®|c Democrat,
HARVEY SICKLE*, Editor.
TUNK.HANNOCK, PA
Wednesday, May 16, 1866.
FOR GOVERNOR,
BOS. BEISTER CLYMEB.
OF EERKB.
THE DEMOCRATIC IL%TFORM,
The Democracy of Pennsylvania in Convention
net, recognizing a crisis in the affairs of the Re
public, and esteeming the immediate restoration of
the I'uiou paramount to ail o'.her issues, do re
solve :
1. That the States, whereof the people were late
ly in rebellion, are ontegral parts of the Union, and
•re entitled to representation in Congress by men
duly elected who bear true faith to the Constitution
and Laws, and in o.der to vindicate the maxim that
taxation without representation is tyranny, such
representatives should be forthwith admitted.
2 That the faith of the Republic is pledged to
the v a >"uient of the National debt, and Congress
should pass all laws necessary tor that purpose.
3. That we owe obedience to the Constitution of
the United States (including the nuiemlinent prohib
iting slavery,) aod under its provisions will accord
to those emancipated all their rights of person and
property.
4. That eaeh State has the exclusive light to
regulate the qualifier* ions of its own electors.
5. That the white race alons is entitled to the con
trol of the (lovernment of the Republic, and we are
unwilling to grant to negroes the right t vote
g. That Ihc bold enunciation of the principles of
the Constitution and the policy of re-toration con
tained in the recent annual message and freedinen's
bureau veto message of President Johnson entitle
him to the confidence and support of all who respect
the Constitution and love their country.
7' That the nation owes to the brave men of vur
armies and navy a debt of lasting gratitude for
their heroic service, in defence of the Const it u tion
and the Union ; and that while we cherish with
tender affection the memories of the fallen, we
pledge to their widows and orphans the nation's
esre and protection.
8. That we urge upon Congress the duty of equal
izing the bounties ot our soldiers and sailors.
fgr It is now confidently asserted that
the President will veto the Colorado bill.—
Tne Radical Rompers are of course ram
paut.
Stevens the Head Centre, so called,
of the Fenian, and who escaped imprison
ment a few months since lias arrived in New
York; and is now reconciling the conflict
ing parties in this country.
General and Mrs. Grant were treat
cd with marked distinction by the " recon
structed rebels" of Richmond, upon their
late visit.
The Southern Methodist Conference
at New Orleans has voted to change the
name of the church from Methodist Epis
copal Church to simply the Methodist
Church.
The Conservative Republicans,—
a very strong faction in the western por
tion of the State, —are distrustful of Geary,
and denounce him as the tool of Stevens,
Cesna, Forney, Cameron A Co., and arc
about to hold a Convention in Pittsburg to
bring out Gen. Coulter, as their Conserva
tive Candidate for Governor.
THE PROSPECT IN THE NORTH-WEST.—
The editor of the Lacrosse (Wisconsin,)
Democrat, writing from Detroit, Michigan,
says: From present indications Michigan
will go Democratic this Fall. She will
elect Democrats to Congress from three of
her six districts, at all events. Demo
cratic gains are the spring styles every
where this season."
fgT A petition was presented to the
Rump Senate on the 26th, by Sumner,
from "thirty citizens of the United States,"
residing in New York State, praying the
expulsion of Senator Davis, of Kentucky,
for saying he would oppose the execution
of the Negro "rights" bill. It turns out
that all the said thirty "citizens of the
United States" are negroes ! Things are
coming to a pretty pass, ain't they ?
GEN. FRANK BLAIR.— The reason why
General Frank Blair was rejected by tliA
Senate as Collector of Internal Revenue
for the District of St. Louis, has not trans
pired. Much surprise is expressed at the
result, and among others by Lieutenant
General Grant who says that to him the
country i* indebted more than to any oth
er man that Missouri was prevented from
seceding. He spoke with earnestness of
the important military Services of Gener
al, then Colonel Biair at that time and has
since rendered the conn ry.
THE RADICAL POLlCY.— Forney, the
Secretary of the Senate of the tinted
States, in a recent letter to his paper, the
Philadelphia Press , says :
"Immediate universal suffrage is not
possible, but that the Southern States will
be left unrepresented until they formally
bind thicaselves to the ultimate and com
plete enfranchisement of their citizens, is
certain."
1 his is the Radical policy.
The Disunion amendment requires
the Southern peop'o to adopt it in order to
secure representation in Congiess; yet,
after it shall be adopted, nine-tenths of
them cannot vote for representatives It
ie expecting too much of human nature to
supposethat nine tenths of the Southern peo
ple will ailopt an " amendment" that shall
inatantly deprive them of all share in their
own government, and place them complete
ly at the moicy of a hostile and alien mi
nority Men don't willingl) chop their
heads off. No wonder the negro Telegraph
says the amendment must be .forced upon
them with the bayonet, or ' all is h st" in
power and plunder to the Disunion party.
THE DECKING FAMILY MURDER.
Full Confession of Probst.
PHILADELPHIA, May 7. —frobst has
made a full confession to his priest of all
the murders of the Decring family, com
mencing with Cornelius Carey, tlie hired
boy. lie had no accomplice in his bloody
work.
After describing the murder ot the boy
Carey, he says :
'•The sh'ht of the blood of the boy pro
duced in me a devlish and blood thirsty
feeling, and I determined at once to mur
der the whole family." He disposed of
the body of the boy as described before,
and then deliberately walked over to the
house. Ileenterek and told '"Charlie," the
little boy next in years to "Willie," who
was absent, that be wanted him to help
him do some work in the barn. The little
fellow followed him, and as soon as he got
him inside the barn door he dispatched him
with a small axe he had secured, lie then
went back to the house and told Mrs Deer
ing there was some hng the matter with
one of the cows, and he wanted her to
•bine to the barn. She went, and he fol
! lowed, and as soon as she entered inside he
| struck her in the head and killed her. He
then went back to the house and brought
the children out one at a time, and taking
thrm inside the barn dispatched them one
!by one with the same axe. In each in-
I stance he cut their throats and placed their
bodies in the corn crib himself just in the
position they were found, lie
ed the bodies up and proceeded to wipe out
J all evidence of bis guilt, lie then went
back to the house and awaited the arrival
|of Mr Deering, not expecting that Miss
Dolan would accompany him. As soon as
Mr. Deering arrived in the carriage lie got
! out, and Probst told him something was
wrong with one of the cows, and asked him
ito go over to the barn with him. Mr.
Deering went along with him, and Miss
Dolan went into the house and took oft her
bonnet and furs, Mr. Deering did not even
take effhis gloves before going into the
barn, but proceeded there at once, follow ed
by Probst who had an axe concealed ready
for use. As soon as Mr. Deering entered
the door, Probst slates that he hit him in
the head and fell him to the earth, and
; then chopped at his neck with the edge of
j the axe Miss Dolan was the next and the
last victim. She proceeded to the barn af
ter com ng down stairs and not finding any
[of the family in the l ouse, and Probst
who was in waiting for her treated her as
he had done the rest of the family. After
carrving out the bodies and covering them
up with hay, the murderer went into the
; house and commenced searching for valua
i hies, lie states he got no money, but ex
i pected to secure a considerable amount. —
j He states that Miss Dolai.'s pocket book
1 had vny little in it. He saw nothing
whatever of the two SSO compound inter
est nobs and S2O bill of the same charac
ter, that are missing. Iletemained about
the bouse for some time, picked up the ar
tides found in the black valise, ai d left
about dark. Ilis further movements were
pretty* much as brought out on the trial,
j ar.d whicl) are patent to the minds of the
| whole community Probst states that he
would have confessed to all the murders
j before, but be feared if he did so lie would
I be torn to pieces by the inob.
SECOND DISPATCH.
The confession of Probst is phonograph -
ically reported by the Inquirer. The facts
agree mainly with the report already sent,
lie said he had no thought of committing
the murder at the time of hiring with Derr
ing, but calculated on robbing him of the
monev which lie had seen him counting.
He had never said anything about it to aiv
one. He came to this couutry in 1863, in
the ship Columbus, from Bremen, and nev
er did anything wrong in Germany. His
father and mother are still living at Baden.
He is 24 years old. Ho enlisted twice
and deserted, first in the Forty-first New-
York, and then in the Fifth Cavalry. He
planned every way to get I feel ing's money,
but never had a chance. lie says : "My
first plan was to k 11 him, and get the mon
ey ; I could not get the money in any oth
er way ; I thought of killing them at the
house as they came down in the morning;
1 got the axe sometimes ready for them
when they came down evenings; I got
some good chances, but my heart f riled
me."
After describing the manner of murder
ing Cornelius Carey and Mrs. Peering and
her children, he gives the following expla
nation of the killing of the infants ; " Then
i went over to the house and took Annie
I and told her that her mother w anted to see
her in the stable. She did not say a word.
I took little baby I took it on my arm
The little girl walked along side of me. I
left little baby on the first corner as you go
into the stable, playing on the hay. Then
I went to the same place that I killed the
others; she looked around like for her
mother, who was in the hay ; she did not
say anything ; I knocked her down at the
first blow, and cut her throat same as the
others ; then I went back and got little
I baby, and struck it on the head in the
! same place there ; I hauled them into the
same place.
After describirg the killing of Peering
and Miss Polan, ihe tiend says he took out
Mr. Peering's pocket hook, but only got
! seventeen dollars, including a counterfeit
three dollar note, lie saw nothing in
M iss Dolan's pockotbook but postage
stamps. lie was not lying now. He
thought they had much money. After
! securing other articles, revolver, &c., (aft
j erwards found in his possession,) he wash
jed and dressed himself, putting Deering's
1 clothes on, and then eat some bread and
! butter. The scoundrel frequently laughed
, while detailing his confession of these
, horrible crimes.
s4}" An attempt was made to assassinate
the Czar of Russia, on the lGtli ult. A shot
was fired at him as he was entering his car
riage, but the ball missed its mark. The late
treatment of Poland probably renders a lit
tle tempering of the Russian Government in
that way.
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i "I thi.ik our church will last a good ma
ny years yet,'' said a waggish deacon to
his minister : "I see the sleepers are very
sound." .
A Word or Two with the Toilers or th#
North
Workingmen, it is decidedly "hard sled
ding" now-a-days—the wages of a day, of a
week, seem to melt away like the dew be
fore a mid-summer sun. You break a
greenback ten, it is dissipated, vanishes. —
Dollars are transformed to cents, and your
money seems to go but such a very little
way.
In some places, combinations are being
formed, and increased pay demanded for
labor, for men say, and say truly, that they
must live, and rnechauics and all who sell
the labor of their hands, fight a continual
battle with capital.
And new movements and experiments
constantly arise and ate tested. From the
Mississippi to th* Atlantic shore, thousands
have proclaimed that eight hours must be
considered a fair day's work, but at the
same time they protest against a reduction
of wages, which have doubled and trebled,
in some instances, within the past five
years.
Yet there-is more complaint than ever.
Families once comfortably supported on a
dollar and a half a day, now struggle to
keep "the wolf from the door" with throe
of Mr. Chase's pretexts for dollars.
There is suffering everywhere in the
great cities, and yet as a people,we arcen
joying an apparent prosperity. "We have
had no great financial crisis to press still
harder ir on the laboring classes, as in
1857.
Our western towns are overrun with
young men seeking work, anxious and wil
ling to turn their hands and apply their
brains to almost any honorable avocation,
and vet failing to find the desired employ
ment. They arc white men, however, of
that race w hose fathers fought and strug
gled for seven long years to give their sons
a government and country of their own.
Taxation burdens the people of the eoun
trv and presses hard upon the industrial
classes. I'usiness men are taxed on every
thing they do, or whatever they transact ;
stamps stir k and adhere to all papers,check
and hills.
The numbea and diversity of the taxes
are legion, /"here is hardly a thing that
escapes taxation, and on many articles they
are levied two, three, a half dozen times,
under as many forms and pretexts.
You cannot scratch a match but it will
say "tax" to you, or eat a meal without
paying a tax for the privilege, or wear a
coat until it has been doubled iu cost
through the taxgatlierer's ait.
It is anything but amusing, is it not ?
You realize in all the relations of life, at
home, abroad, in your places of business,
everywhere, that it is a fixed fact from
which you cannot escape this year, the
next, or even during your life.
It is about time you seriously consider
ed why this is the case —why you are to
" groan and sweat under a weary load,''
you and your children after you. It is the
juice you are payiny to make the neyro
your equal —to bring you down to the level
of a servile and interior race—and the
men of the " Rump" Congress, are hourly
riveting your chains tighter and firmer.
They found the negro a useful animal,
adding to the wealth of the country, while
benefitting himself and otheis, they have
converted him into a useless, unproductive
pauper.
Thcv found the countrv at peace—they
gave us war; without debt or taxation—
they gave us hot!) ; pushing on in a career
of boundless prosperity and unlimited gran
deur.thev stopped its progress, and sullied
its glory with blood and havoc.
They found a Union of States, they are
fast transforming-it into a despotism.
Tliev want more war; tliey pant for
battles and slaughter ; they are eager to
look again upon the desperate conflicts of
armed men.
While you, laboring men, are ground
down by taxation; struggling for life and
bread for yourselves and •vivos and little
ones, at the same time you are supporting
a pampered and favored class in idleness
and you lave yot to do it —your masters
have willed it and yon cannot avoid or
dodge the responsibility.
In the State of Georgia there are to-day
for y-three thousand negroes fed at the ex
pense of the Government. They have
been so fed for weeks and months.
In the whole South the number exceeds
four hundred and thirty-four thousand!
The co>t amounts to millions iff dollars
everv month, hundreds of millions yearly
and you;mcchanics and toilers of the North
and West pay the bills. Oh, you are'a
patient, long-suffei ing, dull and willing
people, and your ina-ters at Washington,
as they heap the burden> upon yon, laugh
at your folly and enjoy your humbleness.
Then the bureau agents and government
employees, tax collectors and internal rev
enue commissioners, squeeze from you oth
er millions, living in luxury and ease while
you are crushed to ihe vrry earth.
Day by day as you grub and toil about
vour various occupations, unable to spare
a day, hardly an hour from your labor, the
galleries of Congress swarm with negroes,
listening, with open mouth, and in lazy
attitudes, to the pioceedings, the debates,
and business ot their friends ofthe 'Rump.'
Negroes saunter about the streets, they
101 lin the sun. tliev eat bread wrung by
your L ard toil, and are nightly sheltered
by your bounty. And the same is the case
all over the Southern country.
Yon are pleased that it is so, are you
not? You must be, for you encourage it
by your votes, and continually elect to of
fice those who are determined on degrad
ing white laboring men to t'ie negro race,
and making you the slaves of an aristocra
cy of bond—holders.
A single incident illustrative of the pres
ent condition of atlairs at the South will
suffice. A g utlcman called on Gen. How
ard, of the Freed men's Bureau, a few days
since desirous ot engaging 200 hands to
goto Arkansas, whom he would pay at the
rate of s2operjmonth to men, and $lO to
women, together with food and houses,and
cost of transportation. The General was
willing that the contract should be made,
but the negroes must be free to do as they
pleased. The result was - and it is by no
means strange that it should be so—that
not a man,* woman, or child, would leave
their present happy condition for one of
;_V,~
llow do you like it—liow long do you
intend to continue to support these idlers
—maintain in comfortable laziness these
hundreds of thousands of paupers? War
is over, peace is declared, there is work
enough for the whole of them —there is
not a pretext'to be offered, or a reason ad
vanced, in faror of a longer continuance of
this system. — La Crosse Democrat
A Pair of Patriots.
I will not stultify myself by supposing
that we have any warrant in the Constitu
lion for this proceeding. This talk of re
storing the Union as it was, and under
the Constitution as it is, is one of the ab
surdities that I liave heard repeated until
I have become sick of it. There are ma
ny things which make sueh an event im
possible. Tte Union never shall, with my
consent, be restored under the Constitu
tion as it is.— Thaddeus Stevens.
Let me say that the Constitution of the
United States, as I understand it, exacts
noipassive obedience, and no man who is
not wholly lost to self-respect, and ready
to abandon the manhood which is shown
in the heaven-directed countenance, will
voluntaiily aid in enforcing a "judgment
which, in his conscience, lie solemnly be
lieves to be against the fundamental law.
The whole dogma of passive obedience
must be rejected —in whatever guise it
may assume, and under whatever alias it
may skulk—whether in the tyrannical
usurpation of king, parliament, or judicial
tribunal.— Charles Sumner.
These are the worthies who assert that
the Southern people have no right to be
represented in Congress because they are
not loyal. •
JEST Dr, Cheever, one of the leading
radical disunionists, lately delivered a dis
course before the Anti Slavery Society in
New York in which lie announced the
Republican programme in a bold and out
spoken inar.ner. He takes the ground thai
the right of suffrage is the right of all
christians, irrespective of birth, race, color,
or bearing. He says:
"The test of true Republicanism now is
to HOLD THE NEGRO Ul> AND DISTINGUISH
NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN lIIM AND THE
WHITE MAN. If Republicans cannot do
that, a monarchy is preferable. The ne
gro is our plumb-line of reconstruction. —
Our national coin is base spelter if it is
not virgin gold for the negro. The
Christianity that can't stand this had better
go down."
There you have it in a nutshell. A
Republican, radical, disunion leader openly
prefers a monarchy unless the negro is tal
lowed ail civil privileges, the principal of
which is, the right of suffrage. It is not
often those radical leaders so openly pro
claim their love of monarchy, but in the
case of Cheever, we mnst give him the
credit for having fraukly proclaimed the
designs of the leading men of the Repub
lican party.
! REVENUE STAMP.— The Supreme Couit
of Massachusetts has recently passed
' judgment upon the validity of a deed hav
ing no revenue stamp affixed to it. The
Court considered that the absence of the
1 stamp did not invalidate the deed, and
" questioned whether Congress intended so
to frame the Revenue laws The Court
' was of opinion that a I nited States statute
undertaking to invalidate an instrument
which is valid by the laws of the State
1 would be unconstitutional. The Govern
ment could impose a penalty for not affix
ing the stamp, but could not make tbe in
' strument worthless because the,stamp was
' not affixed.
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' EXEMPT FROM TAXATION —The follow
; ing act passed both branches of the Lcgis
' j lature, and has been signed by Governor
I < hirti.i:
tk That all persons who have been mus
| tered into the military service of the Uni
: | ted States, and have served therein for a
i period of not less than nine months in the
' war to suppress the rebellion, and their
property, and those persons who have
' been discharged from said service, and their
! property and the widows and orphans of
1 ! such persons and their property, shall be
1 i exempt from the payment of all bounty
'! and per capita tax levied for paying houn—
' ties in the several counties of this common
-1 wealth, and such persons shall also be ex
empt from the payment of mili ia fines."
REBELLION IN THE CAMP. —The Phila
delphia Rulletin, (a Republican disunion
t paper) circulates a report to tbe effect,
. that Gen. J. K. Moorhead, has been in
, j Washington, conferring with President
Johnson, as to the best means of defeating
' Geary for Governor This will be a dam
aging movement for Geary, when we con
> sidcr that Gen M. was the most promi
, nent candidate before the late Republican
, vention, and was only prevented fioin se
| curing the nomination for Governor by a
, coalition of all the other factions against
him. llence, he may desire to have re
, vengc.
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B3T Presidvut Johnson, it is said, has
recently got off a pretty tair joke. A Con
-1 neeticut office-seeker closed a recent appli
crtion for office with an inquiry whether
I the breach between the President and Con
gress could not be repaired. The Presi
dent wrote in reply, that he is not so much
in the line of " repairing breeches" as be
| formerly was.
GENERAL CASS. —This veteran states
man now at Lis residence in detroit, is grad
ually sinking, and his friends think he can
not live much longer He is in the 83d
year of his age, Ilis disease is softening of
the brain from years of labor in his coun
try's service. He passes most of his time
. in sleep, and is hut seldom able to converse
j rationally with his family.
The Issue bewteen the Executive and
Congress.
EXETER, May 12, 1866.
The issue between Congress and the
Executive, briefly and precisely stated is
simply this : Congress enacts unconstitu
tional and revolutionary acts which strip
States of local independence, a light le
served in the Constitution, destroy the
very escence of our nationality and tend
to coerce a social miscegenation, a cause
more deplorable than war, famine or pes
tilence.
In view of this disregard of the Consti
tutional limitations for legislative power,
and its consequent evils, the President re
minds Congress of the superior benefi
cence of constitutional rule which has
made this country the home of the op
pressed, the glorious land of civil and re
ligious liberty, and implores it with the
pathos of a patriot not to substitute for
its wise provisions, the feelings and wis
dom of a partisan faction, actuated by
feelings of envy and hate.
It cannot be that any citizen who has a
just idea of his rights under the Constitu
tion of his country — who desires to pre
serve civil liberty for his children —can
hesitate as to his duty, nor fail to be tired
with a just and unappeasable indignation !
Democratic principles based upon the
Constitution, and cations <? constitutional
interpretation cannot change a' iot -
the Constitution remains.
But questions do change. It is not ■
! now a question of interpretation of the |
; Constitution, but a question whether un
written*)igher laws shall erer ride and
nuilitV its plainest provisions at will. Our j
opponents do not construe but defy and
trample on that instrument. I bey claim
the existence of a pure and imperial not,
a constitutional Democracy, where the will
of the multitudes of a section is the sole
higher law.
They seek not merely to narrow the
lines of State rights, and enlarge the limits j
of Federal power hut scoff at and deny ,
j States rights altogether and claim for
I Congress sup'emacy over the States in all
1 cases whatever. Under these grave cir- j
' cumstances it is a crime to offer an oppo- i
| sition based on canons ot constitutional :
, interpretation only.
The real issues, fundamental and essential
| embrace a contest lor the Constitution, as
| the supreme law ; for the I nion iminedi- i
1 ately and unconstitutionally restored, 1
; leaving all other questions to the subse- ;
quent arbitrament and decision ot the '
I States and the people,
i The passage ot the Civil Rights Bill
jis the most, terrible blow to the general .
! piosperity of this country that the i"ge- J
i nuitv ot devils incarnate could originate, j
It simply elevates the negro and prostrates i
i the white man ; that is all and nothing
more, yet what momentous results will
this change produce ? Its passage over
j the President's Veto, and its acceptance
I by the people will encourage Congress in ;
usurpation. The power thus obtained,
will be used for its own aggrandizement.
Its interest, to which principle is yielded,
j will prompt Congress to refuse represen
[ tation, by which its power would he effect
| ually crippled, until the grand object of j
j securing permanent power and rule, is ac
| complished. Once in the possession of
despotic power it is not in their nature to
yield it without a struggle. And to re
gain their Civil Rights it may he necessary
; foi the people <>f the United States to
wade through seas of blood and witness
, those scenes that attended the French
| Revolution. Whether this be the case or
; not it is certain that harmony and security
as a nation, and onr happiness, prosperity
and liberty as individui'ls is secured only
by a strict adherence to the principles ot
the Constitution and all laws enacted in
pursuance thereof.
S. H. S.
l.etter from Mr, C'lymer.
The following letter was ad !ie>sed by
j Mr. Clymer to a committee of citizens
appointed by a meeting held in Sharo",
I Mercer county :
Reading, April 12, 1866.
Gentlmf.ex : I have just received your
j letter of the 9th inst., asking the question
•'whether lam or not in favor of making
a general railroad by the Legislature of
this Commonwealth, somewhat similar to
• that existing in the neighboring State of
i Ohio."
If, after repeated and persistant made
by me during a Long service in the Senate,
to secuie the passage of a general railroad
law, my position on that question is not
understood, 1 fear that nothing I may now
sav will more fully demonstrate it.
| I have been, ain now, and will continue
! to be in favor of a general, free railroad
system for this State, similar to that of
the States of Ohio and New ork ; believ
ing that capital should ever be permitted,
under proper restraints for the protection
j of private property and the rights of indi
viduals, to develop any and every section of
: this State without let or hindrance.
Until the people of this Commonwealth
establish this system, many of the lichest
! and fairest portions thereof, will, for half
a century to come, be deprived of those
means of dev< lopement and intercommu
nication to which at all times they are en
titled, and without which their stores of
j iron, of coal, of Lumber, and of oil, will be
| useless and unprofitable not alone to their
owners, but as well also to the whole peo
ple who are unquestionably most deeply
interested in their prompt developement
and production,
j Very respectfully and truly yours,
Heistek Cltmer.
. _
&W The Old Capitol Prison was offered
' for sale at auction last week. The only bid
offered was 16,00, and the trustees put in
their i eserved bid of $24,000 andkeotit.
Why don't the trustees make Stanton a pres
ent of it for a country residence ? •
The Cincinnati Commercial and New
York Ttmes —both able and influential Re
publican journals—arc strenuously opposed
to the amendment of the "Reconstruction
j Committee" of Fifteen.
Local an<l Personal.
i El I > ! ar, at ,()r, -"' l ho on the tinted add rem
! label attached to this paper, shows the dme to which
as appears on our books, tb. paper has been pei t
for Every subswiher should take an occasional
look at it.
A Dry Spell is upon us, which has been of such
long duration, as to begin to be called a drouth
an unusual occurrence at this season of the jear.
Hoes, without eyes or rivets, anl other farming
tools of the best manufacture at Bunnell A Bana
; tyne's store.
j .
Notice.—The pews in the Methodist Church
will be sold on Monday, ike 2Ut day of May, 1866
at ne o'clock P M. All persons wishing to pur
chase are resjectfully invited ta attend.
Ice Cream of the richest and most delicious
quality can now be had at Mrs. Lease's toy and fan
cy store. We've tried it, an! know whereof wn
speak.
Jack Frost visited this part of the vineyard on
Monday nigh', but so far as we 1 am, did but little
I injury to fruits or vegetables. We notice the weeds
—its only occupants—in our garden look as freeh
! and luxuriant te-lar, as beloro. The early worm,
gets snapped up by the bird,
A Gale of wind occurred at this place on Sun
day last, Dot so violent however as in some other
parts e f our county. We bear of the unroofing of
several barns and of fences being blown down *in
various localities. No damage was done here ex
cept the tearing off a small portion of the roof of
whifwas.no ft.,, bridge— which, considering its
pre-er, ondu. - not a very great calamity to
I the public
The Side which our Borough authori
ties ordained to be laid, by the Ist day of Jurw,
arc hardly yet begun. Many seem to suppose that
the idea of goo 1 walks in this town is a mammoth
'"goak and that the ordinance w.s all for fun.—
We as-ure our readers that tho Town Council are
entirely earnest in the matfer, and that the walks
directed to Le built, can be built by property own
ers at less expense 11 them than by the street Com
missioner. "A word to the wise Ac."
The C ircus at this place on Monlay last called
| together a good!y number of peiplc, though not
near so many as that ot a yeat ago The stock and
fixtures of the concern are good and exhibit a de
! cided improvement since their last visit here. The
| performances, many of them by the same persons,
; were, to our taste ,better than before.
The trained dogs and monkeys advertised, were
j no where to be seen unless they were shown in a
j siic tent containing one monkey, something that re—
! scmbled a scalded whiffet, a nigger wench and two
stupiJ albino nigger girls
Any of our readers afflicted with SCROFULA or
j Scrofulous complaints will do well to read the re
i marks in our advertising columns respecting it,—
I But little ot the nature of this disorder has keen
known by the people, and the clear exposition of it
; there given, will prove acceptable and useful. We
| have long admired the searching and able manner
! in which Dr. Ayer treats every subjec t he touches ;
I whatever has his attention at all, has a great deal
I of it; he masters what he undertakes, and no one
who has a particle < f feeling for his afflicted fel
j low man, tin look with indifference upon his labors
I for the sick. Read what he says of Scrofula, and
see in how lew words and how clearly he tells us
| mora than we all have known of this insidious and
fatal malady.—[Sun, Philadelphia. Pa.
exi'-r ±e dL.
IIOLLEXEACII—LOT T—On the 15th inst, by the
Ber. C. It Lane, Mr. Daniel V. ilollenbach and
Mrs. Pauline Lott, both of Tunkhannock
Special Notice?.
ADMINISTRATOR'S X OTIC E.
Notice is hereby given that letters of AJministra
j ion on the estate of Joseph S. Vaow, late of Fork
j tston Township dee'd., hiving been granted to the
' undersigned ; all per- ns indebted to "said estate,
1 are A quested to mike immediate payment, and
| those having claims ac a inst the same will present
them duly authenticated for settlement without de
, lay. JOHN" G. SPAULDING. Adrn'r.
Forkston, Pa., May 16, 1866.
Orphans' Court Sale.
Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of an
order of the Orphans' Court of Wyoming County,all
the right, title and interest of Jacob Fluram-rfelt in
I bis lit? time, late f Meshopjien township dee'd, in
j an 1 to all that certain tann or lot of land situate in
j Mesh. ippen township aforesaid, bounded North by
; lan iof George Felkir and Jacob Arnts, East
| lan lof Junes Jennings ; South by land of Andrew
j Busfi an I J tcob Decker' and West by land of Rober
Clayton .and George Arnts ; containing about on
i hunlre i and seven a'res. more or loss, will be sol
to the highest bid ler at public vendue. xt the prem
ises above described, on the 9th day of June, 13fi6
. at 1 o'clock, P M.
JOHN FLUMMERFELT. Adm'r.
NOTICE
IS hereby given that I have teeently purchased
the farm iqion which Miles A. Sickler resides,
"; in Overfield Tp*, which witlftil the personal proper
| ty- horses, wagons, eowr, bogs, bees, farming utea
'si Is, household '""-n'ture Ac. on said larin, lately
; pure!- i-e lat Sheriff's sale, I have left in the poJ
scsstou of the s .id Miles A Siekler to be kept by
1 him during my pleasure* All persons are forbid
molesting, purchasing or in any way interfering with
said property, as they will do so at thetr peril.
FI LLER SICKLER
j Falls, April 16, 1866. vsn3g4t.
EXECUTRIX' NOTICE,
Letters testamentary on the estate of William
Fitch, late of Northmoreland Township Wyoming,
j County, aee'd., having been granted he undersign
ed ; all persons having claims against said estate
, are requested to present the same, duly authentica
ted for paytneut, and all persons indebted to said
estate will please make payment without delay te
, Northmoreland Pa., ) SARAH D, FITCH,
April 10th 13gg. j Executrix.
von3s6w.
STRANGE, BUT TRUE.
Every young lady and gentleman in the United
, i States can hear something very much to their adran
| tngo by return moil (free of charge), by addressing
i the uadersigned. Those having feais of being hum
bugged will oblige by not noticing this card. All,
' others will please address their obedient servant,
THOS. F. CHAPMAN,
831 Broadway, New Terk
rsn2l-lyear S. M. P. A Co.
ERRORS OF YOUTH.
A gentleman who suffered lor years from Nenrons
Dobility, Premature Decay, and all the effects cf
youthful indiscretion, will for the sake of suffering
humanity, send free to ail who need it, the recipe
j and directions for making the simple remedy by
. which he was cured Sufferers wishing to profit by
i tho advertiser's experience, can do so by addressing
JOHN B. OGDEN,
No. 13 Chambers St., New Fork.
vsn2l-lyear. — S M. P. A Co.
NORTH BRANCH HOTEL,
MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA
WM. H. CORTRIGHT, Prop'r
HAVING resumed the of the above
Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to
. i render the house an agreeable place ol sojourn for
f .11 who may favor it with their custom.
" Wm. II CORTRIGHT.
June, 3rd, 1863