tTljf tlcmotrat. •_ _ _ _' ' IIAItVEV TICKLER, Editor. - k. - - fV /- ■—- . . < - TUN KHAN NOCK j PA. Wednesday. June .12,1 867. OliANI) CELEBRATION OF THE NINETY-THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE AT TUN KHAN NOCK, PA. Thursday, July 4th, 1867 AT II O'CLOCK, A. M., o The 4th of July next, will be celebrated at Tunk liannoek, by LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF TIIE NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, WITH MASONIC CEREMONIES. 0 The DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE will"be read, and aij appropriate oration delivered by a DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER, FROM ABROAD. At ihedogo of the ceremonies, a A DINNER, ICE CREAM, and other refreshments will be served by the La dies"; the proceeds of which are to bo appropriated to the furnishing of the new Church. The TUIHAIOCK BRASS BAND will lead the procession and furnish music for the occasion. Adjoining Lodges, and individual members of the Fraternity are cordiully invited t > participate in the ceieuionies in full Masonic Regalia. A pleasant au I interesting day may be anticipated • ALL ARE INVITED TO ATTEND. THE PRINTER'S ESTATE. —The printer's dollar? —where are they 'I A dollar here, arid a dollar lliere scattered over numerous small towns, all over the country, miles apart —-how shall they be gathered to gether? The paper maker, the building owner, the journeyman compositor, the gro cer, the tailor, and all assistants to him in carrying on Lis business, have their de mands. hardly ever so small as a single dol lar. But the mites from here and there must be diligently gathered and patienlly hoarded, or the wherewith to discharge the liabilities will never become sufficient ly bulky. We imagine the printer will have to get up an address to these widely .-cattered dollars something like the follow ing : u Dollars, halves, quarters, dimes, and all manners of fractions into which ye are divided, collect yourselves and come home! Yc are wanted ! Combinations of all sorts of men that help the printer to become a proprietor, gather such force, and demand, with such good reasons, your appearance at his counter, that nothing short of a sight of you will appease them. Collect yourselves, lor valuable as you are in the aggregate, single you will never pay the cost of gathering. Come in here, in single tile, that the printer may form you into a battalion, and send you forth again to bat tle for him, and vindicate his feeble credit!" Reader, are you sure you havn't a cou ple of the printer's dollars sticking about yout clothes ? AN IMPORTANT ADMISSION. Perhaps there is one thing that the Abolition speak ers and editors have more persistently de nied Uwtn that they were responsiole for the rejection of the Crittenden Compro mise in TBOI. At last, however, Horace Greeley, in the Tribune of April thus says: "If a poll coull then have been had on the nuestionj, the Free Slates icuuld have given a pop ular majority for the Crittenden Compromise. It was omr tusk to stew this headlong torrent, and .•ive the nation froin committing this gigantic crime. We did this, perhaps with not so much wisdom as another might, but with such wisdom as we had." Here are two gigantic admissions. Ist. That the people were in favor of the Crittenden Compromise, but the Aboli tioniits would not submit it to the people. They did not wish the people to rule.— They wanted war. 2d. That Horace Goeeley, and such men as he, among whom were David Dudley Field and Wm. Curtis Noyes, who went to the Peace Congress on purpose to break it up, were the men who brought on the war. Let these two facts be remembered. The end is not yet. The scoundrels and traitors who involved our country in war, are now, in the hour of their success, making confessions which they will find find staring them in the face More long in a very ugly manner. The tl.iy of judgment for these men is nearer than they suppose.— Banner of Libtrty. There is an actual reign of terror •i Tennessee, The Nashville Banner ,ives an acconnt of the murderous raids fßrowlow's armed bands in Franklin ■ ountv. These ruffians are murdering nen, insulting women, ar.d ransacking lie houses of people for plunder. This is irownlow's method of "building up the !republican party, in that State. f|g" "Rev." Joet Lindsley, the child urderer, had a now trial at Albany, last ek. The jury stood two for conviction d ten for acquittal. The prisonw then ad guilty of manslaughter in the fourth liiee, and was sentenced to pay of $250. It may therefore be set down that the ling of a little boy, with all the sicken l brutalities, (if performed by a preach * of "grand moral ideas,") costs only two ♦liree hundred dollars in New York ate. Dirt cheap. Baker's Book. The Philadelphia Age, in an article on some of the rtvelations made by Detective Baker, says: 1 But Gen. Baker's relations affect the living as well as the dead. Decency pre vents ns from doing more than allude to the orgies of the Currency Bureau of the Treasury Department. Here are letters and affidavits and diaries filled with the most offensive details. The victims—for such we regard them—even though will ing victims—being young girls of eighteen —and the prominent sinners. Heads of Bureaux under a model administration, who are retained in office and once pro tected by Puritans like Mr. Chase, are still protected by Mr. McCullocb. The Treasujy seems to have been little else than a brothel. Nor was the army free from taint. Mr, Baker gives us the un varnished statement of a Massachusetts young lady, Miss A. J., of Cambridge (blush shades of Harvard !) "I was born in Cambridge, Massachu setts. Am twenty years of age. I have neither father nor mother,, living. 1 have two sisters. In the fall of 1862 I went to the Army of the Potomac, with no definite object in view. Spent some time at Gen. S's headquarters near Fairfax Court House. When Gen. S. was relieved, I joined Gen eral K's command, and went to the front as the friend and companion of Geo, C. Gen. K. became very jealous of General C's attentions to me, I have spent two years and a half in the Union army, and during this time have been the guest of different officers, they furnishing n?e with horses, qjderlies, escorts, sentinels at my tent, and quarter rations. I invariably wore major's straps. During no part of the time was I employed as guide, scout or hospital nurse, but as stated above, a companion to the various commanding of ficers, as a private friend and companion." Certainly a promising young woman and a fit companion for General S. and General C. and General K.! "When wives of siclt soldiers," says Baker, could not pass over the lines, because of the standing order that no female should be allowed, di>reputable women could tele graph their arrival at Washington; an order would be the response giving them a pass, and free transportation to the designated headquarters of the favored officers." iieallv one reads these tilings thus cool ly narrated with a shudder. Washington was a perfect Sodom, and one wonders that the wrath af God did not fall upon it.— There are many more things in this volume to which we may hereafter call attention, if only for the purpose of showing what are the natural and inevitable growths that spring from the bloody compost which civ il war spreads over a land. ?legroe9 vs. Caucasian. Our attention has been directed to the following remarkable passage from a let ter recently delivered by Professor Agas siz, of Boston. There is nothing new in the statement that there are radical differ ences of structure in the various races of men. Science lias long since settled the fact that the Caucasian and the Negro are two species of the human family that are distinctly and widely separated from each other. But we did not know that the op posing characteristics of the white and the black man were so numerous as they are said to be by Professor Agasiz. His statement will be read with interest, and he speaks with an authority that is seldom or never disputed either here or it) Europe : "I have pointed out over a hindred spe cific differences between the bonal and nervous system of the white man and the negro. Indeed, their frames are alike in no particular There is not a bone in the negro'* body which is relatively the same shape, size, articulation, or chemically of the same composition as that of the white man. The negroes' bones contain a far greater per ccntage of calcareous salt than those of the white man ; even the negro's blood is chemically a very different fluid from that which courses in the veins of the white man. The whole physical or ganism of the negro differs quite as much from the while man's as it does from that of the chitnphanzce, that is, in his bones, muscles, nerves and fibres. The chim panzee has not much further to progress to become a negro than a negro has to be come a white man. This fact science in inexorablv demonstrates Climate has no more to do with the difference between the negro and the chimpanzee, than it has between the horse and the or the eagle and the owl. Each is a distinct and sepa rate creation. The negro and the white man were created as different as the owl and the eagle. They were designed to fill different plans in the system of natfirc. The negro is no more a negro by accident or misfortune than the owl is the kind of bird he is by accident or misfortune, The negro is no more the white man's brother j than the owl is the sister of the eagle, or the ass is the brother of the horse. llow stupendous, and yet *how simple is the doctrine that the Almighty Maker of the | universe has created inherent species of the ! lower animals to fill the different places and offices in the grand scenery of nature !" "SWEET TOBACCO POST.—Hon. J. A, Creswcll, late loyal U. S Senator from Maryland, and president of the loval ; State Convention, in appointing the new I State Central Committee has appointed an ! eqnal number of negroes and whites.— This is evidently the work of John Brown's soul marching along. Still opposed to ' amalgamation, eh 2 S3T *' Sliurc," said Patrick, rubbing bis head with delight at the prospect of a present from his employer, " I always mane to do my duty." " I believe you," said his employer, and therefore I shall make yon a present of all you have stolen from me during the year." " I thank your honor," replied Pat., "and may all your friends and acquaintances trate you as liberally." The Burial Place or Booth* THE BODY PLACED IN THE OLD PEITEN TIARY AT WASHINGTON —PART or THE SPINAL COLUMN KEPT BY A DOCTOR AS A CURIOSITY. Gen. L. C. Baker has published a diary, in which he details his connection with the 'secret service" of the War Depart ment during the war. lie makes the fol lowing statement in regard to the dispo sition made of the body of John Wilkes Booth : "In order to establish the identity of the body of the assassin beyond all question, the Secretary of War directed me to summon a number of witnesses re siding in the city of Washington, who bad previously known the murderer. Some two years previous to the assassi nation of the President, Booth had a tu mor or carbuncle cut from his necK by a surgeon. On inquiry, I found that Dr. May, a well-kn own and very skillful sur geon of twenty-five years practice in Wash ington, had performed the operation.— Accordingly I called on Dr. May, who, before seeing the body, minutely described the exact locality of the tumor, the nature and date of the operation, etc. After be ing sworn he pointed to the scar in the neck which was then plainly visible. Five olherwitncsses were examined, all of whom hadknown the assassin intimate ly for years. The various newspaper ac counts referring to the mutilation of Booth's body, are equally absurd. Gen. Barnes, Surgeon General of the United States Ar al), was on board the gunboat where the post-mortem examinationVas held with his assistants. General.Barnes cutjfrom Booth's neck about two inches of the spinal col umn through which the hall had passed ; this piece of bone, which is now on exhi bition in the Government Medical Muse um at Washington, is the only relic of the assassin's body above ground, and this is the only mutilation of the remains that ever occurred. Immediately after the conclusion of the examination the Secretary ot War gave orders as to the disposition of the body, which had become offensive, owing to the condition in which it had remained after death ; tho leg, broken in jumping from the box to stage, was much discolored and swollen, the blood from the wound having saturated his underclothing. With the assistance of Lieut. L, B. linker, I took the body from the gunboat direct to the Old Penitentiary, adjoining the Arkansas grounds. The building had not been used as a penitentiary for some vears previously. The Ordnance Department had filled the the gronnd floor cells with fixed ammuni tion—one of these cells was selected as the burial place of Booth—the ammunition was removed, a large fiat stone was lifted from its place and a rude grave dug; the body was dropped in, the grave filled up, and there remains to this hour all that re mained of John Wilkes Booth. Kentucky. —'l"he official vote of tho recent Congressional elections in Ken tucky, as refurned to the office ot the Sec retary of State, shows that the total vote of the State i s 113,473 against 154,014 last yeaJ. The following is the vote by Congressional districts : 1 District, 9,790 1,780 2 District, 8,502 2,816 1,155 3 District, 7,710 1,201 4 District, 8,199 2,2Zp 508 5 District, 7,129 2,810 730 6 District, 9,488 3.839 35 7 District, 9,738 1,263 1.39G 8 District, . 7,090 7,163 9 District, 9,177 7,8c7 865 Total 77,413 31,371 4,689 These returns show a Democratic ma jority over the Jacobins of 46,04?; a ma jority of 72,7'24 over the third party; and a majority of 41,353 over both combined This "third party," polling the insignifi cant number of 4,689 votes, was the pow erful 'disaffected element" by means of wbich the Jacobins boasted they would carry the majority of the Congressional d istricts. gg* A law regulating the amount of baggage each passenger on Pennsylvania iailroads shall hereafter shall be allowed to carry was passed at the last session of the Legislature; It provides that each passenger shall be entitled to carry one trunk or box, not exceeding one hundred pounds in weight; that when baggage shall be lost and damage claimed, not to exceed three hundred dollars shall be al lowed for each trunk or box, together with its contents; that if any person wish es to carry more weight or greater value of baggage than this, he or she must have the trunk or boxfstarting. by the baggage agent before weighed disclose the value that will be claimed in case of loss, and pay extra for excess as may be required by the particu'ar company. FRECKLES.—At this season of the year, many of our lady readers are annoyed with freckles. They will thank us for a simple way of removing them, which is to take powdered saltpetre and apply it to the parts affected, with the finger moistened and dipped into the powder. This is the whole proceeding and when properly done and judiciously repeated, it will re move all freckles. A CANKERED PARTT. — "A long roar tcith its demoralizing influences, has CON KERKD THE REPUBLICAN PARTY," SAYS Thurlow Weed. A cankered—corrupt rotten —party, is now controlling the des tinies of this great Republic. Wc do not wonder that the leaders, such as Sumner, Wade, Stevens, Kelly, Wilson & Co., are demanding negro suffrage to preserve their rotten, cankered, corrupt party from anni hilation. They admit that without negro suffrage the white voters will overthrow and pnt under their feet the party now governing the country. A thing so rotten and corrupt calls upon the most debased Ignorance for support; it cannot with de cency, call on anything else. The Marshal Statue. The following, from a Virginia cotempo rary, concerning the raising of the bronze statue of Chief-Justice MARSHALL, fully comprehends the political situation at the present time : We are glad to see you, John Marshall, my boy, So fresh from the chisel of Rogers ! Go take your stand on the Monument there Along with the other old codgers; With Washington, Jefferson, llenry, and such, Who sinned with a great transgression. In their old fashioned notions of Freedom and Right. And their hatri d of Wrong and Oppresion! You come rather late to your pedestal, John, For sooner you should have BEEN here ; For the volume you hold is no longer the law, And this is no longer Virginia. The old Marshall law you expounded of yore, Is not at all to the purpose ; ylnd the martial law of the new regime Is stronger than ''habeas corpus." So keep you the volume shut with care, For the days of the law are over; And it needs all your brass to be holding it there, With "JUSTICE" inscribed on the cover, Could life awaken the limb of bronze And blaze in the burnished eye, What would ye do with your moment of life, Ye men of the days gone by ! Would ye chide us or pity us, blush or weep. Ye men of the days gone by ? Would Jefferson tear up the scroll he holds, That time has proven a lie ? And Marshall shut the volume of law, And lay it down with a sigh ? Would Mason roll up the Bill of Rights, From a race unworthy to scan it ? And Henrv dash down the eloquent sword, And clang it against the granite? And Washington, seated in massive strength On the charger that paws the air, Could he see his sons in their deep dis grace, Would be tide so proudly there ? He would get down from his big brass horse, And cover his face at our shame ; For the land of his birth is now "District I.' Virginia was once the name ! Why there is no Money to Pay Bounties and Beusions. Scarcely a day passes hut we are asked the question why the bounties granted by the Act of July 28th, 18GG, are not paid. On this point Forney's Press says : "The Secretary of War will be compell ed to issue an order suspending the pay ment of additional or other bounties to sol diers and their heirs, until some appropri ation for that pui pose is made by Con- funds already appropriated be ing exhausted. As Congress will not in all probability meet again till December, the soldiers and their families must make up their minds to her some further delay.'' The fact is that the Bounty law was passed soley for political capital, as the Radicals wanted the soldiers vote in last (all's elections. The Press states the fact when it says that Congress did not make a sufficient appropriation to carry out the law. lA*t the soldiers remember, however that while funds enough cannot he appro priated to their use, tin-re is no difficulty in finding funds for the millions of ne groes in the South. The insane policy of ruling the South by military powers is al so costing the Government ten millions of dollars per month and at the same time crushes out all hope of revenue from that source, by keeping the Slates in their present excited and anomalous position.— Millions of dollars are also squandered,in Impeachment and Reconstruction Com mittees, whose only objects are to squan der money, make political capital for the Radical party, and keep the Union divid ed. It is to the interest of every farmer, merchant, laborer, soldier and bond-holder, to oust the present profligate and extrava gant party, and to place men in office who will legislate fur the good of the whole country,— Columbian, Gen. Butler has set the Radical press at loggerheads by raising the ques tion of the responsibility of the execution of Mrs. Surratt. Thus the Boston Com monwealth says : "Perhaps it would have been well it General Butler had not said what he did of Mrs. Surratt. But there are thousands of thoughtful people who thir.k he was right. Mr. Bingham did pursue her like a bloodhound." To which the Springfield (Mass.) Re pnblicun responds: "Not at all. If there were any blood hounds in the hunt, they were Stanton and llolt; set on, too, we fear, by many Northern people and papers, of which lat ter, too, we suspect the Commonwealth was one." This is not the first time that men equally guilty have turned State's evi dence against each other. ADMIRAL SKMMES COMPLIMENTS YANKEE SHIPBUILDING. —The following is an ex tract from Admiral Scnunes lecture on the exploits of the Alabama : When we were afloat in the Alabama if we were in doubt as to the nationality of any ship we were pursuing, we had only to take a look at her, at whatever distance she might be, through our teliscope, to deter mine at once whether she was a Yankee or not, lif she excelled the ships of all other nations in the symmetry of her hull, the grace and the taper of her spars; if her canvass was whiter, her sails larger, more beautiful set and "sheeted home," and hois ted in a more seamanlike manner, if, in short, like a beautiful woman, she ravished the beholder as well by the swelling and gracefull outlines of her figure as by the witchery of her drapery, we were always sure she was a Yankee. Deserted Wives aud Children. k The following law palsed at tho last session of oar Legislature, will be found important to that class of women, called "grass widows." [The name must have its origin in the fact that their truant hus bands, go in for a change of pasture ; or like Belsliazzar of old have gone to grass] AN ACT for the relief of wives and children, de serted by their husbands and fathers, within this Commonwealth. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That in addition to the remedies now provided by law, if any husband, or father, being with in the limits of this commonwealth, has, or hereafter shall, separate himself from his wife, or from his children, or from wife and children, without reasonable cause, or shall neglect to maintain his wife, or chil dren, it shall be lawful for any alderman, justice of the peace, of magistrate, of this commonwealth, upon information made before him under oath, or affirmation, by his wife, or children, or either of them, or by any other person, or persons, to issue his warrant to the sheriff, or to any con stable, for the arrest of the person against whom the information shall be made, as aforesaid, and bind him over, with one sufficient surety, to appear at the next term of quarter sessions, there to answer the said charge of desertion. SEC. 2. The information, proceedings thereon, and warrant shall be returned to the next court of quarter sessions, when it shall he lawful for said court, after hear ing, to order the person against whom complaint has been made, being of suffi cient ability, to pay such sum as said court shall think reasonable and proper, for the comfortable support and mainte nance of the said wife, or children, or both, not exceeding one hundred dollars per month, and to commit such persons to the county prison, there to remain until he comply with such order, or give security, by one, or more, sureties, to the common wealth, and in such sum as the court shall direct, for the compliance therewith. SEC. 3. That the costs of all proceeding, by virtue of this act, shall be the same as are now allowed, by law, in cases of surety of the peace, to be imposed in like manner; and all proceedings shall he in the name of the commonwealth ; and that any wife, so df Sorted, shall be a competent witness on the part of the commonwealth, and the bus hand shall also be a competent witness. SEC. 4. That should any such person abscond, remove, or he fouud in any other country of the commonwealth than the one in which said warrant issued, he may be arrested thereon, by the said warrant be ing backed by any alderman, or justice of the peace, of the country in which such person may be found,"as is now provided for backing warrants, by the third section of the act of the thirty first of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixtv. JOHN P. GLASS, Speaker of the Ilonse of Representatives. LOUIS W. IIALL, Speaker of the Scnat#, APPROVED —The thirteenth day of Anril, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven. JOHN W. GEARY. IMPEACHMENT, The Impeachment Committee have ad journed. Five to four of the Committe re solved that there are no grounds for hn peachm ent. The people of the United States long since resolved Jive to four, that the Committee was a miserable humbug. The Committee, however resolved to cen sure the President. Before long the Com mittee will fiud out who are the most cen sured. We presume this settles the question. The Committee consisted of seven, and were divided as follows —for Impeachment Messrs Bontwell, Lawrence, Thomas, Wil liams. Against —Messrs Wilson, chairman, Churchill, Eldrigc, Marshall, Woodbridgc. The investigation lias covered the Pres ident's private bank account, his clothes and washing bills, and the cooks and scul lions of the White house have been exam ined for evidence as to what and how much the President ate and drank. And it all sums up in a formal announcement by Boutwell and Carapany that the President is "unworthy of confidence." Whether this is intended as a warning to the President's banker, or his tailor, or his washerwoman, does not appear, but it unquestionably means that he is unworthy of the confidence of BOUTWELL, ASHLEY, BUTLER, and similar iuipeachers, and if he were worthy of such confidence, there might be reason, as some of the Radicals now propose, for reviving the project so as to render impeachment probable, if not certain. It is a contemptible conclusion of a most contemptible atl'air. If these investigators, who have penetrated pantries and searched the very sewers for evidence against the President, can find nothing beyond a war rent for the general statement that he is "unworthy of the confidence"' of BOUTWELL and BUTLER, the public will come to the conclusion that the impeachment party, which promised to prove that the presi dent was a conspirator in the assassination, and was guilty of other crimes, and which fails to find, after earnest search, testimony enough to convict him of drinking Bourbon is worthy of as little confidence as BOUT WELL and Company award to.Mr. Johnson, These men have infamously trifled with the people, and now they propose to add insult to injury by publishing, at public expense, a report embracing the mass of trash and filth they have collected, in the shape of "evidence."— Jeffcrsonian, "Beecher is taking sides with Greeley. He saya be honors the philosopher of the Tribune for his conduct in sign ing the Davis bailbond, and would have done so himself had he been asked. Beecher has| no idea of being classed among the "blockheads." The Supreme Court has decided the Act unconstitutional which created a special Court of Criminal Jurisdiction in Schuylkill Connty. Thus is another par tisan movement of onr late Legislature, nipped in the bud.. ROSS,MILLS,.&CO. Corner Tiega and Warrgn Street*, TUNKHANNOCK, PENN'A; Are now opening a large iteek of Hardware, snch a* IRON, STEEL & NAILS, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Var nishes, Turpentine, Benzine, Nail Rods, Building Hardware, Mechan ics Tools, Wooden Ware, Brushes of all kinds, Cutlery, Shovels, Seives, Lamps, Lanterns, Oil Cloth, Rosin,- Ropes, aiso Hatchets, wrenches HARNESS MAKERS HARDWARE, Buckles, Japanned Buckles, Silver plated Bitts of every kind, Haines, Iron Pad Trees, SaJdle Trees, Gig Tree®, Girth Web, worsted and Cotton, Thread, Silk, Awls, and needles, Halter Chains, Trace Chains, &c. CASSIMERES AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING % and a largo stock of READY-MADE (Slotting purchased from a first class New York House at pri ces trom 10 to 20 per cent, lower than the usual rates; enabling them to dispose of them at price* SELO7TALL COM'PETITOHb Having had 20 year's experience in thie busines* they feel certain that they can secure a trad* al # this point; and to do this,they only ask the people to* COMB AND SEK THEIR GOODS AND PRICKS, BUTTER, EGGS, ard PRODUCE, of ALL.KINDS taken at the highest market rates iu exchange for Goods or Cash at the option of the seller, 11. N. SHERMAN, I, B. LATIIROP, Tunk. Pa. Apr. 16 1567. WE 'KEEP A LARGE STOCK OF CARPETS, i ] AND P AY ' Cash for Veal Skins and Hides. SHERMAN <{' LATHROP. ERRORS OF YOUTH. 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