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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-04-21
u. s. Internal Revenue.
ANNUAL TAXES FOR 1864.

The attention of Taxpayers is hereby call
ed to the provisions of the United States Ex-
cise law relative to the assessment OF an
nual taxes.
Rv the sixth section of the act of July L,
1869 it is made the duty of all persons, part
nerships, firms, associations, or corporations,
made liable to any annual duty, license, or
tax. ON or before the first Monday Of May
IN, each year, to make list or return TO the
Assistant Assessor of the District where To-
Gated of the amount of annual income, the
articles or objects charged with special
tax. and the business or occupation liable to
pay any license.
Every person who shall fail to make such
return by the day specified will be liable to
the best information which he can obtain /;
and in such case the Assessor is required to
add fifty per centum to the amount OF the
items of such list.
Every person who shall deliver to an As
SCISSOR any false or fraudulent list or state
ment, with intent to evade the valuation or
enumeration required by law, is subject to
fine of five hundred dollars; and in such case
the lis. will be made out by the Assessor or
Assistant Assessor, and from the valuation
and enumeration so made there can be no ap-
peal.
PAYMENT of the annual taxes, except those
for licenses, will not be demanded until the
thirtieth day of June.
The appropriate blanks on which to make
return, and all necessary information, will
be furnished by John N. Stokes, Stroudsburg
Asst Assessor for Div. No. 9, composed Of
Stroudsburg Borough, Stroud, Pocono, Cool
baugh, and Paradise Tsps.; by John Marsh
Fennersville P. o., Asst. Assessor for DIV
No. 10, composed of Hamilton, Chestnuthlll
Ross, EIdred, Polk, Tobyhanna, and jackson
Tsps.; by Geo. F. Heller, Experiment Mill;
P. o., Asst. Assessor for Div. No. II, com
posed of Middle Smithfield, Smithfield, Prlce
and Barrett Townships.
The returns should be delivered on or be-
fore the first day of May, 1864.
SAMUEL OLIVER,
u. s. Assessor, 11th Dist. of Penna.
Easton, March 25, 1864.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-04-21
TREASURER'S SALE OF
unseated Lands
In Monroe County.

Notice IS hereby given, that agreeably to
an Act of General Assembly of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, passed the 18th day
of March. 1915, entitled an ''Act to amend
the act entitled an act directing the mode OF
selling Unseated Lands for taxes and Tor otn-
er purposes, and of an Act passed the I3th
day of March, 1917, further supplement to
an Act to amend the act entitled an act d,-
recting the mode of selling Unseated Lanos c1
for taxes and other purposes by the act OF zen
eral Assembly passed the 9th day OF Marcn
in the year of our Lord l847, entitled an ac'
in relation to the sales of Unseated Lands IN
the several counties of this Commonwealth,
the following tracts of land will be sold at
public yendue on the 18th day OF June, being
the
second Monday Of June Next
at the Court House in Stroudsburg, in the
county of Monroe, for arrearages of taxes
due. and the costs accrued on each lot res
pectively.
For Years 1862 and 1868.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-04-21
THE PASSENGER TRAIN

Leaves GREAT BEND at TAO a. m. after
the arrival at $50 a. m. of the Cincinnati
Express from the West, connecting at Scran-
ton, where it arrives at 1910 a. m. with
train on the Lackawanna and Bloomsbury
Railroad, for Pittston, Wyoming Valley,
Kington and Wilkes-Barre, and by Omni-
bus with the Delaware and Hudson Railroad
at Providence, for Olyghant and Carbondale.
At Hope Station this train connects BY om-
nibus with the Belyidere, Delaware Rail.
road for Phillipsburg, Trenton and Philadel-
phia. At New Hampton Junction, where It
arrives at 2.25 p. m., the same train connects
with Trains on the Central r. K. of N. }.
for Elizabeth, Newark and New York, Eas-
ton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Mauch Chunk,
Reading and Harrisburg. Passengers BY
this train arrive in New York at $50, in
Philadelphia 500, and in Harrisburg at $50
D. IN.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-04-21
The Country Safe!
IL R W. 9999g

The subscriber takes this method of infor-
ming his many friends, and the public gene
rally, that he has returned from the cities,
with large lot of
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-04-21
MASON TOOK,
HOUSE lPAlilNlIlSllfSu
GIaZier, and Paper zaanger,

Will attend to, and promptly execute, all
orders with which he may be favored. From
his long experience in the various branches
of his business, he feels confident of rcnd er
ing entire satisfaction in his work. He
may be found at his shop, on Simpson
street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
Patronage respectfully solicited.
March 90, 1852.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-04-21
Stroud.
TObyllanHah.

Brodhead Garret part 60
Prawl Thomas part l30
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PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
The Largest and Cheapes Stock
ever offered i'm this City.
CHARLIE w. I'D EAN,
Wholesale Dealer

French and German BASKETS, T0OG ana
Willo,o Ware, Notions, Brushes, Oil
Cloths, Cotton Laps. Wadding,
&C., &C., &c.
No. 223 Market-Street, below Second,
(north side,)
PHILADELPHIA.
The subscriber has just opened an entire
Iy new and complete stock of goods of the
best quality and description, to which he
would respectfully call the attention of Mer-
chants and Dealers, who wish to find good
article cheap for Cash.
These goods were bought for Nett Cash,
at the greatly reduced prices consequent up
Don the stringency of the times, and believing
the "nimble sixpence' to be better than the
"sIow shilling" they are now offered to the
public at prices that defy competition.
The following are few of the articles
always on hand:
Pals and Tubs of all kinds and qualities
Toy Pals, Salt and Sugar Boxes, Half
Bushel and Peck Measures, Well Buck
cts, Towel Rollers, Patent head and
straight clothes pins, wash boards,
Wooden Mop Handles, Grain
Scoops, Toy Wheelbarrows,
Com Brooms, every variety
of shoe, paint scrub, and
sweeping brushes, &c.
clothes brushes, baskets, willow and rattan
chairs, skirt ratans, bird cages, clothes lines
bed cords, skirt cords, tie yarns, twine OF al
kinds, together with large assortment o
notions and fancy goods.
Hosiery, Gloues, Shirts. DraoerS, Threads
|
&C., cheap from auction.
These goods nre all new and carefully Sc
lected, and are offered at prices that canno
| fail to attract attention.
Buyers will invariably find it to their o"r
interest to call before purchasing elsewhere
6FParticular attention given to packing
goods for shipment, so as to prevent damage
or excessive charges for freight.
0FOrders by mail promptly attended to-.
CHARLES w. DEAN.
223 Market-st., north side, below End, PhIla
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-04-21
For the Fruit, FoUer and Kitchen Garden.
1854 THE 1864
Gardeners Monthly,
W.G.P. BRINCKLOE, Publisher.
Office % North ,Strth Street, Phila
TERMS~-S1 so A YEAR.

THE MONTHLY CONTENTS ARE
H1NTs--Flower Garden and Pleasure
Ground Fruit Garden; Vegetable Garden
Window Gardening.
CoMMuNIcATIoNs-Embracing the view
Of the best writers on Horticulture, Arborl'
culture, and Rural Affairs.
EDIToRIAL-Givingt the Editors views Oh
the important Horticultural Improvements.
SCRAPS AND QUERIEs-NEw FRUITs-
New PLANTs-DoMEsTIC AND FOREIGN In
TELLIGENCE-FoREIGN CORRESPONDENCE
HoRTIcULTURAL Notices.
With each Department handsomely Illus
trated.
These general features will be retained
and the publisher pledges himself that no Ia
Dor or expense shall be spared to render the
succeeding issues of the Magazine every way
worthy of the favor with which his previous
efforts have been amply rewarded.
Send for specimen.
January %, 1864.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-04-21

For Rats. Mice, Reaches, Ants,
Bed Bugs, Moths i'm Furs, wool
ems, &c insects On Plants, fowls,
Animals, &c.
Put up in 25c. SOC. and S1,0O Boxes, Bot
ties, and Flasks. $3 and 50 sizes for Ho'
Etels, Public Institutions, &c.
"Only infallibe remedies known"
"Free from Poisons."
"Not dangerous TO the Human Family"
"Rats come out of their holes to die"
OEFSold Wholesale in all large cities.
6FSold bv all Druggists and Retailers ev-
erywhere.
Beware.m of all worthless limitations.
IbFSee that "CosTAR's" name is on each
Box, Bottle and Flask, before you buy.
IfbFAddress HENRY R. COSTAR.
Sold by
w. HOLLINSHEAD,
Wholesale & Retail Agent, Stroudsburg, Pa
March "a, 1S64.-6m.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
Letter from Secretary Chase.

The Herald of the 9Th devotes eight or ten
closely printed columns to the grand ovation
to Gen. GRANT on Saturday last in New York.
The speeches were eloquent and in good taste,
but contain nothing very interesting to the
general reader. Among the letters read was
the following from Secretary CHASE:
WASHINGTON, June 3, 1864.
GENrLEMEN-The loyal citizens of New York
honor themselves by meeting in mass to ex.
press their gratitude to the great soldier under
whose lead the heroes of the republic have
achieved so much for their country, to reaf.
firm their devotion to the Union and to pledge
their energies to the complete suppression of
the rebellion. l thank you for the honor of an
invitation to take part in their patriotic action,
and sregret that the necessity of devoting my
whole time to my official duties will make it
impossible for me to be personally present
Nothing can be said, however. in the spirit of
your letter to which my whole heart will not
respond.
Permit me to add that, while we rejoice in
the success of our armies and give thanks to
God for them. we should not forget that there
is one class of defenders of the fag-one class
of men loyal to the Union-to whom we yet
fail to do complete justice. 1t will be the mar
vel OF future historians that statesmen of this
day were willing to risk the success of rebel
lion rather than entrust to black loyalists bull
lets and bayonets
- Very truly yours, s. P. CHASE.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
The Great Flood At Denver.

The Denver City (Colorado) Commonwealth
has long account of the terrific flood which
swept through that city on the 10Th of last
month. 1t was caused by heavy rains at the
heads of Cherry and Plum creeks, both of
which at Denver, are dry for the most part of
the year, but which swelled by the discharges
from the "cisterns of the upper deep" that
were on this occasion broken up assumed the
magnitude of great rivers. A large part of the
city was inundated by torrents of such power
as to sweep away the most solid structures and
| the very lots they stood on. Such was the
fate of the Neacs office. The pecuniary loss is
roughly estimated at a million of dollars.
while some twenty lives were lost. The fol.
lowing particulars are from the Commonwealth !:
Among the victims were C. Bruce HAYNES,
late of the Quartermaster's Office. Gumble
Rosebaum, clothier, Otto Fisher, Qour years
old,) Henry Williamson, who herded stock
for Gen. Patterson down the Platte, woman
and two children from up Cherry Creek,
woman and two children from Plum Creek,
and Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Tyson and two
children. August Metz, of Blake street
bridge, who was carried along with
the torrent eighteen miles to Henderson's
Island, is the only. person wounded whom we
have yet heard Of Among the heavy suffer-
ers efproperty, are Byers & DALEY, publishers
and proprietors of the Rocky Aounfaia News,
who lost their entire all, with the building and
the lot It stood on, A. E. & c. E. Tilton, house,
lot and &c, 600 worth of goods damaged; also,
+; A: Clark, Gen: Bowen, VIM Mckee, Mr..
Charles, Nessrs. Hunt Metz, and others. lost
all they had in store or office, together with
the bildings, and sand substrated lots on which
they stood. Esquires Hall and Kent lost near
ly all their Office books and papers. The bro.
bate Records, City Records, Commissioners
Court Records, Judge Odell's old dockets,
Judge Wicox's dockets, and the city safe itself,
all, all are gone, and whittier the deponent
saith not. @ ..-a. = 49,
In the country, Messrs. Gibson Arnold,
Schiller, Lloyd & Stoner, ranchmen, and scores
OF Others, lost stock, and had their well-tilled
farms desolated into wastes of sand and gravel.
D. c. Cakes lost his saw mill, part of which
was mpelled down the current for few miles.
Messrs. Reed, Palmer, and Bornes lost, collee-
lively, over four thousand sheep Off their
ranches up Cherry Creek. NV
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
The Draft and the $500 Exemption.

Provost Marshal Gen. Fry has written the
following reply to Gen. STEELE. member Of
Congress from New Jersey, constituting the
$500 exemption for communication for the draft {:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
PRovOsT MARSHAL GENERALS OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 20, 1864.
Hon. Vim. q. Steele, U. s. House of Represen-
tatires. Washington, d. c.: ..-
S1R-In reply to your enquiry of this date,
as to length Of time to which the payment of
Communication money exempts man from liza
bility to service, have the honor to state that
the language of the law seems to me to make
the subject plain. The law says s. fanny drafted
person shall hereafter pay moneyfor the prpcur-
alton Of o substitute under the provisions Ofthe
act to which this is an amendment such pay
ment of money shall operate only to relieve
such person from draft in filing that quota. !"
If it should be necessary to make several draw
ing of names in order to fill that quota, that is
to say, the quota already assigned, the person
paying Communication money will be exempt on
account of such payment, from all the draw
ings to I'LL that quota made subsequent to the
one in which he was drawn, and for which he
paid the communication.
/ am, Sir very respectfully. your obedient
servant, JAMES B. FRY,
Provost Marshal General.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
Wisconsin Swamp Lands.

By the official report of 1862, it is seen that
the receipts for that year were &c. 57.13, and
that the school fund was augmented out of il
to the gratifying amount of .Gve thousand mills,
that the Madison Journal got 81 $1,000 for ven.
tllating the institution, and that forty newspa-
pers were aided and encouraged in running
the swamp institution 10 the sum Of five thou
sand four hundred and thirty.seven dollars
Superior Chronicle.
Those who think the swamp lands of Min
nesota have been unwisely disposed of for rail.
road and other purposes, will see by the above
extract that the Grant to Wisconsin has beer
still worsely misapplied. If, in endowing the
railroads with these lands, sufficient security
had been taken that the roads should be bull
within reasonable time, the people would
have been better satisfied with this disposition
of them than they are at present.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17

Letters from different parts OF the State
agree with the newspapers in noting an unex-
pected increase of immigration this year as
compared with the two years last preceding.
Most of those now coming into the State seek
to settle along the lines of railroads which have
been commenced, but Others are met in the
northwest counties of the State and along the
Minnesota Valley, with their families, teams
and household goods, journeying along in
search of some locality to suit them. and, when
found. ready to purchase and commence work
at once. Several Of the drafted men coming
in to pay their Communication, report that they
raised the money by sale of their farms and
growing crops to such immigrants. Nearly
every State exchange reports the arrival of
large numbers of immigrants, some of whom
are from Europe, but majority being farmers
and mechanics from States east and south.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17

1t is estimated that during the fighting of last
week GRANTS losses were over seven thousand
five hundred men. This indicates that LEES
army is still very formidable; if it were not,
no such loss could be inflicted on the Federal
arms outside the intrenchments. A battle is not
to decide this contest. 1t has pleased, and still
continues to please the Washington author
tiles, to delude the people with false
stories of victories from day to day, when
the most favorable view that can be ia
ken of the situation is, that number of bloody
but indecisive engagements have taken place.
The enemy has shown himself sufficiently
strong to infict disastrous blows upon our ar
my in the open field. What are we to do when
he sees fit to take position behind his fortifica-
tons? Our work must then be slow and toll
some, for the siege of Richmond is no holiday
affair. Says the New York World:
Richmond will not be invested as was Don
elson and Vicksburg; it will be besieged from
only one side, and what a siege is under those
circumstances can be understood by referring
to the history of Sevastopol. 1t would take
an army of three hundred thousand men to en-
compass Richmond, and there is no probability
that Gen. Grant will have SO large force at
his command. The prospect, therefore, is of
long siege-a siege not merely ofmonths but
of many months A system of earth work
defenses, like Todtleben's at Sevastopol, can be
used against us, and may prolong CHS unhappy
war indefinitely. The taking of Richmond by
q coup de main is out OF the question. It
is as much as our army can do to
drive the rebels out of stily.thrown-up rifle
pits, but there are very few instances in this
war of deliberately prepared defenses being
carried by assault. Even the demoralized ar
my of Pemberton, when chased into the forti.
fications at Vicksburg, after repeated defeats,
repulsed successfully the victorious army of
Gen. Grant, Lees army as yet, has met with
no such disaster; it is much more ably han
died and hence there is no probability whatev-
er of the sudden capture of that city by an as
sault along the whole line. Nothing bu. a
siege will now insure the ultimate capture OF
the city of Richmond.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
First Battalion with Grant.

1t appears from the following brief note,
which we have received that the First
Battalion Minnesota Infantry, which left here
few weeks ago, is now with Gen. GRANT:
On TRANSPORT, PAMUNKY RIVER,
JUNE 2, 1864.
To the Editor of the Pioneer:
We are to disembark at the White House
to-day, and shall proceed Immediately to the
front.
We hope to join Hancock's corps, but that
is uncertain, as the order has not yet been re-
ceived.
We are few in number but will do our best
to maintain the reputation of the old First.
Yours truly, B.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT


The following is specimen Of the affida
Wits frequently handed in by the drafted mer
to the Board of Enrolment:
state OF MINNESOTA, a..
Ramsey County, So
/, John Smith, of Smithton, in Smith county
hereby certify under oath that having been enrolled
and drafted In and for the said town, county and
State that he is not liable to perform military ser
vice, and for the following reasons 1s On account
of internal weakness that he Is unable 10 eat only
prepared food; that he cannot eat beef hard-bread
or salt food without its producing sickness; and
when he has not dieted he becomes disabled to work
that he cannot walk fast for any long distance with
out being Disabled; and that when he becomes
heated he has a dry cough and internal derange-
ment. I'd. That he has a sore throat, wnlcn De-
comes inflamed and rendered very painful by dust
Signed, sworn to, &c.
The signer of the above affidavit, credltaDly
passed very strict examination and-pald his
$780, Such affidavits are of no use or value
If man is deaf or subject to fits an affidavit OF
his neighbor, knowing to the fact. might be
useful. but in ordinary cases of debility would,
of course, be entirely useless. Drafted men,
generally, will waste their money in patroniz-
ing lawyers. ......
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
The Destruction OF Glen,s Falls,
New York.
PARTICULARS OF TIIE CONFEDERATION.

The village of Glen's Falls, so recently de-
stroyed by fire, had population of five thou,
sand souls and extensive business connections
with Troy and other towns in the vicinity. The
space over which the fire ragged included an
area Of twenty acres, and the flames left not a
market, clothing, dry goods OR drug store
bank or printing office, and hardly church.
The fire was much larger, in proportion, than
the one at Troy in 1862. The TROY Times
says:
The fire spread from the kitchen of the
Glen's Falls Hotel almost instantly in each di-
rection. There was gale of wind blowing
from the west and the flames leaped towards
distant buildings, sometimes sparing others
near by. The fire spread up Glen street, TAX
ing the buildings on each side as far as the Div
idend Insurance Office. 1t extended up Ridge
street on each side to Mr.. Lapham's including
the square at the junction of Ridge, Glen and
| Warren streets 1t destroyed in all at least 1875
| buildings
The fire pretty we'll burned itself out at last,
and the wind went down. Human efforts were
powerless to stay the direct force of the con-
| migration, but the fremen of Glen's Falls,
Sandy Hill and Fort Edward, did much to save
individual property and thus check the pro-
gress of the flames. Not till nishtfall was
their spread stopped-the fire commencing
about four o'clock. ...
! Few active participants in the work of STAY
| ing the fire were aware of its extent. The loss
is estimated at from $500, 900 to $500, 900, upon
which there is an insurance of less than one
half. The scene among the ruins is terrible,
and cases of individual hardship are numerous,
Rev. Mr.. Fennell, Presbyterian minister, has
the peculiar sympathy of his friends, from the
fact that he had just spent his entire means in
purchasing and identifying his house. which
was total loss. The residents of this &C.
ahead village, undeterred by temporary calam-
ity, propose to commence the work of rebuild
ing their stores and houses at once.
During the fire the road half way to Sandy
Hill was lined with furniture. Many hundreds
of people stayed out doors all night.