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KR.fr W E LITTLE ATTORNEYS AT ' LA A OSoe on fitvga Street t coktunme-k Pa , HW. t'OOPEK, PHV'SDMAN I St KG EON ' • Newton Centre, Luiemo County Pa. / v la, PASRIMC ATTORNEY AT LAW] \'• (ift-eat the uit Huuse, in T i.i.han.ick \VT, uung On. l'a U M, N. PIATf, A'fiOHKk) A'i LAW'Of-1 See m -j: ark's fe. i.-k block Tioga M.. Tuok : nitinock. Pa f J- CilASis. VCf )'UEi VNDCOI NSEL ! AN LJ.i if Ll V, Mi - - - ■ T v . nil g Co-, P • E t ; ,ri li a. , ria ji.- I to set I leiiK-ut ot dec. dsn estates Ni.-Wwm, Pa. D- ■ 5. ! ,;T-v7oEh 1 JWL ROOAD*. PHi SICIAN - ' N . will ntUiA pr.-Ji tlj to ail ■■>'* ; hi-pro fuaeiow. Is ay be lu-J d at Lie Office at the Drug j ft:- re. or si bis rcsidcn-o on i'litm iu Srn-t, lor ;:erl_v oecupied by A. K. Peathai.-i Esq. CENfisin/. , DP. IT. Bt T RNS ha* permsncntly locate lin j _ Isnkhsr.D-.cli Borough, and re.p - itully tender? | his pref#ew,wDl servi.wa to its iitizm.s (Hlee •• seeoad fisoi, foiu-.erly occM,ied t-y Dr. •ilsssn vS'Xf. poafSAiir, LAiibsoAPE, E£l+ AUL 7. 17 TA IS 3? /jITIT 'l'ircrT, If. HUG ISA', Artist. ■esa over the Wyoming National tank,in Ntark's gwefc Block, TUNKHWN'OCK. PA. Lifs-site painted from Ainhrot vps or Pkot igrsphs Photographs Painted in DilCilors Al lor J-rs fir paintings egeiuted according to or der,or nociisrge made, | gf* Instructions given -,n Drawing Sketching, Portrait an i Landscape P.iuiins;. in Oil or water Colors, an 1 in all br inches of the art. Tank., July 31, *6" -vgtiso-tf. BOLTON HOUSE. IIAKHISIH lid, I'MWA. The undersigned having lately purchased the ' BUBBLER HOUSE " property, has already cora- Bcuoed such alterations an 1 improvements as will seoier this old and popular House equal, if not supe rior. to any Hotel in the City of Ilarrisburg. A -oatinuance of the public patronage is refpeet felly solicited. GEO. J. BOLTON WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, TU N'kil.W SlOth, UYOMIJit; ft)., I'A. rillS establishment has recently been refitted an famished in the latest style Every attention wiil be given to the comfort and convenience of those who patronize the ll>ue. T. B. WALL, Owner an 1 Proprietor". Tunkhannoek, September 11, 1961. WORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESIIOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA IVM. 11. COR TRIG lIT, Prop'r IT WING resumed the proprietorship of the above ■ 1 Hotel, the undersigned will "pare no efforts "•nder the house an agreeable place ol sojourn to •11 who may favor it with tficircustom. Win II CORTRIGHT. J*, 3rd, 1963 MEANS' HOTEL. TOWARTDA, RA. P- B. BARTLjiT, [Late oft. "KRAINARH lIOI'SK, ELMIRA, NY PROPHIETOR. The MEANS HOTEL, i-one of tne LARGEST •CD BEST ARRANGED Houses in the country — lt ! •I fitted up in the most modern anil unpruved style •ad NO pains are spired to make it a pleasantand j •greeable stopping pjace for all, V3A2I-ly. REVOLUTION IN TRADE. Greater inducements than ever before offered to persons getting up clubs in our One Dollar Sale. ?end for NEW SPRING CIRCULAR. Ji.KEK A CO., W A 60 Federal SL, ikartw), Mase TIJNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA.-WEDNESDAY, APR. 8. 1868. 1c THA peculiar taint or 1 Infection -which we call SCROFULA lurks jv f' in the constitutions of multitudes of men. It .] either produces or is "55- - produced by an en feebled, vitiated state j| of the blood, wherein lluid becomes in- JF&i competent to sustain y vital forces ill their vigorous action, and j "" 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, filth and filthy habits, the depressing vices, and, above all, by j the venereal infection. Whatever lie its | origin, it is hereditary in tiie constitution, descending "from parents to children unto the third and fourth generationindeed, it seems to lie the rod of Him who says, "I will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon their children." The diseases it originates take various names, according to the organs it • attacks. In the lungs, Scrofula produces tubercles, and finally Con.-umption; 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. The>e. all having the Same origin. r< quire the fame remedy, vi/ . purification and invigcra tion of the blood. I'inify the blood, and these dangerous di- tempers leave you. With feeble, foul, or corrupted Hood, you cannot have health; with that "life of the lb-It" healthy, you cannot have scrofulous di-ease. Ayer's Saraapnrilla it compounded from the most effectual anti d-ae* t it iocd I science l:-s distort r d for this nfiiii ting di.-tenqwr, and f r llie cure of the di.-irder.* it emails. 'That it is f r supe rior to any other remedy yet devised, is know n ly all who have given it a trial. That it docs combine virtues 4ruly extraordinary in their effect upon this class of com; Lints, is indisputably proven by the great multitude of pui-lii ly known and renin: kai.le cures it lias nu de of the following d -easts: Xlßg's Evil, or GlondnPr Sv/eliiugs, Tunic-3, Eruptions, Pimples, Blotches and Sorc3, Ei 7 tb- -. •-, .lv..v cr E.. Ant.. O.i s A 1 ii'©, S-i.lt Rheum, Scald Head, Coughs from tuberculous deposits in tho lungs, Y/hifco Swellings, Debility, Dropsy, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia cr Indigestion, Syphilis and Syphilitic Infections, Heron rial Diseases, F-. ITHie Weaknesses, an '- itiwci (1, the whole furies of complaints thatari c fro i i purity erf the blood. N'inute reports of im'.-, ideal cases may be found in Ami's A . i.ai AN' AI.VIANAI . which is furni.-licd to thodii. L-:s for gratuitous distribution, wherein may be b an: I the directions for its u.-e, and some of the remarkable cures which it lias made v hen ~U otl i-r remedies bad failed to : fiord ri i-f. '1 iio ! ca-e-s are purposely I: bin from all auction* of the country, in < dor that every reader may have access to some one who can speak to him of its 1 cm-fits from P< rsonsl t xpcricncc. Scrofula dcpri. si s the vital energies, and thus leaves its victim - far more subjc t to disi ase and its fatal re.-tilts tl an are healthy constitutions. Jler.ce it ti ads to shorten, and does greatly shorten, the average duration of human life. The v ast importance of tin -e considerations has led us to spend years in perfecting u remedy vliicli is adequate to its Hire. This we row other to tl:c public under the name of Av i it's FAR- U-VRII.I A, although it is composed of ingredients, some of which cxcied the best ot S<ir><iparilla in alterative power. liy its aid you may protect yourself from the iliir ing and (larger of these di-orders. I'urge out the foul corruptions tln.t rot and fester in the 1 lot il, ] urge out the < auocs c f disease, and \ iyorouA i.-. alth will follow, l'y its pt< u li„r virtues this ri mtdy stimulates the vital fundi. ns. an-1 thus o.pds the di tempers which lurk will a the sv.-tem or burst out on any past of it. We know t'o public '• vo keen deceived by many rcmpoxntff* of SfcrsapuriUm, that promised n ui h PI D did nothing; but tliey v iil ncilia rbe d<-( • ived nor di appointed in this, lis virtues have been proven by abun dant t: i J, and tin re remains no question of its ru passing excellence for the cure of the p.filictiiig disease* it is intended to reach. Although ur.ih r the same name, it is a vcrjr diff-rt r.t lUI-I'..- ine from any other vvi.it LI has l,i-i n l-ifire the people, awl is far more ef fi-cual thau any ctiicr which has ever been available to them. ■A-YEXt'S CHERRY PECTORAL. The World's Great Remedy for Coughs, Colds, Incipient Con- Gumption, and for the relief of Consumptive patients in advanced stages of the disease. This has Leon so long ucd and so uni ! versal'y known, that wo need do no more ' than as ore the public that its quality i- ki |>t uj> to tiio In -t it ever has been, and that it may be relied on to do all it has ever done. Prepared by DR. J. C. AVER & Co., Practical and Analytical Lnwt 11. Mass. Sold by all druggists every where. Fur sale hyßunneli k Bannatyne, and Lyra in A Whlls, Tonkbiinnock. Sterling <t Son, Meshoppen j Stevens A Acktey, Lnceyville, Frear, Dsnn A Co J Factory ville, and all Druggists and Deulsis in ined- ; | nines, everywhere. THE HEALING POOL, AND HOUSE OF MERCY, ft oward ASMICI at lon Reports for YOUNG! MEN on the CHIME OF SOLITUDE, and the ER- j KOKS, ARI SES a id DISEASES which destroy the i manly jiwers, and create iin pediments to MAR HI AGE, with sure means of relief. Sent in sealed] letter, em elopes, free of charge. Address Dr J. ' SKILLEN HOUGHTON, Howard Association, 1 Philadelphia. Pa. 6n44-1 year THE XT TNT XO INT STRAW CUTTER, MANUFACTURED BY William Flickner, At 1 UATA'ZIAWOCA', Tenn'a. Who has the ezelusive right for Wyoming county, is i.ne of the very few Machines that wilt cut Hay. Straw. Stalks, ate., better than the old fashioned Cutting boxes, used by our grandfathers. Those who value tune and labor: and would avoid a nee Iles I'.ss 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 Supply Constantly on Hand and for sale. WM FLICKNIR. TtmkfcauLr.-Af, Do* X IOT-. TnlfM, THANATOPSIS. BT WH. CILLE* BRYANT. To bira who in the lore of natnre holds Communion with her risible firms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a roice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, witb a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, AnJ breathless darkness, and the narrow house, M 'ke thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart; — rto forth, under the open sky, and list To nature's tea,-kings, while from all around — Earth and her waters, and the depths of air— Comes a still voice—i'et a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more, In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocoan shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, sUTenderiag up Thino individual being, shalt thou go, To mix forever witb the elements, To be a brother co the insen.-ible.rock, And to the sluggish clod which the rude swaiu Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Fhall scud his roots abroad, and pearce tby mould. Yet not to tLinc eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alono—nor couliist thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.--The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun—the rales •Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods—rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and poured round all. Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are bnt the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of hea/en, Are shining on tho sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread 'Wis globe are but a handful lo the tribes Tiiat slutubor in iis bosom.—Take the wings Of morning—and the Barcan deserts pierce, Or loose thyself in tho continuous woods, Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dastungs —yet —the dead are there : Anl millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep—the dead reign there alone. So shalt tbou rest— and wbat if thou withdraw I'nhecded bv the living—and no friend Take note of thy departure 1 All that breathe Will rh ire thy destiny. Tho gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Hod on, anil each one as before will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their einployments.and shall come. And make their bed with thee. As the long train Of ages glides away, the sons ot men, The youih in life's green spring, and he who goes, In the full strength of years, matron and maid, And the sweet babe, ami the gray-haired man Shall one by one, be gathered to thy side, liy those, who in their turn shall follow them. So life, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take IDs chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not like the quarry slave at night. Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By on unfaltering trust, approach thy grave. Like one who wraps the drapery of liis couch About bitn, and lies down to pleasat dreams. A POET. I have in my employ an Irishman, who, I fear, will be the means of killing me yet, for already he has caused me so many stitches in the side, that a few more and I shall be served up. A few days since, having some altera tions and repairs made to my dwelling, I set Pat to tend the masons, who were en gaged in carrying up a brick wall. As he was ascending the. ladder, with a hod filled up w'.lh brick on his shoulder, a carriage drove by. Pausing in his ascent, and eyeing the carriage, he exclaimed, ' The rich can ride in chaises, But the peor may walk, bejasis ! Instantly throwing his hod, with its load of brick, to the ground, he came down the ladder and hastened to where I was stand ing, an amused listener and observer of his words and movements. As be approached he doffed his hat, and, with a bow and scrape, said, "Begging yer Honor's pardon, I would be much obleeged to ye fur me wages : I'm going to lave yees uow." "Why, Pat, what is the matter ? Why do you w:sh to leave mc ?" "Airah ! yer Honor, I have mishtaken me avecation. It's a born poet lam ; an' it's beneath me dignity to be carrying the hod and the likes." "What ! you a poet, Pat ? Is it possi ble ! Have you ever madeany poetry ?" "Troth an' I have, Sur ; and I'll be af ter astonishing the wurrld yet. I jist now on the ladder bevant, made as swate a bit of rhyme as was iver printed, intirel)." "You did, indeed ? Well, just repeat it to me now, and then I can judge of your poetical abilities." "Sure an' I will, yer Honor and he commenced : "The rich can ride in chaises, But the poor—but the poor—" Here he stuck fast, but commenced again : "The rich can ride in chaises, But the p -or—but the poar—" He could get no farther ; but, scratch ing his head, he exclaimed : "Sure, Sur, I bad it all right a bit since; an' I'll give it to yez now, and again be began : 'The rich can ride in chaises, But the poor—but the poor— Bfjatis they can walk !" " To Speak his Thoughts is Every Freeman's Eight. " HETTY'S VICTORY. BV MRS. WILKINSON, ,! Ah me! how the systematic house keepers in this busy, bustling world of ours manage to get along I should like to kr.ow !" said Mrs. Hetty Gay, the bride of a year, while a scowl gathered and settled upon the white forehead and spread itselt down to the sweet mouth, chasing the dim ples all away and leaving an ugly frown, almost the first in all her life, in their stead. " I declare its just enough to drive one mad—this housekeeping—indeed it is!" and the sweet voice quivered just a little at first, then a great sob welled up from the inexperienced little heart, which flat- ' tered and beat like n frightened bird's, and : at last the tears would and did come as the red lips murmured between the sobs : i " And dear Alf is so particular, and such j an epicure, and likes so imny dainty things, j Oh ! what shall Ido ? What shall Ido?" ; and Hetty sunk down in dismay in the old kitchen chair which Bridget had so rc- { ccntly vacated. There were all the breakfast dishes to | be washed—not so many to be sure, for only two had breakfasted from off the dainty china which looked such a prodig ious pile to the blue eyes—the whole house to be swept and dusted (Hetty had tbree rooms besides the kitchen,) dinner to get J (for two.) " And oh dear ! the mercy on ly knows what all! I never can, indeed I never can!" she sobbed over and over again. Now, Hetty Gay was not a footlsli,weak minded little woman, as perhaps the read er will imagine, but quite the contrary. — Never in all her life, had such a weight of care rested upon her young shoulders ; and as it rose up before her in such prodigious proportions, sfre did what many another would have done in like circumstances. "If I conld only learn," she at length whispered through her tears, " hut how can I ? There is no one here to show me, and then dear Alf will see how awkward I am. That is worst of all!" There was a ring at the door, and Het ty sprang up, bathed her eyes, gave one dubious look back at the huge pile of chi na, and brushing away the golden mist of ringlets from her face, prepared to obey the summons. "Oh ! I do hope it is only the butcher with the roast," she murmured, giving a hasty glance at the 1 ittlo mirror in ttie din ing room, where a pair of swoolen eyes and a troubled face confronted her. " Oh, Lou ! where did yon come from}?" cried Mrs. Hetty eagerly—the dimples all coming back and the tigly scowl vanishing like a dream when she encountered the smiling face of Lou Burton at the door The friend of all others whom she wished most to see at this particular juncture was this same Lou Burton, and she had tho't of her at least a dozen times since Bridg et's abrupt leave-taking, but then she lived so far away, and it was no use, she thought. " But, dear Lou, how did you happen to come just now?" she said. "My good genius must have sent you here to-day, I'm sure, for I was so wretched. Bridget left this morning, you see, and I'm alone and have been crying like a great baby this half hour ! I'm so stupid, you know, and s ignorant of housekeeping matters as a two days-old baby, which I wouldn't have Alf know for all the world. Lome with me, Lou—that's a dear—right out to this awful kitchen, and give me my first lesson in housekeeping !" " But you are not going to work in that elegant cashmere wrapper are yon, Hetty?" said Lou Burton, the practical little house keeper and economist that she was. " Oh, it won't hurt it, just this once, you know, and—" " But it will, Hetty," persisted Lou.— " Now, you go and slip on a plain calico, while I go to the kitchen and commence operations." " But will you stay a whole week, dear, and help me through?" said Hetty, im ploringly, as she turned to obey, " Certainly, T will," answered Lou. in spite of herself, at Hetty's beseeching look, " Now, mind you don't do* a thing till I come there ; for I must learn, you know," called out Hetty after her. Dinner time came, AD<J with it " dear Alf," as " hungry as a bear," he said, for he had been out on a collecting tour, and was ready to " devour a whole regiment." After a hearty welcome to Hetty's friend, he led the way to the little dining room. " Whew, Iletty !" he said, after survey ing the appointments with a critic's eye ; " I do believe you beat Bridget after all. Just look at this roast, now ; it suits me to a charm—just brown enough, and done to perfection ; and these rolls are as light as a feather. How splendidly the table looks. Everything just where it belongs ! I de clare that Irish girl had away of mixing up things that I didn't just like, after all. Hetty, this salad's prepared just as I used to like it when a boy—l tell you it's deli cious,—and a prince might covet that des ert on the side table yonder, lieally, Miss Burton, I never knew until to-day that my little Iletty was such a model house wife !" Lou was amused. Hetty sat smiling through the tears—a slight quiver about her sweet lips and a deep flush on either cheek, but very busy with her thoughts. Days and weeks passed. Lou Bnrton was a constant at the Gay's, where no Bridget had as yet taken the place of her predecessor. By-and-by the weeks glided into months, and Lou only came occasion ally, for Hetty had graduated, and Alfred Gav never knew until years afterward bow bravely she had won" , THE VALL KOF A SCRAP-HOOK—Every | one who takes a newspaper, which he in ; the least degree appreciates, will often re gret to see any one number thrown aside for waste paper which contains some inter esting and important articles. A good 1 way to preserve these is by the use of a scrap-book. One who has never been ac customed thus to preserve short articles, can hardly estimate the pleasure it affords to sit down and turn over the pleasant, fa miliar pages. Here a choice piece of poetry meets the eye, which you remem ber you were so glad to see in the paper but which you would long since have lost had it not been for your scrap-book.— . There is a witty anecdote—it does you , good to laugh over it, though for the ; twentieth time. Next is a valuable recipe you had almost forgotten, and which you found just in time to save much perplexity. There is a sweet little storv, the memory of which has cheered and encouraged you many a time, when almost ready to de spair under the pressure of life's cares and trials. Indeed you can hardly take up a single paper without reperusing it. Just glance over the sheet before you, and sec how many valuable items it contains that ' would be of service to yon a hundred j times in life, A choice thought is far I more precious than a bit of glitti ring gold. Hoard with care the precious gems, and see at the end of a year what a rich treas ure you have accumulated. The Alabama Constitution. This prodnct of African geuius for scrcial weeks boa oooupied a largr abaTO of public attention. Though defeated by the people, every Radical journal from the Tribune down to the smallest Bxlo sheet, have gone into ecstacies over its perfection, and have insisted that it should be consid ered as adopted in open violation of the law under which it was framed. Even Thad. Stevens, acting as he boastfully de clares " outside of the Constitution " could not swallow this dose. By reference to the recent proceedings in Congress we find the following: "Mr Stevens ( Rep. )of Pennsylvania sitting at the Clerk's desk, said : Mr. Speaker, after full examination of the re turns frotn Alabama lam satis fied that to force a vote on this bill and admit the State ay a ins t our own law, while there is a de ficiency of twenty odd thousand against it, would not be doing justice in legislation as would be expected by the people. That being the case I move that the bill be re committed. The motion was adopted." DEATH. —We have never read any thing more beautiful than the follow ing from the pen of Geoige D. Pren tice : '• There is but a breath of air and a beat of the heart betwixt this world and the next. And in the brief interval of painful and awful suspense, while we feel that death is present with us, that we are powerless, and the all-powerful, and the faint pulsation here is but the prelude of endless life hereafter, we feel in the midst of the stunning calamity about to befall us, that the earth has no compensat ing good to mitigate the severity of our loss. But there is no grief without some beneficient provisions to soften its intense ness. When the good and lovely die, the memory of their good deeds, like the moonbeams on the storm sea. light up our darkened hearts and lend to the surrounding gloom a beauty so sad, so sweet that we would not if we could dis pel the darkness that environs it" QUARRELIXG. —If anything in the world will make a man feel badly, except pinching his fingers in the crack of a door, it is unquestionably a quarrel. No man ever fails to think less of himself after it than before. It degrades him in the eyes of others, and what is worse, blunts his sensibilities on the one hand, and increases the power of passionate irritability on the other. The truth is,the more peaceably and quietly we get on, the better for our neigh bors. In nine cases out of ten the better course is, if a man cheats you, cease to deal with him ;if he is always abusive, quit his company ; and if he slanders jou, take care to live so that nobody will be lieve him. No matter who he is, or how he misuses you, the wisest way is to let him alone; for there is nothing better than this cool, calm and quiet way ot dealing with the wrongs we meet with. The McArdle Case. Contrary to expectation the McArdle ca6e did not come tip in the Supreme Court for final disposition on Monday, it not having been reached in regular order. It is reported that the two dissenting jus tices, Judges Grier and Field, who insist upon an immediate decision, have drawn up a protest, which they will ask to have put on record. It is to be hoped this will be done, and that the country be informed of the determination of the Court in regard to this important case If it be not done the Supreme Court will stand before the public in the light of a tribunal, not as it is supposed to be, entirely free from polit ical bias, but as one, which, after having formally gone through with the testimony, listened to the arguments, and arrived at a decision, withheld that decision in conse quence of the disturbed political condition of the country. The excuse is not a valid one. The Supreme Court is not to know political parties. Its duties arc to deter mine the law, and not to ask what may ! possibly be the result of a decision which : has been arrived at in full accordance with I the legitimate rules of law and justice.— !We hope the dissenting Judges will prc- I pare and present their protest. A London Street Singer. Some years ago a mysterious paragraph i went the rounds of the press to the effect that a young and beautiful woman made her appearance every right at 10 o'clock j in one of the West End squares, and that after a superb tocal display she disappear ed, no one knew how or where, exactly as the clock struck 11. The Sunday Times j professed to give special and exclusive par ticulars of this anomymous nightingale, as j she was termed, and even went so far as jto hint broadly that she was a celebrated ! vocalist married to a penniless lord, who ; took this novel mode of enlarging an in- | j sufficient income. Of course this piece of! family history proved to be an invention.' I had the good fortune to hear her once j [in Berkcly square. Seeing a large crowd : waiting in expectant attidude just where | a fashionable hotel is located, 1 inquired j the cause, and was told that the mysteri- j I ous vocalist, the nightingale, was about to i j show herself. As the clcck struck 10, a lady dressed in deep mournimg, and hav- | ing the upper part of her face concealed ! by a thick black veil, glided forward i and took her place in the centre of a space | purposely kept clear for her. I decided I from noticing the beautiful formation of I her month and chin and finely rounded ! fair throat, that she must be young and | more than commonly attractive. She was j accompanied by a little boy, also in deep : mourning, who carried an open reticule, j Without delay, the nightingale commenced I a ballad, and sang with such surpassing i taste and feeling as to hold the miscellane ous crowd tn mute and rapt attention. : The song was followed by several favorite scenas from popular operas, all exhibiting the talent and culture of an accomffffshed ! artist. A collection was made; few gave coppers—all who could afford it gave sil ver. The littls boy sent in his bag to the hotel, the balcony of which was crowded with visitors, and it was returned apparent- ; ly heavy with precious coin. The sum j total must have been considerable, and this I was informed was the usual reward of the hour's work. When eleven struck, the unknown stopped her song, made a slight courtesy, and threaded her way through the crowd. Her real story I afterwards learned was s painful one.— She was the daughter of a celebrated i teacher of music, and had been educated for the stage ; she married, against the j wishes of her parents, a e.lerk iu the Post- j office, who beinor detected in tfie men one I unpardonable sin of uttering a forged bank : note, was tried, convicted, and hanged. Y\ ith three helpless infants and no means of earning a sufficient income, the bereaved i young wife adopted the plan of making! her fine voice and scientific attainments furnish the means of subsistence. The close of this sfory is more hopeful. Her beau^ r , misfot tunes, and accomplishments attracted the attention of a clergyman in j one of the eastern counties. lie married I her, and she disappeared forever from public view. MODEL VILLAGES. —The future model village, as I see it, shall have for the use of its inhabitants not merely a town lyce nm hall and a town library, but a town laundry, fitted up with conveniences such as no private bouse can afford, and paying a price to the operators which will enable tliem to command an excellence of work such as private families seldom realize.— It will also have a (own bakery, where the best of family bread, white, brown, and of all grains, shall be compounded ; and lastly a town cook shop, where soup and meats may be bought ready for the table. Those of us who have kept houses abroad, re member the ease with which our foreign establishments were carried on. A suite of elegant apartments, a courier, and one female servant were the foundation of domestic life. Our courier boarded us at a moderate expense, and the servant took cafe of our rooms. Punctually to the dinner hour every day, our dinner came in on the head of a poiter from a neigh boring cook shop, A huge chest lined with tin, and kept warm by a tiny char coal stove in the centre, being deposited in an ante-room, from it came forth, first soup, then fish, then roast of various names, and lastly pastry and confections—far more courses than any reasonable Chris tain needs to keep him in healthy condi tion ; and dinner being over, our box, with its debris went out of the house, leav ing a clear field. — Mrs. Stowe. A good joke is told on the radical del* gates to the Indiana State Convention at Indianapolis. At one of the stations some waggish democrat called out, "Twen ty five minutes for supper." The delegates rushed into the bar room and the train struck out for Indianapolis, leaving them behind, with no prospect of supper or another train that night. President Johnson, does not 6eem to be much concerned about the impeachment trial. At least it does not interfere much with his sense of duty. On Wednesday last he returned the bill, depriving the Su preme Court ot jurisdiction over cases un der the reconstruction acts , with his veto. ARKANSAS. —Arkansas has voted down the new Constitution. This is the worst cut of all. After the defeat Alabama, Co ngress changed the law so, as they thought, to be certain, hut this last dodge has failed the Rump. The articles of Impeachment are just ten in number, the same in that respect as the ten Southern States pushed oat of the Union by traitors in Congress to tbe Con stitution and liberties of tbe couulry. TERMS, $2.00 P ef. ANNUM, in Advance. TOfisr anli o(hnbiiE. If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it from him. ... A Gloucester paper says there is a young lady in that town So modest that she will not alow the Christian Observer to remain in her room over night. A boy at school, when called to recite his lesson in history, was asked : "What is the German Diet 7" "Sourkrout, schnapps, and sausage?/' he replied. A beautiful woman, tufning offe day to her homely daughter, said : "Annette,what wo'd you give to have my face V "The same price, mother, that yon wonld give to have my youth." A Leavenworth paper says : "A Kansas City editor went skating the other day, ami slipped into an air hole. His ears caught on the edges of the ice, the hole not being big enough to let them through. They partially froze and will be amputated and used for door mats." Concerning "hollering" in meeting, Aunt Judy stid to one of her colored sisters: "Tain't the rale grace, honey—taint sure glory. You buttons tuu tuuii. wtiun _jou get ae a eve in your heart an' de lamb in yoar bosom, you'll feel as efyou was in aat stable at Beth'lem, an' the blessed virgin had lent you de sleep* in' baby to hold." "Shut your eyes and listen # to tfio. Veil de first night Ijopen my store, 1 counts the monies and finds him nix right. I count him and there be tree doller gone, and wat you tink I does den 7" "I can't say." "Vy, I did not count him any more and he come out shoost right ever since." Suppose a man owns a skiff: he fastens the skiff to the.shore with a rope made of straw ; along comes a cow ; cow gets into the skiff ; turns around and eats the rope;— mo -sKtcr tnus iei loose, with the cow on board, starts down stream.and on its passage is upet ; the cow is drowned. Now, has the man that owns the cow got to pay for the skiff, or the man that owns the skiff got to pay for the cow ? THE CLERGYMAN AND HIS SON "What thou hast to do, do with all thy might," said a clergyman to his son, one morning. "So I did this morning," replied Bill with an enthusiastic gleam in his eye. "Ah, what was it darling 7" and the fath er's hand ran through his offspring's curls. " Why, I Walloped Jack XJwards till he yelled like blazes : you should haw heard him holler, dad." Dad looked unhappy, while he explained that the precept did not imply a case like that, and concluded mildly with "You should not have done that my child." "Then he'd a , walloped mc," retorted Bill. "Better," expostulated his sire, "to hare fled (rum the wrath to come." "Yes," urged Bill,by way of a final clinch er, -'but Jack can run twice as fast as I can." The good man sighed and went to his study, took up his pen snd endearored to compose himself and a sermon reconciling practice and precept. A GOOSE.—A gentleman, in pursuit of a goose for dinner, was attracted by the sight of a plump exercised one." "Is that a young one 7" said he to a rosy cheeked lass io attendance, "Yes, sir, indeed it is." "How much do you ask for it 7" asked the gentleman. "A dollar, sir." •'That is too much, say five eighths, and hcie's your money," "Well, sir, as I would like to get you as a steady customer, I'll take it." The goose was carried home and roasted, but found to be 60 tough as to be uneata ble. The following day the gentleman accosted the fair poulterer: "Did you not tell me that that gooss,which I bought of you, was young 7" "Yes, sir. I did, and it was." "No it was not." "Don't you call me a young woman 7 I am only nineteen." "Yes, I do." "Well I have heard mother say many times, that it was nearly six weeks younger than mc." The clerk of a store carried to a lady's house a package of goods which she had bo't. On ringing the bell he heard a sharp and nasal vo ce ask, "Who's there 7" "It is I, madam. I have brought the piece of Bilk you bought this morning." " Who's there 7" asked the voice in the same tone. The young man repeated his answer impatiently. "Hare you been to dinner, Polly." continued the voice. The clerk was having a that with a parrot that-bad been left alone in tbe bouse. NO. 35.
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