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stamp Duties.

The stamp act of the last congress went in
: to effect on the first Of the present month.
After this date by the terms of the original
act, all checks, promisory notes, leases mort
cages, bonds, deeds, contracts, warehouse re-
,ceipts, ETC., made without afixing the stamp
=. imposed by the act are void, and subject the
pe.son thus making them 10 heavy penalties
by supplemental. act approved July 24th,
1862, it is provided that no instrument, pa
.sper or document, executed without stamp
g Z" prior to january LIST, 1863, shall be invalid
!" or void but no such instrument, paper, or
document shall be offered in evidence in
any court until proper stamp is affixed,
g and the holder thereof has proven to the
satisfaction of the court that he has paid to
the Collector of the district five dollars for
the use of the United States" By this it
would seem that it was contemplated that
Gas Is actually the CASEY the stamps denoting
the duties On these several instruments could
not be furnished in time for general use
Hence the supplemental act above mentioned
the probable effect and meaning of which is,
that, checks, promissory notes, etc, executed
without stamp prior to the first of January,
1868, will be valid between the parties but
willnot be valid as evidence. if suit is
brought upon them, until the stamp tax and
five dollars are paid as above. The supple
ment does not say whether the penalty will
be RENTED or not. This five dollars. then,
on all transactions between this and January
next, must be paid by the person who brings
suit upon the note, or other instrument, as a
Penatttfor his living in government where
taxes are imposed faster. than steam. presses,
and engrayers can manufacture the evidences
thereof The supplement is silent as to
whether the two hundred dollars penalty inn
e posed by the original act, will be collected or
not. 1t is presumed, however, that our
aaagnaninous rulers will remit that until af-
Ter they shall have furnished the stamps
isY In another part of our issue to-day will be
. found some of the penal provisions of this
= act. .g5aa-i& f4 .st 3F3l T
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The Congressional and Senatorial Gu tstion.
As will be seen by reference to the pro-
ceedings of the Democratic Congressional,
and Senatorial conferences, published in our
issue of to-day, we have no candidate for
these offices In the field. The conference at
Bloomsbury, recommended the support of
Henry w. Tracy as against his corrupt and
unscrupulous competitor, the Reverend George
Landon. Since the result of this conference
has been known, that pet and tool of Viii.
mot has been withdrawn from the contest
This is virtual admission of his unworthi-
ness. The people whose rights he had sac
rificed, whose taxes he had voted into the
Golfers Of a souiless corporation, were about
to consign him to politiccl grave, SO low,
Chat his day Of resurrection would never have
come. Wilmot, thought that by change of
men, at the last hour, the people would as
sumo that change Of principles had also
been made Robert f. Clark, an obscure man
of Columbia Co, is pushed forward upon the
board, in the desperate game this tyrant is
now playing, for a place in the senate Of the
United States: Every vote, therefore, cast
for Clark, is a vote to return that blackest of
NIL aboli:ionists-that most unprincipled and
corrupt of all politicians, David Wilmot, to
the place he so much covets.
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Having no candidate in the field, and with
these to choose from, it will be for the Demo
Gratis of this district to decide, whether they
will, by negIecting to vote for Henry w. Ira
cy, aid Wilmot in his schemes of plunder
and corruption, or not. Whatever may be
said of Mr.. Tracey's views on the negro ques-
tion, he showed himself, by votes and
speeches in our Legislature, man capable
of resisting the poisoning and corrupting in
fuence of that hydra headed serpant, under
whose glittering charms the pious Landon
fell. Ay e more, he, like Hercules with club
in hand, stood up day after day, and dealt
blows at the monster which, had it been less
a monster, would have destroyed it. Thus
much we feel IL but just and proper to say of
Henry w. Tracy. That if elected to seat
in eongr ess, he will carry into. that fostering
pool of corruption and profigacy, the same
honesty, the same fearlessness in defense of
the rights of the people, we cannot Doubt
That his votes and influence will ever be
found on the side of the conservative men of
the country, we firmly believe.
VIM. j. Turrell, the abolition candidate for
state senator, coming as he does from the hot
bed of abolitionism, fostered and brought out
under the nursing hands of Wilmot and Grow,
will lend all his aid, to further their schemes
of ambition, corruption, and negro equality.
His vote, if elected, will be cast for Wilmot,
as the next United States Senator. As in
the case Of congressman, the democratic par
ty having no nomination for state senator =
the choice will be between Col. Elhanan Smith
who has been placed in nomination by the
" Peoples Union Party" and this man Tur-
rel. Col. Smith is personally well known to
the citizens of our county. His views upon
the political question of the day, are also well
known. We need not therefore, speak of
him or them. He has but recently address
ed the people of this county, and defined his
position and principles. ,E "
We have thus briefly noticed the cand-
dates for these Offices, that our friends may
choose from among them. We wish it to be
distinctly understood that we ask no man to
vote, neither for Mr.. Tracy nor Mr.. Smi tn -
But, as it is the right of the people to choose
their own representatives, it is their duty
when they come to make that choice, if they
fnd two mel, both perhaps, in some respects
Objectionable, to follow the teachings of that
old maxim, which saith q" Oftwo evils choose
the fesscr.''
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Emancipation.

Forney's press of the 23d instant, IN :.
menting upon the Presidents etnauc,,.s
proclamation, says " the rebellion i, :,
end" and sings hosannas to Abraham =
colin for having performed this good w..
with few strokes Of the pen. Ihmh
often repeated that the pen is mightie, A.
the sword" but (if Forney is right its ,,r
has never been SO fully exempifed in 4
history of the world as by this proclsn,s,
of Abraham Lincoln. Think Of it-a MILL.
of men have been mustered into the 6eId
one thousand Ave hundred millions Of mon,
have been expanded -four hundred thous.G
stalwart men have been killed or disabled
industry has been paralyzed--commerce i.
stroyed-society convulsed from its found
tion, and the whole county brough. u,r
the brink of ruin, to end this accursed reb.s
ion; and Notwithstanding oil these sacrifs,
--these herculean efforts-the war ASSUME
proportions more gigantic than it did ys
and half ago. But, thanks to Allah "
hare President, whose pen, mightier ths
the sMord-more effective than the combn
ed efforts of twenty million Of psopls-A.
ended the rebellion by single dash.
All hail, Abraham Lincoln We canno
sufficiently eulogize this saviour of our com
try; bit we confess to feeling little dash d
sorrow in this cup of happiness, when Vi
think of the many thousands of lives tn,
have been needlessly sacrificed, the million
of treasure that have been wasted for thes
is no good reason why This proclamata
might not have ended the war year ago, .
well as to-day. But it is supposed that tb
Almighty passed an eternity in inaction b.
fore He walked up to create world, and Y
mnst be satisfied to wait for the fulness
time. And we say again-All hail, Aba
ham Lincoln !-Pdtriof & Union
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Daniel Webster once said, ''The time will
come when all good men and true, will be
called to rally around the Constitution; and
when we raise that banner it shall glitter like
the ORR fame" The time has come that
banneris in the hands of the old standard
bearer-the Democratic party. A cry has
gone forth through the length and breadth of
the nation for all good men and true,'' to
the rescue. Let them respond as men know
ing their rights dare MAINTAIN them. t
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Another PROCLAIM ati0ns

FolloWlng close upon MS emancipation
proclamation, President Lincoln has issued
another, declaring martial law throughout
the whole North and suspending the habeas
corpus in all cases of military arrest.
We ask the people OF Pennsylvania to read
it carefully-to weigh it well. For our own
part we know not what to say. We can
scarcely realize that we are living under o
despotism, and yet it is plain enough that
this is no longer Republican Government,
guided and restrained by written Consttu-
ton.
The haJeas corpus suspended in the loyal
North! Great God what does it mean
Where, In all the North, has the legitimate
action of the Administration been resisted
Who ofall the citizens Of the North has COM
mitted treason, or connived at it, or aided
and abetted it, or given it aid and comfort, or
discouraged enlistments, or resisted the mill
tia draft, or committed any other offence that
could not be punished under the State laws
And yet the habeas corpus is suspended, and
men are subjected to seizure and imprison-
ment, to military trial and ignominious death,
without constitutional authority or form Of
law ! q ...a
What atmosphere do we breathe now
Yesterday it was one of freedom; expanding
the lungs and making the heart buoyant with
vital blood.
What is it to-day2 Answer, some one
who knows. What is it oppresscs and weighs
us down-makes respiration difficult, the
blood sluggish, and the heart faint /?
Is it an atmosphere of slatery2 Who says
so ? Trembling coward, it is false Heav-
ems, that we should live to see the day when
our children call us slaves, and shrink from
us, and ask us where is the blood of our
fathers, and whether we are bastards2
Nay, nay, it cannot be. This is all hid
eous dream which wifi vanish with to-mor-
rows dawn.
But yesterday we knew that we were free
that we lived in the United Ststes-that
we were American citizens, under the pro-
lection Of the Constithtion-proud of our
country-happy in the pursuit of our humble
calllng-free as the Constitution made us,
and guaranteed that we should be.
What, then, has SO suddenly changed our
condition? Yesterday was brght-what
has cast shadow upon to-day2
A slave! What, again repeated-stiil ring
ing in our ears What devil whispers il to
marthe Eden in which we but yesterday
dwclt, and in which we hoped to live for
ever?
We say again, it is false The blood OF
the Revolution cannot be cnslaved. Our
fathers would rise from their graves and
curse us-Heaven would shut its gates upon
us-the very earth on which we tread would
spew US out, were we tamely to submit to be
slaves. 1.u"' 'a s@5
No, o,it is an incubus which we shall
soon shake off--a horrible dream which the
night will end. 90 s.~ra.'
But the proclamation Aye, that is the
subject of our article, and we close as we be-
gan--People of Pennsylvania, read it careful
| ly, and weigh it well.-Pat~iot e Uuion.
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PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, 1t has become necessary to cal
into service, not only volunteers, but also poi
tions of the militia of the States, by draft, 10
order to suppress the insurrection existing in
the United States and disloyal persons ar
not adequately restrained by the ordinary pro
cesses of the law from hindering this measun
and from giving aid and comfort in variou
ways to the insurrection -.-..- ...
Now, therefore, be it ordered,
First That during the existing insurret
ton. and as a necessary measure for sup
pressing the same, all rebels and insurgents
ktheir aiders and abbettors, within the United
States, and all persons dscouraging VOLUNTEER
enlsments, resisting militia drafts, or gulity
of any disloyal practice, affording aid and CON
fort to the rebels against the authority of The
United States, shall lie subject to martial law
and liable to trial and punishment by courts
martial or military commissions.
&cond-That the writ of hd6eds corps
is suspended in respect to all persons ARRESTED
or who are now, or herafter, during the rebel
ion, shall be imprisoned in any fort, camp
arsenal, military prison or other place OF CON
finement, by any military authority or by Tie
sentence of any court martial or military
| commission.
In witness whereof, have hereunte SCI
my hand and caused the seal of the Unite'
States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this Gath dsE
Of September, in the year ofour Lord oN
thousand eight hundred and siHtytwo ant
of the Independence of the United State
the eighty seventh. ABRAHAM LIN
coin. t.-E
BY the President ~
WILLIAM Fl. SEWARD,
.-.F Secretary of State.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-10-08
Threatened Revolt.

The Washington Republican states, on
good authority, that. since the appearance of
the Presidents negro proclamation, synp
toms of revolt have been exhibited among
the officers and soldiers in the camps on the
Potomac opposite Washington. Ft is to be
regretted, but scarcely to be wondered at.
1t will be well for the country, perhaps, II
the" symptoms" are confined to that locali-
tY. I.-.. .t..
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The undersigned, having been appointed by to-
Court Of Common Pleas of Wyoming, an auditor :
distribute the fund arising from the Sherifs sale
the real estate Of Michael Sisk, will attend to ta
duties of his appointment at dis Office in the bOrOus
of Tunkhannock, on ..,..... - E
SATURDAY., November 8th, 1862.
at which time and place all persons having claims'
said fund will present them or be debarred fro'
coming in upon the same. sg.
HARVEY SICKLER, Audi
Tunkhannock, Oct. 8, 1862, ~
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? All Cannon.

The rdea held out by some that Presider
Lincoln issued his emancipation proclamatN
when he did for fear of being forestalled b
Jefferson Davis, is simply gammon. HisoV
Abolition proclivities, and his fear of Gree
ley & Co., hurried him into the measur
That's all there is of it-Er.
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ga e. We observe by our exchanges that
the stamps under the late law of the smaller
denominations are now being furnished by
the authorities in small quantities, The
stamps for deeds, leases, bonds, mortgages
etc., have not yet been issued by the govern
ment. l@ sa "a. tf .t-.Ie -
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Administrators Notice.

The undersigned, having been appointed admins
traitors of the estate of Lewis q. Whitcomb, late
Windhari Township, Wyoming County, decd, herr
by give notice to all persons indebted to said es''
10 call upon said aom'rs at their residence in s''
township and settle the same and to all persons D"
ing claims against said estate to present the san'
duly authenticated, to the subscribers at their rs
dences aforesaid or DO dekarred..
ELIZABETH J. WHITcoMB, .dm,rs.
axI.II HENRY W. FASSETT, m
Tankhanaock, Oct. 4, 1862. fe etss -t
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"CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION AS
THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINlrS
TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT
AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND
H1M.n-DANIEL WEBSTER.
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-7a' stj1i FOR PRESIDENT JUDGE, 1904
HON. VIM. ELWELL, of Bradford County
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THE CONTRAST.
DISLOYALTY.

Benz. Wade, g peculiar favorite of th
Sumner Greeley ey-Wilmot-Landon Abolition
lists, said in his place in the United STATE
Senate, that the man who "qisotes the Con
stitution in this great crisis is traitor"
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L0TALTY.

Daniel Webster, said - The Clnstitutios
Of the United State isa a 1rritten i,sstrumea
a recorded FUNDAMENTAL Law; ;hG
the bon I, the ONLY BOND OF HTE Ut.
ION of the States 1t Is all that gtpes us na
tional character.
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~ FOR sURvEYoR-GENE
JAMES P. BARR, of Allegheny Go.
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On notion of VIM. Nj. Piatt, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted !:
Resolred, That under the existing circum-
STAGES we deem it inexpedient to place in
nomination candate for Senator, at this
time.
Resolred, That the proceedings of this con-
ference be published in the papers of this
senatorial District.
On motion the conference adjourned sine
die.
hs THo's JOHNSON, President.
ELMER HORTON, Secretaries
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STATE, DISTRICT & COUNTY TICKET

FOR AUDITOR ....sa,
ISAAC SLENKER, of Union County.
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+.r, FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, 4. ..;
HARVEY SICKLER, of Tunkhannock Boz
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THE WHITE MAN ENsLAyEDl
Proclamation.
A PROCLAMATION.

By the Presigent of the United. States Q
80 america. s ....E
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Democratic Senatorial Conference Meeting

Democratic Senatorial Conference Meeting.
The Conferees of this Senatorial District,
met, according to adjournment, at LaceyvilIe,
Oct. 2, 1862,
Thomas johnson, president of the confer
ence, called the meeting to order when Ell
mer Horton was chosen an additional Secre-
tary. The List of counties was called and
the following persons appeared as conferees
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-10-08

FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
JAMES L. MULLTSON,o Of Turkhaurock Tp
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sle;g. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
p THERON VAUGHN. of Mehoopany.
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FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
GEORGE D.JACKSON, of Sullivan County
JOHN c. ELLIS, of Montour County.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-06-05
ParsOn BrownlOw and the Republicans

The Abolition papers are pub
fishing some things that Parsor
Brownlow formerly said about
Democrats. There is a morsel that
he dropped after the Chicago Con,
vention that they do not publish
The Black Republicans at Chi.
cago, after a stormy session, some
fighting, and much abuse of each
other, have, in the midst of liquor
and much hard swearing, nomina-
ted Abe Lincoln, the Illinois Abo.
litionist, who was supported BY
Buchanan's Administration, eigh-
teen months ago, for the Senate in
opposition to Douglas. On the
ticket with this Administration
pet is Senator Hamlin, of Mains q an
Abolitionist of the John Brown.
Helper school--a man who, for
mind, manners, morals, features,
mouth, nose, dark skin and woolly
head, could be sold in the South
for negro!
The above was published by the
Knoxville Wing. |
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-06-05
The Age of the Earth

We extract the following fror
Agassiz's article "Methods Of Stud
in Natural History" in the Ma,
number of the atlantic MonthLy:
Among the astounding discov
cries of modern science is that o
the immense periods which hav,
passed in the gradual formation O
our earth. So vast were the cycles
of time preceding even the appear
ance of man on the surface Of oul
globe, that our own period seems
as yesterday when compared with
the epochs that have gone before
it. Had we only the evidence O.
the deposits of rock heaped above
each other in regular strata by the
slow accumulation of materials
they alone would convince us o.
the long and slow maturing oi
Gods work on the earth, but when
we add to these the successive pop
ulations of whose life this world
has been the theater, and whose
remains are hidden in the rocks
into which the mud or sand or soil
of whatever kind ON which they
lived has hardened in the course OF
time-or the enormous chains of
mountains whose upheaval di-
vided these periods of quiet ac-
cumulation by great convulsions-
or the changes of a different nature
in the confguration of our globe,
as the sinking of lands beneath the
ocean, or the gradual rising of
continents and islands above it
or the wearing of great river beds,
or the filing of extensive water
basins, till marshes first, and then
dry lands succeeded to inland seas
or the slow growth of coral
reefs, those wonderful sea-walls
raised by the little ocean-archi
tects whose own bodies furnish
both the stones and the cement
that binds them together, and who
have worked 80 buSily during the
long centuries, that there are ex-
tensive countries, mountain chains,
islands, and long lines of coast
consisting solely Of their remains
or the countless forests that must
have grown up, fourisned, died
and decs syed, to fill the storehoases
Of coal that feed the fires of the
human race to-day-if we consider
all these records of the past, the
intellect fails to grasp a chronology
for which our experience furnishes
no data, and the time that lies
behind US seems as much an eter-
lity to our conception as the future
hat stretches indefinitely before
Is.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-06-05
LET ANIMALS HAVE DAILY E&EF
CISE
The Stock Journal saws:

The Stock JOWHdt says;
"lTorses require daily exercise in
the open air, and can no more be
expected to exist withou: it than
their owners. Exercise is an essen
tial feature in stable management,
and like well-opportuned TODD,
tends alike to prcser2c the health
of horses. Daily exercise is ncccs
sary for all horses unless they arc
sick; it assists and promotes free
circulation of the blood, determines
morbific matter to the surface, de-
velopes the muscular structure,
creates an appetite, improves tho
wind, and finally invigorateS the
whole system. We cannot expect
much of a horse that has not been
habituated to sufficient daily eXer-
else; while such as have been daily
exercised and well managed, are
capable not only of great excrtion
and fatigue, but are ready and
willing to do our bidding at any
season. When an animal is over
worke it renders the system very
susceptible to whatever morbid
influences may be present, and inn
parts to the disease they may labor
under an unusual degree of Sc
verify. The exhaustion produced
by want of rest is equally danger
ous; such horses arc always among
the first victims of disease, and
when attacked their treatment is
embarrassing and unsatisfactory
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-06-05

A BRAVE DoG.-A letter from
Fred Church, gunner in Company
A, Chicago Light Artillery, says
that dog joined the battery at
Fort Henry. The dog at once
attached himself to IL particular
gun and has stuck to it ever since.
lie is a good-sized shaggy animal,
and a great favorite. He was at
the battle at Donelson, and stuck
by his gun all the time. lie was
wounded in the battle Of Pittsburg
Landing, on Sunday, by bit of
she'll in the fore leg, but stuck to
his post all that day and the next,
and is now doing well. The brave
fellow is now considered part Of
the complement of that gun
Strangely enough, it is not the
men but the gun he appears to be
so attached to- Grand Rapids E@-
ale.