®|e Jkmocrat. HARVEY SICK LEW, Editor. TUJN KHAN NOCK, PA. Wt'diieMlay. Apr. 10, 1867. election for Senator to fill a vacancy in the Fifth Wisconsin District, on the 13th ult., Hon. H. L. Palmer, Democrat, was elected by a majority of about or,e thousand. The city of Milwan koo, which gave only 4-31 Democratic ma jority last fall, increased that majority to 800. The result may be taken as a sure criteriau of what the Democracy will do on a large scale in future elections. The Senate has refused to confirm Ralph 1. Little, as Assessor of the 12th Di-trict. and A. C. liu-sel, as Post Master at Danville, and Colonel Allen M'Kean, as Postmaster at Towanda. It has also re jected General Slocum. late commander of the 12th Corp-, for the position of Na val Officer of .V-w York. General Frank Flair, another gallant soldier, nominated as minister to Austria, has also been rejected by tlu se gallant stay-at home patriots.— What love for the soldiers now ! These two soldiers led two columns in Sherman's '•grand march to the sea."'— Ex. On the floor of Congress, P>ingham twits Ben. Butler of his cowardice and military blunders and failures. Io return. Butler twits Bingham of being instrumen tal in "murdering an innocent woman," Mrs. Surratt. The charges of the two wor thies upon each other are well put and aw fully just. One a COWARD AND THIEF, the other a WOMVN MLRDF.RF.R! Such is the character which two leaders of the Mongrel party put upon eaeh ofber. It is due to these gentlemen to say that, for once at least, their judgment is in harmony with the most enlightened public opinion. The National Smelling Committee. ITe certainly do not pretend to set-forth the scorn which must have been felt by ev ery self respecting American citizen on reading of the investigation just made by a committee ot Congress into the private banking account of I'resident Johnson, savs the N. limes. A meaner or more piti ful insult it would be impossible to con ceive, or one more fit to come in at the end of the paltry assaults which have been made by Congress upon the Executive. lobe impeached for high crimes and mis demeanors' may not be the most agreeable things in the world, but it is honorable com pared with being compelled to submit to sucii inquisitions as this. We suppose the Judiciary Committee will give to the country toe result of their researches into Mr. Johnsons account, and furnish us the date and amount f deposits, with the mag nitude of the drafts. 'lt would he as well, ett'T CHI n ing matters thus far, to prose cute the investigation still further, and as certain how the President came bv each bundled do]hirs put to his credit—how much he saved of his salarv, how much accrued from his property, how much he made by investments, and so forth. It would be better the work should be done thoroughly if done at all. But still wc do not believe that the American people, whatever they may think of the President's policy, will regard with patience such petty exhibitions of partisan malice. Jefferson Davis. The President has recently been urged bv Congres-men of th Republican persua sion and other influential citizens, to re lease Jeff, Davis from imprisonment upon* hail or upon his own recognizance, inasmuch as there is now less probability than hereto fore that Chief-Justice Chase can bo in duced to preside at a session of the United States Circuit Court in Virginia within a reasonable time. Judge Chase has here tofore refused to hold Court in the District iu which Davis must be tried, upon the ground that it would not be in keeping with the d gnity of a Judge of the Supreme Court to preside in a District in which the civil authority was not fully restored, and where the military arm of the Government is required to sustain the law and direct and control the action of the citizens. He has said repeatedly that not until the civil authority shall he acknowledged and estab lished beyond cavil, will lit take his scat upon the bench. In view of all the cir cumstances the President is asked to re lease Mr. Davis from confinement on bail or on b>s own recognizance, and ihere is good reason for saying that, within the next week or two, Mr. Dav s will be dis charged from custody upon his own recog nizance to answer the charges that may be brought against him.—A T . Y. Times. B. auty. Let mo see a female possessing that beauty of meek and modest deportment— of an eye that speaks intelligence and puri ty within—of the lips that speak no guile ; let me see in her a kind and benevolent disposition, a heart that can with distress and I never ask for the beau ty that dwells in '-ruby hps," or "flowing tresses," 01 "snowy hands," or the forty other etceteras upou which our poets have harped for so many ages. These fade when touched by the hand of time ; but those ever enduring qualities of the heart shall outlive this reign, and grow brighter and fresher as the ages of eternity roll away. fcr A woman in Hudson City, N. J., whose child had been flogged in school, went to the school house the other day and cowhided both the male and female Veacher together in the most severe man ner. Th New Jury Law. The following is said to be the text of the law lately passed in reference to draw ing jurors within State, It seems to be fair and impartial in its provisions. SECTION 1, Be it enacted by the Senate and Una eof Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania in General .4s sembly met, and is hereby enacted by the authority ioners and the keys thereof in the cus tody ofsaid county. SEC. 3. The said jury commissioner* and the slier ff of the nsp dive county, or any two of them, shall draw from the pro per jury wheel panels of j trors, and grand jurors of the proper county, and as petit and traverse jurors, for th<- trial of is-aes in fact which mav be taken in any action in any of the courts, civil and criminal, in the several counties afor 'aid, in the man ner now practiced and all >wed; but before the said jury commissioners and sheriff shali proceed to select or draw jurors in the manner aforesaid, they shall severally take the oath or affirmation now prescribed by law to be taken by tlie sheriff ai d coun ty commissioners before selecting and drawing jurors. SEC. 4. That so much of any act or acts of Assembly of this Commonwealth, a? makes it the duty of the sheriff and county commissioners of any of said coun ties to select and draw jurors, shall be re pealed and cease to have .my force or ef feet from and after the fust day of Decem ber next. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven: Prov'd'J , That al' acts, and parts of act.-- of Assembly, now in force, in relation to the custody, sealing and unsealing, locking and opening of the jurv wheel of the respective county, and all act--, and parts of acts of Assembly, now in force, imposing any penalty or punish aentonthe sheriff and county commis sioners, or either of them, for anything done or omitted by thorn in relation to the keeping, locking, opening, sealing or break ing the seal of any jury wheel, or in rela tion to the selection or drawing of jurors, shall he taken, deerm d and held to apply to the said jury commissioners and sheriff. SEC. b. Each of said jury commissioners shall be allowed and paid out of the re spective country treasury two dollars and fifty cents per day, and four cents per mile, circular, from the residence of the commis sioneis in the court house. SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of each of said jury commissioners to take upon him self and discharge the duties of his said office, tinder a penalty of one hundred dol lars for each and every neglect or refusal to attend the same, to bo used for and re covered before any justice of the peace of the proper county, as debts ol'like amount are now bylaw recoverable, Icn dollars of which shall go to the person suing and the residue to be paid by the said justice to the treasurer of the respective county for the use of the same. SEC. 7. In case of the inability of eitb er or both of the said jury commissioners, by sickness or death, or other unavoidable causes, to discharge the duties of said office or in case of neglect or refusal to serve thereon, it shall be the duty of the presi dent judge in such county, whereio such vacancy may have occurred, to appoint a suitable person or persons, as the case may be, possessing the qualification aforesaid, to perform the Unties of said office during such vacancy, and such person or persons, after having complied with the require ments of the third section of this act, shall pr icred to discharge the duties of said of fice the same as if elected by the people, until the next general election, when the people shall elect a commissioner in lieu thereof. Mrs. " Government," relict of the "late lamented Government," . is said to b? looking quite "spruev" of late, as if she i would just as soon as not forget the ' mar l tyred fcjaint," in the embtace of a second i ltve. We should not wonder. It's the way of the world, and Abraham will be as soon forgotten as any one else, althorgh , his deeds will be remembered forever. — j Btllefonte Watchman. Protection—How it Worlw, "Protect nfe," 1s the imploring cry of a comfortable, well-fed, well-clad personage whom, at first sight, one would hardly take for a beggar. "Protect me! I own but ton thousand acres of land in the world. It is my all. *lt is full of coal; but the Eng lishman and Nova Scotians have got coal too, and they offer to sell it cheaper than the price I want. Shi.t out this foreign coal and protect me, an American laborer." lie looks even less like a laborer than a beggar. " What makes coal so dear when the weather is so dreadful cold ? God help us poor!" came from the chattering teeth of a toil-worn, care-worn, shivering woman, as she measured with stingy eye a scanty fresh supply of fuel to her waning fire. No cry from her to Government for protection. No protection to her from the greed of the strong, the cunning, the avaricious. ' Work for yourself. Work or starve. Self-help. Every one for himself. If Government gave bread or clothes or fuel to the poor, it would demoralize them. Take better care of the pennies you earn. Lay them up in the summer for a winter day." Such are the answers she would ge if she asked for protection—if she turned beggar. No chance for her to put in a replication. The voices of the coal-ownm are mighty to drown hers. If she could be heard, she would say, "lluw can I lay up my pennies when the strong aim of Government takes them from me, day by day, as fast as I can earn them, and hands them over to niv richer neighbors? On every spool of thread I buy, Government takes from me a penny or two to pay over to the Woon socket Factory Company, so that they make dear thread antf big dividend. On every garment 1 wear, it takes pennies and shil lings from me wherewith to till the purses of the rich men who make clotli and stock ings and shawls, and who cannot be con tent with less ttian fifty or a hundred per cent, increase of their wealth every year to pav them for making their clothes for the American laborer. When I buy a stove or a pair of scissors, I must pay some of my hard earned pennies to support the wealthy iron-maker of Pennsylvania. I beg no protection to my labor and I ask none. — Let us both alone —mo ami the manufac turer As you let me work my humble way along as best I can, leave him to d<*- the same. Give him no part of my earn ings, and lam content witli my little share of this world's goods." If it demoralizes society for Government to give the poor food and clothes and fuel, ii it not equally demoralizing for Government to give to the rich and the strong? And when it gives to the rich by taking from the comforts of ♦ lie poor, is it not demoralizing society at both ends? ♦'Mother, do give rae another blanket, I am so cold," begs a shivering child, of a winter's right on our Northern frontier.— " I have no more, child ; blankets are o dear. John, what mak'-s woolen things so much dearer than they used to be?" "I don't kuow but they say it's all done to protect us poor folks. A tonguoy man told us the other night the other night the Government must protect us from the blanket-makers in England and other for eign countries." "les, but John, over in Canada they have nothing but English blankets, and you can buy t*o there for what one costs here. The English blanket makers don't seem to be so liaid on the puor people after all." "Well, I ran't tell the story exactly ; hut the tonguey man made it out clear. I think he said, too, that wool wouldn't gro von our sheep unless they was purtected.' "Well, John, you dor.'t mean that the}' kiver our American sheep with blankets to make their wool grow, and that's the reason blankets are so scarce and dear?" " Well, I don't know about that; but he made out that the sheep mn-t he purtect ed to get the wool, and then the men who made the wool into blankets must be pur tected ; else we'd have to use the cheap foreign blankets, and then he said we'd be worse off." "John, don't you think the tonguey man was pulling some wool over your eves? If I could get two blankets instead of one to keep the children warm, the sheep could do well chough with their natural kivering. It seems to me that we poor folks, what don't have natural kiver of wool growing on onr backs, want purtection more than the sheep." "Well, that's just what Deacon Weldoff savs; he says these prices purtect us as well as the sheep, and you know the Deacon subscribes a good deal of money to the poor. "That's all true, John; but then the Dpacon don't seem to get any poorer for all he gives away; and the Deacon has got a great manv sheep of his own ; and whatever is'good for his sheep must be good for the Deacon's own pocket; ar.d they do say that he owns part of a big blanket fac tory down in Rhode Island ; and so, may be, the Deacon wrongs ns poor folks out of ten dollars and then gives us back one dollar of it in charity ; maybe, if the poor cheap blankets and cheap clothes, they wouldn't want any charity. You can't make me believe we're any better off for having only one blanket when, if they were cheaper, we might have two." The parable of Dives and Lazarus might be useful reading for those who are getting fat dividends from coal mines and facto ries.—Ex, THE ENGLISH H.—There used to be a good English clergyman connected with the Providence Conference who had a car pet-bag marked with the single initial L. On one occasion in these times the annual conference finished its business and reached the final adjournment in the afternoon, but a few minutes before the hour when the members were to leave town- Many of them anticipating such a state of things,had tak°n their baggags to the church where the sessions were held, and as soon as the benediction was pronounced there was a rush for the pile of valines and bags in the entry. Our English friend was at the last end of the crowd, and not being able to get to the pile ctood at the ont-side of the circle, calling out, "Has any brotter seen a car pot-bag marked Hell ?" Letter From Ex-President Buchanan. In reply to an invitation from a large number of prominent Democrats of Phila delphia and clsewlu re throughout the State, tendering a public dinner to ex-President Buchanan, that distinguished gentleman has written the follow ing dignified and pa triotic letter, declining the proffered testi monial ; WHEATLAND, 23d March, 18G7. GENTLEMEN : —I Lave received, with grateful emotions,your very kind invitation to a public dinner you propose to give me. in the city of Philadelphia, on any day I may indicate. Nothing, I can assure you, could afford me greater pleasure than to meet you around the festive board, and with you renew the pleasant memories of long past years, I deny myself the gratification, only in deference to what I consider the wise ex ample of my democratic predecessors in the office of President. After having admin istered the most exalted office which the country could bestow, they deemed it ex pedient to remain in the retirement of pri vate life ; and whilst holding their own opinions on the political questions of the day, they left the public disscussion of them to gentlemen, like yourselves, still on the busy theatre of active life. If any other reason were required for my self-denial on this occasion, 1 might re fer you to my advanced age of which you remind me, by stating that I am now the last survivor of "American statesmen of the olden time, the only living eotemporary of Webster and Clay,and Benton and Cal houn." In passing, permit me to say, you might have justly added to these distin guished names, that of Silas Wright. He was a statesman, who, for sound practical wisdom, for far-seeing sagacity, and for lucid and convincing argument, had no su perior in the Senate, even at the period when it was the greatest deliberative body in the world. You have my cor lial thanks for your opinion "that no responsibility for the years of blood and sorrow we have en dured, rests on me, w ho tiiod, in a moment of terrible exigency, to do my duty under the Constitution." Proceeding as this does, from a large number of my fellow citizens, equal in intelligence, character and patriotism, to any similar number of gentle men in the State, may I not, with much confidence, indulge the hope that you but anticipate the general sentiment of future times 1 Under this impression, and always firmly relying on Divine Providence,l have borne with a tranquil and contented spirit all the harsh criticisms which have been published on mv official conduct through out the last unhappy years. Assuming,as you do, "the immediate future of the coun try to be full of peril," you ask me "for words of counsel, of consolation, and, if possible of hope - " Consistently with my self-imposed reticence 1 may sav'to you : exert all your power and influence in dis seminating and enforcing its general prin ciples,by means of the press, public speech cs, private conversations, and in every oth er honorable manner ; and employ the same untiring energy in exposing and con demning ever) departure from its precepts. Never despair ; for the time will surely come when these shall triumph and control the administration of the government. With sentiments of grateful icspect, 1 remain, Your much obliged friend. JAMES IUCIIANAX. Hon. Asa Factor. Hon Owen Jones, Hon. John Cadwalader, Samuel It. S. Si wit h, G. li. Fox, Andiew C. Craig, Esquires, and Hon, lliester Clymer, with many others. $ 1 3 5 O The members of the House of Represen tatives at Harrisburg, on Thursday Inst, ac tually voted themselves the snug little sum of Si 350 a piece for the valuable (!) services tliev have rendered the people the present session. When we take into consideration the small number of days they have been in session and the mean service they have rendered the people, this is about as near stealing as well can be, without actually breaking into the treasury. We are glad to see the press, without distinction of party aie severely condemning this outrage. The Philadelphia Sunday Mercury , in ref.ring to this matter says the action of the mem bers of the Legislature ip increasing their pay from SI,OOO to 1,350, cannot be too severely condemned. Emanating from those who should be the conservators of the people's interests, this unwarratable appro priation becomes the more outrageous. In the days when Democracy was in the as cendant, S3OO was considered a reasonable amount for one hundred days' legislation. Since Republicanism asserted its authority the incursions upon the rights of the people know no bounds. From s>7oo, it lias in creased a member's salary to >l,3so,with a probability of continuing in the same strain until the people return to the "wisdom of their fathers" by sending representative men to make their laws.— Easton Sentinel. Marriage. Whatever faults Voltaire may have had, he certainly showed himself a man of sense when he said: "The more married men you have, the fewer crimes there will be. Marriage renders a man more virtuous and more wise." An unmarried man is but half of a perfect being, and it requires the other half to make things right; and it cannot be expected that in this imperfect state he can keep the straight path of rec titude any more than a boat with oue oar, or a bird with one wing, can keep a straight course. In nine cases out of ten, where men become drunkards, or where they com mit crimes against the peace of the com munity, tie foundation of these acts was laid while in a single state, or where the wife is, as is sometimes the case, an un suitable match. Marriage changes the whole current of a man's feelings, and gives him a centre for his thoughts, his affectioils and his acts Ilere is a home for the en tire man, and the counsel, the affections, the example, and the interests of his "bet ter half," keep him from erratic courses, an I from falling into a thousand tempta tions to which he would otherwise be ex posed. Therefore the friend to marriage is a friend to society and to bis country. The origin of the portrait of the goddess of liberty upon our coins is of great inteiest. Mr. Spencer, the inventor of Spencer's lathe, used by the American bank note company, was the artist who cut the first die for our American coin.— He cut an exact medallion of Mrs. George Washington, and the first few coins were struck with her portrait. When general Washington saw ihem he was displeased and requested the figure to be removed. — Mr. Spencer altered the features a little, and putting a cap upon its head, called it the goddess of liberty. Washington was too modest to allow of man worship or ev en woman worship. Yet now-a-days the Spinner, Chases, and all the underlings of the paper money, must stamp their impu dent faces on the fraudulent coinage, It is the age of progress. The pay and allowance of the gen tlemen who wear stars and shoulder straps in our army on its peace footing arc report ed to be as follows : General Grant, $18,120; Lieutenant" General Sherman, $14,814; Major Gener al Halleck, 7,717 ; Major General Meade, $7,717 ; Major General Sheridan, $7,717 ; Major General Thomas. $7,717 ; i Iritis* dier General McDowell, $5,517 ; llriga d er General Kosecrans, $5,51 > ; colonels, $4,500; lieutenant-colonels, $3 094; maj ors, $3,705 ; captains, $3,049 ; first lieuten ants, $2,713 ; and second lieutenants, $2- 053. XW An act relative to weights and measures, fixit g a bushel of wheat at GO pounds; rye 56; corn (shelled) 50; corn (cob) To ; corn meal 4<> ; salt (coarse) 70; salt (ground) 62 ; salt (fin •) 47 ; bai ley 47; oats 32; buckwheat 59 ; cloverseed 64 ; timothy seed 45 ; turnips 55 ; onions 56; peas 56: malt 38; unslacked lime 80; anthracite coal 80; bituminous coal 75; — coke 40 ; potatoes 50 ; sweet potatoes 54: flaxseed 56 ; bran2J; beans 56; dried peaches 38; dried apples 25. I'assed fin ally. A Chicago young man who adver tised tor a wife received a reply from Mad ison, Wis,, purporting to be from a lady, and requesting him to visit her. lie went, met the supposed young lady and a once proposed an elopement, but was arrested by a bogus officer for attempting abduction, and tried by a mock court in the Court house. Hie victim after standing the or deal of atw o hours trial, was released on condition that he would leave town imme diately. C2TBV a late treaty Russia cedes to the United States all of Russian America, for $7,000,000. The treaty has ml yet b.en ratified by the Senate. Tim Territory is about seven times the size of Pennsylvania, but lias only about GO,OOO people. in a financial point of view it is uotHvorth much; but it may prove of immense value in oth er respects. XiT In the present piece of a Congress, no less than seventeen Slates- are unrepre sented. Ten are destroyed and are now governed by military commissions : altho' by our system of Government, the military is subordinate to the civil power. It was upon that pretext that General Jackson was fined at New Orleans. C-tT A Washington dispatch Gates that under the Equalization Bounty Hill, 114, 000 claims for additional bounty, have be; n filed in the Second Auditor's office, and 100,000 more in the Paymaster General's office. Applications for bounty are still flowing in at the rate of 1000 per day. According to a Washington inven tion, an excited patriot d clarcd, "if the rebels are going to be allowed to rule over us, then the blood of the colored substitute, for whom I pail three hundred dollars vas shed in vain." ggg" John Cheney, a hunter of Adiron dack's, possesses a pi-tol with which he claims he has killed 1,500 deer, 12 otter, 1 panther, 28 hear, 24 nv ose and other game without number. Tie has carried the pistol thirty two years. CST The number of Southern men who will be disfranchised by the Constitutional Amendment is 29.745, that being the num ber who have held office under the Confed crate Government from Davis down. C3T S. 11, Rowland, night clerk in a ware house in Memphis, received news from England of his having fallen heir to an estate of $8,000,000. fgf An lowa ladv lias just recovered SIO,OOO damages for defamation of her character t>y a man who told scandalous stories about her. XW The subscription to the fund for the relief of the South, in New York city, has reached the sum of thirty one thousand dollars. man was last week sent to Jail for ten days in Rhode Island for sleeping in church. Nothing was done to the cler gyman. Gentlemen attending church in Co In in bus, 0., are invited by a printed notice to leave their tobacco at the door. Two eupersticious negro women in South Carolina burned up a child, think ing it was the devil. A Butcher in Wheeling, during the past thirty three years has made 625 miles of sausage, A few days since a boy in llartford City, Ind., lost his life by a grain of corn in his throat. It is a great satisfaction to know that the earth weighs 1,256,195,070,000.000,000,- 000 tons. Local and Personal. Eiplanatlon.—The date on the colored ad. dress label on this paper indicates the time up te which, as appears on our books, the subscriber has paid for his piper. Any error, in this label, will hi 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 their papers. Don't lot it get too far back into the by gone days-—Something happen. Don't You K.uowr that Bunuel A Bannatyne always keep one of the most extensive and varied stocks of Merchandise, which they sell at the small est living profits 1 Haines Bros'.Planos are excellent instruments and are sold at moderate prices. They are for sale, wholesale and retail at Powell's Music Store, Scranton. Hew Counterfeit.— Tho detectives of the Treasury Department have just discovered a new counterfeit on the $lO notes of the National Bank currency. The notes detected purport to be the is sue of the Flour City Nation..l Bank of Rochester, N. Y , are said to be exceedingly well executed, ani are likely to deceive. Sound T,ogic —An ex change, addressing its delinquent supporters, says : "We don't want desper ately bad, hut CIT creditors do, and they no doubt owe you. If you pay us, we'll jay them- conse quently. they'l jciy you." That logic is hard to beat. '•Them's our sentiments." 44 orlh Knowing,—The following information may be useful to some of our readers : If people planting orchards would give strict orders to maik tl e north side of trees with red chalk before thev are taken up and when set out to have the tree put in the ground with its north sido to the north side in its natural position, a large proportion would live. Ignoring this law of nature is the fcae from aU iajaxiea*