IMPORTANT PROCLAMATION by THE PRESIDENT. I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the Uni ted States of America, and Commander-in- Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do here by proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofre, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the consti tutional relation between the United States and the people thereof, in which- States that j relation is, or may be, suspended or <1 is turbed ; that it is my purpose , upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recom mend the adoption of a practical measure ten" dering-pecuniary aid to the free acceptancej of all the slave States so called, the people whereof may not then be in re bsllion'against the United States, and which States may then have voluntarily adopted or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, the im mediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits ; and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon this continent or elsewhere, with the previously obtained con sent of the governments existing there, will be continued ; that on the first day of Janu ary, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or any desig nated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be thenceforth and forever free, and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize ar.d maintain the free dom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them io any efforts they may make for their actual' freedom; that the Executive will, on the first of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the Uni ted States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof have not been in rebellion against the United States. That attention is hereby called to an act of Congress entitled** iin act to make an addi tional article of warj" approved March 13, 1861, and which act is in the words and fig ures following: jße it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer ica in Congress assembled : That hereafter the following shall be promulgated as an ad ditional article of war, for the government of the army of the United States, and shall be obeyed and observed as such : Article. All officers or persons in the mili tary or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the pur pose of returning fugitives from service or la bor, who may have escaped from any persons to whom such labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted , That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Also, to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled " An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for oth er purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: SEC. 9. And be it further enacted , That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army ; and all slaves captur ed from such persons or dserted by them and coming under the control of the Government of the United States; and all slaves of such persons found on (o. being within) any place occupied by rebel forces of th United States, shall be deemed captures of war, and shall he forever free of their servitude and not again held as slaves. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted , That no slave escaping into any Slate, Territory, or the District of Columbia, from any of the States,, shall be delivered up, or in any way impeded or hindered of his liberty, except for crime or 6ome offence against the laws, unless the person claiming said fugitive shall first make oath that the person to whom the la bor on service of such fugitive is alleged to be du8 r ihis lawful owner, and has not been in aams against the United States in the pres ent rebellion, nor Jn any way given aid and comfort thereto; and no person engaged in the military or naval service of the United States shall under any pretence whatever, assume to decide on the validity of the claim of any person-to the service or labor of any other person, or surrender up any such per son to the claimant, on pain of being dismiss ed from the service. And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval ser vice of the United States, to observe, obey and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act and sections above recited. And the Executive will in due time recom mend that all c'tizens of the United States who shall have remained foyal thereto throughout the rebellion, shall (upon the res toration of the constitutional relation between the United States, and their respective States and people, if the relation shall have been sus pended or disturbed} be compensated for all losses by acts of the United States, including the loss of slaves. In witness whereof I have hereunto- set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this twen ty-second day of September, in the year of oua Lord, One thousand"eight hundred-and sixty two, nd of the Independance of the United States the eighty-seventh. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, a py the President, P WM, H. SEWARD, Seretary of State. THE PRESIDENT'S EMANCIPATION*. Opinions of the Press Concerning It. [From tho Constitutional Union ] /This unwise, unconstitutional and impolitic movement on the part of President Lincoln, has cast a deep gloom over the spirits of all the real friends of the Union and the Consti tution. They see in it the settled determina tion of the President to cast away the last vestigesof Constitutional obligations by which he has hitherto professed to be guided, and plunge bodily and madly into the boundless ocean of Abolition fanaticism by which he is surrounded. He has yielded to the councils of Stunner and Wilson and Lovejoy and Ste vens, and proclaimed as a part of the laws of this nation, enactments which have been de clared unconstitutional, and pronounced mis chievous to the last degree, not only by Dem ocrats, but also by such loyal and conserva tive statesmen as Senator Cowan, of this Stale,and others of equal learning, patriotism, loyalty and devotion to the Union, the Con stitution and the enforcement of the laws.— And what position does the President now occupy in the estimation of all loyal and con servative citizens ? Instead of being the pro tector and defender of the Constitution, and therefore qualified from that high point to de mand in the name of the Constitution that all men shall obey that great chart of the peo ple's liberties, the na ion's life, he has placed himself on an equality with the infractors of that instrument, and is, like them, amenable to a nation's justice. And in this matter President Lincoln has not acted without full knowledge as to what effect it will have upon the L T nion cause. He knows that the passage of such acts as these which are now officially proclaimed, and tho array ordered to enforce at the point of bayonet, linked with his Bor der State emancipation scheme, drove the Federal forces out of Kentucky and Tennes see and added thousands of troops to the reb el array before Richmond. All these things are known to the President, and yet in the very moment when the tide of war is turning in favor of the Union forces, he again issues an ultra Abolition manifasto to disgust the army, dispirit the friends of the Union in the free States, destroy those that remain in the slave States, and give fresh hope, courage and endurance to the rebels in arms against the Federal authority. [From the National Intelligencer ] "With our well-known and oft repeated views respecting the inutility of such procla mations, it can hardly be necessary for us to say that, where we expect no good, we shall be only too happy to find that no harm has been done by the present declaration of the Executive. This new proclamation with regard to the contingent emancipation of slaves in the in insurgent States not being self enforcing any more than the proclamation of General Hun ter in regard to the immediate emancipation of slaves in the States of South Carolina, Geo rgia, and Florida, the only difference between the two papers resides in the signatures re spectively attached to them. And as, in themselves considered, thev are likely to prove equally void of practical effect, we are not without the suspicion that the President has taken this method to cenvince the only class of persons likely to be pleased with this proclamation, of the utter fallacy of the hopes they have founded upon it. Tiiis opinion, we may add, derives confirm ation Irom the fact that he suspends for some months the enforcement of so much of his dec laration as denounces the emancipation of slaves in punishment for contumacy on the part of the insurgent States, while he gives immediate force and effect, so far as force and effect result Irom proclamations, to the regu lationsprescribed by the new article of war and the provisions of the confiscation act in the matter of slaves. On any other theory than this the proclamation may be said to open issues too tremendous, and to he fraught wit.t'consequences too undveloped, to admit of calculation or forecast by any intelligence we can command. [From the New York World ] This new proclamation really amounts to little. The President proclaims, in substance that on the first of next January he will issue still another proclamation, putting in force the main provisions of the confiscation act. It is unbecoming the d gnity of a great Govern ment to make such menaces as to what it will hereafter do in territory of which a powerful armed foe disputes the jurisdiction. If, on the first of next January, the war is substan tially ended, there would be some reason in giving the insurgents their election between submisaion and civil penalties. But they will laugh such offers to scorn so long as they can confront us with great armies. That part of the proclamation which relates to slaves coming within our lines is particularly weak. The law is the same that it was several months ago. If a proclamation on this point is neceasary, why was it so long delayed ? Its issue at this late day looks like a confess ion to the radical clamor. [From the New York Herald ] The gravity of this proclamation will strike every one. It hastbeen forced upon the na tion by the Abolitionists of the North and the secessionists of the South. It inaugurates an overwhelming revolution in the system of la bor in a vast and important agricultural sec tion of the country, which will, if the rebels persist in their course, suddenly emancipate three or four millions of human beings, and throw them, in the fullness of their help lessness and ignorance, upon their own resources and the wisdom of the white race to properly regulate and care for them in their new condition of life. But the importance of this grest social revolution will not be eou fined to the section where the black race now farms the chief laboring element. It will have an influence- on. the labor of the North and West. It will, tn a certain extent, bring the black labor of the South in competition with ihe white labor on the extensive grain lartas of the West, unk>6s the existing stringent laws of some of the Western States, confining the negro to his present geographical position are adopted in all the other free States. ESI I^ILACH BEST AMD CHEAPEST. IS AT G. H. EASTMAN S BOOT AID SIOE SflflP. as he intends for the future to sell exclusively for CASH OR READY PAY; thus making every man pay for his own work, with out taxing him for the debts of those that never pay. He will sell all kinds of the best custom made work at a lower figure than the slop work usually found in country stores can bo bought at. He is constantly adding to his large stock of THE BEST MATERIAL, and will keep on hand and make to order all kinds o BOOTS, SHOES, BUSKINS, GAITERS, SLIPPERS, GLOVE KID SHOES, &e., Ac. Tlie Best Workmen are employed in his manufacturing establishment, and he feels confident of his ability to give the most perfect satisfaction. G. H. EASTMAN is noted for making the BEST and CHEAPEST Boots and Shoes ever offered to the public, and in order to sustain his reputation, ho will spare neither care nor oxpensc. His shop is first door below R. R. Little's Law Of fice, where he is prepared to make to ordei, and do repairing on notice. My motto is, to use none but GOOD LEATHER — no. to purchase that which is boiled or rotten. P. S. Orders for fine Sewed Boots particularly so licited. G. 11. EASTMAN* Tunkhannock, Aug 14, 1861 TO TKAN¥LERS~ DAILY LINE OF STAGES! FROM Tunkliannock to Pittston, CONNECTING with STAGES running to and from Wtlkes-Barre, and all other points, from Pittston. Also, with stages running to and from To wanda, Laceyville, Meshoppon, Montrose and other ointe, from Tunkhannock. NONE BUT GOOD HORSES, AND CAREFUL AND OBLIGING DRIVERS are engaged on this Line. Extra Horses and Carriages constantly on hand, FORWARD PASSENGERS from Tunkhannock to Springvillc, Mehoopany and all other points off the line of regular Stage route. J. RITTERSPAUGIf, Proprietor. Tunkhannock, September, 18, 1861. DEL. LACK. & WESTERN RAILROAD. CnANCE OF TIMX: jgg? SgS? .jgs ON and after Monday, November 25th 1361, Trains I will run as follows: EXPRESS PASSENGERTRAIN3 Leave Great Bend at 7:20 U M. New Milford 7:39 " Montrose 8:00 " Hopbottora 8:23 " Nicholson 8:40 " Factory ville 9.04 " Abington 9:20 " SCRANTON 10:00 " Moscow 10:41 !l Gouldsboro 11.07 c: Tobyhanna 11:20 " Stroudsburg 12.32 P. M Water Gap 12:46 *' Columbia 1:00 " Delaware 1:25 " Hope (Philadelphia connection) • • 1:35 " Oxford 1:53 " Washington 2:10 " Junction 2:32 " Arrive at New York 5:30 " Philadelphia 6:50 " MOVING NORTH. Leave New York from foot of Courtland Street 8:00 A. M. Pier No. 2. North River, 7:00 " Philadelphia, from Kensington Depot 7:10 " Leave Junction 11:15 " Washington 11:33 " Oxford 11:50 " Hope (Philadelphia connection)•• 12:14 P. M. Delaware 12:43 1 Columbia 1:00 " Water Gap 1:16 " Stroudsburg ' 1:30 " Tobyhanna 2:42 " Gouldsboro 2:55 " Moscow 3.17 " SCRANTON •* 4:10 " Abington 4:40 " Factory ville 4:56 " Nicholson 5:16 " Hopbottom 5:38 " Montrose 6:00 " New Milford 6:21 " Arrive rt Overt Bend 6:40 These Trains connect at Great Bend with the Night Express Trains oolb East and West on the New York and Erie, and at Scranton with Trains on Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad, for Pittston, Kingston and Wilkesburre : and the Train moving South connects at Junction with Trains tor Bethle hem, Mauch Chunk, Reading ant 1 Ilarrisbuvg. Passengers to and from New York change cars a Junction. To and From Philadelphia, via.E. D. P.. R., leave or take cars at Hope. Foi Pittston, Kingston anu Wilkes-Barre, take L. & B. R. R. cars at Scranton. For Jessup, Archbald and Carbondale, take Omni bus at Scranton. ACCOMODATION TRAIN. MOVING NORTH Leaves Scranton 9:50 " Abington 10:35 " F'actory ville 11:00 " Nicholson 11:30 " Hopbottom 12:05 P. M Montrose 12:45 '• New Milford 1:20 " Arrives at Groat Bend 1.45 " MOVING SOUTH Leaves Great Bend 2:10 P.M. New Milford 2:35 Montrosem 3:05 •' llopbotto 3.45 " Nicholson 4:15 " Factory ville 5:13 " Abington 5:40 " Arrives at Scranton 6:30 " This Train leaves Scranton after the arrival of the Train from Kingston, and connects at Great Bend with the Day Express Trains both East and West on New York and Erie- JOHN BRISBIN, Sup't. Superintendent's Office, > Scranton, Nov. 25, 1861. \ WANTED -A RESPECTABLE PERSON OF EITHER SEX in every neighborhood to sell J. R. STAFFORD'S OLIVE TAR, and also J.R. STAFFORD'S IRON AND SULPHUR POWDERS. Olive tar is a thin, trsnsparent fluid; it is the best remedy known for diseases of t e Throat, LuDgs, or Catarrh. Also for Diptheria, Croup, Whooping Cough, Ac. 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