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The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-03-24
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MARCH IS, 1859.
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NlAAth iS3 A~CH'
ED. Porter Journal:
Dear Su-By publishing the enclosed
notice you viii very much oblige the un-
dcrsigued and various other friends Of Ed
ucarop in Ulysses aud Allegany
ATTENTION. TEACHERS OF ALLEGANY
AND ULYSSES TOWNSHIPS.
The Teachers in the abovc-named Town
ships are invited to meet at the CLMsTEp
,ScnoqL House on Saturday, May 2Est'
III 10 o'clock A. ~. for the purpose OF organZ-
ing a DISTRICT TEACHERS 4SSOCLd-
TIOE
The want of interest in the progress and
welfare OF our Common Schools, as well as
the need OF improvement by Teachers. has in
dueed the undersigned land various other
friends ef Education 10 take this meth
od. in hone thereby to remedy, to some extent,
these evils; aud il is hoped and expected that
every Teacher or any other person who may
feel Interested in these Townships viii be
present at the time ana place mentioned. 1t
Is also hoped that every Teacher or other
person attending will have something to offer
IN reference % the actual business Of s. keep
ing school, i" as we find il in our own Town
ships. Bring on your resolutions, questions,
suggestions, or whatever else may tend to IN
terest or improve others or yourself. 1t all
events, let scey TEACHER, without ONE excep-
ton attend, and let Us organize an Associa-
tioR that shall do honor to the teachers Of our
Townships-tend to raise the standard OF
qualifications - and elevate our Common
Schools 10 their proper position
/. BIRD, r. w. BENTON,
II. + BlRn, D. WuIPPLE, JR.,
PEocroR MAyyARD, A Z. BENToy,
ElIZABErH PREsBO, SARAH J. PRE5Ho.
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s.Oysfers and Eettcrs.''

Under this ,ingular caption the ~. 1.
Ece. Post, Of March l7th has an excel
lent article on the Post Office department
and the defeat Of the Post Office appro-
priation bill. Looking upon cheap post
age as a right which the people should
zesIousIy guard, we sympathise most
hearth, with this article. We note with
-astouisbmeat the effort OF Northern Bu-
chanan papars to excuse the attempt OF
the Shareholders Of the Senate to i@-
crease the rates Of postage. These edit
ors are dumb On their schemes to increase
the taxes Of the people, but are very IN
dustrlous 10 -deuouncing Mr., Grow FOL
defeating it. Why, gentlemen, ain your
party small enough 1t the North already,
that YOU must needs disgust the people
still more by this foolish attempt to de-
fend the "lords Of the lash" in the Senate
in an effort to tax the laboring reading
people of the North for money to carry
the mails for the indoIent non-readine
people OF the South? We commend to
all thinking, honest minds, the following
extract from the Posts "oyster5 and let
ter" article:
.sThere are some who entertain favor
| able expectations from the administration
/ of the Postoffce under our new PJstmas-
ter-General, Mr.. Holt. We hope they
will not be disappointed, but we have one
question to ask viii he take such meas
ures that the government, hereafter, may
ue able to carry letters as cheap as indl-
viduaIs carry oysters! This is easy tc
do, but it is not done, and we fear never
will be while the mail monopoly continues.
Wherever you 90 in the western coun-
try, whether you ascend rivers or follow
the track of railways, you find that oys
ters have arrived before you. "Hand out
the oysters, is the common cry at the
stopping places. Oysters, as soon as they
are drawn from their beds under the BRINE
are put IN all haste on board OF our steam
ers and our freight trains, and taken lnt(
the distant interior by the most speedy
conveyance A letter will keep; news
paper with intelligence which has no
been read before, is always fresh the mo
ment it arrives but oysters have not th'
quality Of bookkeeping; the process o
spelling waits for nobody; oysters mus
be sent to their destination with the speeC
of an express. All over our vast inter-
or, at any village on the railways, oyster
stands are to be found so numerouSly
that one is astonished at the fecundity o
those banks in the sea which supply them
E But the most remarkable thing of all i
the cheap rate at which we get all thu
despatch and all this punctuality. Llk
all those things for which there Is iarg
demand, aud Of which there Is larg
supply, oysters are cheap even in the in
terror. It need not cost more to carry
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For the Potter Journal.
These E,atter Days.

Time has ever been marked by noted
changes; noted changes by noted think
ers, who are ever waymarks on the stream
of time. The inspiration of the God-lke
WHICH they felt, urged them to embody
IN some form, its thrilling pulsations.
At first, it was manifested in daring bray-
cry. But when few simple characters
portrayed, though family, the greatness of
thought, a noble conquest was gained.
Symbols increased in symmetry, and bore
less striking contrast to the glories Of
mind, as each great day came round. Yes,
when poets sang the eloquenco of the soul,
Of its deep longing for action, a beauty OF
expression was then originated, never be-
iote attained. It told Of the deep power
ap4 melody within, which was yet to be
ao4saf 9ll glorious aud rcnovate the world.
'iaf oe then 20 the days Of Christ,
Blle4 q Ggy.o "TwcIsc' vent forth to
paot ts.e sTee of LITE, tle mystic Gbres ot
alae aaE root asaa weave lIam
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What the Press say.

"CosTAR's" ExterminatoIs are iDvaIu
able remedies for clearing houses Of al
sorts of vermin. With all confidence We
recommend them.-N T. Daily Na''
Register. =.
" CosTAR's" remedies for all domestic
pests, such as Rats, Reaches, Bed-Bug'
Ants, Fleas, &c. are invaluable; We cat
speak from actual knowledge of their neI
its DRUGGISTS and DEALERS should
send their orders early, if they would Sc
care a trade in them.-Ne10 York Jour
nai
81 shall write something about you
Exterminators, as I can do so with pro
priety. They are selling rapidly here aOY
destroying all vermin.-Ed. " BanNs''
E,,,o,g, H.
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NOW is THE TIME
For the frEonaS OFthe JDG GA "A.
to begin 10 circulate il for
the Campaign Of 1850.
WORK FOR OUR GREAT CAUSE.

nG- Mr.. Plumer, President of the Bl,
ohanan Convention, held last week at Har,
risburg, is here, receiving congratulations
for his one-sided management there, by
which he has succeeded in giving the last
blow to Democracy in Pennsylvania
Washington Cor. ". T. Tribune.
Of course, that's what he was after
and it was to be expected that he would
be in hurry to claim his reward, know
ing full well the weakness Of the Presi
dent-his forgetfulness of those who be
friend him, and his proneness to liberally
reward his most bitter enemies.
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Rsg~ We this week print the first half
Of an article entitled "The Forces of Free
Labor" extracted from neat duodecimo
volume of select papers, recently issued
by Messrs ThatcherA& Hutchinson Of
New York, and written by the Rev. A. D.
Mayo, of that city, under the title of
"Symbols of the Capital" We hope all
our readers will give it their careful at
tention, and we particularly desire to call
the attention of administration democrats
to the facts and figures it portrays-the
forces Of free labor in, and commerce of,
one single State Of the northern oonStel-
lation-facts too, which cannot be con-
trogcrted by tie faIsehoods to which
northern doughface Congressman resort
ar Justification Of their betrayal Of tho
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TEMPERANCE MEETNGs.-A meeting Of the
friends of temperance was held at Cooper ;
Institute" last evening. Hon. George Hall, OF
Brooklyn, presided Addresses were made by
the Rev Mr. Jones, DR.. Curtiss, of Cincinnati,
Rev Mr. Armitage, and James \. Briggs, Esq,
At the close of Mr.. Briggs speech, Mr.. Peter
Cooper snid he would give the use of the Hall
once month, if Mr.. Briggs would come and
speak. The meetings viii be continued.-E.
\. Ere Post.
We are glad to note the signs of in
creasing interest in the Temperance ques-
tion. Pun, crime and misery, have al
ways been inseperably connected, and al
ways will be; and yet, there are those in
every community, claiming to be respect
able, who are Indifferent on this question
nay, who give the weight Of their ex-
ample against the cause Of Temperance,
peace and prosperity. We trust the day
is not far distant, when a man who drinks
any thing Intoxicating, will be excluded
from all respectable society.
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interests Of their constituency. We ask
democrats to give its truths only a roa-
sonable consideration, and then ask their
hearts to Justify their will to be the ser
viles of Southern whip-crackors-if they
can.
The book is filed to the brim with
glowing truths upon various topics, and
we propose to notice it more thoroughly
in future review, with copious extracts.
It is well worth place in every respect
able library in the land, and costs only
the triaing sum of 81.
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'.'sea4a.,....-
an hour. IVES thought ten miputa, )
enough, as the resolutions were J, ,I,aoa ,oi,
prepared, ,-(good for Iyes). Carried I'G' q
one hour.
Mass Meeting called-Plumer sill.
the chair. Committee appointed 70 'n al u
on Judge BLACK, of Nebraska and n saE I
him to address the meeting. Comm;,a.sA asA
in ten minutes report the JUDGE ,'1s' ;nT
posed-can't come, q guess he nn5as mus
stood it would be cooler in his own rnoas' as''
Calls for SNowDEN. Snowden rises nu' ~
es warm, pitches into sonaeboay abaa1 aal'
first, with boots on, "-clapping and %u' I"
ing, ct is supposed he was at the Go~ Cos
ernor and his friends). After he had
hausted himself, he retired, and call. va, @
out for Mr.. HUGUs, of Somerset Iu' Ha
gus rises, and Hugus pitches into SDar
den all over, until the lobpies shout ar.
/ it Hugos :" and the fun extends to aooS
many Republicans in the body Of SSa ,Sa
Hall, and they yell "Go it" and the vboIo ''o
throng becomes glorious it the wsv of
shouting. Somebody moves to adicprn
three Yeas, and one universal No 70,
the Chair says that the mass meeting !,
adjourned. They found that it Womb
not pay.
I At four o'clock, the committee are MT
ready to report, and therefore adjourned
another hour, which will carry it over IN.
til 7 o'clock. | will therefore close tb,
and send It, and furnish the balance If
the proceedings in my next. l.
4 resolution endorsing Gov. Packers
policy, was voted down-yoas, 81, naysS4.
The discussion upon the resolution WAS
very animated and bitter and the friend,
/ of the Governor are bound to be reyeDr.
ed, as will be seen by the following tele.
gram which we find in the Tribune Of
Monday:
( PHILADELPHIA, Monday, March o.
! 1859.-Mr. Forney's Press contains a call
for another Democratic Convention at
Harrisburg, OF the 18th Of April to vim.
dicate Governor Packer from the assault
! of the recent State Convention, at FEEDER.
al dictation, to rea2sert the principle of
Popular Sovereignty, and to vindicate
4
Democratic principles.
( 1t is evident that the factions of "De.
mocracy' in Pennsylvania are determined
to thoroughly play the Kilkenny cat
game.
/ Fridays Philadelphia Press says
/ "It becomes the good men of the Dea-
ocratic party, outraged and insulted by
/ the recent Administration men at IIa
risbdrg, to take immediate steps to resist
and rebuke that act of insolence and Op.
preston, And we have no doubt this
will be speedily done"
Richardson l.. Wright, Of PHILADELPHIA
was nominated for Auditor General and
John Rowe, the incumbent, unanimously
renominated for Surveyor General. Per-
sonalIy, these men may be perfect gentle
men, for aught we know; but politically,
they are fit representative men of thePFo'
Slavery democracy of Pennsylvania,
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" Death to all Vermin.

As SPRING approaches,
ANTS and REACHES,
From their holes come out,
And Nice and RATS,
In spite Of Cats,
Gaily skip about.
BED-BUGs bite
You, in the night,
As on the bed you slum5eT,
While INSECTS crawl
Thro' chamber and hall,
In squads without number
ITISTRULY WONDERFULWtin
what certainty, Rats, Reaches, M.'' ,'
Moles, Ground Mice, Bed-bugs, Anu
Moths, Mosquitoes, Fleas, Insects on An' A.
mails, in short every species of Eer1S, H.
are utterly destroyed and eztermlna'''' .
"Costar s" Rat. Roach, &c Eztermlna'o'
g Costars" Bed-bug Ezterminator'
- Costar's' Electric Powder, tor lnss'''
Supplied direct, by mail, to any auu'
in the United States, as follows p,r
On receipt of Sl,00, box OF the DN'''
Roach, sc. EXT; i, :, NE
On receipt of $500, a box aaGn G1l " .~rsIc II
RAT, Roach, &c EXT, and hDfS s.;.p,
POWDER, (sent postage paid, } sunless, '.s.,
to destroy the vermln on any Pl'n over,
Sold by DRUGGIsTS and DEALERS
where. 400
4" COsTAR's" PRINCIPAL pEPoi'
BROADWAY, n. y. 10 nsi!
P. S.-Circulars' terms, &c., sen' y
on application. on pEss1
H~ WHOLESALE AGENTS FOB o
SYLVANIA rDnT
COSTAR'S BRANCH DEPUl,, ~,
Nortleaa cor,,ey FIfth and Arch N''''
PHILADELPHIA, II,
And Wholesale Dealers gHneFA'
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Essg@ We have received from A. B. BuFdckr
Spruce St, New York, copy of The Row.
ing Eeditor, or Talks with Slaves" by James
Redpath. We have looked through its pages
only little. but it bears the stamp Of great
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Coudcrsport, March is, 1889.
Gt1e 31ottter 5ournaI.

COUDEgSPGET, PA.,Z4
THURSDAY 1jorQi0g, 7Jaroh r. 1853.
T. S. CHASE, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER,
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Knowing there would be a great time
in the old Hunker State Convention at
Harrisburg, we sent a special reporter tc
give our readers an inside view Of the
proceedings of the remnant of the Pro
slavery leaders in Pennsylvania. The
following IS the first letter Of our faithful
reporter. It will richly repay all our cx,
penses in procuring it:
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-12

THE PROFESSOR" IN THE STocKs.-The
Professor" has attracted the notice of the re-
ligious press by his attractive and somewhat
liberal conversations in the Atlantic Monthly.
The Waterman and Reflector of the present
week puts him to the question for making his
puppets, the Divinity Student the Maiden
Lady, and Little Boston, put forth remarks,
by sly suggestion, in order to enforce the orac-
ular here sizes of the Professor. The Reflector
closes as follows:
"The Professor appears to be uncertain
whether to report any more conversations on
these TOPICS but he is not likely to forget
them. The poor relation will continue to play
her part, and we shall still be occasionally re-
minded of some very forlorn looking person,
draped in black, with white neck CLOTH who
has a habit of endeavoring, by 'foreboding
looks and dreary death-bed stories,' and SINH
lar instruments of torture, to break down the
natural cheerfulness of healthy child We
shall still be instructed, in melodious verse,
that, no matter how crooked may be the paths
we make for our feet, they will bring us safe
home at last, all the same, Bible or no Bible.
And he will be praised, and many readers will
be delighted with his wit, and the great firm
of Mundus & Co. will especially congratulate
themselves on so excellent correspondent,
and some youths, with haiffrightened recollec-
tons of an Old Book, protesting to contain
the words of eternal life, will think these ac-
commvdating doctrines are exceedingly com,
fortable--if one could only believe them true.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-12

CONCERT THIS EvENING.-The programme
for the grand concert at Mechanics Hall this
evening, is well selected, giving good pro-
portion of favorite pieces and such as are cal
culated to show, to good advantage, the pecu-
liar excellence of the several performers. With
such programme, and the array of musical
talent enlisted for the occasion, it ought to be,
and we hope it will be, the largest concert of
the season. Mrs. Long stands pre-eminent
among the Boston musicians, and has just re-
turned from successful tour to the Western
cities. Mr. Adams, also, has acquired high
reputation, and his powers are well known to
many of our own citizens. OF Mrss Doane,
Mrs. Whiting, and Messrs. McConville,
Whiting, Fairbanks, and Allen, it is
unnecessary to say anything to Wor-
cester audience. But of Senior Casseres, we
would say, to those of our readers who have
not yet heard him, that they should by no
means miss the present opportunity. The YER
dict of those who have heard him, we believe,
is unanimous in his favor, as one of the most
accomplished pianists that has ever visited us.
A Boston gentleman, who is in constant asso-
citation with the musical community of that
city, tells us that he is regarded among the
best judges there, as the most remarkable per-
former, of his age, that they have ever listen
ed to. He is, moreover, gentleman of talent,
of high intellectual culture and refinement
and every way deserving of the encourage
ment of the lovers of good music, in this city
and elsewhere.
Mrs. Long and Mr.. Adams each of. them
sing in four favorite pieces-two duets and
four soos-on the occasion. We trust that
our citizens will show that they appreciate the
effort that has been made to give them SUI
perior entertainment.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-12

ANCIENT RELICS, AND SILVER M1NE.-It
is known to but very few of our readers, we
presume, that I'VE have in reality silver mine
in Woburn, that it was worked over a hundred
years ago, when the pure ore was taken from
it and manufactured into buttons to adorn the
garments of revolutionary heroes. This mine
is situated on the Lemuel Richardson farm.
near the Winchester line, and the place where
the excavations were made for working the
mine can be seen at this day. Mr. Gerrish
Richardson has in his possession twelve silver
buttons, said to be made of silver taken from
TINS mine. They bear the inscription, "Eben-
ezer Brooks, 1859" The property was owned
by the man whose name is on the buttons and
it is asserted, and believed by those informed
upon the matter, that he dug the ore Of which
they were made out of the hole known as the
"mine," and called so for the past hundred
years.-Middleser Journal
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-12

Mr.. DOUGLASS PLANs.-The Washington
correspondent of the New York Commercial
Advertiser writes that the Administration has
been advised from the best sources that Mr.
Douglas has at last taken a leap into the oppo-
slton camp, and is organizing band of Dem
ocratic guerrilas to war on the Administration.
The Democrats generally were Opposed toward
Cancellation with him, but the rumors sent
from this city are utterly erroneous tits also
stated that arrangements are on foot to send
Douglas Democratic delegations to Charleston
from every non-slavehodng State, and from
several of the Southern States. Double dele
cations from Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and H.
hnois, were previously made certain.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-12

CANINE SAGAcITY.-The truth of the fol-
lowing instance of the sagacity of dog we
can substantiate in every particular and is, we
think, well worthy of notice. A little daugh-
ter of one of our prominent citizens has well
arranged baby house, upon which she bestows
much care, tastetully dressing the various doll
occupants thereof in the morning, and divest
ing them Of their clothing at night. This
practice she has followed for some months.
The pet dog of the family usually set by her
at night and superintendent the work of pre-
pairing the dolls for bed. One evening last
week the girl was away to tea, and did not re-
turn in season to perform the parental duties
to the babies The dog awaited her arrival
until the dolls hour Of retiring had passed, and
knowing that they ought 10 be taken care Of, care
fully went 10 work and undressed them, five
in number without injurin5 the dresses in the
least. How he did 1t we know not, but such
is the fact.--Ndnhcket inquirer.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-12

A MIRACULOUS DELIvERANcE.-At the
burning of the Black River wooden mills in
WATERFOWL, N. Y, on Friday last, as one of
the weayers was about escaping from the room
in which he worked, he heard his little daugh-
ter of seven years call, "Pa Par He turn
ed, seized her by the arm, sprang to the win
dow just as the floor gave way beneath his
feet and placing the little girl between his
legs, he thus went down the under side of the
ladder hand over hand, His left arm was
burned, but not very severely, and his hair
and whiskers scorched close to his head and
face. The little girl was uninjured save
slight burn on one of her legs Truly mirac-
uIous deliYerance.
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rHE nRERI1N RESCUE CASES.

The refusal of the Supreme Court of Ohio
to issue writ Of habeas corpus in behalf of the
Oberlin violaters of the fugitive slave bill, has
been misrep-esented. 1t has been quoted as
decision in favor of the bill while, so far as
anything was decided on, the actual meaning
of the Court was just the reverse. The Court
gave as follows its reasons for refusing to issue
the writ:
"The district court now has possession of
the case and the parties to it, and has the legal
power and capacity to hear and determine, Tor
itself, the question of its own jurisdiction and
right to act in the premises. The legal pre-
sumption in such cases always is, that court
thus assuming to act will determine the ques-
ton of its own jurisdiction correctly, until 1t
has acted finally upon it. Hence 1t Is rule
founded upon the comfy which does, and Tor
the prevention of unpleasant collision, should
always subsist between judicial tribunals, that
where a court of general jurisdiction and legal
ly competent to determine its own jurisdiction,
has acquired prior jurisdiction de tdcto over
person or subject matter, no other court VIII
interfere with, or seek to avert its action,
while the case is still pending and undeter-
mined. This rule is sustained and supported
by all the analogies of the law. 1t is right in
anu pIeNGIllNC vi uliplSdoohe VIM
sion between different tribunals. If another
tribunal were thus to interfere with our action,
and withdraw from our custody prisoner
upon trial before us, and set him at large, we
should resist such attempt to the uttermost.
And shall we not extend to other tribunals the
same comfy and the same confidence that we
claim for ourselves? In the recent cases in
the State of Wisconsin, and which have at
tracted so much attention and remark, this
point was expressly decided, and that, too, by
the same court which determined the fugitive
slave law to be unconstitutional"
During the progress of the trials in Wiscon'
sin which led to the famous decision there
against the fugitive bill, precisely the same
thing happened. While the cases were still
pending in the federal court, there was SINH
lar application to the State court tor writ OF
hdbeas corpus, and similar refusal to grant it
while the cases were unfinished. That did not
mean favor to slave hunting neither did it
hinder that noble decision of the State court,
that the fugitive bill is unconstitutional, deliv-
cred when the same cases came before 1T In
regular form And so it would doubtless be in
Ohio. The reason assigned for refusing the
writ intimates what the Ohio court would
have done if the cases had been fairly before
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-12

MORE SIcKLEs.-The attempt is being in
dustriously made to keep the Siclzles trial be-
fore the public, by publishing all the possible
testimony which might have turned the scale.
The suppressed evidence, consisting chiefly in
disclosures of libertinism on the part of the
living hero of the tragedy, is paraded as if it
were OF any more concern to the public now
than the adventures of any other libertine.
He has had his day. Let him rest