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All TRANSIENT ADVERTISEMENTS an l JOB WORK ust he i aid fcr, when ordered. fiisit-ds ftolicis. n-> - o■•: • PHYSICIAN & SrKGEON : • i..i . Luzerna County Pa. •V, ATTO INEY AT LAW, - P., Office n Stark's Uric i ! - i T-]r r >l. ♦! S* • \r i 1 ?EY AT LAW, O ; V fi 'c 1 •< iek Lmck Tioga St., Tunk I hannock. Pa K.R. LITTLE VTTORNEY AT LAW j Office on Tioga street, i unkhanix'ikl'a. &tre Buflilr "loust, (J L- c- HARHISHriK., KNXA. The undersigned having lately pun hased the BUEHLER HOUSE " property, has already cotn- BlMeed sach alterations and improvements as will reader this old and popular 11. use e pial, if r.ot supe rior, to any Hotel in tbo City of Ilarruburg. A continuance of the public patronage is nfpcct I fally tolicited. 7 GEO. J. BOLTON WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOXJS ~ TU NK HAN NOC'ld. WYOMING CO.. FA. THIS establishment has recently been rtn furuiebed in tbe latest style Every attention * ' irill be given to the comfort and convei.ienco oi those til patronise the House. T. B. WALL, Owner an i Proprietor . Tunkhanneek, September 11, 1861. NORTH BRANSH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COl Nil, PA Wm. H. CORTRIGIIT, Prop'r HAVING resumed the proprioi.o-hi; of the above LIoUI, the undersigned will spare no effort to ieadr the house an agreeable j' a-e ol sojourn tor all who may favor it with their custom. " Win. II CORTRIGIIT. Jio. J.l, 1863 iH. .T. C- BKOKKR - PHYSICIAN Si SURGEON. Wul i rc 'er.-'fnlly renounce to the citizenso' V y miog. th' located at Tunkhannock v. "re .•' • ' *tpil to all calls in the li hi .•• f ■ round at home oa batu • .MS II old AT33A, \RT TTore- Y. . I T -It LiV • ' t e l "tyle, *V- .in re s ti.t and VI ) • • atop .'lly- V 21 r CLARXS.IiM UaafFACTCHKRS A> * DBALEKS IX LADIES', MISSES' & GENTS' filkanti "assimfrf I)ats ASP JOBBERS IN HATS. CAPS. FURS, STRAW GOODS, PAR ASOLS AND DMHRELLAS. BUFFALO AND FANCY ROBES, CORNER OK LEONARD STREET, SSSW a F CLARK, 1 a C KF.KNKV, y a. LIIKENEV 3 VI. OILMAN, Li rIST• M OILMAN, has permanently located in Tunk • bannock Beruugb, and respectfully tendered a ■ Sessional services to the citizens of this place h n t oanding country. J LL WORK WARRANTED TO GIVE SATIS fA TION. UT*Office ever Tuueu's Law udice, near th e Po 9e n.ltll itieljkrfti Standi Hem rural RILL ARP ON THE STATE OF THE - COUNTRY. "Sweet land of Liberly of thee I sing." Not much I don't„ not at tLis time. If there's anything sweet about liberty in this part of the vineyard, I can't see it. The Lad's good ciiuf and I would'nt mind hear- in a rhyme or two about the dirt I live on, but as for me findin sugar and liberty in Georgy soil, its all a mistake Howsumev er, I'm hopeful. I'm much calmer and se reener than 1 was a lew months ago. I begin to feel kindly towards all people, ex sept some. I'm row endeaverin to be a great national man. I've taken up a mot to of no North, no South, no East, uo West; hut let me tell you, my frend, I'll bet on Dixie, as long as I got a dollar. Its no harm to run both skedules. In fakt its highly harmonious to do so. I'm a good Union reb, and battle cry are Dixie- and the Union. But you see, my frend, we are gettin restless about some things. The war had begun inity heavy on us, and after the big collapse, we thought it over for good.— We had killed folks & killed folks until the novelty of the thing had wore off, and we were mity nigh played out all over. Chil dren were increasin and vittels diminishin. By a close calculashun it was* perceeved that we did'nt kill our enemies as fast as thee was imported, and about those times 1 thought it was a pity that some mirakle of gnce had'nt cut of the breed of furrin rrs some 18 or 20 years ago. Then you •.< isld haw seed a far fight. General Sher nnr wciil I'nt have walked over the track and Uhsts wouid have killed more men than h did— oj his own side. I have al ways thot' that a General ought to be per tikler which side he was sacrifisin. Well, if the war is over, what's the use of fillin up our towns and cities with sol diers any longer. Where's your rekon struction that the papers say is goin on so lapidlv ? Where's the liberty and freedom? The fakt is, General Sherman and his oat tei pillars made such a clean sweep ol every thing. 1 don't see much to rekonstrukt.— They took so many liberties around here that there's nary lih rty left. ' oul., ive reconstructed a tin usand sich Siatet: beiore this. Any body couhl There wasn't notliin to do hut je-t go off and let us alone. We've got plenty of Statesmen—plenty of inen for Governor. Joe Brown ain't ded—he's waitin— standin at the d 'or with his hat off. i lien what's the soldiers here for —what good are they duin—who wants to see etn any longer ? Even body is tired of war and don t wa.it to see any more signs of it. The -dggers don't want'em and the white m- n don't want Vm.and as for the vvimin— whopee! I golly! Wcll,t* "re's no use talkin when the stars fall agin may be the wim in will be harmonized. That male busi ness - the oath about gettin letters ! Gee tiger ! They always was jealous aboui thft males anyhow, and that order jest broke he "fimel's 1 ack. Well, I must confess it i poweiful small concern. I would ry to sorter smooth it over if I knowd '•at to say, but I don't. If they wasn't afeered of the wimin, why didn't they say =o ? Jest to airgrevate them. Didn't they know that the best way to harmonize a man was to harmonize his wife first ? What harm can the wimin do by receivm their letters oath free 1 They can't vote nor can't preach, nor hold orfis, nor play soldier, nor muster, nor wear breeches, uor i <le stra Idle, nor nor chaw tcrbacker, u r notliin hardly but talk and write letters 1 hear that a valant kernel made wimin put up lie fan 'cause it had a picter of Borvgard 'pon it Well, she's harmouiz ed, I rccon. Now the trouble of all such is that after these bayonets leave here and go home.these pettyeoat tyrants can't come home, back any more. Some Gcorgy fool will smash the juice out of'em sertin, and that wouldn't be geither haimonious nor healthy. Better let the wimin alone. Then there is another thing I'm waitin for Why don't they rekonstrukt the nig gers if they are ever goin to ? They've give 'em a powerful site of freedom, and very vary little else. Here's the big freedmen's buro, and the little buros all over the country, and the papers are full of grand orders and special orders, and paragraft% but I'll bet a possum some of 'em steals my wood this winter or freezes to death. Freedmen's buro freedmen's humbug, I say. Jest when the corn needed plowin the worst, the buro rung the bell and tolled all t&e niggers to town, and tbe farmers lost the crops ; and now the freedmen is gettin cold and hungry, and wants to go tea But freedmen is big thing. Hurraw for freedmen's baro ! Sweet land ofliberty '♦TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT." —Thomas Jeliersoti. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 17, 1866. of the I don't sing ! But all is right. I'm for freed men myself. Nobody wants any more slavery. If the abolishunists had let us alone we would have fixed it up right a longtime ago, and we can fix it up now. The bnro aint fixed it, and aint a going to. It don't know anything about it Our people have got a heap more feelin for the poor nigger than any abolishunists. We are as poor as Job, but I'll bet a dollar we can raise more money in Rome to build a nigger church than they did in Bostown, The papers say that after goin roun for 3 weeks, the Bostown christians raised thirty-seven dollars to build a nfgger church in Savannah, They are powerful on theory but mity seace in practice. But no use talkin. Everybody will know by waitin who's been foold. Mr. Johnson says he's gwine to experiment, that's all he can <fb now—its all anybody can do. Mr. Johnson's head's level. I'm for him and everybody ought to b fore him—only lie's powerful slow about somethings.—l ain't a worahippin hi in. lie never made nie. I bear folks hollerin hurraw for An dy Johnson, and the papers say, oh ! lie's tor us, he's all right, he's our friend.— Well, spose lie is, hadn't be ought to be ? Did you expeoi him to l>e a dog. Bekase he ain't a liangin of us, is it necessary to be play in hiprocrit around the footstool of power, and niakin out like he was the greatest man in the world, and we was the greatest sinnei ? Who's sorry ? Who's re. penting 1 Who ain't proud of our people? Who loves our enemies? Nobody but a durncd sneak. I say let 'em hang :md be hanged to 'em before I'd beg 'em for grace. Wliar's Sokratcs, whar's Cato ? But if Andy holds his own. the country's safe, pro vided these general asscmblys and sinods and Bishops conventions will keep the dev il and Bronlow tied.* Here's a passei of slinkhearted fellers who played tory jest to dodge bullits or tave property, now howlin olout for otfis—want everything bekase they was for the Union. They was for themselves, thats all they was for, and they aint agoing to get liie offices r eithe'. Mr. Johnson aint got no more respeck for 'cm than I have. We want to trade 'em off.— Bv hokey, we'll give two of them for one copperhead, and ax nothing to boot. Let 'em shinny on their own side and get over among the folks who dont O ~ want us reconstrukted. There's them newspaper scribblers who slid down to the edge of Dixie every 24 hours, and peep over at us, on tip toe Then they run back apiiflia and Mowin' with a straight coat tail, and holler out, "lie ain't dead—lie ain t dead —look out every body. Im jest from there—seed his toe move—heard him grunt; he's goin' to rise agin. Don't with draw the sogers, but send down moretrops imrnegeately." And here's your Harper's Weekly a headin all sich—a gassin lies and slanders in every issue—makin insultin piktere in every sheet— breed in everlastin discord and chawin bigger than ever since lie got licked,wish old Stonewall had cotch these Harpers at the Ferry, aud we boys had kuowed they was goin to keep up this devilment so long. We'd make baptists out of them sertin, payroll or no payroll. Hurraw for a brave soldier I say, reb o r no reb, yank or uo yank ; hurraw for a manly foe and a generous victor—hurraw for our side too, I golly, excuse me, but such expressions will work their way out sometimes breaks or no breaks. But I'm for Mr. Johnson. I'm for all the Johnsons —its a bully name. There's our Governor, who ain't goin at a discount and there's Andy who is powerful well considerin and tlieres the hero of Shiloh — peace to his noble ashes. And theres Joe—my bully Joe—would nt I walk ten miles of a rainy night to see them hazel eyes and feel the grip of his soldier hand. Didn ray rooster always clap his wings and crow whenever he pass ed our quarters ? "Instinct told him that he was the ti ie price,'* and it would make anybody brave to be uigli him. I like all the Johnsons, even to Sam—L. C. He never levied on me if he could get around it. For 10 years me and Sam have been workin' together in the justice court. I was an everlastin dependent, and Sam the Constable, but he never sol d my pioperty nor skered Mrs. Arp. Hurraw for the Johnsons. Well, on the whole, there's a heap o things to be thankful for. I'm thankful, the war is over—that's the big thing Then I'm thankful I aint a black Republi can. I'm thankful that Thad Stevens and Sumner and Phillips, nor none of their kin ain't no kin tome. I'm thankful that the high privilege of halin all such. I'm thank ful I live in Dixie, in tbe State of Georgy, and ou Governors name aint Brownlow. Poor Tennessee !I golly didn't she catch it. Andy Johnson's pardons wont do rebs much goad there. They better get one from the devil if they expekt it to pass. Wonder what made providence afflikt 'em with such a cuss. Bnt I can't d well on sich a subject Its highly demoralizing and unprofitable. "Sweet land of Liberty, of tbee," I could not sing in Tennessee. But then, we've bad a circus once more, and seen the clown play round, and that makes up for a heap of trouble. In fact its the best sign oi rekonstructlon I l.avc yit observed. Yourn, hopin, BILL ARP. P. S.—And they bawled Grant's cabin a thousand miles. Well! Shermans war horse stayed in my stable one night. I want to sell the stall to some Yankee State fair. As our people ain't the sort that runs after big folk's things, the stall ain't no more than any other stall to mc. State Fairs, its for sale. I suppose that Harper's Weekly or Frank Lesly will paint a pikter of it soon, drawingon tothir imagination. B. A. —Rome (Ga) Courier. STATE TENESSEE. —OId Thaddens Stevens, of the House of Representatives, says he "doesn't know Tennessee." Then he should take to the study of geography. He will find Tennessee to be considerable of a place. One end of it butts up against the Mississippi —did Thaddeus c-ver hear of that stream ?—and was once the dwell ing place of one Andrew Jackson, an old fellow who said that the "Federal Union must be preserved.'* Tennessee is the home of Andrew Johnson—does Stevens know him?—and if Tennessee isn't in the Union, neither is Andrew Johnson, and the Pennsylvania radical ought forthwith to pitch him out of the Presidential chair and put into it a citizen of the United States. How comes it that so virtuous aud enlight ened a patriot should have supported for the Vice-Presidency a man from a foreign State, as Tennessee is if not in the Union and not known to the Legislative Depart mcnt of the Government ? Why docs Ste vens sit quiet and see a foreigner from a foreign State usurp the functions of the Presidency? If Thaddeus doesn't "know Tennessee," lie shouldn't "know" Andrew Johnson for lie is a citizen of Tennessee. What monstrosities the. unsanctified radi cals are exhibiting!— Louisville Journal. THE BLACK TROOPS IN THE ARMY. FACTS FOR HISTORY. —The nonsense of. the radical press —that the rebellion could not have been suppressed but for the aid of the negro —is summarily d sposed of, by the annual repcrt of the Secretary of \Y ar as follows: Total of troops called for from April, 1861, to May, 1865 2,759,046 Total of troops obtained 2.606,553 Total of colored troops enlisted dnr ing tbe 178.975 Greatest number of colored troops in service, July 15, 1865 123,15g We arc obliged to Mr. Stanton for these j facts, which it is presumed, don't lie. It must have gone against the grain to print them : but truth, like murder, will out. — As the World observes : From this statement, we sec that if all the negroes in the United States army had the misfortune to be only Y'ankees or Irish men, their presence or absence from the ranks would scarcely have made an appre ciable difference in the gigantic sum total of the national army. As negroes, ot course, tbe case is different —one negro ac cording to the Tribune being the equal, for military purposes, of twenty white men ! It is noticeable, also, that tne heaviest force of negroes ever at one time in the array, ia reported for July 15, 18G5, three months after the fighting was all over. rote of Washington City, upon the subject of negro suffrage was 35 for and 6,639 against—nearly two hundred to *ne against. The vote in favor was heretofore incorrectly stated to be 75. Tho Mayor of Georgetown has proclaimed an election also. A young lady having asked a gen tleraan why he didn't secure some fond one's company in his voyage across the ocean of life, replied that he would do so, were he certain that said ccean would be Pacific. fg" "Mamma," said a lad of six. "If a man is a Mister, is a woman a Mistery ?" We rather guess she is, sonny SOLILOQUY OF A LOAFER- Let's see, where am I f This is—coal I'm lying on. Was coming up street — met a wheelbarrow --was drunk, comin tother way —the wheelbarrow fell over me, or I over the wheelbarrow, and one of us fell into the cellar—don't know which now —guess it must ha' been me. 1m a nice young man ; yes I am —tight! tore '• drunk ! Well, I can't help it—'taint my fault—wonder whose fault 'tis?wis it Jones'fault? No. Is it my wife's fault ? ♦♦ ell, it ain't. It is the wheelbarrow's fault ? No. It's whisky's fault. Who is whisky ? Has he a large family ? All poor, I reckon. 1 think 1 won't own him any more. I'll cut his acquaintance. I've had that notion for about ten years, and always hate to do it foUfear of hurting his feelings, I'll do it now. I think liquor is is injurin' me —it's spoiling my temper. Sometimes I get mad when I'm drunk and abuse Bets and the boys ; it used to be Lizzie and the children —that's some time ago. I'd come home o' evenin's an' she put her arms around my neck an' kiss me, an' call me her dear William. When 1 comes home now, she takes the pipe out of her month an' the hair out of her eyes, an' says somethin'like : —"Bill, you drunk en brute, shut the door after you : we're cold enough, bavin' no fire, 'thout letting the snow blow in that way." Yes, she's Bets, an' I'm Bill, now. I" ain't a good Bill, nnther; think I'm a counterfeit; — won't pass—a tavern without goin' in an' gettin' drunk. Don't know what bank I'm on, Last Saturday I was on the river bank—drunk. I stay out pretty late ; no, sometimes I'm out all night ; fact is, I'm out preity much all over—out of friends, out of poek et, out at the elbows and knees, and always outrageously dirty—so Bets says ; but then she's no judge, for she's never clean her self, I wonder why she doesn't wear good clothes ; may be she hasn't got 'em ; whose fault's that ?—isn't mine—must be whisky's, Sometimes I'm in, however ; I'm intox icated now : and in somebody's coal cellaF. There's one principle I have got —I won't J get in debt: I never could do it. There, one of my coat tails is gone, got tore off, — I expect, when I fell in here. I'll have to get a new suit soon. A fellow told me 'tother day that I'd make a good sign for a paper mill. If he wasn't so big I'd kick him. I've had this shirt on for nine days, and I'm afriid it won't come off without tenrin. People ought to respect me niore'u they do, for I'm in holey orders.— T hain't a dandy, through ray clothes are pretty near Greasieatf stylo. I guess T tore this window shutter in mv pants t'other night, when I sat, down on tho wax in Ben Rngg's shop ; I'll have to get it mended.or —l'll catch cold. T ain't very stout. As the boys say, I'm fat as a match and healthy as tbe small-pox. My best bat is standing guard for a window pane that went out t'other morning at the invitation of a brick-bat. It's getting cold down here—wonder if I ain't able to climb. If I had a drink I could think better. Let's see ; 1 ain't got three cents ; if I was in a tavern I could sponge one. Whenever anybody treats and says, "come fellars," I always think mv name's "fellars," and I've got too good manners to refuse. Well, I must leave this, or they'll arrest me for an attempt at burglary. I ain't come to that yet. Anyhow, it was the wheelbarrow that did the harm —not me. TIIADDEUS STEVENS. —Mr. Thaddeus Stevens completely outdid himsilf in his Congressional harangne on Monday last. A more brutal exhibition never disgraced the House of Representatives—and that is saying a great deal. After assailing, with his usual ribaldry, the sentiment that "this is not a white man's government," and boldly announcing that "without the right of negro suffrage in the late slave State the slave had far better have been left in bond age," he concluded with the following sen tence : "Sir, this doctrine of a white man's gov ernment is as atrocious as the infamous sentiments which damned the late Chief Justice to everlasting infamy, and I fear to everlasting fire also." The hero of "the buckshot war" has not improved since the time he advised an hon est legislator to " throw tonsciense to the dei'il and stand by his party?' His inde cent assault upon a good and great man dead, is highly characteristic of one who jumped from the back window of the Sen ate Chamber to escape the indignation of the living. — Phtla. Age. TEnMS, 52,00 3?E3£l - jOT THADDEUS STEVENS vs. ROGER B. TANEY ——.—. .}• b'f ti MESSRS. EDITORS : In the House of • : -• Representatives, on Monday, the HOB. ThAdeus Stevens,'of Pennsylvania, used this language : "Sir, this doctrine of white man's gov ernment is as atrocious as the instyp|oU9 sentiment that damned the late Chiefjus tice to everlasting fame; and. I fear/ to everlasting tire." • j Shame! Shame ! —that the sacred ashe9 of the ablest expounder of American juris prudence should thus be scattered broad cast over the land with a blast of "damns - tion" and 'everlasting fire" by a.Represen tative in Congress from the Keystone State of our Union. One would think that the cold, clafliray cloak of remorse would rest suffocating Up on the man w ho thus stoops into the grave of Roger P. Taney and with ruthless hands drag- bis honored grey hairs afresh before the but late tearful eyes and bleeding hearts of his family and friends, to say nothing of the millions in this land of free thought and opinion who bowed in reverence to his legal shrine, and are jealous of his fame and memory. . Was it not true that the Constitution recognized only white mew as framers and components of our Government ? and were not negroes held under that instrument as slaves? and. being slaves, could, and did they have the rights of citizens of the Uni ted States in *he sense that their masters and other white men are citizens ? Jf they could, why was it necessary to go to war, waste the lives of more than a mjiuon white men and some blacks, and devastate nearly one half of our great eountry,.and entail a debt of nearly three billions ol money, in order to determine the stotus of the unfortunate and miserable black race? And why, after it was settled in this man ner, was it also necessary to make a formal amendment of the Constitution to, the eff ect, as proclaimed by Secretary Seward on the 18th inst., that no more slavery will be allowed in the land? For shame! again we say, it w- to the American Statesmen of lofty intellect - that he should plant his hoofs roughly in the green SQJ of the grave of the lamented Ta nev, and blow a blast of '"damnation and everlasting lire" over his earthly fame and eternal existence, but for no other reason than that lie, being a just, honest, consci entious, and constitutional Chief Justice, administered the law as it was then, and not as it now is. The law as it must he administered, otherwise we wotild soon have anarchy. But when the law re chan ged then the decision of the judge must conform thereto. So thought the illus trious Tatem, and so should every honest lawyer, judge and patriot teach the Ameri can Republic—that they, when a greater than Stevens calls men to judgment, may hear, not words of "damnation and ever lasting fire," but the cheering commenda tion, "well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of thy re9t." CHURCH ETTIQUETTK. —It is fashiona ble with some people to go late to, church, long after the services have begun, to th edification of the curious in the congrega tion, and the annoyance of the minister. — A cotemporary saj s it has lately been deci ded, 011 high authority, that the following rules are observed, "Let the lady advance beyond the door of the pew she wishes to enter, halt, about face, and salute. The pew must then be vacated by such gentlemen as are in it, by a flank movement. The squad should rise simultaneously when the lady presents herself, and face by the right flank then deploy into the aisle, the head man facing the lady an J the rest walking to his side, right and rear, the direction ot the line being changed by a right counter march, and forming again into line, yp and down the aisle,still laced by the right flank. The lady, when she sees that the coast is clear, completes her salute, and advances to her position in the pew. The gentle men break off by files from the.* rear and resumes their places. Great care should be taken, of course, by other parties, not to enter the aisle when this evolution is in progress, until it is completed." ** - has set aside ground at Fort Pillow for a negro monument. The white heroes who fell on a hundred Southern bat tle-fields may perhaps be thought of here after, when each "colored bra ve" has se cured a memorial stone. 1 ""■ * w s> n - i i-j VOL. 5 NO. 23-
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