(L be ytmocntf, HARVEY SICKI.ER, Editor. TUN KHAN NOCK, PA Wednesday, Oct. 31, 1866. Our d Imquent suhscr ber* arc re mind, d tliat Court week is near at hand ; and.that the time fir the usual rjuaiterlv i dun by the printer, in at hand. Now, we do not propose to say much on so un pleasant a subject, this wetk, for the reason that men have been known to survive lor seven day* and upwards, under an entire deprivation of food. We are just going to wait, and see if our friends will let as g"0 ! a Democrat, as we think we are, starve-to death. If they do they will have a pretty rough lime with us oa the day ofjud ment Ju st bear this in m*..i Mr. (fill up this hlatrk yoursell.) Idcoru vvr TO Fakmbks. —The Rural Am(ricav , which is advertised in this issue of oi r paper is offieied free three months and :t Is a v ery valuable publication to iarmets ,at d all perrons engaged in rural , pursuits, imbed, we know of no paper of its class tlia' sutpasses it ; and it is eonsid < rt*l by many to he the host—the most practical agaicultural' and horticultural pe riodical in this couutiy. 'J he price, ottiv sl,oU a ytar, is |..w fur such an elegant well edited paper; yet every subsctib r tc ccivs r;s a GKAU'iir, about the samel amount itt vi r} choice grape vines, rash r ay tyidstiawbeiry plants, fine engravings, 6lc. Fee full details in advertisement. I>l J'nt Answer. Duthr is pretty generally known; lives at L ovell, Mass. Among those who beard his speech at tire Coy it iioti-p, Sat urday night, wo-a gentleman who also lived at Lowell in IP6O. During lien's speech, in the crisis of Ins eloquent denunciation of " traitor-,"' this gentleman, in a char voice aked the speaker: 44 Why di'/ the papi of Lowell throw ration fcpjx nt y nu in 1860, OH your return from Charleston ?" Ben lias a glib tongue and a ready wit, but he couldn't and would'nt, atid did'nt answ. r that qu'-stion." — ift. Louis IH9. fitch. A letter to the St. Paul Pres from Fcrt Benton, Sept. 1, savs: I rn-iv rn-' t'nn that a parte < ffive mn r who cam ■ t > Votfana poor two vais ago. earn • down f" >m the monnt-iin la-t evening With tw> titv two hundred pounds (over one t >n) of gld a- their pil —the result of one year's diggi g in 4 -''Y>'.f d ret • Gulch.''— They have ; g ard of fifteen men. well armed and paid fi>r their time and faithful ness. and arc now preparing to go below by the steamer. Condition of the Negroes at Rlrhmond. The Richmond Enquirer learned from a gentleman in 'he vicinity of Camp Lee, north of thof eitv. that the mortality among ♦be negroes quartered there, is latge.— There are deaths hy cholera everv dav. Tho Prvxbuterinn of that eitv savs; "A , christian phvsician of this eitv. who goes much among the negro-* says, that" the wretchedness of their condition cannot he •portraved in h'-man language." Tltes" sad fact- cannot he 'aid at. th" door of the whites.—for Richmond is the head qua t rs ot'the Fre. dm -n's Bureau for the S'ate ofVitgii ia. The Presbyterian also gavt; 1 "A Preshvlerian clergyman announced in one of our pre-hvteries lnt Spring, ir. our heari* g. tliat several Northern teaeh ers had 1 "ft their wor ein the town where he resid di" utt r desnair, and that thev •had declared to trim that the sudden liber ation of the black rae - was a a great na tional crime.'" The Lancaster Intelligencer thus re MVMtds to J .iii! W. Forney's anm nl for Pennsylvania to he readv to aid the Radi cals o' 1 Willimore when they in"l*i core, i as Fotney predicts if vvi'l two tht-ds of 1 the wlio'e figh'i -g material of IN-nnsi |vh- | liia wilt r> spend to the call of the President wi ha promptitude never known in all th annais o< war. Yes! Pennsylvania will be ready, fully ready." CdT The I ;,.uea-ter Lnlellii/rncer thus re ' spomls to .1. din W. Forney's no peal Jhr Pennsylvania 'o he re*dr 10 aid the Rad icals ot Baltimore when Fiey inaugurate! another civil war. "We can tell Foinev tliat Pennsylvania will hi* fully readv,— All the manhood in the whole masp of thrt'e hundred thousat d D. m'-cr >tio vo ters wiW l>c thrown into tlie contest t a titomiitt'i warning. For the right of a fret bull * tor* will glatllv do Itatt'e when ev< r ai d wherever the i-sue of tu"m> shall be joiiad aga jwt. Should the conf. st be gin in .Baltupni#. a* Fornev predicts it will, twu-thirds of tlie whole fighting ma ,, terial ot PennsvlvadH w ill resp.-.nd to tho call ot rh • Ptesi d Vit with a promptitude neAta-li-'osvu in a'Hhe annals of war \es ! Pcnns} lvuins will be ' readv, lully ! Waiv." ' | The Radicals Anxious tor Rcbtliiuu For some days past the redoubtable For ney, who sports Colonel to his name, ac quired at a militia musteror dubbed 44 Aid'' by some one of our Governors with the additional title thrown in, lias been on the 44 war path" and has been threatening terri ble things in case of certain contingencies. The cause of all this rhetorical thunder comes from the action of Governor Swann, of Maryland, who in his official capacity, ha- cited certain Police Commissioners of the city of Baltimore to appear before him. to meet certain charges preferred against them by ten thousand citizens of that com munity, who accuse them of malpractice in office. These petitioners allege that there are thirty-five thousand voters in Balimorc; that the Commissioners ruled that those whose names were on the former registry conld vote at the late municipal election.— Ihe result was,that out of thirty-five thou sand votes a little over seven thou.-and pre sented themselves at the polls. Out of this number the Radicals received fivethou-and or about one seventh of the voting popula tion. As matter of course, they carried cvervthi' g their own way. Now that Governor Swann is ab' iit to cab the Commissioners to account for their deeds, Forney fills the columns ol his two journals, the Washington Chronicle and Philadelphia Press with the most imflara matorv appeals for his party to rcsi.-t the Governor. The following is apart of a letter of Forney's written in BttU'aiore to the Prests i "Thp Mayor will never but fipht it out to tho bitter end All th > Union men in Bait more s wear that they will | to, s resisted it will be, In that eveei let ihe North b prepared. Let Penn s\it.'.nia be ea y " It w ill be S" en that this is nothing less than an invitation to civil war. It is a much so as*w:is the app.-al to the pe.qih of Carolina in 1801. It is just as rib. l.iou and shows thai the country is to have no pence while these R .duals are allowed t<- go unchecked. Like their *-outh Carolina prototypes tbey are fulminating their thousands and drilling their d '.pes with the open and avo%v v -i) purpose of resisting ih laws and precipitaiing revolution and hloodslied throughout llie land. It is but another move in the programme, mapped out hy the Toich-aud-1 urpetitine trumps, Biowmlow, Iliinnicuit, Butler Ai Co. Tney want another war so that they may once more thrive and fatten on their country's miserr. t But it seems there are some of the Rad ical leaders who hesitate to follow the "lying whelp of sin" in his new crusade. Tim Chicago Republican, referring to Foihev and his appeal to resist the consti tuted authorities of an independent State says : "Aton we av. let no Rt-fublYao fire oti th< fi.se;. Let no beret, f.ic Union man she.l ths w ir. lot a F'.leral toMirr Thus tnr the shir's of our j.srlv nre unstained by thi- >;re:it crime. Let us maintain in |ti'e of pro Vo cation. out all. fiance to the Uisi. n j n 1 our pos e-sion "f the fl .ir, nwt at polil'r-a! moi.n teoflnk" stnd c'.arlstans the would-be-Krpuiilir an sgitatsvs who would thriwusin'o the false poi tic.n of rebels ttKains* the national authority." 'I he Republicans don't want t-> ho held responsible for the insane ravings of a be sotted wretch like Forney in his scheme of riot, revolution and bloodshed. That paper knows full well that rebellion once initiated in Baltimore will speed to every eitv, town and village throughout the North. Thev know that however pleas ant it may be to a fanti. al Radical to see a D m"Cratic neighbm's house sacked and burned, there is no guarantee that he, in turn mnv not have to view his own ele gant establishment razed to the ground, and his wifi- and children left to the mercy of an infuriated mob, or exposed to the rude insults of an exeeited soldiery. No wonder thi*n that the Republican •!• noun ces the ravings of Forney as the villainous appeal of a "political mountebank and charlatan." The New York Journal of Commerce rightfully regards the present as a time, of unprecedented importance, and says: It ihe efforts of cnion loving men fail n-.w 10 fjitallih ihe great principles of the Coiistioi asth>- law for Southern as well as the Northern States, then the war will have provtein of social < qualities and in quali ties vvlitch it is to take and live und r. to pi scribe h'Cal legislation oil to any State, Xo'tln rn an < Southern, not nreserihed. by t lie Constitution of tin- United States, 'S to wiola-e the Cousitutii n, violate tin- prinei jd, s of se f-g vi riti~ient,d sfroy the balam e of the whole Union, and once, the way for eternal qu it rets hi t ween sections. . -—- TERRIBLE FIRE IV QUEBEC —L.nOO HOU SES DESTROYED -FOUR MEN KILLED—A t- rrible tire occurred n Quebec a few nights since, i't the St. Roche's and St Sauveur suburbs. Fifteen hundred hot so- were de stroyed Four men were killed. One soldier was blown up and one soldier woun ded. The whole district west of Crown street to the St. Sauveur toll gat-, nearly a mile, wa- d- vantated. Seventeen churches and en vents were burned. Two thousand lun-t s are in ashes, and twenty thousand people rendered homeless. A publ e meeting was held for the relief of the Kuffeien*. If wo are loved fey those around us we can hear the Itostrlky o? all the rest of the world ; just as if we were h-fere a warm fire we lie d not care for alj tbfrlee- in the Polar regions. * Add reps ofthe Democratic State Committee, DEMOCRATIC StATK t'oMMITTFE > ROOMS, Philadelphia, Oct. 17, '6B ) To the Democracy of Pennsylvania: In ap.ll of ro'>re.tlrnn six h mid rod and ten thousand vol. S.you arc beaten less than three percent, on the whole. A change of one and a half per cent, would have given you the S'ate. Yon have reduced the ma jority of your opponents, and polled nearly twenty thousand more votes than ever be fore. Upon aggregate ofthe Congression al vote, still greater force is shown. In this contest you have proven your de votion to principle, have demonstrated the strength of your organization; and yield to your enemy a dearly bought victory. You are "defeated hut not dismayed.''— Buoyancy and hope everywhere pervade your ranks, whilst chagrin and dismay mark the visages of you opponents. Thov judge you rightly ; for, in the light of this exhibition of vour stern devotion to the doctrines of the Constitution, to the perpetuity of your Union, and to the supre macy of you race, tney read their coining defeat. For the first time since the final dishand ment of our arrfi es, you have met the for ces of the Republican organization. They fought lor the life of their party ; they con centrated against you the influence of al mo.M vvety manufacture r, corporation and hank ; they had at their command a large preponderance of the public press of the State, speakers without number, all the money that dynasty of contractors —to whom the public treasury has been a mine of wealth—culd furnish ; memories of the war s'ill fresh enough to he the means of exciting hatred ; laws enacted with a view to their own political ascendancy ; a well disciplined organization. and all of the advantages that the possession of mu nicipal and State power could bring them; a>d yet, unaided and self impendent, you have rom'-ated this powerful combination, and almost carried the State. All honor and praise to the Democracy of the K vsto e, for this m >st gallant fight. A hand of men, who, ir 1803, can poll for their candidate 254.000 votes ; in 27G,0::0 votes, and in 2860, 235,000 vot.s ; who plant them-elvea upon principle that are eternal ; w." o will not despair of the Republic, and who possesses tin phvsical power and the m>ral courage to mainta n the r opinions and preserve their Ith. rlii s, must eventually he the ruling power in the State. ' Implicit belief ir. the justice and truth of the gr at doctrines that Jio at the bas. of ■ urfoim of government, aver-ion to its' centralization and confidence in the effi ciency of the Constitution for theptoserva tion of your liberties, have of ever distin guished you. These are the magnets around which you have gathered in many a hard fought contest, and to them von will be true as the needle to the pole. Opin ions of individuals may change ; but, in the future as in the past, can* victory or defeat, as a party you will ever be found rallying to these principles as tha leading 1 tenets of your political faith. Hop-, confidence and coui age should be gather. d from the n m-mbranc , that two thirds of the. white freem< n of the Republic i think as y gun. From this hour,let us . determine to gc forward. Let us have done with spasmodic efforts, and move on ward with unflagging energy. The thorough and effectual dissemina tion of truth, is the proper means to yonr ! eventual triumpl ; and organization, d ; s- j cipline,systematic effort ami i*.dividual ex l ertion, are the avenues that lead to victory, i Wdl you pursue them ? United,disciplined and determined, you will be irrisFtibie. By order of the Democratic State Com mittce. WILLIAM A. WALLACE, Chairman. He Scorns the Companion. B v. V i-ter Guatle, a colored man, a no table barber and a life-time resident of Montgomery, Ala., was suggested as a delegate to the Disunion Obnventmu at Philadelphia. In a letter pub Lbcd in the Montgomery psper, he savs ; '•lt must not be forgotten, sirs, fbat al though a colored man I have some pride in cprruno.i with the white people amongst whom I have been bred, nr.d to whom I ant indebted for whatever I am and have, T know r.o other people hnt these. I be lieve them the bc-t friends of ine and my rae<, and it would be hae ingratitude to desert them at any time in my life, an.l go to tlme who are laboring to incite civil war, alienate the blank from the white man. — The men in thatCorvention who pretend to rep res- nf the loyalty of the south. I regard them as disappointed office-seekers, who'd rather rule in lie 1 than serve in heaven.— They represent nothing bat their own de praved hearts, and the people where they bail from know them too well totrusttheir profession. For mvs.-lf, Iw< tdd scorn as sociation with politi' inns white or black, of the Kafiord ilk. and I trtM that I si all nev er sign m he pet to the trouble ot saying this mm h to right myself." I A singular discovery was r" } one of the giils was sorting a Tot of rags which had been recently shipped to Mil ; waukee from Chicago, site came across an I old armv knapsack, which in t> aring to pie res revealed h package of sl,f>oo in green hacks which had been sewed between the lining and the outside. RESIGNATION OF TIIR STATE SCPERINT 1 TFMDKNT OF SCHOOLS. — Hon. C. R. Cohiirn State Superintendent of Commop Schools, I lias tendered to (iovernor CURTIN his res ignation to take effect on the Irst of No vein her next. Professor J. P. WJCKER snAM,'Principal of the Sta'e Normal School at Millersvil'e, Lancaster county, is named as Mr. GoBt*8 Farmer's Tux, Tkefrdlowiugis very important to fatm | ers, and the decisions have recently been given by the Commissioners of Internal Revenue at-Washington : . Ist. Farmers will not be required to to make return of produce consumed in their immediate f..milics. I 2. The farmer's profiits from the sale o livestock are to be found by deducting them from the gross receipts for animals sold, the purchase money for the same. II ani mals have been lost during the year by death or robbery, the purchase money | paid for such animals may be di ducted from the gross income of the farm. 3. Xo deduction can be made ly the j farmer for the v*lue of services rendered by his minor children, wlp-ther actually pays for such services or not. If Ins adult children work for him and receive eom ! pen-ation for their labor, they are to he garded as other hand laborers in determ ining his income. 4th. Money paid for lahor. except such ias is used or employed in domestic set vice. or in the ptoducti. n of articles ir.d planting nu\ he deduct, d. j Bth. If a per-.ui sells tiinher standing, j the profits ar>- to oe oh'ained ly estiui .liug the val eot the l.til afitei the i.-iuoval of I the limber, ami from tin- sum thus ohtaia | d, deducting t lie —(irn it• <1 value of the i land oil the fiirt day January, 1862, or on the day of pui chase, if puicna>vd sine that date. Dili. Where no repahs have been tn .de I>V the taX-pavcrs upon any building ou n cd by 11iri i (iuiing the preceding five years, | nothing can he deduct. <1 fir repairs m.:i>t.iu - tivc. is es.-cnti;il. The criterion ly which 'to judge whether a sale is complete or not is t< determine whether the vendor still retains in that character a right over the property; if tin; property were lost ot destrovi'd, upon which of the parties, in j the absence.>fany other relation letween them than that of the vender and vendee', would the loss fall. What Fir arctpaif. n has F/one for ihe Nrg- oes Ti ic following, efipp • remember, d, was turned out of the post-olfice sometime 1 since, for his hitter opposition to the President. T Ue would rather he defeated atl onand times, savs tic Oefft/sharo CompiPr. bat tling for the Union and fr constitutional lihcrtv, than to be crowned with victory in the ra ks ofthe radicals. The spirit of reckless rnd hlo-dy fanatics has triumphed over calm reason, hut we can lav our hands ! upon our hearts and thank our God that we had no part in the triumph. fought it to the hitter end, and went down with our colors fiving. We will continue to fight it. and a score of de'eats shall not drve us from our purpose. We h vv. we al wnvs have done, to the verdict of the hal lot box. vet our belief that the n- lv cafi tv for t!:p countre i-s tn he found in the princi ples and policy a lvoct .1 hv the Democrat ic party, is too deeply laid and tri < fi-m'v grounded tn he shaken by the f ct that in a vote of six hundred tlvn-mnd our opponents have lfpen enah'p.l. through the appliances and expenditure of money, to secure a ma jority of sixteen thousand. The death se< teuce which hn been pass ed hv tbc fbnndiun trv On° of 'h<'in, the Kcv. Jolin AfcMa hon. i a r*Mi lrr|rr priest. who. if is alh-jred, wass : mn'v discharging '• duties as a spir itual n-'visor when arrested hv the j irnfit m'Tt ' fhciaN. Tt l's sincerelv to ho hoped that justice will b tempered with mercv and that th" sentence of those two men will not bo carried into execution. 44 Support Oonyross" is 'lie crv of the Radicals. Have not f'onsrross f nken - cient rare of themselves ? Th*v voted two years arduous *ervipes in keeping the Union d vid- d And the people have got to pay this in tax- a. Tliat is quite enough for the people to f t l, e I nitcd States the Had cals would be sent into retireu ent by a m joiitv some where (as we have shown) in the neigh borhood of a million. li all the States were represented in Congress even und- r our present Con-ti tutional .oganiz tion. the Radicals would have hut a hare majority ami would he as again-t the vote ol the I'ivsi.lent, inea pahle of harm. It results ft' in this that q ! junetion'of the opponents ofthe Jacob us ! Xoith mid South seal* their fate. ile v | k'ow flii, and hence thvir dt speratc stmg ! gie ro prevent it. In taking litis survey of the political !fi Id, the qii si ion r. cus : How long <* n this s 1 ate ot tilings laM ? How long wil j three fifths of the people suffer themselves |to he rednc. dto political nonentity bv . two - lit* s? In what manner nre they t•> I assert their right.- and make the Gown - | Itletit ofthe United Siatesone re|resent -rig ! I lie wishes of a majority ofthe peo ( |c? ! Swift coining ev< lit- mav deinaml asp ed\ j pramical an-wer to these mterrrd of hea'th. j Runniii'/ ll'i.vc.*. Sec. 2 No player to, he a lowed more than one hour to run a i ha **- i Cn/rJi n —Sec 3.—Players to have the privilege of catching tin ir 1 ads in hats or Caps, hut the use of p'-ech baskets to he; po-itive'v prohibited. Mosquito nets may j he used in eat< lung 'flv' balls F-ml AV/v-Sec 4, All "foul halls'" to he deodi PZ'd before used. Pu't'Off Plane>-.s- Out.—s;_—Anv | plaver "caught out" without his night kev i ,or a p'-rruit tro.o the C!e>lc of the Conn-' . se's, to he taken charge of hv the ci v po -1 ce p'ae d in the coffin ami furnished lodg ings ill David Jotie-i Loel;er. The Pit' her. —Sec. o. Should the ."pitchers' Income mucked dipiiig the • game, a new one to he procured fr.on Ev erhart'seh nastoie. t Prorir. and make a "home run, ' otherwise it shall he purchased from the nearest grocery. U'ltiinfj. —Sec. 7—No cotton ' batting'' allnwd. i Crnvn/ance.— Omnibuses to start for tlie first base everv half hour, and ambu lances to he readv at convenient pO'nts to carrv i' it. such an inci t legrefe as to keep in mind th if 11 ere is such > n object as the printer. That he is ulircys Th .t he is usually, blest, (like John !> ..„. jr. the Piinimer) with a wife and numerous small chiblren Mrs. Lease, of this place, seems to • e thu- favutvd- -not with toe children—but such a memory as n L-.c been speaking of A neat and elegant j rcs.-lit to our better-half proves the fact. Speaking of this La ly. wo are rcmin led of the fact, thai shu has jast secured froiu tha city, one of the I'rg'-st, most ebgint and varied assortment of F ny Goods, Ttimmings Ac., ever brought to i .wo. It wa! 1 !>a i l'o for us to att ropt an eou iur .iiw nearly a neat little building designed for a business office. Prominent among the private improvements should be mentioned the large ana eltgant house Mr. Jacob Bittispuugh has re -onstructed at the site of what is known as the "old Coudry house " Mr. R. has converted one of the eye-sores of the towa in .o one of the most attractive residences. Mr Hack and Mr. ridings just opposite, hare re- IIKJIII le i anJ'g.eatly impiovet iheirresidences Mr Jacob Cvrlingbof ha.- by tbe most untiring industry, seeun d to himself a very pleasant and desirable location on the corner of 2d and Turn pike streets. The unsightly shanty-like house and tumbledown fence, have been superceded by a neat cottage surrounded by on elegaut and substantial fence Going up town we find cu the corner of the pub lic .-quire, the planing mill and work ship of Peck ham and Youngs- Judging from the almost con stant humming and ; uffing coming from that direc io 1, we think their little engine ouo of the busieat workers in town Wm, S. Kutz, Major Ross and others, have great ly improved and beautified tbeir private residences and tic giouu.li a j.icent Among the prospective iinprorements which will certainly be made daring the next season, may fca tinned tlie new jail, and one, if not two, first-class churches, all of which, will bo decidedly ornamen tal and it i< hoped, useful. As to these we say to the people ; -'you pays your money and you takes your choice." I^Eetirx-ioci- MrNEAL—REDFIEI.P—On Tucsbty, the 30th in-;., by the Rev C R Lar.e, Mr Martin L. Me- Neal. of .rhickslnnney, Luzerne Co. to Miss M ttie T., Uaught. rof P. W. Ecdficl l.cf this Borough. XJied LEWIS. —In L mon, Wy uning County, Pa , Oct. 6th. ISG6. Sarah A. Lewis, aged 63 years, 3 mos. and 1 day. The subject of the above notice, a relict of the late William Lewis—-was one of the early settler* of this part of the country---having removed from Del mare County, N. Y-, to this r gion, Upwards of thiity years ago ; where -he and her husband like all the unrly settleis, endured uiany hardships, end suffered many privations, She wus the mother of a l .rge family. Iy whom she was regarded ei one of 'he most kind Ond affectionate of parents. H*f many ihiistiau virtues and exemplary conduct, through a h>ng and eveutfui life, had securad her an extensive circle of friends ; who, with her rela tives, now most deeply mourn the loss, en earth, of one they loved so dearly; but feel 1 Th.it bliss is bom of sorrow, 'Tis never sent in vain, That :tie heavenly surgeon means BO ,ft ** Aud give no useless l>*n.