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All TRANSIENT ADVERTISEMENTS an* JOB WORK must be paid for, when ordered fhrsiiifss JPITFG. o R. & U E LITTLE, ATTORNEYS AT [\ law Office on Tioga Street Tunkhannock ra TtTM. M. PIATT, ATTORNEY AT J \ V fioe in Stark's Brick Block Tioga tot., lunk hannock, Pa. HS. COOPER, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON • Newton Centre, Luzerne County Pa. rT~L, PARRISH, ATTORNEY AT LAW- U* Office at the Court House, in Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co. Pa- T~Vr. RHOADS, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, J • will attend promptly to all calls in his pro fession. May be found at 1113 Office at the Drug Store, or at his residence on Putman Sreet, formerly oceupicd by A. K. Peckham Esq. DENTISTRY. £ DR. L,T. BURNS ha. periuarently located in Tunkhannock Borough, and report fully tenders bis professional services to its citizens. Office'on second floor, formerly occupied by Dr. Ikilman. v6n3otf. • BUFJILFC JLIIUSE, UAURISRURG, PENNA. The undersigned having lately purchased the " BUEHLER HOUSE " property, has already com menced such alterations and improvements as will render this old and popular House equal, if not supe rior, to any Hotel in the Cily of Harrisburg. A continuance of tho public patronage is refpect fully solicited. GEO. J. BOLTON 1/VALUS HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, T U NKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. THIS establishment has recently been refitted an furnished in the latest style. Every attention will be given to the comfort and convenience of those whe patronize the House. ... T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor: Tunkhannock, September 11, 1861. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESUOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA W in. He CORTRIGHT, Prop'r HAVING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no efforts lender the house an agreeable place of sojourn to " k ° ■" " " i,h '££7 TONIGHT. fane,3rd, 16G3 fjfeaitu FMEL, , TO'VD r A.3N3"33-A-v X*-A.. p. B- BARTLET, {Late ef w BBTUINARD Horsfe, ELMIKA, N. Y. PROPRIETOR. The MEANS HOTEL, is one of the LARGEST and BEST ARRANGED House* in tho country—lt is fitted up in the most modern and improved style, and no pains are spared to make it a pleasant and agreeable stopping-place for all, v 3, n2l, ly. Remedial Institute FOR SPECIAL. CASES. JiTo. iJ+ Hon (I Street, JVCH> York. CF* Full information, with the highest testimo nials ; also, a Book on Special Diseases, in a seal ed. envelope, sent free. |*jf Be sure and send for tthem, and you will not regret itj for, as adver tising physicians are generally impostors, without references no stranger should be trusted Enclose e stamp for postage,and direct to DR. LAWRENCE , 14 Bond Street, New York. v6tf!slyr, NEW TAILORING SHOP The Subscriber having had a sixteen years prac tieal experience in cutting and making clothing now offers his services in tjiis line to tho citizens of WVBOlson And vicinity* Those wishing to get Fits will find his shop the |j||t to get them. 1..L, R, S.IT. THE GLORY OF MAN IS STRENGTH _TW ore the and debilitated should immediately , Hw.ii not I) s EXT&ACB liootna SUM & BinATYIS'S CBLVHI A LARGE . it* •' • " * STOCK OF SPRING GOODS, t. I JUST RECEIVED AND FOP Sale •• • • CHEJIP, Cr ALL KINDS OP ' Produce TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR GOODS, V H ■'r (<• J.ri v/."? 1 . ' i>. AT VM'J * BUNNELL A BANNATYNE'S • : . ~ r " ■ 1 ;; ' ii. - - • J I. ' .. * Tunkhannock , Pa. ■ i • • 4 • -• J1; vsn4l. " ' "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERT FREEMAN'S RlGpT.'—Tftomas Jeflferaon, ' ' : , ;... . 'Ji ■ .I "" • / TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1867. HALT'S THE GIPSY'S WARNING. Do not trust his, gentlo lady, Though his voice be low and sweet; Heed not that he kneels unto the Softly pleading at thy feet. While thy life is in its morning, Cloud not thus thy sunny lot, List unto the gipsy's warning. Gentle lady, trust him not. Do not turn so coldly from me I would only guard thy youth. From a stern and withering sorrow—" I would only tell thee truth. I would shield theo from all danger, — Woo the from the tempter's snare ; Lady, shun the dark-eyed stranger. I have warned thee ; oh, beware ! Lady, once there lived a maiden Young and pure, and like thee, fair; Yet, oh yet, he woo'd and won her, Filled her gentle heart with care. c Then he heeded not her weeping, He cared not her life to save ; ~ Soon she perished—now she's sleeping In tho cold and silent grave ! Keep thy gold ! I do not need it! Lady," I have prayed for this— For the hour when I might find him, Kob hipi of expected bliss ! Ay! I see thou'rt filled with wonder At my words so fierce and wild ; Lady, in that green gra\e yonder, Sleeps the gipsy's only child ! A Ship of Death Floats Into a Port of the Shetland Islands. Since the time when the Ancient Mari ner told the terrible tale of the cruise-laden ship, with het crew of ghastly corpses, no more thrilling story oi tbe sea has been re lated than that of the whale ship Diar.a, that recently drifted into one of the Shet land Islands. A year ago she left the Sbet'iands ou'a wha ling voyage to the Arctic regions, having on board fifty men- From that time noth ing more was heard of her. The friends of those on board became alarmed. Money was raised and premiums offered to the first vessel that would bring tidings of the missing ship, but alt to no avail. Hope was almost abandoned. On the 2d of April the people nearßona's Voe, in one of the Shetland Isles, were startled at seeing a ghastly wreck ot a ship sailing into the harbor. Battered and ice crushed, sails and cordage cut away, boats and spate cut up for fuefin the terrible Ar tie winter, her decks covered with dead and dying, the long lost Diana sailed in liks a ship from Deadman's Land. Fifty* men sailed out of Lcrick in her on a bright May morning last year. All of the fifty came back on her an the 2d of April, this year; the same, but bow different. ' Ten men, ot whom tbe captain was one, lav stiffened corpses on the deck : thirty five lay helplessly sick, and some <3ying, two retained sufficient strength to creep aloft, and the other three crawled feebly abont the deck. The ship was boarded by the islanders, and, as they climbed over the bulwarks, the man at the wheel fainting from excite ment, one of the sick died ixi he lay, his death being announced by the fellow occu pant of his berth feebly moaifing, "Take away this dead man." On the bridge of the vessel "lay the body of the captain, aS it had lain for four months, with nine of his dead shipmates by his side, all decently laid out by those who soon expected to share their fate 4 The survivors could not bear to sink the bodies of their comrades into the sea. but kept them so that when the last man died the fated ship that had heeh their common home should be tbAr common tomb. The surgeon of .the ship worked faithfully to the last, but cold, hunger,-scurvy and dyscnter j were too much for him. The brave old Captain was the first victim, and died bless ing his men. Then "the others fell, one by one, until the ship was tenanted only by the dead and djiug. One night more at sea would have left the Diana a cof fin. Not one of the fifty would have lived to tell the ghastly tale. A WORD TO YOUNG MEN. —One of the meanest things a man can do, and it is now no uucommon occurrence, is to mo nopolize the time and attention of a young girl for a year or more without a definite objectjand to the' t exclasion qf any pUaer gen tlemen who supposing him to have matrimo nial intentions, absent themselves from her society. It prevents the reception of eligi ble offers of marriage, and fastens upon the young lady, when the acquaintance is finally dissolved, the unenviable appella tion of "flirt." Let all your dealings with woman, young men, be frank, honest, and potle. That many whose education and position in like manner would warrant our looking for better things are culpably criminal on those points, is no pxcuse for short comings. That woman is often in jured or wronged; through ber holiest feel ings, adds but a blacker dye to your mean ness. One rule ie always safe. Treat ev ery woman you meet as you would an other man to troat your innocent, con fiding sister. POPULAR ERRORS.— That editors keep public reading rooms. Tbat they have plenty of time to talk, to everybody. That they are delighted to get anything to fill up the paper with.,. That they like to be asked " what's ihe news." , That every man's own special axe is a matter of "pubr lip interest" jThat it dees'nt make much difference whether copy be writen on one or both sides. That they return rejected manuscripts. Tbat they can afford to-print and 6end a man a newspaper for five or six years without being paid for iU :• THE BUSQ.UEHANNA RIVER, If there be a more beautiful spot on earth than that which tha men of Faxon settled, we have not seen i{. From its source in Ostego Lake, where the great American novelist has described it in lan guage which will never cease to bfe read ; along by its lovely winding, where the Chemung intersects the North Branch, whose beauties have been embalmed by one of our most graceful poets ; by the Valley of Wyoming, which lives forever in the imagination ot Campbell, but which is fairer even than the eemi-tropical fancy of which he was enamored ; on by tbe bold scenery of the meetings of the waters at Northumberland, to its broad glory, cele brated in the New Pastoral, and its mag nificent union with the Chesapeake, every mile of the Susquehanna is beautiful.— Other rivers have their points oflovliness or of grandeur; the Susquehanna has every form of beauty or sublimity that belongs to rivers. We have seen them all ; Con necticut, Hudson, Delaware, Ohio, Missis sippi, Missouri . There is nothing like the Susquehanna on this continent. Its pe culiar character depends upon its origin in the New York meadows, "its passage through the magnificent Pennsylvania highlands and the mountains. Every where its course is defected ; begins a wooded lake ; it winds a limped brook by meadows and over silver pebbles; makes its way through mountains; it loiters, restingly, by their bases; it sweeps in broad courses by the valleys. Its vast width, iu its mid spring freshets, when swollen by the melted snows, rushes from tbe hills with irresistible force, sometimes causing frightful inundation, leaves, with its falls, islands in its channel, of the rich est green, and most surpassing beauty; while passes through the mountains af ford points of scenery far finer than any one would believe them to bo from any description, if he had Hot seen them. The Susquehanna makes the grandest of these passages, just below the mouth of theJuniata. Its course there is several miles long, before it entirely disengages itself from the rapids, called Hunter's falls, which are the rcmaius of the rocky barrier which once resisted its way. Entirely at liberty, it pours its stream, a mile wide, along a channel some fifty or sixty feet beneath its bank.. About seven miles be low the mountains, at a point where they look blue in the distance, a sheltering well from the northern blasts, flows in a little strearfi which the Indians called I'axetang," Paixtand, or Paxton. This mountain is the northern boundary of the Blue Ridge which, underlaid with blue limestone, cov ered originally with the richest and noblest forest growth, and including within it the gardeo of all tbe Atlantic ilopc, extends from Easton, on the Delaware, by Read ing, Lebanon and Lancaster, by Cham bersburg, Ilagerstown and Winchester, un til it loses in the North Cirolina hill*. — The point of greatest beauty in all that valley) is the spot where it is cloven by the Susquehanna. A hundred and forty years ago, an en terprising young man from Yorkshire, in England, bv. descent, probably one of those Scandinavians, who, under the great Camite, held possession of the North of England, atfd gave its main character to it, mnde his way to ! Philadelphia- He married hero a lady who came over with * welL-known Yorkshire family of this city. Impelled by the same enterprising spirit that brought him from the old world, and naing the inevitable eye that was charac teristic of him, he went to the banks of the Susquehanna. He settled for a brief period at a point above Columbia, where the village of Bainbridge now stands, a place mnch frequented by the Conoy or Gawanoso Indians. But he was not satis fied with the location. Exploring up wards aloDg the eastern bank of the Sus quehanna, he advanced until, instead of the, Conowega hill at his back and on the opposite side of the river, he found the en trance opposite to him of that most beau tiful valioy, already described, with two fine streams flowing into the river about five miles apart, and on the eastern 6ide an elevated plateau unsurpassed in loveli ness in the wide world, with the little Paxton flowing at the base of an elevated slope or ridge of land. Here he settled, and the ferry across tho river to the en trance of the Cumberland Valleys was called after him. His son, the first white child born West of the Conewaga hills, subsequently laid out a town on the spot, and with a singu lar forethought set apart six acres on a no ble hill whiclqrises on the northwest, whioh be conveyed to the State for public pur poses. The Capitol of Pennsylvania is now built upon it and the city ot Harris burg bears his name. A.young lady went into a store a few days since, selected her outfit, and gave or ders for the articles to be sent to her* " Rec ollect," "said she to the accommodating clerk, u rats, mice, waterfall, net, crimpers," etc., etc. An unsophisticated elderly lady who witnessed the transactions, lifted her spectacles and gazed after the departing piies ; then turning to the proprietor, in a tone df sincereSt pity, " poor thing !" said she,"she i 3 crazy, ain't she ?" the smile at tins Was audible,— "Rural New Yorker. Vile and debauched expressions are the sure marks of an abject and groveling mind and the filthy -overflowing of a visoious bevt. ■. .<■ * - • r * at TERMS, . 88.00 PER AMKrM A THRILLING INCIDENT. The tragedy of Nacogdoches, and its ro mantic incidents which led to the Texas War of Independence, find their parallel only in the romantic history of Lucretia aud the elder Brutus. Juan Costa was a person of influence and bravery in the wild forest, but he fell undelr the displeasure of Santa Anna and his minions, Pedras, the commandant of Nacogdoches, was sent to arrest him. He arrested the father at the sapper tabje, at tended by his only daughter, a young girl of surprising beauty and intelligence. He loaded him with chains, and cast him into prison, not withstanding her tears and en treaties. Finally he prbposea to free the father, if the daughter would consent to sac rifice heb innocence and honor. She reject ed the infamous proposal with a blow in the face. The armed ruffian swore a horrible oath to execute his will on them both. With dark eyes, tearless and fixed as those of a corpse,yet flashing a double por tion of luminous fire, 9hc mounted a horse and hurried away wildly around the coun try. She halted at every house, no matter whether Mexican or American, and rehears ed in tones of thrilling horror her father's wrongs and her own. All timid modesty, all weakness had van ished from her tongue,{utterly consumed by the scorching thirst for revenge. She bar ed her virgin bosom, and showed the livid marks of the ravisheris anger among the azure veins aloug the surface of snow, now soiled, but before as ynre as a gleam of an angel's wing. And still, wherever the beautiful mail wandered, a deafening yell of wrath and veugance rose up against the tyrants. The people of both races and all classes, flew to arms, appointing a general rendez vous for the 11th of June, at the residence of the absent and now imprisoned, Juan Cos ta, It was here debated by tbe people who should be their leader, but nothing being done, the whole assemblage bade fair to break up in confusion, wheo a tall, power fully built strange, who had just entered' Texas from the States, came forward and addressed the multitude. " I am a stranger, but I am also a man, and I owe my life, soul, body, health, hap piness, all—all to wOMkN—to my mother! —aud if I turn a deaf ear to the prayer of an inocent woman. askiDg my aid against a villian, may my mother, and my God curse me ! If you stay behind, I go for one, to fight Pedras, and his armed ravishers of your wifes and daughters ! The speech received with three tremend ous cheers, and a shout that seemed to shake the solid earth, uttered the first peal of revolution. We will go ! Death to the tyrants! — Freedom for Texas, and the giant shall be our leader 1 The next day he led his raw recruits to the attack of Nacogdoches, ar.d stormed every position against immence odds. Af ter an assault of four hours, the carriage being dreadful on both sides, fortunately among the slain, was the dead body of the atrocious Pedras, And then, for the first time, was heard in the land of tbe wild, the name destined to become, and echo to the pulsation of all hearts—the name of THOMAS J. RUSK. Such was the debut of Rusk in Texas, and from that day his popularity has gone on steadily increasing, without even $ sitory eclipse, or even so much as a cloud to dim its splendor. In vain for three years General Cos demanded his arrest. Mex ico had not soldiers enough Jo take him, and in 1846 he assisted to chase the last one of the country. Afterwards he amass ed h fortune at the Texas bar, and was cho sen one of the first Senators of the new State annexed, a place which he ably adorned.— Henderson Times. POETRY IN UNDRESS. An English paper which rejoices in the name of the Ladies' Own, thus play 6 tricks with rhynee and reason :" It is many years since I fell in lave with Jane Jerusha Skeggs, the handsomest country girl by far, that ever went on two legs. By meadow creek, and wood and dell, so often did we walk, and the moonlight smil ed on her melting lips, and the night winds learned our talk. Jane Jerusha was all to me, for my heart was young and true, and loved with a doudle twisted love, and a love that was honest too.. I roamed all over the neighbor's farms, and I robbed the wildwood bowers, and I tore trousers and scrached my hands in search of choisest flowers. In my joyous love I brought these to my Jerusha Jane, but wouldn't be so foolish now, if I were a boy again. A city chap then came along, all dressed up in fine clothes, with a shiny hat anda shi ny vest, and a moustache under his nose. He talked to her of singing schools (for her father had a farm,) and she left me, the country love, and took the pew chap's arm. And all that night I ne ( yer,slppt, nor could I eat Ue next day, fot; I Ipped that girl with fervent love that BjfagW. y could drive away. I strove to win her back to me, but it was all in vaip; the city chap with the hairy lip married Jerusha Jane.— And mf poor heart was sick and 6ore until the thought, struck me, that just as good fish ptill remained as ever was caughtin the sea. So I went to the Methodist church one night and saw a dark brown eurl peep ing from under a gipsy hat, and I married that very girl. And many years have pass ed and gone, and I think my loss their gain ; and I often bless thst hairy chap that stole my Jerusha Jane." VOL. 6 NO. 43 KHL .anOMyi FASHIONS AMJ^FJMXIW "A womau's, glory is io her hair," hat often been quoted. If it be, she is deter mined to dim it iii these days of artificiali ty and fashionable folly. Now she twists not only her own hair, but as much as she can purchase, into the most unseemly and grotesque shapes, marring, as if with premeditated bau taste, every graceful curve and every line of beauty. A fash ionable woman's head at present, is a won* der of uusightliness. One would not think so many of the sex could, without positive genius for the hideousness, so deform themselves, as they do, in a single sitting. They rise in the morning, go from the bath comely and charming as nature crea* ted them. They appear two hours later, fresh from the hands of their maids, or their own manipulations, elaborately wrought out of all symmetry and attractiveness, es pecially in regard to the hair. Ingenuity appears to have been exhaust ed of late years, to make woman's hair look like anything else ; o give her head a size and form and proportion little less than repulsive. Curls, crimps, bands, wa terfalls, aud we know not what, vie with each other in destroying the fair semblance of the human head. The more homely a fashion, the more likely it is to be a favor ite ; the more unbecoming, the more apt it is to endure. One eannot go into com pany that pretends to be elegant, without having his eyes pained by the uncouthnes's of the hair dressing, and distortion of all that good taste would suggest. lie is re tnindod of stage goblins, or of his childish notions of the monsters of the Arabian tales. 0, for a brave, sensible woman, who would dare to be natural, dare to de fy the dictate of fashion, when fashion ar rays itself against simplicity, fitness and grace. Those few could reform the fol lies and insantities of dress. What othera did, they would be bold to do, and beauty begin again. The present style of wearing the water fall on the top of the head—it was bad enough.behind it —is simply adefoiraity,— It destroys the proportion of the head,"and is an cxcresenee that no one can refrain from desiring to see removed, even by vi olence. A woman might as well hare a hump on her back, or walk on stilts, as it 13 said she did in the early days of Venice, or cover one of her soft cheeks with a black plaster, or wear rings in her nose. But she will not believe it; for no woman would consciously mar her beauty, or di minish the grace she had inherited. Who does not long for the simple arrangement of the hair, as we see it in Grecian statues, plainly put back from the face or falling over the ear and cheek, with a neat coil behind, or a braid, if variety be needed? No woman has a right to spoil her ap pearance for fashion's sake. She owes more beauty to nature, than to the mantu maker or to caprice; and we must believe the time will come when the really fine woman will consider carefully the extent and sacredness of her debt and discharge it conscientiously and religiously. BE HAPPY AS YOU ARE. Wife and mother, are you tired and out of patience husband's and chil dren's demands upon your time and atten tion ? Are you almost tempted to speak out angry feelings to that faithfnl, bat, perhaps, sometimes heedless or exacting husband of yours ? Do you. -groan and say : "\Y hat a fool I was to marry and leave my fathers house, where I lived at ease." Are you, by reason of the care and weariness of the body, which wifehood and motherhood bring, forgetful of, and ungrateful for their comforts and joys?— Oh ! wife and mother, what if a sudden stroke should smite husband aad lay him low? What if your children should be snatched from your arms, and from your bosom ? What if there were.no true and strong hearts for you to lean upon 1 What if there were no soft little innocents to nestle ia your arms, and to love and receive your love ? How would it be with you then ? Be patient, kind, dear wife— be unwearying and long suffering, dear mother—for you know not how long you may be with your best and dearest treas ures —you know not how long thev may tarry with you. Let there be nothing for you to remember which will wring your heart with remorse, if they leave you alone ; let there be nothing for them to re member but love and sweetness unuttera bio, if you are called to leave them by the way. Be patient, be pitiful, be tender to them all, for Death will sooner or later step between them and you. And Oh 1 what would you do if you should be dopm ed to sit, solitary and forsaken, through years and years? Be happy as you are, even with all your trials ; for we believe it, thou wife of a true aud loving husband, there is no lot ia life so blessed and hap py as thine. * fiT Of Mr, Greeley's visit to Rich mond to become one of the bail for Jeffer son Davis, a newspaper of that city says that it is the first visit he has paid to that citv for tnirty one years. In 1836 he passed through Richmond on his way to Warrentown, N. C., for the purpose of be ing united in matrimony to a lady, a school mistress, bona in the North, but then en gaged in teaching in that place. He was married by a Richmond clergyman, and Sunday last, Mr. Greeley heard this cler gyman preach in Richmond, and renewed an acquaintance begun so many years kgo. •' • '
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