(The iiorlli Branch Democrat. J y J -

e found at Bcenter's Hotel, when not professionally absent. Falls, Oct. 10, 1861. 1)R. jTc BKCKFFt A: Co , PHYSICIANS 4i SURGEONS, Wonld respectfnlly announce to the citizens o r Wy ming that they have located at Tunkhannock wher hey will promptly attend to all calls in the line of aeir profession. May be found at his Drug Staro when not professionally absent. JM, CAREY; M. D— (Graduate of the 3 • M. Institute, Cincinnati) would respectfully announce to the citizens of Wyoming and Luzerne Counties, that he c >ntinues his regular practice in the various departments of his profession. May tie found St his office or residenoe, when not professionally ab cot 'AI Particular attention given to the treatment Chronic Diseas eatremoreland, Wvoming Co Pa.—v2n2 WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE/ ttJNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA rHIS establishment has recently been refitted and fiifiiiiiied lb the latest style Everv attention will be given to the comfort and convenience of those who patronise the House. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor. Tunkhannock, September 11, 1861. MAYNARD'S HOTEL, TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING COUNTY, PENKA. JOHN MAYNARD, Proprietor. HAVING taken the Hotel, in the Borough of Tunkhannock. recently occupied by Riley Warner, the proprietor respectfully solicits 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, 1361. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA Wb. H. CORTRIGHT, PropT HAVING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to *eadr the house an agreeable place ot sojourn for all who may favor it with tbeir custom. Win. H CCRTRIHHT. JOIIA. 3H. 1P63 " M. OILMAN, Kit OILMAN, has permanently located in Tunk- IVI. bannock Borough, and respectfully tenders bis professional services to the citizens of this plaoe and urrounding country. ALL WORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIS FACTION. ty Office over Tutton's Law Offios sear th s POl jflwe. Dec. 11,1861. LIME FOR FARMERS, AS A FERTILIZER for sale at VERNOY Meshoppen. Sept. 18 1861 A GENTLEMAN, cured of Nervou. Debility, In competency, Premature Decay and Youthful Error actua'ad by a desire to Leaefit others, will be happy to furnish to all who need it (free of charge) the re cipe and directions for making the simple Remedy used in his case. Those wishing to profit e it perience—and possess a Valuable Remedy—will re ceive the same, by return mail, (carefully sealed,) by addressing JOHN B OGDON, No 60 Nassau Street, New York v2—nl—3m Fresh Ground Plaster In Quantities end at prices to suit purchasers, now for sale a -*>PPN * MOWBTJB J MITJB L £ D J. PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, 1; A^®°V®?L nd * e aw door to the Demo- Offios, Imkksiieck, Pa. pott's Corner. FALSR FRIENDS AND TRUE. BT FTKLBr JOHNSON. 'Tis difficult within this world To find a faithful friend, On whom, hroughout the scenes of life, We ever can depend. And often, often have we thought This friend at last is got, 'Till trial proves the naouinful truth; Alas! we have him not Some there are whose object is To gain their selfish ends; Declare and vow. in solemn tones, Tbey are your steadfast friends. But w 1 en their wish'd-for ends are gained ; When serving self is o'er, Experience will teach to US, They are our friends no more. And some there are we daily meet. Possessing winning grace, Who by their acts show you that they Are friendly to your face ; But when your back to them is turned, They then expose your name And strive to cover every act With slander and with shame. And then comes those who always Will Of others tell you mu h; And 'tis my council unto all, That they beware of such ; For they who will of others speak, And tell you all they know, The expectation is that they Will speak the same of you. Then if within your walks of life A faithful friend yon find, Lavish upon him all your love And treat, 0 ! treat him kind ; For faithful friends upon this earth Are fading day by day— Are fading last from this dark earth Like moonlit clouds away A WARNING AGAINST INFIDELITY IN THE CHURCH PASTOR AL. LETTER OF THE RIoHT REV. BISHOP HOPKINS. Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont. Prestd* ing Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. To the Right Rev. ALONZO PATTER, of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, and the Seceding Clergy of Philadelphia : 1 have seen, with great amazement, a pr<>- iest against my letter un the 14 Bible View ol Slavery," signed by you and a long list o! . ur rlergy, in which you en>lemn it m - unworthy of any Servant of Jesus Christ," as "an effort to sustain on Bible principles, t e States in rebellion against the Govern ment in the wicked attempt to establish, by force of arms, a tyranny in the name of a Republic, whose corner stones shall be the perpetual bondage of the African," and as such yu say that it challenges your '• indig• nant reprobation•" Now my Right Revetend bro'her, I am S-itry to be obliged to charge JOB, not only with a gross insult against your senior, but with the more serious offence of a false accu sation. Mv letter was first published in Jan uarv, 1861, more than three months before the war began, at a time when no one could anticipate the form of Government which the Southern States should adopt, or the course which Congress might take in refer ence to their secession. And when I con sented to its publication, I did not suppose that it would be used in the service of any political party, although I had no right to complain, if it were so used, because the let for, once published, became public property But in its present form there is nothing wh lever in it which l>ear <>n the question uth should consent, ani the ! whole strength of the Government could aid in its accomplishment." " Sooner or later" I added, 44 1 believe 'hat some measure of that character must be adopted. But it be : ongs to the slave States themselves to take thelead in such a movement. And mean while their legal rights and their natural feel ings must be respected, if we would hope for unity and peace." With these facts before your eyes, I am to tally at a loss to imagine how even the ex travagance ot party zeal could frame against me so bitter a denunciation. The whole nb ject of my letter was to prove, from the Bi biz , that in the relation of master and slave there was necessarily no sin whatever. The sin, if there were any, lay in the treatment of the slave, and not in the relation itself.— Of course, it was liable to abuse, as all hu man relations roust be. Bat while it was certain that thousands of our Christian brethren who held slaves were treating them with kindness and justice, according to the Apostles' role, and earnestly laboring to im prove the comforts and ameliorate the hard sh ps of the institution, I held it tj be a cru el and absurd charge to accuse them as tin "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson. TUiYKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21, 1863. nert against the UiYine law, when they were only doing what the Word of G< d allotted, under the Constitution and established code ol their Countty. I do not know whether your band of in dignaht reprobationists ever saw my book, published in 1857, but vou read it, because I sent you a copy, and I have your letter of acknowledgment, in which, while vou dis aented from some of my conclusions, you did it wiih the courtesy of a Christian gentleman In that letter there is nothing said about my opinious Leing " unworthy of any servant of Jesus Christ," and nothing of" indignant reprobation." But tempora mutantui, et not mutamer in illit. Yo ! th* times are indeed sadly changed, and you have changed accordingly. For ma ny years you have met in brott.erly council with these Southern slave holders. You in vited thetn to the hospnaliiies of your house, and paid them ijecial deference. I'lie new light of Eastern Abolitionism hud not yet risen within our Church, and if you then thought as you now think. y<>u took excel lent care that no man araon si your Sou'h em Mends should know it. Moreover, your favorite Theological Seminary, only three years ago, was the Virginia school at Alex aiidria, raised to great prosperity by Bishop Meade— a slaveholder —and lam very sure that nothing at variance with my Bibl view ol slavery was ever taught in that institution. Yes! we may well say of you, as of many others, quantum mutatus ab illo! How changed is the Bishop of Pennsylvania in three years from his former course of con servatisin, peace and Scriptural consistency ! But the Word of God has not changed ; the doctrine of the Apostle has not changed ; the Constitution of our country has not changed ; the great standards of religiou* truth and real civic loyalty remain just as they w.re; and I remain along with them, notwithstanding this hitler and unjust as sault from you and your clergy. I do not intend to imitate your late style of vilupera tion, for I trust that I have learned, even when lam reviled, not to revile again. I re spect the good opinion of your clergy, ami I atu not aware that 1 have done anything to forfeit it. I respect your office, your talents, your personal character, and the wisdom and success with which, for maov yeirs, vour Episcopate has been conducted. But I do not respect your departure from the old aud well settled ruh of the Church, and from the Af sistolic law of Christian fairness and cour tesy. Ido not believe in the modern discov cry of those Eastern philanthropists who de ny the divinity of our Redeemer and attach no importance to the Bible except a> it tnav BUit themselves. Ido not believe that the venerated founders 01 our American Church were ignorant ot the Scriptures and blind to the principles of Gospel morality. I do not believe that Washington and his compatriots, who framed our Constitution With such ex press provisions for the rights of slavehold ers, were tyrants and despots, sinners against the law of God and the feplings of humanity. But 1 do believe in the teaching of the in spired Apostles, and in the Holy Catholic (or universal) Church which you and your clergy also pro ess to believe. I knnvt that the doc tr.ne of that Courch was clear and unani tnous on the lawfulness of slavery for eigh teen centuries together; and on that point 1 regard your " protest" and " indignant rep robation" as the idle wind that passes by. I wish you, therefore, to be advertise! that I shall publish, within a few months, i a gracious Providence should spare my life and faculties, a full demonstration of the truth " wherein I stand." And I shall prove in that book, by the most unquestionable au thorities, that slaves and slaveholders were in the Churc'i from the beginning) that sla vc*-y was held to be con sis ten* with- Chris tian principle by lie Father and Councils, and by all pmtpstant divines and commenta tators. up to ihe very close of i|,e last centu ry, an>l tha' this fact was universal among all Churches and scts throughout the Chris tian world. I shall contend that our Church, which maintains the primitive rule of catho olic consent and abj ires all novelties, is hound, by her very Constitution, to hold fast that only safe and enduring role, or abandon her Apostolic claims, and descend to the level of those who are " driven about hy every wind of doctrine." And I shall print your 44 indignant reprobation." with its list ot names, in the preface to my book, so that if I cannot give you fame, I may, at least, do ray part to give yoa notoriety. That the nineteenth century is a centurr of vast improvement and wonderful discove ry in the arts and sciences I grant as will ingly as any man. But in religious truth or reverence for the Bible, the age in which wo live is prolific in daring and impious in nova tion. We have seen professedly Chtistian communities divided tnd subdivided on eve ry side. We have seen the rise and spread of Universalism, Mdlerisra. Pantheism, Mor moism, and Spiritualism. We have seen ev en oar venerable Mother Church of England sorely agitated by the contagious fever of change, on the one hand towards supersti tion, and on the other toward infidel ration alism. And we have heard the increasing clamor against the Bible, sometimes from the devotees of geological speculation, some times from the bold deniers of miracles and prophecy) and, not least upon the list, from the ioud-tongued apostles of anti-slavery.— We have marked the orators which cry, " Down with the Bible, if it maintains the lawfulness of slavery." We hare marveled at the senatorial eloquence which proclaimed that " it was high Mow to have an anti-slave ry God and an anti-slavery Bible." We have heard the Constitution of our countn denounced as "a covenant with death and hell." We hart heard the boasted detenni nation that the Union shall never be restor ed until ita provisions for the protection of slavery are utterly abolished. And what is the result of H this philanthropy 7 The fearful judgment of God has descended to chastise these multiplied acts of rebellion against His divine Government, and what the final catastrophe shall be is ohly known to Him who seeth the end from the begin ning. After forty years 6pent in the ministry, I more than thirty of which have been passed in the office of a Bishop, I can look back with humble thankfulness to the giver of all good for this, at least, that all my best labors have been directed to the preservation of the Church from the inroads of doctrinal inno vation. At *ny ordination I promised" so to minister the DOCTRINE and sacraments and discipline of Christ, as the Lord hath com maiidi-d, and as this Church has received the same " —and certain it is that •' thi* Church" had not received the modern doctrine of ul tra Abolitionism at that time,as I trust she never will receive it, because it is contrary to the Sacred Scripture. I also promised " with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away from the Church all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's Word," and I made these pronii es in the tiue sense which the venerable Bishop White my Ord iiner, attached to them—l believed then, as he believed, that oar Southern brethren committed no sin in having s'ave*, and that they were men of as much piety as any ministers in our Communion. I believ ed, as he believed, that the plain precepts and practice of the Apostles sanctioned the institution, alihough as a matter of cxpedi' ency , the time might come when the South would prefer, as the North had done, to em ploy free labor. Those promises I have kept faithfully to this day—and if, when I am drawing near to the end of my career, I am to be condemned and villified by you and yur clergy, because I still maintain them Hi the utmost of ray slender ability, be assured my Right Reverend Brother, that I shall re gret the tact much more on your account than on my own. In conclusion, f have only to say that I (eel n resentment f'r the gronsly insulting style of your manifesto. The stability and unity of the Church of God arc the only in terests which I desire (o securp, and I am too old in experience to be much moved by the occasional ex .esses of human infirmity JOHN H. HOPKINS, Bishop of the Diocese of Vetmont. BURLINGTON, Vt. Oct. 5, 18C3. For the North Branch Democrat. BELSHAZZAR'# FEAST. BY NELLIE CLIFTON. The calm loveliness ot an oriental night had fallen over the proud capi.ol of Assyria Babylon's hundred gates of bras* were closed and the huge battlemented walls were frown ing grimly in the pale starlight. Without the city, 'i'ence brooded over " the dim and pulseless world;" but within all was bright and joyous. Merchant princes' sat within the tapestried chambers of their stately dwellings, every apartment glittering with all that the luxuri ous eastern taste could devise, or untold wealih purchase, and complacently smiled as they counted on years of prosperity to come. The priests of Bclua performed their heathen rites in the magnificent temple that was blaz ing with its uncounted treasures of gold and si'ver, and precious stones. Congregated in the regal banqueting hall ••! King Belshazzar, were a thousand mighty lords of the Empire, resplendent in vestments of Bahvlonian b'ue, that glittered with the in signia of nobility. The tables groaned be neath the weight of rare eastern exotics, and the costliest viinds that pampered royalty could devise, or the resources of a Kingdom furnish. The brains of the pheasant were daintily set for(h in vessels of gold, and wine of the rarest vintage, stained with its ruby flow, chalices that sparkled with precious gems. Soft strains of music palpitated on the voluptuous air, perfumed by a hundred un seen censer*. Tho dark eyed dancing girls of Egypt kept time to the lute and the viol, with a lithe, rythra'cal grace, that was as full of voiceless music as the motions of the un tamed gazelle. The King, clad in a robe of roval Tyrian purple, every fold of which flash ed with the sheen of precious gems, sat on a dais, canopied by a tree, tbe emblem of pow er in Assyria, the branches of which were loaded with s fruitage of emeralds, amethysts and flame-red opals. The gay revelers were flashed with wine and mirth ; and when one, more bold than the rest, proposed that they shnn'd bring forth the sacred vessels of gold and silver, that Nebnchadnezxsr, had plundered from the temple at Jerusalem, a shout of approval met the proposition. The priests of Belus mocked the Ood of Israel, while they filled the hal lowed vessels with the heathen's wine and drank to the praise of their senseless idols >4 of gold and silver, of brass, of iron, of wood and of stone." Blasphemous lips had scarcely drained the sacred goblets ere the hnsb of an awful fear fell on their revelings. The profaned vessels fell from hands that grew palsied in terror; as with blanched cheeks and starting eyes, they gazed on a sight that unnerved the stoutest heart. As Syria's impious monarch trembled in craven *ear as the flush of excitement faded from his face and left it ot an ashen paleness. So • over against the massive candlestick that lighted the festive hall; there came forth a man's hand and traced in fire, characters that none could read. Belshazzar called together his wise men, the seers and astrologers of Chaldea, promising honor and power, with robes of scarlet and fine linen, and chains gold, to bim who should interpret the mys terious writing. But all faild until the hum hie Judean captive, Daniel, was brought be fore the King and read, in the burning char acters traced on the palace wall, by an arm less hand, the downfall of the trembling mon arch and hi* Kingdom. " God hath numbered thv K ngdora and fin ished it. Thou art weighed in the bilance and found wanting. Thy Kingdom is divid ed and given to the Medes arid Persians." The same hour the legions of Cyrus poured into the city, through the drained bed of the Euphrates. The s<>ng of revelry was exchang ed for the shout of the victor and the groans of the dying. The purplo robes were deeper dyed in human gore, and the blood of the slain ran in rivulets on the floor, or stagnated ID clotted pools, The beseigers filled the banqueting vessels with red wine from hu man veins. Belshazzar's boa*ted glory pass ed away with the fading starlight of tbe morn ing, for hin dead body lay among those of his slaughtered nobles. Thus Babylon with all her royal magnifi cence, the pride of Asyria, the crown of the Orient, passed into the the bands of the Medes and Persians. INTERESTING PACTS. The first piece of artillery was invented by a Gewnar, soon after the invention of gun powder, and artillery was first U6ed by the Moors, of Algesiras, in Spain, in the siege ol 1341. The first banks were established in Italy in the year 808, by the Lombard Jews, of whom some settled in Lombard Street, Lon don, where many bankers have ever since re sided. The oldest version of tho Old and New Testament, belonging to the Christians, is that in the Vatican, which was written in the fourth or fifth century, and published in the year 1587. Ancient books were originally boards, or the inner bark of trees j and bark is still used by some nations, as are also skins, for which latter parchmeDt was generally sub stituted. Stones were first used for bullets, iron ones are mentioned in 1550. Leaden bullets were made before the close of the sixteenth century. Stnno cannon balls are still used in the East. The most stupendous canal in the Oorld is one in China, which passes over two thous and miles, and to forty one cities; it was commenced in the tenth century. Chocolate, the flour of cocoa-nut, was first introduced in England from Mexico, in 1520, and soon becatew a favorite beverage in the London coffee-houses. Billiards were invented by Henriqne Du vigne,a French artist, in the reign ol Charles IX., about the year 1571, and at once be came a most fashionable and captivating game. The largest and oldest chain bridge in the world is said to be at Kingtung, in China, where it forms a perfect road from the top of one lofty mountain to the top of another. Woman never appeare 1 upon the stage among ancients. Their prrts were represent ed by men until as late as 1662, when Charles H. first encouraged the appearance of Women before the public. Armorial bearings became hereditary, in families, at the close of the twelfth century ; they took their rise from the knights, paint tng their banners with different figures, and were introduced by the crusaders. The firs* balloon was constructed at Paris, by M.M M'-ntgolfier, in 1783, in wnich R<> zier and the Marquis d' Arlandes ascended, after which numerous ascents followed, ma ny of which proved fatal. The well kn wn cotton cloth, calico, is named from Calicut, a eitv of India, which was discovered by the Portuguese, in 1498. Calico was first brought to England by the East India Company, in 1631. Diamonds were first brought from the East, where tbe mine i Sumbulpour, was the first known, and where the mines of Golconda were first discovered In the year 1584, those of Brazil in 1782 The diving bell was first used in Europe, in the year 1509. It was used on the coast of Mull, in searching for the wreck of a pert of tbe famous Spanish Armanda, some time before the year 1669. Glass bottles were first made in England, about 1558. The art of making glass bot tles and drinking glassed were knows to tbe Romans in the year 79, A D.. as they have been found in the mine of Pompeii, ITSRMHi BI.SO PUR ANNUiC for the North Braaoh Democrat. THE TOOTHACHE. BY NELLIE CLIFTON. Did you ever enjoy the toothache, O, ye philosopher* of the stoical school ? Mayhap you have endured " the slin&s and arrows of outrageous fortune" but that's nothing to the toothache. Mayhap you have tried to sleep in a stage coach, under the hallucination that rough roads bad something to do with " Na ture's sweet restorer." You fix yonr head for a nap—bob it goes, over to the other side with a jerk that nearly dislocates your neck. You settle yourself again, when the coach gives another lurch and a fat Irishman comes plump into your lap. You're grieved, vexed, disturbed, annoyed, in fact you are mad, be? do not think you are abused until you hare had the toothache. Mayhap )ou hare been smashed in a Rail- Road collission, or ground to atoms beneath a falling bridge, or blown into fragments by a steamboat boiler's bursting, but it is all the merest play to the toothache. \ ery likely you have read of the infernal tortures of the Spanish inquisition—bow peo ple were stretched on the rack and drawn out like India rubber, or sawn aaaunder, or stuck full of red hot needles—but do not waste too much sympathy on the martyrs ; just wait until you have the jumping tooth ache, and then " if you have tears, prepare W shed them." Perhaps you have fallen among the Caman cbe Indians, those red-skine of the South west, to whom Satan has granted a patent for ingenious modes of torture; and, mayhap you have been roasted, head downwards, over a blazing fire, while the copper-colored fiends danced around with whoops and yells more hideous than a jubilee in Pandemonium ; but, if you have escaped the toothache, you are fortunate person. Just imagine that each nerve in your body, wi h all its exquisite sensibility, is put into" an old fiddle and somebody saws the strings with a red hot poker, until each one " roars nut in furious tunes." Then suppose that some friend like those Job had, tells you to' go to a dentist and have your tooth drawn— "it won't hurt much !" You go, and the dentist smilingly assures you that he can ex • ract it very easily, the smooth-lhced hypo crite ! Of course there are none of them any better than a red-skin at heart; and they in wardly chuckle at the thought of nsarly tear-' ing on : f. head off the body. You seat yourself in an easy chair. That's another trap too, as you will find to your c<>st. It is just to make you believe that fan' are going to have a good time ; but if you do not wish yourself in the jaws of an alligator before you get through, then lam mistaken. He gives a reassuring grin and commences cutting around the devoted tooth. Then he puts on a kind of ahiny looking "infernal ma chine," called forceps, and " then comes the tug of war." A crash, and you feel as if your head had been twisted off" by a gorrilla and a locomo tive driven the whole length of you body.— The ground slides from under ybur feet and you hang on nothing by an invisible thread. You get up with the conviction that it ia your duty to " shuffle off the mortal coil" for that dentist, who has left a hole in your mouth large enough f>r your boot to come through. "It came easy" he says, and you crush down the desire to show him how easy it would be to make jelly of him. and, pocketing the cause of all your woes, leave the office, thankful that a person can have the toothache always and live. OPPOSITE 111 FLU Eft tts OF THE SEXES. Why it it that in ninety .nine case* ontof a hundred those women who have been brought up ehiefly among men, who have bad no sisters, who have lost a mother in early life, (doubtless for many reasons a sad affliction to a girt,) who have been depend ent on fathers or brothers for society and conversation, should turn out the meat fasci nating and superior of their sex ? Why is it that, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the boy who is educated solely by his moth er, becomes a triumphant and successful man 1 in after life ? Perhaps the opposite influ ence of either sex is beneficial to the other ; perhaps the girl derives vigorous thoughts, expanded views, habits of reflection—nay,' more—charity and forbearance, from her male associates, as the boy is indebted to his mother** tuition and his mother's com panionship for the gentleness and purity of heart which combine so well with a manly and generous nature, for the refinement iha delicacy of feeling which ao adorn true oour. age, above all, for that exalted standard of womankind, which shall prove his surest safeguard from shamt and defeat in the com ing battle—a shield impervious so long as it i> bright, brt which, when once soiled, slides and crumbles front his grasp, leaving him ia' the press of angry weapon# a naked and de fenceless man. JC3TI plows, t sows, I leaps, I mows, t gets up wood for winter; I digs, T hoes, andf taters grows, and for what I knows, am in debted to THC PRINTCR. Ido suppore all knowledge flows right from the printing press ; so off I goes, in these 'ers clothes, and settle up—l guess- VOL. 3, NO; 11.