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North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-11-18
SUN SHINE.

Seclusions from sunshine is one Of the mis-.
fortunes of our civilized life. The same cause
which make potato vines white an d sickly,
when grown in dark cellars. operates to pro-
duce the pale, sickly girls that are reared in
our parlors. Expose either to the direct rays
of the sun, and they begin to show color,
health and strength. One of the ablest law.
yers in our country-a victim OF long and hard
brain labor-came to me year ago, suffering
with partial paralysis. The right leg and hip
were reduced in size, with constant pain in
the oins. He was obliged, in coming up
stairs to raise the left foot rst, on every stair
dragging the right one after it. Pale, feeble,
miserable, he told me that be had been fail
ing Sc, eral years, and closed with, My work
is done. AT sixty I find myself worn out"
I directed him to lie down under o large win
dow, and allow the sun to fall on every part
of his body; at first, ten minutes day, in
creasng the time until he could expose him.
self to the direct rays of the sun full hour.
His habits were not essentially altered IN any
other particular. In six months he came run
ming up stairs like vigorous man Of forty,
and declared with sparkling eyes, I" have
twenty years Of work in me-" "I have
assisted many dyspeptic, neuralgia, rheumatic,
hypocrondriacal people into health by the SUN
SHINE. have 90 many facts illustrating the
wonderful power of the suns direct rays i'm
curing certain classes Of invalids, that have
serious thoughts Of publishing work to be
denominatsd the "sUN cURE."-Dr. Dio
Lepis.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-11-18
TUNKHANNOCK, PAy WEDNESDAY, NOV. 1s, 1863
gers on the dear. dead face of your betrothsd

gers on the dear. dead face of your betrothsd
wife.
You came to claim your bride and find her
thus. You went to distant land to win q
name, and make fortune, to share with her,
Your bonny Eloise. You had no hopes for
the future not linked with her and this 10
your welcume back. Your mother coveted
your gold She knew you would never care
for another, so she drove her out from tbs
home where you had left her sheltered, with
bitter taunts of your faithlessness. She de-
liberately stole your etrothed's letters, and
intercepted yours.
Theu Eloise begged that you might be
with her in the last, sad hour-that yoar
hand might clasp hers when the cold waves
crept up to her feet-then youR mother re-
fused and she died without you, trusting
and loving you to her latest breath. She
died with your name written on her pure
heart and she waits and watches for you on
the other side of the River. Put back the
tangled hair from that fair brow-press an
o'AASa Aa"o oH wv PNAC hPS Suoh yOuA
name with her latest sigh-tb0u stand by
and see the coffin lid shut out that beautiful
face forever.
Let the mother who cared more for her sons
gold than for his happiness, stand by and see
her work. Do not think she will reIent Her
heart las no remOrse for the sure death she
s=ol 70 soc woman whose golden curls you
meant he winds of Heaven should not
VS., too roughly.
| kn"w, Cecil, there Is no comfort in nm
hour IKE tins, only TO feel that the good God
leads ou in the path her feet have trodden.
Take up your burdens eheerfully. Only q
little while and you shall 60 home to her
who waits for you. Her pure splrl: 10 ever
near you and draws you to that better land,
where no grave yard sods will ever again lie
between you and the heart you loved best.
Try to forgive the mother who embittered
your betrothed's last hours with the unAvail
ing wish to have you with her-who drove
her out with sharp, bitter words Of scorn,
that wounded your sensitive darling to the
death. 1t was q cruel, wicked wrong-a
wrong that shall plant her dying pillow with
thorns- but you can leave her with Him who
hath said Vengeance is mine: will repay"
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-11-18
REPUBLICANS HAVE BROUGHT UP.
ON US CIVIL WAR.

Douglas said SO Pugh said 90 Critssnden
said so Everett said 20.
They would not compromise, but were in
favor of bloodletting'"
Chandler said 90 Broush says 90; Wade
says so--all ssy 90.
They are not in favor of tho Union 90 il
was.
Butler says 90 the Chicago Tribune says
{" it 10 thing Ct the past, hated by every pa
triot, and destined never to blot the page OF
history again." Bingham says it 10 n scandal
and Stevens says GOD forbid it,"
They spit upon the Constitution a. it ISL
Webster said il was oil he asked for, while
Beecher calls is q i" aheepskin parchment %
and Garrison " q league with DEATH"
Beecher and Garrison, and Stevens, and
the Chicago Tribune oil support the admin
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-11-18
4o&t's Qtorner>
WOMAN.

But such is woman mystery at best;
Seeming most cold when most her heart ia burning,
Hiding the melting passions of her breast
Beneath a snowy cloud, and scarce returning
One glance on him for whom her heart is yearning:
Adoring yet repelling; proud bu weak:
Conquered, commanding STILL enslaved yet spurnDg;
Checking the words her heart would bid her speak,
Love raging in her breast and Danish from or cheek
He who would read her thoughts, must mark unseen,
Her eyes full undisguised expression, trace
Qf trace he ould, while distance stretched betwsen)
The feelings, blushing, quivering on her face;
He who would know her heart IN ust first embrace,
And feel it beat unchecked against his own:
Child not by pride, or fear, nor time nor place;
And in dream, unwitnessed and alone,
when every thought unconsciously has flown.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-11-18
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A FAMOUS Land.

II thafs bo part Of world wAisa oasks vo
tempt the traveller, ii 10 assuysdly that p<fich
of Asia which lies between the csspisa ana
Black seas. Tradition declares this TO be the
cradle of the human race. Here, say tlJe
Persian and ArmiRiaHs, was the garden or
Eden; here, 90 every one knows, stands The
'Ararat fren which mankind spread after the
delsgs. ss.s -
Here arc the best and most unasnisble
physical evidences Of that astonishing cssss.
trophe. Hsrc hunted the Biblical N,mroa.
here Noah planted the vine. Here isueaisA.
Cd Pronsshius, chained to the rock with vul.
sursa ever gnawing at his liver. Hrther ssil.
ed Jason and the Argonauts, and hence de.
parted the sDchantress Medes. One os ma
rivers of this region still bears the name OF
Cyrus the Great. Alexander of Macon 10 an
household word among the Caucasian villae.
srs. Hence flowed Greeceward, that stream
OF gorgeous fable widened into Hellenic my
thology. Here Pompey conquered, and the
soldiers of emperial Rome bled in vain. Here
Gregory preached, and Tamerland and GEM.
his Kahn spread havoc the Turks uproetsd
the Georgian on these shores, to BE- them.
selves upfooted in due time by the more op.
perfume Russians. Over the Caucasian wall.
at the dread hour when Ailah's time shall
SOUND, Cog and Magog shall cross to put On
end to the empire of Islamism on earth, snd
destroy the kingdom of the true believers.-
When the Russians swept away the Georgian
throne i'm 1900, learned mon at Tifiis en-.
claimed In their anguish that the fallen mon.
archy had existed without interruption sines
the time Of Abraham; there 10 good histori.
cal evidence to prove line of kings over
period of 2,345 years.
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the sacred duty. with which they had been
intsustsd3 the people petltioned for Com
promise, eonciliation s the public councils
fung with appeal for speedy and peaceful
Adjustment all in vain with cold. cruel
indifference, the Republican party, clutching
its Chicago bowie knife with firmer grasp,
stOod over the PROSTATE form Of the Republic
denying it the spirit-ths life of the Constitu.
ton. The Republic was shrouded for the
gravs--'twas buried. And, now, what do VIC
sec before us Z A carnival of blood over the
tomb of the nation and vast hecatemb Of
human bones 10 being gathered to commemo-
rate this deepest crime in history.
This great war is but the fruit of that germ
which, under the auspices of James G Bir-
ney, was planted in the Presidential contest
of 1910. Thus springing up in definite shape,
more than twenty years ago, its growth has
been like that of the deadly Upas. In its
very origin, great and good men but too :ru-
ly predicted its fatality to the Union.
But this Republican party. though IN the
strength OF It's wlckedness 1t has gloated over
afallen, blood-stricken people, itself must die |!
The soul of American freedom is immortal,
and, though ito body crumble away, that soul
will return again to animate the buried hopes
of q nation. The American Union is to come
up, at last, through oil the disaster which has
fallen upIn it.
The good angel of Democracy will foil the
stone away from the grave in which its enc
mics have placed it. The morn of resurec-
tion 10 not far distant-in whose peaceful
radiance we shall behold o mighty people
once more united in the bonds of the Con-
stitution. Our temple of liberty shall be
built again, and we shall worship together
at ito altar: and they who now reign in
blood shall bs enslaved by q curse through
out the earth !-Dayton Empire,
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-11-18
THE LATE COL. 9. w. BLACK.

There has recently turned up sad but I'm.
terssting memento Of Col. Black. IL ia now
in Che possession Of his respected wife. A
rebel officer who witnessed the engagement
in which the gallant Colonel lost his life, and
no doubt intensely admired the bold dash
and chivalrous spirit which characterized bio
movements on that memorable occasion, saw
him fall and die on the battle field. He wss
90 much interested in the man, although On
entire stranger and an enemy, he eaused
photograph to be taken of him when dead. .
and endorsed on it, A Brave soldier.n The
photograph happened to be shown in group
Of rebel officers, and one Of them at once 70.
cognized il M the image Of Col. 8. w. Black,
Of Pittsburg, Pa. This simple and brief trib-
ute to the bravery of the Colonel, elected
from stranger, and an enemy, 10 not needed
here.-Pifts. Com.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-11-18
SOME PLAIN TRUTHS.

The Hon. Jeremiah s. Black. in his speech
delivered at the Democratic mass meeting at
Lancaster, thus disposed of the fippsnt talk
Of the shoddyites about Democrats oppo sing
the Government:
If we had been in any sense opposed to the
Government or unfaithful to the Union,
would we have proposed such . candidate for
Governor No! we would have nominated
some black AbolitioniSt, who believes the
Constitution to be covenant with hell, and
who, by destroying the Constitution would
make an end of the Onion MS certainly as
you take the life offs man by cutting the
heart out Of his body. Or we would have
worked out our destructive purposes BY
nominating some mighty contractor-one of
those large robbers who are weakening the
Government by depicting it's treasury and
stuffing into their own big pockets. With
such man welding all the power and infiu-
ence Of this great State, Government surely
could not last long. In short, il we had any
evil intent against the Union, We would have
taken any candidate we could lay our hands
on rather than Geo. ". Woodward, the Un-
ION saver-the man of upright character and
downright speech-whose hands are clean Of
all crime, and whose pockets are empty of al!
gains except what came there ss the just re {.
ward of his honest labor
Much ss We honor and love him personally
It is not for his sake that we desire to make
him Governor Setting aside his fidelity and
ours to the National Government and Union,
We could do something q great deal more
for his profit than that. Let him avow his
spostacy from the faith of his fathers ; let him
prostitote his conscience and his intellect to
the purposes of abolitionism ; let him forget
that he belongs to the caucasian variety Of
the human species and enter the service of
the negro let him make q few speeches to
show the superiority of the African over the
Saxon race let him contrive the ways and
means of promoting instructions, and always
stand ready to take the part of the negro
right or wrong above oil, let him denounce
the Constitution as il is and curse the Union
as it was let him abandon the principles OF
liberty in which he was bred, and degrade
himself low enough to call every freeman
traitor who 10 not willing to be slave. If
he will do this he may get contract on which
be can cheat the United States at the rate of
q hundred thousand dellars month. III his
nexperience should make him awkward, and
he should be detected and exposed so that
even his confederates in knavery are compell-
ed to admit his guilt there would still be
resource for him. When the worst comes
to the worst, we can get him foreign mis-
sion--seRd him to cool his bushes in the
SHOWS of Russia, or harden the bronze upon
his cheek under the hot sun of Spain.
But stealing the public money or rampling
on the Constitution is not his idea of loyalty
or yours either. He would restore the U
ion by defending the Constitution, by giving
to the laws their just supremacy, by guarding
the rights Of tie people, and by driving off
those obscene birds of prey that are gorging
themselves on the PROSTATE carcass of the
nation.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-11-18
THE BLACK REPUBLICAN PARTY.

The organization of the Republican party
in 1854, and its bold though unsuccessful race
for the Presidency in 1856, awakened most
serious alarm among good men throughout
the country.
An evil genius had arisen, inspired with
dreadful purpose, and eager to pull down,
over the heads of a devoted people, the very
temple of their liberties. The birth OF this
party was attended by the shedding Of inno.
cent blood; and the crimsoned field of Kan
sas, and the savage raid of old John Brown
into Virginia, must ever be memorable as
the historic solution of its character. To
sectionalize public sent ment ; to break down
the safeguard of the Federal Constitution |;
to undermine the State Governments, the
very bulwarks Of American fresdom-these
were the purposes that gave life and
strength to the party. Civil W ar and dis
union were thus forsshadowed as the inev-
table consequences Of it's success.
In leo, when the Republicans met in
Convention at Chicago, as if to signalize
their ultimate design, they assembled in O
wigwam, adopted their resolutions with
Indian war-whoop, while bowie knife, eight
feet in length, hung above the head of their
presiding officer.
That spectacle of delrous fanatics threw
over the people deep cloud of gloom, which
lingnred around the Capital like great fun
eral pail and. on the sixth of November,
nearly three years ago, the intelligence of
the election Of Abraham Lincoln broke upon
the public ear like sepulchral voice from the
cemetery of nations 1t was the knell Of the
American Union.
Yet this anxious people might have been
saved the ship of State might have been
rescued from the perils of civil strife. Sec
tionalism was the bane of the hour, and an
effective remdy for the disease had been
pointed out by the elder statesmen of the
country.
There was the case of 1920, there was
the parallel of 1892; there was the terrific
wound which had been healed in 1850: and
there. too written in the national annals was
the balm successfully applied to each COM
prom,s mutual concil,ation.
1t Is no, necessary t. break the form
ot Constitutions and laws, to produce revo-
luton, or rebellion. The violation Of the
spirit ola system will often suffice to move
o people to deeds of blood, prompted by the
fear of actual usurpation.
This was the case of 1861, The Republi.
can party, who's success has slarned the
whole body polite, was installed in power,
with the responsibility of the Datural life
upon its hands. New and perilous issues
were to be determined, yet their decision
could easily have been made if guided by
the land marks of history. But, Abraham
Lincoln and his coadjutors. jubilant and de-
fiant over the triumph of their party, saw
not the crumbling ruins of the Republic, in
the mids of which they stood.
The conservative press urged upon then
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-11-18
Written for the Democrat
ALONE.
BY EELLID CLIFTON.

Leaden grey clouds were trooping across
the dull, sodden sky. Fitful gusts of wind
rung weird notes on the bare branches Of the
old elm, that flung ito gaunt arms over the
half ruined tenement house. Within bare
cherries room, woman lay on a couch, dy-
ing. The fire on the hearth burned low, aud
the little tongues of fame were ever and anon
shroudsd in N pile of livid white ashes Com
fortless enough was the cold bare room,
where grim poverty sat throned yet, in it's
perfect neatness, breathing of the innate pu
rity of her whose feet were going down into
the dark River.
The thin hand lying on the one, scant cover
ing, told its tale of unrewarded toil-of the
long, slow cankerihg Of pain and anxiety
The face was almost transparent, yet beaming
traces of wendrous beauty in the blue, lus-
trous eyes, the sweetly curved mouth, and
the tangled masses of golden hair that the
invalid had tossed over the pillow in the fe.
verlsh restlesness of the last struggle.
Going down into the dark River, with no
hand to clasp hers until her feet touched the
other shore. Alone, alone in that dread hour
with no loving eyes to meet her last yearn-
ing words until the angels welcome home, -"
struck on her ear God help her in that
last, sad hour; for her heart turned toward
the one heart on which she had leaned in
those earlier, brighter days. She remem-
bered that her lips had been warm with his
kisses-that her ear had been no stranger 70
the sweetest story that woman ever hears.
Alone, with no requiem but the November
wind soughlng and sighing like human be
ing in agony, through the guarded old elm At
her window. No warmth or light except the
dying embers, 6tfully glowing on the desert
ed hearthstoue. No, not alone, for Jesus Of
Nazareth stood beside the dying woman
She reached out her weary hands to Him, as
the cold waters rolled over her, and the All
PItiful gathered her in his loving arms. The
light Of the other shore shone on her marble
face. The peace Of Heaven, the sweet trust
of sanctlfied spirit was in the smile that
fingered on her perfect lips. The long, dark
eyelashes rested on tho marble cheek but
the paid face bore the seal OF Huu who rad
supported her through "tDe valley ot the
shadow of DEATH" Never could sIythiag be
lovelier than the chiseled features of the lone
ly dead, curtained in hair that showed the
lustre of gold in the last iain, flicker of the
expiring embers.
Perhaps 1t vas only the creaking Of the
dry branches against the window but surely
the welcoming anthem of the New Jerusalem
were not far from that little room, from
which that white soul went out 10 meet its
God.
Footsteps are on the stair. A man crosses
the apartment with heavy tread. An ashen
pallness creeps over that fine face 40 he
kneels beside the lonely bed. Alas for you /!
Cecil Vanner, the dead face before youu is
that Of the only woman you ever loved. No
reply comes to your passionately murmured
words--no response to the kisses you press
on the pale brow of your dead darling. Too
late comes the caresslng touch of your fin
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-11-18
GRAPE, CANISTER AND sfaRAPHeL,

An officer in the 18th Massachusetts regi.
rfeht, recently communicated the following
interesting article TO q iSwrencs paper.
Grape consists of nine shots, arranged in
three layers, watch vary in size according to
the gun they are held together by two
plates of about IL Inches less diameter thsn
the caliber Of the guns, two rings, bolt and
nut. The canvass bag arrangement 10 too
old for this war it is not 90 simple or dura-
bic, and has not been used for years. Can.
lister for gun contains 27 small cast iron
balls, arranged in four layers-the top Of six,
the remainder of seven each for howitzer
1t contains forty eight small iron balls, ley
ers of twelve eash for the same calliber, yea
will zee that the balls for canister ars f1 q
tin cy Under, closed at the bottom by o thick
cast iron plate or wooden plate, with
handle attached the intsrstices between the
balls are closely packed with sawdust, to pre-
vent crowding when the piece 10 fred
Shrapnel consists of a very thin shell, ~hich
is filed with musket balls the interstices are
then filled by pouring in melted sulphur q
hole is then bored through the mass of sui
phur and bullets to receive the bursting
charge.
How to explain the difference between
"shrapnel" or spherical case" and /" she'll"
The destructive force Of shrapnel 10 what 1t
receives from the charge in the gun, the pow
der in the shrapnel being only to break the
envelope and spread the balls, they still NOV
ing forward by force of the impulse they re-
ceived from the charge in the gun. A shell
i. made very much thicker than the envelope
of shrapnel, and 10 nearly filed with pow
der, and will do great execution if it e1plodes
on the ground, it having destructive qualities
in itself, aside from the discharge Of the gun.
A shrapnel shell has only half the charge Of
powder that q shell proper has thus 9 "a
FOUNDER shrapnel contains IT'S musket balls,
six ounces ofpowder. and weighs 2l.75
pounds. A 24-pounder shell has twelve
ounces of powder, and weighs 1915 pounds.
A 6.pounder shrapnel has 20 muskst balls
and rs ounces OF powder.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-11-18

A boy Of sotne eighteen summers lay on the
battle Asld near Frsdesieskebuf mortab(y
wounded. He lay oil day, unnindful Of the
scorching and the roaring artillery. Cannon
balls dew past, tanning his pale cheek on their
dssdly mission, but he knew il not. At lsss
he awoke to consciousness and looked around
him. The moon was shining calmly on the
boyish face the blood oozing slowly from
his side was evidences that his young life wa
almost spent.
FOR moment hS pressed his tremblins
hand TO his side to ease the thrsLbiug pain,
snd the pale bloedless lips parted with sigh
of agony. A wounded soldier near, hearing
his groans, inquired If he was badly wound
ed. "Yes," replied the dying boy, 81 ann
dying, and want my mother for when they
compelled mo to lesve her she butle me cone
back to her, for ! was the staff of her declia.
ing years. promised her I would but f
am dying noW, and shall never Gee her more.n
The boy went on to say, for it seemed to
most greatly telisve his mind to talk, wheu
they told my mother her only child was drsit.
ed and would have to 90 to war, ehe said
not word until we were left slone then
she came to mo and laid her white arms
around my neck and kissed me. could not
speak thent SO / returned her caress silently.
At last She spoke "Georse, have buried
two sons, and the ne1t one called WAS you,
father. With sad, almost broken heart,
heard tho clods of the valley fall on bis coffin
lid, and tried To- bear this great affection with
Christian fortitude, and succeeded, for I had
you to iean upon, my son! But the cup that
Abraham Lincoln is pressing to my lips to
night 10 too bitter" and che eel, faintius ON
my boaom. .... ii
1t would be useless to tell you of the days
spent by me to raise money to buy substi.
tu's. We were poor and they told me to 70
and they would care for my mother until
came back. They said it was but nine nonshs
and it woulo soon pass sway. But am pass.
ing away instead, and my poor mother win
be left alone Here hB voice sank to While.
per ans his last words were, |" mother, Aeev-
en''-and the moon came out OF cloud sbd
revealed the childish face set in death. This
was ALL But 10 It sn7 God forgive the a.
isasors of this most unholy war, and bind ub
thS hearts of widows and mothers i'm thoir
great sorrow.-From the Cosvm6vs (OAio,
Crisis.