§(mncrat, | -HARVEY SICKLER, Editor. J TUNKHANNOCK, PA , Wednestly, July 11 1866. " ' FOR GOVERNOR, 111 HEISTEB CLYMEB, OF BERKS. THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM . Tho Democracy of Pennsylvania in Convention met. recognizing a crisis in the affairs of the Re public anil esteeming the immediate restoration of the Union paramount to all other issues, do re solve i 1. That 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 bear true faith to tho Constitution and Laws, and in oiler to vindicate tho maxim that , taxation without representation is tyranny, such representatives should be forthwith admitted. 2. That the faith of the Republic is ' pledged to the payment of the National debt, and CoDgress , should pass all laws necessary tor that purpose. 3. That we owe obedience to the Constitution of tho United States (including the amendment prohib iting slavery,) and under its provisions will accord to those emancipated all their rights of person and property. 4. That each State has the exclusive right to regulate the qua'ifica'ior.s of its own electors. 5. That the white race alone is entitled to the con trol of the Government of the Republic, and we are unwilling to grant to negroes the right te vote g. That the bold enunciation of the principles of the Constitution and the policy of restoration con tained in the recent annual message and freedraen'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- the nation owes to the brave men of far Armies 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 tsnder affection the memories of the fallen, we pledge to their widows and orphans the nation's care and protection. 9. That we urge upon Congress the duty of equal izing the bounties of our soldiers and sailors. The war in Europe has opened in earnest. The Austrian? met Victor Eman uel with a large body ot Italian troops, near Verona, where a bloody battle was fought, which resulted in the defeat of the Italians and the loss, by them of several thousand prisoners. They finally made good their retreat across the Mincio. Terrible Conflagration. The city of Portland Me, one of the fin est sea board cities in America, wasalmost totally destroved bv a fire on the sth inst The veij centre and business portion of the city to the extent of one and a half miles in length, aud one fourth of a mile in width was completely destroyed, the lines of the sheets being wholly obliterate ! by the heaps uf ruins _ Fifty buildings were blown up, and d stroyed to prevent fur ther spread of the conflagration. The Cus tom House, Public offices, all the banks newspp; er offices, ware bouses, express offices, and eight churches wt>re destroyed. Ten millions of dollars, it is estimated, will 110 more than cover the loss. Over two thousand families have been rendered home less, and are now living in tents and sheds upon provision furnished them by the char ity of oilier towns and cities. The origin of the fire is unknown ; but, is thought to hare been the work of an incendiary. A Clergyman Whips his Child to Death. We learn fiom the railroad men who came from Medina this morning that there was great excitement in that village arising tmm a report that a Presbyterian clergy man, named Lindsley,residing a mile south of the village, yesterday whipped his son, three years old, so severely that be died two hours subsequently, because ho would not say his prayers Report adds that the child's fingers were broken by the blow s administered. The report seems so mon strous and unnatural that we telegraphed to Medina to iearn if it was true, and re ceived an answer that it was. The tele graph slates that the minister was two hours whipping the child with a In avy rod, and it died from its injuries within the time stated above. Lindsley had not beeu ar rested at the time the dispatch was sent, but we learn that an officer from Albion has gone to Medina to take him into custo dy. For the sake of common humanity we hope the story is exaggerated, and it may be possible that it is. . \ Since writing the above we have receiv ed by special telegraph the statement of Mr. Lindsley, the father of the child, made to a jury summoned by Coroner Chamber lain : "On the eighteenth of June the child disobeyed his step mother, and 1 com raenced correcting him, using a shingle for : the purpose, and continued to clia.-lise bin) | for more than two hours, when the child liegan to show signs of debility, and I ceas ed to punish him and laid hitn on a couch and called my wife. TFhen she saw the child she said he was dying, and before twelve o'elock he was dead." The coro ner'* jury returned a verdict yestenfay " that death resulted from chastisement by the father.'' It will be seen that the whip ping was given on the eighteenth instant, instead of yesterday, and that common re port did not in this instnncc overstate the fact* in the case. A child three years old whipped to death by its father la-cause it could not or would not say its prayers! Is it possible, and of all other persons, that clergyman should be guilty of sucb a piece of inhumanity ? What should be his pun ishment? The condemnation of" the pub- , lie is not enough. The law should'take 1 firm hold of him and deal out justice to ! him with an unspairing hand, A cold blooded murder—it can bo called nothing ! lest should not go unpunished. No won- | der the people of Medina aie indignant and ! excited.—Rochester Union, June 21. - . ... The AsMuorsiilp* - .- -j The contest for the assessorship of this | district between |he friends of the Presi dent and the DiiJufiionista has been rather spirited. Not so much on the part of the former, on account of its profits—for they, to Mr, Clark, the Presidents appointee, are of no consequence,—but to settle the ques tion whether the President shall have bis ifieuds, or his dishonest, sneaking, and mercenary enemies in office. P. John, the political God'father of 13il -1 • ly Burgess, the Draft Sneak , of this place, lie, by wltpse BiUy.wvuaed him self out —managed by lying and false prom ises of Loyalty to wriggle himself into the position. His want of character, truthful ness, common decency and fitness for the place,so outraged public sentiment amongst the conservative portion of his own party that they asked his removal and the ap pointment of Robert F. Clark. Mr. Con gressman Murcur, at whose instance and by whose aid P.John was appointed,threw himself into the breach and endeavored to save his friend by preventing the confir mation of Mr. Clark. How well he suc ceeded in his labor of lore, will appear bv the following, from a correspondent of the Columbian , the new administration paper started in Bloomsburg. The Assessorship—.Mercur badly whipped —l'aleman Johu nowhere— Clark Confirmed J WASHINGTON, D. C., June 27, 1866. DEAR CAPTAIN.— The Senate of the United States, composed of thirty nine Republican and ten Democratic members, on yesterday confirmed the nomination of Robert F. Clark, Esq., as Assessor for the Thirteenth Congressional District of Penn sylvania, by a unanimous vote. This hon orable testimonial of confidence in the nom inee, and of indifference to the views of Ulysses Mercur, and to the interests of his friend Palemon John, ought to be instruc tive in your section. Mercur has followed this case with his hostility from the Bu reau of Internal Revet, UJ to the Secretary of the Treasury, from the Secretary to the President, and from the President to the Senate. His labors have been very nrdu ous as well as unworthy, but he has" receiv ed a rebutfat every point. Although the proceedings of the Senate on nominations are secret, some things con nected with them always transpire. Mer cur has stated that lie appeared before the Senate Committee on Finance, and made a speech against the nomination; which was, no doubt, a hitter one; and he also solici.-d members to oppose it. The in glorious result of all his operations is a unanimous confirmative by the Senate.— He might have got a fiw members of very Radical proclivities to vote against Mr. Clark, by importunity and misrepresenta tion, if it had not been for a 1 tter of P. John to the Secretary of the Treasury.— John seems to have thought the Secretaiy a*gr. at a rascal as himself, and wrote to him that he would sustain the Administra tion if he were continued in office. This was in March, after the Presedents veto, of the Freedman's Bureau Bill, his speech of the twenty second of February, etc., and when tire issue was fully in ado up between him and the majority in Congress. John thought it was a good time to sell himself, and iike a prudent mam stated Lis terras, in very plain language, in the proper quar ter. But he was very nmch mistaken in the Secretary, wlio, instead of being de lighted with making a valuable purchase on easy terms," became somewhat disgusted and has never thought of PJeman John since without a lively emotion of contempt. And this ft-eling was not at all decreased by the extravagant pulF ..f the Secretary which John put in his paper about the .-arne time. This unfortunate epistle, which somehow found its way to Senator.-, put the finishing stroke to poor John. ' So the *tu"k engle, strt<.het thein may be leeognized many who have been prominent in nation al politics. The Flon. John llogan and Hon. Thomas K. Noell members of the present Congress, the former a Democrat, the latter a Republican. Willard P. Hall, F. A. Pozier, Jaines S. Rollins, Louis V. Bogv, Thomas L. Price, WillKam A. Hall, Gilchrist Porter, Robert Wilson and oth ers have filled important offices both Fed eral and State, and have long been potent in their respective parties; while the bar sends its chicfest ornaments in the persons of Samuel T. Glover, Albert Todd, James 0. Broadhead,ar,d others scarcely less dis tinguished for learning and virtues; while a majority of the delegates have been Re publicans, and voted for Lincoln, we find among the minority many v. ho have al ways adhered to the Democratic party, and who have bent the koee to Baal. No more auspicious beginning of the campaign against the Radicals, could have been made, tbau that which the Conserva tives of Missouri have thus initiated ft insures their victory In that great State, and gives to the Philadelphia Convention a prestige of' srtccesg. which everything con spires to make brighter and more hopeful Verily the day is dawning, and the skies are brightening.—.V. V, News. , .. , „ l UeMeshoppen Posl-Offlce. - The following statement concerning the P. O. change at Mealioppen, in this Coun ty, we clip from Columbian, a new Bepub ! lican Administration paper recently started at Bloomsburg. Tbe facts were furnished the editor by a gentleman from this County I who, it seems,w as posted. Billy Burgess, the Post Master, at this place, seems to be : known in his true character by his former ; acquaintances in Columbia County, where he played the sneak game. I Capfcun PhM M. Burr, a young man of twenty-four years of age, and a gallant 1 soldier of the war, has been appointed i postmaster at Meshoppen,a town ten miles above Tuukbannock, upon the east bank ;of the river. Captain Burr enlisted as a private, without bounty, early in the war, in Company B. Fifty-second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, lie served his term of tin ee years, when he re-enlisted, and continued to serve until-honorably dis i charged, on the twelfth of luly, 1865, af- I ter the close ot the war. In the meantime 1 he had risen, by merit and gallant s rvice, from the position of private, through suc ecsive grades of promotion, to the rank of Captain, to which he was appointed on the first of June. 1£65. When the Presidential election ol iB6O took place he was in .the service at Morris Island, South Carolina, and supported Lincoln and Johnson. Meshrppen Township contains two hun dred and si*tv nine taxable*, as certified from the commissioner,s olliee recently ; and of these taxable* two hundred and three are qualified voters of the district, In the contest upon Captain Burr's ap pointment the voice ot the people interest ed was strongly pronounced. Of the qual ified voters and electors .one hundred and eighteen signed petitions in favor of Cap tain Burr, and thirteen others did not sign I for either side. Five of the signers hail previously signed for the opposite party under misconception. 1 here were also seventeen additional names for Capt. Burr of new settlers and workmen, whose names were not 011 the previous official return ol taxable*, and a like additional number of Young men, etc., not on the tax-list, but in— It tested in the office. Finally there were forty additional names of citizens and voters of Mehoopany aud Auburn Town ships, who get mail-matter at the Mcshop pen post-office. Upon this strong endorsement by the people, Captain Burr was appointed in place of O. Jl. Loom is, who had held the office since 18G1, or for five years. Loom is was drafted during the war, and went to Troy with a substitute,but in some way, not known to the public, got himself ex empted. Being able-bodied and of proper age, the cause of his exemption remains a mystery. In other words, like his friend William Burgess, of the Wyomiug Rt publkan (who took occasion recently to abuse the COLUMKIAN), he is a drift-sneak of the worst tvpo, and very naturally is to gimg up his office, after five years of enjoyment,to a gallant soldier who has fought as a volunteer through the whole war. Upon Captain Burr's appointment be ing announced, Loom is and Osterhout went on to Washington, and enlisting Mr Con gressman Mercur in their entire, had the appointment suspended at the Post Office Department. BUT and his tiiends then appealed to the President and had the whole case laid before him, and the Presi dent, in conformity with his announced policy of appointing meritorious soldiers to office, in proper cases, ordered that Burr's appointment should stand good, and his commission be forwarded to him. The post office has been called Sterling- j vilte for some years to gratify the vanity ol a family, of Radical proclivities, named Sterling ; being changed, with this object, from Meshoppcn. which is the proper name of the village and township as well as the creek which empties into the liver at that place. The old and proper name is now restored and family v anity disregarded. We arc g'a Ito record this case of just reward to a soldier and of inglorious de feat to the selfish men who opposed him. The secret of the opposition to the President is gradually leaking out. The following from an exchange, and Forney's love letter to the President, published in another column, accounts for the milkin the cocoanut. "LOVE TO ANGER TURNED. —It seems that the bitterast hatred of the President and strongest opposition (in words) to lis Union policy spring from disappointed per sonal ambition and cupidity. Until the publication of Dana's lette* to tho Presi dent, begging the New York Collectorship for himself, few persons, perhaps, suspect ed the secret cause of the hostility of the Chicago Republican. The publication of the letter at once exhibited the selfishness of its editor and drove him into retirement Perhaps, also, few persons suspected that, beneath the daily torrent of vituperation and talsehood sent into the world through the Philadelphia Press and Washington Chronicle, there rankled the mortified feel ings of a "dead duck." The letter written by John W. Forney to President Johnson in January last, and just now given to the oublic, tells the whole story—crushed am bition —defeated cupidity. For a certain ty, now, the duck is dead. Who, uext, among the other violent Dis union enemies of the President and his pol icy, will fall a victim to his epistolary ante cedents ? Let us have a full history of the loves of those who now hate so bitterly.— A Disuuion party lias built into existence in Pennsylvania, and a candidate for Gov ernor nominated by it almost entirely out of material lurni shed by the disappoint ments ot ibe dead duck. It is important, therefore, that the people should know how far disappointed affection has operated in other States and in the Rump itself. If there are others like the Danas and For neys, wiio are mouldering public .opinion against the Union, the Constitution and the general baimony and prospering mere ly to gratify revenge for their pervate dis appoiutements in tjie matter of office, spoih or power, the country should koow it.— Bring out the love-letters. Address of Democratic Senators and Rep resentatives. To the People of the United States Bangers threaten the Constitution. The citadel of our liberties is directly assailed. The future is dark unless the people will come to the rescue. In this hour of peril "National Union" should be the watch word of every true man. As essential to national Union we must maintain unim paired the rights, the dignity, and the f equality of the States, including the right of representation in Congress, and the ex clusive right of each State to control its own domestic concern, subject otlly to the Constitution of the United States. After a uniform construction of the Constitution for more than half a century,in the assump tion of new aud arbitrary powers, the Fed eral Government is subscrsive of our svs tem and destructive of liberty. A free in terchange of opinion and kind feeling be tween the citizens of all the States is nec essary to the perpetuity of Ihe Union. At present eleven States are exe'uded from the national council. For seven long months the present Congress has denied any right of' representation to the people of these States. Laws affecting their high est and dearest interests have been passed without their consent, and in disregard of the fundamental principle of free govern ment. 1 his denial of representation has beer, made to all the members from a State although the State, in the language of the President, presents itself not only in the attitude of loyalty and harmony, but in the persons of representatives whose loyalty cannot be questioned under any existing t constitutional or legal test. The represen tives af nearly one third of the States have not been consulted with reference to the great questions of the day. There has been 110 nationality surrounding the present Congress. 7'here has been no intercourse between the representatives of the two sec tions producing mutual confidence and re spect. In the language of the distinguish ed Lieutenant General: "It is to be regret ted that at this time there cannot be a greater commingling between the citizens of the two sections, and particularly those entrusted to the law making power."— This state of things should be removed at once and forever. Therefore, to preserve the National Union, to vindicate the suffi ciency of our admirable Constitution, to guard the States from covert attempts to derive them of their true position in the Union, and to bring together those who arc unnaturally severed, and for these great na tional purposes only, we cord:ally # app:ove the call for a National Union Convention, to be held at the City of Philadelphia, on the second Tuesday, fourteenth day of Au gust next, and endorse the principles there in set forth. \\ e therefore respectfully hut earnestly urjre upon our fellow-citizens in each State and Territory, and Congressional district in the United States, in the interest of un ion and in a spirit of harmony, and with direct reference to the principles contained in said call, to act promptly in the selection of wise, moderate, and const rvative men to represent them in said Convention, to ih : end that all the States shall at once be re stored to their practical relations to the Union, the Constitution maintained, and peace bless the whole country. Signed by VV. E. Niblack, Anthony Thornton, Michael C. Kerr, G. S. Sham klin, Garrett Davis, 11. Glider, Thomas E. Noell, Samuel J. Randall, Lewis W. Ross, Stephen Taber, J. \V. Ilumpl.ey, John lloiran, II M. Dover, U. G. Bergen. Charles Goodyear, Charles 11. IPi..field, A. H. Coffioth, Lovell 11. Rosseau, Philip Johnson, Charles A Eld ridge, John L Dawson, lieverdy Johnson, Thomas A. Hendricks, William Wright. James Guthrie J. A. McDougall, William Radford, S. S. Marshall, Myer Strouse, Charles Sit— greaves, S. E. Ancona, E. N. Huhbell, B. C. Rittor, A. Harding, A. S. Glossbrenner, E. R. V. Wright, A. J. Rogers, 11. M'Cul lock, F. C. Leßlond, and VV. E. Finck. The Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Rail Road Company. The parties holding the charter to con sttuct a Rail Road along the valley cf the Suequehanna, from Pittston to the State line, to intersect and connect with rail roads in the st.,te of New York, are now asking releases of the right of way along the Canal. The company now propose to construct a rail road along the towing path of the ca nal,and change it to the berme bank,and in order to faciliate their enterprise, the Com pany are desirous of having the land hold ers along the line of said Canal agree to this change. The land to be occupied by the Rail Road to be the same as the North Branch Canal Company have the le gal right to occupy for Canal purposes. Their purpose would seem to be to con sult with the people along the line of Canal and the proposed rout for the Rail Road and have a mutual understanding in regard to this valuable improvement rather than to exercise a power the laws confer upon them. i ' Should the Rail Road be located at any point outside of the line, which could be legally used for Canal or Rail Road pur poses it is not now asked to be released. If the Kail Road should occupy other ground, that would be a matter hereafter to be adjusted. In other words the Rail Road Company propose now to keep with in the line of the land which the state have appropriated And they are willing that the people shall have a Railroad and Ca nal upon that ground. The building of the Rail Road will re quire a large amount of capital, which it would not be desirable to invest unless the country through which it passes should give it a fair and liberal support, unless harmony and good will should prevail in its behalf. That it would enhance the value of real estate along the line of the road and in the County, all can readily understand. That it would increase our population, introduce capital, and create enterprise, all know. — Its completion would hring with it, a "Telegraph Line"—a public want, which the few last years have fully demonstrated. In fact we want the Rail Road for scores of reasons. Let then the whole people give it their aid and encouragement. It might be proper to statQ that the road front Towanda to the State line it now being prosecuted with energy ; and it is expected to be ready for the cars this Fall. The efforts of the people along that er.d of the route secured for the com pany, without any trouble, the right of way, or as before stated of changing the towing path to the berme side of the Canal. This same liberal spirit would seem to be the interest of our people also. It is the intention of the company as soon as the road is finished from Towanda to the State line, to commence on this por tion of the work —if the people give the Company that encouragement so much de sired in any great enterprise. Now is the opportune moment to move in this matter so important to the wants and interests of all. The following is a copy of the release which will he presented for signature to the property owners along the route of the canal. • The Legislature having passed a law incorpora ting the Pennsylvania and New York Canat and Rail Road Company for the purpose of constructing a rail road up the Valley of the Susquehannah to intersect the New York and Erie at or near the State Line, and it is proposed by par ties holding the char ter to construct said railroad along the towing path or berme bank of the North Branch Canal, and in case the railroad is put upon the towing path of said canal, it will be necessary to change the present towing path on to the berme bank of the crnal. For the puipoje of facilit ting the building of said road along said canal do, for a valuable comideration, assent to the -aying satd railroad superstructure'along and upon the present towing path, onf nece?3ary upon the berme bank of said canal, and of the changing ol the t wing path to the berme bank whcneve* and wherever it shall be deemed necessary by said Company—the land to be occupied by said Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Rail Road Company, to be the same as the North Branch Canal Company hrve a legal right to occupy fgpcanal purposes, under existing laws hereby giving assent to the construction o s aid rail road across land along said canal as aforesaid, and by ibis assent we bind ours Ives, our heirs, executors and administrators. Witness our hands and seal this, the day of A D. IS6 ANTE-MORTEM Q.UACK OF DEAD DUCK FORNEY. Production of one of Forney's I.ove let ters to the President. How He Wanted Somebody to be Collector of New York. How I'E LOVED MR. JOHNSON'S RESTO RATION POLICY. A NEW PHASE OF FORNEY. The following letter has been furnished for publication in the Washington Repub lican. It presents a startling hut not a new phase in the political life of John W. Forney. The President has been induced to furnish it for publication because of Forae)'s recent denial that he ever wrote such a letter. Its endorsement of the President's restoration policy, its nomina tion, of liim for te-election, and the solici tation of the New York collectorship for a friend, whose name is omitud in the pub lislmd letter at the President's request,- show what faith may be placed in the dead duck's radicalism. Here is the let ter : "NhW YORK, Jan. 21, 1566. "MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I have been in the city for two days, and now write under an impulse which I cannot re strain. because I feel it to be for your own good and that of the country. I take it for granted tbatlyou are resolved notfto be unmindful of your own fame, and that you will not allow your friends who heartily sustain vonr policy to feel that they are without your aid and encouragement, whether you are a candidate lor Piesidunt or not. and if you are not I shall be great ly surprised, with the wonderful favor that crowned your restoration policy. "Y T ou should not allow the great offices to go to indifferent men, or those clearly in the interests of your foes. I need not repeat to you that I am now. as ever, for twenty years shown in my writings, and since your great act of patriotism in 1860, especially your open and avowed friend. Where lam to-dav my two newspapers, both daily, show to the world. Hence in what 1 now say, I speak no idle wcrds, but mean all I say. "The Collector's office at New York is a post that you should dispose of outside of all the politicians ; .not that I mean to defy them, but to select your own man, who should be free only to help you ami serve the government; oue they could neither attack nor use. Such a man is ,of this city. He was elected to Congress in ,as a Democrat, but, like you, refused to follow the party in trea son. He served a short time wi h great distinction, and resigned on account of ill health. He was a member of the Com mittee on Ways and Means, and won great applause. He is a very able man, educa ted to finance, intensely national, honest and independent, and could furnish mil lions of security. lie has an organizing mind ; would make yon a party, or fight your battles single-handed. He is an An drew Johnson Democrat, in short. I write in the knowledge that he would ac cept, and that his appointment would be received with joy by the whole community 'Yours truly, • J. W, FORNET. "To the President," NOVEITT IN BANK ROBBING. —The Village National Bark of Bowdoinha.n, Maine, was robbed on the night of the 21st June, by a party of thieves, who fol lowed the cashier home, gagged his family, and placed a guard over them. Thev then took the cashier back to the bank again, and after robbing the vaults of their contents, amounting to about $67,000, thev locked him into the vault, and made their escape with the plunder. They have been traced to Topsham, and it is supposed are now in Canada. Loral and Personal, Sc.' Statement of the condition of Finances af the Bank at this place, in another column. Ice Cfeatll, each as prepa-ed by Mrs Lease a t her Fancyund Toy stors, is* goo Ito take daring these hot days Try it, and see. Summer Hate, of all the standard and latest styles, con be found in infinite varioty. at SitseFe new store, on Bridge Street. Groceries, provisions, and dumpling-timber of all kinds, can always be found at Buck A Fitch's new store, one door below Ba'dwin's Hotel. Look ever the List of advertisers in the Dem ocrat. It is always safe to buy of those dealers who advertise. They want to sell their goods.— D n't intrude upon the quiet of those who shot them* selves up, like snails in their shells. A Good Bargain will be given any person wish* iog to purchase a piano, by the editor of this paper p who, hts an order given by Grovestein A Co., the' manufacturers in K. Y.. for 1108, being one third price of one of that Co's. 8325, Piano Fortes. The instruments manufactured by them, received Pre miums at the Worlds Fair in England, the U. 8, Fair at Chicago and at tbe great Exhibition in New l'ork A few years since. We will make such a de duction for cash, on this order as will make it to tbt interest of Lny one wishing to get a first class in stiumcnt, to pu.'chase it. The Fourth passed off at this place with tha usual amount of fire-crackers, cannon shooting, noises, and a raher unusual umonnt of drunken ness, fighting and other d sgracful exhibitions.— Some four or five young scape graces and vaga bonds in the evening b fore, and in tbe early mora ing.of the day, were engaged in breaking, changing and defacing signs, marking houses, shops Ac., with the obscene and fiflby emanations ot their depraved minds. We have heard them threatened with a prosecution, which, if carried out would teach theua a lesson they would uot soon torgct Array of the Potomac.— - 'A History of the- Campaigns of the army of the Potoma3," by Wit -1.1 AII SwiNTOs.an advertiseraont of which will be found in another ro'u.nn ofour paper to-day, is by far the most complete and reliable account of the operations of those memorable campaigns we have seen. The writer was with the army in the capacity of a news paper correspondent during the war ; and since its close has been furnished documents, official and otherwise, by a distinguished southern General, which give him greater facilities for arriving at the truth than has heretofore possessed by other writers on th's subject. There is nothing of a political or partisan nature in the work, which fact should re commend it to all who wish an impartial account of one of the most terrible and bl ody struggles of the age. Schools of Design for Women.—Many of our readers will fail to fully comprehend the mean ing of the Above caption, at first sight—the Institu ionsor schools bearing this title being few in num ber and of but recent origin in this country. There ore now three of them in this State ; one at Phila delphia, one at Pittsburg and one at Wilkes Barre. From a Prospectus and Catalogue of the Wilkes Barre school, we leatn some of Its objects. The principal one being the encouragement, develope ment and cultivation of a correct taste in the art of sketching, drawing, painting and designing, which uiaybo applied as the inclinations or taste of the pupil may dictate,to the gratification ot the fancy or amateur artisanship, or to the more profitable and useful purpose of designs for manufactured articles : Tht Di.-ectors, among whom are Judges Wood ward, Conyngham nnl other prominent men of the State have by literal contributions, secured for this sch'>ol, casts of the most celeoratvd ancient and modern Busts and figures, architectural ornaments, diagrams, copies of paintings, engravings, litho graphs, designs sc, used and studied in the art schools of this country and Europe. t The cour.-e of instruction embraces Drawing in out line, shading, coloring pattern designing, litho graph, wood engravings, Landscape painting Ac. Ac. Sessions commence on the first Mondays of Febru ary and September and continue five months. Tui- tion for the session SI4. Arrangements 'can nearly always be made for the reception} of Free students. Gen. E. L Dana, with whom many of our readers are familiar, is President of the Directors. Under his judicious and fostering management the school, at least, deserves success. Those who may wish further information in relation to the school, can obtain it by addressing E. P. Darling, Secretary, Wilkes i-irro. Pa. We will hint (in a whisper) to our lady friends who may contemplate a course of instruction in this institution, that this is a "School of design for women"—not a school for designing women. Married. ARNTS—RUSSELL—June 30th lSgg by tho Rev. J. L. Legg, at his residence in Tunkhmnock, Pa, George B- Aruts of Meshoppen, to Miss Phebe J. Russell of Russell Hill, in this county STINE —CAREY—At the M. E. Parsonage in Ly manville, on Sunday, Jnly lt lSgg, by the Rev. J. F. Wilbur. Mr. Tobias Stine, of Ransom, Lux. Co. Pa., to Miss Harriet H. Carey, of Tufikau- - nock Wy. Co. Pa, LYMAN—BUNNELL—At the M. E Parsonage, in Stertinv,ville, June 9th 1366- °7 v * E, * Roberts, Mr. Gideon C Lym.in of Meshopren, to Miss Lydia A, Bunnell ofßucnell Hill. PLACE—LOVE —At Tuscarora, Bradford Co , Ju ly 2nd, 18(J6, by Rev. D. D. Gray, Mr Jacob S Place, of Wyalusing, and Miss Susanna Leva, of Auburn. *r * $ KEENEY—DETRIOK—By the same, July 3d. at Golden Hill, Mr. Watson L. Keeney of Windham, and Miss Lucinda D. Detrick of Skinners Eddy. NOTICE. : Whereas a certain Judgment note, dated Feb 16, 1666 for one thousand dollars with interest Ac. against Theron Detrick was taken from my posses sion on or about the sth day of July, 1866. by some rerson or persons. All persons ore hereby forbidden from purchasing said note and said Theron Detrick is hereby forbiddin to pay said note to any prrsons except myself, my executors, administrators or as | Bign ' r ' GEORGE DETRICK. ! Falls, Wyo Co , Pa-, July 7, 1866. EtBI P RR YEAR * 1 -ell J1 J We rant agents ev erywhere to sell our improvkp t'2o I wing Machines Three new kinds Under end upper eed. Warran ted five years. Above salary or lat commissions paid The oilt machines sold in t' I nUed State* Vr iess rJ- TUiwhich are fully lie tsed by Hove, ; Wheelecheldelson. Grocer (J- Bake- Singer (V C and Baentsr. AU other cheap mi bine* are tn finer em an and the seller or user i . liable to > ar cs t fine \d imprisonment. Circ ala nfrtt. Ad dress or call upon Bhaw A Clark, Bid deferd, Mm r Chicago, 111. n2l-19 year