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-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<.he<t upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart.
That winged the shaft that quivered in hia heart j
Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel
He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel."
A M,
The National Convention.
Missouri has taken tho lend in the ap
pointments of delegates to the Convention
which is to meet at Ph ladelphia on the
14th of August, the great Conservative
State Convention which met at St. Louis
on the 3d inst., having appointed a full
set of delegates from the State at large,
and from each ot the Congressional Dis
tricts. , ,
The gentlemen selected as delegates are
unquestionably amongst the ablest and
most influential citizens of Missouri.—
They represent every shade of Conserva
tive opinion; arid were clearly selected
without any regard to past party affilia
tions. Among>t 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