Jh gemot rat, HARVEY SU'KI'ER, Editor. TUNKHANNOCK. P* Wednesday. Nov. 28, 1806 Wendell JPhlillps. We publish in an adjoining column, a recent letter of Wendell Phillips, showing the anticipations and desires of the mon grel party, of which he is the leader. It requires no comment to make it under stood. Phillips is the"whipper in" ofthe progressives, and the docility and spaniel like crouching of the "so-called" republi cans,show how easily tiiey are led in the "elevating" process of amalgamation. Court Proceedings. The November session of Court at this ] lace opened on Monday the 1 Oth inst. HON WM. EI.WELL, President Judge and lion. NATHAN WELLS and J. V. Sill: H, Associates, present, QUARTER SESSIONS- Grand Jury called and sworn. N. P. WILCOX Esq. Foreman. True Bills were found iu the following cases. Commonwealth vs. Minor' Beam—lndict ment, Larceny. Wm. Perigo, Pros. Cause tried, defendent found guilty and sentenced to the House of Refuge. Commonwealth vs. A. W. Secor, indict ment, assault and battery. Cause tried.— Deft- found guilty. Sentenced to pay S2O tine and tests of Prosecution. Commonwealth vs. Edward Lloyd—in dictment forging order. R ni. Au mick, Pros. Cause tried, verdict guilty. Deft, sentenced to the House of Refuge. Commonwealth vs. Custis Williams—in dictment. horse stealing. Philo Sherwood Pros. Cause tried, verdict guilty. J)ef-. senteuced to pay fine of*soo, and costs and to Penitentiary for 3 years and six months. "Commonwealth vs. Ira Schooley. In dictment, nan slaughter. A. W. Jaqucs, Pros. Caue tried. Atter hearing two or three witnesses to disclose the facts atten dant upon the killing. L. Hakes, counsel fi.r prisoner, admitted the commission of offense by prisoner. The jury returned a verd ct of Guilty without leaving the b n x. On motion of prisoner's Counsel, sentence if not ail the jurors, signed a petition to the Governor for a pardon. Ail the material facts of this case hav ing been before published in the Democrat, a repetition here, is deemed unnecessary. Commonwealth vs. William llinker and Horace Raiding. Indictment— l ejecting vote of qualified voter. James Croop. Pios. Cause tried Jury failed to agree af.ei being kept for nearly two days and nights weru discharged bv the cOort. Commonwealth vs. M tik Keeucy and E. S. Thompson. Indictment rejecting vote fif qualified voter. Stephen Taylor, Pros. Cause tried. Deft, found guilty and scn tcnc< d to pay a fine of SSO, and costs. Tin se last mentioned ca>es excited mncli interest, being the lir.-t cases tried in this county since the passage of the so called d -serter Luw.whieh the.Dcfendents, being members ot t lection boards in the township of Eaton and Windham, seemed to have entirely misunderstood and inisiu tetpreted. These cases involved the question of the right of an election hoard to reject the vote of a citizen, otherwise qualified, on the ground that lie had been drafted into the service >f the United States, and had failed io report. His Honor, Judge EI well, in bis charge cited the several acts of congress w ldch has been parsed from the year 1800 to the passage of the act of JSGo, upon the sub ject ol desertion—and showed that under all of them a trial and conviction must pre cede punishment for that, offence. The act of March 3d, 18(1.5, was part of a sys tem of law upon the .subject, and imposed an additional penalty, which followed as a consequence upon the conviction of an of fend' i.. ./I hat ac:. he instructcdjthe jury, doeu not deprive a person of IDS right of citizenship until he has been tried by a court martial aud found guilty ol ihe of fence ol desertion—nor then, until his sen tence has been approved bv the proper officer. Tic Supreme Court sitting at Wilkes- I bar re last June, in tbc ease of Iluber vs. lieiiy decided, tbat "the law as it stood i when the act of lßbo was passed, had pro-! tided u tribunal in which alont the cl ime <f desert ion could be tried, and by which alone the penalties for deser tion could be inflicted. The conse-' <pj.cnces of conviction inay be noticed by ('onits, but the tribunal appointed by the Jaw for the purpose is the only one that c!i dfteriui.it* whether the crime lias been committed and to adjudge tbc punish ment." And they further decided that the for feiture of citizenship, which that act pre scribes, .uu-t be mlj'uhjed to the convicted |vers< i. alter trial by a court martial, "For t he conviction and sentence of such a Court there can be no substitute." A boat d of election officers constituted order a state law cannot resolve tliern selves into such a tribunal "They have no power t< try criminal offenders, still less to adjudge the guilt or innocence of an ' a'leged violator of the laws of the United i States." In every Court throughout the state, in i which thi* question has been raised, both before and since the decision of the Court ot the la-1 resort, the same construction has be.* given to this act—officers of elec tion have no right to set 1 up "their own judgment in opposition to it. The act of assembly of June 5, 1866, does not attempt to disqualify any citizen. It refers to the act of Congress and enacts that such persons as are disqualified by it shall not have the right to vote. It is not in the power of the Legislature by act of as sembly to deprive one who is entitled by til# t Constitution to vote,of the t privilege of doing so. The first section expressly limits the op eration of the act to persons disfranchised by the act of congress. It as follows: "That in all the elections hereafter to be j "held in this commonwealth it shaU be nn "lawfYl for the judge and inspectors of any "such election to receive any ballot or bal "lots from any person or persons embraced 4 in the provisions and subject to the disa bilities imposed by said act of congress ap proved March 3d, 186-3. Section 3d makes it penal for the board to receive a ballot from such disqualified person. B'e have seen that the supreme court has decided that nothing short ot a record of the conviction and sentence of an alledged deserter will deprive liirn of his rights— such being the case the legislature could not provide for his disbranch ismeut upon other evidence of a weaker character. In these cases however no record evidence was produced before the board. It follows that the prosecutors uot having been con victed of desertion and failure to return to I service or report to the provost marshal, I ami not having been sentenced to the pen- j a'ties and forfeiture ot the law, were enti tled to vote. Whether the defendants knowingly re jected their votes were referred to the jury under the evidence. COM. PLEAS. J. M. Seamans adm'r. vs. 11. Newcomb, action on note —Cause tried—Verdict for Deft. Sally Harding vs. Uriah Sweatland ac tion for dower erdict for declarant— Writ awarded. Sally llardi/ig vs, Jas. 11. Harding,action ejectment—Verdict for Plaintiff for undivi ded one half part of land described in writ. Tliis Court was a remarkable one for di vorce cases. The silken cords seem to be loosening up and untying in numerous cases. Ihe following are among the cases in which subpuenaes, alias subprenaes and proclamations in divorce were awarded and ordered : •Wm, 11. Dixon vs Ileilcn Dixon. James IT. Baily vs. Emcline Baily. James Cap well.vs., Capwell. Chas, Ilosen grantvs. Martha Roscngrant. O P. Free man vs. Ann Freeman. Lydia Gould vs. James Gould. MariaShafer vs. Henry R. j Shafer. Orcutt vs. Wm. 11. Or cutt. Arnold vs. Christian Arnold A Declaration ot"Principles. The Louisville Journal, in the present aspect of affairs makes the following con fession of the Democratic faith. It says : " We heartily,indorse. .so. far wtJ'f moeracy in the North, Middle, Western, and North western States. We are for the obliteration of the Frcedman's Bureau Bill, everywhere: we are for the cessation of all military law, and tor the restoration of ! the great writ of freedom ; we are for the equal powers and rights and privileges of the whole people of the old Union; we are for the unconditional par don of all paroled Conf'e lerates who have kept their taith , we are for the immediate unlocking of the prison doors of all prison ers held m captivity ujjon the charge of treason; and we are for the establishment of the Republic upon the plan which our noble President has recommended and is exerting all his energies to carry out. If to be in favor of all these things is to be a Democrat, then we are a Democrat, an earnest and zealous Democrat, all the time a Democrat, and ready to co operate with all who aie ready to co-operate with us." MEBTIVO OK TUB CoUNTT Sl TERINTEX DENTS OF PENXSTLVANIA. A meeting of tlie County Superintendents of Pennsyl vania has been.called by the State Super intendent, to be held in Tlarrisburg, at two o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of De cember, to continue in session three davs. Mr. Cyburn the late State Superintendent, assigned some time since a number of top ics to the different Superintendents, and requested written reports upon them. It is expected that these will be read, and that the subject treate 1 of will be discuss ed. In this connection the whole work of the County Superintendency can be re viewed, and the School Department will be able to give such instructions as seem to be called for. In addition to this, the new Superintend ent will ask the Convention to . resolve it self into a kind of Executive Session, at lca<t every forenoon, for the purpose of enabling the School Department to learn the views of the Superintendents and of the views of the # people throughout the State, on the following points, in which changes in the law or in the practical op eration of it have been thought of: 1 The minimum length of time the schools should be kept open—Should it be increased to five or six months? . 2. Uniformity ol Text-books in Coun ties.—Should a provision be nide inj the law for effecting such uniformity ? 3. County aid to Teachers' Institutes.— Should the law now in existence in eight counties be made general 4. Provisional Certificates.—Should they be dispensed with ? If not what changes should be made in the policy now practic ed in regard to granting tliern ? 5. Renewing and Endorsing Certificates by County Superintendents. —Is it good policy to renew and endorse them.'' 6. Districts Superintendents—Should there be a general law providing for their appointment ? 7 District Institutes.—What can be done to increase tbeir number? 8. Branches of study required by law. —Should additions or substitutions be made ? It is hoped that all Superintendents will come-prepared to represent the wishes of their several counties in regard to those subjects by voice, and if called upon, by vote. THE NATIONAL PROBLEM. The Pro gramme of the Future, According to Wendell piiillipa. . [From the Anti-S!arry Standard, Nor. 17 "J The people have spoken, and uttered their vote on Johnson, his policy and his adherents. The Republican party has been the mere channel through which, as the raost convenient and ready one, the na tiop has spoken. In.faQt there ate but two parties to this fight, and the Republican is not one of them. The President, as the houtb's leader, is one. lie seeks to shield the Soiith from all loss in consequence of her defeat, and to restore her priociple of oligarchy—a white man's government —as unchanged as possible. lie is one party to the fight. The people are the other. — They have made up their minds that hav ing gotten their hands on the neck of this sectional oligarchy they will strangle it be fore they quit hold. They b lieve, with Lander, that " a king should be struck but once, a mortal blow." They mean that slavery, with all roots, branches, suckers, parasites and dependents, shall die utterly and forever! This is the signification of our late triumph. It is more than a parti san victory. It is the declaration of a na tional purpose. Congress and its amend ments were counted out of the battle. The President, representing the Sototh's claim to an immediate return into Congress,bring -1 ing with it State sovereignty still strong j enough to uphold oligarchy, appealed to ' the people. They have answered him, and i nailed bis theory to the counter as base | coin. Congress abdicated anil left tlie field when it tried to stand neutral, assenting in its amendments to the South's claim of sover eignty over the law of citizenship, yet pro testing against the Executive's ususpation of acknowledging it. From that moment the nation ignored them, and fought its own battle on the principle itself—impar tial manhood rights the nation through. — Whoever will serve them in carrying out this purpose equivocal, and take him to their hearts. Witness that pride of the West, General Logan. Who ever tries to baulk them in this effort, no matter what his pa9t merits, or laurels, he sinks out of sight. Witness Beechcr's Toss in the wave he fondly imagined he could st m, \Vit ness Grant unable to stir a plauuit on the : Illinois prairie—lllinois, his own State— from an Audiance of twenty thousand men, one half his own soldiers. Witness the New York Times sunk fifty per cent, in value in six months by its vain attempt to oppose this dumb but resistless movement ot the nation. [This assertion, at all events is utterly false. —Ed. Times.~] This fact Uat no name, no laurel, no services, weigh a feather if put in the scale against Radic alism, is the most cheering and wholesome characteristic of the hour. It is this that cheers us even against such an appalling fact as that a million and a half of voters — more than six hundred thousand in tue two States of New York and Pennsylvania — arc still corrupt and ignorant enough to Vftfrfeognize the terrible sYg riliear! ll ; this fact. Put behind such a mass of be sotted ami corrupt tools, the patronage of tee government and the moral support of the South—if the word "moral ' can ever be used in such connection—and its infhi. ence must he fearful. Still, the people have shown such true instincts, such un faltering devotion, plucking out right eyes and cutting off right hands when they of fended, that we catch fresh hope from the elections. Maryland is herself a testimo ny to our theory. This defeat is fit re-1 buke to hear faithless leaders. Thej swin dled the negro out of his rights to consoli date their opponents. They succeeded in preventing Congress from granting suf frage in the District of Columbia for the same purpose. They gagged the Loyal Southern Convention on that question to propriate rebels. Of course they entered the canvass loaded with the odium of their supposed principles, and without the strength which would have come from their avowal. Such policy leserves and j secures defeat. But this defeat will save Maryland, Tennessee. Massachusetts nails her colors to her top gallant mass. First among the States—dear old Common wealth—she receives the hated and victim race into her legislative halls. While Tribunes and Posts, while national Repub lican committees and State committees were welcoming rebels to Congress even if they rode over the neck of our only Southern ally, the negro, Massachusetts shows them a specimen of such a model State as the loyal masses mean shall exist in the present territory of South Carolina before they begin to inquire whether it, said State, has clnsen any fit person to represent it in Congress. Revolutions never go backward. It is equally true that Radicalism travels West ward. Personal Liberty Bills, Women's Rights Bills, and all such legislation, start- | ed from New England and have "swung round the circle." This last Yankee no- j tion will soon begin its travels, and com- 1 plete them when North and South know > no race before.'aw. Then, when a million of black men aid in shaping onr national policy, their race will feel the effect the world over. They will never leave their brethren in Cuba, under the yoke, They ; will throw a shield over the struggling na-! tionality of Hayti and lift Brazil into bar- J mony with the nineteenth century Then wii'l the touching and sublime picture Ma ria Lowell ire7 of Africa cease to be true. Jler Rrat dark face no light • j Erom the sunset glow cauld take; Dark as the primal night rfire over the earth rtod spako: It seemed for her a dawn could never break. j #•*#; So pit I dreary desolate, Till the plow rawing hand of Fate Shall lift me from my sunken et ate. The dawn has broken, and will soon rip on into perfect day, Even this tim<d Thirty-ninth Congress, which abdieted leadership and postponed action till they were "certain sure" what the electors would be, ean now resume their piaces. Lot them go back and, throwing this chari of reconstruction ont of one win dow and swindling amendments out of the other, impeach and remove the mobocrat of New and Baltimore the dema gogue who. hut for the marvelous courage, rare sagacity and statesmanship of Judge Bond, would have deluged Baltimore with blood. We hare no words warm and strong enough fitly to express our admira tion tor Judge Bond, or oir sense of what the country owes him for the victory over executive treason. If enough patriots cannot be found to impeach the President, then let the true men of Congress stop the supplies; refuse to trust rebels with the public funds. This will check corruption and bring the public creditor with his large influence to our side. At anyebst take the government from the control ot a rebel. WENDELL PHILLIPS. The Constitutional Amendment, The New York Journal of Commerce states very clearly the obstacles in tbo way of the proposed Constitutional Amendment. The first and great question is, can we amend the Constitution lightfully, so as to take from any State a power which it has not voluntarily granted to the L nited States? We quote from the Journal of Commerce as follows: "Does the provision in the Constitu tion,which authorizes its amendment, m an that a majority of two-thirds in Congress and three fourths of the States have the power to make a monarchy out of the Re public, and that the minority of people and States are bound to submit to such a funda mental change? "If so, it is plain that the power also extends to the complete obliteration of States. The exception in the Constitution forbidding amendment, which would de prive a State of its equal representation in the Senate, can itself be amended and eras ed. It is as easy to make New York two States, and New England one State, as it is to pass the amendments now before the people. If these are passed the precedent w!Il be established. There will then be no limit to the changes, which, in political ex citement, will be urged on by radical men on both sides It is, therefore, the very body of the Constitution which is now in danger. " We beseech the radical to facG this great truth and give R due attention. " The future of 'bis country is not with itl tl'.C- view of living prophets; hut there are innumerable reasons for the belief that the majority of more than a million now opposing the radical measures will in time gain the power in Congress and in the States. When that time comes, there is every reason to suppose that a sectional party will again spring up. That sectional party, however, will not maintain North ern against Scrtithern interests. It will in all probability be a party in whieh the South and the West will be united against the Northeast. The grand questions of political econo my, which are to be the controlling ques tions in our country, will be verv likely to enlist men in the mannfactifing and con suming parts of the country, while the in terests'of the producers will tend to bind them together in other parts of the country. JHhTji Yoß'lTlll^wil| S f)clnvaluable guarantee to the East and the North. A weak Constitution, easily amended, a sub ject of all the winds of popular caprice, will be as useless as the paper on which it is printed. Adopt these amendments now, and we shall have established a precedent which takes all the strength and firmness of the Constitution awav from it." The following is a description of a bee charmer, who excited great interest at the State fair at Saratoga ; One of the greatest attractions on the ground was a honey-bee monger, whose hat, while on his head, was covered with bees, which appeared like a small swarm on a bush, lie handled bees as if they were harmless tlies. They crawled all over his person, in his hair, and on his face, and he put some of them in his mouth and blew them out, and handled them at pleasure. And what was most remarka ble they were strange bees attracted from the woods or from some colony in the country. Immense crowds of people hung around him continually asking questions and purchasing the secret of collecting bees from the forest, or robbing their neighhois of their busy workers, while remaining qui etly at home. When every bee was shak en from his hat and it was returned to his head, the buzzing swarm about him would quickly return, completely covering his hat. The Superintendent interfered, as he affir med that such an exhibition drew away too many people. SEWAKD AND GKEELEY —A well known journalist who was formerly a Washing ton correspondent, says that while there during the war, he one day asked Secreta ry Seward his opinion of Horace Greeley "Horace Greeley ; said Seward, "is a great man —a man so full of genius and of such power that if he had a particle of common sense we should have to hang him. But he is a d d fool, and therefore harm less." After coming to New York, the journalist, dining with the editor of the Tribune, inquired his opinion of Seward. "Seward has brains enough to govern this country. No man has a clearer or better head ; but the trouble with Seward is that he is an infernal scoundrel." tW The "Washington correspondent, of the Philadelphia Mercury, says that. General Logan, who was a noted secessioist at the beginning of the war, is running around that city letting tongue run like an old woman with the measles. He says he is bound to impeach the President. It was only a short time since that this fellow was ready to jump at the beck of Andrew Johnson, and he figured for a while around the white House fawning and flattering for the little crumbs that fell from the national table. His apostasy was woudered at; — but he himself knows why he went over to his lmted enemies. Logan, it must be remembered, was an arrant secessionist at the breaking out of the war. An extensive fire in Paris last month was instantly extinguished by the bursting of three bottles of sulphuric ether, the con tents of which mixing with the atmospher ic air, put an end to. the combustion. Congress Is Bepeatiug History and Noth- log More. King Solomon declared there is nothing new under the sum Modern philosophers , would make us believe that the present fi nancial and political condition of the Uni ted States was never realized in any part of the world until now—whereas, we are only repeating the history of former ages, as developed in different countries. Take our financial system. It is, in its main features, we are serry to say, a re production of the English South Sea and the French Mississippi bubbles, of a hun dred and fifty years ago. Every reader well knowslwbat happened to France and England when those paper money bubbles collapsed. It is a peculiarity of "paper money delusions" that they flourish inde pendent of any gold or silver basis, while they prosper ; but ihey fail at last. If our system succeed it will be the first success. Take again our national taxation and extravagance! We are living in times more flush and fast than the fast years of 1835 and 1830, and 1855 and 185 G. In those years of inflation it was unpopular to denounce tire public extravagance ! All was then, as now, universal prosperity. Everybody, and his wife, got rich and grew extravagant, until paper money hub bies became over-inflated and burst upon us all It is because the times are so very prosperous that the people now submit to more exorbitant taxes than any other peo ple on the face of the earth. Taxes laid as war taxes are continued eightceen months after peace. Indeed it has come to pass that people love to be taxed all the way from the ciadlc to the grave, more severely than any British Sovereign ever taxed his or her subjects. Yet this mania of our people for high taxation is not new, The most popular ministers England ever had were two Pitts—Pitt the elder, and Pitt the young er. The more the elder Pitt (Lord Cha tham) heaped up the national debt, the more the people worshiped him. The same with his son, in after years. Macauly said of the elder Pitt: "The great Minister seemed to think it beneath hm to calculate the price of victory. As long as the Tower guns were fired, as the streets were illu minated, as French banners were carried in tri umph through the streets of London, it was to him a m tter of indifference to what extent the public burdens were augmented. Nay, he seemed to glory in the magnitude of these sacrifices, which the people, fascinated bv his eloquence an( * *u."cetw, had too readily made, and would long au d bitterly re gret. There was no check on waste or embezzle ment; (This smack* strong of the waste and em berrlement so common in onr times ) Onr com missaries returned from the camp of Prince Ferdi nand to buy boroughs, to rear palaces to rival the magnificence of the old aristocracy of the realm- Already had we borrowed, in four year- of war. more than the most skillful and economical govern ment would pay in forty vears of peace. * * * War had made him (Chatham) powerful and pop ular * * * He had at length begun to love war for its own sake." Precisely so with our Congress. The war closed too soon for national patriots in Washington. In lieu of war that body substitutes the image of war. by excluding from the Union States in the Union, and bv increasing tariffs, till prices rise h : p-her than ever before, and also by continuing ....... ii-,.-. in nmes ot peace, and a re dundancy of paper money. Thus, whoever would comprehend the situation of the States ai this time, must read the histories of the South Sea and Mississippi bubbles, described bv Washington Trving, Maekav, and others Then turn to the histories of Lord Chath am, and his son, Pitt. For the religious part the student is respectfully referred to that portion of the history of England where the most noted rakes, gamesters, orihers, and tipplers, durring Cromwell's time, turned religionists, and wore long hair, squared in front, attended conventicles, and sang psalmody thmngh the nose, to keep popular with the party in power. For example of present disun ion read that portion of English hist on which describes the persecutions of the i Irish by the English Read also how, after | the rebellion in Scotland against England, the English Government made peace with Scotland, and made the Scotch loyal to the Government, in proportion as the contrary treatment made Ireland a hereditary ene my to the wholp British nation, and pre cisely as this Congress is attempting to make an enemy of the Southern States by hostile legislation, We do not write to convince anv body that this is an unpatriotic or ievolutionary Congress. Our motivp is to demonstrate that Congress is repeating, without, under standing, history.— Banner of Liberty, A Beautiful Tribute to a Wife* Sir James Mackintosh, the historian was married to Miss Catherine Stuart, a young Scotch lady. After her death he thus depicted her character in a letter to a friend ; I was guided in my choice only by the blind affection of my youth. I found an intelligent companion and a ten der friend, a prudent monitross, the most faithful of wives, and a mother tender as children ever had a misfortune to lose. I met a woman who, by tender management of my weakness, gradually corrected the most pernicious of them. She became prndent from affection; and though of the most generous nature, she was taught frugality and economy by her love for me. During the most critical period of my life, she relieved me. She gently reclaimed me from dissipation; she propped my weak and irresolute nature ; she urged my indolence to a!I the exertions that have been useful and creditable to me, and she was perpetually at hand to admonish mv heedlessness or improvidence. To her I owe whatever I am—whatever I shall be In her solicitude for my interest, she nev er for a moment forgot my feelings or my character. Even in her re sentment, for which I too often gave her cause, (would to God I could recall those moments,) she had no sullenness or acri monj. " Her feelings wore warm, nay, im petuous; bnt she was placable, tender and constant. Such was she whom I have lost, when her excellent natural sense was rap idly improving after eight years' struggle and distress had bound us fast together and moulded our temper to each other; when a knowledge of her worth had refined my youthful love into friendship, and before age had deprived it ol much of its original ardor. I lost her, alas ! the choioa of my youth, the partner of my misfortunes, at a moment when I had the prospect of her sharing my better days. The Cofiftitutloual Amendment It requires the ratification of three fourths of the States to secure the adop tion of the Constitutional Amendment, Its rejection by ten States defeats it ; and we shall find its rejection in the following States ; Maryland, Florida, Delaware, Mississippi, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana. Here are thirteen that have rejected or will reject the amendment- Tennessee has n>t ratified it. The vote that Brown low ciaimod as a ratification was not legal, and will not be counted. A law exists in Germany to prevent drinking on the Sabbath during Divino service. It runs thus: "Any person drinking in at. ale house during service on I Sunday, or other holiday, may legally de | part without paying." Local and Personal* Explanation.—The data oa the oolored a&- dre-i label oo this paper indicate; the time up t which, as appears on our books, the subscriber bee paid for his paper. Any error, in this label, will b. promptly corrected, when brought to our notice. Those of our Subscribers, who wish to know how they stand with us, will consult the label on tbeir papers. Don't let it get too far buck into the by gone days-—Something might happen. Farmers—wishing to purchase a good farm will notice advertisement of Farm for sale by Walter Bro's. of Mehoopany. An Auction sale of cattle, grain and othor per sonal effects of fonrad Kintner, late ol Tunkhannock Township, dee'd, will bo made bj the Adninistra tors, on Saturday Dec, Bth., at the house of widow Kintner. Advice, Gratis.—See what dealers advertise in the Democrat, and go and buy your goods of them. You may be sure of good bargains with inen who are anxious to let pa"p!o know that they are in trade The way to do this is as before hinted. The First Sti >w of the season at this place, foil on Tuesday ot last week. It was only a slight "Harry" ot an inch or less in depth* but with the frosty air we have had, since, was enough to give us a f jretaste ol wh: t may be expected in the future, Stoves, stove pipe, anthracite, overcoats, undershirts Ac. are in good demand. Donation.—The friends ef the Rev. C. R. Lane' witt make him a donation visit at bis residence, cm ihe day appointed for our National Thanksgiving Thursday, No. 29th. All are invited to attend. By order ed the Cocwmitlee- The Attention readers ir called to the ad vertisement ot Shufer A New Clothing Store at Wilkes Barrc, in to-day's paper. Mr. A. G. Stark, who has charge ol the business at that point, is o well known to our people it u hardly necessary ftf us to say to those visiting the valley UP J wishing good, neat, cheap and elegant clothing that "Al" is the man to call upon, ! Click, Click, Click, go the busy hammers and 0 .isels of Messrs. Stonier A Carey—masons and I stone-cutters—upon the walk in front of our office, jas we write this paragraph. With such men to da the work and with such flagging as they have. splendid walk along the entire main front of Mr Henry Stark's blo-k will be the result. This, when finished, will be one of the finest and most desirable improvements, in the way of ''mending our ways.'' in town. Mr. S. though resi ling abroad, and appar ently but little interested in these matters,is,throngh his agent here, promptly and cheerfully complying with the Borough ordinance in regard to them. A Break In the Canal occurred at this.place ocj Sunday evening last. About 100 d in- iwgttij of the bank was washed away, to a. depth, in some places, of Bor 10 ft below the bed of the canal. Of course boating for the present is suspended, The company have placed a. large fovea ef men and t ate? at work repairing the injury, aaul:nxpect to be able to let hi the water at tdfi cfcee of tfee present week. The flood made by the sudden hreaking out < f the entire water of t&e canal, was so gaeat as to undermine the Borough bridge at the lower end of town, and as a re-uit it now lies in a mass of ruins. I at the bottom of the deep ravine ever which it span-. ' ned. Arrangements have been made by the E0.0,. authorities for its speedy reconstruction. It is Folly to think d young man, in this age of progress and improvement, can ke successful in auy business or profession with ihe limited business qualifications possessed by some of /he primitive su tlers in this country In every profession or occupation, now a-days, n. good practical business education is in/ispensable.— llow to keep books of accounts, neatly and correct ly, how to calculate interest and discount, how to. draw notes, checks, orders, lesses and other papers required in she every day busiuess transactions of life, must now be known by all to ensure success and guard ag.iins t imposition, The Busiuess College of Gardner and Wheeler at Scranton, Pa., affords op portunities for the acquisition of all these plishments, by the young men in th's vicinity, bifan expense far less than any other similar institution in the country. i. Married. BAXATYNE—BURR—At Keiserville Pa., Novem ber 7th. 1866, by Rev. E. F. Roberts, Mr P. M. Burr, of Mehoopany, to Jdiss Anna Banatyne, of same place. DI'NLAP—SHANNON—By the same, Nov 10th, Mr. Benjamin B. Dunlap, of Meshoppen, Pa., to Miss Lariuda Shannon, of Auburn. , Sill PP—STEMI'LES—In Tunkhannock. the 22d inst., by the Rev C. R. Lane. Joseph Shupp, and Rebecca, daughter of Mr Benjamin Stem pies, both of Tunkhannock Township. Administrator's Notice* Whereas, letters of Administration to the estate of Abraham Ace, late of Tuakhannock township, Wyoming Co , Dee' I, have been granted to the sub scriber ; All persons indebted te„said estate are re quested to make immediate paymanU; and those having claims against the same, will present tkeui, duly authenticrted for settlement to JOSEPH ACE Adm r. Eaton, Wv. Co , Pa. j Nov 28,1866. T"6-nol7-6iv. j Farm for Sale, Situated one and a half miles south ef MEHOOPANY VILLAGE;, on the main road Farm contains oce HUNDRED and SEVEN!* FIVE ACRES, ninety acres thereof improved, foou buildings, good fruit, well fenced and well Address or call on, T. G. AB. M. WALTER- Mehoopany, Wyoming Co. Pa Nov. 27, 1366- vfinlTtf.
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