North Branch democrat. (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, August 01, 1866, Image 1
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Business Cards of one square, with paper, S5 JOB WORK of all kinds neatly executed, and at prices to suit he times. All TRANSIENT ADVERTISEMENTS and JOB WORK must be paid for, when ordered. FHISIIIFSS & W." ELITTLE, ATTORNEYS AT XV LAW Office on Tioga street, Tunkhannock Fa- T f s . COOPER. PHYSICIAN A SURGEON Xl Newton Centre, Luzerne County Pa. /"i EO. 8. TUTTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW ' X Tunkhonnock, Pa. Office - n Stark * Brick ock, Ttoga street. WM, M. PIATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, O fice in Stark's Brick Block Tioga St., Tunk hannoek, Pa. IJT FUFPET SJJOU.SE, HARRISRUHG, PKNNA- The undersigned having lately pur. based the • BUEHLER HOUSE " property, has already com menced such alterations and improvements as will render this old and popular House equal, if not supe rior to any Hotel in the City of Harrisiiurg. A continuance of the public patronage is refpeet fully solicited. GEO . j. BOLTON "WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., FA. THIS establishment has recently been refitted an furnished in the latest style Every attention will be given to the comfort and convenience oi those who patronize the House. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor ; Tunkhannock, September 11, 1861- NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING CO! NTY, PA Wm. 11. CORTRIGHT, Frop'r HAVING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to render the house an agreeable place ol sojourn for nil who may favor it with their custom. Wm. II CORTRIGHT. June, 3rd, 1863 GLFTMS TOWA.TJDA, FA. D- B- BAH TLET, (Late oft.. p BRAINARD HOUSE, ELMIRA, N.Y. PROPRIETOR. The MEANS HOTEL, i* one of the LARGEST and BEST ARRANGED Houses in the country—lt is fitted up in the most modern and improved style, and no pains are spared to make it a pleasant arid agreeable stopping-place for all, v 3, n2l, ly. CLARKE,KEENEY.i (-0,, MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN LADIES', MISSES' & GENTS' §M AIITI CASSIMN'F FLATS AND JOBBERS IN HATS, CAPS, FURS, STRAW GOODS, PARASOLS AND UMBRELLAS. BUFFALO AND FANCY ROBES, 840 BROADWAY, CORNER OK LEONARD STREET, WTSMA. B F. CLARK, I A. C KEENEV, V 8. LUEENEV. > M7 GILMAN, DENTIST. •sasa JLT GILMAN, has permanently located in Tunk l'l. bannock Borough, and respectfully tcr.derht professional services to the citizens of this placeand surrounding country. ALL WORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIT UON. Office over Tutton's Law Office near the Post Office • NEW TAILORING SHOP The Subscriber having had a sixteen years prac tical experience in cutting and making clothing, now offers his services in this line to the citizens of mcaoL&ON and vicinity. Those wishing to get Fits will find his shop the t*Me to get them. 1 A JOEL, R, SMITH. • s(V6nn>i .Store. THE FALLEN BRIDGE. "I am sorry for you, Mrs. Hall," said the landlord. "I would give you your rent if 1 was able ; but you know I have a family to support, and you know it would not be doing right to them." "Give me three days, Mr. Jones," said the widow, "and something may turn up during that time which may enable me to pay you." The landlord reluctantly assented, and left the widow alone with her two children. It was scarcely a year since she lost her husband. Ilis income had been small, ami, beyond a hundred dollars and the furniture he had left his wife nothing. Yet bv sew ing, and wh it odd jobs her son Henry could obtain, she had been enabled to get along and keep her children at school. Her heaviest expense hid been the rent, which, however, she had no reserved fund, and found herself quite unable to meet the rent at the close of the first quarter. After the landlord went out, she gave way for a mo ment to depression. 4 1 am afraid," she said, "that we will have to leave the house. It has been our house so long that it will be very painful; besides. I don't know where we shall go." "To-day is Saturday," said Henry, "and as school don't keep, I mean to go out and see if I can't find something to do. Far mer Terry told me that perhaps he might give me a job at raking hay." "I)o so, Henry ; 1 hope you may succeed for with us every little helps.'' Henry, who was a stout and handsome boy of twelve, immediately took down his cloth cap from the nail where he usually hung it, and made his way across the fields toward the Terry farm. The distance was about a mile, and the route by which he went took him across the railroad track. The point at which he crossed was about a mile from the station, and just above a bridge, a hundred feet in length, over which the cars passed. He glanced in the direction of the bridge, as lie crossed the railroad. "Wliv," he exclaimed to himself, "I be lieve the btio'ge has giv< n way." Running to the spot he found his sus picions correct,. The bridge, whether be cause it was badly constructed, or from some other cau c e not apparent, had partly given wav, and must have inevitably caus ed the destruction of any train which should attempt t<, cr<<ss it. That many live* must be lost in this event was certain, since the ravine spanned by the bridge was *ome fifty feet deep. The thought fairly took away Henry's breath. "What shall Ido ?" thought the bewil dered boy. "Shall I have time to get to the station befre the next tram gets along? No, that is impossible, for it is about time for it now." As if to verify the last assertion,he could hear faintly the sound of the approaching #ain. "I mu*t save it if I can," he thought. After brief thought, he ran along the track in the direction of the advancing cars. As he ran he waved his hat, and threw up his ha: ils, and in every possible way endeavor ed to attract the attention of the engineer. Apparently they did not see him, or sup posing it was merely boys' fun took no no tice of it. "There is only one thing I can do," thought Henrv, and he proceeded to do it. Placing himself between the rails,he continued the same demonstrations. "They'll stop rather than run over me," he thought; yet the feeling of his own per sonal danger in case they should fail to think him in earnest, blanched his cheek. "Never mind," said he, resolutely, "bet ter risk mv own life than let so many perish with out warning. Of course this took place in much less time than I have taken to record it. Will the reader picture to himself the terrible situation in which our hero stood— in the way of a train traveling at the rate of twen ty-five miles an hour, waving his hat fran ticallv, and exposed to the hazard of not being able to get out of the way in case he failed to succeed in stopping the cars. It was indeed the time to test the courage of the boy hero. But he maintained his ground firmly. Meanwhile the engineer perceived him. Even at this time lie supposed it was done in foolish bravado, "The little fool," Ire mutter. "We shall be compelled to stop or run over him." lie hastily issued an order to stop the train. It was done just in time : they were only two rod* distant from the boy. "Now, you little rascal," exclaimed the angry engineer, "what do you mean by risking your foolish life, and putting us to this trouble ?" Henry (minted mutely to the broken bridge and then, overcome by the excite mentthrough which te had passed, he sank back, fainting. Ilis motion was under stood. "Good Heavens!" exclaimed the en gineer, "we have been saved from a terri ble fate !" With remorseful eagerness lie now devo ted himself to the task of recovering the fainting hoy, and when he had opened his eyes, asked bis pardon for bis rude unkind ress. "Is the train safe !" asked Henry, eager ly' "Entirely so —thanks to your noble con di.ct, my little hero." Henry found himself in the center of a group of passengers, who were profound- "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT.Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1866. edly shocked at the danger from which they had just escaped. "Gentlemen," said one of the number, a fine looking man, calling them aside, "you perceive how narrow has been our escape; and you must be aware that it is solely ow ing to the courage of this noble little fellow. Me h -s displayed a degree of nerve of which I doubt whether any one of us is capable. I believe I shall only meet the wishes of many present when 1 suggest that nothing could l>e more fitting than a pecuniary tes timonial of our gratitude " So saying, he tookoff'his hat and d-op ped a ten dollar geld piece into it. 11 is example was speedily and even eagerly fol lowed. It chanced that the train was a long one and contained ai\ unusual num ber of passengers. To this fact may be at tributed the large amount of the con tribu tion which was taken up. "Gentlemen," said the first spokesmen, after counting the money, "you will be grat ified to learn that 1 have in my hand three hundred dollars, the result of our contribu tions, which in you name, I have the pleas ure of presenting to our young friend for bis courageous conduct." So saying, he placed the money in his own purse, which he emptied for that pur pose, and amid the cheers of the crowd, presented it to Henry. "What! is it mine?" asked Henry, bo wildered with excessive joy, "It is all yours. We have no doubt that a boy who has done himself so much credit as you have this morning, will use it in a suitable manner." "I will give it to my mother," said Hen ry, his eyes sparkling with joy. "1 am so glad—she needs it so much " Preparations were now made to back the train to the station just left. The gentle man who had been the means of benefiting Henry so essentially did not return with it, but said to him— "If you arc willing, 1 will go with you to see your mother. I begin to leel a strong interest#n you, and may have it in my power to be of serv ice to you," On the way he asked various questions, to all of which Henry answered frankly. "There is my mother's house," said he, as they ctme in sight of home. "She will bo glad to get hold of this money, for she has not been able to pay her rent for the last quarter, and now sbe can do it without any trouble. "You must introduce me to your mother. To do this you must know my name which is Gondon. Mrs. Hall heard the story of her son's bravery with mingled pride and terror, and her cheek blanched when she thought of the danger he had incurred. "Madam," said Mr. Gordon, at length, "I am a merchant, doing business in the city. I want a lad for my counting room. 1 have taken a fancy for your son, and if you will entrust him to me, 1 will try to ad vance his interests as far as may he in my power. Mrs. Ilall hesitated. The offer was an advantageous one, hut she did not wish him to leave school. When, however, Mr. Gor don promised to give him several hours a day to devote to study, and to take him in to his own family, she accepted with earn est gratitude. Henry is at the moment junior partner in the firm, and his mother and sister are raised above want. Mrs. Ilall is justly proud of the son to whose boyish intrepidi ty all their present psosperity is due, YVould'nt Contend. A cross-grained, surly man, too crook ed by nature to keep still, went over to his opposite neighbor, Mr F., a remarkably co'd, calm, non-resistant, and addressed him thus : " That piece of fence over there is mine, and you shan't have it." "Why," replied Mr. F., "you must be mistaken, I think." " No, it's mine and I shall keep it." " Well," said Mr. F.. "suppose we leave it to any lawyer you shall choose." f 1 won't leave it to any lawyer," said the other. "Shall we leave it to any four men in the village that von shall select?" Said Mr. F. " „ "No I shall have the fence." Not at all discomposed, Mr. F, said : "Well, neighbor, then I shall leave it to yourself to say to whom it does belong, whether to vou or to me." Struck dumb by the appeal, the wrathv man turned away, saying : "I won't have anything to do with a man wlio won't contend for his own rights. It is not the most "wrathy" who arc ir reconcilable, neither are they to be feared ; hence the Scotch proverb, "Ilis bark is worse than his bite. Just allow such a man sufficient time to fight with his own shadow, (like the knight of LaMancha with the windmill,) and he will very soon come down. There is little to be dreaded from such an organization thus treated, gqT" There are two reasons why you should not interrupt an editor when his writing. One is, that it is apt to put him out—and the other is, that you might get put out yourself. fglT "I stand upon the soil of freedom," cried a stump orator. "No," cried his shoemaker, "you stand in a pair of shoes that have never been paid for." J&" An old farmer in Pennsylvania, when told that he possessed oil lands, made light of it. PREPARATION FOR ANOTHER CIVIL WAR. Hon. Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New York Times, writing to that paper, from his scat in the rump Cougress, on the loth inst., divulges the following very inter esting facts: You may have noticed the passage in the House, a few days since, of a resolution of fered by General Paine, of Wisconsin, call itig on the States to organize discipline, and ci]nip their militia, and directing that two thirds of the ariws, ordinance and ammuni tion now under custody of the General Government be distributed among the States —the distribution among the loyal States to fake place immediately, and that among the States lately in rebellion to be oostponed until further notice. The resolution came up from the Com mittee on Military Affairs, and was pushed 'to a vote, without debate or delay, under the previous*question. It attracted as lit tle attention in Congress as it has in the country; and the public will doubtless re ceive with incredulity the assurance that it was intended, by those who secured its passage, as the first step toward prepara tion for another civil war. Although no debate was had upon it, members were urged to vote for it by direct conversational appeals on the part of the few who were privy to its introduction. S >me were told that it was necessary to enable the South ern loyalists to protect themselves; others that it was simply a matter of detail in the War Department; others that the arms taken out of the hands of the Pres ident, and others that it was proposed at the instance of the Secretary of War. An appeal was made by Mr. Kasson,of lowa, to allow debate upon it, as it seemed to be a matter of importance, but this was re fused. Most of the leading and reflecting Radi cals in Congress take this view of the po litical future. If the fall elections result in the choice of Northern Democrats enough to constitute, when added to the members from the Southern States, a majority of the House, they assume that this majority, thus constituted, will claim to be the Con gres,*and will act accordingly; and that they will be recognized by the President as the body to which he will send his mes sage, and whose sessions he will, if the ne cessity should arise, protect by military force. They assert, on the other hand, that the Union members from the loyal States —if they constitute a majority from these States—will claim to be the only legal Con gress, and will, if necessary, invoke an in surrection of the people to maintain them in that position. They do not in the least conceal their purpose, in the event of such a collision, to appeal in force, and to "drive the rival Congress, with the President and his Cab inet, and supporters, into the Potomac," to use the language of the ablest and most sincere of their number. It'you will recall the remarks of Mr. Bontwcll, of Massachu setts, in last weeks first caucus, you will see this movement clearly foreshadowed —in deed avowed, lie declared his belief that an issue of force was rapidly approaching, and that we must be prepared to meet it. He acts, and all who co-operate with him in these measures, profess to act, under the apprehension that the President in tend* to resort to force —that he means to disperse the present Congress on its reas sembling in December, if it refuses to ad mit the Southern members; and Mr. Fans worth ascribed to Mr. Seward the declara tion that this Congress should never reas semble, unless the Southern members were admitted—in support of this belief. I need scarcely say that Mr. Seward never made any remark of the kind, nor that the pro ject ascribed to the President is purely an invention, or at least the crazy dreain of a political nightmare. But in either case it serves the same purpose It covers, and shields to justify, the determination to arouse the North, and prepare for a resort to force upon the assembling of the Forti eth Congress in extra or regular session ; and this determination is avowed. And the resolution to which I have referred,for an organization of the militia and distribu tion of arms in the Northern States, is the initial step to its execution. Ido not propose to comment npon the result of such a movement. It is obvious that if any such contingency should arise, the war would not be sectional, as was the last; it would he a war of political par ties and of neighborhoods. Not only have the great body of the Union party in Con gress no sympathy with these views and purposes, but they are in the main ignorant and incredulous of their existence. That the extreme Radicals entertain them, how ever, there is not the slightest doubt, and we know, from the experience of Secession in 1861, how few men it sometimes requires to plunge a gnat party or a great nation in war. SAL.ERATUS. — TTood is burned to ashes, and from these lye is made. By boiling Ive is evaporated and black ash is the resi duum, which, when purified by lire, is changed into potash. By another process potash is converted into pearlash, and this alkali placed in sacks over a brewer's vat,or in any other place where carbonic acid gas is produced, absorbs the gas and becomes a solid, heavier, whiter and more dry than peailasb. This is sakeratus,which is put into our food; and how much of the products of wood ashes and carbonic acid gas the hu man body can bear, is a question for a eal aratus eater. THMS, $2,00 PER AXICI3M PARSON BROW N LOW—OFFICAL RUFFIANISM. Up to a recent date Parson Brownlow, of Tennessee, had the reputation of being the foulest-mouthed man that spoke the Eng lish language, which is equal to saying the foulest mouthed man on earth, for the Eng lish language has capacities of vulgar foul ness equaled by no other form of mortal speech with which we are acquainted His ribaldry and blasphemy as a preacher shocked even the rude ruffians of the South west, while his scurillity as a politician and editor, gave him a position which no decent men could approach. After having done as much as auy other individual of his ca pacities in the South to stimulate the full spirit of Slavery to war and treason, he saw fit for selfish ends, and to the disgust of every loyal man in the country, to take sides with the Unionists of East Tennessee. Neither they nor we had any more respect for his selfish loyalty than for his ribald piety; but the course and force of circum stances kept hiro from open treachery by making it dangerous: and the generous attention and help he obtained from the courageous and unflinching leader of the Tennessee Unionists, who is novv Presi dent of the United States, induced him to endure till the rebellion was prostrated by our armies. Even the foulness of his tongue seemed to suffer in abatement for a short while, and it appeared as if time might cause him finally to be tolerated by reputa ble people- L nder these circumstances, and under prospect of reformation, Mr, JOHNSON was more than generous to him, aiding him to place and power, and finally assisting him to obtain the position of Gov. which JOHNSON had vacated to as.-ume the Vice-Presidency. But the dog will re turn to his vomit, qnd the serpent will plunge his fangs into the bosom in which he has been warmed. BROWNLOW now turned on the President—turned upon him for ends as base and selfish as had formerly led him to join with him. The President would not —as he could not-permit him to carry out the atrocious and savage purpos es he had designed upon those who were his enemies—that is to say, the greater part of the people of Tennessee, who had nei ther voted for him nor would uphold him, BROWNLOW actually wanted to inaugurate a general massacre and plunder of those whom he had made foes by thirty years oi personal insult; and he proclaimed this in language so fiendishly vindictive as to shock everv man who had any manhood left in his nature. The President stood between him and his outrageous purposes; and BROWNLOW turned from the people whom the President had saved upon the' Presi dent himself. His office as Governor gave him no more selr-respect now than his vo cation as preacher had given him Chris tian character,while the fact that Mr. JoH- - SON holds the office of President seemed to add zest to the rancor of his assaults.— He swore and raved more furiously than he had ever done before, and used lan guage which would put to the blush even that of the malignant madmen ofCopgress, He vented his personal malice "in sea son and out of season," in speeches, pub lic documents, and in his new spaper; and let no act or word of the President's, pass without finding in it new opportunity of revenge for his grievances. It was quite in keeping, therefore, when in a dispatch to Washington, on Thursday last, announc ing the passage ol the Constitutional Amendment in one branch of the Tennes see Legislature, he had the blackguard in solence to add : "Give my compliments to the dirty dog at the White House." He knew, of course, that in using such language he was perfectly safe from any notice or reply by the party immediately assailed ; and if it brought him renewed contempt from all decent men, that was but what he had been accustomed to from the beginning of his career.—N. Y. Tinuts. —Republican, A GEORGIA WIDOW. —An anecdote is related by a certain Squire, who proceeds thus: " Oh!" said the Squire, •• I wish I was married, and well over it. I dread it pow erful. "I'd like to marry a widow. I al lers liked widows, since I knowed one down in Georgia, that suited my ideas ad zaclly. About a week after her husband died, she started down to the graveyard, whar they planted him, and she read the pcrscription on to the monument. When she got there, she stood a looking at the stones which was put at each end of the grave, with an epithed on 'em that the min ister had writ for her. Then she burst out, "Oh ! b o-o !" says she ; "Jones was tluj best of men. I remember how the last time he come home, about a week ago, he brought down from town some sugar and a little tea, and some store goods for me, and lots of little necessaries, and a little painted boss for Jeems, which that blessed little child got his mouth all yallcrwith sucking ot it; and then he kissed the children all round, and took down that good old fiddle of his'n and played up that good old tune: "Hake her down, Sal, Oh, rang dang diddle, Oh ! rang-dang-diddle, dang, dang, da !" Inspiration is such an influence of the Holy Spiriton the understandings,im imaginations, memories and other mental powers of the writers of the Sacred Books, as perfectly qualified them for commmwca. ting to the world the knowledge of the willof God VOL. 5 NO. 50 GRAND CAMPAIGN SPEECH FOR CTHC WOOLY-HBADS J YVhar, Oil Whar's de Buro Now i The Bellefonto Watchman furnishes in advance, a speech for the negro advocates in the coining campaign which will, no doubt, be a bombshell in the tfamps of thtf Johnsonites, and ascatterer of the "ignor ant," "nasty" "Copperheads" who praised the President for vetoeingthe Negroes Bu reau Bill. Here it is in full < My Belubded Friends. —De tex oil dis 'stressin 'casion am dese stirrin and heart bustin obserwations; Whar's de Freedmea's Bureau now I My Culled 'Sciples:—Boyd de Ameri can ob African 'scent, am heah befoah de house ob extreme discouragement. De cul led popylashun has been ske wished by Mr.. Johnsing whose front name was Ander.— l His vetoes have stepped on to oar aspira tion and de Freedman's BurO am clean done gone and busted foreber. De kloveri hufl ob de indiwidual which his lastcogno-' men is Johnsing, hab made distinkly visible" to deunkivered obtics ob de public, Dat is to say—you can sec it wid de naked eye, widout de aid ob a xelyscope. He is de Moses Iscarot ob dese degenerated day's. My frenz, who's dis Johnsing ? say ? lie was nuflin but a tailor, yes, gemmen and folks, he came from a low straxhum, and his parunts on his father's side was old Johnsing, and, "Whar's de Freedman'cr Buro now ?" Dis is de werrv ur.kindest cut ob all, a$ Spokesiiavc say. Dis is de midnight obde mid-winter ob our diskontent. De smashing ob de Buro. I consider de most greatest and exceediugist mightiest kalamity ob dis age ! lam a orator, I ac knowledge, but whar's de language to da justice to de extreme proportion ob depro-* digionsness ob de magnitude ob de enor mousness ob de universal amplitude ob de de "Wharf! de Buro now 1 My frenz, You'll excuse de wraf and in dignashun dat's in de veins ob de honor able and eloquent speaker who is now speaking sitch burnin eloquence in your midst —dat's to say me. But I cannot dis train de powerful ideas which am leapiu and wrestlin into my brain. De krisis ha 9 cum. De sister of de krisis and all their sisters have arriv.aud de bery earth quakes de stars emit flashes ob indignant thundery de bery uniwerse trembles, and boundless 'mensity echoes back de dire question, "Whar's do Buro now V My hearers. De young man eloquent must rest here, he has fought de good fite, but he's gone in. Look at dese tattered garments, all worn to shreds in de noble cause ob deFreedmen's Buro which John sing tramped \pto wid de—as I may say,de stern heel ob despotism ! Wherefore dis excitement, you may ask. De answer am here. Ovepowered sentimentally, over burdened with other hefty giief! My day is.run, my occapashun gone, for de text says : "Whar's de Buro now ?" But my followers, Neber gib up de ship. Boyd will neber fail. When de earthquake shaft have ceased, when de storm shall hab spent its fury, and de tempest hushed to ze phyrs. When de floods shall hab retreated and de giant ob terror, dismay and distrac tion hab returned to de dim caverns ob dere abode, der in the midst ob de ruin shall be seen dis hummel indiwidual, um brel in ban, li at under de handkerchief in de rear pocket ob de narrative ob his swal ler-tailed coat, yellin eloquence to de na tives, dis text, Whar's de Btm> no* " Brudder Delaun Gray will proceed to collect de revenue in do usual way, while do congregation jincs in dis highly edifying hymn — Oh g'ggle, goggle jumpacross, I>at am berry good, Cen dis brudder steal a hoss, And ride him to de woods! Jiggle, joggle, possum fat, Hop de dooden dow, I'se got a lovely Thomas cat, O ! Whar's de Buro now. While many may think that the speech will not be very appropriater for campaign purposes, vet it will be found to contain just about a wc'ujhty arguments as aboli tion orators generally use. (3T -A- frightful accident occured in Han over on Friday last, A farmer employed a laboring man to clean out a well for him. The well was forty feet deep, and it was suc cessfully cleaneJ, hut the well caved in, cov ering up the unfortunate man. The neigh bors were summoned, and at once set to work to dig him out. After laboring for several hours, the body of the sufferer was reached and taken out in an insensible state. I pou examination it was found that he had cut his throat in two places with a pocket knife. It is thought that the victim of this frightful accident feared he would not be rescued, and cut his throat to put him self out of his misery. At last accounts the man was still alive, although fatal results were feared. Our informat did not learn his name. — Jackson {Mo.) Citizen J&rThc right man in the right place is & husband at home in the evening.