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The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-17

cut up into pieces like small dice
we put twelve large white onions,
chopped, one quarter pound each
lack and white mustard seed and a
gill of Celery seed. These were all
mixed together, teacup Of coarse
salt added, and they were then hung
up in cotton bag to drain for twen-
ty-four hours. Then the salad, with
enough cold vinegar to cover it, was
put into stone jars and fastened near
ly air-tight. In six weeks it will be
fit to use. We found the recipe in
an old paper some years ago and it
has proved one of the incest pickles
we ever used. 1t looks as well as it
tastes. so white and crisp, and it
makes an elegant salad for joint of
cold meat.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-17

The sun had gone down behind the
hills as we entered the little borough
so like to a birds nest among the
mountains. Our company divided,
some supped at Glassmire's and some
again at Brown & Kelley's-two Won
derful hotels, the likes of which are
seldom found in city or country
Harvey Alger, the silver-tongued
singer, was along and played and
sang, as few can sing, his glorious
tunes OF melody and medley. and then
we slept and dreamed a night away
on beds as downy as any on which
kings and queens lie down and slum-
Der.
Morning came. dark and cloudy at
first with dense overhanging fog.
which soon lifting. the sun looked
down from a sky as bright as that of
Italy. Giassmire and his associates.
with their magic rods. were early out
fishing for trout in anticipation of the
afternoons picnic. Trout breakfasts,
such as can be found only i'll Couders-
port. were eaten by our party, and
then came a stroll about the borough,
a looking in at the tenantless Jail. an
institution kept in splendid order by
Sheriff and Mrs. Sheriff Reynolds,
nice people, who, having nothing else
to do, concluded to join the picnic
party.
Afternoon found us in the selfsame
spot where we dined the day before.
As our carriages came to their moor
ings among the trees we cast about
for our Coudersport friends. Only
little knot Of ladies was seen and these
received rs kindly and cordially, with
those evidences of hospitality which
make one always at home. Pretty
soon came others-a goodly compa-
ny-fair women, brave men. with
pleasant faces and cheerful greetings.
4 little later came Glassmire's brig
ade of fishermen. armed with match
less rods and countless baskets of the
speckled beauties 1--WE might have
counted the baskets but didn't try) !;
and then the fires were lighted. and
there were lOayes without number,
and fishes not few, and coffee, and
biscuit and butter, and splendid ho-
ney, and cakes in every form, and
everything else nameful and name
less, such as only the good ladies of
Coudersport can devise. 1t was a
feast which, to be appreciated, must
needs to have been participated in,
and our remembrance of the occasion
will long remain as among the cher
ished and not to be forgotten. Our
picnic over, at three pm. we babe
our Coudersport friends adieu, and
early evening saw us at home again.
And now i'll conclusion. As sum-
mers come and 60 and people go off
on excursions, we have only to say:
if you would find the finest scenery,
the incest trout, the best hotels, the
handsomest women and best men in
all Christendom, 90, by all means, to
Coudersport. A.N.c.
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A NOTED horse jockey "down east
was awakened one night by violent
storm. Being somewhat timid he
awoke his wife with "Wife! wife!
do you suppose the Day Of Judg-
lent has Gomez" "Shut up, you
fool" was the affectionate reply.
How can the Day Of Judgment
come in the night"
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-17

\ FARMER lost a gimlet in the
woods near Monticello. Minnesota,
three years ago and the other day
cut down an iron-wood tree fast in
the forks of which he found-not his
gimlet but a three-quarter inch auger.
lie is sorry lie didn't wait year or
two longer, as two-inch auger was
Just what he wanted.
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CUCUMBER SALAD.

We have just prepared our winters
supply of cucumber salad, and this
is how we made it: There were about
a dozen ripe white-spine cucumbers
lying on their vines, and these we
picked, washed, pared, cut into strips,
taking out the seeds, and then to
each dozen cucumbers-which we
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New-York tribune., 1873-01-04
TUIFPS AND HIS MAJORITY.

1t is by no means impossible that the lull
which has come to pass in French politics may
extend for some months to come, at least until
NJ. Theirs has paid the fourth milliard to
Prussia, and is able to see his way clear to the
payment of the fifth, and the final evacuation
of the territory. The debates and votes of the
last few weeks have proved several facts, which
90 to show that the time has not come for a
definite establishment of permanent govern
ment and that the provisional form is, for the
present, necessity. But the duration Of tenn
porary expedients long ago became prOverbial
in France. Oe NEST que le proriSoire Qui dare
is well known phrase in which the people
have embodied their experience of the longev-
ity of makeshfts. The fact that the divided
and yet unlimited authority vested in NJ.
Theirs and the Assembly is altogether imprac-
ticable and anomalous by no means proves that
it may not last for good many days to come.
The recent crisis showed that on square
vote of confidence in the Government, Nj.
Theirs had small majority, composed Of the
Extreme Left, who are always faithful to him
in. spite Of il usage, of the Moderate Left,
composed of Conservative Republicans, and
the Left Center, who are really not Republi-
cans at all and only accept that form as the only
one possible under the circumstances. A portion
of this last division are always ready to side
with the Right, on any plausible pretext, and
this renders the Ministerial majority delicate
and siclly power, continually in danger of dis
solution. Upon most questions of adminstra-
ton the Government has no difficulty with the
Chamber, But when questions of the most
vital interest arise, it is liable to see It's
strongest friends in the opposition, and itself
forced to construct new majority from
the timid voters of the Center and the reac-
tioDists of the Right By far the most import
ant question now before France and the As
sembly is that of the dissolution or prolonga-
ton of the latter. 1t is idle to say that the
agitation of the subject is sterile and factiOus.
1t cannot be stopped, and must go on until
its object is accomplished or the setise of the
country is ascertained. The members of the
Republican Union, usually called the Extreme
Left, are heartily in favor of the dissolution.
They claim With great show Of truth that the
Assembly has ceased 10 represent the country;
that its mandate was limited to the making of
peace and Carrying out the contract with the
that an tho partial elections which
have taken place since the Assembly
came into being, tie people have signi-
fed their sentiments plainly enough by
.he almost inyariable mporities winch
New-York tribune., 1873-01-04

they have given to the Repub-
lican candidates that the interests of the
nation are suffering from the condition of un-
certainty in which they are left by the present
attitude of the Chamber and that the natural
and honest resort in such state OF things Is
for the Assembly to submit itself to the coun-
try, and by new election ascertain the pop
ular will, 80 that, guided by that, the new
Chamber may properly assume for itself con-
stituent powers. No objection can be made to
these propositions, which shall be consistent
with democratic form of government. The
Assembly which sprang from universal sui
frage, imperfect and abnormal as was Its exer-
else at the time of election, cannot now repu-
date that source of power. They cannot say
that they fear for the purity of the ballot,
without accusing the government of NJ. Thiers,
and that the majority of them would not do.
The motives which really actuate them are
hardly to be avowed. In the first place
they wish to retain their seats, and in the
second place they feel themselves in minor
ity before the country and know that new
elections would be followed by the immediate
establishment of the Republic. But they chung
with the energy of desperation to their places,
in the recent debate, and nothing could so
plainly indicate the more logical and reason
able position of the Extreme Left than their
GOODNESS and temper in face of the violent in
vectives of the so-called champions of order.
But the Government was not ready for dis
solution, and set forward NJ. Dufaure to an
swer NJ Gambetta. which he did in style
which equally delighted the Legitimists, the
Imperalsts, and the Princes of Orleans. The
vote against dissolution was carried by an un-
exampled majority, the Left going solid with
the Right, thus proving the truth of the biting
epigTam of Gambetta, "that the only point
"where they were agreed was in not wanting
"to die
1t is by no means certain that NJ. Dufaure
did not say more than he was warranted in
saving. 1t is surely not tho intention of M.
Theirs to cut loose entirely from the Left and
TO give himself into the keeping of the re-
dictionary elements of the Chamber. His
recent appointments in the Cabinet show no
such purpose, and so far nothing has transpired
from the Committee of Thirty which would
indicate that they feel any such confidence In
their victory as to be inclined to enter upon
any experiments of constitution building.
1t is most probable that NJ. Theirs,
unwilling to cast his influence In
the direction of dissolution, and equally un-
willing to strike hands with any scheme OF
restoration, has resolved to temporize by favor
ing the majority for the present, by using a
little 0stentatious rigOr against the popular
movement of petitions, and in the meanwhile
to keep the Executive authority intact for the
crisis which will arrive early next Summer,
when Germany is eliminated from the problem
and the question comes to France to be
answered. whether she will go forward to the
Republic or backward to the Monarchy.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-04

cial prosperity in those blooming regions for
which nature has done so much and man so
little.
DR.. Howe Is wrong in supposing that the
American people. in considering this under
taking, will be Influenced by the partisan feel
ings which he assumes to have controlled their
opposition to the Presidents project of annex
alton. So far as it is legitimate business en-
terprise it will be regarded with general favor.
That it must, in some respects, prove advan-
tageOus TO this country, viii also be readily
admitted. Whether the President favors it or
not, is a question in which, probably, the
greater part of us take no particular interest.
But certain complications are likely 10 arise
from it which will require the most cautious
treatment. The new owners Of Samana will
expect some better protection of their rights
than Baez or any other power in the island
can furnish. AS the American control Of the
Republic becomes more complete, the need OF
moral and material safeguards Will increase.
The Government at Washington Will be
expected to give our citizens all needfui
defense, and it is hardly too much to say
that the establishment at Samana will soon
be practically under the United States
flag. That difficulties should arise in
the performance of this duty and the Execu-
tive be constantly tempted, in the protection
of our own people, to interfere improperly In
the domestic concerns of an independent State,
is inevitable. Ii will require all the prudence
and ability of the wisest President and the
most accomplished Secretary OF State to keep
clear of the international shoals and reels
| which veX these dangerous waters.
| DR.. Howe is certain that the end OF II all
will be annexation. We have not thought well
of the project presented by Gen. Grant. We
believed that we did not want Santo Domingo,
and there was not sufficient evidence that the
islanders wished to come to us. We saw IN
the scheme endless jobbery and fraud. We
disapproyed of the arts and violence by which
il had been carried forward. We dreaded the
absorption into our population of an Ignorant
and thriftess people, and the addition to our
burdens of an unknown load OF debt. III
American citizens first revive and invigorate
Santo Domingo, if by legitimate means they
change the whole character OF the Island com
munity, il private enterprise shoulders the
debt, and mercantile energy performs the
| works which the Presidents plan would have
| imposed upon the national tfeasury,-the con-
| ditions will of course be very different.
| Whether annexation may then follow in the
natural course of events will be matter for
the gravest consideration. Many will still hold
that any territory off our own continent is as
dangerous to our touch as nitro-gycerne.
But for the present. annexation is merely a
more or less remote possibility. 1t viii be
| time enough to discuss it when it is presented
to US as practical proposal.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-04
TIA WE'D OUT.

Great thaws, like that which yesterday left
New-York knee-deep in slush, composed of
equal parts of snow and mud, are invariably
provocative of a multitude of seemingly saga
cious suggestions. Unhappily, however, these
hints are more numerous than valuable, and
more original than WISE 1t is much easier to say
that the city should have some remedy against
these freaks of an icy nature than 1T is to de-
wise one and advisers are more plentiful than
inventors We have published score of
suggestions which had something plausible
in them, and have declined to publish
a great many moro which were totally
without plausibility. But in spite of
every project and all prophesies, except
Broadway there was not street which was
not rendered dangerous as well as difficult of
passage by a slight thaw and heavy fog. On
the cross-walks were ridges Of ice which had
resisted the heat, and which, presenting a
broken and slippery surface, rendered footing
insecure, and preciptated the fall of many a
hasty pedestrian. These dangerous ridges
might have readily been cleared by few
minutes active use of pick-axe, and spade
in the hands of policeman or welded by
the keepers of the corner stores, had they
been as thoughtful to act as some of our cor
RESPONDENTS were to write. With q consid-
Grafton for their cellars and the stocks of
goods stored therein, most of the merchants
carefully cleaned their cutters, and thus re-
lieved the streets of much of the water which
poured through them; but wherever one merchant
failed in his plain duty in this matter it left all
the others to bear the deplorable consequences
The police were in many instances q little
dereict and it seems such n plain part of
their duty to require people to keep their gut
ters clear and sidewalks free of snow that it
ought to be unnecessary to remind them of it.
But while the discomforts were many, and
in large measure unavoidable, more was
done yesterday to relieve the principal
streets than was ever accomplished be-
fore. Broadway was comparatively COM
Portable. That is to say, it was not altogether
impossible for foot passengers and through
the most travelled portions the snow had, at q
late hour, almost wholly disappeared We
expect to find it, by noon to-day, substantially
free from obstructing snow and ice. We have
had pretenses heretofore by contractors of
carting away the snow and ice, and have
paid round sums for the sham proceed
ings and shameless swindles but alto
gether the operations of the Street Clean
ing Bureau in Broadway have this Winter
been highly commendable.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-04

that plundered community. NO state can
afford to look calmly on while such things are
possible in another. We have not yet ceased
to hope that the President may see bis error
and undo his wrong in this matter.
On my return from Washington member OF the
Orleans delegation, found yours OF the 18Th await
ing me-. glad you used my letter for publication
though had 1 anticipated it should have made my
statement of facts" comprehensive. lam greatly
encouraged to find that able and influential Republican
Journals throughout tho North have taken up this matter
in the spirit OF honest inquiry and demanding an in
vestigaton Of 1t at the hands OF Congress- THE TRm
USR has given the accurate and faithful exposition
of the alarming political revolution that has been eected
among us, which I have yet seen. The only mistake
It makes and it TO be the expression Oh a. Wlee
spread msapprehenson at the North. is this: Whne
accurately stating the legal or rather the illegal enor
nifty OF Judge Dures proceedings it treats the original
cause Of the trouble quarrel between Warmoth ana
his party and Kellogg and his party. This is mistake
fatal to our success in enlistng tho sympathies and
awakening the fears OF the Northern people, and is
mistake sedulousy encouraged by uDprDcped partisan
journals
The facts are quite the reverse. warmoth work
the Liberal Republican party with which the mass Oh
the property holding citizens united for want OF better
organization hoping thus to secure sclfeovernment ana
the right OF representation in the laying of taxes, OF
which they are now entirely deprived. But he was
never in any the representative OF che people
neither was he candidate for Office or in any way 10
by the election, except to take his chance
without any pedges for the u s. senaorshp. 80 Iar
were and his party that s his old associates VINO
have wrought all the harm to LOuisana from being benz
Gifted by election that it completely deprived them
OF power and placed In the State offices and In the Leg
islaure men choice, mostly OF principle
and character and with monetary stake in the welfare
OF the country The illegal and outrageous reversal OF
this popular verdict by Judge Durel has placed In power
the very warmoth party with whom Northern
people are taught to believe the substantial
citizens of this State affiliated These
former associates of Warmoth, being now at deadly
enmty with him. constitute the present kellogg
party" and they are almost to the identical band
Of unprinciped adyenturers who under Warmoth have
pundered this for the past four years, and now
hope, under Kellogg If he WILL and in spite OF him II he
won't to complete its entire ruin. This they will GER
tany II arrested in their Be assured that
exaggerate the Importance OF the crisis or the
imperative necessity which exists for business men
throughout the North who have commercial relations
with the South to in this matter. and by every
in their power to bring to bear upon their repre-
senatves in Congress such as will force from
them measures OF relief for in unfortunate and
deplorabe condition.
Ne,c. Orleans, Dec. 81, 1872
New-York tribune., 1873-01-04
SlyT0 DOMINGO sCHEMgS AGAIN.

The letter of DR.. S. G.. Howe, which we publish
to-day, is the first authoritative announcement
of a scheme destined, as we believe to end in
very important results. 1t explains nothing
more than the formation of a commercial
partnership for a lease of the Peninsula and
Bay of Samana; but it is evident that the
merchant adventures who have embarked in
this enterprise do not bound their ambition
by the control of few square miles of fertile
land and the ownership of certain coal sheds
Once in possession of the only commOdiOus
harbor and the only important trading port of
the Dominican Republic, the whole country
lies before them, and the proprietary rights of
the present weak and bankrupt government
are Certain sooner or later to fall into their
hands. Whatever wealth the Dominican side
of the island possesses, whatever capabilities of
production it has to be developed, will doubt
less belong if ali goes well, to the energetic
and spirited men who have secured this
immensely valuable concession. Possibly
the history of the great English and
Dutch trading companies which achieved
such wonderful projects in the East Indies is
to be repeated among the Western isles. The
transfer of title deeds to land may be Only
the first step in the transfer of sovereignty
and the modest factory" wherein tropical
fruits, and sugar. and coffee, and dye-stuffs,
are bartered for cotton prints and hardware,
may be the cradle of new political State.
At all events, we may take it for granted that
this scheme, If it lacks some of the romantic
spirit of adventure and the dazzling possbili-
ties which tempted the founders of the British
empire III Hindostan and the rich colonies Of
the Netherlands in the islands of the Pacific,
does really point to the establishment of
controlling American influence not only in
SANTANA Bay, not only in the Republic of Santo
Domingo. but throughout the West Indian
and the building uD of CONNER