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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-06

R-lt will be seen BY advertisement
that the steamers Jennie Whippls and
Kate Cassel are now making regular trips
2 Davenport, leaving here Alternately
every morning At 7S'sssck. With such
boats and such clever officers as Captain
Davis and Captain Charley Morrison this
must be q popular line. Our own citizens
will, Of course, always take Occasion to
travel with them when they can.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-06

RIVER IrEMs.--The river after rising
about foot came to stand yesterday.
The Hannibal City il the St. Louis
packet this morning, and the Kate Casscl,
Capt. Davis. Tor Davenport.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-06

SEWING MACHINE.-A hfBt rate sew
ing machine for coarse i srk will be sold
1t a bargain. II is strong, works easy,
and never gets out ofrepair, Enquire At
this Office.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-05-06

DsasAS IN meatcaI College Hospital.
DrED April 29-J. T.. Ross, Co. G.,
18th lows May 4---Mathias Pierce, Co,
IN. i7th Iowa, and j E. Presty, Co. q,
18th Iowa.
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g ELECT SCHOOL.

CELECT SCHOOL. stt s
Miss Agnew and Mi@ Etyin will open Select
School 18th street between Core sft And utgh On
Monday, Hay sab. Terms % % per quarter
aprao-d
M ACTRESSES.
Ala Kind. of Mattresses made order and upholster.
ing at my Factory Fourth street between Main and
Blondeau Nm y KING.
Apr9s-dlm 4E&
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THE GATE CITY


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SORGHUM SxEp.--I have procured some
sorghun seed which believe 10 be pure, and which
wish TO distsibue among the Farmars in Lee county
Those wAntng Of this seed can have IL srsauts
ousy BY writing 10 Keokuk or calling It my Of
nee $500 Tnos. W. cLAoEyT
mayg.a AsF.A8
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which caused such rebel destruction and
such rebel swearing. after 4 o'clock that
evening--bsfore which they we're repulsed
on the right and left shadowiDg their en-
ulant hopes with the gloomy doubt lest
their work Of to-day WAS to. be destroyed
BY thatof tomorrow. On Monday the
greater part Of the regiment were fight
ing, but scattered through different com
msnds --soms Of tLen even with McCook
and Nd.sns tfsI d MOI bslisvs ne annaas
Of war can show = regiment shst vas never
under fire before where fewer men finch
cd or failed to stand hrayely up to, their
duty. Understand me, am speaking for
the prissAald thaEaljineAtr-Al4s1 far,
gotten heroeslr Asssi names nsses APPEAR
n buiisssas -asa reports, and yhess aama-
Les 1raves are % often, The iiscripijen-
less monuments that. nsysrthejess, telfSb
lsloquently of heroic deeds. / have
mingled much with the men since dat
terrible time that took away from them
nearly one-tsnsk h their numbers have
.eraspsd many i hshd and felt that ! ~
taking the hand Of 1 hero live
.5ttSamsd from my sjassslsi ! hare looked
~ their ~ AAg, with il broken stan
nd III tattsfsd bahtliza, Bat nothing =
The New York herald., 1862-01-16

ce,,ts the opportunity, and will doubtless try
hart' to recover possession of the country. A
long war will be the result-a war that will
absorb all the resources and energies of Spain,
and leave her powerless at hoae. That is the
opportunity which Louis Napoleon seeks in
order to carry out his designs in Italy and Ger
many, and SO CRAFTY the passion of his people
for territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Rome might
be exchanged for Sardinia, and the Schleswig-
Holstein difficulty with Prussia revived with
view to the annexation of some of the German
principalities, very easily, with Spain out of the
field of maritime opponents. And the designs
of Napoleon are not entirely limited to these in
Europe What would be the result to Spain
She would lose power and prestige at home,
incur heavy load of debt, and be compelled
to retire from Mexico utterly defeated; for it is
country whose inhabitants have such deadly
hatred of her rule that it will be impossible for
her to conquer it. A series of reverses would
then overtake her in rapid succession, and Cuba
would be taken from her about the same time
that St. Domingo threw off the Castilian yoke
The drama is only just commencing; but we
shall live to see it played out, Meanwhile we
may quiet our apprehensions Of q split in the
coalition. England and France have nothing
to lase by change in Tho form Of ofgoxeranent
in Mexico; for anything, even temporary reign
ofterror, would be preferable to the anarchy and
insecurity which have been SO long prevailing
there, and Spain is only doing what they have
agreed to let her do. She is paving the way to
her own ruin; but mat h a matter of small con
sequence to the world at large. Mexico has
now chance to restore unity in her own coun-
sels If she succeeds, the coalition will not
have been without its uses.
The New York herald., 1862-01-16


The WRATH OF LovEJoY.-Owen Lovejoy, the
abolition preacher par excellence Of the House
of Representatives at Washington, has literally
enjoined upon his three sons, against England,
on account Of the Trent settlement, the oath of
Hannibal against Rome. This is not so bad;
but out and out, this indignant patriot, Lovejoy,
was for a war with England in preference TO the
surrender of Mason and Slidsll. He says
II am strongly inclined TO believe that we
would have been all the stronger for this diff
Guilty "a wary with Great Britain for it would
have made us feel the necessity Of making short
work with the rebels" "Short work with the
rebels that is the secret Of this abolition desire
for war with England. The abolitionists think
that such war would drive us headlong 10 the
alternative of liberating and arming the slaves
of the South. That il what Master Lovejoy
means by his " short work with the rebels"
1t means emancipation or separation" But
now the way is open to make short work
with the rebels " without either destroying the
South or dividing The Union. How strange /, Is
that Owen Lovejoy and his abolition brethren
should have the same views of our national
honor on this Mason-Slidoll affair, as JEFF. Davis
and his coniederates
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-05
LABOR.

The following is beautiful tribute of To-
| Dor:
why, man Of ideness, labor rocked vou
IN the cradle, and has nourished your pamnar.
ed lte without it, the woven silks and wool
upon your back would be the silkworr,,s
nest, and the feeces in the shepherds fold
For the meanest thing that ministers to the
human want. save that of the air of heaven
man is to toll indebted; even the air by Gods
wise ordination, is breathed with labor.
1t is only the drones who toll not. who
lnfest the hive of the active like masses Of
corruption and decay. The lords of the earth
are working men, who can build or cast down
at their will, and who retort the sneers Of
the soft-handed,' by pointing to their tro-
phies wherever art, science. civilization and
humanity are known. Work on, man of toll
thy royalty is yet to be acknowledged as the
laeor moves onward to the highest throne of
powers.
Labor is not only essential TO true digni
ty and independence, but to happiness. It is
necessary to ensure the strength and health
OF the body, without which the mind must
suffer and become the prey Of anxious and
fearful thoughts. Without occupation of
some sort, there can be no contentedness of
heart. 1t is the greatest preservation from
both sorrow and sin. The hardest work in
the world and the most demoralizng, is do
ing nothing. No state or individual can pros-
per where labor, in any form, is despised.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-05
SPEECH OF EX-SENATOR ALLEN.
.... OF OHIO. 5s

A large meeting of the Democracy of Ohio
was held at Chilicothe, on the 4th inst, at
which ex-senator Allen delivered a speech,
In the course of which he presented the fol-
lowing picture of the effects of negro emanel-
patton IN consequence of the Presidents Proc
lamation: .t.
Suppose that the contemplated Emancipa-
tion should be inausurated successfully. sew
en- or eight hundred thousand negroes. with
their hands reeking in the blood of murdered
women and children, would present them
selves on our Southern border, demanding to
cross over into our State, as Oho's share of
the freed slayes-seven or eight hundred
thousand negroes, without money, without
food and without personal property of any
kind, who, in virtue of natures law, were
compelled to eat and be clothed. Then would
come the conflict between the white laborers
and the negroes. The negroes would enter
into such competition with the white la
borers that the latter would have to abandon
the field of labor here = make way for the
negroes-or maintain their ground by waging
war on the negroes, that would result in
driving them from the State, or in their ex-
termination. 1t was hard to compel a white
man who earned seventy. five cents day to
contribute twenty-five cents of that sum to-
be expended in schemes to buy the freedom of
the negroes. He won't like that The fanat-
les claim that these schemes are prompted by
philanthropy. Carried out they would end i'm
the death of the negroes. If were possible
to colonlze the negroes in Central America,
where it is proposed to cclonize them, thew
would starve, and if emancipated and not re-
moved from our country, their determination
were sure to follow. ea4
Until the negroes shall be recognized as
socially the equal of white men, they cannot
be politically their equal. None of those IA
natics, who claim to- be acting in behalf of
phlanthrophy, would consent that their sons
and daughters should inter-marry with the
negro. From the marriage altar spring our
political privileges if not equal there we
are not politically equal. No objections are
interposed to our sons and daughters inter-
marrying with Englishmen, Germans. irish
men, Frencbmen, &c. We all belong to the
same family. We are simply the advanced
guard-they are the guard-our fathers.
mothers, brothers, and sister. All these in
termarry, and soon their blood becomes melt-
ed into the great pool of American blood
Not so with the negro. He does not belong
to the same family. That he is'diferent IN
palpable to the philosopher, if not the theo-
logian, and why he was created differently ia
mmateral for US, to know it is sufficient to
know that he is different, without seeking TO
obtain the affidavit Of the Almighty on the
subject. sfioifS
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-05
MY WIFE IsTHE CAUSE OF IT..

1t is now more than forty years ago that
Mr. L. called at the house of DIR. T., ona We
ry cold morning, on his way to h.
Sir" SAID the doctor, the weather is We
ry frosty-will you not take something to
drink before you start 2,
In that day ardent spirits were deemed u
dispensable to warmth in winter. Wbon
commencing journey, and at every stonnino
place along the road, the traveller always ne
ed intoxicating drinks to keep him warm
No." said Mr.. L., 81 never touch anv-
thing OF that kind, and will Tell you the rea-
son: my aoife is the cause oft. i'1t
" l had been in the habit of meeting sono
oil our nelghbors every evening for the pur-
pose OF playing cards. We assembled at Zach
others shops, and liquors were ntrodncel
Alter while we met not so much for n,av.
'hg as drinking, and | used to return home
iate In the evening more or less intoxicated
MY Vile always met me at the door affact;on
tionately, and when | chided her for s;tt;,a
up SO late for me, she kindly replied =
prefer doing SO. for cannot sIeep when
you are out" "iieii
This always troubled me. wished in
my heart she would only begin to scold ~.
ior 'hen could have retorted, and relieved
my conscience. But she always me. me with
the same gentle and loving spirit.
Things passed on thus for months who,
l at last resolved that would, by returning
much intoxicated, provoke her displeasure so
much as to cause her to lecture me. who,
meant to answer her with severity, and TINS
oY creating another issue between us. unbur.
then my bosom of its present trouble,
" l returned in such a plight about four
O'CLOCK IN the morning. She met me at the
ooof with her usual tenderness, and said:
ZONE IN husband have just been max.
ing warm fire for you, because knew Won
would be cold. Take off your boots and
warm your feet and here is a cup of coffee >,
Doctor, that was too much could not
endure 1t any longer, and 1 resolved that mo-
ment that would never touch another dron
While live, and never WILL
lie never did. He lived and died practic.
ing total abstinence from intoxicating drinks
IN village where intemperance has ragged as
much as in any other in this State.
That man was my father, and that woman
my mother. The facts above related were
received from the doctor himself on visit
10 my native village not long since.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-05
CELEBRATED AUTHORS,

Steele wrote excellently on temperance
when sober. Sailust, who decalmead so elo.
quently against the RIGHTEOUSNESS of the age,
was himsels a habtual debauchee. John
sons essay on polteness is admirable, but he
was himselfa perfect boor. The gloomy yer-
ses Of Young give one the blues, but he was
brisk, lively man. The Comforts of Hu.
man Life" by B. Heron, was written in pris-
on, under the most distressing circumstan-
ces. "The Miseries of Human Life.n by
Beresford, were, on the contrary, composed
in drawing room, where the author was sur
rounded with every luxury. All the friends
OF Sterne knew him to be selfish man We,
as writer, he excelled in pathos and chari-
ty-at one time beating his wife, at another
wasting his sympathies over dead monkey,
So Seneca wrote 10 praise of poverty on Ia
BILE formed of solid gold, with millions lei ou,
at usury. i
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-05
5f(lstellar1eous,
NEW TROUBLES.
BY GEORGE MARTIAL.

1t is all very well for Hamlet" to talk
about taking arms againsta sea of troubles,
and by opposing end them,'' if he had been
George Martial, he would have found that
there are some thoughts not so easily dispos-
ed Of
All the arms have taken have only sunk
me deeper and deeper; and the man who
thinks that " "opp osing" can put stop to
troubles, has never seen Mrs. Polly.
| think have often mentioned my eldest, a
girl, and likewise Polly, arrived at this pres
ent writing at the mature age of sixteen,
whose existence has been principally obtru-
ded on my notice quarterly that is, when
the bills came in: as she never came to break
fast before l left for downtown, passed her
time in school and at small evening parties,
except the Sundays, which she divided as inn
partially as possible between the bed and Fifth
avenue.
She was also recommended to my notice on
the occasions OF moving uptown, getting new
curtains. giving party, and other such steps
in the geateel ladder as "the poor child for
whom | might be expected to have some con-
sideration, ifI was low and vulgar in my
tastes myself" have also bowed rather
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-05
THE, BEST ADVANTAGE.


Acountryman went into store IN Boston
the other day, and told the keeper that d
neighbor of his had entrusted him with some
money to be spent to the best advantage, and
he meant to do it where he would be treated
the best. . -
He had been very well treated in Boston
by the traders, and would not part with his
friends money until he found man who
would treat him about right. With the ut
most suavity the trader says:
/" l think can treat you to your liking,
how do you want TO be treated ?" fa4a
"Well," says the farmer with leer in his
eye. .#2A#&~ HsBsI8
." 6 In the first place [ want . glass of tod
dy," which was forthcoming. '@Now 1 win
have nice cigar" says the countryman. It
was promptly handed him, leisurely lighted,
and then throwing himself back, with his
feet as high as his head, he commenced puff
ing away like Dutchman.
Now what do you want to purchase ?''-
says the storekeeper.
My neighbor handed me two cents when
| left home to buy him plug of tobacco"
answered the farmer " have you got the arti-
Gle 2"
Fhe storekeeper stopped instanter, and the
next thing that was heard from him was that
his sides We're shaking and his face on fire az
he was relating the sell to his friends down
'o"h' ss-T.s VI II fDEa
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-05
A SOLDIERS STORY

Not long since lot of us-I am an Up
"high private," were quartefed in several
wooden tenements, and in an inner room of
one lay the corpse of a young secesh officer,
awaiting burial. The news soon spread to a
village not far off, and down came tearing a
sentimental, not bad-lookidg specimen Of
Virginia dame. t
Let me kiss him for his mother !'' she
cried, as | interrupted her progress. "Do
let me kiss him for his mother %
Kiss whom ?" '"",i'
The dear little Lieut., the one who lies
dead within. never saw him, but oh p'
led her through room in which young
Lieut., ofPhiladelphia lay stretched out
on an upturned trough. fast asleep. Suppos-
ing him to be the article sought for she rush
ed up exclaiming- ~ $685." 't1
7" Let me kiss him for his mother,s and ap~
preached her lips to his forhead. What was
her amazement when the corpse. clasped
his arms around her and exclaimed
"Never mind the old lady, Miss, go it on
your own account. / haven't the Sigh test
objection" t-e
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-05
Doet's Gorner,
The Printing Press.

Hail, mighty Lever! whose unwearied power
Sends rays of genius Per each darken'd land
Where memory's record, changing every hour
Gives place to truth, stamped by thy giant hand.
What glorious thoughts flashed in chaotic waste
For want of thee to register their birth;
And sparks of genius, poetry and taste,
Just kindled up, then sank again to earth
But thou, Minds railroad, dearest along the store
Of knowledge, Science, Fancy's pleasing strain;
Or the design of Nature to explore,
Where peace and harmony and order reign.
Ye whose high trust it is to rule the Press,
o guide it Peace and Freedoms cause to Bless
With mans best hopes ye have great account
Tant not the life-stream at its sacred fount.
0 "ponder we'll " what thousands every day
Ye guide to truth, or basey lead astray;
Let no mean dread of Indulgence defeat
What Reason dictates from her judgment seat.
Be honest faithful, seek with noble zeal
To teach expanding Mind her power to feel;
Then clouds of ignorance shall pass away,
And Truths resplendent sun make endless day.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-05
WOmanss Heart.
BY sUDIE.

Music, wild, thrilling music,
Throbs out DER the midnight air;
A thou. and lights are flashing,
And happy hearts are there.
| hear the tread of dancers,
As graceful forms glid, past
IT'S scene of wiliering beauty
Too fair, too bright to last.
And have been the gayest
Amid these scenes so bright
They think that I am happy
But oh I'm sad to night
Meath the diamonds coldly flashing
Upon my heaving breast,
Though my laugh has rung the udest
Ny lone hea rt would not rest.
And he hath viewed my conquests,
And heard my mocking laugh,
And his burning eyes have followed
Whene'er / near him passed.
He hath knelt in love before me
Ou ulo COulu STE
But l turned as coldy from him
As once he turned from me.
And in hastv words told him
L could yer love him more
Twas wild, wild agony for me,
And my heart grew sick and sore,
Yes, | masked my love in coldness,
And from, him turned away
From my wildly worshiped idol
And my heart strings shattered lay
There was ever in my memory
Vows uttered long before,
And though l smiled upon them,
They soon forgotten were.
For another form had won him
An angel form he thought;
But soon he wearied of love
BY golden purse-strings bought.
And tonight again he met me
Mid this scene of revelry
And l viewed his pale lips culver
in loves fearful agony.
His face was pale and CHASTITY,
As he stood from the rest apart.
With his proud arms tightly folded
Upon his bursting heart.
l could have died then for him;
But seemed as proudly gay,
And the grandly swelling music
Bore my merry laugh away,
0 woman thou canst worship
And still be proud and cold,
Though weary heart is breaking
Meath the satin's cleaning fold.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-05

EXECUTIONS
CONSTABLE'S SALES
Justices, Constabe's, and legal Blanks of all
Kinds, Neatly and Correctly printed on good Paper
and fer sale at the Office of the North Branch
Democrat"
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CUISINES Qotires

bacon STAND.-NichoIson, Pa. C.
ID Jackson, Proprietor Tvln49f
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-05

60 Another political priest wants to 60
to Congress Rev. 7. Starr King is being
urged for successor to Senator Latham, from
California.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-11-05

TT y. COOPER, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Il. Newton Centre, Luzerne County Pa.
GEO. g. TUITION, ATTORNEY AT LAW
VI Tunkhannock, Pa. Office Stark's Brick
Block, Tioga street.
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Nnrtb Yranrh 4emureat,

Terms copy year, lin advnnce) Sl.50. If
not pain within six months, $500 will be charged.
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IME FOR FARMERS, AS FERTILIZER
Tor sale at VERN0Y'S.
Aeshoppen, Sept. Is. 1861,