Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-04-22
Local and Personal.

will be held at the Court House on Saturday evening
next at u o'clock. Keep the ball rolIing-the signs
Of the times are auspicious. general invitation is
extended to all friends of civil liberty.
(Per order of Club)
Bankruptcy. .--Edward 0verton, ESQ. Register
in Bankruptcy for this District is holding court
at this place Our people 6nd IN him most accom-
plished and accommodating officer.
Applications for Licenses we're not considered
at this term of Court by of the fact that the
prohibitory law was repealed at date too late to
allow time for publication. An adjourned or special
court, to consider applications, i'll be held on May
l4lh 1868
The Court held here this week was for various
reasons, slim affair." far trial of causes are
concerned. No criminal, and but one civil cause
was tried We have not time to give proceedings in
this iesue
April has lost none Of its ancient reuown for
sunshine and showers" especially showers, as the
sticky condition of our roads surely attest The mud
in streets has sticking qualities which is said
TO be almost as cohesve the g sticking propens-
Ties Of the redOubtable Stanton, who is reported to
d" Stick closer to War Office than death to a dead
niger"
FOTtunes,--" There is tide in the affairs of
men which, taken at the food leads to fortune :"
at least so says the poet and have disposition
TO gansay it. and those who wish avail themselves
Of its very wise and salutary provisions according
to legal parlsnce Of this proptious current in the
" affairs of men," will repair at once to the Store
Of Bunnel & Baunatyns, before it is too late-any
time during the next seven eight days-and Sc
cure that for u1e which is in store" for them by
buying goA@ = at COST cheaper than car now he
bought in the New York market The cause of these
unprecedented low prices is that they are selling
out to g close business"
An Attempt 10 Burn the Court House with
all the records and archives was made On Saturday
night By some mi scIeant in human shape The viii
lain had made bis for his Internal work
with great and deiJoration, by SC ,tterng the
coute uts Of bottle Of kerosene on the hemp mating
or carpet OF the Hall on the inside of the inside
doors, after which the match applied. portion
Of the or-sill and door we're found considerably
burned and chared About two feet square of the car
pet was destroyed by the fire. By Interpos,ion
which seems almost miraculous the fire thus kindlsd
valuable records and evidences of title. No certain
clue has yet been found TO the perpetrator of this
dastsrdIy act.
Wyalusing DistrIct.--The following appoint
nlen,s by the Wyoming Conference which has just
concluded its labors at Binghsmton. n. Y, were
made for this district
D. 0lmstead, Presiding Elder A. J. Arnold
Wyausng S. Elwen P. R. Tower, Rome +; A C,
Spery, Orwell; s. f. WaIworth, WiEdham A.
Brigham, lie RaysyilIe; J. L. Lcgg, Moutroso; X.
Elwell, BROOKLYN; J. S. Lewis, Springvlle ; c. V.
Arnold. Nicholson FlctoryvIle to be supplied by J
H. Paddock; 5. F. Brown, Tunkbanuock Lu'her
Peek, SprinEviIIe; E. N. High skrnners Eddy >
H Weston, f. F. Roberts, Mehoopany J F. Wi
bur, Auburn; Isaac T. Towner Fairiale Wrlias
Shelp, Rush Mission George p Porter, transferred
to Gtnessee Conference.
Democratic Meeting.- -Pursuant to notice
Democratic Mass Meeting held at the Court
House on Monday evening last. Notwithstanding
the unfavoratleness Of the weather the House
we'll filed and deep interest manifested in the pro-
ceediugs of the meeting. The people evidently feel
very deep interest in the momentous questions
that now agitate the public mind and eagerness
to hear them discussed on all public occasions is
manifesto by their very general Attendance.
TIE meeting was called to order by Hon. VIM NJ
Patt Presi tent Of the Central Democratic Club
of Wyoming County" AMI on account Of the absence
Of other speakers he entertained the auditory for
hour or more in hs usually feIicitous style. He ex-
Amined and laid bare the impeachment farce Of
the Egrel Congress for the purpose a depOsiTg
the President Of the ULted States, that they may
usurp the Executive power, well all other pow
ere Of the general government, and erect central
lied legislative despotism upon tho ruins of once
Republican Government. lie argued that the man
ner in which the President was being tried was
tray to all forms in Courts of Justice. That the
presiding Chief Justice had been Overruled by par
tisan Senate most Of the legal questions he was
called upon TO decide Never before ID the history
Of jurisprudence has presiding Judge been called
upon to retire to private room With the Jury for
consultation ther ~ tJe law or facts in 4 case
Never before has interested party ike Beuj amin
p Wade becu allowed to sit in judgment upon
the accused, whose conviction would give to that
party promotion and power
The appointment Of Adjutant Genera4 Thomas as
Secretary of War by President johnson VIC
lstion of Iaw-only avaiiing himself of a Constitu-
uOnal prerOgniYe Nhch all hs predecessors hAI eA-
ercised from Washington down to Linroln-and for
this he is to be mpsaohei 1t was impossible to do
justice to this subject. lie found himself very much
IN the uPedicament of the mana very profane man
who while drawing a load of apples up Hill found
on arriving near the summit that he hal lost most
of them, which lay scattered along the highway.
Turning round be discovered army of boys had
been following him, expecting to hear - tall
sEearng," he expressed it, and thus addressed
them: Boys, you need not follow any further
there will be no swearing here to-day-language
cannot do justice to the subject
The ord.n ances Of secession illegal and void
and did not take States out of The Union and it
80 held by all parties during the struggle tol
the existence Of the Union. And to confirm this doc
trine Congress by unanimous resolution declared that
the war was not waged for purposes of conquest oil
subjugation but to the authority of the Fed
eral government and put down armed resistance
thereto, and when these objects were accomplished
the war should cease, leaving the integrity and SOW
eregnty of the States unimp aire ed. But new doc