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NEW TAILORING SHOP The Subscriber having bad a sixteen years prac ticxl experience in cui ting and making clothing now offers his services in this line to the citizens of aiCHOLSON and vicinity. Those wishing to get Fits wtil find bis shop the place to get them. JOEL, R, SMITH -nSO-Cmoi BOLTON" HOUSE7 HAHKISHI ftG, PRNNA. The undersigned having lately purchased the "BUEHLER HOUSE " property, has already com menced such alterations and improvements as will render this old and popular House equal, if not supe rior, to any Hotel in the City of Harrisburg. A continuance of the public patronage is refpeet- ; fully solicited. GEO. J. BOLTON WALL S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE/ TUN KHAN NOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. THIS establishment has recently been refitted an furnished in the latest style Every attention < will be given to the comfort and convenience ol those •ho patronise the House. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor-; Tunkhannock. September 11. 1861. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA Wm. H. CORTRIGHT, Prop'r HA\ INO resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the frill £|>are no efforts tender the house an agreeable place ot sojourn to •11 who may favor it with their custom. *• u costmsHT. MEANS' HOTELT TOWANDA, T TV R>. B- BART LET, (Late ot T„ P BRAINARI> HOUSE, ELMIRA, N Y. PROPRIETOR. 'The MEANS HOTEL, i one of the LARGEST and BEST ARRANGED Houses in the country-It is fitted up in the most modern and improved style, lad no pains are spared to make it a pleasant ami agreeable stopping! place for nil, *3-nUy. TUNKHAKSOCK, WYOMING CO., PA.-WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18, 1867. 7TTK WOUID'S CHEAT i.KMEDT FOX Scrofula and Scrofulous Diseases. From Luurg Lies, a well-known merchant if On font, Maine. " I have sold largo quantities of your SARSAI-.v nn.LA, but never yet one liottle which failed of the desired effect and full satisfaction to those who took it. As fast as our people try it, tliey agree there bus been no medicine like it before iu our coinmuuity." Eruptions, Pimples, Blotches, Pustules, Cl ears, Bores, and nil Diseases of tho Skin. From Her. Holt. Stratton, Bristol, England. '• I only do my duly to you and the public, when 1 add my testimony to tli.it you publish of the me dicinal virtue* of vour S MtSAl'Altll.l.A. My daugh ter, aged ten, bad an afflicting humor iu her ear*, I eyes, and hair for years, which wc were unable to < cure until ive tried your H.\ lis Al* A KILL A. She lias been well for aome mouths." From Mr*. June F. Hice, a well-known ami mark et!' ino il lady of I H'nnisriile. I 'ape Mag Co., A. J. ' Jly daughter has suffered for a year past with a Scrofulous eruption, which was very troublesome. Nothing afforded nny relief until wo tried your SAKSAPAIIII.LA, wldcu soon completely cured licr." LY >m flurries V. Cage, Ft'/., of the widely known Gage, Murray f Co., manufacturers of enamelled papers in Xashua, X. IT. " I had for several years a very troublesome humor in my face, which grew constantly worse until it di-digurcd my features and became an intol erable ablation. 1 tried almost every thing a man could of both advi and medi -iac, but without any relief whatever, until I took your huts u-AKM.LA. It immediately made my face worse, as you told me it might fori time: but in a few weeks the m-w akin began to form under the blotches, and con tinued until my face is as smooth as any body's, and I am wit bout any symptoms of tho disease iliat I know of. 1 enjoy perfect health, and without a doubt owe It to your o.UtS.WAIULI.A." Erysipelas —General Debility—Purity tho Blood. From Dr. llnbt. So win, Houston Ft.. A'em York. " Int. Avi.it. 1 seldom fail to remove Eruptions and ScroTa/ons Sores bv the persevering use of your S.ir.s ai-ARILI.A. and I have just now cured an attack of Malignant Erysipelas with it. No alterative we possess'equals the S.um.YPAUILI.A you have sup plied to the profession as well as to the people." From J. L. Johnston, For., Wokemnn. Ohio. "For twelve year*. 1 had the yellow Erysipelas on my right arm, during which time I tried all the celebrated physicians 1 could reach, and took hun dreds of dollars worth of mcdiciucs. Tho ulcers were so bad that the cords liecame visible, aud the doctors decided that mv nrm must be amputated. I began taking vour SAKSAPAKILI.A. Took two bot tles. and some of your 1'11.1.5. Together they-have cured me. lam now as well and sound ai any body. Being in a public pla'-e, my case is kno-.vn to every body iu this community, aud excites the wonder of all.'* From Hon. Henry Monro, M. /*. P., of XewcastJe, C. If"., a lending member of the Canadian I'arliur fr.ent. '• I have used vour SARS vi'ARiLi.A in my family, for general debility , and for purifying the blood, with very beneficial results, aud feel confidence in cummeudiug it to the afflicted." St. Anthony's Fire, Bose, Salt Rheum, Scold Head, Sore Eyes. From Harvey Fielder, Ksg., the able editor of the Tunkhannock Democrat, I'ennsylrania. " Our only child, about three years ol age, was attacked by pimples on tiis forehead. Tliey rapidly spread until tliey formed a loathsome and virulent sore, which covered his face, sud actually blinded his eyes tor some da) s. A skillul physician applied nitrate of silver and other remedies, without any apparent effect, lor fifteen days we guarded his hands, lest with them he slionl.l tear open the fes tering aud corrupt wound which covered ltia whole fm-e.° Having tried every thing else we had any hop*- from, we la-gnn giviug your SAKSAPAXILU, and applying the habile ol potash lotion, as yon direct. The sore U-gau to Ileal when we had given the frit bottb-. :uiih, wherebv it can be extracted without unv pain whatever, and without unpleasant ness to the Patient: CALL AT MY OFFICE AND BE CONVINCED. j. j. sßiwrorit, Surgeon 'Jfentist, Laceyville, Pa—-v7#o-3iu- THE HEALING POOL, A\"B HOUSE OF MERCY. Howard Aeec'a'ion Reports, for YOUNG MEN >n ihc CRIME OF SOLITUDE, and the ER RORS, ABUSES n id DISEASES which dexlrov the manly (iwer*, and create iiupediuiont* to MAR RI AGE, with eure mean* of r Ie r . Scot in sewed letter, emetope*. free of cini'ge. Address Dr. J. SKILLEK HOLGUTON, Howard Annotation, Pbilideiphia. Pa. faii lyear _ jgtfag. [From the Buoyrus (Chio)Fonim.) • SOMETHING TO WEAR. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, of Vanity Fair, lias a superabundance of something to wear A gorgeous assortment of beautiful things ! Camel's hair and point-laces, and diamond rings. Aid tiiukets and gauds- till the catalogue seems Like the fabulous tale of Arabian dreams. Did th* wife of a rail-splitter e'er before shine In silks from far India, and gems from the inine 7 Did ever a flat-boatman's widow possess In such lavish proportion the glories of dress 1 More than all, did a 'rosy queen" ever before Tske off her ni -e clothes in u pawnbroker's store I Till the Grotgian costnme(short collar and epurs) With bat slight-very slight—variation was heps ! And imagine, while piling the pawnbroker's shelf, She her friends were exposing much more than her self, For of gimcracks and gewgaws and laces bereft, What, I prny, save her chignon and gaiters were left I "Did yon ever !*• "Oh, shocking !" "Such awful disgrace !" "now immodest "How shameless !" "How bra icn her face !" Were the mild exclamations of wonder and hate Showered now on a woman—ah ! bow flattered of late. Mrs. Shouldcrstrap frownsd— Mrs. Oilwell over flowed — Mrs. Shoddy ' sic-h braxeßness never had kuowed!" Mrs. Fvshe (of Cepc Cod)— Mrs. Sinythe (famous these For "attainments in letters"—the y's and the e's— And Mrs. DeShragge, Mrs. Tubbs, Miss Jehonea— And the twins, Misses Eppy and Dermis Deßones, (All ol whom were ' stuck up" in the Lincoln rt gime) Raised their dainty red hands with a patvenu scream ! Every preacher found text and pretext for a lie In bis Sundsy remarks to his friend —the Most High ! Mr. Storuiheaven's sermon made brimstone advance, (Ur "look up," to employ the reporter's parlance ) Mr. Mawworm "exhorted the people" again, Till they said : "The good m m has a call, it is plain Mr. Puundtext implored the Almighty to curse Mrs. L. us disloyal, at least, if not worse ! Republican editors, swift to defame, Voided venom and spume on the poor woman's naiuo ! By old Weed, my Lord Thuriow—the cutpurse ex pert— By Theodore Tilton—the sanctified squirt ! By Sleek, ol the Tribune, and (none to forget, By the veti.il Commercial and villain Gazette, Double-leaded sensational missiles were thrown At the poor, widowed woman, defenceless and lone ! Now, why all this pother 7 Sure never before Did plain Mrs. CUrko, at a pawnbroker's store, Selling second-band clothes, such a rumpus create. As was seen far and near, in some circles of late. We will tell you ; These dresses and laccs and rings, An l gewgaws and gimcracks and trinkets and thing.-. Were the prices, the bribs,by which office was gaiu ed, When the now sainted party, sweet Abraham, reign ed ! And 'twas feared that while laid on the pawnbroker's shell, Each might give to the clerk some account of itsolf, And the cleik to some friend indiscreetly might blurt Tho "Ta!e of a Night-Gown," or "?ong"of a Shirt." And no secret can safely be kept in New York, Where Bennet and Bonuer (busy B's) are at work. So Weed- my lord Tburlow —made haste to ex plain hese bad looking facts in good Abraham's reign : | * Once Washirgton (sc-end) declared with a frown, On this dicker of her'n I will bev to shet down !" lie was sitting, meanwhile, with one hand at his nose, Employing the other to toy with his toes. "3het down !" said the spouse; "will you shet down on me 7 You had better shet up, you old Jceesix !" said she. j So the martyr ' shet up," and the "dicker" went on. And the gifts that bought offices are now in the pawn ! Oh, Snobbery ! Jobbory ! Rjbbery!—list ! From the tempest of scorn and derision desist! She is woe-worn and sad—she is desolate now, IVith the anguish of widowhood stamped on her brow— A woman— and old !—with no arm to defend ! Let this last phase of infamous loyalty end ! - ' Bribes she tk !—BUT wo GATB THKM T—the , world ought to know. And the seouodrels be outlawed wherever they go ! | Bribes she took—but P. M-'s and tmall hunter's of place Don't have camel's hair shawls, diamond rings and point lace ! What Cabioet member (now hid in the dark) Bought his seat by hie gifts to you, fair Mrs. Clarke! Whst opulent presents were made in advance By seekers of missions to Ru&i t and France 7 Ob, "Republican queen !" all the scoundrels pro claim. And force them to help bear your bnrdeo of shame ! MAKING AND EXPENDING MONEY.—' - Well, Jim, how did j ou make it down South 7" "F'rst-iate. Made plenty of money." "What did you do with it ?" "Laid it out iu houses aud lots." "Wheie V "Every place I have been where there were •nv •'What k'nd of house* and lots ?" "Coffee houses and lots of whisky ?" , r Why are ladies' dri-ssea about the waist I like • general meeting ? Because there is a j gathering there. " To Speak his Thoughts is Every Freeman's Right. " The v. el! known opera of Fra Diavolo is based on tragical events which occurred in France nearly one hundred and seventy years ago. Those facts aie thus condensed fiom the Court records by a Paris paper : At llie beginning of the last century there was to be seen in the town of Lille a very quiet house. It was a large building but it contained only a small family—a husband and wife and one servant girl. The Curiosi ties Judiciaries add that the married couple were advanced iu years, and they lived quietly on their incotn", saw very few vis itors, and admitted no one to the house except the people who furnished them with provision* or otherwise ministered to their wants. One night this couple, man aud wife wore robbed,and murdered in their bed. The servunt girl hud heard nothing of all this, and knew uol what was going on. The night was hot, the air dense and oppressive ly sultrv, so much so that she had taken re fuge in her room aud sat, for the sake of coolness divested of her garments, before a large mirror. While there, catching sight of herself she suddenly cried, "How hateful one looks when naked !" Having said this she retired and slept till morning, and rose as usual, without suspect ing what had happened. She prepared breakfast as nsual, for her master and mistress, but thev did not come down. She was amazed and wailed for a long time. They did not appear. Tired of waiting, she sought their room. A horrible sight met her eyes. Blood was smeared every where, and on the bed lay the poor old couple, cruelly, horribly, vilely butchered-mangled as ot.ly a beast or fiend could find in Ins heart to mutilate victims after murdering them. The girl raised an alarm and the multitude came rushing in. Of course justice came rushing after in the form of the police, with a judicial investigation. The crimual was sought for arid as none other could be found, suspicion fell on the unfortunate servant. In those days they had a horrible way of trying to get at the truth. They called it questioning. The questions were put with racks and thumb screws. The Lilliois si rvant maid was infamously tortured, even to extreme agony. Yet not withstanding her weakness, and her sex she endured the infernal torture, without con fessing anything. This was the mure re maikal-le, as she was entirely innoceHtand was iu consequence kept much longer under torment to make hei confess As there were no proofs oflier having done anything they filially let her go, as soon as she was healed. Ui for iuiatel v.ihe torture had made her a wretched cripple She could only liohble along on tier broken limbs, and her arms were withered. And, being no longer able to sew or work she dragged her helpless form through the streets and begged. She begged through the streets of Lille for sixteen years. This is all historically true—nay more than his toricaliy; for history often lies, while these ta"ts are drawn from the dry and accurate records of a court. The worst part of her suftcring was that many p oplc believed her gudty, and scnied her accordingly. It appears from r. cord that during those long years, while sho went about wilh her withered arms an>i bent back, tier wtiole frame still :-uffering from the torture, beg ging a copper sou to buy her bread, that she was always icsigned, mild, and exemplary in her conduct. One day, after sixteen years of misery she stopped to beg before the doer ot a baker. She held out through her rags her naked and mutilated arm towards the baker, who stood on his door sill. As *he did so he ex claiiiii il in a mocking tone, while observing her want of garments. "Wei', Marie Anna, how hateful one looks when naked—ha ?' Now it is remembered that in all the six teen years which had passed Matie Anna had not forgo.ten those words which she had spoken when alone on the night of the murder. It flashed upon her mind that the real murderer might have heard litem, and that lie stood before her. In brief, we learn that the journeyman baker, when arrested confessed the truth. He had regularly stip plied the old couple, and knew the ways of the house. He was hidden there on the night of the murder, and had heard the girl when she made the remark on her na kedness. And as the criminal is often by the will of Providence his own accuser, so this man follow ing one of those eccentric and danger ous impulses which men often experience, to say tne most dangerous things, had uttered to the girl the words of the fatal night. lie was convicted of the crime for which Maiie Anna had been tortured, and suffered a living death—and was bioken alive on the whetl in Libe. IT AUD ON OFFICERS.—THE "Haversack" of the Land tee Love, is guilty of the fol lowing unkindncss to shoulder straps : "A private in Company F, of ooe of the North C arol na regiments, was giving his friends at home an account of a very fii-ice fight on the Peninsula, lie said: 'We were marching through a thick wood to flank a portion of the enemy, and just as we entered the edge of ari o'd field three or four \ an kee batteri s opened on us at short range with grape and canister; such a storm I never saw since I WA- born. The colonel shouted out, 'Lie down !" and down wc fell quick ; but the dirt ami gravel flew all over us, the hmba fell on us and there was not a thing in the world to shield us from the ter rible storm, and we had to ju-l lie still and take it.' "'Why tlidn.t you get behind a tree?' suggested a deeply interested listener. ' Tree, tin devil,' exclaimed company F,' there wasn't trees enough for the officers! *' FRA DIAVOLO A GOOD TAKE OFF. Some of our religions and other paper# obtain subscribers on the gift enterprise system, offering sewing machines, ike. — Corry O'Lanus takes them off neatly, as follows : I propose to start a religious newspaper on the gift enterprise plan. It will be de voted *to sanctity and sewing machines, piety, politics and patent medicines. The following premiums will be given to sub sciibers: Subscribers for one copy of the Church Cancer will be presented with a box of patent Petroleum Paste Blacking. This is a very superior article; it will black boots or stoves, and may be used as a hair dye. [See testimonials from leading cler gymen, statesmen and boot blacks.] Subscribers for two eopies will receive a box of sardine#. Subscribers for five copies will be pre sented with a pair of iron clad spectacles, with glass eyes, warranted to suit one age a well as another Subscribers for twelve copies will be entitled to a wooden leg, a patent adjusta ble bootjack, which can also be used as a cork screw, a coffee mill or an inkstand. Subscribers for twenty copies will be en titled to a pair of false calves, and a gilt edged copy of Anna Dickiosou's speeches and writings. Subscribers for twenty-five copies will receive a tilting hoop-skirt, and a marble bureau with a mahogany top. Subscribers for fifty copies will receive a set of summer furs, and a burial plot with an order for a tombstone when re quired. Subscribers for five hundred copies will receive nomination for Congress with a library consisting of a bottle and a pack of Cards. Subscribers for a thousand copies will be presented with a farm iu New Jersey, fenced in and mortgaged. Clergymen acting as agents for thffilTan cer will be furnished with a pair of brass knuckles and au acre of court plaster. Why Young Men do not Marry. Rev. Robert Collyer preached a sermon in Unity Church, on " Our Daily Bread." In the course of his sermon he discussed a social question of general interest and great importance. Some extracts will show what the question is, and what Mr. Collyer thinks about it. There is another and worse perversion of that which this prayer expresses, in the baleful determination of the flower of the youtli in the country towaul late marriag es. When one said lately, in the presence of a f ank, outspoken young woman in this city, that the reason why young men do not inarry was that their wives would not be content to live in a homely way, after thev had been raised in luxury, she replied: " Hie woman is quite as willing as the man to do that, and 1 know of no woman of my acquaintance who would not be con tent, for the sake of the man she loved, to cast her lot with him and m.ike his in ev ery way her own.'' I believe that the young woman spoke the truth. When 1 hear a man living in chambers < and constant in his attendance at play and opera, say, " I dare not marry, because I ] know no woman wbo would be content to live as one should live," I say to myself, it may be true, but it looks very much like old Adam, who ate the apple and then turned and laid the blame on the woman. Let this be us it will. Here is the dismal fact staring us everywhere in the lace, ami in no phice more painfully than in our own city, that for social, conventional, or still worse reasons, the best youth ot the coun try are held lack from its most sacied du ty, as well as its most perfect telicitv—falls into that sad mistake of a long engagement, in which the pain and disappointment bears hardest always on the worn m, or the young man shuts his eyes and his heart when the spirit walking among the golden lamps whispers to him of some maiden, '• That is my wif.-," and says, " No, not yet for many a year to come"—and so marries at last away out in life, when both lives have become set in their own fashion, and tlnir love is hardly long enough to give them the kindly mutual forbearance tow ard that which is dissimilar in charactir and disposition, uniil they can become " Belf reverenciDg and reverencing each j Alike in individualities." And so the best days of the best of our j youth go by and find " I dare not" wait upon " I would." In the name of all that is sacred, I ask why this is, and get for an answer, " \\ e cannot afford it," The young farmer can afford it on the prairie; the miner on Su perior ; the woodman on the peninsula; the carpenter at his bench ; the blacksmith at his anvil; the operative ut his frame or loom ; the long shoreman and the sailor. That cluster of men down in Pennsylvania, and those in Yorkshire, whose young men were with me years ago, lost no time and asked no questions, because sonic right in stinct told them that they might do worse —worse in any arid every way they could look at it; and as I can remember, as if it were yesterday, bow speedily those found the wife and went to housekeeping in a room or two, as they could manage it, and make the hammer ring with new music, and gradually get their house and house hold goods, and the world has never failed . them—no, not for a day ; but through dark future and bright,and sickness and strength, ) they have found the deepest t xperiences of their life, each with the other, for Great Heart and Interpreter go together en this , pilgrimage, and now they see their chil {droit coming up to manhood about them. with the freshness of their own hearts, and they know, though they cannot tcH, the deep content of a life that 19 ordered after the fashion God gave thetn when he crea ted thetn man and woman.— Chicago Post. TWABurETI WOMEN IN SOCIETY. Young women in America withdraw themselves from society nlmost as soon as the marriage vows are exchanged, and do not expect to emerge from their seclusion until they d* so as mothers with marriaga ble daughters. This is the one great fault of our society. It consists slmost entirely of girls, young mm, the mothers of the girls, and the faihers, whom the mothers occasionally drag into the drawing room. Women, at the age when they are the most interesting, very seldom appear at all.— They sliot themselves up with their hus bands and their young children. They are not expected to be seen. Society is supposed to be 100 much engaged in pair-- ing off young folks to pay any attention to them. In no country in the world is so ciety so truly and unmistakably, a market matrimonial as in this. Mothers exhibit their daughters in the prettiest possible dresses, with ribbons and flowers. Young men make their efforts—hearts generally— sometimes fortunes —and the fair young creatures are led away, never to appear again until they have goods of their own to offer. They are' considered "out of the mxrki't," and seem themselves to lose all interest in the social gayeties which they should do tin ir share in sustaining. Soci ety is thus lobbed of its brightest orna ments. Woman, when she is at the full ness of maturity, yet still young, when she combines matronly dignity with the anima tion and vigor of girlhood, retires from the social world. She leaves society imperfect —there is a vacuum—a want of something in the drawing room which we have all felt, and the place of which dancing and small talk cannot supply. How often we hear complaints of the''frivolities" of soci ety—not from those only who think relig ion and social pleasure antagonistic, but from those wbo long for the intellectual sparkle of conversation. What have we to compare with the wit, the life, the brillian cy of French society ? This is due to young married women, who in France enjoy soci ety, and are, in fact, its life. We cannot afford to lose the society of women the mo ment they are married and lay aside, if not the tmiditVj certainly the verdancy of girl hood. It does our young girls no good, either, to monopolize the drawing rooio.— We would not have litem secluded as they are, and foolishly in Europe, but wc would have lhein stand modestly behind their el der and more experienced sisters. They would be more interesting themselves, and society would not be the incomplete and un satisfactory tiling it is. Y'oung married , women are needed in society. AN ITEM WHICH EVERT MAX SHOULD READ.— We have probably all of us met with instances in which a word heedlessly spoken against the reputation of a female has been magnified by malicious minds un til tbe cloud has been dark enough to over shadow her whole existence. To those who are accustomed, not necessarily from bad motives, but from mere thoughtless ness—to speak lightly of ladies, we recom mend these "hiuts" as worthy of your con sideration : Never use a lady's name in an improper place, at an improper time, or in mixed company. Never make assertions about her that you tiniik untiue, ot allusions that yon feel she herself would blush to hear. When you meet with men who do not scruple to make n>e*of a woman's name in a reckless and unprincipled manner, shun them, for they are the very worst mem bers ol the community—men lost to every) sen>e of honor, every f eling of humanity. Mafty a good and worthy woman's charac ter has been forever ruined and her heart broken by a lie manufactured by some vil lain, and reoeated where it should not have been, and in the presence of those whose judgment could not deter them from cir culating the f->ul and bragging report. A slander is soon propagated, and the small est thing deiogatory of a woman's charac ter wi 1 fly on the wings of the wind, and magnify as it circulates, until its monstrous weight ctushes the poor unconscious victim. Respect the name of a woman, for your mothers and si-ters are women; and, as you would have their fair names unembit ten d by the slanderer's bitter tongue, heed the ill that your own words may bring up on the mother, the sister, the wife of your fellow creature. FASHIONABLE WEDDINGS.— TIte fash ion now is, at church weddings, to atretch abroad white tiblion ecrnsa the aisle up which the bridal party pass, above which none but invited guests are allowed to sit. The bridesmaids enter in pairs, unattended by gentlemen —the groom with his futute mother-in law, the bride witli her father. Two cf the groomsmen precede the whole party, and the others follow it. After the ceremony each of them give an arm to one of the maids, as the party leave the church At least such is the last Philadelphia fash ion. 3&T None but the brave deserve the fair, and none but tbe brave can live with some of tliera. There is a man out west who drinks so ninch whisky that the musquitoes that bite him die of delirinm tremeni. TERMS, $2.00 Per. ANNTJM, in Advance. f?i st anilftfrerfowi. Why does lite gallows assist in perminqot ly enlightening a mm 7 Because it elevate# Lien, and then holds him in suspension. Our lives are truly at an end wbeo 99 aW beloved no longer : the chillnessof the g)mve has been passed through. —-**• Prentice sats ho wishes somebody would set fire to riunnicult's shirt tail and then chase htm in a high wind ! A retired school master excuses his passion for angling by saying thai from constant hab it, he never (eels quite himself unless he's handling the rod. A vacant mind is open to all Suggestion M the hollow mountain returns all sounds. " a Slanders isAin.* from the l>eautiful Bps are like spiders crawling'from the blushing heart of a rose. - Sometimes on musing upon genius !n its simplest manifestations, it seems as if the greatest of human culture consisted chiefly in preserving the glow and freshness of the heart. This life's contradictions are many. BaU water gives us fresh fish, and hot words pro duce coldness. The purest joy we can experience io one we love is to see that person a scurce of hap piness to others. If half the pains Were taken by aome peo ple to perform the labor allotted them that are taken by them to avoid it we should hear much less said about the troubles of life, amf see much more actually completed. Of a truth, home without a girl is only half blest; it is an orchard without blossom*, a spring without song. A house full of son* is like Lebanon with its cedars,bet daughters by the fireside are like roses iu Sharon, Good manners should begin at botne, pod. hteness is nut an article to be worn in full dress only, to be put on when we pay or re ceive complimentary visits. Punch has heard enough about Spain's "late rising," aud now wants to hear of her "early risiog." i o What is the difference between truth and eggs 1 "Truth crushed to earth will rise again," but eggs won't. Why is an honest bankrupt like ab honest poor man ? Because both fail to get rich. . ._ He Who has an inordinate admiration lor antiquity must Lave more taste for wrinklas than dimples. A genius out West, who wished to make k half dozen new shirts, marked the first John Jones and the rest ditto. A gentleman in want of a wife addressed a passionate bUlet-doux to a lady, and added this eligible postscript; "Don't be long in answering, a£ I've Somebody in my eye." A veteran amateur in wing-drinking writes to know if Congress could be induced to pro claim a thirteenth commahdment: Thou sbalt not commit adulteration." A young lady went out with a rather timid beau Sleighing one sveT.ing, complacently re marking to him that she seldom went out a sleighing but she got chaps on the lips. The young man took the hint and chapped. ■ An African lady entered the depot at Lan caster, Ohio,and wishing to have her baggsge checked, asked the agent, "is you de gem man wat mails de trunks 7" "I resort to wine to stimulate my wita," said a young spendthrift to an old one. "Ah," replied the veteran, "that is the way I began, but now I have to resort to my wits to get my wine." No man can leave a better legacy to the world than a well educated family. To attract customers, Fume has put up in electric clock in his shop, and is terribly an noyed by boys tunning in to inquire tbo time of day. The other evening, as we were bay ing a cigar, a little camu in with the usual ; "Please, sir, tell ma what time it ia." "Why, 1 told you the time not a minute ago," said the astonished tobacconist. "Yes, sir," replied the lad, "but tbia ia for another woman." "My Daughter,"said a fund aud affectionate mother, as she gave the patting kiss to her child, who was leaving the home of her child* hood, to go among strangers as a teacher : "Let Virtue be thy priceless jewel ; Truth, hy firm friend ; Piety, thy daily counselor; Modesty, thy bosom companion ; Kindness,* welcome visitor, and Neatness, an every thy associate. With such friends to advise and guide, thy path through life will be strewed * ith no regrets." NO. 20/ ■