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Dsc 5, l?(j7—v7nl9yl Jib KHOADS, PHYSICIAN A SUUOEO N J . will attend promptly to all calls in bis pro- j fession. May he found at hi? Office at the Drug Store, or at his re?ilence on Putmau Sreet, formerly occupied by A. K. Peckham E.-q. DENTISTRY. A . ?S* *■ -=*" OR. L T. BURNS b# permanently located in _ Tunkh ir.noct Borough, and respectfully tenders bis professional service? to its citizens Office on second floor, fotmerly occupied by Dr. tsilmao vi'nSOf. PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE, 02NAMMTAI. rA-TNTXIVG, 7iy ?r. IttCGE/t, Artist. Room? over the Wyoming National bank,in Stark's Br., k Block, • TUNKHANNOCK, PA. Life-size Portraits painted from Amhrotypes or Photographs- Photographs Painted in OilCtlors. — Allordersfor paintings executed according to or der, or noeharg" made. Instructions given in Drawing. Sketching, Portrait and Landscape Painting, in Oil or water €• lors. and iu all branches of the art. Tank , July 31, "67 -vgnSO-tf. BOLTON HOUSE. HAHRISHUHG, PENNA. The undersigned having lately purchased the * bl KUI.ER HOUSE " property, has already com menced such alterations and improvements as will render this old and popular House equal, if not supe ri..r, to any Hotel in the City of Harrisburg. A continuance of the public patronage is refpeet fuliy solicited. GEO. J. BOLTON WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, TtT NKHVN NOlk, WYOMING CO., IA. THIS establishment has recently been refitted an furnished in the latest style Every attention •ill he given to the comfort and convenience of those •JO patronize the House T. B WALL, Owner and Proprietor . Tunkhannoek, September 11, 1861. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA Vint. H. COR TRIG IIT, Prop'r HAVING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no efforts wn ier the house an agreeable place of sojourn to •II who may favor it with their custom. Wui.ll CORTRIGIIT. June, 3rd, 1=63 MEANS' HOTEL. TOWANDA, PA Jb lb BART I.ET, (Late oil "UKMNAIU. Horse, ELSIIRA, N Y PHOPKIEIGK. The MEANS HOTEL, i one of toe LARGEST nd BEST ARRANGED ilousei, in the country —It | u fitted up m the most modem ami improved style ; •nd no pains are spared to make it a pleasant aud, •greeablestoppngi p|ce for all, 211yv3-u. MUMM FOR BAIA THE subs riher offers for sale VERY CHEAP, an 1 almost new Piano Frame SIX OCTAVE MEI.ODEON. Also, a lot ot Hiasehald Faruiture at very low i pr.^s Fr particulars inquire at the house now occupied ' thesubrcritier, formerly occupied by Henry Stark. A G. 3TAIIK. Jan. 20tb : 186?n24w< Y > THE peculiar taint or infection which we ijtfl call SCROFULA lurks if* the constitutions of roulbtudcs of men. It "s=^-A either produces or is produced by an en- vitiated state • i bU><Rl ', wl,ert ' in jKBP. wm to sustain ft vital forces in their v ' >{ '' rou * action, nn d " *"^-.s^ fall into disorder and decay. Tlie scrofulous contamination is va riously caused by mercurial disease, low living, disordered digestion from unhealthy food, impure air, filth and filthy habits, the depressing vices, and. above all, by the venereal infection. Whatever be its origin, it is hereditary in the constitution, descending "from parents to children unto the third and fourth generation;" indeed, it scents to lie the rod of Him who says, " 1 will visit th<" iniquities of the fathers upon their children." The diseases it originates Pike various names, 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 biood, and those dangerous distempers leave you. With feeble, foul, or corrupted Mood, you cannot have health; with that "life of the flesh" healthy, you cannot have scrofulous disease. Ayer's Sarsaparilla is compounded front the most i lleotunl anti d ites 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 known by all who have given it a trial. That it does combine virtues truly extraordinary in their effect upon this class of complaint?, is indisputably proven hy the great multitude of publicly known and remarkable cures it has made of the following diseases: King S Evil, or Glandular Swelling*, Tumors, Eruptions, Pimples, Blotchca and Sores, Erysipelas, Ross or St. Anthony's Fire, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Coughs from tuberculous deposits in the lnngs, White Spellings, Debility, Dropsy, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Syphilis and Syphilitic Infections, Mercurial Diseases, F- male Weaknesses and, in.h d. the whole series of complaints that ai bo lroia impurity of the blood. Minute reports of individual cases may he found in Ana's AMERICAN AI.MANAC, which is furnished to the druggists for gratuitous distribution, wherein may be learned the directions for its use, nr.d some of the remarkable cures which it has made when uJI other remedies hud failed to p.llord relief. Those cases are purposely taken from all set tions of the country, in order that every reader may have access to some one w ho can speak to hint of its benefits from personal experience. Scrofula depresses lite vital energies, and thus leaves its victims lr more subject to disease anil its fatnl results than are healthy constitutions. Ilcnce it tends to shorten, and does greatly shorten, the average duration of human life. The vast importance of these considerations has lid us to spend years in perfecting a remedy vvliicli is adequate to its cure. This we now offer to the public under the name of Area's FAKSAFVHII.i.A, although it is composed of ingredients, some of which exceed the best of (iuiMtjjart/ia in ultcralive power. By its aid you may protect yourself from tl:e> suffer ing and danger of these disorders, l'urge out tiie foul corruptions that rot r.nd fester in the blood, purge out the cause,? of disease, and v igorous health will follow. By its pecu liar virtues this remedy stimulates the vital functions, and thus expels the distempers which lurk within the system or burst out on any part of it. We know the public l.ave been deceived ly many compounds of that j iomiscd much and did nothing; but they will neither he deceived nor disappointed in tiiis. Its v irtuca have la-en proven by abun dant trial, and there remains no question of its surpassing excellence for the cure of the afflicting diseases it is intended to reach. Although under the same name, it i? a very different medicine from any other which has I eon lie fore the people, and is far more ef fcciual than any other which lias ever been available to them. AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL. Tho World's Groat Remedy for Coughs, Colds, Incipiont Con sumption, and for the relief of Consumptive patients in advanced stages of the disease. This has been so long used and so uni versally known, that we need do no more than assure the public that its quality is kept up to the best it ever has been, and that it may lie relied on to do all it has ever done. Prepared by - DR. J- C. AYF.R & f 0., j'raclical and Analytical Chtmizt\ Lowell. Mass. Sold hy all dmggists every where. For sale byßunnell A Bannatyne, and Lymm k Whlls, Tunkhannoek. Sterling k Son, Meshoppen, Stevens k Ackley, Laceyville, Frcar, Dsan A Co , Factoryville. and all Druggists aud Dettlsrs in med cines, everywhere. TIIE HEALING POOL, AND HOUSE OF MERCY. Howard Association Reports, for YOUNG MEN on the CHIME OF SOLITUDE, and the ER KOKS, ABUSES aud DISEASES which destroy the manly powers, and create Impediments to MAR RIAGE, with sure means of relief. Sent in sea'ed letter, envelopes, free of charge. Address Dr. J. SKILLEN HOUGHTON, Howard Association, Philadelphia. I'a. 6n44-lyear TIIE UNION STRAW CUTTER, MANUFACTURED BY Willinm Fliekner, At 71'.VA'/IAJWYOCA', Tenn 'a. Who bag the exclusive right for Wyoming county, i one of the very few Machines that will cut Hay. Straw. Stalks, <zo., better than the old fashioned Cutting boxes, used by our grandfathers. Those who value tune and labor: and would a needles? loss of both, in feeding their stock, should get one of these improved Cutters. No man ever found anything better; or ever went back to the old machine after a trial of it. A Mupply Constantly on nand and for sale. WM FLICKNER Tunkhannoek Dee. 2, 1877v7n19*f TDNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. -WEDNSDAY, FEB. 20, 1808. Juihj. WORDS OF THE CORPSE-WATCHER TO HIS COMRADE. Gone is etch saddened face and tearful eye, Ol mother, brother, and of suters fair ; Like the low failing wind their footsteps die, Through the whispering hall and np the rust ling stair. In yonder room the newly dead doth sleep, Begin we now, my friend, our watch Co keep ! And now both feed the fire and trim the lamp, Pass cheerily, if we can, the slow paced hours ; For all without is cold, and drear, and damp, And the wide air with storm and darkness lowers, Pass cheerily, if we may, the livelong night, Putting pale phantoms, paler sleep, ; to flight. We will not UNi of death, of pall and knell- Leave that the mirth of brighter hours to check, But tales of life, lore, beauty, let us tell, Or of stern battle, sea, and storm y wreck ; Call up the visions gay of other days— Our boyhood freaks, our careless, youthful ways. Hark to the distant bell ! an boar is gone ! Unlatch the parlor door and bring the light ; Our brief but solemu duty must be done— To dip (he cloth, aDd stay Death's hastening blight, To bare the ghastly face, and dip the cloth That hides a mortal, "crushed before the moth,' The bathing liquids scents the chilly room : Of spectral white are shroud and veiling lace, On yonder sideboard ID the fearful gloom ; Take off the stifler from the sleeper's face ! Heaven ! did you speak, my friend, of ghistly eye J Ab, what a vision of beautj here doth lie ! Never hath art, from purest wtx or stone, So fair HD image, and so lustrious, wrought ! It is as if a beam from heaven had sbowD A weary angel in sweet si umber caught ! The smiling lip, the slightly tinted cheek And all so cairn, so saint-like and so meek ! They MDg of beauty in the silver moon, And beauty in the penciled, drooping flower ; They tell of flushing eye and luring tone, In radiant Hope's and rosy Health's gny hour ; But where is beauty. In this rounded world Like death upon a maiden's lip, impearled ! Veil thou the dead ! close to the open door ! Perhaps the spirit, ere it soar above, Would watch its clay alone, and hover o'er The face it once did kindle into love ; Commune we hence, 0, friood, this wakeful night, t Of Death made lately by this blessed sight ! YOUTH AND AGE. I often think each tottering fortn That limps along in life's decline, Once bore a heart as yonng. as watm, As full of idle thoughts as mine I And each has had its dream of joy, His own unequnll'd pure romance ; Commencing when the blushing boy First thrills at lovely woman's glance. And each could tell his tale of youth, Would think its scenes of love evince More passions, more unearthly truth, Than any tale before or since. Yes he could tell of tender lay At midnight penued in classic shades, Of days more bright than modern days— And ruaids more fair than modern maids. Of whispers in a willing ear, Of kisses on a blushing cheek, Each kiss, each whisper, far too dear, Our modern lips to give or ?[<eak, Of passions too untimely crossed ; Of passions slighted or betrayed— Of kindred spirits early lost. And bud? that blossom but to fade. Of beaming eyes and dresses gay, Elastie form and noble brow, And forms that have all passed away, And left them what we see them now ! And is it thus—is human love So very light and frail a thing ? And must youth's brightest visions move Forever on Time's restless wing 1 Must all the eyes that still are bright, And all the lips that talk of bliss, And all the forms so fair te sight, Hereafter only come to this 1 Then what are earth's best visions worth, If we at length must lose them thus I If all we value most on earth Ere long must fade away from us ? A NEW PERPLEXITY FOR PARTY FLUN KEYS. —Those Republicans who have tho't that fidelity to party required them to de fend the Congressional scheme of recon struction, as a whole and in all its parts, find .t' hard sledding' about this time. — They hardly know where they are, or what they shall be called to next To make everything sure, and cover all possibilities, thev might well modify their confession of political faith and put in a comprehensive torm, something like this: I We are for the Congressional plan of reconstruction a* it is and as it shall be, world without end.' And to make all safe over night, l)r. Watt's famous sleep inviter might be used in this modified form : Now I lay me down to sleep, My reconstruction faith to keep; II it should change before I wake, The latest sort I'll try to take £&■ In the Southern Conventions the negroes have passed laws forbiddiug the establishment of any school which will not admit the negroes. This practically for bids the advancement of white children.— The negroes can't advance and the whites dare not. Such is Radical "progress." Resolutions forbidding the intermarriage of tbc races were voted down. The big buck nigger will not permit any impedi ment in his way to the marital couch of white girls Another step in the great on- , ward march of equality and amalgamation. Another evidence of Redical 44 progress." | " To Speak his Thoughts is Every Freeman's Right. " A PRINTERS STORY Once (laal Friday, ) item greedy, set this writer sad and seedy, pandering o'er a memorandum book r.t' items used before —( books and scribling rather; items, taking days to get them in chilly freezing weather —great expense of limb and leather) pon dered we those items o'er. While we conned them, slowly rockinsr ( through our mind strange fancies Hocking ) came a quick knocking,—knocking at the sanctum door. " Sure that must be Jinks," we muttered—"Jinks that knocking at our door ! Jinks persevering bore ! " Ah, how well do he reminds us in the walls that then confined us, the " exchanges" lay 1 behind us and around us on the floor.— Tho't we " Jinks has come to borrow some newspapers " till to-morrow " aud 'twill be a lief to get rid of Jinks, the bore; so I'll open wide the door. Still the visitor kept knocking louder than before. Bracing up our patience firmer, then without another murmur, Mr. Jinks yonr pardon and forgiveness we implore. But the fact is—we were reading of that Peinbilia proceeding, where they voted the Dakotas and Ojibways hy the score, and were lost in the reflection that the Otterlail election might with cart-loads sent for Becker tip our calculations o'er. Ilete wc opened wide the door. But phansy our phelinks—for it was not Jinks the bore. But the form that stood before us caused a trembling to come, o'er us. and memoiy quickly bore us back to days of yore; days when items were so plenty, and where ere this writer went he picked up iuteiesting pencilings at almost every door. 'Twas our homed understrapped— 'twas this young infernal rapper—hand outstretched like (,'aptain Tapper,with, the foreman's out of copy, sir; and it kinder riz our dander that like grasping Alexan der, he had setup all the copy and already wanted " more " copy ever more ! Now this local had already walked about till nearly dead —he had sauntered through the city till his feet were very sore—walk ed through Pine, Spruce and Cedar,through the streets and " gentle reader, "—into ways you never thought of, both public and obscure: and examined shop and cel lar, and bad questioned every " feller " but they all refused to tell or hint at any ' shocking accident" not published hereto fore. Having met with no success, lie would rather guess he might have felt a trifle wicked at that ugly little bore, with the message front the foreman, that he wanted " something more." "Now it's time you were departing you young scamp " cried wr upstarting;. " get you back into the office —office where you "were before; or the words you have spok en sure will get your head broken, " ( and we seized a cudgel oaken, that was lay ing on the flour, ) still lie stood and nev er stirred from his position in the door— budged the devil, itevet more."— '•ltikv dtmoitd! child of evil! dost in persecution scvel r Thinkest thou to hunt and haunt mc like an everlasting bore i Leave ! or—( pause till I have said it ) this sheet thou art doomed to edit, and to live, like me, on credit, to live on credit evermore ? Then the deril fled affrighted, muttered faintly, " send him more." But our devil, never sitting still is flit ting, flitting back and forth upon the land ing just outside the sanctum door ; tears a down his cheeks are streaming, strange light from his eyes is gleaming, and his voice is heard a streaming, "Sir theforeman wants some more ! " Shocked and start led by that warning we've awakened every motning, and we hear the dismal hornir.gs of the imp outside the door; and a fancy will come o'er us, and each reader's face before us bears the signet, "give us classic draughts and antiquated lore 1" "Copy still forevermore! EVERYDAY PHILOSOPHY. Hans Patrick O'Conner, formerly known by the worn d' plume of "Bean llacket," contributed the following to the St. Louis H<>me Journal: • Never insure yonr life for the benefit of your wife for a greater sum than ten thou sand dollars. A widow with more money than that is a dangerous legacy to leave j posterity. The ' game of life' is very much like a ' game of cards. Time deals, deffth cuts, and everybody is waiting for the last trump. I I think men driok in crowds because they are afraid to drink by themselves. It requires considerable courage to stand up alone atnl pour a glass of whisky down your throat. There are some inconsistencies in this world that I don't exactly understand.— Everybody is anxious to get to Heaven, but nobody is in a hurry about it. if a man i? without enemies I would not ' give ten cents for his friends The man who can pka?e everybody hasn't got sense enough to displease anyb-dy. When an acquaintance says, 'How are j you ? and pushes hy you without waiting ' for a reply, I wouldn't, if I were in your place, follow him more than a mile to tell j hitn you were well. A convenient way of testing the affec -1 tions of your intended is to inarrv another woman. It she don't love you, you learn it at once. Do unto other men as they would like to do unto vou, and they won't have enough money in two wetks to g't a shirt, washed. , The song 4 Dear Mother, Ive come home to die,' always struck me as a happy ! illustration of American assurance. Our young people go abroad to spend the hard earnings of the old folks, and, when when they art dead broke return homo to bo i buried at the expense of their nnpoverish | ed parents. A Plea For Mean Men. The Misflouri Republican has a corres : pondent who undertakes the thankless tu'k |of defending mean men. He endeavors to prove in a elaborate essay the superiority of mean man to the " good fellow " of our | period. And in the good sooth, he comes nearer to success in his task than it is po ! litic to acknowledge. One thing a mean man is remarkable for, 'is bis reliability. You always know where :to find him. Ask him to contribute a i testinonial to Podgers or subscribe to the ■ relief of Smuggs. He says no. But he also acts so. He don't give a cent. Put ! the same appeal to a good fellow, and be says, " Certainly my dear boy put me down for a V, " subsequently enjoying the privi lege of making the subscription good out of your own pocket. For a good fellow al ways says yes, but never acts yes. So far we have discoursed on the text given by our topic. Now let the corres | pondent speak for himself: Who makes the best husband? At the risk of bringing down a torrent of curses on my unprotected bead, I shall still adhere to the man who i 9 supposed to have no heart or genuine sentiment. The good fellow for a lover, the mean man for a husband. The latter will rob all creation to supply bis household; the former will aob his family to accommodate his friend. From all the married woman in St. Louis in a solid col umn up and down Fourth street, and if I j don't get ninety and nine out of one hun— I dred in favor of my proposition, I will treat the drinking community to a barrel of gin and water on the election of a female President. Good fellows all love; mean man, all business. One takes his wife to the opera in a four horse carriage, the other ■ j tides triumphantly in a street omnibus.— j The good fellow can never be cross to any body but his wife ; the mean man is so sour with all the rest of lite world that he has not one particle of ill-temper to spare at home. '• Love role? the camp, the court, the grove, For love ia heaven, and heaven is love But it wont buy beef. A mean man sel dom gets " salubrious, "he is too mean His wife is never jealous. She knows all woman hate him. because he is mean, and she rafher likes it. Site laughs and grows fat. Good fellow drinks; too kind hearted to refuse, and he loves everybody. Good fellow's wife pale andemanciated, decrepit with care and full of sorrow; mean cuss's wife hale and hearty, fat, red faced, and weighs a ton. Am I right? O O XW Congress compels the tax-payers of the North to support a large standing army for the purpose of making the ignor ant and barbarous blacks the Rulers of the white race. Eight millions of white men are to be controlled by four millions of negroes, and the people of the North are made the tools for carrying out this revolting programme. Negro suffrage has been rejected by every Northern State,aud yet Northern Representatives force negro equality upon the South ! This monstrous usurpation, which we will not tolerate at home in any form,is forced upon an unwil ling people by an artny which we are tax ed to maintain. TEMPERANCE.—An exchange truthfully says "Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit the country, content ment in the house, clothes on the children, vigor in the body, intelligence in the brain, and spirit in the whole body. Temperance in all things eating as Well as drinking is what is desired. TIIE NEXT DEMOCRATC STATE CONVEN TION. —At a meeting of the Democratic State Committee of this State, held at liar risburg, on the Tuesday evening, it was j resolved to hold the next Democratic State Convention, to nominate candidates for Audi'or General and Surveyor General, and choose delegates to the next National Convention, at Harrisburg on the 4th of March next. There was a full attendance of the Committee, and as this was the first meeting since the glorious achievement at i the Inst fall elections, many happy congrat ulations were exchanged. A lot of Radicals are lobbying a scheme at Washington to secure a monopoly of the whiskv manufacture for the whole country. By taking in as stockholders a number of Radical members, and filling the pockets of others with greenbacks, they expect to se cure the passage of a bill of that character. This "truoly loil " scheme has already re ceived the endorsement ot several Grant organs. GEN John A. McClernand, who com manded the Thiiteenth corps at \ icksburg, is out in a sharp letter, saving that Gen. Grant never did his corps justice in his re ports. through malevolence to its command | er, and the proofs ate on file in the War ; Department. Gen. Grant, he says would 1 stand very differently in the public estima tion it It is real character were known. A Scotch lass being neatly attired, some one said to her, " No doubt you think j yourself very trim and clean." "Ah no," she replied; " I will never think that until I have the tine white robe of ray Redeem er's righteousness put upon mt," The Democrats of the Ohio Legislature have elected lion. A. G. Thurman to the United States Senate in place of B. Wade, whose term expires in 18G9. The New Jersey Legislature met on tbc 14lb. Parties stand ott joint ballot Demo crats 51, Mongrels 24. • GITTINO HOPE ENOUGH —The Com merciul in reference to the Hump Congress pi oceedings against Judge Field, Of the Su- I preme Court, thinks that nothing will tome out of all this, but that the resolution is a fair illustration of the partisan action of Congress, and the terrorism they seek to inspire in all over whom they have any con : trol. The editor says: " If a General offends them they legls- I late hitn out of his commission. If the Su preme Court is supposed to bold the same | opinion of certain laws of Congress that Thad. Stevens does,viz.,that they are "out side the Constitution," the Supreme Court ' is to be shorn of its power. If a Judge gives expression to his private views, he is to be impeached. It is all intolerance, big otry, despotism. The acts of Congress cannot bear the light, and Congress is de termined that they shall be accepted in the dark, and so executed as to effect the par tisans and unpatriotic purposes of their framers who care more for an election than they do for their conntry. The Radicals are getting a good deal of rope lately, and j the usual result is sure to follow. *' AMONG the stupid laws passed last winter, was one giving the Anditor Gener al authority to appoint an unlimited num ber of Assessors of National Bank Stocks, 1 and they were to receive a certain per centage for their services. It seems fif teen such officers were appointed and paid, up to the first of December, #13,836,31 the tax paid into the State treasury to the same time, was $8 292,43. Geary could not veto iuch a bill of course, because it throws money in the pockets of his political friends, but the law should be repealed. Any legal tax can be collected from the Bauks, by the regular officer at Harrisburg without a dollar of extra expense to the State. @g"The Radicals increased the national debt about twenty millions of dollars du ring the past month. But twenty millions, almost a million a day, is scarcely noticed. Bonds were issued to that amount. Ttie interest on the bonds sold was at the rate ot five per cent, in gold. At the present rate, this is equal to seven per cent, iD greenbacks, We have added to the annual expenses of our government, one million four hundred thousand dollars in a single month. The total debt of the United States to day, is thirty millions more than it was on the first of December last. It is ten millions more than it was on the first day of July, 1867. The Radical party is a cost ly luxury. Can the people of this nation afford to continue it in power ? The reply of Senator Doolittle to Nevada Nye in the Rump Senate on Friday last, witen the latter impudently asked him "under which flag he would march," should immortalize the Wisconsin patriot. " I WOULD MARCH "said he, "UNDER A FLAG HAVING THIRTY-SEVEN STARS. " Such a banner, of course don't suit the Radicals.—?' The) would mutilate the old flag as they have mutilated the old Constitution, but the people like Senator Doolittle, don t want a star blotted out, nor a stripe erased. —" A flag with thirty-seven stars!"— That's tbc talk ! THE TAPER AGE. —This is certainly the age of paper. There are " greenbacks," " stamps " paper shirt-bosoms, collars and cuffs ; paper slippers and hats ; paper water pipes, well'walls, ship-cabin panels, and even the sides of pleasure yachts are made of this seemingly fragile material. The latest adaptation of paper, however, comes from Maine, and is specially addressed to the ladies. It is hoped there may be no indelicacy in a simple mention of this new manufacture, which is anuounced in the lo cal •papers as the product ot a "Taper I'an talette Company." What next? The campaign in New Hampshire has grown exciting. Both parties are putting forth their best efforts. The Radical Com mittee are taking an active part, and, it is said, have lavishly invested over one hun dred thousand dollars as a corrupting agency. The leaders of that faction have admitted that if that State should go against them they cannot hope to carry their Pres idential candidate in the fall without the full negro vote. ♦- In reply to a proposition that Members of Congress should be allowed to draw whatever stationary they needed. Mr. Tltad Stevens stated the other day, that that plan had been tried, and had to be changed, because some members procured, under the name of stationary, pantaloons, shirts, and shaving soap enough to last for years. When David Crockett visited Low ell in 1833. he gave at a public dinner, the following characteristic toast: " May the bones of kings and tyrants be used as grates in bell to roast the souls of tories on." If Crockett was permitted to return to our country now, his indignant ghost would strike out the word" tories," and in sert Motujrels in its place. The tobacco trade of Virginia is the subject of a sketch in a Danville newspa per, in which it states that the tobacco | trade is more lively this month than the I last. One gentleman, who sold tobacco in Danville a little before Christmas at 515,50, last week sold some of the same quality at S4O Other cases of the same kind arc reported. The paper referred to adds that Danville is rapidly increasing in import-' ance as a tobacco market. The number of Northern dealers who visit it is larger now I than ever before. TERMS, $2.00 Per. ANNUM, in Advance pist aift Hypocrite! are beings of darkness, disguis* ed in garments of light. He who cannot keep bis own secret ooght not to complain if another tolls it. A barrel of cider was recently beheaded in Connecticut for working on the Sabbath* day. "Pa, ain't I gfowiog tall 1" "Why, what 1i your height, sonny 1" "Seven foot, lacking a yard." Pa fainted. Oftentimes it is not until we no longer hare the means of serving oar fiiendl that wc can know who they are. Swinging is said, by the doctors, to be a good exercise for the health, bnt many a poor wretch has come to his death by lt^ It is better to sow a young heart with ; generous thoughts and deeds than a field ; with corn, since the heart's harvest is per* i petusl." A lady at Rhyl is said to have lost a very handsome bennet from off her head, and did not miss it until she returned to ber dress* tag-room. ► ' ■ A youngster on coming home from his first term at a boarding school, and on being ask ed what he had been fed on, replied s "Mill* tipl cation tables hashed, and stewed sub straction," *.- An expeditious mode of getting up a row is to carry a ladder on your shoulders in a crowded thoroughfare, and every few min utes turn round to see if any one Is msktng faces at you. A Western paper strikes the names of two subscribers from it list because they were hung. The publisher says he was compelled to be severe, because he did not kno "J their . present address. An Irishman, being a little fuddled, was asked what was his religious belief. "Is H / me belafe ye'd be askin* about 7 Its the' same as the widdy Brady. I owe ber twelve shillings for whisky, and she belaves I'll nev er pay her—and faith, that's my belafe too." An Irishman,who had laid sick s long time, was one day met by the parish priest, who said : "Well, Patrick, lam glad you have recovered—but were you not afraid to meet , your God ?" "Och ! no, your riverance, it was the meetin' of t'other chap I was afeared uv," replied Pat. One day, when a boy had been doing some thing wrong, the mother, intending to chas* tise him, called him and said t "Corns here, sir ; what did you do that for 7" The boy complaceotly folded his arms, and imitating his father's manner, said ; ' See here, madam I don't wish to have any words with JQU." A dog In New Albany, Ind., plays on the piano aud howls. A good many women do ihe same thing. Why is a weathercock like a loafer 7 Be cause he is constantly going round doing nothing. <ir 9 An Irishman being in chnrch where the collection apparatus resembled an election box, in its being passed to him be whispered in the carrier's ear that he was not natural ized, aDd could not Vote, but he was ready to make a speech. Mrs. Jenkins complained that the turkey she had eaten iD the eveniDg did not set well. "Probably," said Jenkins, "It was not a hen turkey." Kti.LtNO.—Ministers, in our day, rarely object to an increase*of salary, but we find in an exchange a capital story of an old Con necticut parson, who declined it for very sub* stantial reasons. His country parish raised his salsry from S3OO to S4OO. The good man objected, for three reasons ; "First," said he, "because you can't afford to give me more than S3OO. "Second, because my preaching isn't worth more than that." "Third, because I have to collect my salary which, heretofore, has been the hardest part of my labors among you. If I have to col lect an additional hundred, it will kill me-" A Minister, in a highly elaborated sermon which he preached, said several times, "The commentators do not agree with tne here,"— Next morning a poor woman came to see him with something in her apron. She said that "her husband read the aermon, and that it was a very fine one. and as he aaid 1 the common tatera did not agree with him,' he has sent some of the best kidneys." Blobbs' landlord proposes to raise his rent next spring. Blobbs is glad of it. He can not raise it himself. Promissory Notes—Tuning the fiddlea be*' | fore the performance begins. NO. 29.
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