CURRENT NEWS. It is rumored that Gen. Geo. B. McClel lan has been or will be tendered the appoint ment of Secretary of War by tbe President. Several more citizens of Richmond have been ordered to leave 'bat City, for speaking disrespectfully of the great Ilunnicuti. Returns of ihe registrations in South Caro lina shows that the blacks will have a vi ry large majority of the vote in that State,prob ably 50,000. Tbe Rhode Island c tton manufacturers have unitedly consented to reduce the wayes of their operators, this week,and to run shor' time. During the past week a number of cotton and woolen manufacturers of Philadelphia reduced 'he wages of their employees from ten to twenty per cent. The Agricultural Department, in its report for October, estimates tbe yield of Wheat for the year in the whold country at 220,000,000 bushels, being about fifty million bushels more than last year. The Radicals have been put on trial for the many mines of which they have been guilly during the past six years, and the verdict ot the people has been guilty,— guilty. Tbe Democratic majority in New Jersey,so far, is 13,492. Seventeen counties out of the twenty-two aro Democratic. Democratic majority in tbe Legislature, SI. Secretary Seward has concocted another secret mission scheme. Rev. Mr. Hawley. a Presbyterian minister at Auburn, is to be sent out to foreign countries for about four months on some mysterious business. In Missouri, James B. McCortnick ha* been elected to Congress in place of Hon. Thomas E. Noell, deceased, by one thousand majority—a ain. The county elections show large Democratic gains. The Supreme Court has decided that the running of cars on Sunday t a work of ne cessity and charity, but that if illegal, the remedy is at law and not in equity. Justices Strong and Agnow dissented from the ma jority opinion. A correspondent of the Geauga (Ohio) Democrat says that cows, which last spring, brought SSO to $75 are now (telling, on ac count of the drought, for $25. The cheese factories will soon have to suspend operations for want of milk. There is no abatement of the excitement and alarm which prevails in Richmond. The incendiary Hunnicutt made a speech to the negroes the other night, in which he advised them to apply the torch to the house of any white man who discharged a negro for voting the Radical ticket. An Arkansas Journal says that cotton cul ture will have to be abandoned. Cotton can not be picked at less than a dollar a hundred being equal to three and a half cents a pound tor lint cotton, which, added to the tax, cov ers nearly half the market value of the pro duct. Texas papers state that the planters have great difficulty in getting the poor remnant of their cotton crop gathered. Almost daily some of them are on the streets in search of freedmen, hut they invariably return to their homes disappointed. The treedmen will not work. A young lady the other evening astonished the company by asking for the loan of a dim inutive argenteous, truncated cone, convex on ila summit, and semi-perforated with m dentions. She wanted a thimble. ISCMDURT RAT A family in Fredericks burg, Va., were about retiring for the night, when I bey were aroused by the smell of fire. On searching, they found 6moke coming out cf a rat hole, and at once cut away some wooden work, discovering a rat's nest on fire and a piece of the match that had not been consumed. Half an hour later,and the hue and perhaps lives would have been lost,while the cause of the fire would have remained a mystery. A Selma negro, when bis election ticket was given hint, asked what lie was to do with it. He was told to put it in the box. "Is dat all ?" he queried. "Yes." "Nuihin' name, tnarsler 1" "No," "Is dat voiim ''Yes, ' "I thought voiin' was giltin' suiu thin'." And, disgusted, he threw the paper on the ground, trampled it uuder foot, and went hooie. A young fellow >n Clayton, lowa, stole a yoke of oxen, aud sold them in order to re move to Missouri. He was pursued and brought back. His wife went on.ignorant of the cause of bis return. He wrote her the facts. His letter broke her heart, aud she Was taken from the car a corpse, Every man is a volume, if you know how to read biui,— Channing. An Irish girl ia Laporte, lad., was outrag ed on a commons. Wben the full extent of her wrong became known, she procured a large bowie auife and sought out hera-sailant She found him in an outhouse and sprang upon him. He fled to the house, and he fol lowed. As she ran, she picked up some boulders. He fastened himself into a room. She threw a boulder or two against the pan el, made a breach, and then entered- lie cowed in a corner, and sho slashed away at biro miscellaneously, horribly disfiguring htm Ha finally yielded, crying: "I wU marry you. or anything else, if you will only stop. She stopped, and they were married tha same night. The excitement brought togetli er a large crowd. Canada is now selling large quantities of apples intbe American market. Tins i turn ing the tables, as, only a few years ago, fruii was exported Irom here to Canada. Workmen are engaged on the high bridges over the d-ep cuts on the Ca'awissa Railroad tusking them entirely new. Cjjc Democrat HARVEY SICKLER, Editor. TUNKHANNOCK, PA. Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1867. F3T ADVERTISING AGENTS, EX> CHANGES, and all others interested, will please note the CHANGE of TITLE, of thi* paper, from THE NORTH BRANCH DEM OCRAT to WYOMING DEMOCRAT. From the Ag. Negroes in the Cars. Some mouths ago in the Philadelphia Court ot Common Pleas, Judge Allison charged a jury, in the case of a colored woman against a conductor of a railroad train (Philadelphia and West Chester), who had put her off the train because she tefnsed to sit where he directed her, that he was liable to damages for the assault. The jury gave the stim of SSOO damages. An app> slavish as to endorse it. O bhaiue, where is thv blush ?— Columbian. fW Mr. Thaddeus Stevens' Confisca tion Bill seems to be somewhat unpopular iu his own party. The "old war horse snorts out a defiance and says : "The time for confiscation hills, was during the war, when they could be of use in preventing men from going into tbe rebellion, but to think of parsing such a measure now, was sheer fully and nonsense. 1} the negroes of the South wanted land, let them work for it ." Pretty good that! Now if the party will only abolish the Frcedman's Bureau and let them have a chance, perhaps they will work. The seed sown by Ilunnicutt and bis crew is already bearing a forced fr it. While in most other parts of the South the temper of the frecdmen is quite sur prisingly commendable, in Richmond we find one Lewis Lindsay declaring, in an altogether needless hypothesis, that "be fore any of his children should sutler for food, the streets of Richmond should tun knee-deep in blood. He thanked God the negroes had learned to use swords and guns " It seems then, that negroes can he demagogues as well as whites. This fel low's ravings are as senseless as those of Seinmea or M'Cartle. Hunnicutt's need les' supposition and prophecy were, that "if the assassin's dagger should reach him, more than on white ruan would fall that day." But Lewis out-tierods Ilunnicutt. If be does not waste his time in gratuitous speech where no hat is passed around for pennies, and will do each day a good oay s work, he ne.cd not tear his children's starv ing.—N. Y, Times. We are at length gratified to find one man in the Radical party who haa the coura"eto speak out and avow the princi ples (d* that party. It sounds well after the late elections Ben. Wade states pos itively ai d with no attempt at evasion that w we are committed to the doctrine of uni versal suffrag", and no man is a Rcpubli can who would di sert it uowv' It that had only been fully understood by the people of Pennsylvania at the re cent election, the result would have shown a Democratic majority of thirty thousand. Paying Her Hush Money. One day we have it announced that Mrs Lincoln says she has iu her possession the means with which t< crush the Radical party. That is no doubt true,but the peo ple are saving her any labor in that direc tion. Immediately following the annonnce ment comes another. Mrs. Lincoln has consented to the proposition to raise a sub scription for her benefit, and that the work has already commenced by opening sub scription hooks at Brady's in New \ork, and addressing circulars to prominent pol - iticians. It is evident they have found it necessary to pay her hush money. She has used the power which she holds over the party of "great moral ideas" to her pecuniary benefit, as she intended to do when the exposure was first commenced. — She has managed her cards ifnot creditably, Tbe partisans, wLose rascali ties she holds in the palm of her hand, are at the confessional. The colored clergy in the country arc to be appealed to, to move in th;s matter, in the way of collections among the con gregations. Meantime the New \ ork cor respondent of the Springfield Republic in, Radical, viciously suggests that the duty of purchasing her goods be made a plank in the plaifoira of the Radical party.—De troit Free Press.. FOR LABORING MEN TO THINK OV. — You who labor for a living, did you ever reflect that there are two classes among the people, the favored by law and the op pressed by law ? That you are paying taxes to school your children and that of your wealthy neighbor, who has money in Government bonds ? The bondholder is of the favored class. He pays no taxes upon his bonds, that draw a heavy interest in gold, and your labor has to make up.— His bonds are net taxed to keep up the road that he drives on, nor to pay for build ing school-houses, nor to pay for teachers, nor to help pay any portion of the State, county, township, or corporation taxes. Is this equal, is it right, is it just ? CST The New York Tribune says : "Human life in New York is too short for anybody to read five columns of the Press." It therefore reduces Forney's "points' 1 to these ; 'l. Gen Grant succeeded Mr. Stanton as Secretary of War ; this being an act of'rare sagacity and courage' 2. Gen. Rawling believes in Grant. 3. El 5 W ashburne b> lieves in Grant. 4. Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, believes in Grant 5. 'Several gentlemen named in connection with the Presidency' have promised to vote for him. fi. What bis principles are is nobody's business-" As a conclusion it remarks : "Grant may be a good Republi can, hut we are not satisfied with his back ers," A NUT FOR RADICALS TO CRACK. —Four years of wai and nearly three of peace un der Radical usurpation have failed to re store the Union. The war crushed out the rebellion, but ten States are still under military despotism, and representation in Congress is denied to entire communities because they elect men who are opposed to the Radicals. Fortunately Pennsylvania refused to harmonize its Supreme Court with the views of the Radical majority,and the people are rapidly assuming the vi w that the Radicals must be crushed before the Union can be restored. R-n. Butler wants the Radical par ty to abandon the principles, measures and issues upon which it has beeD worsted and defeated ail around the circle. Greeley won't hear to it, lie says defeat rather than dishonor—"stern justice" to the dar ky or nothing. "Stern justice" to the Rump would be a better issue, for it bad ly ueeds chastise m cut for its conduct. tW The N Y. Tribune is in extacies over the result of the late "elections ' in Virginia, at which the negroes triumphed over the whites. History also tells us that Nero fidJled while Rome was burning. The jury lists for the parish of Or leans were drawn on the Bth under the Sheridan rule. The list of 200 is com prised of 2u whites and 180 negroes ! That's Radical "reconstruction" for you. The wife of the famous Ned Buntline, died a few days ago in the poor house at Nash ville, Teun. She was a Cuban, named Maria Cordova, of exceeding in her younger dav* and had led a life of strange adventure ; first, as cigar girl in New Orleans, then wife of the roving Ned, mistress of Hen. McCulloch, the Texan ranger, resident of a Mexican convent f..r len years, and then a downward course, which eDded in poverty and a pauper's death. A nine year old boy in Hatfield, Mass.. weighs two hundred pounds. Judge Buckner, of Kentucky, aged sixty flve, fell in love with a woman aged nineteen and shot himself because he couldn't get her Rash youth ! Two women, I 'he first who hare mude (he attempt, leached the lop of Mount Ilood this summer. Cleveland has just adopted female clerks in the post office*. What She nought.—A few of our lady read ers, who visit the stores in town just to see the goods, will do well to read the following ext> usiva purchase which one of our pretty girls actually made ID a certain store in this place some days ago in our presence : She stood beside the counter— The day I'll ne'er forget, Shu thought the uiuslin dearer Than any she'd seen yet; I watched her playful fingers The silks and satins toss ; The clerk looked "quite uneasy, And nodded at the boa*. " Show me some velvet ribben, Berage and satin turk," She said, " I want to purchase !" Then gave the goods a jerk ; The clerk was all obedience,— lie traveled "on his shape At length, with hesitation, She bought a yard of tape. Married. LANNERY—BEXNETT —At the parsonage in Tunkhannock, on the 7th inst., by the Rev. J. L. Legg, Mr. Niat Lunnery. of Tuakbaunock, Pa., I *o Mies Emma Bennett, of Middletown, It. J Tunkhsnnock Wholesale and Retail Pro duce Market. Corrected Weekly by HUN HELL \ BANNA TYNE, at Samuel Stark's old stand, two doors below Woming National Bank. Whaat, per buahel f2 50 Kjre. " 135 Corn, " " 1 & Oatx, " 7° Buckwheat, " .* 80 Beaux, " 2 00 Potatoes " 75 Butter, tt> 35040 Kgirs, per doien, 30 Lard, ft 14 Tllow, ft 12| Dried Apples, per bushel 3 OO Rags per ft 03 Hay per ton, #lO 00<912 Wheat Flour per bbl 13 00 914 10 Aye Flour per bb! Corn M-al per 100 ft 2 7593 00 Chop per 100 ft 2 50 Silt per bbl 3 25 Buckwheat Flour per 100 ft 3 50(93 75 Ili.gi, dressed, per ft 7i Mess Pork, per bbl 23 00 Mess Perk, per ft 15 The above named firm are dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries and Pmrisions. Hardware, Hats and Caps. Boots and Shoes, Notions, Ac., Ac , and will sell at he lowest cash price ruling at date ot sale. v7nll ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. 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DANIEL WRIGHT A NEPHEW, Tunk-, Pa Sept. 16, 1867,-v7n7 tl. IEV HILLIIEBY & fASEY US. MRS. BARDWELI. is now receiving a splendid stock of SPRING A SUMMER Goods of. 11 the new est SHAPES of FELT and VELVET II ATS for LADIES and CHIL DREN. AUo BONNETS, VELVET RIBBONS FLOWERS, and FEATHERS, and a full assortment of FANCY GOOFS. at prices to defy co m petition All the latest styles of paper patterns, SLEEVES, CLOAKS, JACKETS. &c&c., from MA DAME DEMO EES 7. Dresses made, cut anil busted at the shortest notice. MRS BARDWELL. Tunkhannock. May. 22, 18g7. vgn4i-tf. Farm for Sale, The Subscriber offers for sale, the farm on which he now lives, situate 1 In Tunkhannock, Pa. about ONE MILE FROM THE LINK OF THE NEW RAILROAD c- maming TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY THREE ACRES with about 7 5 ACRES CLEARED, with a Urge New Frame House and Barn- Lot well watered. Balance <>l Lot WELL TIMBERED and | available f-r fanning purposes ! Fur particular*, Call at this office, or at the premises. WM. CASKEY i Tunkhannock, Oct. 9 "67-v7i