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H S.COOPER, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON • Newton Centre, Luzerue County Pa. \\J M. -M. PIATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Of V\ fi'-e in Stark's Brick Block, Tioga St., Tunk onnix-k, Pa. I >l<. j. c . liE( ' i\ 1 11 . PHYSICIAN & SI IU. EON, Would respecltuliy aniiouuce to the ciiizensof Wy tning. that he ha- locate i Tunkhanni.ck MUCH be will promptly attend to all calls in the line of bi profession. £*" Wili be found at home on aturdays of each we< k i'k BufMfC SlfliDf, O w C> V._; I# 1 I ARIUSBURG, I'KNNA. The und'-rrigired having lately pur. h-i-vd t:;0 •' BUEIILKR HOUSE " property, has alrt-uiy com menced su-h alterations an 1 iinprnvctocn!- as will Fonder this old and p.pular iluu'e t it r.t supe rior, to any Hotel in the City of ljarrisberg. A ontiiiiirtn.-e of- the public patronage i rcfpect fully so.'icite.l. GEO. J. BOLTON WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE/ TUNKtIAN NOCK, W YO.MING GO.. PA. establishment has recently been refitted nn furnished in the latest stylo Every attention will be given to the comfort and convenience of those who patrouizc the House. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor . Tunkhanneck, September 11, ISOI. WORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESIIOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA Win. 11. ('ORT RIGHT, Prnp'r HAYING resumed the proprietorship of lie, above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to render the house an agreeable place ol sojourn fur •II who may favor it wilh their custom. Ww. II CCRTRIHHT. •Tunc-, 3rd, 1863 TOWANTDA, rA. D- B- BARTLET , (Late of the BBIMI.VARD lIOITSK. ELMIKA, N. Y. PROPRIETOR. The MEANS HOTEL, i-one of the LARGEST and BEST ARRANGED 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 unci agreeable stopping-place for all, v 3, n2l, iy. M. GILMAN, DENTIST. -s I T GILMAN, has permanently located in Tunk i\X• haniK-ck Borough, and resjicctfullv tenders his professional services to the citizens ot this place a.,d fjrrounding cuuntry. ALL WORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIS- ! FACTION. IfT Office over Tutton's Law Office, near the Pos Office. Dec. 11, 186 i. lITIOIU CUIM HIIiiY ON DUCTED BY U A RV\ vNI) Com.IN?, . WASHINGTON, C, C- In order to faciliate the prompt ad- | Ustment of Bounty, arrears of pay, Pensions and glfier Claim*, due sosdiera and other persons from j tiboGovernment ;'the United States. The under- wed has ui ids u.-rangements with the abova firm h onse experience and close proximity to, and daily i ft ereourse with the department; as well as the ear- ; t eknowiedge, acquired by them, of the decisions j a yquently made, enables them to prosecute •: t aijjis more efficiantly than Atiornays at a distance, ! inpossi ly do All persons entitled to claims of the 1 . uu .- ,pt " >n c:tn hIVO ttie,Q P r "P-fly attended I OJnobbylmg on ine and entrusting them to mv care HARVEY SICKLER, T.. n , „ Agt^ 'forllan-y A Collins, xuukhaßMck,Pa. THE PKRIL. OF MARTHA WAR REN, A STORY or THE AMOTOOSL'CK RIVER. "Goo<l bye, Martha. God help you ! I shall be back in three days at the farthest' ' The hardy White Mountain pioneer, Mark Warren, kissed his young wife, held his two year old boy to his breast for a moment, and then shouldering the sack of corn which was to be converted into meal at the rude mill forty miles away, trudged off through the wilderness. Martha Warren stood at the door of the log cabin, gazing out after the retreating form of her husband. An angle of the dense shrubbery bid him from view, but still she did not return to tho solitary kitchen. It pinked so dark and lonesome there she shrank from entering; or perhaps the grand sublimity of the view spread out before her, held her attention and thrilled her soul with that unexplained something that we ail feel that standing thus free to face with the works oi llis ling us. Tiie finest and m -st satisfactory view of the White M n it tin-i, is that which presents ' itself from what is mov the towu_.ol JJetl.le- Hm, on the road to L'ttleton and Frain'onia. 1 Wou'i. Wishing' >n, the king among princes, 1 is there seen in his proper plaee—the centre 1 of tii.-; r ck-nbbed range, towering, bald, blue ; and Hi-: ; r achahle. j Far up in the wil l clearing, close by the ! turbid waters o! tie AtnonooMick. was the I cottage situated—a place wild and erye I enough for the nest of an eagle, but dear to I the heart of Martha Warren, as the home where she had spent the happy days of her • young wife hood. When she had turned i from many a patrician suitor, in the fair old town of Portsmouth, to join her fortunes i with those cl ike }<in g settlor, it was with ! the 'nil and perfect understanding of the tri als.that lay before. She would walk in no ; paths of roses for years to come ; much ol ! life muct be spent in the eternal solitudes, where silence was broken only by the winds 1 of the forest, the shriek of the river over tin i sharp rocks, or the distant howl of the red* ■ mouthed wolf afar :n the wilderness. The necessary absence of her husband she ■ dreaded most. It was so very gloomy to ! close up her doors at. night and sit down by j her lonely fireside, with the consciousness ; that tiiere was no human being nearer to her i than the settlement, at Lard's Ilili, ten miles away tlirouge the pathless woods. There was little to fear fn ui Indians, al . though a nurubei oi scattered tribes yet roam ed over these primeval hunting grounds.— They were mostly disposed to be friendly , and Mrs. barren's kind heart tiatural ly ! prompted her to many acts cf friendship to wards them, ana an Indirn never forgets a | benefit. The purple mist #h-ared away from the scarred forehead of the doinii a it old mount ain, tlie yellow sun. peered over the rocky waff,and Martha turned away to the perform I ance of her sfinple d( uiesiic duties. The day WAS a long one, but it was toward evening, and the gloaming comes much sooner in these solitudes than in any other places. The bun • light faded out of the unglaz d windows tho' j it would illumine the d.staut mountains for some time yet, anu Martha-.vent out in the ( scanty garden to inhale the odor ofdhe sweet , pinks on the one tn eagre root she had bro't from heboid heme. ahe spicy perfume earned her back in memory to those days away in the past, spent j with kind lricnds and cheered by bright j young hopes. But though the thought of j home and kindred made her sail, not for a moment did she regret the fate she had cho sen. Absorbed in thought, she had not observed the absence of Charlie, her little boy ; now : she saw with vague uneasiness that he had j been playing, and was not to be seen. She : ca'led his nam a, but only echo and the roar of the swollen r.ver replied. She flow back to tho house, the faint hope remaining that he might, have returned thith er for his n"t kitten ; but no, the kitten was mewing at tho window, but no sign of Char lie. "With frantic haste she searched the clear ing, but withoutJsucccss. Her next thought was the river! black as night, save where it flickered wiih spots of snow white foatn—it flowed oil hut a few rods below her. She hurriedjdown to the brink, calling out,"Char lie ! Charlie!" The child's small Voice at some little dis tance replied. She followed the sound, and to her horror saw her boy—his golden hair and rosy cheeks clearly defined against the purple twilight sky—standing on the very edge of the huge, drenched rock, some ten feet from the shore, but in the sweeping cur rent of the river. This rock, called by the settlers "pulpit," was a good situation for carting fishing lines, and Mark Warren had bridged the narrow chasm between it and the shore with a cou ple of hovr n logs. Allured by some flashing clusters of fire wood growing on the side of the Pulpit, Char ley had crossed over, and now stood there regardless of danger,laughingly holding out the floral treasures to his mother. Martha flew over the frail bridge.and tho "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGIIT. "—Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15, 1865. next minute held her child in her ams. Joy ful because she had found him uninjured and men'aily resolving that the logs should be re moved to prevent further accident. She turned to retrace her steps, but the sight that met her eyes froze her with horror to the spot. Confronting her on the bridge, not six feet d istant stood an enormous wolf, gaunt and bo: y with hunger, his eyes blazing like live coals through milk anil gloom, his hot, fetid breath scorching the very air she breathed. A low grotvel of intense satisfaction stir red the air, answered by the growl of fifty more of his kind, helonginirito the pack ; iu another moment they would be upon her. Without an instance's thought of the con sequences, Martha obeyed her first impulse, and Struck the log with her foit, exerting all her mad strength in the blow. The frail fabric tottered, the soft earth gave way, there was a breath of awful suspense, and then the bridge went down with a dull plunge into the waters beneath ! The sharp claws of the wolf had already fixed on the scant veg etation of the rock, and he held there a mo- ment, struggling with a ferocious strength to gain a foothold ; the next, he slid down into the c!ms in, uttering a wild howl of disap pointed rage. Martha sank on her knees mid offered up a fervant prayer of thanksgiving far her es cape; but simultaro >us!y with thz: heartfelt •'amen there came a dread recollection.— The bridge formed the only connecting link between tiie Pulpit and the main land, and lihct, was severed ! True, she was not iu.-re than twenty feet distant from the shore of the river, but she might as well have been thousands of miles out in the ocean. The water was deep, and it tan w.tli almost in c mceivable rapidity, forty or fifty feet below her, over rocks so sharp and jagged that it made her shiver to look over the brink. Iler only hope was in her husbanl.— Should he return at the expected time, they might still be alive; but if by accident he should be detained beyond (hat time ! She closed her eyes, and besought God for pro tee! ion and help. Cold and hnngrv. and divnched by the riv er, Charlie began to cry f<r home. She could bear any thing better than that. She took off her own garments to fold around him. and hel l him to her breast and sang him the sweet cradle songs which had so often south ed him. But the fierce how's, of the wolve?, and the sullen thunders of the l iver, lliled his little heart with terror, and all the long dark niel t ihr<.ugh, he < !ung to her neck, shep iessiv crying t go ho no to ptni. Day dawned at last, the pale sun swim ming through a sickly sky, the pallid fore cast of a st<>nn. \\ eak and faint from hun ger, and suffeiing intensely from Cold—for summer is no bearer of tropical smiles in that inhospitable clime —Martha paced back and forth the narrow limits of the rook.— Noon came—the faint sun declined —it was night aeian. A cold fog sank down over the mountain, followed by a drizzling ram,which before morning changed to a perfect deluge. The river rose fearfully, foaming milk white down the gorge, filling the air with a thun dering roar, like the peal of an imprisoned earthquake . The day that followed was no better—only gray rain, and ashen white mist—not a ray of sunshine. A new fear rose in the heart of Martha Warren, The turbular.ee cf the stream must have swept away the bridge over which her Husband would cross on his re turn, and he would be detained—for days, may be for weeks. She gave up all for lost, Strongly and fearfully was she tempted to fold her child in her arms and plunge into the chauldron beneath, and thus end all her fear doubt, It would be better, she thought, than to suffer that slow, painful death of starvation, But something held her back—God's curse was on those who do self-murder. Towards night a lost robin, beaten about by the storm, stopped to rest a moment on the rock ; Martha seized upon him and rent him in twain, with almost savage glee, for her child to devour taw—she, who three days before would have wept at the 6ight of a wounded sparrow. Another night and day—like the other, only more intensely agonizing. Martha Warren was sullcnlv indifferent now ; suffer ing had passed every nobler feeling. Char lie ban moaned for suppe*"—to weak and spent to sit up, he was lying on the rock, his head in her lap, his gieat eyes fiied on her face. She tore open a vein in her arm with her scissors, and made him drink the blood ! Anything, she said to herself, to calm the wild, wishful yearning of his eves. The boy raised —he sat up, and peered through the darkness. "Mamma," ha said, "papa is coming ! I felt hiin touch me ?" She wept at the mockery, and drew the child frantically to her bosom. The night was fair—lit up by a new moon. Overcome by deadly exhaustion, against which 6he could make no resistance, Martha fell into an uneasy slumbet, which, toward midnight, was broken by a startling cry.— She sprang to her feet and gazed around her. No ! her eyes did not deceive her—there on the shore stood the stalwart form of her husband, and he was calling her name with energy of despair. She could only cry out, "Oh,"Mark ! Mark!" and fell senseless to the earth. When she woke to c msciousness, she was lying on her own bed in the cottage, sup ported by her husband's arm. It was no dream. She and her darling boy were safe, and he had come back. Many weeeks passed bjfore she grew stout again, but Mat k tended her as a moth er would an infant, and by the time the au tumn frosts fell, she was _the blithe Marthe Warren of old. At the time of the freshet, the bridge over i the Amonoosuck had indeed been swept J awav; but Mark, impelled by an uncontrolla | b!c fear—almost presentiment—had crossed i the river at the risk of his life, on a log raft, ' and reached home only to find it vacant. The descendants of Mark Warren and his wife still dwell among the fertile valleys of Amonoosuck, and the old men still tell their grandchildren the story f Martha Warren, and her child. WASTE OE AMI MTION.—How much am munition is wasted in battle, and how many ! muskets in the hands of incompetent or cow ardiy men are actually useless, the following official report of the condition of the small arms picked up on the field of Gettysburg strikingly illustrates. The statement has been published before, but we give it again as o.ie of the strongest alignments in faior of a change to breech-loading guns. With breech loaders it would be inpossible to get in more than one charge at a lime, and a man could tell at a glance whether his piece was discharged or not : Of the whole number received (27,574 we fond at least 24,000 of these loaded ; about one-half of these coutained two loads each and the biltance one load each, la many of these guns from two to six balls have been found, with only one charge of powder. In some the balls have been funned at the bot tom of the bore, with the charge of powder on lop of the ball. In same as many as six paper regulation calibre 58 cartridges have been found, the cartridges h tv.ng been put in the guns without being torn or broken.— Twenty three loads were found in one Springfiel d rifle-musket, each load in regular order. Twentv-two bails and sixty-two buek-s!:ot, with a corresponding quantity of powder, al! mixed up together, were found in one pcrcuesinii smoothrbore musket. In many of the smooth b re guns, model of 1842 rebel make, we have futitid a v,a l of loose paper between the powder ami ball, and an other wad of the same kind on top of the ball, the ball having been put into the gun naked. About six thousand of the arms were found loaned with Johnson A Doiv's cartrid pes ; many of these cartridges were about half way d >wn in the barrels of the guns, and in many cases the ball end of the cart ridge bad been put into the gun first. These cartridges were found mostly in the Enfield rille musket. * JC3E"Some years ago there was a bill intro duced in the Georgia Legislature to lay a tax often dollars a year on all Jackaseo. Some appreciative uiebers proposed to amend it so as to include lawyers . and doctors. The amendment was accepted, and,amidst much Jocularity' the bill passed. Several efforts have since been made to repeal it, but in vain, and to this day all Jackases. lawyers and doctors are obliged to pay a yearly tax of ten dollars. £-*C*Dotiy Birchwood thinks it provoking for a woman, who has been working all day mending her husbann's old cat to find a love letter in the pocket. There is not a woman on earth but would find the letter before she began to mend the coat—and then it wonld not be mended at all. • -yr* An eminent divine preached one Sunday morning from the text, "Ye are the children of the devil," and in the afternoon, by funny coincidence, from the words, "Chil dren, obey your parents," . A printer's apprentice, who was do ing the agreeable to a clergyman's daughter, was shocked one Sunday when her father an nounced the text.—"My daughter isgreivous !y tormented with the de**il." "It's all stuff'," as the lady said to her husband, who was complaining of dyspep sia after a public dinner. JS3T "Will you have it rare.or well done ? j said English to an Irishman, as he was cutting a slice of roast beef. "I love it well done iver since I am in this count}-," replied i'at, "for it was rare enough we used to ate in Ireland." Were a second deluge to occur the best place to retreat to would, of course, be New-ark. YERBLM SAP. —Time is never in a hurry, but never idles. HOW STORMS ARE MADE. AND HOW ME MAY ALL BE WEATHER WISE, The constant succession of storm and sun shine existing between the Rocky mountains and,the Atlartic seaboard,is a subject of much interest to all persons engaged in agricutural pursuits. A few hints, and the statement of a f3w facts, may afford some light, and re-, move many existing errors in reference to the atmospheric changes, commonly called the weather. All the changes which take place in the animal and vegetable kingdoms result, in c mnection with the atmosphere under the direct or indirect agency of the sunlight. Katit is one of these results. The action of tho sunlight produces the great atmospheric currents which exist in different sections of the globe. The trade winds pass from the tropical regions over the Carribear. sea and the Gulf of Mexico into higher lati tudes. moving within the tropics from south east to northwest, and after passing the trop ics from southwest to northeast, and in high er intitudes from west to east; so that there exists a constant current over the eastern portion of the North American continent sweeping around over the western portion of the eastern continent, and there back within the tropics. At some point within this vast terial whirlpool there is always existing a storm.— The warm air from the southwest commin gling with the colder air of higher latitudes condense and forms clouds and storms In the progress of these currents the action of the sunlight produces a vacutn, which is the actual cause of the storm. The existence of tins vacutn is iudioated by tho fall of the mercury in the barometer but more certainly by the wind. So soon as the vacutn begins to exist, the air from all sides tresses in to restore the equilibrium. The combining of these currents condense the vapor, clouds exist, and the ordinary phenomena of the storm. When the equilibrium is restored the storm ceases. The wind is invariably blowing towards the approaching, or fallow ing the receding storm. The direct motion of th* storm is usually from southwest to northeast, but it lias also a laterial move ment from the northwest, and to the south cast, and this results from the greater pres sure of the northwest current, is acting on the outer margin of the air of the circle.— The wind from the east, southeast, and south indicates the coming storm, and some times the northeast wind. The southwest wind, west, north west, and north wind in dicate a receding storm. It ordinarily requires from -0 to 43 hours for a storm to pas* from Cairo to New York. So soon as the equilibrium of the atmosphere is restored the storm ceases ; so that a storm at Cairo might cease before it would reach New York. The intensity ol the cold after any given storm depends upon two facts. If another storm is approaching from the southwest, so as to counterbalance the receding storm, the cold will not be intense. If the laterial mo tion of the storm should be greater than the direct motion, the cold will be very intense over the path of that storm. This was the case of the great storm of December 31, 1863 in its laterial movement, it reached Atlanta, Georgia, before the direct movement reached Philadelphia ; hence it was colder at Mem phis, Nashville, and Atlanta, than at Mon treal. I have stated these facts from very many observations, some of which I may give you, if these remarks are thought worthy of your notiee. If the daily press would give the state of the weather every morning, as it ex ists in the Southwest and West, the farmer with tiie aid of the barometer, and noteing the course of the wind, would not have to look for the weather in the almanac or the moon. WATERING WINDOW PLANTS.—Miss Mai ing. the authoress of Fiowers for Window Gardens in Town and Country," thus writes: There is one universal law as to watering plants which a great many people entirely neglect. The neglect of this one rule causes in >re blight and more unhealthy plants than perhaps any single thing that ran be named besides. I mean the excellent rule of water ing them with warm water, always rather warmer than the sod the plants are gtowing in. People must surely sec the check and injury it must be to plants to get cold # food. The organs of tender plants a re extremely delicate; and when they are wanted to di gest their food it is a bad plan surely to par alyze them with cold. If we feed them, on tho other hand, with fjod a little warm, they are stimulated at once to make the most ol their meal. J&S'A disease of an unusual character prevails in Lykenstown and Wisconisco Dau phin county, I'a. Thus far every case has baffled the physicians, and it seems they do not fully understand howto treat the patients who, being seized with convulsions, generallv die in less than twenty-four hour*. Spotted fever is the term used by the people in speak ing of the disease, but this may not be the proper title. The popular man or writer is tlwu s j tho one who is but little in advance of the masses, never the man who is far in advance of tbcm and out of sight. TERM S: 9&.OOPEH A.WNTT M "Bounty J uinping'' by Wholesale. fAlbany Journal.] We have bad occasion recently to refer to several squads of "bounty jumpers" who had passed through this city on tbeir way West to "operate.''' The first squad took the train a week ago, and were mostly Albany thieresj who knew it would be useless for them to present themselves here as recruits. Tha second squad were nearly all from* New York, and came to this city to enlist, under the impression that our Marshal would be j green enough to accept them, But of the , whole number who offered themselves, only three were received. The rest sought other j localities, and seloctea Oneida county as their first field of operations. The nexi squad who wended their way westward were all from New York, and numbered over a hundred. They „were chiefly labelled for Ulica, Watertown and Binghamton. Ot the first squad moat of them enlisted' in I tica, and nine of them "jumped" before they reached the rendezvous in this city.— Of the second squad, all enlisted 2 in Utica and thereabouts, and thirty-two of them es caped from the barracas on Troy road on Sunday night. And last night nine of the same tribe, who were enlisted at Utica, got away. They were accompanied by a squad of four men, and on arriving at the depot one ot their friends appeared in a captain's uniform, took command of the guard, and, marching the gang to a convenient spot, en abled them to dodge round a corner in the dark and so get away, the bogus captain conveniently disappearing at the same time. Of this latter number, however, seven were recaptured last night; one by officer Carrol and the others by a posse from the Marshal's office. The arrests were adroitly madeat the Hudson River depot, just before the night train left. We refer to this subject thus part cular— ly to put the marshals iu the interior on their guard. In districts (if there are any such) where the marshalls are in league with boun ty brokers tor the money they can make out of the alliance, this information will be of no use. But it may be of use where the local officers are not worse thieves than the scoun drels who; deliberately enlist to pocket the bounty and desert. The State is, at this moment, full of these ■ bounty jumpers and as no locality is credited men until fhey are receipted for at the nearest general rendezvous, it is quite important that attention should be paid to the character of the men enlisted. V HAT AN EDITOR MIGHT HAVE BEEN.— ITOLI.AND, the editor cf the Springfield(Mass) Republican, has been up in Vermont, to •'where he came from," and thus sketches what he should have been if he had not left home and become an editor • Your correspondent would hive grown stalwart and strong, with horny hands and a face as black as the ace of spades. He would have taught school winters, worked o<i the farm summers, and gone out haying fifteen days in July, and taken for pay the iron works and running gear of a wagon. At two-and-twenty, or thereabouts, ho would have begun to pay attention to a girl with a father worth $2,000, and a spit curl on her forehead—a girl who always went to singing school, and "set in the "and sung without opening her iijcu?h—a pretty girl, anyway. Well, after seeing her home from singing school for two or three years, taking her to a Fourth of July, and getting about $lOO together, he would Lave married and have settled down. Y'cars would pass away, and the girl with the spit curl would have eleven children—just as sure as you live—seven boys and four girls. We should have had a hard time in bring ing them up, but they would soon be able enough to do the milking and help their mo ther wash days and I getting independent at last, and feeiing a little stiff in the joints, would be elected a member of the Legislature having been an assessor and a school commit tee-man for years. In the evening of my days, with my pipe in ray mouth, thirteen barrels of cider in the cellar, and a newspa per in my hand, I should sit and look at the markets through a pair of gold moanted spec tacles,and wonder why should 6uch a strange silly piece as this be published. C3E" A man from the country applied lately to a respectable lawyer for legal advice After detailing the circumstances of the case, he was asked if he had stated the facts ex actly as they had occured. "Yes, sir," re plied the applicant. "I have told you the plain truth ; you csq put the lies to it jour self. gy*ST Col. North arrested for complicity with alleged election frauds in New York, has been unconditionally released. Tho election being over, and the object of the ar rest having teen secured, there was no fur ther necessity for detaining the prisoner.— His discharge is a clear admission that there was no cause for his arrest. There w a once in this fair land redress for such wrongs, hut is there now ? C3C* He was a much disgusted and very desperate man who desired to "6wap him self for a dog and then kill the animal." VOL. 4 NO. 27
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