r* -r> •' n-—' ! 2 •V 01 rt |. ■o v. ?i r"; i jwn ;ht? frrgiM'f • tims'jy .Hid a; 2 o'clock and ooe minuU :lif prop was pulled from the platform, and the murderer of Alice McElwee was sus p ntled between heaven and earth. Hia t.eck was dislocated by tha fall, and but two spasmodic motions of the lower ex- 1 "tremities were marked, although the chest' continued to heave for the space of eight minutes from the failing of the drop. At 2 o'clock and 13 minutes Drs., Den n:s and Wagner stepped upon the plat form acd examined the pulse, but not find ing it ruotioulesa, retired. Dr. Wagner at 2 o'clock and II miuutets again examined the pulse and pronounced life extinct* whereupon the Sheriff announced the re-' suit of the examination, and ?-aiut*ide the jail must have been at least five or six hundred, and every available tree and house top from which there was a view of the interior of the jail yard was thronged with venturesome boys and men. There was never within the I recollection of the writer, a criminal who • suffered the extreme penalty of the law, J and was launched into everlasting torture ; with less sympathy, unless it WHS the bru I tsl Probst, the butchercr of the Dcering family. Mr Peabsdy's Gifts. There may have been many inquiries lately ma le as to the amount of Mr. Pea- . body's gifts for various charitable purpos es. The following is believed to be a cor rect list of the donation m de by the be nevolent millionaire during the last few years. The London poor, including ex change, $,800,000 Ballimoiv, tor Institute, 1,b00,000 Halt more Historical Society, 20,0U0 Boston Historical Society, 20,000 South Da.JVers, 160,000 Danvers, 50,000 Mew bury port, 15.000 Georgetown (Mass), for church and library, 50,000 Georgetown, L>. C, 15,000 Library iu Vermont, 5,000 Yale Col lege, 150,000 Ilaivaid College, 150,000 Kenyon College, 25.000 PuiilipV Academy, 25.000 Salem Last India Company, Lec ture Ivoom and Museum 140,000 Gunnel! Expedition, 10,000 Recent donation to ihe South, which may be iNCieased by the Mississippi bonds, 1 000,000 His f.inily connection, in trust, 1,000.0J0 The Grunnell Expedition was the me morable voyage ot Dr, Kane to the Arctic Sea lor which Mr, GumneiL of New York, furnished the vessel, and Mr. Peabody contributed SlU,uoo towards the expenses. The donation to the poor of London if converted at the current rate of exchange at the time it was made into American currency The value of the Missit-ippi bonds given the South is not here set down, but their par value, with annual in terest, is $1,100,000. The total of the do nation in the above list is 6,135,000 which the Mississippi bonds may increase to $7,- 235,000. Of this sum all but $1,500,000 has been contributed for public purposes. It is understood that Mr. Peabody has provided for every relation of his now liv ing ; the most distant receiving $50,0u0, and those nearer $150,000 each, and we think it can be safely said there is not on record an instance of greater public and private citizen of any country iu the world than that furnished in the princely gifts of George Peabody. It is said that Barnum, if elected to (Juiigreßß, will secure the tiump, and take it thiough the country the coining summer a* a tiavehng menagerie of wild animals. Tne following will be exhibited : Stevens the hyena, Sumner the Chimpan- See. buck land (he Loon, Asliley the KoX, Kayraoiul the Chatuleon, Scbenck the skunk, Chandler the Weasel, Wade the Wolf, Cameron the--the—Buzzard, and many others birds of prey and carnivorous animals. This is no humbug. Tickets to the whole exhibition 2j cts. 6* A great deal is said in denunciation of "Brick" l'omtroy, by the Radical press and the galvanized philanthropists that be long to the "morality," but few of them are doing as much foi suffering humanity as "llrick." Ue is now lecturing in the South and giving ihe whole of the proceeds for the relief of the starving. That is what we call true philanthropy. A negro wench lateiy died in Rich mond, leaving thirty-five children. She was indeed a "fruitful" mother of Biack Republicanism. A gentleman advertise* for a wife "wh" war her own hair, her own teeth her own cheek*. her own 'b'tzzum.', and her own calves, without having went and gone paid for them.*' He'll do! I 1 is said that ihe Negroc* in Nash ville are greatly rejoiced over the re-aomin ation of Brownlow for Governor. If this is true t shows a greater degree of demor alization among them than we had suppos ed they could ivaoh in so short a time. (jTTho Richmond Enquirer savs the Military bill "destroys the Staff of Virgin ia, and, of i ourse, destroys her t oblic debt, for wh 1c Congress now becnim-a respotisi tie " How will the Bads get over this CM" (Ejje fkmocrat. HARVEY SICKLER. Editor. TUN KHAN MOCK, PA. Wednesday. Apr. 3, 1867. 11l lEWS FROM_ CBIIICTICITI LIGHT FROM A DARE CORNER M A DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPH IN THE "LAND OF STEADY HABITS." . PROSPECT OF A SPEEDY REPEAL OF THE "BLUE LAWS." WOOL AT A DISCOUNT, "DOWN EAST" RADICALISM ROUTED!! The electioa for Congressmen, Govern or and other State officers in Connecticut, on Monday, April Ist, resulted ic a com plete triumph for the Democracy, Eng lish, the white man's candidate for Governor, is elected over Hawley, the nig ger-equality. incumbent by about 1000 ma jority. A majority of State Senators elect ed are Democrats. Three of the four con gressmen elected are for white men. P. T. Bsmum, the humbug, wooly horse showman, and wooly-head candidate for Congress, was elected—to stay at home, manufacti re mermaids out of seals'heads and confish tails, and to nurse his bogu9 nigger nurse of George Washington. He is said to have "quite a show" in New York eity,but no show at all in the "land of steady habits." Li/ht has broke.i in upon us, from the ea9t ! Connecticut has sounded the death knell of abolitionism ! Pennsylvania will assist at the funeral in 8!!' Both Houses of Congress adjourn" ed on Saturday last, to meet on the 3d day of July next. An extra session of the Senate was called by the Piesident to pass upou executive business. A REQUEST TO SUBSCRIBERS. —Subscri- bers to the DEMOCRAT are particularly re quested not to allow their indebtedness to overrun one year. All subscriptions should be paid iu adv trice ; but under no consideration should the year pass around with the subscription unpaid. A strict attention to this will save us an immense amount of trouble and a very heavy loss. How LAWS ARC MADE. —Many curi ous things are sometimes necessary before American legislators can make laws ; but the strangest is, perhaps, developed in Connecticut. Anong the appropriations of last Congee icut Legislature was S4OO tor "whisky, lemons, ami sugar for the use of the Legislature.' Under this inspira tion, no doubt, some of the laws of the last session were passed. MR. AND MRS. JXFF. Davis.— A Geor gia paper says that * •• i'orabola" in Colum bos, for the Davis fund, brought between three and tour thousand dollars. The New Orleans Crencent , of March 4th, says : Several Washington ladies are vigorously engaged making up clothes of baby di mension* for Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who. for some time, baa been living at Fortress Monroe with ber husband." A LIBERAL SOIL. —Mr. Tipton the new Senator fioin the new Mate of Nebraska, made his dtbul in the U i ited States Sen ate the other day by opposing a vote of thanks to George I'eabody for his dona tion ol two millions of dollars to aid the cause of education in the South. Mr. Tip ton couldn't vote for it until he knew how Mr. Peabody stood during the rebellion. They have some very liberal and large minded men in the West, we presume, but tbey don't send them ail to Congress. ADJOURNMENT. —The Legislature of this State has resolved to adjourn on the 11th ol April. litis is the most sensible thing that >hey have done this session, for tiu-y have been about as useless an institu tion as the Sta.e has had to support for some time past. Tney have been of little seivice to the people and the sooner they get away from Darrisburg the better the people will like. Both branches are ex | ceedingly "loyal" but 60 corrupt that the papers of their own parly repudiate them. One of these "loyal" fellows, named Wad dell, of Chester county, has introduced a bill raising their salary to SISOO We ! want to see the yeas and nays on that I proposition when it comes up for consider ation. DIMOCKATIC VICTORY AT CARLISLE.— On the 15th inst M the Democracy ofCar j lisle overthrow the Radical dictatorship | and took the corporate authority in their own hands. The Volunteer says : "We elected the Burgess by one hun- dred and ightj-three majority; the As si-rant Burgess, the Assessor and Assistant Asesaors, six out of nine members of the ! Town Council, and the Bornngh Auditor. We fleeted a Justice ot the Peace and one Councilman n the West Ward which uni formly gives a large Republican majority. At the municipal ct on last spring the Republican* ehcted their Burgess and a majority ot the Council. Th* is a tri umph of which we may well feel proud." rftOCELDIVCS IN CON Git BM, Tuesday March 21, 1167. The Case et Mrs. Surratt. Mr. Bailor (Disan., Mass.) asked and obtained unanimous consent to make a personal explanation, the time being lim ited to fifteen minutes. He stated that be had caused to be placed on deck of each member a copy of Mr. Bingham's speech the other day in the personal discussion with himself, showing iD parallel columns the speech as it appeared in the manuscript of the reporters and the speech as publish ed in the Globe. The speech, as written contained 598 words: as printed it con tained 1,047 words, and in the reporter's manuscript there were 252 erasures and alterations. He (Butler,) had understood the rule to be, that in a personal debate a member had no right to make any change unless they were submitted to the member affected by them. Th* rule bad been violated in this case. In the matter thus interpolated was the sentence: *' What does the gentleman (meaning Butler) know of the evidence in the case, and what does he care for the evidence when he thus as'-ails the official conduct of these men who constituted the Court !" He (Butler) would state the evidence on which he had made, the other day, the ttatemenl that Mrs. Surratt was improperly lonvicted. He held in his hand the punted report of the tria', and had xumined it with great care, because this was oo sporadic thought of his. It was the result of careful, anx | ious investigation for another and a differ ent purpose, to see who were in the great conspiracy. The gentleman (Bingham) bad said that he was an advocate of the United States on that trial. That jras a great mistake. lie was the special judge advocate, whose solemn duty it was to protect the rights of the prisoner as well as those of the United States, and to send up the evidence, and state the law. But there was one piece of evidence within the gentleman's (Bingham's) knowledge which he had not produced on that momentous trial. When Booth was captured by Lieutenant Colonel Conger, there was. said Mr. Butler, taken front his pocket a diary like the one I now hold in my hand (holding up a small morocco-covered pock et diary) in which he (Booth) set down, day by day, his plans, his thooghta, bis mo tives, and his excuse. That diary was put into the possebsion of the government, but it was not laid before military Commit) sion, although the gentleman (Bingham) did lay before the Court Booth's to'-acco pipe, spur, knife and other articles found on his person. The diary was not pro duced. That diary appears now before our Judiciary Commitlee,and let me say here that 1 did not cbtaiii a..y information from that Committee, with the eighteen 1 pages of entries made in the diary, prior to the time of Mr. Lincoln's assassination, absent. The edges show that these pages were all cut out. What 1 want to know is this: Firtt. Was that diary whole when it came into the bands of the government? Second. Whether it was good judgment on the part of these who wre prosecuting the assassins of Ab raham Lincoln to put in a tobacco pipe found in Booth's pocket as evidence against the prisoners, while the • diary in Booth's on hand writing detailing all the particulars of his crime, was with held? I did not charge the able, brave and gallant ?oldiers who sat on that court with any wrong. They did not see the diary. They did not know of its exist ence. If they had they might have given a different 801*0001 of the matter. Who spoiled that book ? Who suppressed that evidence? Who caused that innocent wo man to be hanged while he had in bis pock et the diary which would have shown at last what was the idea and what were the thoughts of the main conspirator?— There is still remaining in that diarv a memorable sentence written but a few hours before J. Wilkes Booth's death; I quote from memory : "I have endeavored to cro-s the Potomac five times and failed.— I propose to return to Washington and give myself up and clear myself of this crime." How clear himself? By giving himself up and disclosing his accomplices. Who were they? Who spoliated that book after it got into the possession of the government ? If it was net spoliated, why was not Lieutenant-Colonel Conger allow ed to go oi> and state what had been found on Booth's body ? The questions were carefully put to bim so lie should not tell about the book. He identifies the knife, pair of pistols, holster, tobacco pipe, cart ridges, a bill of exchange, sen to bring the matter here, not J, and I desire now that in some form this matter may be freely and thoroughly investigated. Here the fall of the hammer indicated the termination of the fifteen miautes al lowed to Mr. Butler. A proposition for an extension of time was made, but Messrs. VAN W TCK and BKOOMALL objected. Josh Billings' Kasa Onto Swine, Hogs generally ate quadrupid. The extreme length ov their antiquity has never been fully discovered ; they ex isted a loug time before the flood, and have existed a long time since. There is a great deal of internal rcvencw . on a hog ; there ain't much more waste in them than there is in an oyster. Even ttieir tails can be worked up iuto wltissels. Hogs are good, quiet boarders ; they al wuz eat whet iz set before them, and don't ask any foolish questions. They never hev enny disseaze but the ! measels, and they never have that but once; one*' seems to satisfy them. There iz a grate many breeds amongst them. Some are a close corporation breed, and some are bilt more apait, like a hemlock slab. j They used to hev a breed in New Eng- | land, a few years ago, which they called ! the striped hog breed ; this breed was in high repute among the landlords ; almost every tavern keeper had one, which he used tew show tew travelers and brag on him. Some are full in the the face,like a town clock, and some are as long and lean as a cowcatcher, with a steal-pinted nose on them. They kan all rate well; a hog that kant rute well has been mada in vain. Tbey arc a short-lived animal and gener ally die as soon as they git fat. The hog kan b larnt a grate Benny cunning things, such as hisiing the front gate off from the hinges, tipping over swill i barrels, and finding a hclc in the fence tew , git into a corn field ; but there ain't enny j length to their memory ; it is awful hard 1 for them tew find the satuc hole tew git outj at. espesbaJly if you are at all anxious they j shonid. Hogs are very contrary, and seldom drive . well the same way yu are goiug; they j drive most the other way ; this haz never; bin fully explained, but speaks volumes for the hog. AXOTHBR APPROPRIATION FOR THE NE GROES. —Congress has just passed a resolu tion appropriating $15,000 more for the ne i groes of the District of Columbia. This, makes $40,000 more, in less than a year,! have been donated to the worthless darkies of the District. Not coutent with making | the blacks the civil and political equal of ! the whites, the Rads are determined tbey ' shall have plenty of pocket money also. tW Geary has signed the bill compell- j ing railroad companies, under heavy penal-' ty, to allow negroes to sit beside white ! meit-and women, in any cars which the , darkies may choose to occupy. Of course . the ladies of Pennsylvania will get up au appropriate testimonial for presentation to him for his gallantry (!) and consideration (!) of them, CATTERPILLARS.—During this month the eggs of the appletree catterpillar— which may be found encircling the end of the small twigs of the trees—can be much more easily and completely destroyed than they can at any other time ol the year.— ! They can be readily seen, and by cbosing a warm day for the operations, with a light ladder upon which to ascend the tree, and a small basket in which to put the twigs containing the nests, the work can be per formed most satisfactorily. The political economists all over the Slates are trying to cypher out why flour and certain other stuff should be cheaper with gold at 289 than it is now with gold at 134 It does seem strange, but such is the fact, We lick the stamps that the tyrants of the day impose upon us Our fathers lick ed the tyrants who sought to impose stamps on them. _ "Rev." Jacob Kennedy is to get S3OO for making prayers in the Legislature against the President and the Democracy. Jaeeh relishes his prey. An Amazing Confection. Every fiiend of injured innocence should rend the Congressional debat* of Tuesday of this wf Congress from Massachusetts. — Bingham is an old member from Ohio; he is sharp, shrewd, ready and somewhat elo quent as a speaker, and as a lawyer able, though a thorough malicious abolitionist.— He was feed to assist in the trial of per son 9 charged with assassinating Lincoln. Reverdv Johnson was the Attorney of Mrs. Surratt, and his commanding abilities crowd Bingham and Holt. They sought to get rid of him Bingham objected to his conducting Mrs. Surrau's defence be cause Johnson bad advised the voters of Maryland to take a ceitain test oath and vote against the new Constitution, no odds what their scruples were, as the Conven tion had no power to prescribe any such oath. This advice, Bingham argued, was so dishonorable that Johnson ought not to be permitted to act as attorney. Johnson fired up at the insinuation, and hinted that as old as he was, still he was young enough V call Bingham to personal account.— Johnson would not appear in Court after the objection was made, but wrote out a defence of Mrs. Surratt aud bad it read b> a younger Attorney. Bingham lately revolted in tha delight of conducting the prosecution. There was plenty of money, plenty of detectives, and any quantity of evidence, The Military Commission convicted Mrs. Surrat, and she was sentenced to be hung. We well rec ollect the sad incidents of that dreadful day, Mrs. Surrat was brought upou the scaffold, her face and figure muffled up with a black covering, and looking more i.ke a *ack man a human being. The haugiuaa did ins woik the poor wojnan was sent into eternity. Now let u return to the Butler and Bingham debate in Congirss on Tuesday of this week. In the face of all men, in the light of day, and b-fore Heaven, Butler spoke in short as follows: Mrs. Suriatt was cnvict< d without sufficient evidence. She was an innocent woman. Booth kept a not>- in a small book of tne place he was at every day ; of what t e did ; 01 his plans; and of his motives. When he was shot in the barn, his tobacco pipe was secured aud that small book 1c came into possession of Bingnam. The tobacco box was shown to the jury, but the book was withheld Eighteen Waves were cut out. By whom? F'r what purpose? Butler charges that the book with the eighteen missing leaves, would have cleared Mrs. Surratt, if shown to the jury, but that bv aileimg and keep ing back the book, poor Mrs, surratt was wickedly found guilty and hung. Thu is about the nubsiance, aud we ad vise ev> rvbody to get the debate of Tues day, between Butler and Bingham, and read it. What is this country coming to? Men of high place, ot p.wer, of ability, working together to couvict and lung a poor hap less innocent woman ! oucn men as Speed, Holt, Stanton and Biughain, deserve the rope in th's world, and everlasting fire in the next. Read the debate.— Jiffersonim, Tbc Keglstry BUI. Jn the State Seoate on the 28th the Reg istry bill was discussed and paused to third reading. During the discussion it was ful ly shown by in* Democrats that the bill jas not only unnecessary but onerous and unjust to a large number people— the working people especially. The Radi cals repotted it and supp-rted it. Ihe Democrats opposed it. It creates a new a'nd distinct class of offences which are not misdemeanors under our present laws, and it disfranchises voters who have not been registered on a particular day, notwith standing that they may have paid btate and county tuxes, and are otherwise lully qualified to vote. The bill as reported provides that the asstssor or register shall tuect wi.li the election board of the district on the twrlftn day preceding the election, for toe pi.rpo.-e of'ranking a final registry ot the voters of the district. A motion was made to sub stitute the fifth day, so as to give six more days for registering, but the Radicals voted it down. A motion to substitute the tenth was, however, carried. Er M'Candless, Democrat, moved that the meeting of the boatd be kept * open from 9 a m., to 9p. tn. — so us to allow the working men an opportunity to get register ed without losing time from work, BL'T THE MOTION WAS VOTKD DOWN BY TUX RADI CALS, The vote was yeas 13 —12 Demo crats and 1 Radical; nays 15 —all Radicals. The hours now stand : from 9 a, m. {after laboring people have gone to work) '.ill 6 p. tin ( before they have returned from work.) Mr. M'Candless also moved that the polls should be kept open from 8 a in. ti l 8 p. m. —instead of lrom Ba. m. tiil dp. m. —but this, too. was voted down by the Radicals, 20 of whom voted against it. In these tacts the people may plainly see the intent and meaning of the leauers of the Radical party. Knowing as they do that the Democratic party is the party ot the people—made up oflhe woikmg, in dustrious masses—those leaders are malig nantly determined to place every obstacle in the way of the people as voters and freemen. Their legislation is all 'or the benefit of the white gentlemen of leisure, who need no employment, and lor the "col ored gentlemen ' ol indolence, who dou't want any employment —wbftat "de booro" remains w> full blast. —This bi|l yesterday (29th) passed the Senate by a strict party vote. The work ing classes wi'l make a uqte of the lCt. — Pat. & Union. ~ TAXING BANE STOOX.— Onf Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, on Tuesday last, de cided that the shares in Nation-*! Banks are subject to State taxations in 'he hands of tha shareholders. So stockholders sock! Local and Personal. Explanation.—The date on the colored U dress label on this paper indicates the time ma u which, as appears on our b<>oks, the subscriber paid for bis paper. Any error, in this label, will h promptly corrected, whem brought to omr aetiee Those of our Subscribers, who wish to know hw they stand witb us, will -onsuli the label ea their papers. Don't let it get too far back into the by. gone days---Something might happen. Bridge Builders— will take notice that the Bridge at the lower end of town, will be let, at the lite, on Saturday next, at I o 'clock P. M, Hal nee Brow.' Plauoa are exoellemt inetra menu, and are seld at moderate prices. They are for sale, wholesale and detail at Powell's Music Stors Scran ton. j No More Licenses,—lt is said by those who : are presumed to know, that a prohibitory liquor law ! has bean passed for this County. We hero not MOO the bill, nor have we noticed an acconnt of its passage in any of the papers. We bare receired official no . tice of the passage of the law relating to th* grant ; ing of licenses to Eating House Keepers, an abstract j of which was published in our lust weeks issue J Barn Burned.—The barn of Mr. Ellis Walters of Falls, in this County, with a Urge amount of seasoned lumber, Carpenter's toola. farming imple ments Ac. stored therein, was entirely destroyed by fire on the 20th alt. The fire originated from e small fire which a boy, liring with him had mods to ; warm himself by. This lots is a particularly severe one to Mr. Wal ters, who had acquired his property by hard labor at the carpenters bench, and was preparing to bailda house lumber lost t.y the fire. High XV Inds.-.lhe winds hare been one regular spree for the past few days. They got so "high" on Friday last that ferrying the nver at this place, was for several hours considered danger ous, and was therefore suspea led. The ferry boat by the dashing of the waves against it, was sunk- End crinoline in the streets, as*umed_rather an ob long or oval shape, with a strong upward tendsocy. We are anxiously waiting the result of the "Mains Law"--on the winds, and other objects that aoat times get high. Burglary and Tlul't.—Two young nan. Cy rns Cornell and Sylregter Rosengrant, were brought to town last week to be put in jail. They are chart e > with entering the Factory ville DeDOt ujid stealing therefrom, two pairs ot boots, a five-gallon leg of whiskey, a lot of postal cuirency 4c. Cornell is said to be from .Bradford Co.: and a pretty herd customer. Roseng.ant gave bail for bis appearing# to answer at the April sessions. The key was turn ed on Cornell. An attempt to conceal too much ef the whiskey inside ef their shirts at on time, we un derstand, led to the disc#very that they were the takers. "Confiscating" (this is the "loyal" name for .teal ing) whiskey, in the custody ot as "good" a "Temp lar" as Esq Mace, the agent, there, is considered plain violation of the license laws, and if proved ought to be severely punished. i "Ott'the Town."--Miss Mary Sprague, who ! some of our oldest inhabitants say, jias been a puo li c pauper in ihis place, l>r upward* of 25 year* "died, again" a day or two since. She vu much givei to walking about town and almost op to her last hour was on foot. In appearance she was alrast a walking skeleton. For many years she has suff ered trom nervous affection which made her reel and •tagger like a drunken person Uer hearing, eye sight and other faculties were quits accute ant un impaired. A few years since she fell in a fit or trance and presented all the appearances of a dead person. Some well meaning end kind hearted old Ladies who were present, forthwith congratulated themselves, the puolic, and Mary, upon her hippy ! deliverance from this world of sin and sorrow. Miry, J upon waking from her trance, gaye these good wo- I men a "piece of her wind which, of voureo, was j not very flattering to thein. Least there may be e mistake about the matters this time, we will *ay for Mary that as far as we know she was a harmless, inoffensive, unfortunate creature —a subject of pity rather than of scorn or ridicule; on 1 fur the public who have expended thousands of dollars for her sup port during so many years, that the meney might have been appropriated te worse purposes. SHUPP—-JUDSOX— Oa the Ist of April, at Rusm'l Hill, by the Rev, E. F. Roberts, Mr. Phillip A Shupp of Tuukhannock, to Miss Julia M. Jud.v* of Green County, X Y. The Bridegroom in this case came down with e ' liberal fee to the printer. Of course the last named . individual takes off his hat, makes his prufjun