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and walk on it to the bank. The water,
as | said, was flowing over it, but not in
depth sufficient to carry the raft over
As Julius stepped on the log he slipped
and fell over the dam into deep pool un-
derneath it. The boys rushed on shore,
and ran round to the bottom of the dam
on the lower side, expecting to fnd JUL
US drowned; but it SO happened that as
he rose to the surface, he was within reach
of a slab which floating in the pool, and
by means of it got on shore before the
boys got to the place.
He went home pretty well convinced
that his father knew what was best for
him, and that it was not a want of inter.
est in his sons happiness which led him
to refuse bin permission to visit the Saw
mill and pond unattended.
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WOMAN From the earliest ages to
the present time women have been alter
nately worsLippedas "augeIs, and reviled
as "cats' and "serpents," according as
they have behaved to their adorers and
detractors. Women puzzled King Solo
mon and perplexed 81. Paul, whose mes.
sage to bis female converts testify to the
difficulty some Of them caused him. In
our day, however, every scheolboy seems
to think he can solve all the difficulties
OF the woman question-their natural ten
dencles, possibilities and prospects il this
life. Women, instead of being, as here
tofore, the rock on which wise men have
split, are nav become little more than the
blocks which fools try to cut with their
razors while waiting for their boards to
grow. What women have been we know
pretty well-average human beings, on
the whole dong their duties us we'll as
they new how, nulturing the quail
ties of their husbands, their sons or
brothers. They have made themselves
felt, as etfectual elements in the ordering
of human affairs Thore is no instance
where q man has become a great leader,
either as general, statesman, or religious
reformer, who had not some woman liv-
ing at the roots Of his inner life, fostering
his ideas and his aims-wth whom he
has taken counsel--out of whose thought
he has derived nutriment for his own
thoughts-who has helped him and be-
leved in him, aud advised him, and
stuck to him when the whole world seems
against him. Women do not often
achieve greatness for themselves but
they are at The bottom of all that is good
and the most Of what is bad, IN the
world.
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A BIG SToRY.-The latest Munchau.
sen story was related by boy who was
begging In the streets Of Plymouth the
other day. He said that he was cabin
boy on board the American liner, and for
some of his mischievicns prauks was
headedup inan empty water-cask, with on.
lY the bung-hole to breathe through On
tie following night squall came up, the
ship went down with all on board except
himself the cask coAtainiag him having
rolled over into the sea on sudden urcE
Of the vsssai Fortunately it kept ''bupg
up and after thirty hours floating about
he was cast on the coast, where, after hS
had made desperate efforts to release him
self, he gave himself up to die. Some
COWS strolling along the beach were at.
tracted to the cask, and in switching
around 1t, one Of them accidetalIY slipped
her tail into the buug hole, which the
boy grasped Immediately, and kept fast
hold OF with admirable resolution. The
COW started off and after running about
three hundred yards the cask struck
against 4 rock, and was knocked to pieces.
After wandering about Cor several days,
he hailed a vessel, was taken on board;
and earriedto Falmouth, from whence he
proceeded to Plymouth.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF ONE MILE.-By
constructing canal about three fourths
of a mile in length, from Big Stone Lake
to Lake Traver, steamboats, from St. Paul
could navigate both the Minnesota River
and the Red River of the North, to Lake
Wiunepeg, distance of seven hundred
miles ! The country traversed by there
rivers is surprisingly fertile, and capable
Of sustaining dense population Lake
Winnipeg is larger than Lake Ontario,
and receives the Sas- -katch-a-wan River
from the west. Tie Sas katch-a wan
River is manageable to point (Edmontou
House)near the Rocky mountains, seven
hundred miles west Of Lake Winnipeg,
and only one hundred and fifty miles cast
Of the celebrated gold-diggiags on Fra
yer River, in British Columbia.
The digging Of that one mile of canal
would therefore, enable steamboat at
New Orleans to pass into Lake Winnie
peg, and from thence to Edmonton House,
some five thousand miles ! 4 bill has
been introduced into the Senate, which
makes provision for the capal.
Probably in the world there cannot be
found a spot across which the digging of
SO short canal would effect result SO
prodigious. Aud what Is almost equally
remarkable, the ground between the two
lakes is so low ana SO level that it is said
the water flows in times of frsshets from
one to the other.
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ARTEMAs WARD AND THE ARTIST. -
was fxins myself up to attend the great
war meetin' when my daughter entered
with a young man who was evijently from
the city; and who wore long hair, aud had
a wild expression into his eye. In one
hand he carried a portfolio, and his other
nav claspt bunch of small brushes
My daughter introduced him as Mr. Swei.
Der, the distinguished landscape painter
from PhiIadelphy.
"He is an artist, papa. Here is one Of
his master pleces-a young mother gazin'
admilir'Iy upon her first born," and my
daughter Showed NE a really pretty pic.
tur, dun in lie. 'Is it not beautiful
papa? He throws so much soul iuto his
work"
"Does he? Does he ?" said I-"Well,
reckon I'd better hire him to whitewash
our fence. 1t needs it. What will you
charge sir" | continued, Ito throw soihs
soul iuto my fence p
Ny daughter went out of the room in
very short meeter, takin' the artist with
her, and from the emphatcal manner in
which the door slam'd, concluded she
was summit disguqted at my remarks -
She closed the door, [ must say, in ital.
1cS. | went into the closet and larfed for
over half an hour.
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TERMS $3.50 PER AMNUM,
Trains Lecture.

George Francis Train exhibited him
self at Utica the other evening, and the
Herald of that city epitomizes the lee
ture @ which accompanied and ilustras-
ed the exhibition:
Il am G. f. Tram, and know more
than anybody else, and can prove it
England Is sham and rottenness from
center to circumference her people are
all drunkards and fools All Americana
are fools and toadies-except myself
Humility is a crime and egotism the
greatest of all virtues. Therefore |, be-
ing the greatest of all egotsts, am the
wisest and most virtuous of all mou.-
Look at NE. | have originated revolu-
tion in England which will sink that
country IN about two years. I am now
here to tx up America, after which in
tend to tend to the rest of the world.
shall be the next President, aud am now
ON my WY to Redmond for the purpose
of settling up this war. Nobody can do
1t tut |, and l can do it in q few days.
Your Everctts, Huntiagdons, and other
euPpseCu great ucu, read their lectures,
and for that reason are fools. See me
| don't read. Sec What's more, I've
been all over the world and seen every
body and everything, and therefore all
those editors that call me gassy egotist
are very andacious persons, and consid.
er them, ., ever and ever so insignificant
mere picayunes, and they are just what
think they are because | think so-of
course-don't you see? BY the way,
the ladies think a great deal of me, and
| great deal Of them; therefore ap.
peal to them to elect ne President, and
they will do it too. Ladies and gentle.
men, will now recite piece of poetry
in that thrilling aud distinguished way
Of mine, and close:
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Ulysses Academy

Still setains as Principal, Mr.E.R. CAMPBELL,
Preceptress, Mrs. NETTIE JONES GRIDLEY As
sistant, Miss A. E CAMPBGLL The expenses
per Term are Tuition, from $5 to Sc; Board,
from S SO to $l.75, per week; Rooms for self
boarding from 50 to S4. Each term commences
upsn Wednesday and continues Fourteen
weeks. Fall term, Aug. 9th, 1862; Winter term,
bsc. 10th, 1852 and Spring ternl, March 25th,
IeS3. .. r. BASSETT, President.
W, W. GRIDLEY, Sect'y.
louisville, july 9. 1862
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How can this discrepancy of $4,000 be

How can this discrepancy of $4,000 be
accounted for
AS to General Wool's command, un-
derstand it is doing for you precisely what
a like number Of your own would have to
do, if that command was away. | sup
pose the whole force which is gone for
word to you is with you by this time ;
and, if SO, think it is the precise time
for you to strike blow. BY delay the
enemy will readily gain on you-that is,
he will gain faster by fortlfcatious and
reinforcements than you can by reinforce
ments alone.
And once more, let me tell you, it is
indispensable to you that you strike a
5lowY am powerless to help this. You
will do me the justice to remember, [ al
ways wished not going down the bay in
search of field, instead of fighting at or
near Manassas, as only shifting and not
surmountiDg difficulty that we should
find the same enemy and the same or
equal entrenchments at either place. The
country will not fail to pote-is noting
now-that the present hesitation to move
upon an entrenched enemy is but the sto-
~ of Manassas repeated.
l beg to assure you that have never
written or spoken to you in greater kind
ness of feeling than now, nor with fuller
purpose to sustain you, so far as in my
most anxious judgment consistently can.
Bat non must 0ct
Yours, very truly,
(Signed) A LINCOLN.
In another letter the President doubts
the wisdom Of the peninsula campaign,
as follows:
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EXECUTIVE MANSION,


WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 1862.
NQj0r General Nc C2elian,
My DEAR SIR: You and | have dis
tinct and different plans for movement Of
the Army of the Potomac-yours to be
down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahan
mock to UUrbana. ana across land to the
terminus of the Railroad on York river
mine to move directly 20 a point on The
railroad southwest of Manassas. If you
viii give NE satisfactory answers to the
following questions | shall gladly yield
my plan to yours:
1. Does not your plan involve great
ly larger expenditure of time and money
than mine
2. Wherein is victory more certain
by your plan than mine
3. Wherein is victory more valua-
dle by your plan than mine?
4. In fact, would it not be less valua-
bic in this, that it would break no great
line of the enemy's communication, while
mine world ?
5. In case of disaster, would not a
safe retreat be more difficult by your plan
than by mine ?
3 Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. 4
1t also appears by the published docu-
ments that Gen. Banks movements on
the Shenandoah, which ended In the re-
treat of that able officer, were made at
the express direction of General McClel-
Ian.
The defamation of the Vallandigham
politicians against the administration are
now beginning to react on that nest of
rebel sympathizers, and We have no doubt
when the people will realize the rascality
of these tories, they will shun them as an
old whig of tho revolution would have
shuned British tory of that day; and
as the truths Of history come to light,
justice will yet be done to our patriotic
President and his efforts to put down this
foul rebellion.
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A western paper annouced the Illness
of its editor, piously adding IA Il good
paying subscribers ure requested to men.
tion him in their prayers. The others
need not, 'as the prayers Of the wicked
avail nothing according to good autEss-
isy,"
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Dissolution,

Notice is hereby given that the Partnership
heretofore existing under the name of Boutor
and Burtis, is this day dissolved by mutual
consent. The business will be continued b,
J. W. Bouton.
J. W. BOUTON.
WOOLSEY BURTIS.
Whites Corners. Sept. 80.
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Religious expressions, being sacred
things must never be made use of in light
and lud;crous actions.
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The girls use powder on their faces
just as the men do iu the musket-pan-
to make them go of.
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JOHN S. MANN,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Coudersport, Pa, will attend the several
Courts in Potter and Mkean Counties. All
business entrusted in his care viii receive
prompt attention. Office corner of West
and Third streets.
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COUDERSPORT HOTEL,
MARK GILLON,

TAILOR-nearly opposite the Court House
will make all clothes intrusted to him in
the latest and best styles Prices to suit
the times.-Give him a call. i34i
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BUSINESS CARDS.

EULALIA LODGE, No. 342, f. A NJ.
STATED Meetings on the End and 4th Wednes-
days Of each month. Also Masonic gather
ings on every Wednesday Evening for work
and practice, at their Hall in Coudersport.
TIMOTHY IVES, W. NJ.
SAMUEL HAVEN, SeCy.
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An Important Letter.

The Mcdowell Court of Inquiry, which
from the start has been a kind of white.
washing affair for sundry generals, has
produced document of more than ordi.
nary Importance. Gen. Mcclellan, in his
testimony, stated that a sufficient force
bad been left for the defence Of Wash.
Irgton, and upon that ground censured
the administration for Withholding Nc
DowelPs army. Major Gen. Hitchcock
in his testimony on Friday last, produced
the following letter from the President to
Mcclellan. Let those who have SO un.
scrupuIously condemned the administra.
sion, ponder over the fact that the very
result predicted by the President &C.
Cured:
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|. |. !, !, |. |. |.
Me, me, me, me, me, me,
Ne, I, me, |, me, /, me, |,
|, me. |, me, | me-

You will discover the marks of ny own
origina! genius in these majestic stanzas.
Do not forget that George Francis Train
is the only man Of any account that ever
lived on this earth. and that he will, With.
ont any doubt: be king thereof next year
about this time. Adieu."
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L W KNOX.
O. IT. ELLISON.

PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Coudersport, Pa,
respectfully informs the citizens of the vii
lags and vicinity that he will promptly re-
spond to all calls for professional services.
OHce on Main St, in bailding formerly oc-
ennied bY G. w Ellis Esq.
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N. J. oLMSTED. :: :: :: S. D. KELLY
OLMSTED & KELLY,
DEALER IN STOVES, TIN l. SHEET IRON
WARE, Main St, nearly opposite the Court
House, Coudersport, Pa. Tin and Sheet
Iron Ware made to order, in good style, on
shert notice.
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WASHINGTON. April 9, 1862,

/ ~AtjNf CCHCf Ut 4HC CtCttUN
ny Dear Str-Your dispatches com
planning that you are not properly sus
tanned, while they do not offend me, pair
ne very much
BIenker's Division was withdrawn from
you before you left here, and You knew
the pressure under which I did it 4; aud
as | thought, acquiesced in it-cortainly
u0t Without reluctance. .ty
After you left | ascertaincd that les.
than 10000 unorganized men, without q
single field battery, were all you designed
to be left for the defence Cf Washington
aud Manassas junction aud part of this
even was to go to General Hooker's old
position. , -' ....5~. J,Eg H.9.
Geueral Banks Corps, once designed
for Manassas JUNCTION, was divided and
tied up on the line of Winchester and
Strasburg, and could not leave it without
again exposing the Upper Potomac aud
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. This pre-
sented, Cor would present, when Mellow.
ell and Sumner should be gomez a great
temptation for the enemy to turn back
from the Rappahsnuock and sack Wash
ington.
My explicit directions that Washing.
ton should, by the judgment of all the
commanders of corps, be left entirely se-
cure, had been entirely neglected. 1t
was precisely this that drove NE to detain
Mcdowell. do not forget that l was
satisfied with your arrangements to leave
Banks at Manassas Junction but when
that arrangement was broken up, aud
nothing wa substituted for it, of course
l was not satisfied | was constrained to
substitute something for it myself.
And now allow me to ask you, "do you
really think Isshould permit the line from
Richmond, via Manassas Junction, to this
city to be entirely open, except what re-
sistance could be presented by less than
10000 unorgapized troops Z" This is a
question which the country will net al.
low me to evade.
There is curious mystery about the
number of troops now with you. A, | tele.
graphed you on the 9th, saying that you
had over 100000 with you l had just
obtained from the Secretary Of War a
statement taken as he said, from your own
returns, making 108,000 then with you
and en- route to you
You say you will have but $4,000,
when allenroute to you shall have reached
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ARTHUR G. OLMSTED,

ATTORNEY l. COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Coudersport, Pa, will attend to all business
entrusted to his care, with promptnes and
idt ity. Office on Southwest corner OF Main
and Fourth streets.
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SAPONIFIERI |

SAPONIFIERl
The greatest Soap-maker ever
Known Fer sale at
sTEBBINs'.
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ISAAC BENSON.

ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa, will
attend to all business entrusted to him, with
care and promptness. Office on Second St,
near the Allegheny Bridge.
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gEDND AND FREE.

p JANUARY lsT, 1863.
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COLLINS SMITH.

pBALER in Dry Goods, Groceries, Provisions
Hardware, Queensware, Cutlery, and ali
Goods usually found in & country Store
Coudersport, Nov. u, 1861.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-02-03

Bofp ArEnrT HicnwAy RoBmRY-As John Lynch,
Of NO ia Laurens street proceeding 70 his home
sunday night he attacked by men the
OF Houston Iaurcns streets and bold attempt made
10 rob him his gold watch and pockebook containing
some valuable papers The cries Of tho injured
brought officer Garsde of the Twentieth precinct 10 the
spot, aud, after considerable difficulty the assai
ants, named Charles Williams, taken n<o custody.
The prisoner although caught In the very had the
audcty to deny his guilt and, when brought before the
magistrate put ia the usual plea Of gutyn Justice
Quackcnbush thought there sufficient evidence 10
bia sending the before the Grand jury and
committed the accused accordingly Mr.. Lynch had his
watch chain broken IN the adventure and his face pre-
sentod the appearance Of having undergone severe pun
melting
PLAYING THE DErTc1vE.-Ilenry San Pedro, Cuban, Of
highly respectable parensse, taken into custody
Barnums Museum saturday charge Of persona,ing
policeman The accused II appears got possession q
deputy sherin's badge, aud by this means passed him.
self OF for officer. lie in the habit OF arresting
pickpockcts frequently and then restoring them 20 liberty
on their disgorgng their III gotten gain. Detective
smith heard Of Pcdros doings and fortunate enough
10 across him at the Museum at most opportune
moment. The prisoner Ia evidently afflicted with mania
the detective business and the thing his rea-
tives can do s 70 SET him posoa under Superintendent
kennedy
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Arrivals. and Departures.

Asrlywlil-steamship Ocean Queen-Mrss HioSex and
larit, 9 Hopkins: Eelis and lady, s Kennedy.
Ta,Sn TrsomGscn s,ons NJ. Ryan, Very
nn f. ,.., Capt Penhalow white Mr. ganerc,,
Lieut. Merchant Mrs Fcrrsr and child Abareau and lady,
RPerry, - Kirkpatrick, MAaby, Mr. Manning, Top.
htry. Ssmnels, N Brandon.
H.yAs.-s,esmship Columbia " Britain, l. Dresden,
Savat and lady, Walker o williams Misses Hudson
Robson. fogsrty Efermsn. A schamuel, Nixon.
ftom New ,orcans-n Mi!merdnE ", W Spiklng,
u rlinghast Mrs Henriques and two children Mrs
Seaman, Miss seaman servant Mrs KIburne La
spark, Q wilkins Mrs N de Nord, W r Chamberlain, Vi c
miami .ns lnsae capt Rswe Mrs. Ro.se
seaman, n pley, Bo.twict Wills w X 3reaihouse
5oBIcn " Bnmgardes. Mai o Cross VSA. A Rar,or X r
pod pga; fTsar kittsrdge q Wilder. q Taylor,
pprstll sohnrr. MSS seaman @ Lun, Crooks, = X
Quick and infant = = N~' a''
NswnyRS, NC-s,eamer Dccatur-g w Tbo,np.on ! n
SNOW Lieut Robinson, ID G Greenwood q Monitor DR. Ia
nard ,isn. Msker Lient Bingham, Capt Wheeler LIeu
sAerA-schr Maitiand-F Ksnsher and lady and J
Wheeler. -
HAVANA VIA NAss.v-steamer British oueen-uax.r.-
EH Crahb, Portfnd Reattcr. n Y: Io.spb n usr,
Newars;TA Webster. Y; Tod NJ Rs weIls
Havana. Vim Weber England Nasssn--Nr. " N w.h
ell, Master Frank Mitchell, Mr. X "a Mitchell IL w y
saia-. Nstsnxss, Gent do II q NOBLE n NJ Mr. ana NJ.
Ucorss Gorhem Buffalo; Mr. and Mrs Henry Spain, Mr
Nassau, CushmRn and man servant, Albany. A N
sampson, Philadelphia Sale, Y; Thos sampson nal
whore; Jno Lee Smith, England; Hsyman, Nassau, MS
ys.ns chii infsa, aud serysnt NY Mrs Hastings Eng.
Henry scpdder and maid apt y, Col and NJ, ~
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O'Clock. ~ order GEO McCUILoUGH, Presidents
yn&k WooD, Secretary.
WnnEEr.-O0 Monday morning, February 2, ALKALINE
SokD youngest daughter OF Warren w. and Jenny A.
"nNney, aged years, months and days
relatives and friends Of the family invited TO
xseno the funeral from the residence Of her parents
one O'Clock
3 ston and Troy papers please copy
wiLES-On Second day morning, February q ELIZA
d., WIG OF VIM u wille,s, aged IS years.
me friends OF the family respectfully invited 10
.eha .he funeral this Third day. afternoon four
ocock from her late residence, 80 Horato street. The
for interment ''