The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-10-09

dltuuSu pStSuuS SVCiStS, huiie UACituS
enjoyment of the highest character, i'm
poses corresponding obligation-a fact
which many honest and worthy people
seem not to recognize.
In the German language there is no
epithet which exactly translates our word
bore, or its intensi6cation, uampyre. The
nearest approach to it, "ieinlsieder,"
means, literally, "a boiler of glue" and
applies especially to a man who takes you
by the button hole. This fact, alone, in
dicates a more correct social culture-at
least, so far as the social duties are con-
cerned. There is no society without It's
faults, which have their root in the faults
of national character. Of these | shall
speak at another time, Let US now re-
turn to the Fourth of July.
There was no reading of the Declara
tion of Independence, for the very good
reason that we have no copy thereof.
Neither was there any oration portraying
the greatness aud glory of Our Country,
because it has yet to be demonstrated, by
the last and seyerest test, that our coun-
try Is truly great and glorious On this
day of this year, 1861, orations are out of
place. But divided family, united for
the first time in three years. took their
places at the round table, and when the
trout and the roast-beef quite as much
an American as an EOgtish reminiScence)
had disappeared, young German spoke
thus: "Seeing that we, whose hopes aud
labors are directed toward the establish
meut of German unity and nationality,
cannot be Indifferent to the preservation
of the American Union, which IS in manv
respects the realization of our own polit
ical ideas-seeing that so many of our
countrynen have become American citi-
zens, and that a thousand ties of blood
and friendship unite us-seciug, more
over, that in the present struggle we re-
cognize a conflict between Barbarism and
Civilization, between Anarchy and Order,
let Us drink TO the success Of the Defend
ers of the Union, and the triumph of the
Good Cause!'
We all rose and drank the toast stand
inc. and the siIvery clinking of the glasses
was Ike a peal of distant bells, ringing
in the [let US hope not distant day Of our
national redemption.
After one Of the Inevitable showers,
the day again became bright and balmY
Our arm-chairs were transferred to the
shadow of an apple-tree on the little lawn,
aud while the younger ladies INDUCED in
somewhat irregular game of ball, We
enjoyed anew the beauty of the landscaEe
IN the enjoyment of our friends Aiour
feet lay FriedrishSroda, its tiled roofs
crowded together in 4 long line through
the middle Of the valley, The slopes on
either side, divided into narrow strips Of
gram, varying in growth and color, are
evenly covered, as with a ribbed velvet
carpet. above which, dark and grand,
stand the FIR forests. At the bottom Of
the valley, facing Us, is the the Badger
Mountain, rising square against the sun
uy blue and gold of the distan. hills.
South ward, wooded 10 the summit, stands
the kernberg. divided by shady glen
from the Praise God [ Goyt5ob "a coDical
hill, from the western slope of which rise
shattered pillars Of basalt. the topmost
crowned With rustic temple Between
the Praise-God and the Wolf-s-steep
opens deep mountain valley, gloomi. 2
purple with It's forests On the other
side We see the profile of the Abbot's
Mountain. green with peeches, overlook
ing Reinhardtsbrunn, and behind il the
Evil Mountain, whence coues all orr
weather woe Groups Of summer guests
are constantly threading the lanes. or
climbing to the benches disposed along
the nights, aad the three asses in the
town are always in requi>ition to carry
children or female inyalidS Wom-u
pass Us, carrying basket-loaiS Of hay from
the meadows. or 6r-lEigs from the hills /;
the men work among their turnip and
potato fields carriages rattle along tie
highways, aid every morning and evening
We hear the mul.iludicous chime Of the
COW bells. aS the herds are driven out to
sheir pastures. The landscape, with ali
It's beauty, Is full Of life, which Is the
greatest beauty Of all.
Tie evening came, and with it the
Pos'ilhon blowing:
4 rose II his aat, zad stat IN his hand,
. The pilgrim nus, wander from Land Rz1o land.
IAro1sh many : cliy, . e many PLAZA,
. B4i a. as must leave them, l1Ss wz13sr
zgsizT
And 50 II vas with oar friends. The
grandfather must back TO his telescope
and the new comet There we're house
hold duties for The E0nen-e1peeied -.
atlEes from af2r: +: each Was bound by some
one q lhe strands which 50 to make Gp
the thread O life Aud, after they d q
lefi, | took mp this ny own particular
sIr2od, which, having spaa 10 this length,