The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-07-15

streams, he lies in ashady bower-Frond
sub arborea .terrentia temperat astro-
and feeds his eyes with variety of objects,
herbs, trees and flowers to comfort his
misery he receives many delightful smells
and his ears are filed with the sweet and
various harmony of birds; good God,
what company of pleasures hast thou
made for mani" And if God has Great
ed these sources of pleasure for man, has
he not also implanted strong desire in
our hearts to enjoy them? History and
Biography of all eras has shown that he
has-our own hearts tell Us this. Men
of nearly all professions and occupations
require, and great many of the city
men who can afford it, take weeks rec
reation in the Summer Some of those
whom fortune has smiled on beyond their
deserts, rush to the fashionable watering
places to pamper their vanity, to admire
riches and display, and to be admired for
riches and ostentation by people precisely
like themselves, whose God is the al
mighty dollar, and who care no more about
Nature and heI summer beauties than
they care where the cream used in their
coffee is manufactured when they are at
home.
Many men of eminent piety and lea.n-
ing avail themselves Of this season to wan
der in solitude through the depths of the
forest, "far from the busy haunts of men"
where
"-right and left, spread far away,
Fens only lit by ire-fys ray,
Dark with tangled growth of vine"
in holy contemplation they may worship
the great Creator at his shrine of Nature.
Again, there are thousands of city men
who, when this season arrives, HE with
pleasing anxiety-some to the country
homes of their boyhood-others to favor
ite resorts on the sea shore-and others
of a sporting turn of mind, to the cool
trout streams of the mountains to angle,
where (as Burton says of such men,
"they will wade up to the arm-holes upon
such occasions, and voluntarily undertake
that, to satisfy their pleasure, which a
poor man for a good stipend would scarce
be hired to undergo. And if so be the
angler catch no fish, yet he hath a whole
some walk to the brook-side, pleasant
shade by the sweet silver streams; he
hath good air, and sweet smells of fine
fresh meadow flowers; he hears the mu-
sic of running waters and the melodious
harmony of birds &c. which he thinketh
better then any sport which can be made"
To great many men of this latter class,
little Potter" has become favorite sum-
mer retreat, and is annually growing more
popular as such For the last ten years,
numbers of men Of the highest res pecta-
bility have come here to stay for week
or two in Summer to enjoy the quiet rus
ticty which our county affords, and to
have the fun of catching themselves suf-
fcient trout for their own consumption
while here. These men have expended !
hundreds of dollars Annually in the coun-
ty as an equivalent for this enjoyment,
but Notwithstanding this; they are to be |
prevented by law from fishing in certain
streams in this county for the future.
In 1852 our State Legislature passed
a law, at the instance of the Representa-
tive from this District, making it a crime
for non residents of this State to fish in |
Pine Creek, or any Of the branches or
tributaries of the Sinnemahoning &c. in |
this county, under penalty of ten dollars
for every offence. Since its passage as
law, few persons ever troubled themselves
about enforcing it-certainly none on the
first fork of the acknowledgement it |
has remained "dead letter on our stat |
utes" until the 10th inst. when four CEN
tlemen were arrested in Sylvania and only |
escaped the penalty by want of evidence
to prove them non-residents Of the State |
1t is the opinion of an eminent lawyer,
given at the request or the writer of this !
article, that the law is unconstitutional.
Sec. 2. of Art. f., of the Constitution of
the L. S., reads thus: "The citizens of
each state shall be entitled to all privi-
leges and immunities of citizens in the
several states" Sec. 2. of Art. l., of
the same instrument, reads thus. This
Constitution, and the laws of the L. S.,
which shall be made in pursuance there
of shall be the supreme law
of the land; and the judges in every
state shall be bound thereby, anything in |
the Constitution or laws of any State to
the contrary Notwithstanding" Shade
Of Webster, what does this mean?
The international law between ancient
Ephesus and Syracuse, upon which
Shakespeare founded his COMEDY of
Errors" was enlightened in comparison
with this law against fishing, enacted by
the Legislature of the Keystone State of
the model Republic of the world, in A. D.
1852, because if it was absurdly severe,
it was purely reciprocal; whereas, if any
of US has brother residing in any other
State of the Union, if we visit him, we are
entitled to all privileges and immunities
of citizens of the State in which he re-
sides If the law permits my brother to