The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-12-10
Things Wise and Otherwise.

WHAT kind of doctor would duck
make ? A quack doctor.
4 MANS true wealth hereafter is the
good he does in this world to his fellow
men. .......
TAKE all sorrow out of life, and YOU
take away all richness and depth of ten
derness. Sorrow is a furnace that melts
selfish hearts together in love.
IT is stated that the ukase abolishiug
serfdom in Russia will be published on
the 18th day of December, the birthday
of the late Emperor Nicholas. l
/ IT is calculated that the clergy cest the
United States 100000 annually; the
criminals, $40, 100000; the lawyers S70,-
10000, and liquors s200,000,000
Private letters from St. Petersburg
state that the financial crisis had been
severely felt there-that silver coin wa,
excessively scarce, and that the price of
everything but meat was extortionate.
CoAL-BURNING LocoMoTIvEs.-Th
Syracuse Courier says: thereafter, it
is understood, all locomotives built for the
Hudson Hiver and Camden and Amboy
railroads will be coal-burners"
MANY of the brightest virtues are like
stars-there must be night, or they can
not shine. Without suffering there could
be no fortitude, no patience, no compass
sion, no sympathy.
A good old Quaker lady, after listening
to the extravagant yarns of storekeeper
as long as her patience would allow, said
to him, " Friend, what pity it is sin to
lie, when 1t seems 80 necessary to thy
business"
THE average attendance at the church
of Henry Ward Beecher is three thou
sand persons. In order to accommodate
the multitude that throng to hear him,
the New York Times says, "it has been
determined to FIJI the aisles Of the church
with folding iron chairs, which will be
placed in two rows, and at the close of SER
vice be folded back against the ends Of
the pews,"
THE marriage Of Bayard Taylor, in
Gotha, Saxony, to Miss Hansen, of Gotha;
took place on Oct. 9th Mr.. Taylor
passes the winter with his bride at Mos
COW, where she has relatives residing.
He is to come back to America next au-
tumn, and Willis announces that he has
"alroady written to him to claim for Idle
wild the honeymoon Of his return" Es
Col. BENTON ON THE BANKS.--The
Hon. Thomas III. Benton is out in long
letter in the National IateHigencer, OH
what used to be his favorite subjects,
Banks and the Currency, and advocates
g stamp duty on paper currency, and a
bankrupt law against bankrupt banks"
He concludes as follows: Grn
There is not amonarch in Europe who
would treat his subjects, or suffer them
to be treated, as the people of the United
States are treated by the base part of their
own banks, and the indulgent Legislatures
which legaliZe their violations of law,
promises, and contracts The issue of
currency, and its regulation, is an attrib7
ute of sovereignty, and everywhere is e17
ercised by the sovereign power, except in
the United States Here, also, it was
intended to be an attribute of sovereignty,
and was placed in the hands of Congress,
and limited to the issue Of gold and silrer,
and tie regulation Of ats value. For our
present Government was formed by hard
money men, who had seen and felt the
disastrous and demoralizing effect of pa
per money, and were anxious to save their
posterity from such calamities as they had
suffered. They did their part to save US.
Shall we bo false to ourselves and To
them -