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The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17
An Old Minister Sold.

We have published good many sad sto-
ries of the snfferings of poor old ministers
lately. But here is one that puts out of sight
all Others that we ever heard of. A sub
scriber of more than forty years standing,
brings to US letter from friend detailing
the extraordinary facts, and vouches for their
literal truth, in every particular:
'There is an old minister in Charleston,
Penn, near Wellsboro', who has always borne
an excellent character and has been a hard
working, good Baptist preacher. Two years
since, he was found in his room sick and des-
titute. The friends for whom he had spent
his strength kindly put him in the Poor house,
or rather what takes the place of a Poor
house. The town pays his boarding to who-
ever will board him the cheapest! lie is con-
sequently put up at auction, and struck off to
the lowest bidder!! This spring the Charles
ton people thought they had done enough
for him, and that he should be put upon an
adjoining township where he had sometimes
preached in former years. So they brought
the matter to Wdllsboro', and had lawsuit
over the poor, old man, but were obliged to
keep him after all. was very much shocked
to find that there was such an instance as
this in the world, but it is all true Mr.
attended the lawsuit"
There-we hope never to hear anything
worse than this, of the treatment of poor old
ministers. Probably we shall have an ex-
planatlon to the effect that the old man was
not regularly ordained minister perhaps
he "took up" preaching and had a trade
that he worked at besides. But he seems to
have been regarded as the minister, not of
one parish only, but of another where he had
labored two years. And now in his old age
and poverty he is sold out to the man who
will board him the cheapest! And this is
our Christianity IN Y Odserrer
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17
National Bank Currency.

The mode of procedure when National
bank fails is thus pointed out by the National
bank law. The government redeems the
notes Of all such banks: son receiving notice
that any such association has failed to re-
deem any of its circula ing notes, as specified
in the preceding section, the Comptroller of
the Currency shall,
within thirty days after he shall have received
notice of such failure, declare the United
States bonds and securities pledged by such
assosiation forfeited to the United States, and
the same shall thereupon be forfeited accord
ingly; and thereupon the Comptroller shall
give notice, in such manner as
the Secretary of the Treasury shall, by gen.
eral rules otherwise, direct, to the holders Of
the circulating notes of such associations to pre-
sent them for payment at the Treasury Of the
United States; and the same shall be paid as
presented"
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17
Passage of the Eli.

The Civil Rights Bill passed the United
States Senate on April s, over the Presidents
veto, by the decisive vote of 80 to Is, as
follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler,
lark, Conness, Cragin, Creswell, Edmunds,
Fessenden, Foster, Grimes, Harris, Henderson,
Howard, Howe, Kilkwood, Lane, (Ind. } Nor
gan, Morrill,, Nye, Poland, Pomerey, Ramsey,
Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Sumner, Trum-
bull, Wade, Wiley, Williams, Wilson, Yates
-33.
NAYs-Messrs. Buckalew, Ccwan, Davis,
DoohHle, Guthrie, Hendricks, R. Johnson,
Lane (Kan.) McDougall. Nesmith, Norton,
Riddle, Salisbury, Tan Vinkle, Wright-l5.
The names of Republicans voting "No" are
in Italic.
On Monday, April 9th, the vote was taken
in the House with the result of Yeas 122,
Nays Al and the Speaker declared that the
bill had become law, when tremendous and
long continued deafening applause followed,
with some Kisses, amid which the House ed-
iourned
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17
Unparalleled Cruelty.

A Republican in the New York Senate
caught the entire mass of Democratic Senat-
orS in very nice trap few days ago They
were extremely anxious to endorse the Pres
ident, but wanted to do it in a Democratic
way Finally Mr.. Folger, representing the
conservative wing of the Republican side,
offered the following resolution, viz:
'No State, within which there has been
insubordination or rebellion, should be ad-
mitted to share in the National legislation
until it presents itself, not only in the atti-
tude of loyalty and harmony, but in the per-
sons of representatives whose loyalty cannot
be questioned"
Whereupon there was Democratic storm.
One after another they denounced it, some
stigmatizing it as ian attack upon the Pres
ident." A vote was finally taken, the Dem
ocrats voting no. Mr.. Folger then coolIy
arose and said that the President had recently
made a speech embodying the words of the
resolution which the Democratic Senators of
New York had so yehemently denounced. Not
a word or syllabe had been changed or omit
ted by him. He had merely offered the reso-
luton to illustrate the hypocrisy of the Dem
ocratic Senators. That was all.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17
Nuts for Whiskey Men to Crack.

Frank Lsslie's newspaper says that four
ffths of all the crime committed in New York
is the result of wEiskey.
The Clerk of the Court of Quarter Ses-
sions, Of Lycoming county, advertises II ap-
plications for license to sell liquor in that
county. There are not, perhaps, half this
number of school houses or churches in the
same county, and the probability is that If
these licenses are all granted, the disposition
to support religious and educational insttu-
tions there will be progressively diminished
in the future
AT a second class hotel in Frankfort, KY
few days since, little girl entered the bar
room, and in pitiful tones, tod the bar keeper
that her mother had sent her there to get
eight cents Eight cents T' said the bar
keeper. ayes SIR" "Wbat does Jour mother
want of eight cents? J don't owe her any
thing" "Well," said the child, ''father
SPENDS all lis money here for rum, and We
have had nothing to eat to-day. Mother
wants to buy loaf of bread" A loafer sug-
gested to the bar keeper to kick the brat out
NO." said the bar keeper, tI'll give her
mother the money; and if her father comes
back again, III kick him out" Such cir
cumstance never happened before, and may
never happen again. Humanity owes that
bar keeper a vote Of thanks.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17
NO Licenses in Potter

We congratulate the people upon the pas
sage of the following Bill, it has been ap
proved by the Governor and is now the law.
It takes the whiskey interest out of the can
vas for Judges this fall as it takes the grant
ing of licenses out of their power 1t is only
reasonable to expect that this will meet with
the hearty approval of the great majority
from the fact that they have for many years
back refused 10 allow ofliceDses being granted
in this county. Mr.. Mann deserves and will
receive the lasting gratitude Of all good peo-
pie for thus setting at res: one "bone of con-
tention.''
SECTION !. Be Il enacted By the Senate and
House Of Representatives oftts Commonwealth Of
Pennsylvania IN General assembly met and it is
hereby enacted By the authority Of the sanaer That
from and AFTER the passage of this act no IL
cense shall be granted to any person to sell
vinous, spurious, malt, or brewed liquors
within the limits of the county of Potter.
Sec. 2. That if any person or persons
within the said limits shall sell, trade or bar
ter away any Yinous, spurious or any Kind
of intoxicating liquors or intoxicating tonic
or other btterS to be used as a beverage, be
or she upon conviction thereof in the court of
quarter sessions of said county shall be fined
in sum of not less than fifty dollars nor
more than two hundred for the first offence,
and upon q second conviction the fine shall
not be less than one hundred dollars nor more
than three hundred, and in addition to the
fine the person so convicted second time
shall undergo Imprisonment in the county
Jail for period not less than thirty days nor
more than six months, Provided, hotccver :
That manufacturers of domestic wines and of
malt and brewed liquors shall not be pro-
hibited from selling their own products in
quantities of not less than one quart, And
provided further That this act shall not apply
to druggists who sell unmixed alcohol or wine
or brandy on the written prescription of
regular practicing physician
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17
Death Of Hon. DanI S. Dickinson.

We regret to be compelled to announce the
decease of the Hon. Daniel s. Dickinson, U,
S. District Attorney for this District, which
occurred last evening, at the residence of his
son-in law, Samuel j. Courtney, ESQ.,, of this
city.
Mr.. Dickinson was taken sick on Monday
afternoon, having been engaged during the
day in the trial of the case of the steamship
Meteor. Nothing alarming in his symptoms
appeared until yesterday morning about IL
o'clock when they became serious. When his
son-inrlaw, Mr.. Courtney left his house yes
terday morning at o'clock, Mr.. Dickinson
was up shaving. He told him that he had
ordered his breakfast and felt much better,
saying, in his jocular way, to Mr.. Courtney,
"You can run the Office to-day: shall be all
right to morrow" But he gradually grew
worse until $50 o'clock in the evening, when
died His disease wac strangulated hernia
He leaves widow and two daughters. He
had always enjoyed excellent health and was
hardly ever sick in his life except last Summer
when he was attacked with typhoid fever
Mr.. D. was born in Goshen, Connecticut, Sept.
II, 1900, and was consequently nearly &c
years OF age. When he was six years of age
the family removed to New York, and settled
in the valley of the Chenango. He was ad-
mltted to the bar in Chenango County in l826
and ten years later was chosen member of
the State Senate from the Sixth District He
was then an ardent member ofthe Democratic
party, and continued in the service of the
state four years. He was elected Lieutenant
Governor in 1912, and in December 1874 was
appointed United States Senator, which seat
he continued to hold until March, 1851. He
shortly afterward retired to his rural home at
Binghamton,and devoted himself to the prac-
tice of his profession until called upon 10 fill
the United States District Attorney ysbip,-N.
7. Tribune. April l3, 1866.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17
Senator TrumbuIl's speech

We print elsewhere the able and conclusive
speech in defence of.the Civil Rights bill, and
in opposition to the Presidents, veto deliv-
cred in the Senate.
The Presidents objection that some of the
features of this bill were unconstitutional and
without precedent in our legislation, caused
many persons to hesitate in giving their con-
sent to it, because it was supposed, and in.
deed limited in the dispatches from Washing
ton, that the President had avaiIed himself
of the advice of eminent lawyers-whose
names rumor did not give, however-upon
this point.
But Senator Trumbull, who is himself an
eminent jusist, for 6ye years Justice of the
Supreme Court of Illinois, and in the Senate
of the United States chairman of the Judici-
ary Committee, has, it seems to US, completely
answered this as well as other points of the
Presidents objections.
He showed by decision of Chief-Justice
Marshall that citizen of the United States
is citizen of any individual state. He showed
by precedents in our history that naturaliza-
ton need not be by individuals, but may be
"collective"-as when all the whites ofTexas
or Floriday, or Louisiana, were made citizens.
He argued that states are represented in
either house of Congress and through their
legislatures, and that Congress must therefore
ascertain whether these legislatures are loyal.
He quoted the President against himself
contrasting passages Ia his best considered
speeches while senator, with his present po-
sition. lie showed further that the President
had done, without authority, in the South,
precisely what this bill proposes to do by law;
and demonstrated that his course in the South
was proof of the necessity and wisdom of
the bill,
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

erative system of limited powers, and break
down the barriers which preserve the rights Of
the states. 1t is another step or rather stride
toward Capitalization, and the concentration
Of all legislative powers in the national gov
ernment. The tendency the bill must be to
resuscitate the spirit ofrebelion and to arrest
the progress of those influences which are
more closely drawing around the states the
bond of union and peace.
Mylamented predecessor in his proclamation
on the lst Of January, 1868, ordered and de-
clared that all persons held as slaves within
certain states and parts of states therein des =
ignated, were thenceforYard should be free /;
and further, that the executive government of
the United States, including the military and
naval authorities thereof, would recognise and
maintain the freedom of such persons. This
guaranty has been rendered especially obli-
gatory and sacred by the amendment of the
Constitution aboliShing slavery throughout
the United States. Therefore fully recognise
the obligation to protect and defend that class
Of our people whenever and wherever it shall
become Necessary, and to the full extent COM
patible with the Constitution of the United
States. Entertaining these sentiments,it 1T cnly
remains for me to say that | will cheertully
cooperate with Congress in any measure that
may be necessary for the preservation of the
civil rights of the freedmen, as well as those
of all other classes Of persons throughout the
United States, by judicial process, under equal
and impartial laws; or conformably with the
provisions of the federal Constitution.
now return the bill to the Senate, and re-
gret that in considering the bills and joint
resolutions, forty-two in number, which have
been thus far submitted for my approval i am
compelled to withhold my assent from a second
measure that has received the sanction of both
Houses of Congles ANDREW JOHNSON.
Washington, D. c., March u, 1866.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17
NOTICE.,

GERHANIA, Potter Co., Pa, Aug. /, 1858.
n Office is hereby gwen that Charles Ba.
~ shor, now or late OF this county, holding
the following described property. has not ys'
paid any consideration whatever fer the same,
and all persons are hereby warned not to pur'
chase any of said property of the said Bushor
before the decision of the Court is given in
this case and c. Bushor has paid to me The
consideration money therefor
The following is the property:
lSt. A certain tract of land near the Ger
mania Mill, in warrant 5O75, Abbott township,
Potter county, Pa, containing 100 acres
Also Is acres in warrant 507S and adjoining
the above.
End. A certrin tract of land, with Mill ana
Improvements thereon, near Kettle Greek, H
warrant 58l9, in Stewartson township, Power
county, Pa, containing about 2O4 acres
G. Bushor holds also tn trust warrant h0'
250l, in Games township, Tioga county, ~
on the road leading from Germania to GSih"'
containing ESQ acres.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

RF The hardest blow given the Democ-
racy in the late mixture is the issuing of a
Circular Letter by the President to the heads
of Departments instructing them to appoint
Soldiers to the Offices in their control. Since
the issuing of this letter Democracy has gone
down Il, 900 degrees below zero For con-
ISOLATION, read Nasty on Post Offices, vol. 10,
page 1891
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

BG5~ Read the Civil Rights Bill first, then
the Veto Message, then Mr. TrumbalIs
Speech, after which the result of the second
vote in the Senate and House, when you will
be prepared to congratulate yourself that the
Bill is a Law
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

pA- O, Charlie, Charlie! you of the Ly-
coming Gozstte We have heard of green
horns deriving consolation from a hemlock
sapling, but you surpass even them! If the
result of the Connecticut election satisfies
your soul and fills you with pious feelings,
then you will no doubt be a happy man for
many years to come. We do not wish to
throw cold water on your joy-but won't you
please read the New York World on the
nutmeg election"
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

H9~ 'Dead-Duck' societies are forming in
Philadelphia to advance the claims Of Hon
Jno. W. Forney for the United States Sem
atorship. The name caught up in derison
by the Democrats may become the symbol of
power
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17
%-~~-'<~

B9- Saulsoury-he with the whiskey head
is highly indignant because Johnson did
lot carry the Connecticut election, and does
lot appoint his fellow rebels to the STAT"
positions.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

Rsg~ The Bill DISTINGUISHING deSerters has
passed both Houses, and will, no doubt, be
signed by the Governor. All the Copper
heads voted against the Bill. We will pub
lish it if it becomes law.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

Esy~ The New York Herald advises the
Democratic party to withdraw Mr. Clymer
and put in his place the renegade Senator
Cowan. We have no objections We believe
in "killing two birds with one stone."
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

Mr.. SHARPLEss, Of Chester County, intro
duced the following bill, which, if it should
pass, would be worth more to the State than
any act of the Session. 1t is a credit to the
mover and the county that sent him:
THAT from and after the passage Of this
act, every civil and military officer re1nired
by law to be sworn Or affirmed shall. in ad-
ditlon to the present OATH swear or affirm
that he will not use intoxicating liquors as a
beverage during the term of his office"
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

Beg Those who anticipated that Johnson
would oust all the Republican ofice-holders
have been seriously angered by circular
which he has lately issued in which he re-
commends the appointment of soldiers in all
cases of vacancies or promotions We are
hssrtily satisfied with that "pOlicy ARE
they2
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

E0~ A movement is on foot for the speedy
trial of JEFF. Davis. Some of the Southern
papers are demanding his release on a writ
Of ha6eaS corpus
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

E1~ The panic among the oil men has not
abated-many of the operators having to sell
out and leave for parts unknown to avoid the
tax collector, as they are not able to pay the
taxes
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

B<Sy- The Ne0 York Tribune has lived its
quarter of century and enters upon its Sec
ond quarter with widened and heightened
columns.
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

BSy- In Lawrenne:county there is strong
effort being made by Temperance men TO get
control of the 'moral business"
The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-04-17

The sur to commence MONDAY, the 10Th day Of
January, and end the first of March Come early il
you want the first ,hance
The DOORS of the firm will be closed on the 17th
January, and no credit given thereafter Those whs
have accounts with the firm will please call and settle
without delay the Books must be settled at once
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Card or Thanks.

Editors Journai:
The ladies desire to return thanks
to Messrs. Rocker, Blount & Co., for
their kindness in granting the use of
their commodious salesroom for the
Festival; to Mr.. Morning and Mr..
John Rocker, for many favors; to
Messrs. Mark & Warren, Holling-
worth Bros, and Wells & Kellogg,
for substantial aid; to the Crescent
City Silver Band, Osborue's String
Band, and to Messrs. Keiger, Keifer
& Keiger, for their most delightful
music; to the gentlemen, who favored
the guests with vocal music; to Messrs.
hewitt & Dunk, for flowers; to Mr..
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donation; to the JOURNAL and Coat-
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for job printing; to the Gas Company
aud Mr.. Ronald Fisher, for light-as
well as to all others whose services
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The ladies would take this oppor-
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issued to any, not even free entrance
being granted to those having the di-
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they hope no offence was given to
those who are accustomed to receive
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entertainments.
The net proceeds were 81 ,357 80.
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