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North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-12-06

'Then," said Marie, "you must love me
best, father, for I am your child, and Jeanne
is Duchess de Blossacn =.
"To lose one of you lie terrible, my darlings;
but Jeanne will be great lady do you
think that will console her 2''
81 do, though she will never forget u.s."
That night Marie knet by Jeanne's
beside the door was locked and the sisters
were alone. @ g..
"Marie |" exclaimed Jeanne, 81 can not
hear of this sacrsfice. What right have I to
deprive you"
"Of course, my sister. You love the Duke;
do OF. III claim the inheritance I must
become his wife. cannot SO now submit;
Still Jeanne resisted but Marie was firm,
and drawing aside the nigh. dress with firm
and light hand she pricked tho shape ofa vi
olet just over her sisters heart. Then rub
bing it with gunpowder, she made the mark
indelibIe.
snow, Jeanne, said she, "that Is exactly like
tho one on me-the one probably my poor
mother made. But love Pierre, who has
been 10 us a father, have no taste for splen.
Dor. Be happy, my own sister, and do no.
forget u.s."
So Jeanne, in great state, was recognized
as the heircss of Mdme. de Valbourg, and
few days afterwards was married with great
pomp and ceremony to the Due de BIosssc.
For few days she hesitatsd, then she de-
termined sot to accept her sisters sacrafce,
but she loved, and the temptation was TO
strong. The Inheritance she could have re.
nounced, not Octave so forever she buried
her secret in her bosom.
Without one pang did Maria watch her
sister drive away in her beautiful equipage.
With smile she looked up into her fathers
face, and he, wiping q tear frou his eye,
pressed her to his heart neither then, nor
to the day of his death, ever knowing that
the child WI made his home SO happy, who
loved him so faithfully,a woman full OF sense,
simplicity snd seusibility, was the heiress of
the house of Vslbourg and should have worn
a ducal coronet.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-12-06
The Radicals and the President.

The radicals are elate. They claim they
have "cornered the President" The result
of the November elections has SO encouraged
and built them up, that they propose to al
tack his reconstruction policy, tooth and nail,
as soon as Congress opens. They are already
gathering in force at Washington. for the
purpose of laying their plans for the cam
pargn, "Negro suffrage or no admission" is
TO be their utimation to the Sou, hern states.
Mr.. Johnson will have tough time with
the double faced humbugs who have fought
the political battles Of October and November
under his banner, for the express purpose Of
thereby acquiring new strength and influence
to be welded against him. No party 10 this
country has heretofore been guilty Of such de-
Iiberate and despicable peridy as this, and if
there is any moral sense left in the commun
ity, if trick ,chicanery, treacheTy, and subter-
fuge are not henceforward to become legit-
mate presidents in politics, the party which
has trumphed through their aid must, in due
time, be made to rue its dishonesty in the
sackcloth and ashes of utter humiliation. -
Dust has been thrown in the eyes of the
people but their Wis ion will soon be cleared
The everlasting Degro will bs hauled into
Congress as soon as the session opens, and
there he will stick, to the interruption of
public business, however pressing, until the
day of adjournment. We may call this
white mans governmental is, so far as the
executive 10 concerned-but Sambo will be
king in the Capitol. When the restored
states shall knock at the doors of the Sem
ate and House of Representatives for admis-
sion uffee will stop the way. No southern
State that does acknowledge her right to
make senators and representatives, and to sit
with WI ite men cheek by jowl in both Hous.
es will be permitted to come in out of the
cold. Such we hear Is the msjorty pro-
gramme. Well there is one blessing-the
radicals will show their hands, The people
will see them IS they are. carbon Dem.-
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-12-06
Sweet Sixteen.

Whata different thing ''sweet sixteen"
used to be, if novelists are to be believed,
from what it is to-day. Then it was srtless
and unsophistocsted. blushed when spoken
10, said "Yes, sir" and No, ma'am," and was
always introduced to the reader in white
robes and flowing tresses, unconscious of its
own loveliness and of the admiration il
awakened. Perhsps the picture was true
one, but what would it be if drawn to-day 2
Somebody, you can't call it young woman,
for it is not womanly, nor young lady, for
it la not lady-like. Girls seem so simply in.
nocent, and the Bovery term "gal," the
best, if one only dared use it.
Somebody, with its hair scraped back and
several pounds of bardresser's ringlets pinned
on its cheeks; with jockY hat and feather,
and garments suitable for the carriage Co.'S
tune of any English woman of rank, trailing
behind il over the muddy streets, with
cheeks gultless Of any natural blush, and the
eyes that meet those Of strangers ali to boldly
with queer habits Of giggling and whispering,
and forming chance scquaintsnces in omni-
buses; of knowing the gentleman who pssa
the house to bow to; Of seeing fun in pranks
which would have doomed our grandmoth-
ers to solitary confinement in their rooms,
a convent or an insane asylum. With
fixed idea that Pa is the person ITO provide
the wherewlthal for his daughters extrava.
gance, and that Mas place is in the basement,
especially when beaux call, and that sweet
sixteen itselfha no duty to either parent to
perform, and fulfills its mission it looks
pretty, dresses we'll, aud finally marries, 70
matter whom, 80 that he has NOUS taches
and plenty of money. So much for the real.
now for the ideal which which the novel,sts
Of '65 entertain of sweet sixteen. II has
passed through the most mysterious adven.
lures, been betrothcd for several years. Ii
possesses some secret power of fascination
which no man can resist. II is capable of
poisoning its great aunt, and of stealing ito
grsndfathsr's will. It can disguise itself in
male attire and penetra ting the dwelling Of
the worst enemy, tathom his secrets, and
crcumvent him. 1t must be, you fancy, ct
least thirty odd, and and very bold aud bra
Zen, even ut that age, but you are told It 10
but sixteen, and the loseliest of its sex.
Eetwsen the real specimens, which resem.
ble boys ia crinoline, and the fcticious which
are Lucrstia Borgias under age. you become
p0rplexed on the subject Of sixteen, and won.
der woofully whore tho sweet" eomss I'm, 10
thts 6agsasHtsd esossst.en.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-12-06

CATCHING THE IDEA.-A minister repeat
ing the first line or SO of chapter In the
Bible, the clerk By some mistake or other
read it after him. The clergymen read it as
follows:
'Moses was an austere man, and made
atonement for the sins of the people," The
clerk who, could not exactly catch the SEN
tsnce, repeated thus :-"Moses was an oyster.
man, and made ointment for the shins of the
people,"
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-12-06

"Pap." observed young urchin OF tender
years to his "fond parent" 'does the Lord
know everything 2"
Yes, my SON." replied the hopeful sire,
"but why do you ask that question Z"
because our preacher when he prays is
so long telling him everything, thought be
wasn't posted"
The parent reflected.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-12-06
N0et's Gnrner.

poet's Gnrner.
MEMORIES, -
Many the thoughts they bring,
This sunny lock of hair,
This severed lock. and this little ring
MY own love used to wear.
They cut this shining curl
From my lost darling's head
They took this hoop Of gold and pearl
From the finger Of the dead.
Down in the old churchyard
They laid my maiden sweet.
With o marble cross her head to guAri,
And rose-trse &C her feet.
But though she's sleepins there,
I'm not of all bereft-
Although she's gone, the dear and fair,
Still have something left
She's gone from nysembraes,
Yet treasures three have L
The golden ring, and the waving tree,
And sweet, sweet memory.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-12-06

"Now, children, who loves oil men 2" ask
ed School Inspector. The question was
hardly pu. before little girl, not four years
cid, auswsrsd quickly, IAN women"
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-12-06
NEW SERIES,

TeTrns-l copy yca., I'm advance) s200
rot p1d within six msnths, $3.50 will be charged
NO paper will be DISCONTINUED, until all ar
-sarsges are paid unless at the option of publisher
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-12

ITO IRON FOUNDERS,
Sealed Proposals. will be received this once CRotnds,
City Hall Park until III O'Clock of Saturday Sepem
Der 6 1886 for the supply OF iron Water Pipes feet
internal diameter each about feet long with beveled SPIT
about 80 tons.
The Of security required win be thousand dol
lars
Each proposal must be endorsed Proposals for cas-.
won water pipes feet In diameter the name Of the bid
DER and the date OF i Offering Blank forms OF bids and
all pecessary information be obtained at this onoe
The Board reserves the right 10 reject all the bids deemed
fHos STEPHENS
ROBERT l.. DARRAOH
A. W. CRAVEN,
Croton Aqueduc, Board.
Oryfcx CaoroS AouKDUCr BOARD, September s. 1855
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-12

COFFEE In active demand and prices were strong
e ba. not noiceably higher We note sale Of cargo ex
fRkI0Hrs were rather quiet, but rates were higher.
The engagements wereTo Liverpool 100 bales cotton
Per steamer part Saturday evening bushels corn
ohd. 1900 do wheat ID 400 bales cotton, I'd. A
ship was chartered TO Antwerp with timber, at ass.
hops.-rhe demand rather better. The crop OF
new Is arriving freely and finds ready buyers The
sales comprse 70 bales at 4oc CO.,, also 100 bales old
PsovLross Receipts, l2S bbls pork and 90 packages
cut meats The pork market was rather more active
and steady at the opening but subsequently ruled dull
2sc per Dbl over saturdays closing price the salos
were 800 bbla including about SO bb new moss by
s:s sa 'ss bend option S
ief Old d. sas V 81 10 prime es~ "s and as
al higher prices the sales were $50 bbs al IS SO
and e. Tor ~ s.4s sssf s.% S s sss' aI %ssT
Bacon was generally held above purchaser views Con.
siderable was offered for forward delivery but hcssi
Of No Ss s psss s
shoulders and i9c. 2sc fos hams Butter was in good
demand and very 1rm u 28c $40 for Western and
common TO prime sold Il 1oKc q lsxc Tue lard
market was nrher, with GALES Of l. 100 pkgs n 21c
2eHo, the last price for small lots choice
for both crude and refined but business was restricted
by the extreme nrmness OF holders The sales were
about 100 bills at s4kc ssc for crude on the spot
35hc 800 for forward delivery s1kc Csc, for refined
in bond prime light straw white and 00c. for 0cto
Der. Choice oil was sold at coo. 6fo
Icing NO inquiry oaaSa ,Ss sm. Of he
trade We note sales OF 40 hhds Cuba uscovado at 45c
RrcE remains quiet previous prices wero asked. We
sveAR.-rhe advanced pretonsops Of holders had
restricting effect the Market and the business was
only moneraso The sales wsT, 80 hha. Cuba musco.
vate terms Also 500 boxes Havana on D. "a
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-12
SPORTING.


EOR SALE-A SIX DARED LAP STREAK BARGE
IS feet long with rudder back board, lanterns &C. all
complete. Address Neptune, station G..
LNOR sALE-A FIRST CLASS SLOOP RIGGED CABIN
y Yacht about l5 TONS In complete order Address box
32l Post Office.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-12

FOE sALE.-A TISE pAY ToRss. EIGHT ysssts
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-12
CITY COMMERCIAL REPORT.

MONDAY Sept TO- 1885.
AsHEs-Rece'pts, II packages Tho market quiet
and nominay unchanged.
BRKADsrUrrs. Receipts %, 100 bbls. -four 1880 do
and 1o bags corn moal 7404s bushels wheat os7 do
corn and 102 1913 do OATS The flour market less
tive and somewhat lower for all grades State and West
flour only moderately active, with salesof 5000
bbls, decline Of &C. 10c. shown in annexed
quotations Southern flour in light demand, and
shade lower The sales comprised 500 bbls only
moderate demand prevailed for Canada -four and prices
ruled in buyers favor to the extent of Sc. l0c per
Dbl The sales were about $50 bbls. Rye -four con-
tnued dull and without decided change in prices Corn
meal also dull but prices fully sustained We
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-12

The wheat market was unsettled and irregular closing
heavy and nomnally &c. &C. lower for all kinds save
spring, the scarcity of which maintained holders in
realizing full prices The sales to moderate ex.
tent comprising go 900 bushels at 81 10 for amber
State, 81 65 81 81 for amber Milwaukee; 81 So n
81 ga for Milwaukee club and 81 IS 81 "a for Chicago
spring The market fairly active but at lower
prices-sound declining 1c and unsound &c, q &C. per
unsound, and 90c. a 90hc for sound mixed Western
Rye was neglected and quite nominal. Barley in
request about 900 bushels four rowed State
changed hands at 81 rs. Malt quiet and nominay
unchanged Oats quiet Western sold at &c.,. and
State at SIC Soc.
CorToS was in vigorous trade and speculative demand
The receipts heavy but did not oxcoed the require
ments, and prices again advanced, closing with
tnued advancing tendency some holders asking higher
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-12

We notice sales Of 40 bids Kentucky at 12c 17c.,
and II cases seed leaf. at l4xc
TALL0w in very active demand, and prices ruled
higher The sales 100000 lbs, at 1bKc 1870,
mainly at about the inside figure.
WHixEy.-Receipts sos bbls The market quiet.
Sales Of $50 bbls Western effected at % % for
whole lots and at - 25K 81 20 for retail parcels the
latter extreme
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-12
THE TURF.

IIOBOKEN RAOES.-POOLs SOLD THIS EVENING,
"a O'Clock Lafayette Hail. and every evening dur
SOMERINDYKE ARMSTRONG.
DOOL sALEA-POOLs FOR THE eKCAU0US
Track. Hoboken wa be sold st Gau.hsrs HAL MOI
the day OF the rsoss commencing on hondsy Sspt w
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-12

pURNHAMs FURNITURE MOVING ESTABLISH
- meh l16 West Eleventh street. Sixth
Furniture moved city or country Pianofoe, Furniture
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-12
Prices during tho year have ranged as follows

The highsds ptce that cotton attained was In August
1894 whom the middlng description rose TO dollar and
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-12
EXPRESSES.

EXPRESSES.
RUTTERFIELD's OVERLAND DESPATCH COMPANY,
- This company has established express 10 Denver and
Central CITY Colorado Territory, and prepared 70
take freight and treasure at reasonable rates.
Apply at the Office Of the company, SO broadway.
WIN. MARTIN, General Agent.
, 1865-07-18

a continuance of the same favourable
weather. The country indeed looks beau
tiful; there has been a decided improve
ment in trade, and we are all hopeful for
the future.-ObSerUer, June 9.
A very valuable and highly interesting
little Pamphlet has recently appeared in
print on the Topography and Statistics Of
Antigua, by DR.. Adam Nicholson of this
City. In a condensed form we have q
sketch of the history of the Colony it's
constitution and laws !; its climate, pro-
ductions &c, its Revenue aud Expendi-
ture, Imports and Exports its Educa-
tional and Ecclesiastical establishments:
with a variety of other highly useful in
formation-alI forming a hand book of re-
ference of great value, affordirg a BIRDS
eye view OF the Colony in its various as
poets. No one is better qualified than DR..
Adam Nicholson, from his known literary
requirements, and from information de-
rived by close observation and long expe-
%rlence, to treat on the subject he has ia
ken III hand. His statistics appear to be
got up and arranged with considerable
care; and we need say nothing in COM
mendatlon of the literary merits of the
production. We could have wished that
the Doctor had not narrowed his labors
TO so small a compass, and the work had
been more full, and the number of its pages
extended. His chapter on the climate
and en- the diseases incident thereto, is
highly valuable, and will be read, we
doubt not, with considerable interest.
There are also some excellent observations
on he arldiiy which the absence of trees
and forests tends to produce, and which
in a Colony like Antigua, so subject to
drought, is of especial Importance to as,
and ought to receive attentive consider
ation-IGmes, June, 3.
, 1865-07-18

result of the new system gave great sat-
isfac;ion TO the Jurors from the coast,
some of whom were cited from the quar-
ter of Cedros-to which there was no
conveyance after Saturday morning for
another week, except by means of a
drogher. The duration of the Session
wa shortened at least a third, by holding
two courts at once and although the
Court Rooms adjoin, there was no undue
noise, confusion, Or difficulty in empan-
nelting the juries for each court from the
general body Of jurors seated in the larger
court.
In Demerara the combined Court had
terminated its sitting, having fixed tie
estimate for the year at $l,442,9I6. Mr..
MANIFOLD, Superintendent of Public
Works, was unfortunately drowned in
the river, as he was crossing in the Fer
ny boat having fallen overheard. The
accident occurred a few days before a
public Ball in honor of the Queens Birth
day, for which the sum of 5000 had been
appropriated. The Governor proposed
instead of spending the money upon the
Ball 10 make it a present to the widow of
the unfortunate man left with a large
family, which being readily consented to,
MIR. Hincks generously added $50 to the
sum from his pocket.
, 1865-07-18
ANTIGUA.

We have nothing local, save the fine
shOwery weather, which, having set IN
about the middle Of the last month, has
continued, with just sufficient intervals of
bright sunshine to quicken vegetation
and favour the efforts of Planters to take
off their crops. An opinion seems to
prevail elsewhere that the Colony is sell
dom or never visited by rain; and very
recently o newspaper published in Bar
badoS, the accredited organ of the agri-
cultural interest there, took occasion
while penning one of its accustomed diu-
tribes VlIlticatory of the island, 10 cite, as
an evidence of the absence of moisture in
Antigua, the fact that excellent guano
had been discovered there, most disingen-
uously, if not ignoring the circumstances
altogether, omlttlng to give due promi-
hence 10 the fact that the guano was
discovered in a cave where the excreta of
animals were deposited for centuries, was
sheltered from the influences Of descend
ing moisture. In ordinary years the fall
of rain here is over so inches in the wear,
and although we have experienced a
drought of unprecedented severity for the
last two or three years, in common with
other places in the ~neighbourhood, we
do not see that that misfortune, with
which Barbados, by the way, is often
threatened, and which her artificial soil
can less sustain, should be made the oc-
caSion of remarks from one of its Journals,
deprecla'ory of the value Of agricultural
properties here. It is quite true, that
even in the midst of our drought we are
able to relieve "A few hundreds Of the
starving population of Little England"
by giving them rnral employment but
that fact it might be thought, would r-
Their have entitled us to the gratitude of
the Agricultural Reporter, than TO its re-
peated sneers at our expense. Leaving
this rather unpleasant subject, we are
happy to say that our rain fall, by a re-
cord kept in st. Johns for the last month,
and kindly furnished US by a scientific
friend, was
From May 18th to May 3Ist....4 IS
From June 1st to date.........1 Al
In s 81
- H. H. n
, 1865-07-18
DEMERARA.

A melancholy accident occurred on
10th instant as the Ferry Steamboat Rat
me snare was passing over the River. Mr..
Manifold the engineer and contractor for
the erection of the Water Works, was
The only passenger aft as the steamer was
leaving the stelling on this side. When
she arrived the other side, he was no
where TO be found. This is all that is
KNOW of him by those on board the
steamer. Such Of the particulars as are
known OF the accident are gathered from
CaptAln jeffrey, Of the KIItearn, and Can
tain BissOn, OF the George RatnV, and
some OF the crew of these TWO vessels. he
tween which the steamer was Saline.
Ihey assert that Mr.. Manifold walked aft
ana seemed to be earnestly Inspecting the
rigging, &C., of the KiItearn, one Of
MesSrs. Sandbech, Parker, and Co.'S ne wly
built vessels. He was seen to Stacoer
backwards, and at length TO fall over
woard, doubtless from a rush of blood 70
the head, from which he was suffering for
some time previously. He was an expert
swimmer, and strove manfully against the
current calling Justify for assistance.
Inc Captain of the George Rainv, seeing
him struggling against the tide called out
to him to turn and go with the stream, he
e~ndeavOured to do so, but was carried
down by the current, he rose again ex-
hausted, bat sank to rise no more. al
though the boats lowered from these
vessels were close by.-Colonist, June
90.
We Understand f1Yo owo~onol g. =.
, 1865-07-18

We understand the proposal for giving
up the celebration of the Queens birth.
day had originated with His Excellency
the Governor who expressed his willing
ness to make a present of the amount,
The Shasta courier., 1865-04-29

The LOsT Is FoUND.-We are indebted to
the Red Bluff Independent of the Oath inst.
for information rs to our friends Comstock &
Martin. 1t would now seem that Hinchman
i Cos warehouse is not :" the only fire proof
one there. Now if the Independent had told
that much truth in the article which called
us to inquire for our friends, there would
have been no talk about warehouses. and the
asstute paragraphist who discovered some-
thing railiant in the CoURIER's inquiry would
never have had his chance for immortalizing
thatsheet by his exhibition of talent in playing
ing upon words. nor to commenced to climb
high that. like the monkey, he might more
plainly show conspicuous portions of his
corpus, which were most visible at high
attitudes. If the monkey failed, the Inde-
pendent man has succeeded to an extent that
reaps glory suficien. for both. We never
thought of poking fun at anything in the
Independent. Had there cen a mark there
We might have aimed shaft at it, for there
is very little of the Gallant in the EDITORS
composition. With regard to the latter DOR
tior of the Independents item, all we have
to say is that we have never lived in Red
Bluff, consequently could never have been
I" played out" of it. We leave the wit
attempted by the Independent man in this
to be studied out by ADLER minds.