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<l.
Pierceville, ' 4th.
iirli I " alls -School House, near McKunes. .
w ednesday. May th.
At Northmoreland, May 6th.
Exercises will commence at 10 o'clock A. M ( -,u
with writing materials.
_ . _ . t J. B. RHODES,
Tunk., Pa.. Apr. 6th 1869.—n35. Co. Sup't,
NOTICE.
The copartnership heretofore existing between th
®r,m o f '• l) - Virgil AE. E. Roberts is this dav <:>.
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