(The 1M irancb Democrat. HAHVEY SICHHiBn, Proprietor, NEW SERIES, Ttlirs—l rojy 1 jear, (in advnnre) i-2-00 ia Bit } >. d witbim-i* ne *2.1 will 1< lege NO paper will be DISCONTINUFD, until nil ar- , tn{f9 are paid; unless at the option of publisher. ADVERTI# I NTO. 10 lines or , i 1 1.1 less, make three f our ' f vo Jhite j six < one •urg. a' sootiuuance of the public patronage is refpect e!ly solicited. y BOLTON WALL'S" HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, <*VM*.H4MNOCIL, WYOMING CO., FA. rtlls estahiiahinent has recently ><* en refitted an famished in tne .atest style Everv attention vftil e *tveo to th* comfort and convenience of those r| patronize the House. T. B W ALL. Owner and Proprietor . Tunkhannock, September 11. 1861. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COl N l\ , PA Win. H. CORTRIGHT. Prop'r dVVING resumed the proprietorship ot the above Hotel, the undersigneu will spare no eftorts •eadci the house an agreeable place ot sojourn to ll who uiay favor it with their custom. 3 Win. U COKfRIGHT. June, 3rd, 1863 TOW2YIMDA, T*A- . n. B. BARTi.ET, ; Law SI t. P BRAIIARD Horsu, ELMIKA, N. Y PROPRIETOR. The MEANS HOTEL, i one of tne LARGEST i BE>T ARRANGED Houses in the country it is itted ap in the most modern and improved as i ao peins are spired to make it a pleasant and agreeable stopping-place for all, t 3, n2l, ly. __ NEW TAILORING SHOP The Subscriber having had a sixteen year* prac ties 1 experience ia cutting and making clothing offers his services in tl is line to the citizens of KICBOLSOU and vicinity. Ttiose wishing to get Fits will find bis shop the pleee to gel theur. v 8 JnaL, R. SMITE \f-F(-fn'S Remedial Institute FOH SPEIIAL CARES. Ao. /U Bond Street, A'en> York. Full Infonnation. with the highest teslimo - j mial • : also, a B>mes over me—a happy bovhood, a tree embowered home, babbling iiroeks ter'ile laws—a father's blessing—a inotliei's kiss tliat was both joy and blessing—a brother's brave and tend- r friend-hip a first love, that dearest, sweet est, holiest charm of all. On, God, that those things were and are not ! It is agony to recall them. Pass, too, the brief elysian period of wedded love. Julia sleeps ell in her wood.and grave. I was false to her mem orv. Ifiuv boyhood were happy, mv manhood was a tucla icholv or.e. A nmrhid temp r am lit, fostered by indulgence, dropped poison even in the cup of hli-a. 1 loved and hated wMi int- nsitv. To my w flawed home cam after the death of mv wile tny faircou-in Amy and ray young brother No.min Both were orphans like myself. Amv was a glorious Young creature--my ami'bests in every respect. She was ligh -hearted, I was melancholy ; she beautilul, I ill-favor ed ; she was young, I pa*t the middle age of iife, arrived at that period when philos ophers falsely tell us that the pulse b at inoderafelv, the blond flows temperately, and lite heart is tta-.q il Fools ! t'°e li rce pasaiot.s ot the soul belong not to the peri od of \outii or earlv manhood. But let my story illustrate inv position. Amy tibed my home with mirth and music. She rose with the hrk, and carol ed gaily the livelong dav, till, like a child tirel ot her play- sne sank from very ex haustion on her pure and peaceful couch. Norman was her plavinate. In ewlv man hood he retained the buoyant and e a-tic spirit of his youth His was one nf thos-- nature* which never grow nit. Have you ever noticed one of tho-e aged men, whose fresh cheeks and bright '*yes and aident sympathy with all that ia youthful and an imated. belie the chronicle of time? Su< h might have been the age of Norman, had not—but I atn anticipating. Between my cold and exhausted nature, and Amy's warm, fresh heart, you might have supposed there would have been no union. Yet she loved me warmly ami well loved tne as a friend and father. I re turned her pure and innocent afT-cii-m with a fierce passion. I longed to pn-sess her. The memory of her I had lost wa hut as a breath on the surface of a steel mirror, which heat displaces ami obliter ates ! 1 was not long in p -rc iving the exact state of In-r feelings towards me, and with that knowledge came the instantaneous conviction of fur fondness tor n v brother, so well calculated to inspire a young girl's love. I watched thctn with ill" keen and angry eve of jealousy, I followed them in their walks, I played the eaV's dropper, and CRitiflit up tin* words • f their innocent conversation, endeavoring to turn them to th"ir disadvantage. By degrees I came to hate Norman; and what equals in intensi ty a brother's hate ? It surpasses the hate of woman. In the insanity of mv passions—then I was indeed in-an"—l sought t<> rival mv brothel in all those things in whb h he was mv superior. He was fond of hel I sports, anil a master of all athletic exercises* he wrs fond of bringing home the trophies of his mmlv -ki 1 ami di-pl iving them at the f. et of li s mistress. II" could bring down the hawk from the clouds, or arrest the ca reer of tbede rin full spring. I practiced shooting, and fa led miserably. His good natured smile at my iiialidroitn'-ss I treas ured up as a deadly wrong. While he rode fearh sslsv I trembled at the thought of a leap. He danced gracefully arid lightly; mv awkward a*t rapt at dancing iinde both Amy and he* 'oyer smile. But in the mental accomplishment I was the superior of Norman ; and in tny ca pacity of tetcher, both to Amy and mv brother, had amp'e opportunity of display ing the powers of my mind Amy WH> gifted with quick intelligence Noiman was* dull rcholar. What pleas tire I took in humbling hsm in the eyes of his mistress! what asperitv and e.rn I threw into my pedantic rebukes ! Norman was astonished and wounded at my man ner. As he was in a good degree depend ent on me, as lie owed to me his nature, sustenance, and training. I took advan tage of our relative position. With well feigned soirow, I exaggerated my pecun iary emharra*tuiients, and pointed out to bitn the necessity of providing for himself "TO SPEAR HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S FIGHTS. •—Thomao IclftrND, TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, APR. 10, 1867. i ggesting, with tears in my eyes, that he must sel- ct some servile trade or calling, as his melancholy deficiency precluded the possibility of his success in any other line. Norman had little care for money. Be fore the advent of Amy, 1 bad supplied him freely w th the megns of gratifying his tastes But when I found that he expended his al lowance in presents tor his fair cousin, on the plea of hard necessity I restricted his supplies,and finally limited hin to a pit tance, which was only a feeble regard for the memory our indulgent mother forced me to grant. One day—l remember it well—he came to me with joy depicted on his countenance and displayed a recent purchase, the truits of his rigid economy. It was a fine rifle; and he urged me and Amy to come and see him make a trial of the weapon. I re buked him for his extravagance with a sharpness that brought tears to his eyes — hut I consented to witness the trial. His first shot centered the target. He loaded again, and handed the weapon to me My bullet was no where to he found. Norman's shot lapped his first. Mine was again wide ofthemaik. Norman laughed thought lessly. Amy looked grave, for with awo man s quickness she had guessed at the truth >f my feelings. I cut the scene short by summoning them both to theii studies. That morning Norman, whose tlioughta were with hi, rifle, bluudered sadly in his mathematics, and I rebuked him with more than my usual asperity. l>e it understood that niv character stood high with the world. I was not distin gnished in p.-blic life, and had the rare good fortune to cuicil ate both parties. 1 was a working man in many charitaMr and philanthropic societies. I was a mem her of a church, one looked up to as H mod lof piety. As a husband and broth er, I was held as an example, I had a large capital of character, I could deal in crime lo an uid inited amount. Some days aferthe occurrence just re -1 ited, I was alone with tny biotlier in the library. "Come, Norman," said I, "leave these stupid books. S'udy is a poor business for a young free lie irt like yours. Leave books for old age and rhumatism." Norman sprang up joyously. "With all my heart, brother, I'm with you for n gallop or a ramble.'* "I'm not a horseman, and an indifferent walker," I answered. "What do you say to. a little rifle practice. I should like to t y to me d my luck." Norman's r.tle was in his hand-in amo m-nt ai d whistling his favorite spaniel, lie -ailed foitli with me into the blight sunshi ne autumnal day. We tied to a hollow :u the woods where he had set up a target He made the fire shot—a splendid one — and then reloaded the rifle. " Tak*- care," said he, ' how you handle the trigger; you know the lock is an easy one—l am going to have it altered." And lie went forward to set the target fiimer in the ground, as the shot had shaken it. He was twenty pac -s off—his hack to me. I lifted 'lie rifle, and covered hitn with both sights. It was the work of a mom nt. My hand touched the trigger \-harp report followed—the puff* of blue stroke ivh rled upward —and my brother fell headlong to the ground. The bullet had gone crashing thiough his skull. He never moved. A revulsion of feeling instantly followed. All the love of former years —all the tender passages of our boyhood—rushed through my brain in an instant. 1 flew to him au I raised him from the earth. At sight of his long bright locks, dabbled in warm blood, I shrieked in despair. A mother hew.tiling her firstborn could not have felt her loss more keenly, or mourned it more wildly. Two or three woodmen rushed to the >pot. They saw, as they supposed the story at a glance. One of those accidents so common to the careless use of fire arms —and I was proverbically unacquainted with their use —had produced the catasfro phe. We were borne home, for I had tainted, and was cold and lifeless as my victim. What passed during a day or two I scarcely remember. Something of strange people in the hoiis**, of disconnected words •>f sympathy, of a c ffin, a funeral, a pilgri mage to'the woodland cemetery, where my wife sh-pt, are all that memory records of those days. Then 1 resumed the full possession of my senses. Amy's pale face and shadowy form were all that were left of her—my brother'* seat a! the table and the fireside were empty ! But his clothes, his pic tures, his riding cap and spurs, a thousand trifles scattered round, called up his dread imago everv day to the fratricide. His dog left the house every morning and came not back till evening. One day he was found dead in the graveyard where his master had been laid. Amy clung to me with despairing love. She wouid talk of the lost one. She would find evi-ry dav in me some resemblance lo Inni. Perhaps she would have wedded in tne the memory of the departed. But that thought was too horrible, I loved her no longer. Fru nds came to condole with me. Every word of sympathy was a barded arrow. I could bear it no loiger. Con science stung me not to madness, but con fession. I repelled sympathy, I solicited denunciation, I told them I was my broth ers murderer. I forced my confession on every one who would hear it. Then it became rumored about that my 'fine mind' so they phrased it, bad given way beneath the weight of sorrow. I was regarded with fear. A physician of my acquaintance made me a friendly visit and shook his head when he heard my story. One day this gentleman invited me to ride in his carriage He left me here. Society be lieves me mad—that I am not is to me a miracle. Oh ye wise ones of the earth—Legisla tors of the land—would ye avenge the olood that has bi-en spilt by violence on the ruthless murderer, would ye inflict punishment upon him, spare and slay him not. Take down the gallows, and its place erect jour prisons doubly strong, for there, within their ever during walls of granite lies the hell of the villain who has robbed his brother of his life. FORGOTTEN, "Generation after generation," says an eloquent modern writer, "have felt as we feel, and their fellows were as active in life as ours are now. Tlicy passed away as vapor, while nature wore the same aspect ot beauty as when her Creator commanded her to be. And so likewise shall it be when we are gone. The heavens will be as bright over our grave as they are now around our path ; the world will have the same attraction tor offspring yet unborn that she had once for ourselves, and ihat she lus now for our children. Yet a little while, and all this will have happened! The throbbing heart will be stilled, and we shall le at rest. Our funeral will wind on on its way, and the prayers wtll be said, and the grave clod will be thrown in, and we shall be.lel't behind to darkness and to the worms. And it may be for some short time we shall bespoken of ; but the things of life will creep in. and our names will soon be forgotten, Days "vill continue to move on, and laughter and song will be heard in the very room in which you died ; ai>d the eyes that mourned for us will be diied Hl. d glisten again with jov ; and even out children will cease to th nk of us. and will not rami-mber to lisp our name. Then shall we have become, in the touching lan guage of the Psalmist, 'forgotten and clean out of mind.'" TIIE STRIKE IJF THE COAL MINES, —The Maucli Chunk Gazette says : The strike mt ihj Colleii-s in this and Luzerne Countv, has been one of the most prolonged and se rious ones which has occ ined in this re gion for many years. For some four months a number of the heaviest operators who ship by this ouiley, have been para lyzed and almost entirely idle. The coal shipments via the Lehigh Valley Railroad, show a vast balance in lavorof last year's tonnage, np to this time This is, of course, owing in a great measure to the stagnation of the co d market in New York, Philadel phia and the Ea*r, in consequence of the immense shipments of last year, but still the strike has its effect upon it. STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. —The Legislature ot this State has passed a law giving all the proceeds of the educational lands donated to Pennsylvania by Con gress. to the State Agricultural College, which is located neat Belifonte, in Centre county, on condition that it shall expend one tenth of the principal in the purchase ot three experimental farms--one to be lo cated at the institution, otic in the Eastern and one in the Western part of the S'ate.— The income of the remainder is to be devo ted to the endowment ol the college, and the maiutenai.ee of the expeiimenul farms leferred to. CAUTIOUS.—A wealthy bachelor having had one or two suit* for bieach of promise, now replies to ar.y young lady who wishes a few moments private conversation : "No, you don't madam. It cuts me to the heart to he compelled to doubt the hon orablem-ss of your intentions, but that sort of thing is played out. My rule is impera tive, and if you have, any business with me, it must be trausacted in the presence of two witnesses !" CONST vi AL BLIk<-d one per son of another, as they came out of chinch. "Finished ! yes, it wa & finished at last, al though I began to think it never would be," was the reply. BEGGING.- Old Elwes, the raiser, having listened to a very eloquent discourse on charity, remarked : "That sermon so strongly proves the ne cessity of alms giving, that I've almost a miud to beg!" FORBEARANCE —General Butler has announced to Congress that he did not in tend to interfere with the Lord's work. 69* A Row at a horse race in Chicago resulted in three aaurders in fifteen min utes. CB* A negro candidate for Congress from Tennessee is talked o£ ON SKATES. —A ftlant to tb right with the right foot, n elnnt to the left with the left foot—and just then we sbW something on the ico, and stooped to pick it up. On our f.-et again—two slants to the right and one to the ly of a thousand years ago. He has the same p-n --ehant for puddles, the same mania for mud, the same desire for dirt, the same itching for ice. Can it be we were ever a boy ? Did we make vain attempts to p"ise our person upon the pit of our stomach and whirl around upon a frozen puddle, just as that little fellow out of the window is doing? Our mothers say we did, and we must be lieve it. Happy boy ! that feels no weari ness as he diaws bis sh d up the long hill, simply to ride down the same. We expeci that little Cain and Aide straddled their father's staff and played horse, just as we did wiih our pa r ental crooks. Yes. "b-.ys will be boys"—What a pity it is that men will not be men. I must pity that young man who, with a little finery >t" dress and recklessness of manner,with his coarse passions all daguer reotyped upon his face, goes whooping through the streets driving an animal much nobler than hints* If, or swaggering into some haunts of show and calls it ' Enjoying life.'' He thinks he is astonishing the world ! am] he is astonishing the thinking portion of it, who are astonished that he is not astonished at himself For look at that compound of flesh and impudenc. and say' if on all this earth there is aiiythmg more pitahlc ! He know anything of the true joy of life ! As well sav thxt the beauty and immensity of the universe were all endo-ed in the field where the pro'ligal lay among the husks and the swine! — Chopin, WONDERS. —When a yonng man is a clerk in a store at d dresses like a prince, smokes, "foreign cigars," drinks "nice bran dy,' attends theatres, dances and the like I wonder if he does all on the avails of his clerkship ? When a young lady sits in the parlor during the day. with her lillv white fingers covered witli rings, I wonder if her mother doesn't wash the dishes and do the work m the kitchen. When the deacon of the church sells strong butter recommending it a> a good article. 1 wonder what he relies upon for salvation. When a lady laces her waist a th-rd less than nature mad" it, I wonde" :f her prettv figure w ill not shorten lifi a dozen years or more, besides making her miserable while she does live. When a young man is dependant upon his dailv toils for his income and marries a ladv who does not know how to make a loaf of bread or mend a garment, I wonder if he is not lacking somewhere, say toward the top for instance ? When a man receives a periodical or new-paper weekly, and taki-s great delig .t reading it, and don't pay for it, 1 woudei: if he has a soul or a gizard. $35" JFhy are cats like surgeons ? Ans. Because they tnew-till-late and destroy patients. Why is the heart of a lover like a sea scrpi-nt ? Ans. —Because it is a secreter (sea cretur) of great sighs (size) iar Why is a man who hesitates to sign the pledge like a skepticle Hindoo! — Ans. — Because he don't know whether to give up the jug-or-ot. "Oh ! my dear child, how came you so wet I" inquired au affectionate mother ot her son. "Why, ma, one of the boys said I daresn't jump into ihecteck, and bj jtu go, I tell you i ain't to be dated.' "Here, you little rascal walk up and give an account of yourself. Where h*vc you been !" "Alter the gals, father." "Did \ou ever know me to do so when I was a boj ?' "No, sir—but mother did " "Quill are things that are sometimes ta ken trout the pinions of oue goose to spread the opinions of MOother." Lucy Stone once aid : "There is cotton in the ears of man, and Lope iu the bosom of wumeu," Lucy made a mistake, and got the cotton in the wrong place. TX>HM, aa.oo PBR AKHOIC CRbAT lATIVAS BY GREAT NEK. Resist with care the spirit of inn oration upon the principles of your .government, however spacious the prett.—WABHIN TON. He who tells a lie is not sensible how gr> t a task he undertakes ; tor he must be lorced to tell twenty more to maiutaio one. —POPE. Virtue is a rock, from which rebound all the at rows shot against it.—KOZLAT. Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.- PENN. An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.—SWlFT. Education is the chief defence of nations. BR >OKS. Talkative men seldom read. This is am<>ug tiie few truths which appear the more strange the more we reflect upon them For what is reading but siieut conversa tion ? LANDOR. Give your son a trade and you do more for him than by giving him a fortune.— FRANKLIN. The Greatest friend of truth is time ; her greatest enemy is piejudice ; and h< r con stant companion is humility.—COLTON. Costly apparatus, and splendid cahiaets have no power to make scholars. WEB STKR. Books are the depository of everything that i-most honorable in man.—GOOD WIN. There is a comfort in the strength of love. 'Twill make a thing endurable which else would overset the brain or break the heart.—VV ORDS WORTH. The troubles of the country com3 from uneasy politicians ; its safety, f:om the tranquil masses.— BKSTO.N. Agriculture is the most useful, the most healthful and the most noble employment of men-— WASHINGION. Take care ot the Constitution and the Constitution will take care of us. —CKIT- TENE. One-half of mankind are not born with saddles <>u their backs, to be riddeu by the other balf. —JEFFERSON. I would rather my daughter should have a man without money, than money without a man.— THEMISTOCLKS. Ignorance is the curse of God ; knowl edge the wings tuerewitb we fly to Heav en.—SUAKSI'EAKK. Success in lift* depends upon e heroic sell with which out sets out in life.—LoW CLL. Two hearts which mutually love,are liko j l*o magnetic clocks ; that which moves in one must also m >ve in the other, for it is the same power which acts in both.--Gox- THE The history of the world tells us, that imuior<.i meaus will intercept good enda CuLKBRIOGE. I had rather have newspapers without government, than a government without newspapers --Je.rFER.suN. Wit will never make a rich man, but there are place? where riches will always make a wit.- JoHXSwN. It is more easy to be wise lor others thau tor ourselves. -LA ROCIIKFAIC ALLD. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public lor being eminent -SWIFT. lie is a fool who will uot yield to reason. SHAKSPEARE. Castles ate proud things, but 'tis best to be outside of them --EMERSON. Every man is a volume if you know how to read HUU.—CHANMINO. B< auty devoid ot grace is a mere hook without the bait.— TALLYRAND. What you leave after your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers Will be your heirs. — OSBORM. ANTE-MORTEM EPITAPHS. ON BENJAMIN F. BUTLER. Here lies a great hero who shirked bloody strife. He passed in a bottle some years of Lis l.fe ; But 'ere he was bottled much plunder he gained, Which, in spite of remonstrance, he always retained, Till it grew to amaxira beyond all debate That no Butler ne'er took such good care of the plate, And when vessels of silver were missing "Alack," Sighed the owner, "they're hidden in Ben-, jamiu's sack." ON PARSON BRoWNLOW. Safe at last beneath the sod Lies th's bogus "inan of God." In the State of Tennessee None could awear ts hard as he ; Wiile blaspheming at a mark Fate snitfed out his vital spark. I'robabiy he's gone to —will, Oue would baidly like to tell. ON BENJAMIN WADB. Renowned for blasphemy and canting. Wade in the balance and found wanting, The odds are millions to a pin I Has notaa "Uppar Bea^atnio.^ VOL. 6 NO. 35