CURRENT NEWS.
Huston is nearly seven miles long from
northeast to southwest.
A fountain in Bennington, Vt., sends a
stream of water IP>9 feet high.
What State is high in the middle and
round at both ends? O-hi-O.
Indiana has eight hundred and tnirty
one aboriginal log school-houaen still in us*-.
Weieliinan, who swore Mrs. Surratt to
death, is a reporter on a Philadelphia pa
ptr.
The story that young Jeffords was tire
murderer of Dr. Burdell is eompletely dis
proved lv his counsel.
An Ohio lady, of no "prejudices," lyis
lately sued a negro for seduction under pro
mise of marriage. Away with "caste!"
The Inauguraiion ball, by reason of what
is resolved upon, ought now to he written,
• Th -nigger-atiou 1 >awl. "
An Irish girl of Easton has fallen heir to
SoO.iHH). She is believed to be much hand
somer now tlian she was a week or so ago f
It is estimated that there are in New York
city, over ten thousand horses noted for speed
which are worth from one thousand to thirty
three thousand dollars each.
At a recent fashionable wedding in Paris,
one of the handsomest dresses was blue
from bonnet to shoes, worn by a pretty
Aineriean girl.
They are assassinating jieople with air
guns in New York. People, by this means,
die from too much air; whereas, formerly,
they died from the want of more!
The New York Express says : There is
a lady in this city who hasu't washed her
face for fourteen years; cleans it with Indian
meal; says water chaps it.
P. S. Liggett, of Juniata county —a su
per-nbundaut loyalist—has been arrested
on suspicion of having fired the Carlisle
Springs buildings.
There is a libel suit to lie tried between
two Pittsburg papers—the Dispatch and
the I/eader, growing out of personalitiefi in
dulged about two years ago.
The Hollidavsburg Standard says that a
fence out in Westmoreland county isn't
considered of much account unless it is
"horse high, bull strong, and pig tight."
An exchange asserts that thirty years ago
a man started a newspaper in lowa, with a
capital of fifteen cents, and now makes a
living out of it. What did the poor cuss do
for something to eat in all that time?
A Berkshire girl walked fourteen miles
through the snow the other day, to marry
a young man who couldn't come to her
house for fear of a six shooter which the
stern parent carries.
It is said that Brownlow has resigned the
Governorship of Tennessee. If he is re
signed. the people certainly are. But it will
not be very long before Brownlow gets to a
place where "resignations ' are not accepted!
The swine of Georgia are thinning out.
They have lieeu attacked with a peculiar
sickness, called Africanis gtealum. it is said
that a pig squeals terrible on sight of a
nigger. They have learned to travel rapidly
when the black savage haunts their haunts.
< >ue of the curious features of Carlotta's
insanity is her desire to write letters to her
husband. She w rites daily to him, and this
correspondence, which by this time, has be
come quit voluminous, is said to be full of
the most interesting matter.
The Georgia Constitution administers ,
Luge dose of gall to carpet-bagger Morgaut
and then informs him that if he doesu.,
like it, the editor can be found at his office
ready to entertain such visitors. "Let us
have peace!"
Skip A negro woman was found dead in
Columbus, Georgia, on Sunday last, from
starvation and exposure. She had been of
fered work but refused, remarking that as
she was fret* she would labor no more.—
The Coroner's jury brought in a verdict of
death from sheer laziness.
The Legislature has passed a "powerful"
local bill for Lancaster, regulation appren
tices among "cobblers." If we know the
legislators aright, we think them better
qualified to swallow the boss "cobblers" in
a liquid state. But, such an act is about
tho measure of "loil" Legislative ability.
A practical joker climed up a peach tree
in a Michigan farmer's yard, and imitated
the liaot of an owl so well, that the' old gen
tleman came forth and lauded ten buckshots
in his sitting-down place. The practical
joker is now exceedingly patient, and us
grave as an owl, though less inclined to hoot
from a perch in a peach-tree!
A young couple in ltockport, Me., while
courting, walked out together arm-in-arm,
and fell through a hole in the sidewalk, each
breaking a leg. Paradoxical as it may seem,
tiieir fall proved a "lift "to them, and set
them upin the world—a jury awardingthem
a verdict of 812,000 against the town,
Congress lias passed a resolution appro
priating fcIO.OOO for the relief of the poor in
the District of Columbia These "poor" are
the colored citizens who fill the galleries of
the House and .Senate Chamlier, excepting
at such times as they are engaged to voting
for loil mayors and aldermen in \\ ashington
and Georgetown.
A woman lately left a train in Hartford
depot i,says a Connecticut paier) to get a
I*up of coffee, and while she was aliseut the
train started, carrying off her baby. The
mother was greatly excited, ami the railway
officials telegraphed to Berlin to have the
baby " switched" there, which was done,
and*soon the separated family was collected
together.
The Philadelphia Neies calls Geary the
"present vaiu, ignonuitaudimbicile Execu
tive,, of Pennsylvania, Was henot, permit
us to ask, the "hero of Sniekersville," and
did he nqt "fight, bleed and die" for his
country, w hen these howlers were only in
the "ineolish?" Did he not ride a fine boss,
and have a fancy saddle, aud lots of blazing
red straps and belts, and fancy belly-bands!
The Virginia papers pronounee the con
vention which selected the immortal "Com
mittee of Nine," to visit Washington and
assure their enemies of the happiness with
which the people of Virginia accepted their
<U*grailfttiou,' 'The Forty Thieves." At
Washington, there is a "fellow foeling' for
these chaps. Forty times "forty thieves"
are the source of the "powers that lie."
A Virginia gentleman, who lives on the
Ku*>t<-ru Shor>*, sold his place some months
ag'i, and a ft.* w days since returned to it
impressed with the idea tliat in a certain
rtjom of the hoinv* lie t*onld find something
vaiuaU''- Finding the house unoccupied,
la-ff >*t d i ntrauee, and under one of
the rnfti-ir, diw ov, red a package of gold
atidatJvT .-'/iitaiiiing 81 which had been
laying there f>/r years.
slje pmotrat.
HARVEY SICKLER, Editor.
TUNKHANfTOCK, PA. |
: ._r 1 - - -■ T ~
Wednesday, Mar. 3, 1869.'
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DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE, j
In obedience to the desire of a majority thereof,the j
Democratic State (Committee are requested to meet j
at Bolton's Motel, Harris bar*, on Xnesday, the 30th
day of March, 1869, at IJ* o'clock, r. a., to fix the
time of holding the Democratic State Convention.
WILLIAM A. WALLACE,
Chairman.
DAVID CALDWKLL, Secretary,
Feb. 12, 1866.
The Pittsburg Post and Instruction of
Delegates.
The Pittsburg Post objects to an nrtiele
in which we took the ground that it wore
better for the interests of the party to al
low the State Convention an uutrummoled
choice of candidates, than to go on with the
business of tying the hands of the delegates
by instructions for this man, or that one, i
or the other. The Post is quite snappish, '
and indulges in flings, which its editor,
doubtless, imagines the sharpest satire.
Our friend BAKU should keep cool. When ,
he gets over his passion, lie may-, perhaps,
discover that some of the warmest friends 1
of General Cass earnestly deprecate the '
struggle for "instructions" which Is going
on between the supporters of the several
candidates. Those friends desire not mere- !
ly the nomination of their favorite, but al- '
so his election. They do not permit tlieir j
zeal fo run away with their judgement, nor
do they allow their suspicions to lead tlieni
into gratuituous and wanton attacks upon
democrats who deserve only the fullest eon- ;
fidence and highest esteem of the party.
They desire to unite the entire party upon
the candidate of choice, and, therefore, :
seek to allay, instead of striviug to excite, 1
the strife which a campaign of instructions
is certain to engender.
The article to which the Post takes excep
tion, was based upon the demonstrated Tart
that neither of the candidates now in the
field, can obtain a majority in the convention
by instructions. Hence, it is evident that
the instructed delegates cannot make a
nomination, without, at some point in the
balloting, violating their instructions. This
proposition is self-evident. Why, then, tie
the hands of all the delegates ? Mhy not
permit at least some of them to have free
dom of choice ? If there were the remotest
possibility that Gen. Cass, or Judge Packer,
or Gen. M'Gaudless, or Pershing, or Mr.
Jeuks,could carry a majority of the conven
tion by instructions, there would be some
sense in the struggle to obtain them,
though we doubt whether it would redound
to the advantage of the party. But as
none of them can carry such an instructed
majority, it is sheer madness to lash the
people into the excitement of a contest for
instructions. The Convention will have to
choose the candidate at last, and, therefore,
no good, but much evil, will result from a
canvass which, prior to the assembling of
the Convention, divides the party into op
posing factions composed of adherents of
j the several candidates. Such was the fatal
j mistake of the unfortunate campaign of
18410. To a certain extent the same error
was committed in the presidential cam
paign of last year. Cannot the Post learn
even in the dear school of experience ?
It is all very well after such mistakes as
those of the personal adherent politicians iu
18C0 and 184>8, have caused the defeat of
the party, for those politicians to snarl at
the men who stood iu the fore front of the
fight, and strove against fate itself to avert
the natural and inevitable consequences of
the folly of the men who rushed to Charles
ton, or New Y'ork, the crazy champions of
men, instead of what they should liave
been, cool and prudent and deliberate gen
erals, planning the battle and organizing
victory for the party. Such men must
have a scape-goat for their sins, and gener
ally manage to shuffle their load u}>on the
shoulders of the innocent. In conclusion
we hope that this article may not seem to
the editor of the Post, "mysterious, oracu
lar, solemn or severe." Indeed, we doubt
not that he will l>e able to understand it. —
Patriot.
Conviction of a Railroad Employee.
The case of the Commonwealth vs. Rob
ert Hamilton, was held in the Court of
Quarter Sessions at Wilkesbarre, a few days
since, under the Act of 18C5, which pro
vides that "any employee of any Railroad
Company, through whose negligent, or
disoliedience of orders, injury to Ire or
projierty shall ensue, shall be pnuislied by
fine and imprisonment," resulted in con
viction, and sentence to the Eastern Peni
tentiary at Philadelphia for one year and
one month.
The evidence brought out the facts that
on the morning of the third of November,
184®, Robert Hamilton was acting as rear
brakesman on a coal train of the L. &.S.
R. R. That the engine got out of steam,
and came to a stop, the ears slowly jamming
np against the engine. That at "this time,
and before they hail settled back on a for
ty foot grade, Hamilton abandoned the
train. In settling or sagging hack, sixteen
of the rear cars became detached ; tlrnt H:im
ilton conld easily have saved them but
made no effort of any kind, although he
knew there was a freight train following
closely behind ; the cars run down gather
ing great impetus, aud a mile or two from
the point of starting collided with the freight
killing four men (three instantly, on© dy
ing a short time after) and destroying a
large amount of property. This is the first
case tried wider the aet,'and"Yvill serve as a
warning to reckless brakesmen. . j
Educational Progress in the County.
The following is taken from the report of
J. B. Rhodes, our County Superintendent,
to the Stab- Superintendent of Common
IfS.-honj* ,
E "J\eJnK>Ls were graded during the |ipt ;
year. One in Itraintrini, and one in Nieli- ~
i©l son. uumlier two, independent district. .
These schools are accommodated hy snita-
hi© how-Two-story wliieh were built n
during the year. < hie substantial sue-story j t
school house was built in Eaton, and one j j
1 in Falls. both great the !
the miserable structures which they re- !
| placed. I
an improveme nt ds seen in the fur
littire in the pew house.-,. The plan of ur
f 'I
i ranging scnte and dm>ks. ..round th wail. >
! seems to be abandoned. Good and eouve- I
n
nient seats and desks may Iv found in the '
* I s
j new houses, and larger and better black- | j
j boards tlian those usuallly found in tin-old-
er buildings. Some of our houses are fur- (
nished with out-line maps, and some with
globes, yet none can lie considered as being (
well supplied with apparatus. Nearly all t
iof the districts have a diversity of text- )
j books, which renders classification, ahnost
; impossible. This retards the progress of ,
the schools, to an extent heretofore initful- ■ 1
ly realized by directors and patrons. I)i- j (
rectors should adhere to the law, and cause | i
an immediate change, which w ill probably >
give better satisfaction than a gradual one. ; ,
The qualifications of a majority of the (
j teachers are deficient, lsith in a knowledge j
of the branches required to lie taught, and 1
! in professional skill.
Among the teachers actually engaged in j
I teaching at the time of visiting the schools,
| four had attended Normal schools, sixty-
I two lia<l read works on the theorv of teach-
I I .
j ing, and ten lnul attended the County in- i
i statute. In a majority of tin* districts, .
I teachers' salaries were advanced from one :
ito six dollars jier month. The salaries are
S mnch too low to obtain a supply of first
t class teachers.
In a number of districts regular monthly i
i visits were made by directors, while in a few !
i visitations was almost entirely neglected,
j The general interest in onr common school |
j system is improving. Public, sentiment
would warrant a more stringent administra
tion of the system by directors.
J EDUCATIONAL WORK I SINE EY SUPERINTEND
ENT.
' • Fourteen public examinations were held, |
at which ninety applicants were inspected.
' | Eighty-three of these received provisional
' : certificates, ami seven were rejected. A ,
j few private examinations were held at the |
' j request of directors, and in cases where it i
| seemed absolutely necessary, My exauii-
I I nations were principally oral Average j
j grade of certificates granted, about two and ;
1 } one-half. The scarcity of teachers made it
necessary to grant certificates iu some in
' I stances to those who would not otherwise
- connty were visited, with few exceptions. I
! On account of sickness, and the deep snow,
! which frequently rendered the roads im
(! passible, it was impossible to make as
many visits as I intended.
I The Teachers' institute of this county as-
I semhled at Tnnkhatmoek iu Deceirds r. and
■j ' was attended by forty-two teachers and a i
! respectable number of directors and pat- i
rons. The meeting was interesting and J ,
profitable to the teachers in attendance. A |
lively interestwivs manifested in behalf of
' I this attempt to promote the prosperity of
f 1 our common schools.
EDUCATIONAL WOUK DONE BY OTHER AGENCIES. 1
f | There has not been, within the limits of
1' the connty, an academy open during tho >
f ' year. Select schools have been taught in
r i several different localities. We have one
.' newspaper in the connty, and its editor has i
u at all times manifested a willingness to pub-1
I lish anyeducational matter furnished him. j
s I OBSTACLES IN THE WAY OF IMTTUivnttXT. j
The want of teachers properly qualified ;
f ! want of interest on the part of directors in i
II their duties, and of information resfieotiug |
L . | the duties they are to perform ; a want of I
t ' uniformity of text-books. At the present I
f ' time there arc schools in which as many as
. 1 five different series of books are used. Such |
f a state of things can only exist where dine- I
L . tors fail to give that attention which the i
law requires.
The Isthmus of Darien Canal.
• I
j The treaty made by General Gushing i
' with tho Government of Columbia con
-1 '
cedes to the United States the exclusive |
right to construct an inter-o<*eanic canal
across the Isthmus of Dorieu at any point |
I which may l>e selected by the United |
j fcjtatee. The Columbian Government |
j ced©> six miles of the land on each side of |
the canal—one half for its own benefit, and ,
; the other for thft of the party undertaking :
j the construction of the work. The C'oluni- j
j bum Government is to receive ten per cent, j
of tho net income for the first ten years, j
s and after the u*nal is pai<l for twenty-five '
j j>er cent, of the net profits. The treaty is
to be ratified by the United States within
ten montiis, the survevs to be made within
r
two years after the ratification, the canal
begun within five years and finished within
fifteen after the ratification, otherwise the j
j charter falls. The charter runs for one j
hundred years. j
t The canal is to be under the control of
the United States, tuid Congress can fix the t
• rate of tolls. Tin* navigation is to be open i
to all nations in time of peace, but closed t
to belligerents who may seek to avail them
selves of its advantage*. It in* estimated ',
that the canal will wist 8100,000,000. All
i company was not long ago organized in 1
New York under a charter of that State, i 1
with Peter Cooper as president. It is said !
on distinguished authority tluit this com- |
] pony have the capital aud are ready to com- | I
j menee the work. Congress, however, is at j '
j liberty to give tlu> preference t> > this or any i'
j other private company ; or the United t (
States can itself undertake the construction j
!of the canal. The treaty was scut to the ( .
f Sua ate on the l.'ith nH.—fTarrisbnry Pa- ; c
| triat.l.- * • ' \ 3
The Germans Moving.
'The hostile attitude of Congress toward !
die alien residents who desire U> become!
■itizens, tire enactment by Stale legisla
tures of registry laws looking specially to
the hindrance of foreign-bora citizens from
the free exercise of the elective franchise,
joined with the avowed determination o£
the radical politicians to change the cliar- j
acter of the naturalization laws into some- j
thing of a more harsh and rigid nature. 4
have justly alarmed the German element in. |
our population. A meeting of Gerinajift j
was held in New York City, a few days j
since, to take action for the defence and !
safety of the tights of iilicji-ltoiD residents [
and citizens, which was largely attended
and which adopted a memorial to Congress ;
asking that "tlie period of time no**- pre- !
scribed by law for which an alien-must]
have resided in this country liefo'. e Ire can ]
lie admitted as a citizen of the Drated States
maybe shortened," and that ""the process
of naturalization should not l>o exclusively
eonfcried upon the courts of the United
States, to the exclusion of the courts of
record in the acveral States.',
This meeting was composed of democrats
and "republicans," who cordially united in
the cause of protection to immigrated
residents and naturalized citizens. Gen.
Franz Sigcl, president of the German lle
publioan Central Committee, opened the
meeting in an eloquent speech, in the course
of which he said :
"We will guard against injustice being
done to 11s. We will have no laws prolong
ing the time necessary for naturalization,
but a law which will remedy existing abuses
without prolonging that time; which will
not contain a heap of clauses unintelligi
ble to immigrants ; which will not neitessi
tatea new and expensive class of officials.
When Germans fought to preserve the
Union ; when the German soldiers fell 011
battlefield, no question was raised than as
to the political creed of an immigrated sol
dier. They shall not inquire about this
point now when the rights of those adopt
ed citizens are nt stake."
Gen. Sigel nominated Hon. Oswald Ot
tendorffer, editor of the New York StUmls \
Zt Hung, (Dcm.,j for president of the meet
ing. and Mr. Ottendorflfer was unanimous- 1
ly elected. Mr. Marcus Otterbourg (of the j
German Republican Central Committee) is
the author of the memorial above referred j
to, and in presenting it to the meeting de
clared. "Tie will hare no law made for <<ue I
parti/ —but for the welfare of all. * * *j
hirer// lan- which restricts rights of citizens is
obnoxious."
We have referred to this meeting of the
New York Germans more especially to call
the attention of adopted citizens in our own
State to the fact that their rights are even
in greater danger than those of their lrreth
i orn in New York, There is at present a
bill before the legislature which is deliber
ately and maliciously intended l>v its au
thors to hamper and hinder foreign-born
citizens in the exercise of their rights as
1 citizens. It is popularly known as the
1 Registry BiU. It proposes to give the reg
isters the power to examine naturalization
papers and to decide upon their validity by
! entering, or refusing to enter, upon the
list of voters, the name of the party claim
ing citizenship under them. It is a bill
wliieh, in the language of General Sigel,
I "contains a heap of clauses unintelligible"
1 to the adopted citizen, and which will "n<-
i eessitutc a new and expensive claws of olli
rials." It has but one object and can serve
' but one purpose, viz : A rexaliotis obstruc
tion of the foreign born citizen's ajgirattch to
the ballot-box. We content ourselves, for
! the present, with merely referring to this
j matter, so that naturalized citizens may be
put upon their guard in relation to the
i threatened action of the legislature. We
I doubt not that a passage of such a law
would lose the radical party thousands of
votes, but we prefer that the bill sliall be
defeated, because it is-wrong in itself, and
1 would be a hideous and disgraceful blot up-
I on the statute book. — Hamburg Patriot.
Practical Repudiation of the Debt De
feated.
| Some time ago, remarks the Sunday Mer
j cur 1/, Judge Sharswood, now of our Su
' prime Court, decided that a contract, pav
' able in specie, could not legally be satisfiM
1 by payment in paper, though pujrer wtu
made "a "legal tender" by act of Congress,
j The Supreme Court of tiio United States,
speaking through Chief Justice Chase, its
| opinion on the point, in the case of Rron-
I son executor, ET AT,., VS. Rhodes, has snb
' Ktuntiallv continued the decision of Judge
j Sharswood. The practical result of the
judgement delivered by the Supreme Fed
eral Court, is this : We do not undertake
to decide whether Congress has. or has not,
1 under the Federal Constitution, power to
j make bunk notes, or government securities,
in the form of Treasury or bank notes, a
I " "legal tender" in payment of private debts;
but we do decide that, if Congress, regard
j less of the question of its legal ftnthority_in
I tlie promises, dares to enact that a paper
j promise to pay, which practically may be
' wortli nothing, shall be equivalent in value
jto gold and silver, which, in any event,
, must be worth something, the people have
, the right, in making their contracts, to
choose either of the "legal tenders" they
j please, and that the State and Federal
1 Courts must enforce tlie contracts AS MADE.
! Now, in view of this decision it is wholly
! immaterial, for all PRACTICAL purposes,
I whether Congress has or has not power to
make' paper ( whether bank or Treasury
notes) a "legal tender." Every citizen, un
-1 del- the decision of the Federal Supreme
Court, may, if he will, so make his contracts
as to exact specie as the only 'legal tender,'
and we are glad that the supreme national
tribunal has had the honesty and courage
hi defeat, even in this oblique way, the at
tempt of a Radical Congress to, at once,
usurp unconstitutional power and author
ize practical repudiation in the payment of
private debts.
Negroes at the Inauguration Ball.
The Lancaster Intelligencer says, an "up
per ten" negro barber lias addressed a note j
to Mayor Rowen, of Washington city, as
chairman of tire committee 011 the sule of i
tickets for the Inauguration Ball, stating .
that a number of his friends Horn Philadef- 1
phia and New York would Ire there on '
March 4th, and asking whether an distinc- i
tion on account of color is to Ire made in I
the sale of tickets. Mayor Rowen, has ad- j
dressed liim a reply in which lie says that
"any person of respectability will be admit- |
ted to the ball, without respect to color.")
It is likely to be a mixed atiair therefore, j
ami no doubt black irurbers and Irqot blacks i
of degree will niiqgle freely with wliite |
Radicals. Why not ?
Ar .other Speech from Grant.
"DoLf a," tlie Washington correspondent
<>[ thy Harrisburg Patriot writing untlflf
clat! v f Feb. 2:iril, says, a number ui prom
inent New York bankers o*lle<l on Mr.
Grant this morning, and hud quite i>r>
tracked iuterveiw with liim. In answer to
a remark that an economical administration
wa.s exjHcted. (bant, said : "Itis my desire
that tire affairs of the country should Ire
conducted as economically as possible, and
I will try to have it so. We all know what
the tenure-of-office bill was enacted for. It
was passed to prevent an Executive frdln
using the offices at his disposal for corrupt
i purposes, ljJit from what they 1 did in Con
, gress, fain disposed to think
♦hat the (Senate will desire to lie judges as
to what 1 shall do." After a pause, Ire con
tinued : •'Well, if they do not repeal the
law, I certainly cannot make any changes.
I cannot remove a man without making
ehjurges of a character which would blast
his reputation; and that would not Is- very
agreeable yon know, and the result will be
that men who hold offices will continue to
hold them nntil the end of the term, 110
matter what my desire may lie. Of cotwrte
this will save all this office-hunting and
boring." One of tlie gentlemen remarked :
"That will be very agreeable, no doubt."
(irant continued : "Yes, but I "have no
doubt that there are those in office who
should be removed if it is the wish to econ
omize. However, the Senate evidently de
sires to lie judge of my actions and I shall
have to be the judge of them." A gentle
man : "That w ill throw the responsibility
upon them." Grant continued: "I don't
know, at any rate I will do the best I can.**
Here the interview ended.
Later in the day Grant, in tie- presence
of several gentlemen, stated that he would
send to the Senate the name of General
Schofiehl, as Seeratery of War, but Scho
tield will probably decline, prefering to re
turn to his old position in the army, in
which cane a civilian will Ire nominated for
the position. Grant added that he wanted
the smate to know this. He said he was
opposed appointing officers of the army and
navy to civil offices, and therefore wants a
civilian at head of each department. This
statement is vouched for by memliers of
Congress present.
I The decision of the Radicals in COll
- gross in regard to the vote of Georgia, was
j that if the electorial votes of the State did
not change the result they should be count
-1 e<l, lint if they did alter the result they
were not to Ire counted. This is a striking
; illustration of the Radical honor, justice
and honesty.
MANHOOD —IN THE YOUNG AND RISING
feneration, the vegetative powers of life are
i strong, but in a low years how often the pallid hue.
the lack-lustre eye and emaciated form, and the itn-
I possibility of application to mental effort, show its
baneful influence It soon becomes evi dent to the
I observer that some depressing influence is checking
1 the developeinent of the body Consumption is talk
ed of, and perhaps th youth is removed from school
and sent into the country. This is one of the worst
movements Removed from ordinary diversions of
the ever-changing scenes of the city, the powers of
| the bo ly too mu.-h enfeebled to g*ve zest to bealth
-1 ful and rural exercise, thoughts are turned inwards
Upon themselves.
If the patient be n female, the approach of the
menses is looked for with anxiety, as the first symp
tom in which Nature is to show her saving power in
diffusing the circulation and visiting the cheek with
tho bloom of health. Alas ' increase of appetite has
grown by what it ted on ; the energies of the system
are prostrated, and the whole economy is deranged.
The beautiful and wonderful period in which body
1 and inind undergo so fascinating a change from
! chili to woman, is looked for in vain ; the parents
I heart bleeds in anxiety, and fancies the grave but
I waiting for its victim
Helmbold's Extract ltuchu, for Weakness arising
from excess er early indiscretion, attended with the
following symptoms : Indisposition to exertion, Loss
of i'wytcr, Loss of Memory. Difficulty of Breathing,
General Weakness, Horror of Disease. Weak Nerves
Trembling, Dreadful Horror of Death, Night Sweats
Cold Feet, Wakefulness, Dimness of Vision, Languor
Universal Lassitude of the muscular System. Often
Enormous appetite with Dyspeptic Symptoms. Hot
Hands. Flushing of the Body. Dryness of the skin,
Tabid Countenance and eruptions on the Face, Pain
in the Back, Heaviness of the Eyelids, Frequently
Black fpots Hying before the Eves, with Temporary
Suffusions and Loss of Sight, Want of Attention,
Ureat Mobility, Restlessness,with Horror of Society.
Nothing is more desirable to such patients than Sol
itude, aad Nothing they more dread, for Fear of
Themselves : no Repose of Manner, no Earnestness,
no Speculation, but a hurried Transition from one
question to another.
These symptoms, if allowed to g 1 on—which this
Medicme invariably removes—soon follow Loss of
Power, Fatuity, and Epileptic Fits, in one of whith
the patient may expire.
During the Superintendence of Dr. IVilson at the
Bloontingdale Asylum, this sad result occurred to
two patients ; reason had for a time left them, and
both died of Epilepsy. They were of ]mth sexes, and
nbout 20 years of age.
Who can say that these excesses are not frequent
ly followed by those direful diseases Insanity and
Consumption ? The records of the Insane ' Asylums,
and the melancholy deaths by Consumption, bear
ample witness to the truth of these assertions. In
Lunatic Asylums the most melancholy exhibition
appears. The countenanoe is actually sodden and
quite destitute—neither Mirth or Uriel ever visits it
Should a sound of tho voice occur, i; is rarely artic-
Ulato
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" ORPHAN'S IGI'KI >AI.IG
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance ot *i
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directed to the undersigned as Administrator of tin
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Public Sale, ondhe premises, in the Township
Nicholson, on Thursday, March 18th 1369, at one
o'clock in the nfternoon. The equal undivided Yi
part of the following piece, or parcel of land, .-itu.itr
in the Township of Nicholson, YVyoming County.lG.
bounded af follows : Beginning at a Beech true "ti
the bank of Tunkhanoock Creek, thence North*'*
degrees, wsst 26 perches, North 39 degrees we.-; 1-
perchs, North 26} degrees went 14 perches. N "
14 degrees west 33} perches, North 90 degrees * ■
15 perches, North 21} degrees east 15 perehe*.N -
19 west 41 perches. North 10 deg west IS perch?-
North 76} deg. west 23 perches, South 91 deg. -
13 4-10 perches, South 73} deg. west 25 perches.
South 55} deg. west 5 6-10 perches to a Button* - >
South 13} deg. east 9 perches. South 67 d.g east
porches, South 14 deg. west 103 2 10 perches t t
old pice now a post, South 66} deg. west 7 1 i .
perches, South } deg. east 202 8-10 perches : < <
corner, South 63 deg. east 15 1-10 perches, N "
5 deg. west 17 perches. North 2 deg east - 7-1
Srcbes, North 11 deg. east 11 8-10 perches, Net;-'-
deg. east 20 perches, North 33} deg east r r •
perches, North 45} east 13 8 10 porches, Xorta
deg. east 14 3*lo perches, North 75 deg. east '22
perches, North 89} deg. east 12 4-1U perches, vi
83} deg east 44 perches, North 11 deg. e.ist hi 6 '
perches. North 16} deg. east 7 5-10 per. he*, t - :
place of beginning, ConUiuing One hutilre-i 1
eighty-five acres aod fifty-five perches, in >.-e (■ '■
with the improvements therenD ; being the M-'
land that was sold by Selden T Scranton to E
Smead and M. M. Smead, by deed, Ja'eJ the - I
of Sept. 1960. and recorded in Wyoming County
Deed BOOK, NOV 9th, page 507. .Is- (Exsej ;i. a > '
reserving for tne use of the Delaware Li ki 1
and Western Railroad, su. h twrtion nt -aid i '
as is now occupied, or may be bereatter re pairs!
said Company for Railroad purpose.* (See lb-el
and will be sold to the highest and best biuder.
TERMS.—Ten per cent of one-fourth of the r ,yr
chase money shall be paid at the striking
the property, the one-fourth less ten per cent. x
the confirmation of sale, and tho remaining th
fourths in one year therealter, with interest
the confirmation, ni si.
By order of the Court
ZEBIXA SMEAD.
Feb'y. 15, 1869 n29r3. AJiumistr*--
TO THE PUBLIC !
The Subscriber proposes to keen, after Mi
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