North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-09-30
Freak of The Draft.

The fickle Dame, Fortune, has cut some
queer pranks in her distribution, Of what the
abolitIonists, facetiously, terms the prizes"
10 Lincoln's lottery. We record few
which have come to our notice. Strange as
it may seem, a large majority of those drawn
in this county are Demccrats--tho so.caIled
sympathizers with JEFF. Davis !" How.
even blud Fate, could have been 30 stupid as
to select any other than Loyal" men to 20
and fight, passes our comprehension. Per-
haps, however, it is arranged that Loyal'
men only, shall fight while the copper
heads" are called upon to foot the BILL We
shall see. The prayers of all the abolition
war bowling preachers have availsd them
not for we find that two of these beauties
are in the train Of couscripts. They will
now have good opportunity to practice
what they have preached. Ifthey think, as
We are informed they do, that niger soldiers
are better than white ones. we would sug
gest that they be put into a niger Regi
ment, that they may suffer no loss of honors
by all association with the "cowardly whites"
We hope TOO, that Old Abe is already pro-
vided with enough old experienced chaplains,
to s-t.e-a-confscate, all The pitchers,
plate and silver ware of the rebels, as fast as
our army reaches it, 30 that these two, di-
vinely annointed, blood thirsty fellows will
find nothing to do bu, to steal nisgers and
fight.
A good strong pull! was made upon Mar
tin Sickier, who was drafted, as well, where
ne was,-in Falls-as where he wasn't in
Overfield. This was also the case with
Charles Mahon, who had two ,ckest," one
IN Overfield and one in Tunkhannock Town
ship. As the former has lately taken wife.
it is suggested that he may duplicate him-
self and comply with the law by going him
self, where he is, and having his "bctter-half''
take his place, where he isn't. The case of
Mahon who has no wife, is more difficult
Both doubtless feel, that Fortune, not only
smiled upon them, but actually snickered
right out.
Michael Clinton whose parents reside in
Meshoppen, but who has not, ms we learn,
for the past five years, been in that Town
ship, more than twelve hours at q time, vas
drafted at that place. He, too, doubtless
feels that he had the benefit of at least two
chances in this " Lottery" Myron Calkins
of Monroe, aged A years,-a married man,
with family, has been smiled" upon, lust
az though he had been young man. Qure
a number of other old chaps have received
this sweet SMILE" and an invitation TO take
a trip tu Troy. In the cases of the TWO Mack's
and Ryan, of Nicholson, the good dame, has
smiled" upon three of Queen Wet .ria's
subjects men who have never runuunced
their allegiance to her Majesty, nor declared
their intention to do So This rather cool
draft from the North has developed almost
all the latent diseases and ailments, which
flesh is heir to. A remarkable case has
turned up, not thousand miles from this
place, Of a big, !Itt,e. old, young man, who.
being one of the abolish, We supposed would
follow the example Of Billy Button, and get
of on the ground that the "cause ofpotato
would suffer-" In his fright he Sc ems to
have forgotten this dodge of BilIy's. Though
he has labored undus.riousiy for the past
fifteen years, to induce some fair damsel to
believe HIM sound bottle OF porter, and
take him as such yet in an unguarded m,-
ment, he has disclosed the fact, that during
all this time, he has been badly busted.--
The government of course, will not take him
for s"idier and we hardly think, any
white woman will take him for husband.
Taken all in al, this draft is funny, uery
funny, indeed! Let's all take a. smile"