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COOPER, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON • Newton Centre, Luzerne County Pa. GEO. S. TUTTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Tunkhannock, Pa. Office in Stark's Buck Block, Tioga street. "ITTM. M. PIATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Of- W fice in Stark's Brick Block, Tioga St., Tunk hannock, Pa. I' ITTLE & DEW ITT, ATTORNEY'S AT J LAW, Office on Tioga street, Tunkhannock. Pa. R. It. LITTLE. J HEWITT. JV. SMITH. M. 1), PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, • Office on Bridge Street, next door t.> the Demo crat Office, Tunkhannock, Pa. ARVEY MCKLER, ATTORNEY \T LAW and GENERAL INSCRANCE AGENT Of ffce, Bridge Greet, opposite Wall's Hotel, Tunkhan nock Pa. PKR. J.C.CORSEI.ITJS. HAYING LOCAT- U El# AT TnK FALLS, W'LL promntlv n'tnd all caJto -in The line of his profession mnv be found nt Beemer's Hotel, "-hen not professionally absent. (Falls, Oct. 10, 1%5. DR. .T. C r, K< : K F,R .V Co., PHYSICIANS .V SURGEONS, Would respectfully announce to the citizens of Wy ming that they have located at Tunkhannock wher bey will promptly attend to all calls in the line of neir profession. Miy be found at his Drug Staro when not professionally absent. JM. CAREY, M. I), — (Graduate of the q • M. Institute, Cincinnati) would respectfully announce to the citizens of Wyoming and Luzerne Counties, that he continues his regular pr -eriee in ti c various departments of his profe-sion. M i.roe found •t his office or resideuce, when not professionally ab ent Particular attention given to the treatment Chronic Diseas. entremoreland, Wyoming Co. Pa.—v2n2 WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. THIS establishment h is recently been refitted and furnished in the latest style Every attention will be given to th comfort and convenience of those who patronize the House. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor. Tunkbannoek, September 11, 1361. ~MAYNARD'3 HOTEL, TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING COUNTY, PENNA. JOHN MAYNARI), Proprietor. HAYING taken the Hotel, in the Borough of Tunkhannock. recently occupied by Riley Warner, the proprietor respectfully soli, its a share ot public patronage. The House has been thoroughly repaired, and the comforts and accomodations of a first class Hotel, will be found by all who may favor t with their custom. September 11, 1861. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESIIOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA Win. H. COKTRIGHT, Prop'r HAYING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to sender the house an agreeable place of sojourn for •11 who may favor it with their custom. Win. II CCKTRIHIIT. June, 3rd, 1963 M. OILMAN, lyr ttILMAN, has permanently located in Tunk hanneck Borough, and respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens of this place and urrounding country. fACT I ION° RK WARRANTED ' to give SATrS -8 over Tutton's Law Office, near the Pos Office. Dec. 11, 1861. BACON BTANP.—Nicholson, P„. _ C L JACKSOX, Proprietor. fvln49tf] Fresh Ground Plaster in (luantttt e „ and at prices to suit purchasers, now for sale a eshoppen oy K. MOWRV JR T( > NERVOUS SUFFERERS OF BOTH SEXES. A REVEREND GENTLEMAN HAVING BEEN ■ V XU a days, after uniiergoin# all ro V t ' ne 1,11,1 irregular expensive modes of treatment withou. success, consi leis if his sacred du- L t °"rr ,Cate u hifl "fflicted fellow creatures themennsofeure. Hence, on the receipt of an ad r " (free) a copy of the K F .CO I „ U TO DR JOH * DAOXALL, 108 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York. v2n24ly j BROWNStOMBE'S ABOLITION SER MON. MR. EDITOR : We are informed by the editor of the Republican , that Eldor Browns combe's sermon, on the occasion of our re cent quarterly meeting,was a"clear refutation of the wild assumptions of the Vermont slave propagandist," as contained in the letter which you recently published. It seems the Editor's informers did not give him the arguments employed, or if they' did, he does not see fit to give them to the public" In this they may have profited by i lie advice given a certain judge, not remark ably leame l in the law, to simply announce his dicisioiis, without giving any reasons for them ; for the sophistry by which he might endeavor to support them, would expose their fallacy, and even if Ins decisions hap pened to be right his arguments might be wrong. It was wise in them not to under take to give the arguments. There were no arguments adduced. The discourse was mere assertion, and if this is what they mean by refutation, then the Bishop's letter was most sternly refuted. lhe Rev'd said he did not care if the advocate of such views was an Arch Bishop or an Angel he would denounce them— surely then we would have nad "a mouse nibbiing at an angel's wing." We should have preferred that this sermon nad been left with those who heard it. To those who are capable of reasoning upon the >uhject, its bitter invective would have been harmless, unless to excite feelings of disgust, and perhaps the endorsement by the editor of the Republican adds hut little to its cred it. Any review of it necessarily involves a degree of personality that is exceedidgly un pleasant ; for in matter it was nothing, in manner eveything, if it indeed were any thing. In this however we cannot excel, and certainly we do not wish even to equal, the Rev'd himself. Like every minister— that we ever heard, or read, who professed to argue against slavery, he first denounced in the bitterest terms possible, the institu tution, and then its advocates or apologists* i'he infidel abolitionist says, "if the Bible justifies slavery, so much the worse for the Bible." The divine imitates him in spirit iiid the language of the pulpit is not much less irreverent. The Bishop in his letter suppresses his prejudices and appeals to the Bible ; the elder t ok counsel of his prejudic es and passions and thus sought to rally those of his hearers. His manner and lan guage, as already, in substance, quoted were defiant and dictatorial, and the exhibition ot leeling rebellious, though perhaps conscien tiously believed to bt that of holy zeal Well might the Bishop ask, "who are we that we shall dictate to the Almighty what He shall regard as a sin.,' But what could be expected but denuncia tion and reprehension, not to use stronger 'ermsjfroin one who assumes to answer an ar gument that he confesses, as a preface to his own pretended reply , he has only partially read. This the elder openly did in what is reported as his very " fine sermon." It was certainly a very fitting prelude to his dis course, and did not detract therefrom in the least, still it is venturing little to say that any fair and honorable disputant, in any sphere, would feel himself disgraced by such a confession. But what prompted this con fession ? Did he fear that some of his hear ers would copy his example, and upon read ing the Bishop's letter for themselves, suspect him of willful perversionand miorepre>cntaui>n of which he so freely charged the Bishop? Or was it an excuse cr apology to such a* had already read it for his palpable unfair ness. There might have been method in this seeming madness. He next accuses the Bishop of special pleading. lie did not show in what respect, or tell us what he meant by it, if, indeed he knew. This perhaps was like everything else i hat he said, i-et down to the credulity of his audience. " Special pleading," says both Webster and the law books, "is the allega tion of special or new matter, as distin guished from a direct denial of matter previ ously alleged on the opposite side." It " sets forth the particular facts or reasons" that are relied upon. From the manner in which this charge was preferred against the Bishop, one would have inferred that the Blue laws, in ail probability, had long since executed ven geance upon him in some criminal court u' ustice. But wherein is the guilt ? If the charge means anything, it must he this, that the Bishop instead of angrily denying thatsla is a sin set forth specially the arguments, or facts, contained in the Bible to 6how and prove that it is not. We know that this is not of the " kind of treason defined in the constitution," but it may be very disloyal ac cording to the notions of loyalty that inhabit the distempered brain of cr zy fanatics. The opposite course would certainly have been much more in harmony with the practice of the Elder and his notions of no-compromise, war, extermination and devastation. It is perhaps fortunater for the Bishop I hat Vermont has not a Burnside to execute the will of Abraham Ist. As an additional count in the indictment, the Bishop not only quoted the Scriptures, but he misquoted, and did not quote he whole of them. But did the Elder show wherein he misquoted, or omitted any thing that was pertinent and material to theiseue ? Every bearer will bear witness "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "—Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1863. that he did not attempt U. He hext affirmed that the curse spoken of in the Scriptures vras pronounced upon Canaan in a manner that would leave his hearers to infer that Bishop Hopkins had said something different. He then said that Alrican slavery coul t have no connection with the corse pnmouced upon Canaan or they were not his descendants. However true this may be, we know that it has been quite common with ministers to re fer to this institution as a fulfilment of the Scriptures in ibis respect. Many of your •eaders will lecollect that the Rev Mr. Wyatt, occupying as high apossition in the. M. E. cimrch as the Rev. Elder himself in a Ser.non in Moneypentiy s mill, in proving the authenticity of the Scriptures placed great weight upon the existence of African slavery as a fulfillment of this curse. Bishop Hopkins did not however affirm that the African is the descend nit of C main. It was not material to the issue. I tie question he was discussing was, whether "itis a moral evil—a positive sin to hold a human being in b mdage." For this purpose it was sufficient to show that any portion of the human family were doomed to this con dition. That they were the elder himself tacitly if not expressly conceded. Well now, what did the Bishop say ? He first quotas the language of the cutse or predic tion, and thus notices the "immediate oc casion of this remarkable prophecy," to wit, " the heartless irreverence which Ham. the father of Canaan, had displayed toward his eminent parent, whose piety had just save I him from the deluge." He invariably speaks of the eurse as being pronounced upon the posterity of Ham. This the elder conceded, and thus all this hullabaloo about mtsquot ing and misrepresentation vanishes into thin air. It is a most miserable repetition of the farce of " stop thief." Of a piece with this were his remarks up on the term of servitude arming the Hebrews repeating, in part, just wnat the Bishop had said, but failing entirely to notice the dis tinction bet ween the " temp irary servitude of the Israelite and the perpetual bondage o 1 tfie heathen race." We coul 1 but pity the man, that he hail not more carefully read either the Bishop's letter on this point or his Bible. Here again if he did not so Mte in terms, he evidently intended that his hear ers should understand that Hopkins ha i de nied that the servitude of the Israelites was temporary, declaring most vehemently that it was, just as if Bishop Hopkins did not say the sain- thing, but failed to notice what either the Bishop or the Bible said of the perpetual bondage of ihe heatoen. This may be " very fine," but certainly it is not very fair ; and if he had not apologized for it by Raying that he had only partially rt-ad the Bishop's letter, we should say it was not very honest. What next? Why the Bish-p in con trasting the conduct of Christ, who lived in the very midst of slavery, with that of the ultra abolitionist of the present day, says, that He " openly rebuked the sanctimonious Pharisees;" "spared not the wealthy infi del Sadducees;""denounced the hypocritical Scribes;" " called the royal Herod 'that fox,' regardless of the king's displeasure : censures severely the Jewish praclice of di vorce; tells the deluded crowd of his enemies, that they are the children of the devil ; makes a scourge of small cords,and drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple ; and while he thus rebukes the sin of all around him, and and speaks witn divine authority, he pro claims himself 'he special friend and patron of the poor, heals their diseases, partakes of their humble fare, and, passing by the rich and the great, chooses his apostles from the publicans and the fi-hermen of Galilee, and yet while thus living in the midst o' slavery, maintained ovtr the old heathen races, in accordance with the Mosaic law, he uttered not one word against it. But hovv does'this model Elder,whohasconcluded at last to hang out his sign and preach abolitionism for the reason that people know that he is an abolitionist any way, endeavor to ward off the shaft thai is thus so accurately leveled against him ? Why, he says " Cutist did not say a w ird about it." So said the Bishop, or, in very words: "He did not allude to it at all," Truly there are none so dumb as the willfully blind. And if the Elder per sists in not. finding the point in the Bishop's argument the paint will persist as obstinately in finding him Well may the Bishop ex • claim, " woe to our union when the blind be come the leaders of the blind." and when such nonsense is quoted as " very fine.' The Rev'd Elder then followed with some thing about purchasing with money among ihe Hebrews not implying property as un derstood by us, that was not understood by many of his audience, if by any, or even by himself. If it was meant to be und rstood, we suppose there is no impropriety in ask ing for information on the subject. It was however when the elder came to speak of Bishop Hopkins' cri'-oisins on the Declaration of Independence, that he waxed most enthusiastic. He evidently felt that he had the Bishop here at a disadvantage, and was disposed to make the most of it. The celerity with which he arranged the relative positions of himself and the Bishop with re spect to that memorable instrument, the Bishop as its assailant and himself as its de fender, would have done honor to a man of the ring ur a pot-house politician. He made the Bishop say much that he never did say, at least not in his letter, and then said him self, in substance, just what the Bishop had said, concediug that the declaration that " all men are created equal" is true only in ihe sense in which Hopkins says it is true, and in the sense in winch its authors used it. He did not refer to one of the Bishop's arguments, but made sad havoc with tnut as carefully as he did the Bishop's leiter. We had supposed that the doctrine that men are endowed with alie iable rights was a most favorite one with the elder. Unless it be true we would respectful!) ask how it is that the people of the South have forfeited all their righ's, and where the Elder wooid find his authority, in any possible contingen cy, for exterminating every man, woman, and child of that section of our countr) . It is sufficient upon this point to add, that lie had not the fairness to notice one of the Bishop's arguments. The Bishop admi s the power of this doctrine of equality over the common mind for the purpose of excit ing di-content among classes, hatred among individuals and against particular insUtu tions, and of inciting to lawlessness and re bellion, and the Elder has evidently profited largely by he hint. An 1 when he prayed G..d to forbid that any of his posterity should be doomed to bordage, we were at loss to kn -w whether the man was really insane, • whether he contemplated practical amal amaticr "u'i nat was the effect of this '' very | fine sermon ?" lie answered n-ne of the ! arguments of the Bishop that he attempted ui reply to, and failed to notice others at ail i The idea of calling such a sermon a refuta tion of the Bishop's letter is superlatively ridiculous. We hoped for argument, instead of invecttve upon a subject that is so deeply I agitating the public mind—that would op | erate as oil upon the troubled waters instead |of adding fuel to the Haines already kindled, something that would convince he intellect rather than iuHanie prejudices and passions already over excited. We have no doubt I that many of his hearers, as reported to the Editor of the Republican , really believed that they had beard an argument, and the Elder himself may have shared in this con viction. But, upon reflections, will either he or they persist in the delusion ? They evidently went from the house of Cfod with their prejudices strengthened, as was mani j fested by the exhibitions of feeling in tin streets, as they were going home. We sav prejudices, for we believe that this whole question is too generally prejudged by the Northern mind. What better evidence of the fact, than this lame attempt to argue tfit question, while the institution is so confi dentlv and bitterly declaimed against ?_ Would it not be well for us to pauso for a moment in our tnad career, and weigh well our own conduct as compared with that of Christ, who, while he lived in the midst of slavery, reproving every evil arounf him, yet, as the Elder and the Bishop both agree, in spite of the elders determination to diss gree, " uttered not one word against it." Not only this, but many of his minisiers North, who s e lives, conduct, abilities and many virtues entitle their opinions to ie spect, believe that the example of Christ, and the teachings of His apostles, justify it, while those of His followers who, like Him, I've in the midst of it, fail to discover its enormities. And where any people becomes too confident in their convictions upon any subject to reason upon it, is it no: very prob able that they are subjugated by their prej udices 1 We have yet to learn that posi tiveness in an individual or community is evidence that they are right. This is the parent of persecution the world over. To base an argument upon it w< uld be to vindi tate the persecution!- of the primitive chris cianß themselves, for Paul te>tifies that lie persecuted n all good conscience. This is the evil of mixing up polilics and religion, and it is against this that we protest. A DAMNING RECORD, Governor Cu rtin—Who he Is, and what he Is, as p rtrayed by a Republican Editor. The following article is taken from the Pittsburg Gazette, published on the morning of the day U| • h*? meeting of tha Republican S ate Convention The Guzelte is the prin ciple organ of the Republican parly in wes •ern Pennsylvania. Its statements, there tore, cannot be attributed to pariizan pnju dice or flatted, uor can they be successull\ refuted. We never i*aw a more damning record produced against any public man, and t cannot but tell fearfully against Governor Curiin with the intelligent, thinking voters of the Stale. How any honest man can vote lor the Republican candidate fur Governor with such overwhelming evidence of his cor ruptibility and dishonesty staring thern in ihe face—fastened upon him, too, bv his own partizans—is more than we can see. We do not believe they will. But read the arti cle and judge for yourselves : From the Pittsburg Gazette, Aug sth A Parting A'ord to the Convention. The delegates to the State Convention are now amongst us. Before th! the Couimi'te, appointed to inquire into 'he means which bad been used to procure the passage of that bill. We have charged that he was unfriendly to the war policy nf the Administration, and proved it not only by his Mpssage in relation to Ihe draft, hut bv the character of the men whom lie nas retained about hiui. We have shown that the ttieCl of his poli cy has been to breas down the p >Wer ol the Republican party of this Slate, and even those v\ ho merely co-operated with him in Legislature, have been placed, almost with out exception under ihe ban of the people. And we have inferred /run all this—with nut referring 'o other matters —THA l Ill£ NOMINA! IUN WOULD BE DISGRACE FUL TO THE PARTY AND HIS ELEC IION IMPOSSIBLE—as the general desire ol Copperheads that we should lake bun as ur candidal*;, proves it to be, iu their judg ment, as well as ours. All ihis we have been impelled, by the ne cessities ot the case, to do in order to save the cause J rom the irretrieveuble ruin.. We have kept these things in the background rat hen ban run the risk ol crippling the State administration, or driving it bodiiy into the embraces ol the enemy, to whicn we feared its tendencies were over strung a'ready We thought it wise te make the best of a bad I bargain, ro long as we could not help our selves. \\ lien the same man was however presented anew, as a candida'e fur a second term, it becomes our duly to speak out be fore the mischief was emcted, and we have done Bu, in language as moderate as the facts hear. And yet even then, we would rather have waved our objections' if it had been possib'e, and taken the weakest man, and the wickedest of our enemies, than run the risk of (Dstu'b'ng the harm my of ihe party, at uch a time. It was clear to us. howerer, that with such a landidale, IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO SUC CEED. We shold be beaten, at any rate as our past e.vpeience has demonstrated— and as it could n>t m i'ce he milter wor-e, it was worth at least the trouble to endeavor t prevent it. And now we ask ! he members of the Con vention to tell us calmly, whether, with the facts before them, as we have them to be, there ts a constituency in Pennsylvania, that would have recommended or instructed for him—and whether these fads, defending mainly upon the record, and incontrovertible of course, can be now successfully concealed from thetu ? We ask them again, who there are among the eminent speakers of this State, who en joy the confidence of the people, that will venture to meet these issues, with the very record to confound them 1 IVe do not know a man, of any position or force, in this coup• ty, at nil event*. who wovlrt not feel himself ITBHMB: 81.50 PER ANNtTM persona'ly compromised, by undertaking a tabor so Herculean as (his. lne question then comes at last, whethor 'here are any ot the delegate* incl.ned to the support of Curtio, who would consider a tri uuiph now, as more important than a triumph at l tie election, and a sufficient Compensation tor a deleal at that lime—or Would be willing to oiaae ihe result upon a doubt ? Il it be true, as charged, that he rnsists on playing me p it oi the dug in manger, and sacrifice die pail}, ol which, il la said he claims to be the uudder, to himself, m there any man in the Convention who will allow himseli to be used lor such a purpose f What is to be gainedby it lor the advantage ot anybody but me rebels and their Northern sympathizers ? e have slated more than once—.and we cannot repeal it too olteu—that whatever may be ihe opinion ol itie Convention, and wheth er right or wrong, the Jetting against Got' Cuitin in the country at least —growing out of Ins own acts and poncy—is so strong l/iut we "ould no more control it, even it we were B o disposed, than we could sievi the tor rent of the Niagara with our fiands. We might ruin ourselves by adcucuting his elec tion, and we couldn't help hun. it is not we who are responsible lor the existence or ori gin ol that Jeelmg. We reflect it only, and have but throwu ourselves into the current, which was flowing as rapidly before we un dertook to fathom or direct it. There were good men here who doubted in 1860, whether he could betrusied, and refus ed to vote for hun, and yet, his county gave nun a majority of about 6400 votes. Less man a month afterward, It gave Lincoln 10,000. With a stronger man that Curtin here shoul 1 have been 8.000 at least, with an unexceptional candidate now we are -trong as ever— With Gov. Curtin, we doubt whether it could be curiitd at all , and those who reflect that his conduct at the session of 1861, brought in a Democrat even here, at the election which followed, will realize the mis chief that such a nomination may inflict. It is not this county only, however, in which it is important to make the machine run smooth. There will be like difficulty elsewhere, and particularly in those those counties where the strength of the Republi can party lies. If he should be nominated, will not be by thevoles of those districts,, which will beexpected to elect hun. It J will be Counties like Berks, we suppose, that are to he cast as make weights into the scale. Would it not become them to re flect, that if they want us to do the work they must put us into a condition to run without weights? Are not even the prejudices of our people—if they choose to call them so— to be considered ? Ff they can find a man who is free from objection—and we are in bad condition, indeed, if they cannot— what is their duty as inen—as patriots—as lovers of their country ? How can they excuse themselves lur insisting—from mere pride of sell will—on one of the opposite kind, who is known to be unpalatable i< any resecta ble section of the party ? ff'e skull guaje the. r patriotism by the way m which the deal wish the difficulty With men vj hero ic slump—men suited to the times, it can prove no serious difficulty at all. THE Dot; THAT HAD NO FRIENDS.— We were traveling (says a correspondent) through Canada, in the year 1861, and afetr a hard day's ride, stopped at the Lion Inn ; and the contents of ihe stage, nine persons, soon gathered ar unil the cheerful fire Aumng the occupants of the room we observ ed an ill looking cur, who had shown Ins wit by taking up his quarters in so Comfortable an apartment. After a few moments the landlord entered and observing the specimen of the canine spe cies, remarked : "Fine dog that! is he yours, sir?"ap proaching one of the passengers. '' No sir." " Beautiful dog! Yours, sir?" addressing himself to another. " No," was the blunt reply. '• Come here, pup ? Perhaps he i& yours, sir ?', " No," was the reply. Very sagacious animal. Belongs to you, I suppose, rir 7' '• No he doesn't," was the answer. J hen he is yours and you have a treas ure, i throwing the animal a cracker.) *' Nothing of the kind." ' Oh ! (with a smite) he belongs to you as a matter of course ?" addressing the last pass enger. ' Wouldn't have htm as a gift." " Then you infernal, dirty mean contempt ible whelp, git out ?" and with that the host gave the poor dog such a kick a sent tho pnimal yelling into the street, amid the roars of the company. We lately mer a grammarian, says a Cali fornia paoer,who has just made a tour through' the mine*, conjugating, or rather cogitating thus : " positive mine; comparative miner j superlative minus!" JC 3ST" a p'ay upn ' words," as the boy said when he kicked tho Dictionary up and down the sehord room. VOL. 3, NO. 4.