9'** i i: u. . - i HJkR V JttiY SICKT iER, Proprietor.] N£W SERIES, AweeklyJJeuiouratic paper, devoted to Poli ,/j">• -- oi, Xewa, the Arts A and Sciences Ac. Pub- • 1 s- J •- - ished eve/y Wednes- ¥ pay, at Tunkhannock " npfy^jy Wyoming County, Pa . -Sff" J ' fiffw.l / fji BY HARVEY SICKLER Terms—l copy 1 year, (in advance) *2 00 not pain within six innnths, *2..'>o will he charged NO paper wilJ be DISCONTINUED, until all ar rearages are paid; unless at the option of publisher. ADVERTISING. 10 tines or , ■ j i < lest, make three four two 1 three I six < one one square weeks mu'th\math,mo'th year 1 Square I,oo* 1,25t 2,25 2,ST: 3,00 5.0 2 do. 2,00' 2,50: 3,25-: 350 4 50' 6,0 3 do. 3,00; 3 75/ 4,75 5,50> 7,C0 9,0 I Column. 4,00( 4.50j 6,50: 8,00 10,00 15.0 i do. 6,00 9 50; 10,00. 12.00 17,00 25,0 I do. 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PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, Would respectfully announce to the citizenso' Wy tning, that he has located at 1 utikbannock where he will promptly attenl to all calls in the line of his profession. Will be found at home on Saturdays of each week £ljf Bttfjjlfc flouse, HARUISKUHO PKNNA- The undersigned hiving lately pun-hascd the " BUEHLER 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 Harrisburg. A continuance of the public patronage is refpeet fully solicited. GEO. J. BOLTON j WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, TUNKHANNOCK. WYOMING CO., PA. THIS establishment has recently been refitted an furnished in the latest style Every attention will be given to the comfort and convenience ot those wao patronize the House. T. B. WALL, inl Proprietor . Tunkhannock, September 11, 1861. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESUOPPEN, WYOMING CO! NIL, PA Win. H. CORTRIGHT, Prop'r HAVING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to render the house an agreeable place ol sojourn for all who may favor it with their custom. WM. II CORTRIGHT. Jane, 3rd, 1863 Junius TOWANDA, PA. D. B. BART LET, [Late of the BBRAIXARU Hnrsr, ELMIRA, N. Y. PROPRIETOR. The MEANS HOTEL, i- one of tne 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 and agreeable stopping-place for all, *▼ 9. "21. ly-. CLARKE, KEENEV.& I 0., MASCFACTUKE RS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN LADIES', MISSES' & GENTS' 3^lkanh£ass;mm§)ats Y AJfD JOBBERS IN HATS. CAPS, FURS, STRAW GOODS, PARASOLS AND UM BR ELI. AS. BUFFALO AND FANCY ROBES, .849 BROADWAY, CORNER Or -LEONARD STREET, mmw ■ V. CLARK, S a c KEESEy; £ a. Lr.EENEY. 3 M. OILMAN, AA" OILMAN, has permanently located in Tunk- LLL. hanm-ck Beruugh, and respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens of this place and uq-ounding country. ALL WORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIS FACTION. rod Molasses at $1 per Gal. Good Brown Sugar at 12* cts per lb. No, 1 Mackerel " 12J " '* ' Cod Fish " 9 " " " New Mess Pork " 17 " •' " Chemical Soap •' 12i •' " " Saleratus '• .12J " " •' Groan 1 Coffee " 25 " " '' FxtraGreen Rio Coffee " 40 •* " " Lard " 20 " • Rice " 15 " " " Crackers *' 10 " " " And all other articles at correspondingly low prices In the article of Teas, both as lo prices and quality, I fMij SxunpftiHoii GINGER. PEPPER. SPICE. CINAMON, CLOVES. NUTMEG. MUSTARD, UREA.Mr lARTAR, RAISINS, FIGS, POWDER, SHOT AND LEAD. IT! 41 ITS LF ALL EINDS. I —ALSO— i FLAVORING EXTRACTS FOR PUDDINGS, 1 IIsS. CUSTARD AND ICE CREAM. 0 SPICED SALMON & SARDINES 1 '* i .. 'j in boxes—a fine article for Pic-nie, fishing and pleasure parlies, Ice Cream Constantly on hand, an! furnished in any quanti ty desired, on short notice- MACARONI— FOR SOUPS. SMOKED HALIBUT. 0 I - J.-, A 1 rgo and varied assortment of LAMPS. LAMP CHIMNEY'S GLOBES AND WICKS, ALSO Kerosene Oil* 1W99 t . • N. B WOOL. HIDES, FURS, AND gHEEP PELTS, purchased for cash or trade, for which the highest cash prices will be paid. ©all anb fiamjitu F. BUCK. Tunkhannock, June 28, 1865 MnlM "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT." —Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCIv, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11, 1865. Hint's ©utiter. NO TIME LIKFTHE' OLD TIME? There is no time, like the old time when you and I were young, When the buds of April blossomed, and the birds of spring-rime sung ! The garden's brightest glories by summer suns are nursed ; But, oh, the sweet violets, the flowers that opened first ! There is no place like the old place where you and I were born, Where we lifted first our eyelids on the splendors of the morn, From the milk-white breast that warmed us, from the clinging arms that bore. Where the dear eyes glistened o'er us that will look on us no more ! There is no friend like the old friend who has shared our morning Jays, J7o greeting like his welcome, nc homage like his praise ; Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose,'with sweets in every fold. There is no love like the old love that we courted in our pride ; Though our leaves are falling, falling, aid we're fading side by side, There are blossoms all around us with the colors of our dawn, And we live in borrowed sunshine when the light of day is gone. There are no times ike the old times—tney shall never be forgot ! There is no place like the old place, —keep green the dear old spot! Ihereareno friends like our old friends, — may Heaven prolong their lives! There are no loves like our old loves,—God bless our loving w ves! . §fkl ftcrif. A LEGEND OF THE MAN*DAN'S. Weeks bad rolled by vet tbe famine pres* ed w.th unabated vigor, and many a warrior'* stalwart arm had'be'Vuit" paralysed by weak ness, and many a flashing tye grown dim from the Constant cravings of hunger. F 1 three months the inhabitants of the Mandan village had been p'iced on half allowance, and even that luile was gone, and the pros p< ct of a speedy death by starvation stared the last remnant ot that fated tribe, fearfully -n the gloomy appearance ar uid thein.— F. iv m number, aud at war with the power ful Siux, they dared not travel the sur rounding c< Hiury at any great distance lor ante; and the herds of buffalo which usual ly roamed over the pains near the village had by some unaccountable reason, pot re turned with the hunting season ; and all the honors of a cruel fate seemed about to fall upon them The warriors of the tribe were *een gathering in little groups of three or fur, around the p'ace; and S ko ah, the oldest 1 an of the tribe, and was chief of the warriors, was speaking to his Indian broth ers. The mam body of the men had collect ed at the spot, and the gray scalp lock of; the aged chiet waved m the breeze as he ad ' dressed them thus : of the Mandans, the Great Spirit is angry with his warriors for their coward- < ice. Their hearts have become like the hearts of squaws and they dare not meet the warriors of the Sioux, hut remain trembling like the frighted fawn in its shelter. Would that Sa-ko-tah were a brave again." The old chief at down, and a fiery young warrior sprung to his feet, while his eves flashed aoJ his hand sought the handle of his tomahawk, he replied,— ''The braves of the Sioux are but squaws. We will meet them in battle; the Mandan is no woman.'' At this moment a horseman came dashing up to the spot, and reining in his smoking steed beside them, he pointed over the dis (ant hill*, and shouted "Buffaloes." A dozen dark forms sprang ItghMy to their feet, and a glow of hope h-atned on every countenance. The long withed for food had at length arrived, and instead of blank star vation, a great feast could he made in grati tude for the occasion. The news spread like ""wild-fiee over the village, and while the warriors were prepar ing lor the chase, the women brought forth wh.t food remained, and cooking ft, each one partook, fo the first time in many days, of a hearty meal ; and then mounting, the hunt er> of the buffalo departed for the h'-rd. Some few miles from the little viHH'gp, a large plain stretches out, dotted here and thereby hills, which rise abruptly in tic mtdt of tho level, as though thev ' were mounds taised by human hands, instead of having been placed in such an is dated posi tion by the hand of nature. Passing over the brow of one of these hills, as the Man dans came out on the plain, appeared several large buff does, and raising a cry of joy, the hunters spurred rapidly upon the ehae.— The animals soon disappeared over the hill and the eager warriors, thinking to head them, too* a short cut through a narrow gojge which ran between two knolls, and came nui on the plain beyonjd. A* they en tered the place, one of the men caught sight of a large buffalo runn ng along upon the hill i' ' n the jubilee. But suddenly a solitary horseman is seen in the distance, with dishevelled dress and disordered mein, spuiring down upon tht village as fast as the 6peed of his horse can bring him, and alt know at a glaoce that he is one of the hunters who went forth in the morn. A dread silence falls at once upon the heretofore noisy group, for there is some thing in the appearance of that warrior, as becomes thundering forward, which speak* ot di*a*ter to his tnbe. On he comes, and as he near* the anxious crowd who are await ing his arrival, they see his head is bandaged, and that he is covered with blood. He dash es up beside them, reins in his trembliDg steed, and exclaims iu breathless tones : "The Sioux." ,s A yell followed the terrible announcement, for all had Comprehended the fatal catastro phe, the instant the words were spoken, and a fearful scene was enacted up m the spot.— The *quaws filled the air with howls of grief, and madly tore their hair in shreds from their heads, and rolled in all the agony of barbarian grief upon the earth. Where but a moment before all was j-w and merriment, was now grief—horror—dismay, The old men tottered with a deep groan to their lodges, and endeavored in vain to put on the sioic indifference of the Indian. The blow had come too suddenly, the unexpected sor row was too great to be borne ; and the feel ings of na'ure, bursting all the bonds of hu man sophistry, rushed unbidden over the pal lid brow and distorted countenance of each inhabitant of the Mandan town. One after another the few survivors of the ambuscade came hurrying into the village, ard conster nation was most deplorably depicted upon every feature, as ihe expectation arose thai the vdors would attack the town, and mas sacre the remnant of the tribe at a blow.— But the Sioux seemed satisfied w>'h the work thev had ccomp!ished, aud after fol lowing the filing warriors within sight of the place, they desisted from the pursuit, hnd left the vicinity of the Mandans. But the tribe never recovered from the effects of thai dire morning, and from that hour thev began to dwindle down, until a few years afterwards the small pox. swept the remnant of the devited tr.he away 4 hut to the last of their existence, they remembered the nev er to be forgotten morn of the FATAL CHASE. I ■ -M : . i , "MARTHA, what ex'racts do you nee to perfume your pocket-handkerchief with 7" asked one young lady of another, as thy wefe walkmgr or the beach At Newport "f use '"Xi rac'*' from dear Fred's love let ters," demurely replied Martbf^ RKADING HABITS —Good meo'al habits should be culttva'ed by a wise supervision of a child's reading when out of school. Most children wi II read of their own accord, if they can get hold of an attractive book, and will fly from the comparative drudgery of school to the interesting v< lume of travels, tales or adventures, which stimulates the imagina tion, and iequ'res no iff/rt. This tendency must be turned to good account and prevent ed from becoming a source of evil, Travels and adventures, if well selected and well read, are of course useful, and the same may be said of some tales. But never, perhaps, was care in the selection of books, especially ol those comprised under the general term of "light literalure," more necessary than in the present day. The flippant tone of some, the disgusting slang of others, the exaggerated coloring of another class, are, to the tender and impressible mind of the child, like at tractive poison. The imagination, ov r-*stim ulated, becomes jaded,arid demands nj"re ex travaant incidents, profoumlcr mysteries, and darker horrors. And it is needless to say that where this is the case the inclination and often not only the inclination, hot, for a time, the capacity for good 6outid reading ts lost. What is more sad than to find young people blind to the attractions of some i t the best specimens of English literature—indeed, utterly ignorant ol it—while reading with morbid avidity second and third rate work* lof exciting fiction ? This mu.*t he the pa rent's care. I will set no wicked thing he lore mine eyes is a resolve which ought to ipply especially to hm ks. Many a man ha liad to uiount the day when in the impressi hie tune of hi* youth he met with.a had book. The mind becomes enfeebled, the moral tone lowered, and the life corrupted by acce*s to vicious literature iu early life.— Home Life. FEMIMNF. DKVOTEDNKSS —At Lyons in the , days of the French Revolution, when the city became the theatre of daily executions, a wo man learned by chance that her husband's name was on the list of the proscribed, and mstanily rail to avert the impending late by stcurtng fits immediate flight. She compelled him to assume her rire*s, gave him her mon ey and jewels, and had the inexpressible hap pttiess of seeing hmi pass unsuspected. A lew hours afterward the offictrs of-jus'ice came to seize him. - She had prepared hersel to receive theui, by putting on a suit of he> husband's clothes, and an*w< ring also to hi name. She was led before the ReVolutional Committee. In the course of the examina t ton her disguise was discovered, and they leinanded her hu*hand. 'My hu*band,"sh answered in a tone of exultation, "ts out of the reach of your power. I planned his escap. and I glory in risking my own life for the presetvation of his." They displayed before her the instrument of punishment, and charg ed her to reveal the route her hti-hand ha< taken. "Strike!" she replied, "I am pre pared." But it is the interests of your coun try that c >niuiand you to speak, said one of the Committee. "Barbarian* !" she answered j "my laws are the laws of nature." Iler dig I nlty and firmness awid even the members ol the Revolutionary Committee, and a noble action for once over cuie their spirit of deso fating cruelty. BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENTS.— The beautiful extiact below is from the peri of Hon. Geo. S. Hi Hard : I confess that increasing years bring with 'htm an increasing respect for men who d>> not succeed in life, as those words are com monly used. Heaven is said to be a place for those who have not succeeded upon earth ; and it is surely true celestial graces do not be.*t thrive an of themselves shut up like pocket knives, roll up like porcupines, diverge like \ ,s ; trim and shapely women to pieces, and ue in Jiitlu heaps of undislinguishable gar men's upon the seat*, the red and dissipated laiups w ink sle. p'ly and bazdy at yon, and the claiier te- clank of the iron wheels ham mer* out the long, dull stripe of darkness, lben comes that menagerie of respiration that men have agreed to call snoring: you nave barks, snorts, snuff*, and growls ; one creaks like a rus'y hinge, another pants like an engine, or whines like a spaniel, or is for ever blowing out ca. dles. By. and by, the car windows turn rbel grey, for a day is be ginning to dawn. Did you ever see a woman hatched iiu l ? Now is thegolden opportunity. Leda r —il that is the lady's name we read of—. whose double-i oked egg gave us Castor and Pollux —if f havn't forgotten all about it— way hardly more wondeiful.- -Yonder bundle of skirts, sh;wis and cloaks, as shapeless as a grist, begins to stir ; firsr, peeps out a pair f feel, and then a piar of hands, and then a lair and tangled head ; at last emerges female .-bape ; an Eve i> ha ched before your eyes and the world is better for a waking Woman. SIGNS AND TOKENS, The following is lrotn Pmk, a new paper ■u California : A long article having the above heading is going the rounds of the press, and has been some tune. Puc/c, thinking the old ones played oui has manufactured some new ones >e beiug a supernatural beiug, is, of course, fully competent to do so. The G rid Iron— 1 o take down tfce grid iron lr..m i he nail where it is hanging witb the Ift hand, is a sign that there will"be a broil in the kitchen. A Funeral—To meet a funeral procession, is a sign of death. Pocket-book —To lose a pocket-book COD— tabling greenbacks is unlucky. Nails—lf a wutnan cuts her nails every Monday, it is lucky—for her husband. An Itching Eir—lf you have an itching ear, ticklo your nose and you will have an itc.ung there, and ill luck will be averted. Stock Rising—lf a one eyed bull dog flies at a stock raiser's legs, it misfortune will happen to his calves. Marriage—lf you are in a house and bear a baby cry, it is a sign of marriage, or ought to be. The above signs and portents may be strict "y relied upon ; they have never beeu known to fail. MIDNIGHT. —There is something as beau 'iiu! as sublime in the hush of midnight. I'be myriad quiet sleepers, lying down each fhetr life burden, insensible alike to joy or •">rrow, helpless alike—the strong man as an uifant ; and >,v.r all the sleepless eye, whtc'i since the pillowed head. Thoughts like these come tons in<>ur wakeful night hours, with an almost painful intensity. Then eter nity only seem* real, ard every day life a fa ble. But morning comes, auf the stir and hum of life cha*e these thoughts away, as the sou dries up the dew drop*, which, liko oor th 'lights, performed their reviving mission ere they departed. * Bkaltifpl and Tuut—ln a late art tele in FraZ r's Magazine, this brief beautiful passage occur* : ' E location does not com mence wi th the alphabet. Il begins wiib A mother'* look—with a father's smile of ap probate n, or signs of repro-.f—with a sister's sren l le pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance -with handsful of fl >wer* in green and daisy meadow—with h rd's nest* admired but not touched—with creeping ants, and almost Imperceptible in set!— wnh humming bees and glass bee hives—with plea*ar.t walks in shady lanes, and with thoughts directed in sweet and kindly tones, and words to mature to ac