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[vln49tf] J s. COOPER. PHYSICIAN & St RGEON .1, Newton Centre, Luzerne County Pa. < KO. S. TUTTON, ATTOHNEY AT LAW, Tunkhannoek, Pa. Office in Stark's Biick Hock, Tioga otraet. ITU. SI. PIATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Of \V fiec in Stark'* Brick Block, Tioga St., Tunk nnnock, Pa. F ITTLE HEWITT, ATTORNEY'S AT U LAW, Ofiico on Tioga street, Tunkhannoek, 'a. R. R. LITTI.E. J PEWITT. r v. SMITH. M. D . PHYSICIAN k SITtOEON, I • Oflieo on Bridge Street, next Jo.ir to the Deme rit Office, Tunkhannoek, Pa. fjARVEY SICK I,EH. ATTORNEY AT LAW □L and OBNKRAL INSURANCE AGENT- Of ye. Bridge street, opposite Wall's Hotel, Tunkhun p.-k Pa. T. YJV. RIRSOAUS, ZVE. ZD., j Graduate of the University of Pain a.) Respectfully offers his profes-innvil servieer to the titens of Tunkh mno k and vicithty. lie can be a* i. when not prof--si..nally enmsceil. either t his rug Store, -or at his resideuc-e on Putnm. Street. Mt.I.C.CORBETJU. HAVING LOCAT- J ED AT THE FALLS, WILL promptly attind II calls in the line of bis j;r.fe> ion—way be found I Bet-ii'.er's Hotc!. whin.'..: prefewtooajly abs-.nt. Falls, Oct. 10. Ic'Oi. f DR. J: C BECKER A: Co ~ PHYSICIANS .Si SURGEONS, Would respectfully jnn-iia -e to the citizens of VTv ning that they have lo< ft iat Mela >; my, where icy will promptly utter 1 '<> all calls in (he line of leir profession. May be fi nd at his Drug Storo heu not professionally a! -cut. Mm CAREY ,M* I).— (Gi the g| * M. Institute, Cincinnati) would respectfully iCwtince to the citizens of Wyoming and Luzerne lainties, that he e uitinnes his regular practice in the irinus departments of his professhm. May ne found ihii offi.-c or residence, when not professionally ab int Iff Particular attention given to the treat meet Chronic Discus mtremorelunf, Wvouiing Co. Pa.—\2ri2 WALL'S HOTEL7 LATH AMERICAN HOUSE/ rUNLUANWOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. "HIS establishment has recently been refitted and ■ furnished in the latest st vl-e Every attention II be given to the comfort arid convenience of those io patronize the Iloue. T. B. W ALL, Owner and Proprietor, lunkhannovk, Septeni'-i r 11, l-iil. ORTTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEX, WYOMING COUNTY, PA ILEY WARMER, Prop'r. TNG resumed the proprietorship of the above *- Hotel, the undersigned will -pure no effort to i table. Address, Dr. J. SKILLIN HOUGH *qhting Surgeou, Howard Association, N'soly Dl h street, Philadelphia l'a, ln2oly. LME FOP. FARXXRS, AS A FERTILIZE , FWRS LEAT VERNOY 'S. Ptrhojipcn, Sept. 18.1861. |)ocfs Corner. The following stanzas were sent us by a lady who resides in " Ole Virginny." She assures us, that, though like " Tray," she may have been " caught in bad company," there is not a disloyal thought in her inkstand. Wo give them a place, being fu'ly satis fied that our fair correspondent is heartily in fur the Union —we hope " DAN" is too. [Written for the DEMOCRAT.] * DAW BY MERIBA A. BABCOCK. Dan is a jovial fellow, And Dan is gay. dashing and bold, He always " IOOKS out" for the ladies, No matter how young or how old! In short, he's the qualifications, (I'll say it of all when Jean,) To make him the greatest of mortals, A high-hearted, whole-hearted man. His pockets know never a famine, They leak but they leak at the top! A fault that few people complain of, (1 know one or two who do n>t,) So all the young cousins at Christmas March up to his room to a man, And smile as each grasps the bright quarter, Held out by his dear " cousin Dan " Dan travels way down in Secessia. Has seen all the mules and a—bare And desolate region of country As ever he saw anywhere; He says that one buck of Ohio Is worth a plantati n of mules, But Dan never earned how to reckon" According to secession rules! Hewcarssonv ''l r issstraps" on h'sshoulde.S, Wears long-legged boots and all that, But still he retains all his senses! He knows how to relish a chat. , With all the fine follows about him' Is bound to enjoy all he can, And all the '•goo i boys" in camp hail fc'un By no ether title than " It an." lie always speaks well of the ladies, (I know he'il speak well of his wife !) I wonder he should have staved single These many long days of his li e. But -rhen this gren' conflict is over, And Peace shall he stayed in her flight. Should there be a great rnsti to the Union, Why. Dan will hr forced to unite ! Select Ston. •o j Keeping School at Dean Dor* OUgii. BY CAROLINE E. PRESTON. Delightful task, to re-.r the tend i thought, And teach the yo_:.g i lea how to shoot. I was a school ma'am once, or tried to be, ; and I am a going to tell you all about it i This was the way it happened. I had an un- I cle who lived in a New Hampshire village, j who used to call on us on his way to Boston J once a year. On one of these occasions he happened to mention that he was Prudential Committee of his district, and he was in search of a female teacher. Now I had an idea that I could manage a school a good deal better than ant- of the teachers who had ever taught me, and I said : eagerly, " I wish you'd engage me to teach school, Uncle Joshua." " You," said my mother, opening her eyes wide with astonishment. " Why you ain't but a little git! yourself. " I'm most sixteen," I replied with an air of dignity, '• and I guess 1 know enough to teach a district school." "No doubt, no doubt," said Uncle Joshua but he added with a little uncertainty, "do you think you can make the children mind ? ' L " I'il do it or die in the attempt," said I he roically, feeling I suppose as Joan of Arc did when she waved her sword at the head of her army. Well, the upshot of it was that after over coming all the objections that were raised j against my plan, I succeeded in obtaining the appointment. The school was to begin in two weeks.— During that time I made hurried preparations, informing my school companions—for I was at that time attending school—with consider able pomposity, that I had keen called to take charge of a seminary in a distant town. Uncle Joshua had advised me rather quizzi cally to increase my stature by high heeled shoes, and though I scouted the suggestion at the time, I concluded to adopt it. At length all preparations were made, and I started one bright morning en route for the town of Beanborough. I traveled all day, and in the evening reached uiy uncle's house where I was to pass the night, and devote the next day to being examined to ascertain if I was properly qualified, and to installing myself in a boarding place. I forgot to men tion that I was to board round—this and a dollar a week constituting my compensation for teaching. As to the examination T needn't dwell up on that. I had no difficulty in "passing" and obtaining a certificate from the Commit tee, of my fituess to engage in tho responsi ble task of instructing the urchins of the Stump district in Beanborough. The district derives its name from an immense stump on ly a few rods to the west of the school house. Next morning Uncle Joshua drove me over to Mrs. Bumstead's where I wsu to board the first week. The house did not look particularly neat. There was a hog wallowing t in a drain over which 1 had to step, and everything inside and outside seem ed to he at sixes and sevens. " This is my neice, the new school ma'am, Mrs. Bumstead," 6aid Uncle Joshua. " I be lieve she's to board at your house first" "TO SPEAR HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGIIT."-Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25, 1863. " Well, I expect 60," said the lady, lean ing on her broom handle. " Tain't at all convenient, but then it never is, and as long as its got to be gone through with, I don't know but it might as well be, first as la6t." This was not a very cordial reception, and I felt a little uncomfortable, as Uncle Josh ua took off my trunk, and conveyed it into the house. " We hain't no spare room, Miss What's your name," proceeded my hostess, but I guess you can sleep between Roxana and Hannah Jane. You ain't any of you very big." These two girls were about ten years of age, and stood by with dirty faces and dis hevelled hair. I groaned inwardly at the idea of sleeping three in a bed with such companions, but thought it would be of no use to remonstrate. At lust, quarter of nine came, and I start ed with the two girls who were to be my scholars, for the school house. Instead "of an elegant rustic building, 1 found myself approaching a dilapidated edifice—which had been a shoe-shop, but bad been bought cheap for the use of the district.— Some of the window panes had been broken and their places supplied with old hats and other equally elegant substitutes. A disorderly group were standing in front of the building. " There's the school-ma'am," shouted one, and after a prolonged stare which confused me somewhat, they rushed tumultuously in to the school house. I followed them with as much dignity as I could assume. -Just as I got in, two boys were clinching each other in the back part of the room, and evidently preparing for active hostilities. I didn't feel halfso courageous as T thought I should. Although these boys were not more than eleven or twelve, I had no doubt that they were either of them stronger than myself, and it was in rather a faint tone thai I told them to stop, and inquired into the cause of their hostilities. " Jim Lynch has gnt my scat," said one glancing defiantly at the other. ' 'Tain't his'n ; it's mine," responded the other. " I'll leave it to any of the boys," said the I second. Otr referring it to the boys, each scented to be backed by about an equal number of supporters, and in my perplexitv, I knew ; not what to do. ! At last I bribed Jim Lynch to give up the j seat, and comparative peace was restored. This effected, I rang the bell ml proceeded ! to make a little speech which 1 had carefully ; written out and committed. The scholars did not seem very attentive, and signs of un j easiness induced me to cut it short. During the forenoon I noticed the scholars watched me pretty sharply, to notice what kind of a teacher 1 we- likely to prove. They were comparatively tranquil, and i felt en couraged. 1 At twelve o'clock, I re-turned to my board ing house for dinner. 1 had nothing but fried pork and potatoes, and some Very hard, indigestible brown bread. " It's washing day to-day," said Mrs. Bum stead, and " and we never calculate to get much of any dinner washing day." I incautio-Jsly sat down in a chair on which some milk had been spilt, which did not at all improve the looks of the black silk which I bad foolishly put on for my inauguration da}'. " You'll have to look out next time," said Mrs. Bumstcad in a tone which did not con vey much consolation. I did not relish my dinner, which in fact 1 had hardly, time to swallow, as afternoon school commenced at one. The next morning on entering school, I found the scholars more than usually quiet, although some of them seetned to be tittering about something. However, tins did not par ticularly attract my attention, though I heard a faint noise somewhere in the neighborhood of in}' desk, but did not know what it was. Unsuspiciously I proceeded to open the desk as usual, when out tlew a hen, striking me in the face, and startling me so as to elicit a scream of terror. This convulsed all the scholars with laugh ter and filled tne with indignation. " Who did this ?" I exclaimed. No reply. " If some one does not tell I shall be oblig ed to whip you all round." Upcn this one of the small children, terri lied by the threat, answered, "Jimmy Foote did it." I instantly determined to make an example of the offender who had so outraged my dig nity, in case he should prove not too large for me to undertake to whip. " James Foote, come here J" I called out with severity. No oue stirred. " James Foote, como hero this instant," I called again, stamping my foot angrily. The scholars began to titter again, which increased my anger. " Will any scholar point out Jatnes Foote?" I exclaimed as a last resort. " Jim Foote ain't here. lie went home be ore you came," volunteered the same scholar, who had informed me of tho boy's delinquin cics. Of course nothing could be done after this and I determined to let the matter pass until lie should appear. The scholars behaved very badly that mor ning. There was a constant whispering.— None of them knew their lessons, and the Spirit of Discord seemed to be let loose among them. I couldn't help wishing sincerely that I had never undertaken to be a teacher, finding it not quite so easy or pleasant as I had an ticipated. Just at the moment when Peter Andrew had stuck a pin into Ephram Phillips, and make him shriek with pain, and while two of the boys were standing in opposite corners with foolscaps on their htads, in walked Squire Humphries, chairman of the School Committee. I think he was a little appalled at the scene of confusion which presented itself. At any rate 1 was appalLd at the sight of my visitor. " I have come to see how you are getting along," said the squire, " 1 am glad to see you," said I with more politeness than truth. In my confusion I took out my handker chief to wipe the perspiration from my face, but unluckily [ had used it ouly a few min utes before, for the Vant of something better, to wipe off the ink from my desk, the ink stand having tipped over. Of course it was completely moist with ink, and my face after the application of the handkerchief must have presented a ludierious appearance. At any rate the scholars perceiving it burst into an uproarious laugh, some of them even throwing themselves on the floor, and rolling round in the excess of their delight. Squire Humphries at first frowned indig natly, but when he caught sight of my face, lie could not resist the infection, but burst into a laugh so hearty that it brought tears to his eves. Not understanding the cause of the mirth. I thought they* had all gone mad unt*'l I chan ced to look at the handkerchief, when my misfortune was revealed to me. | Squire Humphries apologized when he re covered from his mirth, but my mortification was such that I determined to send in my resignation as school ina'atn at once. It was i accepted, and I left Beanborough the next day, with forty cents in my pocket—being j compensation for two of the hardest day's work I ever attempted. After deducting from this amount my expenses to and from Boston, I catue to the conclusion that school teaching wasn't very profitable. - -r csmaHRRRHRHRnRi lijtdlaneous. \w~-— x THEY ARE SLEEPING. Yes, they are sleeping, a long dreamless Jeep, from which they will never awaken.— Sleeping far away from mother and home, far from wife and children, from brother and sis ter, and the fair gentle girl whose cheek has faded like the rose when the chilling blasts of Autumn sweep over it, waiting for the coming of the loved one. Perhaps it has not been long since they left home to go forth to battle for the , right; yet what a length of time, what an endless eternity it seems to the anxious hearts at home ! How eagerly they watch the post for the coming letter, and how disappointed thry are if it fails to arrive at the expected time. Then comes the news of a great bat tle, great loss of life, glorious victory. Ea gerly they grasp the paper, but the words all run together—there is a mist before their eyes. " Ilerc, Mary, you read this," says a mo ther whose son is in that battle; "my eyes are not as good as tbey used to be." But 'tis not her eyes ; 'tis the terrible fear that is gnawing at her heart, that makes her eye-sight fail her. Mary reads the list of the wounded. He is not there. A sigh of relief escapes the mother's bosom as they look down the list of the killed. " lie is not there, thank God !" cries the mother, bursting into tears. But, stop ! here is his name, and just oppo site to it the word " missing." Missing ! Crawled away, perhaps, to some lonely spot after being mortally wounded, to escape the scorching rays of the sun. He is left to die alone and uncared for ; or, worse still, taken captive, to languish in some lonely prison, shut out from the glad sunlight and life giv ing air that our God has so bountifully pro vided for all, to die, perhaps, at last! " Sleeping ! Yes in the lonely swamps, on the broad prairies, thousands are sleeping ; some stricken down by disease, wasting with fever, dying, indeed, martyrs to the cause they loved so well, yet not without the con soling thought that they had fallen bravely on the battle field. All along the blue Potomac they are sleep ing ; by pleasant streams and grand old for ests, that togeiher chant solemn dirges around their resting places, while the stars -keep mournful watch over them at night. And they will sleep on till the last roll-call is sounded—then there will be a grand awak ening—a terrible uprising in judgement against those traitors who, to serve their own base, ambitious euds, have brought such desolation and destruction upou our once prosperous aud happy land. A TRAITOR CONGRESS AND A TRAI TOR PRESIDENT. Thad. Stevens, the leader of the adminis tration party in Congress, in a recent speech before that body, on the establishment of a new State within the territory of Virginia, used the following language : " I say, then, that we may admit West Virginia as a new State, not by virtue, of any provision of the Constitution , but under abso lute power which the laws of war give us in the circumstances in which we are placed. I shall vote for this bill upon that theory, and upon that alone ; for I will not stultify myself by supposing that we have any wirr ant in the Constitution for tliis proceeding. This talk of restoring the Union as it was under the Constitution as it is, is one of the absurdities which 1 have repeated, until 1 have become about sick of it. This Union can never be restored as it was. There are many things which render such an event im. possible. This Union shall never with my consent be restored under the Constitution as it is, with, slavery lo be protected by it." No one doubts that this is the sentiment and the programme of the administration. We are told, "this Union shall never be re stored under the Constitution as it is," We have not for a long time doubted that such is the determination of Mr. Lincoln and the whole party in power. Hut had tlicy announ ced their real designs in the beginning, they could have never raised a respectable army for such a purpose—Mr. Lincoln has no right to call soldiers into the field for such an ob ject. And unless he backs squarely down from this unconstitutional use of the army) where will hefget another soldiers ? Will the States of New Jersey and New York permit any men to be drafted from the militia, for an object which is a confessed violation of the Constitution and the laws ? The ol.jects for which the State militia may be called into the service of the Federal Government, are ex pressly named and carefuly limited by the Constitution. If the President attempts to use the militia for unconstitutional purposes it is clearly the duty of the States to recall their troops from the field, and to refuse to allow any further drafting, until the adminis tration returns to the Constitution and the laws. It is within the power of State Executives and Legislatures to force a usurp ing President to abandon such a career of crime, by withholding and withdrawing the State troops. A Governor who should allow the citizens of his State to be dragged into the army for the avowed purpose of destroy ing the Union as it was, and the Constitu tion as it is, would be sure, in the end, to re ceive the execration and curses of the people, and would finally fall into the same hated page of history with the obscene joker, who thus abuses the confidence and the patriotism of a loyal people. The outj* of the Governor is plain. They are to promptly respect all constitutional requirements of the Feder.A administration. But they are not to obey an unlawful demand. Suppose the President should issue an order for drafting th& troops of New Jersey, for the avowed purpose of abolishing the marriage laws in the State of Pennsylvania. Would such an order be obey ed by the State of New Jersey ? No, it would be resisted even to the point of the bayo net, if it came to that. But we are told there is rebellion against the laws of the Un ion ; but it is not lawful to call them out to destroy the Union. But we have satisfied ourselves that we can not enforce the laws of the Union. And so you have made up your minds to destroy the Union! Because ycu find you are not strong enough to administer all the laws of the Constitution, you have de termined to destroy that sacred instrument altogether ! Because some deluded men say —we wish no longer to live within thejtem pie of the Union, you have set yourselves to work to pull tho whole temple down so that' nobody shall over live in it any more ! That is your position, O ye Catalines of Congress ! Shall we send our sons to fight to destroy the Union and the Constitution, because some have proclaimed that they are tired of living under their protection ? No, we will not. There must be another kind of legislation in Congress—another kind of proclamation from the hand of our law-defyiug and grammar despising President—before States which are truly loyal to the Government of our fathers will 6end more troops into the field. We have been told by the apologists for Mr. Lin coln, that the radical, traitor Governors have coerced the President to do wrong. Then let the conservative, loyal Governors coerce him back again to do right. If the radical trai tors would not suffer State troops to move forward until the President came out with a series of unconstitutional proclamations, let the conservative patriots withhold their for ces until those unconstitutional/schemes are j abandoned. If, as wo have been told, this wretched man, the President has been forced to proclaim against the Constitution, let him, by all means, be forced to re-proclaim in its favor. If rascals have compelled him to do j wrong let honest men compel him to do right. If the President is an honest man, lie will rejoice to be forced out of the clutches of the disunion radicals. If he does not agree with the Chairman of his Committee of Ways and Means, when he says—"J/ic Union shall never, with my consent, beiestored under the Constitution as it is," let him come out by conspirators, your epitaph The Old Guard BUYING APPLES OP A SECESH WO MAN. A correspondent of the Chicago Evening Journul tells the following good story, rela tive to our troops trading with an Arkansas woman: "Confederate money is the only thing that can be used here, except specie. ' Greenbacks' wont go; the people think them worth less than the paper they are printed on. It i 3 truly astonishing to sea j what confidence they have in their rebel', shinplasters, One morning, some of our sol diers went to the house of a wealthy citizen (rebel,) to purchase apples. The lady re-, plied that she would not take our money in payment, nor would she sell to " Fed."— This blocked the game, and the large pile of fine apples iu the cellar remained untouched. . But an idea struck one of the boys, and he resolved to have some apples by strategy.—* The general had given orders that nothing in the house should be molested ; hence strate gy must be resorted to. One of the Boldiera was stripped of his uniform and clothed in. the secesh garb of " butternut." A small pile of confederate shinplasters in his pocket properly prepared him for the enterprise.— Two soldiers with fixed bayonets, mar:hed him to the kind lady's house as a prisoner. The prisoner then told his tale of suffering, not only of himself, but of his companions and prisoners. The good lady S3 r mpat'nized deep- ~ ly with him, and 6old a bushl of apples for fifty cent shin plaster. The prisoner shoul dered the apples, and the guard marched him into camp. The strategy worked, and the boys a:e now doing a thriving business with fifty cent shier "fflaalera, and manufac tured prisoners, to the complete conquest of t.ie rebel apple pile. How long before the old lady willsmell a rat" is yet to be seen," - KISSING—" HUMAN NATURE." When a wild spark attempts to 6teal a kiss from a Nantucket girl, she says, " Sheer <;tT, or I'll split your mainsail with a typhoon.'* The Boston girls hold stiff until they are well kissed, when they Hare up all at once, and say, '* I think you would be ashamed." When a young chap steals a kiss from an Albany girl, she says, " I reckon its my turn now," and gives him abo 2on the ear that he don't forget in a month. When a clever fellow steals a kiss frotn a Louisiana girl, ehe smiles, blushes deeply, and says nothing. In Pennsylvania, when a female is saluted with a buss, she puts on her bonnet and shawl, and answereth, "I am astonished at thy assurance, Jebadiah, and for this indig nity will sew thee up. The Western ladies, however, are so fond of kissing, that when saluted on one cheek, they instantly present tbc ether. The Sag Harbor girls tussals and scratch es till out of breath, when she submits to her fate with the most examplary fortitude and resignation, without a murmur. Life's Happiest Ferio;>. — Kingsley gives his evidence on this disputed point. lie thus declares : "There is no pleasure that I have experienced like a child's midsummer holiday —the time I mean, when two or threo of ua used to go away up the brook, and take our . dinners with us, and come home at night tired, dirty, happy, scratched beyond recogni tion, and ona shoe, the other having been used for a boat, till it had gone down with al[ 1 hands out of soundings. How poor our Derby days, our Greenwich dinners our evening par ties, where there are plenty of nice girls, after that! Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasures of grief after four teen as he does before unless, in some cases, in his tirst love-making, when the sensation is new to him." SLNSIBLE ADA ICE. Professor Silliman, of New Haven, recently closed a Smithsonian lecture by giving the following sensible advice to young men - " If therefore, you wish for a clear mind and strong muscles, and quiet nerves, and long lite, and power prolonged in old age, permit me tu say, although I am not giving a temperance lecture, avoid all drinks above water and mild infusions of that fluid, shun tobacoo opium, and everything else that disturbs the moral state of the system ; rely upon nutri tious food, and mild d.luted drinks, of which water is the base, and you will need nothing beyond moral regulation of all your pewen, to give you long, happy and useful lives and a serene evening at the close." VOL. 2, N0.29.