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HARVEY SICKGER, ATTORNEY AT LAAV and GENERAL INSfRANOB IGEXT-Of fice, Rridge street, opposite Wall's Hotel, Tunkhan pr.k Pa. if. -\7V. rtHIOADS, ZVS. ID., {Graduate of the University of Venn a ) . Respectfully offers his professional services to the fitizens of Tunkhannock and vicinity, lie can Lo found, when not professionally engaged, cither at his Drutj Store, or at his reside;; e on Putu mi Street. DR. i. C. (HRSEI.LL>. HAYING LOCAT ED AT TIIE FALLS, AVILI. promptly attend all calls in the line of his profession—til y be found ht BiMoeri Hotel, when not prpfcsjionaMy absent. Falls, Oct. 10, 13G1. f Btt. J. ('• niG'KI.K N PHYSICIANS .SI SURGEONS, Would respectfully announce to the l it i/.' ns of Wy nming that they have located at Alehoopany, nlirne they will promptly attend to all calls in the line of their profession. May be found at his Drug Staro tvhon not professionally absent. M. CAREY, M. It.— (Ora Inate of tb.-~ n • AI. Institute, Cincinnati) would respeetfolly announce to the citizen? <.f Wyoming nti I Luzerne Counties, that he c'Utilities his regular pre -tire in the various department? of his profession. May tie found at his office or residence, when not professionally ab sent iaff Particular attention given to the treatment Chronic Diseas. entrcmorelan-I. Wvoming Co. Pa.— \ 2ti2 WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICA.]* HOUSE/ TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. THIS establishment has.recently been refitted and famished ir the latest style Every attention Will he given to' the comfort and convenience of those who patronize the IIoue. T. 11. WALL, Owner and Proprietor. Tunkhannock, September 11, ISGI. WORTH BH HOTEL, MESIIOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA RILEY WARNER, Proper. HAA'ING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to rsader the house an agreeable place of sojourn for all ntfco taay favor it with their custom. RILEY WARNER. September 11, 1561. MA¥NAB0 5 S HOTEL, TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING COUNTY, PENXA. .1 011 N MA Y N AR D , Proprietor. HAVING taken the Hotel, in the Borough of Tunkhannock, recently occupied by Riley Warner, the proprietor respectfully solicits a fhnrc of public patronage. The House has been thoroughly Repaired, and the comforts and accomodations of a first class Hotel, will be found by all who tuny favor with their custom. _ September 11, 1861. * M. OILMAN, DENTIST, M /^ ; ; r - r, v ' 'v MGILMAN, has permanently located in Tunk • hannock Borough, and respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens of this place and Surrounding country. FACTrON° RK WARRANTED, TO GIVE ®ATIS- Office over Tutton's Law Office, near the Pos Office. KTOTIOB ! Persons indebted to the subscriber, either on Note account, aro notified that said notes and ac counts ha ve been left with my Father, A F. Eastman who is fully authorized to receipt and settle the same cr if not settled soon, they will be left in the i hands of an officer for suit and collection. G - 11. EASTMAN. The business of BOOT and SHOE making win |, e continued by the subscriber, tit the old stand where everything pertaining to the busine s, will b e done in a substantial and workmanlike manner, and at lon prices for ready pay. He solicits a continuance of tho public patronage. -r i u , „ A - F. EASTMAN. •Tunkhannock, Sept. 3, 1862. Poet's Corner. The Home of My Youtli. Can this be the home of my youth Where in childhood I gatnbol'd and play'd ? Can this be the house where Iliv'd 7 And is that the same room where I lay 7 Oh ! where is that tree, where the birds Came so often to chirp and to sing! Can that be the same running brook Whencfe the water we often did bring 7 How vacant, how scattor'd thoSe woods, Where the pheasant oft beat with his wing- Where the whippowill always was heard When the evenings grew warm in the spring! The willow and black walnut trees, With their bushels of nuts all around, Which the swine did so patiently crack Till the snow lay quite deep on the ground ! Those pear trees that bore in the fall, And were sure to be loaded with fruit— That stood up so straight and so tall, Are dead lroin the top to the root. That soft gentle voce of my mother— The voice that was always so dear 'Twould be sweeter than music of heaven, If now it could break on my ear. Oh, that mother! —that dearest of mothers : Net a mortal on earth can I find Where the chorls of attachment are equal- Where the chains of affection so kind. • If now I could see my dear mother— If bnt ever I could meet her again— llow light would that heart be within me, Aud my tears would run down like the rain! 1 ut my father and mother are gone, And tny brothers and sisters are dead ; Oh ! le v. lonely how dreary I feel, While my heart weighs within me like lead, n * gB .. t—■—— i——u i rrwr M—M IpsaUamflm VIVIA AGAIN. BY GEORGE MARTIAL. It lias lxen nearly three months since I have seen mv littleJriends, Lou and Vivia Buracole. Silken flounces no mere rustle in my hall, my study is forgetting bouquet do Caroline, and the little stool in the corner is getting quite an old-time look for want of use. The girls have been spending the summer out of town, visiting an the Hudson, and the last three weeks at their own pretty cottage on the seashore. From that locality I have re ceived several letters from Yivia, who has en stalled ine as father-confessor, embodying material for a first-class romance, with the help of the usual " sensation" style. The summer had been rather a hollow af fair for Yivia, who, for reasons best known to herself, had on hand a little private stock of restlessness and discontent. She had flirted, danced, and laughed ; been always well-dress ed and gay ; in a Word, played her part in the sorry degrading farce to perfection, arid paid for it as do all furgces, with double inward misery. When at last their traveling trunks stood on their own piazza, her sensation was one of relief. " I atn so glad," she said, wearily. " Here I can be at rest and by myself. Y"ou and Guy can entertain*each other ; father will be busy with his old friends, and in my own room, or walking by myself, I can have the rare luxury of looking as I feel. This whole summer has been such a disgust and weari ness to me." Lou. who had felt something of Yivia's heart sickness, longed to console ; but, being wise in her generation, forbore, and only wrote to Phillip instead—the consequence of which was a letter to Yivia on the fourth day of their arrival. She opened it Carelessly enough, sitting at tiie breakfast-table, linger ing over her last cup of coffee, read it with a start, turned very' pale, and handed it to Lou. It was from Phillip, who stated that he was only a few hours behind it. lie was coming to pay them a visit, to learn for himself the cause of Vivia's late silence, and put an end to doubt forever. Lou read it coolly, as she does every thing i (though, to tell the truth, 6ho could hardly have been expected to have been so very much surprised, as she had suggested some such course of action in her letter,) folded it up and handed it back. " Well,® 7 she said, " I see rro' need of turn ing pale. We have all our Che6ts here, and the spare room is in order. We are quite prepared for the attack." " 0 Lou! how can you ?" " llow* can I what ?" The two girls were alone. (It had been' a habit of theirs, since the death of their moth er, to breakfast together in their own room.) Vivia got up, and coming round by Lou, sat down at her feet, and laid her head in her sister's lap. " O Lou !" she said, pitifully, "you know very well what is the matter. He is coming to know why I have been silent, and I—" " Well—^ "I must tell him, of course. There is no other possible way. If I could deceive him j even in the smallest detail, I muat sink lower I "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—' Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17, 1862. even in my own esteem thslri 1 have done yet Think of it, Lou. I must, accuse myself; hurl myself down from thfe pedestal on which he has placed me in his belief; etpose my own miserable folly; confess my own uiter worth lessncss ! Oh ! I could easier die than do it, and yet I would die a hundred times over rather than not do it." Lou flung both arms around her sister's neck. " That is my cwn brave sister. I knew that you were true and noble at hoait, and I told Guy so. O Vivia, you don't know how glad you have made me." " But that is not all," pursued Yivia, grow ing suddenly very red. " I—you don't know —oh ! how shall I tell you ? I love him bet ter than I ever did before. I have been com paring him with all the shallow talkers and thinkers we have met this summer, and read ing alternately his grave, loving letters, ati 3 Allan's passionate protestations and demands. Why, Lou, he seems almost godiike beside such natures ; the man whose honor is stls. tair.cd, whose word is strong as truth itself, who fears only God, a-'d would face a battery sooner than swerve from a principle ! Think of his loving a shallow, worthless thing like me, so dull that I didn't even understand the worth of the nature that bowed before me 1" " I think you undervalue yourself a little," said Lou ; " but, however the case may be, you are quite right; you cannot evade the duty which lies straight before you." At this juncture Vivia wrote off one or two very pathetic letters to me, byway of divert ing her mind from the terrible hour that was fast approaching. Philip came at last, kind and genial as ev er ; and the family, who knew nothing of Yivia's troubles, welcomed him very much as usual, and took an early opportunity ol slipping out one by one, ou some convenient pretext, and leatihg the two lovers (?) to gether. Lou went last, and, with her, all Yivia's courage. The crisis was at hand. Philip came and sat down by her on the sofa. " Now, Yivia,"' lie said, grately, " what have you to tell me ?" Vivia edged quite away in the other corner of the sofa, put her head down in the sola cushion, so that he could see nothing but the ro'.ls of dark hair, and the tip of cue littie ear, and began. She told the story mercilessly ; she spared herself not in the smallest detail ; she exoner ated Allan (who was utterly ignorant of her engagement) and called herself some of the hardest names in the calendar. " And now," she finished, " if reparation is possible, I will make all that I cm. My con duct has freed you, of course. Let it be un derstood by the world that you bruke our engagement, and why." A rising sob warned her to bring her sen tence to a close as speedily as possible ; but no answer was returned. She waited a mo ment ; the dead couldn't have been more ut terly still than the uiSn at her side. She be gan to fear, she hardly knew what. She raised her head hastily. He was ghastly pale, his features working, and a strange look in his eyes that she had never se. n |>e fore. "Philip! Philip!" she cried, in terror. " don't-look so. I never thought that you would care. Oh ! this is worst of all. I fan cied that yoti would be angry—that you would hate and despise me; but this—this is dreadful. Philip, for pity's sake, speak." If she had dared, she would have laid her head on his shoulder, pressed her lips to his; as it was, she took his hand and kissed .it. lie did not push her away as she expected ; only said, sadly r " You needn't blame yourself, child. The fault is mine. lat least might have known that you were young, and had not fairly test ed your love; but I thought only of my own passion, and was chiefly anxious to bind you by a promise, and have you for tny own. I am justly rewarded." "Oh ! but this is intolerable!" burst out Yivia. "Keenest reproaches couldn't behalf so bitter as to hear you blame yourself unde servedly. I tell you, Philip, I did love !" "You thonght so." " I did—l shall always. I know it now; only I have such a contemptible nature that it c nldn't be true on the surface, though it was at heart." Philip turned toward her with a sadden flush of hope. " Take cire, Yivia. Do you knotV what yen are saying V "What do you mean ?" " You said, just now, "I did and 6hatt al ways love you." Vivia crimsoned to her temples. " Did you mean that ?" She bent her head low. lie drew her to ward him, and gently forced her to look up " Answer, Vivia ; did you mean that?" (i Yes," whispered Vivia. That trembling monosyllable bridged over all the gulf of difference between them, for said Phlip. " The best surety that I could ask that you Will be true to me, is that you have dared be true to yourself; and this painful experi ence has but proved the strength of our mu tual love." " But Allan !" murmured Vivia. Philip looked grave. "Ah ! there is where the sting of evil will make itself felt. I cannot help you there > you must, tread the path alone. I have for given you, for I have your love. What he will do, I cannot tell." The thought came agsin and again, to check and mar Yivia's happiness. Wrong i& double-edged : it. hurts the doer as well as the sufferer. Allan was coining home on lurlough; his first visit would be to Yivia, and she must go through the trial alone. Lou, Guy, and Philip pitied indeed, but they could not help. It was at this juncture that I received the second pa'hetic out pour ing. Some one had advised Yivia to write the truth to Allan, but she refused indignant ly. "I think that, Mr. Martial (she wrote to me,) is the very most cowardly and unfenii nine thing that a woman can do. ITe ha>> a right to hear it from my lips, and I will not spare myself the pain." Allan came ; Vivia met him at the door, 1 motioned back his caresses, put away his | , i offered hand. "I am not Worthy of it," she said; "wait and hear rue." And for the second time she went over the miserable story. Allan interrupted her by a fierce exclama tion, ground out between his teeth : "If you were not a woman—oh ! that it were only a man that had dmie me such a wrong, that I might kill him !" " Kill me, if you like," answer Yivia, who was wrought up to that pitch that she realiy felt that she deserved, and would rather have preferred such a fate. Allan turned on her with a cold, sarcastic smile. "Kill you ! You aro not worth it. I wil despise you and all your sex ; that is the only feeling that a woman deserves. Tsey are pretty play things, and can protest and promise fairly ; but honor and truth they know nothing about ; and the man who ex pects it from them deserves what I have received at your hands. Good morning, Miss Baracole." Bitter are the fruits of etil. Vivia is happy tn having been loved by one man among a thousand ; a man who not only could but dared forgive. Yet Allan's words ring ?n her ears; the thought of him, with fath and love destroyed, haunts her. It was ea-y enough to do the wrong; who shall und > it ? Utter carelessness and weakness wrought the harm ; a whole life-time of repentance may never efface it. AFRAID OF THEIR RECORD. The action of the majority in Congress, in tabling the resolutions off-red by Mr Cox and others, offered the lirst da}' of th session, whicn we noticed last week, asking an inves t'gation of the arbitrary arrests made by the present administration, shows that these cow ardly Abolitionists are afraid to allow the facts in these cases to be made public. They, therefore, smother inquiry, and permit the President and his Cabinet to monopolize all the information as to the question. But the time is comicg when the damning rec rd will be spreaJ before the world, and when the au thors of these outrages will become a hbsing and a scorn throughout Christendom, if not among even barbarians of the earth. It is not wonderful that the Abolitionist desire to keep the record of their acts from the light of day as long as the" have the pow r to de so; their cowardly nature prompts this course, for with ell their f"lly, they are wise enough to know that a full di-closure of thejfacts might endanger their personal safety among their outraged and indignant fellow citizens.— E.v S32T"The Post thinks in the matter of arbi trary arrests the government has mad a mistake only " in the needlees secresy and '• mystery with which it has made arrests and "ordered imprisonment." But for the epidemic insanity of the time, under which the Post suffers severely, this simple statement would be its own refutation. It beg.i the question, or avoids it, of the right lor wrong of these imprisonments, and con demns only an incident and accident of them --their privacy. Outraged law, the violate 1 rights of citizens, the disregard of personal liberties—all these are nothin? to the Post. But that they were done in private—that is the error. Has the Post to learn that despotism al ways vails itself? Light and publicity are the guarantees of liberty and law. Secresy and mystery the very indices of arbitrary power World. Mamma, may I go a-fishing to day ?" "Yes, lad, but don't go near the wa ter. And recollect, if you are drowned, I shall skin you as sure as you are alive." ■ " • An Englishman boasting to an Irishman that porter was meat and drink, soon after became very drunk, and returning home fell •ntc> a ditch, #hen Pat discovering h?m ex claimed : "An faith, an you 6aid it was mate and drink to ye ; and by me 6owl it's a much better thiDg, for it's washing and Jodgiog, too." 1 Political. VOICE FROM THE \HOLITIOX CAMP. The HusUm Commonwealth, Hon. Charles Sumner's organ, says: Ii is said that once there was a man who thought that if he should run i v.o niili3 le could jump over a mountain. When, after bis run, lie reached the base of the mountain he sat down to rest. We are reminded ol 11; is individual by the President's fiie-sage. Taking a hundred days start he nears the base of his mountain ; but it seems is very tired and sits down to rest. lie nods. Xev er did wide-awakes uher in a more heavy eyed President, Ilere, evidently fallen asleep, he takes to dreaming of the year 1900 Is it that despairing of the present he is turn ing his attention to future salvation 1 It will doubt less occur to many that we have abut as much as we can attend to to deal with De cember 1802, without undertaking the bur thens of the second generation from this. Possibly that generation may have brains of its own in deal with its own affairs. The President says that slavery is the C uisfe of the war ; the cau-e of it? continuance; that we can have no peace so long as it ex ist£. Then his proposition can only amount to d, pfop. sltion to continue the war until the year 1900 ! To get any gleam of hope from this mes sage is like trying to extract sunbeams from cucumbers; so much is said to the point of that ivhith is nothing to the point ; bur the least objectionable thing in it is that he indi cates an intention to adhere t > his proclama tion. The question, however, arises, it the President means to carry out liis edict of freedom on the New Year, what is all this sti.fi about gradual emancipation ? The guns of our army and navy cover to day one million slavr*. Will the President on that day strike the fetters from that inill ii" win the reach of his arm! Let htm at tend to that, and, for God's sake, let the Twentieth century al ne ! lie la our Presi ident, not that of posterity. The en articles, f-.r the Constitution are ludicrious, and (.ne can hardly I eln-vt that Orpheus C. Kerr did not httve his pock et telegfaflh erf the lines, arid so manage to insert several paragraphs. One of these ar ticles gravely - imports :hat after we have got a State free from slavery and the slaves pair] for, if that State wants to re establish slave :y, it may quietly do so, only it must pay u? bstck our money ! One sen ence in the mc>age strikes in as disingenuous. It says, " Some would abolish is >uddenly ami wit lout compensation.'' A? if the idea of c >rnp-tisation had anything to do with the gridualness of emancipation ! The President must be Impele-idy ignorant if he does not know ihat all but a v iv fi-w emancipationists in this country are in favor of striking at slavery directly and immediate- ly ; that they be! it Ye that slavery can be reaclie 1 only by the wir power, v i cli from its very nature acts upon ah -exigency ; and that many euianc.pationistsj fav jT fcuuipensa ti. n. The fict is the President seems to be innn of inadt quote calibre; lie does not cotnpre bend his position ; he has exhausted himself apparently in taking up the gauntlet which the South threw d wn. Either tlws theory is true, or ehe that Mcphistoplus, Seward, is paralyzing h.s powers. THE PRESIDENT AND THE NlGGEßS.—Pres ident Linci'ln, in presenting bis views to the Senate and ll<>nse of Representatives, on the subject of negro emancipation in the South, savs;—' It is insisted Ih it their presence would injure and displace while labor and white laborers. If there ever could be a time for mere arguments, that time, surely, is not now " This, then, according to his logic,' is not the tune to advocate the interests of the wnit_ la boring men of the North, many of whotn are in the army fighting the battles of then 1 conn try. The negroes must be permitted to flood the Northern States, and drive out the white laborers, because the President has as-ure I us I hat "if they leuve their old places they leave them open td white laborers." That i>, if the negroes come North to Jill our wotk shops, tnine®, &c., damage Gen McC'ellan ; hut in which lie make-, a latnen'uhle fail-:re. In fact ilie correspond* n< eh trvet-n those two officers, in relation to the change o i< crushed. I: mat ters not what partial reverses we may meet wi h elsewhere; here >s the true defence of Wa-hingion. It is here, on h ■ bank of the James river, that the fate of ;li Union should lie decided. it is eh a" in my convictions of right—sir-ng in the cossciou-ness that I have ever been, and am still actuated solely by the love of country, known that no ambi tious or st Ifish motives have influenced tne from the Commencement of this war. I do now know what I never did in my life be fore— I iidreat that the order may he rescind ed. If my counsel does not pnvail, 1 will, with a sad heart, obey your orders to the ut most of my power, devoting t • the move ment, one of the utmost dehcacy and difficul ty, whatever skill I may pos-ess. Whatev er the result may be, arid mar God grant that I am mistaken, in my forebodings, I shall at least have the interna! satisfaction that 1 have written and spoken frankly, and have sought to do the he-t in my power to arrest disaster from nv c •nntry." Signed, GEO. B. MCCI.ELI.AN. M 'joi'-General. It will be seen hv this he-1 of evidence produced b} - Gen. Ilaileck, tliat the letreat thn-ugh the swamp- of the Cine'lahominy, an I trie <1 inghter wno r o-e u red I irmg the seven days it lasteil was not advised br Mc- C'ellan at all, but freed upon hi in by a " high official,'' whom Ilalleck felt liimelf Constrained to obey. Ttiis high official is, of course, either the Pie-nlent oi the Beretary of War. lit re is th* opening paragraph of . Ilaileck's reply to McClellaoV- protest. WASHINHTOX, August, 0. 18G2. i To MAJ. GEN. MCCLELLAN, COMMANDIXC, BERKLEY, YA.: GENERAL : Yur telegram of was received this morning, and I immediate* ly telegraphed a brief reply, promising to write yon more fully by mail. Ton, Gener al, cert only could not hare been mors pain ed at receiving uiy order than I was at the necessity of issuing it. 1 tens adcitcd by a h glt official in whose judgment I had great confi frnce, to make the ord: immediately >H my arrival here, but I determined not to da so until 1 coijiil learn your wishes from a personal interview ; and ev.-n aftvr the in. terviev* I irieil every means in mv power to uv ml withdrawing your army, and delayed my decision as Innj as I dared In delay it Aber this ackn wledginent, Gin. Ilaileck proceeds with a chap er i f lis and but - , Which in no way damage the la'e command er of the Anny of tfie Foiotnfac, Tliis cor re-potidence is a triumph for McCMdan, in asmuch as it relieves bun from what his en. emies have labored to fasten upon bun, the greatest disaster of the c.uhpaign. He was ordered to retreat irotiV before Richmoud his fofceS Were handed over to Gen. Pope nd the country is aware of ilie cun>et] icnces. 1 IMEI.Y ADVICE —lt behooves US, says the Louisville foiimal, to tear in mind that the War we are prosecuting is a war of restora tion, not of exti rminatimi. Whilst were* iiiemltef that we are patriots, we must uot forget (h'at out* enemies are men. The Ifirri-burg Union says that if there is any D.-m s worldly atlarrs. nine his peace with Heavl n, and b.d a last, affec tionate farewell to Ins family and Constitu ents, before be starts fr II irri.-burg. If Mi. L ueoiu oaa surest no bet ter iv.ne ly to re-tore the n iti a than the one he suggests in hi* Message, to abolish slavery by the ye r 19,>J. he hll better f l tow the alvce of his Illinois client (n ho told the story i G -v. M -orehead ot Ky.) who when he found that the evidence was strongly against him in a case in Court, told him to " guo it up We think he had bet tet abdicate in fivor of some man of more ex tended capactv. The Aboli 11 on .Jouriiirfs, now that •hev -en by the elections that they -cannot pervert 111 is into a mere war croak over *'a divide I Notfth." B*ut who divided ttie North ? Who but the Ab htionists. There are two utavs <>f living so as to be mis-ed. A man may be a s c.itterer of fire brands, arrows and death. lie will be missed when he is taken awiy. On the oth er hand' he may be so active in his works of henevohncc, he may cmwj tne hearts of so' many to nj .ic\ he may be the support and stay of so many, that when he tit. 9he ia mi-Si d, his loss is sorely ft It. Would we be missis) if we were suddenly removed from* the earth ? Wbut hearts Wuu'd be ciado sad —what good cause would suffer. VOL. 2, NO. 19. HAL.LBCK <>X Mct LELLAS