CURRENT NEWS.
Soarl *t fever is raging in Luzerne county.
Olive Lo-.a-i l-ctuivd in Washington Hall,
Ck-raiilon, last Friday.
Fifty live business house in Chicago have
just tailed—Radical" good times. "
One million sacks of wheat are stored in
the warehouse of San Francisco.
Horace Grady's salary on the New York
Tribune is sai l to be a year.
The Erie Canal is to be closed December
7 th.
Baron James Bothschild was ill but ten
days.
The Detroit river is to IK I tunnelled at
Detn nt.
Mrs Lincoln ua. last heard from at Frunk
fort-on-the-Main. *
The prince of Wales was twenty-seven
years old November Hth
Highway robbery is said to be again prev
alent in the lamdon streets.
Boston claims to have woven the tirat flan
nel in America, ninety years ago.
A •"tflOo.iXKI fi-e" has lately been given a
New Y'ork lawyer in an important cose.
Washington w ants to have a geueral exhi
bition of American paintings this Winter
They say Bonner has given Dexter to
Grant.
A Philadelphia druggist allowed his son
to put up a prescription. The patient died
in two hours.
S. I#. Chase is the G. W. C. T. f (what
ever that may lie). of the order of Good
Templars of this State.
At Brimingham, Engl *d . recently a me
teor was seen at 3P. M., while the sun was
shining.
We mourn with Brigham Young, lie has
lost a wife, and is one seventy fifth of a
widower.
An aged citizen of Troy, N. Y\, died
there last week whilst reading in the Bible
in family worship.
The new insane asylum in Pennsylvania
is to bo built at Danville, and is to accom
modate S<JU patients.
A baby in Massachusetts is blessed with
seven liven great-great -great aunts, who
take turns at uursingit.
At last New York. after much agitation,
has built :a market house on the Philadelphia
plan.
Okl Kiialeua. the Sandwich Island vol
cano throws up red hot stones to a height
of 1250 feet •
in l'oughkeepsie a man sold his vote for
a barrel of flour, and was himself doubly
sold when, ou opening the barrel he found
it filled with sawdust and sand.
The editors of the Lycoming St<uulnrd
have lieeu convicted of libel, of course, under
the rule of law. " the greater the truth the
greater the liliel. "
A "new rebellion" it appears, has been
started in Braiubridge, Go., w here the ladies
it is said have resolved to leave off' wearing
Yankee giiods and wear home spun.
There was a quadruple marriage in In
diana the other day. A man married his third
step-mother, who liad three eliidreu by his
father, and three of his cousins' brothers,
'married three of his wife's sisters. At last
accounts the parties were trying to find out
what relation they are to each other.
Where would the party of universal suf
frage without disfranchisement ? Just fig
ure it up : all Virginia disfranchised, 170.-
000 vot.--: all Texus, <55,000; all Mississippi,
70,0i<0 votes ; all Missouri. IKl,o<<o : in Ten
nessee, 100.000 ; in the so callod reeonstrc
ted .States 170,000, total, 005,600. Then
when they have tak n this out by disfran
chisement. they by negro suffrage, juggle
in 750,U00 making in all a difference of J.-
355,00<i votes. Can an election so carried
be considensl a fair one? Is this the voice
of the people?
IXEQLALIRV OK REPRESENTATION. —The
inequality and injustice of the Legislature
of this State is seen wherever we look. Lu
zerne county polls 750 more votes than
Lancaster. Yet Luzerne has but one Sen
ator and three Assemblymen, while Lancas
ter has two Senators and four Assembly
men. Luzerne is Democratic and Lancas
ter Radical. This is why so unjust a dis
tinction is made. Lancaster is a Congres
sional district, another county is added to
Luzerne. In this way we have another ex
hibition of the palpable unfairness of the
present apportionment, by w hicli the will
of the people is defeated.
How TO RAISE TWENTYMO LEAKS FOR
REJOIOCS PURPOSES. —A preader in a
frontier settlement had been collecting
money for some church object. There were
still some twenty dollars wanting, and after
vain efforts to make up the deficiency, he
plainly intimated, as he locked the church
door one day after service, that he intended
to have that said twenty dollars before any of
them left the house. At the same time he
set the example by tossing $5 on the table.
Another put down a dollar, anAher a
tpuuter of a dollar, a fourth, half a dollar,
md so on. The parsou read out every now
and then the state of the funds : "Th&r's
•even and a half my friends." "Thar a nine
and a quarter." ' 'Ten and six hits are all
that are in the hat, friends and Christian
brethren." Slowly it monnted up.-
"Twelve and a half." "Fourteen." "Fif
teen." "Sixteen and three bits." and 60
on until it struck at 81,50. "It only w ants
fifty cents, fiiends, to make up the amount.
Will nobody make it up ?" Everybody
had subscribed, and not a cent more was
forthcoming. Silence reigned, and how
loug it might have lasted it was difficult to
•ay, had not a half dollar been tossed thro'
the Open window, and a rough, and explan
atory voice shouted, "Here pastor, there
it ytr money ; let out my gal, I'm tired of
warUa for her l"
She Democrat. •
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HARVEY £ICkL(3K. ISdltor.
TUN KHAN NOCK, PA.
VVednetiday, Dec. 9. I BGB.
tc£f The Suabttrt/ Demo'-rnt. of whom
Alvin Day, formerly of tiiis place, is one
| of the editors, hoists the name of lion. Ami
Pork",- as the next Democratic candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania; and sup
jsirts its position with sound and cogent
reasons.
IIV aoW the muto'H.
figj" Hon. A. Oakev Hall, the Domocrat
!ie candidate, was on Tuesday last elected
Mayor of New York by a most decided ma
jority. The contest was a one-sided affair,
the Radicals not polling enough votes to
make it interesting. Richard t)'Gorman,
Democrat. was re-elected Coi-poration Coun
sel.
Ca?*lt is stated that Senator Henderson,
whom the Radicals have threatened to de
stroy on account of his vote against iin—
jieaohnieut, has secured twenty of the new
ly elected meiulsr- of the Missouri Legis
lature, giving him the balance of power be
tween his party opponents and the Demo
crats. This will materially complicate the
election of tlie United States Senator in
that State.
A NEOI. J CONGRESSMAN. —The Radicals
| have at length sneceeded in accomplishing
one of their most cherished projects. Bv
throwing out the vote of twelve Democrat
ic parishes in Louisiana they have man
aged to secure the return of a negro to
Congress. The name of the man is Meu
| ard. By the patent Radical method of re-
I jeeting what votes they please and counfc
i ing only what suits them this African rep
resentative is sent to Washington to till the
unexpired term of a dead carjtet-bagger
named Mann. We congratulate the Re
publican jrtirty on tins magnificent triumph
of their policy. Let them rejoice now that
' they have succeeded in accomplishing their
most dearly cherished purpose.
MEETING THEIR DESERTS. Mrs. Surmtt
was hanged as an accomplice in the mur
der of Liueoln. The testimony on which
she was convicted was that of four men—
; Baker, Montgomery, Cleaver and Conover
, —precious scoundrels. Baker is now dead;
Montgomery is in prison for embezzle
ment : Cleaver has be-n convicted fur an
. infamous offense, while Conover is serving
out a term in the penitentiary. Preston
King, who prevented Mrs. Surratt's daugh
ter from seeing th * President in behalf of
her mother, committed suicide by drown—
j ing in the North river ; while Lane, who
i supported King in his conduct towards
i Mrs. Surmtt. shot himself in Kansas.
Progressive Loilty
Win, I). Kelley, im-iuber of Congress
Philadelphia. projioses to introduce on tlie
first day of tlie session an amendment to
the Constitution providing for "universal
suffrage." The plain name of Mr. Kel
ley"s project is, Negro Suffrage iii ail the
States.
Our Radical masters interpret the late
elections a-- sanctioning the movement of
Mr. Kelley. They do not see, in the elec
tion of Geueral Grant, anything out un ex
pression of the people in favor of giving
the Negro absolute jiohtieal dominion in
South.
Although the amendment, if successful
j extends to all the Htates, it will be of no
j consequence in the North, as far as politi
i cal j >ower goes. Where there are few ne
j groes or none ut a!!, their votes will change
nothing—effect nothing. It is not intend
| ed by Kelly and his co-workers that it should
affect the Northern States. The object is
only to give the Negro the reins of govern
ment in the South—to give to the Gospel
of Hate a practical application and a field
I upon which its banner may lie erected,
i Even this scheme to prop the failing dy
i nasty of Radicalism will lie abortive. It
could succeed only by attaching a proviso
to Kelley's amendment that the Negro
must vote the Radical ticket. For the in
stincts of his race will teach him to shun the
carpet-baggers and scalawag who ask his
suffrages, and who now represent the Radi
cal party in the South. AmenAnent or
Ino amendment, tlie more respectable and
i refined of the Southern negroes will vote
| the Democratic ticket. There is to them
nothing lovely in the lantern-jawed carpet
baggers who roum over the South hunting
j for Congressional vacancies and Guberna
torial cluiirs under the presnt bayonet rule.
! The old masters of tlie negroes, if they
I were harsh and exacting, were at least gen
| tlemeu. Under the new regime, the negro
knows that his lot is cast with the white
people who have grow nup with liini; that
as they prosper he will prosper ; that eveu
equality does not consist in making him the
j master of liis late master ; but that a recon
struction which takes aw ay bayonet rule
and restores confidence lie twee n the ovo
races is as beneficial to him as to the white
man. Knowing ull this, the negro in Geor
gia, or in any,other Southern State, is not j
going to fuse with the 'first Massachusetts J
yankee that comes into his neigliliorhood j
' and wants to represent hh, district iu Con
gress.—Llr |
The Future of Radicalism.
Gen. Grant will have in hi- power, dur
ing the succeeding four .wars after tlie
fourtli of March. to give totln- party which
elected him a prrjietiiitv of power or to
consign it t-> d -fe.it and ohlivioii. By ta
king the Federal Constitution as his chart,
and adapting his policy nnd act* strictly in
accordance with it, exacting from all liis
snl M intimites a rigid adherence to the re
quirement.-. <>f honesty, civilization and
Christianity, and keeping the malignants,
the eormptionists, and the demagogues at
ami's h-ngtli from power, he eau render his
party almost immortal. The good of all
parties would flock to his support, thereby
streiiglitcuiughiui lieyoml overthrow whilst
the bail only would desert him. The whites
of the south, now antagonistic to his party,
would hail him as their deliverer, and strike
hands with him in eternal friendship. The
lands of the south would again teem with
harvests, and from jipitation to planta
tion would resound the song of gladness
From the ashes of the war would spring up
all the lost industries, and amid the gener
al prosperity of that section, tin- Northern
people would come in for an abundant
share. Besides this, instead of the national
debt increasing and weighing like a mill
stone upon labor, it would decrease and
uot lie felt as a burden. On the other
hand by tiding outside the Constitution ;
surrounding himself with the harpies who
have already so greatly injured the country ;
and making himself the mere agent of the
Rump fanatics in carrying out their des
picable plans for individual aggrandize
ment. lie will assuredly dofmi his party to
dissolution and himself to everlasting infa-
It remains to bo seen whether General
Grant will have the nerve to do right and
go eounter to Li* political associates, or
whether he will prove so w< uk or so basely
biased as to carry out their behests and
sink the country still deeper in rnin. As a
partisan we should desire io see him out-
Herod his baekers in Radicalism, so as to
kill his infernal party, but. as a patriot and
humanitarian, we must pray that he will
not do so. It is yet too soon to prognosti
cate as to his course, but the best augury,
in favor of the supposition that he will not
play the devil generally, ;us liis party lead
ers have leen doing for so long, is that a
| tremor of suspense and fear seems to per
] vade the Radical ranks throughout the
] country, interfering very materially with
i their loyal work of dividing up the pro
; speetive spoils. Under the circumstances
i we can only hope for the Iwst, an I. as good
citizens labor to save the country against
any sort of itadical rascality that may come
after. U o/r/o/em.
Ihe Negro to Have a Vote,
When Democrats have charged that it
was the purpose of the Radicals, as soon as
they obtained another lease of "power, to
establish universal negro sullVage through
j out the I liited States, it was denounced as
a "Copperhead lie." Let us sec what the
Radicals now say about it themselves.—
Since the eiectiou the N. Y. TKIBCXE has
i contained the following announcement :
'•One <>f the first measures that will be
introduced into Congress on its iu-><*nibling
jin lh :cember. will be a constitutional
amendment providing for the regulation of
Sllffoige throughout tlie United States. A
bill will go through without a doubt, and
; the Legislatures of two-thirds of the States
being Republican, the amendment will he
i ratified, and the question of suffrage settled
forever. V prominent memberf Congress
has already prepared such an amendment
in the sliajie of a bill, which lie will intro
duce on the first day of the session."
Forney, in his Press, sounds the bugle
eull as follows :
"The colored man holds the bonds and
pledge of this country. Under the furnace
blast of war we promised him freedom.—
We owe not the hollow promise, to the ear
and broken to the hope ; but the substan
tial tiling—good me.usuve, full, pressed
down, and mi'. fling out. Let us give it
now. and let the Fortieth Congress snatch
: the honor. ('ommon justice, common hu
manity. and common gratitude eull on us
j now to enfranchise with the ballot the col
ored man in every State. It can he done
safely and successfully. We have 110 Pres
] idtatial election to imperil now. We are
jon the wave of success. Let us use it to
float the ship of state into quiet waters—
! quiet because they are the great deep of
justice and of right.
Let the Fortieth Congress, in December,
jas their tirst and main work, propose an
amendment to the Constitution conferring
the jmwer to vote for national purposes and
I officers, on colored men, under equal con
-1 ditions with white, and submit to the peo
■ pie, under, the fifth article. Three-fourths
|of the States would rush to ratify it. and
i another laurel, ever green and glorious,
would lie added to tlie enduring honors of
our great party."
When it is remembered that this very
party announced in their platform that
in the North the question of sifro-je belonged
of right to the Stoles e.ec/itsicell/, it w ill be
seen how honestly their profession corn
pan's with their practice. Well, we did
our duty. We warned the people not to
be deceived by the specious declarations of
the Cliicngo platform, and if they can stand
negro suffrage we guess we can.—Kt.
&?&" Geary's refusal to award a commis
| siou to Hon. Henry* 1). Foster, the regu
larly and fairly elected member of Congress
from the 23d district is one of his charac
teristically small ones, and he perform
abont as small an act as any public man in
the State. Mr. Foster had a majority of
the votes of the district and received his
certificate of election from two of the three
return judges. The other judge, no doubt
{•rompted by the great "alligator," or lxis
riends, refused to put his name to the cer
tificate, but refused to give Covode a sep
arate certificate. Geary takes advantage of
the captiousucss or rascality of this return
judge and plays soanip also by withholding
Mr. F's commission. Covode, it is said,
will contest before the ltump House, where
he knows JDumocraey and honesty never
had the giiost of a chance against any ras
cally scalawag of his negro party.
Hester Vaughan.
The case of Hester Vaughan, a young
English woman, now, and for the past ten
months dying in prison at Philadelphia,
and since June last, under sentence of
death for infanticide, is exciting considera
ble interest in all parts of the country and
especially among the women of N. Y. City;
where, on Wednesday evening last, a large
public meeting wus hud, which was presid
ed over hv Horace Grcely, and, addressed
by several prominent Ladies and Gentle
men. Resolutions were passed bondemn
ing her execution on the vague and unsat
isfactory evidence adduced against her and
asking her unconditional pardon by the
Governor of Pennsylvania.
A Committee was appointed to present
these, in person, to Governor Geary.
This ease has given rise to considerable
criticism on the course of the sympathies
of the citizens of Philadelphia, who, it
seems hud much of this precious commodi
ty to expnd in behalf of a negro murderer,
who was tried and convicted about the
same time and by the same court before
whom Hester was tried.
We extract the following summary of the
facts of these two cases from the N..Y.
IIVW.
THE C ASE OK THE WHITE (lIBL.
It seems she came to this country in 1865
a young Englishwoman of twenty, with a
man to whom she was married, but who
was really married to another woman and
who deserted H ESTF.J i at Pottsville, PENN -
SYLVANIA. Whereupon the deserted wo
man became a (lairywonian, and while in
this service was the victim of what she al
leges to be a nq>e, though she persistently
refuses to give the name of her ravisher,
declaring that he is the husband of a wo
man anil the father of a child upon whom
great sorrow would fall with the revalation,
and that misery enough has come from the
matter now . As indeed there has, seeing
that a child was the result of a rape, that
the child did not remain long in the land of
the living, and thut the child's mother is
pronounced to be the child's murderer.
What suffering as well as sorrow HESTER
VAI'OIIAN endured appeunt iu the narrative
that, when she found herself to be preg
nant, she went to Philadelphia, where she
worked hard and lived miserably in a room
renting for #3 a month. Last Febuary the
child was born. The mother says she was
three days in labor, suffering her agony
and shame alone in her wretched room,
without friends or tire or food, or a single
comfort or comforter. At last she was un
conscious, and then some German women
found her and a dead child together. There
was a puncture in the soft part of the
child's skull, made, according to testimony
before the coroner, by some blunt instru
ment, and this is the tirst shred of testimo
ny against HESTER. Then the women say
that HESTER offered them all she had in the
world to take the child away, which she de
nies, saving that she could not speak Ger
man and they not understand English, and
that she only asked for assistance she sore
-Ilv needed. Rut this is shred two in the
testimony, and these simple shreds have
been twisted into a rope strong enough to
hang HESTER YACOHAN.
After HESTER VAIOHAN hail been speedi
■ lv tried, poorly defended, and summarily
' sentenced, for the first time one woman in
Philadelphia went to call on the unfortu
nate, though HESTER had been lying in
prison full live months ! Only one woman
iu all of Philadelphia, which is full of phi
lanthropic women who will do anything
for the negro brother, and who cry aloud
for boiled chickens and home-made cakes
to support the .1 n!i-S!>tr<ri, Stmuhrrd. This
one woman was very kind to HESTER, but
she could excite uo sympathy among her
sex, ami now HESTER'S case is brought
from Philadelphia to be considered in New-
York.
Is there no sympathy or feeling in Phila
delphia ? G yes, quantities of it. It ap
pears as follows : At the same time, and in
the same court which sentenced HESTER to
be hung, was sentenced also ALFRED ALEX
ANDEB, incidentally mentioned as "colored."
Hl* had been cohabiting with another man's
wife who had borne a child to ALFRED,
"colored," and one day, influenced it is
said by jealousy, lie stabbed the woman,
from the result of which she subsequently
died, and ALFRED was tried and sentenced
to le hung. Twenty thousand men and
women in PENNSYLVANIA have petitioned
Governor GEARY to pardon, or at least to
commute the sentence, of that negro ! Not
one man or woman has yet signed a peti
tion for HESTER VAI OHAN ! By all means
let us hear what is to be said in HESTER'S
favor. The plain east 1 will at least do an
offset to
THE CASE OF THE NEOBO.
On the next day after Hester was convic
ted, in the same court and before the same
judges, a colored man was convicted of
stabbing a married woman with whom he
coll alii ted, with a dirk, so that she died.
The following are the details of the trial :
The Commonwealth vs. Alfred Alexan
der, colored, charged with the murder of
Phillis Proctor, colored. The facts of the
murder, as testified by the witnesses, were
as follows : The deceased was a married
woman, living in Emeline street, and, du
ring the absence of her husband, who had
been at sea for three years, she cohabited
with the prisoner, and gave birth to a child,
of which lie was the father. On the 18th of
October last, she was sitting in her room,
with the child by her side, when the prison
er entered, and asked how the baby was,
and then told her to put aside her sewing.
She stooped to put away the articles she
was working upon, and, while she was in
this position, he drew a dirk and made a
glancing stab upon her neck.
She arose, crying that she was cut, and
he made a second thrust at her body, but
she threw up her left leg and it received
the wound. He turned and struck a girl
who was standing in the doorway, and then
fled. The deceased was removed to Penn
sylvania Hospital, and thence, by her own
request, to the Alms House. At this lat
ter institution tie physicians found the up
per portion of the wounded limb to Ire iu
such a condition that amputation was deci
ded upon. This operation was performed,
but proved unsuccessful, and on the 25th of
the month she died. Jealousy was suppos
ed to have been the motive of the prisoner's
conduct.
The defence offered no testimony, but
argued the ease solely upon the common
wealth's testimony. After a short deliber
ation, the jury rendered a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree.
117// Ye 1 {ester Vaughan has lain unnoticed
in her cell the names of ficeiUy thousand re
spectable citizens of Philadelphia hare been
obtained to a petition to Gorernor Geary to
reprieve or commute the sentence of this col
ored man.
He is a poor Boldier who deserts his
colors on account of a defeat. He is a cow
ard who abandons his political principles
on account of a political reverse.
Earthquakes in History.
During the first half of this century 3,240
of these visitations were noticed, or about
one every week. In Europe, during the
last ten years, there have been 320 earth
quakes, or one every nine days. At the
commencement of the fifteenth century,
only 750 of these shocks hail found a place
in history. During the next 300 years, 2,-
864 earthquakes are recorded, or almost
four times as many as during all the prece
ding ages. From these facts it lias lieen in
ferred thut, whatever may be the origin of
these upheavings of the crust of the earth,
the phenomena are greatly increasing in
number ami their causes in violence.
Among the earliest earthquakes reported
are those by which the famous Herculane
nni and Pompeii were destroyed in the
year 03. Fifty-two years after this, Antioch
in Syria, was almost entirely destroyed,
the calamity occurring just at the time the
Emperor Trojan, was on a visit, to the
place. 458 it was agaiu visited by an earth
quake, and again in 526, the number of
persons perishing in the ruins on this latr
ter occasion being estimated at a quarter of
a million
1602, Port Royal the capital of Jamaca,
was entirely submurged by the force of an
earthquake, that swallowed up over a thous
and acres, and drove ships so far inland that
they floated above the buried city.
In 1722, an entire volcano sunk into the
earth in the island of .Tave, carrying with it
forty villages, the mountain itself which
was fifteen miles long and six broad, the
accompanying hamlets and their 2,857 in—
hal litants.
On the first of November, 1775, occurred
the memorable earthquake of Lisbon by
which 60,000 persons perished inthetwiuk
lin of an eye. Here, also, war the great ti
dal wave seen at an altitude of fifty feet.
One of most awful incidents of this earth
quake was the sinking of the city quay.
This had just l>eeu constructed of marble
at an immense exjiense, and to it, as to a
List refuge, fled thousands of the hapless
inhabitants. Without u moment's warning,
the earth suddenly opened to receive it, and
after sucking in the mass closed over it, as
not a single body of all the thousands thut
went down, nor the least spar or ark from
any of the ships near by that were sucked
into the cliasm, ever came to the top. The
weter there is near six hundred fathoms
deep, at an unknown distance beneath the
bottom repose the hapless Lisbonese. This
Lisbon earthquake, Humboldt estimates,
affected a portion of the earth four tithes as
large as Europe, and was felt in the Alps,
on the coast of Sweden, in the West Indies,
on lake Ontario, anil along the coast of
Massachusetts.
1811, the earthquakes of the Mississippi,
severest at New Madrid, Missouri, shook
the ground fo many days, and alternately
raised and tlepressed it here and there, the
latter sections forming a section called the
sunken country to this day.
On the 26th March, 1812, a violent thun
der storm, with incessant flashes, was de
served by the people of New Madrid, and
at the same time the city of Carracas, in
South America, was laid in ruins, twelve
thousand of its people perishing.
The great eruption of Vesuvius, in 1857,
with accompanying earthquakes, will also
be remembered as taking human life, vari
ously estimated at from 22,000 to 46,000
lives.
In 1858, June 19th, the Valley of Mexico
was also devastated by one of these visita
tions demolishing houses through its
length and destroying the costly acqueduet
supplying the city with water.
March 22, 1859, Quito, in Equador, was
nearly destroyed by an earthquake, and
thousamls of lives were lost.
A Negro Office-Holder.
It seems that Gov. Geary has determined
not only to carry the load which his Dep
uty Secretary of the Commonwealth, Gara,
Laid upon his shoulders in his letter to the
recent African convention in this city, but
to weight himself even more heavily by is
suing a commission of office to a negro, in
defiance of the constitution which he is
sworn to support.
One Peter Smith, an African, has recently
been commissioned by the Governor, as a con
s/able, or policeman, for the loim of Helf en
stein, Schuylkill county.
The Governor, l>v this action, has set at
naught the constitution of Pennsylvania,
which, as every one knows, does not recog
nize the negro as qualified either to vote or
hold office. He has deliberately broken
his solemn oath to maintain that constitu
tion, as well insulted every white man in
the State by issuing that commission.—
Doubtless the Governor imagines that the
course he has seen fit to pursue, will rec
ommend him to the radical party for re
nomination. But we are much mistaken
if there l>e not men, even in that party, to
whom such a bid for the favor of the ultra
radicals will bring nothing but disgust.—
Perhaps the Governor will find out, some
day, that the white men of Pennsylvania
are not, after all, so very anxious to take
the negro into political partnership. If
the coming Legislature dare to cheat the
people out of the right to settle the suffrage
question for themselves, the Governor will
learn, to his heart's content, what it is to
stand upon a Negro Suffrage Platform in
the Keystone Stat e.—Harrisburg Patriot. '
AaTlu Brownlow's little kingdom the "loy
al"' have a fine way of disposing of Demo
crats who are elected in spite of the dis
franchisement of 114,860 white citizens.—
They just throw out Democratic precincts
enough to elect the Radical and it is all
right. Sheafe, Democrat, who was elected
to Congress by 500 majority, was served in
this way, and the certificate given to his op
ponent by the scoundrelly Governor. We
never see a word about these "stupendous
frauds," in Radical papers. Oh, no ! that's
the other side.
DO yon want Spring, or Out Beds, you can find
them at Buck A Sterlings', anl they won't
charge you such priest for them that you can't af
ford to buy.
IF there is any article in (be line ol Furniture
you want, Buck A Sterling will supply you at
prices that will leave no cbanoe to grumble.
ONE reaeon why people go to Back A Sterling*'
to buy their furniture i because they tell first
class goods at about half the price they have usually
been told for iu this oountry.
t
DON'T fail to go to Buck A Sterlings', to look et
their large stock of Looking Glasses, the largest
ever kept in the place, and then the price* can't help
but suit.
wTERESCOPES, Visws. Picture Frames, Pictures,
O Brackets Ac., for the Bollideys, for sale at Buck
A Sterling*', at your own price*.
IT will pay you to call at Buck A Sterlings', and
look overthair Stock of goods, the sasortment ia
as good as can be found in Northern Pennsylvania-
SELECT SCHOOL.
Notice is hereby given to the citiieoe ef Tunkhan
noek and vioinity that a Select School will com
mence in the Brick School House, io Tunkhannock,
on Menduy, Dec. 14th 1665. No pains will be spar
ed to make the teuie both interesting and profitable
to all.
RATES OF TUITION
Primary Department, 93.00
Common English, 4,10
Higher. " 7 00
Una half Tuition payable in advance, remainder
at middle of term
JAS W. GUERNSEY,
nl9-w3 Teacher.
SILVER PLATED WARE.
D McKown respectfully announces to the people
of Wyoming County, that he baa made a specialty of
HEAVY SILVER PLATING, tor years. Heavy
plaiting is muck more economical than light. The
more Silver put ou the g-ods, the cheaper it is done
in proportion to the amount of Silver used. Spoons
and Forks, should not be ot less than 16 ot plate
36 or 48 ox. would be far more economical. Yet
4ox plate is called a good plate by the trade , and.
poor ar it is, but a small portion of all the goods
made come up to this standard. "Ounce plate," in
platers language means the number of ouDces of
silver, UMhe gross of table spoons. All other sur
faces are estimated by these. For example, des
serts are estimated at 3-4 ; and tea siskids at 1-2 tbe
surface of table-spoons. Sixteen ox. plate is 16 ots.
of fine silver to the gross of t.ible-spoons or dining
forks. 12 ox. to the gross of dessert spoons or forks
and 8 ox- to the gross of tea-spoons This quality
of plate will cost, on tbe axe rage, twice as much as
4 ox and will have fonr times the amount ot silver
on it. Thirty-six ox- plate will cost about three
times as much as 4ox , and will contain nine times
the amount of silver on it. Thirty-six ot- plate is
tbe lightest that will allow the engraving on it, of
name or initials, without cutting through into the
plata beneath. Forty-eight ox plate will cost about
four times as much as 4 ox. plate, end will contain
12 times the amonnt of silver. This plate costs
about one-half as much as solid silverware of ordi
d.narv weight, and for every day use will be more
durable than light, solid silverware Most ot tbe
solid silverware is made much too light to be dura
ble in constant use. The terms "double." "treble"
Ac. Ido not use to designate qualities—there being
too much ambiguity io their use.
All goods, made by me, having my name and fig
ures denoting the ox. plate, stamped on them, will
be guaranteed to bare tbe full amount of first qual
ity of silver on them.
I will plate to order, goods of any thick jess of
plating desired, from 4 to 43 or
j 01 i goods, (Ist quality of rnotat) plated any thick
! nets required.
j P- C. BURNS 4k BRO, Jewelers, at Tuakhannock,
I Pa., are ageDts for the sale of these goods
All orders left at their Store, will receire proper
1 attention.
DAVID McKOWN.
Pittstoo, Pa., Dec. Ist 1869,
TO PHYSICIANS.
NEW YORK, August 15th, 1667.
Allow me to call your attention to my PREPA
RATION OP COMPOUND EXTRACT BUCHU.—
j The compouant parts are BUCHU, LOAO LEAP.
j CUBEBS, JUNIPER BERRIES.
MODE OP PREPARATION Buchu, iu v.uoo Ju
| niper Berries, by distillation, to forin a fiue gin.—
Cubebs extracted by displacein jut by liquor obtain
ed from Juniper Berries, containing very little su
gar, a small proportion of spirit, an 1 more palata
ble than any now in use. The active properties are
by this mode extracted
Buchu, as prepared by Druggists, generally, it of
a dark color. It is a plant that emits its fragrance
the action of a flame destroys this (its active princi
| ple.) leaving a dark and glutinous decucUon. Mine
is the color of ingredients. The Buchu in my prep
aration predominates ; the smallest quantity of the
other ingredients are added, to prevent fermenta
tion; upon inspection, it will be found not to be a
Tincture, as made in Phi rtnacopcea, nor is it a Syr
up—and therefore can be used in cases where fever
or inflammation exists. In this, you have tho
knowledge of the ingredients, and the mode of prep
aration.
Hoping that yon will favor it with a trial, and
! that upon inspection it will meet with your appro
j bation, With a feeling of confidence,
I am, v ry respectfully,
U. T HBLMBOLD,
Chemist aad Druggist of 16 Y'eare' Experi
ence iu Philadelphia, and now located at
his Drug and Chemical Warehouse, 594
Broadway, New York.
[Prom the largest Manufacturing Chemists in the
World ]
"I am acquainted with Mr. 11. T. llelmbold; he
occupied the Drug"store opposite mv residence, and
was successful in conductiug the business where
j others had not been equally so b"fore him I bare
! been favorably impressed with his character and
| enterprise.
WILLIAM WEIGH IMAN,
Firm of Powers and Weigbtmao, Manuf.ic
turing Chemists. Ninth and Brown Streets,
Philadelphia
HBLMBOLD'S FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU, for weak
i uess arising from indiscretion. The exhausted pow
j ers of Nature which arc accompanied by so many
! alarming symptons. among which will be found, In
disposition to Exertion, Loss of Memory, Wakeful
ness, Horror of Disease, or forebodings of Evil, in
fact, Universal Lassitude, Prostration, and inability
to enter into the enjoyments of society.
The Constitution, once affected with Organic
Weakness, requires the aid of Medicine to strenglh
| en and invigorate the system, which UKLMBOLD'b
i EXTRACT BLCHL invariably does It no treat
, ment is submitted to, Consumption or losautity en -
j sues.
j HBLMBOLD'S FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU, in affoc
i tions peculiar to Females, is uoequuled by any oth
jer preparation, as in Chlorosis or Retention, Puin
fulness, or Suppression of Customary Evaluations,
Ulcerated or Scbirrus State of the Uterus, and all
complaints incident to the sex, whether arising from
the habits of dissipation, imprudence in, or the de
cline or change of ltfe.
HBLMBOLD'S FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU AKD IMPROV
ED ROSE WASH will radically extoriainate from the
system diseases arising from habits of dissipation,
at little expense, little or no change in diet, no in
conrenieDce or exposure ; completely superseding
thoee unpleasant and dangerous remedies, Copaiva
and Mercury, in all these diseases.
Use HBLMBOLD'S FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU in all
diseases of these ergans, whether existing in male
or female, from whatever cause originating, and no
matter of how long standing. It is pleasant in
taste and odor, "iuimediata'' in action, and more
strengthening than any of the preparations of Bark
or ' ton.
Those suffering from broken-down or delicate con
stitutions. procure the remedy at once.
The reader must be aware that however slight
may be the attack ol the above disease, it is cealian
to affect tho bodily health and mental powers-
All the above diseases require the aij of a Diur
etic HELMBOLD'S EXTRACT BUCHU is the
I great diuretic.
( Sold by Druggists everywhere. PUCK— $1,25
per bottle, or 6 bottles for $6,50, Delivered to any
address* Describe symptoms in all communications.
Address H. T. HELMBOLD, Drug and Chemical
Warehouse, 594 Broadway, N- Y.
ARK GENUINE unless done up in steel
i. e engraved wrapper, with fao-similee of my
Chemical Warehouse, and signed
H. T. HELMBOLD.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Notice Is hereby given that Letters of Adminis
tration of the estate of Daniel Trelble, late or Wash
ington township, deceased, have been granted to
W P® RSONS indebted to eald estate
t0 make payment to the subscribers ;
and all persons having claims against said estate
MS 10 P re,ent Ihe same, duly anthentlca
ted fer settlement, to the subscribers, or either of
them, at their residences In said tovnshlD
JOHN C. ACE, J P '
* AdmlnlsttttQrs
j Ayer's Cathartic Pills,
Fop all the purposes of a Lexativ.
Medicine.
C\ Perhaps no one me ,i,
£** cine is so universally re '
J¥ quired by everybody u I
// * cathartic, nor *. #v £ I
r|j <ii V any before so universal.
iy adopted into use n,
1 m> every country and anion*
I i\ YW' all classes, as this mud
LAWfilB but efficient purgativ.
r A J G& *W Mr. The obvious rej!
V. |[| -YgMr son ia, that it is a more re.
' ViflTHiMMfc liable aud far more tier,
tual remedy thau any
tjpcir j,tt . rm ot her. Those who have
tried it, know that it cured them : those who h ave
not. know that it cures their neighbors and friend*
and ail knowr that what it does once it does alwayi
that it never fails through any fault or neglen„f
its composition. We have thousands upon thou
sands o* certificates of their remarkable cures of the
following complaints, l>ut such cures are known m
every neighborhood, and we need not publish them.
Adapted to all ages and conditions in all climate,
containing neither calomel or any deleterious drug'
they may lie taken with safety by anylKsiy. Their
sugar coating preserves them ever fresh and makes
i them pleasant to take, while being purely vegetable
; no harm can arise front their use in any quantity.
' They operate by tlicir powerful influence on'the
internal viscera to purify the blood and stimulate it
into healthy action remove the obstructions of the
[ stomach, bowels, liver, and other organs of the
body, restoring their irregular action to health, and
by correcting, wherever they exist, su'h derange
ments as are the first origin of disease.
Minute directions are given in the wrapiier on
the box, for the following complaints, which the,
Pills rapidly cure: —
For Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Listless
ins. Languor and Loss of Appetite, they
j should bo taken moderately to stimulafe the stom
ach and restore it .* healthy tone and action.
For Liver Complaint and its various symp
toms, 111 lions Headache, flick Headache,
Jaundice or Cireen Wfcfcnesa, Bilious
Colic and Billons Fevers, they should be ju
; diciously taken for each case, to correct the diseased
action or remove the obstructions which cause it.
For Dysentery or Diarrhsea, but one mild
dose is generally required.
For Hhennialisis, (ioul. Ciravel, Palp*
Station of the Heart, Pain In tke hi&.
Back aud Loins, they should be continuously
taken, as required, to change the diseased action of
the system. Willi such chaDge those complaints
I disapjH-tir.
For Drspsy and Dropsical Strolling* they
shoujd be taken in large aud frequent doses to pre
du'-e the elect of a drastic purge.
For Mupiiresaion a large dose should be taken
is it produces the desired effect by sympathy.
As a Uinnrr Pill, take one or two PUU to pro
mote digestion and relieve the stomach.
! An occasional dose stimulates the stomach and
bowels into healthy action, restores the appetite,
hid invigorates the system. Hence it is often ad
vantageous where no serious derangement exists.
One who feels tolerably well, often finds that a dose
of these Pill a makes him feel decidedly better, from
their cleansing and renovating effect on the diges
tive apparatus.
DR. J. C. AVER A CO., Practical Chemists,
LO WELL. MASS., V. S. A.
Sold by C. Detrick, Tunkhannock, Fa. Sterling
k Son, Sterllngvllle, C. C. Berge. Nicholson, Frear,
Dean k Co., Factoryrllle, and all Druggists and
Dealers everywhere.
MiHtm. A LECTCRE to
lEST YOUNG MEN
i (Jast Published, in a Sealed Envelope. Pries 6 ets )
A Lecture mi the Nature, Treatment and
Rsdical Cure of Spermatorrhoea or Sentinel Weak
ness, Involuntary Emissions, Sexual Debility and
Impediments to Marriage generally ; Nervousness,
Consumption, Epilepsy, and Fits ; Mental aud Phys- *
ical Incapacity, resulting from Self-Abuse, Ac , -By
ROBERT J. CULVERWELL. M D . Author of the
I -'Green Book," Ac.
The world-renowned author, in this admirable
Lecture, clearly proves from his own experience that
the awful consequences of Self-Abuse may be effect,
ually removed without medicine, and without dan
gerous surgical operations, boogies, instruments,
rings, or cordials, pointing out a mode of cure at
once certain and effectual, by which every sufferer,
no matter what his condition may be, may cure
himself cheaply, privately, and radically. This
LECTURE WILL PROVE A BOON TO THOUS
ANDS AND THOUSANDS.
Sent, under seal, in a plain enveio e, to any ad
dress, postpaid, on receipt of six cents, or two post
stamps. Also, Dr. Oulverwell's "Marriage Guide,"
price 25 cents. Address the Publishers.
CHAS J C. KLINE A CO..
. 12T Bowery, New York, Post-Offiseßox 4,
5W> eesilg-
EXECUTORS NOTICE
Whereas, letters testamentary on the estate of
John Wright, late of Monroe Tp , deceased, have
been granted to the subscriber. All persons indebt
ed to said estate are requested to make payment,
and those having claims or deinanis against the
estate of said deceased, will make known the same
without delay. D D. DEW ITT. Kx'r.
nls
5000 Yards Best Prints, for
l?t<-tsper sard, at C; DETRICK'S
U'ASTMAN manufactures every variety of Boots
El and Sb>es and retails at wholesale prices lie
member the place, Tioga street, near corierof
Warren
Water-proof Boots are warranted
J not to rip. crack, ruu over. They are just tie
thing tor teameters, lumbermen and o'hers who are
subject to uut-door exposure.
(gjiy WILL purchase a pair of Eastman's watet
<4*l proof Boots, certain to keep any man's feet
try who trear* tfiera, fbr a twtflve month.
Jhurial lotifts.
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE.
Whereas, letters of Administration to the estate
of John F. Wlntermute, late of Forkston tp., dee'd,
have been granted to the subscriber. All persons in
debted to the said estate are requested to make Im
mediate payment, and those having claims or de
mands against the estate of the said decedent, will
make known the same duly authenticated without
delay to JULIA A. WINTER MUTE,
Forkston, Dec. Ist '6B—nlß-6w. Administratrix.
NOTICE.
The Stockholders of the Wyoming National Bank,
are hereby notified that there will be a meeting held
et their Banking house,in the Boro. of Tunkhannock
on the 12th day of Jan 1869. at 10 o'clock A. -V
for the purpose of electing directors to serve for the
ensuing year.
SAM'L STARK, Cashier.
Tunk., Dee 7, '63- n!9-tf
AUDITOR'S NOTICE
The undersigned having been appointed by tke
Orphans' Court, for the County of Wyoming, an
Auditor, in the matter of exceptions to the acciur.t
of C. M. Manvilie. executor of the estate of A. K.
Peckham, dec d, will atteod to the daties of his ap
pointment at hie office in Tunkhannock Boro., oa
the eixti day of Jan. A. D-, 1869, at one o'clock ia
the afternoon, at which time and place all persoci
interested therein may appear and present their
claims or be forever after debarred.
JOHN A. SITTSER, Auditor.
nl94w.
CORPORATION NOTICE.
Whereas, application hat been made to the Court
of Commou Pltae of Wyoming County,lor the grant
ing of a Charter of Incorporation to the Meshoppen
Water Company of Meshoppen, in said County, the
•erne htving been filed in the office of the Prothooo
tary of said Court. Notice is heteby given, that it
no sufficient reason to the contrary is shown, it shall
be lawful for the eaid court, at the Dext term there
of to declare that the persons so associated shall ac
cording to the articles and conditions set forth in
eaid Charter become end be a corqioration or body
politio in law and iu fact, and the court will mike
aueh other directions as the case mny require.
K.J KEKNEY, Proth'.v
Tunk. Dec. 8, '68.-nl9-w4.
NOTICE.
Meetiug of Stockholders of the Tunkhan
nock Bridge Co.
The stockholders of the Tunkbauuock Bridge Com
pany, will meet stthe office of the Secretary, in tbs
Borough of Tunkhannock oo
MONDAY, JANUARY 4th-, 1969,
for the purpoee of chosing One President, Six Man
agers, a Treasurer and such other officers as may M
required under the Act of Incorporation and th*
by-laws of the company
A full attendance ia requested
HARVEY SICKI.RU. 0. E. Pate*'
Secl'y Pre'-
vl94w
i."* ASTMAX selii goou Hsmloek half-double s.-lyd
J Kip Boots at 1d,75 ; French calf pegged Boot'
et 96 ; Imported French Calf, Fair Stitched. Fa*
Toss, Rt 910, and svsry other article in his lin* "
low jfrijM.