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SOME of the warlike tribes in India,
when one of their men falls i'll battle
after showing extraordinary courage,
decorate his wrist with a red silk thread
if he be a private, narrow ribbon if he
be an officer, and broader and broader
one as the dead rises. Not many win
this posthumous honor at all and there
is no mourning for those whose death
is thus repaid. An English army march,
ing upon Lucknow came upon "a strong
hill fort which it was necessary to
reduce. 4 sergeant and seven men
constituted the advance-guard on tie
march, and when the close proximity of
the fort was discovered, the buglerS
with the main body sounded the recall
as an order for the sergeant to withdraw
his guard and join his regiment. The
little squad miStoOk the bugle sound
and thought it an order to charge.
Obeying it as such, they went to their
certain death on the ramparts Of the
tort. The army coming up Stormed
the place, and after some hours of des-
perate fighting they took il. They
found there the dead bodies of the ser
geant and all his men, and around each
wrist was the broad red ribbon, d poetic
tribute from the Sepoys to the heroism
of their dead enemies.
The people Mr.. Bret Hmte describe
in his sketches are certainly not morbid
sentimentalists, and yet their proceed
ingS draw all their interest from the pa,
thetic touches of poetryrunning through
them. Without the occasional CLEANS
of sentiment which Mr.. Hartc seizes
upon so vigorously, these people would
be unusually revolving beings, full OF
unredeemed coarseness of thought and
life, criminals for the most part and
rufians altogether.
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The gigantic propositions to make
ship canals connecting the Atlantic
and Pacific waters are the subjects
of reports recently made or pub
lished.
Of these the one across the 18th
mus Of Darien called the Napipi
route is very favorably considered
by the engineers who have been
examining it, one of whom, Mr..
Stanley, was the chief engineer of
the Hoosae Tunnel. The Ecenin0
Telegraph says:
Commander Seifridge arrived in
Washington a few days ago to report
to the Secretary of the Navy the de-
tails Of his exploration. 1t was the
second made by this officer of this
route, and secured unexpectedly IA
Yorable results. The line of the ca
nal has been shortened three miles
ana the amount Of excavation will
De materially reduced by tunneling.
Under the authority vested in the
President it is probable that a party
oi surveyors will be sent out next
season to lay our the Napipi route
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CONSTITUTION HALL,
PLiladelnhia My 0S 1873

DEAR JOURNAL: The Convention
has been working industriously and
successfully for the last month. The
entire Constitution, as proposed to
be adopted, has been considered and
passed upon in committee of the
whole. The greatest latitude in de-
bate has been irdulged and many
very sensible delegates believe that
the discussion of principle is mainly
completed; that the remaining work
Of the Convention will be chiefly con-
fined to looping off surplus language.
pruning away unnecessary sections
and "licking the thing into proper
shape as one delegate expressed
himself. 1t would seem to me that
discussion might well cease. Every
proposition has been exhaustively
debated and judge every delegate
has made up his mind how he will
vote. Already four volumes of de-
bates have been produced, each con-
tanning about eight hundred pages,
Some of these pages are well worth
reading for they contain the matured
thoughts Of the ablest and best
minds of the State, but | Judge about
three-fourths of these pages will
never be read by any one who has
anything else to do. Some men of
great ability have so spoken in this
Convention, that the reader will be
astOnished at the lack of ideas in
their speeches and the absence of all
common sense in the drift of their
efforts.
The work of the Convention as q
whole is clearly reformatory. Too
much has been undertaken and two
or three unwise propositions adopted.
These have been already noticed in
this correspondence but are here
again noticed.
l refer to the sections providing
that township elections throughout
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9cn and Scissors.

THE RIGHT TO NOTE,-The Consti-
tutional Convention passed the follow
ing supplemental section to the report
on suffrage, by vote of 40 to 36: For
the purpose of voting no person shall be
deemed to have gained residence by
reason Of lis presence, or lose it 10y rea-
son Of lis absence, while employed in
tie service, either civil or military. of
the State or of theUnited States, nor
while engaged in navigation of the wa
ters of the State or the United States,
OF on the high seas, nor while student
of any seminary of learning, nor while
kept in any poor house or other asylum,
nor while confined in any public prison"
PREVENTION OF MERCURIAL POIS-
ONING.-Jules Meyer, an employe N a
French mirror factory, has lately ascer-
tanned that by scattering through the
working rooms a pint or half-pint of
aqua ammonia every evening all danger
from the absorption of mercWial yaporS
will be III measure prevented. This
practice has now been in use for several
years in his establishment without the
occurrence of any new attack of mercu-
rial poisoning, while no further difficult
ty has been experienced by persons who
had been previously affected. No ex-
planation has been offered as to the the
ory of the action of the ammonia.
4 CONGREGATIONAL Church in Mo-
line, H., has voted not to aid young men
studying forthe ministry whoSpend their
money for tobacco and paying secret So
ciety fees. They hold it is inconsistent
to ask the churches for money to help
young men who will use any of said
money for the above purposes.
ELLSWORTH 5 'SGRAYE.-Onth the banks
Of the Hudson river, some fifteen miles
above Albany, is the grave Of Elmer
Ellsworth, whose name dozen years
ago was in every ones mouth. He was
among the first martyrs to the Union
cause-a brave and very clever man.
with remarkable talent for organiza-
tion, and a still more remarkable gift
for winning the affectiOnate regard of
men. 1t is one of the curious incidents
OF the war, that regiment was formed
IN New York State, enlisted to some
extent inhis native county-where, how
ever, he had not been known since child
hood-which took the name of Ellis
worth Avengers. 1t was the Forty
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GEORGIA.

We are much obliged to our friend
for this communication. South seems
far preferable to West, if our people
want to emigIate. 1t would be de-
lightful to go South for the winters.
CoLEsBuRG, May %, 1873.
EDITOR J0URNAL:-I send You an
extract from a letter written by Mrs.
Samuel Copeland, of Madison, Geor-
gia. thought it might be interest
ing to your readers, as it sets forth
so plainly the contrast between that
climate and our own.
MAY l2.-The thermometer to-day
stands at so degrees and the weather
is lovely. Crops of all kinds are
looking nicely, wheat is all headed
out, barley, rye and oats will be
ready to harvest the last of this
month or the first of next. Corn is
about eighteen inches high. As to
vegetables, we are now having peas
and new potatoes; lettuce and rad
ishes we have had in plenty for a
month. Strawberries are ripe.
l suppose you would like to know
what we do with the land after the
wheat crop is taken off so early. We
raise a second crop of something,
either corn, beans or potatoes or sum-
mer fallow for wheat again. Mr..
Copeland has beautiful field of 20
acres Of oats; after he takes off the
oats, he expects to cut as much in
value Of crab grass, (Which comes up
of itself as every acre Of the land is
worth.
| tell you the climate here is
lovely. Our summers are long and
warm, but not too warm to be enjoy
able and the winters mild enough to
admit of having the doors and win
dows open a good share of the time,
and of riding out without wraps.
thought of you often, up in Potter,
during the winter, shivering with
cold when We were having such nice
weather down here. For my part l
never wish to go north to live again.
| should prefer to go still farther
south. The climate is healthy. Ny
family never enjoyed better health
than they have since they have been
here. If you want to have good
health and get fat come here to live.
but | suppose You will not care to
leave now until You have seen the
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Court Proclamation.

WTHEREAS, the Hon. II. w. WILLIAMS. PrrSi-
w dent Judge, and the Hons. LYMAN NELSON
aud JOHS NJ. kILBOvRNE, Associate Judges Of
the Courts of oyer X Termincr and General jail
Delivery. Quarter Sessions OF the Peace, Orphans
Court ana Court of Common Pleas for the County
Of Potter, have issued their precept bearing date
the Fifteenth day ofJune, in the year of our Lord
one thousand. eight hundred and seventy two.
and to me directed, for holding Court OF oyer
\ TemiEer and General Jail Delivery, Quarter
Sessions OF the Peace, Orphans Court and Court
of common Pleas, in the Borough of Coudersport,
on NO day. the Ninth day OF JUNE neNt and
TO continue one week.
Notice is therefore hereby given to the Coro-
ncTS. Justices of the Peace and CpuStahleS within
the County, that they be then and there in their
proper persons at 10 O'Clock, a. m, of said day.
with their rolls, records and inqui,itiuns, cXami-
nations and other remembranceS, To do these
things which to their Offices appcrtan TO hc done.
And those who are bound by their recugniZanrcS
prosecute against the prisoners that are orSna!l
be in the Jail of said County OF Potter are to be
then and there TO prosecute against them as viii
be Just.
Dated at CouderSport, May l6 1873 and the
97thyear of the Independence ofthe United States
of America ,. p. REYNOLDS Siteri1.
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THE Popular Science monthly for
June is unusually interesting. It's
first article being portrait Of Prof.
Leibig, who has an earnest, eager
look; with his head thrown back as
though he were looking for what was
coming away over the hills, instead
Of what is in the ground at his feet.
Then there is the "COnstitutiOn Of
Nebula," with many illustrations Of
singular beauty and interest, show
ing that the nebul@ are very differ
ent in their forms and arrangements.
We would be glad to give this article
to the readers of the JOURNAL if it
were only possible to give the plates
also.
The Hygiene Of the Ear" Econ
omy Of Railway LocomotionH and
"Instinct in Insects" are followed a
very valuable account of a "Scientilic
Home Missionary" Professor Hens
low, of Cambridge, England. "The
Study of Sociology" by Herburt
Spencer, "Domestic Economy of
Fuel" "The Drift Dcposites of the
Northwest" ;" "Some Observations on
the Niagara Estate Geological Sur
veys," and singular article-at least
a singular subject 'Natural Selec-
tion in Politics." brings US to the
correspondence" "Miscellany,"
and "Notes," which close this num-
Der.
If the Coudersport Library were
in a more fourishing condition, it
could hardly do better than to sup
ply its readers with this magazine.
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THE Pittsburgh papers are urging
the people of that city to follow the
example of New York and Philadel-
phia in taking the poor and neglect
ed children out into the country oc-
casionally during the summer. They
say there is more need of it there
than in either of the other places, for
they have not the sea breeZes that
lift some of the oppressive heat from
New York, nor the wide and airy
streets of Philadelphia.
1t would be well if not Pittsburgh
only, but every city would follow
this beautiful and benefcent idea
until it shall get to be an universally
acknowledged duty. What mission
ary work could accomplish so much? !?
No other class in the world need
missionary effort SO much as the neg
lected little children, and none would
repay it so richly.
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THE Boston Lyceum Bureau has
published it's Fifth Annual Advance
List" telling who will and who will
not be attainable through their agen-
cy to lecture next winter. 1t is a
very rich list. What can we do
without, here in Coudersport, to save
money enough to pay for one or two
grand lectures by-and-by? We need
not do without the best things be-
cause we are poor. 1t needs only to
decide wisely what are the things
best worthy to be purchased-what
are the really most necessary things.
Must our Library languish and must
we have no lectures?
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WE HAVE the May number Of the
Educational Reporter, published by
Ivison, Brakeman, Taylor & Co.,
which is truly a report Of the various
books, methods, ideas, conveniences
and assistants in securing the best
and widest education which we have
time and energy to acquire. If we
were like Professor Agassiz and had
no time for anything else but the
pursuit and dissemination of knowl-
edge, we should still find such Gre
porter" useful, but to the most of us,
who want to know where to find the
best helps for our studious moments.
it is very valuable.
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coUDERSPORT, Pa, June 6, 1873
Ripping Old Seams.

Sometimes in the stir and hurry
of life there come hours and labors
that make us think and feel, though
we may not shave time" to do either
An old house is to be removed
Hammer and axe and wedge are
piled busily; plaster falls, dust fles'
boards are splintered, and the more
rapidly the work of demolition goes
on the better.
But there must be some thought
of the steps that have fallen on that
door-sill; of the shelter that roof has
afforded; Of the pain and sickness
and recovery; of the griefs and joys,
the labor and the rest; of bitterness
and thankfulness; of festive gather
ing or funeral rite within those walls.
Hallowed by the years-for all time,
in itself, is holy time-hallowed by
good lives, perhaps sometimes desc
Grated by bad ones;-but of that we
will not think as We ply the instru-
ments Of destruction.
Perhaps an old garment has full
filled its uses and is to be converted
into something else. What heart
throbs has it enclosed. What strug-
giles between the good and the evil
of human nature. What deep eXpe-
rience and advancement has it helped
its wearer to 90 through. More than
this, what dear hand, now cold in
death or trembling with age, or per-
haps grown large and firm, held these
edges together and put in the little
stitches. What hopes went into its
fashioning, what bright anticipations
attended it's first wearing.
Or it may be a baby's dress, in
which it laughed and played away
the summer days or took that dread
full sickness that almost ended all its
needs of apparel. Or one that Ma
ME wore to school, or one that Ma
mie herself set her first nice stitches
in.
None the less rapidly do the scis-
sors move, but the sad thoughts and
memories will come and brood over
busy eyes and hands.
There are old dwellings Of other
binds-habits of thought, shells of
preiudice-that must be broken up
and put away. They have done their
work; we have used them while they
could serve us; now we move into a
new tenement taking with us what
we can, and we turn round and de-
molish the old. 1t must needs be
done, but we think with pain and
pleasure of the experiences and
struggles We have gone through
with them.
Other garments too, more or less
good and beautiful when we come to
them, successively used, exhausted
and now past repair. Who helped
us to them? Who shared our use OF
them? How may they have served
others as we'll as ourselves? We
think, we remember but little, be,
cause we cannot know all, but we 90
on hoping some day to attain to that
"Robe of Righteousness" the gar,
ment without seam which shall never
be used up or thrown aside.
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1lENJS.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-The follow
ing official dispatch has been received:
SAN Ep N-r1u1.n I,,,,n -

WASHINGTON, June 3.-The follow
ing official dispatch has been received:
SAN FRANCISCO, June2
Gen. ". T. Sherman:
Col. Davis reports June LIST: The
Modoc scouts sent ont Tuesday, May
y, reported to him at Applegate's on
the evening Of the 2Sth that they had
found Captain Jack and his band en-
camped on Willow Greek, at the cross
ing of the emigrant road, fourteen miles
eastward of Applegate's. Hasbrouck's
and JackSon's SquadronS. under Major
Green, were sent Immediately in pur-
suit, came upon tleHabR the evening of
29th, pursued them till the evening of
the Both, when fourteen warriors. ten
women and nine children were captured
after a slight skirmiSh. Among them
are SchOnchm and Scar-faced Charley.
Captain Jack, with three warriors,
escaped I'm one direction and the remain
ing nine escaped in a different direc
ton, leaving twelve men not captured.
He will push them lively till caught.
He hopes to do 50 III a few DAYS and
push troops to other points.
j. NJ. SCHOFIELD, Major General.
a subsequent dispatch from General
Davis, dated Applegate's, June lst an
nounced the capture of Captain Jack.
two warriors and their families. He
expected the few others to come in soon
and considers the war terminated.
J. NJ. SCHOFIELB.
The President has not received any
response as yet to his application to
Governor Davis, of Texas, for the relief
of the two chiefs Santana and Big Tree.
Unless these two chiefs are released and
the faith Government has plighted to
their tribes is maintained, an Indian
war in the Southwest is regarded as in
evitable. Governor Davis will, it is be-
lieved, comply with the request made
through Secretary Delano, and release
the Indians.
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fourth New York and finally came un-
der command of one of Ellsworth's Ori-
ginal Zouave company; the regiment
was fine one and saw a great deal OF
bloody work. \ monument has been
prepared for erection over Ellsworth 5
grave, toward which the State Leglsla-
ture has voted the modest sum of $1,000
a proper tribute to a man who did as
much as any one man could to awaken
the military spirit at the opening of tire
war.
The Wellsyille Times of May 22d,
has the following:
OUR BACKWARD SPRING.-At the
present writing, Wednesday morning.
the weather is uncomfOrtably cold and
the indications are fair for SNOW. In
years past, with a South wind at this
season Of the year, we generally looked
for warm, growing weather, but this
season seems to be one that battles even
old Probabilities himself. For the en-
cOuragement of our readers we publish
extracts from a journal kept by the late
Esquire Howe, of Almond, as published
in the Canisteo Valley Times of last
week:
May 10, 1S35.-It is now the middle
of May and were it not for the NAPLES
one would suppose from the looks of the
woods that it was the middle of Febru'
airy. l never have seen so backward Z
spring. Vegetation is one month be
hind usual seasons. Fodder is so scarce
this spring that hundreds of cattle have
starved to death. Oats are seventy-liv,
cents per buShel. Grass grows but yer.
little. Winter wheat is mostly winte,
killed. Altogether the prospect is fai
/ for hard times ahead.
/ JUNE 1st, 1S37.-Vegetation at leaS
/ two weeks later than l ever knew it be
! fore.
MAY 30th, 1S3S.-Thus has ended tn,
spring of 1888, the coldest and mos
backward ever known. | have seel
vegetation more forward on the lst o
April.
May 3Oth, 1S41.-Thus has ended TIN
most backward spring l ever knew.
The spring Of SO or 81 might hav,
been added to this list.
SILK WITHOUT THE SILK-WORM.-
1t is said that the italian manufacturer
/ MaraSi, has patented a very simple pro
cess for the production of silk from tn
bark of the mulberry tree, i'll whicl
chemical agents previously nnsuccess
fully employed, such as soda, lime, etc.
are dispensed with. Fibers are said t
be obtained entirely free from paren
chyma and resembling in color, appear
ance, fneneSs and strength a specimen
of Moorish silk. Similar statement.
have, however, heretofore proved m
founded.
TIE bazaar Of all nations, a fair a
. Music Hall, Boston. in aid of the build
ing fund Of the Young Mems Christian
Association. closed Friday evening witt
satisfactory results, the net profits foot
ing up over S45, 600, and the balance O
/ goods and costumes being worth 5000
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"iron horse" ploughing through the
snow drifts. | wish you could be
here to help on our Yankee Farmers
Club just started here. We meet
monthly at the residence Of some
member, have speeches, picnic din
ner and out Of door sports. So far,
these gatherings have been very
pleasant and social.
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Ci"ut means Of diGusiIg u.
Monthly has been Star.el y. M
and supplies a want met %! ".
the United States. ,r7
II contains instructive a... .-s 4
and abstracts OF articles, t.' ...--
lustratcd, from the ledalii- 49,
fereHt countries, giving l", '
Of natural phenomena, ,-g Il
tiOns of science 10 the pIa''-
operations Of domestic ilir'
1t is designed 10 give
those branches OF SrIcH.. va
understanding OF the ma, ~ E
the claims of scientific et'.@
ingS OF science upon qtlt'' g'
ernment. How the various ,rgg
opinion are affected hF u.
inquiry Will also be cousl"..iSgi. M. r
In its literary character '.
be popular without beng ...
to the intelligent reaIlns ...,-rr
ty. II seeks to procure aul..lr
men who know their sun r,-,r-1
the uOn-scitntiic public i'
and explanation. us n
II viii have contribution,
Ger, Prof. Huxley, Prof. J IN ~
other writers identified VIZ
ana scientific explanation, sa1
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AN EXCHANGE recently had long
article on the art of reading news
papers, the substance of which was,
believe nothing, doubt everything.
Read all sides and then think as best
you can. This is no doubt good adj
vice. We are most Of us too ready
to believe what we are told, even if
it be not printed.
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/DECoRATIoN Day was well observed
almost everywhere. We hope that
before it comes again our monument
will be completed and that around it
we shall gather to pay the tribute of
our sad remembrance to our glorious
dead.
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THE Aldjne for June holds up its
reputation as the best illustrated
magazine of America. The pictures
in this number are no better than in
the previous ones-that seems i'm
possiblc-but they are superb. Sub
scribe for the AIdine and become
possessor OF 'joy forever"
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RAILROADS are still surveying and
viewing and calculating-or the en-
gineers are. By-and-by we shall
have them all over our County and
prosper accordingly.
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There are now English and French
companies anxious to undertake this
enterprise, but the treaty with the
South American government gives
us exclusive privileges.