lam opposed to secession. I believe it is no
remedy for the evils complained of. Instead
of acting with that division of Southern foiend
who take ground for secession, I shall take
other grounds while I try to accomplish the
tome end.
T think that this battle ought to be fought
not outaide, but inside of the Unien, and
upon the battlements of the Constitution
itself. lam unwilling, of my own volition,
to walk outside of the Cnioe which has been
the result of a Constitution made by the pa
triots of the Revolution, They formed the
Constitution; and this Union that is so
.. euich.pMkeu of, and which all of ua are ao
desirous to preserve, grows out of the Con
stitution; and. 1 repeat, I am not willing to
walk out of the Union growing out of the
Constitution, that waa formed by the patri
ots, and, I may aay, the soldiers of the Rev
olution. So far as lam ctgicerned, end Ibe
lieve I may apeak with some degree of confi
dance for the people of my State, we joined
to fight that battle inside and not outside of
the Union, and if any are to go out it must
be those who violate it We do not intend
to go oat. It is oar Constitution ; it is our
Union, growing out of the Constitution, and
we do not intend to he driven from it or out
of the Union. Those who bavo violated the
Constitution either in the passage of what
are denominated personal liberty bills, or by
their refusal to execute the fugitive slave
Jaw—they having violated the instrument
that binds ua together—must go out and not
me.
His plan of obtaining Southern Rights, as
here stated, is the true one,—but as stated
in his quoted resolution in his ISGI speech,
in a former part of this article, waa wrong.—
It waa a sad and wicked error to resort to
secession, and in denouncing that he is right.
Hia charge that "personal liberty bills, and
refusal to execute the fugitive slave law,
were violations of the Constitution, is just:
and his intimation that abolitionists were
likely to leave or break up the Union rather
thon to sudmit to the Constitution and laws,
ia correct, although hard upou those who
elected him.
The last Proclamation.
We deeply regret that Mr. Johnaon has
put his name, as President, to the proclama
tion offering rewards for the capture of Jeff
erson Davis, and others, as implicited in the
assassination plot. That Jefferson Davis had
anything to do with it—that he would not
have denounced the proposition—is what
hardly any amount of testimony, or
short of hia own acknowledgment, will ever
make the world, at large, believe. The in
trinsic improbability of the thing will pre
possess most minds. The Proclamation looks
liko one of the volcanic eruptions of Secretary
Stanton. It saya:
"It appears from evidence in the Bureau of
Military Justice," Ac. Evidence? bosh!—
All they have in thia new-fangled "Bureau
df'Mllitary Justice"—an institution unknown
to-our laws, is testimony —and every lawyer
knows that testimony is not always evidence
The bead leader in an infamous plot, as a
means of inveigling hair brained youths into
hia wicked schemes, will, often claim to be
acting on the authority of some high and re
garded personage. It is a very old game ;
trnt, to pretend to attach credit to it, is wor
thy the sagacity of a pair of specticles strad
dled on a truncated nose! As to ex Senator
Clement C. Clay, we have heard, on unim
p-sellable authority, that his expressions, to
0 trusted friend, on bearing of the felonious
attempt to burn hotels in New York, were so
Vehement, in regard to ihe atrocity of the act
at to put it past probabilities that he would
not have execrated the assassination of Lin*
coin. Mesars. Bevelry Tucker, G. N. Sauo
ders, sod Mr. Cleary, have in the most indig
nant terms, denied that they knew cf, or
could have sanctioned the act,
Thia Proclamation was a silly act. It can
do no good; It is certain to harm things cen
♦rally. President Johnson had better put
his explosive bureaucrat of the War Office in
Umbo, or send him—politically—farther.—
Freeman'e Journal.
The Old Contests.
The contest between labor aud capital is
beginning again throughout the country.—
The falling off in the demand for coal has
had the effect to so reduce the price of that
article that the operators complain that they
cannot pay the expenses of mining it at the
present rates of wages. The miners on the
•ther hand complain that the necessaries f
life are still exhorbitantly high, and they can
not, under snch circumstances, work for less
wages. The operators have, therefore gener
ally concluded to close up. for a season so as
to compel the workmen to work for less wa
ges. In the Iron business the same state of
difficulties exist. There has been quite a re
daction in the price of iron. Railroad com
panies cannot or will not buy iron at the pri
ces that have been ruling for some months
past. They purchase just as much as will
keep their roads in repair. Tliey are waiting
for iron to fall still lower, and t; s can only
be done by manufacturers lemming the ex
penses of production, hence the latter are
curtailing wagea considerably. The work
men in iron use the same argument, viz: that
the necessaries of life do not come down in
proportion. They ought to know, if they do
nut already, that the wages of the poor work
ing man are the last to rise and the first to
fall during fluctuations in the currency.—
•Commodities of all kinds will have to corn
down, but not proportionablj to wages.—
The horrid incubus of taxation is about to
pre** still harder on the shoulders of the
working taan. It is the iron harness that
will gall h!in,and hia children after -him—
Everything be eats or wears is burdened
with onerous taxes and be must pay it.—
Hence he ought to see at a glance that the
necessaries of life cannot, as long as this tre
mendous debt remains unpaid, falls as low in
proportion as bis daily wages. We now sp*
proacb the situation of Earope where s few
capitalists keep tb mas in abject subjection
hj heavy taxation— Danville Intelligencer.
<TI)c Dnnocnt.
HARVEY SICKEER. Editor.
TUNKHJ%NNOCK, PA
Wednesday, May 17. 1865.
fry The trial of Ilarold and olher alleg
ed conspirators in the assassination of Presi
dent Lincoln, is now going on before what is
called the "court of military justice" at Wash
ington. Ac uit up to this time, unheard of
in the history of the coun'ry.
—
ANDREW JOHNSON'S RECORD —WP devote
a large portion of our space od*y, on our
first page, to copious extracts from the
political, official record of President Johnson.
We do this that our friends may preserve
them for future reference ; and for the reason
thai in assuming the duties of tho office
which so unexpectedly devolved upon him,
he furnished no index as to his future policy,
except an unequivocal and explicit reference
to his past political course. It is then, by
this record that the people over whom he
presides are to judge of him. If in time, he
shall be found, hirns<|f, violating the wise
maxims and sound conclusions of his earhpr
days, he cann> t complain that a people ever
jealous of the saered rights guaranteed to
them by the constitution and laws of their
country, still adhere to them. If his course
shall be consistent with his former political
record, and#iat of the p*rty to which he
belonged, he will find none more ready and
willing to accord him praise than that party
A party without whose support and endorse
ment, his administration will ho lound to be
worse thau a failure.
A WORD IN THEIR EAR The Republi
cans and Abolitionists can see no virtue in
Democratic denunciation of assination. They
are the eleet "from whom all blessmgsjfiow,"
and whatever any one else outside their pah
may say is simply h>pocracy. In August of
last year Deacon Gray, Abolitionist, of Ohio,
wrote a letter over his own signature, pub*
fished in the Ohio State Journal, the Abii
tion organ of Ohio, and from which we ex
tract the following;
"I like the spirit of the Major in command
of the 60:h Ohio. When, in his presence
the question was presumptuously asked
"Shall we eventually have to compromise ?"
he turned with a withering look, and said
"I entered this campaign wiih over 800 men.
To-day I CAU mus.er 192, and I tell y u tha
if the President even hint at promise.
TIIEREARE 192 ASSASSINS IN MY COM
MAND READY TO MARCII. solitary and
aloneTO THE WHITE HOUSE. "We wish
our friends at home nail this spuit. 'Tia the
spirit of the Federal army, who bjsr the bur
det:."
Swallow that ye blatant apostles of the
Etheopiao.- Fx.
CONDITION OF THE BI.ACK IN L"UIIANA.—
A Unitarian clergytmn from New Hampshire
by the name of Wheelock, now employed by
Gen. Bank* in Louisiana, in a letter to Gar
rison's Liberator, thu* describes the condi
tion of the negroes a* a consequence f their
emancipation by the President's proclamation
"on aotne of the plantations labor was quite
suspended and the laborers in hundreds with
their wires and little ones had gathered
around the forts and sold or-' camps There
they earned a precarious living by such un
certain and intermittent employment as they
might find; the men as servants, hostlers,
camp followers and hangers on—their wives
as cooks, washerwomen, Ac. Hunger, cold,
fever, srnall-pox were canying off the chi'-
dren at a fearful raie >f mortality. Tne mor
als of the men are being undermined by idle
ness and evil example and the modesty of
the women debauched by contact with all;
that is debasing in military life. From month
to month their numbers visibly decreased ;
and it really seotued as though the southern
negro, like the Indian, the Caffre the Carbi
and the Australian, would become extinct
before ihe ruda shuck of the war, and '.he cor
rosive venom of our vices."
G oii.g Backward.
Tennessee seems about to take the back
track in the matter of punishments for offen
ces. In all the other States the people are
expunging the old Dracon'an principles from
their penal codes, and making them more in
accordance with the teachings of Christianity
But in Tennessee the effort ia to bring back
the barbarous penalties of past agea, and fur
that purpose a bill has been introduced into
the Legislature to amend the criminal law of
the State It it aa follows :
Sic- 1* Be it enacted by the General Aueml'.y
qf the State of Tennessee, That whoever shall felo
niously take or steal any horse, mule or ass, shall,
en conviotion thereof, suffer death by hanging
Sic 2 Be it enabled, That whoever shall felo
niously break open the house of another for the
purpese of committing a larceny or robbery therein,
shall on conviction thereof, suffer death by hangiug.
SEC. 3. Beit enacted. That whoever shall felon
iously rob another or steal from their person shall,
on conviction thereof, suffer death by hanging.
Tbia sanguinary code, even if adopted in
Tonncaaee, will fail to reach the end intend
ed. Thia baa been the practical renult of ex.
tra mere penal codes in other countries and
States, and Tennessee will not be an excep
tion. Laws which proportion punishment to
the nature of crimes, well administered, are
the best protections to society, and this great
(act, established by pll experience, should
admonish the people of Tennessee.—Ex
THE LATEST NEWS
BY TELEGRAPH.
CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
v
His Postmaster General, Family,
Staff and Others Captives.
Official Gazette.
WASHINGTON, May 13, 10 P. M,
Major General Dix:
The following despatch has just been re
ceived from General Wilson, announcing the
surprise and capture of Jefferson Davis and
his staff by Colonel Pritchard and 'he Mich
igan cavalry, on the morning of the 10th in
stant, at IrwinsviHe, is Irwin county, Geor
gta.
EDWIN M STANTON,
Secretaay f War.
MACON, Georgia, May 12.
Lieut. IJ. S Grant and Hon. Secretary of
War, Washington D. C:
I have the honor to report that at dayl'ght
on the 10th inst., Colonel Pritchard, com
manding the Fourth Michigan cavalry, cap
tured Jefferson Davis and family, with Regan
the Postmaster General ; Colonel Harrison,
his Private Secretary ; Colonel Johnson, A,
D. C ; Coionel Morris. Colonel Lubbick,
Lieut, Hathaway, and others.
Colonel Pritchird surprised thoir camp, at
Irwins-ville, in Irwin county, Gvorgia,seventy
five miles southeast of this place.
They will be here to-morrow night, will be
forwarded under a strong guard, without de
lay.
I will send further particulars at once.
J H. WILSON,
Brevet Major General.
Particulars of the Capture—Davis At
tempted to Escape in Feminine
Disguise.
WAR DEPARTMENT, )
WASHINGTON, May 14 $
Major General Dix, New Yortc :
The following details of the cap'ure of Jeff
erson Davis while attempting to make bis
e-ctpe in his wife's clothes, have been receiv
ed from M'tjur General Wilson.
E. M. STANTON.
MACON, Ga. 11 A M , May 12 1865.
Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
The following despatch anty.ydnciiig tp, e
capture of Davis has just been
nanded me by Colonel Mtnty, commanding
the Second division.
II CADQU AR. OF THE 4th MICHIGAN CaV.. )
CUMBER LA NnviLLE, Ga May 11. 1685. $
To Capt. T W. Scott, A. G Second Division
SIR.— I have the honor to it-port that at
day light yesterday, at Irwinsville, I surpri-ek
and captured Jeff Davis and family, together
with his wife, sisters and brother, his Post
master General, Reagan, his private Secreta
ry, Colonel Harris; Colonel Johnston.—
A. D. C. on Davis'staff; Colonel Mor
ns Lubbick ami Lteu'enant Hathaway; also
several important names, and a train of five
wagons and three ambulances —making a per
feet success, had not a moat painful mistake
nrcurred by which the 4 h Michigan and Ist
Wisconsin collided, which cost us two killed,
and Lieutenant B'Utelle wounded through
the arm, in the 4'h Michigan ; and four men
wounded in the Ist Wisconsin. This occur
red just at daylight, after we had captured
ihe camp, by the advance of the Is' Wiscon
sin. Ttier were mistaken for the enemy
1 returned to this point last night and
shall move right on to Macon without await
ing orders from you as directed, feeling that
the whole object of the expedition is accom
plished. It will take me at least three days
to reach Macon as we are seventy five miles
out and our stock is much exhausted. I
hope to reach Ilawkinsville to-nigbt. I
have the honor, etc.,
(signed) D. B PRITCHARD,
Lieutenant Colonel sih Michigan Oavolry.
The Ist Wisconsin belongs to L*grange's
Brigade, Mccook's division and had -been
sent due east by General Cr'XTON via Dub
lin. Colonel Mimz had distributed hia cotne
mand all along the south bank ot the Ocmul
gee and Aliatuaha, This acconnta for the
collision between parts of the First and Sec
ond divisions, and shows the zeal of the com
mand in pursuit. I have directed increased
vigilance on the part of the command in the
hope of catching the other assassins. Our
dispositions are goo I, and so far none of the
rebel chiefs have been able to get through.
Breckinridge's son was captured night be
fore last, eleven miles south from here.
I will send further details as soon as re
ceived.
(Signed) J. H. WILSON,
Brevet Major General.
MACON, Ga 9.30 A. M. May 13th.
110 >. E, M. Stanton, Secretary of Mar:
Lt. Cuionel Harden, commanding Ist Wis
consin, has just arrived from Irwinsville
He strucK Davis' trail at Dublin, Laurena
county, on the evening of the 7th, and fol
lowed him closely night and day through the
pine wilderness of Alligator Creek and
Green Swarnp, via Cutnberlandville to Irwins
ville. At Ctiamberlandsville Colonel Harden
met Colonel Pritchard with 150 picked men
and horses of the 4th Michigan. Harden
followed the trail directly south, while
Pritchard, having fresher horses, pushed
down the Ocmulgee towards Hopewell, and
therce by House creek to Irwinsville, arriv
ing thereat midnight of the 9th. JefTerscn
Davis had not arrived. From citizens
Pritchard learned shat his party were en
camped two miles out of the town. He
made his dispositions and surrounded the
camp before day. Harden had camped at 8
P. M. within two miles, as he afterwards
learned from Davis.
The trail being too indistinct to follow, be
pushed on at 3 A. M.. and had gone but lit
tie ni'>re th*n one mile when his advance
were fired upon by tnec of th'4h Michigan.
A fight both parties exhibiting the
greatest determination. Fifteen minutes
elapseTTefore the mistake was discovered."
The firing in this skirmish was the first
warning Davis received. The captors report
that he hastily put on one of his wife's dress
es and started for the woods, closely followed
by our men, who at first thought him awo
man, but seeing his boots while running, sus
pected his sex st once. The race was a
short one, and the tebel President was §.> on
brought too. lie brandished a bowie knife
<>f an elegant pattern, and showed signa of
battle, but yielded promptly to the persua
sion of the Colt's revolvers, without cotuptlls
ing the men to fire. He expressed greet, in
dignity at the energy with which he was pur
sued, saying that he had believed our gov
eminent more magnanimous than to hunt
down a Woman and children. Mrs. Davis
remarked to Col. Harden after the excite
ment was over, that the men had better not
provoke the President, or he might hurt
some of 'em.
Reatrin behaves himself with becoming
dignity and resignation. The party were ev
iden'ly maKing for the coast.
(Signed) J H. W ILSON,
Brevet Major General.
History of Assassination.
We give a brief history of a few of the
assassinations of ancient and modern times,
which arose by rival aspirants to the throne,
some on account of private revenge, and
sune out of a hatred to tyrany. We have
only room for a portion, leaving out more
ancient examples of (he Arabian assassins,
and the circumstances involving the death of
Philip of Macedon, Caesar, Totilla King of
the Goths ; Count Wallenstein ; Guntavus
111, of Sweeden ; Peter 111, of Russia ; Paul
I, of Russia ; Henry 111, of France; the
Duke of Guise ; Henry IV, of France ; Al
bert I, Archduke of Austria and Etnperet of
Germany. We commence with-
EDMUND I, KING OF THE ANGLO SAXONS.
the son of King Edward the Elder, and auc
ceesor of Athelstane, was slain in 146, in the
twenty-third year of his reign, by Leolf.
EDWARD 11,
surnamed Martyr, wan the occupant favored
by the St-. Dunatan of Monat'c party of the
| Ang'u-Saz en community. Hi* step-mother,
Ellrida, claimed the right for her nun Ethel
red, only seven yeara of age, and in 978,
three years aftri his assumption of the seep
tre, Edward was stabbed in the back at Corfe
Castle, his step-mother's residence.
EDMUKD tl
I
surnamed Ironside, was assassinated in 1016,
the year of his accession to the throne. He
was the champion of the English cau e
against the Danes unler Canute, by whom
j his death was mysteriously procured, at
| Oxford,
CHARLES It, OF ENGLAND,
wss the object of a frightful plot. At Nc.
.13 Lincoln's Inn, London, but the plot was
discovered and the design failed.
RICHARD 111,
was seen alive and well on the 6'h of Octo
ber, l-°>9B, ar.d on the 12ih of March, 1400. a
corpse purporting to be hi# was exhibited in
St. Paul's Cathedrel, London, but the coun
tenance was displayed only from the eye
brow to the chin, and the impression of the
multitude was that it was not their Sover
eign. He was murdered myatertously, but
when, and by whom 1 History will ask the
question !
EDWARD V. AND HIS BROTHER,
disappeared with similar mystery. Tie
moat curious part of tbeir case was that they
were not only supposed lo be dead, but after
ward two persons like them were seen alive
in various parts of the kingdom,
HENRT VI.
was killed in the Tower of L"ndon. on Tues
d<y, May 21, 1471, by'the Duke of Gloiices
tor. The weapon was a koife, and the
wound was between the ribs.
THE DI'KE OF CLARENCE
was put to death in the Tower on the 18th
ol February, 1478. He may have been poi
soned by the order ol Richard of Gloucester.
GEORGE YiLLIERB, DUKE or BUCKINGHAM,
was murdered at Portsmouth, in August,
1628, by Felton, who left behind htm a letter
claiming that he was justified by the act.
LOUIS PHILIPS.
very narrowly escaped death on the Boule
vard du Temple, in Paris, on the 28:h ol
July, 1835, aa he was riding along. An
Italian named Fleeche, had prepared an in
ternal machine, consisting of twentytwo
gun-birreU fastened together and loaded to
the muzzle with missiles great and smr.lb—
These were so arranged in the windows of a
house on the Boulevard that they completely
swept the width of the street. The king es
caped, but Marshal Moitier and several other
officers and citizens perished,
Louis NAPULEAN or ri.AECE
who after having been elected President,
seized the liberals and usurped hi* present
power has, like his immediate predecessor,
Louis Phtlipe, been fired at repeatedly on
the streets of Paris. The most startling
' plot was the famous Orsini affair. Fercus
sion abed* manufactured in England, apecial
ly for the purpose, were thiown by Orsini
and hit comrades under the Imperial coach
on the evening of January 14, 1858, as it ap
j proached the Italian Opera House. The
I horses were killed and some of the attend
| ants severely injured, but the Empercr es
i capod unharmed. About a year ago Napole
an 111, again narrowly escaped—while riding
|in the Champ# Elysees. A soldier stepped
from the crowd on the promenade, and fired
{ a pistol at him, but missed his aim.
MARAT or THE TRENCH REVOLUTION.
! In French revolutionary records, the
' assassination of the tyrant Marat in his bath
; in Julv, 1793, by the beautiful Charloote
1 Corday, is the most striking episode—a ro
mance sod a whole history in itself.
| •
HCLEBIASTICAL MURDERS.
j The slaying of Thomas A'Beckett, Arch
bishop o.' Canterbury, by the four Norman
barons. Ir the offense of having disobeyed
the will of Henry 11, is very remarkable—
Be was stricken down beside the slur of his
j own cathedral.
The "assassination of the awhbTMWIW Plril
in 1857, while reciting the Litany in the
hurch of St. Etionne du M<ni, the Chapels
Church of Sainte Genevieve, by an insane
prieat, will ever stir the souls of the faithful
when recalled.
ANDREW JACKSON.
It was during Ihe business depression of
the winter of 18H4, that an attempt was
made to assassinate President Jackson, by a
young house-painter. The young man fur
nished himself with two well loaded pistols
end as the President and others came out
upon the eastern portico of the Capitol, in a
funeral procession, he leveled one of them at
the breast of Jackson. The percussion cap
exploded, but did not ignite the powder.—
The assassin dropped the unfaithlul weapon,
and instantly presented the other, with the
same result. Unawed by the danger, the
President rushed upou the culprit with his
uplifted cane, and he was soon secured. The
failure of the pistols was remarked as a spe
cial interposition of a kind Providence—
They were tited without difficulty at the
nrxt trial, and each sent its bullet through an
inch hoard at a distance of thirty feet.
A few months before this occurrence, the
President wrs attacked by a cowardly ruffian
while he was on bis way to Fredericksburg
to lay the corner stone of a monument to be
erected in memory of the mother of Wash
ington. While the boat, which bore the
President and a large company of distinguish
ed persons down the Potomac, was laying at
the wharf at Alexandtia, the President and
a large company of distinguished perrons
down the Potomac, was Lying at the wharf
at Alexandria, the President retired to the
cabin and sat behind the table, next to the
berths, quietly smoking and reading. A
lieutenant, recently dismissed from the navy
; for improper co.iduct, approached the Pres
idem as if to give him a friendly salutation,
but instantly strucK the venerable man in
the face, fit-fore he could repeat the blow,
he was seized by the captain. So anxious
were all present to ascertain whether Jack
son was injured, that the friends of the ruffian
were allowed to carry him ashore and effect
his escape. '"Had ( been apprised," said the
President,that Randolph stood before me, I
should ha ve been prepared for him, end I
could hare defended myself. No villain has
ever escaped me before; and he would not,
had it not been for ray confined situation."—
A few minutes afterward, when a citizen of
Alexandria said to the hero, "Sir if you will
pardon me, in case lam tired and convicted
f will kill Rannnlpb, for his irsnlt to you, in
fifteen minutesthe Presidedt instantly
replied, 'No,Sir. I cannot do that*"
Another attack was made upon Jackson's
life by sending him an explosive trunk with
the request that he should open it himelf
Jackson said, he had no friends so kind a
that, and ordered it opened from below, when
it was found to c -ntain an explosive machine
FRANKLIN PI*RCE.
An attempt was made to kill Mr. Pierce
by spiking rails across the track, killing his
child and injuring his wife.
THE NATIONAL HOTEL AFFAIR.
Ths attempt to poison James Buchanan,
by a mixing of poison in the food at the na
tional fl tel, injuring and killing many, was
also among the moat villainous attempts at
assassination.
Shoulder-Straps Must Surrender.
An Orper has just gone forth from the War
Office, which will again consign to to merited
oblivior a host of useless Generals, Colonels,
Hjo a, Captains, A. A. G 'a, A. A. A. G.'s,
A. d® C,'s. Quartermasters, Commissaries,
and other goldlaced and sbouldwr-strapped
gentry, who, dressed in the little brief autho
rity with a military commission, obtained
through political favoritism, conferred on
ibeni, have been strutting about the streets
and public places for the last few yaara—al
ways taking care to keep their precious car
casses at a safe distance from "the front"—
to the infinite disgust of the true soldiers, as
wll as the tax ridden civilians whose aub
stanoe wet being consumed in their support.
The Order reads thus :
WAR DEPARTMENT ADJUTANT GENERAL'S
OFFICE, WAPH.NGT.N, May 1, 1865.—Gener
al Orders, No. ~9,J0r reducing the number
of General, Field and Stuff Officers.— It is
ordered bv the President that resignations of
General, Field and Staff Officers will be re
ceived until the Fifteenth of this month, at
which date the Adjutant General is directed
to commence mustering houorahlf out of
service all General, Field and Staff Officers
who are unemployed, or whose service is no
longer needed.
By order of the President of the U. S.
W. A NICHOLS.
Assistant Adjutant General.
As an immediate effect of this Order, we
learn faom Washington that a large number
of resignations of officers are now daily being
received at the War and Navy Departments
which are being accepted as last received.—
The best news since Lee's surrender !— Ex.
The New York Tribune is guilty of the fol
lowing :
"As the solemn procession swept past the
Albambra Palace, a saloon of pleasure on ca
nal street; the windows were crowded with
the sad faces of negroes and mulatoes, most
of whom were ladies, and all of whom were
bathed in tears. To illustrate the depravity
of a certsjn class, as we perceived one colored
lady, who was weeping copiously and at the
same tima partaking of sorao refreshment
which resembled a piece of pancake, we heard
a bystander remark, in the words of an anti
quated strain :
The buckwheat cake waa in her mouth,
The tear was in her eye."
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
stopped Work—The Wi.kesßerte ROOM*
states lhat nearly all the mine* in the valley are
idle. The operator! hare (iron notice of a redac
tion of wages, to which the men will not submit
consequently the strike. ♦
It in reported that freights on coal will be some
what reduced next month.
Drowned.— John Graves a well known eitieen
of Windham Tcwnehip, i D this Count/,we learn wae
d rowned In passing the rotate at Nadl iooke dtf* on
Saturday last. lie *u standing at the side of the
oar of an ark which he waa ranaing, when the oor
blade caught a swirl and he waa thrown violently
into the water, all efforts to tare h m by his com
panion* were rain. •- - •
A large Crowd assembled at thie place on Sat
arday last to witness the circus. The accommoda
tions were so limited as to furnish seats for only
about two thirds of those present in the afteraoeu.
Those who were unable to get seats were crowded te
and fro between the seats and tha ring for the pr~-
formers ; in many instances materially isterferiag
with the exhibition. Some of the acton shewed
much skill and agility, but taken altogether Uw
concern may be set down as rather shabby.
Dress Making and Pitting, in these Inter
davs, has become an art which ij only known to
those who acquire it by great experience long and
patient industry, by those who hare a nice apprecia
tion of the proprieties dress, or what is called
taste. All the.ro qualifications are said to be pos*
sessed in an eminent degree by Mrs. Barnee, who
has lately established herself in this business here.
Read her advertisement elsewhere.
B. f? Wo call attention to the advertiaemen tof A ■
H. ROW LX A Co , who have a large assortment ef
fashionable and valuable imported Jewelry, the
whole of which on account of tha fall in gold will
be disposed of on a novel principle, giving groat in
ducements to buyers, and offering extensive employ
ment to ngents, for fnll particulars see our advertis
ing columns.
Jefferson Davie, in his attempt to escape cap
ture by the federal forces in Georgia, is said to have
assumed the garb of a woman. Sume keen-eyed
soldier—doubtless an impertinent fellow— discovered
that his ankles were rather clumsy for oneef the
fair sex, and on closer examination discovered tbuC
ho had on a pair of genuine long-leged boots and
not the neat fitting and elegewt boctees ob gaiter*
which can be obtained at John Weil's Store in this
| place.
The Lady's Friend—-'Summer Days"—a
beautiful steei ergraving. is the appropriate embel
! lishment of the Jane number of The Lady's Friend.
This sngraving will leiniixi roanycf
' The days they went gypsyfng,
A long time go "
It is rery finely enraved The double Fashion
Plate is also excellently engraved, and the ladies no
doubt will pronounce it as charming as it met be
expensive. More to our masculine taste, however
we i onfess, it the simple woodcut of "Lucy." with
the expressive lines beneath. Ah, thero Lucy's !
' There she stands, ber morning dress and mantle
Makinsr space between her and tSe world ;
Shutting in ber heart within its whiteness,
Like the sweets in unblown lilies furled."
Rut we must skip the other engravings, illustra
tive of the fashions, new patterns. Ac., and come te
the music, which is "Sherman's Grand Triumphal
March"—like that from Atlanta to Raleigh, wv sup
pose. The literary matter of th's number is "Chry
salis and RuUerflv " 'ov TClesnr C. Donnelly ; *'Af
True Story of the OJrJen Time." hy Julia 0411 -
"Lost and Stved," by Emmaß. P.ipley—a sad bub*
I true store of Temptation and Crime ; "My Sister*
| Clara," by Tracy Towae ; -'F*ur Birthdays," lyr
| Franoes Leo ; "First Love," by Ethal K ;->■
j Editor's Department, Ac. s * *r
Price *2.00 a year , 2 copies 11 00. Te tboro?dr,
•irons of m iking up dubs, sproimen numbers will ba
sent for 1"> ct. Wheeler 4* Wilson's celebrated
Sew in? Machines are famished as Premiums.—
Adl-ess Deacon A Petersbn. 319 Walnut street
Philadelj hi*.
A'oir fs (he time to send an subscriptions fer 1865,
~liOTlc£
The seats ot the M. K Cherch will be rented for
the present Coafrence year on Monday the 3?od day
of May at 2 o'clock P. M. a general attendenee ie
) requested,
By order of the Trustees.
NOTICE.
The Co-partnership, heretofore existing between
C. Burr A Sen, is this day dissolved by mutual.
consent.
The books and accounts of the late firm are left
in the hands of C. Burr fbr settlement and collec
tion who will still continue to carry on the Tanning
business ot the old stand
The Tannin gr Business
will be carriod on by Wo H. Burr, who, confident
of his ability to satisfy the wants of the public, eo->
licits their patronage,
C BURR,
Wm. H. BURR
Mcshoppen, April 29th, 1865.
vdndOtf.
JUST RECmi V JIMJ.
New and Elegant
Patterns
Of all the Latest and most Reliable
PARIS AND NEW YORK
FASHIONS,
FOR LAftlES' AND CHILDREN'S
DRESS,
—FROM—
Mme. Demorest,
-BY
MRS. S. E. BARNES,
! who offers her services to the
LADIES OF TUNKHANtfOCK,
and vicinity to FIT AMD MAKE DRESSES and
CLOTHING of every Description for women and
children.
A liberal share of the public patronage is solicited
ROOMS, oppeaite Baldwin's Hotel—up stairs.
MRS. 8* E. BARNES,
Information Free!
SUFFERERS,
A GENTLEMAN, cured of Nervous Debility .Inw
competency, Premature Decay and louUrful Error
actuated by a desire to benefit others, will bo happy
o furnish to all who need i', (free of charge ), the
recipe and directions for making the simple remedy
used in Offeror# wishing to profit fry the
advertisers bad experience, wd poet** AM *nd
valuable remedy, can do so by ad ftfctng bim at
once at his place of business. The lUoeipe and full
information- of vital importance —will be cheerfully
sent by retern mail.
Address JOHN B. OQDEM
No* 60 Nassau street, Kew Tort
p. S—Nervous Sufferers us buth seaee will M
this informatle* iavaluabl*.
vi-ult-Ime