CIK Democrat.
HARVEY SICKL.ER, Editor.
&UNKHANNOCK, PA
p T-.T .r-: —ft— ~ . r =
Wednesday, Oct. 11, 1865.
Tbe Electioii.
We have delaytd this issue of our paper,
a day, hoping thereby *-o be enabled to give
tbe result of the late election, at least ao far
as our county is concerned. In this we are
disappointed .The full returns for only three
or four districts have yet been received by
us. These with rumors and estimates as to
others, justify us in the opinion that the
State and County tickets have been carried
by a very small majority. Landon's vote in
this county will probably be from 200 to 250
less than that of Dr. Shepard.
The result in the State is uncertain. We
fear, from tbe returns before us, that our
State Ticket is defeated.
Two Naughty Clergymen,
Robert Burnes, in his day, often had oc
casion to chastise with his satiric quill the
debauched and drunken clergy of priest
ridden Scotland, of whom he wrote:
■"Even ministers they had been kenn'd in holy rapture
To visit theatres, and their night in laughter' '
A hundred years afterwards a case turns
up in Chicago which fits so nicely in the
above text that, would space allow, the jour
nalist might preach a lengthy discourse on
'"history repeating itself."
Last evening, at Colonel Wood's museum,
during the performance of 'Speed and Plough'
a geutlemao in the audiance announced to
the attendance that he had been rnboed of I
five hundred dollars. The detectives were
out on the scent, and began eyeing inquisi
tively every countenance in the theatre. At
length Mr. C. Edwards, superin'endant of
the museum, discovered a couple of "gay and
festive pals,' with eye-glasses and canes,
twirling their moastaches in the most lash
ionable abandon, and apparently with much
experience in the business. His quick eye
discovered that the hair was unnaturally
long, and that it sat rather too jauntily on
the face to be the result of nature or un
guents. He therefore informed the detec
tives, and the two fellows wcro "'pulled" and
taken into .a private room.
On searching them, what was the horror
of the officers to find beneath the gay whis
kers and flashing breastpins two clergymen,
who had disguised themselves for the pur
pose of induLing in a little "unlawful and
unholy amusement." One of them had on
an enormous false moustache and was fixed
up in the most RECHERCHE style, reg rdless
of expense. The other wore a thin mask
over the lower part of his face, which com
pletely disguised his features. Papers of a
theological character were found on their
persons, hut this was unnecessary, as they
made a full confession saying that they onlv
desired to see what the theatre was like in
order that they might teach their respective
flocks to shun such evil places.
One of these theatrical clergyman spends
his Sabbaths in preaching to a sleepy Chica
go audience ; the other (and thank Heaven !
Chicago has not to father them both,) is a
minister from the country, who has left his
fli-ck a few days to visit the State Fiir—and
the Theatre.—[Chicag) Tribune, Sept. Bth.]
4
A Clerical Villain.
It becomes our unpleasant duty to record
another scene in the demoralizing drama of
pulpit politics. A Methodist clergyman nam
ed Crisman, stationed iu Linton twp., is the
wolf in sheep's clothing, who has been de
vouring the lambs of his flock. He was arab
id Abolitionists in the pulpit and out of it
and his lying sermons had become so offensive
as to drive away several of his congregate n
He had not been long in the neighborhood be*
fore be planned the ruin of a wife of a mem
ber of his church—and sought every pretext
to be in her company. He took especia
pains to advocate the war, and to justify al|
its immoralities, especially the violations of
law, when it forbid the accomplishment of
what he termed "the right." Having weak
ened the sanctity of law in the conscience of
his victim, he ins'illed into her mind the doc
trines of the "free lovers," and cited her to
the evil practices of the ancients. In this
way he corrupted her senre of delicacy, mor
ality and virtue. After a while he pretended
to haves disease in the throat, so that he
oould not preach, and got another clergyman
to fill his appointments. Then he went to
phc house of the unsuspecting member of his
church, to help in harvest, but did not work
much in the field—he clung around the house
helped Tiilk the cows, and did light work.
IDs conduct soon caused whisperings in tbe
oeiglib rhood, and culminated in an elope
ment--he deserted aw ife and several children,
and she a fond and too indulgent husband—
bringiug shame and misery upon two fancies,
gnd scandal upon the church. Ho.v often
need the press warn the people against the
wiles of these infidel fiends. Abolition preach
ers ? Whenever a preacher begins to ta'k
politic* at the fireside, in his prayers, in his
sermons, the woman should egg him from
their doors, and men drag him from the pul
pit. They are the false teacher*—tha wolves
in sheep's clothing, against whom the B<b!e
so often and so plainly warns the church.-
„0ohocton (Ohio) Democrat."]
Li A Copperhead has recent ly been
defined tq he*"a uisn who won't consent to
marry a negro wench."
tutor lluckalew on State Suffrage, t
List week we published a circular ad
dressed by the District Attorney of Colum
bia county to the election officers and citi
zens of that country, in relation to the propo
••tion to disfranchise citizens of Pennsylvan
ia who were not in their district at the time
when certain enrollments and drafts were
made, and whom election officers might de
cide. to have been absent to avoid such drafts
The proceeding of the District Attorney is
fully sustained by the very cocc'usive argu
ment of Senator Buckalew, which we subjoin.
SUFFRAGE QUALIFICATION.
I propose to examine and answer a ques
tion which has been recently put into public
debate, involving the construction o. seveial
acts of Congress, and the constitutional rela
tions of this State wilh the Federal Govern
ment. The question is, ''Are men drawn in
the Several U. S drafts who did not report
for duty, ditquahfied as vot. rs at elections
held by virtue of the Censtitution and laws
of this State ?" A further question, con
neoted with this, is "Are the State officers
of eleet'on authorized by lair and bound by
duty to examine the qua! fication of a voter
as a responding drafted mau, and to reject
his vote for dereliction of duty uuder the
United States law ?"
I affirm two propositions upon this sub
ject of inquiry and shall support them by
such arguments and authority as seem to me
decisive.
Thp first is, that every qualification or
suffrage in Pennsylvania, save natural za'ton
0 persons of foreign bath, is fixed by the
C institution of the State ; and that neither
the Legislature of the Stale nor the Congress
of the Uniled Siaies can change those quali
ficatiohs in the slightest particular. The
second proposition is, that the election
boards, or officers of election, in this Stale,
are not authorized to try or determine an)
que-ti->n whatever under the draft laws of j
(he United States, nor lo nject the ballot
of any person offering to vote upon the alle
gation that lie is liable to disfranchisement
under those laws.
1. Our State Constitution provides, thnt
an elector must be a while freeman, twenty
one years old or upward ; a lax payer, un
less between twenty one and twenty ivro
years*ol age ; a resident i f the Sta'e for one
year, unless in case of a former cit'Zcn, re
luming, when six months will suffice ; and.
finally, a resident lor ten da)B of the dec*ion
district where he offers to vote : (dis'rict
residences is not required ol 6nldiers in public
service, under a recent amendment.) These
are the quahficaiions of suffrage fixed by the
people of Pennsylvania in their Constitution,
and the whole of them, lo which nothing can
be added and from which nothing can be
taken away, unless by the eaioc power which
established thetn. There is but one exoop
tion to the universal futh of this proposition
and it is und in the Constitution ol the
United States, in the provi-ion conferring
authority upon Congress to pass uniform
laws of naturalization. As this special wt-r
has vasted in Congress with the assent of the
Sta'e, she prescribes no rule for the natural
ization of foreigners. But this is the single
power, connected with suffrage qualification
at her elections, unexercised or unregula'ed j
by her Constitution. It follows, that an act
of the S'ate Legislature or an act of Congress
prescribing a qualification, or creating a dis
qualification of suffrage at State elections,
must be wholly unauthorized and void.-
When it was desired to extend sufftage priv
ileges to our soldiers absent in tbe late war,
the Legislature could not do it, and the Sta'e
Constitution was amended for the purpose.
And as to Congress the base is still more
char. There is no grant of powet to
Congress over State suffrage in the Federal
Constitution, which fact excludes all pretense
of ito existence. And the express grant to
Congress of the power to pass uniform laws
of naturalization, which have relation to
State suffrage, ifi also inconsistent, with the
pretension; for the grant would not have
been necessary if powers relating to citizen
ship and suffrage have oeen implied.
The existing, current debates upon suffrage
in the South, mav be considered in th's con
nection The President holds, and holds tru
ly, that the Government of the United S'a'ea
cannot determine the rules ot suffrage in a
Southern S'ate. Ts e clas of men called
Radicals, hold that if can ; but upon what
ground !—Why, upon the ground that the so
Called States of the S"Uth are Siates no lon
ger—at least not S'ates in the Union but
conquered territories, and as such, subject to
Congressional jurisdiction and inieference as
of suffrage and other questions. Li brief, or e
party to the debate asserts and ihe other
virtually concedes, the doctrines above stated,
of the exclusive power of a State in the Un
ion to regulate suffrage Tor itself C early,
then, by the common consent of all paries,
the position is established, that Congress can
not make the responding to * military draft
a qualification of suffrage in P.-r nsylvania or
any other adhering State ; and the act of con
, gress of 3d of March. 18f5. supplementary to
j the Conscription acts mint receive a construe
, tion which shall conform this view of Con
| gressional power, if its validity is to be
j maintained.
j IT. There is no power or Hgh* in boards
; of election to invest igatp or determine a ques
1 tion of alleged disfranchisement under the
2M section of the said act of 3d March. 18
65 , but on the contrarv. they are forbidden
I by law t > enter upon snch action.
1. State officers are not hound to take jur
isdiction tinder U S. laws and execute them.
Congress can charge no such dutv upon them
This was held bv the Supreme C->urt of the
U. S. , In the oasp of Prigg v*. the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, to be found in the
16'h volume of Peters' Reports and is the
undoubted law of the land. The Stte might
iu a proper case, charge such duties upon
them and compel their performance ; hut
this his not been done in the present case.—
On the contrary, the laws of the State do
most expressly confine the officers <>f election
to the examination of electoral qualifications
of votes under " the Conatltution and laws of
the State as will be presently shown.
2. The act of Congress does not attempt to
confer any power upon S'ate officers to secure
Us execution. But by the prior conscription
act of 3d March, 1863, Congress does cjnfer
authority in cases of desertion upon court*-
trartial to try deserters and pr. nounce sen
tence upon them. This is the sole and ex*
elusive mode provided in the conscription
laws for the trial and conviction of the deser
ter and for adjudging to him the punishmeut
provided by law.
The 13'b section of the act of 3d of March,
1863, reads, in part, as follows :
li * * Any person failing to report af
ter due service of notice, as herein proscribed
without furnishing a substitute or paying
the required sum therefore, shall be deemed
a deserter, and shall be arrested by the Pro
vost Marshal and sent to the ueaiest post
F<>R TRIAL BY COURT MARTIAL, UlileS, Upon
proper showing that he is not liable to do
military du'y, ihe board of enrollment shall
relieve hnu from the draft." And by section
7, of same act, it is provided, "that it shall be
the duty of the Provst Marshal to arrest all
deserters,whether regulars, volunteer militia
men, or persons called Into the service under
this or any oiher act of Congress, wherever
they may be found, and to send them to the
nearest military commander or military post,
Ac." By other sections of the same act, fur
ther provision is made for a complete system
of military arrest and trial, including the pro
curing of evidence, the continuance of trial
when necessaiy, Ac.—thus securing, in a reg
ular manner, the examination of facts, a for
mat finding, and a pronounced sentence in
conformity with law. A tribunal is desig
nafed, jurisdiction conferred upon it and its
proceedings subjected to regulation. And
i then, the rec. rd of the trial and boding inav
i b.- reviewed by superior authority, and the
President may, in a proper case, interpose
his pardoning power to remit the punishment
of the person convicted.
The twenty firs t section of the supplemen
tnrv act of 3d March, 1865, provides uddi*
tional penalties f>r the crime of desertion
but the irial of the offense itself remains as
fixed by (he act ol 1863, to wit, by court
martial. Upon trial and conviction by such
military C'urt, the deserter becomes suhj ct
to the penalties affiixed to his offense, wheth
er under the former or latter statute but such
trial and conviction by court martial is in
dispensable to their infliction. Thus stands j
the question under the conscription laws of
the United Stales , exclusive jurisdiction to
military coui ts i.ver cases o' desertion, both
to try the offense and pronounce the puuish
ment.
3. But tie State election laws still more
clearly exclude the unauthorized action of
election boards. The inspectors are sworn
that thev will n<>t '-vexatiously delay or re
fuse to receive any ateJrom any person who
they shall believe to be entitled to cote ACCORD
INQ TO THE PHoVf>PNB OF THE CONSTITU
TION AND LAWS or THIS COMMONWEALTH."—
And Ihe general election law fur'her enacts
that "ere-y jiers >'' quahfi-1 to v .te accor
ding to its provisions 4 shall be admitted to
vote " in his proper district. Tnere are also
penalties provided for such officers as may
I violate these plain and imperative require
ments of the law.
4 F T high evidence of the law upon the
present subject of inquiry, I refer to the pro
ceedings in the House of Representatives of
this State at the last session, upon a partic
ular bill to withdraw privileges of citizenship
and the liyht to vote froin deserters, and
drafted inen in default. But the bill was suc
cessfully opposed upon the ground before sta
ted in this argument, that the qualifications
of suffrage a r o fixed in the Constitution of
the State a. d unalterable except by an
amendment of that instrument by the people.
The sound and judicious remarks of Mr.
Bn wn, of Warren, and Col. McClure, ol
Franklin, (leading members of the maj rity
tn the House) were decisive of the fate of the
bid. It was dr >pped and its consideration
never re*umt d.
It then plainly appears that election offi
cers cannot r.j-ct the vote of any person who
is duly qualified to voie under the Constitu
tion and laws of this State, nor can they en
ter upon any inquiry regarding his perfor
inancc ofduiv to ihe United states under the
Conscription laws. They can only perform
the duties charged upon them by our election
laws, and to the performance of which they
j are bound hy oath.
As to proceedings against deserters and
| non reporting men hereaf'er : By the con
scription law* they may be tried before courts
martial, and it connected, punished or par
doned according to the meriis aid circum
stance* of each case. Tf is a question of pol
, icy Wi'h the goVeremelH whether proceedings
shall be :*ti'U'ed or not, in any par'icular
, ca*e, or generally throughout the country,
j The object of ihe conscription acts, including
i their severe penal sections, was to all our ar
mies - That • hjec no longer exists. Men are
not wanted. Instead ol being now enlisted nr
drafted, they are discharged from service in
great number*. Relief to the treasury is thus
■ secu'ed : and additional relief i si cured by
dispensing with provost marshal", boards of
enrollment and courts martial ; in short,
with all ihe machinery of the conscription
j laws, inc'uding ihe numerous < fficals requir
sd for conducting a general system of milita
ry trials under them.
But, whatever may he the p-dmy or action
of the Federal li- verntnent on this subject,
it is certain thai S'aie ehction hoards cannot
take up untried draft cases and pa*s upon
them a* legateea of United S'aus military
power, or in any other capacity whatever.
G. R BUCKALEW-
Sept. 30, 1865.
Bond aud Free— Free aul Bond.
Working men of America—who made the
law that you should toil all your life to pay
the billions of taxes heaped upon you ?
Why shou'd the poor men and women who
have given their earnings— iheir sons —their
relatives—their blood io subdue the rebellion
now closed—not only pay for all the least of
blood, but support in idleness the lojal cow
arde who dare not fight, and the rich men
who hold bonds exempt by Congressional
enactment from taxation ? Who tnade the
poor—the laboring man, woman and child
slaves to debt 1
Why should you pay any man for being
rich ?
When this war began Thomas Smith owned
a farm. It was a good farm —he sold it for
twenty thousand dollars, and put the money
in the bank He was a "loyal" raau—that
is, a man who was in favor
Of abolitionism,
Of mobs.
Of military trials,
Of false imprisonments,
Ola total disregard for tho Constitution,
for the laws, f.ir civil rights.
During the reign of Lincoln, the above
qualifications weie the lest of loyalty. Smith
had a contract and made a hundred thou*and
dollars, half of which he divided among Gen
erals, Senators and Republican lobbyists.
When the war wa over, Smith had sev
enty five thousand dollars. He invested in
bouds exempt from taxation, and receives
every three months over seven per cent, in
terest ; amounting to five thousand and nine
ty seven dollars a year.
Smith .s rich— loval, and a man ol means.
He wears bmadcioth, gets drunk, does as he
pleases, and no one dare question hun. He
has sevetttyfive thousand in Government
bouds—he does not have a farthing ol tax .o
pay—hisfor'uheis made.
When i his war began, Robert J ties owned
a (aim worth twenty h.iusatid dollars. He
kept it—went to war —fought—returned. He
found hi.* farm taxed five thousand dollars hy
his stay at home neighbors to raise bounty
money to give me to exempt th> m from 'he
draft. H- fids his property taxed—taxed—
taxed—taxed! to raise money to clear his
loyal neighbors trom war !
And Robert Jones learns that be cannot
seil a cow, a horse, crop of grain or hay but
it is tax.-.d He is made to pay taxes on all
lie has. lie must help build toad*, bridges,
school houses, j ti's, churches, and pay the
current expenses of his town, counlv, city.
S'a'e and ration. He toils early and late.
His wife sells butter, eggs, cheese, poultiy,
and the products of her loom. His childien
wear coarse goods, sell berr'es, wild fruit and
game from the field, river or forest to help
along. The bes< cow g es in the Spring—
the best horse goes in the Fall to piy'taxos.
Thomas Smith has seventy five thousand
dollars in Government binds, by a Republican
administration made exempt from taxation.
He lives at ease, pays not a cent of taxes
for any purpose whatever, and then by law
cotnp ls R"ben Jones to toil to pay faxes,and
toil a lew extra hours each week to pay htm,
Smith, inten st money on bis fortune b.-side.
Lok at this !
We are talking to the Robert Joneses of
America now —tot he laboring men of our
countrv. and not to the bond holders who are
hy n Republican bnndocraoy administration 1
nrotccted tn their wealth.
Democracy made this nation what if was
when the war commenced—a rich, bappy and
prosperous people.
Democracy favored equal taxation—equal
responsibility.
Democracy taught law and obedience
thereto.
Republicanism has brought us war.
It has filled ihe earth with dead bodies.
It has hillocked the land with graves.
It has transformed a rich and producing
country itrfoa land of ashes, broken hearts
and desolation.
It has rimed in extravgance, and has heap
ed more taxee upon the people of the United
States than was levied upon America, France,
England ard Spain xhen the war began.
It has by Vgislation withdrawn tw-.third*
of the capital of the entire United States
from taxation by b >rrowing money and giving
the governmt nts, notes or bonds for fit- same
and besides paying double ihe interest foteign
enjoins pav, exempted the notes or bond*
from taxation, thus throwing the entire weight
of the war and the ex'ravagances the most
wicked, reckless, profligate and mischief
working adininis'ration he country ever
knew, upon the laboring men of the country.
The curse visited upon Egypt,the curse of lice
frogs, etc., was an evtdet ce of D'Vtne love in
comparison with the curse of Republicanism
this c uutry is now laboring under. Work
tng men of Am rica—will you heed ihe*e
things? Will you consent longer to follow
the cloud which has already led >ou so far
froin jieace and happiness ? Will you endorse
nid support the power winch take* y*'U by
the throat uiocks at your prayers—robs
you of labor—toys with your liberties—revels
in your blood—lives on your earnings, and
makes of the laboring men mudsills or which
to rear*tdl higher an accursed ard oppresive
aristoct aqy ?
Let us demand our tights, let us have re
frenchmen!, reform, law. order, and economy.
Let us have ZOUAL TAXATION.
THE PROPERTY or MRS GEN. EWELL RE
STORED. — lu obedience to an order rum At
torney General Sjeed to the District A tor
ney of Missouri, the property,estimated to be
worth 860,000, of the wife of the rebel Gen.
Ewell has been delivered over to her agents.
This property has been libelled for confisca
tion, and the plea of amnesty and pardon
made in her lavorhad been overruled by the
court, and the re-h aring was set for next
term. This order fr->iu the Executive, how
ever, suti.tnarily terminates the case, io the
great gratification of tbe lady's friends.
The Progress of Reconstruction.
! Krery State in the South which parlicipa- '
ted in the late tebellion has returned to its
allegiance, and having in good faith sought
: with all the means in its power to fake itself
! out of the Union, has abided the issue, and
1 now in as good faith seeks to put itself upon :
its old footing in the government. The
j change from a state of war to that of peace
and restoration has been swift, and well il
lustrate* the wonderful energv of the Amer
I ican character. P.iorto the first of last
April the Southern Confederacy reared its
head defiantly, and thouhg upon the point
of being hopelessly crushed, still threw the
gauntlet to its more powerful adversary
S<x months have elapsed, and despite of
Radical inter<erence and fanatical opposition, j
the work of restoration is practically com
; plete. On the first Monday of December
there will bo nothing to prevent the repre
sentatives of the Southern States taking
their seats in Congress, aud tence a com
pletely restored Union, but the secoonal ag
itation and interference of the Republican
party.
The rapidity with which this great work
is carried on indicates among other things |
! the fi'iiess of the means which has produced j
this end. The tesioration policy of President j
' Johnson proves its virtue by its succeo".— ;
We do not of course mean to assert as a gtn- '
eral rule that success is the sole proper j
standard of merit—nor that the end justifies |
the means. But io this case the astonishing
success which attends this restoration policy,
i the ea*e wherewith all difficulties are sur
' mounted—and the astonishing rapidity with
! which u ov>ves along—all these things in a
degree so unusual, spean volumes for the
wisdom of this policy.
So far th's policy i, we repeat, an aston
i.hmg success. The Union is nearly coin
pleiely restored even in detail—in eff. ct the
I work isi already accomplished. The material
j prosperity of the South is the next grand
question intimately connected with this res
toration— i*, in fact, a part of it. No one
can doub' but that this prosperity will be
built up witb the same degree of rapidity,
and hence the interests of the entire country
will be verv greatly benefitted. The only
obstacle to the immediate consummation of
this important policy is the factious opposi
tion of the Radicals. We say immediate,
for their opposition can but delay— it cannot
prevent this consummation.
This opposition is facetious—ls sectiunal—
u wise for them-elves, and hurtful to the
country. Visionary in their schemes— they
are impracticable in their worse, and through
perverted lanatici*m would bring ruin upon
the whole nation. That they will utterly fail
is not a matter of doubt—and the condemna
tory judgment of posterity will be added to
their ignominious discomfiture. Yet, mean
while, they are capable of committing a great
deal of mischief, and it behooves the sup
porters of the Administration to unite their
sirengihin defence of this policy of the
President's which is now the sole means of
lescuirg the country from anarchy.— Ex.
Local and Personal.
Go and See the new goods just received at
We il's.
Go and See.— —The admirers of beautiful and
I elegant Millinery Goods should cull and soe Mrs.
| Bard well's rew stock just received and opened at
J her new store, one door belo.i the Banking office of
| Wr'ghtA Co. Mrs. B. seems to know just what to
I buy for all classes of customers See ber advertise
ment in to day's paper— and see her goods at first
opportunity.
The Young Men ofour town who have recently
formed a Debating Club and Literary Society, an
nounce thai they have fairly got started unier favor
able prospects, and being anxious to acquire a li
brary, respectfully ask the aid of our citizens and
others to forwar i their project. Donation''of mon
ey or books will be thankfully received. No nove •
are wanted.
Contributions may be sent to the care of Geo
Mullisoo Jr. or Byron G. White.
New Establishment.—Mrs. Eliza Lens has
just opened, at the shop formerly occupied by Mrs
Bardwell, a new Fancy Goods and Toy Store. Be
sides a large and attractive assortment of toys and
e mfcclionery for the little folks; she has Shoes,
Hosiery, Uead-dr sses, Handkerchiefs, Laces, Brai j,
Bead", Buttons, Combs, Needles, Thread, Yarn, Ac.
A>., for the older children. Our town hag long
needed just such an establishment, and we bespeak
for ibis one the liberal patronage of the public,
To the I.adies we would say that in looking
! about forth it new and fashionable '. i and those
■ eleeantly fifing dresses, with .vhich \ou intend to
| adorn your dear selves tbi Fall and Wintsr ; that
Mrs A; G. Stark has just received her new Milline
ry goods and still commands the services of the
most accomplished milliner und dress-makers in the
; county. The entire sati faction she has given her
j numerous customers, for years past, is a sufficient
guaranty as to what she can and will do for them
in the future.
The Great Chief Ahwaiietunk.-with seven
other genuine native, wild Indians will give one of
t icir interesting cnti rtainmei ts at Wa l's Ut ion Hall :
in this place—Tuesday evening Oct; 17th—The
games, songs, dances courtship, war scenes costumes
Ac ;of the native Indians will be faithfully repre
! Minted by thig troupe, who have been real actors in
all of them, are leaving their nati re forests in the
i wgt Mr. F - W Washburn,who accompanies them
as Manager will introduce the school of Grecian
! games, in which he will be assistea by bis wonderful
j pupil, Master Sawyer. The whole making one of.
the most complete exhibitions of the kind ever be
fore the public. Go and see them.
An Agreeable Surprise.—Passing up War
ren Street the other day, and giving a side g'ance
at the wind< ws adjoining the Post Office, we were
astonixhed at seeing in them (we will not nttempt
to describe, because impossible) what brought us to a ,
j dead halt, with eyes and mouth wide open, and one
, foot in the air Not dreaming that the sight was
"free, gratis, for nothing, without paying anything
for it," we involuntarily fumbled in our pocket for
a shinplaster, to meet the man or woman who
! should gay, " Ticket , Sir!" The search, of course,
< was fruitless, or ra'her, shinplasterless ; when aome
friend relieved our curiosity and our financial em
harassment, by informing us that Mrs, T A. Miller
had then and there jit opened one of the largest
cheapest and most elegant lots of fancy and milli
nery go 'ds ever brought to town, and took a great
pleasure in exhibiting them to everybody without
| charge,
Homicide.—A msn by the name of Carey, H
! ing in (JreenfHd had on bis place a small peaoh
orchard which had suffered by too depredation! of
;pi nous unknown. On Friday evening hut, Carey
I sent his son. n boy of seventeen yours, out to the or
' chard, telling him to take his gun, and it ia said
j directing him to shoot any tresspasser. The boy oa
approaching the peach trees saw something dark
j moving among them, and at once fired; he then re
| turned to the house saying, "Father I fetched kins
| this time sure " Carey instantly went to the or
! chard and approached the trees near enough to soo
l an inanimate object laying on tbo ground. Ho
then ran over to a neighboi'a, a Mr. Snyder, whom
he addressed, saying, "My boy has shot something
among the peach trees, and I am afraid it is yonr
son." Snyder answered that "it could not bo, tor
his son had just gone down to torn in the cows."—
The men, however, proceeded to the spot, what*
J they found the body of young Snyder piercod thro'
tho breast by three buckshot. The scene that on-
I sued, beggars description. The Care :'a woro
lodged in jail on Sunday. Young Snyder was twwu
ty-one years old
\~t r ng °nr visit to Lowell 'we woro shows
through the Laboratory of our celebrated conn ry
man, Lb. J. C. Aver. Scarcely could we havo be
lieved without proof what is seen there beyond dis
puting.
They make a barrel of solid Pills, aboat 15.000
doses, and three.barrels of Cherry Pectoral, 120,000
doses, per diem. To what an inconceivable amount
of human suffei ing does this point! 170.000 doses
a day !! Fifty miilion of doses per year ! ! ! What
acres and thousands of acres of sick beds does this
, spread before the imagination ! And what sympn
j thies and woe! True, not all of this is taken by tho
I very sick, but alas, much of it is- This Cherry
, Drop and this sugared Pill are to be the companion
j of pain and anguish and sinking sorrow— the inher
itance our mother Eve bequeathed to the wholo
family of man. Here the iafant darling has boon
touched too early by the blight that withers half
our race. -Its little lungs are affected, and only
watching and waiting shall tell which way its breath
shall turn. This red drop ou its table is the talis
man on which its life shall hung. There the blos
som of the world just bursting into womanhood is
stricken also. Affections most assiduous care avails
not, she is still fad iDg away. The wan messenger ,
comes nearer and neaier.every week. This little
medicament shall go there, their last perhaps their
only hupe The strong man has, planted iti his vi
tals, this same disease . This red drop by his side
is helping him wrestle with the inexorable enemy;
the wife of his bosom and the cherubs of his heart
are waiting in sick, sorrow and fear lest the rod oa
which tbey lean, in this world, be broken.
O, Doctor! Spsre DO skill, nor cost, nor toil k>
give the perishing sick the best that human art can
give—[Gait eston, Texts Mews.
TOWN TALK.
"If there's a hole_in a' yonr coats
I rede ye tent it :
A chiels amang you taking notes,
And, faith, he'll prent it."
Ljgf* New Goods is the order of the day with our
merchants, and finm every store and shop window
one meets the most aggravating display ofnaw
dothes stuff. T, L. Ross A Ce's. store is liUrully
running over with their large and finely selected
stock, and their ' gay and festive" clerks will indoc*
one to trade whether they are disposed to or not.
John Weil, although having almost every thing to
tickle the fancy of the softer sex, pays more particu
lar attention to the outward appearance of the lords
of creation, and will make the most uncouth guwky
look like u geatlsman ; always, provided thst hs
has the necessary "spons," or "equivalent." The
millinery business is looming up hngely, and the
self-satisfied smile that usually rests upon the face#
of the.fur proprietors, and thjir general appear
ance of prosperity i# a very good indication that it
is a paying business. Mrs Eardwell has just filled
up her new and decidedly elegant establishment,
with a large stock of goods. Miss Louisa Hepburn
has also been making a raid upon the shop-keepers
of New York, and returned with a fine assortment
as the spoils of her campaign. We understand
that Mrs. T. A. Miller is about opening a similar
establishment where the "dear demmed, delightful
creatures" can always find an appropriate covering
for their "water falls."
The fine arts deserve particular mention. At
Hermans odU Cullingworth's gallery you ean pio
cure a picture so natural that it seems if it wasted
but to be breathed upon by the Angel of Life to
start into being.
f?" We presume Town Talk is not very popular
among the young men and maidens fair of this towa.
In fact we have stood by, and heard ourselves abused
in the highest style of the art, by those beings who
are supposed to be so "little lower than the angels."
The principle reason for finding fault was, that their
curiosity had been thwarted, and with a wrfraan that
is a deadly offense. One lady accused us of a pen
chant for gossipping, and wondered "why we did
not notice hor new door vard fence." Pshaw, ladies
don't distress yourselves a particle about us! We
do not care a straw about your approbation, in this
respect at least; and we do not write for popularity's
sake, but for the purpose of correcting certain abuse®
that were prevalent tn this town We do not feel
disposed to kneel at the feet flatter or flirt the fan,
for the sake of gaining the smiles and commenda
tions of that eldest daughter of Mrs. Grundy, whom
people hive nick-named popularity
JJgP*Monday night a number of fresh ones want
down on a candidate for a "soft thing," and man
aged to get qui'e "larky" over it. About the "wee,
sma' hour ayont the twa'," they adjourned from the
"den "to the street, and bringing forth the "fiery,
untamed steed," had considerable of a citcus.—
Naughty hoy? !
Died,
VAUGHN—In Mehoopany, on Saturday, Sept. 30,
after a lingering illness, James S. Vaughn, aged
51 years.
WANTED!
100 BUSIIELS CHESTNUTS,
For which the highest market price will be paid
n cash. I. M. BUCK.
Tunkhenaeek, Pa
"NOTICE. ~~
The Co-partnership, heretofore existing between
C. liurr A Sen, is this day dissolved by mutual
cons- ,t.
l'tie books and accounts of the late firm are left
in the hands of C. Burr for settlement and collee
' tion who will still coutiDue to carry on the Tanning
business ot the old stand
The Harness Business
will be carried on by Wm H. Burr, who, confident
ot his Ability to satisfy the wants of the public, so
licits their patronage.
C BURR,
Wm. H. BURR
Meshoppen, April 29th, 1865.
v4n4otf.
T~ 0 THE NE IVOUS. DEBILITATED AND
DESPOMA. -.NT OF BOTH SEXES. A, great
sufferer having been restored to health in a few
days, after many years of misery, is willing to assist
i his suffering fellow-creatures by sending (free), on
( the receipt of a postpaid addressed envelope, a oopy
'of tbo formula of cure employed. Directed to ,N-a
JOHN M. D AON ALL, Box IS3 Post Office
Brooklyn, >
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