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North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17
S}E(IsteOaneo>ls,
VIVA AGAIN.
BY GEORGE MARTIAL.

1t has been rearly three months since
have seen my little friends, Lou and Viva
Baracole. Silken founces no mere rustic in
my hall: my study is forgetting bouquet de
Caroline, and the little stool in the corner is
getting quite an old-time look for want OF use
The girls have been spending the summer ou.
of town, visiting On the Hudson, and the last
three weeks at their own pretty cottage ON
the seashore. From that locality have re-
ceived several letters from Viva, who has en-
stalled me as father-confessor, embodying
material for frst-class romance, with the
Lelp of the usual sensation' style.
The summer had been rather a hollow af
fair 70" Viva, who, for reasons best known to
herself, had on hand little private stock of
restlessnesS and discomfort. She had flrted,
danced, and laughed; been always weldress-
ed and gay in word, played her part in the
sorry degrading farce to perfection, and paid
for it as do all forgees; with double inward
misery.
When at last their travelling trunks stood
on their own piazza, her sensation was one of
relief.
" am so glad" she said, YEARLY. "Here
can be at rest and by myself You and
Guy can entertaineach other father will be
busy with his old friends, and in my own
room. or walking by myself, car have the
rare luxury Of looking as feel. This whole
boc hoou SrInh 6iSoTtct onl -
ness to me-"
Lou, who had felt something of Vivia's
heart sickness, longed to console but, being
wise in her generation, forbore, and only
wrote to Phillip instead-the consequence of
which was letter to Viva on the fourth day
Of their arrival. She opened it carelessly
enough, sitting at the breakfast-table, linger-
ing over her last cup of coffee, read it with
start, turned very pale, and handed it to Lou.
1t was from Phillip, who stated that he was
only few hours behind it. He was coming
cause Of Vivia's late silence, and put an end
to doubt forever.
Lou read it coolly, as she does every thing
(though, to tell the truth, she could hardly
have been expected to have been so very
much surprised, as she had suggested some
sach course of action in her letter. folded it
up and handed it back.
"Well," she said, "I see no need of turn
ing pale. We have all our chests here. and
the spare room is in order. We are quite
prepared for the attack"
80 Lou! how can you ?"
"How can what ?''
The two girls were alone. 1t had been a
habit of theirs, since the death of their moth
er, to breakfast together in their own room.
Viva got up, and coming round by Lou, sat
down at her feet, and laid her head In her
sisters lap.
go Lou !" she said, pitifulIy, "you know
very well what is the matter. He is coming
to know why have been silent, and +"
Well"
II must tell him, of course. There is no
other possible way. III could deceive him
even in the smallest detail, must sink lower
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17

TIE President AND THE NEGGERS.-Pres-
'dent Lincoln, in presenting his views to the
Senate and House of Representatives, on the
subject of negro emancipation in the South.
saws: - IS insisted that heit presence
aromld injnre and djsplace phite h1bor and
tChHe k06OTerS. L there erer could be a time
for mere arguments, that time, surelv. as not
n0lU "
This, then, according to his logic, is not thc
time to advocate the interests of the wnita la
boring men of the North, many of whom are
In the army fighting the battles of their cOun
try. The negroes must he permitted to food
the Northern States. and drive out the white
laborors, because the President has assure |
US that at they leace their old pieces they
teare them open To- arh,te laborers" Tha, Is,
if the negroes come North to I'LL our work,
shops, mines, &C., &C., the poor labprng men
in the free States must be sent to fill the
place vacated by the negroes in the cotton,
rice and sugar fields of the South. The
workingmen Of Pennsylvania will not fail to
appreciate the logic of an Abolition President
who Is endeavoring TO reduce them to the de-
graded level of the negro That portion of
the Presidents Message is an insult to the
white freemen of the North. The Abolition
lists may endeavor to disguise the fact as they
wifi, the whole aim of their party has been
to elevate the negro at the expense of the
white man.-Er.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17

e If Mt l. ncnin eau suggest no bet
ter rene ly To restore the natl ,n than the
one he suggests in hi< Message, to abolish
slavery by tile year 1920. he h,l batter f,l.
low the a lv.ce OF his Illinois client f,s he
told the story 10 CIV. NJ M'orehead of XVI
who when he found that the evidence was
strongly against him in case IN Court, told
him to "gup ii up." We think he had bet
tet abi'cate in favor Of some man of more ex-
tended CAPACITY.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17

An Englishman boas.ing to an Irishmar,
that porter was meat and drink, soon after
became very drunk, and returning home fell
Into ditch, when Pat discovering him ex-
claimed:
Gan faith, an you said it was mate and
drink to ye and by me sowI it's much
better thing, for it's washing and lodging,
toon
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17

VOICE FROM THE ABOLITION CAMP.


The Boston Commonwealth, Hon. Charles
Summers organ, says
1t is said tha: once there was man who
thought that if he should run two niles lie
could jump over a mountain. When, after
his run, lie reached the base of The mnunia ain
he sat down to rest We are reminded OF
this individual by the Presidents tne>sase.
Taking hundred days start he nears the
base o. his mountsin; but it seems is very
tired and sits down to rest. He mods. New
er did wide-awakes usher in a more heavy
eyed President, Here, evidently fallen
asleep, he takes to dreaming OF the year 1900
Is it that despairng of the present he is turn
ing his attention to future savatinn2 1t will
doubtless occur to many that We have about
as much as we can attend to TO deal with De-
cember 1862, without undertaking the bur-
thens Of the second generation from this
Possibly that generation may have brains of
its own 10 deal with its own affairs
The President says that slavery is the
cause Of the war; the cause ofits continuance !;
that we can have no peace So long as 1t ex
ist6. Then his proposition can only amount
| to proposition to continue the war until the
year 1900 4!
To get any gleam of hope from this mes
sage is like trying to extract sunbeams from
cucumberS so m1ch is SAID to the point of
that which is nothing to the point but the
least Objectionable thing in it is that he indi-
Gates an intention to adhere t. his proclama-
| ton. The question. however, arises, If the
| President means to carry out his cdict of
| freedom on the New Year, what is all this
stuff about gradual emancipation
| The gnns Of our army and navy cover to-
| day one million slaves Will the President
on that day strike the letters from that mill
tend to that, and, for Coils sake lei the
| Twentieth century al ne He Is our Presi
/ ident, not that of posterity.
The rev articles FOR the Constitution
are ludicrIous, and one can hardly Lelleve
that Orphens c. Kerr did not have his peck
ct Telegraph dn the tines, aud so manage tn
insert several paragraphs. One of these ar.
| ticl"s graVely imports that after we have got
State free from slavery and tie slaves paid
| for, il that State wants to re establish slave,
| ~, it may quietly do SO, only it must pay Us
| back ont money!
| One sentence IN the message strikes US as
di>ingenuous. 1t says, ' Some would abolish
Is suddenly and without compensation' A.
1t the idea of C 'mpensation had anything t.
do with the grldnalness of emancipation !
The President must be h"pele-sly ignorant if
he does moi know that all buta av.rv few
emancipatinnsts in this country are in favor
OF striking at slavery directly ani immediate
iv; that they believe that slavery can be
reache only by the war po wn,c h from
it, very nature acts upon ah -exIgency and
that many emanc pationlsts fav Jr conipeusa-
ii,
The fact is the President seems TO be man
of inadequate cabre; lie does not comore
hend his position !; he has exhausted himself
apparently in taking up the gauntlet which
The South threw d,wn. Either this theory
is trae, or else that Mephstoples, Seward,
! is paraiyzng his powers.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17

SENTENCED. - Two negroes recently con-
viced at Greensburg, Of rape, have been sen.
fenced TO nipe Years and n'pe months lmpris
onment in the Western Penlteniiarv. The
sentence is a severe one, but their crime was
most atrocious, and in community less law
abiding that that in which the outrage was
perpetraled, would have ended in the lynching
of both the culprits.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17
E1 There are two WAYS ufllvine so a,

% There are two Ways uf living so as
to De missed. A man may be a scatterer Of
fire brands, arrows and death. lie will DO
missed when ha is taken away Ga the 9TH
er hand he may be So active in his works Of
henevoitnce, he may cau>e the hearts of so
many to r'j ice. he may be the support ani
stay ct So many, that when be di he is
missed, his loss Is Surely fe!t. Would we be
missed u we were suddenly re,nnved from
the earth ! What hearts would be made sad
what good cause would suffer,
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17

- The Harrisburg Union says that
If there is any Dem 'cratlc member in the
State who has M ,de up his MN to vote for
General Cameron for United Stai,s Senator.
he had better settle h,s worldly affairs. NIKE
his peace with Heaven, aud bld last. affec.
tl"nale farewell to his family aud constltu.
entS, before he starts f,r III ,rris sburg. SEQ
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17
poet' $ Corl'er.
The Home of My Youth.

AO U4 IL
Can this be the home of my youth
Where in childhood 1 gambold and play'd?
Can this be the house where Iliv'd?
And is that the same room where I lay?
Oh where is that tree, where the birds
Came so often to chirp and to sing?
Can that be the same running brook
Whence the water we often did bring?
How vacant, how scatter'd those woods,
Where the pheasant oft beat with his wing
Where the whippowill always was heard
When the evenings grew warm in the spring
The willow and black walnut trees,
With their bushels of nuts all around,
Which the swine did so patiently crack
Till the snow lay quite deep on the ground
Those pear trees that bore in the fall
And were sure to be loaded with fruit
That stood up so straight and SO tall,
Are dead from the top to the root.
That soft gentle voce of my mother
The voice that was always so dear
'Twould be swecter than music of heaven,
Ifnow it could break on my ear.
Oh, that mother that dearest of mothers
Net a mortal on earth can find
Where the chorls Of attachment are equal
Where the chains Of affection so kind.
If now I could see my dear mother
II but ever l could meet her again
How light would that heart be within me,
And my tears would run down like the rain!
ut my futher and mother ore gone,
And my brothers and sisters dead;
Oh how lonely how dreaty feel,
While my heart weighs within me like lead
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17

TIMELY ADVICE 1t 6ehooves us, says the
Louisville Journal, to Gcar in mind that the
war We are prosecuting is war of restora-
ton, not of ext, rmina,lon. Whilst We re-
member that We are patriots, We must not
forget that our enemies are men,
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17

E9 The Abolition Journals, now that
thew zee by the elections that they cannot
pervrrt this into a mere Abaiiri6n war. cruak
over "a divided Nntthn But who divided
the North Who but The Abuftionists.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17

e. Mamma, may I 60 a-fshng to-
day % "Yes, lad, but don't go near the wa
ter. And recolect, If you are drowned,
shall skin you as sure as you are alive"
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17

,o,i Lhe business OF BOOT and SHOE making will be
continued by the subscriber at the old stand wharc
everything pertaining to the busine s. will be dono
In substantial and workmanlike manner, and ot la,.
prices for ready pay He solicts continuance of tbo
public patronage ''''
Tunkhannock, Sept. 3, 1867.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17
NoET1TCEse

Persons indebted to the subscriber, either on Note
OF BOOK account, arc notified that said notes and ac
GJuns ,, aTe oeen lett with my Father, F. Eastman,
who Is fully authorized to receipt and settle the same
g(g If not settled soon, they will he loft IN .bo
hands OF an officer for suit and collection.
g. III EASTMAN
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17
Yusiness Q0tires.

BACON STAND.-Nicholson, Pa. Il
ID JACKSON, Proprietor. lvIn49dI
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-12-17
Nurtb Yranrb Qemorrat,

Terms copy year, lin advance) Sl.5O.
not pain within six months 200 will be charged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-03-08

ed by this act, the State Treasurer is hereby
required and directed to tender and pay back
such railroad company the amount paid by
such company for license to operate ils road
for the present year, and such sum or sums
are hereby appropriated to this purpose out
of any money in Re treasury not otherwise ap-
prepriated.
Sec. 4. No license shall be granted or issu-
ed by the State Treasurer to any railroad
company, to operate its railroad, before the
first day of FEBRUARY in each year; and every
such license shall commence on the first day
of January in the year in and for which the
same is issued, and shall expire, unless soon
er lawfully revoked, On the thirty-frst day of
December next succeeding the date of its is
sue.
Sec. o. The payment Of one-half of the sum
required to be paid for such license, may be
deferred until the twentieth day of August in
each year, and the State Treasurer shall III
sert in each license proviso, that if the ar
rearagss so to become due upon said license,
are not paid on or before said twentieth day
OF August next ensuing said license shall be
forfeited. and the party SO defaulting shall be
proceeded against as provided in section three
OF the act of which this is amendatsry
Sec. 6. Section six of the said chapter one
hundred and seventy-fonr, is hereby amended
by striking out the words "any of the cities
OF, where they occur in the last line of said
section.
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved February Is, 1862.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-03-08
Published February Is, 1852.
CHAPTER q

An Act to amend section thirty one of chap
ter oae hundred and one of the Revised
Statutes, entitled ''Of the payment of debts
and legacies Of deceased persons
THE people Of the State of Wisconsin, represent
ed IN Senate and Assembly, do enact as fol-
loas:
Sec. l. Section thirty-on of chapter one
hundred and one of the Revised Statutes, is
hereby amended by adding thereto the follow
ing words, viz: call the provisions of this
chapter relating to the effect of the appoint
ment, the decision aud the report of conmis
sloners; to the action to be taken on the
same; to appeals therefrom to the time limit
ed for the presentation of all claims by cred
ltors; to the effect of failure to present claims
within the time limited by the court for that
purpose; to the distribution of asses, and all
other provisions affected by said section thir-
ty-one, shall apply and be in force in all cases,
when the Judge of the County Court shall per
form the duties Of such Commissioners"
Sec 2. Section 81 Of chapter lOl of the
Revised Statutes, is hereby amended by in
sorting after the word 'omitted" in the sec
ond line, the words, land if the Judge of the
County Court shall not act in the place of
commissioners in the allowance of claims"
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved February Is, 1852.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-03-08

State Of Wisconsin, County Of Wood, Ssh
Circuit Court
Charles Hoefinger, Plaintiff, against The Mil
waukee & Horizon Rail Road Company.
Charles D. Nash, and persons unknown, de-
PENDANTS.
THE State of Wisconsin, to the grantees and
i holders of a certain Deed of real estate
executed by Charles Hoefinger to the M;lwau
kee Horizon Rail Road Company, and bear
ing date the first day of January, A D. 1857.
In the name of the State of Wisconsin, YOU
are hereby notified that the above entitled ac-
ton has been commenced in the Circuit Court
in and for said county, to cancel said deed of
record and to decree the said deed and all en-.
cumbrances on said land void, and to declare
the obligation for which the same vas given
void And you are hereby summoned to an.
swer the complaint in this action, which is
filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court, in and for said county of Wood, and
serve copy of your answer on the subscriber
at his office in the village Of Stanton, Portage
county, Wis, within four months from the .
date hereof, and if you fail to answer the said
within the time aforesaid the plain
tiff will apply to the Court for the relief de-
handed in the complaint
Dated this 10th day Of February, A. D. 1852.
MINER STROPE, Plaintiffs Attorney.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-03-08
Published Feofaa,y Is, 1862.
CHAPTER l6.

An Act to authorize Towns to assess and col
lsct additional School Moneys in certain ca
ses, and the Town Clerk to certify thereto
The people Of tile State of Wisconsin, represea,-
ted IN Senate and assembly, do enact as follows
Sec l. Those towns that have not assessed
for school purposes for the year lsel,by Or
der OF the County Board of Supervisors a sum
OF money equal to one-h half the amount receiv-
ed from the School Fund by the apportionment
OF 1861, are hereby authorized to supply such
deficiency by an immediate assessment upon
the taxable property Of said town [towns1 of
such sums as shall be necessary the same to
be estimated and directed by the Town Board
OF Supervisors of the respective towns, to be
levied and collected in the same manner as
other taxes, and such levy and collection to be
certified to by the Town Clerk to the State Su
per'ntendent, previous previously to the APP
portionment fthe income of the School Fund
for the present year.
Sec. 2 The State Superintendent of Public
instruction is hereby instructed to notify any
delinquent lows, as shall appear from returns
IN his office, Of the passage and provisions of
this act; and he is authorized to apportion to
such towns as comply with the provisions of
this act, the sums of money they may thereby
be entitled to-
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publca-
tion.
Approved February IL, 1862.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-03-08
Published February 10, 1862.
CHAPTER 26


An Act to amend chapter 143 of the General
Laws of 1859, entitled ''An Act to prevent
the sale of unripe Cranberries"
The people Of the State of Wisconsin, represent
ed IN Senate and assembly, do enact as fol-
lous:
Sec. l. Chapter 143 of the General Laws of
1859, entitled AN Act to prevent the sale of
UnrIpe Cranberries," is hereby amended by
adding to section four the following: "and may
retain all fines coll ected from any person or
persons under the provisions of said chapter
l43, and apply the same to the payment Of
the costs of suit and also to the payment of all
liabilities Incurred by the county in enforcing
said act; and said justice shall, at the next
annual session of the board Of supervisors of
county, present a certified account of the
costs and expenses incurred, and when the
same shall be properly audited and allowed
ne shall pay over to the county treasurer any
balance that may remain in his hands"
Sec. 2. All monies collected by the Justice
OF the peace, in pursuance of the provisions Of
SAID act, ard now remaining in his hands, may
be used by said justice Of the peace in the
payment of such costs and liabilities as may
have been heretofore incurred by his county,
IN enforcing the act to which this is amenda-
tory.
Sec 5. All cranberries found in 1.-THE pos
session OF any person or persons in violation
OF the act to which this is amendetory, amen
datory,J shall be liable to seizure and sale
by the proper officers of the county, the pro-
ceeds thereof to be applied to the payment of
costs and expenses, as provided in section one
OF this act; and any person or persons who
may sell or purchase said berries as aforesaid,
snail not be liable to prosecution or fine as
provided IN the act hereby amended.
sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved February Is, 1852
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-03-08
Published Febuaru II. 1862.
CHAPTER %.

(uAT LEN u.
An Act to amend chapter ia of Tthe1 Gen
eral Laws of 1860, entitled can Act Regu-
lating Rail Roads"
The people of the State Of Wisconsin,. repres mt
cd in Senate and Ass. na5ly, do enact as fol-
lops:
Sec. l. Section one of Chapter ia of the
General Laws of 1860, entitled "An Act reg
ulating rail roads," is hereby amended bv
striking out the word "one," in the eighth
line, and inserting the woad ''three," in place
thereof; and section two of said act is here
by also amended by striking out the work
zone" in the ninth line, and inserting the
word "thrse' in place thereof
Sec 2. If any ailread company has obtain
ed license to OF re it's road, for the cur.
rent year, under said chapter one hundred
and seventy-four, and has made payment there
for before the passage of this act. sucb rail
road company shall, on or before the twen-
tieth day of FEBRUARY, 1852, make to the State
Treasurer such additional payment as. with
its former payment, will amount to three n.r
centum on its gross earnings; and in case of
the refusal of any rail road company to max,
such additional payment, its license is herehv
declared to be revoked and void, and said
company is to be dealt with under said chan
ter one hundred and seventy-four, in all res
poets, as if no license had been obtained by
said company.
Sec. g. On the default Of any railroad con-
pany to make the additional payment requir-