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Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1864-01-30
A French Reverse in Mexico.

The New Orleans papers confirm the
news of the recapture of Pueba by the
Mexicans. The Picayune of the 9th in.
stant says:
1--WE have received information from q
source worthy of high confidence that the
rumored recapture of PueDla by the repub.
liCans of Mexico has been confirmed by ad-
vices received by schooner Henry Ward
from Vera Cruz, now in the river, coming
up, There was no resistance, the number
of troops being small and retiring before
Generals Beriozabel and Negrete, who oc-
cupied the place at the head of about five
thousand men General Porfa Daz had
gone, with three thousand men, to join Gen.
Beriozabel, and division Of troops from
0ajaca would also be sent there In the
meantime Gen. Uomonlorti had become
tired of waiting an attack from the French,
and was marching from Queretaro or Mexi.
co at the head of twenty thousand men,
Generals Uraga, Doblado, and Gonzales
0rtega commanding divisions under him.
He is well supplied with munitions of war
and artillery. Tho roads are generally in
the possession Of guCrrilas, and French
supplies can only be carried forward under
heavy escort. Private advicss from Tam.
pico, from q neutral, represent the French
garrison to be in state of siege. Nothing
can be procured from without, not even a
banana. The French have lost eight hun
dred men by the yellow fever, which they
brought with them from Vera Cruz. The
inhabitants have also suffered severely from
the plague thus introduced into their
midst
Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1864-01-30

sUBsC CRIPTION,
,ahlA In advannn withnnt evnnniinn
Interesting statement OF Capt.
EVillGts.


Capt WiIletts and nine Of the crew Of
the steamer Chesapeake, which was cap
tured few days since while on her pas.
sage from New York to Portland, reached
New York on Sunday and furnish many
interesting particulars Of this daring act Of
piracy and murder
THE party selling the vessel consisted of
fifteen persons headed by man uamed
Osbo.ne, a well knt wn coast-plat, belong
Ing to St. Johns, IN b The Chesapeake
left New York on the afternoon Of Satur-
day The 5'h Instant Capt Willas says
that alta quarter past one o'clock on the
morning Of Monday, the 1.h instant, he
was awakened Dy Mt. johnson, the mate,
who told him tIat Che second engineer had
been shot. The captain supposed it wac
done by the passengers who afterwards
turned ont to be pirates 1t appears, 1T
the tImcoi the "3mB Of The villains, that
the vessel was about twenty miles north
Inorthcast oi Cape Goa, heading up for
Portland and tIat Che night was dara--
Tie mate went to ihepantry Or some plr.
pose, when he saw one Of the pirates lira o
pistol at Mr shaiicr, the Dali taking oueet
under The right ear and in the neck Two
more balls were pot into bis head after he
was dead, MI. Johnson now Ted 70 warn
the captain who no sooner appeared than
he was seized and lroned, aud placed IN his
room under guard The party thin direct
ed their attention to the other ollicers OF
the vessel llring their pistols among them
unfortunately, Mr. johnson, the chief
engineer, was wounded IN the arm and also
in the knee joint They we're then put IL
IRONS, and the sailors aud lllemen, who were
below and asleep at the time d the shooting
and had been KEEP below by securing tht
TorecastIo hatch, were brought tup AMI plac
cd IN IRONS
during thlS t'mP, Wnlcn occupied oh,,y
lew Minutes tne snip had Deen gong aneac
al her own Will lae enS'Ges ~ theIr nSua
speed, ana tha hgIm stH remaining Il
charge OF 'Ne heiIHSoe"' osborne nov
took charge oI the vessel put ller on lie
course, ana ordered the p3dy ol ochaler U
be thrown oyerboard anu SUNK by means 0
a Ialgs piece Of IRON when was fastened t.
It. Inc passengers, among Enom were lou
ladies', were not m9lesied put were kep
under guard IN thelr rooms, ana al, tn
male DNgSenpprS wore informed that II the
Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1864-01-30

We learn by "a private telegram that
Joseph Faber, with nine other men, en-
route for Denver, weFs-reeently frozen to
death On the Platte. fssn Times.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27
Stlttt Storp,
SfBILA A.
BY HARRIET w. STILLMAN.

"Cuusin Stella, promised, some DAYS ago,
to tell YOU story. Everybody is gone to
night; We have the house all to ourselves.
Come with me to the bay-window in the par
lor-no, don't bring any lamps, Stella; this
mellow moon ght is all the light we need.
Sit there Stella, and I'll lake this ottoman
opposite you. Now for my story, ma belle
Stella;it is about-mysel."
Stella tarted.
Horace inwardIy smiled, but remained out
wardly expressloBless. He, however, drew
his seat trife nearer his companion, that he
might more narrowly observe, though all un-
seemingly, the effect his narration might pro-
duce. His face was in the shadow he had
NO wish to be himself observed. Stella ap
parently did not notice this slight movement,
but she drew instinctvely back into the
deeper shadows of the white rose bush that
drapericd the outside of the window, thus
escaping the full flood of moonlight which fell
upon her face. Horace had done better TO
have kept his first position.
"The story l was going to tell you," he
continued" is about myself. Though we
were nominally couins, and have been now
these three weeks a favored guest in the
house of my uncle, your steP-father, yet we
are almost wholly strangers, and you know
comparatively nothing of my life. This much
you and your family know, that / am and
have been, for years, alone 10 the world Not
known relative have | except this kind Old
gentleman, my uncle, to whose hOsptable
doors chance, or rather, kind Providence, ct
length brought me. Ny father died when |
was an infant, so Of him have no remem
brance. NY mother r-b.essings on her mem
ory-lived to guard and guide me till my
thirteenth year, then she too died. How
yivdly do remember her death. sceue-the
heavenly smile that irradiated her pale, sweet
conference.-the last gentle pressure of her
hand npon my head-her faintly-uttered
words, the last to me,
My loved son, be good, love God. He will
be to you father mother, friend He will''-
And thus she died. Ever since then, when
sin has beckoned me forth to the Turing path
way of destruction, that gentle hand and
voice have interposed. When the full tide of
desolation has swept over my soul, her mild,
sweet smile has come back to cheer me, and
to make me forget that am alone.-This
blessed memory OF my mother, this constant
spiritual companion, if may SO call it, has
been the great, effectual barrier between me
and vice, while among dissolute companions
-I!o3 'l,!o suoIudod sq, u! euoIs 10 'looqos 20
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27

A SETTLEMENt.-Ac correspondent writes :.
Having occasion not long since to ride in the
Mount Auburn cars, could not help hearing
a part of the conversation carried on by a la
dy and gentleman who entered near Mount
Auburn. They had evidently been in search
OF a "lot," and although too graue subject
to excite ones disabilities, yet the business
style in which the gentleman spoke of the
" City of the Dead" will excuse me for fur
nishing you with one of his observations.
"Ah, " said he. Il didn't go up that ave-
nue. which the agent wished to show me
didn't think it worth my while. The fact is,
the man was anxious to begin settlement
there"
No harm in this; only the idea of "begin-
ming settlement in such place struck me-
as decidedly original. esr
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27

4 HUMOROUS DRIvER.-A veritable Jehu
who drives one of the stages of that line thai
runs up to High Bridge, perpetrated dry
joke the other day. A middle aged female
passenger requested to be left at Forty-ninth
street, and SO, when Forty-ninth street was
reache d, Jehu reigned in his horses and stop
ped. The old lady got out, and staring
wildly up at the drivers perch exclaimed:
"Well, now, would like to know why in
the name of goodness you have carried me o
mile beyond where wanted to stop?"
You told me, madam, to leave you at
Forty-ninth street,
"Well, meant Twenty ninth street and,
any way, you might have known where 1
live, for ride up here every week, in your
" busses."
Madam" said Jehu, with Napoleonic
composure, give druv stage on this line
about ten years or less, and never yet miss
ed leaving passenger where he or she direct.
ed me to leave him or her; and madam, if
you don't know where you live, gould
better more :"
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27
Taking the starch oat.

capital example, writes reader, of what
is often termed ''taking the starch out" hap
pened recently in country bank in New
England. A pompous, well-dressed individ-
ual entered the bank, and addressing the tell
er, who is something of wag, inquired;
''1s the cashier Jug" sE
"No sir" was the reply.
"Well, | am dealing in pens, supplying the
New England banks pretty largely, and I
suppose it will be proper for me to deal with
the cashier"
IL suppose it WILL, said the teller.
every well; will wait"
The pen-pedder took chair, and sat com.
posedly for full hour, waiting for the cash.
er. By that time he began to grow une asy, ,
but sat twisting in his chair for about twen-
ty minutes, and seeing no prospect of q change
Ill his circumstances, asked the teller how
soon the cashier would be iu.
swell, l don't know exactly" said the
waggish teller, "but expect him in about
eight weeks. He has just gone to Lake Su-
perior, and told me he thought he should
come back iu that Time"
Peddler thought he would not wait.
''Oh, stay if you wish," said the teller
very blandly. "We have no objection to
your sitting here in the day time, and you
can probably find some place in town where
they will be glad to keep you nights"
The pompous peddler disappeared without
another word. ..E
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27
A GIFTED FAMILY.-A religious friend in

A GIFTED FAMILY.-A religious friend in
Ohio writes
A few years ago there dwelt in one of the
weathest sections of the state host of rich
relatives by the name of Brown-all, or
nearly all OF whom belonged to the church,
They were among the most prominent and
infue ntial, if not the most exemplary mem.
bers of the congregation, and at prayer,
meetings they generally monopolized the
''pEivileges." They were all gifted" in pray
er, and consequently did the most of it. On
one occasion, how ever, the class-leader be-
thought himself ofa poor but worthy brother
who was present, and whom he had never
called upon to pray before, and the following
dialogue took place:
Clcss Leader-"l see Brother Smith is
here. Brother Smith, will you lead in
prayer?"
Brother Smih-"1'm not gifted excuse
me. Let another one Of the BrownS prdy!''
The congregation all saw the point, and
the rebuke was so just that it effectually put
an end to the Brown monopoly of privileges
inIthat congregation.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27
WANTS A WIFE.
The following appears in St. Louis ps

The following appears in ST. Louis pa
per:
WANrED.-I have lived solitary long
enough. want some one to talk at quarrel
with-then kiss and make up again. There
fore, am ready to receive communications
from young ladies and blooming widows of
more than average responsibility, tolerably
tame in disposition, and hair of any color.
AS nearly as can judge of myself, sm not
over eighty nor under twenty-five years of
age. I am five feet eight or eight feet five, I
forget which. Weigh 135, 3l5 or 53l pounds,
one of the three, recollect each figure per.
fectly well, but as to their true arrangement
am somewhat puzzled. Have whole suit
of hair dyed by nature and free from dan
druff. Eyes buttermilk-b brindle tinged with
pea green. Nose blunt, according to the
Ionic order of architecture with touch of
the composite, and a mouth between a cat
fish's and alligator's-made especially for
oratory and large oysters. Ears palpalmated,
anu CicSdutIy cudpCus dIo
combination of dogs hair, moss and briar-
bush-welI behaved fearfully luxuriant. T
am sound in limb and on the negro question.
Wear boots No. 9 when corns are tronble-
some, and can write poetry by the mile, with
double rhyme on both edges-to read back
ward, forward, crosswise and diagonally.-
Can play the jewsharp and bass drum, and
whistle Yankee Doodle in Spanish. Am very
correct in my morals, and first rate at ten
pins have regard for the Sabbath and only
drink when invited.
Am domestic animal, and perfectly do
cile when towels are clean and shirt buttons
all right, If possess predominatiDg vir-
tue it is that of forgiving every enemy whom
| deem it hazardous to handle. say my
prayers every night, musqitoes permitting !;
as to whether [ snore in my sleep, want
somebody to tell me. Money is no object,
as never was troubled with any never ex-
pect to be. l should like some lady who is
perfectly able to support husband, or if she
could Introduce me to some family where re-
ligious example would be considered suffi-
cent compensation for board, it would do
just as well. Address X. D, St. Louis P. @.
-Luzerne Union. .....
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27
at(llst&uan&ous,
AN AFFECTING INCIDENT.

Some three years ago a household in our
sister city Covington was thrown into com
motion by the sudden disappearance ola
daughter twelve years of age. She was
tracked to the ferry boat, but whether she
had passed safely over or had been drowned
was not discovered. Patient and anxious
waiting brought no tidings of her. The fren-
zied and unhappy father, although in meder-
ate circumstances, sought the newspaper Off
GERS and advertised reward Of ST., 900 to
whoever should return his missing child :.
All proved unavaiing. Some time after
ward the corpse of young lady was found in
the river near Vevay, about forty miles below
here and hearing of it, he went there but it
was not his daughter.
TiTue wore on, and no tidings came of the
lost child. She was dead to them but they
could uot visit her grave. About twelve
morths since the stricken family moved to
Mexico, and took up their abode in country
foreign in language and customs, in features
with their great loss. 1t might wear away
their thoughts from sadly Illuminating on the
past and enable them, in region devoted to
religious duties, to look more hopefully to-
ward the great future. There they still are.
About week since a steamer arriving
from Memphis was crowded with passengers
who were upon the guards straining their-eyes
to gather into one look the multudinous OBJ
iects which throng the public landing. One,
however young girl budding into woman
hood. sought the outer rail and looked wist-
fully over the naked shore of Covington, to
VIII ere. hid away under clump of trees, was
the cottage of her childhood, hoping IN vain
to see the curling smoke announce to her a
warm welcome within.-Quickly she passed
over the ferry, where long since she had dis
appeared; no one noted or knew her, and she
went without interruption to the door Of her
fathers house. 1t answered no. her knocks,
weeds had grown up rink and rough where
she had left flowers, and no signs of human
life were to be found there.
It was the turn of the wayward child to
weep and when by inquiry, she found how
far and almost hopelessly she was separated
from her parents, she began to feel desolate
Piqued at some chiding or some punishment
of mother, she had gone upon steamboat;
where female passenger hired her to 60
with her as a nurse. After little while the
war broke out, stopped all intercourse with
the South by the river, and though she soon
found that untried friends but seldom prove
steadfast in trouble, and that the harshnsss
of parent is melting kindness beside that
of a stranger, yet she was unable until lately
to return. A kind lady of Covington has
given shelter to the wanderer until her re-
turn is made known to her parents.-Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27
0Qrtt 8ranth QemoGrat,

Terms-l copy year. Tin advance) Sl,5O. If
not pain within six months $500 will be charged
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27
Doet' $ QJorntr*
WATCHING.

Watching when the morning breaketh
Der the mountains cold and gray;
Watching when the evening fadeth
In the last long flush of day;
Watching when the stars look gladly
Over all the moonlit sea,
When the night is silent round us
Love, for thee
Holy memories steal o'er me
Of the far distant past:
Fairest visions float before me,
All too bright, too sweet to last
Watching in the midnight dreary,
Longing thy dear face to see;
Watching till the heart grows weary,
Love, for thee
Ceaselessly against the window
Beats the dismal plashiug rain,
Telling stories weird and wretched
OF what ne 'er can come again;
And the night lamp burreth family
On the table cheerlessiy,
And my heart is weary, watching,
Love, for thee.
Watching for the lightest footstep
While my soul is deeply stirr'd
By murnlur meath the easement,
BY a softly spoken word
And I gaze into the darkness,
Rain and darkness, dreamily
Watching, longing, longing, watching,
Love, for thee.
Oh the day succeeds the nighttime
With its floods of rosy light;
Following the gloomy winter
Comes the summer warm and bright.
The light comes to the flowers,
And the Ieafet to the tree,
And all is gay in spring time,
Love, but me.
The iris will mate them gladly
When the year in its prime;
The flowers will smell the sweetest
In the happy summertime,
I, sad, alone, will watch it
The wide, the cruel sea
While its billows bear thee farther,
Love, from me.
Watching all the happy summer,
When the days are long and bright
Watching while the autumn noontide
Fadeth slowly into night:
Watching through the dreary winter,
When tie springs first buds see;
Watching till the heart grows weary,
Love, for thee.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27

VERY NATURAL THouGHT.-A native of
the green isle of Erin called at one of our
drug stores, the other day, with prescrip-
ton, the putting up of which he watched
with great curiosity. "What's that ony
way?" asked the customer. "This," said
the obliging apothecary, " is tincturs Oemi-
citaga racemosa and liniment of saponis,
cantharides and opi." A look of bewilder-
ment changed to one of grave concern as the
Irishman inquired, Sand what is the price2''
"Thirty- seven cents" was the reply. "By
jabers," SAID pat, 81 thought two such names
as that would cost me at laste dollar aud u
hall" ..-.- ,-.ss =,
La
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27
TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS OF BOTH
SEXES.

A REVEREND GENTLEMAN HAVING BEEN
restored to health in few days, after undergoing all
the usual routine and irregular expensive modes of
treatment without success considers it his sacred du
ty to communicate TO his afflicted fellow creatures
the means of cure Hence, on the receipt of an ad.
dressed envelope, he will send (free) COPY of the
prescription used Direct to DR. JOHN M. DAGNALL
'sS Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York. v2n24ly
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27

STEPHEN GIRARD's RULE.-That merchant
prince and eplinently successful millionaire,
Stephen Girard, in speaking of the agents
which contributed principally to his success,
said: "I have always considered advertis-
ing literally and long to be the great medi-
um of success in business and prelude to
wealth. And / have made it all invariable
rule, too, to advertise in the dullest times,
long experience having taught me that money
thus spent is we'll laid out as by keeping my
business continually before the public, it has
secured me many sales that would other
wise have lost"
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-27
WALLS HOTEL,

THIS establishment has recently been reitted and
i furnished in the latest style Every attention
will be given the comfort and convenience OF those
WHO patrOnize tie House.
7. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor.
Tunkhannock, September II, 1861.
The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1864-09-14
NOTICE OF APPLICATION

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The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1864-09-14

The meeting a. New Goshen yesterday. was
veil attended. yet Dot largely 50 This vas
The first meeting between the oppo-iog can
dldalss. and Il furnishes u pleasure . state
that The discussion was eeurteousiy asd gem
tIemanly conducted By the opposition. al
tsr Mr. MACE ard the editor Of this paper
bad concluded their speeches, Col BAsD
made some remarks, and alec Aessfs. SNIP
sos. BIAKx, DuSHsx. and others. OF the
merits Of the discussion il does not become
ne 90 spesk. ~ we were participant therein.
The best feeling prevailed, and both parties
gave The speakers patient add attentive
bearing. The Uoien cause = certainly gain
irg everywhere
The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1864-09-14

The Courier dee Flats Unss. a paper edit
ed By an alien ia the service Of the French
Empire. sends W tie following choice opin-
ion Of MoCLEILAs:
Mcclellan Is really a new man. For more
than two years past no has not taken part IN
the inhum1n war commenced by the Burn.
sides, the Hookers and the Shefmans. His
name Il not connected With any Of those obi
Gus Measures q the Administration: aud the
first great violation Of she Constitutions. the
Emancipation Proclamation made him sheath
his sword. Obliged 10 fight. he has. howes-
er, sever sullied his name BY any Of those
sxtcFminatirg and savsge expeditions which
have sishonored sherman. fitzpatrick and
Butler. de belongs loeiat school Of Cen
erals who can yet look upon the CoDfcder-
atss a. eountrymen. while most Of the Cen
erals now 10 the service hardly look upon
them as humaa beings
II instead Of driving Johnson from Dalton
20 Atlanta. and whipping Hood cut OF the
latter place through JonesboFe, Gen. Sher-
nan he'd evacuated Chattanooga. allowed
knoyyillo TO be taken for want OF support,
surrendered Nashville 20 the rebels and re-.
turned with his army TO Louisville. he would
not have been a dishouorea man IN Copper
head eyes; bni great General as Buell. and
Mcclellan are great. Unfortunately Tor the
Democracy Mcclellan was not opposed to
emancipation and the draft until after h.'
incompetency had deprived him of command
nor Buell. conscience stricken over the poll.
eT OF the war Until be was IN danger OF be-
ing ssot into service under Gen. Sherman
who has the ugly habit Of putting bis officers
under fire.