The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-03-22
Esey. W na. EgQSntcs:'g Opinion OF
Potter and lis People.
EatorldL C05TeEpQnasHcs Of Ue N0rtHern Inae-
pcHd1Rt, Auburn, Il T.
ULYSSES, Feb %, 1860

ULYSSES, Feb %, 1860
have to-day reached here-hom, is
another question. Judge Lewis, prom
inent citizen ef this toyn, had got the
promise of an anti-slavery address, and
to meet that engagement, it was ueceSsa,
Iry to travel twenty miles at some rate -
by the Judges taking, Tassage
was secured in two horse sleigh, buI
unfortunately tie keaut,f1l slcighing Of
Two days before, was converted into mud
\ ct by the help Of coed team, OCCASION
al patches Of Ice, and free use of the
anc,ent and honorable pedestrian art, oil
difficulties were overcome. The lecture
was delivered IN the Academy, an ele-
CANT Haw buil9ing, just erected, and DO;
eqtirely completed a large audience
assembled. Notwithstanding abundance
Of mud and other dra aYbacks too numcr-
Gus to mention. Within the last ten
years, village has grown up on this
spot, which promises to be 4 gem among
the villages e noEthern PENNSYLVANIA
\ fourishjng academy, with seventy-fve
students the second term, aud graduate
Of old Yale for principal, atteSts the char
actor Of the people. The trustees have
been fortunate lii the SELECTION of iir. j.
A Cooper, y. g., as the head of their
institution. He did net feel it beneath
his dignity tp step from the preenctS Qf
his venerable, arIstocratic Alma Mater
TO this secluded initial academic position
lin Ulysses. How much nobIer tnau to
be hanging, like beggar, about the doors
cf established institutions, TO Get pro
feSsorsh:p." Give us the men vino are
wiling to grub their way to eminenea,
and make ia ir fQrtuuc as God made the
word-out of nothing.
The physical features Of this part Of
Potter county aye pleasing in high de-
gree. The hills are not precipitous bluffs,
but gently rounded eminences, covered
from bottom to top with we'll cultivated
farms. The country is not finished, nor
Fwill it be for half a century to como
though it now wears an Inviting aspect
/ Besides being fertile and feasible every
where, there is vast mineral wealth in
the hills, consisting Of stone-coal, al d
equal Yealth in the boundiess forests Of
/ pine and hemlock The latter dcscrp-
tion of timber, more valuable even than
the former for many uses, has bcea over
looked, and malh Of it wasted. 1t is
time that this Slight put upon the unoT-
Tending hemlock was removed, and the
true character of that nobe forest deni-
zen was Acknowledged by the public gen
orally
One Characteristic Of this region strikes
/ the stranger forcibly, mean the intelii-
! gence and contentment Of the people
they at least are capable of appreciating
their own homes, and hence are not burn.
ing up with the fever of emigration
! They have the good sense to perceive
that Che valge Of ! country depends up
on the character of its populations. Switz
; ellapd would be good for nothing With
out the Swiss, and Egypt, once the gran
} airy Of the world, dotted with twenty
thousand cities, and creating the lof;iest
! monuments Of human genius, is now
WI tiitIcc Will uCt GOl btllCSS l. ClIdtlS "ul
: Bedouins. GREECE, vita her oygina
4 Greeks. was the mother Of arts and sci
: ences, but with the wretched barbarian,
! that now infeSt her classic OIL she is
miserable dependency Of Il S,iserable, dc
5 caying barbarian empire. 1t is useless
, therefore, for people "a be seeking better
} chances when they are alresdy surround
: ed with a country that only needs tht
hand of industry to make it equal to IT,:
hest. It's we'll known that the father:
who earn estates, too often quick y squan
dered BY the sons, are better class o
t men than the Young Americas, 50 distin
saished for an unhappy at of direstins
themselves speedily of cash aud pharac
ter. "Lakor conquers all things" is {
useful maxim, and Of much wider appli
cation than is commonly supposed. Hac
; not God cursed the word and thrown
! upon man the labor Of removing tia
curse, human society-if not human yir
tue you'd have been a thing impossi
! bic. Give us, for the sake Of develop