CURRENT NEWS.
There are over 83,000 music teachers in
New York.
Six thousand in ilea of telegraph were pat
up in the United States the past year.
l'heap theatricals —striking your head
against the wall until you see stars.
Ten million pounds of candy are annu
ally manufactured in the United States.
A inaple tree near Concord, N. H. , has
been tapped for sugar 106 years.
Who is the largest man? The lover —he
is a man of tremendous sighs.
Two cousins in Indiana, married several
years ago, and have six idiot children.
Rev. IL W. Beecher's wife makes 85,000
n year -'pin money" by editing Mother at
Home.
One of 'he men emploved on the Sandy
nook light-ship lias not been on shore for
ten years,
Mrs. Lvdia Beecher, mother of Henry
Ward Be*eher, died i:i Brooklyn on the
13th aged 80 years.
in one window of Trinity Church, in
New Haven, there are 10,000 pieces of stain
ed glass, each prepared and cut sepparately.
A man iu South Paris, Maine, has invent
ed a shingle machine which, he says will saw
and plain 40,000 shingles in ten hours,
Secretary Seward has served 20 vears
continuously at Washington—ls as Sena
tor and 8 as Secretary of State.
A Mississippi paper says the crops that
have not failed in that State tliis year, are
"pumpkins and boy babies."
About a hundred thousand bushels of
peanuts have been exported from North
Carolina this year,
A street car driver and his son in New
Orleans, were killed recently by a negro,
for demanding his fore.
One actress in Paris wears 880,000 worth
of diamonds. Another has just l>ought a
bouse worth 8300,000.
Six hundred men are working at Provi
dence, R. 1. , on locomotives for the Pacific
R, R.
A son of the celebrated Davy Crockett
died last week in Kentucky, He was a rebel
officer during the war.
•A. Vermont paper says that the annual
product of maple sugar in the United States
is 7,000,000 pounds.
Most kinds of roots and bark are now
used as medicines, except the cube root and
the bark of a dog.
Why does the bride-groom always put on
the ring at a wedding ? Because bell(o)s
cannot ring themselves.
To CRRE CORNS.— HoId your feet near
a hot fire till the corns pop. This is said
to be a sure cure, but a very painful one.
A cat snatched at and demolished an ar
tificial bird in the bonnet of a lady in New
Britain, Connecticut. Result—a sick feline,
spoiled bonnet and weeping female.
The largest man in Maryland died on
Sunday, He used to weigh 500 pounds,
but lias lately grown thin, weighing only
400 when he died.
Norfolk has a remarkable class of thieves.
They recently stole an iron safe and two
large steam engines. They are evidently
champions of heavy weight.
Mrs. Kelly, of Black Crook, New York,
is thirty-eight years old, has been married
twenty-one years, and is now the mother
of nineteen children.
A correspondent says he has a friend who
ie gxowing weaker and weaker every day,
and that he has already arrived at that point
where it is with the greatest difficulty he
ean raise five dollars.
Chos. Dickens and Chas. Reade receive
larger compensation than any other Eng
lish authors. Tioknor <t Fields paid the
Litter writer 820 a page of printed matter
for his "Griffith Gaunt." *
An insane woman near Bowmanrville,
Canada, on Tuesday drowned her two<chil
dren in a barrel of water, and when discov
ered, was herself getting i Into ,the barrel
head foremost.
The grave of John Harris, the founder of
Harrisburg is at the foot of the tree to
which he was once tied by Indians, and a
fire kiudled about him to burn him alive.
A simple iron fence surrounds the grave.)
Three bachelors iv/jtn lowa town -
a novel gnme of cards the other day. ♦tW
loser was to marry during the year, or sup
port the other two bachelors for the follow
ing year.
A New Orleans swell, the agher night,
at the close of the play, was horrified to
find that a couple of hoosiers, who sat is
the seat had successfully impro
vised his new, nobby beaver hat into a spit
toon,
A young man named Robert Fleming
has been sent to the Insane Asylum from
San Francisco. His insanity takes the
form of distressful anxiety concerning the
attempts of tho w oman of San Francisco to
capture him.
A seedy-looking individual recently made
8411,000 bv purchasing all the coal for"sale at
a New York auction ; the buyers present,
supposing he only wanted a few bushels,
did not eompete They were somewhat
chagrined to hear him order the entire lot.
Singapore has a boa constrictor that has
■wallowed A yonng lady, who wore at the
time a 15,000 diamond necklace. The young
lady is of no value now, but the necklace is
—so about thirty thousand natives are dil
igently searching for the snake.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has deoi
ded that money lost 'at faro can be recovered
at law by the loser or his creditors within
six months after the money was lost, and
after six mouths by any one who may
choose to sue for it.
A revolver in the pocket of a young man
at Troy, N. Y., discharged accidentally,
tlie other Sunday, causing quite a sensation
among the good" people who were attend
ing church with him, as well as a decided
senstaion tin entire lenght of his leg and
thigh.
The youngest man ever elected President
la Uljw** S. Grant, whojwill lie 47 years old
on the 2'2d of April, 1869. Washington
was 57, John Adams was 61, Thomas Jeffer
son was 57, Madison was 08, Monroe 58,
John Qumcy Adams 58, Andrew Jackson
over 60, Martin Von Buren 57, William
Henry Harrison C7, Jamew K- polk 49
Zachary Taylor 63. Franklin Pierce 48!
Jamee Buchanan 65, and Abraham Lin
coln nearly 51, when they were elected.
(p)e .Democrat.
HARVEY BICKLER, Editor.
TVtrKHAlftroOK, PA.
Wednesday, Mar. 31, 1969.
Where does General Lee come in un
der the distribution of good tilings ? He
gave General Grant several checks in 1864.
a#* An effort is now being made in the
Pennsylvania Legislatuie to repeal all laws
that exempt real estate in this Common
wealth from taxation. It may not be gen
erally known, but the real estate in Phila
delphia alone exempted from taxation is
valued at 840,000,000, and that this deprives
the treasury of about SBOO,OOO of taxes an
nually. A bill has been introduced and
amended, to tax all descriptions of real
property but graveyards, and it is thought
that it will pass. There is great necessity
for reform in this particular, for the ex
exemptions have become so enormous that
the receipts of the treasury are seriously
impaired thereby.
people were sorely puzzed to '
toll how Grant ever came to appoint Hoare j
Attorney General. The secret is out at
last Hoare presented Grant with a libra
ry, and Ulysses naturally concluded that he
ought to know more law than anybody of
his acquaintance. The books brought the
answer, and, another ]>eciiniary obligation
being thus discharged, the great smoker
puffed the cigars Mr. Borie gave him with
complete complacency.
R9"General Joseph Knipe, postmaster
at Harrisburg, has been removed, aud
George Bergner, a groat Hession, appoint
ed in his place. As Knipe's commission
had not expired we should like to know what
right the President had to remove him
with the Tenure of office law unrepealed ?
Grant's declaration in his inaugural, that
all laws shall be ' 'faithfully executed was
mere bosh. For doing a similar act to
Grant —removing Stanton—Johnson was
impeached. If there is any of that same
sauce left that was given to the goose, let a
little of it be given to the gander.
ANOTHER PROPOSED SWINDLE.— We no
tice that a petition has been presented to
our State Legislature, signed by all the
Radical members of Congress from this
State, asking that body to appropriate a
sufficient sum of money to pay for a colos
sal bronze statute of Thaddeus Stevens, —
If the admirers of this defunct old fanatic
want to raise statues to him, let them open
their own purse strings and foot the bill,
and no one will object. But some hun
dreds of thousands of people in the Com
monwealth are opposed to squandering the
State's funds on such an unworthy object.
If Thad's admirer's are too mean, or too
poor to raise money for a statue to. him of
bronze, we suggest they cut one from an
thracite, as the color wgpld bettor repre
sent his tastes and principles, while living.
. Don't Relish* the Amendment.
Some of the sagacious Radical- journals
do not relish the proposed negro stflffrage
amendment. The Cincinnati Gazette, one
of the most reliable Republican newspa
pers in the country, says :
"It has thrown a disturbing elemefit in
to our elections, to stay till this amend
ment shall be disposed of, which may not
be for years. It is a measure which-can
not stand the sifting process of popular
discussion, which the Radicals who
suffrage cannot support, and
which all the rest will oppose as a matter'
of course. We have no idea a Legislature
can be elected in Ohio to ratify it, and yet?
it must be msde the main issue of the elee-"
tion. The election • argument would have
no weight with us if the measure were
right, but it ianot. We havejro' idea', that
it cab be ratified by the-Stalls.that are in a
'fit condition to be oompejgPtftd acsupon
an amendment to the Constßfijjpii • Con
gress wss in a state of mental *dssos oyer
this amendment, and it fins^y..cwne J to this
result, not because it thought ifrgood, but
because the members thought they must
do something."
General Grant's New Cabinet.
The reconstructed Cabinet, at present,
stands as follow :
Sec. o/State. —Hamilton Fish of New York.
Sec. of Treasury. —Ex-Gov. Bout well, Mass.
Sec. cf War. —Gen. Rawlings, of Illinois.
Sec. of Maty. —Adolph E. Borie, of Penn'a.
Sec. of Interior. —Jacob D. Cox, of Ohio.
Post Master General. —Hon. J. A. J. Cress
well, Maryland.
Attorney General —Samuel T. Hoar, Mass.
Secretary Stewart, has returned to New
York to look after his mercantile pursuits.
Elihu B. Washburne is to be appointed
Minister to Paris, in place of Gen Dix.
Judge Hoar is also to resign the Attorney-
Generalship, and to be appointed on a for
eign mission. In the above appointments,
General Grant may lie said to have fairly
surrendered to the Radicals. Mr. Delano
has been appointed in the place of Mr. Rol
lins, as Collector of Revenue. Commis
sioner Rollions fired a parting salute, at
his old friend Binckley, Solicitor of the
Treasury, in a public card in the news
papers, charging him with inefficiency in
the discharge of his duties—for which lat
ter attack, Binckley met Rollins in the
street near Willard's and gave him a public |
chastisement He also beat Mr. Harland,
of New York, who attempted to stop Binck
ley from castigating Commissioner Rollins.
•'Let us have Peace I"
The Fifteenth Amendment Ratified.
By a strict party vote the House lius rat
ified the Suffrage Aniendmeut to the Con
stitntion, and thus is Pennsylvania enroll
ed on the list of States which have sur
rendered their highest mark of power to
the general government. From the day
that the dispenser of offices in the White
House intimated his desire for the adoption
of the amendment, there was no doubt of
the radicals of Pennsylvania. They are as
completely in the power of Graut as Dr.
Faust belonged to the devil.
Of all the radicals in the Union those of
Pennsylvania have exhibited the deepest
duplicity and baseuesg in this transaction.
The radicals of Massachusetts and Maine
did not violate their State constitutions in
ratifying this amendment. They had al
ready granted suffrage to the negro, and
they were merely endeavoring to adjust
the Constitution of the United States to
their own. But the radicals of Pennsylva
nia deliberately marched through perjury
to the ratification of the XVth Article.—
They had taken a solemn oath to support
the constitution of their Stute, and they
voted fur an amendment of the Federal
Constitution which is not merely in con
flict with that of the State, but utterly de
stroys it.
The radicals of Pennsylvania, very many
of them, owe this opportunity to betray
their constituents and j>erjuro themselves
to the sturdiest denials that they would
vote to interfere with the question of suf
frage, They have ratified this amendment
and there stands their State Constitution
not altered, but mutilated by their clumsy
and corrupt hands. The radicals of no
other State in the Union have exhibited
any trace of the hypocrisy which has mark
ed the Pennsylvania radicals on this sub
ject. While they impudently boast of their
philanthropy and love of equality in rat
ifying this amendment, they refuse to
amend the Stute Constitution and confer
the blessings of suffrage on the negroes at
once. They preferred to do by indirection
and by violating their oaths, what the rad
icals in other States had the honesty and
straightforwardness to accomplish for them
selves.
For weeks their tables have groaned with
the heavy burden of the petitions of the
people against the perpetration of this
wrong. The Telegraph, sneeringlv declares
that "bushels" of the remonstrances of the
indignant people have been contemptuous
ly thrust aside. They have been implored,
if they had any regard for the rights of
their constituents, to postpone action on
this momentous question until the people
could be heard. But these poor cravens
of the Pennsylvania legislature do not wait
to hear the thunderous voice of the people.
They could not imitate the pluck of the rad
icals of little Rhode Island, who postponed
the vote until the next session of the legis
lature. They eagerly ypshed to ratify an
amendment which cannot confer suffrage
on the negro for years to come, and they
at the same time refused to submit a reso
lution to the people of the State, which if
adopted would settle the question in Penn
sylvania forever, and leave the honor, the
dignity and rights of the great State unim
paired. These Radicals preferred to inflict
negro suffrage on their State by subverting
at the same time the Constitution they had
solemnly sworn to maintain and defend.
Vainly do they imagine that by this
course they have avoided the issue before a
betrayed people'. "They have stirred up the
wrath that will be quenched until the last
cumbered among their foul and treacherous
crew has been swept from his place. The
issue they have cunningly .sought to pre
sent, the people themselves will make up.
It has already been formed. That over
whelming pile of remonstrances which was
foolishly contemned by their up-start rep
resentatives marks the beginning of the
conflict. Those remonstrances are the
first expressions of the indignation'of the
people .agqiust the proposition to betray
.them.yind"*destroy the just authority of
Jtheir*Sta?e in the Union. These are the
mutterings that presage the storm. It is
party slave who cannot
read'the signs of the coming wrath. No
IferaV e'people surrender their liberties with
out a struggle. The sous of Pennsylvania
have never yet shown any mark of the"
baseness that could encourage these, min
iOns in the legislature thus to insult them.
The . recent elections all over - the State
where the radicals permitted the people to
hold them, like the first lieavy.drops from
out a sky charged with tempest,-give indi
cations of the furious storm of popular
.wrath which will utterly overwhelm the
traitors and perjurers in the October elec
tion.-—Harrisburg Patriot.
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* The Great Gift Enterprise.
The distriVffltiou of splendid national
gifts in Grant's Great Lottery still goes on
at Washington. Hie lucky holders of
drawing numbers are coming forward rap
idly and ■ claiming their prizes. The fol
lowing is the list announced up to the
present date : •
Elihu B. Washbume, first class premium.
Knew Grant at Galena, and obtained for
him his first promotion in the army. He
draws two prizes, Secretary of State and
Minister to France.
Alexander T. Stewart, first class. He
went a share of a house and lot in Wash
ington and New York. He drew the office
to Secretary of the Treasury. "An old
and obsolete law of 1789, unhappily con
verts the magnificent prize into a blank.
Hamilton Fish, first class. He invested
in a handsome purse raised by the princes
of New York a few years ago, and comes
out Secretary of State in Washburne's
place.
Adolph E. Borie, first class. He was a
jiberal contributor to Grant's splendid fur
nished house on Chestnut street, Philadel
phia. He drew the office of Secretary of
the Nary.
E. R. Hoare, first class. Ho presented a
library worth fifteen thousand dollars to his
Excellancy, and pulls the splendid prize of
Attorney General.
A. Sharp, third class, had the good for
tune to marry General Grant's wife's sister,
and draws at Richmond Va., the prize of
Martial of the District of Colombia.
Colonel Casey, third class, is another
brother-in-law, and draws the Collector
ship of New Orleans.
Mr. Chun, first class. This gentleman is
a member of the distinguished Grant fami
ly, and is to be promoted from Consul at
Leeds, in England, to Minister to Swit
zerland. • '
Orville Grant, third class. He is to be
appointed a collector of internal revenue
in Chicago. He voted for his brother.
James Longstreet, third class. This dis
tinguished rebel General has the good for
tune to be a cousin of Mrs. Grant, and he
draws the prize of Surveyor of Customs of
New Orleans.
George Wilkes, first class, Wilkes is edi
tor of the Spirit of the Times, a sporting
newspaper in New York, and is one of
Grant's stable cronies. He keeps the Pres
ident posted up on tho gen ealogy of his
steed, and all kinds of equine erudition.
He tells him what horse was great grand
sire of Lamp Lighter, and the shortest
time made by tho famous Godolphia at the
Derby. Wilkes lost heavily on the im
l>eachment, and Grant makes him whole
by giving him the Mission to Mexico. On
his return, it is expected that tho peopl e
will bo regaled with a bull fight in the
White House grounds, under tho auspices
of the sportiag minister.
All the Dents, brothers-in-law, and hus
bands of sisters-in-law of the President,
drew offices in value considerably above
their mental capacity for filling them.
The man in St. Louis who bought a load
of wood one rainy day and thereby enabled
Ulysses to replenish his jug, draws a blank
Thomas H. Folds, third class, this is a
relative of General Grant who lives in Cov
ington in the Sate of Kentucky. He draws
the valuable prize of postmaster of Cincin
nati, Ohio, a State of which he is not a
citizen. — Patriot.
Legislative Pleasantries
It must not be believed by unsophisti
cated people in the country that our grave
and dignified legislators are utterly depriv
ed of amusement when attending to the in
terests of the public in general and of
themselves in particular. The hard-work
ed and sorely-tried members sometimes do
find unexpected and hitherto unknown
means of divertisement. The weary hours
that are spent in grave discussion of public
measures are frequently enlivened by scenes
of playfulness and frolic which go far to
relieve the irksomeness of legislation.—
The discussion of the proposed amendment
to the federal constitution, on Wednesday
evening, was relieved by one of these de
lightful interludes. General Kane, of
Northumberland, hat! the floor. Tho re
port goes to say :
"He got along very well with a charac
teristic speech, interrupted occasionally by
langhter and applanse, when Mr. Josephs,
of Philadelphia, quietly approaching the
desk at which the speaker stood, filled a
lemon, with which the orator was regaling
himself, with ink, and the gentleman from
Northumberland, becoming indignant,
flung the lemon with great force in the face
of the gentleman from Philadelphia. This
excited a storm of laughter, which the
temporary Speaker [Mr. Beans, of Bucks,]
was unable for some time to quell. The
indignation of Mr. Kase can of course be
well appreciated. The laughter would sub
side occasionally, only to be renewed at
some new incident in the confusion. Half
a dozen gentlemen were on the floor at a
time, raising points of order, but finally
the confusion ceased as Mr. Kase decided
to yield the floor and leave his speech un
finished."
Thus do our members of legislature re
lieve the tedium of debate. The grase
•trifling with the Constitution of their coun
try is varied with simpler games. They
bring back reminiscences of school-boy
days when the hero of such a performance
would have esteemed himself extremely
lucky on getting off with a sound dozen of
the cat *o nine tail well laid on. But we
shall not indulge in ill-natured criticism of
the sports of representatives. This delight
ful performance is said to have caused in
tense delight to the members of the House
and to the crowded audience which had
gathered to listen to the debate on the
question of ratifying the proposed suffrage
amendment to the Federal Constitution.
Since Mr. Kase was not permitted to con
tinue his remarks the public are not pos
sessed of his individual opinions on the
subject of the amendment, or of the pecu
liar flavor of a compound of Harrison's
writing fluid and the juice of a lemon.—
Harrisburg Patriot,
An Auction of the Offices.
"Mack" (J. B. M'Culloch) the caustic
Washington correspondent of the Cincin
nati Enquirer, thus discourseth on Grant's
gift enterprise :
"Applicants for office under the new ad
ministration must take notice that the
safest way to approach the new adminis
tration is through a house and lot, a la
Stewart and Borie. Hoar got in through
the cheap medium of a library, but it is
safe to say, there is nothing more to be dis
posed of at that low rate.
Lest there be those who think I slander
"the great captain," let me mention anoth
er fact. The public have recently been in
formed of the gift of Grant's former resi
dence to General Sherman. How was this
brought about and by whom ? The leader
of this item of the great American gift en
terprise was a man who expects to be col
lector of the port of New York, and who
knew the influence of Sherman over Grant,
and the importance of placing Sherman
under obligations of this kind. Nor is this
all. Grant had previously offered to sell
this property for £40,000, which was the
amount raised by the expectant collector of
customs. Mr. A. T. Stewart then came
ftrwurd and said the price was too low ;
being only a little more than he himself
had paid for the house four years agev
when it was orignallv given to Grant. So
he put his hand in his pocket and drew out
a check for 825,000 making $05,000 in all
—which was paid to Grant for his house
and lot. Truly a nice thing for the custom
house man. Just here let me enter a pro
test against this kind of private sale of pub
| lie office. I insist on an auction at which
all shall have an equal ciionce to bid. The
New York custom house would bring half
a dozen such houses and lots as Grant's
under any sort of competition. In tlie de
clining days of ancient Jtoine
was put at auction by the Pnetorian
Guards, and sold to Didius Juliuuus after
some heavy bidding between him and Sul
picianus, at a price equal, I think, to ten
millions of dollars. If the good old Amer
ican republic is to be disposed of in the
same way, let not all the proceeds be given
to one man, or to two or three men, as
seems to be the present disposition, but let
there be something iu the nature of u fair
divide."
The Bate's History Job.
Last year a conspiracy was entered into
between John W. Geary, Hates, (the so
called "State Historian,") and Ben. Siu
gerly, (the State Printer) for the purpose
of publishing a "Military History of the
Volunteers," ostensibly, but in fact to rob
the State Treasury of about 8300,000, out
of which these worthies, and the Legisla
tive ring will make about 85,000 each.
When tho Legislature met, a committee
was appointed to investigate the fraud.—
The committee has reported, and
the result is, that it has clasped hands with
the original conspirators, and ordered the
work to go on, but at tlie same time ac
knowledging that there was no law to au
thorize this uncalled for expenditure. But
the committed says it would be doing vio
lence to abandon tho publication of the
work ul this stage of its progress.
This is precisely what we expected when
the committee was appointed. The rob
bery must continue for at least five years,
at end of which time the State will be about
8300,(XX) poorer, about a dozen individuals
will have handled that sum, and the "His
tory" will be pronounced a humbug.
If this be libel, let the members of the
House "make the most of it and leave
the rest to their constituents. We want
a history of Pennsylvania Volunteers,
but want it gotten up in a correct style, both
as regards unmistakable truth and typo
graphical appearance. Our brave soldiers
are not to be easily slighted be they repub
licans or democrats. Ist the House, in the
spirit of honesty, put the seal of condemnation
upon all such miserable speculative jobs.—
Clearfield Republican.
Clerical Debauchery.
There is a paper in the country called
Zion's Herald, edited by the Rev. Gilbert
Haven It claims to be an influential or
gan of the Methodist Church. This Rev
erend goes point blank for the amalgama
tion of the races. He says : "The lightest ;
and the darkest of the children of Adam
and Noah are divinely planted together in
this land, that they may, by obeying this
law which God has ordained, work out the !
perfect oneness of the race of man." The I
sweet-toothed, lecherous, and brutalized di
vine thus revels in imagination: "Andthe
hour is not far off when the white-hued
husband shall boast of the dusky beauty
of his wife, and the Caucasian wife shall ad
mire the sun-kissed countenance of her
husband. Not a few of these marriages
which God lias made, and whose validity
man in a few instances has reluctantly ac
knowledged, are already filling homes with
happiness, and both prophesying and lead
ing the way ro the future unity and bless
edness of America. Amalgamation is God's
word, declaring the oneness of man,ordain
ing its universal recognition." Thus spaaks
the Rev. Gilbert Haven, editor of '
Herald. If the Mongrels of tho £c- jUn try
have their own way, an miserable
mentally and physically 'Vcgeneratc race of
hnman beings, UK'tiled, speckled.molasses
hned and uhort-lived, will curse the United
States, as the South American Republics
are now cursed.
OBITUARY. —Hon. Edward Bates, whose
death at St. Louis on March 25th has been
announced by telegraph, was born on Sep
tember 4th, 1703. at Belmont, Gochland
county, Ya. in 1814 lie. emigrated to St."
Louis, studied law aud practiced in 1816.
In 1818 he was appointed Prosecuting At
torney for St. Louis Circuit; in 1820 was
delegated to the State Constitutional Con
vention and was in the same year appoint
ed Attorney General for the new State of
Missouri. In 1824 he was appointed Uni
ted States District Athorney for Missouri,
but in 1826 resigned, and was elected Rep
resentative in Congress from Missouri
serving from 1827 1829. In 1830 ho was
elected to the Senate of Missouri, and i n
1834 to the lower house. In 1835 he re
moved from St. Louis to the country on ac
count of his health, and praoticed law for sev
en years, traveling on horse-back to meet his
engagements at the country courts. In
1842, he returned to St. Lou;s and was ap
pointed by President Filmore, in 1850,
Secretary of War, a position which he de
clined. In 1853, he was elected Jndge of
the Land Court of St. Louis, resigning in
1856. He was President of the whig con
vention held at Baltimore 1856, the last
convention of that political party. In 1860
Mr. Bates was presented as a candidate for
President at the Chicags republican con
vention. In 1861, he was appointed At
torney General in Mr. Lincoln's cabinet,
and served until December, 1864, since
when he lived in retirement. In 1858, lie
received the degree of L. L. D. from Har
vard University. Edward Bates was one of
the old school public men who did not so
licit offioe, but who were sought by the
office.
New York Spring Fashions.
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lace# and ribbons and artificial flowers of
the newest and dashiest designs. Piques
and silks are the only materials at all sea
sonable out of doors, though for in-doors,
where furnaces diffuse a uniform summer
like heat, the new cambrics and percales
and organdies aro worn. The style for ma
king every day house dresses and plain
strpet dresses is the same, being merely a
sldrt and ufrar-tunic, the over-tunic being
tiußllucd by band or sash afrthe waist; if
by a snail it must be fastened at the aide.
The lofig ends depending from the back of
the belt are entirely- out of style. They
were overdone during the winter. If long
ends are cut in with the waists of basques,
and, therefore, not easily changed to the
sides, they xnay bo looped up behind after
the style of the panier puff. This makes,
however, a more pretentious style of gar
ment, and biid better not be affected in
other than rich or elegant material. "Pa
nier or no panier" is no longer a question.
The panier is now Teally a fixed fact—such
is the news from the head-qtiarters of fash
ion abroad and the dressiest ladies here are
delighted. The more soberly inclined es
chew the panier, but as fullness at the back
I is indispensible now, they affect the Wat
teau fall instead of the panier. This fall is
ut once very simple and very distingue. It
consists of a width or two of the material of
the dress, pleated in French pleats and fas
tened on the back, between the shoulders.
It may bo placed a little higher or a little
lower—be contracted or spread at the
taste—or rather according to the style of
the wearer. The panier best becomes
slight people. The Watteau fall, while ad
mirable and piquant on petite figures, may
be worn with great advantage by the most
dowager-liko of ladies. In Paris the panier
supersedes the basquine ; no lady there
thinks of making a formal call in any
thing more antiquated than a panier of a
piece with her suite. The velvet or fur
cloak that she wears from her carriage to
the house is left with the servant in wait
ing in the ante-room. The only difference
between a house dress and a street dress in
the Spring styles is that the latter has a
cape ; in other respects tliey are the same.
This cape resembles the fichu worn last
summer, but without the long ends, and
also without the crossed fronts. Some of
the.se capes are ruffled all around, the ruf
fle deepening at the shoulder and resem
bling in effect a flowing sleeve. Puffing is
increasing in popularity as a trimming for
all kinds of goods—even the most easily
soiled of materials are profusely ruffled,
and besides being ruffled have headings of
embroidery. Puffiings, too, though very
difficult to iron, arc much used on gar
ments necessarily frequently in the wash ;
they are usually alternated with bands of
tucks cut on the bias. The increasing J
elaborateness and finish of every detail of a ,
lady's wardrobe is due to the sewing ma
chine. To it also is ascribable the rapid
changes of style that men look upon as one
of the most ominous signs of the times.
Woman has not changed, only invention
has inoreased her facilities for acting out ,
her nature. A lady with a Grover & Baker
family sewing machine can in a few hours
dasTi off a bewildering mass of tucks and
puffs and ruffles and embroidery. The un
initiated seeing it bewail her extravagance,
when they ought to commend her taste and
spirit. The material perhaps hasjeost her
but little, but she by her skill has made it
appear costly—it shines by reflected light—
that of handiwork. In many cases the r* a _
terial is rich and expensive, but Materia]
cannot be made so rich that Fa^ ionß doeß
not further enrich by her 'anburies Thus
we find blue butterfly embroidered onThc
heaviest of gros-grain ; we find satin
embr'oicier jd with wheat ears and field pop
".nd that not sparingly, but with the
the recklessness characteristic
of steam power and machinery. Ladies
who wi-li to combine economy with fresh
ness and elegance of provide
themselves with a couple of white muslin
dresses and a black silk or two as indispen
sable basic articles. If these are well-ad
vised in the making, a very little more is
sufficient for the sustained changefulness
of costume which "Society" demands of its
members. This "little more" is merely a
few changes of bright-hued skirts to be
worn under the white dress, with flowers or
ribbons to match. Thus a skirt of pink
lining silk should be supported by rosea |
the corsage or in the hair, or by rib
bons, on occasions where flow\ ra m jgbt be
deemed too gay. Paoi*' ri or OTer .tunics of
pink and white gauze look extreme
ly elegant wP u white dress and pink skirt,
but cano'jt be worn often without being
reco ? r iizpd—which is considered fatal—a
to lie fashionable must lie fresh.
Taste is a wonderful modifier of the inher
ent qualities of things. We know some la
dies who have but small means and few
changes, who go into society and receive
company a great deal, yet who always ap
pear to be fresh from the hands of a first
class modiste ; but no modiste, or even
maid, ever gave even a sugguestion, much
less a finishing touch, to the admirable toil
ettes of these ladies. They design and ex
ecute their own and each other's, and that
with much merriment over their society
reputation of idle and useless, though un
deniably brilliant and beautiful, butterflies.
Yet, if I were a young man—which my
stars be thanked I am not, but on the con
trary a very pretty girl— yet if I were, and
j wanted a wife who could and would dash
| me off shirts by the dozen, made out of
whole cloth, and who would keep the little
folks plentifully supplied with new pina
fores, and at the same time be cheerful and
dainty as a canary bird, I would try and
secure one of the flirts above mentioned.
jAfOSTCA.
Ifeto rMertisentfnts.
CAUTION.
Having this day purchased of David, Nelson ...
•Silas Aumlck, the grain now (frowlev on the 'f„\
, occupied by the Mid Silas Aumlck : and havinJiS
with the Mid SUa Aumlck, a team of Horse,
wagon, and a Mt of Harnees, to be used by him ,!?.*
lng our will and pleasure, this Is to forbid all oerJ,
1 purchasing or in any way lnterferluK with t Uuu
, property, as they wftl do so at their Serll. UW
DAVID JAYNE
vn*-wl J. M. BBUNOtss
WORDS OF WISDOM.
¥OR TOCKO MKN,
ON the RULING PASSION In Youth and Karl.
Manhood, with SELF HELP for tho Erring ans
unfortunate. Sent In sealed letter envelope* fVe-T.
Assoo,i ta K
LICENSE NOTICE.
Not lee U hereby given, that the following named
persons have filed their petitions, and will apply
Tavern Licenses, at the next Court of Quarter Set.
sions, to be held at Tunkhannock, Wyoming Cour.tr
Pa , and will be heard on Tuesday, April 20th ISai
at 2 o'clock, P. M. 1
arrucauTS. towkships
John D. Laßarre, Braiutrlm
8. Bristol,
C. Mathewson, Clinton
D. N. Mathewson, ••
Nathaniel A. McJCown, Kurkst ,n
Peter McQueen, ••
H. W. Conner, Falls.
John Kelm, •>
John Anderson. Mtshopneii
Burton S. Keeney, 1
Wm. Jennings, Menoonany
C.L.Vaughn, •• 11
James Burnett A Chas. W. Lee. Monroe.
Reuben Parks, "
Wm. C. Gaylord, Northmortlata
J. D. Hewett, Nicholson
John Niver. •
Charles A. Slsk, •'
Thos. B. Wall, Tunk. Bo'o
H. Hufford,
Philo Baldwin,
Fisher G. Osterhout. ••
DISSOLUTION.
The Copartnership heretoforo existing between
Wllber Gardner and Charles Gardner, Is dissolved
by mutual consent. W. Gardner having sold his In
terest to" A. J. Gllmore, retires from the business
and in doing so, tenderers his thanks to his friends
and patrons for tho liberal patronage extended to
him and the various firms, with which he has been
connected for upwards of twenty years past, and be
speaks a continuance of the same to the now firm,at
the old stand of W. Gardner's Exchange, where can
be found a complete stock of NEW GOODS, and a
desire to serve the public better than heretofore
One word before closing up.
Ail those having unsettled accounts, or notes, due
the old firm, are requested to settle WITHOUT dklat
as the senior member of the firm proposes to go West
as soon as the books and accounts are settled. He
wishes to avoid the necessity of leaving them with
other parties for settlement.
W. GARDNER A SON
Factoryvllle, Mar. 23.1 '©. vßn33.
REGISTER'S NOTICE.
Notice Is hereby given, that the following Ac
counts and Widow's claims, hare been filed In the
Register's office in and for Wyoming County, and
will bo presented to the Orphan s Court of said
County, to be held at Tunkhannock. on the nine
teenth day of April next, for confirmation and al
lowance :
Final account of Mary Metzger, Admr'x ol the es
tate of Casper Metzger, dee'd.
Final account of A. O. Lutes, Executor of the last
will and testement of O. W. Mitchell, dee'd.
Final account of A. O. Lutes, Executor of the la*
will and testament of Lewis Whitlock, dee'd.
Final account of Jane E. Peckham. Exec dtrix ol
the last will and testament of A. K. Peckba n. dec t
Final account of C. M. Manvllle, Executor ef the
last will and testament of A. K. Peckham. dee d
Widow's claims in the estate of Sylvestex Carpen
ter, dee'd.
Widow s claims in the estate of Almanza R Tvr
rel, dee'd.
deceased •* Claim * lB the Cstate of Ereklel Mowry,
Widow's claims In the estate of S. H. Harding,
u6CtfAl6d,
Register's Ofllce. ( f . T „
Tunk. Mar. 23, 't. \ L * PARISH, Register,
"SHERIFFS SALE."
BY Virtue of a writ of Fieri Facia*, to me di
rected, there will be exposed to Public Sale *1
the Court House, in Tunkhannock. Wyo. Co Pa,ac
SATURDAY, APRIL. 17, at 1 o'clock P. M.
All the right, title, and interest of the Defendant,
in and to that certain piece, parcel or tract of fan./,
situate ami being in the Township of Monroe. Coun
ty of Wyoming, and State of PeDoaylvania ; Bound
ed and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at a post corner, being the Northwest
corner of land lately owned by Curtis Harding ;
Thence South, 67J degrees West along the East
line of Simon Simpson Survey, One lluudred ani
Sixty Perches to a Beach Comer ;
Thence North, Thirty-two and one-half Devest*
East along the Seotli line of William Wilson, Sur
vey to Bowinans Creek, thence dowa said Cheek to
said South line of Wm. Wilson survey.
Thence North, sixty-one and one-half degrees
East along the South line of aaid William Wilson's
Survey to a corner ou line of land tate of Curtis
Harding ;
Thence South two and one-half degree* Kast
along line ol said Harding's land, Ninety Four
Perches to the place of beginning ;
Supposed to conU> ; .n about Fifty acres of land the
same mora or Bgs, being all of that part of the Satr.
uel Hoyt W arran t laying South of Bowman's Cree.
a'' aw proved,
S*'.ied and taxen in execution at the suit of lie,!
o. Fox, vs. Geo F. Fox
And will be sold for cash only, by
M. W, HEWITT, Sheriff
Sheriff's Office, Tunk. Pa Mar 22, '69
SHERIFF'S SALE
BY Virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias . to rae di
rected. there will be exposed lo public sal*- t
the Court House in Tunkhannock, Wyo Co , Pa
On SATURDAY APRIL 17th at 1 o'clock P M
All the right, title and interest of the defendant,
in and to that certain piece, parcel or tract of lsnS
situate and being in the Township of Windham,
Wyoming County and Slate of Pennsylvania
bounded and described as follows, viz :
On the North by lands of E. Sb.irpe ; West bv
land of Phillip Berne ; South by land of Wi' iiti
Riley, and East by land of 0. B isbarpe ; Cont ,inic{
abou Fifty-one and a half acres, of laml, more or
lea with about Twenty five er*s thereof is ,pru'.
and one frame House, on? lag Biro, and So' ,iv Iru t
tree* thereon, with the appwrteu.inces.
I feeiied and taken in execution at thr suit ol
Elisha Sharp*, vs. Thomas Coyle.
An.l will be sqld for cash only, by
M. W. OK WITT, Sheriff
Sheriff's Office. Tunk , Mar. '.'.2, '69-
SHERIFF'S SALE.
BY Virtue of a writ of Fieri f.'acias, to we direc
ted, there will be exposed to public sale. *'•
tbe Court llouae in Tcnkhar.nock, Wvo Co. Pa
On SATURDAY, APRIf, 17. at 1 o'cloAt P. M
All tbe right, title, and interest of the Def.'bJs 11 '
in and to that certain piece, parcel or tract of ' nli
situate and being in tbe township of Windhi®
Wyoming County, Pa. Bounded and described "
follows, viz:
On the North by land of K Sharp ; We*', bv
of John Carl . Sooth by land of Phillip Rerue. ui
East by Sharp's Pond ; Containing about Fiity-I' 4
acres of land, to be the saiue more or lor*, with is*
body t( a plank house tbereon, with the appufs
can coi.
Seized and taken In execution at the suit of Kinds
1 Sharpe, vs Patrick Crura.
And wilt be sold for caab only, bv
M. W. DEW ITT, Sheriff
' Sheriff's Office. Tank., Mar. 22, '69.
Sheriff's Sale.
BY Virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias to ui
reeled there will be sold at public sale at 12
' Court House, in Tunkhannock. Wvo. Co Pa
On SATURDAY, APRIL 17, at 1 o'clock V A
All the right, title and interest of the
in and to that certain piece, panel or tract of
situate and being in tbe township of Falls, Wyo® °i
, Couoty Pa Bounded and described as follow*, ■
On the North by lands of Edward Hunt, K'St ■
• lands of W. Compton, South by the Susquehansa
I river, and one the West by lands of John and "">
Aekeraon ; containing aboat Tweuty-two J®"*-
[ land with about Ten acres thereof improved wit
dwelling house, log stable, with soma apple. P
I and other fruit trees thereou, with the PP ur
nances, . , EJ .
I Seized and taken in execution st the suit oi
ward Hunt, vs. Lydia Oakly and Byron W ' * •
And will be sold lor cash only, by
M. W. DEW ITT, sheriff
Sheriff's Office, Tunk..Mar. 22, '69.
(JBry WILL purchase a pair of Kastmsu "
I proofßoots, eertaiuto keep any nun-'
dry who wears them, for a twelve month.