YR AHVEY SICHLIJEH., Proprietor.! NEW SERIES, A weeklv Democratic BY HARVEV SICKLER. Terms —1 ><[>> 1 year, (111 advati c. 2 0 Oit.pain within six iunths. %2. 0 will be --li .n;e NO pwyer witl be DISCON IINTFD, until all ar t#irages are pai.l; unless at the optiun of publisher. iKDVEIITISII^G. 10 tines or . > } f . j iess oi i'i • three four < 'ico [three . si. r > one one squ ire irteks ,reeks' uio'th^mu' thlino'th\ year i - .4. .1 10b uv, 2,-rJ 2.871 3,001 5,0 I to. . -MJ'ii 2 s'if T-J5 {5O! 4.50, 6,0 I 1.0 >? 3 7>| 4.75 5,50! 7,00! 9.0 t .una 4.0-ii 459 fi,su 3,00 10,00 ;> 15 0 i .. i i till' 17.0U- 2j,0 }'' i '■ 7 0"! I*,oo 13,00! 25,00. 05,0 >9 ) '7,001 22."0} 23,u0' 40,•' , ATURS n. AUDI u; I ng'h, ••• • 92,50 - uug 'en 'in s, each ; RELI iV NOTICES, not of general . icgular retes. 1 lie -qii .re, *itb paj *r. £5 . > > WORK .-•eat; - . xcute.l, and ..t prices to sui t t ibC." AO T! v;>. ENT ADVERTISEMENTS an-1 JOB- W I >lt ,v ust lie [aid fcr, when ordered Business jlotiffs. R ft. J.irri.E, ATTORNEY \T LAW OfUee on Tioga street, '1 uiiKliannoek fa /- ISO S. TBTTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ' I 'iunkh inuoek, Pa. Ofiee in ttarK's Lrick Block. Ttt'gt street. HS. COOPER. PHYSICI AN -t SURGEON • Newt<>n Centre, Luzerne County Pa. XT r >t. M. PIATT. ATTORNEY AT 1 ' " Y\ fiee m Stark's Brick Block, Tioga St., anreck, Pa I>H. T. C BKCKEIi . I'll YSICIAN Sk SURGEON, Would rcppeetfully announce to the citizensof Wy vning. that he has located at Tunkhannock where he will promptly attend to all calls in the line of his profession. "ifif Will be found at home on Saturdays of each week Buflilfu !)ouse, lIAUKISIU'HG, I'KNNA. The undersigned having lately pur'based the •' BUEHLER HOUSE " property, has already eom menced su h alterations and improvements as will render this 01.l and [mpulnr House equal, if l ot supe rior, to anv Hotel in the City of Ilarrisburg. A continuance of the public patronage is refpoct fully solicited. GEO. J. liOLTON WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. rHI.S establishment has recently been refitted an tarnished in the litest style Every attention wrll be given to th= comfort and convemei.ee of those *J patronize the House. 'i'. ii WALL, Owner anl Proprietor . Tunkhannock, September li, laiil. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESIIOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA Wm. 11. C'ORTRIGIIT, Prnp'r f TAVING resumed the pruprtctorshi[> of ilie at" v, IX Hotel, the undersigned wil sj are no effhr' t. •end i the house an agreeable pin. e ol -sojourn f. r ill wh-. ui.v f .vor it witti iheir . .ist'm Mm 11 ((RTRIIIIIT Jane, 3rd, 1563 l)okl, TOWAINTTSA.. 172 V D. R. BART ET, {Late of the RB>*AI SARII HOI SI:. KI.MIRA. N Y. Pltdl'R I ETOR. The MEAN.? HOTEL, : on-, of tne LARGE.?'! an' BEST \i'.R VNGED IB us.es in the ...uutrv h w 'ts i .|' it mt'S- .uoj-rii and unproved sty! , io • • ...jo re r,.i 1,, pi.-ke i: a pleasant an. • tor all, •J . i a. A ) v | L.M •N, has perinaneu'ty I.fnted in T- n - an ■- Ho'-'Ugli. an I re|*vtfully ftp !• rr his a rot. -in. : .service? to the citizens of this plaoe and urrounding ' the Ui|Ued StlUeg The u ie ... ? HC as ' '••rangements with the atiov • t i and close proximity to, and dauy h th - d !P^^nt; as well as the ear reknow edge, acquired by ,he,n, of the de. isi ns yquen y ing made, enables them to pr.. e*ute n ZiM° re t 4 u ,ly ,ban AUo^y S at a 'distance, t° P 3rst >ns entitle I to claims ofthe Mnc.bll. P 0,1 °'' T th ' attended alnobbj ling on me and entrusting them to my care HARVEY SICKLER, TH. nw ,.P. ls,fo " J " VJIc " 11 ". | fort's Comer. HE VOTED FOR THE DRAFT. By one wh" ica* Takew in. '•Good people vote for Abe, The Union to restore, To liberate the negro And end this cruel war, We'll hiwe no more conscription," Said the Lincoln men and laughed ; So vote for Abraham, If you'd avoid the draft." "As ?0.,n us rebellion), Shall hear the glorious news, Of Abruh mi's election, They'll tremble in their shoes They'll throw away their arms," Said the L'-moln men and laughed ; So vote for Father Abraham, If you'd avoid the ilraD." "J. ff It iris nl R iti Lee Will go to M-xi-.-o, An t Beauregard ind Hood will hide, Themselves In Borneo. They'll give us their plantations," Said the Lincan men and langhed; " c o vote t-ir F''h"r Abrnham, It you'd a Vol I the draft." I look them a' their word, T voted tor th-ir m >n. Abd sat up aB !• ion night, Tohc:ir how Shoddy ran. The te'egriph did tick, The Lincoln men all laughed, And said, 'the Copperheads are sick, There'll be another draft!" No Copperhead am I, But still I felt quite sick, To think the draft shoul 1 follow My vote for Ate so quick. I aske 1 the Democrats, How is th.s ? and they laughed, And said. "How are yoii Conscript, You vo'ed for the dra ft " Select Stoni S —' '-4 C THE MlliliEK S lIU t.irri K ; OR THE ANO EL WINGS. Many years ago, the community of a ham let in the south France was startled bv a crime rate indeed in their quiet agricultural di-tricT. A wealthy farmer was found dead, at early morning, withm n ten's, including a convolerable sum "f monev. which 1 e was ke r 1 to have received the puvi. us ev ..ing for sme sheep sold by him in 1 he neighboring market town. When the awe and excitement, created b\ 'his event had .subsided a little, every ex r nun was made by the authorities to ferret ui the perpetrator oi the crime. A reward was off. i.d for ihe discovery of the murder. 1 proclamation of which bounty was made for several successive Sundays at the church door. At last suu.e disclosures were made implicating a y< ting man named Larocht*—a s.rippoiig ol eightien years. T he p- r-on iv'i 1 hr- the charge against nin n Lai cf e wa- a man by Hie name of I. u.'iy a *'tai g. rin ilie district but win. H.i a' • > b> t 1 ii| |on led ny Ihe lord Sei v. ?. Lal.ciy t. ■?' tied that tie tiad >ae Larocbe cn't.ng a Make 'mm 1 hedge 011 the a crno. n prtv.uus to the murder, and that he had rpr ved biui for it, and taking the st it,, fr. 10 " mi. hl sun k it 10 tin bank ol the bid ea' a pa. rul;r s >?. Toe stake w.i .h<* same on. 'hat was hum 1 lying mat the b -1y of the niurilere 1 (arm Latn.r cuu 1 -wear t. 11, h cm?.*, aft. r taking i' 1 >m Lament, he ha 1 nicke l 11 m a pecu a any w nli bis knife. N' w it <" happened 'bat the murdered tar*ie r hid many and n tfuennal *rieid, v'ote I.T' che ha < but frw Therefore La . che aa- C' evicted ot the murder, and sen tence be bong on • certain Jay, at acer • • place; iinu! winch time he was placed for e keeping in the jail of the district— he uTd floor •fa large stone building, the *er p'" l >f which wa* a todl. Tne prisen n-is'. dof a -ingle ap rmm', lighted by ■■'.e sni ill 'Vii I"at a' 1 1 eight >f about -IX mi lee' 'r ill tie fl"< r The sidi <'f th< lidding Ir in which 'he window looked ran seer down to the safer of a deep liver, which crept lazJy by the tn' I but quickened ts pace a Ijnle lower down, until it gradu. l ly became a rushing torrent, leaping wi'dly ori to its fall over a perpendicular ledge of r-cks. Bodies carried ov.-r this fail, it wa *• id, never were nc vtrul. and * was fix ed notion among the c. u .try oeopl,. that there was a suction force in Die whir'no-d below by which everything falling in it was carried down into the unexplored abysses of earth. It was the day before thai fixe! f..r •b • execution young L troche, and the priest of the par'sh, Father Allard by name, hid been left alone with the prisoner, in or der to prepare him, bv the consolation of re ligion, for his approaching doom. T' his words of coinfqft Laroche listened with hu mility and in silence,. until the good father began to dilate upon his chances of forgive ness in the next world for the terrible crime* "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "—Thomas Jeflerson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18 1860 committed by him. Then the prisoner elec trified him by declaring his perfect innocence lo' 'bat crime—a position which he meant to : maintain, he said, with his latest breath. To IK- brief, the youth übt f his guilt which had all along t übhoFatl r A latd's mind, so wrought U 1 11 thai worthy man that he at last Con a n ed o commit himself to a plan for giving the prisoner a cbance to e-cape, if not from death, at least from the ign.uny of dying by the hands of ihe accursed hangman, "If I die by the gallows, most revprend father." sa d the ) oung man, a great sorrow w II ?mnv fay fall H|i.t\ all concerned in my de.th. The leal moideiei is sure l>> be dts covered, sooner or la'er, an I then I shall have been a murdered maw, and the just ret ribution o| Heaven will pursue my murder- I era. Aid nie to ec.pe, rather than risk a [ great stain upon your c mscience. Stand up lon this chair, which I p'aCe upon the table. Ulll-, ami 1 ttcii by m luntiug upon y our shoulders, I can riach the wiudow, and drop from it." "But the river below ?" •'I can swnn hue an otter; and at any rate 11 is beit r to be dr-.wned than banged." (An vu.ced of the young man's innocence, Fath rAI i' d co 'se .led t-> aid him in ins e-c.po. A moment sufficed to carry the plan in i IX. cuiion. The pr.soner gained 1 lie window, and disappeared. Parading in a straggling way outside the bunding, went one of the tntrior officers oi justice—a stolid peasants who hud been piae ed thert ty way of sentry, and who, at this moment, hammed t • be looking towards the uysi wall of the mill. His sight nearly left i i.u, as he afterwards Mated, when he saw a man i+rup fr-in tbej.il window, strike on a p'atf.nm < Pat pi "Undid from a do. rway in 'he sec >u 1 story, an i reb >undiiig fr un that, all into tf.e water with a heavy plunge, Pe at peat in.'at intervals until ho was carried away 'uto tf.e rapids below, Tl e alarm was a' otic- given. Village offi ciats rti*bed to the prison r.x.in, where they found Fa'her Allard alone, seated in the c'l3'r, pal.-, and as if just rec- vering fro-a tlu sigh' of S' U.e supernatural vision. To the questions put to him, tie replied that, as he was administering the consolations of his ho ly office to the pri-op.-r, a voice sounded through tbe apartment, accompanied by tb shadow of a mighty pa r <uled to the ceiling of the st pari men aud w.B no uiore seen by him. Tue voice, he added,pr . ia'tned the prisoners lnnotu-nce, nd hat the ivai c icumstancts of the niur er would .-non be made manifest. It wis a m rac : e ; ,u 1 the go .1 country people, evt-i r :.dy to acc pt that fo"tn of interposition, * re oa-''; persuaded to do so on the pres .•ii; ccadi-n. M tntime, Laroche, when he leaped from ftie wu.uiow, had forgotten all about the pla-r form. Ashe fell up m it, he displaced asa k of grain, whicn splashed in the dar>\ wat-r? •i the r-ver, appearing to the eyes of the Le wi Piere I sentry to be the body of the man who had dropped from tbe prison window Laroche lay upon the narrow platform, s un tied by his heavy tall. Sptride, the milKr's d mghter, sa a bun fall. There was no one el-e in the mill at the time. She drew him q itckl\ tie in 1 'he sack? an I gr-'at heaps of gai • i G fir, a.id Laving administered ■ i in net. le-i.uanves ;l s her y. :utg expe iieiic- Sng— e-'.b, tl.tiw ?<.ine l"..se sack v. r tn, ui in t" he still. Tha' nigtit Spitide and her lover—Laroche and she had been lovers for about six hours on'i —made their way to where a boat lay mo.ued bel< w the tails, and, embarking tn it v r" soon carri. d far beyond the reach "f ur-ui'. I" wa-suppo-ed by the affrighted villager- 'ha' Spiruie n u? 1 have h. en earifd fr -in the plaif'im when the body fr-iu the window above tad b. en ?eeu to ?tr ke upon i ; and a? 'be whirlpool b.d >w the 'orrent r.ad iiee ll tii v- r k . w i tog ve up us dead,but ill tie search w; lu'iiitiing ih<- crune. Two years elapsed, and Father Allard had been promoted to a p.[ri?ti at a d'Maqco of some fifty miles Imm the oneof wiiich he had been pastor for so many years. Shortly af er his arrival there, his dutie? led him to take a jourmy <>n horseback some unles tqlo the in'< r'"r of the p iri?h of w.ieh he had chaige. P.t about half way across, wrien the animal began to plunge and struggle violently, sink ing at the same tune as if drawn down by some invisible power. Aware, now, that he h id fallen int > one of thsse quicksands which are not uncommon in that part ol France the good father knew that to throw himself from his horse would be certain death, as the water was not dvep enough toswim in, -'nd the hungry sandat the bottom was gaping for hire. He held upon his horse therefore, and shouted forhelp. The water was gaining upon him, as the t< rnfied horse sank deeper and deeper in tne treacherous fetream. Up, up it came, un til it reached his saddle, and then his knee, and he had given himself up for lost, when distant shuuts caine in response to his. which were growing feebler with oach repetition.— And now a man bursts his way through the brushwood on the river bank, and laying his axe upon a tall, slender young tree, cuts it d> wn withjf.iur or five rapid strokes, leaning it so that it falls out upon the water, its top most boughs just brushing the siuking horse man in its fall. Grasping the boughs with ill his remaining str.ng'h, the priest was drawn to ihe bniik by the woodsman, faint ing and senseless, however, and with hardlj a visit.l.- spark f life. When Father Allard recovered conscous ness, he found himself in a small but corn 'ortable room. Seeing him open his eyes, a bux in young woman, who was bathing his temples, uttered an exclamation of j >v, call ing him by name; ami no"", as his d zz\ senses brightened, what wu> his surprise to recognize in his attendant the 10-t Spirtde. Lx[ lanation ensued, and all was uvula as cl. ar as day, without recourse to marvel ot miracie. Presently Laroche, who had been engaged in extricating the priests horse, came in. and the meeting was an affecting one between the two, each of whom had been thus wonderful ly appointed by Providence to preserve the other. '"My conscience is clear now," said Father i Allard. "Heaven has surely pardoned the ! little fiction framed by me else why " "But hold, r-veren 1 father," cried Liroclv interrupting hin ; "there was no fiction in the eas*}. You said 1 was carried away upon an angel's wings, and to I was, and this is the angel that saved me !" and he laughinglv threw his arms around his pretty wife, and hugged her to hi- side. Poetical justice might now have been well satisfied, but I have a few words further to add upon the subject. Lar.'Cho. who was now emplove l as f re-t -or upon an estate, was en.ib rd. by the assis ance of Father A iard, t. return to his native village, where, not long af'er, lie obtained an appoint - eut to the very kieperslnp formerly held by the assassin Landry, Ihe niyst.rv attending his miraculous escape and re ap- 1 pearance gave him an extraordinary influence am nig the peasantry. Stories Use nothing by circulation lie eventually became a scantified personage in the community ; and a rudely carved effigy of him is still to be -ecu in the old chapel of the parish, with a 1 pair of angel's wings hovering oyer him, and a cross at his he ad and feet. 4** SCIENTIFIC NOTES, dhi jy>wer derived Ir m the combustion of t a pound ol c >al qua s tt.at frotu the dt colli* \ pof.itton of lime pound? .fzuc in a galvanic battery. Melted -now produces about one eight its bu k of wa'er. Ah comotive driving wheel six feet in di tto- ter, makes 280 turns in running a mile. Britannia ware ts an alloy of parts tin 10£ antimony, 3 zinc, and 1 Copper. An alloy of 3 parts tin, 5 lead and 8 bis muth melts at less than 212 degrees of heat, which is the temperatuie ol boiling water. PRINTERS AND D ICTORS, —An eastern na ■er very jurily comments on newspaper and medical creits : It is a notorious fact that doctor bills and newspaper bills are the last accounts in the sum of almost every man's ndebtedness which He thinks of paying. WJrrtever may be his ability to pay ; if his '•hests are tilled wiih old rusty dollars: he hniks some indefinite time will do to settle the atortMid accounts. People somehow nave a traditionary notion that the practices of physic and the publishing of newspaper are mere amateur professions, followed for amuse nient's sake, and lor tne cost of which little or noc'itng is expected Yet there is not in the whole fund of business, as far as we knw, a more expensive employment than 'hat of a newspaper. rtsr The singular epithets of "bulls," and 'bears," were first applied to stock spec ulators, on the London Exchange, about 1834 When two parlies contiact, one to deliver and the other to take stocks on a future day at a specified price, it is the interest of the delivering party m the intervening period, to depress stocks, and of the receiving party to raise them. The former is styled a bear, in allusion to the habit of that animal to pull I things down with his paws, and the latter a bull, from the custom of that animal to throw 1 up an ohj,ect with his horns. SIZING DOWN THE AGE OF MAN AND WOMAN. The man that dies youngest, as might be expected, perhaps, is the railway brakesman llis average are is only 27. Yet this must be taken with some allowance, troin the fact that hardly any but young active men are employed in the capacity- At the same age dies the factory workwoman, through the combined influence of confined air, sedentary posture, scant wage*, ana unremitting tod.— Then comes the railway baggage man, wh<> is smashed on kn average at 30. Milliners and dress-makers live but little longer. : The average of the one is 32, and the other 33 The engineer, the fir. tnan, the conductor, the powdei -maker, the well digger, and fac tory operative, all of whom are exposed to sudden and violent deaths, die on an average under the age of 35. The cutler, the tiyer, the leather-dresser, the apothecary, the con fectioner, the citrar maker, the printer, the silver smith, the painter, the shoe-cutter, the engraver, and the inachinest, all of whom lead confined lives in an unwholsome atmos phere, do not reach the average age of 40. The musician blows his bteath all out of hi 8 body at 40. Then comes the trades that are active or in pure aiz. The baker lives to an average age of 43, the butcher to 40, the brek-maker to 47, the carpenter to 49, the furnace man to 42, the mason to 48, the st one cutter to 43, the tanner to 49, the tm smith to 41, the weaver to 44. the drover to 4U, 'iie cook* to 45 the inn-keeper to 46, the laborer to 44, the domestic servant (fi-uial. ) to 43 the tailor to 43, ihe tailoress to 41. Wl.) should the barber live till 50, if not to show the virtue there is in personal neatness and soap aud water ? Those who average ■ >ver half a century among mechanics are 4io-e \v!- kip their muscles and lungs in h .-alt hlul and moderate exercise, and not troubled with weighty cares. The black- ! smith hammers till 51, the cooper till 52, ■ and the 'sheel-wright till 50. The miller ; lives to be whitened with the age of Cl. The r {> - maker lengthens the thread of his to 55. Merchants, wholesale and retail, to 52. Pro fessional men live longer than is general)' suppo-sod. L tigation kills clients sometimes, hut seldom lawyers, fur they average 56 Physicians prove their usefuluess by pr ■- longing their own lives to the same p'-riod. The sailor averages 43, the caulker 64. the sail inter 62. the sfvedor 56, the trry man 65. and the pilot 64. A dispensation of Pr vnh-jiee that "Main law" men may con ?;r not." rar A soldier writes home that he gets along with the hard tacs pretty well except when they put the shortening into it length wise. To kill bedbugs—chain their kind legs to a tree then go round in front and make mouths [ at them. 1 TiUJnM S: 02.00 PJiIH. A.l^3}fftT2lC WELL DONE ! JONETHAN. —A'gi'een good natured. money makirg up-country Jona than, wno said everything drily got things fixed, and tuck up a bargain for matrimony and the parties agreed to employ a country justice to perlorm the ceremony. The wor thy squire commenced by remarking that it was customary on such occasions to begin with a prayer but he believed he would omit that. After the not was tied he said it was give the couple some advice, but ha believed he would omit that also ; it was customary to kiss the bride but he would omit that likewise. The ceremony being en ded, Jonathan taking the squire by the but ton hole, said ''Squire it's a customary to cive the magistrate five dollars —but I believe I'll omit that. .— * Mow to Fill the Army. The Shoddy press told U6 that the soldiers who voted for Lincoln 'voUd as they fought.' Of course, aptly remarks the Ilarrisburg Un ion, those who staid at home and voted for Lincoln "voted as they would desire to fight. So good an opportunity is now presented to these latter of fighting as they voted that they should not neglect it. Tbreo hundred thousand of such voting warriors are now warned to fight and jadgin K them from their own stand point, their eminent patriotism demauils for them the first rank in battle,- SiST* General McCleilan, it Is reported, will sail.f >r Europe in February ; his wife and chili! will accompriiv him. "Burleigh," ihe Bion Journal's correspondent mNew York, makes the following statement 111 reference ; to the General's movements : "A company of J gentlemen in this City have fitted a fast sail ing clipper s iip ir elegant style, placed on I board every conceivable luxuiy, manned her co upfetelv with afi >c crew,put her in chaige >f one ol our ablest captains, and tendered her to General Ge< rge B. McClellan for one year, t. ti where ho will with his family and friends, the entire expense to be borne by the gentlemen." WALKING OVER THE SOUTH The New York Commercial says : "What we want is an army, not to be promenading all "ver the Rebel States, but to walk over the identical patch'held by L -e's aruiy.' Our armies may overcome the Rebel territory from Dan ton Beersheba and makes all sorts of marches unparalleled in history, but so long as Lee's army occupies the 'patch' to which has been so long rooted, these extensive expeditions of pedestt lanistn will tend only to a 9h>w ex haustion of the enemy. The war will close with the coup that dispossesses the army of Lee of the lines in which they lie, and lha .1 t s • routs that army." A MINE OF THREE CF.SY PIECES*— An ec centric individual named, William Cil'ey, died recently at Lockport, New Fork, He m lived alone, kept a grocery, and willed his property, valued at $lB,OOO, to his relatives iu.E ngland. He kept specie buried in the 4 cellar in an old boiler. Among the deposits n this private vault were over fifty thousand three cent pieces. HJW many millions of coin are thus hoarded in various parts of the the country. £~*r a young lady wa9 heard to declaro that she couldn't go to fu'ht for the CoHuiry, hut she was willing to allow (he young men to go, and die an old maid,which 6he thought was as great a sacrifice as any one could be called upon to make. . What is there which, supposing iti greatest breadth to be four inches, length nine inches, ai d depth three inches, contains a solid foot 1 A shoe. Why are birds like farmers T Be cause they depend on their crops for support, 1 ■ - How to make a watch keep time.— Never wind it up ; it will then keep the same time all the year around. • Music which charms us the most— Bank Notes. fry Kidnapping—A baby sleeping. ErST The quickest way to demoralise the Confederates would be to send the Federal contractors among them. it is stated that a lady walked down Brogdway, New York, last Tuesday morning, wuh a dress on which cost in the aggregate two thousand and five hunred dollars. GRO.— "lsn't it Strang.'," remarked a lady, "that the Smith are so gross." "Not at all," was the reply ; "their father was a grocer." • ... LIST Our new Postmaster General, Mr. Dennison was born in Cincinnati, w here his father kept a hotel, called the Denmaon House. He ieceived his school and college education aad studied law .n the same city. cy An iron letter has just been sent by mail from Pittsburgh, Pa., to England. The ir.>n was rolled so thin that the sheet was only twice the weight of a similar 6ized sheet i of ordinary note paper. : - ■ . ■ VOL. 4 NO. 23