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JOB WORK of all kinds neatly executed, and at prices to suit the times. All TRANSIENT ADVERTISEMENTS and JOB - WORK must be paid for, when ordered. flumes* HS. COOPER, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON • Newton Centre, Lucerne County Pa. R.R. LITTLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW Offiee on Tioga street, Tunkhannock Pa. WM. M. PIATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Of ice in Stark'B Brick Block Tioga St., Tunk hannock, Pa. GEO 8. TUTTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Tnnkhonnock, Pa. Office in Stark's Brlc eek, Tioga street. 1 >R. .T. C. BECKER . PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, Would respectfully announce to the citixenso'Wy ming, that he has located at Tunkhannock where he will promptly attend to all calls in the line of his profession. IT Will be found at home on Saturdays of eaeh week &{rs JtofJjlfc fjuuse, HARRISHURG, PENNA. The undersigned having lately purchased the " BUKHLER HOUSE " property, has already com menced such alterations and improvements as will render this old and popular House equal, if not supe rior, to any Hotel in the City of ILtrrisburg. A continuance of the public patronage is refpect fully solicited. GEO. J. BOLTON WALLS HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE/ TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. THIS establishment has recently been refitted an furnished in the latest style Every attention will he given to the comfort and convenience of those who patronise the House. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor ; Tunkhanneck, September 11, 1861. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA Wm. H. CORTRIGHT, Prop'r HAVING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to reader the house nn agreeable place ot sojourn for all wbe may favor it with their custom Wm II CORTRIGHT. Jane, 3rd, 1863 stas IoM, TOWANDA, PA. D- B- BARTEET, [Late of the Bbrairard lloi-sk, Elmira, X Y. PROPRIETOR. The MEANS HOTEL, i- one of the LARGEST aad BEST ARRANGED Houses in the country —lt is fitted up in the most modem and improved style, aad ne pains are spared to make it a pleasant and agreeable stopping-place for all, 3, r2l, ly. CLARKE, KEENEY.& fO., MARDPACTCREES AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IE LADIES', MISSES' & GENTS' iilfeatttewimece §>at* AND JOBBERS IN HATS. CAPS, FURS, STRAW GOODS, PARAGOIiI AND UMnRGLLAS. BUFFALO AND FANCY ROBES, 849 BROADWAY, CORNER OP LEONARD STREET, HiSW¥££. |. T CLARK, ) A C KEENET, ( LCBENEY. J M. GILMAN~ OILMAN, has permanantlj located in Tunk f" , * <>ck Boroogfa, and rospoct folly tnd*n hu TrnSiai^SS;. 10 cUiIWU ofthis P 1 "* D FACTION: WARR ANTED, TO OIVK SATIS ° W Tttlto,l,, Law °°*. MV *• ?0 ©s) U § TO HOUSE KEEPERS! Frank M. Buck Has just opened, at the stere house formerly oc cupied by C T, Marsh, one Joor belew Baldwin'* Hotel, in Tunkhanoock, NEW GROCERY AND Provision Store, where he is prepared to sell eve.ything in the line ol Family Groceries at prioes far below those here tofore asked for them His stock was selected and purchased by MR- A. G. STARK in person, whose intimate acquaintance with the trade, and dealers, enabled him to purchase at pricei llltl Till Til Him. Mr. Stark's services as salesman, also, hare been secured. In the line at Groceries and Provisions, I ear sell Good Molasses at $1 per Gal. Good Brown Sugar at 12| cts per lb. No, 1 Mackerel •' 12| " '• ' Cod Fish " 9 • * • New Mess Pork " 17 " *' " Chemical Soap •' 12j •' •' " Saleratus '• 12j Ground Coffee " 25 " " " Fxtra Green Rio Coffee " 40 " " " Lard 20 " " • Rice " 15 " " " Crackers " 10 " " ' And all other articles at correspondingly lov prices. . o I In the article of Teas, both as to prices and quality, I GINGER, PEPPER. SPICE, CINAMON CLOVES. NUTMEG, MUSTARD, CREAM-TARTAR, RAISINS, FIGS, POWDER, SHOT AND LEAD. FPUS AID SITS Of ill KINS. -ALSO FLAVORING EXTRACTS FOR PUDDINGS 1 IRS, CUSTARD AND ICE CREAM, 0 SPICED SALMON & SARDINES in boxes—a fine article for Pio-nic, fishing and pleasure parties, Ice Oreaxii Constantly on hand, and furnished in any quanti ty desired, on short notico- MACARONI— FOR SOUPS. SMOKED HALIBUT. 0 A Urge and varied assortment of LAMPS, LAMP CHIMNEYS GLOBES AND WICKS, ALSO Kerosene Oil. o N. B.—WOOL, niDES, PURS, AND SHEEP PELTS, purchased for cash or trade, for which the highest cash prices will be (Aid. ©all an)t f lamjne. BUCK. TukhiMMk, June 38, 186* •♦TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "-Thome. Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 4, 1865. MASS CONVENTION. In accordance with previous notice a Mass Convention of the friends of tho Ntaional Administration, in Bradford county,convened at the Court House, in the boro. of Towanda, on Monday eveuing, Sept. 11, 1865, and or ganized by calling Hon. II W. TRACY, to the Chair. Mr T. on taking the chair made a few pertinent and appropriate remarks; when on motion, Hon. J F. Long, Albert Newell, Stephen Bullock, A B. Templeton and Ezek iel Curry, were chosen Vice Presidents ; and O H. Ames and E. A. Parsons, elected Sec retaries. Tbe organization being fully completed, S. N. Blood, of Athens, moved, that, the chair appoint a committee of thirteen, on nomina tions. The following gentlemen were appoin ted, vz : S. N. Blood, Col. E Smith, S. H Newman, B. L. Rockwell, P. Long, Dr. Geo P. Tracy, L. M. Randall, D. Decker, J. M. Bishop, M. , A. Case, Capt. J. B. Rteves, J. B. Thompson and U. Terry. On motion of James Bullock, of Columbia, James Bullock, Geo. 0. Hill, Isaac Lyons, Geo. C. G>re and £. A. Parsons, were ap pointed by tbe chair a committee on resolu tion. During tbe absence of the committ n e, the convention was ably addressed by tbe chair man, Hon. H. Tracy. The committee on nominations having re turned, made the following R-purt, which, after telling speeches by Col. E. Smith, and other*, was unanimously adopted : "Your Committee reccommend Doctor -SI "LAS E. SIIEPARD, of Troy, as a candidate "for State Senator ; and that 11. W. Tracv, "J. F. Long, M. H. Case, D F, Park and G. "H. Eaton, be Conferees, With power to sub "siite, to confer with other counties as to the "nomination of Senator, and to fill anv vacan cy which may occur, by a majority of said "Conferees. The committee on Resolutions then made the following report: a WHEREAS, The Republican County Con vention which assembled at the Court House in Towanda on Monday evening the 4'h inst. recommended ihe nominal ion of Geo LA N DON of Ilerrick for Senator, in defiance of ihe known opposition, as we believe, of a majority of the electors of thi Senatorial District who support tbe Stale and National administra tions, and WHEREAS, The public record of Geo LAM DON while a former Senator from this Dis trict has rendered him justly obnoxious to every intelligent elector who is no' so bound up by partizau prejudice as to blind him to the wrongs committed by unfaithful public servants, bis culpability being apparent fmin these facts, viz : Thai in the fall of 1860 and previous thereto, he publicly warned the peo pie from the stump, that they must send honest men to represent them in the ap preaching session of the Legislature for the reason that he knew that lobbyists in the in terest of the Penna. Rail Road Company were coming to Harrisburg to bore through the repeal of the tonnage tax, and that this corrupt measure would bo passed unless men were chosen who could not be corrupted, and voluntarily pledging himself to oppose the bill to the uttermost. That so far as his con stituents were informed he maintained a po sition of apparent hostility to the messuru up to about the time tho hill came un for action in the Senate at ihe session of 1861, when afier holding confidential relations with prominent lobbyists for the bill, his con version to its support became suddenly man ifest by his giving his yore in its favor; that after having done this iniquitous act he set up as a defence the doctrine that a Represen tative is bound by the will of his constituents only in local matters relating to his own District, assuming' that upon questions of genersl state policy, he, possessing superior information, could judge of their merits bet ter than they, thus presuming upon the ig norance of his constituents to shield himself from (he consequences of his wrong doing. Therefore, in view of Mr. Landon's former course as a Representative, be it Resolved, That this Convention, composed of Iriends of the State and National Admin isrrations hold it to be the bounden dutv of a Representative to represent the known will of hw constituents upon general well local questions, 'hat the doctrine set up by Mr. Landon, is subversive of every principle underlying a representative form ol G >vern ment, and forms a con/enient excuse for un faithful public servants to vila'e the trus' reposed in them "by th-ir constituency, and therefore a very pernicuus and dangrnii doctrine, which can never receive our sup port. Resolved That in view of the known hos tility which prevailed aeainst Mr. LANDON for the foregoing reasons, and which wa made manifest in the year of 1862, when he was forced upon the 'icket for Congress ter minating in an organized and sncces-folop position of the friends of the State and Na tional administration* against him, and re sulting in the triumphant election of Hon H. W. TRACT to the 38 Congress, the C nven tion which has now recommended Mr, Lan don for the Senate, should have had respect to the divided sentiment which prevailed in reference to him, and presented a candidate who would have produced harmony, bui as the former warning haa been unheeded, and Mr. LANDON ia again thrust upon the ticket for the Senate, we hereby declare that we will not only interpose our strenunus oppo sition to hi election, but we will in coming elections hold the leaders of the repnblican party in this c-unty responsible fur again advising his nomination, and especially so thoe holding official poaitions. Resolved, That ii ia the duty of the people to watch with a jealous eye the official con duct of their public servants; .nd make an examplo of every man who proves recreant, by withholding from him further support. Resolved, That the interest manifested by Governor CDRTIN as the executive of our S>ate Government in behalf ot ihe soldiers of Pennsylvania who have so manfully battled for the preservation of the Union cotumeuds him U> the support of ail true patriots- Resolved , That the administration of the general government in the hands of ANDREW JOHNSON, our chief executive, in his efforts to preserve the Union and ihe liberties of the country, meets with our hearty approval and concurrence, and wo hereby pledge htm our earnest support. Resolved , That we deprecate, as an alarm ing feature in onr government, the rapidly growing tendency to high salaries and cor ruption gererally, which inevitably results in eroneous taxation ; aud that we pledge the candidate here nominated to strict economy in the discharge of his duties,and a rigorous accountability on his part tothe people for his stewardship. We view with extreme distrust all extraordinary legislation—so common of late—such as the conferring of large sovereign powers on irresponsible bod ies of men, who are not even required to act under restraints of official oaths, as being contrary to what has heietofore been conrid ered as the well settled policy of our S't'e subversive of good government and the rights of the people, and breaking down all the barriers of official corruption atid tend ing fast toward- anarchy and confusion ; and as such justly deserving our unqualified Gon demna'ion. Resolved, That to the Candida' e this night named, we tender our cordial support, and call upon all parties to rally to his standard —pledging that he will m tinta n the rights reputation and integrity of the State and the pro-peri ty of our citizens WHEREAS, The soldiers who volunteered under the call oi the President, in 1861 and 1862. were actua'ed purely bv a sense of du ty, and received mere nominal compensi tion f r their services, whilst o'hers, who enlisted at a more recent date, and have served but a ■hart period, have received large bounties ; and, WHEREAS, Many of those who abandoned their occupations at the commencement f the wur, have returned, many of them dis abled, to find themselves and tbeir families pecuniarily em harassed ; Therefore. Resolved, That we urge upon Congress,and especially upon our member, the importance of adopting such measures as will secure for the soldiers of 1861 and 1862, the same re muneration as given to those who enlisted in 1864 and 1865 Resulted, That this c<>n vention, represent ing the loyal people of Bradford County, re cognize the claims of our citizen soldiers to its confidence and gratitude ; that the gallant defenoers of the Republic, who so nobly risa ed their lives in defeuse of the Union and the Conatitotion, merit and shall receive the un dying gratitude of our people Living they nhall have our war est aff c'ions, and dying their memories shall be cherished for all time •o come. Re oleed, That the proceedings of this con vention be signed by the officers, and publish ed in all the payers in the Senatorial dis trict. M. H. CASE, of Canton, moved that a reso lution endorsing the Republican Slate Ticket be added to the resolutions, which was car red when, on motion, they were adapted by acclamation. The Ulster and Towanda Brass Bands were present, and enlivened the Convention with soul stirring music. After a resolution of thanks to the Bands on motion,the Convention adjourned sine die. H. W. TRACY, Ch'n HON. J. F. LONG, ") ALBERT NEWELL, | STEPHEN BULL. >CE, Y. Prest's A. B TEMPLETON, EZEKIEL CURRT, (. A. Ames, } c , E A. Parsons ) *' Debt and Taxation. Hon Thaddeus Steven-, Republican mem ber of Congress from Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and Republican leader in the House, in his re cent speech at Lancaster, said, 6peaking of the public debt: "it is generally estimated at four billions ; in my opinion it will go far beyond tha. figure. There is no use in belittling it. Ii can only deceive the ignorant, and those only lot a time. It cannot deceive financiers. One half of it now bears interest, and /he interest amounts to one hundred and twenty millions per annutn. The ordinary expenses of carrying on the government and the sums required for the army and navy will swell ■ur annual expenditures to five hundred millions of dollars. The amount derived from internal revenue will diminish—taxation must be double what it now is to meet expenses. Can our people bear this? It will be a curse from generation to generation. iVe pity the tax ground Englishtaeu. In reality we are worse off than he. Our debt is only a trifle less, and it bears doubie the rate of interest. In the future our burdens must be double his A debt exceeding §4,000,000,000!—An annual expenditure of §500,000,000! Taxa tion must be double! Under Republican rule, who is to pay this immense tax ? The fanner, the mechanic, the laborer, while the rich bond holders, who own the debt and draw the interest, sre to escape. If we are to have taxation that "will be a curse from generation to generation." let it be equal Give us Democratic rule and equal taxation. The seathern Churches—President John son hss done nothing of late that we like bet ter than his notification to certain Abolition reverends, (who went down to New Orleans wiih Butler, and oooly too* possession of such churches as suited them.) that tnoymust give up thoaechurches tothe rightful owners/These (squatters) in the Southern pulpits are very much astonished and very indignant at the PiW'Kient'* summary notice to quit, but go they must. A ROMANTIC STORY OF STRATFORD . CONNECTICUT. That such a town as Stratford should af ford anything ID the way of rmantic per sonal histories was hardly to be expected, but tbe subj u ought to have no advantage of a negro civil, political, or social—-imply because vour skins are of a different complexion, or because your ancestors came from different quarters o't he globe," REPUBLICAN SPLIT IN WICON-IN. The Wisconsin Radicals are so dissati-fied with the action o r the late Republican convention, in that state, ihtt they have decided to bolt They have called a new convention to meet at Jane-villeon the 27th. The Daily Wisconsin the most Republican paper ot that Slate, says this new convention is ca'led "by the friends of universal suffrage"—which is its euphem ism for neg-o suffrage. JC3T The Abolitionists are very much dia satisfied wiih the little word "white" in the constitution ©f Pennsylvania, bat they ex press no dissatisfaction with the word"male" i mnedia'ely fallowing it. They wmt tbe one strioken out, because it disfranchises the niggers, than they do of their own flesh and dood.—'Lebanon Advertiser. I TBnMa, 98,00 PBA AionroM. MATRIMONIAL INCOMTANCT.— A queer instance in illustration of thia tic® baa recently been brought to light in a neighbor i,ig town. A married woman moring iq high circle*, left her home one evening last week, and taking a conveyance to a hotel in the rural district*, was aoon joined by an unfaithful husband, who ought to have been at borne taking care of hie own family, instead of engaging in intimate companionship with those outside of hie own household. The couple ordered a room together, representing themselves as man and wife. At a later hour the same night, a carriage drove up to tho door of the hotel with another couple, who engaged lodgings in an an joining chamber. All passed off qaietly enough until next morning, when the two couples were summoned to the breakfast table. There they met, when—lo and behold!—there was a mere change of partners, each gentleman having upon his arm the wife of the other ! Although there was mutual blushing, mental cursing and recrimination, it was deemed best, after a sober, second thought, to let the metier rest as quietly as possible, but the coincidence wae a too remarkablo one to avoid the ear of the over curious.— Loteel (Mam.) New. C3T The Statee of Connecticut, Wiscon sin ,Minnesota and lowa, all vote on negse "uffisge this fall. Colorado has already voted but the result is not yet knowu. GOING UP —Everything that the farmer and mechanic has to buy is going ad in price. Taxes a-e going op !up ! up! Even the nig. ger is getting up to the top of the heap. Bui the Bond-hMti draw hit yold and payt ne tax. EST An extraordinary case has just been brought to light at Coyltoo. in the Weat of England. A man, who is generally looked on as an eccentric character, ha* in bia possession the unburied oorpse of his mother who died five years before. When she died h i had a leaden coffin made, with a glaee plate let in. He deposited the coffin ia a shed, and from time to time goes there be look upon the face ef hie mother. 52C* Patience ia e great yirtqa, hut te ef a very retired growth. It oomee to aaturi ty much io the shade, and when the fruit ie manifest ia much commanded, few fifcedbe proosee of lie ripening. VOL. 5 NO. 9 Tli* October Electlea. Oar State-election is only three weeks die font. The canvass most therefore neeeeeeri- Ij be short, sod from present indications ft will be equ iet one. There is nothing io this to discourage the Democracy. The questions at issue although important, are not of an ex citing nature, end do not call for any great display of effort in the way of speech-making mass meetings and the like. The people are simply asked to decide, by their rotes, wheth er the Union shall be restored under the Ooi "tituti.m, or whether its hsrmooy and integ rity shall be destroyed by em nniewfa! us* tinction of the separate ex istenee of the States lately in rebellion; and whether the right of •elf government continue to be exercised by white freemen, or shared with the Inferior race of black*, by their admission to a roiea in political affairs, through tbs medium of the ballot box. Upon tbeae qoeatious, fairly pre sented, there should be no doubt as to their decision. The people of Pennay lrania are no revolutionists, or fanatical agitators for an im impossible scheme of negro equality. AM that is needed, to glre us victory at the poll* is a full rote. To that end our efforts must be directed—quietly but effectively. Last year, in tbs face of the most powerful exer tions of the opposition, backed by all the in fluence of the Administration, we carried the I 9 State by a clear mej*rity on the home vote, and were only thrown in the minority by n manufactured and to a great extant frauda lent soldier's vote. This yesr tbs soldiers will vote at home, and as otiaeas we believe ■ they will vote right. In former times, our rallying cry was— 11 A full note is a demo cratic victory /" Let it be now ; for tb re sult will prove its truth— Valley Spirit. A Dissolving Party. The' Republican" party, now that slavery is abolished and the war the abolitionista made lor that object is ended, it rapidly go ing to pieces, as was long ago predicted.—Tbs "radicals," under the lead of Stevens and Sumner, are dirretly opposed to the moder ates, and both are in antagonism to the pres ident. Mr. Johnson's recent off-hand and manly speech to a number of Southern gen tlemen, shows that be is for "the Union as it was,(excepting slavery,)and the constitu tion as it is." And at no considerable por tion of the "Republicans" are for either, the result must be a conflict'm which the exec utive, backed by the conservative democracy of the whole country, will oertafnly triumph. All true patriots will rejcice to see the whole some and judicious policy of Mr, Johnson carried out to perfect conaumation, iu spite even of tbe efforts of those who once held op position to presidential views and measures to be rank treason to the government, thoogh they now practice the very same sort of dis loyalty which they but reeeatly denounced. —Sunday Mcrcnry.