead it to its journey's end. " What a pretty brook it is !" thought Hugh as he sat down beside the swift, clear waters. " But I wish it would not run away so fast. I'll build up a great dam to stop it—it shall stay with me a while.' So Hugh built up a wall across the brook, and filled the cracks with clay aud gravel, and thought it seemed quite strong &Hd tight. But the wa ters were uneasy, they could not stay, they had no time to waste in just amusing idle Hugh, they struggled to get free and go onward on their course. And Boon they found the way ; they forced a passage-way in spite of stones and clay, and then they ran so swiftly on that they wash ed away the dam and once again were free. And again they sang their pleasant song aud ran on even faster than before, to make up for lost time. Hugh threw great stones in, bnt the water only ran over or around them, making little ripples and looking all the prettier. Then he threw in great logs and strong branches, but he could not stop the waters nor hinder them one minute. " Oh, tiresome little brook !" cried Hugh, " why will you hurry on so fast ? Why, I don't live so ; I stop a little while, every now and then, to rest. I am running on like you ; Time carries me on fast, yet I don't mind a minute, now and then. I have time enough to wait, or go a little slowly, or even to be idle—why can't you do the same ?" But the little stream only answered with its song, that seemed to say—" Onward, onward, I have a work to do, I can not stop ; I take my play-time as I go. I have a work to do." Hugh had a work to do ; we'll spend a day with him aud see just how he works: we'll see if he is earnest and faithful like the little stream. Hugh is leep in bed now, we'll be with him in the morning when he wakes. " Time to get up, Hugh !" and his mother tries to rouse her sleepy boy. " Yes, in a minute, mother. But the minute was full half an honr, and even then Hugh rose very slowly, and Btopped a minute half way out of bed, to try if he could put both feet into one slipper,—it was big enough, be thought. " And what is that on the floor ? why it is the bit of rubber I had on the end of my pen cil, I'll just fasten it on now." And Hugh hunted up his. pencil, but the rubber did not fit, it would not stay in its place. So Hugh threw it away saying, " I'll get another by and by. I must sharpen my pencil, thoagb, for the poiut is as dull as dull as the other end ; I can't tell which is the end to write with. What a fiue thing it would be to have Imth ends sharp ened." This was done, and then Hugh must see how they would write; and then be remembered he must I hunt up a piece of paper to take to school ; he often wanted some there to write on. The key to his writing case was missing, but he found it, and found too that his case was all out of order ; so he stopped to put things straight. " Hugh, are you nearly ready ?" called his mother, " it is gettiug very Lite, and you have your lesson yet to learn." So Hugh began to dress. " I won der how many button-holes I could fasten on one button—four, five, six —oh dear ! there's the button oft'.''— And Susan had to come and sew it on. " What's the matter with my cuffs, —some how they don't look like mine. I'll measure with one of my others. Yes, they are just the same, but I wish they were made like Frank Smith's ; his ire ever so much nicer.' By and by Hugh was dressed. He knelt down to say say his prayers, but forgot to ask to be made indus trious aud kept from wasting his time ; he forgot that the Good Fath er loves to see his children earnest and faithful in the work they have to do. " What's on my book, I wond er." Hugh had found a little spot and could not study till he had tried to scrape it off Then lie began to learn his lesson, and only stopped now and then to wonder how in the world the cornice was fastened up in its place, and then to watch ally on the window pane, aud wonder if it had only four legs instead of *ix.— Then a little mouse ran out into the room aud Hugh stopped to give it some crubs, and atterwards to hnnt up the trap and set it. And so break fast time came and found the lesson not half learned. Hugh had to get his luneheou ready, then to strap his books, and when was all through, only five minutes were left him for his breakfast. Just us the clock struck, Hugh reached school all out of breath from his run. The unlearned lesson trou bled him all day ; he had no time to study it; he missed and was kept in. Coming home, Hugh loitered to look in at the shop windows, or talk with the boys, or follow a crowd to see what was the matter. So much time was wasted that he lost his play hour, and had to go right to work at next day's lessons. The lessons dragged ; Hugh thought of fifty oth er things, and stopped for many tri fles. He was tired and uncomforta ble ; nothing had gone right all day. Hugh thought of the little brook and of the long distance it had journey ed ou since early morning ; and he himself—had he gone onward or back ward ? The little brook still sang its merry song, but Hugh was tired and unhappy. The brook had cheer ed many as it ran along : Hugh had disappointed and annoyed his parents and his teachers by his slow and idle ways Hugh began to think. The little brook was wiser than he alter all ; and happier too. And the (freat Father above, who had made both Hugh and the brook, had looked down upon them that day, and was better pleased with the little stream of wa ter than with the boy who knew so much more, and who had received such numberless gifts and blessings to make him wise and good and happy. " Oh, little brook," sighed Hugh, " I wish I had gone steadily on like you. I am tired of stopping and wasting my time ; and to-night I'm not gay aud merry like you. But to-morrow I'll think of you all day long, little brook, and try to do just as you do ; for I too want to be hap py and to please the Great Father above.— .V. V. Observer. LATINO CP FOR CHILDREN. —Parental affection uaturally inquires what it can best do for the welfare of its chil dren in future years, and wheu the bosom that now throbs with love to its offspring shall be cold in death. Many plans are laid, and many hours of anxious solicitude are speut in con triving ways and means of rendering children prosperous and happy in fu ture life. But parents are not always wise in the provisions they seek to make for their children ; nor do they always seek direction and counsel from God in this matter. The best inheritance for children, be, ond all contradiction, is true piety 1 vards God, the salutary truths aud princi ples of religion laid up in the hearts of the .children—a good education — good and virtuous habits—unbending principles of moral conduct—the fear of God, and the hope of Heaven.— This is the inheritance for children, and whicn all parents should be most anxious to lay up for them. Many au unwise parent works hard and lives sparingly all his life,for the purpose of leaving enough to give his children a start in the world, as it is called. Setting a young man afloat with money left him by his relatives, is like tying bladders under the aru.s of one who cannot swim ; ten chan ces to one he will lose the bladders, or go to the bottom. Teach him to swim, and he will not need the blad ders. Give your children a sound educa tion. See to it that his morals are pure, nis miud cultivated, and hiß whole nature made subservent to the laws which govern man, and you have given what will be more valu able than the wealth of the Indies.— You have given him a start which no misfortune cau deprive him of. The earlier you teach him to depeud upon his own resources and the blessings of God the better. IN a charity sermon iu behalf uf the BlinH Asylum, the preacher gravely re marked, "If all the world were blind, what a melancholy light it would be." WHILE you are getting rich, try to get hold of that kind of wealth that brings content with it, or you will be rich to little purpose SOME one says human heads are like hogsheads—the less they contain, the i leader we repot t they give of theaselve*. HEOARDLEBB OF DBKCTJCIATIOS FROM ANY QrARTEK TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., APRIL 11,1867. (From the Toledo Blade.) NABBY. Mr. Nnsbu desires Confirmation—ls advised hoic to Proceed by the Presedmt, hut rejects the Proposition tcith scorn. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15, 1867. Washington agin ! Wat changes hev bin made in the last two yeers ! Not in Washington, for this delight ful abode uv oftlshl purity hezu't changed a particle, nor never will. ' From the summit uv Willard's hotel ! 1 kin see now, ez 1 did a yeer ago, | the same sign uv " steamed oysters," | in front, the Capitle towerin over the trees at the tother end uv the Ave j noo, aud behind the Pattent Offis and Post Oftis buildins, the first the Mec ca uv every Dimokrat and the tother uv every Yaukee who comes her.*. No ! Washiutou aint changed, but I hev. Formerly when 1 visited Wash inton it wuz tite times with me, Wil lard's wuz my hotel, then ez uow.— Chadwick, him uv the towerin hite, rotund abdomen, side whiskers, and round hat, wuz then ez now my land lord. In them days, before the hap py return uv A. Johnson to reason put sum thousand Democrats, who bed more stumick than money aud more appetite than small change, in to oftis, and, per couBekece,into con dition to pay their bdls.l wuz a guest at this hotel, wich is to say I slept on the 6teps uv the Capitle, and took or tried to take my meals at Chad wick's bountiful board. Ef 1 bed no cur rency I Led taste, and ez I wuz forag in for subsistence, I alluz made it a point to forage on the richest paster fields. It is ez easy to check a first class dinner ez it is a second class, and besides, I felt that sich a hotel ez Willard's wuz better able to stand sich boarders ez 1 wuz then them uv less patronage. 1 kepi away from tother hotels out uv sympathy for the proprietors. Never shel I forget my last visit here. 1 hed run the dinin room guardian-angel fur a week, and wuz congratulatiu myself un another week at least, when Chadwick stop ped me hisself, and the folleriu con versashen ens >od : " My friend," sed he in wiuuin toues. " Davis Garret is my name !" sez I promptly. "We hear enuff," sez he. "Listen! I've let yoo run a week, coz it's my regler practis. Yoo hed a hungry look, but by this time yoo out to be filled up and able to go a week at least without eatiu. Ez yoo amt uv no earthly use to anybody, and make no pretentious to bein ornamental— git 1" and three well directed kicks laudid me onto the side-walk. But I hev forgiven him. He treats me well. He hez confidence in me uow, I heviu paid him in advance. It's a rool he hez, he jocosely remark ed, with men uv my pecooller cast uv countenance, to hev em pay in ad vance. He says it's much the best way. Hevin paid, sich men ez me feel more comfortable about the house and so do the proprietors. It's me that's changed—l hev money to pay my bills. Bless the lord for Seward, Johnson, Randall and other luxuries. But pleasant ez it is to contrast my former poeishen with my present proud one, I bev not time to dwell upon reminiscences. Lite is short ; I am a practicle man, and tho it may be pleasant to linger for a moment onto memry's plesant fields,l cannot My biznis in Washiuton is precisely what every Democrat's biznis is here: to git confirmed. It aint no trouble for a Kentucky Democrat to git ap pointed, for the President hez so far relaxed his rules in this pertikeler ez to appint them ez wuznt never in the Confedrit army, but to git confirmed is the pinch. There's the gauntlet uv au Ablißhn Senit to run, and good Lord wat a kuowledge they hev uv the out-gnins and in eomins uv ap pointees ! The President and Postmaster- Genera! Randall wuz extremely anx ious for my confirmashet ; so much so, that they advised me to resort to the strategy now so common in the North. " Go back on me for the time bein," sed that trooly great and good man who adorns the sofas in the Presi denshel Mansion. " Wilcox em.— That's yoor only holt, Wilcox em. I advised him to do it and gee how it worked " " My dear sir," sed 1, carried away by this new and experienced display of greatness, " Kin yoo bear to hev me who bears yoor banner in Ken tucky bend the knee to au Ablisheu Senit, and repoodiate yoo, even for an hour? It is safe in my case, for my nateral affinities are with yoo, but don't, I beg uv yoo, advise all uv them to so do. My deer sir, two thirds uv them will go out for con firmashen, and, ef successful, will forgit to return. But the great and good Johnson wood take no denials. " Draw up," sed he, " a letter to a conservativ member uv Congress, explain yoor connection with me, and—" And overkum with emoshen, he bust into tears, Sadly I undertook the task, and after four hours uv intense labor, the follerin wuz completed : " Hon. , House uv Reps. 41 My dear Sir : My conflrmashen by the Senit uv the Yoonited States to the posishen uv Postmaster at the Confedrit X Roads, wich is iu the State uv Kentucky, bein somewhat jeopardized by ray uperashens in the politikle field doorin the past two years, I Lev the honor to explaue that, not withstand iu the fact that I wuz an original Democrat, early in the war I took up anus for the pres ervation uv our beloved Yoonion.— The precise date 1 cannot give, owin to the demoralized coudisheu uv my mind at the time, but that yoo kin assertane for yourselves. It wuz about two weeks after the fust dratt. That I laid down arms agin ez soon s the regiment a truck Southern sile will not, when, when the motives wich actooated me are known, be al lowed to weigh agin me. It bez bin sed I desertid to the euemy— so it wuz sed uv Joh Champe, but histrv Bubsekently vindicated him—be went to ketch Arnold. I will not stop to reply to my defamers.but ef it comes out finally that I went for the purpose uv satisfyin the rebels by okular do monstrasheu that they bed nothiu to hope lor from the Northern Demo crats, uv whom I wuz a average specimen, wat kin my enemies say then? I do not deny that 1 wuz a ardent supporter uv President Johnson from the beginuin uv his career. I wuz filled with a drafted man's magnani mity toward a conkered foe, and up to the very day I reserved my eoin mishen I favored cousilitory meas ures. I accompanied him on his—l will not say disgraceful, for he is my sooperior officer—tour toro the North ern States, and slung my hat higher nor anybody else's at his—l will not say drunken, for reasons above meu shuued—speeches, and aboozed the highly intelligent populaces at Cleve land, Injeauapolis, Springfield, and other pints in a manner wich, now that I think of it, wnz trooly shame ful. Also I organized a Johnson party in various parts uv the North ern States, and viggerously support in members uv Congress pledged to the policy nv wich I wuz, at the time, a deceeved supporter. About this time I wuz appinted Postmaster, and, fiadin I needed confirmashen, my views undergoed a Kadikle chauge. Time and observashen hev taught me that instid uv consilatheu, ooer siieu is our best holt, and that now military measures are necessary in the South,'on til them rebeilyus people completely acquiesce in the terms imposed by Cougris for restorashen. My present views on this interestin tropic is best defiued by the resent speeches uv flon. Charles Sumner, the eminent and trooly great Senator from the enlitened State uv Massa chusetts, and also by the recent ut terances uv them lovable Represent atives, Hon. Thadeus Stevens, uv Pennsylvauy, Hon. & Gen. Benj. F. Butler, uv Massachoosits, and Hon. Jas. M. Ashley, uv Ohio, in all uv whose sentiments, sich ez they hev now, and also them ez they hev alluz bed, ez well ez them wich they may hereafter hev, 1 most heartily and en tirely concur. With this explanasbeu wieti I hope will prove entirely satisfactoiy, and with tlnv addishiuel asshoorence that I aiu now a very warm supporter uv the Congressional policy, and that when 1 look back and see wat I hev bin a doin for the past two years, I so loathe myself that 1 kin hardly be restrained from sooiaidin, may 1 ask yoo to personally urge my con firmashen in the Senit ? Trooly and Respectfully Yoore, PETROLEUM V. NASBY. I read this epitle to A. Johnson, who wuz pleased to approve it, and also to Randall, who wuz delitcd with it, and to Wells, who alter forc ing me to read it twice over, wautid to know if it had anything to <io with the Navy Department, and, and then returned to the President with my mind fully made up that 1 never would seud that document. "Wat?" said he, Btartin back as tonished. " Not send it ?" "Never!" sed I, "Never! Sich things may do for Postmasters and Assessors wich you took from the Republikin ranks, bat not for me. I hev done many things which perhaps woodent holdout 60 lbs. to the bushel —I voted for Peerce, and likewise for Bookannon, and supported em in all their various doins, besides other mean things too tejus to tnenshun, but my sensitive soul recoils at ilns, my proud stumick revolts. I leave it for yoor Ousters and Wiicoxes and sich, no Kentucky Piuiokrat kin Let em refoose to confirm me at their peri! lam the only Dimokrat in ten miles who kin write, and they dare not, by turnin me out, deprive Kentucky, wich never seceded, uv > mail facilities. " Brave man !" exclaimed Johnson, in a husky voice, and his eyes suf fused with tears, falliu onto my neck and weepin profooßeiy down my back, "let em hist you. Ef they do, 1 pledge yoo my word, and will give joo sekorrity now if yoo desire it, that yoo sbel hev a partnership with Mrs. Cobb, which is worth a score uv Post Offices. I hev alluz noticed that vichoo is its own reward.. By bein troo, wat a feeld is now open to me ? Let the Senit do its worst. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. M., iWich is Postmaster), und likewise Profess or uv Bibiikle Politicks ih the Southern Claaikle Military Institoot. A YOCN'O lawyer,who had long paid his court to a lady without much ad vancing his suit,accused her one day of being insensible to the power of love. "It does not follow," she archly replied, "that I am 80 because I am not to be won by the jxjwcr of attorn ey.'" "Forgive me," replied the suit or, "but you should remember that all the votaries of Cupid are golictt ors." "Yoc dou't seem to know how to take me," said a vulgar boy to a gentleman whom he had insulted. "Yes, I did," said the gentleman : "by the nose," A FRIEND says he kuows of but one branch of employment which is very profitable, and but little followed. Find that is, "mind your own business. THE mostest fuu for the leistest money—Having a pretty girl to kiss you on both cheeks, and then say she "thought it was cousin Tom." A PHILOSOPHER who married a vul gar but amiable girl, used to call her "brown sugar, ' because, he said, "she was sweet, but unrefined." DISCIPLINE should be ever active, i both as a support, and as a restraint yet I seen to U easily rnfaaed. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CHRIS TIAN CHURCHES AND 8- SCHOOLS IN BRADFORD COUNTY. In compliance with a resolution of the Sunday School Association at our last annual meeting, the Executive Committee have the pleasure of pre senting to you as their report of our doings since our first organization in 1863. The necessity of an organization like our present one, was apparent for several years before to quite a number of its present members, and efforts for an organization resulted in a meeting being called at Towanda in June, 1863, at which, and at two subsequent meetings, in September aud December, the plans were laid for active work iu the following spring, which resulted in securing the services of Rev. R. Crittenden, of Connecticut, who was commission ed by the Americ-n Sunday School Union to work under our guidance iu this county. He has been h'-re since them con stantly at wt lk. and we refer you to the reports iod tabular statements heiewiti* presented, as the result of of his labors. We Lave learned by his exaraina j tions of the county, that there is a j very great work to do ; and we are I also cjuv need that, under God, our ; Association is the best organization |to carry the Sunday School to the destitute parts ot the county. We •do not propose to interfere with, or supercede the work of any Evangeli cal Church organization, but leave to ! them in every neighborhood this work ■ where there is the ability and zeal to carry it on, but in the neighborhoods where there are no regular ministra tions of the Gospel, nor numbers or material strength sufficient to organ ize a church, we propose by uniting ! the strength of combined effort, to seek out thoee places and plant the j Sunday School, which we trust will ; be in all cases followed by the preach ing of the Gospel and the establisb | inent of the ministry. This is <>ur 1 work, to this we direct our effort, and ; as we have such abundant evidence of the Divine blessing, as the statis tical tables annexed show, we look forward confidently to the time when I our whole connty wiil be dotted over with houses where the Gospel shall • be preached in its simplicity, and the . Truth, as it is Jesus, made known ev | cry Sabbath. i We invito the help of every pro j feßsor of religion in our county in i this work. BV need your counsel, •yourprayers and your means. You can give us your counsel by attending our regular meetings when held, as they are. in different parts of the county, four times a year. You can give us your prayers at all times and under ail circumstances, and you can give us your means, regularly and annually, by collections in the church es, in the schools, and by private subscription. Our means are used exclusively to pay the salary of our Missionary and the necessary sta tionery and printing. Nothing else no travelling or any other expensee. \\ fiope in the ensuing spring to have depository >f Sunday School Books established at Towanda. where Sunday School Literature can be sup plied at publishers prices, adding on ly cost of transportation. It will be our aim to do uie work efficiently and practically, and com mending it to your earnest attention, We remain, Your brethren in Ohrist, B. S. KCSSRLL, President ABSTRACT FROM THE TRKASURKR'S RE PORT Sunday Schools which have made an annual contribution to the Sunday School Association during the year ending September 25th, 1806 : c <Jak Hill Sunday School, bister ™ Mountain Lake Union Sunday School. Union S. S., Rome Borough, 2. Hinsdale Union Sunday School, Home. Camptown Union Sunday School. Lcßaysville Congregational S. S., 2. Smithfield " " 2. Christ Church S. S., Towanda. Terrytown Union Sunday School. Baptist Church Sunday School, Towanda. Pond Hill U.S. S-, Wysox. Prospect Hill F. 8. S., Burlington Lanes' Corners " Orwell Hill Presbyterian Sunday School. Standing Stone Urnon Sunday School South Burlington " " Mt. Pleasant Franklin Center Spring Lake (Pooltown) U. S. S. Stevens ville Presbyterian Church S. S. Wvalusing Presbyterian S. S. * •• M. E. Sunday School. Brown town Union Sunday School. Tavlorville " " " Presbyterian Church S S., lowanda East Troy Union Sunday School. Warren Center Sunday School. Catnp's School House S. S., Herriek Leßov Union Sunday School. Franklindale Union Sunday School. The above -statement, compared with the reports of church accessions from the Sabbath Schools, exhibits an important principle in Divine economy. The ten townships which report the largest number of accessions to the churches have made the largest con tributions to this Association. While #3 per* Annum, in Advance. on the other hand, the ten townships that have contributed little or noth- ing in aid of this mission work of the county, report few or no conver sions or church additions from the Sunday Schools. Of eleven town ships which report no accessions to the churches, only one is reported as having made an annual contribution to the County Sunday School Associ ation. Do we not herein discover a very noticeable proof of the fact, that there is always a correspondence between what men do for God and what God does for men. " The liber al sonl shall be made fat; and Le that watereth shall be watered also himself." We earnestly hope that all our .Superintendents will encourapf ail the scholars, even the youngest, to bring an annual offering to the Sab bath School cause of our county, feeling assured that nineteen of ev ery twenty of the children will cheer fully respond. Thus will our youth enjoy an experimental proof of the truth of our Savior's words, "It is more blessed to give than to receive.' N. N. BKTTS, JR., Treasurer Bradford Co. 8. 8. A. SUMMARY or rus WORK OF THF, BRAD FORD COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL MIS SIONARY FOR TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS, ENDING SEPTEMBER 25TH, 1866 : Number of new schools organized,. 47 Number persons gathered into the New Schools 2*231 Number other schools addressed and aided 224 Amount in books and papers dis tributed $2205,84 Amount in books and papers given away 334,61 Number of families visited. 1608 Number of Bibles and Testaments distributed ! 202 Number amnions and addresses de livered 406 Number miles travelled in the Co 5106 Whole number of echoole in the Co. in 1866 192 Whole number of persons in all the schools 10831 Number of schools continued thro' the winter of 1863-1 21 Number of schools continued thro' the winter of 1864 "• 34 Number of schools continued thro' the winter of 1865-6 39 Number townships, more than hall, yet without any Winter 8. 8. V .. 18 Duriug the past year, 1866, there have been received from the Sunday Schools, in full communion, into the churches of the county, eight hun dred and twenty person•?. Of communities which two years ago were without either preaching or Sabbath Schools, jif'een are now known to enjoy both these means of grace. In several of these places, church cditiees are either contemplated or in process of ,-reetiou. The number of Schools continued all the year round has nearly doubled. There are more than four thousand children and youth in the county yet to be gathered" into the Sabbath School CHRISTIAN FRIKNI'S— We have to record the singular fact that during the winter, while < ur secular schools have been in successful operation, three in every four of our Sabbath Schools have been suspended. But the winter is past—" it is high time to awake out of sleep.' 7 Our field is " white already t > harvest." Thou sands of precious youth around us stand waiting to be gathered iu. The Master says, " Go work to-day in my vineyard. Let us arise and go, expecting by prayer and effort to win these youthful ones to follow Jesus—the Good Shepherd. During the present season, the Missionary will labor iu the Xorth- East part of the county. Visiting other sections as he may have oppor tunity. A Ron. OF HONOR will bo kept for the Schools which shall learu and re cite together the Ten Commandments before the first of September next. All the schools in one township are already enrolled. Every school, which is now or shall be entitled to a place on this roll, should be immediately reported to me by the Superintendent. The names of all the schools that' shall answer to this " roll cail," will be read at the Annual Meeting of the County Sunday School Association in September, and be reported in the County Papers It is iu the power of every Superintendent to secure this honorable record for his Bchool. We cau furnish commandment cards, ol large size, at one dollar per hundred. " Helpful Hints,'' for Sun day School Teachers, at ten cents a copy, and Hymns and Tunes for Sun day Schools, just published, at the same price. All will bear iu uiiud that our work if* a-* strictly union and uuseotariau as it it* possible to make it. A Depository, well supplied with the beet of books for SaocUy School NUMBER 45. 1867—GBKKTINI use, is opened in the Poet Office Building, Towanda. I verily believe it will be for the advantage of our schools to give this Home Institution a trial At the xanM' place, Bible* mid Tea taments if all kinds can be pmcuit-d on precisely the same terms as a' the Bible House in Hew Yuri. Fellow-Laborers ! " Let us put on the armor of light." " The night is far spent, the day is at band." 1 Col lect your Sunday School forces and organize at once. Begin with prayer and thus go forward in the name >t the Great Captain, and may God help you to make the regular return f the Sabbath Day as healthful to your neighborhood as " the showers which soften, fertilize and beautify tl.' earth, bringing with them the influ ence of Heaven." Letters in reference to our work will receive prompt attention from Yours, ever cordially, R. CRITTENDEN, a. 8. Missionary, Towanda, IV THE BEASOH OF LEHT Among the many episodes in the life of our Saviour to which Chris tians in all parts of the world look with awe and veneration, there is none which receive a more general, substantial remembrance than the forty days in the wilderness. The ejuimemoration of the sacrifice in be half of mankind, was instituted, ac cording to most of the fathers of the fourth and fifth centuries,by the Apos ties, although mauy Protesaut wri ters claim that it was not inaugura ted until the second or third century of the Christian era. However that may be, it is certain that as early as the beginning ol the second century the observance of the Lenten fast was made obligatory. The origion of the word lent is uncertain ; some writers claiming its derivation from lencten a Saxon word meaning length en ; and others again, from the Ger man lenten, to thaw, because the sea son in which it occurs in spring, or the time when the days lengthen.-- The general mode of observance in the Catholic Church, is the same throughout the world, but there are various modifications of the rules pre scribed in different countries The season commences with the festival of Ash Weduesday,called by the fath ers of the church capat jojun/iu,begin ning of the fast. Iu former times,and in many of the Catholic countries at the present time the custom of sprink ling the head and garments with ash es was observed as a Bymbol of grief for the tributations endured by our Saviour,as well as a method denoting penance for their transgressions du ring the preceding year. From this practice iB derived the name "Ash Wednesday," and although the CMS torn of sprinkling the garments with ashes has fallen into disuse, it is to a certain extent commemorated in the practice of making the sign of the cross with ashes on the forehead EVILS OF GOSSIP—I have known * country society which withered away all to nothing under the dry rot >'t gossip only. Friendships, once firm as grauite, dissolved to jelly and then run away to water, only be cause of this ; love, that promised future -s enduring as heaven and ab atable as truth, evaporated into •: morning mist that turned to a day V long tears only because of this : ; father and a son were set foot to foe i with the fiery breath of anger that would never coo! again between them only because of this ; and a husband and his young wife, each straining at the hated leash which in the begit ning had been the golden bondage ot a God-blessed love, sat mournfully by the side of the grave where all their love and all their joy lay buried, and only because of this. I have seen faith transformed to mean doubt hope give place to grim despair, ami charity take on itself the features t I black malevolence, all because of the spell of words of s :andal and magn mutterings of gossip Great crime* work great wrong, and the deep tragedies of human life spring from the larger passions ; but wot'ul and most mournful are the uncatalogiu -1 tragedies that issue from gossip and detraction ; most mournful the ship wreck often made of noble natures and lovely lives by the bitter winds and dead salt water of slander. .*< easy to say, yet so hard to disprove throwing on the inuocent all the bur den and the strain of demonstrating their innoceuce, and punishing them as guilty. If unable to pluck nut du stings they never see, and to sileno words they never hear—gossip an.*, slander are the deadliest and crmbs' weapons man has ever forged for his brother's hurt. THERE is a lady iu New York s ignorant of all domestic work that FV ca : not even knir her brows, "LOVE iu a cottage" is all very we; , when yon own the cottage, and have money coming to keep it warm. THE easiest and the best way to expand the chest, is to have a good large heart in it. It save* the cost of gymnas tics. FAME is not greatness,but the shad ow which follows greatness. Most people prefer the shadow to the substance. THE purest joy that we can expert ence in one that we love, is to see that per ■on a source of happiness to others. AN old lady,on being asked to sub scribe to a newspaper, declined, on the ground that when she wanted news she manufactured it. MR. John Jack, a Kentucky editor, ' says that one day hie gni slapped him in | the face, averring, byway of apology, that I she was fond of slapjacks. A young lady writing in defence - I tilters, says : As to the present ridiculous short coats, i can only say that they present to a person at all belligerent a temptation scarcely to be overlooked. A FATHER out \\ est kicked h' daughter's lover into the street, and the lot - or revenged himself by causing a stick of wood filled with gunpowder to he placed in the tld gentleman's stove effect to he im agined. A rich Philadelphia contractor, in a severe fit of gout, told hie physician lit. suffered the pains of the damned. The doctor coolly answered, "What, already?'' "IK it wasn't for hope the bean would break," as the old woman Rai.l when she buried her seventh husband, and look (d anxiously f n* AT> fl the funeral crowd for
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