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RM.AW EWTTLE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Office ou Tioga street, TunkiiaunockPa- HS, COOPER, PHYSIC TAN A SURGEON • Newton Centre, Luzerne County Pa. GEO. S.TUTTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Tunkhonuoek, Pa. Office n Stark's Brick eck, Ttoga street. WIK. M. PIATT. ATTORNEY AT LAW, 0 Ice in Stark's Brick Block Tioga St., Tunk annock, Pa. &JRR FFCTFLIC HOUSE, H ARKIBBUHG/ I'EN N A. Tire undersigned having lately pun hased the " BVEHLKR HOUSE " property, has already com menced such alterations and improvements as will render this old and popular House equal, if not supe rior, to any Hotel in fiie City of Harrishubg. A continuance of the public patronage is refpect fully solicited. GEO. J.* BOLTON WALLS HOTEL, ' LATE Am ERIC AZm 2IOUJ£,. TUNKHANNOCK, 1> YOMJNC !>., PA, THIS eztnfifivhment has recently been refitted fin furnished !ti the latest rtyle Every attention wtlf he given to the comfort and convenience of those who patronize the House. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor ; Tunkh.innock, September 11, 1961. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, M RN, WY OMI xq COUNTY*, PA Wtt. H. CORTRIGHT, Prop'r Hi*' ' - HAVING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort To fender the house an agreeable place ot sojourn for all who may favor it with their custom. Win. U COUTRIGIIT. tune, 3rd, 1863 . , IN* T C. IIF.F Kf *D . PHYSICIAN & SFTXNIY. Wvuld respectfully aafiulitta to the citizcnsof Wy miag, that he has located at Tunkhannoek where he[ will promptly attend to all calls in the line of his profession. Xff Will be found at home on Saturdays of •ah week FJFEAITS TOWANDA, PA. D- B. BARTLET, (Late of i.. Hovfce, EnwißA, N.Y. . , PROPRIETOR. H4 y- one of tbo LARGEST fat BteT AHRiIMH) fousn in tho eountptr-lt is fitted up in the most modern and improved style, and no pains are spafed to make it a pleasant and agreeihbfe stopping-place for all, r3,h2r, ly. ' CURXE.KEENEY.^O., AND wnnLVSAT.R JH-AI.KRS I.N LADIES', MISSES' & CENTS' CJLSS I LIFT IF FLLLTS ' ' ■ASP Jobbers IS HATS, CAPS, FURS, STRAW GOODS, PARASOLS AND UMIIRELI.AB. BUFFALO AND FANCY F.OBEB, 840 BROADWAY, CORN Kit OK I.KGSARD STUKE.T, •A. C KKE S ET, ( • 1 I. UltllY. S . * M~GILMAN7 ~~ DENTIST. J||Y - ml \ f ,** i - ■ • i.> • permanently located in Tank y B ? p< * and respectfully teuderhi . Smng^, Ul "" qM "°" °' M > P"""" l V WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIT -o^®° ##T * rTuWon ' BLaw oSitilL she 9 "She was always lucky," said Bella, that was the wife,g name): "and her bus band is always good to her " "1 hey were both good husbands at first," interrupted the cebbb-r. without, stopping. "Reach me my awl, mistress, will you, for you seem to have nothing to do. It lies close by your foot." "Well I can't sav but thev were both very good husbands at first," replied Bella, reaching the awl with a sigh ; "hut mine has changed for the worse,but hers for the better, and then, look how she thrives Only to think of our both being married on the -same day ; nnd row I've nothing, and "she has two ptg, an-1 a—" . " And a lot of flax that she spun- in the winter," interrupted the cobbler; " And a ' Sunday gown, as good green stuff as ever seen, and, tri rrty knowledge, a hand*ome silk handkerchief f n r an apron ; and a red waistcoat for her good-man, with three rows of blue glass buttons, and a'flitoh of bacon in the emmney, and a rope of onions." "Oh, she's alnckv woman !" exclaimed Bella. " Ay, and a tea tray, with Daniel in the Lion's den upon it," continued the cobbler; " and a fat baby in the cradle." " Ob, I'm sure I don't envy her that last" said Bella, pettishly. " I've little enough for myself and my husband, letting alone children." fi Why, mistress* isn't your husband in work ?" " NQ* he's at the alehouse." " Why, how> thAt ? He used to be very sober. Can't he set work ?" -i " lliKlaet master keep him, lo calise he was so gbabby." 44 Humph!" said the little man. " He's *A- SCS'T V 'SI : N. HI- .RI N "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT." —Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1866. a groom, is he not ? Well, as I was say- ( ing, yonr neighbor opposite thrives ; but no wonder? Well, I've nothing to do with other people's secrets; but I could tell you, only I'm busy, and must go." " Could tell me what?" cried the young wife. "O, good cobbler, don't go, tor I've ■ nothing to do. Pray tell me why it's no ; wonder she would thrive ?" " Well," said he, " its no business of mine, you know, but, as I said before, it's no wonder people thrive who have a ser -1 vant —a hard working one, too —who is al ! ways helping them." 44 A servant!" repeated Bella ; 44 my neighbor has a servant! No wonder, then everything looks so neat"about her ; but I never saw*this servant/ I think you must he mistaken ; besides, how could she afford to pay her wages ?" *• She has a servant, I say," repealed the cobbler—"a one-eyed servant ; but she pays her no wages, to my certain knowl edge. Well, good morning, mistress, I must go." " Do stop one minute," cried Bella, ur gently. '-Where did she get this servant ?" 44 Oh, T don't know," said the cobbler; "servants are plentilul enough ; and Polly use's her's well, I can tell you." 44 And what does she do for her?" " IN> for her ? * hv, all sorts of things. I think she's the cause of iter prosperity. To my knowledge, she never refuses to do anything —keep* Tom's and Polly's eiothes in beautiful order, and the. baby's." "Dear me !"■ said Bella, in an envious tone, and holding up both her Hands;' well she is a luckv woman, and 1 always said j so. She takes good care I shall never see her set vant. What sort of a servant is she and how came she to have only one eya i ' "It runs in her family.'' replied the cobbler stitching busily ; "they are all so —one eye apiece ; yet they make a very good use of it. And Polly's servant has four cousinsjwho are blind —stone-blind; no eves at all; and they sometime come and help her. I've seen them in the cottage myself; and that's how Polly gets a good deal of her money. They work for her, and she takes what thev make to market, ai d l>uvs all those handsome things." " Only think," said Bel a, almost ready to cry with vexation, "and I've not a soul to do anything for me: how hard it is I' and she took tip her apron to wipe away her tears. The cobbler looked attentively at her. " Well, you are to be pitied, certainly," he said ; " and if 1 were, not in such a hur ry —" 44 <) do gb on, pray. Were you g->mg to *y yon could help me? I've heard that your people are fond ot curds and w hev and fresh gooseberry;syllabub. Now, if von would help me, tru*t me that there sh ujid l>o the most beautiful curds and whey set en ty night for vouon the hearth: and nobody sliould ever look when you went and come." " Why, you see,* said the cobbler, hesi tating, i 4 my people are extremely particu lar about —in short, about c leanliness, mis tress; and your house is not what one wo'd call very dean. 44 No offence 1 hope ?" Bella blushed deeply. 44 Well, but it should be always clean, if yon would ; ev ery day of my life I would wash the floor and sand it, and the hearth should be whitewashed as white as snow, and the witulowselea ned." " Well, ' said the cobbler, seeming to oonsidei\ 44 w,ell, then I should not wonder if 1 could meet with, a one-eyed servant for you, like your neighbor's; but it may he several days before 1 can; and mind, mis tress, I'm to have a dish of curds." "Yes, and some whipped cream, too," replied Bella, full of joy. The cobbler tlr n took np Irs tools, wrap ped them in his leather apron, walker! be hind the wall-flower, and disappeared. Bulla was so delighted, she could not sleep that night for joy. ITer husband scarcely knew the house, had made it so bright and clean ; and by night she had washed the curtain, cleaned the window, rubbed the fire-irons, sanded the floor, and set a gr. at, jug of hawthorn in blossom on the hearth. The next morning Bella kept a sharp lookout both lor the tiny cobbler and on her neighbor's house, to see whether she could possibly catch a glimpse of the qiie— eyed servant. But—nothing could she i see but her neighbor sitting on Uer rocking j chair with her baby on her knee, working. At last, wjieu she was quite tired, she heard the voice of the cobler outside.— She ran to the door, and cried out— "O do, pray, come in, sir; only look at | my house I" "Really," said the cobbler, looking round ( "I declare I should hardly have known it; j the sun can shine brightly now through the clear glass; and what a sweet sine.l of hawthorn !*' • "Well and my one-eyed servant ?" asked Bella; "you rc-member, I hope, that I can't nay her any wages Have you uiet with one that will como ?" "All right," replied the little man, nod ding. "I've got her with me." "Got her with you V' repeated Bella, looking round; "I see nobody." "Look, here she is!" said the cobbler, holding up something in his hand. Would you believe it? The one-eyed ervant was nothing but a needle. £gT "Well, Annie, how did you get along with that stupid fool of a lover of yours ? Did you succeed in getting rid 6f him ?" "0, yes, 1 got rid of him easy eoough, I mafried him, and have no lover now." (DAN RICE BEFORE THE RECON STRUCTION COMMITTEE. The Committee on Reconstruction still persists in suppressing the most important testimony elicited before it. Dan Rice has recently been on a circus tour through the lately rebellions States, and has had oppor tunities such as are afforded to few, for ob serving the condition of the Southern peo- i pie as to loyalty. His testimony will be found to show the true feeling that exists in the South when the thin crust of loyalty is melted away and the true character is revealed under the exhilerating intiuenco of a menagerie, when man stands in the pres ence of the untamed forces of nature, sepa rated therefrom only by the thin partition of an iron cage. Mr. Rice, being duly sworn, testified tbns : Q. You have an unruly animal, known as a pet mule, with your circus, have you not ? A. I have. Q. What are the idiosyncrasies of that beast*? A. He is given much to kicking. Q It is almost impossible to ride him, is it not A. It is. T generally offer $2.1 to any mm who will ride him round the ring. Q. On your late visit to the South, did you receive any offers to ride that mule ? A. T did. State what occurred on these occa sions. }' A. In Richmond, a discharged Confeder ate attempted to ride him, but was thrown flak on hi back. Q. V bat did the confederate soldier sav to this ? A. lie said the mule was a d d yan kee ORSS Q. Did any others make the attempt? A. Another of Lee's veterans tried to ride.him, ai d succeeded. Q. W hat did he say ? He said, after he had dismounted,that it he'd had a regiment o' tbein ere cavalry he d have whipped Kilpatrick all to smash; and that in the next war against Yankees lie intend, d to raie a brigade of'era. Cross-examined by Mr. Stevens : Q Is that a he mule or a she mule ! A. Tt's a be mule. Q. ou hare monkeys in your show,have you not ? ' A T have. Q Have yott ever heard any disloyal re marks in Ti l.ition to those monkeys ? A. I can't say that I have. Q. Have you heard anything said in their presence. A. A-Couple ofyonnc ladies were one I dav standing in front of the cage, and 1 heard one of them say it looked like a Frecdinrin's Bureau. Q. How was this rbmarh received ? A. if created much laughter. Q. Were there any personal allusions made on that occasion ? A. Some one in the crowd said, pointing to the ourang outang. "That's Sumner." Q. Did that please the by-standers ? A. Very much. Q. Did you ever hear any observations about the bears ? A. I heard it said once about a one-eyed bear that he looked like Ben. Butler, and about a grizzly, that it ought to be called Ben Wade. Q. Were the points of resemblance sta ted ? A, 1 hoy were not. The observation was made on the tonte ensemble, with special reference, perhaps, to the ocular deformity in the case of the one-eyed animal. Q. Have you side shows with your cir cus ? A. I have. Q. State if you have ever hoard disloyal remarks in relation to them. A. I believe I heard something of the kind once about Daniel in thejion's den. (}. State what it was. A. A yonng lady asked me which was Daniel and which was the lion. (J What was your reply ? A. I told her it was easy to distinguish Daniel from the lion, as the former wore a swallow-tail coat, and had a cotton umbrel la under bis arm. Q What did she say ? A. After looking into the cage she said spitefully, that. Daniel looked like a mean Yankee, and she wished the lion wonld chaw him up. '*l am glad this coffee don't owe me anything," said a book-keeper to his wife the other morning at ! breakfast, "Why" was the response. "Because I don't believe it would ever settle." jf Vf n ~ — 4# > "Why, Bill, what is the matter with you ? Yon look down in the mouth." "Well, Pete, I guess if you had been through what I have, you'd look bad too." "What's the matter ?" "Yon know Sarah Snivels, don't you, Tete ?" "Yes," "Well, I discarded her last night." ''You did. What for !" "Well, I'll tell you. She said she wouldn't marry me, and I'll discard any gal that would treat me in that way." > A * . # t-fT Rogues generally die poor. Every time they umke a dollar by cheating, they spend two in law. , < •> -!"**•*• •*— "Pat, can ye tell mo why winter is like a dog ?" "Faith, Mick, I, caoV'— "Well, thin, it's bekase of the coldness of its nose (its snows)." i. • . 0r.. j ttM ye gmMv aHoft -*■ t h n * 'r 1 Mart bo* nid —m SPECIAL RULES FOR PREVENTION OF CHOLERA. We urge the necessity, in all cases of cholera, of an instant recourse to medical aid, and also under every form and variety of indisposition ; for all disorders are found to merge in the dominant disease. Let immediate relief be sought under dis order of the bowels especially, however slight. The invasion of Cholera may thus be readily prevented. Let every impurity, animal and vegeta ble, be quickly removed to a distance from the habitations, such as the slaughter-hous es, pig-sties, cess-pools, aod all other do mestic nuisances. Let all uncovered drains be carefully and frequently cleansed. Let the grounds in and around the habi tations be drained, so effectually as to carry off moisture of every kind. Let dry scrubbing be used in cleansing in place of water cleansing. Let every room be daily thrown open for the admission of fresh air ; this should be done about noon, when the atmosphere is most likely to be dry. Let excessive fatigue, and exposure to damp and cold, especially during the night be avoided. Let the use of cold drinks and acid li quors especially under fatigue, be avoided, or when the body is heated. Let the use of acid fruits and vegetables be avoided. Let excess in the use of ardent and fer mented liquors and tobacco be avoided. i Let a poor diet, and the use of impure water in cooking, or for drinking, be avoid ed. Let the wearing of wet and unsuffieient clothes be avoided. Let a flannel or woolen belt be worn round the bellv. Let personal cleanliness be carefully ob served. Let every cause tending to depress the moral -and physical energies be carefully avoided. Let exposures to extremes of heat and cold be avoided. Let sleeping in low or damp rooms be avoided. * Let crowding of persons within houses and apartments be avoided. Let fires be kept up during the night in sleeping or adjoining apßrtmments,the night being the period of most danger from at tack, especially underexposure to co d or damp. Let all bedding and clothing be daily ex posed during winter and spring to the fire, and in summer to the heat of the sun. Let the dead be hurled in places riunote from the habitation of tho living. By the timely adoption of sin pie means such as these, cholera or other epidemic will be made to loose its venqiu. TACTICS FOR HUGGING. 1 Place the piece on the right side, as in Hardee's order arms, cast the eyes to the right without turning the head, extend the right arm, pass the hand behind the piece, grasping it above or about the middle band or belt. 2. Make a right wheel,raise the left arm, place it on the shoulder of the piece, the eyes resting about two inches below the top or head band ; at the same time move the left foot obliqne about twelve inches ; bend the right knee, keeping the feet at an angle of forty-five degrees. 3. Drop the head to the right, bring the piece to the body with a firm grasp, to pre vent its jostling; place the left ear against the cheek of the piece, and at the command four, hug in double quick time. At the command, "arms a-port/ come to the position of a soldier, and look military —like a sheep, -—-- — —<• 1 "' VOTES THE WAY HE Snor. - 7Tie writ er of the tollowing pithy letter, who is vouched for as a Republican soldier by the Waynesburg (Greene C 0.,) Messen//tr, is evidently a man of sense : FOR TIIE MESSENGER. Cel. Jenninrft ; WiH you grant a Repub lican soldier room in your paper for a very short article ? I merely wish to notice an admonition in. the last Greene Co. Rejjub tieaii) and to assure the editor that his ad vice is good, and believe will be very gen erally followed by the soldiers of the county. The editor:says: "To those who have borne the blunt, vote.the way you shot." Now Mr. Kditor, we shot for ike Union and not for the nerjro , and we intend to vote for the Union and not for the negro. This is all I have to say at present. A REPUBLICAN SOLDIER. i— 1 * • A gang of discharged negro soldiers are inaugurating a reign of terror in Louis ville. Kv. Scarcely a uight passes but they murder some one, ai d indiscriminate shoot ing is their common pastime. Seventeen of them were arrested on Monday, but ow ing to the fact that no one could or would swear to their identity in any violation of the law, they were discharged. Commodore Vanderbilt is seventy, but active as eyef. He has built and paid for one hundred steamers, and is now thp largest ownyr ih railroad stock in the Uni ted States. Jle controls both the Harlem and Hudson River Roads, while his intef est in the New Ybrk Central is not less thsln half a million. f3T Epitaph on aa Auctioneer—Gone. [TERMS, Bfl,oo PER AZmDM THE ABSENT. Of all exercises of the unfettered mind, perhaps none' fs' attended with" a more benign influence than that of indulg ing in a kind remembrance of the absent. Every loving; wonl that fell from the lips of tfie'absoht Is treasured with ten-' derness. Each kind act is recollected with affection. We look forward to meet ing with unbounded happiness. Have we parted in anger? Time soft ens us into indifference—at length into a quiet acknowledgment of past friendship, llave we parted in silence or estrangement? This, too, wears away, and w meet again to forget the past in future communions. Have we parted in grief? The sorrow i mutually borne, and tenderly consigned to* the corner of our hearts devoted to the ab sent sharer. Have we parted in love ? No joy 6a great as the remembrance of it—no event so delightful or sacred as the reunion. Have we been parted by death if Ab, the affection that travels with the flown spirit to its home in the realms of light! The changed but ever increasing sacred ness of the love that bound us on earth is now freed from its alloy, while the unfet tered spirit hovers near, to watch over us, and bear the incense of truthful and puri fied affection on the wings of enduring love. Absent from sight, to the spirit ever near— no shade of earth mingles in the holy of tice of a ministering angd, whose sweet influence is like the gentle dew npon the fragrant flower, which exhales a perfume unseen, but ever grateful to the percep tion of the inborn spirit. Absent, but not forgotten, is a sweet and touching memorial. WOMAN. There is beauty in the helplessness of woman. The clinging trust, which search es for extianeous support, is graceful and touching. Timidity is the attribute of her sex; but to herself it is not without its dangers, its inconveniences, and its suffer ings. Her first effort at comparative free dom is bitter enough; for the delicate mincf shrinks from every unaccustomed" contact; arid the warm and gnshing heart closes itself, like the blossom of tbe sensi tive plant, at every approach. Man at once determines his position, and asserts hie place ; woman has hers to seek *, and, alas, I fear 'me that, however she "may appear to turn a calm brow and quiet lip to the crowd through which she makes her way, that bfdw throbs, and that hp quivers to the last, until, like a wounded bird, she can once more wing her wav to that tran quil home where rhe drooping head will be fondly raised, and tiie fluttering heart laid to jest! The dependence of woman in the common affairs of lite, is, neverthe less, rather the effect of custom than nec essity. We have many and brilliant proofs that, where need is, she can be sufficient to herself, and play her part in the great drama of existence with credit, if not with comfort. The yearn ings of her solitary spirit, the outgushings of her shrink ng sensibility, the cravings of her alienated heart, are indulged only in the quiet holiness of her solitude. The world sees not, guesses not the conflict; and in the ignorance of others lies her stre.igth. The secret of her weakness is hidden in the depths of her own bosom; and she moves on, amid the heat and hur ry of existence, and with a seal set upon nature, to be broken only by fond and loving hands, or dissolved iu the tears of recovered home affection. WORDS or KINDNESS, —Let all thy words be words of kindness and love ; let kindness beam on thy countenance, and smile in every look. Friends will clnster around thee, and their pleasant greeting and smiles of welcome will make the most delicious music in thy soul. Speak gent ly ! Suusliine will stream Bround thy path, and shed a halo of light aronnd thy head; fresh flowers will spring up and cluster around thy footsteps, and perfume the air with their delightful fragrance.— Speak gently ! Another world will be all sunshine—bright, golden, gorgeous sun shine ; and though clouds may arise and shadows play around, their shade will onlv add a tender chord . to the silvery notes; for shadows are hut mosaics set in sun shine, and gmtfe words will give to them a gilding which gloom can never hide. • FEMALE SOCIETY. —You know my opinion of female society. Without it, wo should degenerate into brutes, This ob servation applies with tenfold force to young men, and those who are in tho pri.oe of manhood. For, after a certain prime of life, the literary man may make a shift fa poor one, I grant) to do without the socictv of ladies. To a young man, nothing is so important as a spirit of devo tion (next to bis Creator) to some amiable woman, whose image may occupy his heart; guard it from pollution, which beset it on all sides. A man should choose his wife as' Mrs. Primrose did her wedding-gown, for qualities that "wear well." One thing;, at least is true, that, if matrimony has its cares, celibacy has no pleasure. A New ton, or a more scholar, may find employ ment in study ; a man of literary taste can receive in books a powerful auxiliary; but amm must have a bosom friend, and him, to cherish and sup port the dreariness of old age.— JOHN RANDOLPH. (The Mler is a dangerous member of so ciety. He becomes a prey to hisowu pas sions, and scourge* others with his vices. tfSE o NO. 43