~ ifljc jpraocrat,
HARVEY SICKLER, Editor.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA
Wednesday, May 23, 1866.
FORGOVERNOR^
181. IEISIEH CEYHES,
OF .BERKS.
TH El DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Tha Democracy of Pennsylvania in Convention
met, recognizing a crisis in the affairs of the Re
public, and esteeming the immediate restoration of
th Union paramount to all other issues, do re
solve :
1. Thnt the States, whereof the people were late
ly in rebellion, are cntegral parts of the Union, and
are entitled to representation in Congress by men
duly elected who benr true faith to the Constitution
and Laws, and in o.der to vindicate the uiaxtin that
taxation without representation is tyranny, such
representatives should be forthwith admitted.
2. That the faith of the Republic is pledged to
r the payment of the National debt, and Congress
should pass all laws necessary tor that purpose.
!!. That we owe obedience to the Constitution of
the United States (including the amendment prohib
iting s'avery,) and under its provisions will aceoM
to those emancipated all their rights of person and
propert-y.
4 . That each State has the exclusive right to
regulate the qualifications of its own electors.
5. That the white race alone is entitled to the con
trol of the tiovemment of the Republic, and we are
unwilling to grant to negroes the right t vote
g. That fho bold enunciation of the principles of
the Conslitution and the policy of restoration con
tained in the recent annual message and freeduien's
barcau veto message of President Johnson entitle
biui to the confidence and all who respect
the Constitution and love their country.
7 - Toat the nation owes to the brave men of ur
aru.ies and navy a debt of lasting gratitude for
their heroic service, in defence of the Constitution
and the Union ; and that while we cherish with
tender affection the memories of tho fallen, we
pledge to widows and orphans the nation's
eare and protection.
S. That wo urge upon Congress the duty of equal
isin r the bounties of our soldiers and sailors.
Tbad. Stevens, who is now so bit
ter against 4i rebels," was, not many years
since, equally bitter agains Freemasons.
At one time he was as demoniacally deter
mined on the annihilation of the Masonic
Order as he is at present to wipe out the
Southern people, lie then struck as furi
ously at the Masonic Temple of Liberty.
He failed in putting down the superstruc
ture of Masonry, and he will fail in making
a wreck of the Union.
The House Committee on Elections
hnvc taken such action as is believed will
result in their reporting against thr seat of
that sterling Democrat, John L. Dawson,
of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania District.
The Committee will report in favor of De
land, of Ohio, but then the latter is a Re
publican, and that makes ail the difference.
—. .
Mr. Miller, a radical member of the
Harrisburg District of Pennsylvania, in his
recent speech in the House, urged his co
laborers to hurry up their business as this
might be the last Republican Congress that
would meet for some time, if ever.
THE Cusr.—The hospital records, which
have just been footed up, shows the ener
iu>uis aggregate of 250,000 Union soldiers
to have died on battle fields and in hospit
nis during the war to suppress the rebellion.
This does not include those who died at
their homes of lingering diseases contract
ed in the service.
DEMOCRATIC VICTURT. —On Friday last
the municipal election took place in Scran
ton, Ponn , and resulted in a brilliant l)-m
ocratic victory. Last year the Disunion
i>!s carried that borough bv a majority of
about -one hundred and fifty, showing a
gain for the Democracy in twelve months
of seven hundred votes.
JC3T The Post office Department has
issued orders to discontinue the delivery of
the mails at an early day at all offices in
.South Carolina,and perhaps in other States
where there are no regularly appointed
and commissioned postmasters. The Gov
error of South Carolina recommends the
selection at those places of such as can take
the oath.
t Jen Hanks, Representative in the
Rump from Massachusetts, declared, the
other day, that it is the intention of the
Republican party to impose negro suffrage
upon the whole crvtintrv. He said the or.ly
reason the matter is deferred is because the
people are not sufficiently Republicanized
yot.
Twelve boys, most of them of re
spectable parents, have recently been ar
rested in Binghampton, charged with set
ting fire to buildings iu that place for the
past several months.
Troops are being sent from Canada
to tlie West Indies. The thirteenth regi
ment. now in garrison at Montreal, will
soon depart for Jamaica.
No less than seven different Com
missioners are now,or soon wil\ be,engaged
in investigating the lacts relative to the re
pent riots in Memphis.
A convention is to be held in Bos
ton, on the sth of June, to consider the
pioblem of ths training and reformation of
vagrant children and juvenile criminals.
Jeffereon Davis has been indicted
by the Grand Jury, in session at Norfolk,
ot treason. llis trial, it is now supposed
w ill take place ia June.
The Democraey, and Johnson Re
publicans of Indiana have made a fashion
against th* Disunionists.
The Directory of Fifteen,
[From tho Nw York Time* of the Ist instant.)
The Joint Committee on Reconstruction,
so called, has finally ventured to promul
gate a plan tor the settlement of sectional
difficulties and the restoration of hairaony
to the ?7nion. It is in the shape of a con
stitutional amendment, with a couple of
bills which Congress is asked to enact :
The scheme would seem sweeping enougli
to satisfy the most exacting Radical. It
could hardly be much more sweeping, in
deed, unless it provided for wholesale con
fiscation and the extermination or banish
ment of the Southern people. It requires
the State to affirm the equality of whites
and blacks in the eye of the law, in all that
pertains to life, liberty, and property.
As a plan of pacification and reconstruc
tion, the whole thing is worse than a bur
lesque, It might be styled a farce, were
the couutry not in the midst of a very
serious drama. Its proper disignation
would be 44 A plan to prolong indefinitely
the excltisiou of the South fiom Congress,
by inposirg conditions to which the South
ern peopfc never will submit." This being
the obvious scope and tendency of the
proposition, we are bound to assume that
it clearly reflects the settled purpose of the
Committee. So that the Joint Committee
appointed nearly five months? ago to take
exclusive chaige of the question of recon
stiuction now otter as the result of all their
labors what would in fact render reconstruc
tion forever impossible.
There is an anomalous feature in the
affair as it stands which of itself reveals
the monstrous nature of the pretentions set
up by the Committee, All the provisions
of the proposed amendment imply the adop
tion of the extreme view in regard to the
relation of the South to the Union. We
must begin by assuming that what were
States before the war are mere Territories
now ; or this attempt to dictate terms as
the condition of recognition becomes undis
guised usurpation. We must assume, in
fact, that the South is at this moment nei
ther more nor less than an aggregate of
Territories, waiting for admission as States,
and from whose people Congress may there
fore require compliance with certatn pro
posals. And vet the amendment, on its
face, declares the existence, as Srates, of
all the States recently in rebellion, and
presupposes the exercises by their several
Legislatures of the highest constitutional
attribute of State sovereignty. They have
no right to representation in Congress,
forsooth. They may not say yea or nay on
the most trival question that come before
Congress Thev are not permitted to enjoy
a particle of influence in matters affecting
the finance, the trade, the industry, the
foreign relations of the country, or any of
its concerns, great or small. I hese privi
leges they are denied on the pretence that
they me not within the Union, and there
for have no right to recognition as parts
of the Union. Nevertheless, under the
contenqvated araendmvi.t, they are treated
as sovereign States, whose ratification of
the amendment is essential to its constitu
tional validity. They are to vote for or
against a change in the Constitution of the
Union, of which, on the Kadieal hypothe
sis, they are riot at present members! —
Could atanrdity go further ? Could the
folly of this fanaticism be made more man
ifest ?
From the dilemma into which the Com
mittee have thus plunged there is no logi
cal escape. If the Southern States are in
a condition by their Legislature to ratify
or reject a Constitutional Amendment, they
must of necessity be qualified to send Sen
ators and Representatives to Co igr*ss,
subject only to the judgment of either
House as to the eligibility of the persons
sent. A State which may assist in the
sovereign task of moulding the Constitu
tion under which Congress acts.tnay surely
demand a voice in what the Constitution
creates. The greater right covers the
lesser right, in this as in othpr ea*s. On
the other hand, if the' Southern States are
not entitled to admission to Congress —if
the point be established, as the Radical
doctors say it is, that these are States no
longer, but Territories only, subject to
the will of the conqueror—then it follows
that they are not entitled to any lot or
part in the business of amending the Con
stitution. Upon, which horn shall the
"Central Directory"'be impaled ? Shall we
take it that this prodigious amendment—
this mighty mouse brought forth bv a
mountain after five months parturition
does not mean what it savs when it spe <ks
of the States lately in rebellion as States
still, their sovereign furctions unimpaired,
thought for the tira<' interrupted ? Or shall
we conclude that the doctrine of subjuga
tion given up. and tho criminal blunder of
which the Radicals have been guilty, in
excluding the South from Congress, at
length confessed ? Let there be explicit
answers upon these heads of the subject
Aa it at present appears,the position of the
Committee is utterly untenable.
Aside from these points, the worthless
ness of the Committee's proportion is oh
▼ious. It cannot bv anv possibility effect
anything. We may confidently take it for
granted that the people of the South will
never, under any circumstances, acquiesce
in their own disfranchisement for four
years, in reference to aUK hat relates tothn
Federal Government. There is room for
difference of opinion on the general merits
of the reconstruction problem; on this
point there can he none. The South has
taken its stand on the ground of a common
citizenship, and it will never accept as the
price of Congressional representation, that
which would he equivalent to an acknow
ledgment of fonr years' serfdom, or infe
riority, as the penalty of rebellion. Nor
I should it be asked to accede to terms of
this nature. Punish the rebel leaders, if
necessary, by banishment or otherwise
But to propose to punish a whole people to !
suit the partisan convenience of those who !
dictate the penalty is an outrage upon
justice and common humanity. With all
their errors and faults, the Southern people
have shown that tbev arc not cowards.— i
They will not belie their nature by writ- 1
ing themselves down slaves, at the bidding
of a Committee appointed to consider the
question of reconstruction.
If wt would do ought to hasten the re- 1
suit which ail moderate men admit to be
•vceedingly denrahle, it is oeaessary with
out more ado to discard the ideft of consti
tutional changes as the condition precedent
of the re-ad mission of the South to Con
gress. That is the primary step toward
reconstruction, practically considered, and
we should be prepared to take it on the
ground of existing rights, subject only to
the lawful test of individual fitness. To
talk of wholesale and almost indiscriminate
punishment as a preliminary measure —to
call for concessions implying the relation of
supplicants petitioning for favors, instead
of citizens insisting upon 'heir rights—to
demand a confession of intei iority with one
breaih, while with another admitting the
existence of constitutional equality —is to
aggravate feelings already much too bitter,
ar.d to rauiiply difficulties which the Joint
Committee have thus far vainly endeavor
ed to overcome.
For the last f.>ur or five years, the
country has been as-tired by the organs of
the Republican party, that any one who
opposed the measures of the Administra
tion was a traitor, and worthy a traitor's
doom. To " support the Government"
was declared to he trie duty of the citizen ;
and this support of the Government nmant
a blind acquiescence in even thing the Pres
ident might choose to do. No matter what
new proclamation President Lincoln might
issue, or what course he took it into his
head to pursue, everylrody must approve
it, or he consigned to some military prison.
We always considered the doctiine as only
fit for cowards and slaves, but it was the
creed, of the Radicals. Now, however, we
have a right to hold them to their ovn
principles ; and unless they wore hypo
crites and liars during Lincoln's adminis
tration, they ought, every mau of them, to
go to the Penitentiary. Opposition to the
Administration is treason to the Govern
ment. So the fanatics have declared. 44 1
thank thee, Jew. for teaching me that
word."
MORE AMENDMENTS, —In view of the
fact that the Abolitionists in Congress have
proposed some fdghty add amendments to
the Constitution, a facetous fellow, in Ken
tnekv, offers the annexed amendments for
the consideration of the Constitution tink
ers :
1. Every 'freedman shall hav a bureau
for bimseif, with a looking glass on the top
of it, it he hkes.
2. Every freedman shall have a secreta-
Ty
3. Every freed boy or girl shall have a
wardrobe.
A. Every freed child shall have every
thing it cries for
5. White people, whether free or not,
must behave themselves.
6. All people of every color, except red,
must vote. —i>.
A Blasphemous Old Scoundrel.
When ihe Disunion patch for the Con
stitution was being ranted upon in the.
Kmnp House, on the 10th inst.. by Thad
Stevens. Mr. Thayer, or Pehnsylvania,
a-ked him '* whethe" he thought lie could
build a penitentiary big enough to hold
e glit mdlions of people ?" Stevens imme
diately replied :
"Yes sir. That penitentiary which is
guarded bv bayonets down below and if
' they undertake to come back we will shoot
them. The penitentiary of kr/l is the pen
itentiary that they deserve to have till
1 then V
" That penitentiary down below" has
certainly had more bars, bolts, bayonets
and sulphurous dungeons added to it bv
the old rcp.-obate from Lancaster (we beg
pardon—trom Yeim<>nt)than by any Aboli
tion traitor who ever disgraced the old
Keystone. He :s about fit to build peni
tentiaries for the devil, and nothing else.
The remainder of Thad s "speech" was
largely made up of the same kind of dirty
stuff, which passes curient among the weal
thy, talented, and respectable" people of
th "grand moral idea party in the interest
of God and humanity," as "patriot 'c elo
quence." Oh, shame ! Alas, tor the days of
decency, of he nest v, of patriotism, of states
manship, of m >desty, of virtue, of sobriety,
j and of godliness. — Put. <t Union.
READ. —Hottest conviction is my conr
! age, the Constitution is my guide —An
-1 drew Jofn-son.
Such usurpation two cent..rics ago wo'd
i have cost an English King his h ad.— T.
| Stereos.
Is it usurpation to stand between the
! people and the encroachments of power?
; Men may talk about usurpation and be
heading, hut when I am beh< aded I want
the American people to be the witnesses.
i —Andrew Johnson.
j There are earthquakes beneath us and I
I dare not yield— Thaddeus Stereni.
Yes, fellow-citizens, there is an earth
quake coming; there is a ground swelling
of popular judgment and indignation.—
The American people will speak, and, by
their instinct it not otherwise, they will
know who are their friends and who are
1 their enemies — Andrew Johnson.
The Delight.
Oh, never in the world beneath,
Or in the world above.
Did printer hear sweet sounds of bliss—
Dear tones of heavenly love,
More thrilling to his inmost soul,
As when with kin Iv glance,
A patron says, "Oh ! bless your heart!'
I'll pay you in advance P*
Especially for an advertisement.
A Catholic Seminary is about to be
erected in Philadelphia for the education of
Cat holic priests. Accommodations will be
mnde for 300.
In the conspiracy rewards. Detec
tive Bad'-r is down for onlv $3,9.50. If b
said he estimates his services at $55,000
and calculated to receive that amount.
-
fW Our loyal friends used to talk a
great deal about the " boys in blue; hut
now all their gab and capital seems to be
invested in the boys in black— the nigger
d* Raohael Semtnea has been elected
Judge of the Probate Court of Mobile,
Alabama.
A REMARKABLE SUICIDE.
Tue Pretended Assassin or President Lin
coln, Starves Himself to Death.
He Tastes Food but Five Times in
Forty Days.
A DETERMINED MAN.
, CINCINNATI, May 11, 1866.
Sterling King, known throughout the
war as a reb'l spy and bearer of dispatches,
with the rank of Col., was born in England,
in 1884. and weile yet a boy came with his
parents to this country,' and fouud a per
manent home near Richmond, Va lie
received a very good coliegiate education,
and studied and practiced law in Richmond.
Up n the inauguration of the rebellion he
was among the first to enlist as a private
under Stonewall Jackson. Badly wound
ed in an engagement the first year, and
distinguished for reckless courage, lie was
soon promoted to a Colonelcy and detail
ed to act as a spy. under oidcrs from the
reb-l Executive.
In this capacity he traveled through the
North, managing, as he brought experience
to the aid of natural abilities, to work suc
cessfully in securing passe*, passing the
lines, and pr>-curing information useful to
the Southern eau-e. He mad- trips thro'
all the Northern and Eastern States, to Cu
ba, Panada, and even to Europe.
He several times had business in this ci
ty, and one occasion occupied a small office
near the Soldiers'-Ilorae, on 3d street,
where, under the guise of a claim agent, he
occupied himself, during siveral week:-, in
collecting from the inmates of the House
statistics as to the strength and location of
all the regiments represented by those in
hospital.
He was folly acquain.ed with all the
business of the rebel mail service, ami was
at one time employed in selecting men and
routes for that business. A couple of years
since he was captured here, arid imprison
ed as a spy He was promised a release
if he would reveal the whereabouts of cer
tain rebel agents, but lie refused and said
he intended to escape with his own bands
and di I effect it.
Coming to this city about 3 months a<ro,
lie hired a horse for the purpose of eoing
to Louisville. At that place he sold the
horse and wagon, was recognized and ar
rested a a horse thief He was placed in
jail to await the requisition of Gov. Cox of
Ohio, and then told the st'Tv that it was
he, and not B >oth, who assassinated Lin
coln. He hoped, by telling this story, to
induce the authorities to take him to Wash
ington, where he would be libei ated, and
so escape both changes.
In this he failed, and then he attempted
to commit suieide bv severing an artery in
the right arm (already published in the
Mo NITOR) in which he also failed.
But the resolution to die wis not to be
thus conquered. He ceased to eat of any
thing that would feed th- fire ol life, which
soon began to wane ; and tiler, day after
dav. grew more feeble.
In forty days tins man taste# food but
five times, and all that he ate in that entire
time did not amount to one full dinn -r for
a hungry man. Kapidlv his fiesli h- gan to
disappear, and the bones of limbs that coM
b<* easily spanned with the hand, grew hor
ribly prominent. He Ceased to walk or to
stand ; be only reclined, breathed,
and refused to eat. He was tol I
that the requisition from the Gov. of
Ohio could leach him at a ecitain time.
He wanted to die—not in :he ja.l at Louis
ville, but out somewhere where he could
breathe the pu'e air and see nature once
more. And so this living skeleton coo Jv
calculated the length of time he had vt to
live, and finding that if he did not eat lie
would die too soon, he took some soup.b end
and preserves —five times, as already men
tioned.
Day before yesterday Detective Haz n
reached bis prison, produced the requisition
took King up as though he were a child, and
conveyed lum to the carriage, and thence
to a berth on the mail boat.
H* then endeavored ft) induce him to fat;
but Kiriir. in a voice scare Jv audible, said :
" Mr. llaxcn, if you will promise me to
make such arrangement as willliable me to
compromise this matter, I will commence
eating to-day, Mr. Ilazen could not prom
ise this, and the dying man shook ),j s | iea ,|
and refused the food.
He calculated that he had three days to
iiv", which would enable him to get to Cin
cinnati and settle up his little affairs; but
at about 2 o'clock yesterday morning, a lit
tle after the boat reached the lauding here,
the death-rattle sounded in his throat, and
the detective found him dead.
The jury called by Coroner Carey yes
terday, rendered a verdict of suicide by
starvation.
We understand that deceased lias friends
and relatives m Bowling Green Ky.
The Memphis Riot.
We gave, last week, a short account of
the second days riots in Memphis, between
the negroes and the white citizens. Accord
ing to the best information we have, these
terrible riots, resulting in loss of life and
property, were begun bv the negroes wear
ing United States uniforms. The radical
disunion press, however, attempt to throw
the responsibility solely upon the white cit
izens, claiming fur them a hitter hatred to
the negroes. If the dianiiioni>tß>' storv be
correct, it but adds to the deplorable condi
tion of affairs, resulting from the abolition
war for the benefit of the negro. No such
hatred as that represented existed before
the war ; no such scenes were enacted.—
The negroes and the whites got along very
well then Now, if the negroes are the in
stigators or beginners of these riots, it is in
consequence of the encouragement and
teachings ot the mongrelists of the North.
If the white citizens are the leaders, it. is
for causes arising out of the same devilish
spirit that urged on th* ward of John
Brown. In either ease, the real blame at
taches to the Northern Infernals, and only
proves that so far from benefitting the ne
gro, injury is the only result to both white
and black.
tW Judge A bell, of the First District
Court of New Orleans, has declared the
fjvil Rights bill to be unconstitutional.
The Care aud Condition of Jefferson Davis,
Fortress Monroe, May 14
It is understood, as tlie result of Mr.
McCnlloch's visit, that President Jolmson
has directed the suigeon of the Fort to j
raakr a special report of the health of Mr. !
Davis, it is said that, during the past y*ar, 1
the tramping of the guards atound his cell ,
has prevented him from enjoying, at any ;
one time, more than two hours' unbroken !
sle-'p, and that his health is tailing. He !
expressed extreme pleasure when the news
of his indictment reached .him. confident
that speedy action in his case woul l s<on
follow. •
Immediately on the adjournment of th"*;
U. S. Circuit Coutt in Norfolk, on Tlmrs
dav last, J edge Underwood left for Wash- j
ington. The various attaches of the press)
endeavored in vain to obtain permission to 1
copy it, the Clerk of the Court, acting nn- j
der the peremptory orders of Judge Under- ;
wood, positively refused to allow any one j
to sec it.
THE INDICTMENT.
Philadelphia, May 15, 1860,
A special dispatch to the Lt<h)*-r of tlii-;
city, from Washington, nceived at mtd
ii glir, says :
The indictment found 1 st week, at Nor
folk, against J eft'rson Davis, recites that;
In* did, on the 15th of June, IBfD, in tl.e j
ci:y of Richmond, wi h force and arms, un- !
lawfully, falsely, maliciously, and traitor- j
onsly compass, imagine and intend to raise !
lew and carry on war, insurrection and re- i
bellion against the United states, and in 1
order to fulfill and carry into effect his trai
torous designs, he and a great multitude of
persons, whose names arc at present un
known, armed and arrayed it: a warlike
manner, did falsely and traitor usly assent .
ble and gather themselves together against J
the U. S., and did in a warlike, hostile and :
traitorous :: an.ier a< mv and dispose tie m 1
selves against the United States of America j
contrary to the duty, allegiance and fidelity j
of said JefF.-rson Davis,and aga list the Con- j
stitution, peace, dignity and Government
of the T. 8., and against the form of t l, e
statute of theU.'S. in such cases provided.
A 1 Jack duck—Charles Sumner. A
lame duck —Thad, Stevens. A dead duck
—John \V. Forney. Wou> d*d ducks -
Po-tmasiers. R' venue Colic.- Os and As
ses-ors, and Federal office holders, genet
ally.
Fort Goodwin, Arizona, lias Veen
taken ly the. Indans, and the garrison!
numheiing 124 men massacred, and the j
fort burnt. Will 'hose who are in control !
of the affairs of Government a.low such j
outrages to be continually perp-trat d.while !
their entire attention is occupied with ;
worse than useless legislation ?
tW The property of Ex-Governor Ai- '
ken, of South Carolina, lias been restored 1
to him upon the recommendation of Gen. !
Sickles.
It is believed that two-thirds of the staff!
officers now in the Federal service will be-1
discharged ia the course of a few eUys.
A large meeting of th friends of Pt esi
I
d. Nt Johnson was liedd at • cmle rland.Md..
on .Saturday evening. Addre-ses were d- !
livcred be lion. M ontgoinerv R'air and
Capt. Frank Gallagher of Baltimore.
Special Nfitice^.
CAUTION
Mv wife Emetine having left mv bed and hoard j
without just c 'use or provocation this i? to fnrbi 1 all
persons h .rb..rin< or tru'tine her on my account,
as I pay no debts of her contracting.
EMERY HINKLEY.
Nicholsox, May lgfh, lSgg
vsn4l2w.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Notice is hereby siven that letters of A im'nistra
tion on the estate if Joseph S. Vnow. late of Eork
ston Township der'd , hiving been granted to the |
undersigned j all irs"ns indebted to -aid estate. j
are rquested fV make immediate pavmen'. and j
those hiving elmins against the same will present
them duty authenticate i for seUlemont without de-
Jay. JOHN G. BPAULDIXG. Adin'r.
Forkston, Pa , May 16, 1866.
Orphans' Court Sale.
Noti.-eJs hereby given that, in pursuance of mo
order of the Orphans' Court of Wyoming Ciuntv.all
the right, title an i iii'er-st of Ja.-oh Flu mm rfelt in
his life time, la'e f M<sbop|>en township dee'd, in
an I to all that certain farm or lot of Intel situate in '
Meshoppen township afo-esaid, bounded N 'rth by |
lan lot George Felkir and Jaeoh Aril's, Rast by
land of James Jennings ; tvm'h by tan t of Andrew
Bush an t Jacob Dockor' and Wesr'by lan I of Roiier
Clayton and George A ruts ; containing abou on
hundred and seven acres, more or less, wilt be sol
to the highest biiter at pubti-i vendue.st the prem
ises above described, on the 9th day of June, IBq<j
at 1 o'clock, P M.
JOHN FLI'MMERFKLT. Adin'r
EXECUTRIX' NOTICE,
Letters testamentary on the estate ot William
Fitch, late of Notthuioreliind Township Wyoming
County, uee'd., having been granted uud -sig..-
ed ; alt persons having claims against said estate
are requested to present the same, duty authentica
ted tor payment, and alt persons indebted to said
estate will please make payment without delay to
Nortbinorel niu l'a., } SARAH D, FITCH,
April 10th 1866- > Executrix.
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TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.
At Steriingvilte, at.lo A. M, M-iy sth 1866.
" FactoryriiU, " " " 13th "
" Northmoreland. " " " 15th "
' Red School house Monroe, " lgth "
" Mehoopany, •• ,l " " 17th •'
" . Jenningsville * " " " 13<h "
" Nicholsor, J •' " " 221 "
'• Laceyv'lle, " " *• 29th "
" Tunkbaonock, " *' '* " 25th "
•' " *' 9 •' June lOih for the
Usuing of professions! certificates to those deserving
W.LAMONTE, Co Sup't. i
Tnnkhatinoek. May, Bth ISfjg
Locftl and Personal*
"Ice Cream,*' words which strangely
considering the weather for the put f, w day* _!
Ono dny last week whoa the' thermometer stood a
little above the freezing point,- w were invited to
partake of some very fine Ice Cieatn at Stemple'a
Saloon. We accepted the invitation and "partook."
When the out John propoaea to make'
enough to supply the town. Lovera of this dalicioaa
crea my dish shoald not fail to call and Wf if,
Schools.--Are we to have any schools T * Who
are our school Directors? Where are they 7 What
is done with school taxes? What about our magnifi
cent munifiecut system of education, which coats the
tax-payers of the State, bait a million yearly 1—
Has it simmered down to sixty da, s annual "Mhoo?
keeping" oy some simpering half-witted miscl
No answer expected.
Ivqcibi*
New Bakery.—The Landaeur Brothers, from
Scranton, have established a bakery on Bridge
street, below F. M Buck's Grocery, where our citi
zens can be furubhed at all times with Bread, Bis
cuit, Ri.sk, Rolls, Cakes and Pies of the fioet quali
ty, at live and let live prices. Such an establish
ment has long been needed at this place, and our
citizens shoui I ahov their r ppreciatiou of it by •-
feuding f< it their pa^onago
The Bridges across th* canal in* town are dis*
graceful to somebody and dangerous to everybody
We ure not uiu.h iufavor of a canal without water
lut would prefer it to su h insemre dilapidated',
bridges. We move to move the canal or mora tie
c rial company in the matter of repairing their
bridges* Who seconds the motion
John P Oetrrhout Esq,, formerly of this
County, but for several years fast a resident of
Texas is a candidate, without opposition, for the
position of President, or Chief Justice, of the Coun
ty of Austin. John is a ' reconstructed" rebel ; and
surrenders gracefully to the powers that be.
f Jitrographlr— p r ,f c. D Blakeslee, lata af
in un a Commcri-i.ii College, N. Y. is securing a
clsss which he proposes to instruct in plain and er
biimetital penmanship As far aa we can judge,
then* is great room for improvement in this art,
.inning all classes of our people. We have many
graceful and elegant, dancers among us, but few
graceful an 1 elegant writers Both are desirable ac
complishes* nts— the latter, the more useful. Cer
tainly no one should neglect to acquire a neat and
legible style of writing. From specimens exhibited
to us we judge Mr. B. is master of the art. He is
certaiDly the tallest specimen of a teaeher we have
ever seeu
Terms $2, <pr twelve lessons.
Go in Boys and Girls. •
In Luck.— Edward Provost Esq., living near
Russell Hill in this County, met with an extraordi*
naty streak of good luck in getting a span
ht rst s on Sunday night of this week, shortly aft
er retiring and before his daughter bad gone to
steep, he was aroused by her, and teld that two
uicn, who drove past the bouse, a short distance,
with a team, had stopped, left their team, and had'
come buck past the house and gone to his barn.—
Provost made a hasty visit to the barn and
found them, with one of his horses out of the stall
and auoihcr nearly out. Of course he vetoed this
transaction, and the rogus—we think we are safe
in thus calling thiiu so—made a hasty retreat in ad
opposite direction from their or somebody vise's
team After firing a gun to add to the fright he
ha I given them, and securing his horses, he took
jwse-sion of the abandoned teim which he found
had been kindly fed with hay by their drivers. A
fine, large, well m itched span of dark, chestnut
colored horses, with white feet, aud white in face.
Ml her old in years and apparently roadsters—with
! a tend colored light spring two horse truck wagon,
| harness an I fixtures complete Two satcbsls were
f.rnn i in the wagon, neither of which contained
' much of value, or anything to identify the owners
except a valentine, which was a rose-scented, g lt
e.lged, rcd-envelo|d, sDoarmoas billet-doux, ad
dressed to Alonzo D. Ilorton. Muinesburg. Tioga
Co. I'n. -pos'-raarked Covington Pa.. Fab. lfth,
Fe mention this, that the writer whoever
she i.e. may know bow basely her gentle Alonto
I treated her l.vi-lines by running awiy and leaving
thein near "d irk hollow," to be captured ana afford
foo 1 for criti -ism and gossip, by an un-ympathit
in? pu tic ; and that Alonzo. who it seems does not
e >re much for h rses and wagons, nay call and
get his satchel, by proving property, payiag
charires Ac.
M arried.
BRADFOED —PROPER— In Factoryvilie, on the
20th inst. by Rev N. Duolittle, Mr. John F.
Bra Iford of Bailey Hollow to Carrie M. Proper
Of Factoryvilie.
Died.
SHUPP— On the lgth inst. of Abraham
Shupp, aged 73 years and 26 days.
' WELCH In Tuokbonnork on Sunday 20th inst
Ricbard Welch, aged 83 years, g mon'hs and
20 days.
The deceased was born in Penbury, Kent County,
England, where he grew up to oianb iod and mar
ried. In lb 17. haviug lost his wife, he, with two
,, onfl —jbe e!i;esi lets iban five years old— emigr tied
to this country. I.miing at or near Philadelphia,
I where ho lived for two years. In 1819 he pasted
i through this regi m— then almost an unbroken Wil
| -ieniess—on toot, to Silver Lake, in Susquehanna
;Co He returned to the city, as he came, and rn
: moved with his two hoys, to this place—at that
r:Mi . mpls'ng but four dwellings-where, or in
v ;y, aa haew-r sines lived — loved, honored
and ies{iected as an iudustrious honest and upright
man. His two sons, of which Richard J. i< the
blest, survive him. Ilis remains wsre deposited in
the Ma ivy lamily burying ground, where rests the
dust of those noble pioneers —those stern men of
trying times, with whom he associated nearly fifty
years ago two genoMtious of whom he had followsa
with tearful eyes to their last resting place.
BILLINGS -Mrs Huldah E. Billimgs,' wife ef
Paul Billings, died April 30, ißjjg, aged 32 jean,
j g months and 3 days
I No better obituary of the deceased ia needed ita
this community ibau to say, here she lived anJ here
i she died, respected nod luvea by all who knew her,
' Religiously she was converted in 1854, and became
a member of the M. E. Church soon after. In that
oouimumoti she lived nad died, a consistent and.
worthy christian Her last moments were peaceful,
yeu. triumphant. She was married to Paul Billings
in January 1855. with whom she lived happily uotil
| death u**h>osed the silver cords For a few months
previous to her death, this excellent women was a
g eat sufferer, but she bore all with christian forti
tude, and g'oriously triumphed in the death strug
gle. She bis left a kind husband, and two little
< cherub children to mourn her loss.
Jf. F. WILIPK.
HEWITT — Mrs Arn A. Hewitt, wtfr of Decatur
Hewitt, uied May Ist, 1866, Aged 19 y*r, 10
months, and 22 days
The deceased bid fair for a Log '•. hut her
prospects were suddenly blasted. Disease accom
plished its work speedily, but death did not find her
unprepared for his col l embraoe. She experienced
religion in the Fall of 1861 j but like many otkef
persons of her tender age, was lured from the path
of strict religious reotitude, although she never lost
her relish for (he duties of a religious life. In No*
i vernber 18g5, she was marrietf and lived n happy
bride lor the few months intervening between that pe
riod ind her death. She loaves a very kind hus
band to mourn her loss, and very many friends *UO
will teel the sadness of spirit incident to the loss ef
suck an amiable friend.
J. F. Wiuum