®|t gemttrat. IIARVEY SICKLER, Editor. TUNKHANNOCK, PA Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1864. S. M. Pettenglil A Co.—No. 37 Piar ROW NAW YORK, A 6 STATB ST. BOSTON, are our Agenta for the N. B. Democrat, In these cities, and are author ed to take Advertisementi and Subscriptions u at our lowest Rates. MATHER dt CO., No. 335 Broadway. N. Y. are our Authorised Agents to take Advertisements or this paper, at out published rates XT The necessary absence of the editor, in at t ending to his duties in court, must furnish an excuse for any errors of commission or omission in this issue; all of which may be charged to the printers DKVIL and will be duly accounted for, when his inky Maj esty receives his due. A Rising Man in the North. "We notice that Harry Hakes of Luzerne, County who is a member of the Legislature, although this is first session has been honora bly and fairly dealt with by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and been as signed position on five of the most import ant Committees viz. Ways and Means Ju diciary, Estates and Escheats on Banks and Federal Relations. Tb sisas it ought to be as Mr. Hakes is a man of decided talents, as our people well Know as he has often spoke to our people upon the issues now be fore the American people, he will take the place once so well filled by the late Harrison Wright. Mr. H has fine abilities, good habits and great industry, he is a lawyer by profes sion and will take good care of the interests of his Constituents, and will if needs be, lend a helping hand to our wants generally in this section. - NEGRO EQUALITY Fcney makes the fol lowing announcement through his paper at Washington the Chronicle; "Tears ago had a colored man presented himself at the White House at the Presi dent's levee, seeking an introduction to the chief magistrate of the nation, he would have been in all probability roughly handled for bis impudence. Yesterday four colored men of genteel exterior and with the manners of gentleman, joined in the throng that crowded the Executed Mansion, and were presented to the President of the United States." That is negro equality in high life! Who can still ioDger doubt the object of this war? In eveiry place, in civil or military life, the ab olitionists make it a special point to push for ward the negro and make him as prominent as possible—in faet put him on a perfect equality with a white man. ACCIDENT AT RAVINE SHAFT. —On the 26th of December, Martin McAndrus, Terr ence Coyle, John Locus with four others, went into two of the boilers of the Ravine Coa Company to clean them.—While they were in, some one accidently turned the hot water into the boilers and so scalded the per sons above named that to-day they are all dead. McAndrus lived 24 hours, Coyle about 27 hours, and Locus died on Tuesday night at 12 o'clock. It has not yet beerr ascertain ed who it was that committed this sad mis take. The boilers are connected by a two and a half inch pipe, and at the time the wa ter was turned on there was 75 pounds of •team to the square inch, so that the water must have rushed in at a mighty speed. The cries of the poor men were dreadful, and be ing promptly heard by Mr David Pearce, the Engineer, he instantly shut ofl the water, otherwise the bodies would have been taken out a mass of shapeless flesh. A jury of in quest was summoned on the bodies of McAn drus and Terrence, by Paul Bohen, Esq., and a verdict in accordance with the facta ren dered.— Pit let on Gazette. Outrageous Conduct of a Ncjtro Soldier. The last Northern news confirm the reports which have reached us of the presence of two regiments of Yankee negro troops, with Yan kee officers at E'izabetfi City. We have the best authority for saying that the treatment of which the people of that unfortunate town are heartrending. The negroes compel white women of delicacy and refinement to cook and wash for them. In one instance we have heard of a body of those negroes entering a private house and demanding dinner, which they insisted it should be cooked by the lady of the bouse. While engaged in preparing the food for her negro guests, the scoundrels indulged in the moat lothaome ribaldry, one of them, with hie foot throwing the lady's elothes over her back and ahouldera, while the rest sent up loud peals of laughter. These statments are upon the authority of respectable men, and are surley enough to stir the blood of even those who would go back to a fellow •hip with a nation of whites who cannot only permit this, but encourage it.— Raleigh(N.C ) Journal. car Presentations are getting common. The captain of a canal boat out West has just been presented with a service— of five years in the prenitentisry, in consideration of the distinguished ability with which he plunder ed a passenger, and then kicked him over board Congress and the Threatened Impeachment of the President. Senator Wilson has given notice of a bill to repeal all laws of Congresi for the rendi tion of fugitive alaves. Congress has passed two such laws. The first in 1793, which was signed by Washington. The second in 1850, signed by President Filmoro. Mr. Wilson's bill is to repeal both of these acts. But, to accomplish bis object he must also bring in a bill to repeal a portion of the Fourth Article of the Constitution, which declares that such fugitives " shall be delivered up on claim," to their masters. While thia article of the Con stitution 6tands, it will be the duty of al' parties having fugitive slaves about them to surrender the same to their masters claim," notwithstanding the acts of Congress should be repealed. The duty to surrender will be just as binding after these acts are repealed as before. It is a matter over which Congress has no control. It can no moro rescind the article providing for the surrender of fugitive slaves, than it can the one providing for the election of President, or for vesting the legis lative powers of the Federal Government in the Congress. This duty, to give up fugitive slaves to their owners, is a part of the organic law of the land. Mr. Lincoln's proclamations have no more effect upon it, in a legal point of view, than a proclamation from him against the laws of marriage would have. Any man who obeys one of these illegal proclamations is, in the eyes of the law, none the less a fel on than if he had committed these crimes of his own motion. The moment Mr, Lincoln is left to be dealt with according to law, every man whose slaves be has turned loose by special order, may arrrest and punish him for his lawless deeds, This is the law j and should the President fail in his designs to revolutionize and destroy the Constitutional Government of the United States, no hand but that of death can snatch hnn from the penalties of the broken laws. The Constitu- tion which made him President limits his powers to the administration of the laws, by Constitutional means. If the revolutionists in CoDgress repeal every law enacted since the establishment of the Government, there stands the Constitution which Congress can not repeal* That is the master of Congress, as it is of the President, and has power to hang the President and every member of Congress, if they attempt to subvert or de stroy it. The idea that the attempted se cession of the South gives Mr Lincoln the right to violate and destroy the Constitution of his country, will be seriously entertrined by aone but fools. Before he can take his seat as Pressdent, he must take a solemn oath to support the constitution. That oath has no exceptions. It i 6 just as binding in war as in peace. It provide* for war as well as peace. The President has no more right to break it in times of peace. He just as much deserves impeachment for violating the Constitution in war, as he would for violating it in peace. This is pla>n enough to all who have not lost their wits by fanaticim, or some other wickedness and folly. It would unboubtedly subserve the cause of our coun try, of Constitutional liberty, if some brave and patriotic member of the present Con giess would file articles of impeachment against Mr. Lincoln, and put the revolution ists of the stripe of Senator Wilson to their wit's ends to defend him, or forcj th em to mortifying retreat behind a gag resolution to shut off all debate upon the matter This would be forcing from their own mouths a confession of the truth of the charges brought in the article? of impeach ment. For n<> President would shrink from i the full and free investigation of such grave charges, if he were conscious that he had the law and right on his side. To shrink, under such circumstances, would be a confession of guilt. Any attempt to persecute the member who should matter to the attention of Congress, regarded, by the pub lie opinion of thWworld, as a confession o judgment by the party accused. It is ru r mured that one of the ablest legal minds in the United States, a man whose patriotism will be questioned by no one who is not himself a traitor, is already engaged on arti cles of impeachment. It is not of course, sup po6e that anything but a partizan verdict can be obtained from the present C mgress, but the trial would bring out the dark catalogue of usurpations and crimes to the notice and knowle ige of the people, in a shape easily comprehended, and would aid very much in fixing and deepening the public conviction that the President has no Constitutional fright to employ an army, even against a recrean 1 State, for any other purpose than to aid the civil authorities in enforcing the laws of the Union. Any other result would not be a ro s toration of the Union. To conquer, to sub jugate, to wipe out one third of the States, •o far from saving the Union, would be pre cisely to destroy the Union. And it would Be a destruction a thousand tine worse than secession, because it would not only destroy one third of the States, it would de stcoy the Federal Government itself, and sub stitute a State-snn'h Hating, colony-holding despotism in its place. Let Congress be set to discussing the crime of the President in these schemes, involving the destruction of the Constitution and the overthrow of the Federal Government, as a matter of far greater importanc to our coun try than another session spent in legislating for the benefit of negroes The old Guard. THC GWIN FJUCD.—Gwin's offence in the treasury is said to be a diversion of seventy thousand dollars of public money from 11n payment of presses and materials purchased for his bureau into his own pocket. The de tectives have traced paper and ink from the banknote printing department, in which he and another were principal employees, direct ly to a counterfeiting establishment in New Jersey. There was produced the flood. f fraudulent postage currency that exercised lite Pejirtcent lut rammer Revelations of Splrltu illtm iu a Dream. Who waa the firat Abolitionists? The Devil, What did he wish to abolish? Peace and eternal happiness. Where did he make his first attempt? In Heaven. Who were his aids? Fallen spirits. What waa the effect? War. What kind of war? Fratricidal war. What waa the aim? Usurpation of power. How to be attained? By a proclamation or confiscation. What was the result! The usurpers were overpowered and driven out. Where to? To Hell. Did they ever establish a similar paru? Yea Where? On ea^th. What division? The Western Hemisphere. What part? The Northern. What is it denominated? United States of America. Who were the agents? Wm Lloyd Garri son, Wendell Phillips, and the Devil, with others. What proves the Devil in it? By promises of great good, but yield greater evil. Were these pious men? Anything but pious. Do they act with pious men? Never with the truly pious. Do pious men act with them? A kind of pious so-called. What did these men formerly call the cler gy? Wolves iu sheep's clothing. How did they succeed with the clergy?— By cloaking their infidelity. Any other way? Yes : by influencing the laity thro' popularity. Wa3 there any other method? Yes : favor ing largo salaries. How do such generally preach? To please Abolitionists. Do they all believe in the Bible? They re sist stubborn facte.' What are some of them? Bible view of slavery by Bishop Hopkins. Any other? Yes: St. Paul's commendation of the "Bereans." What was that? In searching the Scrip tures daily to see if these things were so. Do they object to what Paul did? Yes, in part. Wherein? In his returning ODesimus to his master. What is the effect in Church and State? Discord, division, disu n >n. What was the result? War. What kind of war? Fratricidal war. now will it terminate? The LORD only knows. What difference is there between the agita tors of the above war? Just the difference that was between the two sides of Sambo's elephant. What was that difference? Sambo said be elephant, from he nose to he tale, all on one side, he brack." When asked what color the other side was~' ; Oh," said Sambo, "tod er side brack too 1" MORPHEUS. To Republicans, We have always believed that at least a portion of the republican party—the honest laboring men, were sincere in their opinions. If so, how can they longer adhere to the party in power. They were first old line Whigs believing in common with the democratic party, that the States were all equal, and that each State was sovereign, and had a perfect right under the Constitution to control its own institutions. They believed in nationality and not in sectionalism. They were opposed to the treasonable doctrines of Abolitionism. But their leaders have drift ed over to a full communion with the aboli tion faction. Can you go with them? Thev have deceived you. They promised that they did not mean to interfere with the in stitutions of States. They promised that their principles would lead to no disaster, that they would preserve peace, reduce our expen ditures, ensure economy and honesty, and bless the country. Take now the thieving, the taxes, the monstrous and increasing debt and all the ruin that is upon us, and see how they have falsified every promise. They can not claim that they could not have prevented it. The power was in their hands, and when they conld have compromised it, they would not. They were determined to revolutioinze and free the the niggers Then conies coloni zation or amalgamation and equality in addi* tion to all the ruin already up n us Turn back and take a careful review of what they promised four years ago, and see where they are now. Can any seusibie man go with them further. Bogus Union Conventions Down South. —lt makes honest Union men indignant when they road the resolutions of the Conventions in Louisiana and Florida which are sought to be passed ofi as expressions of revived Southern loyalty. The faet of the nigger be ing allowed to sit on terms of perfect equali ty with the white mar. in there gatherings is in itself sufficient to expose their real char acter. They are made up not of Southern men, but of the cormorants who follow in the wake of our atmies, and seek by thus impos ing on the administration and the country to postpone or defeat all genuine expresions of defeat all genuine expressions of Southern feeling, and to maintain themselves in the possession of their ill gotten gains. As long as such men have the upper hand the loyal sentiment of the recovered States will not care to manifest itself. fryilenrv Ward Beecheraaid at a recent Abolition powwow in Philadelphia : "All the signs of tho times indicate that God is now in earnest, and determined to enmnci oate the slaves." A Western editor is fore el t. the conclusion that Mr. Beecher's deity had previously, like Old Abe, been addicted te Joking on tb# vahjtot The Chauge of Bate. The Journal °f Commerce discusses the political change of base ao adroitly effected by the Administration. In the beginning, the war waa prosecuted fur restoring the Union, and each means employed aa would moat surely tend to that result. Then came a change of measure, the adoption of a radical policy, without an avowed change of purpose. The Union waa still to be restored, and that alone was the object sought. But the new policy was found not to tend that way. So came a change of purpose. We quote: " And the reason for this change is only too plain. The President made great pro fessions of conservatism for a year or two> and was doubtless honest in thetn. He was slowly led into adopting the Abolition wea pons which he had ridiculed and rejectd. He issued the bull against the comet. He found,as he had once believed, but forgotten that the comet,to wit. the rebellion—was not harmed by the bull. His advisers never be. lieved that it would be. The next step then, was to make the bull effective apainst something; and by a very easy process, in stead of changing weapons for the sake of in juring the rebellion, the Administration changed the object of the war for the sake of making use of a pet weapon. * * * * * ~All this explains the melancholy exhibi tion made in the President's Message and Proclamation. The only vision of a restored Union here given us is after the adoption by the people of the South of the Abolition d"g mas, and that so through an adoption that they must take it into their bosoms and sol emnly swear in the presence of Almighty God that they love and cherish it and will support it heartily Has any one seen a sensible man who ex presses h'pe of a termination of the war through this plan ! Has any one heard an intehlient Republican or Democrat say, ' now I can see the end ?" Not one. We hear men say, ' This settles the doom of slavery;" but was that what we began the war for ? Is that what we are now supporting it for ? "But," says some one hesitatingly, ''but when slavery is destroyed the rebellion will collapse." Friend, that notion is played <. hiring ii required by anybody. They are limply packed np in bundles, as they fall from the priuting press, as ao many shingle# would be beond nd lent off tt mukef. Plalu Questions for Home Consumptlou, Have you ever known a Democrat to jus tify a.violation of the Constitution ? Have you ever known a Stamp Act enacted under a Democratic Administration? Have you ever known a Democratic Preai dent to suapeud the writ of habeua corpual Have you ever known a Conscription Law to be passed by a Democratic Adaiintstra toin ? Have you ever known a Democrats Ad ministration to form a new State in violation of the plain provisions of the Constitution ? Have you ever known a time, except the present, when a citizen could be incarcerated in a dungeon without authority of law ? Have you ever known a Democratic Ad ministration to compel the people of a State or the District of Columba to sell their prop erty whether willing or not ? Have you ever known anv Administration except Abraham's to create a national debt of 000,000.000 in the short period of three years ? Have you ever known a time under a Dem ocratic Administration when a day's labor would purchas only two poundse of coffee? Have you ever known citizens to be sent into banishment and exile under Democratic rule 1 Have you ever known a time under Dem ocratic tule when the greatest crimes and outrages have been commited by our rulers under a plea of '"military necessity "or "rea sons Have you, before this, known a time when the military was made superior to the riva power ? Have you ever known a Democratic Ad ministration to tax the people of the whole country to buy the negroes of the Border States ? Have you over known a Democratic Ad ministration to ipm ie tie rights of gtates? Have you ever known an Administration in opposition to the Democracy to leave the aft aira of the country in as tiuurshing a condi tion as it found them ? How They Do It A letter from the Fir-l New Jersy Brigade, army of the Potomac, says that last October a private in the 4th N. J. volunteers, named John Gallegar, was execuid*. A few days ago an order came *rom the War Department reviewing the sentence of the court martial, and stating "that sentence of death would be returned to duty in his regiment." How very kind in Mi. Stanton to order the cold corpse of one of bis unfortunates back to his regiment! IJow well it speaks, too, for the admirable military regulation which first makes sure of punishment and inquires about ,he necessity afterwards. —Johnstown Demo crat. This is only one of the stupid blunders committed in the War Department. Poor Gallager was only a private' and of course a private has no feeling and must be strung up like a dog, to gratify the whim of some arbi tary officer. After a lapse of over three months, the War Department discovers that Gallegsr is innocent, orders hiru to return to hi 6 regiment; but it was too late. The bone of poor Gallager, the private, are mouldering in the grave. Had Gallager been a negro the heart of Ab ditionism wouli have been stirred to its utmost, but being one of the "poor white trash" hie fate scarcely elicits a passing remark from the pr ssea ot the loyal" opposition —Danville Intellige cer Bogus Union Conventions Dowu Sooth. It makes honest Linion men indignant when they read the resolutions of the Con ventions inLonistana and Florida which are sought to he passed off as, expressions of revived Southern loyalty.The fact of the nig ger being allowed to si' on terms of perfect equality with th-> white man in these gather ings is in itself sufficient to expose their real character. They are not made of South ern men, but of the cormrants who follow in the wake of our armies, and seek by thus imposing on the administration and the country to postpone or defeat all genuine ex pressionß of Southern feeling, and to main tain themselves in the posession of their ill - gotfpn gains. As long as such men have the upper hand the loyal sentiment of the recov ered States will not care to manifest itself. A Monument of Grave-yarda. The Ahministration hag successfully es tablished a United States grave yard at Chatanoga. There is one thing in wh'ch the Republican partv ha anhievep gceat excel lence. It is an excellent grave digger. Tts grave-yards in the South will be everlasting monuments of its skill in that line. Anb then, in filling those eiaves, it has not had to borrow subjects. It-has proudly drawn upon our own vast resources, and therefore, it boasts-that the grave yards it has, with so much eclat, established in the South, are well filled with the bodies of our own northern people They are our sons, our fathers, our brothers, our ne'ghbors and kidred, who sleep there "Where the foe and the stranger shall tread o'er their heads," And there their bones will lie, objects of loathing and scorn to that people. Cheer ful thought to those northern familfes, whose dead have peen generously buried by the be nevolent Republican party. The everlasting monument of this party shall be its grave yard —Day Book. THE WAY TO A PEMANKNT PEACE The Abolitionist* hare been nearly three years in predicting that the adoption of certain mess, ures would bring the rebellion to a spetdv close, but like all the other predictions of that party they have utterly failed. We now make one that will as surley bring it to a lose as they act upon it. Jt is this: let every Abolition office holder from the Presi dent down to the one in the humblest position reign the aflflira of the government into the hands of statesmen who do not hjte one sec tion of the country more than they like Union. Let them try it once. It will ensure a per manent lasting pesos LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Wanted, on subscription, at VhTa offlce7 Whsat, Corn, Rye, Oats, Buckwheat aad grain of all kinds. Also, corn in the sar, bay, atraw, good winter npples, potatoes, butter, lard, cheeae and piedaoe #f most all kinds. Money never refused. Agent for the Democrat— AHlßA GAT, Bsq has consented to act as oar Agent in receiving and receipting subscriptions for the North Branch Dea. ocrat. All atonic* paid him either on eabecriptio Q or for advertising will be duly accounted for toIRRT s> n of Hiram and R&chael Marcy, aged, 9 years, 2 months and 17 days. Pet, as he was familliarly called, waa an unusu ally interesting lad for on* or hia age, and pos sessed those attributes of a character which gar® promise, had he hv, d, of his growing to manhood, to rank among our most worthy and useful men. He was admired by his school mates, for hia amia ble and sportive disposition j and hia love for edu cation, in which Le was making rapid progreu when prostrated by the disease, hich in thirty hours terminated in his death. The day before he was taken sick he became nnns ually interested in the foUowmg, which be found in his sanday school book ; and questioned hit pa rents very many times concerning it, so many; that they thought it strange at the timo ; and have atnce hia death, viewed it paitially as an omea "He dreamed that he saw a ladder which stood up on the earth, and the top of it reached to Heaven and the angels of God ascended and desoended on it." He is the one that God has chosen To his heavenly borne above, An d his soul has gene Beavenward, To receive a Savior's love. He was a parent's ea-thly joy; Hard it seemed to part with hi®, But his body now lies buried, And he is free from pain and sin. Brothers, Sisters who loved him dear Will often miss him home ; But he is mnch happier now, dV hy should they for him monrn ? When God cometh we know not, On this earth to take away; Therefore be prepared to meet hi® For we cannot always stay, H. D.T. Special Notices, Information Wanted of Michael Costelo Who left his father's house on the 9th of December. He is 21 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches In heighth, and had en when he left, a suit of oldish grey, clothes, oat and all, and is rather fleshy in the faoe He is uejanged. Ar.y information in regard to him, will be thank fnl'iy received by his father, who will pay all neces sary expenses. Any letters or information in relation to him, should be addressed to WII. MORGAS, esq, or to th undersigned, at lv'ysox Poet-Office, Bradford Coun ty, Pa, and they will receive prompt attention. PA TRICK COSTLKO. Wyeox, Jan. 4 1864. 0 YES ! O YES ! The subscriber announces to all whom it may con cern, that he has t kau out a license as Auctioneer for Wyoming County and that he is ready to serve the public in that capacity whenever called upon, ether in person or by letter- The law now requires a lioease, aa l all who vie late the law must be prepared to pay the penalty. FRANCIS HOUGH, Clinton Cernsrs Wv'c Oc , pa, 19 1964-