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Business Cards of one square, with paper, S3. JOI3 wortK of all kinds neatly executed, and ut prices to suit the times. All TRANSIENT ADVERTISEMENTS and JOB -SYOT.Iv n.ust be paid for, when ordered. fUisinrss IJofirfS. R.R. LITTLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office on 'Tioga street, Tunkhannock Pa HS. COOPER, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON • Newton Centre, Luzerne County Pa. 1> H. .T. C- It KC' K Kit . PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Would respectfully-r.nouiice to the citizensof Wy xning, that he has Licatod at luiikhannock where he will prom;,tiy attend to all calls iu the bne of bis profession. Will be found at home on Saturdays of each week pE(). S. TUTr.\, ATTORNEY AT LAW, \J Xunkh'inaoyk, Pi. Oilioe in Stark's Brick lock, Ttoga street. - 9 _ WH. M. IMATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Of lice in .Murk's lirick Block, Tioga St., Tunk annoclr, Pa. oiir Bufiilec I)ouse, O w O v TIAIIII IS! MHO , 1K NX A. The undersigned having bitoly purchased the " BT.'EHLEIf HOUSE " property, has already com menced such alterations and improvements as will render this old and popular Hrtuce equal, if not supe rior, to any Hotel in the City of Harrisburg. A continuance of the public patronage is refpect fully solicited. GEO. J. BOLTON WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, tuxkj:a\m>cx, Wyoming to., pa. "s^Hl© Cit.iblL hment has recently been refitted an L furnished in the latest style. Every attention will be giv*M i lii - comfort and convenience of those rjo patronize t ie JL T. 13. WALL, Owner and Proprietor : Tunkhannosk, September 11, 1361. WORTH MMMHOTEL, MESIiOPPEK, WYOMING COUNTY, PA Wm. IS. CORTKIGHT, Prop'r HAVING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to tender the house an agreeable place of sojourn for all who may favor it with their custom. Win. H CCRTRIIIIIT. June,' 3rd, 1863 f)otf(, TOWAWHA, D. B. BAETLET, [Late ot the Bl>riAi\Arti> llocse, Elmira, N. Y. proprietor. The MEANS HOTEL,, i- ono of the LARGEST end BEST ARR ANGED Houses in the country—lt is 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. M7 OILMAN, j^rr'r: 4 % <s> • DENTIST. -tJir <■ vtaV'N fs T OILMAN, has permanently located in Tunk i\x hannock Borough, ar.d respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens of this place and urrounding country. ALL WORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIS FACTION. Office over Tutton's Law Office, near the Pos Office. Dec. 11,1861. IATIOIU CLAIM ItIHY ONDUCTED BY IIARV\ AND OOLLINp, WASHINGTON, D, C- In order to faciliate the prompt ad ttsmmnt of Bounty, arrears of pay, Pensions and other Claims, due sosdiers and other persons from tike Government a" the United States. The under g-wei has uiodo arrangements with the above firm house experience and close proximity to, and daily n ereourae wita the department; as well as the ear reknow edge, acquired by them! pt the decisions yquen J made, enables thorn to prosecute taircs more efficiently than Attorney, at a distance, jnp -a bly da All parsons ontitlel to claims ofthe .I. it r P > thom F jro Pcrly attended •Uobbyling on mo and entrusting them to my care HARVEY SICKLER, Tnnlliatß#ek,Pa 4 Collin., Stkt TiItTcoTJuETTE'S FATE. "Oh ! Nellie, Nellie ! Oh Nellie !" A tiny pair of white hands were raised deprecating ly, and a pair of large, violet eyes sought her face, bearing in their depths an expression of entreaty beautiful to behold; but the proud face of Nellie Raymond turn ed awajq perhaps to shut out that beautiful vision, and a low, trilling laugh, ran over her red lips. "Oh Nellie how can you be so heartless ? llow can you lead a man on to believe that you love him, and then, when his heart is yours, with all its great fount of taanly love and tenderness laugh in his face, and bid hiin go trorn your presence—hopeless and despairing. I tell you Nellie Raymond you will some day have to account for the mise cry you have wrought." '•Do you think so ?" said Nellie,' lightlv, "Ah ! well." ' Jiut it will not be well," said Alice May. "\uu will see it in a different light some day. 1 could not close my eyes one hour in peaceful slumber were my life so weighed down with such evil deeds as yours." ''Evil deeds ! Really, Vlice,you are harsh exclaimed Nellie, a flush of momentary mor tification and anger overspreading her white forehead. "Dear Nellie,', said her friend, "what is the use of calling things by other than their right names ? If I seem severe, I only tell you the truth and you know that Ihave been, your best friend—candid and frank." "\\ ell Allie, yon might have a little more regard for one's feelings." said Nellie. "Have you any regard for the feelings of other, Nellie ?" asked Alice. "There is a god book in which a sublime teacher said, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Now, how far do you carry out this rule ?" "Oh ! Alice spare me for (ily's sake—cbu't preach to me now," said Nellie, "I'm not in a if." But Alice May was relentless. "Y'U did not spare poor George Morton, wlioin you so cruelly deceived," she contin ued, "and then drove him from you with depirinhis heart, and the turden of a hopeless life. The green sod of an Italian vale c vers the heart ol o: o who loved ycu but 100 wildly, and whose reward, after months of weary wandering, and a hopeless P'.ning life, which soon sank beneath its weight of sorrow, in an exile's grave. Then there is another, a widow's only son who frets his life away in a madhouse ; yes, a madhouse, Nellie, to which your cruelty con signed him. Oh ! Nellie Raymond, better a thousand times despoil your face of its dan gerous beauty than bear the load of sin it brings upon you for it is feeiful " A slight quiver in the erect frame of the beautiful girl was tho sole response. "Poor Walter May field !" continued Alice sadly ; "sometimes I pass the window of the cell in which he is confined, and catch a glimpse of his haggard face and he always smiles lika a pleased child when he sees me. Then I contrast hun now with what he once was, and weep In spite of myself over the wreck of a strong noble life. He used to be pleasant and gay always, but stroDg and self riant when anything occurred to call forth energy or action. Oh ! he was a noble, handsome man ; but now he is a feeble help less maniac. Poor fellow !" * Nellie's face wore an expression of mingled grief, defiance and mortification ; but she re mained silent for a few moments, watching the t?ars as they rolled slowly over Alice May's cheeks. "Aud my. own dear, only brothej will be your next victim," said Alice, after a pause, lotking up sadly and mournfully. ' Oh ! Nellie, he is all I have—l am alone in the world with him only to lovo me ! Spare him to me for the love of mercy !" Nellie rose with a hotly flushed cheek and flashing eye. "Atlie, how can you talk thus?" she ex claimed. "But I tell you Alice May, if art and beauty can bring your proud oold broth er to the feet of a woman, he shall come to mine. lie shall lcve me." ''And if he does, and you turn him from you, you will kill him,' said Alice. "Once un bend his proud nature, and unlock the founts of tenderness in his heart, and then cast him from you, and see the consequences.— Oh ! Nellie Raymond, there is sufficient on your soul already. Spare yourself' if you spare no other. ihe last words were unheeded, for Nellie had swept from the room, and little Alice May bowed her head upon {the sofa cushion and sobbed piteously. She had warned her brother repeatedly,'.but he seemed heedless and with an aching heart the gentle little sister looked forth to a hopeless, desolate life for him who had ever been her all on earth. Several weeks passed away, and little Al ice May stood before the altar. The man she had chosen was noble, true and good, and for her feet a bright path lay before her but there was another to whom her eyes wandered uneasily round the gay butterfly form of the proud syren, Nellto Raymond "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "—Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNGCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 1865. whose dark eyes flashed with triumph as tha proud man bent his handsome, stately head with such devotion. Alice's sweet lips quivered when s'n saw her brother bend down and whisper in Nel lie's ear and heard the request that she would walk with him on the lawn; and the two wandered off. The moon shone brightly, and Edward May, drawing Nellie Raymond's arm within his own, walked slowly down the broad gray el walk, his face upturned towards the stars and a smile of inexpressible happiness wreath ing his sweet mouth. "Nellie," said Edward, and lie spoke very low and softly ; "Nellie, I am very happy to night—perhaps happier than I had ever ho ped to be, and I want, some one to sympa thise with me in it. Alliehas another now to occupy her attention. May I tell it to you ?" "Yes," softly. "None can share your happiness and sympathize with you more freely.than I. Tell me all." For a moment he was silent, stretching out his hand to draw her down upon a seat beside him. After a while he spoke, half dreamily and very gently. £i)'T once believed," said ho, "that I could never find a woman that I ecu Id love fully and truly—with such a love as I must cher ish for the woman I would call my wife; but I have found her Nellie (why do you tremble so 1) a sweet, pure faced little thing, fresh and fragrant as a budding rose, gentle as the summer breezes and glad as the lark whose song she trills the whole day long,— T ?11 me that you rejoice in my happiness Nellie tell me that you will love my little wife that is to be sweet Lilly Walton." Nellie's lips were rigid and ashen and she rose up quivering liha an aspen. "O ! 1 a;n ill," she gasped. "Take me in to the house." Edward May rose hastily, and supported her with his arm, but she nearly repulsed him as he planted her firmly on the gravel. She had learned to love the tuan with all the hidden passion and fire of her strong nature ; and he told her he had won another, and that other was only a poor but beautiful gov erness in a rich man's family. Oh ! it was too much! lie knew Nellie Raymond's weakness, and had ptinisheu her most fear fully, though he believed in his heart that she was incapable of deep feeling. Alice went to Nellie in answer to her brothers summons ; and. when every one was gone from the room, she held cut her arms to Alice and stricken with an anguishs ed moan— tl Oh ! Alice, I gave him my whole heart and he loves another !" Then she sank down pale and lifeless, and and it was many weeks ere Nellie Raymond woke to life and constiousness. Then she was a changed, repentant woman ; but it was hard to feel the ooft touch cf a little haud, and see the light form of Edward's wife bending so pityingly. Oh ! the pun ishment of her evil deeds had come, and it was heavy and hitter. Nellie Raymond is Nellie Raymond still, but she has grown into a calm, dignified but lovely woman. She can sympathize with the suffering, because she has suffered, and strives, by teu derness and love to others, to atone for the misery she wrought while yet in the hey day of her pride and selfish love for admira ' tiou, FASHION ANI) WOMEN. The laws of fashion are inexorable as the laws of Moses. An exchange 'gives the fol lowing views of the matter : Fashion kills more women than toil and sorrow. Obedience to Fashion is a trans gression to the laws of woman's nature, and greater injury to her physical and mental constitution than the hardships of poverty and neglect. The slave woman will live and grow old, and see two or three generations of her mistress fade and pass away. The kitchen maid is hearty and strong, when her lady has to be nursed like a sicK baby. It is a melancholly truth that' pampered women are almost worthless fir all the general ends human of life. They have but little force of human character: they have still less of moral will, and quite as little physical energy they live for no great purpose through life ; they accomplish no worthy ones. They dress nobody ; they feed nobody ; they instruct no body : they bless nobody, and they save no body. They write no books; they set no rich example of virtue and woman life. If they rear children, servants and nurses do all save to conceive and giye them birth ; and when reared what are they 1 What do they ever amount to, but weaker scions of the stock ? Who eyer heard of a fashionable woman's child exhibiting any virtue of pow er of mind for which it became eminent ? Read the biographies of our great and good men and women. Not one of them had a fashionable mother. They nearly all sprung from strong minded momen, who had about as much to do with fashion as the changing clouds. A down east editor declares that modesty is • quality that highly adorns a woman, but ruins a man. TIM STOOPF, I never undertook but once, said Tim to set at naught the authority cf my wife You know her way—coo!, quiet but deter mined as ever grew. Just after we were married, and all was nice and cosy she got mo into the habit of doing the churning. She finished breakfast rather before before me one morning and slipping away from the ta ble, she filled the churn with cream, and set it down where I couldn't help seeing what was wanted. So I took hold readily enough and churned tilt the butter came. She didn't thank me but looked so nice and sweet about it that I felt well paid. Well, when the next churning day came along she did the same thing, and I followed suit, and fetched the butter. Again and again it was done just so. and I was regularly set for it every time. Not a word said, you know of course. Well, by and by this began to be rather irksome ; I wanted her just to ask me, but she never did, and I wouldu't say anything about it to save my life. So on we went. At last I made a resolve that I would not churn another lime until she ask ed me. Churning day came, and when my breakfast—she always got nice breakfasts— when that was swallowed, there stood the churn. I got up and standing for a few min utes just to g.ve her a chance, I put on my hat and walked out of doors. I stopped in the yard to give her time to call me, but nev er a word caidshe, and so with a palpitating heart I moved on- I went down town, and my foot was as restless as Noah's dove, 1 felt as if I had done a wrong. [ did not know but there was an indescribable sensation of guilt r- sting on me all the forenoon. ft seemed as if dinner time would never come, and as for going home one minute he fore dinner, I would as soon cut my cars oil. So I went fretting and moping around town till dinner hour came. Home I went, feeling very much as a criminal must when the jury is out. having in their hands his destiny—. life or death. I could not make up my mind exactly how she would meet me, but some kmd of storm I expected. Will you believe it—she even greeted me with a smile sever had a better dinner for me than 0:1 that day • but there stood the churn where I left it.— Nut a word was said ; I felt confoundedly cut, and every mouthful of that dinner felt as if it would choke me. She didn't pay any regard to it, however, butjweni on just exacl- ly if nothing had happened. Before din ner was over, I had rgair. resolved, and chov iug,back my chair,nl marched to the churn and went at it, just in the o! J waj-. Splash, d : p, rattle—l kept it up. As if in spite, the butter was never so longpn coming, I supges ed the cream standing so long had got warm and .so I redor.bled ray efforts. Obstinate matter, the aiternoon wore away while I was churning. I paused at last from real exertion, when she spoke for the first time. "Come, Tom, my dear, you have rat tled that buttcrmiik long enough if it is for fun you are going it." I knew how it was in a flash. • She had brought the butter in the fore noon and had left the buttermilk in for me to exercise with. I never set up for myself in household matters after that. A Poc ileal Marriage. In the Elmyra Democrat of this week we find the following marriage notice: November sth. 1864, "poetically, " by Rev A. T. DeJamater. Will B. Durane, of Henri etta, Ohio, and Miss Hannah Breckinridge, of Rawsonville, Ohio. No cards. What is a "poetical marriage?" It is sometimes said that, there is more ' truth than poetry" in certain matters; we hope that the converse of this is not intended in the mar riage notice, and that no insinuation is inten ded againt the truthfulness of the parties in taking the wedding vovrs. But perhaps the parson was a rhymer, aud the happy pair were married in " short metre" after the following fashion: MINISTER. This woman wilt thou have, And cherish her for life; Wilt luve and comfort her, And seek no other wife ? 11E, This woman I will tako, That stands beside me now ; I'll find her board and clothes, And have no other frow. MINISTER. And for your husband will You take this nice young man; Obey his lightest wish And love him all you can ? SHE. I'll love him all I can, Obey him all I choose ; If when I ask for funds lie never does refuse. MTNISTER. Then you are man and wife, And happy may you be ; As many be your years As dollars in my fee. 'IIIE CAVALRY HORSE, The cavalry horse is quite as familiar with the long list of various trumpet signals, as the lider himself; he stops instantly when the signal for halting is sounded ; passes from a walk to a trot, to a gallop, without requir ing any reminder from spur or rein. If his rider fall in battle, or loose his stirrups, he stops a moment, and waits for him : if be re mains lying on the ground, he stoops his head, smells at him, and when he ascertains there is no hope of his remounting, makes his way back to his troop, wedges himself in his place in the ranks, and shares afterwards in the movements of the rest. Music has an amazing influence over him. If an air be suddenly struck up, you will see the worn out and mortally tited horse raise his sick head, prick up his ears, become animated and moved briskly forward to tho front. During a halt, or when quartered for the night, the cavalry division stretched on the ground, lies sleeping confusedly, a jumbled mass which it would be impossible to disen tangle ; man and horse side by side, the rid er using his horse as a pillow, or rolling him self from tho cold, the faithful creature sel dom changing the position it has once taken. If it does so, it is with the greatest preauiion; first it moves its head aud legs, endeavoring gently to free itself; then it raises or turns itself very slowly and carefully, so as not to trample upon, or disturb those who surround it. If the halt takes place where the ground is wet or frozen, the rider will gladly force his horse to one side after it has lain down awhile, which by that time is warm, if uot dry. The most affectionate relationship exists between man and horse, as the result of their thus living together. The animal seems to understand everything connected with his rider ; lie knows his master's step, his pecul iar ways ; knows how to seek him out from among others ; is a faithful, disinterested companion and friend to him, and ha 9 this advantage over many other good comrades that he docs not glow weary even of suffer ing for him. A gentleman, taking an apartment, said to the landlady. "I assure you. madam, I never left a lodging but my landlady shed tears. ' She answered, <: I hope it was not, Sir, because you went away without paying." fil.S" AH Irish auctioneer, puffing up a pair of jet ear rings to a very respectable company of ladies, said that they were "just the sort of article he himself would purchase for Ins wife were she a widow." £ idr* Postmasters are obliged to receive all I reasury notes for stamps and postage, if clearly genuine, no matter how torn or defac ed they may be, provided ono twentieth part thereof be not missing—and fractional curren cy, if not ono tenth part be missing. Such notes and currency received as are unfit for reissue should be kept separate and distinct and returned, as occasion requires, to the Treasurer of the United States, Washington, in/urns of not less than !$3, to be exchanged for new. YOUR FARE, MISS—A young lady from the rural districts lately entered a city railroad car. Pretty soon the conductor approached her and said : '•Your fare, Miss." She blushed and lookod confused, but said nothing. The condnctor was rather aston ished at this, but ventuced to remark once more: "Your fare, Miss.,' This time the pink on her cheeks deepened to carnation, as the rustic beauty replied : "Well, if lam good lookin, you hadn't ought-tor say it out loud afore folks." The passenger s in the car roared with laughter, and her lover at once settled the fare. RELIGION AND POLITICS.— A cunning poli tician is often found skulkihg under the cleri cal robe, with an outside all religion, and an inside all political rancor. Things spiritual and things temporal are strangely jumbled together, like poisons and antidotes on an apothecary's shelf; and instead of a devout sermon, the simple church going people have often a political pamphlet thrust down their throats labelled with a pious text from scrip ture. UNRAVELLING—A man coining homo late one night, a little more than "half seas over" feeling thirsty, procured a glass of water and drank it. In doing so he swallowed a ball of silk that lay 111 the bottom of a tumbler, the end catching iu his teeth. Feeling something in his mouth and not knowing what it was, he began pulling at the end, and the little ball unrolling, be soon had several feet in his hands, and .still no end, apparently. Terri fied, he shouted at the top of his voice, "Wife wife ! I say, wile, come down here ! lam all unravelling. The great trial of Opdyke, late Republican Mayor of Now York, against Thurlow Weed for libel, was concluded last week—Weed virtually gaining the suit, though the jury were unable to agree, and were discharged, tho majority being for acquittal and the mi nority willing to compromise on six cents damages. SINGULAR FACTS. —The human eye always attempts to supply the complement of color Thus, if the eye re3ts for any time on any, one color, say green—which is composed of blue and yellow—on shutting the eyes a faint repetition ef the object will be seen in red which is the third of the primary colors and complimentary to the other two. The laws of accousties are hitherto but little known, but it would seem that a simi lar effect is produced, two notes of the major triad when struck calling forth £a faint im pression on the ear of other notes being sup* plied. It is a cnriou3 fact, and one which quite upholds this law, that on striking any chord on the piano-forte, all the strings of the same chord throughout thu instrument which are in unison with the notes struck,> are in vibration,while the other note* are not agitated. This cau be ocularly demonstrat ed by placing on these strings little saddles of paper, which will be seen to vibrate vio lently, while wheD placed on other strings which are foreign to the card they rest uudis* turbed. \\ HER £ ARE You GOING ?—An anecdote' is told of Finney ''the revivalist." and a cana ler, to the following effect : lie was "holding forth" in Rochester, and in walking along the canal one day came across a boatman who was swearing furiously Marching up,he confronted him and abruptly asked— "Sir, do you know where you are going" I he unsuspecting man innocently replied that he was going up the canal on the boat "John-- ny Sands." "No sir, you are not," continued Finney p ! '-you are going to hell faster than a canal boat can convey you." j. lie boatman looked at him in astonish* ment for ain mute, and then returned the question— Sir, do you know where youuii-e going ?" "I expect to go to heaven." "No, sir, you are going into the canal V' And. suiting the action to the word, he took Finney into h's amis and tossed him in to the murky waters, where he would have drowned had not the boatman relented and fished him out. —■ ■ > If you would have your cattle come out well in the spring, see that they are well housed in tho winter. Blessed is the woman whoso hus band has a wooden leg, as she will have but one stocking ao knit. GOOD COUNSEL.—Owe nothing to your ad* vancement save your own unassisted exertion# if you would retain what you acquire. A Washington special to the Times says ' The removal of Butfer developed surprisingly small amount of feeling." S-tdT" One who Is half man, half dog, will how to the rich and bow-wow to the poor. £5gT A Wise man will speak well of his neighbor, love his wife and take tho North Branch Democrat , and pay for it in advance. A Young spark, suffering from a too strong sensation of the more tender feeling, defines his complaint as an attack of UusiL tude. S* A poet who was engaged in exam ining the various „water falls" that adorns tho heads of the ladies has perpetrated tho following : Such curls as those yew sister wears, How many maids have prayed for • Now candidly are they her own ?" ' "Oh, yes, they're hers— and paid for," INFORMATION WANTED :—An inquisitive youth asked us for information in regard to the process of healing the back-bone of the Confederacy, used by the rebels. We of course declined answering and referred hina to some practical surgeon. SHST The Commissioners of Public Buil dings reports : ©no entire I.aco Curtain was stolen from one of the East Room Windows. The gilded shields were wrenched off and stolen, also the cords and tassels. Many other articles are also habitually stolen ; indeed, stealing from the White House has become BO common that watch b#t to he kept. Queer visitors. THE KEY TO RICHMOND There is a very general inquiry as to whaj Butler has done with the "Key to Richmond." JCtSE" Siuce the great robberies at the navy yard in Philadelphia, it is suggested that the name spelled Knavy yard. THAT IS SO. —Some music teacher once wrote that tho "art of playing on the violin requires the nicest perception end tho moat sensibility of any art in the known world."— Upon which an editor comments in the fol lowing mauner: "The art of publishing a newspaper and making it pay, and at the same time have it please everybody, beat I fiddling higher than a kite," VOL. 4 NO. 26
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