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HARVEY SICKDER, Editor.
TXJNK.HANNOCK., PA
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1863.
S. M. Pet ten gill As Co.—No. 37 PARK ROW
NEW YORK, k 6 STATE ST. BOSTON, are our Agents
for the N. B. Democrat, in those cities, and are author
ised to take Advertisements and Subscri ptious
us at our lowest Rates.
frg The late " splendid victory of the
Government," over the Democrats of Penn
sylvania, has cost Gen, Mead a disheartening
retreat for 60 miles. His army is now se
curely posted, under the shadow of the capi
tol, where it was two and a half years ago—
Old abe has called for 300,000 more troops to
reinforce our " victorious armies."
JC3T The latest election returns from
this state, renders it quite cerlain that Cur
tin's majority in the state will not fall far
abort of 15,000 —about half the number of
voters, admitted by the abolition journals, to
have been sent into the state to control the
result. Elections in France, under Napole
on, and in the United States, under old Abe.
have about the same result, eo far as an ex
pression of the will of the people is concerned.
The Fruits of Abolition Rule,
Anterior to 1860, how wonderfull we were
developing all the physical, moral, and men
tal resources of a great nation. What con
cord-reigned, what security for liberty and
property. What a magnificent vista ahead
of us. Now how changed. The republican
party has been in power in the Federal Gov i
ernment not three years. What is the pic
ture? That6cene which the great Webster !
prayed his dying eyes might never rest up
on, has come to pass. States aro rent with
fraternal feuds, and drenched with fraternal
blood' Discord has come instead of peace.
The land is full of mourning for the loss of
the first born ; childreu are weeping for their \
fathers, and gray-haired men are bowed i
down with grief for the loss of their
boys. Famines are severed—cripples totter
ing along our streets, mute monuments of a
bloody strife. Debt, too, has come upon us
in gigantic 6hape, and taxation has laid its
heavy hand upon us. Every thing material
feels it. Everything that we eat, drink, or
handle, from the swaddling clothes of the in
fant to the shroud of the paronts. The Sec
retary of the Treasury says the debt is but
eleven hundred millions. It is twice that,
and is growing daily* larger. The Govern
ment, too, has substituted a Federal curren
cy for the old State currency. It has, in
fact, substituted the old French banking sys
tern. It has forced upon us money which,
outside of the country, is not worth the pa
per it is printed on, and in the country it is
40 per cent, discount, while the tax is equal
to £4O upon every man, woman, and child in
the country. But ascending to matters of
higher consideration—if it is possible to do
so—we see all the rights, safe guards, and i
immunities of the citizen—the trial by jury, j
the habeas corpus, the right of free speech,
and free phes&; indeed, the glorious panoply
of the Bill of Rights—our amendments to
the Federal Constitution—swept remorse
lessly away by this Administration Ex.
Major General McClellan on the Election
in Pennsylvania,
ORANGE, N. J., Oct. 12
Hon. Charles J. Biddle, Philadelphia :
DEAR SIR : My attention has been called
to An article in the Philadelphia Press, assert
ing that I had written to the managers of the
Democratic meeting at Allentown, disapprov
ing the objects of tlio meeting, and that ifl
voted or spoke it would be in favor of Curtin.
lam informed that similar assertions have
been made throughout the Stato. It has
been my earnest endeavor heretofore to avoid
participation in party politics, and I had de
termined to adhere to this course ; but it is
obvious that I cannot long maintain silence
under such misrepresentations. I, therefore,
request you to deny that I have written any
such letter, or entertained any such views as
those attributed to me in the Philadelphia
Press. I desire to state clearly and distinct
ly, that, having some few days ago had a full
conversation with Judge Woodward, I find
that our views agree, and I regard his elec
tion as Governor called for by the interests of
the nation- I understand Judge Woodward
fo be in favor of the prosecution of '.he war
with all the means at the commaud of the
loyal States until the military power of the
rebellion is destroyed. I understand him to
be of the opinion that, while the war is waged
With all possible decision and energy, the
policy directing it should be in consonance
with the principles of humanity and civiliza
tion, working no injury to private rights and
property not demanded by military law
among civilized nations. And finally, lun
derstand him to agree with me in the opinion
that the sole great objects of this war are
the restoration of the unity of the nation, the
preservation of the Conatitutioo, and the
supremacy of the laws of the country. Be
lieving that our opinions entirely agree upon
these points, I would were it in my power,
give to Judge Woodward my voieo and my
vote.
I am very respectfully, yours,
GEO. B. McCLELLAN.
Cy The vote on the proposition for a
State Government in Nevada Territory was
8,162 in favor and 1,502 against.
PRESIDENTS PROCLAUAnON.
Another Call for Three Hundred Thous
and Volunteers.
A DRAFT TO BE MADE ON THE FIFTH
OF JANUARY.
By the President of the United States,
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, The term of service of part of
the volunteer forces of the United States
will expire during the coming year; and
If hereas, In addition to the men raised
by the present draft, it is deemed expedient
to call out three haudred thousand volun
teers, to 6erve for three years or the war
not, however, exceeding three years :
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, Pres
ident of the United States and commander
in chief of the army and navy thereof, and of
the militia of the several states when called
into actual service, do issue this my procla
raation, calling upon the governors of the
different states to raise and have enlisted in
to the United State® service, for the various
companies and regimen's in the field from
their respective states, their quotas of three
hundred thousand men.
I further proclaim that all the volunteers
thus called out and duly enlisted shall re
ceive advance pay, premium, and bountv, as
heretofore communicated to the governors of
states by the War Department, through the
provost-marshal general's office, by special
letters.
I further proclaim that all volunteers re
ceived under this call, as well as all others
not heretofore credited, shall be duly credit
ed and deducted from the quotas established
for the next draft.
I further proclaim that, if any state shall
fail to raise the quota assigned to it by the
War Department under this call, then a drait
for the deficiency in said quota shall be
male in said 6tate, or on the districts of
said state, tor their due proportion of said
quota, and the said draft shall commence on
the fifth day of January, 1864.
And I further proclaim that nothing in
this proclamation shall interfere with exist
ing orders, or with those which may be is
sued for the present draft in the states where
it is now in progress or where it has not yet
been c&tnmenccd.
The quota of the states and districts will
be assigned by the War Department, through
the Provost marshal general's offiie, due re
gard being had for the men heretofore fur
nished, whether by volunteering or drafting ;
and the recruiting will be conducted in ac
cordance with such instruction as have been
or may be issued by that department.
In issuing this proclamation, I address my
self not only to the governors of the several
states, but also to the good and loyal pmple
thereoj, invoking them to lend their cheerful,
willing, and effective aid to the measures
thus adopted, with a view to reinforce out
victorious armies now in the field, and
bring our needful military operations to a
prosperous end, thus closing Jo/ever the
fountains of sedition and civil war.
In witness whereof 1 have hereunto 6ct
my hand and caueed the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Dope at the city of Washington, this seven
teenth da}' of October, in the year of our
Lord oDe thousand eight hundred and six
ty three, and of the independence of the
United States the eighty eighth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
W. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
Drafted men, who are perfectly
w loyal." but who have a constitutional dis
like to " villainous saltpetre," are referred to
Billy Button of the Republican, who having
had a thorough and successful experience in
playing the sneak, in this line, will no doubt
give thern the modus operandi, by which a
man with no physical disability or deformity
—except a monstrous beet colored nose—
can evade the draft by creeping out of a
small hole. Billy has crawled clear through,
and has come out as " loyal" as ever. We
can see no reason why his abolition friends,
who have no nasal '-bust," could not do the
same thing, under his instructions.—" Loyal
Leaguers," give him a call.
INFLUENCE OF NEWSPAPERS. —DanieI Web
ster once said; "Small is the sum that is
required to Patronize a newspaper, and am
ply rewarded is its patron, I care not how
humble an unpretending the paper ho takes.
It is next to impossible to fill a sheet with
printed matter without putting into it some
thing that is worth the subscription price.
Every parent whose son is away from home
at school should supply him with a newspa
per. I well r emeraber what a marked dif
ference there was between those of my
school-mates who had not access to newspa
pers. Other things being equal, the first
were always supeiior to the last in debate,
composition, and in general intelligence.
ABOLITION AND SECESSION THE SAME—
" The Government cannot endure permanent
ly half slave and half free," said Mr. Lincoln.
" A Union between free States and slave
States is impossible," responded Jeff Davis.
Now, rebs, if we put down all such of our
fellows as think with Ola Abe, and yon put
down all such of yours as think with OH
Jeff", no doubt you and we will be able to get
along very well together again. Let's try it
—Louisville Journal.
THE TRIBUNE ON THE War DEBT —The
Tribuno in speaking of the war debt says:
"It has saddled us with a debt that will
take bread from the mouth of every laboring
man's shild for generations, aod send millions
hungry to bed !"
JC3T The receipts of money paid by draft
ed men now amounts to nine millions, which
ii is expected will be increased by one or
two millions more. The whole of this sum
is to be appropriated tc recruiting under the
new Proclamation of the President.
OFFICIAL VOTE
*■" OF
Wyoming County, for 1863.
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! Braintrim 24 78 27 72 30 30 65 65 50 50 21 f*B 21 76 25 65 27 28 67 66 30 67 £
Exeter 28 17 28 17 28 28 17 17 27 17 28 17 30 16 28 16 28 28 117 117 28 17 <
Eaton. 64 132 64 133 64 64 132 132 64 133 62 133 62 131 60 135 61 61 129 129 61 134 <->
Clinton. 28 132 31 128 30 30 129 129 25 137 29 129 29 128 31 129 33 33 129 129 32 129 a
Falls. 147 42 146 42 145 115 42 42 144 44 142 40 145 43 145 43 145 145 41 41 146 41
Forkston 50 70 51 69 53 53 67 67 51 -69 46 74 51 69 53 66 62 52 68 68 52 67 2
Lemon.. 40 53 40 53 40 40 53 53 40 51 40 53 40 53 40 52 39 39 53 63 40 52 5
Meshoppen 140 69 140 66 142 142 66 66 155 53 137 71 139 68 144 64 141 111 66 f,6 144 65
Me hoop iny 70 127 72 126 72 72 125 125 72 125 70 125 70 126 73 125 72 72 126 126 76 121 .5
Monroe 64 103 67 100 67 67 97 97 66 99 67 98 73 94 66 100 67 67 99 o9 66 97 w
Nicholson 166 116 168 114 167 167 116 116 166 117 167 116 167 116 189 92 167 167 113 113 168 115 "£
Northmoreland 11l 88 111 87 110 110 88 88 111 88 111 88 110 88 110 83 111 HO 88 9 110 87 £
North Branch. 48 31 48 30 48 48 30 40 49 30 48 30 48 30 48 30 48 48 30 30 47 30 o
Overfield 56 13 56 13 57 57 13 13 56 14 56 13 57 13 57 13 56 56 13 13 57 13 g
Tunkhannook Borough. 79 81 82 71 83 83 76 76 80 79 72 89 76 83 85 72 83 83 75 75 85 ;5 ! o
Tunkhannock Town.-hip 150 64 146 69 153 153 66 66 149 67 139 75 152 63 150 65 143 143 64 64 154 63 M
Washington 77 82 77 81 77 77 81 81 76 82 76 83 76 81 77 82 77 77 82 82 76 62
Windham 76 81 77 78 75 75 80 80 77 80 66 91 77 80 78 78 76 76 78 77 78 18
Total 1418 1379 1431 1355 1441 1441 1343 1343 1458 1335 1377 1403 1423 1363 1459 1315 1426 1426 1338 1333 1450 1331 j
MAJORITIES. 39 76 98 98 123 26 60 144 83 88 119
*
COMM UN IC AT IONS.
For The Democrat.
REV. 11, BROWNSCOMBE.
Sin :
lou say, in
your last communication, that your •' first
impression of perusing mine of the 7th inst.,
was to treat it with silent contempt." You
doubtless thought that would be your safer
course ; and you may yet come to the con
clusion that first impressions are best.
You will hardly surceed either by your
silly twaddle or your sneaking attempts to
cast your slime upon democrats through a
democratic paper, in diverting attention
from yourself; and it will be time to consid
er the " eulogy" to which I am entitled ior
proving " a man's no horse," when I attempt
it; it is sufficient for the present that I
prove a minister worse than an ass.
I wish now, sir, briefly to remind you ;
and the publio of the history of this contro- :
versy. I reviewed a sermon of yours, in
which you professed to reply to a letter of
Bishop Hopkins—showing that your sermon !
consisted of charges of misquoting the scrip
tures on the part of the Bishop, and of mis
representations throughout. This you con- j
cede I had a right to do, as sermons are
" public property." You then challenged
me to a discussion of this question : "Is
American slavery consistent with the Bible
or with Christianity." I accepted the chal
lenge, so changing the statement ot the ques
tion, however, as to put you on the affirma
tive, as the challenging party. You then 1
came out in a long article, not in discussion
of the question proposed, but in reference to
things in the review of the sermon that you
deemed personal to yourself —charging mo,
with falsehood and slander in the caption of
the review—this being the only exception •
that you took to the article, I then replied j
to your gentlemanly charges of falsehood
and slander—proving that when I spoke of,
your sermon as an "abolition sermon." I;
said no more than you had impliedly con
fessed, again and again. It is difficult to say
what you do discuss in your last, further
than that you do not 6eem disposed to con
sider anv of the issues raised.
Now, sir, if the review of your sermon did
you injustice, why did you not publish the
sermon, as you have since implied that it|
was written, though I had no idea thai it
was 7 In this way, if your sermon was
what you would have us believe it was, you
would have not only answered the Bishop,
but also have vindicated yourself again6t the
review. The question would then have been
fully open for discussion at the same time,.
You thus had an opportunity of vindicating
yourself and your side of the question.—
This you have not seen fit to do, but have
proposed a question, in a form that, you at
least ought to have known, would not be ac
cepted, merely to get my name, as it seems,
for the purpose of Arising a personal alterca
tion—commencing with charges of falsehood
and slander. '
It is evident that you had no intention of
discussing the question proposed—like your
: protesting brother, Bishop Potter, you much
, prefer protesting to argument. And, to
show you that I am not ashamed of the com
pany of Bishop Hopkins, I call your atten
tion to hi reply, which I understand is to
be published in the same issue of the Demo
crat with this communication, to such pro
testing gentlemen as you are, who do not see
fit to tlio question. You seem really
pained that I do not declare ray convictions
on the question. The public, sir, will judge
of the merit of our relative positions ; you
protesting against and denouncing an institu
tion, while you shrink from the considera
tion of the question, whether or not that in
stitution is condemned or sustained by the
Bible; I declining either to censure or ap
prove, until the arguments are considered.
Well, I repeat, may your endorser, in the
, Republican, declare that " there are men
who dare act without first inquiring what
God has decreed." I know that you claim
that you are asked to prove a negative ; but
I you are not quite so weak as not to know
that this claim is all fudge. If you do not,
and are really sincere in this palaver, let me
refer you to Mill's system of logic, page 27,
where he explains bow it is, that'words pos
itive in form are negative in sense, while
others, negative in form, are really positive.
" Inconvenient," he cites, as an example of
the latter—having the positive aignification
of " discomfort or annoyance." How plain
the analagy between this and the word in
consistent, about which you quibble so
much, as denoting disagreement or conflict.
The puhlic have seen at a glance how vastly
more easy it is to prove a conflict betwean
slavery and the Bible, if there is any, than
to show that there is no conflict. I care not,
! therefore, if Bishop Hopkins was attempting
: to prove a negative, this would hardly justi
fy you, as tho challenging party to a discus
sion, in declining, iu the first instance, to at
| tempt to prove a positive or an affirmative,
iOf a piece with your pettifogging on this
' point, are your remarks about the laws pro
tecting men in eating and drinking. Did
' you ever know of any law to protect indi
! videals id the enjoyment of eating and diink
[ ing what they please 7" If you know any
thing about the very first principles of the
| law, you would have known that ihe law ex
-1 pressly declines to interfere with the abfo
! lute duties of men, or 6uch as affect them
selves individually* They may- therefore ho
drunken and gluttonous as they please, s
long as they do not offend against pnblic de
cency, the law neither protecting or restrain
-1 ing them. As there is no law upon the sub
ject, no legal implication can possibly arise
The law has nothing more to do with the
; slave trade, until It prohibited it; implying
thereby that it was wrong, while up to that
time, there was no legal implication on the
subject.
But, air, to come to the only point that I
■ball consent to have any words with you
I about. After charging me with falsehood
and slander, the charge having been crammed
down your own throat, you now, like a whip
ped spaniel, ask : " Was it generous, was it
gentlemanly, on your part, to equivocate and
pettifog for the purpose of trying to make ine
appear a falsifier, after I had positively de
nied that I was an abolitionist, and defined
what I understood by the term ? '
Sir do you mean that the sanctity of your
cloth entitles you to make false charges of
'• falsehood and slander" and also exempts you
from the legitimate consequences of proof
that such charges are false ? are you licensed
to deal in false accusations with absolute im
punity ? Was it " generous and gentlemanly"
to show you a " falsifier" ? Yes sir it was if
such was the fact; and the fact you do not
deny, but complain of me for proving so con
clusively that you do not attempt to answer
it, that your own effort to prove your asser
tion that you you are not anabolitionist proves
with precisely the same conclusiveness that
you are not a methodist—that you are not
anything "right or wrong, legal or illegal,
constitutional or unconstitutional"—and this
in your " gentlemanly " way, you call petti
fogging. You have a very easy way sir, of
throwing yourself on the defensive ; away
that indicates long practice in that very mode
of argument that you so characterize. Cer
tainly it is much easier to accuse your oppo
nent of pelt jogging, when you find yourself
hard pressed with plain facts, than to meet
such facts fairly, face to face.
I have no doubt but a man of your liberal
notions, regards it as very ungenerous that,
in vindicating myself against your charges of
falsehood, I should necessarily convict you,
not only of falsehood, but of being an aboli
tionist, notwithstanding that wonderful defi
nition you had devised as a means of escape.
You say, however, that you have nothing to
retract. Permit me to say that I expect
nothing of the kind from you. To do this
would require, at least, one characteristic of
a gentleman. The ingenuities displayed in
framing that remarkable definiliou of an ab
olitionist, showed no such intention from
the outset. But, sir, you do improve in one
respect. You do not see fit to charge me
with falsehood and slander," in charging you
with having falsely accused Bishop Hopkins
of misquoting the scriptures. You very
meekly say I was 11 mistaken and I think
it required a very great effort for you to do
this. It was not half as easily done as your
precious charge of falsehood and slander. I
1 think you regretted the necessity that com
i pelled you to it. It is too late sir, for you to
i sneak out now by talking of mistakes, alter
i having made charges of falsehood,
j I said that when you charged Bishop
i Hopkins with misquoting the scriptures, you
lied in your very throat. You now say :
" I will add that you are mistaken when
you say th&l I charged Bishop Hopkins
\ with misquoting scripture ." 11 reply to
i this I introduce the following testimony :
W VOICING COUNTY SS :
Stanley W. Little, being du
ly sworn, doth depose and say that he was present at
the Methodist Church in Tuukhannock, on the oc
casion of Rev. J[ liroicnscombe's reply to the let
ter of BISHOP JIOPCINK, entitled " Bible view of Sla
very that having then recently read said letter,
he gave very careful attention to Mr Browns ;otnbo's
remarks upon that subject—that while dejwcont will
not attempt from memory to repeat the very
words used by Mr. Brownscombe, his recollection is
distinct thatsa.d B. did affirm that Mr. Hopkins had
misquoted, the Bible, and misrepresented what be
bad quoted.
STANLEY" W. LITTLE.
Sworn and Subscribed, this i
ltith Oct., 1863, before me, £
DASIEI. BALL, /. P J
Tfvomxc COUNTY, SS :
James W. Harding, being
duly sworn, saith that he was also present on the
occasion above stated, that his recollection is also
distinct that Rev. Mr Brownscombe remarked as
above seated in reference to Bishop Hopkins' letter.
JAMES W HARDING.
Sworn, and Subcnbed, this Y
16th Oct., 1863, before me,
DANIEL BALL, J. P.
WYOMING COU.NLY SS ;
James Young, being first
duly sworn, says that he was present on the occasion
abov estated, and that his recollection is also distinct
that Rev. Mr. Brownscombe remarked as above stat
ed in reference to Bishop Hopkins' letter.
JAMES YOUNG.
Sworn and Subscribed, this Y
I7th Oct., 1863, before me, r
M. W. DHWITT J. P. >
I also charged you with having denounced
democrats as copperheads from the pulpit.—
You now say : " I have never denounced dem
ocrats as Copperheads.'''' I made this charge,
sir. upon the distinct statement of a promi
nent member of your church at Meshoppen,
that you did, at the Brick Chapel, 6peak of
democrats, generally, as copperheads, flay
ing proved you false in one instance, I do not
deem it necessary to produce evidence on
this point. 1 leave it between you and the
members of your church, merely adding the
maxim of the law, falsus in lino, falsus iu
omnibus ; false in one thing, false in every
thing.
Now, sir, it will hardly be expected that
I should have any further words with you, on
this or any other subject ; I must add, how
ever, that your very facetious remarks, about
my conscription in the army, are in keeping
with the gentlcmanly(?) and christian(?_)
spirit, that you have uniformly manifested in
this controversy. t
To the public, I have only to say, in justi
fication of the language I have used, that it
was unavoidable in bringing a vacillating and
unscrupulous foe to any point, where he could
be held until he was duly unmasked.
Now, sir, 1 tip the shovel and let you slide.
J. DEWITT.
EST The expenses of the present Aboli
tion Administration are nearly two millions
of dollars per day. This enormous sum is
lavished upon,shoddy contractors, Govern
ment officials, and political demagogues
Thousands of dollars of it have been spent in
Pennsylvania, during the present campaign,
to defeat the will of the peopte and aid in
the election of Curtin. The Treasury has
been plundered and the masses have been
robbed of their hard earnings by the corrupt
and faithless men in power.
The printer wants money. Pay up.
The #3OO Clause In the Conscription Act.
FALLS, Oct. 14th, 1863.
FRIEND SJICKLEU :
Will you inform me and
others in like situation, through the columns
of the Democrat, whether the payment of
the S3OO, exemption money, by a drafted
man, will save him from future liability for
three years—the term for which he is draft
el ? The question to many of us who can
barely raise that amount of money, and who
havo families dependent upon us for support
is an important one; and to no one, mora so
than your friend and subscriber.
A SOUND CONSCRIPT.
We would cheerfully answer the question
asked in the above note, if we coold do so
with any assurance that our answer would
prove correct, but we confess we cannot.—
We will, however, give the writer, and oth
ers in like situation, the benefit of all wo
know or have heard upon the subject
Provost Marshal General James Fry, in a
circular which purports to be an authorota
tire opinion from the war Department at
Washington, dated July 12tli 1863 says :
" Any drafted person paying S3OO under
section 18th of the enrollment act, is thereby
exempt from further liability under that
draft, but not from any subsequent draft."
We understand it to be the opinion of Ca
leb Cushing, one of the most eminent law
yer- of the country, as we think it is, of nine
out of every ten of all others, that the plain
meaning, spirit, and intention of the words
in the act, allowing the payment of the S3OO
as a commutation for personal service, is and*
was, that it should operate as an exemption,
in favor of the person paying it, for the full
term of three years, for which the draft was
made. This we also understand to be the
opinion of Tnadeus Stevens a leading mem
ber of the Republican party, one who helped
in Congress to pass the act.
The question of course has not been judi
cially settled, unless " the powers that be,"
treat the mere dictum of Provost Marshal
Genera! Fry as the ultimate decision on the
subject. It is not impossible that they will
so treat it. When we reflect that mere
proclamations by the great Tycoon at Wash
ington, are given all the force and effect of
law—that by a single dash of his pen, he has
" suspended," set aside, annulled the great
writ of habeas corpus —a writ by which a
person in a second draft, and who alledg
ed that he was illegally and unjustly detain
ed or imprisoned, might on application to
the judges of the laws of the land, have the
question settled. When we reflect that all
this has been done; that the most sacred
rights of the citizen have been and are con
stantly violated by this great Tycoon, and
his shoulder strapped satraps and minions,
we have but little to hope or expect from
them. 1( this question is ever judicially de
cided, it will be, not because those interested
have the right to have it decided ; but be
cause the caprice or magnanimity of ouc
ruler- will it so to be.
What we have said, or can say, to our
friend, ihe conscript, will leave him as much
in doiib as belore. He may, even after pay
ing his hard earned aud depriving his
family of the comloris and protectiou it
would afford them, he obliged to pay it over
and over again, or o.i failure so to do, be
forced to leave them to the lot aud fate of
the soldiers widow and orphans. But ibis
is only one of the beauties of the conscrip
tion act, which to speak of, as harsh or un
just. offends the " loyal,' ears of the " shod
dy aristocracy."
Ip The patriots of the Revolution are
fust passing away, and soon the last will be
summoned to his final resting place, The
youngest of them now is about ninety-four
years of age. On the Ist of July, 1862,
there were but sixty-two of them living,
since which time over one third of the num
ber have died.
Our subscribers, who can, would do
us a favor 10 send in their subscriptions by
men who are coming to town. We will send
receipts back lor all monies received. Our
expenses are heavy and money comes slow.
EST T he scathing rebuke of Bishop Hop
kins to Bishop Potter, on our first page will
be read with interest by all. The letter is a
reply to a protest of the latter, which was
published in our last.
I,IST OF PERSONS DRAWN TO SERVE
AS GRAND JURORS FOR NOV.
TERM, 1803.
EXETER. —Robt. Winters.
WASHINGTON. —DanieI Carney, M. F Alien
MESHOPPEN. —ffm. H. Cortright, Robt. Dunlap,
John Bunnell 2nd, N. P. Dunlap N. Overfield.
NOHTHMORELAND.— James Besteder, Robt. Caton.
WINDHAM. —Royal Garey, Henry W. Fassett.
EATON. —ffm. Hunter, E. BorJinan, 0. \V. Benja
min.
MEHooPANr.*-Al!en Furman, Albin Russell.
BKAISTRIM.— Lyman Keency.
Ti NKHAXNOCK TOWNSHIP. —D. Z. Michael, Frank
lin Decker.
OVERFIELD. —T. W. Smith.
CLINTON. —W. W. Carpenter.
TUNICHAXNOCK BOROUGH.—M. W. Dcmtt.
NICHOLSON.— Hiram Kelly.
TETIT JURORS.
WASHINGTON. —Geo. Jenkins.
CLINTON.— Peter Baker, Win. Belcher,
WINDHAM. —RosweII Garey.
MESHOPPEN.— O. H. Leomis, PC. Clayton, Wm.
Blackmar, Jus. N. Kelly, Warren Brewster.
BRAINTRIM, —Ezra Keeney, Simoon. B. Keeney.
EATON —Milton Whoelcr, Wilmot Carpentor, An
drew Frutcby, Peter Stroh, Damon Stevens, Geo-
Ney, Chauncoy Brown.
MORTHMORELAND.— Geo. Brungesa, Jacob Rhodes,
H. H. Brown, Thoe Pinder.
FORKSTOX.— CaIvin Robinson, John Hitchooelu
NORTH BRANCH.— Henry Champin, Gilbert G. Ad
ams.
MEHOOPANV —J. L. Hahn, Geo. Barrowcliff, Joho
B. Place, A. K. Farr.
TUNKHANNOCK TOWNSHIP.— John Coriah.
LEMON —John Cyphers.
NICHOLSON —He lloway Stephens.
MONROE.— David Montanye.
OVERFIELD. —H. H. Waltwr.
EXETER —Hanford Smith