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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-06-07
sr.5o A YEAR.

occurrences were transmitted By pri-
vate messengers, who pursued 3 cie.
cuitous way to the scaboard cities, Ia.
land across the States Of Pennsylvania
and Ohio and the Northern Lakes, and
/ believe that bv these and other simi.
Ter measures, taken without authority
Of law, the government was saved from
overthrow. @
am not aware that q dollar Of the
public funds thus confided without au-
thority Of law to unofficial persons was
either lost or wssted, although appre.
tensions Of such misdirections occur.
red to me as objections to these extra
ordinary proceedings, and were neces-
sarily overruled. recall these irans.
actions now because my attention has
been directed TO resolution which
WAS passed by the House of Repre-
sentasives on the goth Of last month,
which is in these words:
Resolved, That Simon Cameron, late
Secretary Of War, by investing Alex.
Cummings with a large sum Of public
money and authority to purchase mill.
tary supplies without restriction, with.
out requiring Of him any guarantee for
the faithful performance Of his duties,
when the services Of competent public
officers were available; aud by involv.
ing the Government in q vast number
Of contracts with persons not legitimate
~ engaged in ths business pertaining
to the subject matter of such contracts,
especially in the purchase Of arms for
future delivery, has adopted policy
highly injurious to the public service,
and deserve the censures of the House.
Congress will see that / should be
wanting equally in candor and Justice
If l should leave the censure expressed
in this resolution to rest exclusively, or
chiefly on Mr.. Cameron. The same
sentiment is unanimously entertained
by the heads Of the Departments who
participated in the proceedings which
the House of Representatives has cen.
sured. 1t il due to Mr.. Cameron to
say, that although he fully approved
the proceedings, they were not moved
or suggested by himself, and that not
only the President, bu, that all the 9TH
er Heads Of the Departments were, 1t
least, equally responsible with him for
whatever error, wrong or fault wes,
committed III the premises.
(Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Washington, May 26, 1852.
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The Age Of our Earth.

We extract the following from Agas-
siz's article on methods of study on
Natural history" in the May number
Of the Atlantic Monthly:
Among the astounding discoveries
Of modern science is that Of the i'm
mense periods which have passed IN
the gradual formation Of our earth.
So vast were the cycles of time pre-.
ceding even the appearance of man
on the surface of our globe, that our
OWE period seems as yesterday when
compared with the epochs that have
gone before it. Had we only the evil
dence of the deposits Of rocks heaped
above each other in regular strata by
the slow accumulation of materials,
they alone would conceive us of the
long and slow muttering of Gods work
on the earth, but when we add to these
the successive populations of whose
life this world has been the theatre, and
whose remains are hidden in the rocks
into which the mud or sand or soil OF
whatever kind on which they lived has
hardened in the course of time--or the
| enormous chains Of mountains whose
upheaval divided these periods of quiet
accumulation by great convulsions-or
the changes of a different nature in the
confguration Of our globe as the sink
ing OF lands beneath the ocean, or the
gradual rising Of continents and islands
above it-or the wearing Of great river
beds, or the filling Of extensive water
basins, till marshes first and then dry
land succeeded to inland seas-or the
slow growth of coral reefs, those Won
derful sea-walls raised by the little
| ocean architects whose own bodies
furnish both the building stones end
the cement that binds them together,
and who have worked so busily during
the long centuries, that there are ex.
tensive countries, mountain chains,
islands and long lines of coast consisting
solely of their remains-or the count.
less forest that must have grown up,
flourished, died and decayed. to fill the
storehou>es Of coal that feed the fires
Of the human race to-day-if we con.
slider all these records Of the past, the
intellect fails to grasp chronology 70,
which our experience furnishes nc data
and the tune that lies behind us seems
as much an eternity to our conception
as the future that stretches indefinitely
before us.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-06-07

Wise, Floyd, Pillow and Price
are the four runners Of rebel defeat,
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THE LOYAL DEMOCRAT.

Mouth hot to me your Union rant,
Nor gl0ze mine ears with loyal cant
Who stands this day in Freedoms van,
He only is nv Union Man
Who tramples Slavery's Gesler hat,
He is my Loyal Democrat
With whips, engirt by chains, too long
We stroYe to make or fasces strong
When Rebel hands those fasces rend,
Must we with Whips and chains still mend
If Democrats" can stoop to that,
Go help me I'm no Democrat!
Thank Heaven! lines are drawn this hour,
'Trixt manly Right and despot Power;
Who scowls in Freedoms pathway now,
Bears "Tyrant" stamped upon his brow;
Who skulks aloof, or shirks his part,
Hath Slave" imprinted in his heart.
In vain Of Equal Righss'' We prate,
Who fawn like dogs at SlaFery's gate;
Beyond the slave each slave whip Smites,
And codes for Blacks are laws for Whites,
The chains tnat negro limbs encoil,
Reach aud enslave each child of Toll
~. NOElLEIE 3LEH HAGi " III ! Z 4Itl4 Il
'Tis Labor that these tyrants spurn?
'Tis not the blood or skin they brand,
But every Poor Mems toil-worn hand
And We who serve them-kuowing this
Deserve the slave-lash that ye kiss
While Northern blood remembrance Graves
From twice ten thousand Southern graves,
Shall freebofn hearts-beneath the turf
Lie always crushed by tramp OF ser5?
And rilgrims, at those graves, some day,
By Sl4Yery's hounds be driven away?
The green grass in the church-yard waves
The good corn grows DER battle-graves,
Bar.O! from crimson seeds now sowa,
WHIST crops. what harvest, shall BE- grown
On Shilohs plain-on Roanoke's sod
What fruits shall spring from blood, o God
Spr.ng-time is here The past now sleeps
The Present sows-the Future reaps!
Who plants good seed in Freedom span,
He only is my Union Man!
Who tre4ds the weeds of Slavery lat,
He is mr Loyal Democrat!
lew York, May, %, 1862. AJH DUGANNR.
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NEW ORLEANS.

lie following items from the New Or
,aa.- Dum give some lGea Of the change
nua.c ,euJiueut in that city Since
| BuI1f advent he has been constantly at
wora relieving the condition Of the poor,
~,aryug w.ite trash, ,''--,.f which there is
ac suaIt number 10 the city. and while
VITA cue maud he has been dealing out
.uercy ue uas with the othei given JUS
iice tel sway, and this hanging Of Muu
| ford Is the pure Cyouwe!Iiau spirit, whose
exhibition at the commencement Ct our
struggles might have saved much of the
blood and treasure already expended:
WHAT IT COST TO HAUL DOWN THE
AMERICAN FLAG.
Mumford, the ill-starred youth whose
name and fate will be a terror to all who
are inclined to trife with the Govern
ment or its sacred emblems in time to
come, justly received the reward Of his
treason aud madness, In the presence OF
thousands of spectators. as announced In
The Delta Of last evening. So far as our
knowledge extends iG the matter, it is the
first instance uT0n record OF a man keiBg
tried, found guilty, and executed for lag
ing violent hands upon our National flag,
aud the lesson 1t conveys is a solemn, aud
we trust, will prove q salutary one Mum
ford, though standing only as a represen-
tative of parties equally guilty at heart as
himself, had the misfortune to miDgle q
little more rashness with his reasonable
intents than some of his TRAITOR associates,
and paid the penalty with his worthless
life.
1t is perhaps of very little Importance
whether this individual, so depraved in
his nature, so lost to all sense of patriot
ism and love of country, be dead or alive,
and the recompense Of forfeiture which
he made in the sacrifice Of personal ex,
isteace is in no degree a compensation for
the insult which he offered great and
magnaBimous people by basely trampling
their noble ensign under foot. And the
Thousands who witnessed the exit OF this
miserable person from a life be had dis
gracsd. must have learned, if they had
need Of such lesson, that it is most dan
gerous to set at defiance a Govern
nent that from its very nature is seh-
protecting, and viii at III hazards, and
under all circumstances, v.ndicate itself
aud avenge tie insults offered its flag.
| Deluded men may have fattered them
selves that, because rabble or mob
sometimes rules within the narrow limits
of some important town or corporation,
that there is no power urder the Govern
ment sufficiently potent to arrest their
mad career, when their high-handed wick
edness extends to violation Of symbols
sacred to great and powerful nation, bat
the example of yesterday must disabuse
them of any such fallacy.
The hauling down of the flag on the
Mint was much mere cowaTdly act than
entering the ranks, in open and armed
rebellion, for the perpetrator might well
flatter himself that, in the absence of those
who had either the will or the power to
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We sever what God has joined, and so
destroy beauty, and lose hold OF truth.
Grimes sometimes shock US too much
vices almost always too little.
Be what you are. This is the first step
toward becoming better than you are.
Sense must be very good, indeed, to be
as good as good nonsense.
The craving for sympathy is the CON-
mon boundary line between Joy and sorrow
Never communicate your affairs to one
who seems anxious to learn them.
There is a man in Virginia SO aristo-
cratic that he has cut his own acquain-
tauce.
We are commanded to let our light
shine before men the nan with a red
nose keeps his light shining before himself
Almost every young lady is public
spirited enough to be willing to have her
fathers house used as a courthouse.
At sixteen woman prefers the best
dancer in the room at two-and-twenty,
the best talker; at thirty, the richest man
Hrs. Partington wants to know what
sort Of drums co-nun- drums are. She
thinks there are some hard to beat.
Tie progress of knowledge is slow.
Like the sun, we cannot see it moving;
but after while we perceive that it has
moved, nay, that it has moved onward.
Most men work for the present, few
for the future. The wise work for both,
for the future in the present, and for the
presen. in the future.
There are great men enough to incite
US to aim at true greatness, but not enough
to make US fancy that God could not ex-
ecute his purposes without them.
A club CT henpecked husbands met
once week-that meeting being their
only day of enjoyment and rest. When
they adjourned they called it the rising
of the tied.
Gen. Grant is on a visit to his family
in Covington, Ohio.
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know that it was | who put the fruit in
her hand, or she would not have thrown
it down. Her cheeks so red, and her
eyes so blue, and she spoke SO sweetly
that my private audience with the school
master and the cane was already deprived
of half the smart, and my little heart grew
fonder of those red cheeks the more |
suffered for them; and it seemed as if
they grew redder and redder the more |
looked; (have thought since that it was
very ikely.)
One morning early, in my eleventh
summer, [ walked by her house for the
purpose of getting the first look at those
cheeks as they presented themselves to
tie salute of the morning air but | found
she haG already started, as I saw her in
the distance. Upon my nearing her there
was butcher-boy and chimney-sweep
making clumsy remarks upon the thick
ankles, as they maliciously called them,
belonging to my darling red cheeks my
young blood felt volcanic at such rude
remarks; and instantly challenged either
of them to fight, both of them being big,
ger than myself. They only laughed at
me; but, seeing that was determined to
avenge the insult, they agreed between
themselves that the sweep should accom-
modate me, he being nearer NY size than
the butcher; and comic fight it must
have been while my strength lasted, for
he was blacking ny clean face with his
sooty hands. A crowd soon assembled ;
they took my part (being the least) and
eheered me on but master smoke was
too much for me; he struck me down,
and my forehead struck against the curb
stone, and was carried off insensible.
When I came to was in the hands of
two elderly women they had washed M
face, and placed strip of brown paper
stepped IN vinegar over the cash on my
forehead. In this state | started for
school was of course late, so had to go
to the desk and give the reason, [ said
big boy ran against me, knocked me
down in the dirt, and it cut my head 3;
the people took me into house where
they washed my face and put a plaster
on the cut.
I was fortunately let off on that. I
knew , if { told the truth, it might inter-
fere with my sitting down again, as fight
ing was one of the peccadillos he punish
ed severely. I told a similar story to
Miss Red Cheeks. She pitisd me, aud |
felt glory in being pitied. She never
knew how much suffered for her. Her
father took her from the school at the
close of the quarter, and sent her some
distance to Ladies Boarding School. L
never saw her again, but her red cheeks
lived in my imagination for some time /;
having no other red cheeks to feast upon,
my love for her gradually subsidized into
taste (excuse me for saying so, but it
did into decided taste for red checked
apples. Oranges, I wouldn't look at for
considerable time, owing to the disa-
greeable dilemma one of that family bro t
upon me. Thus ended the first attach
ment.
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John 5. MANN,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Coudersport, Pa, viii attend The several
Courts in Potter and NJ hean Counties. All
business entrusted in his care viii receive
prompt attention. Ofice corner OF West
and Third streets
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ATTORNEY < COUNSELLOR At LAW.
Coudersport, Pa, viii attend 70 al business
yntrusted 10 his care, with pr3lnFmes and
I'D, itv. Office on Southwest corner % Main
and Fourth streets.
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O. I. ELLISON,

aRACTICING PHYSICIAN. Coudersport, Pa.
respectfully informs the citizens OF the vii
Iage and vicinity that he will promptly re-
spond TO all calls for professional services.
Office on Main St. in building formerly oc-
rf1ui-i by & " Ellis ESQ
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DEATH OF Hon. ROBERT NJ. PALMER.
The Hon. Robert N. Palmer, L. s.
Minister to the Argentine Confederation,
died at sea on the 18th of April, and his
body was buried in the ocean the next
day. He had been a long time in ILL.,
health, which had increased so seriously
that he left Buenos Ayres to return to
his home in Pottsville But his disease
had made such progress that the suffer
ings of the sea voyage brought on the
final struggle. He had been Senator
from Schuylkill county, in the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature, and during the session
of 1861 was Speaker Of the Senate. He
was appointed Minister by President
Lincoln, and sailed from this country in
May, 1851. He was forty-one years OF
age, and leaves wife and six children,
the oldest of whom, young man, accom-
panied him to South America.
Gen. Polk has captured since the COM
mencement of the war $4,000 prisoners.
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L " kNON-

ATTORNEY AT LEW. Coudersport, Pa, VIII
regularly attend the Courts in Potter and
the adjoining Counties.
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redress the insult at the instant, his
escape in the melee of mob leagued city
might be relied upon. But in this he
misiudged, and never did justice overtake
a criminal more abandoned, or punish
crime more revolving TO the sense of every
honorable. high-miDdcd person.
There could be no reprieve from the
execution Of sentence so just; and for
ever after, so long as time shall continue,
and the good old national flag floats over
the Union, as float 1t will, long after the
present race of traitors are dead and buried,
let him who would violently lay hands
upon it to haul it down, count well the
cost by remembering the fate of Mun1ford.
And lest by your neglect, citizens of New
Orleans, some of your children may come
to the same bad end, teach them that
hauling down the American flag is an act
of treason, and IS Synonymous with death.
FIRST UNION FLAG RAISED IN NEW
ORLEANS.
The RAISING OF OUR FLAG ON THE
CRY HALL.-The Union Association,
of whom Mr.. Anthony Fernandez, ma
tive of this city, is the President, passed
resolutions, and appointed Saturday, the
7th inst, at L o'clock m, as the proper
moment to restore our glorious flag, and
trusting 1t to the breeze. 4 Committee
of Thirty-four-one for every State in
the Union-ascendca the roof, and, form
ing around the flagstaff, hoisted our
national ensign As the colors reached
the summit salute Of 81 guns was fred,
while the vast crowd cheered and appeared
mad with excitement. Tue shouts of the
multitude, the booming Of cannon, and
bursts Of triumphal music, loudly pro-
claimed that the
Flag Of our country did wave
( Over the land Of the free and the home of the
brave.
The enthusiasm lasted more than 9
quarter of an hour, and after the firing Of
the salute, the President and the Secretary
/ (Mr. Dufau) repaired to Gen. Shepley's
quarters, where the President addressed
him with much feeling and warmth to
which Gen. Shepley answered in a most
appropriate manner, touching ueon the
qualification they must experience in
/ benOlding once more the national emblem
floating over their municipal hail.
/ Mr Fernando is also the President Of
the Louisiana Association Of the Veterans
Of 1914 aud 1915, and warm friend and
admirer of Gen. Scott.
The assemblage was immense. Al:
least $4,000 persons attended to see the
great, glorious ceremony of the raising
again, and no doubt forever, the fac of
this our great country-the asylum OF all
the oppressed Of the world.
! Truly. there were no Secessionists
there. They would not approach such a
place, where only the purest motives
and patriotism had congregated such a
vast assemblage Of persons, respectable,
and identified with the prosperity Of this
great city.
4
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4 BEMARKABLE OFFER FROM Den
MARIA dispatch from Washington
states that the con;raband question has
Suddenly taken new phase--no less than
a practical scheme OF colonization upon
Danish territory. The judiciary Com
mittee Of the House on Tuesday morning
received from the State Department
copies of an interesting correspondence
which has just passed between Secretary
Seward and the Danish Minister in rela-
ton to the contrabands. The Danish
government has made formal proposition,
through its Minister at Washington, to
take all the negroes who have escaped
from their masters and remove them to
ST. Croix free Of charge. 1t then pro-
poses to put them under an apprenticeship
Of three years, permitting them to receive
regular wages. st the expiration of their
apprenticeship it is proposed 20 free them
Internationally The Governor of the
Danish West Indies has also appointed a
special agent, who has arrived in this
country to make the necessary arrange
ments Free transportation is offered to
all who will engage to labor on the sugar
plantations for three years, at the same
compensation as given native population.
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C. s. g. L. A. JONES,

.EALERS IN DRUGS. MEDICINES, PAINTS
Oils, Fancy Articles, Stationery, Dry Good,
Groceries, &C, Main 81, CouderspOrt. Pa.
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D. F. OLAISTED.

rEALER IN DRY GOODS, READY-NADE
Clothing, Crochery, Groceries, &c, Main ST.,
Coudersport, Pa.
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L. J. OLMsTED. =: 80: S. q. KELLY
OLMSTED < KELLY. r.
DEALER II STOVES, TIN Il SHEET IRON
WARE, Main ST, nearly opposite the Court
House, Coudersport, Pa. Tin and Sheet
iron Ware made to order in good style, on
short notice.
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IHE CHEAPEST OF LAWYERS. Keep.
ing ones own counsel.
A cobWeb is soon spun, and still sooner
swept away.
When is an OK net an OK ?-When it
is turned into meadow.
GEN. CAss ILL.-Gen. Cass is lying
seriously Ill at his home in Detroit.
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NJ. W. MANN,
COUDERSPORT HOTEL,

o F. GLASSMIRE, Proprietor, Corner O.
Main and Second Streets, Coudersport, Pot
ter Co.. Pa.
A Livery Stable IS also keptin connect
ton with this Hotel
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L. BIRD
MARK GILLON,

TAILOR-nearly opposite the Court House
will make all clothes intVusted to him in
the latest and best styles Prices to suit
the times Give hin. a call. I3.4l
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ANDREW SANBERG & BROS.

TANNERS'AND CURRIERS.-Hides tanned
on the shares in the best manner. Tan
merry on the east side Of Allegany river.
Coudersport, Potter county, Pay IL, 81
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-18

Tho Summer season is approaching timely end.
In week or two its title will be Disputed by the
opening of tho regular busness Of Fall aud Winter.
Already tho nebue Of rumor resolving them
selves into fixed announcements The intentions OF
managers are no longer seen rs from distance,
through An opera-gass. darby. With the excsp-
ton Of Mr.. Wbeatey, who still shrouds his future
in mystery, they ready to open their lines, salute
inquirers, unval their charts, hold councils and
impsh their plans Of campaign. The public is nj.
ready acquainted with the purposes Of the principal
theatrical stragedians. We have once before indi-
Gated the manner in which Mr.. Wallack will resume
operations when his theater gets back under his
judicious and experienced management. Perhaps
the erras Of the "Summer season will prove n
benefit 10 hin, BY emphasizing the contrast between
= really bad and really good administration. Such
experiments, however, are hazardous and We prefer
10 know tho name OF "Wallack's' Ms the unchange-
able synonym for decorous and Trustworthy enter.
prise. The middle Of September is settled upon IN
the time for the roopsning But OF all the theaters
the Winter Garden 10 readiest for action. Impatien.
Of longer delay, presses fraction Of August into
it's Autumn service. "'Tis the last week of Sum-
mer" that will witness the return Of Mis- Batcman
aud her associates Meanwhile, the interior VI tho
Garden is to DO subjected 70 rigorous treatment for
tho benef, of its complexion. corps Of expert.
euced hortcultursts will reinvigorate the floral de-
partmsnt which, from temporary neglect, had
wilted Not only will the lilies DO repsinled, but
We doubt not tho refined gold Of the auditorium will
be rrglded The intention is to invest tie entire
establishment with every decorative charm that
DO judiciously applied to it. The first honors Of the
season will DO cued by Miss Bateman. To her sue
Deeds Mr.. Edwin Booth, and next in order are Mr..
and Mrs. Barney Williams. Dir. Nxon's plans are
announced with no less certainty. lie resumes his
concerts some time this or next week, in connection
with pantomimcry. These he will maintain, We
may assume with pleasure to the public and profit 10
himself, until tho right moment in September or
October, whom
"On Fourteenth street will Nixon (Jsmes)
A stately pleasure dome Decree"
Of which we shall have more 10 say when moro is
definitely known. For the present, we need refer
only 10 the announcements for the list nights Of this