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Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26
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Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26
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Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26

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Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-26

sS- Passengers should bear In mind that the ssCIN
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The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11
English Children,

The English bring up their children
very different from the manner in which
we bring up ours. They have an abuns
dance Of outdoor air every day, whenever
1t is possible. The nursery maids are ex.
pected to take all the children out airing
every day, even to infants. This custom
is becoming more prevalent in this couu-
try and should be pursued wherever it is
practicable. Infants should be early ae.
customed to the open air. We confue
them too much, and heat them too much
for vigorous growth One of the finest
features of the London parks is said to be-
the crowds of nursery maids with groups
of healthy children. 1t is SO with the
promenades Of our great cities to a great
extent, but it is less common in our Coun-
try town than it should be- In conse-
quence of their training, English girls ac-
quire habit of walking that accompanies
them through life and gives them a much
healthier middle life than our women en-
JOY. They are not fatigued with walk
Of five miles and are not.ashsmed TO wear,
when walking, thick-sol shoes, fitted
for the dampness they must encounters
Half of the consumptive feebleness of our
girls results from the thin shoes they
wear, and the cold feet them must neces-
sarily have. English children, especially
girls, are kept in the nursery, and exclud-
cd from fashionable society and all the
frivolities of dress, at the age when our
girls are in the heat of firtation, and are
thinking of nothing but fashionable life.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11
TOO GOOD CREDIT.

Let me show you one Of the finest
pieces of cloth | have seen in six
months" said smiling storekeeper to .
young married man, whose income from
clerkship was in the neighborhood OF
seven hundred dollars.
"Don't trouble yourself, Mr.. Edwards, D
replied the customer. "The silk and
buttons are all want"
"Oh, no trouble at all, Mr.. jacobs
no trouble at all 1t is pleasure for me
to show my goods" said the store keeper,
drawing from a shelf the piece of cloth
he had mentioned, and throwing it upon
the counter "There," he added, as he
unfolded the glossy broadcloth and clap
ped his hands upon it self-complacently,
"there is something worth looking at,
and it's cheap as dirt. Only four dollars
yard, and worth six, every cent of it..
bought it at auction, yesterday, at a
good bargain
"It's cheap enough, certainly" re-
marked Jacobs, half indiferently, as he
bent down to inspect the cloth but I've
no money to spare just now"
"Don't want any money!" replied Ed,
wards, at least none from such a man
as you"
Jacobs looked up into the mans face
in some doubt as to its meaning.
"Your credit is exceedingly good" !"
said Edwards, smiling.
"Credit! Indeed, I've no credit. I
never asked man to trust me in my life, y
returned the customer.
"Pll trust you to half that is il my
store," was answered.
"Thank you," said Jacobs, feeling a
little fattered by compliment like this,
"but I've no want of dry goods to that
extent. A skein of silk and dozen but
tons for my wife, are all that 1 require at
present"
You want new coat" replied the
persevering store keeper, and he laid his
hand upon the sleeve of Jacobs coat and
examined it very closely.
"This one is getting rusty and thread
bare. A man like you should have some
respect as to his appearance. Let me see.
Two yards of this beautiful cloth will cost
but eight dollars, and I won't send in
your bill In six months. Eight dollars
fora iinc broadcloth coat Think Of that!
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11
TERMS --$l.0o PER ANMUM.
who Saw the Steer

The richest thing of the season, says
the Newberryport Herald, came off the
other day in the neighborhood of tho
market. The greatest Jonathan imagin.
able, decked out in slouched hat, long
blue frock, and pair Of cowhide shoes,
big as gondolas, with huge whip under
his arm, stalled into q billiard saloon;
where half dozen persons were imrrov-
ing their time in trundeiing round tho
worries, and after recovering from his frst
surprise, he inquired if "any of 'em had
seen a stray steer," affirming that the
blasted crittcr got away as he came thro'
town with his drove the other day, and
he hadn't seen nothin' of him since"
The bioods denied all knowledge of tho
animal in question, with much sly wink
ing at each other, and proceeded to cons
dole with him in his loss, in the most
heart felt manner. He watched the game
with much interest, as he had evidently
never seen or heard of anything of the
kind before, and created much amuse.
ment by his demonstrations of applause
when a good shot was made" Jerusa-
lem !! F." being favorite interieotion.
At last he made bold to request the
privilege Of trying his skill, when he set
the crowd in a roar by his awkward moves
ments. However, he gradually got his
hand in, and played as we'll as could be
expected for a green horn. All hands
now began to praise him, which so elated
him that he actually thought himself a
second Phelan, and he offered to bet
dollar with his opponent, which, of course,
he lost The loss and the laugh SO irri-
tated him that he offered to play another
game, and bet two dollars, which he pull
ed out Of large roll for it seems his
cattle had sold welt ard he was flush.
This bet he also lost, as the foUl miyhh
have known he would when, mad as a
March hare, be pulled out fifty spot,
the largest bill he had, and offered to bet
that on another game.
The crowd mustered round and raised
money enough to cover it, and at it they
went again, when by some strange turn
Of luck the greeny won, lie now offered
to put up the hundred against another
hundred. Of course he could not blun-
der into another game, so they could now
win back what they he'd lost, and fleece
the fellow out Of his own rolls besides.
They sent for 2 famous player, who hap4
pcned to have money enough to bet with,
and another game was played, which JON
athan won. Another hundred was also
raised and bet and won 1t was not un-
til he had blundered through half dozen
games and by some unaccountable run of
luck, won them all, draining their pockets
of about four hundred dollars, that they
began to smell a very large mice.
When everybody got tired Of playing,
gawky pulled his frock over his head;
took his whip under his arm, and walked
quietly out, turning round at the door
and romarking:
"Gentlemen, if you should happen to
see anything of that steer, | wish you'd
let me know"
1t the last account they had not seen
the steer, but they came TO the conclusion
that they saw the elephant.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11

Mas. PARTINGT0N'S VISIT TO THE
TENTED FIELD.-We take the following
from the Boston Post:
"Did the guard present arms to you,
Mrs. Partington % asked the commissarv,
as he met her at the entrance of the
marquee.
You mean the century," she said,
smiling. q [ have heard SO much about
the tainted field that [ believe I could
deplore an attachment into a line myself,
and secure them as we'll as an officer. You
asked me if the guard presented arms.
He didn't, but sweet little man with an
epilepsy on his shoulder and smile on
his face did, and asked me if | wouldn't
60 into tent and smile ] told him that
we could both smile outside, when he po-
litely touched his chateau and left me-"
The commissary presented hard wooden
stool upon which she reposed herself.
"This is one Of the seats of war, sup
pose z" said she. 90 what a hard lot a
soldier is objected to. l don't wonder a
mite at the hardened influence of sci
dier's life. What is that for 2" said she,
as the noise of the cannon saluted her
ear. 81 hope they amt firing on my ac-
count" There was a solicitude in her
tones as she spoke, and she was informed
it was only the Governor, who had just
arrived upon the field. "Dear me-" said
she, " how cruel it is to make the old gen
tleman come way down here, when he is
so feeble he has to take his staff with hin
wherever he goes" She was so affected
with the idea that she had to take few
drops of white wine to restore her equi-
librium, and to counteract the dust from
the "tainted field"
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11

SMALL CHANCE OF BEING SHOT,
According to statistics it takes power of
lead to kill man. The rebels at Great
Bethel had fine chance with their mask
ed battery and the bravery of our men, to
have made terrible slaughter. Out of
three or four thousand, however, engaged
on both sides, not more than ten or ff-
teen were killed outright. According to
all accounts the chances of being shot in
an engagement are not very great. In
the Italian war each man killed cost four
thousand two hundred rounds of ball
cartridge. At the battle of Victoria, In
the Pennsylvania war, eight hundred
balls were fired for each man killed. At
the battle Of Cherubusco the Mexicans
killed one of our men for every eight
hundred rounds they fired, while the
Americans killed one for every one hun
dred and twenty. five rounds.
Garibaldi has strong affection for the
United States. That is the spot "said
he, I" in which man forgets his own na-
tive land"
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11
VOLUME XIII -MUMBER 29.
The Old Couple.

It stands in sunny meadow,
The house so messy and brown,
With its cumbrous old stone chimneys,
And the gray roof sloping down.
The trees fold their green arms around it,
The trees, century old
And the winds go chanting through them
And the sunbeams drop their gold.
The cowslips spring in the marshes,
And the roses bloom on the hill
And beside the brook in the pastures,
The herds go feeding at will.
The children have gone and left them,
They sit in the sun alone
And the old wife's ears are failing,
As she harks to the well known tone
That won her heart in girlhood,
That has soothed her in many q care,
And praises her now for the brightness
Her old face used to wear.
She thinks again of her bridal
How, dressed in her robe of white,
She stood by her gay young lover,
In the mornings rosy light.
Oh, the morning is rosy as ever,
But the rose from her check is fled;
And the sunshine still is golden,
But it falls on a silvered head.
And the girlhood dreams, once vanished,
Come back in her winter time,
Till her feeble pulses tremble
With the thrill Of spring times prime
And looking forth from the window,
She thinks how the trees have grown,
Since, clad in her tridal whiteness,
She crossed the old door stone.
Though dimmed her eyes bright azure,
And dimmed her hairs young gold
The love in her girlhood plighted
Has never grown dim or old.
They sat in peace in the sunshine,
Till the day was almost done;
And then, at its close, an angel
Stole over the threshold stone.
lie folded their hands together
He touched theic eyelids with balm;
And their last breath foated upward,
Like the close Of solemn psalm.
Like bridal pair they travcrsed
The uneeen, mystical road,
That leads to the beautiful'city,
"Whose builder and maker is God"
Perhaps in that miracle country
They will give her lost youth back;
And the fewers of vanished spring-timt
VIII bloom in the spirits track.
One draught from the living waters
Shall call back his m9nhoOd's prime;
And eternal years shall measure
The love that outlived time.
But the shapes that they left behind them
The wrinkles and silver hair,
Made holy to US by the kisses
The angel had printed there.
We will hide away meath the willows,
When the day is low in the vest
Where the sunbeams can not find them.
Nor the winds disturb their rest.
And we'll suffer no tell-tale tombstone,
With its age and date, to rise
Der the two who are old no longer,
In the Fathers House in the skies.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11

INFLUENCE OF NEWsPApERs.-Sma
is the sum required to patronize news
paper, and amply rewarded is its patron,
| care not how unpretendlng the gazette
he takes. It is next to impossible to fill
a sheet with printed matter without put
ting in something that is worth the sub
scription price. Every parent whose son
is away from home at school, should sup
ply him with newspaper. l we'll re-
member what marked difference there
was between those of my schoolmates who
had, and those who had not access to the
newspapers. Other things being equal,
the first were always superior to the last
in debate, composition and general intel
ligence.-Danie1 Webster.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11

FALLING IN LOVE AS a woman was
walking, man looked at and followed
her. " Why" said she, "do you follow
me" because [ have fallen in love
with you" Why SO? My sister who
is much handsomer than I, is coming
go and make love to her." The man
turned back, and saw woman with an
ugly face, and being greatly displeased,
returned and said, I" Why do you tell me
story" The woman answered, "Nei-
ther did you tell me the truth IF you
are in love with me, why did you look
for another woman.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11

IT is most fearful fact to think of
that m every heart there is some secret
spring that would be weak at the touch
of temptation, and that is liable te be as
sailed. Fearful and yet salutary to think
of; for the thought may serve to keep our
moral nature braced 1t warns us tha6
We can never stand at case, or | c down
in this field of life without seniincls OF
va.chfuluess; aud camp fires Of prayer
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11

THE FRUIT CRoPs.-From what we
can learn, states the Rochester Express,
we infer that there is not a very fair pros
pect for fruit this season. The apple
trees are in full bloom, and are unusually
promising, but the earlier varieties of
cherries are mostly killed. There will,
however, be plenty of the later kinds,
and strawberries and cream will make a
good substitute. Peaches, as we have
heretofore mentioned are not entirely de-
stroyed; but we regret to say, that It is
only the later, and generally inferior kinds
that have escaped. Grape vines have
been considerably injured by the cold
weather, but there will probably be plen-
ty of this fruit
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11

SYDNEY SMITH once said, at an aristo-
cratic party, that ga man to know how
bad he is, he must become poor; to know
how bad other people are, he must become
rich. Many man thinks it is virtue that
keeps him from turning rascal, when it is
only full stomach. One should be care
frl and not mistake potatoes for princi-
ples."
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11

IT should make no difference with any
body what man wears so long as he be-
haves himself A we'll behaved man in
tatters is far more to be respected than a
misbehaved man in broadcloth. The one
is a gentleman, the other could rot be if
he tried. Therefore, it is manners makt 8
thc man, not wealth.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-07-11

The Gulf States inaugurated the war,
but they do not want the battle to be
fought upon their soil. They have had
an army before Fort Pickens for months
but they won't make the attack be-
cause they say some of their men will be
hurt. They want to get rid Of the fight
and push it upon Virginia, Virginia in
turn has begun to be little squeamish
about it, and she is trying to push it upon
Maryland. We don't want this nuisance
among US, and what is more, we won't
have it. If Virginia don't want it she
can push it back again upon the Gulf
States, which have cowardly sought to
make the Border States a shield between
them and danger, baltimore Clipper.
Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1861-09-21
From the Glasgow Herald.l

y Whatever may be the final upshot of u
American revolution, it is clear, in the meantinV
that the North is mOnopOising the lions share q
the " wordy warfare It would be ridiculous
misnomer to dignity with the name of war, the
marchings and reviews, the bivouacs, parades, and
palavers Of the citizen soldiers in their comfortable
quarters around the City of Washington. While
this playing at soldiers has been occupying the
attention of veteran generals, the actual warfare
appears yet to be confined to the columns of
newspapers, the pages Of pamphlets. and municipal
platforms. were il is carried on with degree of
vigour and ferocity which is truly alarming. The
Americans are said to be an impetuOus people
prone to action, and prepared on all occasions to
deal hard blows in preference to high words-but
their conduct in dealing with the Secession move
ment can scarcely be reconciled with this hypo-
thesis Six months after the Union has been rent
in pieces, American statesmen persist in ignoring
the fact while ambassadors politicians, and pub
lie writers, are busy ransacking musty documents,
and cudgeling their brains, in order to prove that
Secession is illegal.
Mr.. Everett, formerly Ambassador at the Court
of England, has lately been lecturing the citizens
of Roxbury behalf of the families of the Northern
Volunteers and, in course of his address, he took
the opportunity of declaring that every State had
expressly delegated its sovereign powers TO the
Union ' and yet (says he) in the face of this
express delegation, the Southern States have under
taken to exercise them all. They have raised an
army, issued letters of marque, and plunged into
war against the Government, which every magis-
trate and officer among them was under oath to
support, and all in virtue of having first uttered
the magic words-'We secede.' The history of
the world does not furnish another such mOnstrous
usurpation" Nnw, il occurs to US that Mr.. Everett
does not require range the world for paral
lei TO this Southern usurpation or rebellion.
We believe that he will find. on looking nearer
home, the history of rebellion or revolt, set on
foot and maintained with as little regard to oaths,
obligations at least that which he so eloquent
ly depIores. When the thirteen colonies revolted
from the mother country, they had far less
grievances TO complain of than any other country
that ever rose in rebellion against constituted
authority The British navy protected their CON-
merce in every quarter of the globe, and British
soldiers defended their frontiers from the Spaniards
on the south, the French on the north. and from
the native Indians from Lake Erie to the Gulf OF
Mexico. When the British Legislature attempted
to impose stamp duty, for the purpose OF making
the eolonists pay a share of the expense incurred
for their own protection. the Act OF Parliament
Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1861-09-21

= Professor johnson, of Middleton University,
was one day lecturing before the students of min
eralogy. He had before him quite a number of
specimens of various sorts to illustrate his subject
A roguish student. for sport, silly slipped piece
of brick among the stones. The professor was TAX
ing up the stones one after another and naming
them. This said he, '' is piece of granite !;
this is q piece of feldspar," etc. Presently he
came to the brickbat. Without betraying any sur
prise. even changing his tone OF voice This,
said he, holding it up is piece Of impudence. +"
There was shout of laughter, and the student
concluded that he had made little by that trick.
Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1861-09-21

e An old maid, somewhat advanced in years,
whose vivacity at times approached the borders Of
impertinence, asked old man, in rather jeering
tone. why he always dressed in black, and what
he wore mourning fori "FOr your charms,
miss - he calamity replied.
Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1861-09-21

y cotemporary, taking notice of an anony-
nous letter received by him, containing something
like threatened attack, adds this gentle P. S.h
70 his exposition:
"P. S.-0ur Office is on Washington street, up
fsco flights of stairs. The stairs are long and
steep An individual falling from the top to the
bottom might seriously injure himself"