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Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1864-12-01
ReG

MISERABLE HOTEL PROPERTY For
IL SALE.-The Furniture and Lease of the ~
House, at T0wanda. Pa, now for sale The hoes
is being thoroughly repaired from garret 10 cellar II
is located at the county seat OF the large and nnr
ing county of Bradford, and is doing good ucTatiya
business. 1t is the Stage House for all stages arrvin
and departing from the town. The property consist
OF everything necessary Tor the complete furnishing
laundry and bathroom in fact, everything desirable far
first rate blainess stand TO person DESTROYS Of en-
tering the business, excellent opportunity is now
offered. POWELL SMITH,
TnManAa Nov
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1864-12-01

COFFINS AND BURIAL CASES.
Our underaker's department will at all times be well
supplied with everything in that line We have the
finest HEARSE in this section, excepting anything
west of New York and will attend funerals within
circuit of twenty miles, reasonable terms
A. o, HART, Agent. F. PAGE.
Athens, Pa, December l, 1864
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18
Rochester Mail Route.

We learn that petition, numerously
signed, from this city, has been forwarded
to Washington for daily mail between
st. Paul and Rochester, and it is hoped
that the people on the route will second
this effort by petitions to the post office
department and letters to our representa-
tives. There is daily stage between St.
Paul and Rochester, and no good reason
exists why the people should not be accom-
modated with daily mail The post offices
on the route are Inver Grove, Empire
City, Cannon Falls, Wastedo, Hader,
Zumbrota, Pine Island, Ororoco and
Rochester. None OF these towns
except Rochester, have mail facilities with
st. Paul, except weekly mail from St.
Paul to Cannon Falls Messrs. BURBANK
u 90. 3 new stage route to Rochester, con-
meets with the Winona and St. Peter Rail-
road at that place. 1t is over one of the
best roads in the State. Passengers from
st. Paul via this route get nights rest at
at Rochester, and take the cars for Winona
in the morning, reaching La Crosse the
second day.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18
When the War WIZ End.

Such is the unanimity Of the South, such
the hatred with which the leaders have in
spired the mass of the people, that we can
never obtain peace upon any terms of union
until the power of resistance is gone. Whether
the point of exhaustion has been yet reached
is uncertain. but in any aspect of the case that
point is near. * The war is to
continue until the South is Overrun, its terri
tory devastated, its armies broken up, its lead
ers dispersed, its shops and factories burned,
and its agriculture rendered unproductive.
Washangtos Correspondent of The Springfield Re-
publican.
This is a fair statement of the admins
tration theory of the war. No peace IN
til slavery is abolished by brute force.
No peace until the "South is overrun, its
territory devastated, its shops and fac.
tories burned, and its agriculture rendered
unprOductive.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18
Peeuniary Aid TO Slaveh oislers.

The Washington Chronicle intimates
that the government is still willing to com
pensate Marylanders whose slaves have
been emancipated by the new Constitution.
It says:
The shareholders have every rational
motive to acquiesce cheerfully in what has
been done, and make the most of the new
circumstances in which they have been
placed. We regard the adoption of the
new constitution as a substantial accep-
lance of the offer of pecuniary aid. 1t was
not to be expected that the sober resolu-
ton ola great community could be ascer-
tanned in less time; and good faith re-
quires, while policy approves, prompt
tulfilment of the pledge on the part of the
General Government and that without in
quiry into the loyalty Of the Shareholders. U
But it will depend, to q great extent,
upon the future conduct of the Maryland
slave-Owners, whether the pecuniary aid
will be voted by Congress, and to what
class of claimants it will be given. If the
people of the southern counties will cheer
fully accept the situation and endeavor to
make the most of it, we are quite sure that
every department of the government will
be animated by magnanimous forgetful-
ness Of the past.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18
How the Rebels Make (sObIet..

A correspondent of the Mobile Register
describes new mode of manufacturing
glass goblets. He SAYS:
saw mine host, DR.. T, doing some
thing last eveaing that was new to me-
Crockery and glassware of the ordinary
kind being we'll nigh obsolete in the Con-
federacy, and especially at Taagipahoa, the
Doctor was simply manufacturing his own
glassware. AS his process is CHEAP, easy,
siple, and worthy of imitation, | will de-
scribe it. Take claret bottle, or any kind
of glass bottle-bottles of thin white
glass, with fiat lotions, are the best-hold
the bottle firmly by both ends; let another
person, havieg a cup of water ready, pass
q stout cotton cord twice round the bottle,
and create friction by pulling the ends
OF the cord to and fro rapidly for min
minute or so; then let him jerk the cord
of, dash the water on quickly, and presto.
you hold in one hand as serviccable tum-
bier or goblet as you need wish, andin the
other neat but gaudy glass candlestick.
The bottle should be held with a strap,
piece of leather, or other substance, with
hard, straight edge, firmly around it at
the intended point Of severance, in order
to keep the cord in one place during the
friction, and to secure straight and smooth
edges to the glassware. Old bottles can
be put to good use in this way.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18
Thanksgiving Day and the L.
Christian Commission.

Rooms or ARMY COMMITTEE U. s. c. C.,t
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. 10, 1864. {
A collection in behalf of the U. s. Christian
Commission i. solicited from all congregations
gathered for worship in this State on next
Thanksgiving Day There can be no more fit
ting time and place for such an object, and no
object can then and there more appropriately
and heartily commend itself to our attention.
The wonderful success of the Christian Com
mission. in the extent Of its operations, the
simplicity, direc,ncss and ncxpensiveness OF
it's working, and tho good done to the souls
and bodies OF our soldiers 10y it's minstralions,
commands the admiration OF all. God has NEST
manifesty approved and blessed it. We need
to bear in mind, however that its work is a
continuous VI ork--that the gifts and labors of
yesterday like yesterdays food, must be re-
peated to supply the wants and relieve the sui-
ferings OF to-day. Not until the asserters and
defenders of our couutry's integrity and honor
finish their work, will ours cease. While they
FIGHT let Us give So long IA the necessity
lasts. let US devote Of orr means-as God may
prosper us-a continuous offering to meet that
necessi.v By order Of the Committee.
ID. -. MERRILL, Treasurer.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18
Proclamation by President Lincoln
A Day OF Thanksgiving Appointed
for the Last Thursday fn
November.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 2l.-The following proc
lamation was promulgated this afternoon:
By the President Of the United States Of
america:
A PROCLAMATION.
1t has pleased Almighty God to proloEg our
national life another year, defending us with
His guardian care against untriendly designs
from abroad, and yOuchsafing to US in His
mercy many and signal victories over
the enemy who is of our house.
hold. 1t has also pleased our Heavenly
Father to favor 10 We'll our citizens in
their homes as our soldiers in their camps
and our sailors on the rivers and seas with I'M
usual health. He has largely augmented our
free population by emancipation and by immi-
grafton while He has opened to us new sources
of wealth, and has crowned the labOrs of our
working men in every department. OF industry
with abundant reward. Moreover He has
been pleased to animate and inspire our minds
and hearts with for.itude. courage and resolu-
ton sufficient for the great trial of civil war,
into which we have been brought by our adj
herence, rs 3 nation, to the cause OF freedom
and humanity, and to afford 10 US reasonable
hopes of an ultimate and happy delivcrance
from all our dangers and Affections.
Now therefore, l, Abraham Lincoln Presi-
dent of the United States do hereby appoint
and set apart the last Thursday in November
next as day which desire TO be observed by
all my fellow citizens wherever they may be,
as o day of thanksgiving and prayer 10 AL
mighty God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler
Of the universe, and l do further recommend
TO my fellow citizens aforesaid, that on that oc-
casion they do reverently humble themselves
in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent
and fervent prayers and applications TO the
Great DispOser of events for return OF the in
estimable blessings OF peace union, and har-
mony throughout the land which it has pleased
Him to assign as dwelling-place for our
selves and our pOsteritv throughout all gene
nations.
In testimony whereof | have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed
Done at the City of Washington, this goth day
OF October, in the year OF Our Lord 1864,
and of the Independence of the United
States the eighty-ninth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President,
VIM. II. SEWARD. Secretary of State.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18
SAINT PAUL.
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.
By the Governor of Minnesota.

In compliance with the statutes of MinnesO.
IA, tho Recommendation Of the President of
the United States, and the sentiments Of the
Christian people of the land, I, STEPHEN
MILLER, Governor Of the State Of Minnesota
do appoint Thursday, the twenty fourth day of
November. inst, as o day of solemn and public
Thanksgiving and Praise to Almighty God.
and recommend that, suspending their usual
avocstions and repairing to their customary
places of worship, the people Of Minnesota do
on said day humbly and earnestly acknowledge
the innumerable blessings which have crowned
theyear.
He has preserved the existence of the ma
ton, COMPOUNDED the foreign and domestic adj
versaries of free institutions, and by many re
cent victories in the field, has placed the brand
of His disapprobation upon the atrocious re-
bellion against the Government OF the United
States.
He has enabled our gallant soldiers, amid the
leaden hail and deadly malaria incident to this
terrible war, to place the name OF Minnesota
among the proudest records of the current bis
tory of the times
of our soldiers and citizens to secure lasting
and honorable peace, upon the basis OF per-
petual Union of all the States, submission to
the constitutional authority of the Federal
Government, the unconditional recognition of
the ensign of the nation, and freedom through
out all the land
While several of our sister States have been
devastated by hostile armies, OR Frustrated by
failure of harvest, our borders have been mer-
cifully protected against the incursions of the
dreaded savage, and o remunerative return has
blessed the labors of our husbandmen.
We should therefore not only repair to His
courts with thanksgiving and praise, but with
duo cOntritiOn and humility it becomes us to
acknowledge our manifold personal and nation
al transgressions and to seek for pardon
through the infinite merits of Him "whO died
the Just for the unjust to bring us TO God"
In testimony whereof have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the great seal of the State,
at Saint Paul, this seventh day of No.
IsRAI1 vember, In the year Of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
By the Governor:
STEPHEN MILLER.
ID. BLAKxLY, Secretary of State
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18

We learn with regret that Maj. EDWARD
JOINS, of the Sixth New York Artillery,
who was reported moi tally wounded under
SHERIDAN in the Valley of the Shenandoah,
has since died of his wounds. He was a
young man of uncommon promise, acting
Colonel of his regiment during part Of the
summer under GRANT, since the beginning
of the campaign against Richmond until
the explosion of the mine at Petersburg,
and since then with SHERIDAN up to the
memorable 10th of October.
Maj. JONES was resident of St. Paul
for few months previous to going into
the army, and made many friends, who
will deeply regret his untimely death. An
other willing sacrifice on the altar of our
country.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18
There were Giants in those Days,

From the New York journal Of Commerce
We seem to be living in an age of mede-
ocrity. The statesmen who govern us :;
the novelists, poets and essayists who try
to entertain and instruct US; the philoso-
piers who speculate on the unfathomable
mysteries OF the human mind: the theo-
log.ans; and several other classes of peo-
pie who follow certain walks of intellac-
tual labor in which past generations have
been renowned, seem to be only second or
third rate. There are apparently no
statesmen like Richleu, Mazarin, Pitt,
Sir Robert Peel, Jefferson, Hamilton, CLAY
or Webster; no novelists like LIE Sage,
Cervantes, Fielding, Smollett, Scott or
Cooper; no essayists like Jeffrey, Sidney
Smith, Christopher North, Talfourd, Ma
caulay or Irving; no poets like Goethe,
Seller, Byron, Gray, Campbell, Moore,
Berangea, and some of the elder American
bards; no philosophers who dive as deep,
and come out as dry Cor wet as the case
may beg as Hobbies, Schleirmacher, Schel
ling, Kant, Hegel, Locke, Sir VIM. Ham
ilton, Jonathan Edwards and dozens more
that might be named; no theological wri-
tiers like Chillingworth, Paley, Butler and
scores Of Others (not a few American now
dead and gone, whose names adorn the
backs of portly volumes in every we'll
regulated minister's library. And so on
in a number of other departments of in
tellectual toll. A Icing catalogue of his
toric names could be quoted to prove an
apparent falling off in the mental apti-
tudes or industry of this generation, in
both the old and the new world, compared
with the past century or two, or even the
past generation People still live, and
great many of them who talk of the
giants of those days." and moan over
the intellectual degeneracy of the age !;
and certainly with good show of reason
when they speak of modern statesman
ship, which really does seem to be nothing
but system of paltry expedients and
makeshifts. animated by spirit of narrow
and vindiotive craftsmanship. 1t is the de-
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18
Resignation or the Bishop Ruperts's
Land.

The London Star Gays: The Right Rev.
David Anderson, D. D., who has been
nominated by Simeons Trustees to the
living of Clifton has resigned his see, and
it will now become the duty of Mr.. Oald-
well, the Secretary of State for the colo
MES, to nominate successor
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18
Postal nIoney.Order System.

We print elsewhere full explanation of
the Postal Money Order System, which
has just gone into operation under the act
passed at the last session of Congress. 1t
is more complex in its details than the
English system, and we fear it will not be-
come 80 popular with the people as its
friends have anticipated.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18

SERGEANT ARCHIBALD MoCoRKLR, Of
Company A, Second Minnesota Volun-
teers, has been promoted to the Second
Ueutenancy of said company.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18

Tue INDIA CoTToN FIELDS. Statistics
published in the latest Liverpool papers
show that forty-seven vessels are now on
the way to England from the East Indies
with cargoes OF cotton ranging from eigh-
teen hundred to seven thousand bales each.
The aggregate amount is no less than 221.-
1854 bales. All these vessels are at sea,
and their arrival at Liverpool at different
periods will keep the cotton mills in epe-
ration for considerable part of the COM
ing winter. The new fields seem to be
doing withdrawing Post.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18

The memory of four years ago is as de-
licious in these times of war and turmoil.
a. cool breeze in the heat of the summer.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18

The Old Union and it's Blessinys--
How It Can be Restored,
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-18

Hon: JOHN NJ. BERRY, of Faribault,
state Senator from that district, has sent
In bis resignation to the Governor.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-16

Abraham Wakcman, Postmaster OF our city,
has been made Surveyor of tho Port of New
York. vice Rufus Z. Andrews, who did not resign.
Unless there he occult reasons for this change,
ID is grave mistake. Mr.. Waterman has been
a pretty good Postmaster, and will doubtless
prove himself good Surveyor. but We think no
better than Mr.. Andrews; and the rule against
swapping horses in nid-stream has moro than
ono application. If Mr.. Andrews has--aS We
brlicve--provcd q faithful, diligent, competent
officer, then he shOnld not have been removed to
crafty single politician ofbygcne consequence
who has been publicly threatening to support
the Chicago ticket in q certain contingency.
The purchased support Of such men IL dear at
any price. and the Surveyorship ia q large priee.
We think Mr. Andrews has been harshly treated.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-16

Tammspy Hall went ahead Of her yaricos
rivals in the Mcclellan State Convention yea
terday. The McKeon, Mozart, and other sidS
shows were made to hide their diminishsA
heads II this policy is vigorously PcrsevereA
in. il may result in the crushing out OF the van
Gus prctgnders to vie with the old wigwans; bus
IL must make some trouble at the outset. Tam
many was beaten by tho Gunther crowd lss>
December; and what has been done once caA
usually be done agnln.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-16
STATE NOMINATIONS.

Tie Mcclellan State Convention at Albany
Yesterday renornnated Horstio Seymour for
Governor, David X. 4. Jones for Lieutenant
Goycrncr, and also nominated Jarvis Lord for
Canal Commissioner and David u. Mcneil for
+stato Prison Inspector. All these nominations
were made without balloting, aud 70 are termed
unanimous. Tho names were on "the slate, i"
and "the slate" was put through-.hat is The
whole story.
We rejoice at the nomination Of Seymour.
lie will now receive that yebuko which he failed
10 administer to the rioters whom he harangucd
from tho City Hall steps in July, 'G3. His
friends" who burned out TIE Orphans from
their Asylum, and hunted harmless women
and bows to death because Of their color. will all
bo on hand 70 vote and shout fer him; bat THE
SOLDIERS will also vote this year, as they could
not two YEAR, ago. and they win settle his cof-
fee Tie wculd have been beaten two yeara
ago b. Twenty Thousand majority had the SOL
der. voted then: thoY vote ncw. IN spite Of one
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-16
"Lot every Unlonist remember" SAM 7,

Philadelphia Agc. "thst Abraham Lincoln an,
neunces that the Abolition Of Slavery Is ID.
only basis upon which no will negotiate ia
peace" Let every Upiouist remember. say we.
that Jefferson Davis announces that the only
basis upon which be will negotiate is the abso-
lute and unconditional independence Of the
South. And yet the Copperheads, with Cen
eral Mcclellan at their head, declare themselves
in favor Of an immediate negotiation. Upon
whose basis, then, We askf Since they 70.
nounce that of Abraham Lincoln, which ~
r,aipsf
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-16
Death Of the Rev. George Poses, D.D.

The dkaih Of this distinguished clcrsyuan. toob
place =. his residence in this city on Thursday
morning.. Sept. IS, in hc siKty-thirt year Of hu
age. ~. Potts was born in Philadelphia, rcecivsd
his academic education at Princeton, and ssatiod
for tho ministry in the Theological soninaryat tIse
place. After receiving ordluation. hc aoccpst
the pastoral charge of Presbyterian church in
Natohel, where no devoted hmsclfto the labors d
his calling for iiftecn years. lilo was then settles
owe. the Duane Street PRESBYTERIAN church in Ne~
York. ord Oh the completion Of the new odihce .
University Place became pastor of tho largo CO..
gregation over which ho has since presided. He -
wide reputation m eloquent preacher d9so,ss
pastor, and an estimsble man in all the relations a
life. Ills namc was brought prominently befss
the public several years since BY controversy viii
the Rev. Dr. wainwright subsequently Bishop %
this diocese) on the rites and discipline Of The Epis
copa church. Dr. Potts had been in falling health
since tho month of July, having suffered an attach
OF paralysis while on visitat Saratoga Springs 10
leaves wife and four children, three Of them scaA
one an officer in the Union army. TIE fuuoral Sih
be celebrated on Monday next in the University
P.gci Church.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-16
of his vetoes, aud they will beat him more than
Twenty Thousand. We thank The Convention

Of his vctoes aud they will beat him more than
Twenty Thousand. 'Wo thank The Convention
for giving them The chance.
Mr.. Jones viii lot 10 beaten quito 30 badly
05 Seymour. r,-
Mr.. Lord is not The man 10 take MIR. Albor-
ger's place on tho Canals; and be will not
Three yeags ago, the Republican aud Union
State Conventions united in nominating Mr.. A.
W. Tappeu, War Democrat, for Prison IN
spector. Tho next year Tappen went against
those who had thus honored him; last year. no
formally renowned sheir fellowship aud cast
his lot with the Opporition. This year his 'rrih
expires, and his Democratic friends refuse hun
a denomination. We do not know that they
had any reason for so doing. save that another
wanted his place who bad not, even once, eban'
doued party for the Union.
This is q good ticket 10 beat. uora'io sey-
mour dare noid eny tlst he graycly proposed III
the Spring of 1861, tia, New-York should avoid
Civil War by adopting the Montgomery Consti-
tuition, and thus placing herself under the rule OF
JEFF, rson Davis. His mcans are now different,
but his end is the Same. Tie People will show
by their votes their dotostation Of both the end
and the means.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-16

poncnt ana representative OF party whose
views arc distinctly, clearly, ind undisguiseoly
sci forth il the Chicago platform. That party
nomination he has accepted. But, terrified q
tho consequences Of association with 50 perilou.
. platform, bis organs a5sioin from reproducirf
it--leaving that task to $40 willing promptnes'
Of the epubi,aas--;,E'i parade thc.f favoEie'
letter Of acceptance e. General Mcclellan
platform" Viii Zee Uoia be cd encoI1 4