CURRENT NEWS.
Kentucky has rejected the negro suf
i ?ge amendment by a large majority.
Gen. Ijongstreet is said to be worth 82500
* year and pickings.
The Boston Post thinks "the spring
style's is" rising froma hornet's nest.
Salt mixed with a little butter sella st 25
cents a pound in Milwaukee.
Georgia has a legislator named Turnip,
seed.
A joint resolution has passed both Houses
of Congress to adjourn on the last Friday
of this month.
A clergyman at Trinity Church 5. Y.,
has recently had his salary raised from
#2500 to 10*000 a year.
At the Hartford inauguration prayer ;
meeting, one of the prayers was that Grant
should give up tobacco.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has diacov- '
ered hex Florida plantation to be a failure, ,
and wants to sell out.
A jealous wife plucking out her husband's
beard by the handful was a recent street's
scene in New York.
Horse thieves in Tennessee are now
lynched by drowning, like cats, with a stone
tied to the neck.
Secretary Borie has posted up a notice
that there are no vacancies in his depart
ment.
Wives are valuable in Kentucky. A
Louisville man advertises to pay 8300 for
the return of his.
Horses' are so numerous in New South
Wales that they can be bought for two cents
apiece.
Much of France, nearly all of Spain, aud
large portions of Italy, are entirely destitute
of forests.
Dixon, Elgin, and Rock Island, Illinois,
have all elected Democratic, city govern
ments within a week. Last year they were
carried by tho Radicals.
The peach buds in Somerset, county,
New Jersey, were killed by the cold snap
of last week, and the crop will prove a fail
ure.
A drunken loafer was picked up in the
streets. There was no sense in his head,
no cents in his pocket, a powerful scent in
his breath, and he was sent to the Lock up.
HALF A TOOTH APEZCE. —At a family re
unionin Salem, "ten heads of families, broth
ers and sisters, met, all of whom had lost
but five teeth
A Kentuehiau has invented a perpetual
motion wagon. It winds itself up by run
ning down hill. If there are no hills, it
runs down anyway.
The Chicago Post thinks there is at least
one woman who can keep a secret, or else
General Grant does not take bis wife into
his confidence.
All persons who.cannot take the "iron
clad oath" are to be removed from office
In Virginia on the 18thiust. This includes
neatly one-third of the State officials.
A correspondent thinks that one of the
most surprising feats of the last Adminis
tration was getting Mudd out of the Dry
Tortugas.
Carl Schurz and Pareon Brownlow occupy
adjoining seats in the Senate at present.
Unless they improve their morals they'll
be likely to occupy adjoining seats in a
hotter locality.
"Oive the Devil his due," is an adage
that every one repeats. If the old chap
was to get what is due him, there wouldn't
be enough of radioals left to tnake a decent
turn out at a township meeting.
A correspondent of a Ban Francisco pa
per has started the theory that the spread
*f the small-pox is attributable to the pres
ence of cats. He proposes a general slaugh
ter of the innocents.
An eccentric man of fifty, in Brooklyn,
Conn., recently dug his own grave, sent for
his friends to see him kill himself, and,
Waning over the brink, shot himself through
the head, falling dead into the grave.
A Chicago doctor has been fined fifteen
dollars for trying to kiss a married woman,
and her husband was mulcted five dollars
for thrashing the doctor. That made twen
ty dollars net for the city.
Had Andrew Johnson nominated General
Longstrect (the Rebel Ex-General) as Col
lector of Customs of New Orleans, what
would our Radical friends have had to say
on the subject? What answer?
A Louisville matron, whose husband
snores badly, keeps a clothes-pin under
neath her pillow, and when his snoring
awakes her, she adjusts the pin on his nasal
organ, and then slumbers peacefully.
Homebody inquires whether the Mayor
and Board Aldermen were alive to the in
terests of the city when they lately appoint
ed a man to office who had been dead for
over six months. — Boston Traveller.
An exasperate dealer in skates got off the
following, arter Tom Moor's dear gazelle:"
"I never wrote up "skates to sell',
Trusting to fiokle nature's law,
And advertised and puffed 'em well,
Confound it 1 but 'twas sure to thaw."
A week ago, in Manchester, N. H., a
man worth one hundred thousand dollars
earned twenty-five cents by earring home
a fowl for another man. He said he thought
himself lucky to get pay for taking needed
exercise.
A drunken fellow in linn County, lowa,
endeavored the other day to force his way
into a room occupied by two girls. He
kicked in a panel of the door, but could
not get hiß foot oat again, when one of the
girls relieved him of his ambarrasment by
chopping it off with an axe,
AFFECTING STOBY. —A little girl in Mil
ton, N. H., had two pets, a chickeu and a
httie dog, which she always fed together.
While she was feeding them ene day,
the dog bit the chicken so badly that it soon
died, wherenpon the dog refused all food
end died of starvation.
A despatch from Cheyenne, on the line
of the Pacific railroad, says: Boms of the
eats through the snow to the west of us are
reported to be fifty feet deep. Placee where ,
the original cut is but two feet deep show
where the snow has been forced out with '
plows.
A sevege panther which had created '
much evestemeot among the fanners of
Tennessee has been shot. It proves
to be a huge yellow dog which had estab
lished a partuerslJp with a wildcat. The
two were killing oalvw* and sheep very ax
iaruuvtdy. on ebon-*
®jje Democrat.
HARVEY BICKL.EK, Editor.
TUN KHAN NOCK., PA.
Wednesday, Mar. 24, 1869*
DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE.
la ob*Ueno to th* dealt* of a majority thereof,the
Democratic State Committee are requeued to meet
at Botton'f Hotel, Harrlatmrg, on Tuesday, the 30th
day of March, ISOB, at o'clock, r. x., to fix the
time of holding the Democratic State Convention.
WILLIAM A. WALLACE,
Chairman.
DAVID CALDWSLL, Secretary,
Feb. 12, IMS.
The Constitutional Amendment Ratified
by the Pennsylvania Senate.
On Wednesday evening of last week a
•pecial session of the Senate was held for
action on the Constitutional amendment
conferring suffrage upon the negroes.—
The darkeys' frionds were all truo to them,
and the amendment passed by a strict par
ty vote. The Democratic Senators endeav
ored to have the amendment submitted to
the people, at the next general election,
for their approval or rejection, but this was
refused and the Radical Senators, in obe
dience to the demands of their masteis at
Washington, and in violation of their prom
ises and pledges to the people, voted solid
in its favor. The people, whose wishes
have been disregarded, their rights denied
and their State disgraced, will bear these
men in remembrance at the next election.
We give their names. Let them be record
ed on the blackest page of the history of
the State :
Pennsylvania Senators who voted for ne
gro suffrage.
Biliingfelt, Henzey,
Brown (Mercer) Kerr,
Coleman, Lowry,
Connell, Olinstead,
Errett, Osterhout,
Fisher, Robinson,
Graham, Stinson,
Stutzinan, White,
Taylor, Worthington.
The following Senators refused to be
parties to the disgrace of their State, and
to degrade the suffrage by conferring it up
on the ignorant blacks :
Beck, Melntire,
Brown, (Northampton) Miller,
Burnett, Nagle,
Davis, Randall,
Duncan, Se&right,
Jackson, Turner,
Lin derm an, Wallace,
McCandiesß
The House lias been debating the meas
ure and will, no doubt, come to a vote in a
few days.
The Debt.
An apparent decrease in the national
debt of eleven millions of dollars during
the past month has been accepted as a
"godsend" by the Radical press of the
country. Like the man with the small ba
by, "it is small, but it is all we have."
Any reduction on paper or in fact enables
the party in power tomake an argument
that may, by possibility, deceive or mysti
fy the masses. But even allowing the Rad
icals all they claim, still the fact remains
that the whole debt is greater by forty-five
millions of dollars than it teas in May 1868,
only ten months ago. Thus, the nation
has been spending at the rate of four and
a half millions a month beyond its income !
How long will it take to "reduce" the debt
at this rate of Republican expenditure?
Lest our statement be questioned, we ap
pend the table of increase : May 1, 1.868,
82,500,528,827 ; June 1, 1868, 82,510,245,-
886 ; August 1, 1868, §2,523,534,480 ; Sep
tember 1, 1868, 82, 535,614,313 ; October 1,
1868, 82,534,643,718 ; November 1, 1868,
82, 527,129,552; December 1, 1868, 82,-
539,931,844 ; January 1, 1869, 82,540,909,-
201 ; Febuary 1, 1869, 82,556,205,658 ;
March 1, 1869* 82,545,336,901. This is the
manner in which the national debt is de
creased by the party in power. Let us
have retrenchment and economy, as well
as peace.— Age.
Brutal Negro Outrage.
CHAitBKiS3BrBO, l'a., March 21.—0n
Thursday afternoon last a girl thirteen
years old and two young ladies, daughters
of neighboring farmers, were ravished by a
negro. On Friday a negro nineteen years
old, named Cain Norris, a native of Cham
bersbnrg, was arrested and is now in jail,
charged with perpetrating the outrages.
There is but little doubt of his being the
guilty party. The excitement in the com
munity is intense. On Friday night an ef
fort was made to take Norris from the jail
and hang him. No less than eight hun
dred people gathered about the building.
Speeches were made by a number of the
prominent citizens, and the mob was in
duced to disperse. The prison has since
been guarded by a strong force summoned
by Sheriff Yotuig. The ladies outraged are
daughters of three of our most respectable
farmers.
The Radical papers are just now em
ployed in apologizing for Grant's appoint
ment of the Ex-Rebel General Longstreet
to the lucrative position of Surveyor of
Customs at New Orlean.s. Wade Hampton
in the New York Convention was a terrible
bug-bear, but Longstreet in a Federal cus
tom house is the right man in the right
place. Ye gods! what consistency.
Report of the Minority of the Committee
on Federal Relations Recommending
the Submission of the proposed XV th
Amendment to the Federal Constitu
tion to a Vote of the People.
To Til K SENA TK OF PE.NXSVI.NAMA :
TL.e minority of your Committee on lib
eral Relations, to which joint resolution for
the ratification of the amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, to be
known as article fifteenth, was referred for
consideration, cannot agree with the con
clusions arrived at by the majority of the
committee and respectfully report that, in
their opinion, the question of the ratifi
cation or rejection of the said amendment
should not be now acted upon by the legis
ture, but should be submitted to the peo
ple in order that their desires upon the sub
ject may be known und their instructions
obeyed.
We will not enter into a discussion of
the propriety of the amendment itself, but
waiving that, will confine ourselves to what,
in our opinion, is of infinitely of more im
portance —the right of the people to deter
mine for themselves who shall, and who
shall not vote.
That governments derive their just pow
ers from the consent of the governed, is a
maxim as old as our institutions, and the
violation of the principle embodied in it,
was, more than any other, the cause of the
Revolution and the establishment of our
independence. It is as true to-day as it
was in 1776, that the people are to be con
sulted when any of their rights or privil
eges are about to be affected or taken from
them.
Sovereignty is in the people; not in the
sense in which this assertion is often highly
made, but in that important and substanti
al sense which makes it the very basis of
our system of government. Our owu con
stitution explicitly provides in the second
section of the declaration of rights, "that
all power is inherent in the people." It
was well said by Judge Wilson in the con
vention held in this State to ratify the
Federal Constitution : ' 'That the supreme,
absolute and uncontrollable power is in the
people before they make a constitution,
and remains in them after it is made. To
control the power and conduct of the Leg
islature by an overruling constitution was
an improvement in the science and practice
of government reserved to the America 11
States. When they have made a State con
stitution, they have bestowed upon the
government created by it a certain portion
of their power ; but the fee-simple of their
power remains in themselves. It resides
in the people as the fountain of govern
ment ; the ]>eople have not—the people
meant not—and the people ought not —to
part with it to any government whatsoever.
In their hands it remains secure. They
cau delegate it in such proportions, to such
bodies, on such terms, and under such lim
itations as they think proper."
This great power is not vested in the
State, nor in the United States. Neither a
legislature or a convention can possess it.
Perhaps some politician, who has not con
sidered with sufficient accuracy our politi
cal systems, would answer that, in our gov
ernments, the supreme power was vested
in the constitutions. This opinion ap
proaches a step nearer to the truth, but
does not reach it. The truth is, that in our
governments, the supreme, absolute and
uncontrollable power remains in the peo
ple. As our constitutions are superior to
our legislatures, so the people are superior
to our constitutions. Indeed, the superi
ority in this last instance, is much great
er ; for the people possess over our consti
tutions control in act, as well as right."
Under our system the work of a conven
tion specially delegated to form a constitu
tion is inoperative until it is passed upon
by the people, and receives from their
hands its vitality. The Constitution of the
United States and that of our own State
both passed the ordeal of the people, and
became operative only under the approval.
The tendency of public is more and more
in this direction, for of the constitutions
adopted in the Uunited States, upwards of
eighty have thus been submitted and ap
proved.
Having thus seen that the consent of the
people is a matter of theory, of right, and
of practice, we now come to consider the
application of those principles to the ques
tion before us.
The proposition contained in the amend
ment is a fundamental one. By this we
mean that it was one of those vital and im
portant rights that entered deeply into the
compromise of the Constitution and that
power oxer it was given neither to the Federal
nor State government, but that the l ight to
declare who should exercise tlio power of
election in the State was reserved to the
people and remains with them.
Judge Wilson, before referred to, iu com
menting upon the character of this right,
says : "All authority, of every kind, is de
rived by REPRESENTATION from the T EOPL.E
and the DEMOCRATIC principle is carried into
every part of the government. It secures, in
t'te strongest manner, the right of Suffrage.—
Montesquieu, book 2d, cliap. 2d, speaking
of the laws relative to democracy, says :
"In a democracy the people are in some
respects the sovereign, and in others the
subject."
There can be no exercise of their sover
eignty but by their suffrages, which are
tlieir own will. Now, the sovereign's will
is the sovereign himself. The laws, there
fore, which establishes the right of suffrage
are fundamental to this government. And
indeed, it is as important to regulate in a
republic, in what manner, by whom, to
whom, and concerning what, suffrages are
to be given, as it is in a monarchy, to know
who is the prince, and after what manner
he ought to govern.
"In this system it is declared that the
electors in each State shall have the quali
fications requisite for its electors of
the most numerous branch of the State
Legislature. This beingmade thecriterion
of the right of suffrage, it is consequently
secured. because the same Constitution
guarantees to every Btate in the Union, a
republican form of government. The
right of suffrage is fundamental to repub
lics.
We liave no power over tliia question.
It belongs to the people, although a tech
nical reading of the Federal Constitution
on the subject of amendment seemß to in
dicate that we have the power that really
belongs to the people.
We are of opinion that the power of the
Legislature of this State to ratify of its
own motion an amendment to the Federal
Constitution is to be restrained and con
fined to those matters over which control
has been vested by the people in the Fed
eral and State governments.
Our power cannot go beyond this, for
the stream cannot rise higher than its
source.
Without the consent of the people of this j
State, a right that is not granted by them !
to either the Federal or the State govern
ment, cannot be taken from them, nor can
the rights of a minority of the States be
taken away by the majority, when the right
invaded lias never been within the control
of the Federal government. If this attri
bute of sovereignty can l>e taken from us
by Congress and Legislature then liberty
of the press and trial by jury can in like
manner be swept away, and it is within the
power of amendment to create an establish
ed church and connect Church and State.
The exercise of this power by the Legis
lature without the consent of the people,
is not amendment, it is revolution.
A further consideration of the structure
of our governmeut and of the powers grunt
ed by the people leads us to the same con
clusion.
The legislature of the State is limited and
controlled by the provisions of the State
constitution. Its acts in violation thereof
are void. As an independent body, every
attempt on its part to interfere with the
right of suffrage, or to change the rule
thereof, is of no effect. It may register the
public will, but it can never act with pow
er upon a subject beyond its control. The
Constitution of the United States is a part
of the constitution of Pennsylvania, and
the constitution of Pennsylvania is a part
of the Constitution of the Unitod States.
Each is supreme within its sphere. The
government of the United States is one of
enumerated powers, all powers not Granted
to it "are reserved to the States and the j
people." We may for the purposes of this
report consider it to be supreme iu its con
trol of doubtful and concurrent powers,
yet beyond these wild fields and outside of
the range of its authority, is found the
control of this important subject. It is re
served to the States, or the people. It is
a part of the State Constitution, and in that
respect the provisions thereof are the su
preme law. Being neither an enumerated,
a concurrent, nor a doubtful power, under
the Federal Constitution its control mani
festly is in the State or the people. This
amendment would be futile if the subject
of it were not beyond the pale of Federal
authority. No one will argue that its con
trol is in the State Legislature, if the pro
visions of the Federal Constitution on the
subject of ameddment are not to be consid
ered, but we have already seen that it is in
no manner controlled by Federal authori
ty. If it is, then the State Constitution,
the supreme law upon this subject, is made
inferior to the power of the State Legisla
ture, and they may by amendment over
ride it. No such violation of the rights of
the people was ever contemplated by the
framers of our constitutions but the plain
and clear interpretation of the whole sub
ject is, that this right is one that belongs
to the people and can only be effected or
controlled by them.
If by the vote of the Legislatures of
three-fourths of the States this amendment
be ratified, and by the action of our State
j is rejected, then our control of suffrage in
! Pennsylvania is taken from us by the votes
j of the Legislatures of Florida and Oregon.
| Surelysueh a resnlt as this was never con
\ templated by the framers by the govern
! ment.
If it had ever been supposed to exist, the
Federal Constitution would never have
been ratified.
For these reasons we conclude that sov
ereignty upon this subject is reserved to the
people, that the power of amendment in
this form without their consent does not
exist, but that it does exist as to all those
matters in which powers and rights are
i vested by the State or Federal Constitution
: in the State or Federal Government.
The people of the State established this
| rule and it is their right to lie consulted in
| its change. We cannot err in going to
j them for instructions.
The Legislature was elected upon other
j issues ; oue political party in the lato elec
) tion maintained that ' 'The question of auf
| frage in all the loyal States properly be
| longs to the people of those States," whilst
the position of the other has uniformly
been that the people of the States are pos
sessed of all power over the rule of suffrage.
Both recognize the right of the people,
and the Legislature would be recreant to
its duty as well as to the dictates of com
mon honesty to recant the express pledges
involved in its election.
The matter for us to determine is not,
shall this amendment be ratified, but it is
the far graver question, shall the people be
deprived of their right to pass upon the
question of its ratification or rejection.—
We believe that they should not, and there
fore report the follow ing resolutions for
adoption by the Senate :
Resolved, That the Judiciary Committee
of the Senate be and they are hereby in
structed to prepare aud forthwith report to
the Senate a bill for the submission of the
question of the ratification of the said
amendment to the people at the election in
October, 1869.
Resolved, That the Senate will not act
upon the question of the ratification of the
said amendment to the Constitution of the
United States at its present session, but
will await the action of the people at the
polls thereon, and will accept the result
there as binding instructions for the ratifi
cation or rejection thereof.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
WILLIAM A. WALLACE,
WM. M'CxjfDißsa.
Geary for the Snap Judgment.
n the Bth inst. Gov. Geary sent to each
house of the legislature a copy of the XVth
Amendment, accompanied by the following
message :
EXECUTIVE CHAMBKB, )
Harrisburg, March 8, lbfiy. )
To the Senate ami House of Rejo-eserUatices of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania :
GENTLEMEN —I have the honor to trans
mit, for the consideration of the General
Assembly, a duly uttested copy of a oon
curreut resolution of the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America, entitled, "A resolution proposing
an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States," this dav received from the
State Department, Washington, D. C.
I cordially approve this action of the Na
tional Congress, and unhesitatingly recom
mend tlie prompt ratification of the same
bv the legislature.
. JOHN W. GEABY.
Thus Geary uublushfuglv proclaims him
self in favor of the SNAP JUDGMENT by
which THE PEOPLE are to be cheated
out of saviug whether or uot they will part
with the right to regulate the suflrage ques
tion for themselves. Thus Geary recom
mends the legislature to SELL THE
BIRTHRIGHT OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Will honest Republicans who have be
lieved that their party did not intend to
force NEGRO SUFFRAGE upon the peo
pl°, endorse this INFAMOUS FRAU D and
snap judgment against their will and in
DEFIANCE of their rights ?
HAVE MEK< Y ON THE WOMEN.— Adespach
from Washington states that there is great
consternation among the female clerk* in
that city, consequent on the sharjxmiug up
of the kuiveu of the guillotine, and adds
that the President was besieged on Satur
day by troops of these fair "demoiselles,"
some of whom appealed to him with flow
ing tears thai they might not be turned
out without a means of support. We do
not know whether it is iu contemplation to
hold the female clerics responsible for the
opinions of their friends or uot, but we
suggest to the "powers that be," that such
a thing would be disgraceful iu the ex
treme. We have no objection to the doc
trine that "to the victors belong the spoils,"
but brave men never visit the horrors of
war on the defenseless, if they can avoid
doing 80. If the women are turned out of
office on account of their opinions, give
them the right to vote, so that they can
make their thoughts of practical effect on
election day.— Exchange.
REWARDING RUBERS. —One of the first of
ficial acts of President was to ap
point the Rebel General, Longstreet, to
the responsible position of Surveyor of the
Port of New Orleans. Now, we all know,
that next to Oeu. Lee and Stonewall Jack
son, Gen. Long street was the most active
and efficient officer in the rebel army—we
know that he invaded Pennsylvania twice —
that it was he who slaughtered the Second
Corps so terribly in Grant'* "on to Rich
mond," and came near routing Grant with
all his force on that occasion. We only
mention this fact to show our Radical friends
how Grant make " treason odious." Sup
pose Seymour had been elected President,
and had make such an appointment,
wouldn't the "trooly loil" have howled ?
Rut Grant is king as yet, with them, and
as the "king can'do no wrong," they submit
as meekly as whipped spaniels. In the
language of Grant, "let us have peace!"—
Bxchange.
"GRANT, THE NEGRO'S PRESIDES*"— An
effort is being made to secure the appoint
ment of negroes to office under Grant.
The New York Tribune insists that the
Ministers to Hayti and Liberia ought to be
black men, and that the claims of thoß3
who made Grant President must be recog
nized. Wendell Phillips declares that the
proper appellation for the new Executive is
"Grant the Negro's President." It remains
to be seen whether this " negroes, President'
will "go back on" those who elected him.
He has so far shown himself to be more in
fluenced in his appointments by au appre
ciation of services rendered to him, than
by considerations of higher and public
character. When he pays off his pecuniary
obligations, we suppose Sambo will come
in for his share of the spoils.— Exchange.
NOT VERT CONSISTENT. --President Grant's
practice does not quite accord with his pre
cepts. In his inaugural address he says,
"obnoxious laws must be rigidly enforced,
in order to bring about their repeal," and
the next day he asked Congress to repeal a
law which prevented his friend Stewart
from being Secretary of the Treasury—
thus proposing to wipe from the statute
books a law without enforcing it at all.
Oh ! Mr. Grant. '
ffiafWo are glad to notice the names of
hundreds, nay thousands, of the best Re
publicans throughout tin 1 State appended
to remonstrances now pouring into the
legislature against the ratification of the
XVth Amendment. These Republicans
will vote with the Democrats for represent
atives who will reverse the Snap Judgment
in the next legislature.— Harrisburg Patriot.
Good!
The Radicals in the Indiana Legislature
undertaking to force the suffrage amend
ment through that body, the Democratic
members of both Houses at once resigned!
This action of the Democrats leaves the
Legislature without a quorum ipid defeats
action upon the amendment. This will
probably kill it. The Democrats of the In
diana Legislature are made of the right
kind of material.
fSgi-Not so fast Messieurs Radicals ! You
have not gained New Hampshire over your
hist fall's vote, as you boast, but have lost
upwards of three thousand ! Grant's ma.
jority was 6,%7 ; now Stearns (Rati.) is
elected Governor by just three thousand
eight hundred. Such g:ins suit us exactly.
A Thought for Young Men.
All thinkers and careful observers have
noticed the gradual and very strong ten
dency of tome men, and especially our
young men to a rwrtJeM disposition. The
are many causes for this. In common
with the rapid inarch of events, inflation
has pursued its course, invading not only
the walks of commerce, but has permeated
almost the entire mental range of the striv
ing millions. The rush for riches may
have abated somewhat within the past few
mouths, yet the unsatisfied thirst exhibits
itself and surges to and fro at the mere in
timation or possible hope of obtaining a
fortune. Not the least feature of this de
plorable mentul excitement iu the assumed
necessity to obtain wealth immediately.
All substantial fortunes are obtained by
dint of patience and the power of system
and unreasonable economy, the result of
energy coolly and judiciously applied.
Hundreds are looking forward to the com
ing spring, definitely or indefinitely for
grand developments on some new line of
enterprise, at all events to a change sug
gestive of more "material aid." That
which is doing well, or reasonably so, is
not satisfactory. The brain is heated,
while cupidity runs riot with its crazed
victim.
The wheel may have to be reversed to
check thin unreasonables phase of human
nature—then comes both mental and ma
terial depression.
Let it bo borne in ciind that the most
solid success comes from solid labor.
Young man, be cheerful, and thank God
for the blessings you have ; be prudent,
and patient, and cultivate that calmness
and deliberation wliich foreshadows power
and guarantees future success.
fee" A wise man don't want to go to Kon
gress, and mighty few of 'em do.
About all the difference I can see in
Kourts is that the biggest Kourt has the
last guess.
I know some of the best of men that nev
er had an office.
*1 never will patronize a lottery as long as
I kin hire anybody to rob me at reasonable
wages.
Some men that do a great deal of bizzi
ness in their line, I notice, do a great deal
of lyin' in their bizziness.
Death, taxes, and the grave, you kan't
escape, and I'll bot you four dollars that
you have to bi your wife a new bonnet if
she wants it.
1 kuowed when all them fellers in Ohio
and New York were running for office that
there wouldn't mor'u half of them be elect
ed.
It's my opinion that a man oughten to
have nary u confident. People can kum
hear enough to fiudin' out your bizziueas
by pure guessin'.— Josh Billings.
That Inauguration Ball.
It was a brillant success, so report says.
It was brilliant in a financial point, and the
query, who pocketed the money was a tri
lling matter. Home say it was a swindling
affair. One gentleman received a ticket for
his hat numbered 2,550, and when he called
for it there was no hat for him, he left the
building with a lady's Lice veil, which he
had picked up, tied about his ears. Hun
dreds left the building hatless and costless,
and the inquiry is not only who got the
money, but who gathed the harvest in the
way of hats and coats. Home parties have
evidently made a "good thing" of it, and
those who were the victims must remember
the old adage that "they who dance must
pay the fiddler."
All the conductors on the New
Hampshire railroads have been removed
for stealing. It is discovered that they
have robbed the companies of about 8250,-
000 annually for eight years, and have all
made themselves so rich that they have
combined and bought up enough of the
stock to turn out the directors who turned
them out. The whole State is boiling with
excitement. When the Lincoln party came
into power the conductors begun to steal.
And they iiave marched to the music of the
party ever since.
JUan-Last November the State of Missou
ri voted directly on the question of negro
suffrage, with tho following result: Against
negro suffrage, 74,053 ; for negro suffrage,
55,230 ; majority against negro suffrage,
18,817. In the face of this expression of
the people's w ill, tho Legislature of that
State hastened to ratify the constitutional
amendment giving the ballot to negroes in
all tho States. This is Radical respect for
the wishes of the majority.
"LET US HAVE PEACE." —President
Grant, in his inaugural, says that he will
have no policy "to enfbrce against the will
of the people." Then why does he urge
the adoption of the fifteenth "amendment"
to the Constitution ? Why not submit it
to the people direct for their approval or
rejection ?
Minnesota Legislature has ad
journed without acting ou the XVth amend
ment, in order to give the people an op
portunity to express their will in regard to
it. The breed of Radicals in Minnesota
has not yet degenerated into mice.
®aF*Grant said in his inaugural : "I
commence the duties of President untrom
meled." He didu't go far, however, until
he found a slight trammel in ' 'an old and
obsolete law" of 1786.
TO THE PUBLIC !
The Subscriber proposes to keen, after Match 1,
A PUBLIC TEMPERANCE
H 0 US E!
for the accommodation of st rangers and travelers,
at the honse formerly occupied by Joha D, Roger,
CENTREMORELAND.
\ tf~ Tb* patronage of the traveling public is
solicited-
WM SHARPS
vfa2Bmes3.
<2*^ VV ILL purchase a pair of Eiitumii ' malar-
I proof 80. U, certain to kp any maa'fUat
Arj who wunthcffl, for a twalva month.
fpiial IJotirf.
W TUB LAST CALL.
AU pr*oni Indebted to the undersigned are herein
notified that accounts unpaid on Ist day ot Ai.rsi
IMB, will bo laft In other hands for collection
Tank. March #, IMB. PAUL BILLINGS
C. detrick!
a CENTS REWARD.
Is offered for the return of a bound servant uirl
named Elisabeth Jones, she Is aboat 12 years old ran
away about the first of March. AU person# are
hereby cautioned against harboring or trusting her
on my account, as I shall pay no debts of her con
trading. 8. B. HULBERT
Lovelton, Wyoming Co, Mar. 6, '69— nCI.
IN BANKRUPTCY.—In the matter of Andrews.
Collum, Bankrupt. In the Dletrict Court olth*'
United State* for the Western District of Pennivl.
TSDia, Sta.
To whom It may concern : The undersigned here
by give* notice of his appointment as Assignee of
Andrew S. Collum. of Falls, Wyoming County, and
State of Pennsylvania within said District, who tat
been adjudged a Bankrupt upon his own petition by
th District Court of said District.
Dated at Towanda, this 10th day of March. A Li
1860 J. N.CALIFF, Assignee
vSn3l.
For Sale !
In NORTBM9RKLAND TP. Wyoming Co Pa,
A SAsif MILL, nearly new,with one MI'LAY SAW
LATH MILL, sod a STONE TO GRIND CHOP
It is run by two WATER WHEELS—one over
shot,
Also a DWELLING HOUSE, nearly new, ■awub
FIVE ACRES OF LAND, more or lens
JACKSON KKESUE
Noi(btnoreland, Mir. 2 'G9. v9030-lui.
SELECT SCHOOL.
A Spring Term of Select School,at MEHOOPANV
will commeooe on Tuesday, the 30, of Jiur h aol
ocutinue Twelve weeks.
TERMS:
Common English Branches, hi 00
Higher " " 51 (I
French and Latin, each, 200
NANCY LYON"'
Mehoopany, Pa n3ow3
DIMSOL UTION.
Notice is hereby given, that the firm of Eastinau
Bros, has been dissolved by mutual consent, tba
books and accounts of said firm have been left with
G. H. Eastman for collection, and to whom all ac
ecucts against the firm should be presented lor wt
t Burnt The business will be continued by G. 11
Eastman, at the old stand. Thore indebted ou the
partnership books, will please call and settle with
out delay G 11. EASTMAN,
Tunk. Feb. 23d '69 a29. M. J. EASTMAN.
AUDITOR'* NOTICE.
The undersigned having been appointed by the
Orphan.' Court of Wyoming County, an auditor, to
distribute the funds, in the hands of the Executor ol
the estate of Solomon Brown, dee'd , will attenl tj
the duties of his appointment, at the office of P. V.
Oslerb-.ut, Esq., it Tunkhannoek Bore..on Satuniav,
April 10th. A D. 1869, at 1 o'clock, P- M , at which
lime aod place, all persons interested in said distri
bution are requested to present their claim'. or be
debarred from coming iu for a share of said fund.
J. B. RHODES,
Tunk. Mar. 13, 1369 n32- Auditor
SUBPCENA IN DIVORCE.
Mary A. ILitubkias. by hor 1 In Common Pleas -f
next irieud Nelsou Doolittle t Wyoming Cuuniv, No.
ts Albert B. Ilotchkiss. 369, Nov. Term, 1-6-
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE FROM THB BONDS OP
matrimony.
I, Moses W. Dewitt, High Sheriff of the County u'
Wyoming, hereby make known unto the ahoie
named Albert B. Ilotchkiss, that he he an 1 app-ar
at a Court of Common Pleas, to be held at TunL
bannock, in the County of Wyoming, on Monday,
tb* 19th day ot April, A. D. 1869, then and there
to answer the said complaint, and show cause, if any
be hatb. whvth* bonds ot matrimony between him
self and Mary A Hotchkiss, his wife, shall not be
dissolved.
M \\ DEW ITT. Sheriff.
Sheriff 's Office, Tunkhannoek, Mar. Ist '99-n3owl
A ■! HALL'S
VECEWU SWUM
Is the only infallible Hair Preparation for
RESTORING GRAY HAIR TO ITS ORIGINAL
COLOR AND PROMOTING ITS GROWTH
It is the cheapest prepiralion ever offered to the
public, as one bottle will last longer and accom
plish more than three bottles of anv other prepir.-
tion.
Our reaevrtr is not a Dye ; it will not Ham the
skin as others.
IT Wilt ((CP THU HAIR FKOlt FALL!.WO OCT
It cleanses the Scalp, and makes the Hair Soft,
Lustrous, and Silken.
Our Treatise on the Hair senQfrae by mail
R. P. HALL A CO. Nashua, N. 11. Proprietors.
For gale by all d'Uggista.
A AZ U R E NE.
{COWCBWTRATXD INDtOO]
v F " R THE LAUNDRY.
It it warranted not to strea't, or in any manner
injure the finest fabrics.
FOR FAMILY USE Sold in FIVE cent, TE.V
cent, and TWENTY cent boxes.
Each Twenty cent box, beside* having Fivo time'
as much blue as the Five cent box, eontaius a pocket
pin cushion or emery bag.
For Hotel and large Laundry use, it is put up is
•2 00 boxes.
See that each Box has the proper Trade Mi-k
For Sale by BILLINGS A PHILLIPS on Bridge
St. near the Canut, Tunkhannoek, Pa. v6n'29wS.
A VALUABLE
110 USE AND LOT FOR SALE.
The undersigned offers for salu a HOUSE k LOT
situate on beooiei St., Tunkhsßnoek, Pa adjoiunK
residence, formerly of Harvey Sirkler. now owned
by Benj. P. Carver. The property will be ditposei
of
ON REASONABLE TERMS
The hoase is a
Two Story Frame Building,
24 by 32 feet, WITH WljfG ATTACHED. IS kj
22 feet, 1} Stories high. A good WELL of
NEVER FAILING WATER 1
and a LARGE CISTERN FOR SOFT WATER, *
on the premiies ; together with fruit tree* orna
mental trees, Ac. There is a fine Cellar under tb<
building, The property constitutes a most ie-urab's
home and will be
SOLD AT A BARUAIX :
For further particulars, apply to 2
TIIOS. OSTKKHoCr. i
Tunkhannoek, Pa., Jaa. 13. 1969 n23-3ui '
COURT PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, the Hon- Wm. ELWKLL. Pnr J
dent Judge of the Court of Common Pie is ,f j
Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, ml
the President Justice of the Court of Oyer and Ter
miner and General Jail Delivery, for the Hal" |
capital and other offences, for the twenty-rixth Ju
dicial District of Penn'a ; G- Pike, and J V ?mi'-
Esqrs,, Associate Judge* of the Court of Con" B)! '
Pleas and General Quarter Sessions of the Pes'*
and Associate Justices of Oyer an l Terminer "j
General Jail Delivery of the County of \\ yotmng.
have by their precept to me directed, ordered *
GENERAL COURT OF OYER AND TERMING
| AND GENERAL JAIL DELIVER?
to be held at Tunkhannoek on Monday tbo 19ih - 1 -
of April, A. D. 1869.
Notice is therefore hereby given to the tore >
all Justices of the Peace ar.d Constables " in ' lB
Couuty of Wyoming, that they be and
their proper pereon* at the time an l pl*-" e **" .
mentioned, with their rolls, records, tnquisi'
aminations. reogmaance, and other reuiemo •
to do those things which to their offices in
half respectively belong. , j,,
Notice is also given that those wh) are N"
recognizances to prosecute the prisoners th
shell be in the Jail of Wyoming County. - *• ;uJ .
.be then and there to prosecute them .oi ■!
M W. DeWITT, b>h er,D
B'ncrfiTi Office, Tunk. Mar. 21,