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North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-05-11
THI Singer SEHITG MACHINES.

Our LETTER A. FAMILY. SEWING MACHINE
is fast gaining n worldwide reputation. 1t Is be-
yond doubt the best and cheapest and most beautiful
Of all Famil7 Sewing Machines yet offered to the
public. No other Family Sewing Machise has
many useful appliances for Hemming, Binding, Fell
ing Tucking Gathering, Guaging, Bi aiding En-
brodering, Cordrg, and so forth 10 other Family
Sewing Machine has so much capacity for a great
variety Of work 1t viii sew all kinds of cloth
and with all kinds of thread. Great and recent inn
provements make our Family Sewing Machine most
reliable, and most durable, and most certain in ac-
ton at all rates OF speed 1t makes the nterocked
stitch which is the best stitch known. ANY one ev-
en- of the most ordinary capacity, see at glance
how to use the letter A. Family Sewing Machine
Our Family Sewing Machines ire finished in chaste
and exquisite style.
The Folding Case of the Family Machine Is
piece Of cunning workmanship of the most useful
kind. 1t protects the machre when not in use and
when about to be operated may he opened as q spa
cious and substantial table to sustain the work.
woods, are finished in the simplest and chasest
ner possible, others adorned and embelished in
the most costly ana superb manners.
1t IS absolutely necessary to sec the Family Ma
chine IN operation, to judge of Its great capaci
ty and beauty.
1t is fast bee ming popular for family sewing
as our manufacturing machines are for manufactur-
ing purposes
The Branch Offices well supplied with silk
ity.
Send for PAMPHLET.
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY
ass Broadway, New York.
gPhfIadeIphia Office, $40 Chestnut St.
D nhs. A 8 B,FDNnI4 T. MAnsH' Agt's in runkhannock
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RAILROAD.
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EXPRESS PASSENGER TRAINS

IN and after Monday, November 25th 1861, Trains
J will run as follows:
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Fall and Winter Goods
purchased entirely for Cash) ever offered in MILL
TOWN, which he is selling at
UNCOMMON LOW PRICES!

His. Stock, which he intends to
keep always Full, embracese very
thing wanted by the People in this
Place, and customers can at all times
rely on getting the Articles they may
want, at Satisfactory Prices. He is
not to be undersold by any, and asks
the Public to call and examine his
STOCK. He would ask the LADIES
OF call and Examine his Assortment of
LADIES' DRESS GOODSl
AND FANCY Giles g,
OF WHICH HAS tke FIRST CHOICE.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-05-11
Del, Lack. - Western Railroad.
THE FPASSENGER TRAIN

I EAVES GREAT BEND AT I 40 4 NJ, AZ
IL ter the arrival at $50 a.m.of the CTNCINNA-
Fl EXPRESS from the West, connecting at
SCRANTON. whore it arrives at 1910 a. m. with Il
train on tie LACkAWANNA and BLO0MSB RG
RAILROAD. for PITTSToN, WYOMING VAL
LEY, KINGSTON and WILKES BARRE and with
the DELAWARE AMI HUDSON RAILROAD for
PR evidence. OLYPHANT and CABB0NDALE.
At HOPE STATION this train connects by omnibus
with the BELNIDERE DELAWARE RAILROAD
for PiIiLIPSBURG, TRENTON and PHILADA.-
At NEW HAMPTON JUNCTION, whore il ar
rives at 2.Z3 p. m the some train connects with
trains on the CENTRAL RAILROAD of New Jer-
sey, for ELIZABETH, NEWARK, NEW YORK,
EASTON, BETHLEHEM, ALLENTOWN, MAUCH
CHUNK. READING and HARRISBURG. PaSseu-
gers by this train arrive in NEW YORK at $50, in
PHILADELPHIA at 100, and in. HARRISBURG
mt S 20 p. m.
Tho trains leaving foot of CGURTLAND ST,
NEW-IORk, at 500 a M, anl KENSINGTON
DEPOT, PHILADELPHIA, at 10 d. m. connect
with the Passenger Train of this road, leaving NEW
HAMPTON JUNCTION Mt II 20 a. IN. and arrv-
ing at SCRANTON AT 1 02 p m where it connects
with a train ON the LACKAWANNA and BLOOMS
CRG RAILROAD, and with the omnibus running
to the DELAW ARE and HUDSON RAILROAD -
This train arrives at GREAT BEND at 6 10 D.
m, making a close connection with the mail train
going West on the ERIE RAILWAY.
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Superintendent's Office, }
Scranton, Nov. 2j. 1861. !
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-05-11
AYERS
CHERRY PECTORAL,

The Worlds Great Remedy for
Coughs, Colds, Incipient Con-
sumption, and for the relief a,
OF Consumptive patients
in advanced stages
Of the disease. '-'.'
This has been so long used and so univcr.
sally known, that we need do no more than
assure the public that its quality is kept up 10
the best it ever has been, and that it may be
relied on to DO al. it has ever done.
Prepared by DR.. J. c. AVER & Co,
Practical and Analytical Chemists,
Lowell, Mass.
Sold by al druggists everywhere. f
:. Stark. Tuukhannork; T d. Spring, LaceyvilIe
Harding Il Co., Nicholson; E & j. Frear, Factory
lille, and by dealers in Medicines everywhere.@ ~
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contamnation is yariously caused by mercurial
disease, low living, disordercd digestion from
unhealthy food, impure air, filth and filthy
habits, the depressing vices, and, above all. BY
the ycnereal infection. Whatever be its origin,
1t l.; hereditary in the constitution, descending
I" from parents 10 children unto the third and
fourth generation" " indeed, it seems TO be the
rod of Him who says, will visit the iriqui.
tics of tic fathers upon their children" Tbs
diseases which it originates take various names,
according to the organs it attacks. in tho
lungs, Scrofiila produccs tnbcrcles, and finally
Consumption; in the glands, swellings which
suppurate and become ulcerous sores in tho
stomach and bowels, arrangements which pro.
duce indigestion. dyspepsia, and liver coan-
plants; on the skin, eruptive and cutaneous
affections. These all having the SAME origin,
require the same remedy, viz. publication and
invigoration of the blood Purify the blood,
and these dangerous distempers leave you.
With feeble, foul, or corrupted blood, you can.
not have health with that life of the flesh !"
healthy, 1ou cannot have Serofulous disease.
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WAN TED.
AuctiOn!! AuctiOn.,!

L. q CosKLIS, licensed auetioneer under the late
aw Of Congress, offers his ser7ce to all persons hay
Nc property to sell bv vendue or Auction
EHmRbaeRosk MRrSh 2nd 1864 L. C. cnNFTTN
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-05-11
AN ACCOMMODATION TRAIN

leaves SCRANTON at 1910 a. m, connecting at
GREAT BEND with the day Express train West on
the ERIE RAILWAY BY this train passer gers ar
rive at ITHACA, SYRACUSE, BUFFALO, sc. the
SINE day. Returning, this train leaves GREAT
BEND at 22O p m, the arrival of the NEW
YORK EXPRESS going East and BUFFALO EN-
PRESS going West, and arrives in SCRATON at
80 p,
JOHN BRISBIN, Superintendent.
R. A. HENRY, General Ticket Agent
Scranton, June Is. 1863
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Ayers Sarsaparilla

is compounded from the most effectual anti.
doteS that medical science has discovered for
this affecting distenper, and for the cure of fhe
disorders ii entails. That it is far superior 10
any other remedy yet devised, is known by all
who have given il a trial That it does COM
binc virtues truly extraordinary in their effect
upon this class Of complaints, is indispufablv
proven By the great multitude of publicly
known and remarkable cures it has made of
the following diseases: Kings Evil or
Glandular Swellings, Tun1ors, Ernp-
tons, Pimples, Blotches and Sores. Ery.
sipelas Rose OF St. Anthony's Fire, Salt
Rheun, Soald Head, Coughs from tu-
berculous deposits in the lungs, White
Swellings, Debility, Dropsy, Neuralgia,
Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Syphilis and
Syphilitie Infections, Mercurial Diseases,
Female Weaknesses, and, indeed. the whole
series Of complaints that arise from impurity
Of tie blood. Minute reports of individual
cases may be found in AYERS AMERICAN
ALMANAC, which j, furnished to the druggists
for gratHtOUS distribution, wherein may be
harmed the directions for its use, and some of
the remarkable cures which il has made when
all other remedies had failed to afford relief.
Those eases arc purposcly taken from all sec
tiUnS OF the country, i'll order that every reader
NAV have access TO some one who can speak to
him of It's benefits from personal experience.
Srrohda dcprcS>cs the vital energies and thus
leaves i, victims iAr more subject to disease
aud its fat': results than are healthy constitu.
tOus. Hence it tends TO shorten, and does
great, Shorten, the ny yerage duration of human
.e. The vast importance of these considera-
tuns has lei is to spend years in perfectinga a
remedy which i adequate to its cure. This
Ne now offer to the public under the nane Of
-iyEH's SARsAPARILLA, although it is COM
pa-l.t Of ingredients some of which exceed the
hest of SuFs,pdriHd in Alternative power. By
lis aid ynu may protect yourself from the suffer-
iug and danger Of these disorders. Purge out
the foui corruDt.ons that rot andsfcsier in the
L9od; purge out the causes of disease, and
vigorous health viii follow. BY its peculiar
virtucs this remedy stimulates the vital sfune.
tions, end thus cNpc!s the adstempers which
lgrk within the system or burst out on any
part.o it. as -s - e ~ "s-4'.a
We know the public have been deceived b,
many compound, OF .Sirs.TG'Ilia, that promises
much and did nothing: but they viii neitter|s re
deceived uor disappointed in this. Its virtue
have been proven by abundant trial, and there
remains 10 question Of It's slTpassing excellence
for the cure Of the atfiicIing diseases it is in
tended to reach. Although under the same
name il is very different medicine from any
other which has been Lctore tie. people, and is
far more ettcrtual than any other which has
ever been available 10 them
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1864-04-15
TAX NOTICE.

All persons interested are hereby notified
that the following tracts of land and town lots
lying and being situated in the county Of Man
itowoc and State of Wisconsin, remaining unrc-
deemed in the Office Of the Clerk Of the Board
Of Supervisors Of the county Of Manitowoc and
State Of Wisconsin. for the taxes due ami I'M
paid thereon for the year One Thous and F. .ht
Hundred and Sixty. for which said taxes the
said tracts Of land and town lots were sold on
the 9Th day Of October 4. H. 1861. Now.
therefore. unless the amount OF taxes interest.
fees, and charges set opposite the several
tracts of land and town lots a herein describ-
ed. including thirty cents advertising fees for
each and every such description. be paid on or
before the 9Th day Of October. =. D. 1864 ac-
corling to the time when said tracts Of land
and town lots were sold a. above-state1, the
same will be conveyed To the purchaser or his
assigns in pursuance Of the statutes for such
case made and provided.
ADOLPH WITTNANN,
Clerk County Board Of Supervisors.
Dated Nanitowoc. March g 1864,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1864-04-15
From the Philadelphia Sunday Mercury.
LYRICS FOR THE TINES.
By PETER PEPPERCORS.
THE COPPERHEAD.

THE COPPERHEAD.
TrsR-' Green Grow the Rushe5. 0 -
Old Abe and his hirrling crew.
Both in and out Of season, Q,
The Abolition crew renew.
And brand your name with treason, 0.
Because you viii not Niger try,
And freely BY the nose be lei
To brighten you they daily say
By calling you CopPcrhead.
CHORUS.
Then hurrah for Copperhead,
lIurrah for Copperhcad
1t has the sterling sound Of cash,
There : premium On a Copperhead.
Our land today is rnel b. knaves,
Backed up IS sword and trigger, o;
VINO try to make az willing slaves,
And equal to the Niger. 0;
AL you that would such mcnials be,
And take a niger wife to wed,
Miscegenate but az for me
d rather be Copperhead
CHORUS.
Rather he a Coppcrheai,
Rather be Copperhead.
No mental, niger wife for me,
III rather be Copperhcad
The raving Abolition set
Having caused all orr disasters 0,
And loaded IA with tax and debt
Reduced us to shinplastcrs o:
They have abolished pence and gold,
And substituted war and lead
And if you don't the power uphold
They brand YOU as a Copperhead.
CHORUS
Brand you as a Coppcrhead,
Brand you as Copperhead
II you won't kiss Abs toe,
They brand you a. 4 Copperhead.
A q!orjous name however meant
No name could Be more proper, o;
Shinplastcr men are ten per cent.
At least below good copper. o;
Let Shoddyites contractors all.
Fall down and worship Uncle Ned;
Although they fh.tafs1. .t.a and b,ri,
They cannot scre a Coppcrhead.
CHORUS.
Then hurrah for Copperhead,
Hurrah for Coppcrhcad
Br.yc boys we glory in the name
Of DEMOCRATIC CoPPEEHEAD.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1864-04-15
TOWN 11-RANGE 81.

Clerk County Board Of Supervisors.
atel Nanitowgc Iarch 3 1864.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-15

war.
systematically opposing every measure
yet devised Tor successful prosecution
Of the war, and having M mode of their
own for an honorable solution Of existing
troubles, these malcontents seek to iusti
fly their course by creating distinction
between the Government and its Admin
stration; confronting US with the novel
doctrine that the Government is the Con
stitution and the institutions founded Their
on, while the Administration is merely
the agents chosen by the people, and res
ponslbie to them. Assuming to act upon
this theory, they claim the right to OBJ
pose the latter, while pretending to sup.
port and maintain the former.
This dangerous paradox is ct compan
Ion OF the doctrine Of Estates Rights
which held the American Union to be-
only league between sovereign States.
dissolvable at their will; and that the
citizen owed . paramount allegiance to
his State, and only a subordinate one to
the Federal Government. A doctrine
which, although denounced by the stern
old leaders of democracy, as destructive
of the Union, yet succeeded in diffusinp
Its subtle poison through the Southern
mind, and, finally, eliminated in the
crime of treason
1t needs but . word of refutation.
90 but adopt the idea of great writer,
when | say that our free, written Con.
stituslon is not government, but the war
rant and representative Of Government.
1t is not power, but the symbol of power,
and will. in any emergency, prove Alto
gether useless, unless the power for which
's stands be forthcoming. Where does
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-26
TEE TBEBUNE.

Notwithstanding the enormously increased
expenses attending the publication OF 1HE
TRIBUYE. occasioned by the employment
cf humorous army correspondents and other
liberal expenditures, as well as by the adj
vance in the price of paper and other materials we
have resolved, for the present at least, not to In
crease the subscription prices of either our Weekly
or Semi Weekly papers, but to continue to furnish
shom a; s. and 50, respectively, per annumi beng
1he same prices which were established more than
twenty years ego, when the cost was only abont
ons-third of what IL is at the present time Our
Terms will be found below and we wish it to be dis
tinctly understood that t-vS-these Terms will be
strictly and literally adhered to, and that no other
attachments or discounts than those mentioned will
be allowed in any case whatever
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-26
AN OHIO BATTLE-FLAG IN TIN
HANDS OF A BISHOP.

The recent session Of the Pittsburg Annual
Conference of the Methodist Protestant
Church. was characterized by an incident
of patriotic and thrilling interest. Bishop
Simpson followed the Introductory exercises
with speech, an hour and half long, with
out manuscript, in which he held his vast
audience of cultivated Christian gentlemen,
spell-bound, under his discussion Of the four
ouestous:-" Shall our Government be O.
stroyed and swept from the Earth Can we bs
divided into two or more Governments She'll
we have O new form OF Government Is not
the Nation TO rise out Of its present troubles
better. firmer and more powerful" During
the whole Of the address Of this wonderful
orator, the assembly, in deep silence, hung
upon his lips, save when applause was struck
out of them as with blows of magnetism. But
a scene ensued, in the delivery OF ms peror-
alton. that will make this Conference memoir
able to every one who attended il. An eye
witness says:
"Lnyine his hands on the torn and hall ridled cocrs
OF the d Ohio he spoke of tho bateheds where they
had been baptized IN blood, and described their beauty
a. some small patch OF azure filed with stars that An
angel mad snatched from the heavenly canopF u SET
the stripes IN blood. With this description began
scene TINT Demosthcncs might Lave cnycd All over
tie vast assembly handkerchefs and hats were waved
and before the speaker sat down the whole thros arose.
os Inv a magic influence and screamed, and shouted,
and salnied and stamped and clapped ana wep' anu
laughed in wild excitement. Colonel Moody sprihH 10
the tor of a bench and called for the star sphnsed
Banner which was sung or rather shouted, uh'h ~
audenca disuerscd rs u had 10 usptrse
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-26

tn, Yant,,s miohi

through the narrative Of his career tn, Yant,' night
hare taken Richmond after che battle Of me SsreH FiHe'
p4sn our forces pere in confusion. Afr hs oaiIe "
Hanover Court House he miS hare done ts same n.inS
Af,er the battls Of AEtistsm the same .
In the report of the battle he c0nylcts hpsei OF
falsehood in the most garng manner He excuses MN
self for not renewing battle the morning OF the icth
by saying his losses great, and there was 90
much Reorganization In Of the commands, that no
did not think proper especially ss no was sure OF tne
arrival that day Cf H. 900 fresh lie happens 10
reoolsot' the return Of his enemy Hookers corps VIZ
Is OOO for duty and four days after the same corps
showed 3 500 Yet after this admission OF loss and
Reorganization he closes by claiming great victory
with capture of Is guns 80 oOIors. l3OOo small arms
and 5000 prisoners.
His b6mDasio dispatches FROM Western VireSns
secured his elevation. His reputation WIS founded on
lies In lies he lowered and under Hes he Is LOST
crushed How fortunate for that he was chosen cef
~ the Yankee army With the immense numbers al
his command an officer of truth. enterprise and daring
would have pushed sOrclS but he was IN awe OF MS
dishonest reputation His lies made him coward. ana
from the first day the last of his military oareer he
did not dare single occasion to expose himself 10
fire A mendacous. dastardy boastcr. he persisted 50
unmunfuly ,ba, the rdcuJusless Of his last moment
destroys every vestigc Of obligation conferred by MS
vain glorious pretensions'
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-26

will shove the Confederate widows Pension Bill
through this week. / think we had better
separate the children. and the mothers ana
fathers, and tho sisters and brothers, aud the
nieces and nephews, and make eight different
bills, with different proceedings and commits
soners. There is lot Of needy good fellows
down there to provide places for But these
pensions will wiring the Life out OF you fanks'
eyes! mortgage 'em into good be-
havior for thousand years. The South had
right to secede. Why did they try to fight her
back and in the unholy endeavor fill her with
widows and orphans 7"
Another Senator would say: Mr. Vice
President / want fair shake. Here are the
amendments to this Virginia Sufferers Bill,
that are not half completed, and there are
twelve other States whose sufferers by the Yam
kee war have got to be provided for this Ses-
SION Now I want fair chance at the unap-
propriated moneys on hand. just speak to
JQluson and Buckalew, and get an understand
ing, that all these reunion measures shall have
ali equal chance-thst there be 10 'frst-come
first-serve' grab at the cash in the Treasury"
"What will the Virginia Sufferers Claims
amount tot"
"Oh, we have stopped considering the claims
of single States, and are trying TO find out how
much the thirteen martyr States can get,
without utterly busting this Yankee concern
1t is the toughest financial problem I ever
tackled. How much do you think the national
credit can stand, after the war debt and other
measures are provided fort Never mind the
below par-let the scrip have any value you
please-be merely marketable"
my dear fellow, have not ciphercd on
that. only know that my Southern brethren
suffered causelessly, and are entitled to pay for
their losses"
81 hear that Mcclellan has been set up
against these Bills by Belmont, who hasn't any
of the claims. You don't think we will have
any difficulty with him, do youf"
AZ think not lie il committed to the unjusu-
fabeness Of the war, and | would just like to
see him buy bottle Of veto ink. Beside, he
may die, you know. Two soldier Presidents
have died, providentially leaving sensible poll
ticians Vice-Presidcnts to take up and carry the
Government Southwark, where it ought to CO.
VicePrcsident Pendleton grows on US. There
is too much of him for our space to-day.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-26
GENERAL. NEWS.

The Brooklyn White Lead Works, Occu-
pying an entire block. bounded by Washington.
Adams, Front and Watersheds were set on FIRE YES
terday afternoon and with the exception Of four build
ngs one at each Of the block totally destroyed
The damage is estimated at 100000. The eBbcra
from the burning building were carried 10y the wind.
which was blowing strongly at the time to a consider
able distance aud set fire number OF houses among
others the Catholic Church Of the Assumption the Gu
poa OF which was destroyed by the flames and the In
terror much damaged by water.
A Lincoln and Johnson banner was raised Oh
Saturday afternoon in the Third Ward at the corne
Of Reade and Washington.streets. Mr. L. H. Garbuti
presided and speeches made on behalf OF the
Union cause and candidates BY the Chairman and
Messrs s D. butcher. e. 5. Spencer. james Haggert!
and Gen. Bruce. Canal Commissioner Dodworthl
band was present, and enliyened the proceedings
is strains.
The subscriptions TO the Seven.thirty loan
reported 10 date amount 10 go 3sl, 500
Gold is again lower, and closes weak. The open
Ing rate wac 22 followed by steady decline to 200 when
general rush was made SELL and the quotation forced
sa From this rate under purchases to short the
marke, rallied to and finally closed POS The specuk
ton IN gold has received check and operators for
rise do not talk at all confidently OF the future The decline
has been sufficient the price Of merchandise and t.
Great. general disposition to sell bs importers and obbers
The Stock has been very excited Throughout the day
and the uctusons have been rapid and fatal to weak holders
especially in the scve shares Fresis dull and
again esse Money has been active under the rapt
decline IN gold and stocks bat at per cent the street
fully supplied Loans upon gold looked upon with dsfa
vor and large margins strictly insisted upon.