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The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-16
CLOCKS, WATCHES & JEWELRY,

CLEANED and REPAIRED at the shortest
" notice, by the subscriber, at the sign of
The Big watch. one door east of the
Post Office. Thakful for past favors, he will
endeayor to merit continuance OF the same
by strict attention to the wishes of his GUS
toners. He keeps on hand and for sale good
assortment of WATCHES, among which may
be found some of those excellent time-keepers
manufactured by the American Watch Com
pany, at Waltham, Mass, and known by the
name of " AMERICAN LEVERS ," also, De-
tached Levers Lepines &c. Also, BEALS
PATENT REVOLVERS, manufactured by
Remington & Sons,-ali of which will be sold
very low for cash. @. II. WARRlNER.
Coudersport Aug 8, lS69.-sT.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-16
HOWARD ASSOCIATION
PHILADELPHIA

1IlIADL ILL lI1As
4 BeneUoIent Institution established Jy sDss
Eudorment, for the Re'jGcfhe Sick oai Da
tyessed, afflicted ,cith Virulsm and Epii.n,
Diseases, and especially for The Cure Of b.
eases Of the Seruul Organs.
NEEDICAL ADVICE given gratis. b7 4,
WI Acting Surgeon, to all who applrb,
letter, with description of their coniitm'
(age, occupation, habits Of life, &c, aad /
cases of extreme po, erty, Medicines furQishe
free of charge.
VALUABLE REPORTS on Spermatouho,
and other Diseases o. the Sexual Organs s,i
on the NEW REMEDIES employed in the Ds
pensary, sent to the afflicted in sealed lettg
envelopes, free of charge. Two or lla
Stamps for postage will be acceptable,
Address, DR.. J. SKILLIN H0UGHTG
Acting Surgeon, Howard Association, No.
South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Bym
der Of the Directors.
EZRA d. HEARTWELL, Prssdad.
GEO. FAIRCHILD, Secreiayy.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08
A Modern Miracle.

The New Bedford CMass.) papers
tell a wonderful story Of the recovery
Of a young lady in a manner that puts
even the miracles Of Prince Uohenlohe
in the shade. The substance of the
statement is from the fair patients lips
Miss Louisa James, young lady Of
p years, the daughter Of widow Mary
MITCHELL of Fairhaven, had been i'll for
the greater part Of a year past, and for
the last four months had been confined
to her bed. The physicians pronoun-
ced her disease one of the heart and
lungs, and though the best Of medical
aid was procured, she continued to fail
rapidly until at last it was announced
that human skill could do nothing more
for her. For the last two months she
lost all control Of her lower limbs, and
it was with the greatest difficulty that
she could be moved She was rcdu-
ced so low that her stomach refused
the slightest nourishment On We'd
nosday, the 8th inst, a female friend
visited her, and in the course Of a
conversation remarked that the Rev.
Joseph K. Bellows, of New York, Of
the Second Advent persuasion, to
which the invalid belonged, was in
town. Miss James desired to see him
and in the evening he called at her
residence She felt that should the
reverend gentleman pray for her she
should recover, and after a short con
versation she made such a request
The clergyman and the mother of tn,
invalid knelt down, and fcrvent ant
earnest prayer was offered up in he,
behalf. The mother says that before
the minister prayed the body of he
daughter was cold as MARBLE and a
the close of the exhortation, she per
spired freely Miss James describe
her sensations during the prayer a
similar to those of a person receiving
Ia galvanic shock. That night sh
passed comfortably, and in the morn
ing arose and dressed herself withou
assistance, and on the following Sab
bath attended church. She is now en-
ioying the best of health, and relisho
the heartiost food. She has write
an article concerning her miraculou
preservation, which will be publishe
soon in some publication Of the dc
nomination Of which she is a membe
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08
Advice to Girls.

There is a practice, quito prevalent
among young ladies of the present day,
which We are old-fashioned enough to
consider very improper We nllude to
their giving Daguerreotypcs Of them
selves to young men who arc merely ac-
quaintanccs. We consider it indelicate
in the highest degree. We are aston
ished that any young girl should hold
herself so cheap as this. With an ac-
ceptod lover it is Of course all right
Even in this case the likeness should be
returned if the engagement should, by
any misunderstanding, cease.
If this little paragraph should meet
the eye Of any young girl about to give
her Dagucrreotype to a gentleman ac-
quaintance, let her know that the re-
marks made by young men when to-
gether, concerning what is perhaps on
her part but a piece of ignorance or i'm
pudonce, would, if she heard them,
cause her cheeks to crimson with shame
and anger. "Were it sister Of ours, -
we have often said, with flashing eye
were II a sister Of ours! but that not
being the case, we give this advice to
.auybody's sister who needs it, most anx-
iously desiring that she should at all
times preserve her dignity and respect
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08

wouldn't have let his house to an ac.
tress unless she had a backer. They
ain't the best of pay, these actresses-
hel ho heI But that gentleman yonder
mas a gentleman. And didn't he love
the actressl Two doves couldn't ha'
been more aGectionato. Poor man, he
died going on three years ago, and just
before he died not two months before,
he gave that picture to the actress
She set a great store by it, for she
couldn't 20 to see him when he was dy-
ing, nor after he was dead, cause he had
a vinegar sort Of a wife, perfect little
vixen; they always had hard work to
fool her. Madomoiselle cried a long
spell, but she has got over it long ago.
Says she, there is as good fish in the
sea as ever came out of it, and she has
caught more than one since then. 1t
has been going on three years ago
Lori what is the matter with MadameY
Nine. de S. had fallen senseless
into n chair,--one Of the chairs selected
and paid for by her husband. Octave
put her into the carriage, and said:-
you see I was right. Some present.
ment warned me you should not 60 to
that house" The rascal, as if it had
not been he who bad advised the nota-
fry to send Nine de S. to this very
house Nine. de S. said not a word;
she thought in silence--she chewed the
cud Of bitter memory recalling how Of.
ten "business' had engrossed his time
during the winter, and hew every sum-
mer he made the family physician or
der her to the sea-shore--that he--O
perfdyl D, treachcryl Octave allowed
her to have her way for some time; he
continued to humor her, until she be.
gan to get tired of crying for vexation
He watched the plant hours arrival
and when it came he talked soft non
sense. She said Eyes, and their band
are now up in the Marie. But before
they were finally engaged she made hin
promise that he would have no "busi
ness" away from home, and that the.
} would so to the sea-shoro together.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08

Ex-GOv. Stanton has recently return
ed from Washington to Kansas The
Lawrence Republican. in noticing the
fact, says he was actively engaged, while
in Washington, for the admission Of
Kansas He also co-operated with the
Republicans upon the question Of the
Speakership.
He regards Mr. Douglass present po~
sition as inconsistent, and entirely un.
satisfactory. The difference between
Douglass Anti Lecomptonism and that
Of Mr.. Stanton, is significant Mr.,
Douglas opposed Locompton to gain u
reelection to the Senate; Mr. Stanton
opposed it because it was wrong-an
outrage upon the people, and did so at
the expense Of his official position
Douglas has gone back to closer com
munion than ever with the prO-slavery
faotionists; Mr.. Stanton has gone on in
the highway Of popular rights, until ho
now stands in full sympathy with the
great national party Of freedom, prog
ress aud equal and impartial justice to
all men. The one is a demagoguo; the
other an honest man Toledo Blade
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08
The Bright Side.

Look on the bright side. It is the
right side Tho times may be hard,
but it will make them no easier to wear
gloomy and sad countenance. It is
the sunshine, and not the cloud, that
makes q flower. There is always that
before or around as which should cheer
and Gil the heart with warmth. The
SKY is blue ten times to where it is
black once. You have troubles, it may
be. So have others. None are free
from them. Perhaps it is as well that
none should be. They give sinew and
tone to lile-fortitudo and courage to
man. That would be a dull sea, and
the sailor would never get skill, where
there was nothing to disturb the sur
face of the ocean. It is the duty Of
every one to extract oil the happiness
and enjoyment he can without and
within him; and, above all, he should
/ look on the bright side Of things
What though things do look a little
dark2 The lane will turn, and the
night will end in broad day. In the
long run the great balance rights itself.
What is III, becomes well-what is
wrong, right Men are not made to
hang down either their heads or their
lips, and those who do, only show that
they are departing from the paths of
true common sense, and right There
is more virtue in one sunbeam than in
a whole hemisphere ofclouds and gloom
Therefore, we repeat, look on the bright
side of things Cultivate what is warn
and genial-not the cold and rcpulsive
the dark and morose.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08
9tljstrJlanrOUs.



The New York Times gives the will
of Mr.. John Rose, retired merchant
of that city, whose decease was an
nounced some weeks ago:
He makes conditional bequest of
100000 to the city of New York, for
the education in agriculture Of INDECENT
white children. The condition is that
a corresponding sum should be aPpro-
priated by the city, or raised by charita
BILE contributions, for the purchase and
support of farm in the neighborhood
of New York, to be devoted to the cdu.
cation and training to agricultural pur.
suits Of pauper children If this pur-
pose be not carried out, the $500, OO0
goes to the American Colonization So
cioty for the deportation and supPor,
of free blacks in Liberia.
The deceased was a bachelor, and a
bachelor brother Of large wealth is con.
stituted his sole executor, with the re.
mainder of his estate, about S55OOOO
placed in his charge for benevolent anc
charitable distribution. The only per
sonal bequests are a gift of 100000 tc
his executor, and $4,000 to another
brother, now advanced in years, The
whole value of the estate, principally
in productive stocks, is reckoned a
SSS0,00
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08
3 SrrnrB Gale.
STORY ON 4 YOUNG WIDOW.

Madame de S. was young Wild
ow who, having lost her husband after
only four years Of marriage, was in
consolable, and in the first burst Of her
grief vowed she would never marry
again. If she did not reckon without
time she certainly reokoned without
constancy, for, however solemn these
vows of constancy may be made, some
thing or another is always found to
arise which breaks them. Three years
passed away, leaving Madame de s.
still a widow, although temptations
were not wanting to allure her into for
getfulness Of her husband for she was
still young and beautiful, and her
/ fortune had been increased by the
accession of her husband estate She
resisted them ALL and had coldly dis
cardcd so many suitors that their mum
bers had Of late greatly diminished.
One Of her intimate friends was a
young man named Octave D.. HC
was deeply in love with hor-if, indeed
it be not impossible for an ardent low
er to conceal his passion and pursue
his designs adroitly as he did, love
usually being too engrOssing passion
to admit any such cool deliberatior
with it. I said he was deeply in love
with her, but he did not avow hil
love. His only ambition was, 80 ht
said, to be her friend and the bette
to cement this friendship, he affected
the sentiments of Benedict. He sue
cceded by aid Of this mask in attain
ing the place,of confdanti but while h
enjoyed a great many delightful an,
useful moments in consoliug her grief
and drying her tears, they were pur
chased at tho price of listening to fre
quent and exaggerated encomiums OF
the "doar departed in the style ot
lapidary inscriptions
After long exercise Of his patience
it ono day gave way so far as TO hin
that the deceased husband was afte
J all a Frenchman, and as weak in q
deity TO marriage VOWS as his natio
/. generally. The reception this libC
met made him resolve never to rcpea
auothor the pretty widow came nea
forbidding him her door and her aC
quaintance.
He summoned a new stock of pa
, tienco to his aid, eschewed all cavils o
{ the departed husbands memory, an
Q put his trust on time and accidents
o strongly moorcd must be the barqu
whose cable they do not sever II
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08
The Portsmonth Republican saws:

Many of the little ones of this city
are being gathered to the arms of the
great Shepherd, by that terrible disease
scarlatina. The door knobs, festooned
in their white and black drapery, in
form the passer.by, on almost every
street, that the terror has claimed an
other victim In some families, all the
little ones are suffering, or their mum,
Der has been lessoned, and the pains
ended by death. May the Affections
fall lightly on the bereaved parents.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08
Ne struggIo I'D tho Viot0ry.

"Johnny" said a farmer to his lit
tie boy, "it is time for you to go to
the pasture and drive home the cattle, +"
johnny was playing ball, and the
pasture was a long way off; but he was
accustomed to obey, so off he started
without word as fast as his legs
could carry him.
Being in a great hurry to got back
to play, he only half let down tho'bars,
and then hurried the cattle through,
and one dno COW, in trying to crowd over,
stumbled, and fell with her leg broken.
Johnny stood by the suffering erea-
ture, and Thought to himself "Now
what shall L do2 That was the finest
COW futher had, and it will have to be
killed, and it will be a great loss to faith.
cr. What shall 1 tell him2'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08

"Toll him" whispered the tcmpter
the same tempter that puts wicked
thoughts into an our hearts, "tell him
you found the bars half down, and the
creature lying here" ono, I can't say
that" said Johnny "for that would
be a lie"
"Tell him" whispered the tempter
again, "that while you were driving the
cows, that big boy of Farmer Browns
threw q stone, and hurried that COW so
that she fell. " "No, no, said Johnny,
81 never told lie, and won't begin
now. I'll tell father tho truth. It was
all my fault. 1 was in a hurry, and I
frightened the poor creature, and she
fell and broke her leg"
So having taken this right and brave
resolve, johnny ran home as if he was
afraid the tempter would catch him,
and he went straight to his father and
told him the whole truth And what
did his father do2 He laid his hand on
Johnny's head, and said, "My son, my
dear son, Iwoul rather lose every COW
1 own, than that my boy should tell
me an untruth."
And Johnny, though very sorry for
the mischief he had done, was much
happier than if he had lied to screer
himself, even if he had never beer
found out.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08
integrity.

One of the most excellent qualities
of mind is integrity. Let us aim to
cultivate this trait Of character, and we
add much to our worth in whatever de-
partment of life's varied scene we may
chance to minglo. A man can not long
prosper, or what is of more importance,
secure the respect or love Of his fellows
without integrity. 1t is the basis Of
credit-the security to which the world
will look in its dealings with individ-
uals, and open the account accordingly.
A thousand devices are needed by the
artful man to cloak his designs or hide
his failures, Of which the honest up
right man knows nothing. 1t is on the
principle that a number Of falsehoods
are necessary to prop a single untruth,
that it may not fall The man of in
tegrity stands up in the proud conscious.
ness Of his own moral worth, he hoeds
not the darts Of malice-the breath of
slander can not harm him, his word has
the efficiency Of bond. An exchange
says in regard to this subject
"Reproaches have no power to afflict
the man of unbIcmished integrity OF
the abandoned proGigqte 1t is the
middle compound character which is
alone miserable-olten the man who
has not frmness enough to avoid a dis
honorable action, has feeling enough
to be ashamed of il"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08

L1FE's HAPpIEsT PERIOD. - Kings
lev. the author of "Alton Locke, &C.,
gives his evidence on this disputed
point. He thus declares "There is no
pleasure that have ever experienced
like a child's midsummer holiday The
time, 1 mean, when two or three Of
us used to 90 away up the brook, and
take our dinners with us, and come
home at night, tired, dirty, happy,
scratched beyond recognition, with a
great uosegay, three little trout, and
one shoe, the other one having been
used for a boat, till it had gone down
with all hands out Of soundings, How
poor our Derby days, our Greenwich
dinners, our evening parties, where
thero are plenty Of pice girls, are after
thau Depend upon it, a man peuer er-
periences such pbasare or grief uJiey
fourteen as he does bctore, unless 10 some
cases in his FIRST love making, when
the sensation is new to him"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08

The Cedar (Iowa) Democrat says.
Since the requisition of Barclay Coppic
the peace principles of our Springdale
Quakers have almost foTsakeu them
We learn that they have received boxes
Of Shorpe's rifles, and that they have
revolvors in the hands of all the young
men Of the place, We learn that they
have taken brick store formerly occu-
pied by Thomas Wiuu, and converted it
into a fort, making holes in the upper
part to shoot through, They say that
Coppic shall not be taken.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08

THE CoNsUMPT1oN OF CoTToN.-Tho
average weekly consumption Of cotton
in Great Britain through last year was
the largest ever known, being a., 100
bales per week, against 418l9 in 1858;
1851 in 1857; and 43,52O in 1S56.-
The crop Of American cotton in 1856
Cyear ending September ls) was 3,528,-
500 bales; in 1858, 3,114,OOO bales; in
1859 3,SJI 600 bales; and the deliveries
at the ports already show a sufficient
increase to indicate a crop for the cur
rent year of not less than 100000
bales-thc largest crop yet known. En-
gland will take about ffty-siz per cent,
of the crop; our Northern manufacturers
about seventeen per cent; and nearly
all the remaining twenty-scycn per
cent. will be taken in the other countries
Of Europe,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08
The soulpture Of Habit.

Did you ever watch a sculptor slowly
fashioning a human countenance2 1t
is not moulded at once, and it is not
struck out at a single blow 1t is pain
fully and laboriously wrought. A
thousand blows roughcast it. Ten thous-
and ohisel-points polish and perfect it.
put in the fine touches, and bring out
the features and expression. 1t is a
work Of time; but at last the full like
ness comes out, and stands fixed forever
and unohanging in the solid marble
WE'LL so does a man, under the leading
of the Spirit, carve his moral likeness.
Every day he odds something to the
work; a thousand acts Of thought, and
will, and deed, shape the features and
expression Of the soul-habits Of love,
and purity, and truth. Habits Of false
hood malice, and uncleauliness silently
mould and fashion it, till at longth it
wears the image and superscription Of
the evil one Plain Parochial.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08

A DARING ACT. - Mary Fuller, q
young girl imprisoned in the Ohio
ponitentary for countorfeiting, made
her escape on the 1st instant, from the
fifth story of the prison, by getting out
of her window and passing along the
side Of the building, upon the cornice
or water table, about eighteen inches
broad Passing along the front Of the
building, at tho immense height Of fifty
or sixty feet from the ground, with
nothing to hold TO and upon the pro-
lection scarcely visible from the ground
She reached at the distance Of about
forty feet from her room window, O
place where it was necessary for her Ia
Jump about twelve feet TO the room of
the west wing. The leap was taken
proved a safe one, and the dauntles'
woman next fastened 10 the corner Of
the roof a rope which she had made Of
her bedding, graspod it in her hands
aud swinging from the roof passed dowr
on the outside of the wall, over win
dows where other couvicts were sloep
ing, and down to terra Grma, where, o
distance of forty-fve feet below th,
roof, she alighted in the arms Of a con
foderato.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08

A DRUNKARD's BRAINs.-Thc start
ling doctrines taught in "Youman's Ba-
sis of Prohibition" are fully cOrrobora-
ted by the following passage from the
Boston Medical journal: "Hyrti, by
far the greatest anatomist of the age,
used to say, that he could distinguish
in the darkest room, by one stroke of
the scalpel, the brain of the inebriate
from that of the person who had lived
soberly. Now and then he would con-
gratulute his class upon the possession
of a drunkard's brain, admirably fitted,
from its hardness and more complete
preservation, for the purposes of de-
monstration. When theanatomist wish
os to preserve a human brain for any
length of time, he effects his object by
keeping that organ in a vessel Of alco-
hol. From a soft, pulpy substance, il
! then becomes comparatively hard; but
the inebriate, anticipating the anato
mist begins the indurating process be.
fore death-bcgins it while the brain
remains the consccratcd temple of the
soul, while its delicate and gossamei
tissues still throb with the pulse Of heav
en- born life Strange infatuation, thus
to dcsecrato the God-likcl Terrible en-
chantment, that dries up all the foun
tains Of generous feeling, petrifes al
the tender humanities and sweet chari
ties of life, leaving only brain of leaC
and q heart of stone'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08
SEED YIELDIN0 A THOUSAND FOLD

SEED YIELDING A THOUSAND Fold
A contemporary journal says - "The
price paid for a newspaper is like seed
sown in the ground it brings back a
thousand fold It's value Some people,
however, don't believe it. They think
two or three dollars a year, paid for a
paper, is so much paid for a luxury
whereas, the truth is, il is so much paid
for O prime necessity A family with
out a newspaper, children brought up
ignorant of the world aud its ooncernsl
Is thore a family where the light of this
"full-orbed' thought has not penotratcdt