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The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-09-01
QUESTIONS.

l. would ask if the Free-soil party
in Potter County (for [ speak Of this
county especially did not, by its organ,
the Journal, denounce conventions, and
was not the cry "down with Conventions
and wire-working through them; and
did not the party for long time practice
what it preached
2. Was T. l.. Jones, (the first Sheriff
elected after the party started IN 1S4S),
nominated in any convention, or in any
other way? If not, was he not an SIN
dependent" though he might not have
announced himself in fery formal way.
8. Did p. A. Stcbbins receive nomi-
nation in 1858, five years after the party
started If not, hor came he in the
field, if he was not an independent" Or
''volunttef," "-(and the difference [ can
not perceive,) lie was a candidate, and
was elected. Can any one tell us if there
were any nominations made vi that year,
and if 50, how?
!. Was there a convention held in Pot
ter county, for The purl ose Of nominating
county officers, from 1913 TO 1856? II
not, where Gid we get our candidates, =
for we have always had enough Of them.
5. Has there eFcr been word said by
the party, since its origin until now,
against Independent candidates p" as
such? On the contrary, has there not
been much said in their favor? And why
now dcnouncc them p?
6. Was it not said of Nelson Clark
that if he had announced himself before
the nominations it would all have been
well enough? Did any one ind fault
with him merely as an independent can
didate?
I. Is it not as honorable for man to
offer himself as an Independent candidate
as it is TO give notice that he will be a
candidate before the convention, and then
himself or friends visit all the townships
in the county in order to secure delegates
favorable to his nomination? Is that not
often done, and no fault found ?
s. Is it net argued, when the. former
usages OF the party arc plead, that it was
necessary when we were weak and few in
numbers, to encourage independent can
didates, in order to gain strength by draw
ing from the ranks of the opposition,
thereby making converts to our cause
and tending to the diffusng abroad Of our
principles ? If that course was necessary
at one time, and had tendency to in
crease our strength ard promote our cause,
why not as necessary now? If we are
honest in our principles, should we not
pursue the course which viii tend most
to the difuzing of them abroad, and still
continue to draw from the ranks of the
opposition, and thereby keep gaining
strength.
8. Do not the democratic party tell us
that we are pursuing the same course we
condemned in them, and which used them
up! INQUIRER.
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TnSOlvent Notice.

NJ Office is hereby given 10 the creditors Of
~ JOHN LANNEN, of Hector Township,
that he has applied to the Court of Common
Pleas Of Potter county for the benefit of the
insolycnt Laws Of this Commonwealth, and
that said Court has appointed the 10Th day Of
September next, (being the first day of the
Tcl1a. ut Coudcrsport, at , o'clock =. NJ. :
for the hearing of the case, at which time his
creditors may attend ii they think proper.
Aug. O. lSJ9.-4t BY Order of Court.
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X. It is particularly desired that no
persons shall be present while the Judges
are examining the Stock referred to them,
except those taking charge of the ami
mails, unless BY special request.
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9lem anGertis


NOTICE is hereby given that the Auditor
" appointed by the Court to make distri-
button Of the sale Of real estate, in the ease of
Evans & Quincy against H. T. Maynard, of
June Term, l756, No. 98, viii attend to the
duties Of his appointment, at the Office of the
Prothonotary, on Friday. the 10th day Of Sep
tcmber next at one O'Clock, ?, VI. Those in
tercstcd are requested to lie present. -.,.-..-
II. J. 0LMSTED, Auditor,
Condcrsnort. Ano. Is 1859. .at
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creature died at the age Of about thirty.
five years, after having been for some
time destitute of the little reason she once
possessed.-Bostoa Courier, 10Th.
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Divorce Notice.

0rpha Lucina Lord, No. 50 Dec. Term, 1850,
byher next friend, in Common Pleas of
William Patterson, Potter County, o.
rs. ..rr LIEEL ~ DIVORCE.
Wellington Lord. J To Wellington Lord,
spoudent.-Whcreas Subpoena and Ris5
Subpoena having been issued ard returned
Md, yol are hereby notified to be and ap-
pear at our next Court Of Common Pleas for
this county, for an application will be made
to said Court for a divorce on the part Of lii
bclant. A. c.. TAGGART, Sheriff.
Condersnort, Aug. q, 1859.
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Le1- The Potter JourRaL ought to be
aware by this time, that we never bcliev-
ed in the doctrine that ''it is the duty
of Congress to prohibit Slavery in the Ter
r.tories " as was proclaimed by the Re
publican Convention, at Philadelphia in
1886. We have ever opposed that doc
trine, and We also oppose its counterpart
now advocated by some men Of inference
in the Democratic party; that is, "that it
IS the duty of Congress to legislate for
the protection Of Slavery in the Territo-
ries.' Both doctrines are pernicious in
tire cs!reme, and re firmly believe nci-
ther will be adopted by majority of .he
people OF this nation. The JouHal must
be aware that when all Of the Republican
members Of Congress voted in favor Of
the Montgomery-Cr Crittendcn amendment,
last winter, they virtually abandoned the
Philadelphia platform. We trust the
! J0uftak is not serious in charging US
with having favored the Lecompton
swindle, when our every act has been
the reverse IIarren Letlyer.
The above special pleading is in reply
to an article Of ours in the Journal
Of Aug. 10. In reply we would only say
that the Ledger did favor the Lecomptou
swindle by sneering at all the primitive
efforts OF the Republican members of Con-
gress to defeat the measure and so did
every paper Of its class, until some of the
Pennsylvania and New York Democrats
Initiated the anti-Lecompton movement,
when they as heartily denounced the
swindle as any Republicans. We honor
ed them for it, too. The Ledger, if we
are not greatly mistaken, was one of the last
to wheel into the i-Lccomptou ranks
| and ten only through the medium Of a
letter written by the editors father, j..
y. James. Esq; and it vas the most i'm
placable in its derision Of the Republican
members of Congress who first discover
ed the enormity of the Lecompton scheme,
and for long time declared that Mr.
! Buchanan would not sanction it, As
our former article embraced our views of
the other points of the Ledyer's article,
We will net uotice them further now.
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Eg- We call the attention Of our read
ers to the Circular OF the Republican Ma
tlonal Committee, which will be found
on our first page 1t is an able docu-
ment, emtneutly Republican in senti-
ment, and deserving of the most careful
consideration of all who sincerely desire
to redeem the nation from its govern
mental ihfrmities. 1t could not well be
more broadly national in its Fiews, while
at the same time it is acceptable to the
most ultra Republican.
BSy~ The Nuncy Lansina,y of aug,
23d,, has the following:
''We have the particulars of a most
terrible calamity which occurred near Red
Bluff, on the Sacramento river, California,
on the 18th of May last. The residence
of Col. K. A. Stevenson, late Indian A gent,
was set on fire by an Indian boy in his
employ, early in the morning, and the en-
tire family Of Col. Stevenson, consisting
of his wife and three children, together
with the wife Of Mr. kronk and two
children, perished in the flames. The
boy was instigated to the terrible deed by
five Indians, in the absence of Col. Ste
yenson. Mrs. Stevenson was the daugh-
ter Of the late Johnathan Marcy, of
Wilkesbarre and the niece of the Rev.
George G.. Drake, of this borough"
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-16

TAAMANY HALL IN GREAT DISTRESS.
old Tammany is in a very critical situation. A
complication OF disorders has reduced her to
consultation Of the doctors, and they have
decided that nothing but Union pills, by the
box at dose, can save her. The last pills ad-
ministered by the quacks of "the Coal Holer
were the Buffalo free soil pills of ls4s, accord
ing to the prescription Of the medical firm Of
Van Buren,, Adams, Havemeyer, Tilden & Co.;
but they have been as violent in their opera
ton as the cholera; and so the only hope of
Old Tammany is the most powerful tonic Of a
Union medicine. Poor old Tammany!
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-16

HoRATlo SEYMoUR.-This active Albany Re-
gency scene shifter for the Charleston Conven.
ton is among the chosen speakers for our
forthcoming Tammany Union meeting and he
will doubtless seize the occasion for peace
offering to the national democracy, and to
Governor Wise, of Virginia. But we fear that
Mr.. Seymour is somewhat behind the time.
When the treacherous Albany Regency sought,
last fall, to break down Governor Wise and the
national democracy of this State, in the publ
cation of that confidential Donnelly letter, and
when that letter was actually sold to the news
papers for twenty dollars, in what company
was Mr.. Seymour? We fear that he will find
out that he was in the wrong box when he
and the Regency and Tammany Hall are
brought to the bar Of the Charleston Conven-
ton.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-16

THE NEW YORK NATIONAL DEMOCRACY AND
THEIR MANIFESTO AGAINST THE ALBANY Re-
GENCY.-The official manifesto which we pub
lished yesterday, from the national Cor Fernando
Wood division of the New York democracy,
against the Albany Regency, has given our
readers very clear understanding of the
differences existing between these two rival
democratic camps. But the pith of the matter
may be thus summed up:-The antiRegency
democracy have the Regency and Tammany
Hall upon the hip; and the fullest effect will be
given to this advantage in the election by
Congressional districts of delegates to the
Charleston Convention, in opposition to the
Regency set appointed in the lump last fall by
the State and estate" Convention of Dean
Richmond, Cagger, Cassidy & Co. We predict,
too, that the anti-Regency delegates will be
admitted to front seats at Charleston, while the
Regency, if admitted at all, will only be ad-
mitted in the rear of their rivals, and upon the
stool of repentance. In fact, we may pronounce
the late national triumph of Mr.. Wood in this
city as striking the key note for the recon.
struction of the democracy, not only in this
State but in every State, upon a solid national
footing.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-16

EXECUTION OF THE HARPER's FERRY TRAITORS
To-DAY.-At eleven o'clock to-day, the two
free negroes who accompanied Brown in
his foray at Harper's Fcrry-Copcland and
Green-will pay the penalty of their crimes on
the gallows, at Charlestown, Va; and the
white men-Cook and Coppie-will share the
same terrible fate at three o'clock in the after
noon. This scene will probably bring this
fearful drama to o close; for there appears to
be disposition in Virginia not to execute
Stevens and Hazlitt, who are still in prison
and untried.
There is a significant fact connected with
these executions, which illustrates the real
extent of sympathy existing for the negro
about whom all this wild fanaticism is raging
for whose welfare, we are told, the Harper's
Ferry treason was conceived and consum-
mated-and that is, that while the mortal re-
mains of the two white convicts have been
claimed by their friends, the bodies of the two
unfortunate free negroes have no friends at the
North to claim them and lay them decently in
mother earth. They will be buried under the
shadow of the gibbet upon which they die
Where are the friends of the afflicted colored
race now? Where are Wendell Phillips and
Lloyd Garrison, and Ralph Waldo Emerson,
and the other advocates of human freedom !.
Alasl
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-16
THIRTY-sIxTH CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION.


Senate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 1885,
DIE HARpERs FERRY INVESTIGATING coasirrrE
The VICE PRESIDENT announced the committee on Mr.
Masons resolution adopted yesterday, which consists OF
Mcssrs Mason, Davis, Ccllamcr, Fitch aud Doolue
THE LAWS UTAH AND NEW MEXICO
Mr. PuGH, (dem) ofohio, submitted a resolution which
lies over instrucng the Committee on Territories TO In
qure into the expedency Of repeating so much Of the act
Tor the organization Of the Territorial governments Of
New Mexico and Utah as requires NIL laws passed by
nose territories to 10 Submitted to Congress for approval
rejection.
INCREASE or PAY or The NAVY.
Mr. MALLORY, (dem Of Fla gave notice o. his Intention
70 introduce bill TO regulate the pay of the
navy.
INJECTION or CHAPLAIN.
The Senate then proceeded TO the election Of chaplain
On the first ballot there was no choce, Dut on tue
second Rev Dr. Gurey was elected, receiving 80 votes
out Of so.
Several petitions were presented, when the Senate adj
iourped till Monday
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-16

The JOHN BROWN MEETING AT TIE COOPER IN
srrruTE, Read the proceedings of the John
Brown meeting at the Cooper Institute last
night-the red hot abolition treason of Wendell
Phillips, and the sanctmonious gall and worm
wood to the ''save power administered by
the pious Rev. George B. Cheever. And let
not the reader be deceived by the idea that
this meeting of abolition fanatics and incendi-
aries is to be taken as an affair wholly detached
from the republican party. In 1856, when this
party was contending only for fair play to the
free State cause in Kansas, the line Of division
between it and the radical abolitionists was
broad and distinct; but since the proclamation
of Mr.. Stewards "irrepressible conflict" and
Its practical Interpretation by Brown, and its
calculation by Helper. our Northern abolition
radicals of the school Of Garrison, Phillips
and Cheever may be fairly set down as the ad-
vanced guard, the scouts, the pioneers, the
Zouaves and Turcos Of the aggressive republi-
can army. In this view, these John Brown
sympathy meetings assume the fearful proper
tons of agrand active revolutionary crusade
against the South with the powerful republi-
can party bringing up the rear, just as the main
body Of the allied army in the late Italian war
followed close upon the heels of the advanced
free corps of Garibaldi.
And where are we to look for relief from
this formidable anti-slavery and dsunion cru
SADIE? To the democratic party? Not until,
upon national basis, it is reorganized. To
the Astounding conservative popular elements
North and South, that are ready to be fused
into new national Union and constitutional
party? Yes, if they can be put under an ac-
tive and practical national organization. Aud
why not? The Independent conservative
Southern opposition party in Congress may
set this ball in motion at once, upon the name
of General Scott; and let us hope that the ex-
pertinent will be tried. 1t will prove the great
est and most effective Union movement of the
last half century.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-16

lHE OPERA AT PHnADnImA-Miss Patti sung Amina in
The "sonnambua" at the Academy of Music on wcdnes
day, and achieved great triumph. The house was
crowded to excess. The same performance will be 70.
peated TO morrow evening, and Monday Miss Patti will
sing zerina in "Don Giovanni" for the first time The
seascn has been successful 10 far
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-16

The orERA At NBro's GAEpKS.--Thc last evening per
formance Of the Opera here will take place this
evening, when ola Travata will be given, with Alber
TIM, one Of the finest lyric u9ednes who has ever sung
here In the role of vioetta The fairer portion of the
operate world will not forget that there ia to be Matinee
on 10. morrow
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-16

WAsHINGION, Dec. TO, IS5J
MR. vALLArpioHAM's VIEWS PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Mr.. vArIANpcHAM, (dcm) Of Chic, remarked that the
courtesy no extended to others at all times lie was re-
solved TO exact for himself every hazard and therefore
last evening he bad right expec, the courtesy OF p
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-16

OONGKEsSlONAl LflNG-1ue ueSfaQaLlOn ana
debasement of our political system have been
very frequently fruitful theme for satirists at
home and abroad. They are particularly ap-
parent however, in the debates of the American
Congress- which have sunk as low as the squab-
bles of the primary meeting or the vulgar dis
putes Of caucus. More than this: the mem
bers of Congress are not satisfied with abusing
each other, but they shield themselves behind
the parliamentary privilege, and attack per-
sons who are SO fortunate as to be outside of
Congress. Thus. the other day, Mr.. Missouri
Clark accused one of our city contemporaries
as thief. This charge, as we truly believe,
was utterly untrue: and if there was any
foundation for it, why did not Mr.. Clark make
his words good? Again, a Senator from Mas
sachusetts has had the effrontery to declare in
his place that the editor and proprietor of the
New YORK HERALD is likewise the owner of
Impending Crisis" and that the object of this
journal in denouncing said work was to pro-
mote its sale. Such statement from such a
source is, indeed unaccountable. In the ordi-
nary course of things it could only have pro-
ceeded from the lips Of Natick cobbler, while
mending an old negro's brogans Heretofore
we had supposed that the Hon. Henry Wilson,
Senator from Massachusetts, howsoever we
may have differed from him in political mat.
tiers, was gentleman in his habits character
istics and feelings. His charge against us, fab
ricated out of whole cloth, will go very far to
change our opinion. He must know that the
copyright of the Helpers book stands in the
name of the ostensible author; that it has been
published by Mr.. Burdick, of Spruce street, and
that it is sold freely every day, over the Tribune
counter. And now, with all these facts patent
to every one, we are obliged to apply the good
| old English term-the word used in the time of
Milton and Dryden and Shakspere-and to de.
nounce Mr.. Wilson's statement as lie. If he
desires to show that he has the slightest spark
of gentlemanly feeling, or the faintest trace of
that dignity which should distinguish member
Of the upper branch of the Congress of the re-
public, he will at once retract the charge level
led against us, in the place where it was made.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-16

The Hon. HORACE +. CLARK-The position
of Mr.. Clark among the contesting parties for
the Speaker Of the House of Representatives
challenges our COMMUNICATION, As repre-
sentative of the conservative Union people of
this great commercial metropolis, the duty Of
Mr.. Clark is plain and easily understood But
he hesitates, while looking over at the repub-
lican camp with longing eyes. And yet we
can hardly believe that he is prepared to stir
the fire and wash the pots in Thurlow Weeds
political kitchen. The party antecedents, past
associations and present responsibilities of Mr..
Clark are all opposed to this humiliation; and
ne would do well to think twice before voting
once for Speaker committed to the reyolu-
tionary programme Of Seward, Brown and
Helper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-06-06

FROM CALIFORNIA.-The overland mail of the
18th Of May has arrived at st. Louis. The news
is not important. Business was improving with
fair demand from the interior, which was in
creasing. The mining news is favorable. The
steamer Santa Cruz had arrived from Mazatlan
with S385,OOO in specie, and thirty-six Mexican
officers banished by the Liberals. Eight white
men, prospecting for silver near Honey Lake had
been killed by the Indians. The house of Col.
Stevenson, at Red Bluffs, was burned on the 18th
ultimo, and his wife, and another female, and five
children perished in the flames The Arizonian
Of the 10th ultimo, is filled with accounts of the
proceedings Of band Of Regulators who had
driven all the Mexican residents from Senorita
valley, and committed several murders. The
Americans at Tubac had publicly denounced these
outrages and a company Of United States troops
had been detailed from Fort Buchanan to sup
Iress further proc6 edings