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JOB WORK af all kinds neatly executed, and at prices to suit ha times. All TRANSIENT ADVERTISEMENTS and JOB WORK must be paid for, when ordered. flusiitfsjs Duties. W fc W EIJTTLE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Offict on Tioga street, TunkhannockPa. ~S. COOPER, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON • Newton Centre, Luzerne County Pa. GEO. S. TUTTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Tunkhonnock, Pa. Office' n Stark's Brick eck, Ttoga street. ______ WM. M. PIATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, O fice in Stark's Brick Block Tioga St., Tuuk hennock. Pa. Sifl fUfpfC IflUSf, HARRISHUIIG> PENNA. The undersigned having lately purchased the ii BCEHLER HOUSE " property, has already com menced such alterations and improvements as will render this old and popular House equal, if not supe rier to any Hotel in the City of Harrisburg. A*continuance of the public patronage is refpect wlicited. cEo } BOITOS . "WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA THIS establishment has recently been refitted an furnished in the latest style Every attention will he given to the comfort and convenience of those wk* pntroniie the Houe. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor ; Tuakhanneck, September 11, 1861. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESUOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA Win. H. COKTRIGHT, Prop'r HAVING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to reader the house an agreeable place ot sojourn for all who may favor it with their custom. 3 Win. H CORTRIGHT. fate, 3rd, 1863 ~ SJfaits ftatel, TOWANDA, PA. D- B. BARTLET, (Late of t. HOCSE, ELMIRA, N. X PROPRIETOR. The MEANS HOTEL, i- one of the LARGEST wad BEST ARRANGED Houses in the country—lt is fitted up in the most modern and improved style, aad no pains are spared to make it a pleasant and agreeable stopping-place for all, T 3, n2l, ly- CLARKE,KEENEY, &0 0., MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IW LADIES', MISSES' & GENTS' & ilk aiti) Cassimere f|ats AND JOBBERS IN HITS, CAPS, FURS, STRAW GOODS, PARASOLS AND UMBRELLAS. BUFFALO AND FANCY ROBES, R49 BROADWAY, CORNER OP LEONARD STREET, as w . r. CLARE, J A. E EBBNET, > a. LEEENEY. J M. GILMAiN, MOlLMAN,kaspeTanently located in Tonk • hanaock Borough, and respectfully tenderhi professional services to the citizens of this placeand ■arro undine country. ALL WORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIT 110N. Office over Tutton'c Law Office near the Post Office NEW TAILORING SHOP The Subscriber having bad a sixteen years prae %iea! experience in cutting and making clotaiog, aew effers his services in this line to the citiiensof NTCBOLSON aad vicinity. Them wishing to get Fiu will find his shop the ptaoe to get them. JOEL, R. Sinew. -SMMto ' Select His^vvrrs^Son^ I, I certainly thought he was "out of his head," He had such peculiar ways, and said such peculiar things ; and he went about as if he was in a somnambulic state almost; that is, I don't quite mean that; but he never seemed to take the same no tice of what happened about him that other men do. And as to his ever being surpris ed at any thing, I never knew him to show surprise on but one occasion in his life. — What that occasion was, I shall naturally mention before I am done. His name was Joseph Harrison, and he was a student at the Academy in Sandford —one of the style of academies that seem to have nearly gone out of date now,where both sexes were taught under the same roof. I attended the Sandford School. The Principal's house was on the corner across the way from the academy, ana he board ed a dozen or so of tba stuJents. 1 was one of these boarders. I shall never forget the day Mr. Harrison came to the house to board. I was sitting on the second-floor piazza, studying. It was late in a summer afternoon. As he entered the gate I leaned over to k)pk at him, and when he was just undern&uh, 1 chanced to drop my book. It struck him on the shoulder, and fell thence to the ground. He turned and looked at it quietly, and then poked it aside with his big cane. What does he carry that big cane for ? thought I; and why don't he pick up my book, or look up at me, or do any other thing that a rational being would ! He rung the bell, and 1 saw no more of him till tea time, lie sat directly opposite me at the table. Would you believe it, he never looked at me once —nor, indeed, at any one else,it seemed—which was the rea son, perhaps, why 1 looked at him more than ever I did at any other young mail in my life —in the same length of time. After tea, we gatli red in the parlor, as we were in the habit of doing, and lie was introduced to me. lie bowed, and then, for the first time, looked at me—or rather, he looked through me—as if he saw something behind me, and I were as transparent as glass. Then he smiled, and turned away. I confess I was provoked at the manner of the young man. What amused him, I should like to know. When Belle Harrison asked me,afterward,how I liked her cousin, I said I didn't like him at all. She only laughed, and said she believed nobody ev er oid like him at fiist. Somebody asked me to sing. I seated myself at the piano, and give a song in my best manner —which I had been taught to believe was not an inferior manner, by any means. My voice is good, and I bad re ceived the best musical culture. What mysterious influence was at work upon me I did not know ; for, if ever I disliked a person in mv life, I certainly disliked this Mr. Harrison ; but, it is true,notwithstand ing, thatT sunn for him ; and when I turn ed away from the piano, it was with some special curiosity I anticipated his comments, if he chose to make any, or his manner and its meaning, if he chose to hold his tongue. If you will believe t, the man was look ing at a painting on the wall—looking at it standing up, with his hands clasped behind him, and his back to the company. Was there ever such a clown ? "What is the name of that beautiful song >' asked Orville Redway, a young man from the village.who had been invited to tea, and now sat with us iu the parlor. I told it him. "I must have it," said he : it is exqui site." And he took out his lead-pencil to write on a card the name of the piecec. He broke his pencil-lead. "Will some one lend me a knife If" he asked. have left mine." Mr. Harrison heard the question, though he was still looking at the painting, and produced a large pocket knife, which h e handed to Mr Redway. "It's very sharp," said be ; "be careful*" The first thing Bed way did was to cut his hand. The blood spirted out in jets. He turned pretty white, but just gathered his hand in his handkerchief, and said it was "a mere scratch, of no consequence." "Beg your pardon, sir," Mr. Harrison spoke; "its of some consequence. You'll lose yonr life, if you don't look out. I'll fix you." He took his own handkerchief and tied it loosely around Redwav's arm. Then be took his knife, shut it carefully, put it un - der the handkerchief next to the arm, and began to twist it about. As the handker chief tightened on the arm, the blood ceas ed to flow." "Send for a doctor," said Mr, Harrison. "A doctor!" ottered Redway. "Isn't this a good deal of fuss over a little cut ?" "A little cut," said Mr. Harrison, "when you cut an artery, it is a big cut." Dr. Miner was three doors off*, and he came in a few minutes. Ho expressed great approbation of young Harrison's conduct. Young Harrison, as unconcerned as a post, had returned to his inspection of the painting he seemed to admire so much. M\ Redway soon went off with the doctor. The knife lay on the table. Out of pure impi.dedce, or some simitar feeling, I took up this terrible knife, and accidently cnt the end of one of my fingers nearly off. I screamed loudly,for it was a Hon id wound, and the blood flowed copiously. "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. *' —Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1866. "Well, upon my word !" remarked Mr. Harrison. "Here's another!" Auother ! How contemptuous the word sounded to me ! I,Margaret Baily Monroe, confessedly a belle, a beauty, and a lady of rare accomplishments, besides being heir ess to a hundred thousand dollars—l was just "another !" Why didn't he call me a person, and done with it ?" * • * * Well, what would he do with my frightful wound ? "Mix a little flour and salt and put on it," said he ; "that will stop the bleeding. It 19 a mere trifle It may have been a trifle, but it was enough to males me swoon. Or perhaps I swooned out of downright vexation at the man. When I recovered, he wa gone. By and-by, when Belle and I were alone—we roomed together—l asked her what Mr. Harrison said when I fainted. "He said," Bell answered, " 'lay her on her back, and leave her alone ?' " "Is that all lie said ?" "No ; not quite. Some one brought the flour and salt, and he put it on your finger, and said, 'there, tie a rag around it.'" A rag ! I should certainly hate this young man. • * After that he became such an object of interest to me tbat I could scarcely keep my mind off him an hour at a time. 1 was not long in learning something of his history. It seems that a love of adven ture had sent him on a cruise around the world, when he was a boy, of about sixteen, both his parents being dead. He had been absent from his native country four year without interruption, and on his return had decided to go to the academy a short lime to correct certain lacks in his education.— I This explained why a man of his advanced age should be attending school—for he was twenty one if he was a day. Belle assured me. I myself was about seventeen, I was the only female student of German at the academy, and it was on that account that Mr. Harrison manifested some degree of interest in me, I suppose, for he was al most enthusiastic in his admiration of that scholastic tongue. So I saw a good deal of him after all. ~ The following winter, at a party at Mrs. Sand's, in Sandford, one bitter cold night,l chanced to be alone with Nellie Wells one moment in an upper chamber which wa9 used as a cloak-room for the lady guests. There was a furious fire in the stove, and its sides were red hot Nellie was a very pretty g : rl, but rather dull. She wore a dress of some grazy fabric, and going too near the stove, it took fire. I ran out ot the room, screaming at the top of- mv voice .* "Mr. Harrison ! Mr. Harrison ! Oh, Mr Harrison !" He came quickly to the hall ; saw nie ; was up the stairway in a hound; and as I was running back into the room, he went past ine, pushing me aside rathei rndelv, i and took in all with a cool glance. Nellie had hauled a quilt from a bed that was in the room, and was tn ing to stifle the flames He threw heron the floor, rolled her over and over in the quilt, like a mummy, and extinguished the flames at once—hugged her, too. She was not verv badly burned, after all ; and her face was not touched by the flames ; so that she remained as pretty as ever. "Remarkably sensible girl," said Mr Harrison afterward, to a group tbat c'ns tered about him in the parlor. "Most girls would have rushed headlong into the hall, screaming like"—he looked at me—"like mad." he added, with a quiet smile, "If I ever marry," said he, "which I probab'y never shall, I shall marry a sensible woman—a woman who would not set up a scream if our youngest should fall into a tub of hot water, but would pull the child out as quickly as possible, and send for a doctor." ' Somehow, I was vain enough to think this sarcastic speech was intended solely to rebuke me. I knew I should certainly scream in such a case. It was my nature to scream, and how could I help my na ture? As for that poor little Nellie Wells, I hated her, and almost wished it had been my own dress that had caught fire—only I should certainly have burned to death be fore Mr. Harrison would have come and wrapped me in a quilt and bugged me. From that day forward, some powerful influence was at work upon me. I strug gled hard after that cool manner in danger which Mr. Harrison possessed in so emi nent a degree. I even ventured, In the pursuit of perfection, to ask him how he could do it. "I suppose," said he, "it is because I naturally have such an extreme terror ot danger in every shape—such a lively sym pathy with those in peril - that I feel very Strongly the necessity for being oalm when others are excited, I think that whatever excuse a lady may have for losing her wits —and that is, at the best, very little—a MAN has no excuse whatever. I always trv to keep my wits about me." "To be calm, then," said I, with the withering irony common to girls of from fourteen to eighteen, "one only needs to have his wilsabout liira." "Exactly," said he; "or, to change the the sex, her wit 3 about her." "Just as,'' I added, "the secret of wealth is to get money." "And to keep it," said be. On one thing I was fully determined—? he never should hear me scream again. However, be left the school soon after; and I did likewise in abont six months. I bad effected a great change in myself before I met him again. 11 It was in the summer of the year which saw me pass my twentieth birthday, that we met at Niagara Falls. He was there with his cousin, my dear fjiend Belle Har rison, and I with my sister and mother. On a certain day we were all taking a walk on Goat Island, when mother dropped her parasol, and it slid down the bank some fifteen or twenty feet, and out of reach. Mr. Harrison descended the bank after it, but though he used proper caution, his foot slipped on the treacherous soil, as he was returning, and he slid rapidly down to the very verge ot the precipice. I ex pected nothing else than to sec him go over, and be dashed to pieces on the rocks a hundred feet below; but though the three other ladies screamed loudly, I did not. You see, I was pretty thoroughly drilled by this time. However, as Mr. Harrison neared the edge of the precipice, he threw out his right hand—still holding the parasol in his left—and seized the up turned roots of a tree which leaned out over the chasm. The tree shook violently under the sudden shock, and tho roots be gan to tear themselves out of the thin soil slowly and steadily, under the influence of this snp"radded weight* In a few minutes more it would give way, and then Mr. Harrison would be killed. I know my face was pale, and I was terribly frighten ed ; but I leaned forward and spoke to him : "Tell we what to do." "Take all the ladies' shawls, skirts, and an}* other articles of dress that you car spare, and which are strong; cut them in wide, strong strips; tie them firmly to gether and make a rope." I obeyed as calmly as I knew he would have done, but none the l.ss expeditious ly on that account, be very sure, lie con tinued speaking to me at intervals while I was doing his bidding, and he spoke as de liberately as if he stood in safety by my side. "Your calmness is quite charming, Miss Monroe," said he. "Be sure and make the knot tight. I judge that this tree may be relied on with perfect confidence for ten or fifteen minutes yet. Your rope is long enough now, I think. Tie a stone to the end, and let that end down to me. That's it. All right now. Do nothing but hold fast and stand still, ladies, and I will come up to you." He drew himself up, hand over band, with extreme caution, and was saved. My mother's parasol was restored to her with acourtlvbow; and he brushed the dii9t from his clothes and walked away with us. 1 walked by his side; but he made no ref erence to the peril just passed. That evening, however, as we sat on the piazza of of our hotel, where it overlooks the river—how well I remember the rush ing sound of the waters down below ! he said : "We are alone now, Misa Monroe, and I can thank you for saving my life, without offence to the other ladies." It was too dark, out there, for him to see the blush of delight that went over my face at these works. How much they meant, to me! "I know T was as good as saved," said he, "when I saw you standing wi h tightly clasped hands and your under-lip pressed bv your shining teeth, while Belle and the other ladies were trying to drown the roar of old Niagara with their shrieks. I nev er saw one of your sex before who had the control over herself which you manifested to day. If I had seen such an exhibition anywhere it would naturally have awaken ed my admiration ; but when it happened to be an exhibition in which my own life or death was concerned, you may imagine my feelings " The tone in which he uttered these words was se tender and true !—it said so plainly that he would gladly devote all his future life to me ! But, though tone and manner said this, his words did not say it; and I knew the reason. He believed me already betrothed. William Willis was the son of a New York merchant who had been a school mate with my father. It was my father's wish that we should be married. I loved my father, and was anx ous to be pleased with his friend's son. Young Willis had been a frequent gue9t with us, and many considered us already befhrothed. He was an agreeable companion in the parlor, a good dancer, and all that; but 1 cared more for one look of Joseph Harrison's earnest, honest grey eyes than I did for William Willis's whole composition. According to a previous appointment, Mr. Willis ca.ne to the Falls during our stay. He arrived on the evening of the day that witnessed Mr. Harrison's narrow escape frcm death. He came out upon tho piazza where we sat, that evening ; and we shook hands. The gentlemen were slightly acquainted, but it was plain Mr. Harrison did not like Mr. Willis much; and with a playful "Ich muss xseygehem," to me, he rose and went into the ball-room, politely offering his seat to Mr. Willis. Several days passed. While actually in the position of a rival toward Mr. Willis, Mr. Harrison by no means permitted him self to act as if he were such. He was ve ry courteous to Mr. Willis, and quietly yielded all preference relating to me and my society. lie seemed, however, to be studying us—weighing the evidence of re gard between ns—trying to form a conclu sion as to the probable extent of onr rela tions matrimony-ward. Oh, it did seem to me as if he might, so brave a man as he was—plainly put a few questions to me on the subject! I would quickly have as TBRMO, M.OO PSRAmniaff sured hira how little Mr. Willis was to me. At last, I had nearly made up my mind to a desperate thing; nothing less indeed, than to seek the intercession of his cousin, my friend Belle. I would tell her how much I loved Mr. Harrison, and beg her to inform him in some sly feminine way. that I should never marry Mr. Willis, and that we were not "engaged." However, I neglected to do this, just one day too long. It was a Monday—the last day of our intended stay at the Falls. Mr. Willis in vited me to ride. I had no courteous re* fusal at band, and I consented to go with him. Indeed, I had half promised him, some days before. There was a New York friend of his staying at the Falls, who had with him a favorite horse—a fiery, hand some animal—and Mr. Willis had repeat edly invited me to ride behind hira. I could put off the ride no longer, of course. I did not much like the vicious manner which the horse, at starting, laid back his cars and bounded away; but I said noth ing. We had not been riding many min utes, eie the animal chose to take fright at the flapping of a line full of newly washed clothingjia the door-yard of a house near the river bank ; and, taking the bit in his teeth, he ran away. Our road lay along tbc bank —safe enough, certainly, for a ride with a horse under control; but de cidedly not the best place for a runaway, b' cause there was a spot, not over half a mile distant, where the chances were frightfully great that wc should be thrown over the precipice and killed. At the rate we were now going, we should reach that dangerous place very soon,. William Willis looking ahead, comprehended the danger, and his face blanched. "Good God !" he crien, "it'sdeath!" With that he threw up the reins, and jumped out of the buggy, striking a rock, and breaking his collar-bone —as 1 found afterward. A9 for me, I kept my scat. If it should become neceesary for me to jump, then I would jump, but I was determined not to take that venture till it was imperatively demanded, by the imminewcy of the dan ger at hand. So long as there was a pos sibility that the horse's progress might be held to that hope; because when a horse is running furiously down a smooth road, there is no choice between jumping spots, till the crisis is at band. While I at, clinging firmly to the seat, and looking out sharply ahead, for the dan gerous place must now be drawing near, a man—it was Mr. Harrison—sprung with astonishing agility at the horse,s head, from among some trees at the roadside, caught the bit. jerked it back, and actually tore the animal's lips, so that blood flowed, so energetic was the action. There was no resisting the iion will, backed by the iron nerve. The runaway came to a stop. Mr. Harrison drew him to the side of the road, and examined the harness and bug gy carefully. "Nothing broken," said he. "A very narrow escape, Miss Monroe. I saw you coming, and bad just time to get my wits in order There, don't thank roe ; I didn't know it was you, and should have done just the same for any one else." "But you aie hurt?" said I, noticing that he limped. "Yes, the horse trod on my foot." "Oh. how unfortunate! Shall I get out ?" "No." said he ; "that is, it is unneces sary that you should. Sit still and get rest ed. He will run no more to day,l promise you." He came around, and placed his lamed foot carelessly on a wheel of the buggy and spoke in his usual calm tone. — "When a horse hws bad a fine, lively run like that, he is inclined to be quiet for the rest of the day. You can drive him back in pet feet safety. But,l did not know you were fond of taking drives alone by your self, Miss Monroe ?' "I wa9 not riding alone," said I, "my driver jumped out" "And left you f* said he, astonished. "Yes." "He ought to be horsewhipped ! May I ask the coward's name ?" "His name," said I. "is William Willis. Mr. Harrison 6tared, amazed. "Willis! I beg your pardon, Miss Mon roe," This very coldly. "1 should not have spoken in those terms, if I had known that your companion was your-—" He stopped, and bit his lip. "My fiance, you would say," I made quick response. "But he is not my Ji ince Mr. Harrison. I would sooner marry a woman than such a coward." I spoke with some heat, and he looked up at my excited face with bis dry smile. "Will you marry me , Miss Monroe ?' "Yes," said I. And I did. It was & queer place for a proposal, was it not? But my husband is not like other men. He always has his wits about him. Here I bad finished ; but my husband, reading what 1 had written, made this com ment : "Which few men do when they pop the question, my dear, nicht whar !** fg" A poor Irishman, who applied for a license to sell ardent spirits, being ques tioned as to his moral fitness for the trust, replied : "Ah shure, it's not much of a character tk at a man needs to sell rum." fjg' What is the difference between a church deaoon and a ragamaffin 1 ■ One passes the saaser and tba other aasses the passer. VOL. 5 N0.47. MISCEGENATION. — The Watertown (Wis.) Republican says, that last Friday the usual quietness of our main street was suddenly disturbed by the arrival of two colored gentlemen from Lake Mills, with a white woman hanging on the arm of each. One couple was married, and ac companied the other for the jiurpose of being present at their bridal. Judging from the appearance of the unmarried couple, as they marched np through the streets, we should think on this occasion at least, true lore really ran smooth. They at once proceeded to the justice's office followed by a crowd anxious to witness tho ceremony, at which the woman seemed surprised, and inquired the reason of it saying that when she married her first husband there were not so many present. Squire Ducasse gave them a few words of advice and declined the honor of tying the knot, when the woman declared she would not marry a white man if she had to travel 1,000 miles, at the same time tapping the ebony cheek of her betrothed, and heap* provingly uncovered his ivories. After several fruitless attempts to procure the services of some proper individual they left, saying something about this being a copperhead town, DATES OF SACRED EVENTS. We give the following dates of events so sacred to Christians on the authority of the late Rev. Samuel Farmer Jarvis, D. D. L. L. D., an eminent scholar and divine of the Episcopal Church, whose profound learning and diligent researches into anti quities would have distinguished him in any age: . Our Savior was born on Wednesday, December 28, 4707, Julian perioo; 193 d Olympiad (second yaar, sixth month:) A. U. C. 737 (ninth month, fifth day;) Julian year, 36. He was baptized by St John in the riv er Jordan on Sabbath (Saturday,) January 6, 4738 His public entry into Jerusalem was on Palm Sunday, March 21, 4731, Julian pe riod; 20th Olympiad (sixty fourth year, ninth month ;) nineteenth year of the as sociate reign of the Emperor Tiberius ; fif teenth year of his sole reign, He was betrayed by Judas Iscariot o the following Wednesday evening, Marcb 24. He celebrated the Passover and insti tuted the Eucharist cn Thursday evening, March 24. On Friday morning, March 16, at the third hour, or nine o'clock, he was nailed to the cross —the hovr when the lamb of the daily morning sacrifice was offered in the Temple. At the seventh hour, or thret P. M., when the lamb of the daily evening sacrifice was offered in the Temple, he ex pired. At five P. M , his body was taken down and deposited in the tomb of Joseph Arimathes, On the first Easter Sunday, Mareh £B, about the beginning of the morning watch, or three o'clock A. M., he rose from the dead. It was the morrow after the last Jewish Sabbath, when according to the law, the first sheaf ot the earliest ripe grain waved in the temple, by which the whole harvest was sacrificed, that Christ •'the first fruits," rose from the dead, as a type and pledge of the future resurrection of his faithful followers. On Thurday, May 6, he ascended inti Heaven. On Sunday, May 16, the days of peni tence, the Holy Ghost descended upon the apostles and disciples. A PUZZLE. —Here is something worth studying over. We found it in an old paper. If any of our patrons can solve it and "see the point," they are at perfect lib erty to do so : I FY OUO WE F O RYO UR PA P E R P A YU P &W Parson Brownlow says: "I am not afraid to endorse Sumner and Stephens On my own dunghill." Of course not; and that is a very happy instance ot "the right man in the right place," says an exchange, J3T "Did any of you ever see an ele phant's skin ?" asked the master of an in fant school "I have," shouted a six year old at the foot of the class. " JFhere f' inquired the teacher, amused by his ear nsstness. 'On the eliphant,' was the reply MEN ENTITLED TO SEATS IN RAILROAR CAR*. —In Buffalo a railroad conductor has just been fined SSOO for ejecting a tnan from a car because hs refused to give up his seat to a woman. In the decision the Court held that women are entitled legally to no more privileges in pnbiic conveyances than men, and that when the latter pay for seats they have a perfect right to occupy them so long as they conduct themselves proper ly- - An editor in California, lately ye- . ceived a long document which he was re- . quested to insert gratis nnder his editorial I bead. He placed it under his pillow, that night, add expressed his willingness to in sert rimilar Rgouaunications in tho same way and <*i*tier terms.