democrat.
HARVEY SItKLGB, Editor.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA
Dee. 23, 1863.
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OF THE WAR.
Ko changes in military affairs on the Poto
mac have taken place during the past week.
The army is said to have gone into winter
quarters, thongh the last nights papers hint
ed that a enhage would be made. Frtquent
Cavalry skirmishes occur between the two
armies. There has been some fighting in
Gen. Grant's department, but no definite ac
counts have been received as to the rwsult.—
The news from Charleston published in the
Richmond papers is that tour vessels the
Ironsides and three monitors while attempt
ing to Dasa the obstructions became entangled.
The Ironsides will probably have to be aban
doned. Two of the monitors were also badly
disabled. If this prove true, it is the great
est misfortune that has befallen "Uncle Sam's
web foot', as the President elegantly denomi
nates the navy. The Ironsides is the most
formidable vessel in it, and in the hands of
the rebela could be used very efficiently
against the blockading fleet.
The Chessapeake, which was captured a
few daya since has been recaptured in 8.-it
tiah waters. The captors however made
good their escape. Another vessel trom Tex
as bra been taken by similar means.
THE CONSCRIPTION.
The newa from Washington in relation to
the conscription, is that the law will not be
changed before the holiday recess, thus ne
cesitating a brief postponement of the draft
until after tha time fixed. Various opinio
ion a seem to exist to the propriety of striking
out the S3OO clause. Some being in favor of
Striking it out entirely, others in favor of
increasing the amount to SSOO or upwards
and a third class for retaining it as it now
stands. The grounds of exemption will piob
ably be narrowed down, and the distinction
of classes will no doubt he abolished. Let
tba old chaps who have regarded themselves
as secure stand from under. The younger
class have stood one draft and there seems to
be nothing unfair in passing the thing abound
that all may have a chance in this grand Lot
tery.
THE COMMUTATION FEE AND VOL
UNTEERING.
There is a strong probability that the pres-1
ent Congress will abolish the three hundred
dollar commutation provision in the Conscrip
tion act. Provost-Marshal General FRY offi
cially recommends that course, and Sena
tor LANE has already introduced a bill in ac
•ordance with hit wishes. The Democrats
are pretty generally committed to vote for
etriking out that clause from the law, and
thsra will b enough Republicans to help
them to do so. On the other hand, Mr. WIL
SO* and a majority of the War Committee
of the Senate wish to retain the commutation
provision, not because it relievea the harsh
ncss of the conscription for white men, but
on sccouni of the fund it provides for the
War Department with which to buy able
bodied negroes in the border states to make
eoldiers of. Another draft, with the c< m
mutation fee, would probably yield enough
money to rid Maryland, Delaware and Ken
tacky of all ita able bodied male negroes, and
thus help upset the "pecutiar institution" in
those states.
It is this glaring misuse of the fund, even
more than the invidious distinction the com
mutation makes between the rich and the
poor, which will lead to its abolition. The
object of the last Congress was to induce
volunteering by the money thus obtained;
hut the War Department, without the sligh
test warrant of law, misused it to destroy
slavery in the border states.
In the meantime, volunteering progresses
vsry slowly throughout the North. We
doubt if the coming sth of Jan. will see one
hundred thousand men under arms out of
the three hundred thousand called for by
the President. A draft seetne to be incvita
ble—£x.
y-?- A few months ago some of the wool
lyheads said the Democrats ought to he mob
bed oat, because they alleged, we had called
this "an abolition war." The policy of their
leaders has since been developed, and if we
deserved mobbing then for calling it an abo
lition war, what do their leaders now doseive
tor making it one ?
JC3C" The President wants the South to
•wear to support his abolition and emanci
pation proclamation as a conditio for coming
back into the Union, and the war is to be
waged until they are forced to do it If
they would swear to support the Constitu
tion they could not come. Now what is the
Wat tor t
The President's Plan of ConclJlatlou—Tlie
Greased Cartridge Policy.
Had President Lincoln exerted all Lis in
genuity and taxed the ingenuity of his cab
inet counselors to devise that insult to the
Southern people which should be by them
regarded as the most odious and maddening,
he could have fallen on nothing better adapt
ed to his purpose than the 6trange oath he
has tendered them to support his proclama
tion of emancipation, and all other proclama
tions having reference to slaves which he may
think fit to issue. Purporting to be an
emollient, and put forth under the guise of an
amnesty, it seeks out the sorest, the most in
flamed, the most sensitive spot in the south
ern mind, and applies to it a burning brand.
It is a proposition which the South will feel
that it cannot accept without a degree
of voluntary self-degredation which every
Southerner of spirit and character will regard
as worse than death. It is idle for Mr. Lin.
coin's apologist to prate about what may
seem reasonable and just from the extreme
abolition stand-point, through abolition eyes.
When, a few years ago, the British came near
losing a great portion of their Indian empire
by compelling the Sepoys to use greased car
tridges, it would have been entirely beside
the purpose for a British statesman to have
addresed to the British people an argument
demonstrating the absurdity of the Sepoy
prejudices. British soldiers, it is true, bit off
the ends of the greased cartridges with as
much unconcern as they would eat their ra
tions. It would be possible to prove, on
strict physiological grounds, that this practice
was harmless to the body of a Sepoy as to
that of a Britton, and, on grounds of Christian
doctiine, that it could no more contaminate
or imperil the soul of the one than of the
other. But all such arguments would have
been the sheerest trifling and impertinence,
and no man having the slightest pretensions
to statesmanship could have used them.
"It is the imagination," said Napoleon
once, " that rules the world." All great
revolutionary movements are inspired aud
dominated by ideas. Men engaged in a revo
lotion are always in a state of mental exalta
lion, which causes them to see the matters in
contest through an ideal atmosphere. A
slight tax upon tea, regarded on its prose
side, was a petty question of threepence in
the pocket of a colonist as weighed against
the support of the public revenue, George
the Third and Lord North, by refusing, in
their blindness, to make allowance for the
ideal views of the colonists which converted
that tax into the symbol of tyrrany, convuls
ed and dismembered the British empire.—
Louis the Sixteenth was the mildest of French
Sovereigns, and De Tocquevi'le says that
monarchy never pressed so lightly on the
people as at the outbreak of the revolution-
Bnt the French mind has passed under the
dominion of great idea*, and the old institu
tions could no more control them than a flax
en band can fetter flame. The exaltation of
freltng which supplies impulse co revolution
may be poetry or it may be madness, which
♦s a sort of diseased poetry—its character
in this respect depends on the goodness of the
cause ; but whether it inspire heroism or de
monism, it is a thing to be managed rather
than reasoned with.
President Lincoln has shown himself utter,
lv destitute of the statesmanlike tsct requi
site for dealing with a great people in revolt ;
he is as blind as was Philip the Second, of
Spain, when he lost the Netherlands, Never,
since the creation of man, has there been a
people so led captive by their imaginations,
so subject to the despotism of ideas, as the
people of the South. Call their ideal griev
ances prejudices, if jou will ; brand their ar
d->r, their vehemence, their persistence as
black and rampant treason; but, under every
aspect in which their conduct can be viewed,
the fact stands unshaken that they are a peo
pie surrendered to their ideas. If Mr. Lin
coln were a •tatesmar., if he were even a man
of ordinary prudence and sagacity, he wou'd
set the necessity of touching the peculiar
wound of the South with as light a hand as
possible. Instead of this be chafes and in
flames it. Not strong enough himself, though
wielding the whole power of the government,
to resist the revolutionary exaltation and fa
natic fervor of the abolitiomsts, how can he
expect private citizens of the South to brave
an eKaltation and fervor which, in that sec
tion, is ail but unanimous ? If lie had stood
firm against the abolition current he would
have had a great majority of the northern
people to keep him in countenance ; but who
in the South would not scorn the men who
could so degrade and humiliate himself as to
take the abolition oath 1
We might ask, and in due time we shall
ask, by rchat right Mr. Lincoln assumes to
propose such an oath ? We, of course, know
that he pretends to derive it from the par
doning power; but this whimsical deduction
is a fitter topic for derision than for serious
argument. As he can offer a conditional par
don, he claims that he can in pose any con
ditions he pleases. The war power, which to
every body's surprise, was found, after cohab
itation with Mr. Lincoln, to contain the em
bryo ot abolition, yields to a more pud'fo
rival, which has strength to bring forth the
full-grown progeny. The pardoning power
becomes the most fruitful clause in the Con
etitution, ODIJ like a Magdalen asylum, it
dispenses its marvelous blessings only upon
those who have gone through a certain course
of preparation, by which they are constituted
Candidates. Mr. Lincoln proposes to revolu
tionize the whole South in value of the par
doning power T Things which all previous
expositors of the Constition have affirmed
that the federal government cannot do at all
can be done by the President because the
courts have decided that he may ofFer a con
ditional pardon ! If there is any lower deep
of absurdity we may trust the sure instincts
of President Lincoln to find it. If citizens
are guilty of a crime, Mr. Lincoln claims that
he has a right to pardon them, on condition
that thev will sw*r to renounce the of
free speech, which is sacredly guaranteed hy
the Constitution. The pardoning power, like
AARON'S rod swallows up every other provis
ion of the instrument, which sprout forth as
green twigs of emancipation. The ''war
power" is obscured and eclipsed by its
more radiant rival. The pardoning power
fills the abolition aky with its effulgence like
"Another mora,
Riser, in mid-noon*"
and the whole firmament glows with accum
ulated splendor !
Suppose that, when the Quaker, Passmore
Williamson, was lying in prison in Philadel
phia, and Booth, the Wisconsin editor, was in
the Philadelphia jail, President Buchanan
had, in the exercise of the pardoning power,
published a general proclamation of amnesty
to all who had resisted the Fugitive Slave
law, but as a condition of grace, had imposed
the following oath, which, mutatis, mutandis
is precisely the oath offered by President
Lincoln:
T, do solemnly swear in presence
of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faith
fully support, protect and defend the Consti
tution of the United States and the Union of
the States thereunder, and that 1 will in like
manner, abide by, and faithfully support all
acts of Congress passed with reference to
fugitive slaves, so long and so far as not re
pealed, modified, or held void by Congress
or by decision of the Supreme court, and
that I will in like manner abide by and faith
fully support the Fugitive Slave At of 1850,
and all other acts of Congress hereafter pass
ed, having reference to fugitive slaves, so
long and so far as not modified or declared
void by decision of the Supreme Court. So
help me God !
Suppose,we say, Mr. Buchanan had. under
color of the pardoning power, < ffered this de
grading insult to the abolitionists, we put it
to any candid man if such an act of grace and
amnesty would have inspired their greatful
recognition in any other view then as a god
send to ienrease their power over their fol
lowers. Was there an abolitionist in the
whole North who would not have spurned
and justly spurned the gratuitous insult ?
Would thev have admitted that Mr. Buchan
an anv right to swear citizens to renounce a
citizen's right to discuss, oppo-e, and attempt
to procure the repeal oflaws which he disap
preves or deems unconstitutional ? To gag
freemen with such an oath under the pre
tense of ofiering them pardon, is a refinement
of harparity which had not been invented in
1858 Mr. Lincoln's at tempt to put his abo
lition oath into the mouths of southerners is
as impolitic as that would have been barbar
ous,—is indeed the co6urnmatlon of impolicy,
and pus the North ir the attitude of impo
tence when a statesman would have bared
its arm ot atrength.—A r . Y. World.
BOARD OF ENROLLMENT. —CoI. Tate of the
Columbia Co. Democrat in his last issue
says :
We again visited Troy, on Wednesday
last, and looked in upon the Board of En
rollment. They are indeed high-minded gen
tlemanly officers, discharging their ardous
duties impartially and to very general satis,
faction. Mr. Commissioner GRIER, with
whom many of our people are acquainted, is
not only a superior gentleman, but a most
efficient officer and has won universal respect
and confidence.
We are authorized by the Board to an
nounce, that persons enrolled preparatory to
the approaching Drift, not to report at head
quarters until after the Draft takes place,
for exemption, excepting those only who
have been selected by Parent or Parents
as the choice for their support, and that time
is now limited until the 30th day of Decern
ber.
Mr. Fernando Wood, (N. Y.) submitted
the following resolution in congress:
lifsotccd, That the President be requested
to appoint three Commissioners, who shall
be empowered to open negotiations with the
authorities at Richmond, to the end that this
bloody, destructive and inhuman war 6hall
cease, and the Union be restored npon terms
of equity, fraternity and equality, under the
Constitution.
Mr. Washburne, (Til.) moved to lay the
resolution on the table. Agreed to, by a vote
of 98 yeas to 59 nays.
The abolitionists do not want and will not
permit a restoration.
THE FRANKING PRIVILEG As the session
of Congress has just commenced, it will be
well for the public to bo reminded of an itn
portant change in the franking privilege-
Heretofore, as it will pe remembored, all
letters to and from n.embers of Congress
passed through the mails free of postage
Now, however, it must be borne in mind
that only the letters from a member of Con
gress can pass free of postage. All corres
pondence with an M. C. must be paul, as are
all letters to a private individual. The re
membrance cf this fact will save much delay
in the transaction of business, both of a pub
lic and private nature.
The "Government,, pays the trans
portation of soldiers to and from their places
of residence, when thev nre sent home to
vote the Abolition ticket. But when the
corpse of a soldier is sent homo from the
field or hospital' the friends have to pay
the expenses, amounting to from one to two
hundred dollars. This looks bad at first
sight, but when wo reflect that a corpse
can't vote, it is not so surprising after all.
bloomsburg Democrat.
Lincoln made one of his elo
quent and characteristic speeches at Gettys
burg, on being serenaded by a band, on the
evening previous to the consecration. He
said: "A man should say nothing unless
has something to sav, and, as I have noth-
ing to say, I will gay nothing." As Ar
temns Ward would say, for the people who
like such kind of speeches, this ia just the
kind of a speech sneb people like.
1,500' 000 Democrats In the Free States.
The Cincinnatti Enquirer gives some fig
ures to show that with all the frauds, all the
appliances of corruption, and all the intimida
tion of power, civil and military nearly one
million and a half of Democrats marched to
the polls at the late elections, and recorded
their votes against the poliey of the Adminis
tration. Those who think that the Demo
cratic organization is now powerless, will be
itstructod by perusing the following table of
the votes as given at the State elections tn
1863:
States. Dem. Votes.
Maine 51.000
New Hampshire 40,000
Vermont 12,000
Connecticut 40.000
Rhode Island 10,000
Massachusetts 35,000
Total for New England 188.000
New York 284 000
New Jersey 60,000
Pennsylvania 253,000
Ohio 177.000
Indiana 126.000
Illinois 140,000
Michigan 60,000
Wisconsin 50,000
I"wa 55,000
Minnesota 12000
California 50,000
Oregon 6,000
Kansas 8.000
Grand Total 1,488,000
So in the Free States alone there are one
million and a half of Democrats at the close
of 1863. What a glorious figure? This is
100,'> 00 more votes than Mr. Douglas got in
all the States—Northern and Southern in
1860,. What Democrat can be discouraged
st such good progress under the terrible
pressure of the last three years ? Only think
of it—nearly 200,000 Democrats in New
England, which we have been inclined to give
over entirely to the Ab< litionists; n early
300 000 in the Empire stated, and more than
300 000 in New Jersey and Pennsylvania:
200,000 m Ohio, and 250,000 in Indiana
and Illinois. The other Western Staie-s
contribute nearly a quarter of a million mo e.
making up the grand total in the free State
to oi.e million and a hulf\ Surely this i 6
a power in ths land not to be sneered at, im
peached, or in any way disregarded, whatev
er hotheaded partisans may say. It is a party
that has worked persistently—not as a party,
but as patriots—to restore the country—and
it will not be without a powerful and influen
tial voice in this matter. The au.urises now
are that the practical restoration of the Un
ion may not be far off. And this fact should
I induce all good conversative me to renew
their energies and be frequent in their conn
sels so that we may not shipwreck as we
seetn nearer the haven of safety—the old
Constitution and the restored Union.
Message Brevities.
"The policy of emancipation, and of em
ploying black soldiers, gave to the future a
new aspect."
Rather a black aspect.
"As a matter of civil administration, the
government had no lazcjul power to effect
emancipation in any State and for a long
time it bad been hoped that the rebelion
could be repressed without resorting to it as
a military measure,"
For how long a time, "fifty years" or only
since the irrepressiblo conflict was proclaim
ed. Could not the Union be restored in two
months without emancipation'?
"Maryland and Missouri, neither of which
three years ago would tolerate any restraint
upon the extension of slavery into new terri
tones, only dispute now as t the best mode
of removing it within their own limits."
That is refreshing. The dispute I suppose
is like the one the people of Maryland recent
ly had with arbitrary power over the ballot
box.
Of those who were slaves at the beginning
of the rebelion, full one hundred thousand
are now in the United States military service,
(meal tubs,) thus giving the double advan
tage "f taKing so much labor from the insur
gent cause."
Only they were mostly taken from Miry
land and loyal states instead of insurgents.
"No servile insurrection or tendency to vi
olence or cruelty has marked the measures
of euiancvpation and arming the blacks."
Then what is, "tendency to violence or cru
elty." Is not the whole cruelty and misery
of the war the result of i t.
"The anual elections following are highly
encouraging to those whose official duly it is
to bear the country through this great
trial."
So was the election at Youngwomanstown
encouraging to old Joe Ritner.
"On examination of this proclamation it
will appear (as is believed) that nothing is
attempted beyond what is justified by the
Constitution."
The Constitution then justifies making
men swear to liberate all the negroos.
"If it be proper to require, as a test of ad
mission to the political body, an oath of alle.
giance to the United Slates and to the Union
under it, why not also to the laws and proc
lamations in regard to slavery."
Sure enough, and why not make them
swear not to chew tobacco or drink whiskey
also.
"I may add, at this point, that while I re
main n my present position I shall not at
tempt to retract or modify the emancipali n
proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery
any person who is free by the terms of that
proclamation, or by any of the acts of Con
gress."
Decisions of the Supreme Court and the
Constitution to the contrary notwithstanding.
Is it not plain, that this administration is
working tor emancipation and that they will
not reatore the Union wit hoot tt.— Sunbury
Demnrrat.
STAND BY YOUR PARTY PAPERS.
We appropriate fr the benefit of our read
ers the following very sensible remarks from
thd Des Moines Slatesman, and commend
them to the careful perusal of every intelli
gent Democrat :
" A 6olrmnduty, but imperfectly discharg
ed, devolves on Democrats, to stand by their
papers, in the general wreck of personal and
political rights, about all the liberty tnat the
citizens retains is the privilege ol reading
Democratic papers and abolition taxes. How
long he will enjoy the first is uncertain
His lease of the last will never be disturbed.
Bat while he retains the privelege of reading
the paper of his choice, he owes to to him
self, to the editor, his party, and hi* country,
to give such paper a living support.
"Without Government or State, and, in
many instances, County patronage, prescribed
by an intolerant party, confronted by a se
cret organization, whose only purpose is to
pulldown the Democratic party, and hunted
by the paid miuions of power, Democratic
publishers have nothing to rely upon but
their own energy and the fidelity and liberal
ity of their political friends.
" Without newspapers, the Democracy
would be withont an orginzation and at the
mercy of theit enemies With newspapers
they cau preserve their organization, and re
gain both their political ascendency and their
liberties.
" It is a fact which cannot be successfully
controverted, that Republicans give a more
zealous support to their party organs, than
do Democrats. Just so long as this state of
things continues, the ballot box will be
powerless for our relief. The press is a po
tent engine for shaping the opinions of a pen
pie and controlling the destinies of a coun
try : and it would be well if the democracy
learns this fact in tune to save their party
and the government. No fact is clearer to
the mind of an attentive observer, than that
we lost the State by extraordinary zeal dis
played in giving circulation to Republican
papers and the prevailing apathy of D mo
crats in sustaining and enlarging the circula
tion of Democratic papers and documents
Ii is this Zeal on the ooe hand and apathy
|or the other, that has continued radicalism
in power. It will continue in power until
Democrats learn to feel and take an interest
in the circulation of the Democratic papers.
*******
" A new year is about to dawn up >n us
and it is a good time to renew your Demo
cratic faith and labor for the great cause.—
Send for the paper, if you are not already
reciveing it, and see that your ueighbor does
likewise. A lit tie exertion on the part of
our friends will be of iucalculablc service to
us, and render it a permanent institution.—
The more snbscribers we have the better it
pays, the more time we can devote to its edi
torial management and the greater interest
will be given to its columns.
" Send in your names and show by vour
acts that you still fee! an interest in the work
of your fathers, the promotion of Democratic
principles and measures, and the perpetuation
of your liberties"
Soun t doctrine, in the foregoing ; an to all
Democrats whose names are not already on
our list,we say put it in practice at once, and
forward your names and money to the North
Branch Democrat Tunkhannock, Pa.
Giving Them Hope.
Said a merchant of Philadelphia, to a De
mocrat, who expressed his intention to vote
for Curtin, "I am surprised at your course,
for the Republican party is sending lie
country to the devil as fast as it can go,"—
"That," replied the othe', " is just why I vote
for Cnrtin. The people are mad, and they
will never come to their senses until the ruin
is complete. The sooner the final, inevitable
crash comes the better. Let us give the
usurpers the power with which they are
sure to destroy themselves."
FRED. DOUGLAS AND THE PRESIDENT. —The
Anti Slavery Convention held in Philadelphia
last week was addressed by Fred. Douglas,
who evidently feels himself now to be of con
sequence, and why shouldn't be? From
the Tribune's report of his speech we clip the
following .
"He detailed a visit he had paid to Presis
dent Lincoln. Men had waited in the ante
chamber for days, but the moment his card
was sent in the usher returned with an invi
tation to walk up. Some office beggar near
by,remarked :" 1 knew it would he so. He's
a nigger, that's enough." Mr. Douglass a-k
ed the audience to imagine how the President
received him, a colored man. " Why. pre
cisely,,' said he, "as one gentleman receives
another." Alluding to the President's he'ght
and length of limb, he remarked that he was
41 spread about the room in the way unusua
ly ascribed to him," and as ho entered, con -
menced rising, and "continued to rise." A
cordial shaking of hands ensued."
HIGH PTICES or PRINTING-PAPER. — The
New York wholesale dealers were celling an
ordinary article of printing paper, a few days
since, at twenty cents per pound—just double
the price for which the article 6old three
years ago, This exorbitant price is the re
sult tna'nfy of a scarcity of the raw material,
and increased cost of manufacture.
It is not probable that we shall see, in ma
ny years to come, a return of the old cheap
prices. Under these circumtances there is no
alternative for country newspaper publishers
but to follow the example of their city co
temporaries, in an advance ot rates to subscri
bera. At the present prices of paper, ink, la
bor, 4c., no country paper can sustain itself
at a less subscription price thn $2 a year.—
Middletown Merc r y, -5
JEST" A man came into a prin ting office
to beg a paper. 44 Because." he Baid, 44 we
like to read the newspapers very much, but
I our neighbors arc all too stingy to take one."
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Wanted, OTI subscription, at this oSee,
Wheat, Corn, Rye, Oats, Buckwheat and fraln ut all
kinds. Alao, corn in the ear, hay, straw, good winter
apples, potatoes, butter, lard, cheese and predace of
most all kinds. Money never refused.
Peterson's Magazine for January is on hand
It is a superb number, rich in its illustrations sad
instructive in its reading matter. Our only wonder
is that so much can be given for so small a sum, in
these times of high prices for every thing that per
tains to the printing business. Despite of the up
ward tendency of all sublunary things, Peterson's
Ladies Magazine, maintains its size, gives more thaa
I its usnal number of engravings and illustrations; all
for the small sum of two dollars per year to single
subscribers, and still less to clubs.
Specimen numbers sent on application
All communications should be addressed *• Chas,
J Peterson, No 306 Chestnut St. Philad'n.
Death of a Centenarian.—Mrs. Jcatin whs was
in the hundredth year of her age, died at Richolsoa'
in this county, on Sunday last. She was thirteen
years of age when the colonies threw off the yoke of
English taxation and oppression; was a young woman
during the struggle th at succeeded— has lived to see
thirteen leeble, dependent colonies multiply into
thirty-four i ich. prosperous sovereign states, withn
population of upwards of thirty millions—has seen
history repeat itself by tyrrany, oppression, taxation,
stump laws, rebellion, riots, bloodshed and ruin.
Letters to Congressmen— Most of our exchan
ges say, under the new postal laws, must be pre-paid.
There Is however some dispute on the question. Not
having read the law ourselves, we can give no opin
ion; but think the better way for persons leading
papers to them, would be to pre-pay them.
A Donation Visit.—The friends of Rev. D.
Worrel will pay him a donation visit on New Tears
day; at thf Parsonage house in Lymansville in the
afternoon and evening. All are respectfully inri sd
to attend
TRIAL LIST FOR JANUARY TERM
1801.
Samuel Stark vs. P. W. Redfleld Scire facias
John Jackson " S S. Winchester " "
Jasper Billiugs (> Tu nkhannoek Tp. Trespass.
Walter Whiting " IN. Lacy Sai f*.
FC. Deoison "J B Place Eject
J. B'.sberv A Co.'' M. Sisk Replevin
Aa S. Dana ' Tunk bannock Bridge Co. Cass.
Ann Tinklepangh '• Wm. Owen Case
Court Proclamation.
TT7IIEREAS, the Hon. WM ELWELL. Presi
*• * dent Judge of the Court of Common Pleas anp
Court ot Genera! Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and
the President Justice of the Court of Oyer and Ter
miner and General Jail Delivery, for the trial of cap
ital and other offences, for the twenty-sixth Judicial
District of Penn'a. S. Roberts. nndN. H. Wells, &q.
Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and
General Quarter Sessions of ihe Peace, and Associ
ate Justi'-ea of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail
Delivery of the County of Wyoming, have by their
precept to me directed, ordered
A GENERAL COURT OF OVER AND TERMINKR
AND GENERAL JAIL DELIVERY,
to be held at Tunkhannock on Monday the 18th day
of January, A. D., 1864.
Notice is therefore hereby given to the Coroner, all
Justices of the Peace and Constables within theCoan
ty of Wyoming, that they be and appear iD their pro
per persons at the time and place above mentioned,
with their rolls, records, inquisitions, examinations,
recngniranevs - and ether- remembrance*, to da these
things which to their offices in that behalf respective
ly belong • . .
Notice is also given that those who are boand by
recognizances to prosecute the prisoners that are er
shall he in the Jail of Wyoming County, tbattbey be
then and there to prosecute them as shall be just.
AHIRA OAT,
Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, >
Tankhacnock, Deo 23, 1864. V
SHERIFF SAEET"
BY VIRTUE OF A WRIT OP YEXDITIOF,
Exponas issued ont ot the Court of Common
Ploos of Wyoming County, State of Pennsylvania,
ond to me directed, will be exjosed to pnblio sale,
st the Court House, in ths Borough of Tank hanneek
in said County
ON SATURDAY, THE 16<h DAY OF JANUARY
A. D, 1964, at 1 o'clock P M ,
All the Defendent's right title and interest in *s4
to the following piece parcel or lot of land Situate
lying and being in the Borough of Tunkhannoek
County of Wyoming and State oj Pecnarlania,
bounded and described as follows:
On the West bv Putnam Strest ; On the Bonth by
land of Henry Stark ; On the East an! No lb by
land of A. B. Mott.
Con' iining about one fourth of an acre mare or Ie
all impr- rel, with one large Frame Building erect
ed for Carries:* and Black-sintth shop, and of late
used as a dwelling-house ; One small frame Bern
and some fruit trees thereon-
S ixed an! taken in execution at the suit of John
Brisbin, now assigned to E. M. Turner rr., Thomne
Ellis.
And will be sold for Cash only. Hv
AHIRA OAT Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Tunkhannock Dec. 16, 1863
JACOB 6lf H LIIG fl BT
/asi)ionai)ie Raping, flair ratting,
AND SHAMPOOING SALOCN.
Shop Opposite May
nard's Hotel.
Ladies' haircut in the most fashionable style, ae
ther at his Saloon, or their residence, if desirable.
3fr. Bertinghof is recently from New York city,
where he was employed in the best establishments
and consequently feels warranted in guaranteed
satisfaction to all who may favor him with their tie
em.
HAIR AMD WHISKERS DYED
To any desirable shade, without Injury to it, or die
coloring the skin.
THE HAIR DYE IN USE,
For sale, with full and practical directions for
sppiibatiou-
Ladies Look Out 1! I
SHAKERS. HATS, RIBBONS,
—OF THE—
'hmm'i
With everything else to be found in the line of
MILLINERY Just received from the city, and
sold at small profits by
jyUIS. TTAHDW flTsTi.
Opposite the Post-Office,
riease call and examine before poschasing else
where. . .
Bleaching and repairing done in good orae
and at the shortest notice.
Tunkhnnock, Nov. 12, 1862—v2n14-3m.
EBTRAY.
Came to the enclosure of the Subscriber in
hoopany Wyoming Co Pa. on or a boa* the lb
Novemben 1863. a spotted two year old Heifea. xno
owner is requested to come forward, prove prop* 7>
pay charges and take her away. C.D V. I. •
4 J 6 Meboopanv Dee 234 !<>