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COOPER, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON • Newton Centre, Luzerne County Pa. Gt EO. 8. TUTTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, r Tunkhannock, Pa. Otfiee in Stark's Biick Block, Tioga street. Wll. M. PIATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Of fice in Stark's Brick Block, Tioga St., Tunk hnnnuck, Pa. T ITTLE & DEWITT. ATTORNEY'S AT LAW, Office on Tioga street, Tuukhannock, I'a. R. R. I.ITTLE. .1. HEWITT. JV. SMITH, M. D . PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, • Office 00 Bridge Street, next door to the Demo crat Office, Tuiikhannock, Pa, TIARYEY SICKLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW pil and GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT-Of pce, Bridge street, opposite Wall's Hotel, Tunkhan- Inoek Pa. U. CORSELIUS, HAYING LOCAT '-IED AT THE FALLS, WILL promptly attend ' all calls in the line of his profession—may be found at Bcenier's Hotel, when not professionally absent. Fails, Oct. 10, 1861. T 31. CAREY, 31. 11. (Graduate of the E. •" • M. Institute, Cincinnati) would respectfully announce to the citizens of Wyoming and Luzerne Counties, that he continues his regular practice in the various departments of his profession. May be found at his office or residence, when not professionally ab sent I'-W Parti-ular attention given to the treatment Chronic Diseag. Centremorclaud, Wyoming Co. Pa.—v2n2. I)R. J. C. BECKER ffice. Dec. 11, 1861. Blanks!! Blanks !! J BLANK DEEDS SUMMONSES SUBPCENAES EXECUTIONS CONSTABLE'S SALES Justice's, Constable's, and legal Blanks of all inds. Neatly and Correctly printed on good Paper, nd for sale at the Office of the " North Branch lemoerat." ' IME FOR FARMERS, AS A FERTILIZER -J for salo at VERNOY'S. Mei-hoppcn, Sept. 18, 1861. |M's Comer. LIVE AND ACT. BY P. F. LOOFBORROW. Oh ! who will be o lost to life, So buried up in shame, As in the turmoils of our race No active part to claim 1 Oh ! who will calmly fold his arms, And close his eyes in sleep, While round him thunders ceaseless roll, And raging tempests sweep ? Let such be stricken from our list, And left to sleep alone; Such beings in the courts of fame Have never yet been known; Nor will they ever find a place Above that sickly level, Where mindless men, with soulless brutes, In aimless dreamless revel. This world is not a land of dreams! It is a solemn fact! Man was not bom to dream and die ! But born to live and act! His station in this sinful state Is not at all ideal 7 But every word, and thought, and deed, Is absolutely real! Thon. let the man who still has life, Be what he was designed ; Shake off tho rusty chains of sloth, By which he is confined, And bravely mount the stage of time, And nerve his arm for labor, And be, where'er his path may load, As active as his neighbor. For, of a truth, the field i 3 wide, And laborers arc few. And every one who will but act, Can find enough to do. And now the mini that will not act, — The intellect that slumbers, — Th# present age will Among her chosen numbers. Ipisttllaiicras. How Political Preaching was Cured. A GOOD STORY. The Ilartford Times relates the following: A Congregational Church, in a neighboring State, got so completely enlisted in one of the Presidential contests, that little attention was given to religious questions. The minister was constantly preaching, praying and exhort mg upon political issues, and his deacons and laymen followed suit at the prayer and con ference meetings. Finally, a worthy old far mer, one of the staunches! and best members of the church, and a firm, undeviating Demo crat, was called upon to offer a prayer: " O, Lord," said he, " uphold the Democrat ic party, which has received thy support ever since the great Jeffersonian struggle. Con tinue to bless that party which has, under thy protection and providence, brought great bless ings upon this Republic. If it be thy pleasure, and I believe it will be, oh carry that party through this struggle to a complete triumph. Oh, bless the opponents of Democracy person ally, but utterly destroy their fanatical and in jurious schemes, if it be thy will to do so, as I verily believe it is. Be on the side of Dem ocracy, O Lord, as thou hast been, and in their peaceful pursuits, instead of warring wickedly, man against brother. And, oh, I beseech thee especially to free the Christian Churches from the political strife and bitter ness which are rendering them asunder, de stroying their usefulness and turning them uuhappily into mere political associations.— Let us hear something of thy word and mer cy on the Sabbath. We have already been plied to fullness with political fanaticism, and our minister has become a stump orator against the good old party which thou, in thy wisdom hath upheld so long, and so repeated ly guiued to victory, and sustained in the es tablishment of sound measures. Oh, turn his mind from these things, and direct his atten. tion to his legitimnte religious duties, or turn him over directly into the hands of the Abo lition party and let them take care of him,and provide us a true Minister of the Gospel. At any rate, the present state of things cannot last. If politics are to rule, I shall claim one half the time in behalf of the Democratic par ty, so that there may be a fair discussion within these walls. Amen." This was a stumper. It was the first prayer ever publicly offered in that church for the suecess of the Democratic party and its nom inees, though hundreds of prayers and exhor tations had been made against that party When the old man finished, there was a si lence of half an hour, and the meeting then adjourned. And thus ended the political preaching in that church. From that time forward, the minister attended to his gospel dutier, and left all political questions to be settled by the people outside of the church Again the society prospered, and there was a better feeling among its members—more Christian charity, more brotherly love. The old man's earnest prayer was answered in more respects than one. "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUG. 1, 1862. LETTER FROM EXETER, WYOMING COUNTY. EXETER, Sept. 22, 1862. Mr, Editor: —The Constitution and the equality of the States are the symbols of ever lasting Union. These are the principles upon which our Republican Government is founded, and until the Administration feels the forco of these principles and adopts them as its rule of action in its efforts to suppress the Rebel lion, we shall witness in the future, as in the past, that a Union founded on consent, can [ not be maintained by force alone, Until it strictly adheres to the Constitution, which the Administration has sworn to preserve, protect, and defend, anarchy and confusion will mark its progress, and disolution will su persede its efforts. The past eighteen months have been a forcible demonstration of tbi6 fact, with an army of 700,000 men under its control, and the whole resources of the North at its command, what has it accomplished ? The Constitution is made for every emergen cy ; for peace and for war. By it the duties of the Administration and the people are well defined. The violation of its sacred provis ions by an official or citizen, entails upon the violator the same penalty. The Magna Char ta of our liberties says : " The freedom of speech and of the press, shall, not be sup pressed." There is to-day no press in the United States that is not trammeled. Visit the Bastiles of Fort Mcllenry, and Do Lafa yette, and there behold the victims of free speech ! The nations groans under oppress ion and wrong management. The people are tired of, and disgusted with the chicanary and imbecility of the party in power, and be neath the surface of public opinion may be heard the thunderings of stifled sentiment that is already sweeping over the North like a mighty tomado, sweeping with irresistable force Sectionalism, Abolitionism, and (Aboli tion) Republicanism, into one common ]>oliti cal grave ,—it spoke on the 17rh inst.—it will speak in thunder tones in October, that will be felt. The people see the necessity of a " change" in the administration of public af fairs. All they want is leaders, true leaders, bold uncompromising advocates of Democra cy. The men who are really, sincerely, truly and emphatically in favor of the Democratic party, and who would like to see it restored to power, are a majority in the North now and always have been. Why, then, are we out of power ? Why is the Democratic par ty defeated ? It has been done through the deceptions and intrigues of our leaders. The reason they come out as they do is, because they think it necessary, in order to succeed. For years, when our State Convention has met and the wirepullers have got together to fix up a platform of principle, the great ques tion has not been what is right, but what can ice succeed upon. If this or that measure was considered ever 60 just, it was Set aside at once, if the leaders thought it was policy to do so. No higher notice of political mor ality seems to enter the heads of our would be leaders than that of immediate success.— They stand in mortal fear of the thunder of Republican papers, under whose opinions and threats they cowe like slaves. For years,this system of deception has been adopted—that is, by making them believe that they were in favor of that which they were not. In order to carry out this line of political policy, it has been necessary to follow exactly in the wake of the Republican party. They simply find fault with the management of affairs, not with the principles upon which the Republi can party is based. They present no higher issue thau of immediate success. We are finally rid of these political knaves, who are now known as renegade Democrats, and the old platform of Democracy is present ed to the people as a basis upon which all conservative men who really desire tho res toration of the Union as it was, can rally. It is the dnty of all citizens to use their influ ence to suppress Rebellion. We have a gi gantic rebellion which must be put down, I mean the Abolition Rebellion of the North, of which secession is a legal oilspnng. There is but one way to meet and defeat thiß mon ster, that is clutching at the vitals of cur Con stitution, threatening it with destruction, and that is the ballot box. There are now but two political parties, the Abolition and the Democratic. Tho issue presented to this Congressional District, is a fair and square one. It remains to be seen which the people will ratify by their votes. Mr. Editor, having the Constitution for our rule of action, and the Union and the Coun try our object, we feel firmly convinced of the success of our cause ; and under the auspices of Him who guides ua in our actions, we trust to poll such a number of votes in October next, as this county never before recorded, and we beg to assure our brethren in the other portions of the county, that we will make it our business to reveal them in thus doing our duty to our country and to the great Democratic party. S. H. S. English papers continue to be filled wifh ac counts of the great distress in the manufac turing districts. Thousands of persons are on the verge of starvation and although every ef fort is being made by the charitable to relieve their wants, the distress continues to increase to an alarming extent. How the suffering population of so many towns will be able to subsist during the coming winter is a ques tion which is seriously alarming the British public WHO DEFEATED the COMPROMISE This is a most important question at the present time, for it is now conceded that if the Crittenden Compromise had been adopt ed by Congress and submitted to the people, the desolating war in which the country is now engaged, would have been avoided.— But the Republican Party, its leaders and its representatives in Congress, were deter" mined that no compromise should be submit ted to the people. They voted against the Crittenden Compromise measures in Con gress, and defeated them, and they are re sponsible for the failure of this patriotic and humane effort to prevent a bloody conflict in the country. In proof of this position the evidence is so full and unmistakable, the so plain and apparent, that all must be convinced who will look at the official rec ord on the subject. Here is the vote by which the Crittenden Resolutions were defeated. It will be seen that every Republican in the Senate voted agains Ihem. Yeas—Messrs. Bayard, Bigler. Crittenden. Douglas, Gwin, Hunter, Johnson of Tennessee, - Kennedy, Lane, Latham, Ma son, Nicholson, Polk, Pugh, Rice, Sebastian, Thomson and Wigfall—lß. Nays—Messrs. Anthony, Bingham, Chan dler, Clark, Dixon, Doolittle, Durkee, Fes senden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Harlan, Iving ; Morrill, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wil son, Wade and Wilkinson—2o. In order that the loyal and patriotic men of this county may understand the import ance of these Resolutions, and what would have been the effect of their ready and hon est adoption by the Representatives from the Northern States, we call attention to the fol lowing extracts from the speeches of Senator Pugh, of Ohio, and Senator Douglas, of Illi nois, delivered on that occasion. Senator Pugh said : " The Crittenden proposition has been in dorsed by the almost unanimous vote of tho Legislature of Kentucky. It has been in dorsed by the Legislature of the noble old Commonwealth of Virginia. It has been pe titioned for by a large number of electors of the United States that any proposition that was ever before Congress. I believe in my heart, to-day, that it would carry an over whelming majority of the people of my State ; aye, sir, and of nearly every State in the Un ion. Re/ore the Senators from the Slate of Mississippi left this chamber, 1 heard one oj them, who now assumes at least to be Presi dent of the Southern Confederacy, proposed to accept it and maintain the Union if that proposition could recive the vote it ought to receive from the other side of this chamber. Therefore, of all your propositions* of all your amendments, knowing as I do, and knowing that the historian will write it down, at any time before the Ist of January, a two third vote fur the Crittenden resolutions in this chamber would have saved every State in the Union but South Carolina. Georgia would be here by her representatives, and Louisiana also—those two great Staes which at least would have broken the whole column of secession.—[p. 1380, Globe ] On the same subject Senator Douglas spoke as follows : "The Senator (Mr. Pugh) has said that if the Crittenden proposition could have been passed early in the session, it would have saved all the States except South Carolina I firmly believe it would. While the Crit tenden proposition was not in accordance with my cherished views, I avowed my read iness and eagerness to accept it in order to save the Union, if we could unite upon it. I can confirm the Senator's declaration that Senator Davis h'mself, when on that Com mittee of Thirteen, was ready, at ail times* to compromise on the Crittenden proposition 1 will go further and say that Mr. Toombs was also." —[p. 1381. Globe ] From these facts two important positions are fully sustained: first, that the Critten den Compromise was defeated by Republican votes ; and seeond, that the adoption of those Compromise resolutions would have saved to the Union every Southern State, with per haps the single exception of South Carolina. This the Republican Senators were told, this they knew, and yet because they were pledg ed to the Chicago Platform and opposed to slavery, they 6aid " let the Union slide," and defeated the Crittenden Compromise. The result of their action on that occasion is be fore the country written in characters of blood, and the people at the coming election will hold them responsible for this wilful sacrifice of all the best interests of the coun. try on the altar of partisan hate and political rancor. The Crittenden Compromise was defeated by Republican votes, and by this act they proved that to them the supposed welfare of a few negroes was of more import ance than the Union the Constitution, and the peace, happiness and prosperilg of thir ty million of white men. By their own acts let theta be judged. Colonel Christian, of the Twenty sixth New York , acting Brigadier-General in place of General Tower , who was wounded recently at Bull Run, has resigned and Colo nel Lyle, of the Ninetieth Pennsylvania, is now in command oftho brigade, and will ably fill the position. CHARACTERISTIC LETTER FROM George F. Train to the Abolition Conspi rators. i ■ Wir.LARD'S HOTEL, Washington Sept. 19. To the fanatics, Charles Sumner, Henry Wil son. Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison. CONSPIRATORS.—Three years' absence from my own fair land assures me that in the the atre of nations America sits in the dress cir cle. Lookers on see most of the game.— Americans are fighting, with God-like virtue, for the common right of human nature, while you, having succeeded in keeping the black man in slavery, are now combining to mana cle the white man. Standing in London, in front of Exeter Hall, I saw, with prophetic power, your damnable conspiracy agains* three races of men. FIRST—THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE IRISH. Irishmen stand face to face with Americans to-day as the honors of victory are being di vided. A nation of wariiors, they form a human rampart round the flag they love While I am striving to emancipate Ireland, you are working to enslave Irishmen by plac ing an inferior race alongside of them in the corn-field. Y'ou strive to degrade the white man's labor and the white man's patriotism by making this battle for man, a miserable' party war. The Irishmen know this, and, consequently, Charles Sumner cannot be re elected to the Senate. The word Democrat or Republican must not be used. The elec tion cry must be Union or disunion. SECOND—THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE NE GROE3. Your one idea is working their ruin. I am the friend of the black man. Night and day you have labored for years to keep him in slavery. Now you wish to murder him.— Your manhood's sense should teach you that your servile war slave-arming plan means the massacre of four millions of innocent slaves. Thank God, the wisdom of the Administra tion has saved the empire. Do you suppose for a moment that traitors who shoot down their blood relations like dogs, burn their cotton and destroy their rum—which they love more than their God—will hesitate about massacring their negroes ? No. They will sweep them off like cattle with the mur rain. The poor slaves have done no wrong, and I cannot see you murder them for polit ical purposes. Arm the negroes ! Yes ; bell the cat. The beople should appoint Mr. Sumner a committee of one to carry out this Solon suggestion. You must disarm the white men first. The unarmed slave is in the back-ground. English Abolitionists are honest by acknowledging themselves hypo crites. THIRD THE CONSPIRACY TO RUIN OUR GREAT AMERICAN EMPIRE. Your plot was well prepared. Ask any reb el leader who he is fighting again6t—the true hearted millions of the North ? No ; against the miserable fanatics who wish to place a race with nine cubic inches less of brain in the same carriage with God's chosen people. You cannot get an Arab horse out of a don key; yet the one is as useful in his sphere as the other in his. The difference between you and the rebel is surely marked. They use fire arms in broad daylight as common high waymen. You, the weapons of falsehood, slander and vile frauds (in the night time the hour chosen by the assassin to make' sure of his victim,) to break down the arm}* and overthrow the administration. You wish to divide the Cabinet. You cannot. It speaks as one man when the Union is in danger. The President told me there were but two parties in the land now—the party of patriots and the party of traitors. By endorsing Fre uiout's imbecile egotism you misled the Pres ident. By striving to overthrow McClellan you insulted tlie array and outraged the com mon instincts of the nation. Suppose Astor leaves you his fortune, and there is an ink blot on the deed, would you stop to erase it while some English Russell was firing the voluahle parchment? Party, said Mr. Seward to me at Washington, is not patriotism. The poorest man is more patri otic than the richest. The slave loves his country more than liberty. The Irish are more loyal than those who would divide the army and destroy the Government. Man cannot stop God's great water works, contm ued Mr. Seward. The grain falls on the great millstones; the great wheels are oa the turn, and by-and-by the wheat will come out good flour. I intend to fire my first bombshells into your camp on Thursday night, at the Boston Music Hall. Stand by your guns, or I will take your batteries. God bless my country ! GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN. WHICH WAS THE MOST GENEROUS ?—The Republican State Committee of Michegan re cently received a communication from the Democratic Committee requesting them to forego calling a Republican State Convention this year for the purpose of placing party candidates in the field, but in lieu thereof to unite the entire people of the State on one ticket, to be formed without regard to party interests. This generous proposition was declined, an the ground that the Democracy should unite in support of the Republican ticket to be nominated by a convention of that party. [TEXIMS: 81.QO FEU ANIffXTM INCIDENTS OF THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM. An incident ii related of a boy bel>figihg to the Ninth New York Regiment, who stood in iront cf his regiment while it engaged the enemy at short range, in which position he fired all his cartridges, tben'took his dead comrade's cartridge box and fired the entire contents—in al! ninety-seven rounds—not re ceiving a scratch the whole time, notwith standing the ground was covered with dead and wounded all around him. The regiment was ordered to charge a rifle pit where the rebels were concealed, and our young hefo was the first who entered it, the enemy fly ing at the approach of the bayonet. Corporal William Roach, of Company K, Eighty first Pennsylvania, shot a color-ser geant, ran forward of the company, took his cap, and, placing it upon the end of his bay onet, twirled it about, cied out to his com panions : " That is the way to do it," but a member of another company in the meantime had seized the colors and carried them off in triumph. This act was done under a heavy fire of musketry, in as cool a manner and with as much deliberation, as if the regiment had been on parade. Company K had seven wounded and none killed. Josoph Mathews, Company D, One-hun* pred-and-thirtieth Pennsylvania regiment, (new) distinguished himself by advancing from his company, on the left of French's Di vision, when the heavy infantry contest oc curred, and firing a number of times. He was shot through the neck and about the same time through the heart. He fell at least four paces in front of the line, and though un able to speak, after he had fallen, he waved his cap at the enemy in a defiant manner. First-Lieutenant \V„i. 11. Van Dyke, of Company F, Eighly-fLoi Pennsylvania, acting Adjutant, was wounded in one arm, and call ed upon Sergeant Phillips to help him. As Phillips approached, Van Dyke said : " See if my arm is broken, Phillip? ! (examining it himself.) It is not, and lam going back." —■ Just as he was about to return to duty, a shot struck him in the bowels, which proved fatal. At a piece of woods where they made a stand, after being driven back, Gorman's bri gade of Sedgwich's division suffered much, having 894 kil'ed and wounded, about half of their entire number. One regiment, the Fif teenth Massachusetts, had-600 on going into the fight, and were only able to muster 208 after they came out of it. Duryee's brigade lost 432 in killed and wounded, out of 850 who went into the action. While the right was engaged, Wednesday morning, a member of the Pennsylvania Re s rves, attached to Ricketts' command, was wounded, and while being carried from the field by four companions, a shell killed the wounded man and wounded three of the men who were removing him from the field. RATS, A corespondence of the Binghamton Stand ard gives his experience in ridding his prem ises of this especially annoying species of ver min. He says that in the spring of the pres ent year there came to his house a vast herd of grey rats. . Tlieyjnvaded tlje kitchen and sheds particularly, and could be seen running about at any moment of the day. Cats we 4 e 'of no avail to thin them off. After trying traps, in vain, he procured a quauity of cal cined plaster. This he fed dry t© them mix ed rnith meal. Ho did this, as he writes, sup posing that it would "set" iu their stomachs, harden to stone, impair their digestive power produce dyspepsia, and hurry them off the stage t f life. But it seems to him they were endowed with ostrich-like digestive powers There was no perceptible diminution of their numbers. At en*th seeing t! a' something more must be done, lie cut off, into a little sweet oil. the phosphorated ends of eight common friction matches—these were mixed with a tablespoonful of meal. In fifteen min utes after he had placed it in their way it was gone, and for quite two weeks after, not a rat was seen or heard. At the expiration of that time two or throe were seen. lie dosed them again with the phosphorus aud meal, and not one has been seen since, nor has there been any unpleasant scent. This was early in July. His story is marvelous, but he is a reliable man McCLELLAN'S NEW TACTICS. The Abolitionists have made plenty of cap ital out of McClellarrs use of the spade, though the spade, in the end, will have saved i some of them from a short measure of ropo !at the hands of Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Have they nothing to say of the Union Gen eral's recent despatch of the knapsack* -f his men back to Washington. That a theme that ought to stir up their entbuiasm. They will no doubt discover by sod by that when anything is to be gained by fighting, McClel lan has as eager an appetite for it as their pet Geuerals. The great differences between him and them is that ho knows when to fight, and they only guess at iJt. —ZV. f. Her ald. trsr Death is but the burning ont of a match which lights an immortal lamp j the extinguishing of a light on earth, to be re sumed in Heaven VOh.2, NO. 8.