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COOPER, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON • Newton Centre, Luzerne County Pa. r 1 CO. S. TI'TTON , ATTORNEY AT LAW VJ Tunkhannock, Pa. Office in Stark's Biick Block, Tioga street. ITT.tI. M. PIATT. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Of- V fice in Stark's Brick Block, Tioga St., Tuuk hrtnnock, Pa. T ITTLE DEW ITT, ATTORNEY'S AT I J LAW, Office on Tioga street, Tunkhannock. Pa. R. R. LITTLF.. J DKWITT. T V. SMITH, M. D, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, J • Office on Bridge Street, next door to the Deruo erit Office, Tunkhannock, Pa. H" ARVEY IC KI.EH, ATTORNEY AT LAW and GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT Of fice, Bridge street, opposite Wall's Hotel, Tunkhan nock Pa. 3". W. niIOADS, TVE. D , Graduate of the University of I'enn'a ) Respectfully offers his professional services to the sitirens of Tunkhannock and vicinity, lie can be fmtnL when not professionally engaged, either at his Drug Store, or at his re-ideuce 011 Putnam Street. DR. j. C. CORSEI.IUS, HAVING LOCAT ED AT THE FALLS, U ILL promptly attend all calls in the line of his profession—mav be found at Beeraer's Hotel, when not professionally absent. Falls, Oct. 10, 1361. Did. j. (• BRTTKKR A- ( Uo ~ PHYSICIANS* 1* SURGEONS, Would respectfully announce to the citizens o r Wy oming that they have located at Mehoop.iny, where h?y will promptly attend to all calls in the line of their profession. May be found at his Drug Sturo when not professionally absent. JM. CAREY, M. D. (Graduate of the '.{ • M. Institute, Cincinnati) would resjieetfully Brnounce to the citizens of Wyoming and Luzerre Counties, that he e >ntinues his regular practice in the various departments of his profession. May ne found 1 *t hie office or residence, when not professionally ab out iff Particular attention given to the treatment Chronic Diseas. eutrcmoreland, Wyoming Co. Pa.—v2n'2 WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE/ TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. rIII.B establishment has recently been refitted and tarnished in the latest style Every attention wul be given to the eomfort and conven'ence of those wile patronize the House. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor. Tunkhannock, September 11, 1861. WORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESIIOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, l'A ftILEV WARNER, Proper. Lj AY ING resumed the proprietorship of the above Fx Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to iss ler the house an agreeable place ol sojourn for *'i who may favor it with their custom. RILEY WARNER. September 11. 1361. MAYNARD'S HOTEL, TITNKT-IANNOCK. wYO MIN G cOUN TY , PENNA. JOHN MAYNARD, Proprietor. HAVING taken the Hotel, in the Borough of I lunkhanncek, recently occupied by Hilev "•oner, the proprietor respeetfullv solicits a share oil T he patronage. The House has been thoroughly repaired, and the comforts and accomodations of a arst class Hotel, will bo found bv all who may favor L WITH THEIR CUSTOM. .J I IQCI Al. GiLMAiN, DENTIST. ,\T OILMAN, has permanently located in Ton' - L bannock Borough, and respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens of this place and surrounding country. FACTION ORK wAkrantel) ' to 61ve SATlS j(|s^* office oVer Tutton s Offioo, near the Pos Dec. 11, 1861. HOWARD ASSOCIATION HIIILADELPHIA. vtluSZSrl SlCk #"•'* with Virulent and Chronic Diseases, and especially for the Cure of Diseases f the Sexual Oceans Medical advice given gratis, by the Aeting Surgeon V aluable Reports on Spermatorrhoea or Seminas Weakness, and other Diseases of the Sexual 0r is *nf their iellow passengers. A lady, who had 110 children of her own, was desir.us of adopt ing the little travelers, and nude application to the fuller, through a friend, who gives the following touching, and, as we suppose, truthful ace nint of the Negotiation : 1 proceeded, he says, immediately upon my delicate diplomacy. Fueling my friend on deck, I thus opened the affair : "You are very poor." His answer was very characteristic. 44 Poor, sir !" said he, 44 ay, if there's a poorer man than tne troublin' the world, God pity both of us, for we'd be about aqua I." 44 Then bow do you manage to' support your children ?" 41 Is it supporting them, sir ? Why, I don't support them any way ; they get supported B"ine way or other. It'll be time enough 6r me to complain when they don't." " Would it lie a relief to you to part with one ol them ?" It was too sudden; he turned sharply around. " A what, sir ? he cried, "a relief to part from my child ? Would it be a relief to have lite hands chopped from the body, or the heart torn out of mv breast ? A relief, in deed ! God be good to us, what do you inane ?" " You don't understand me," I replied.— " If, now, it were in one's power to provide comfortably for one of your children would yon stand in the way of its interests ?" 4 * No, sir ?" -aid he, 44 the heavens know that I would willingly cut the sunshine away from myself, that they might get all warmth of it; but tell us what you're driv ing at." I then told him that a lady bad taken a fancy Jocne of bis children, and if he would consent to it, it should be educated, and fi nally settled comfortably in life. This threw him in a fit ot cogitation. lie scratched his head, and looked the very pic ture of bewilderment. The struggle between a father's love and a child's interest was evi dent and touching. At length he said: " Oh, tnurther, wouldn't it be a great "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28, 1863. thnie for the baby ? But I must go and talk with Mary—that's the mother of them ; an' it wouldn't be right tn bcgivin' away her children afore her face, and she to know nothing at all about it." " Away with you, then," said I, "and brin uie an answer back as soon as possi ble " In about half an hour he returned, leading two of his children. His eyes were red and swollen, and his face pale with excitement and agitation. '• Well," I inquired, 14 what success ?" " Bedad, it was a hard struggle, sir," said be. 44 Bit I've been talking to Mary, and she says, as 1 's for the child's go< d, maybe the heavens above will give us strength to bear it." "Very well; and which of them is it to he V •'Fatx, and I don't know, sir;" and he ran his hands dubiously over both. " Here's litile Norah—she's the oldest, and wont need her mother so much; hut then—oh, tear an' algers, it's myself that can't tell whiffi I'd rather part with least ; so take the first one that comes, with a bless ing. There, sir " and lie handed over little Norah ; turning hack, he snatched her up in his arms and gave her one long, hearty fa ther's kiss, s tying through his tears : '• May God be good to him that's good to you, and them that offers you hurt or harm may their souls never see St. Peter." Tien taking his other child by the hand he walked away leaving Norah with me. I took her down to the cabin, and we though the matter settled. It must be con fessed, to my indignation, however, in about an hour's tune I saw friend Pat at the win dow. As soon as It • caiicht rny eye he be gan making signs for tne to come out. I did so, and found be had the other child in his " What's the matter now ?" I asked " Well, sir," .-aid he, " I ask your pardon f r troubling you about so fo--lisli a thing as a child or two. hut were tlmikin' that may be ii'd make no differ—you see, sir, I've Leon taikin' to Mary, and sh ; says she can't part with Norah, because the ceature has a look ov me, but here's Itttle Biddy, she's purtyer far, an' av you please sir, will you swap ?" '* Certainly ; whenever you like," said I So he snatched up little Norah, as though it was .some recovered treasure, an I dart el away with her, leaving Biddy, who remain ed all night ; hut lo ! the moment we enter ed the c thin in the morning, there was P,' making his mysterious signs again at the window, and this time he had the youngest a babv, in his arms. " W.l it's ivr hit, nov I inq tired. 44 Be the hokey fly, sir, it's myself that'- almost ashamed to tell ye. Ye see. Fv been 'alkin' to Mary, and she didn't like t" part with Norah, because she has a look 1 me, an' be 1110 soul, [ can't pirt with Bd 1\ because she's the model ot her mother; bin there's little Paudeen, sir. The r e's a lump of Christian for you, two years old, and not a day more; he'll never he any trouble to anyone; fr av he takes after his mother he'll have the brightest eye, an' av he take after his father he'd have a fine broad putt of shoulders topu-h his way through the world. Will you swap sgatti, sir I" •' With all my heart," said I, 44 its all the same to me and so litile Paudeen was left with me. 44 11a, ha." said I to myself, as I looke ' into Ins leg laughing eyes, 44 so the affair 1- swttled at last." But it wasn't ; for ten minutes had scarce ly elapsed, when Pat rushed into the cabin, without sign or ceremony, snatched up the baby, and said : 44 It's no use ; I've been taikin' to Mart, an' we can't do it. Look at htm, sir; he's the youngest an' the best of the hatch. YOll wouldn't keep him from us. " You see, sir, Norah has a look of me, an' Biddy has a look of Mary ; hut be me soul, little Paudeen has the mother's eye, an' my nose, a little of us all over. No, sir ; we can hear hard fortune, starvation and misery, hut ww can't part with our children, unloss it he the will of Heaven to take them from us. ANECDOTE OF POPE. One day, as Pope was engaged in translat ing the 44 Iliad" he came to a passage which neither he nor his assistant could interpret. A stranger, who stood by, in his humble garb, very modestly suggested that, as In had some little acquaintance with Greek, perhaps he could assist them. 44 Try it, try it! said Pope, with the air of a b< y who is encouraging a monkey to eat red pepper. " There is an error in the print." said the stranger, looking at the text. 44 Read as tl there was no interrogation point at the end of line, and you have the meaning at once." Pope's assistant at once improved upon this hint, and rendered the passage without difficulty. Pope was chagrined—he could never en dure to be surpassed in anything. Turning to the stranger, he said, in a sarcastic tone. " Will you please tell me what an interro gat ion is ? •'Why, ir," said the stranger, scanning the ill-shaped poet, "it is a little crooked, contemptible thing that asks questions." r'olitioctl. Dr. OLDS ON ARBITRARY ARRESTS. GRAND RECEPTION AT LANCASTER, OHIO—DR. OLDS' ACCOUNT OF HIS ARREST AND IMPRIS ONMENT—THE HORRORS OF FORT LAFAY ETTE EXPOSED. On Christmas day* Dr. Olds had a most en thusiastic reception, at Lancaster, Ohio, and addressed over ten thousand persons. YYe give the portions uf h s remarks relating to his arrest and imprisonment : 011 the 12th of Augu-t las', after 10 o'clo'k at night, my h< use was forcibly enttred b\ three government ruffians, who with violence seized my person, and holding a revolver at my head demanded rny surrender. When, after my capture, I demanded to know by what au'hority they had thus rude ly broken into my room, and by what author ity they had thus seized ufion my person, they very grumhtngly informed me that the) were acting under authority of the War De partuient. I then demanded to be shown tiieir warrant. They informed me that I had no right to make any such demand—that tt.e order which they held was for their protec tion. an.l not for my gratification. They, however, permitted me t see it. The doc iitnent was -igned by the Assistant Secretary ot War—was dated at Washirgton city, Au .list 2. 1802 It was directed to W. H.Scott, and commissioned hitn to take with hitn unt issistawt, and to proceed to Lancaster, Ohio, and arrest E lson B Olds, and to convey hitn to New York and deliver hint to the com manding office: of Fort Lafeyette ; and that if lie was resisted in the execution 'if the or der, he was directed to cill upon Governor Todd, of Ohio, for such assistance as might be necessary. The order contained no inti •nation of the " nature and cause" of the ac 1 * cusa'ton against me ; indeed.it charged me w 11h the Commission of no offense whatever ; and when I demanded of my captors to know what were the chargi-s against me. thev re plied that tln-y 44 did not know." Thus, m\ friends vva- I dragged ftvin a sick-bed, (or I ■vas at that time, and (>r many long and wea ry days and nights afterward seriously af flicttfd Willi an attack of the blood flux. In Gits condition I was hurried into a cariiatie. and during the remainder of the night driven to Columbus, and just at da) light placed up the cars and taken in my sick and ex hanstcd condition, wt bout a moment's delay 0 Fori Lilavette. After t In- Degrading op •ration had been performed, and before con ducting tne from the Commandant's room to tiy dungeon, all the other prisoners about the fort were I -eked into the'r rooms, tha' I nielil not he seen an 1 r -cognized, lest per ad venture information might he given to the vorld and m> friends of mv whereabouts nuTllie cruelties to he practiced upon tne.— One of the prisoners having learned a few 1 t\s afterwards, through the medium of tin newspapers, who the mysterious stranger was. wrote to a friend of his 44 that Dr. Olds, •f Ohio, had lie-n brought to Fort Lalayette and placed in solitary confinement." Ilts Letter was returned to him by the command ant, requiring him to str.ke out so much ot Has referred to the case of Dr Olds. M) iungeon was tin the ground, with a brick l>avemet <>r floor over about the one-half ol n ; and >■• great was the dampness that in a verv short tune a mould w<>uld cather upon any article left upon the floor. My bed was hi iron stretcher, with a very thin hu-k mat ess upon it—so thin, indeed, that you could feel every iron slat in it the moment you lay down upon it. The brick floor, with all its lampness, Would have been far more com fortable than I his iron and hu-k bed, had it not been for the rats and the vermin that in iested the room. I had also in my room a t>r ken table and a chair; a chunk of gov eminent bread, with an old stinking ru*ii tin of Lincoln coffee, with a slice of boiled solitary con finement. If it affords any gratification to those Re publicans who caused rny arrest, they a'e welcome to it. Their time will come some day. 44 The end is not yet." Af er my re lease from solitary confinement, 1 was put into a casemate with eleven others, making twelve of us in a room measuring 15 by 25;t. In this room wt slept, cooked and eat In it were our beds, chairs, tables, trunks, cooking utensils, table furniture, &c. We were lock ed into our room at sundown, and unlocked again at sunrise. Through the day we were permitted to stand or sit in front of our cell mside of the fort. We had, morning ami evening, what was called a 44 walking hour." This hour was sometimes ten, and sometimes thirty minutes long, just as suited the caprice or whim of the sergeant. Our walking round was inside the fort. We were permitted to walk backwards and forwards across the area of the fort, which was perhaps a little larger than youi City Hall. We were permitted through the Commanding officer, to supply and cook our own food. We were compelled to u-e rain-water for ail purposes—cooking washing and drinking. Each ami every tune that we drew any water frein the cistern we were required first to obtain permission from the sergeant of the guard. This, like all os tern water, was sometimes quite usable and sometimes quite offensive. Mr. Ghilds, one of my mess, informed me that atone time during the latter part of last winter, 111 cun- sequence of the accumulation of ice in the gutters, all the washings and scourings from the soldiers' quarters run into the cistern out of which the prjsoners were compelled to draw the water which they used—that the wat r became so filthv that they had to boil it and skim off the filth before using it; and that notwithstanding they had three other cisterns inside the fort, full of comparatively clean water, yet the Commanding officer com pelled them to use these fillhy washings Iroin the soldiers' quarters. I will, with your permission, my friends, telate anothea incident connected with Fort Lafayette, so monstrous, so hoathcnish as almost to chai lenge belief—giving the incident as related to me by n eye witness, himself one of the pris oners referred to. There was at one time confined in one of the rooms of what is called the ba'tery, so accurately described in Gov ernor Mooiehead'a narrative—tomo thirty I TERMS: 01.50 PER ATUTtfrm^ prisoners. One of these poor fellows wu prostrated with sickness and near unto death Night came on and it was thought that tha pool fellow could not lire till morning. Tha prisoners confined in the with the dy ing man, bogged that for one nfght, at least, they might be permitted to have alight iir their prison ; and, monstrous as it may seem, this request was refused ; and in this boasted land of liberty, civilization and Christianity, these prisoners were locked up in their dark prison house with the dying man. During that long, dark night they could bear his dy ing moans deeper and still deeper grew the death-rattles until near morning, when all be came still and hushed ; and when morning broke in upon that loathesome dungeon; death bad done his work. This poor victim of Lincoln's despotism had ceased to live; his released spirit had gone to that world where the " weary are at rest, and the wick ed cease from troubling." There is to-day confined in one of the Cells of Fort Lafayette, a poor prisoner, said to be partially deranged since last February he has been in solitary confinement. llis cell is darkened ; a seutry marches night and day before his prison door he is permitted no interconrse, not even to see the other prisoners. You can well imag ine how strict his confinement is when I tell you that his aged and widowed mother, who for months' had been seeking to obtain an in terview with her son, at last having obtained the long sought for permit, came one Sab bath day to visit hitn. Before tho prisoner was taken from his dungeon to the command ant's room, in which his mother was permit ted to see him, the other prisoners, myself among them, were all locked into their rooms, a file of soldiers was detailed toguard him Irom his cell—a double guard placed in the sally p< rt. And what suppose you was this man's offense, that for so many months he had been thus inhumanly t?eaited7 Why simply this ? On one dark, stormy night, with a ljjp preserver made out of oyster cans, he jumped into the sea and attempted to es cape. And in conclusion, my friends, permit me to say. that although I would not " take the oath," attempted again and again to be forced upon rue by Mr. Lincoln, as a condition to my release, yet when in two weeks from this time, I take iny seat as your representative in the Legslature, I shall most cheerfully take the oath of allegiance to both the Con stitution of the United States and the Consti tution of the State of Ohio. That oath, not i withstanding the examples of both Lincoln ; ami Todd to the contrary, I shall maintain inviolate. All those sacred guarantees which b>th these constitutions throw around you, in your inalienable right-, I will endeavor to enforce to the utmost of my ability, in de lianceef the despotism of both the President and the Governor, although by ao doing I may be again returned to my lonely oell in Fort Lafayette. Again, my friends, for this extraordinary reception—for this most cor dial greeting, I tender you my heartfelt thanks. HOME AFTER BUSINESS HOURS. The road along which the man of business travels in pursuit of competence of wealth is not a macadamized one, nor does it ordinarily lead through pleasant scenes and by the Well springs of iehght. On the contrary, it is a rough and rugged path, beset with ''waif a bit " thorns, and pitfalls which can only be evaded by the watchful care of circumspection. After every da\'s journey over this worse than rough turnpike road, the wayfarer needs something more than rest; he requires solace ; and he deserves it. lie is weary of the dull prose of life, and athirst fore she poetry, Happy ia the business man who can find that solaoe and that poetry at home. Warm greetings from loviug hearts, fond glances from bright eyes, the welcome shouts from children, the many thousand little arrangements for our Comfort ami enjoyment that silently tell of thoughtful and expectant love, the gentle ministrations that disencumber us into an old and easy feat before we are aware of it, these, and like tokens of affection and sympathy, constitute the poetry which reconciles us to •he prose of life. Think of this, ye wive* and daughters of business men !—think of the toils, the anxieties,the mortifications and wear that fathers undergo to secure for you comfortable homes, and compensate them for their trials by making them happy by their own fi.'eside. JC2ST -Among the conditions of tale by an' Irish auctioneer, aas the following: '• The highest bidder to be the purchaser, unless some gentleman bids more." - This snow-storm the boys regard as a joke," said one to Dr. S, during a late storui. " Yes," replied the doctor, "and it is a juke that any one can see the drift of." " Biddy," said a lady, "I wish you would step over and see how old Mrs. Jones is thia morning." In a few minutes Biddy returned *ilh the infumation that Mrs. Jones fru* just seveuty two years, sevfen months and two days old. i An empty purse and a new house makes a man wise but too Ist* VOL. 2, NO. 25.