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U LAW, Office on Tioga street, Tunkh.vnnock,
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rk Pa.
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Falls, Oct. 10, IBCI.
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PHYSICIANS ck SURGEONS,
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tming that they have located at M.-hoopanj*, where
;hev will promptly attend to all calls in the line of
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then not professionally absent.
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'ounties, that he c mtinues his regular practice in the
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LATE AMERICAN HOUSE,
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furnished in tbe latest style Every attention
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Tnnkhannock,September 11, 1861.
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f ft ken the Hotel, in the Borough of
■ Tunkhanncck. recently occupied by Riley
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>-patronage. The House has b.'en thoroughly
Paced, and tho comforts and accomodations of a
< Hotel, will be found by ;l || who mav favor
!tt> custom. 11 161
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Mreet, Philadelphia p a , ln2oly.
p resh Ground Plaster In (luantlties
and atprieeg to suit purchasers, now for sale a
try HOWRY JR. ,
poet's Corner.
[Written for the DEMOCRAT.]
MIDNIGHT MUSINGS.
BY MEKIBA A. BABCOCK.
" As all places at the South occupied by the Fede
rals, are cut off from all communication with the
Southern Army, many of us here have not heard
from oar husbands in twelve months If they fall
we shall never know when nor uhere , especially those
who went oi#as privates under the Conscript act."
Extract from a Letter.
The moonbeams came so bright, Charlie,
The moonbeams came so bright,
And wove their soft, white drapery
Round the baby's erio to-night,
That I wondered if the soldiers
And you among the rest,
Were talking 'nea'h the moonlight
Of the hearts that love you best.
There are days when storm-clouds thicken,
And the rain comes falling fast,
Days wherein no summer sunshino
Smiles away the howling blast,
Theu I wonder if the soldiers.
And you among the rest,
Ilave outside warmth and comfort,
And hope within your breast.
There are days when burning sunbeams,
Kiss the parched and arid earth,
Days when violet eyes are turning
Towards the banks that gave them birth,
Pleading vainly for the wavelets
That so oft have washed away,
The dew that droops their eye-lids
At the early peep of day.
Then I wonder if the soldiers,
'Neath the fiercely burning sun,
Are panting out their ltl'e-breath
On the field just lost or won,
And I tremble as I wonder
Whether you of all the rest,
Are lost on uv\\i forever,
To the heart that loves you best.
Select Stoni.
PAY AS YOU GO.
BY MRS. N. M. CON-U'UHY.
'• Wilson," said a young man to his friend,
£t you and I have about equal salaries, and
.-.pend about equal anvvint.* in the course of
the year; but you are always free and easy,
with plenty of money in your pocket, and
aparently not a care on your mind; while I
am always behind-hand and worried, and fret
ted, often with not a dollar in my pocket. 1
am not extravagant neither is my w>fe, yet,
for some reason, we never have the least good
of our money. It is all due long before we
get it, and I am mortified with duns when I
have nothing to pay. If you have any secret
hy which you manage to get along so well on
eight hundred dollars, I do wish you would
impart it."
" Wfll, Lewis I have a secret which ena
bles ine to live very comfortably, and never
be troubled by a dun from January to De
cember. It is i very simple, unvarying rule
I have laid down : " Pay as you go." If I
don't run in debt nobody can dun me. Live
on the right side of your income, and you
will always have plenty and no anxiety ; but
live on the wrong side, and, as you say, one
is always behind-hand and always worried-
The habit of paying as you go keeps you out
of many extravagances you would otherwise
fall into and think nothing of. But then I
must confess that I should hardly have kept
to the rule as faithfully, If it had not been for
Mary. It was a lesson she learned from her
father, and urged upon me when we first be
gan housekeeping. " Let us live on potatoes
and salt," she used to say, " before we run up
bills." We began humbly enough, and lived
pretty plain for the first quarter, though Ma
ry could get the best meal out of nothing I
ever saw. But when we once got a quarter's
salary before-hand, we could live as comforta
bly as we desired. The experience was good
for us, as it had taught us to ecouomize more
than we should if we had begun by running
in debt. Every man I deal with looks on me
as a cash customer, and I am sure to he ac
commodated if possible. Ido not doubt but
it makes ten per cent, difference in the prices
I pay for articles, and eight} dollars a year is
quite a consideration to you anrt to ine. Just
try my rule Lewis, and see it it don t work
like a charm."
" But how can I get started ? It w'll take
nearly everything I can command to pay of!
lulls this year, and I shall have nothing to
buy 'with until I obtain my next quarter's
salary. We cannot leave off the next three
months and stop eating, you know."
"It will take close economy for awhile,
that is true, and you must make every dollar
go a great ways. But I would try it even tf
I sold two or three articles of parlor furniture
to do it. It is a matter of life long import
ance to you and your three boys after you.
You can afford to make even great sacrifices
for such a permanent benefit to you all. Just
win over your wife to the project, and I atn
not a bit afraid but' that you will succeed.
Women arc thrice as good managers as we
are in regard to the particulars, as it is in the
little things you will need to retrench in or
der to get started. It is these little drops
that waste away the whole reservoir. Get
Fanny to come over and talk the matter over
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1863.
with my Mary, and if they put their heads
togetheo to plan out a campaign, the field
will be won you may depend."
And bidding his friend good-evening, John
Wilson ran up the steps of his pleasant home,
while two boight faces disappeared from the
window, and the little watchers were at the
door ready to " catch papa," the moment he
entered the hall. The good, wholesome sup
per was on the table in five minutes' time >
and gentle, womanly Gracie helped her little
brother and sister, while mother poured out
the fragrant tea. There were pleasant little
every day matters to be talked over by moth
er and children, and iehearsed to father, all
which he listened to, and commented on with
as much interest as if he had not been all da}
delving in dry old ledgers and day books, and
counting up endless columns of figures, keep
ing the mind on a continued stretch for the
working hours of the day. lie needed just
such a home in which to relax himself, to
keep him from growing irritable, and unsocial,
and prematurely old.
As Mary and her husband sat, that evening
by the pleasant lamp light, he related the con.
oersatiou which had passed.with Alfred Lewis,
the families had been old acquaintances before
their removal to the city, and each took an
interest in the other's welfare.
u I wonder," said Mary, if" Fanny would
not sell her piano. She told me herself she
did not open it except for company to play,
and it was no use to her, as the boys had no
taste for music. She never was much of a
musician, and has forgotten the little she did
learn when we were at schoul together. 1
would as lief have it for Gracie to learn on as
the new one we hoped to get imr next birth
day. Fanny's instrument is an excellent one,
and I know, if she parted with it at all, she
she would rather I should have it than any
one else."
It was decided that John should make the
proposition, at least, the next time he met
his friend, and Mary sent an invitation to the
Lewises to all come and take tea with her the
next evening.
It was a merry little party. The children
were all so fuil of glee, and Grace managed
so excellently to harmonize everything among
them. The oldest boy was near her age, and
baby Frank wore dresses still. They spent
the evening together in the dining room,
while the elders conversed in the parlor. A
good, cheerful supper is a great help to nmia
bilty. It puts people on good t- rnis with
themselves and all their neighbors. Mary's
tact had taught her that lesson long before ;
so she never introduced business until that
was fairly over. But when they were all
comfortably seated by the glowing grate—the
gentlemen in the arm-chairs, and Fanny and
herself in the licht rockers, stitching away at
some light needle-work—then the momentu
cus questions of ways and means were freely
discussed, and some very valuable decisions
made on that well remmbered evening. A bar
gain was made for tbe piano, with the under
standing that it might be bought Lack at any
time, if they choose—so it did not seem like
a sacrifice altogether. With economy, thev
thought, they might live on the sum it
brought them for the next three months,
without running up the accustomed " terrible
bills." Mary inducted her friend in(o many
little mysteries of economy she had never
thought of before.
" That old Valencia plaid of yours, Fanny,
would make lovely suits for Frank, this win
ter. Make little skirts to button on white
waists, and an open jacket like the skirt.—
I make Nendy's waists out of the plaits of
worn-out shirt fronts, and finish them, about
the neck and sleeves, with a little worked
edge, or a plain, narrow rullle. I have bo't
nothing but shoes and stockings for him for
six months."
" Well, you are a manager, Mary. I will
certainly try to follow your example. I
have often wondered how you could allord
to dress your children so handsomely.
" I intend, when Neddy is older, to cut
his father's worn out clothing into suits of
boy's clothes for him. Only get good pat
terns, and it is a very easy matter. I used
often to help my mother about such work.—
4 A penny saved, is two pence eai ned,' she
she used to say—an old-fashioned proverb,
quite out of date now-a-days, but as true as
it ever was."
And so the friends spent a pleasant even
ing, imparting and receiving valuable les
sons in practical economy, which gave a very
different coloring to the future comfort and
success in life of one of the parties. Though
it was working against wind and tide, lor
the time, Fanny Lewis and her husband per
severed in their dete r inination to adopt tbe
motto of" Pay as you go ;" and, before the
year was done, the habit was well establish
ed. Mr. Lewis, too, was astonished to find
himself the possessor of a handsome surplus,
which was deposited, with great satisfaction
in the Savings Bank, though he had always
been well assured that could lay up nothing
for a rainy day until his salary was much in
creased.
What an advantage it would be, if all
heads of families could adopt the same rule
of life ! What a world of harrassing care
would be removed from the mind of both
debtor and creditor ! How much more in
dependently a man cm walk the streets, who
feela that bis only debts are those of love and
good-will to all mankind ! It is not only, an
excellent wordly maxim, but also a Scriptu
ral injunction, to " owe no man anything."
Savs Dr. Todd, in his valuable work for
students.
" All the efforts of denying yourself the
luxuries, and even the comforts of life, are
light in comparison with the burden of ow
ing.
——■—
PoliticaL
ADDRESS OF HON. D. W. YOORHEES
He fore the Democratic Union Association
of New York.
Mr. Yoorhees began bv saying that he
owed his loyalty to the people. The people
have settled down, he said, to understand
the great fundamental principle
uhich lies at the foundation of our govern
ment, which is expressed in the first line of
the Constitution, that the peoj le make this
government, and when 1 stand before the
people and talk to them I am talking to the
only goverameut I owe any allegiance to.
S. -Applause.) Loyalty is often defined bv
some speakers and by men in tho halls of
legislation. I can defiee my loyalty in a
single word. I owe my allegiance to the
Constitution of my country. I owe it in
that sense in which our fathers wrote it
The sovereign power of this land was placed
by them in the hands of the people in ex
press terms—not by construction, and in ex
press tartns, not Mr. Lincoln and bis cabinet.
(Hisses.) No President and no cabinet, 110
office-holders constitute yonr government.
1 hese are times, however, when a few office
holders whose time is soon to expire, hav
ing the power to-day, promulgate the strange
doctrine that they are the government.—
Let that doctrine once prevail and this a free
government no more—your government is
overturned, and you niii accept a monarchy
or despotism or any other form of govern
ment from the other side of the Atlantic,
and our form will be no more. I atu not
here because anybody lets me come—be
cause any master, provost-marshal, Presi
dent, or Secretary of War says I may be
here. I ain here because iti 3 tny right to be
here, because you invited me here, and when
I look iu the faces of those before me I ten
der my allegiance to you as my government.
I owe none to those that would overthrow
the liberties of my country. (Applause.)
I owe them simply commendation and sup
port in that in which they are right—l owe
them opposition and denunciation in all that
they do that is wrong. (.Cheers.) The
speaker th en reviewed at some ' length the
history of the Democratic party, saying that
it had always been a noble organization • to
which any man might have been proud to
belong, aud contrasting the condition of the
country under Democratic rule to its condi
lion uow, he said : I see its history written
in every bright line of your country's pros
perity and happiness. The people were safe ;
the Union was saved; the Constitution was
preserved. The fruits of labor came to the
sons of toil ; no gigantic debt, no taxation,
no wailing widows or sobbing orphans mark
ed its lrack and the policy of this govern
ment, and yet would you ask me to-night to
abandon this time-honored and glorious or
ganization for this pirate of the high seas of
politics that I shall speak of directly? I
saw in the morning papers of the other
morning that a distinguished gentlemen of
your city said it was good once in a while,
as we were progressing along, to get oukof
the old stage of the Democratic party—that
John Van. Buren (groans and hisses) said it
was good to get out of the Democratic om
nibus and walk ; and I understood him to
say that he was out ami walking now. I
will tell you how to do : just instruct the
driver to whip up the horses and let him
trudge the balance of the journey on foot—
(Applause.) A man that would rather walk
on foot, and trudge along in common with
Wendell Phillips, and Horace Greeley, and
Lincoln, and Stanton (loud hi-sing,) and
that class of foot-passengers, I do not think
is fit company to ride inside a stage-coach
full of Democrats. (Great cheering.) Mr.
Voorhees read from the debates in Congress,
showing that Douglas said in the Thirty
sixth Congress that if his party had triumph
ed in the last election the people of the South
ern States would have rested in the security
that they were safe, and the Union never
would have been dissolved. Washington,
Jefferson, Jackson, Clay, and Webster pre
dicted that the result of a sectional party
would be disunion and civil war, and yet the
Republicans are excessively sensitive about
being charged as being the authors of this
war. I am 6ure, said the speaker, if I felt
that the blood of this war was in any way
upon my hands, or that any vote of my band
had brought into existc nee this thousand
miles of graves upon the borders of the South,
had caused this mourning of mothers for
their first born, like Rachel wee ping for her
children because they are not. If I thought
that I was responsible by word or deed for
this war, I should feel that upon my fingers
was the blood-red damned spot of murder j
that would incarnadine great Neptune's wave, 1
and that all the waters of the ocean would
net wash out. (Great applause, and " three
cheers for Yoorhees the patriot" given beart
ily.) There would be no repose for me this
side or the other of the grave, I would have
to have a lighted candle in ray romn to keep
away specters of the murdered dead slain in
battle. I thank God to-night, and love to
look in the faces of an audience that partici
pate in the feeliug that no Democrat has to
tike the guilt of this great crime against na
ture and humanity. You know it well that
if everybody had voted as you voted, and
talked as you talked, and minded their own
business as you minded yours, and let the
slave states alone in slavery, and let them
have the guarantees of the Constitution—
who does not know that there would have
been peace and union before to day ? The
man that pretends he don't know it, falsifies
his own internal convictions. Every man
knows it. He who stands before you and
says it is not true don't even represent his
own heart. It is an instinctive feeling in
your breasts, and you know it. Consequent
ly when you ask this question of Republi
cans, how anxious, nervous, and sensitive
are, how quickly they put up their
hands and say " Let's argue this question
when the war is over"—it is like Banquo's
ghost threatening Macbeth. Their eyeballs
are scared by the awful sight. They ask
that the day of reckoning may be postponed ;
like some guilty wretch upon the verge of
hell itself they say, " Forbear a few days,
let us not discuss these questions now."—
How loving they are with Democrats that
will give them time—with men who will
agree to say "we will speak of these things
when the war is over." Ah, gentlemen,
short accounts and quick settlements are
best. (Great cheering.) I propose to settle
this account all along the line. It is best te
do so, because they will be asking us to trust
them again directly. I propose to keep this
record bright. I propose to keep the rec
ord of their infamy clear before the public
mind so far as my humble powers may go,
so that the people may be deceived by these
miscreants no more. (Cheers.) They were
very anxious to have no party when Congress
met in July, 18G1. in extra session. There
were just a few of us there—some seven or
eight when the roll was called—that felt
their feet were on the deck of the Constitu
tion, and who did not intend to be washed
off. They told us, you know, that we were
a little nest of conspirators, that we were
going to be overwhelmed, that people were
not going to stand by us. But I have read
history in vain if that man is not always sup
ported who merely takes the rudder of pop
ular liberty for his guide and follows it.—
(Applause.) We could have had places,
emoluments, epaulets, rich contracts, bought
horses and got rich as old Cameron did,
(loud hisses) stole as much as anybody else,
had we been willing to put up the inward
consciousness of uprightness and integrity
at barter and exchange, had we been willing
to bow the knee and whisper with pated
breath. We could have gone on swimming
on this current—no newspaper offices mob
bed, no personal safety imperiled—how easy
it would have been. Did you ever reflect |
how much it cost to be an honest man some
times, and how easy it is to be a scoundrel ?
How easy it has been to jump upon a frenzy
—a popular side and come into power, into
place, into position ? The men who have
done this are called loyal and 6elf-sacrilicin g,
and the little band of men who have taken
the Constitution as their pillar of fire by
night and their cloud by day through this
wilderness, that have been sacrificing every
thing and making nothing—we are the li
centious and profligate men.
What cause have we had to do as we have
done except the cause of truth, the cause of
the country, the cause of the constitutional
liberty ? (Applause.) The speaker referred at
some length to the efforts of the administra
tion to bring the negroes to an equality with
the white race, and of the uniformity with
which they have falsified every promise of
a prosecution of the war for the Union and
have carried out all the most extreme de
sings of the abolitionists, while crying out for
no party, lie continued : Thus, my follow
citizcns, I have traced some of the pernicious
causes which have led to the present deplora
ble sta'e of the country. I have shown
you the broken faith of those in power, and
that even if this war could restore the L T uion
it has not been prosecuted for such a purpose.
The blood and treasure of the country have
been obtaiued on (alse pretensees. 1 have
shown you these things. I will show you
some other things tiiat make the public heart
sick and weary of this war—that make them
long for halcyon days of peace. (Great ap
plause.) The South have not been told that
they might come back like the prodigal son
to the mansion of their fathers ; they have
not been told that the old mansion would re
ceive them. If they had come back to-day
what would they find ? As Mr. Cnttenden
taid, that "your confiscation law to-day
lines the borders all along with gibbets and
ropes, and they would have tu bend their
necks recumbent under lines of gibbets, and
suffer beneath the judgment of that law which
you pronounce in advance of the return. You
have stripped them of their property—even
the widow whose son is in the rebel army to
whom she has given a crust of bread ; even
tho infant babes in tho cradle have been
swept of their possessions by this confiscation
law. Do you suppose it is in the nature of
i TERMS s SI.GO PER ANigtTM'
man to ret urn to the embraces of the govern
ment under such circumstances ?" ("No no.")
Wise laws, just enactments, conciliation
compromise in the mid3t of peace, rot in the
midst of war, may once more restore thb
shattered and bleeding remains of this repub,
lie. War will no more do it than I would
have the power of standing before a corpse
here and place my hand upon its face till it
should rise to life again. Our hope is in
peace. (Great applause.) We have tried war,
ed upon brotherly affection, can be restored
by killing each other are proved to be right,
and I w-ong, I will retire to my profession, or
get a piece of ground and spend the remain
der of my days in obscurity, acknowledging
my error. I challenge the judgment of histo
ry ;I am ready to go before it. There nev
er was a time when there was so 'imperative
a necessity for the perfect organization of the
Democratic party as now. (Applause.) Why,
the black man has the fostering hand of this ad
ministration to elevate him in every possible'
way. Look at the encouragement they have
met. Down with the white man and up with
the black man has been the motto of this ad
ministration. Step by step the habeas corpus
swept away personal liberty, in evfery form
violated the key that Lafayette gave to
Washington to hang up at Mouut Vernon as
a lelic of European despotism, has been trans
ferred, I have no doubt, to turn the bolts of
and what have you done? Continue to try
it as I have no doubt you will until the end 5
of this administration, and lam ready to'
abide the issue; and if it should come to pass
that those who believe that this Union, found
that fort named after that hero of ilberty,-
Lafayette, as if in mockery of liberty, and as
if hi insult to the teachings of the revolntioq
as if in derision and disdain ol the teachings
of the past. Everything seems to have been
perverted, and Fort Lafayette, named after
him who shed his blood for us , has been
used to incarcerate innocents. Let me say
this; I am a law-abiding man. I counsel
obedience to law. You have heard the con
scription act discussed. You have heard all
those laws discussed by the eminent gentle
men who have preceeded me. I shall not dis
cuss them to-night. lam for no revolution
against laws legacy enacted. Let them be
decided in the courts ; let them have fair tri
al ; let them be swept away by the ballot-box.
We can abide that. But one subject has nev
er failed to produce revolution, to cause tha
proudest governments the world ever saw to
rock from center to circumference when your
blood and mine flowed in the veins of the
citizens of that ccuntry. It is the question
of personal liberty. You cannot enslave a
Saxon, a Celt, or a Tenton. It is the proud
blood of Northern Europe all combined here,
and he who lays his hand upon the great
monuments of personal liberty might as well
expect to lay his hand upon the name of tha
ocean to make it be still. I say boldly to
these men, " Walk within well defined lim
its of law and all will be well; but when yoo
walk outside of them to strike me or my fel
low men with ine, then I am your peer, and
I resist force by force. (Tremendous cheer
ing.) Life is not so precious as to be bought at
the expense of personal dishonor and pesonql
degradations. (Applause.) I shall say to
my people when I stand in their midst— an
intelligent and noble constiuency—as I shall
on next Saturday if I live, that 1 shall hold
the persons and property of these men who
countenance arbitrary violence as hostages
for the peace ol the community. (Applause.)
We are good as they are. (" Better.") They
feed on no meat that enables them to stride
across our diminutive and prostrate forms.
I recognize no master of that kind in this
government and of this administration, and if
its millions are determined to try this issue
then woe to this land, woe to this country.
A new desolation and new horror will seize
the hearts and limbs of men, but "whatever
may betide I know very well how the Ameri
can people will respond to that issue. They
will bear much, but will not bear all. And
it is well and better for these men to ander
stand that. (Applause.) M. Voorhes closed
by urging the Democracy of New- York to
join hands with the Democracy of the West
in this struggle to main tain the Constitution
and the Union, which are the only guarantee#
of our liberties. (Great cheering.)
The Bill to purchaso " American
citizens of African descent" from tbeir DIM*
ters in Missouri, has passed the United States
Senate by the usual Abolition vote. Ths
price set upon each negro is S2OO, to raise
which the tax payers of the north are to be
worked and starved. If Missouri wants to
get rid of the institution, let her do as the
other northern states have done. We ven
ture the prediction, that if her cupidity leads
her to accept of the bribe offered by the
United States Senate, she will fail. It will
never be paid. While the people of the north
ern states are willing to let slavery alone
whci ? it exists, they will not submit to a tax
to become wholesale dealers in niggere.—JEx
duintjc-
The Tax payers' Manuals has jaat
been published, and, iu brevity, it beats tbe
Military Manual all hollow. It has but
three principals orders, which are as follows :
1. Draw wallets !
2. Fork over!
3. Retire I
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