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from Naples, April le, as follows: (" 7 bo1a
good fortune to meet Senator Sumner ro.. '"e
day afternoon, walking in the Villa pa"S
He was looking extremely well, much ba,,s.
than when last saw him in New Yo,l "
is encouraged to anticipate an entire recort ie
by Autumn. He left for Rome this mora!
to witness the ceremonies of Holy Week oHs3f
expects to be once more in the hands os 1O I.
physicians in Paris early in May. He sar, s
he has passed studious, not to say laho.;
Gus Winter, at Montpelier, where there :. =
famous library, in which he spent most ofIi'
time" -"
ARREST OF FREE NEGRO on Srsprr,ov
BEING 4 FUGITIvR.-A negro who for,,.,
worked for Mr.. Dckerman, in tkis conn?
and useo to play the banjo for the auuser,.:s.'
of men and boys, recently started for PHI,
Peak in the employment of Mr.. Aron n,n
ielS, who lived in the town of Rutland on5 ;,
appears that on his passage up the Missnn,.
he was nabbed and put in jail at St Joso,t
on the presumption that he is a rupona"
slave, and unless ne is redeemed bv his frior5.
or claimed by an owner, he is soon to he soI5,
Cor Jail fees. Mr.. Diekerman has receireS
letter from ST. Joseph stating the case ana
we learn that steps will be taken BY those u,I'
knew the negro here to effect his Hberatin,
Glorious country, this.-Ouana, III. RepIE.
can.
THE LARGEST COFFIN EVER MAnp
IN KENTUCkY.-The undertaking hon,p
corner Jefferson and Seventh streets WAS
the observed Of all observers. 1t contain.
ed the coffin of Sames d. Porter Esq
the Kentucky giant. The coffin was nine
feet one inch in length, and three feet
across the breast. Is was covered with
black cloth and lined with white satin
1t is the largest coffin ever made in this
city, and attracted more attention than
anything of the kind that ever enclosed
the lifeless remains of one of our citizens
.-LoutSUite Courier.
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Look Before yOu Leap"

In recent issue Of our paper we took
occasion to differ with the position of the
". Y Tribune upon the Presidential
question and some of our conservative
friends hereabouts have questioned the
of our position. We took the
position for reasons then apparent to US,
and which the comments of q couple of
cotemporaries enable US to lay before our
readers in brief way. We ask our con-
friends to look at these two ex-
tracts and then after reading the Tribune s
article, deduct their position by careful
comparison of what must inevitably be
cOncomltaut results:
KENTuCKY.-Thc campaign was open
ed in Kentucky, last week, at Lebanon,
where the two candidates for Governor
met and addressed the people. Bell.
Opposition candidate, took the most ultra
pro-slavery ground. He took up these
two questions lst, Has Congress the
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31nlitiral.
The Obeglin Gases.

Sentence has been passed upon Bush
nell aud Langton, the two Oberlln men
against whom thc Judge and District At
torney fur the Northern District of Ohio
Ilave succeeded IN obtaining verdiets.
bushnell was sentenced to 60 days inn
prisonment, fine of 5000, and the costs
If the trial. which must probably amount
TO more than double that sum. Langstop
iYas sentenced to II fine of 500, and the
costs of the trial. The Court also direct
cd the Marshal in case he might, for any
reason, consider the Cleveland jail an IN
secure place for the confinement OF the
prisoners, to commit them to such other
iaii of the district as he might see fit.
It is the intention of the counsel, now
that final Judgment has been rendered in
these cases, to make a new application to
the Supreme Court Of Ohio for writ of
habeas corpus, the objection upon which
tho turmer application was rcfascd having
now been removed. The Distpiot-Attor-
pey, in arguing motion which he made
for the postponcment of the other cases
till July, stated that he had received no.
tice to that effect, and gave as one reason
f,r the postponement which he requested,
the necessity he would be under of ap-
peaying before the Supreme Court to re-
sist that application,
lie also pleaded another duty, to which
the United States Government had di-
rccted him to attend. Five of the wit
ncssos on whom he relled-the parties,
pamely--from whom the rescue had been
made, had been arrested under an indict-
mcnt found against them for kidnapping
They must appear at Elyria on the 18th
instant to answer to that charge, and he
had received orders from Washington to
appear and defend them. Two other of
his Kentucky witnesses, the owner of the
slave rescued, and the Clerk of the Court,
By whose signature the power of attorney
had been authenticated, had suddenly
started off for Kentucky without giving
him any notice of their departure. The
counsel for the prisoners strenuously re-
sisted any continuance, and insisted on
their right to an immediate trial, espec-
tally such of them as were in custody !;
but the Judge granted the motion, and
directed continuance of the cases to the
18th of July. T. Tribune, 14A.
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A FUGITIVE SLAVE RETURNED TO
FLoRIDA-The Hyanais Mass Hes
sen9er of yesterday, says that the brig
RolesOn, Captain Orlando, came into that
port on Sunday, the 8th inst, with a fu-
gitiye slave on board. Tho slave had
seoreted himself on board The brig at Pen
sacola, and did not show himself until the
vessel had been several days out, when he
was forced to do so by hunger. The brig
put into Hyannis with the man in irons,
for the purpose Of telegraphing to the q.
s. Marshal at Boston, to be in readiness
to take charge of him on the arrival of
the brig at that city. The schooner Eiiz-
aceth b., Captain Bacon, then lying in
port, was chartered for $500 to carry the
slave to Norfolk, Virginia. Captain Ba-
con agreed to have him sent thence to
Pensacola The schooner sailed accord
iugly on Monday morning last, before the
facts became publicly known-the slave
being chained to the oapstan.-Erchange.
We wonder how much that "nigger"
would be worth after he is safe back to
the hands of his 'good old massa," and
p.-aase, added to his value before he
left. A few more such slaves would, in
our opinion, go great ways toward the
conversion of that owner to the side of
emancipation.
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INDUsTRY.-Toil is the price of sleep
and appetite, of health and enjoyment.
The very necessity which overcomes our
natural sloth, is blessing. The world
does not contain brier or thorn that
divine mercy could have spared. We
are happier with the sterility which we
can overcome by industry, than we could
be with the most spontaneous and un
bounded profusion. The body and the
mind are improved by the toll that fa-
tigues them; that toll is thousand times
rewarded by the pleasure it bestows. Is
enjoymentS are peculiar; no wealth can
purchase them, no insolence touch them
They only flow from the exertjop which
they repay.
We do not know to whom to credit
the above extract; but we do know that
it contains more valuable truth than one
half the books that are published, and
more religion than one half the sermons
that are preached. If We had the care
of any children in our keeping, we would
read the above text to them every Sab
bath morning for year to come. Were
We School Director we would ask our
associates to direct the teacher to read it
every Monday morning. And we venture
now, without asking the Directors, to re-
quest every school teacher in the county,
to read and comment to the scholars up
on the first period of the above extract.
&" Toll as tie price Of sleep and appetite,
of health and enjoyneent."
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News Items.

SICKLES IN PURSUIT OF PEACE.-The
New York correspondent of the Charles
ton Neoes, says:
'Daniel +. Sickles, on dit. (who is back
from Washington,) is to sail for Europe,
about the middle or last of June, there to
spend few months in quiet repose, aud
recuperate his present shattered political
energies The report that he is about to
sue for divorce, is, to employ a cant
phrase, all hosh' Daniel and Teresa
will live together at some future day as
harmoniously as though nothing had hap
pened,"
Bsg~" We have just received" says
The 81. Louis Democrat, "inteligence of
the election, on Monday last, of j. I. St.
James, esq, to the office of Mayor of the
City Of St. GeneVieve, Missouri. Mr.. St.
James was among the first ard boldest
advocates of Free-Soilism ia Missouri,
and is known and recognized throughout
the State as one among the ablest of the
thousands of young men in our State who
have enrolled themselves under the Re-
publican banner for the battle in 1860.
National Democracy has not even the
boldness to offer any opposition to his
election. Thus the towns and cities along
our rivers and railroads are continually
giving expression TO a feeling which is
finding its way rapidly into the interior.
From every part of the State the most
cheering news is daily reaching us. The
results Of the coming elections are already
beginning to be shadowed forth. The
question of time itself IS almost settled.
The fall of the Slave power is now inev-
table"
IMPORTANT Posr OFFICE REGULATION-The
Post Office Department, with the view of OBJ
tanning accurate and reliable information as
to the number of letters transmitted in the
mails, has so changed the blank form of the
account of mails sent as to secure official en-
tries therein of the number of letters sent from
each post Office thus to enable the Department
in future to report the aggregate number oflet
ters mailed throughout the United States in
each fiscal year, or during any specified peri
cd of shorter duration.
The new blanks calling for this Information
will hereafter be supplied to postmasters, and
it is presumed that all will have been furnish.
ed in time to commence this report bv the Isl
of July. Any pOstmasters not so supplied
should insert the number in an additional col.
umn of the blanks now in uSe-I1hlddelDhi
irgUs.
! gsg- Mr.. Bselow writes to the Ere. Post
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BSg@ The Shareholders of Texas have
SIenccd the ministers of the Methodist
Church in that State; and yet there are
members of the Methodist Church in ev-
cry northern village, who say they have
nothing to do with slavery, and who will
slander Presiding Elder that should
preach against it. Those poor, party
slaves, are very willing to hear minister
preach about the heathenism of India, or
Africa but not a word about tho heath
enism of Texas or Virginia. Such mem-
bers bring reproach upon the religion
they profess, and disgrace on the Church
to which they belong.
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CHEWING TOBACCO,
Important Improvement

Important Improvement
In putting up
FINE CUT CHEWING TOBACCO,
has been adopted by Mcssrs. T. G0ODNNS q
BRO, of New YORK CITY,
TOBACCO, of the BEST QUALITY, Is se'
lected, neatly wrapped in TIN FOIL, and fN>
TENT PRESSED.
The great advantages of this over "D''
brands consist in the size of the pacA"5, >
rendering it more convenient to carry IN W.,
pocket, and being PRESSED SOLID II Nt,f.
MOIST and FRESH, and Improves in qn'''!
as it is used while in other brands, as sOy-
the package is opened the quality rapidly >"
TERIORATES-the tobacco growing u''
and littering the pocket to the great ann''
ance of the consumer. The Dressing WIZ,
which the Fine Cut Tobacco undergoes u "
process of manufacture, frees it from Il" 1
or Impurities so Objectionable IN the u'' :,
Plug Tobacco. Chewers will do well 10 ..
the Patent Pressed trial, and judge lof '"''
selves.
For sale by H. WESTCOTT TO-, wiz
ceive it direct from the Manufactures
I29-4tl L. GOODWIN Il BkU,l
207 i 200 Water street Ne" W.
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szg4 We hone the peonle of this yillag,

Rg- We hope the people OF this village
and vicinity, will all bear in mind the
Temperance Meeting, o be held at the
Methodist Church, next Monday eve
ming, at half past seven o'clock. Lecture
by Pez1roT n IiTgne'r'l' ,'.lcn ss''-rr i''y tho
choir, and such other exercises as may be
prompted by the occasion. Let there be
Il full house.
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PSy- The letter of Hon j. r. Giddings,
in another column, to one of the Oberlrn
Traitors, will lattract the attention of every
reader It's spirit will meet with hear
ty response from the freemen of this
county. While we Sympathi=e with the
Italians in their noble efforts to throw
off Austrian despotism, lot US act with
the freemen of Ohio, 10 throw off the
dcspotism of the slave-powcr in America.
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geSy~A formal Declaration of War against
Austria has been announced by the hmperar
Napoleon to the Corqs Legistatif Of France,
The troops of either nation are pouring into
Piedmont, aud the valley Of the Tacipo, as in
the classic days ofyorp, is the scene of vast
military demonstration. In consequence Of
the war news last Friday, Flour raised Two
Dollars a Barrel! Farmers of Potter,
plant Corn and Buckwheat this summer, aud
in the autumn SOW Wheat and Rye. Plant,
for thy stomach and thy purses sake.
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sS5~ The barn of the State Lunatic Asy-
lum at Harrisburg was destroyed by fire,
at IL o'clock last Thursday night, des-
troyIng also large stock of hay, valuable
and costly farming utensils and machine
ry, and seven horses-one of them Dr.
DeWitt's, The tJtal loss was about ST.
900, A fireman, named Samuel P. Mil
Ter, was run over by an engine, aud fatally
injured.
At 2 o'clock Friday morning the Dau-
phip County Poor House barn was also
destroyed, together with % tons of hay,
so bushels of rye, near 40 bushels of po-
tatoes, four splendid mules, (said to be
the best in the county,, five horses, four.
teen valuable milch cows, one large bull
anda calf Total loss estimated at So, 900
\ man named Wolf, formerly an in
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Literary Notices.

We have received No. of the 9th Vol
ume of the Spiritual Telegraph, a II
quarto pages weekly paper devoted to
spiritual matters, edited and published
by Charles Partridge, at New York, for
s. year. 1t is an able and honest me-
dium of spiritual information; and while
ne cannot accept its teachings, we hearth
ly commend, it to the patronage of those
interested in the subject of spiTit-mani-
festations, whether believers or not. The
proprietor has made arrangements to pub
lish each week sermon from Reecher
and Chaplin, and occasionally discourses
by other eminent divines. The number
under notice contains sermon by Beechsr,
from Nut, 6; %, %" The light of the
body is the eye" &C.; and one by Cha
pin, from Col. 3; /" Ifye then be risen
With Christ, seek these things which are
above" both of them able productions,
Speaking of sermons, we will here ac-
knowledge our Indebtedness to Messrs.
Thatcher & Hutchinson, 543 Broadway,
! n. Y, for pamphlet copy of Chapin's
great sermon on Shameful Life" which
they offer at 124 cents a copy. 1t Is
worthy of wide circulation,
/ Speaking of Shameful Life, land
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Divorce Notice.
Divorce Notice.

Elizabeth A. Webb No l55 Dec. Term I858. is
u.s. In the Common Pleas
George " Webb, of Potter Co.
LIBEL IN DIVORCE.
A Subpoena and aAas Subpoena having been
issued in this case and returned Nihi, the
said Court, at the Feb Term for 1859 ordered
notice to be published in pursuance of the
Act of Assembly. Therefore you, the said
George W. Webb, respondent above named,
are hereby notified and required to appear at
the Court of Common Pleas of said county, to
be held at Coudersport, on the 2Uth day Of
June next, to answer the complaint of the IL
bellant. A. c. TAGGART, Sheriff.
Coudersport, May ,, 1859.
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ssg~ The American Tract Society has
sold itself to Slavery. No real christian
will contribute to it's funds until it has
yepcnted and done works meet for re-
pentance.
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Au' IhNA hSH''hr-i by A|@'t A'N"N1Si'
WHAT ought to be done with such fellows
as Key?-
Hang them 1t would be much better
to have law Furnishing the crime of adul-
terry with death, than to have the law
against murder violated as in the Sickles
case. We say then, harg the adulteror,
if it will save US from such scenes as that
of February Sabbath in Washington
Pottseji2e JourRal.
And as seduction must precede adul-
terry, why not apply the punishment to the
crime in its primary character, and hang
the seducer If, therefore, the crime OF
seduction deserves the extreme penalty OF
the law when a mature married woman is
the victim, how much more consistent is
the punishment when an innocent and
naturally confding young girl is the vie
tim We believe that if Teresa Bagioli
had not been the victim of seduction by
her future husband, Daniel Z. Sickles
would never have stood in the criminal
dock to answer the charge of numbering
Key. We believe that when laws are en-
acted with view to the prevention OF
crimes, instead of for the punishment OF
them, long stride towards the moral
reformation of the world will have been
taken, and the tide of crime effectually
and permanently stayed. Let US have
laws to interdict the CAUSE, rather than
to punish the EFFECT.
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N(em andertisfmfnts.
Administrators Notice

AdmInlStratO = y NOtlcC,
n Office is hereby given, that Letters Of
~ Administration upon the estate of Jony
lvEs, late of West Branch Township, Potter
County, deceased, have been granted to tn,
undersigned. All persons indebted to said
estate are requested to make payment, and
persons having claims against the same are
requested to present them, properly authenti.
Gated, for settlement. W. r. IVES, Adm'r.
West Branch, May IL, l859.--39
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EnlaJying,-Ihe large number Of stu
dents in attendance at the Iron City Col
lege has made it necessary for the man
ayers of that popular institution to open
seperate rooms for the several departments
Of the College. One Hall, capable of
seating two hundred and 6fty students,
is now appropriated exclusively to those
engaged in book ok-keeping another, with
a capacity for one hundred and fifty, is
devoted to the writing department; third,
with accommodations for two hundred, is
occupied by those engaged in ma,hemati-
cal studies, while the fourth, used as a
lecture room, is occupied from four to six
hours each day, by some of the Professors
with their classes. The present caTabil-
tiles of the College are ample for the ac-
commodation of six hundred students !;
but should its patronage increase for the
year to come, as it has during the past,
the College rooms will be far teo limited
for those seeking admission
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mate of the Asylum from Carlisle, was
arrested on suspicion of having set fire to
the buildings He was committed for a
further hearing, by Esq. Reader.
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Ghs 4lIottsr yournal,
COUDERSPORT. PA,

THURSDAY NyofQMg, 4Jay 10, 1859.
T. S. CHASE, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
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REGISTERS Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the following
~ accounts have been examined and pass.
ed by me. and remain filed in the Register;
Office of Potter county for the inspection Of
heirs, legatees, creditors, and all Others in any
other way interested and will be presented
to the next Orphans Court Of said county at
the Court House in the Borough of Couder'-
port, on Tuesday, the 2lst day of June, 1883
for confirmation and allowance:
Account of Polly Vanorman, Executrx Of
the estate of Isaac Yanorman, late Of GeneseS
township, Potter county, deceased.
Account of VIM. H. Metzger and AbagaIl
Strong, Executors of the estate of Luther
Strong, late of Hebron township, Potter couH-
ty, deceased.
Account of VIM. ]. Cutler Administrator Oi
the estate of Joseph Lilly, late OF Harrison
township, Potter county, deceased.
A. II. BUTTERWORTl, Rtgtster.
C0udcrSDOrt Nav lS 1889
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-12

TRoTTING HORSES IN New RoI.E.-The
owners of the two celebrated trottiny horses.
Flora Temple and Princess, are generally IN
derstood to be making quite nice thing out
OF the exhibitions which they are giving this
season. The initiated imagine that these
matches are real contests of speed and they
make their bets ON the respective horses, una
ware that the matches, under the circumstances,
cannot be any other than mere friendly exhi-
billions, and no test Of the relative speed of the
horses. The thing is profitable to the propre-
tors OF tue Courses, As the reputation Of the ami
mails attracts large attendances of sporting men;
ana IL Is profitable also to the proprietors OF
the horses who, besides having shares proba-
ply IN The receipts, are able TO make NJ their
betting books in way to realize largely Oh
each match.
In fact SO profitable Is this enterprise. that
the managers have been induced to repeat their
Exhibitions In various places. Flora Temple
ana Princess are at present performing a star
engagement IN the provinces, and we have no
doubt That very handsome profits are realized
"NAei'o'' ihc plai - simple rehearsal OF
That adopted here, namely, to advertise trot
ting matches between the rival auadrn
peas, and so induce people to 60 to the
course and make their bels, giving the
managers, who may have everything nicely
arranged, the opportunity Of putting mo-
ney in their purse if they choose to do 80
such conduct IS enough to bring horse racing
ihto odium IN shis country, and it is therefore
right that the system should he exposed IT
the managers Of Flora Temple ana Princess
choose TO give exhibitions Of their horses ie,
hat be distinctly stated in the bills. The .rots
on Long leland were something to boast o.
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OUR DEMOCRATIC STATE CONTENTION
New York democracy will meet in State Con
vention at Syracuse on Wednesday (day after
tomorrow, and we may expect terrible time
among them. The masses of the party town
and country, are DESTROYS of hearty reunion
for the overthrow Of W. II. Seward and the re-
publican party in November, upon the broad
Issue Of his "irrepressible conflict between
the North and the South But the Albany Re
gency-Richmond Cagger, Confidence Cassidy
Il Co.--are evidently resolved to play into
Stewards hands by distrocting and dividing the
democracy upon the question of the New York
delegates TO the Charleston Convention. Lei
every delegate to Syracuse who wishes to
avoid this trouble be early on the ground
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pound with God for all their villany, and turn
up the whites of their eyes to Heaven with
holy horror at "the thousands Of Sabbath
breaking, unevangelized SOULS" around them.
We trust the attendance at the meeting, to be
held tomorrow at the Volks Garden, in the
Bowery, will be worthy of the cause of civil
and religious liberty involved in the question,
and that the modern Pharisees will receive
such rcbuke as their spiritual pride and inso-
lent dictation merit at the hands of all liberal
minded citizens who understand and appreci-
ate the genius Of our free institutions