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Also to surveying of all unpattented lands as soon as warrants are obtained, myl" 117 HERSEY WATKINS, Notary it • Publir is prepared to take Depo-i -ons. Acknowledge 'he Execution of Deeds, Mortgages, Power ot attorney, and all other instruments. Affidavits and othei pipers may be sworn to before me. Office opposite the Banking House of 8.3. ! Kussell & Ci., a few doors north of the Ward i House. Towanda. Pa., Jan. 14, 1867. I J) D. KNAPP, Watch MaKt-i and Dealer in Gents aud Ladies j Watches Chains and Finger Kings, Clocks, Jew I dry, Gold r'ens, Spectacles, Silver ware, Plat r-i ware, Hollow ware, Thimbles, Sewing Ma chines, aud other goods belonging to a Jewel ry Store. Perticular attention paid to Kepairing, at hi? old place near the Post Office, Waverly, X. V. Dec. 3.1866.—tf. WARD HOUSE, TOW VNDA, PA. On Main Street, near the (.'our* House. C. T. sM ITH, Proprietor. Oct. 8. 1866 M ERICAS HOTEL, T O W A XD A , P A Having purchased this well known Hotel on i Bridge Street, I hare refurnished and refitted i it with every convenience for the aceomtnoda- I •ion of ail who may patronize me. No pains will j be spared to make all pleasant and agreeable. j May 3,'66.—tt. J. S. PATTERSON, Prop. I DER HOUSE, a four story brick U7 edifice ueai the depot,witb large airy rooms, j elegant rarlors newly furnished, has a recess in 1 new addition lor Ladies use, and is the most convenient and only first class hotel at Waverly. ' X. Y. It is the principal office tor stages south j and express. Also for sale of We-tern Tickets, snd in Cauada. on Grand Trunk Rail-way. Fare to Detroit from Buffalo. $4, is cheaper than any 1 other route. Apply for tickets .s above to C. WARFORD. ecupying temporarily the watchman's lodge in the jail yard. The yard in which ; this rather loose prison is situated is i enclosed by a brick wall eighteen or I twenty feet in height, having two | gateways leading into other yards, surrounded by walls about ten or twelve feet high. I did not examine ; these gateways to see if they could jbe easily opened ; but they ap ! peared to be fastened simply by a j bar on the inside. If this was their j only fastening, and they could be | opened as easily as appearances in dicated, the security for prisoners was not very great, as the outer yards were filled with rubbish that i could quickly aid one desirous of scal ing the walls. The prisoner sat in a chair by en open window, reading a small vol ume, the character of which I did I not inquire. On my entrance he rose, and advancing toward me with exteuded hand, acknowledged an in troduction with a very friendly smile 1 and a courteous shake of the hand. Not expecting to meet so notorious a j character in such a place, 1 was i somewhat takeu by surprise when j the name was pronounced, and, after shaking bauds, ventured to iuquire j once again the name. "Surratt," re-1 plied my new acquaintance, with a j smile. "I think I have heard of you 1 before," I remarked ; to which he | quietly responded, "Very likely." In stature I should judge him to be five feet nine or ten inches high, rather slender in form —almost deli cate, perhaps—aud apparently twen ty-eight years old. His hair is a very light auburn, nicely cut and trimmed, parted behind and combed ! forward. He wears a moustache and goatee rather more positive in their | color than the hair on his head. The 1 rest of his face was carefully shaven, j Altogether his appearance was that of a well-dressed and very present able young man, and certainly the last one that would be selected from a crowd as a desperate character or a villain. He has a very pleasant voice, in conversation uses good lan guage, understands himself perfectly, usually wears a smile upon his face, which, however, suggests unpleasant thoughts when we consider his de | sertion of the woman that gave him birth a* ihe time of her sorest need. My conversation with this man was not so full and free as 1 could have wished. He evidently was in no mood to talk on the topics that were most prominent in my own mind, and the witness to the inter view precluded urn from making any efforts to get his confidence. After a few commonplace remarks, I ven tured to ask him a leading question in regard to his escape to and con cealment in Canada. Putting on one of his most effusive smiles, he re plied, " I have nothing to say about that." His manner of reply, more than his words, conveyed to my mind that he considered it "a good thing," something to boast of, a great secret, that would tend to make him famous hereafter—a mystery for the world on and with which to associate his name. "But," he added, "there was no secrecy about my leaving Canada. I went on board a steamer at mid-day, wholly without disguise, and with hundreds ol people on and about the wharf. The steamer had fully two hundred passengers, with whom I as sociated freely during the voyage. Nobody recognized iue, though there were those among the passengers! that I recognized." He would not say ; what steamer this was, nor from i what port it sailed, more thau that it was one of a regular liue leaviug a large city. He spoke of meeting St. Marie in France. He claims that he recog nized St. Marie first and that they travelled to Italy together. He mani fests no vindictivenese toward this witness for having discovered him to the authorities, but considers him a "treacherous" fellow, and thinks he was mistaken in his character. Sur ratt says that he had information of St. Marie's "treachery" before it was fully accomplished, and was kept ad vised from time to time of the steps taken to secure his arrest. Had the actual arrest been delayed one day longer, as Surratt had reason to ex ■ pect it would be, he would have been beyond the reach of his pursuers, his arrangements for desertion and flight being nearly perfected at the time of his arrest. He is careful to ab stain from saying what these ar rangements were, who were his ac complices aud informers, or where he was to find a place of refuge. All this he considers a part of the sacred mystery that is to enshrine his name in immortal fame. He tells it as an instance ot cuieness, deserving of great credit—one of the incidents in his career that is notable. Many poor prisoners, whose crimes | are scarcely worth mention in com -1 parison with the great crime associa ted with Surratt's name, would re -1 joice could their lifetime be spent as '■ comfortably as are the prison-hours | of this universally accused assassin. An entire corridor, fully thirty feet in length and eight in breadth, with three large cells, are placed entirely at his disposal. In this corridor he 1 is excluded from the common prison ers'and the curious visitors by a I tight door, closing within the usual door or iron grating, whenever it is I uot agreeable to him to seek the j open air of the prison court-yard. At j night < uly does he have occasion to ! feel the rigors of confinement, when Ihe is located in the ceutral of the three cells, a commodious apartment, lat least ten feet square. True, the furniture is scant, consisting merely of a stool and a mattress laid upon the stone floor, though amply provid ed with coverings. To while away the sometimes te dious hours of the day he is provided with a plentiful assortment of books, embracing the field of literature from the Divine truth to the smallest hu man trash. Comforts, and even lux uries lor tbi- toilet, art also abund ant. His cuisine seems to be care fully looked alter by outside frieeds, and no restrictions placed upon the amount or variety that is sent him. Instead of the brown loaf and boiled beef of ordinary prisoners, Surratt has the choicest domestic cookery, selected with the sole view of pleas ing his palate. Moreover, the comforts ot a home are provided for him in the frequent and protracted visits of his sister, who calls at least each alternate day, and spends the time with him, cheer ing him by her presence and minis tering to his comforts. True, on these occasions the veteran keeper before alluded to shares the apart ment with the brother and sister, but the surveillance In- exercises is mere ly a matter of form, and lor any res traint it exerts upon the intercourse of the brother and sister might as well be dispensed with.— Washington currett/tondence Philadelphia Ijedgn■ MAN S VANITY Women, when their sex is accused of vanity, will acknowledge "the solt impeachment." But men will round ly deny it, This doeß not, however, diminishiu women the conviction that the vanity exists,notwithstanding all disclaimers. Take the vanity of dress. That women should be careful to dress as well as others, i 3 often given as an instance of their vanity. Are there no men to whom the length or width of a coat, the placing of but tons,the set of a shirt front,the width and shape of a collar, the fashion of a necktie, are objects of unceasing anxiety. The time which women spend iu arraying themselves has of ten been made matter of reproach.— But it is withiug out knowledge that men will spend more than au hour in dressing for a dinner. If a woman spend much time in getting up, we have at least a work of art as the re sult of the pains taking ; but a man after all is but a creature in no wise distinguishable from all the others of the sex at any social gathering.— Closely connected with tue vanity of personal appearance. No women consult their glass with more anxiety than many men. Wrinkles and gray hairs are greviotis to them ; and the restorative arts of the beautifiers are not devoted exclusively to the service of the fair sex. Do not men grieve when they begin to lose their good figure ? Do they not subject them selves to tortures in the matter of boots ' Are ali those, beards and moustaches cultivated and kept in or der without thought : and is there no exultation wheu these appendages are abundant and of the desired color and texture? What pains must be taken that the line which divides men's "back hair" may be straight ! Double glasses and pairs of luusbes, contortions of body and much agony of mind, must be brought into requis ition before the desired effect is ac complished. Then there in the vanity ol influ ence over the other sex. As "iords of the cisatiou," they leel'they ought to have influence ; and we never met a man, however mean and insignifi cant, who was 110' firmly impressed with the notion that, if he so willed it, all the women of his acquaintance would be "at his feet." There is also the vanity the floor, slobbers and grunts, and going into the street, makes his bed in the first ditch or filthy corner he may lall into. He is heavy, lumpish aud sleepy, and cries in a grunting way for a little mure to drink. The fourth is puppy drunk. He will weep for kindness, and whine his love, and hug you in his arms,and kiss you with his slobbery lips, and proclaim how much he loves you.— You are the best man he ever saw, and he will lay down his money or his life for yott. The fifth is owl drunk. He is wise in his own conceit. No man must differ from him, for his word is law. He is true in politics, and in all mat ters must be taken as authority. His arm is the strongest, his voice is the sweetest, his horse the fleetest, his turuips the largest, his town the fin est of all in the room or land. The sixth and last animal of our menagerie is the fox drunk man. He is crafty, ready to trade horses and cheat il he can. keen to strike a bargain, leering around with low cunning, peeping through cracks, listening under the eaves, watching for some suspicious thing, sly as a fox, sneaking as a wolf, he is the meanest drunkard of them all. CHINESE J CGOI.KRS. —Ibu B.tuta, an Arabian traveler, who spent the thir ty years between 1825 and 1855 in wanderings in the East, relates that one night he tell in with a Chinese Juggler. He says : "He took a wooden ball with sev eral holes in it, through which long thongs were passed, and laying hold of one of these slung it into the air. It went so high that we lost sight of it altogether. There now remained only a little of the end of a thong in the conjurer's hand, and he desired one of the boys who assisted him, to lay hold of it and mount. He did so, climbing by the thong and we lost sight of him also. The conjurer then called to him three times, but getting no answer, he snatched up a knife as if in a great rage, laid hold ot the thong and disappeared also. By and by he threw down one of the boy's hands, then a foot, then the other band and the other foot, then the trunk, and last of all the head. Then he came down himself, and ail puf fing and panting,and with his clothes all blood ; but presently he took the lad's limbs, laid them together in their plaeeo, and gave a kick when, presto ! there was the boy, who got up and stood before us. All this," adds, the veracious traveler, " aston ished nie beyond measure, and I had an attack of palpitation like that which overcame me once before in the presence of the Sultan of India, when he showed me something of the same kind." CURE KOR HYDROPHOBIA.— In order that our readers may be prepared for the dog days of 1887, we publish the following cure for hydrophobia. Cut it out and put in your receipt buok for future reference : " Take the root of elecampane one ounce and a-half, cut fine, then boil it into one pint of new milk down to a half pint ; take this three morn ings, fastiug, and eat no food until four o'clock in the afternoon. It should be taken every other morning; the last two doses must weigh two ounces each. This remedy will have the desired effect if taken at any time within twenty-four hours after the accident." YANKEE OOIRTSHIP. —One evening, as 1 was sitting by Hatty, and bad worked my sell np to the point of popping the question, sez 1 : " Hat ty, if a fellow was to ask you to mar ry him, what would you say ?" Then she laughed, and sez she : " That would depend on who asked me."— Then sez I, " suppose it was Xed Willis ?" Sez she : "I'd tell Ned Willis, but not you."' That kinder staggered me, but 1 was too cute to lose the opportunity, and so sez I ageu : "Suppose it was me V" And then you ought to see her pout her lips, and sez she "1 don't take no supposes !" Well, now, you see there was nothing for me to do but touch , the trigger and let the gun go off.— So bang it went. Sez I : "Lor, Hat j ty, it's me. Won't you say yes ?" aud then there was a liellabaloo in ' my head, 1 don't know 'zactly what tuk place, but 1 thought 1 heard a " Yes" whispering somewhere out of the skirmage. BILL SIMPSON'S LEGAL EXPE BIEHOE Many years ago the Legislature ot Tennessee passed an act to organiz* the county of McNairy. At that time the county embraced in the ii eii - <>! Snake, was occupied by a sturdy set of backwoodsmen, totally unacqirain ted with courts, jails, etc. The com. try assembled at the appointed sit. for the purpose of cutting logs, mal ing boards, etc. The only theme ot daily conversation, when the men were assembled, was the court. None of them had seen a court in session, as yet developed. Each oue would give what his idea of a court was None, however,were entirely sati-i factory until Bill Simpson was call on to give his ideas Ho said !. ■ knew ail about a court —that he had a lawsuit in North Carolina. On - >i his neighbors' hogs kept coming who ■ he fed his hogs until it got fat. Ou. morning he got so all-fired mad thai he shot the hog. lie thought it would not do to throw it away, so he clean ed and salted it. Shortly after, his neighbor and a man came to his house, examined the smoke-house,and took him to town and put him in a little office. About three mouths after that, this man caine and took him to a large room. A large man sat upon a high bench—a man was sitting at a desk—about a dozen fin. dressed men set in a place around.— The man put me in a pen just be hind them. He then called in twelve men ; they took seats in a box in front of the fine dressed men. The man that was writing gave the twelve men a book and said something about Bill Simpson and the State. Then one of the fine men read something about Bill Simpson and the hog, and he aud another of the fine dressed men had the biggest quarrel you ever heard I thought they would fight eveiy miu ute, but they didn't. It was Bill Simpson and the hog, and the hog and Bill Simpson, and sometimes Mr Simpson, but devilish seldom. After they had quit quarnelling, the big man talked awhile to the twelve men. and they went out and staid a short time and came back and said sorm thing to the man at the desk. Tie man on the bench said something to the man that put me in the office,and he took me out aud tied me to a per simmon tree aud commenced fighting me with a cowhide, and it made me so all-fired mad that I shook all li>- persimmons oft the tree. NUMBER 46. A YEAR'S WORK OF DRAM SELLING.— Carefully compiled statistics show that sixty thousand lives are annual ly destroyed by intemperance in the United States. One hundred thousand men and women are yearly sent to prison in consequence of strong drink. Twenty thousand children are VUdi - ly sent to the poor house for tin same reason. Three hnudred murders are auod. er of the v early fruits of in ternp< : auce. Four hundred suicides follow tl. fearful catalogues of miseries. Two hundred thousand orphans an bequeathed each year to private ami public charity. Two hundred million dollars are yearly expended to produce lies shocking am uut oi trine* and mist ery, and as much more is lost from the same cause. EASII.V SATISFIED. —We think ill following article reflects the feelings of ladies of a certain age in almost every city, town or village : A young woman had been couvei t ed at the camp meeting. The good minister told her that if she had faith the Lord would give her whatevci she would ask in prayer. Believing* implicitly in his words, site one even ing retired to a grove and fervently prayed the Lord to give her a man. It so happened that an owl sat tip ii one of the trees near by, and being disturbed,gave out a " whoo—o—o !"' She was overjoyed, and with tin greatest thankfulness of spirit, an swered back, "Anybody, Lord, so it's a nran !" CONSOLATION FOR THE DOOR. —Lord Byron said: "The mechanics ami workiugmen who can maintain theii families are, in my opinion, the hap piest body ol men. Poverty is wretch edness, but eveu poverty is, perhaps, to be preferred tu the heartless, tin meaning dissipation of higher life Another author says: "1 hive no propensity to envy any one, least oi all the great; but if 1 were disposed to this weakuess, the subject ol m\ envy would be a health}* young man in full possession of his strength and faculties, going forth in the morning to work for his wife and children, u bringing them home his wages e night," ADVERTISING.—A farmer near Man treal says no one need tell him that edvt t tising won't cause a big rush : for he adve. Used ten bushels of grapes for sale, and ii ■ next morning there was not one 1* ft- tin boys stole theiu all. "JOHN," said a careful father, "don't give Cousin William's horses to., many oats—you know they have bty. "Yes, sir." said John, moving tov rtl th barn. "And hulk ye. John : don't givi them too much h ty, you know they ha oats." "SF.\ENTY-KIEHR," New York lln r.i office, advertises for a "tall clerk who I handsome and a rapid pt uanm : salan $250. Address in'own handwriting." The gentleman evidently believes that " a thin: of beauty is a joy forever." A SICK man was telling his symp toms—which appeared to himself of . oui dreadful—to a medical friend, who at cacd i new item of disorder exclaimed, " Charm ing! Delightful' l'rny go on' and when he had finished, the doctor said with the utmost pleasure, "Do you know, uiy dear ! sir, }ou have got a complaint which 1)..s I been for some time supposed to he extinct* A FIRE-EATING Irishman challenged ; a barrister, who gratified him by an accept ance. The duelist being very lame, requeat led he might have a prop. " Suppose, j said he, " I lean against this mile-stoin ; '* With pleasure," replied the lawyer, •* on ! condition that 1 may lean against the nest , This joke settled the quarrel. J DEATH comes to a good uiau tu re* I live him ; it comes to a bad one to relieve ! Bociety. DON'T take too much interest in th.* ' affairs of youi neighbors. Seven per ret.i | will do. THE moat common things are the ! most useful; which shows both the wis < dom and goodness of the C.reat Father ot the family of the world. JONES called UU the man who " I_- stores oil paintings, and requested him to try to restore one stolen from his residence a yew ego.