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vestigation Committee have returned to
that city to prepare their report, which
they have been engaged in considering
since January 10th, and have heard evil
dence, in addition to one thousand
three hundred ex parte afhdavits. Several
women and children who had escaped
from the Indians, appeared before the
Commissioners, and told the story Of
their terrible sufferings. The Comanches
are said to be mainly engaged IN the
business of stealing and selling children
and women of white settlers, while the
Kickapoos and Lipans, and Mexicans
disguised as such, chiefly confne them
selves to cattle stealing. Raids on these
people are so frequent, that stock raising
within two hundred miles of the Rio
Grande had been well nigh abandoned.
.-. BosToN, June Is.
A Medical Commission, appointed by
the Governor to investigate the present
mental condition of Smith, the Westheld
murderer, reported that they find him
sane and of fair intellect. The Governor
and Council thereupon declined to inter-
fere, and he will be hanged on the 9th
inst.
New York, June 16.
James Curtin, while drunk, early yes
terday, quarreled with his wife; when Il
young idiotic brother of the latter inter.
fered and struck Curling with an axe,
fatally wounding him.
All the Club stables at Fleetwood
Course were burned early yesterday
Two horses of local celebrity were lost
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BUNKER HILL.

To-day is the anniversary of the battle
of Bunker Hill, celebrated as the first
regular battle fought for American indie
pendence, June II, l775 A skirmish
had occurred at Lexington on the 18th
of April previous, but the first regular
battle occurred at Breed $ Hill ninety
eight years ago to-day, which has passed
into history as the battle Of Bunker
Hill. At that time Boston was occupied
by the British under General Gage, who
resolved to commence offensive opera
tons against the rebels. This fact be-
coming known to the Americans, they
determined to seize and fortify the
heights of Charlestown on the night of
the 10th Colonies Prescott and Pep
perell, at the head of 1000 men, were
detailed for this perilous work, and at
dawn Of day a strong redoubt was COM
pleted on Breeds Hill. About l,50O
Americans advanced to the relief OF
Prescott. About 81 o clock two columns
of British advanced and opened stimuli.
taneous fire. A terrific fire was returned
by the Americans, and the British were
twice repulsed in disorder; but having
exhausted their ammunition the Ameri-
cans retreated, and in their retreat they
received destructive fire, in which
General Warren fell, shot through the
head. The British loss was 226 officers
and men killed, and S3S wounded; that
Of the Americans AS killed or missing
and 304 wounded Although a defeat
the valor displayed by the American
troops stirred the hearts of the people
and created an enthusiasm which re
suited eventually in the independence 0
the colonies On Breeds Hill, near thu
spot where Warren fell, stands tn
Bunker Hill Monument, the corner ston
of which was laid by the Marquis d
Lafayette, June H. 1925; the monu
ment was inaugurated June II, 1915
The day is observed as holiday il
many of the large cities, and in ever
town and hamlet it is remembered a
the anniversary of one of the most in
portant events in the history of tn
struggle for the liberties of the colonie.
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alew Go.1ay.
Millinery! Millinery!
GRAND OPENING
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8 PR NC GOO DIS

Mrs. ]. ID. HICKoX, LONG AND FAVOR
MI ably known to the ladies Of Phoebe, has
iust returned from San Francisco with the larg-
est and finest assortment OF Ladies' Dress Goods,
Hats. Bonnets and Dress Trimmings of all kinds
ever brought to this city. Every article having
been carefully selected by herself, Mrs. Hickox
challenges competition from any artistic in Pr
oche. Especial attention has been paid TO the
selection of ribbons of the most exquisite
shades jel7-td
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Aims silver Mining Colnpany--Lo-
cation of principal place OF business, San Fran
cisco, Cal Location Of works, Ely District, Lin
coin county, State Of Nevada.-Notice-Ther
is delinquent upon the following described
stock. on account of assessment tho. A. levied
on the 9Th day Of May, 1873, the several
amounts set opposite the names of tho respect
i've shareholders, as follows:
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SENATOR MITCHELL OF OREGON

For some days past sensation papers
have been loaded with articles reflect.
ing upon Senator Mitchell, of Oregon.
1t is charged that when he left his native
State (Pennsylyania) for the Pacific
coast he changd his name; that he also
left MANY accounts unsettled, and had
some domestic difficulties of an unpleas-
ant nature. Senator Mitchell has re-
sponded in dignified and manly defense
of his character. He admits the change
of name and alleges that he was actuated
in so doing by desire to seek oblivion,
and to separate himself forever from
some of the memories of the past. He
denies the right Of any man TO demand
that he lay his domestic affairs before
the public, and attributes his departure
from his native State to the troubles OF
purely domestic nature. He publishes
certificates showing that his accounts
were properly adjusted by his business
partner from assets left behind by him,
and that he does not owe dollar to any
one in Pennsylvania. Some pressure
has been brought upon the Senator &c
induce him to resign, but it is hoped hi
will not yield to it, for if he vert
guilty of all charged against him, he hat
as good q record as many of his peers
We submit the concluding portion o
Mr.. Mitchell's statement:
was born in Washington county,
Pennsylvania, June %, 1885; | was edu
Gated at Witherspoon Institute, Penn
svlvania; studied law with the law firm
Of Purviance and Thompson, com
posed of Hon. Samuel A. Purvianct
and Colonel John NJ. Thompson, whose
testimonials are herewith submitted. Ii
conclusion / submit, upon considera
tons, not of sympathy, but of simpl
Justice, whether, in the light of the state
ment and evidence here presented, AM
my department among you for the pas
thirteen years, | am entitled to you
future confidence and respect, or desery
your condemnation. l stand to-da,
strong in the full consciousness that i,
reference to the matters alleged | hav
been actuated by no evil intentions; an
feeling and knowing that | have pre-
scented these matters in all truthfulness
with your Judgment l shall remain con
tent.
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made satisfactory progress. General
Werewicken occupied Kungrat, one hum
bred miles north of Khiva, on the 10th
OF May. The Khivan forces had aban-
doned the place. The General continued
his march along the line of the Oxus to
Khojetli, Kunia and Urginj, the enemy
flying before him. The Aral fotilla had
entered by Aiogior, the southern arm OF
the sea OF Aral, and had sailed as far as
Kungrat, where its progress was stopped
by shadows, and efforts would be made
10 reach Kala, at the southern extremity
of the bay, where depot of supplies is
to be established for the troops advane-
ing under General Werewicken.
LONDON, June 10.
Prince jerome Napoleon has arrived
from Paris.
BERLIN, June 10.
Frederick Ludwig George Van Reumer,
the eminent historian is dead, aged ~.
BAYoNNE, June l6.
The Carlist forces commanded by Dor
regaray and Ollo. with other bands, en-
tered the province of Biscay to-day. An
engagement, in which the Carlists were
victorious, has occurred near Ogarzun
in the province of Guerpayeoa.
MADRID, June 16.
The majority of the Cortes has ap
pointed Directing Committee with Cos
tellar as Chairman.
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Foreign News.
ADEN. Arabia, June 10.

A dispatch from Alden. via London,
says treaty with Great Britain for the
suppression of the slave trade has been
negotiated by Sir Bartle Frere.
BAYoNNE. June 10.
1t is reported that General Nouvellas
has defeated the Carlists under Dorre-
garay near Vittonia. Three hundred in
surgents were killed and wounded, and
700 taken prisoner.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 10.
The War Office has received dispatch
from Central Asia, which reports that
the division of the expedition advancing
on Khiva by way OF the sea OF Arad, had
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THE ORIGIN OF THE EXPRESSION.

Some of the Southern papers are COM
menting on the inscription on General
Jackson's monument at New Orleans,
which reads: "The Union it must and
shall be preserved. The words land
shall are interpretations. As originally
used, the language was: The Union
it must be preserved" The Memoirs of
Edward Livingston, Jacksons Secretary
Of State, says the Virginia Chronicle,
contain the following note, which is said
to be the original OF the sentiment:
DEAR SIR: l submit the above as the
conclusion of the proclamation for your
amendment and revision. Let it receive
your best flight of eloquence to strike the
heart and speak to the feelings of my de-
luded countrymen of South Carolina.
The Union must be preserved without
blood, if possible; but it must be pre-
served at all hazards, at any price.
Yours, with great respect.
ANDREW JACKSON.
DEC. t. 1892, II O'Clock p. m.
The expression is correctly quoted,
but it was used by its author two o,
three years before the date of the note
given above. The occasion which gave
birth to the expression so often referred
to, and frequently quoted incorrectly
was the anniversary of the birthday o.
Thomas jefferson, April 80, 1882, wher
subscription dinner was given a
Washington City in honor of Mr.. Jetfer
son by the adherents to the doctrine o
notification, who sought to make hin
the father Of it. Twenty-four regula
toasts were given, followed by abou
eighty volunteer toasts. When the reg
ular toasts were over, President jackson
was called upon for a volunteer, an
gave 1.-THE one which electrified th
country at the time, and has since b.
come historical, though so often improI
erly quoted: "Our Federal Union:
must be preserved -
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And in accordance with law and an order Of
the Board of Directors, made on the 7th day
May 1873, SO many shares Of each parcel OF
said stock as may be necessary, will be sold at
public aution at the office Of the company. No.
3l4 California street, San Francisco, Cal, on
In. I2th day Of July, 1873. at the
hour of one O'Clock p. m. Of said day. to pay
said delinquent assessment thereon, together
with costs of advertising and expenses of
sale. LOUIS FRANCONl, Secretary.
Office: No. 3l4 California street, San Fran.
cisco, California. jel6-td
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4lew To-1ay.
-a,o,, uooth consolidated Mining

Newton Booth Consolidated Mining
COMMUNICATION of principal place of bust
ness San Francisco, Cal. Location of works,
Ely Mining District, Lincoln county, Nevada,
Notice.-There are delinquent upon the fol-
lowing described stock, on account of assess
ment levied on the It'll day Of May, 1873,
the several amounts set opposite the names
of the respective shareholders, as follows
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And in accordance with law and an order Of
the Board of Directors, made on the 9th
day of May, 1873, so many shares Of each
parcel OF such stock as may be necessary will
be sold at public auction. at the salesroom Of
Maurice Dore 4 Co, No. 3l7 Montgomery street
San Francisco, Cal, on Saturday, the 5th
day Of July, 1873, at the hour Of II O'Clock
m. of said day, to pay delinquent assessments
thereon, together with costs of advertising and
expenses of the sale.
CT BALLOON, Secretary.
Office: No. 42G Montgomery street, San Fran
cisco. Cal. ie1G.td
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'SAVO NHIL
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The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-13
Ril5CulOusly Rural.

At Buckhannon, Va, one D.. an en-
terprising local druggist lately awed
the innocent rustics by setting up
that terrible engine, soda fountain,
and the Delta thus amusimgly de-
scribes the first exhibition:
-. had unpacked and set up his
fountain and it was something new
here; a large number collected to
examine it and see the working of
the machine, and perhaps to imbibe
a portion OF It's contents. The f0un-
tain was carefully charged according
to directions, but the mistake was
made by turning the handle until
the gauge indicated one hundred and
fifty; there was a pause on the part
Of the operator, but none on that of
the Indicator which rapidly ran up to
three hundred, and then, with a loud
roar, cut rushed the contents through
the valves provided for that purpose
and with a roar ten times louder, out
rushed the spectators. Those near
the front door escaped easily, but all
in the rear part Of the room were
cut off from escape by the howling,
buzzing monster. 1t was clear some
thing must be done. There was a
general move towards a window: the
first to reach it was an energetic
youth, who. after a vrin attempt to
hoist it. dived head foremost through
the lower sash, breaking all the glass
and receiving severe cuts on the
arms. Half in and half out he hung,
pinned there by the frantic crowd i'll
his rear, some Of whom were making
vigorous but vain efforts to escape
over the unfortunate young mans
body; others crouching low on the
floor; one spectator declares they
were piled at least three deep in the
corner farthest from the supposed
danger. One medical gentleman
near the door loudly proclaimed,
"no danger!' but at the same time
made rapid tracks from that vicinity.
All was over in a few seconds and
all were somewhat astonished to find
themselves safe and unhurt, with the
exception Of tie ardent one who went
through the window.
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Struck by lightning.

Death comes with a,gfuL sudden
ness! So say we all, but are we sure
that it is not "a blessed suddenness as
well?
We stop with shock as we hear
Of life taken away in an instant
and we catch our breath and feel that
it is awful, that it may come to us
any day, or to those nearest to us.
Suppose it should. Suppose rather
it should not, and that the next
moment, or hour, comes to us fraught
with temptation we cannot, or do
not resist, that a little seed of evil
finds its lodgment in our heart, a
little turning from the right way that
shall lead us by scarce perceptible
degrees into terrible ways of sin and
wrong.
All this might be and yet neither
we nor our daily companions be able
to perceive that that day or hour
was different from another. The
earth seems the same before as after
1t holds the seed that shall become
a great tree. And the time NAV
come to US as it came to the Psalm
ist when we shall wish that the dav
had not risen upon us. And look
ing back from the other side of the
great change which we may have
made, with what seemed to those
around us a fearful shock, we NAV
be able to see that it was a most
merciful lifting us out of troubles
present or to come. And as we can
not tell the evil thus escaped, neither
can we know the good that may have
been working in the soul; the silent
struggles against temptation within
and without, the reachings toward
the holy and true, the breathings of
a longing hope, the unexpressed
yearnings, the silent aspiration of a
faith striving to grow from the tiny
seed to the great tree.
As one said long ago, eve all sin
sometimes. There is no one who is
always ready to be called, but our
Father knows the moment that is
best for us and for His own glory"
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Republican County Convention.

The Republicans Of Potter County are request
General Election, on Tuesday. September ?, 1873.
between the hours Of ( and p. m, to elect Dele
gates to represent them in County Convention TO
be held at the Borough of CoudcTSpOrt on Thurs
dav the lth day of SeptembgT next, at , o clock,
D. m. to put in nomination candidates To be yot-
ed for at the October election, and to transact
sucn other business rs may come before the Con
yeutiun.
The Vigilance Committees OF the several town
ships and boroughS are requested To give notice
meetings and to attend them to organize and act
rs Boards Of lection. The number OF Delegates
to be elected from the several townships and bo
roughs are rs follows Harrison .; Hebron ana
Sharon. each ;: Bingham. COuderSport and UlyS
seS each 4; AIlegany, Eulalid, GeneSee, Hector
LeWiSyiIc. OSwayO and R0ulet, each } Abbott
Clara, Homer, Jackson, Heating, Pike, Pleasant
Valley Portage StewardSou, Summit, sweden
Syiyania West Branch and Wharton, each ,.
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New York to Buffalo and Rochester
via Albany, is estimated at S2O,0OO,-
900. The company has bought Co.
600 tons of English steel rails for
tracking purposes, which are now
being delivered. None but steel
rails are to be used in any part of
the work. As it requires from $500
to 5000 ties per mile, full 100000
ties will be used for the whole, in
eluding the sidings. About 10 miles
ARE already graded and ready to lay
the track. 1t is expected that $50
miles will be graded this fall and
that the whole will be completed III
two wears. 1t is designed that the
two north tracks shall be used for
passenger trains and the two south
tracks for freight. In laying the
new track, the effort is made to
straighten out the line as far as pos
sible and take out the curves and,
with this view, the new tracks are
not placed throughout on the same
side of the old. but adjusted so as
best to accomplish this end. The
Central road, it is computed, has
over 10000 freight cars, runs over
I6 miles Of freight trains every day
and has more than 500 locomotives.
Beside the freight trains, the Compa,
ny runs large number of fast pas
senger trains every day. These, OF
course, have the right Of way. Fif
/ teen minutes before the former are
( due the latter must be off on a side
track and, to guard against accident
/ it is not permitted to move until ten
minutes after the passenger train
/ has passed. Thus there is a loss OF
twenty-five minutcs in every case
The economy in railroading consists
/ in keeping the rolling stock moving
and this loss of twenty five minutes
/ several times repeated every day
with the whole sixteen miles OF
( freight trains is a heavy expense and
tax. 1t is stated that if it could be
avoided, freight could be carried
from 10 to 20 per cent. cheaper and
that saving would be enough to make
it pay to build two additional tracks
or course this.experience Of the New
Ycrk Central applies with equal il
not greater fNce to the larger bust
ness Of the Pennsylvania road. The
/ quadruple track, therefore, is not 3
bit Of braggadocia, as many suppose
but an act of sound policy and &
good dinycstmynt.-PHsJurg Ieie
! graph.
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Increased Railroad Facilities

Possibly the demand of the West
ern farmers for increased railroad
facilities and cheaper freights will be
met by the development of the rail
road system of the country, which is
now progressing at an extraordinary
rate. The four great trunk lines
the New York Central, the Erie, the
Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and
Ohio, are each at work or cOntem-
plate largely increasing their carry
ing capacity. Both the New York
Central and the Pennsylvania road
have adopted the policy of a four
track road from New York to Chica-
go, by which a double track will be
secured to passengers and freight
each. The latter is now the impor-
tant consideration in calculating the
business of railroads. In l84l the
receipts of all the railroads in the
United States were about equal from
freight and passengers, amounting in
round numbers to twenty millions of
dollars from each. In 1871 the earn
ings had grown to $455, 100000, of
which two-thirds came from the
transportation Of freight. This ex-
plains the necessity for increased ac-
commodations for the freight traffic,
which will be secured 10y two tracks
devoted to that business. They can
not be completed to Chicago or st.
Louis in less than four or five years,
and by that time their necessity will
be absolute and imperative.
We get some interesting details of
the laying Of the quadruple tracks of
the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad, now in progress at
rapid rate. The total cost from
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-13

THE proposed new Constitution of
Pennsylvania. covers sixty large
printed pages, being five times as
large as the old one. This unlimited
devotion to trivial details, resulting
from an inability to grasp and en-
body great principles, is the worst Of
vices in a cOnstitution-maker. A
constitution ought to be like cate
chism-something that can be read,
understood and learned by heart by
every person Of ordinary intelli-
gence.-Bufalo EaPresS.
There is much force in this criti-
cism and as it is not too late to
remedy the defect here pointed out,
we trust tho press Of the State viii in
sist on its being done.
Great and important reforms are
embodied in the work of the Conven-
ton, but there is very much Of trivi-
al detail in it that ought to be elimi-
mated from it on third reading, which
it is next to undergo.
Let the press Of the State criticise
freely; for a large number of the
Delegates seem to think the Conven-
tion ought to form a Code of Laws.
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NUISANCE.

1t is difficult to separate, some
times, the things which annoy from
those that injure us. Indeed if we
were Mt liberty to rid ourselves OF
whatever we would | fear we should
often "abate" the nuisance that is
merely disagreeable. Most people
would have the whole creation of in
sscts abolished and thus deprive
scientific people Of very large field
Of observation and research. Wheth-
er this would be a serious evil we
cannot tell. Probably there would
still be material enough for science
to eXpend itself upon for many thou
sand years without the insect world.
But the birds, many of them beauti-
ful and charming, depend so much
on insects for food that we might
thus lose many Of them. We can
hardly tell whether we would not
rather be bitten by mosquitoes, gnats,
or feas, or crawled over by flies,
spiders and worms; have our food
infested by ants or flies or fight these
with what power of patience we can
and regale ourselves with flight and
songs Of birds, even were it at our
option to do otherwise. But there
are some that we cannot see subserve
any good purpose; and the question
viii arise whether there are other
forms of existence of which we are
unconscious, to whom those creations
that to us are only repulsive and dis
tressing may be useful and neces-
sary.
We cannot see the use and need Of
venomous serpents and ferocious
beasts, unless it be to furnish the