CURRENT NEWS. Smoke is issuing from the volcanic moun tains in Oregon. There are three hundred female type set ters in New Y'ork city. President Grant, it is said, will visit Long Branch this Summer. They call the French women who kill newly born infants "angel makers " Colorado wants 100 unmarried women j so that the miners may get married. At the latest count, Louisville had 301 Smiths. The estimated cost of the Isthmus canal is $00,000,000. Tho National Bank circulation of the United States is S-OO.SoI.SiO. Will aril's Hotel in Washington took in over §I,OOO a day, inauguration week. Ex-Postmaster-General Randall has taken up his residence at Elmira.N. Y'. Boston lias about a dozen good female vcloeipediats. Theio are 500,00) Norwegians in the Northwestern States. The memorandum book of Frederick the Great has recently been sold for §2lO. There are only 8,000 Gentiles in Salt Lake City, out of a population oi 44,000. Pat Murphy, aged 110, and his wife aged 80, of Westmoreland county, are the oldest married couple in Pennsylvania. • It is estimated that there are $2,000,- 000,000 worth of horse flesh in the United States. English papers speak of a girl still living in Wales who lias not eaten anything for 1C months, A Funeral in Brownstown, Pa., was at tended by five sisters, all of whom were aged over eighty. Artemns Ward's works are to be repub lished in London, with thirty-five illustra tions from his panorama. # Hamilton Fish is the fourth Secretary of State furnished by New Y'ork. The others were Van Buren, Marey and Seward. The heirs of Noah Webster receive twen ty five thousand dollars annually from the sale of his dictionary. The latest definition of a bachelor is, a man who lias lost the opportunity of making a woman miserable. An ingenious citizen of New Albany, In diana, with too much time on his hands, has been two years in making a checker board that contains 6,481 pieces. The daughters of Andrew Johnson left the mansion in better order than it has ever been left before by an outgoing Pres ident. A magnificent silver crow n has been pur chased by subscribert in England, and de- Sisited on the tomb of the late Emperor aximiliun. A lady with the Grecian Bend consider ed herself insulted when she was told, a few ilaysago.that rheumatic liniment would restore her shaj>e. A courtly negro recently sent a reply to an invitation, in which heregreted "that circumstances repugnant to the acquiesce would prevent his acceptance to the invite." A merchant of Bangor, Me., has had to pay §l5O damages to a couple of ladies w ho were knocked down, and their fine clothes spoiled by a snow-slide off his store roof. The Department of Agriculture publish es reports from South Carolina and Georgia, stating that there is a good demand for labor there, and a need for Northern men with capital. Nebraska assessors for the next five years will deduct 8100 from their valuation lists for each acre of forests trees properly plant ed and cultivated, and §SO for each acre of fruit tree.s. The Htate is short of timber. During the year 1868, nearlp 150,000 bu shels of apples were used in Orange county, New York, in manufacturing 32,870 gallons of apple whiskv, valued at about §lls, 000. St. Petersburg is frequently called Pia uopohs because even the humblest families possess instruments, while 800 men and 3, tjOO women live by teaching tho use of the piano. In the Michigan State Prison,'at Jack son, during 1868, twenty-seven convicts were punished with whips, thirty-four with the paddle, forty-eight by being put into a dark cell, and six by being placed on a bread and water diet. After a month's light, in a Congress each day of whose session costs millions to the people, the tenure-of-office law is so "amended" that nobody can tiud in it any substantial change from what it was before. This is Radical legislation! Costly, rather. Negro militia are being formed by tie Radical State authorities in South Car olina, and the Adjutant and Inspector-Gen eral of the State, F. J. Moses, Jr., has gone to New Haven, Conn., for the purpof* of purchasing two thousand Spruigiield rifles. A negro preacher recently arrested in New Orleans as a disorderly person, was unable to pay the fine imposed. He was about to bo committed, when a happy thought struck him : "If your honor will trust me till Monday, I'll take up a col lection to-morrow." He was trusted. A rich old man died recently, whose young wife had led him but a sorry life. He frequently stated that he would be re venged. On reading the will his vengeance was too well felt. He left tJI his property, about §IOO,OOO, to his wife on condition that she passes eve vy day, from bam. till 9p. in., iu his tomb. Should she miss one hour, the whole fortune reverts to the na tural heirs. According to recent reports on inebriety in this county, 122 men out of 300 never drink intoxication beverages. 100 drink moderately, 50 are ephemeral drinkers, 25 drink periodically, and 3 are habitual drunkards. Of every 700 women, 600 J never "indulge," 30 take wine, 17 taste ar deut spirits, 36 drink beer habitually, 14 drink periodically, and 3 are habitual ine- j briates. j The experiments which have been made ov-r the telegraph lines between Harvard College and Han Francisco shows that the traveling time requited by electri city is as follows, from Boston. To Buffalo and bock, 0.10 seconds. To Chicago and back, 020 seconds. To Omaha and back, 0. 33. ; To Halt Like and hacx 0 34 seconds. To j ivgiaia City and back, 0. 70 seconds. To Ban Francisco and back, 0. 74 seconds. i " Cjje pmocrat. lIARVEY HICKLER, Editor. TUN KHAN NOCK, PA. Wednesday, Apr. 21, 1869. DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION The Democratic State Convention for the nomina tion of candidates for the offices of Governor, and Judge of the Supreme Court, will meet at 12 o'clock Jf. on Wednesday, July It, 1869, in the Hall of Rep resentatives at llarrisburg. Hy order.of the Demo cratic State Committee. WM. A. WALLACE, Chairman. DAVID CALDWELL, Secretary. April 14, 1809. The Public Debt Explained. The tools of the bondholders, and some f eve fools, not paid for doing it, misrepre sent the cause of the depreciated value of the present circulating medium. All men of moderate means /enow too'well, that a dollar in currency represents less, rather than more, than halt-a-dollar did ten years ago. The true explanation is in the fact, not that there is paper money afloat, but that this paper money represents an irredeem able debt —and not money, in any true sense of the term. It is not the presence of pa per money that depress business, and ren ders the poor poorer. It is the faet that this paper money, and its corelatives, point to the fact that "the Government" is sup posed to be indebted for thousands of mil lions it canndt pay. To illustrate. The house of Eugene Kel ly A Co., in New York, may have, from their house in San Francisco, telegram that bills for a half a million of dollars in gold, or more, are, literally afloat against them, having been shipped on a steamer on the Pacific. Eugene Kelly A Co. 's house in New Y'ork welcomes the intelligence, be cause it is a profit of exchange, and they hare the bullion ready to meet the bills. But, suppose Eugene Kelly A Co. 's house were not the solid thing it is—suppose they had to "shin" round Wall street, to get ready for the drafts coming on them ! This would be all the difference between legiti mate banking and wild speculation. The cases are not dissimilar. Men vers ed in money affairs will appreciate the illus tration. AVe will not develope it. Its un derstood meaning, by all skillful political economists, is that tho distress for money and the inadequate pay for lal^r—and, through labor, for storekeepers and the like, comes from the fact that "the Govern ment" is involved in a monstrous debt, and that, to pay its creditors, it is taxing the very life out of the people. It is not the existence of paper money that makes the -ewards of labor and cf legitimate business so inadequate. The evil of paper money is but a result of the operative cause. Were paper money, on the plan of the Tribuncjo be withdrawn, or, what is the same thing, to be declared redeemable, the oppression of the industrial public would be far more frightful—for taxes would still lie to be jiaid in all their hugeness, and there would be nothing to pay them with. Paper money is a necessary evil, in our condition, and must continue till wc, in some way, get rid of the horrid public debt. So soon as this debt can be gotten rid of, paper money will cease to bo a necessity. But, in con sequence of this huge public debt the great bulk of the people that, heretofore, have been well-to-do, have been staggering along, trying to keep up appearances. They are hurrying on to bankruptcy. The real trouble is not that there is afloat a currency—greenbacks and National Bank bills included, of some six thousand mil lions. In its present circumstances the country needs more circulation. But the real trouble is that the bulk of this, and of hundrods of millions else, is a dead debt weight on the people ! It is not the green back currency that curses us—it is that we have to pay the most horrible amount of usury to exorbitant bondholders for a debt not authorized by the constitution of the country. This "war-debt" is villainous, and worthy of reprobation. We want to fling it to the deep sea—if the devil flies away with the claim he ought not to be forbidden. It is his.—Freeman's Journal. HONEST GEARY. —Our peacock Governor, Geary, deeming himself invested with a little brief authority, and not satisfied with ordering the State Printer to print a book involving the State Treasury in a loss of §300,000, contrary to all law and common sense, has, in a similar manner, purchased a §1,500, piano for his mansion, and at tempted to smuggle tho appropriation through the Legislature by terming it 'coal, fuel, and incidental expenses." We are pleased to know, however, that the Senate detected the fraud and exposed it, and his Excellency will be compelled to pay for his piano or return it to the owner. THE MIND NEVER STATIONARY. —The hu man mind is never stationary ; when it is not progressive, it is necessarily retrograde. He who imagines at any period of his life, that he can advance no further in moral or intellectual improvement, is as little ac quainted with the extent of his own pow ers as the voyager was with that of the ter restrial globe—who supposed he hail erect ed pillars at the end of the world, when he had only left a monument how much fur ther ho might have proceeded.— Golden Sheaves. A The Conflict of Races [From the Jfewburyport (Mass.) Herald Rep ] Races of men are always in conflict when- | ever they come together. There can l>e no mixture. Tliis is not in the order of na ture. If, as some believe, all the races are from a common origin, that origin must have l>eeu so many million years lmck that to us it is as though there never had been one. Two of the races show no marks cf progress, and these two are perhaps the oldest—the African and the Australian. No explora tions of Africa or Australia have discovered any evidences of a social or civil condition among these people above what they are now. This is not so with any other race. No other seems to have been created and .destined to live to the end barbarians, as except where a higher race not only lifts thems, but every moment sustains them, above that level. With the Indians we lind the remains of a better condition enjoyed by them long before the white ineu came to their country. They had reached tire acme and had subsided before we knew them. The Mongolians, too, of Eastern Asia, though they have made no progress in thousands of years, yet have a civilization of their own, which, in some respects, will bear a favorable comparison with ours. In a conflict of races—as, we say, it al ways come when two are in competition— the superior race overcomes and roots out the inferior, unless the former arc so weak in numbers as to have nochnnce of success. Such is the case in the West Indies, w here the whites are so few that they may event ually be driven out, as they have from St. Domingo, unless arbitrary power restrains the inferior. But where they have any chance, the superiors—superior in inir.d, though they niaj not be physically—will win the day, if equal advantages inav be given. With the inferior their language, their blood, their features, and their east of mind will disappear. In Africa the negro type within the memory of man has not ex tended north of the Great Desert, whore the Arabs and the Moors prevail. They have been held there as slaves, and been brought there as captives in war, but they have never mixed with the people to adul terate the blood fir gain the ascendency by numbers. So it has been in the south of Europe. The Moors at one time were very numerous in Spain and highly civilized, but in the conflict with the Baucariatis they were destroyed or exiled. In Italy, the Africans that were brought to Rome in tri umph, all disappeared. How numerous they were we have no means of ascertain ing, but it is estimated that no less than a million negroes were brought there and mixed with the people ; but to-day the Itali ans shows not the slightest taint of African blood. The African has been absorbed in the main stock, and as taking food into the stomach, what would not assimulate has been rejected and cast out. It is the same in Egypt.. There from the earliest agos the African lias been a slave, and though a few mulattoes are found there, the greater part of the people show no traces of African blood. It will bo the same in this country. There may be swamp lands in Louisiana, Florida, or other States, which will be deserted by whites, in which the negro may thrive ; but in those sections where the races will be in competition, though the Africans may have the majority now, they w ill gradually disappear. When they were slaves, they kept separate, and the care of the white man was to have them increase, but the more they mix with the whites the fewer they will become ; and the less the whites are bound to do for them the quicker they w ill sink. So we see that in all the Northern States they have rapid ly disappeared, and the bleaching process gradually works South. Fifty years ago Massachusetts had as many blacks as New- York now has ; and a hundred years hence, Virginia will have no more than New York has to-day. It is the order of Providence —the law of God—that the higher shall overcome the lower, the superior occupies where the inferior have been ; otherwise there would bo no progress. IMPORTANT TO CIGAR MAKERS.— The In ternal Revenue law of July 20, 1868, pro vides that on and after the first day of April, 1860, all cigars shall be packed in boxes not before used, containing respec tively 25, 50, 100, 250 and 500, anil shall be deemed and taken to have been manufae tured or imported since July 20, 1868, and lie re-stamped with tax-paid stamps. Ev ery manufacturer of cigars, shall burn into the box, with a metal brand, his name, num j her of cigars, number of his manufactory, j district and State, and shall paste thereon j a printed notice forbidding the use of that box or package again, under a penalty of §IOO and imprisonment, and shall affix the stamp denoting that the tax lias Wen paid. Any person who shall sell, or offer for sale, any cigars in any other form than in new boxes, or who shall pack in any box any cigars in excess of the number provided by law to be put in each box, shall, upon con viction, be fined for each offense not less than 8100 nor more than §IOOO, and be im prisoned not less than six months nor more than two years The fact that the cigars in the hands of dealers have on the boxes tho red stamps, denoting that the tax has been paid, will not answer. The box must have on it the new black-tax paid stamp. THE WAY THE MONEY GOES.— In March, 1860, Itepresentative Scheneb, engineered through Congress a resolution giving his relative, Powell, the artist, 525,000 to paint another big picture for the adornment of the Capitol. Powell is said to have receiv ed 810,000 of the amount already, but has given no evidence that he has even com menced to put paint -o the canvas. Sena tor Morgan 6ome time ago asked for infor mation on the subject, and received an swer that the artist, after four years' grace, was not yet prepared to report progress. The same artist is responsible for the fa mous picture of De Soto, now in the Capi tol, on which the flags are flyiug in differ ent directions, and for which lie received an additional 810,000. The "Oreat National Blessing." The past week was a most remarkable one, financially, says the Day Book, for Wall street, and the stock gamblers. Mo ney ruled tight ; call loans were up to per cent, per day, or at the rate of one hundred and fifty per cent, per year ; yet the bulls, staggering on under their loads, refused to sell, and continued to put up their collater als. and borrow heavier Hums at these enor mous rates named rather than unload and knock down quotations. The severe strain upon the borrowers culminated on Friday, and a "let up" was experienced on Satur day. The sudden relief in the money mar ket was proof that, notwithstanding the actual drain of money from this point, which the condition of the banks show, there is yet left currency enough to lend aid to the bull interest, by inflation, and also enough, if suddenly locked up, to strengthen the bear interest to a huge ex tent. Large sums of money have gone South, and more or less West, but it ap pears that mere money does not make busi ness. The complaint of hard times is gen eral. and all the industrial interests are groaning. New England manufacturers are howling terribly. A Rhode Island paper Rays : "Taxes and the increased cost of ar ticles of food have made it necessary for the people to adopt measures of economy, and to buy little, save what is absolutely needed. In times like these men wear their old clothes, and women turn their dresse-s, and make them over. The retailer feels the change, and the jobbers suffers by the restricted purchases of the retailer, and the manufacturer is in deep distress at the contemplation of the general stagnation." But where, we ask, is tlio glorious change which the New England press declared would follow the election of Grant ? Where is the dropping of gold which we were to see V Where is the general revival of trade? Where is the great rise in tli United States bonds ? Where is the restored confidence letween capital and labor ? Tlic truth is, the Grant election is but another huge dead weight upon the prosperity of the country. It simply proves that as long as Mongrelism, nigger equality, and a huge I debt are allowed to exist, the country will be kept prostrate and distress increase. Ashley. Gen. < irufit declared officially, March 4th, that he would appoint honest men to office, and that an honest administration of af fairs was the first thing to be secured, —and now we see among the nominations sent to the Senate the notorious ex-Congressman from Toledo district, Ohio, James M. Ash ley, for Governor of Montana. In March, 1861, just after Lincoln's inauguration, Mr. Ashley was a member of Congress, and had been in the previous Congress upon the Committee on Territories. He was well posted on "big things" in the Territories, and determined to get control of the im portant office of Surveyor-General in Col orado. He found the man he wanted to use in Francis M. Case, of Indiana, and his plans in connection with the office and the man are fully explained in his letters. Here are a few extracts : WASHINGTON, D. C., March 12, 1861. My Dear Case ; I have made some pro gress to-day about the Surveyorship of Col orado. In order to secure the Indiana del egation and to operate on Smith, the Secretary of the Interior, I have promised that all the sub-appointments shall be made by us jointly, I giving them the first choice. Now, Frank, this is the best office, in my judgment, in the gift of the President, and I would resign to-day if I were sure I could keep it four years. If you get it, I want to vriite with you as a full partner in all land speculation and town sites. I have worked earnestly and hard for you, and hope to succeed. You do not stand as much chance for the Marshalship as you do to lie struck by lightening, and Kingsbury is not much hotter—a little. This is on the square. Truly yours. J. M. ASHLEY. Gen. Longstreet. "The bloody-handed traitor," as tho Radicals formerly called him, was confirm ed by the U. S. Senate on Saturday, week, as Surveyor of the Port of New Orleans. Next to Lee, Longstreet was the most prominent of the Reliel Generals, and was noted for his savage acts. After one of the battles of the Wilderness, when he was compelled to retreat, 1m ordered the woods to be fired; in those woods some fifteen hundred wounded soldiers of the Union ar my were weltering in their blood. They were burned alive. Their bones were gath ered up after a heavy rain had drowned out the fire. So said the Radical papers at the time. • But General Longstreet has taken the iron-clad oath ; he has joined the Radical party ; more than this, he is related to Mrs- Grant. Hence he gets an office worth 835,- 000 a year. "Let us have peace." PAYING HIS DEBTS. —When Andrew John sou became President some friends in New York sent him a magnificent carriago and a span of horses. He declined to receive them or any other presents, holding to the idea that no officer of the Government should receive anything in the shape of gifts. Gen. Grant lias much looser notions on this subject. He is ready to receive anything from a horse, or a check for 865,000, down to a box of cigars or a bottle of liquor.— He has had four or five fine houses given to him, and enough of money and other things to make him a rich man. He is now in a position where he can pay off some of his obligations, and he has been doing it to the best of his ability. His action in this respect is in marked contrast with that of Andrew Johnßon and other Presidents. new Postmaster General has re moved James Lawrenson, a clerk in the Post Office Department who has been con nected with that department through all administrations for fifty years. He was one of the gallant defenders of Baltimore in the war of 1812. The Spoils of Victory The radical cabinet ministers distribute the spoiLs of office to the followers of the party with the same want of delicacy with which they accepted Grant's appointments themselves. That eminent patriot, Adolph Boric, Secretary of the Navy, who owes his office to the grutitude of Grant for per sonal favors in the shape of subscriptions for house and furniture, has eompell*l the commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard to issue the following order : COMMANDANT'S OFFICE, UNITED STATES NAVY YAIID, Philadelphia, March ill, 1N(!I, —Sir :By direction of the Navy Depart ment, you will see that no person hostile to the present administration will be employ ed in the yard department under your con trol. Preference should in all cases be given i to those who have belonged to the Union 1 party. The Secretary of the Navy particularly desires this should be done. Very respect fully, J. B. MAMSMAND, Commandant. ! Under the sweeping orders of Borie, Uu- ion soldiers are being turned out of the navy yard everyday to make room for hun gry partisans, who never saw the face of an armed enemy during the war. Scenes like the following take place every morn ing. An officer of tlTe army who had en tered the service as a Captain, and was mustered out honorably as Colonel of his regiment, und who had bravely participa ted in many battles of the war, held the in significant position of master plumber in the navy yard. He is brought up before the Chief of his department for dismissal, when the following dialogue takes place : Superintendent.—"Mr. my orders are to remove all the employees of this yard who are not Union men." Colonel.—"I believe I'm a Union man, since I served in tlio Union army from the beginning of the war until it closed." Superintendent.—"O, yes, very "good, but, perhaps, you do not quite understand me. It is rumored that you did not vote for General Grant. How's that ? " Colonel.—"I ilid not vote for Grant." Superintendent.—"That w ill do. Your services, I regret to say, are uo longer re quired. The orders of the Secretary of the Navy are peremptory. Good morn ing." (Exit Union soldier. One of the truly loil who lias been promised the place puts his head in at the opposite door, us the Colonel withdraws. He servetl man fully during the war as a sutler's clerk, and did a fair share of repeating the tickets of the Grant electors at various precincts last November.) The next candidate for dismissal is a poor Union soldier who lost his right arm at Gettysburg. He was employed in the navy yard at the hard work of turning a griudstone, for a pittance from his grateful country. One of the radical spies who hang about the yard had reported him as a democrat. Superintendent.—"What is your employ ment in the vnrd ? " Soldier. "I turn a grindstone." Superintendent.—"l am informed that vou are not a Union man." Soldier.—"lf this is my sign, I am," (holding up his stump.) Superintendent.—'•(), that's not what I want to know. Did yon vote for Grant and Colfax ? " Soldier.—"No, sir ! not by ad —nsight!" Superintendent.—"That's enougn. We have no more need of vou here." The last heard of the soldier, he had pur chased from his savings an organ, and was grinding out dulcet music for the ears of the truly loil on Broad street, not far from the palatial club house known as the Union League Building, where Borie and his friends nightly meet to boast of their patri otism and love of the soldier.— Harrishury Patriot. Grant on the War-path. ( Special diipatch to the World.) WASHINGTON, April 16. I EXTKA SESSION OF CONGRESS PROIiABLE. A Senator from the Pacific coast is au thority for the statement that an extra ses sion of Congress will be called within six ty days. The purpose of calling the extra session is stated by the same gentleman to be the intention of the administration to force issues on the Cuban business. This report startles many, but its getting out is merely believed to be premature, not incor rect. It became known by private inti mations being given to fa<- West Congress men not to be in too great hurry to go home, as they might be needed, They so far credit it as to defer, in many cases, their departure and await events. There may be other reasons at the bottom of the intention to call an extra session. The Cuban business, however, is accepted as the most plausible and probable reason. What Congress will do or will be naked to do as to Cuba is not easy to state. Con jectures and reports, however, all vaguely portend a programme of annexation, if need be, by force. Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must; if the latter, then a partial reconstruction of the Cabinet will certainly occur, because the Secretary of State remains unalterably opposed to any and all designs calculated to embroil this country in war with Spain or with any other power. Indeed, he is opposed to the annexation policy to the north and the south of us generally, and on this point is not in harmony with the administration. It can be authoritatively stated that the President has l>een made aware since Thursday that a very formidable expedition is openly preparing in this country at two points, New York and New Orleans, with the avowed design of proceeding to Cuba. The men at work to get up that expedition declare that the government will manage to let it alone very adroitly. More of the ex tent and existence of tliis enterprise can be found out in New York than here, because there are its material and personal concen trating. This fact, united to the report, believed to be well founded, that an extra ■ session of Congress is to be called before j the 4tli of July ensuing, warrants the ex- ! pectatiop qf the gravest events in the his- | tory of the have occurred I for years. Imperial Government. Quito recently the New York Citizen nDit ed that a newspaper ww about to be estab lished in that commercial Metropolis for the avowed purpose of promoting the trans formation of this Republic into an Empire. The first number, under the title of The Im perialist, was issued on Tuesday last. We have not yet seen it, but its prospectus boldly avows that "its creed is revolution ary—its mission being to prepare the minds of the American people for the revolution that has already begun." It courts the support of the bondholding interests of the country by declaring that the public debt, "if left to the keeping of the popu lace," will surely be repudiated, and that tlio rights of public creditors can only be protected by an imperial Government. It charges that "the Republic means lawless ness, corruption, insecurity to person and property, robbery of the public creditors and civil war," and that " the Empire means law, order, security, faith and peace." Tlie Citizen went 011 to assert that anoth er newspaper, to be called The Umpire, en tertainig similar views and purposes, is soon to be established in Philadelphia un der the auspices of the Union League, and that the movement "is buck by a powerful secret/•organization," having affiliated so cieties in different parts of the country. Gravely us all this is told, the story, whether true or false, as a whole, is not without its lesson and its warning. The mere announcement of a movement of this kind indicates, to some extent, the drift of things, and foreshadows possibilities which twenty years age would have been rejected with scorn by t..e great mass of our people. The whole tendency of Radical legislation during the war, and up to the present day, has been to break down the barriers that protected the States from. Federal aggres sion, to abridge the rights of the citizen, and concentrate in the hands of a few lead ing men all the power of the Government. If we have not yet quite reached a central ized despotism, we are at least on the verge of it. A vast and wide Spread system of® corruption has debauched the moral sense of a large portion of the ueople, a gigantic money power has subsidized or overawed another portion, jobs and contracts, the emoluments of ofliep, und the opportuni ties of plunder a third. In the midst of this saturnalia of rascality all the old laud marks are I icing broken down ; all the wise admonitions of the founders of the Repub lic either forgottou or secrued, and men witness, almost daily, the boldest usurpa tions of authority, if not with actual ap plause, yet with apathy aud indifference: By shallow fools and knavish partisans this condition of things is culled 'progress.' But it is that sort of progress which is fatal to liberty. We are traveling the same downward road that other Republics travel ed before us. We are undergoing the same ordeal through which they also pass ed, and to which every one of them event ually succumbed. Like us, they once were prosperous. Like us, they grew conten tious, and like us their quarrel culminated in civil war with its passions and its unim aginable horrors. Next followed the clam or for a strong Government, and the usur pation of supreme power by a despotic oli garchy. When this point was reach, it was but one step more to the elevation of a mil itary dictator, and the establishment of an Empire upon the ruins of a Republic. All these changes we have undergone but the last. We have the controlling oligarchy and something that very nearly approxi mates to a centralized despotism. What afterwards ? A CHANGE. —What a great change has come over Missouri in the past few years. Half a score of years ago she furnished border ruffians to make Kansas a slave Slate, and led the raids upon that Terri tory. Now she has elected Carl Schnrz, the most radical of Republicans, United States Senator. From a second-rate slave State of ten years ago, Missouri to-day stands in the front rank of States in wealth, popnlati -u and enterprise. Yankee and intelligent German immigration accounts for all this change.— Radical Ex. Military rule, bayonets, rascality, and scoundrelism on the part of corrupt radi cal office-holders, accounts for all this.— Don. Ex. &a?*Tlie Day Boole, in noticing the ap pearauce of the new republican leader, the Imperialist, says : "The thing is published in this city, and is called Tic Imperialist. For a vignette it bears the engraving of a crown. It is published by the "Imperial Publishing Company." No names, how ever, are given as sponsors for the charac ter or duration of the concern. We are, however, informed by a gentleman who is connected with its publication that "a member of Mr. Grant's Cabinet has fur nished considerable funds for the enter prise." MUSIC! MUSIC!! MUSIC !! Still further evidence of enterprise and improve tucne, in TUN KHAN NOCK. The undersigned has recently opened a MUSIC STORE, in the Room lately occupied by the Post Office, on Warren St., in which everything; in his line is kept,constantly on hand,such as PTANOS MELOTIEONS, ORGANS. VIOLINS. GUITARS BANJOS, FLUTES, FIFES. CLARIONETTES PICCOLOS, VIOLIN BOWS and STRINGS, of the tiest quality—DßUMS, AOCOItDEONS, FLI'TI NAS. Sheet Music, Music Books ; and in short, every article connected with Music in any of its different brancoes. His GOODS are all selected hv Prof. Louis Prreto. rious, 'f Wilkesbarre, and all Pianos, Organs and Melodeons, are warranted for 5 years. Orders from any point, will be promptly attended to and goods furnished from five to fifteen per eent. , ceheaperthan in any other Establishment of the kind, in this section of the county. YW Arrangements have been made with an ex perienced Tuner, who will Tune and repair all kinds of Musical Instruments. A. L AVERY, j Tunkhannock. Pa Jan 25. '69.—v8n251y CAUTION. Whereas, my wife Olive, nas left my bed and i board without just cause or provocation ; this Is to j forbid all persons harboring or trusting her on my account, as I will pay no debts of her contracting. „ JOSEPH WALTER. f ally, April 3. ISW.-nWra Special Notices. Helinbolds Concentrated Extract Farsar,*. - the GREAT BLOOD PIKIFIEH Those who desire I rtllianry of eombltxim. purify and enrich the blood, which Heimbolj' ' eentrated Extract of Sare&paiilla invariaM, • Ask for HELM BOLD' 3 Take no other , WORDS OK WIMDO*. FOR Vii .i MLX, ON the RULING in Youth ami 1 l Manhood, with SELF HELP for the "riii. ' 7 unfortunate. Sent in sealed letter envelor*. r 81 ; charge. Address. HOWARD ASSOri ATl'iivo ,P. Phlladclpnla, Pa. Vs ' ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Whereas, letters of Administration to the . of Hannah I>ay, late of Tunkhannoek Tn a have been granted to the subscriber. All Der/. m , debted to the said estate are requested tu mak'. V' mediate payment, and those having claims , mands against the estate of the said deced*.,, make known the same, duly authenticated ViV delay to JOHN DAY Tunkhannoek, April 21, 'B9—n36-ow. Ada: CAUTION TO TRESPASSES*. Having retaken full possession of the saw m i premises. In Lemon Township-the samelatelv ■>, by me—this is to forbid all persons entering uL. n , : In any way trespassing on said premises, i, y „L" I or hauling away trees or timber or by doing , other damage, on or about said mill or dam \ iiersons, not heoding this caution, will be dealt in tho most vigorous and summary manner. _ WM. STANV, Lemon. Pa. April 6th 1869.n33w3. DISSOLUTION OK COPARTNERSHIP. The copartnership heretofore existing between 0. undersigned undor the firm name of Or u, stead A Co., is this day dissolved by mutual O. L. Hallstead takes the Paint mill and the .7' erty therewith connected, at Picrccviile an,! 1 ' sunies and is to pay oil all the debts ot the wid R. W. Hamilton, takes the goods In the store." Piercevllle, free from all debts and liabilities. • O. L. HALLSTEAD R- W. HAMILTON Plereevile, April 1, 1859.-n35w3. TKAtHKRS' EXAMINATION. examinations will be held, as folk*. At Meshoppen, April 29th. Mehoopany, •' 30th " Forkston, May Ist. " Tunkhannoek, •' 3. solved by mutual consent. All books and aecou". i r of the late firm are left with F.. F. Roberts for se•• meat, to whom all monies are to be paid p - £•— The business will t>e continued at the i- u • and > ariety Store, under the Arm of Roberts A " Thankful for past patronage, we hope by deal justly with all, to shareour partof public patronas" r.. F. KOBPRTM Meshoppen. April 9.1869. -F-UAI. COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT FI l'(. TION. In pursuance of the 43rd section of the Act of Ma Bth 1834. The School Directors of Wyoming Ooam are notilied to meet In Convention at the tW ? 0 ?a ie ,'SJl n i th * n ? ock , 0n the flr " Monday of Jlar' A. D., 1869, being the third day of the month, at oil o clock P. M.. and select, viva voce, by a majority , the whole number of directors present, one person ,• literary anil scientific acquirements, and of skill ' • experience in the art of teaching, as County Sno intendent, tor tlie throe succeeding years: and termine the amount of compensation for the saa'i and certify the result to the State Superintends at Harrlsburg, as required by the thirty-ninih an: fortieth sections of said act. J II HHOADS., ; A ja HALL'S The basis of its remedial properties is a regeta a compound. IT WILL RESTORE GRAY HAIR TO lis ORIOINAL COLOR. It will keep the Hair from falling out. It cleanses the scalp and makes the hair sof- as; lustrous. It is a splendid hair dressing. HALL A CO. Nashua, N. II Proprietor*. A AZ URENE [CONCENTRATED INDIGO] FOR THE LAUNDRI, It is warranted not to streak, or in any inanri" injure the fine-t fabrics. " FOR FAMILY USE Sold in FTVE cenv T£' cent, and TWENTY cent boxes. Each Twenty cent box, besides having Five tia as much blue as the Five cent box, contains a pvsis pin cushion or emery bag. For Hotel and large Laundry use, it is net u- ' I I'd 00 boxes |i Soc that each Box has the proper Trade Mark I For Sale by BILLINGS A PHILLIPS 011 l- id! St. near the Canal, Tunkhannoek, Pa. ■ fisjsfa MANHOOD: I 3|jjJgy How Lost, How Restore;:'! Just published, a new edition of Dr. CTLVE" I W KLL • Celebrated hsssy on th® RADICAL ■ I (without medicine) of Speimalorrhcca, or Seininiß Weakness, Involuut&ry Seminal Losses, Impotent H Mentaj and Physical Incapacity, Impe liroeot? I Marriage, etc ; also. Consumption, Epilepsy, ■>'-! Fits, induced by self*indnlgenco or sexual gance. Price, in a sealed envelope, only 6 cent?. ■' The celebrated author, in thin almirable e-i'H clearly demonstrates from a thirty year? mcet'-M practice, that the alarming conseijuence? of * ■ abuse may be rcdieally cured without the dang?" : 'fl iso of internal medicine or the application of knife ; pointing out a mode of cure at once certain, and effectual, by means of which ■■ | terer, no matter what his condition may be. -v'H cure himself cheaply, privately, and RUUCULT M This Lecture should be in the hvnjs youth and every man in the land Si Sent, under seal, in a plain euveloie, to dress, postpaid, on receipt of six cents, or w stamps. Also, Dr. Oulverwell's "Marriage B price 25 cents. Address the Publishers. S CHA.< J C.KLINE ACO If I2T Bowery, New York, Post-Office R'* 68G t7uSol' ■ For Sale! | 250 WELL ROOTED, TWO-Y EAR OLP B CONCORD GRAPE VINE® for sale. Inquire of |f Tunk., April 13th 'O9. H. W. BARDWEU M. R. KOHNSTAMM'S | New Tobacco Siorg TUNKHANNOCK PA SEGARS, || CHEWING aud f SMOKING TOBACCO, ■ GENUINE MEERSCHAUM B BRIER ROOT PIPES. POUCHES,&&, Ac, a al.to M ORANGES, I LEMONS, | and a full assortment ot choice || FRUITS. | NUTS, and it wholesale and retail—and cheaper th" fl B fered in this section of the country. ■ M Tunk. April 13, '69.—n303(i-t.'- i