North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-11-04
COMMUNICATIONS.
For The Democrat,
NICHOLSON, October 90, 1863.

and few-its golden-hued forests are either
denuded, Or the withered leaves rustic mourn
fully as they brush against the swaying
branches and the tread of the squirrel and
pheasant is no longer concealed from the
sportsman's ear by the moss-clad rocks and
springing grass. The nuts are all gathered
and stored away in the garret, to add cheer
to the coming lonely winter nights. Plpplns
and Russets and Greetings, and all the finer
varieties of winter fruit, are being housed or
sent to market-cider barrels are in great de-
mand, and buckwheat cakes smoke upon the
breakfast table, coaxing the appetite and CIV
ing grace to many an otherwise over frugal
meal.
You, undoubtedly, have made the discovery,
in the long ago time which dates back even
beyond our school-boy days, that buckwheat
cakes are one of the institutions of this
once great and "ga-lorious" country, and en-
ter largely into the household economy OF ev-
cry family in the land, at about this season OF
the year, For my own taste in such matters,
accountable TO others, and yet I am quite
willing to acknowledge an undue fondness
for these reasonable luxurles. Their advent,
in my opinion, should be welcomed with
feasts and rejoicings, similar TO those with
which the vintage is welcomed on the vine
clad Rhine, or the feast of Roses in the sunny
Wales of Cashmere. | make no pretention to
knowedge of your feelings upon the subject,
but I'll warrant most of your readers enjoy
these clear, bracing October days none the
less from the fact that buckwheat cakes,
swimming in butter, and garnished with gold
en- syrup have been added to the morning
meal.
Dealers in cattle, produce, game, peitry,
&C.. Lave been quite busy securing the country
and shipping vast quantities, during the past
few weeks. Competition, of course, brings up
prices to the highest figures, and producers
cannot complain at lack of demand, or that
their produce does not get them all that IL Is
worth. Apples find ready sale at % cts. per
bushel butter 25 to q cts. per h.; buck
wheat, Is cts. per bushel; buckwheat Hour,
$500 per hundred; wheat flour, $500 to
$3.50 per barrel i; potatoes so to 623 cts. per
bushel but greenbacks and shinplasters are
plenty and holders seem anxious to part with
them-labor is in good demand, and nobody
grumbes at 'hard-times, Notwithstanding high
prices, unheard of taxation ana an unnatural
civil war are added to the usual depressions
which mark the approach of winter, to those
who earn their bread by the hardest.
With the exception of Scranton, Nicholson
Depot is said to be the most important on
this line of Railroad, there being much more
shipping done to and from this point than
from any other Depot on the road. Mr.. A.
d. King the Agents quite popular with
everybody, and presides over the interests oil
shippers and the Company with the highest
satisfaction to all parties concerned. He is
at present absent from his post, rustlcat'ng,
believe, somewhere in the fright smar'"
little village of Newark, n. j. Different
people usaly seek different modes ct rccrea
ton. Some fly, during the hot Summer
months, to Newport, Saratoga, or some other
fashionable watering place, where the goldfish
aristocracy most do copgregate, whilst others
leave comfortable homes to breathe clouds oil
dust, and, out Of courtesy, call ii country air;
but our friend King takes TO himself no such
opportunities, when half the world is agog
pleasure seeking, he sticks to his desk and
works with O will until the season arrives
when he is likely to find his friends at home.
then, like a sensible man, as he is, shoulders
his baggage and trudges off, sure of home
welcome wherever he goes 1t has been sug-
gested that the object of his visit to the city
once celebrated for the manufacture of leather,
(if we are to believe the ancient Oiney,) is
that he may get from his friend John the
STYLE Of vehicle designed to cut the dashiest
swell over the frozen, snow-clad roa is, this
winter and, by an occasional trip to Goth
am, learn from his friend Charley, of Express
notoriety, the price of game and other small
produce, but am not believer in any such
hypothesis.
Your readers will recollect the total de-
struction of Mr.. 5, Tayl0r's mill, together
with large quantity of grain, last spring
Well, phoenix like, the mill has arisen from
IT'S ashes, and is Dw almost ready for opera
ton. 1t will be, when completed, the largest
and most complete establishment of the kind
in this section of the country. Under the
accumulation of msfortunes which befell Mr.
T., he has displayed the most indomi table
perseverance and the highest business quail
fications and his many friends and the pub
lie, who have suffered much inconvenience
from the lack of the usual accommodation his
establishment afforded, will rejoice to learn
that he will soon re-commence operations
Mr. Taylor is one Of the most worthy and en-.
terprising citizens of this place, and is deserv-
ing of the warmest sympathy and earnest
support of the community.