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Pi. Dec 5, l?tj7—v"nl9yl T W. l!HO.t!>. P!!Y.- CI AN" A SURGE') N J , will attend promptly to ail calls in bis pro : ii. May be tuunJ at his Office at the Drug - re. or at his residence on I'utiuau creet, to rmerly 0- in;-le-J by A. K. Peckham Esq. DENTISTRY. > j\ i \ -r * - -Jssmr ' M^ r ~ f AR. I. T. BURNS has permanently located in J / Tunkhai.n , Borough, and respectfully tender? hi- to it.** ciiiz.er.s- Office oq second floor, iurmsrlj" occupied hy Dr. PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE, OSUIMMTIE PA-UVTITtfO. tiy h\ Jc Z'G h'/i, Artist. Rooms over the Wyoming National bank,in Stark's E:i k Block, TUNKHANNOCK, I' A. I. fo-ize Portraits painted from Ambeofypet or 1 graphs - Rbo'ographs Painted in Oil Oclors, — ...t iers for paintings executed according to or der. r no charge made. f fT Instructions given in Drawing, Sketching, P rt! lit an i Landscape Painting, in Oil or water C .rv and in "11 branches of the art, lank , July 31. 'q~ -vgnso-tf. BOLTON HOUSE. llAKKlsm HO, I'KNNA. The undersigned having lately purchased the ' P. MULKK lIOI'SE " property, has already com tr i.-e I such alterations and improvements as will re ler tbi- uhl and popular House equal, if not supe n - to any Hotel in the City of Harrisburg. A continuance of the public patronage is refpect fLilly solicited. GEO. J. BOLTON WALLS HOTEL,' LATE AMERICAN HOUSE/ TU X KHAN NOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. 1"* ill -t establishment has recently been refitted an : jrniahed in the latest style Every attention ci'l lie riven to the comfort and convenience ol those ■TJO patronise the llouse T. B WALL, Owner and Proprietor . Tunkhannock. September 11, 1861. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA Urn. 11. t OUTRIGHT, Prop'r H AYING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no efforts rerc|c r the house an agreeable place of sojourn to til who may favor it with the-ir custom. Win. II CORTRIGHT. June, 3rd, 1563 MEANS' HOTEL. TOWAUMDA. PA. 15- 15 ART LET, (Lute oft. "bhaisaho Uousr, Elmika, N 1 I'KOI'K I I£TOR. The MEANS HOTEL, i one of the LARGEST And ARRANGED liouHes in the country —It ,s fitted up in the most modern and improved style, and no pains are spared to make it a pleasant and agieeablesloppugi place for all, UllyvJ-u. NOTICF I hereby given, that I have placed in possession oi Souuel bailey Jr., on- pair of steers, to i>e kept by hi at during mv will n I pleasure—all person* are fork; 1 molesting or interfering with the same DAVID PATRICK, C*rteld Pa ,Oct 7th 1867-T7nlotf, TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO.. PA.-WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 1808. J) y The peculiar taint or ¥a infection which we " N call Scrofcla lurks y€ in the constitutions of Wb multitudes of men. It either produces or is f ifffs*--fegblcd, vitiated state | |Kr°f the blood, wherein ST * lij#tliat liuid becoiift-s in jf^^fil^S|e(>a.petent to sustain # the vital forces in their BmStSt'' **' V< ? j^^ g, '^ v ''l r " r ""* action, aud the system to fall into disorder and decay. The scrofulous contamination is va riously caused by mercurial disease, low living, disordered digestion from unhealthy food, impure air, tilth and filthy habits, the depressing vices, and, alxive all, by the venereul infection. Whatever be its origin, it is hereditary in the constitution, descending from parents to children unto the third and fourth generation;" indeed, it seems to be the rod of Him who says, "I will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon their children." The diseases it originates take various natnes, according to the organs it attacks. In the lungs, Scrofula produces tubercles, and finally Consumption; in the glands, swellings which suppurate and be come ulcerous sores; in the stomach and bowels, derangements which produce indi gestion. dyspepsia, and liver complaints; on the skin, eruptive and cutaneous affections. These, all having the same origin, require the same remedy, viz., purification and invigora tion of the blood, l'urify the blood, and these dangerous distempers leave you. With feeble, foul, or corrupted blood, you cannot have health; with that "life of the llesh" heaithy, you cannot have scrofulous disease. A yor's Sarsaparilla is compounded from the most effectual anti dotes that medical science has discovered for this afflicting distemper, and for the cure of the disorders it entails. That it is far supe rior to any other remedy yet devised, is know n by all who have given it atrial. That it does combine virtues truly extraordinary in their effect upon this class of complaints, is indisputably proven by the great multitude of pul-licly known and remarkable cures it has made of the following diseases: King's Evil, cr Glandular Swellings, Tumors, Eruptions, Pimploa, Elotches and Sores, Erysipelas, Hose or St Anthony's Fire, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Coughs from tubcroulcuß deposits in tho lungs, White Swellings, Debility, Dropsy, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Syphilis and Syphilitic Infections. Mercurial Diseases, Female Weakness, nnd, indeed, the whole Series of complaints THAT arise from impurity of the blood. Minute reports of individual cases may he found in Aunt's A.VNTII AN ALMANAC, which is furrirhed to the druggists fbr gratuitous distribution, wliercin may bo learned the directions for its u.- e, and some of the remarkable cures which it lias made wi.cn ail other remedies LIAD failed to afford relief. Those cases are purposely taken front nil sections of the country, in order that every reader m: y L.ave ncetps to some one W iio tan SPEAK to l.ini of its benefits from personal wxpe-rier.EE. Scrofula depresses the vital energies, and thus leaves its victims far more subject to disease and its fatal results than are healthy constitutions. HI r.: E it tends to shorten, and does greatly shorten, the average duration of human life. The vast in jortamc of these considerations has H d us to spend years in perfecting a remedy which is adequate to its ture. Tltis we now ? fu-r to the public under the name of ATER'S SARSAPARILLA, although it is composed of ingredients, some of which exceed the best cif SarsapariUa in alterative JOV C-r. By its aid you may prote ct yourself from the ; offer ing and danger of these diorelers. i urge ot.t the foul corruptions th.it rot and fester in the llocd, purge out TIE causes of disease, and vigorous health w ill follow. By its pecu liar virtues this remedy stimulates the vital functions, and thus expels the distempers which link within the system or burst out on any p.art of it. WE know the public have Lec-n deceived by many compounds of SarsapariUa, that promised much and did not! :ng; but they will neither be deceived nor disappointed in this. Jts virtues have been proven by abun dant trial, nnd there remains no question of its Mirpassing excellence for the. cure of the afflicting diseases it is intended to reach. Although under the same name, it is a very different medicine from ar.y other which has been before the people, and is far more ef fectual titan any other which has ET er been available to them. AYER'3 CHERRY PECTORAL. Tho World's Groat Remedy for Coughs, Colds, Incipient Con uumption, and for the relief of Cousuir.ptit e patient* in advanced stages of the disease. This lias been so long used and so uni versally known, that we need do no more tiian assure the publie that its quality is kept up to the best it ever has been, and tiiat it may be relied on to do all it has ever done. Prepared by I)R. J. C. AYER & Co., j 'r adical and Analytical < hemut\ Lowell. Mats. Sold by all drutrtrists every where. For sale bvßunnell A Bannatyne, and Lymsn A Whlls, Tunkbaiuoock. Sterling A Son, Mesboppen, Stevens A Aokley, Luceyville, Frear, Dsan A Co , Factoryville, and all Druggists aud Deulsts in med cines, everywhere. THE HEALING FOUL, A s l> HOUSE OF MERCY. Howard Ai-uc'a'lon Reports for YOI'NG MEN on the CRIME OF SOLITUDE, and the ER RORS, ABUSES a d DISEASES which destroy the manly i>wer*. and create imjiedimcnts to MAR HI AGE. wtth sure menus of relief. Sent in sea ed letter, cm elopes, free of charge. Address Dr J. SKILLEN HOUGHTON, Howard Association, Philadelphia. Pa. 6u44 lyear THE UNION STRAW CUTTER, MANUFACTURED BY William Klickner, At 7 CjYA'HAAWOCA", Tetin 'a. Who has the exclusive right for Wyoming county, it one of the very few Mschiues that will cut Hay. Strsw. Stalks, ace., better than the old fashioned Cutting boxes, used by our grandfathers. Those who value tune and Dlior: and would " Vo | a. You can hardly realize that thesei gardens, green with cabbages, turnips, cauliflowers and other vegetables, were j once the. bed of the ocean ; that the waves 1 rolled miles and nules inland; that: vessels once sailed where farmhouses now stand ; that fisherman now let down tin ir hooks and nets above those meadows. : But so it has been, and the story of the j rise and growth and pumping out of 110 - ' land is one of the inn-t interesting in all 1 history. It shows us what enterprise, in- ! tclligence, perseverance, and hard work j will accomplish; It would give you a strange sensation to sail up the river from the ocean in a steam- j boat or in a Bhip, and find yourself so high ' above the houses that you can almost look down the chimneys, also to see cattle and sheep fei ding down below, and men catcti-' ing fidi above. Were it n->t for the windmills, the riv er, the ocean and the rain would soon flood I the fields and meadows aud set all the j houses afloat ; but, because the mills are I always g"ing. the boys and girls ol Butch-; land sleep securely at night, go to school, eat their three meals a day, play in the streets, go lo church on Sunday, without ever dreaming of any danger. Ottce there was a terrible ilisaster; a dam pave way, nnd the water came pour ing in, covering the meadows, drowning cattle and sheep, sweeping away farm houses, villages and towns, destroying uih nv lives and making sad havoc. But the people filled u{> the breach, set the wind mills a-going, pumped the whole country dry again, and ever since have taken good care to keep a 1 the embankments strong and in repair. There is a saying that " eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," but here in Holland it is the price of life. Men are on the watch all the time to see that there are no weak places in tho em bankments. They are paid hy the govern ment, and have control of all the milis.— They wage constant warfare with the ocean, at a cost of nearlv three million dollars every year; but with the wind for an allv, thev are enab'ed to keep the mar shes drained, and Lave transformed the bogs into beautiful meadows, pastures, or chards and gardens, and built villages and towns below the level of the sea. SCENES ON TUE CANALS. The coiintrv is cut up by canals—some deep enough to float the largest ships : others small and nariow. You see hun dreds of boats. Stand with me on the bank of the great canal which leaod wife is in the cabin dealing out bread, cheese and beer to the pass ■•tigers, who ate eating, chatting,laugh ing aud smoking. The boat skims ligndy over the water, and is far down in ihe bend of the canal almost betoro you have had time to see what the people are up to on board. Here comes a lazy, lumbering craft, al most as broad as it is loDg, with a man aud boy tug 'ing at the tow line. It is lugdeJ with mud scooped up from the bottom of the canal. They are taking it out into the country to spread it on the land. Here is a family craft —a boat which is at the same time a house—the owner, with his wife and children, living on board. The father is tugging at the tow line. The air is still to dav, and he is obliged to pull the boat *long the stream; if it were breezy you would see him hoist the sail and go scud ding away. His wile has a long pole in her hands, and is pushing with all her might to help her husband ; and their two children, a boy and a gitl, are steering the* oratt. They live on bound eat and sleep there in a little close cabin. Here they are to-day, to-morrow they will he iit Ilar leni, and rite next day at Leydett, perhaps, and the next week will be hete at Amster dam again with a cargo of potatoes, or < f wood, or of something else. Now a sell on er. then a barge, and then a ship —her tall as church s>n eples—the sailors in the shrouds getting ready to shake out the sails. On the bay beyond the green meadows arc hundreds of boats and barges with sails set to catch the little breath of wind which puffs our laces Here comes a boat loa led with cabhag' S —another loaded to tho water's edge with turnips —another filled with sheep. Here i a marketman with chickens and geese, which are cackling and gobbling. The canals to a groat extent are the streets of Holland. In the summer they are thronged with boats of every deserip tion ; and a month hence, men, wotm-n and children will be. skimming up and down these streets on skates, having many merry times through the winter. THE MANAGING WOMAN. To be a good housekeeper is one of the most essential and useful accomplishments, and the map who secures for his wife one whose education in this respect lias not been neglected, combined with a mild, con tiding and loving disposition, lias a most; valuable treasure ; and if his home is not j agreeable and pleasant, he may be assured j lhat the fault is with himself, and that he 'does not possess the manly and gentle manly attributes necessary for such a part ner lor life. We commend the following | just and tiuthful remarks to the attention ol our readers : '• The managing woman is a pearl among women. She is one of the prizes in the j great lottery of life, and he man who j draws her may rejoice for the rest of his ! days. Better than tidies, she is a for'une i ; within herself-—a gold mine never holing : |in its yield—a spring of pleasant waters, whose hanks are fiinged with moss audi flowers, when all around is bh-ached white with sterile sand. The managing woman can do anything; ami she does everything well. Perceptive and executive, of quick sight aud steady hand, she always knows j I exactly w hat is wanting, and supplies the j deficiency with a tact aud cleverness pe- j 1 culiar to herself. She knows the capabili i ties of persons as well as things, fot she | has au intuitive knowledge of character j The managing woman, if not always pa tient, is always energetic, and can never be disappointed into inaction. Though I | she has to teach the same thing over and I i over again, though she finds heads as dense I I a* box-wood, aud hands as inefficient as , fishes'' tins, still she is never weary of hen vocation of arranging and ordering, and 1 never less than hopeful ola favorable re j suit." A clkroym Atf at an afternoon service WR9 askt d to give notice of a woman s lec ture, which he did in this wise : "At half past six o'clock, in the school house in the | first district, a hen will attempt to crow." | A TOL'KOS Ktiwho was taken intb a toy bazaar the other day, Lv his doting mam ma, hsyl a number of articles exhibited by the attenlieve clprk; in the hope of enlisting his altetition and < ff-cling a i-alc, biit with out effect. At last one <>f these papier T*a che representations of a niou-e waspmduc- I ed, an l, after being wound up by a key, was set down upon the floor, where jt rait 1 about tn thf* most mouse-like manner im aginable. The youngster's attention was | enlisted at once, but the result was not as bis mother or the salesman expected, for he | shouted out, "O, main ma, I don't want that; ; we've got lots of them at home and don't j have to wind 'em up, either." How to Judge Character by the Hair. Coarse black hair and dark skin signify j great power of character, with a tendency |to sensuality. Fine hair and dark skin In j dicaty strength of character along with i purity and goodness. Stiff, black hair and j beatd indicate a coarse, strong, rigid, straight-forward character. Fine dark brown hair signifies the combination of exquisite semibdities with great strength of Character, llarsb, upright hair is the sign of a reticent and sour spirit , a stub born and barsb character. Coarse red Lair j and whiskers indicate powerful animal pas | sums together w ithj-t coiesponding strength •of character. Auburn hair with florid countenance denotes the highest order of sentime't and intensity of feeling, purity of character, witb the bighest capacity for enjoyment or suffering. Stra'ght, even smooth glossy hair denotes strength, har mony, and e\ enncss of character, hearty afiections, a clear head and superior talents Fine, silk, supple hair is the mark of a delicate and sensitive temperament, and speaks in favor of the mind and character of the owner. Crisp curly hatr indicates a hasty, somewhat impetuous, and ra?h char acter. \V Lite hair denotes a lymphatic and indolent constitution : and we may add that besides all these qualities there are chemical properties residing in the Coloring matter of the hair tube which undoudtedly have some effect upon the disposition.— Thus, red hair people are notoriously pas sionate. Now red hair is proved by an alysis to contain a large amount ofsulpher whiLl every black hair is colore d with ! a'most pure carbon. The presence of these malters in the blood points to peculiarities ot temperament and feeling which are almost universally associated with them The very way in which the hair flows is strongly indicative of (lie ruling passions and inclinations, and perhaps a clever person could give a shrewd guess at the I manner of a man or woman's disposition I by only seeing the backs of their heads. The Absurdity of Drinking. It has become a sort of popular—almost national —faith that it is not possible to be truly liapfty unless you drink. Among cer- Ltin class's —and they are by no means ex clusively the lowest drink is the beginniug and end of eveivthing. The very name of iiquot- is hold to be synonymous with en j <\ meat, and the dearer the liquor the more it is priz d and coveted. Yet every man at i* not a downright drunkard is well aware that the pleasures of drinking are beyond a ceriain point, a mockery, a delusion, and j a snare. I put it to any one who has stood half the night at a bar or sat half the night in a club room, drink'ng, smnking, and bandying reck less ta k, if the enjoyment of j >ueb an evening has been anything like that of a few quiet hours spent at home with a b'lok or newspaper ? The evil influence of tavern pleasure on the health *is too ob vious to be denied by any one, and the illusory nature of the pleasure* themselves would be undeniable also if the persons who indulge in them did not deceive them selves at.d put the truth out of sight. No one ever broughi anv good out of a drinking bout yet. It is a short, feverish spasm of animal enjoyment, which leaves nothing behind but uioruseness, regret,bad ! temper, self reproach, and headache, I I should like to ask you, sir if you say your prayers when you come home in that state? No—you don't. You are ashamed to say tin iu. leu postpone them until you have purged yourself, your mind, and your lips | bv more sober and rational behavior. Next night, when you pass the hours quietly at home, with a book or a friend, you feel that you have liad teal enjoyment, and that the I time has passed pleasantly, that you have learned something, and that you Lave not i | injured your health. You are not ashira - ! ; ed to say your prayers, aud you get tip next ! ; morning with a cleat head, a good appetite, j and an increased faenby for work and en- l I joyinent of life.— All the Year Iluund. WESTON having reached his destination an amateur pedestrian makes the following ■ off r iti a Western papn*: "I will walk with any good-looking girl who has a fortune in her own right, upon any given moonlight night, both parties to go as slow as they please, and neither to j hurry back to the slatting point. 1 will 1 ihen, on the word, walk into her affections, i and walk off with her fortunes." JACK BAKER was recently examined in an important case in a Western court. — Counsel found it ex'remely difficult to ex tinct the w hole truth from him. 11 is in genuity and ignorance combined, enabled him to evade the question. At last the lawyer, losing patience, exclaimed ; "Why, Mr. 8., do you prevaricate so much ?" Jack, supposing that he referred to his peculiar manner of utterance, convulsed , the Court and audience by replying indig nantly : '■ I would like to know bow a feller can help pfevaricatin, when he bai > lost three of his front teeth f" TERMS, $2.00 Per. ANNUM, IN Adv&no*. DJise antj gtjierfois*. If ''Beauty draws us by a single hair," who can withstand a modern waterfall 7 "Pa," said Charlie to his parental ancestor, holding a Sunday School picture book, "what is that 7" ' That, tny son is Jacob wrestling with the j angels," "And which licked 7 " inquired the young hopeful. ' Should not a drinker of corn whisky ©U ways be afflicted by a whisky voice 7 When a person well replenishes a fire bow does it feel 7 Grateful/!) Why was Goliah astonished when David hit him with a stone 7 Because such a thing never entered his bead before. A lady who had two children sick With the meas'es wrote to a friend for the best reme dy. The friend had just received a note from another lady, inquiring the way to pickle cucumbers. In the confusion the lady who inquired about the pickles receiving the rem-, edy for the measles, and the anxious mother of the sick children with horror read the fol lowing : "Scald them three or four times in hot vinegar and sprinkle them with salt, and and in a very few days they will be curetf." "Mother," said a lad, "is it wrong to bra*]* egg shells 7" "Certainly not, my dear," replied tba mother ; "but what do you ask Jauoh silly questions for 7" "Because I Lave dropped the basket with all the eggs in it," replied the promising youth. At a printers' festival,held in Lowell,Mass. the following toast was presented : "The Printer—the master of all trades ; he beats the farmer with his Hoe, the carpenter with his rules, and the mason with setting up tall columns; he surpasses the lawyer and doctor in attending to his cases, and beats tho parson in the management of the 'devil,'" Mrs. Jones, a farmer's wife in Connecticut, says : "I believe I've got the tendered hearted boys in the world. I can't tell on© of 'em to fetch a pail of water, but what he'U burst out crym'." A fispthy conundromist asketh the follow ing : "Why doth a dog waggle hith tail?—* Give it up. I think moth felllh will giv© it up. You thee, the dog waggeth hith tail becauth the dog ith thronger than the tail 1 If he wathn't the tail wouth waggle the dog !" The young lady who burst into fears haa been pot together again, and is now wearing hoops to prevent the recurrence of the accU dent. Some fisherman use cottcn for bait; so do some women. Why is dancing like inilk? Because It strengthens the calves. "Figures can't lie," says the arithmetician, "You can't say that of women's figures is these days," remarked the slanderous dress maker. "Bill, did you ever go to sea 7" "I guess I did ; last year for instance. I went to see a red headed girl ; but 1 only called there once." , "Why so 7" "Because her brother had an unpleasant habit of throwing boot-jacka and smoothing irons at folks," At an examination of some girls for the rite of confirmation, in answer to tho ques tion. "What is the outward and visible sign and form in baptism 7" one of them replied : "The baby, Bir." VALUABLE RECIPES.—TO remove freekles, cut thorn out with a razor and throw tbem away. They will never return. To bring out a moustache, tie it to a stroeg cord, twenty feet long, to Ihe other end of which attach a heavy smoothing iron, and throw the latter from a fourth atory window. It'll come out. To get rid of red hair, hold your head for a few minutes in a strong blaze of gas. To preserve your ©yes, put them in bot tle filled with alcohol. To avoid corpulence, quit eating. f To conceal bad teeth, keep your mouth shut. . To stop breathing, commit a Sue-san-side. ! To keep out ol drbr, acquire the reputation of a rascal, and no one will trust you. # To seep your name up, write frequently on the dome of the capitol, the state house steeple, and other high places. To become a competent booK-kerper, bor row all the books you can and never return them. To "raise stamps," say a funny thing on the stage. To keep out of a fight, stay by yourself. To gain time, steal a watch. [ To keep from stuttering, don't talk. J\ T O. 25.