HAXLVEY SICKLER, Proprietor.] NEW SERIES, garth f raittji fßmntrat. A weekly Democratic paper, devoted to Bui- y/ BY HARVEY SICKLER. Terms—l copy 1 year, (in advance) 81.50. If not pain within six months, §2.00 will be charged. ADVEH-TISIIMG. 10 lines or > \ ] < j less, make three i four < two three ] si.v \ one one square weeks weeks mo'lh mo'th mo'tf year 1 Square 1.00; 1,25; 2.25! 2,87; 3,00! 5,00 2 do. 2 00; 2.50; 3,25 3 50.' 4,50; 6,00 3 do. 3.00; 3,75: 4,75; 5,50, 7,00? 9,00 i Column. 4.00; 4,50; 6.50? 8,00, 10,00. 15.00 ! do. 6.00 7.00'10,00? 12,00 17,00? 25,00 J do 8 00' 9,50 14.00;. 18.00' 25,00 35.00 I do. 10,00,12,001 17,00 22.60. 28,00 40,00 Business Cards of one square, with paper, $5 joe WOFLK: of all kinds neatly executed, and at prices to suit the times. ghtsiiu.ss sotirfS. BACON STAN!*.—Nicholson, l\i. —.C. L JACKSON, Proprietor. fvln49tf] HJS. COOPER, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON • Newton Centre, Luzerne County I'a. GEO. S. TUTTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Tunkhannock, Pa. Office m Stark's Biick Block, Tioga street. WM. M.PIATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Of fice in Stark's Brick Block, Tioga St., Tunk hannock, Pa. lITTI.G HEWITT, ATTORNEY'S AT J LAW, Office on Tioga street, Tunkhannock, I'a. It. R. LITTLE. J. PKWITT. JV. SMITH, M. D., PHYSICIAN k SURGEON, • Office on Bridge Street, next door to the Demo crat Office, Tunkhannock, Pa. HARVEY "SICKI.ER, ATTORNEY AT LAW and GENERAL INSFRANCE AGENT - Of fice, Bridge street, opposite Wall's llotel, Tuukhan ii' -k Pa. JT. W. riIIOADS, M. 33., (Craduatr of the Z'niversity of Penn'a.) Respectfully offers his professional services to the filizens of Tunkhannock .and vicinity, lie can he found, when not professionally engaged, either at his Drug Store, or at his rcsideuce oil Putnam Street. DK.J.C.CORSEMrs, HAVING LOCAT ED AT THE FALLS, WILL promptly attend nil calls in tho line of his profession—maybe found nt Beeiuer's Hotel, when not professionally absent. Falls, Oct. 10, 1361. I>H. J. '&■ BF.C KI .R \\T Co., PHYSICIANS SURGEONS, Would respectfully announce to the citizens of Wy oming that they have located at Mehoopany, where they will promptly attend to all calls in the line of their profession. May be found at his Drug Staro when not professionally absent. JM. CARET', M. I). — (Graduate of the 3 • M. Institute, Cincinnati) would respectfully nnnoiincc to the citizens of Wyoming and Luzerne Counties, that he c •ntinues his regular practice in the various departments of his profession. May he found at his office or residence, when nut professionally ab sent XfW Particular attention given to the treatment Chronic Diseas. entremoreland, Wyoming Co. Pa.—v2n2 WALL'S HOTEL7 LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, TP N KHAN NOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. THIS establishment has recently been refitted and furnished in the latest stylo Every attention will be given to the comfort and convenience of those woo patronize tbe Ilou-e. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor. Tunkhannock, .September 11, 1861. WORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEX, WYOMING COUNTY, PA RILEY WARNER, Prop'r. HAVING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, tbe undersigned will spare no effort to render the house an agreeable place of sojourn for all who may favor it with their custom. RILEY WARNER. September 11, 1361. MAYNARD'S HOTEL, TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING COUNTY, I'EXNA. J OHJf MAYNA R1) , Proprietor. HA\ ING taken tho Hotel, in the Borough of Tunkhannock. recently occupied by Riley burner, the proprietor respectfully solicits a shnre of pnblic patronage. Tho House has been thoroughly repaired, and the comforts and accomodations of a first class Hotel, will be found by all who may favor it with their custom. September 11, 1861. M. GILMAJN^ MGILMAX, has permanently located in Tunk • hannock Borough, and respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizeus of this plaeo and surrounding country. .. ALLWORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIS *AITIOA. over Tutton's Law Offiea, near th e Pos vtmce. Bee. 11, 1861. NOTICE! Persons indebted to the subscriber, either on Note or Book account, ore notified that said notes and ac counts have been left with my Father, A F Eastman who is fully authorized to receipt and settle the same or If not settled soon, they will be left in the hands of an officer for suit and collection. G. 11. EASTMAN. Thabusiness of BOOT and SHOE makin- will be continued by the subscriber, at the old stand where everything pertaining to the busine -s, will t c done in a substantial and workmanlike manner, and at low prices for ready pay. He solicits a continuance of tho public "patronage. '| T ~ . , A. F. EASTMAN. iunkbantiocK, Sept. >. 1862. |1 act's Canter. [ At tho request of a brother, we republish the fol lowing stanzas written on the death of Nelson G. and liiram Harding We also give place in our columns t> a narration of this sad event as published in the Wyoming County Record , shortly after its occur rence. Though sixteen years have passed, since the publication,an affectionate remembrance of these young men, is still retained by many of our readers, who will peruse again, the sad narative, with a mel ancholly interest.— Ed. Democrat.] The Brothers. DEATH mugt soon arrest each mortal; There's no 'scaping from his thrall; But when and how he'll call us hence Is bej'ond the ken of all. Some in age and some in childbood, Some at home and some abroad, Some by sudden stroke, some slowly, All appear before their God. But of the most afflicting summons, Tho fate that calls the saddest tear, The death most harrowing, agonizing, List, each sympathetic ear. NELSON GEORGE and HIRAM HAUMXC, Brothers true as death e'er proved, From among their friends and comrades Most mysteriously are moved. Brave they were and noble hearted, Their spirits buoyant as the air, gtrong and healthy, every promise Was of life and pleasure fair, At manhood's morn, they left Tunkhannock. In eighteen hundred forty-four, And father, sisters, friends unnumbered Their living forn* shall Eee no more. liiram rides o'er broad Atlantic, Visits France, views foreign scenes ; Nelson labors in Missouri, And they meet in New Orleans. Two long years had almost vanished Since they left fair Wyoming, Its remembrance was a solace, To its sons they fondly cling Gold they'd gathered in good measure, Found 'twas vain abroad to roam, And resolved n more to wander, But return and die at home. Then they wrote a glad'ning letter : ■ " Seek for us some 3ure employ ; In March next we will be with you, Then how great will be our joy !" To the packet-ship, John Mintum, Homeward bound they next repair ; Onward tiies the gallant vessel, With propitious tide and air. Fricn Is at home receive the messago, Joyful hail their presence near; But how vain their expectation! They'll tee them only on their bier! For chill east winds on Jersey's coast W'th snow and sleet the bark surround, Which vainly tries to brave the touipcst She stops, she drifts, she is aground ! I'p rise screams and prayers to heaven, In mingled incoherent fright; The ship's joints gi\e an instaut threaten .Sinking all in that dread night. The Sabbath dawns—no Sabbath there— Near the shore the vessel lies, And human beings throng its banks Whose voices o'er the waters rise. " Cheer up !" exclaims the fearless Captain, " Wife and children, do not grieve ; Here are men, all Christiara honest, They our woes will soon relieve." Alas! they come not—hour by hour The wretched sufferers gaze intent Upon the shore still lined with men, But still, 0 God ! no help is sent. Day wears apace, the cold increases, The timbers part, and swallow up A score of souls that frost had spared, And now remains scarce a hope. To guide the, ship from dangers save, And to cheer the inmates too, The Brothers 'mong the foremost were, And hope and idol of the crew. Now ten o'clock at eve had come, And faint the leeblo life-blood sped, When first assistance came to save The few unnumbered with the dead. Nelson,as liiram Jeomed, had fallen In a watery tomb before, And with the liviug he had turned Towards th' inhospitable shore — A groan he hears —'tis surely Nelson's— His Inother finds trm, struck with death And every method tries incessant To quicken his subsiding breath. " He is now past all assistance, Nought can save him from the grave, Cease your kind but fruitless efforts, Duty calls yourself to save." " Ah!" says Hiram, " tho love I bear him Is strongei far than fear of death; I will not leave my noble brother While of life he has a breath !" UDto tbe beach the vessel hastens, (The two only do remain,)! Returning soon, 'tis found that Nelson Has escaped frcui hnman 'pain. Then to the shore the faithful liiram Quick is brought, but, ah ! too late, His effoits to preserve his brother llad but doomed him. to his fate. •♦TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31, 1862. Jackals next, in men's appearance, (Justice dumb, and Mercy fled,) Trunks break open, money rifle, Clothing strip from off the dead ; Next, like beasts together pile them In boats beside the moaning sea, And o'er their robbed,; bsurd victims, Deny their deeds, or onward flee. The father learns the sad disaster, (Sampson King the story gave,) And with a loving daughter's husband Takes them up from their rude gravo ; " Dust unto dust—ye sleeping twain ! To our God we you eommenl; In His dread power your murd'rers are He is faithful to the end!" On " the Neck," by Susquehanna's Much-10%-ed side, the Brothers lio, And often we will o'er their history Ileavo the unaffected sigh ! " Nay, weep ye must, ye doating sisters ! Stout-hearted father! yo may weep, Blooming maiden ! well ye sorrow, Youth ! your tears ye need not keen. " Friendly souls were theirs, and active, Heart to heart through them united, Bright the world was all before them, Ah ! how every hope is blighted ! Many weary miles he bears them— Ilis first-born, cherished, filial boys— llow heart-rending is the duty ! How changed anticipated joys ! Now by the home of by-gone years In douple coffin they arc placed, And old companions throng around, Whose early love is nut effaced. The man of God improves tho lesson ; " Look, ye mourn rs ! grief restrain ; Never moie, till resurrection, Will ye see these men again. Nelson G. and liiram Har ding, Whose recent melancholy demise has car ried 60 much grief and dismay to a very large circle of relatives, and friends, were born in Exeter, Luzerne Co., and were the only sons by his first wife of Mr. George Harding, now of Brooklyn, Susq. Co. They acquired the trade of carpenters with Mr. Archibald Bmatyne, of Washington Wyo. Co., work ing principally IU Tunkhannock and are rep resented to us as adepts in their business, of a bold and ardent temperament, and and pos sessed of tiiat warmth of personal friendship, and ardor of family affection, which distin guish the name. Their cruel fate has brought the keenest anguish in t mile* from the beach, in which 20 of the wrecked lay buried. They found the bodies of their sons and brothci, roughly interred, and having been thrice dug up Joy the hands of strangers on the same mission as their own. With all speed, the bodies were con veyed by sleigh, railroad cars, and steam boats to Newatk, and thence to Brooklyn Pa., which they reached on Monday of last week. On Thursday the 12th inst., a large con course of people assembled at a barn on " the Neck" in Washington tomnship, where a fu neral discourse was preached, by Elder John Miller, of Abington, from Isaiah Ixi. 3. The venerable minister gave a graphic description of the horrid deaths of these 3-ouths, with a bold and eloquent denunciation of the atro cious and more than piratical conduct of those beings in the image of man, who, by their failing to save, murdered these and 37 other victims. Never have we witnessed deeper manifestations of grief by a large audience Before them was a broad coffin, in which lay side by side the inanimate forms of these brothers, " lovely in their lives, and in death not divided," who but a few months since stood among their fellows like the " lall ce dars of Lebanon," the joy of a father and the pride of lovely sisters. They had perished in a most lamentable manner amid the rough billows of the far Atlantic, but met their fate with manly fortitude, and a fraternal love surpassing the lovo of life. Many weary miles the father had journeyed, to seek the remains of his only sons, who, but j-esterday, left him in all the strength and buoyancy of youth and were hastening back to comfort his declining years hand in hand asleep in death they were to be entombed, in the neighbor hood, by the beautiful river and among the high hills they loved so well when living.— Upon uncovering their faces the natural ap pearance of the brothers (over throe weeks from their burial) unsealed the avenues of grief afresh. The double coffin was then closed and borne by the comrades of the de ceased to" the Neck" burying place, where they were reinterred finally—"dust to dust." MR. KDITER : While on a journey to the seaboard, tho late lIIIUM HARDIKO WIS requested by a sister to give her soinc KEEPSAKE, US a special memorial of him, should she never see him more. Ho sat down and hastily penned the following lines, which have now become doubly dear to LUCRETIA. Washington. March 8, 1846. MARCH 4, 1844. —This is a very cold and tedious day. The north wind blows its cold blasts along the mountains uf'the old Sus quehanna, amidst its lofty, towering oaks, and ragged rocks, and thence down on the muddy waters of the river. lam comforta bly seated, by the fireside of my good old grandmother, anxiously watching the river, expecting every moment to 6ee some craft that will waft me far from my HOME and friends—far from everything that I bold dear—far from the place that gave me birth— far from the place where I spent the days of my childhood—far from the hills of Tunk hannock, where I love to roam—far from my old companions and playmates, whom I love almost as brothers. Farewell, frjends and home ! farewell to the hills of Wyoming county ! farewell to Tunkhannock ! farewell old playmates ! 'tis you I caution against the evils, the vices, and immorality of mankind. When I contemplate on the many dangers that surround a young man just starting out from home for the firat time—when I think of the many scenes he may have to pass through in the course of his dangerous ca reer through life—when I think of the many snares that are set to entrap his unwary feet) the many temptations that are set before him to turn him lroin the ways of truth and hon | esty—l almost tremble for his sake. O that some guardian angel may direct him through life, so that when he comes to lie down on his death bed he may look back on his past life with pleasure, and fee that the whole course of h : .3 short career has been strictly moral and virtuous ! 11. HARDING. Exeter, Luzerne Co. UliscellmtfOßS. TRIFLES. BY K. A. ROCHESTER. The ringing of the door-bell has a pleasant j sound to me, especially in my idle moods.— Like an unopened letter, there is a mystery about it, and one waits with a pleasurable excitement to see who or what is coining. Returning home, one day, earlier than usu al, I found my wife had gone out; and, while lounging idly over the paper, the bell rang. I wailed expectant till Rridget appeared with a note, containing a request from mj old friend, Dr. Stearns, to ride out to his residence in the country, the next day, to transact some business that had been long pending and an invitation to bring my wile and spend the day. I was pleased: first, because I wanted tbe business completed ; and secondly, because I thought I needed a day's recreation. But the next morning everything seemed to go wrong. Alice could not accompany me, and I could not get off as early as 1 wish ed ; and, conseq lently, I was peevish and fretful ; and Alice reflected my humor, I sup pose—as it appeared to me she had never been so unamiabb. At length, however, I druvo away, though not in a very pleasant mood. It was a love ly October day ; and, as I rode along, noting the brilliant tints of the landscape, memory went back to the golden autumn when I wooed and won my bride. " How lovely Alice was then !" 1 thought. " And how happy we wore ! But that was long ago. Y'et nature is the same, though trc are changed. Let me see :we have been married three years ; is it possible It is no longer ?" And I felt a pang, as I contrasted the past and present, to think that we could have set tled down into the commonplace life we now led. We had 110 serious trouble, we didn't quar rel; though, when I felt cross, or things didn't go to suit me, I took no pains to con ceal it, and often spoke harshly to Alice, who sometimes replied in the same spirit, and sometimes with tears. Yet we were gener ally good friends. But the charm, the ten derness of our early love had imperceptibly vanished. I had become careless about my appear ance at home, and Alice was equally negli gent. ller beautiful brown hair, which she used to wear in the most becoming curls, was now usually brushed behind her ears, unless she was going out or expected compa ny. I dismissed the subject with a 6igh, at the doctor's gate, with the reflection that it was the same with all married people— must be so, in fact—for how could romance and sentiment find place among so many prosy realities ? I supposed we were as happy as anybody ; and yet, it was not the kind of life I had looked forward to with so many bright anticipations. The doctor came out and greeted me cor dially. In the hall wc met Mrs. Stearns, looking fresh and lovely in her pink muslin wrapper, with her jetty hair in tasteful braids. j TERMS: 01.50 MR She scolded me playfully for Dot bringing my wife, chatted a few minutes", and then flitted away, white the doctor I,' 1 ,' remarking that his motto was, "business firsthand pleasure af terward,'' led the way to the library. As we entered the room, t noticed a fan of bright autumn flowers on' the table, lm* parting an aif of taste aW cheerfulness to the apartment. I made some remark about it, to which tlte doctof responded. " Yes, lam very fond of flowers, and !•#•* te sec them in the house ; and, as t speod much time here, my Wife always Itteptf a' vase of them on the table as long as tha/ last." pur was flhisbid and we walked out into the grounds, which' were quite extensive and tastefully arrang ed. There was a variety of flowers vn'bloom', and I noticed that the doctor selected herb and there the finest, until he had a handsome bouquet. When we reached the house, MVs. Stearns* was standing on the steps. The doctor, Itlti 1 continuing our conversation, gavo her the flowers, with a slight boW and a smile f anirf holding up a spray of crimson berries, which he had broken off, she bent her bead while he fastened it among the dark braids of heir. It was a trifling incident,- yet their manner arrested iny attention. liad I been a stran ger, I should have pronounced them lovort instead of sober married people. AII through' the day I noticed the same delicate alteotfeu 1 and deference in their deportment to aack' other. There was nothing of which the moat fan ♦idious guest could complain; yet, wfcUit' showing me the most cordial attention, thtf did not seem to ignore each other's existentw,' as married people so often do. I had never visited the doctor before, and* was much pleased with his tasteful home.— I said so, after dinner, when we strolled ouflf iuto the woods. " Yes," he said, " I think it pleaaant and," he added, " I believe I am a contented man ; so far I am not disappointed in life." " How long have you been mfcrried, doc tor ?" I asked. " Ten years." "Well," I pursued, "