~~ - ■ •ct A.nvaY SICBLL.BH proprietory NEW SERIES, flortjj fraiif| flrawtral Terms —1 copy 1 year, (in advance) $1.50. If not pain within six months, #2.00 will be charged ADVERTISIKTG, 10 lines or ill? less, make three i four ; two three j six ; one one square weeks' weeks,mo th mo' tk mo' th j year 1 Square ToO< 1,25 2,25 2,87: 3,00 5,00 2 do. 2,00s 2.50 3.25; 350 4,50s 6,00 3 do. 3,001 3,75; 4,75, 5.50; 7,00; 9,00 1 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 do. B,oo' 9,50 14,00 18,00S 25,00. ( 35,00 1 do. 10,00? 12,00-17,00< 22,00) 28,00 s 40,00 Business Cards of one square, with paper, $5. JOB WOFIH; of all kinds neatly executed, and at prices to suit the times. ftajtiitw Jtota. BACON STAND.— Nici .ison, Pa. —c L JACKSON, Proprietor. [vln49tf ] P EO. S. TUTTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, VT Tunkhannock, Pa. Office in Stark's Brick BIOCK, Tioga street. t M. M. PIATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Of * V fice in Stark's Brick Block, Tioga St., Tunk nanneek, Pa RR. As S, W, LITTLE ATTORNEY'S AT, LAW, Office on Tioga street, Tunkhannock Pa. JV. SMITH, M. D, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, • Office on Bridge Street, next door to the Demo crat Office, Tunkhannock, Pa. HS. COOPER, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON • Newton Centre, Luzerne County Pa. Dll. J. C BECKKR A Co., PHYSICIANS A SURGEONS, Would respectfully announce to the citizen? of Wy ming that they have located at Tunkhannock wher hey will promptly attend to all calls in the line of neir profession. May be found at his Drug Stero when not professionally absent. JM, CAREY, M. D. — (Graduate of the g • M. Institute, Cincinnati) would respectfully announce to the citizens of Wyoming and Luzerne Counties, that he continues his regular practice in the various departments of his profession. May ne found •t his office or residence, when not professionally ab etit Particular attention given to the treatment Chronic Dieeas entremoreland, Wyoming Co. Pa. —v2n2 WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAS' HC.ZTSE. TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO , PA. rHIS establishment has recently been refitted and furnished in tbe latest stylo Every attention will be given to the comfort and convenience of those who patronize the Houe. T. B W ALL, Owner and Proprietor. Tunkhannock, September 11, 1861. MAYNAI; J'S HOTEL, tdnkhannock, WYOMING COUNTY, PENNA. JOHN MAYNARD, Proprietor. HAVING taken the Hotel, in the Borough of Tunkhannoek. recently occupied V>y Riley Warner, the proprietor respectfully solicits a share of smblic patronage. The House has been thoroughly 'repaired, and the comforts and accomodations of a *Brat class Hotel, will be found by all who may favor t with their custom. September 11, 1861. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA Win. H. OORTRIGHT, Prop'r HAVING resumed the proprietorship of tke above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to house an agreeable place of sojourn for ll who may favor it with their custom. Wm. H. CCRTRIHHT. June, 3rd, 1863 stos lotrt, TOWANDA, PA D. B- BARTLET, [Late of the Bbraisard Housb, Elhirx, N. Y.J PROPRIETOR. The MEANS HOTEL, Rone of the LARGEST and BEST ARRANGED Houses in tee se fitted up in the most modern and improved style and no pains are spared to make it a pleasant and agreeable stopping-place for aIL v 3, n2l, ly M. UiLAJA.N, \ i OILMAN, hag permanently located in Tunk . -L. nannock Borough, and respectfully tenders his j-refesrional services to the citisens of this place and urrounding country. ALL WORK WARS ANTED, TO GIVE SATIS FACTION. JhET Office over Tutton's Law Offioe, near th e Pos Dec. 11, 196 J. TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS OF BOTH SEXES. HA VINO BEEN SR2SK T asa* ""i ■- the means of cure Hence on m creatures flressej envelop be wiR nd tfL? Ce ' pt ° f " prescription need Direct to Dr jS,* m°tT ** rulton StrMt < Brooklyn, New York. Stlttl St am A o STORY* BY A NATIVI or CANADA. I was told I had committed murder. That's what I was told, when I found my self, heavily ironed, in a dark, damp, noisome cell of a gloomy prison. Whom had I- murdered ? Moses Gilworth, the usurer. Ha! Moses Gilworth ! Let me think ! I bad been to him to get a bill discounted. Ho had charged me sixty per cent., for I had needed ready money'and he would touch it on no othes terms. He was a small mean' wrinkled, dirty skined, sordid old wretch, with an eye like a hawk's and nose like his bill; and I remember having wondered if such a thing had a soul. So I bad killed him, had I ? How ? When? Where? With a burgler's crow bar, in tbe dead hours of night, in his own office, where he slept. I had beat io his brains, and myself and co partners in crime had robbed the place and made off with the booty. I had been taken, all besmeared with blood, with a portion ; but my accompleeces had escaped. Then, along with my confederates, I had committed murder and robbery' and there was proof enough to bang me. This was a strange tale for me to hear for the first time in the place where I was, with no remem brance whatever of anything after leaving the usurer s office except going into a drink ing saloon and calling for some brandy. Could it be possible that I had drank too much, had fallen in with wicked strangers, and waile in a state of temporary insanity, had been persuaded or forced into the awful crime of which I stood charged ? It must be so, if the story was true : for no other hy puthesis could I frame my explanation of the mystery. I had been committed to take my trial, and in due course of law it came on. Meantime I had secured eminent Counsel, who were not able to set up any better plea than that I had drank freely through the evening preced ing the murder, and waa insane at the time of perpetrating the horrid deed. And that I had nrank to excess was conclusively proved by several witnesses. Also, that I had been seen, at a late hour, in company with two suspicious looking men, reeling down through a dark, narrow street In the direction of Gil worth's office. Some hours after this I had been stumbled against in a dark, narrow alley, about a quarter of a mile distant from the place of crime, by a man who was returning home from a print >ug office,where he had been at work through the night, and who, calling the police, dehv ered me into their hands I could then walk with a little assistance ; and on being taken to the lock-up and found besmeared with blood, I had stated, in answer to ques tions that I had been killing a wolf and get ting well paid for the act. exhibiting the money stolen from the miser's office as a proof. Early the next morning the murder had been discovered and fixed upon me, and 1 had been committed to take my trial, with no remembrance of the facta, as I have already declared. The plea of ciy counsel, which was a true and honest one, and amounted to nothing with the court and jury, and I was found gnuilty of murder in the fir6t degree. A mo tion for a new trial also availed nothing, and in the proper course of justice I was senten ced to be hanged by the neck till dead. I pass over the intervening time between the sentence and the honr of execution, and Come to the strangest part of my story I was conducted to the gallows attended by a minister of the gospel, the high sheriff, and other officials, and found myself surrounded by a vast concourse of people, who had come to amuef themselves by seeing me hanged for one of the darkest crimes known to the law. I could berceive at a glance that I had no sympathy—that all believed me guilty— that I was looked upon as a wretch for whom hanging was too mild a punishment ; and yet, in the very depths of my soul, I was innocent as a child of the crimes for which I was to suffer. " Do you feel, my friend, that the grace of God has vet marked a change in your soul?" inquired the clergyman, in a mild tone of hu mility, as, side by side, we ascended the steps of the dreaded scaffold, upon which so many poor culprits had gone before me with quaking knees and sinking hearts. "Do you humble ourself in the dust, truly re pent and confess all, the vilest criminal" alike with the lightest transgressor?" It was evident that he still believed me guilty of the crime with which I stood charged, notwithstanding my oft-repeated declaration to the contrary. " I should suppose," answered I, in a somewhat offened tone. " after all the conver sation we have had together, that it would hardiy be necessary for ma to again assert that I am inocent of the gnilt of mnrderiand that is all my sins, so far as I know, I have repented long ago, and humbly and sincerely asked forgiveness." i "TO BPKAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17, 1864. " Re you say, then, here on this dreadful gallows that is about to lannch you into eter nity, that you are unconscious of ever having done Moses Gilworth wrong T* " With my dying breath I deny it." He looked at me steadily for a few mo ments, as if debating within himself whether or no to believe my statement, and then ask ed if 1 had any hope of a reprive. " None whatever," I replied. M How eould I have, when I can see that every one, yourself included, believe me guilty of mur der V t "Do you believe that the witnesses in court swore falsely or truly ?" he asked, riv eting bis eyes upon mine. " I have no reason to doubt that they swore truly, according to the best of their knowledge and belief." " Then by your|nwn connfession, you ad mit you murdered Gilworth," "I do not deny the act— only the guilt. I am prepared to admit, nnderall the circum stances, that I killed Moses Gilworth in the manner related ; but I deny that I was sane conscious, and responsible at the tine of do ing the awful deed." "I believe you," he said, grasping m y hand '"and would to heaven, my poor friend that I could save you ! It is terrible to be lgnom iniously punishedffor a crime of which in your very heart you are innocent; but the ways of Heaven are not our ways, and it is doubt less permitted for some wise purpose." He then prayed with me, and took a sad and tearful farewell. The hangman then se cured my hands behind me, placed me on the fatal drop, adjusting the rope about my neck and drew over my face the cap which was intended to shnt me from tne world for ever. For a few moments I stood praying in that agoniz'ng suspense more terrible than death itself; and then, along with a rattling sound, 1 experienced a 6ense of falling, a thousand balls of fire flashed and danced be fore my eyes, a mighty rushing aud roaring as of a hundred cataracts, filled my ears Then gradually but swiftly, these lights fade! and sounds died away, and a momentary darkness and stillness succeeded. Then there came a faint stream of light, as from a distant sun; and this gradually but rapidly increased in brightness, till my eyes seemed dazzled by its brilliant splendor. Then along with the sweetest strains of an unearthly music, a most glorious vision burst npon my enrapturd senses—a vision beyond the pow er ot human imagination to describe. In a celestial world, where every sense was fill ed and thrilled and made faint with excesses, I seemed to be borne swiftiy along, upheld by some invisible power. The sounds were as a thousand melodies, all blending into one grand sympathy, swelling out and dying away alternately ; and the scenes were as a swiftly revolving sun, filling the whole space of tho heavens and throwing off scintillations of the most gorgeous aud varied hues. In this atmosphere ef melodv and color. I was borne rapidly onward, as a something filled with rapture—existing and yet not existing —without apparent individuality or identity a focus, as it were of sensation without body or form. How long this glorious vision lasted I can not say ; it might have been seconds—it might have been minutes—it might have been hours ; but suddenly, there seemed to be a crash, and the sense of a blow, followed by darkness, horror and pain. I opened my eyes, my mortal eyes, and found myself lying naked upon a long, narrow table, or platform, in a small lamplighted apartment, with two men standing over me, their faees white with terror, and their forms trembling. u Gracions heaven ! what means this?"— cried one ; Ts he really alive?" ,' Alas, yes! gasped I, as the most chok ing horrid pains shot throngh me. I lost all consciousness again immediately —lost all reason and comprehension and yet retained a sense of suffering. When I again opened my eyes I found myself upon a bed wrapped np in blankets, with the 6ame two men regarding me with the most intense interest, but no longer with fear. "I do believe we shall save him yet !' said one. "see his eyes are resuming their natural expression ; and if I am not mistaken, his reason is returning also." " How has this happened ?" inquired I, in a low, faint tone, feeling very weak. " My friend," answered one of the two, " you must not exert yourself to talk now— by and by we will tell you all. Here, take this and remain quiet," and with the words he poured some liquid from a phial into a spoon. I swallowed tho potion and soon fell into a sweet, refreshing sleep. Some hours later I awoke again, feeling my body stronger and my mind clearer. The two men were still with me— they had watched over me as a mother over an infant " Now tell me all," said I as memory be came busy with events that seemed but the wild vagaries of some monstrous dream. " What do YOU remember ?" inquired one. " ranch that is terrible to think of," I an swered, with a shudder; " prison—a trial—a sentence— a scaffold !" II Do you remember being hanged V* " I remember all the preparations for that awful event and some horrid sensation im mediately afterward#, followed by a glorious vision, from which I awoke in your pres ence." " Yes you were hanged till believed to be dead, after which you were cat down and given to as for disseotion." yon are surgeons then ?' " yes; we had you conveyed to our dissect ing reom, and thither repaired ourselves, af ter dark, prepared for our work. The first incision made by one of our knives brought you to life ; and constant care and attention since together with the administra tion of proper remedies, have enabled us to save you." " And am I really saved ?" I eagerly de manded, or do you intend to hand me over to the authorities, to be legally murdered again ?" •' Ah, that is the very question we are now considering. The law has taken its course, and you have been miraculously saved ; but is it not oar duty to hand you back into custody ?" " Not when Heaven has refused the sacri fice of an innocent man!" said I. " But hear me before you decide, aDd then, if you believe not my tale, oh, let me plead for that mere? which you may sometime need your selves, either here or hereafter ?" , I began and told my story in my own way and it was an impressive one. The twojmen listened attentively, and gave me their sym pathies, even if they doubted my narration. Then they consulted together, and decided to give me liberty on condition that I would sacredly keep their secret and speedily leave the country never to return. I accepted their conditions, was provided with .a dis guise, and three days after was on board a vessel bound to a foreign clime. I have nev er seen myj native land since, and never expect to behold it again. The public be lieve me dead, but my friends know I live —and that is enough for me. M; tale is a strange one, and I ask none to believe it but it it all true nevertheless. ftlkcUamous. THE N. 11. States and Union forcibly and bluntly remarks: "We have frequently said, in substance— that Abolitionism is the most fiendish, tbe most totally deprived and devilish of all the enormities which ever traversed the face of the earth. It is a hideous, deformed outlaw, which no decent civilization ought to toler ate anywhere. It ha 6 taken possession of our Government in spile of a majority of two to one against it. How it is managing the affairs of the great people, how it is piling up the national degradation, is patent to all The history of civilized nan will be searched in vain for a parallel to its transcendent in famy." That is the way to talk about the present party of barbarism. WHAT WILL PEOPLE THIHK?—MR and bis wife were aittng, a few days since quite close to each other, in their home; the husband feeling somewhat loverlike. although for years a married man, put his arms around his wife and saluted her affectionately. The wife pushed him away saying:—, You should not do such things when the door is open and the people are passing. They will think we are net married if they see us kissing each other.' Rev. Dr. Kirk of boston, has delivered a ser mo" to show that "the Church is in danger of infidelity ." Then we fear the Church has the worst of it—for it will be a long time, in this country, before infidelity will be in danger from the ehurch. The church has, alas forsa ken Christ for negroes! Logically, we may ex pect all white men, who respect themselves, to be infidel to such churches. ' ''Snobs." said Mrs. Snobs to her hus band, the other day. after the ball, "why did you dance with every lady in the room last night, before you noticed me?" ..Why, my dear," said the devoted Snobs. "I was only practicing what we do at the dinner table reserving the best for the last." £3TWhat the world calls avarice is some times no more than compulsory economy, and extravagance. A jus* man being reproached with parsimony, said that he would rather en rich his enemies after his death than borrow of his friends in lifetime SWKET is the masic of the sea shell.* We can't say as much for that of the bomt -sh 11. AH industrious girl's needle is an ins ru - ment by means of which she both s. wa and reaps. GEHERALLT women adorn themselves for their enemies even more than for their friends Tic man who is bung dies in a fit—a prat, ty close one. THS memories of joys and sorrows are their pale ghosts CHURCH MEDDLING WITH POLITICS The Louisville True Presbyterian contains the following caustic remarks on the above subject • If tbe Church continues this intermeddling with things of the State, how long will it be till the State will meddle with the Church ? A sample of this was recently seen in Glas gow, Kentucky where the military authori ties sent the national flag into the Methodist Conference, with the demand that each min ister should salute it. But this treating an ecclesiastical body as thongh it was a politi cal body would never have been thought of had it not been for the common political maneuvering of preachers. If as eccleiastics they invade political ground, they certainly may expect to be invaded in turn. The Church thus sets an example danger ous to herself as well as to the country. Hei nature, her policy and ber intentions are all more eaßily learned by the public from what she does than from her creed. And who, that has been studying her these last few years in the light of what she has been doing) would for a moment dream that she was not of this world—that she was in her nature and appointment a purely spiritual and ec clesiastical body—a great institution of peace set up in the world to that end ? As they have listened to hor in her pulpits, and as they have looked in upon assemblies and caught the tone and object of a large portion of her debates, and read her long and labor ed political acts—as they saw her worldly temper—more eager, more ardent and more warlike than military men—who of them ail thus learning the nature of the Church from her acts could believe that the great Head and Teacher of tbe Church waß the Prince of Peace ? Such a conclusion from such prem ises would be impossible. But this is not all, going into the armies? of this great war, they find companies, regi ments battalions and divisions headed by Rev. Captains, Colonels and Generals— Christ said' my kingdom is not of this world; but what can be more of this world than heading armies and fighting bat tles. They have left the pulpit to take the sword, and thus give their highest testi mony to the supremacy of the world over the kingdom of Christ. Paul said, " God forbid that we should glory, save in the art and practice of war." The same apostle said, " Woe is me if I preach not the Gospel;' but these men say woe to us if we are not frond on the battle field and in the slaughter of our enemies. The love of the brethren is one of the evi dences of Christianity, but when Rev. mili tary men meet in battle and strike each other in death, have they not abandoned and falsified all their ministerial engagements and professions ? What a strange idea of the Christian religion what would a heathen get bywitnessing all these things! The report which he would cairy home would certainly be a terrible carricature of Chris tianity, and a powerful obstacle to its recep tion, where such a report was known and be lieved. THE Bridgeport Farmer says: The Abolitionists are supposed to be phil anthropists—that is the title by which they dosire to be known. They are particularly zealous in ameliorating the condition of the lacks gathering them into camps, instructing them, and directing their labor. But when the touchstone of truth is applied, we read of such results as the following : "About four thousand contrabands died in the camps near Memphis withiu three months of destitution." Well may the miserable wretches exclaim —"Save us from our friends" whose embrace means hunger, want, misery, destitution death! At the time of the Barricades in 1588, the celebrated Achilles Harlay, First President of the Parliament of Paris, was seized by the League and sent to the Bastile. On enter ing the horrid fortress be said : "It is a great pity, when the servant is able to dis miss the master." Now, after two hundred and eighty three years, the people in the United States, the masters are seized by the President, their servant and sent to bastiies And, strange to say, the instrument of this lawless power calls itself the League , as it did in France, nearly three hundred years ago. Look out of thy grave, oh most noble Achilles Harlay ! and behold bow the ser vant dismisses and 'imprisons the master, as in thine own time Day Book. A RIDDLE —There is a father who has twlcce six fions ; these sons have each thirty daughter*' parti-colored, having one cheek white, and the other black, who never Bee other's face, and do not live more than twenty-four hours A printer named Winn, who died at Roch ester, England, recently was heard to murmur to himself a few mements before his death: 'I am on my last stickful; fam coming to a paragraph, and I suppose I'll have to wait fhr old Death to put in a period." Edward Everett has been trying to pur. made the President to reverse his unjust snd outrageous decision in the case of Fits John Porter./ TJJiJtIM S: iI.SO PER A3WMTUM ♦'Confiscation" The New York Day Book sty* : "Thi city is tall of rare and valuable old pictures and paintings, which hare been sto len from the private mansions of the south by the servants of Mr. Lincoln, and brought here and sold for the benefit of the thieves, whole libraries have also been stolen by the Aboli tion patriots,who seem to regard books, as well as works of virtue and art, as being con traband of war. Everything is looked upon as contraband of war whicu is of a portable na ture, and which can be disposed of for the private benefit of the official thief who has the good luck to be first to lay hands upon it, A 6hort time ago a cargo of pianos arrived in the harbor of portland, Maine, Beveral of which were addressed to Gen. Neal Dow the result of that gentleman's succesful fora ging among the planters' houses in the neigh borhood of New Orleans. Not pian >s,hut four or five army, chests, the property of the Uni ted Stated, were found marked to the address of the same General, well filled with silver plate of all description, which must have been stolen from the private honses, and from the persons of females. The custom is it seems to destroy whatever cannot be brought off." Of course this is perfectly justifiable, foraro wb not told that "the rebels have forfeited all rights under the Constitution?" and therefore, what right have they to own property? After the emancipation proclamation we cannot be astonished or shocked at anything, for people who will steal niggvrs will steal anything else they can lay their hands on. A DRINKING JUDGE. —Some years ago on Christmas, a few Irish hoys hired horses 1 from a livery stable in the town of G and determined to have a good time generally. One of the horses, never recovered from the effects of the ride, and the livery-man sued the rider for the value of him. The lawyer for the plaintiff, wa6 an ex judge He was trying to prove by one df witnesses that all hands were drunk, and commenced by asking him " where did you stop first after leaving the livery stable ?" "We stopped at Michael N.'s." "Did you take a horn there?" asked tho judge. "Yes " Where did you stop next ?" " At the N. Gardens." " Did you take a horn there?" "Yes." "Where d : d you Pt>p nexi?" "At the tour mile h- use." "Did you rake a born there?" j By this time the witness began to 3tnell a rat. (t Horn!" says he; " I want to know what has a horu to do with this case. I suppose be cause you are a drinking kind of a man your self you think everybody is drunk." You ought to have heard the explosion which shook the court-room. The exjudge did not ask any more questions. THF. New Hampshire Slates and Union says: "Fourteenth street, Washington, is said to contain, throughout its whole length, south from Willard's, not one house that is not a house of ill fame. A contract has just been made to build a house of the same character, that is to cost ,000 ! Old Babylon and ancient Rome were models of purity compar ed with Washington under Republican rule the party whose platform was to "restore tho Government to the purity of the Fathers.' 1 Perhaps tbey meant the very early fathers— those who live in Herculaueum and Pompeii, and the exhumed stony symbols of whose faith and practice have in modern times excited tho astonishment (but not the admiration) of beholders." It is aaid that there arc within the limits of the city of Brooklyn, 210 babies named for Henry Ward Beecher, Good heavens! I *'* CAR THF NEXT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL a meeting of the Demo cratic National committee, held in new York, Jan. 12th inst., it was unanimously voted that the next National Convention, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the Presidency and Vica Presidency of the Uni ted States, be held at Chicago, Illinois, on Monday, July 4, 1864. By a vote of the Committee, at a meeting held Septemper 7,1863, the number of dele, gates for each State was fixed at double the umber of its electoral votes. JUST RETORT. — A preacher of smal l inte! lect, depending more of a sanctemonious long face for a passpost through life, than for any Important good he could accomplish, rebuked a brother tor a social fireside; and perhaps somewhat frivolous conversation: "Brother,* he replied," I keep my uonesense for the fire tide) while you gi*e yours from the pulpit.* JP3C* A bevy of cbnldren were telling their father what they got at school. The eldest got reading, spellng and definitions. "And what did you get?" 6aid the father to a r>ey cheek ed little fellow, who at the time, was s'j'y driving a tenpeony nail into the door panel. "Me I oh, I gets rcadiu', spelling and spank* ina." VOL. 3, NO. 27
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