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The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-13

WE ARE always glad to receive
communications for publication in
the JOURNAL. We are especially
pleased to receive items of local
news. But we must adhere to the
rule Of requiring the name Of he
7criter to be sent to us with the com
lnunications. The name of the writ.
cr will never be made public unless
intended to be, but we must know
whose words we publish. &C. D."
will learn from this item why the
communication on Refinement is not
published, and so Will the writer's of
some other articles that rest quietly
in one Of the pigeon-holes of our
sanctum. One Of them is very spicy
it was sent from Raymond last
February-The writer seemed to
think the proprietor of the JOURNAL
didn't know there were any Temper
ance Democrats-and was quite
severe-we rather liked the article
and should have been pleased to see
it in the JOURNAL, but we ReUer
print an article if the writer is un-
willing to be known.
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animal type of venom and ferocity
which we should exhibit if we suf-
fered ourselves to follow the low and
bad tendencies of our nature instead
of the kindly and human ones.
Whether the students of nature have
found any we cannot tell. They have
found enough that is curious and in
teresting to make their study absorb
ing and its results valuable; but
hardly enough to make us feel glad
that there are dangerous reptiles and
ravenous beasts or irritating insects.
But perhaps to some orders OF being
higher than ourselves and which we
do not perceive for want of higher
and finer sense than any we possess,
we may be as dangerous, as laven-
Gus, as irritating as anything in the
world is to US; and yet we see, or
think we do, reason enough for our
being. But with all external troubles
it seems natural that all should feel
that the greatest nuisances as well as
the worst evil, come from within US.
Why they are there is the deepest
mystery; why, being there, we can
be blinded to their badness so that
they make themselves appear to us
good and fair, we never can see,
For if we saw our bad habits as they
are we would instantly abandon
them. If we knew how annoying
our hasty temper, our harsh words,
our jealousy, our narrow judging,
our selfshness, we would put them
away. 1t is because these things
deceive us and make us believe they
are fair and right that we let the
nuisances remain.
The Mayor advertises that if he can
find out who throws refuse matter
INTO the water, he will abate the nui-
sance. So will we all Il we can only
find out what it is that makes trouble
for ourselves and others, producing
some times more than bodily disease
He must watch by the waterside, we
must watch-where?
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-13

WHEN | have time | will do it.
When | have nothing else to do,
will take this trip, or this rest, OF
that needed recreation. So we say.
but would we? 1t seems to be the
experience of those who have come
to their leisure, that the zest of liv,
ing has departed. Only that is rest
that is caught or taken in the inter
walls Of labor. That only is amuse
ment or recreation that is brief re
lease from the monotony of care OF
employment. Those only are the
graces and adornments of life which
spring from the solid foundation O.
true, honest, manly work.
If we had nothing else to do, nei
ther would we have this to do, thai
our souls desire and long for. Thl
high branches grow from the rougl
trunk and the humble root.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-13

THE POSITION Of political parties
in this country at the present time is
certainly remarkable one, and may,
if carefully considered, furnish some
lessons to the politician and the
statesman.
Democracy has come to be almost
q name without a substance. Con
tinual defeats have demoralized it so
that it seems to lack the nerve to
make a steady determined fight, while
the progress Of events under the
management of the opposing party
has forced it reluctantly off from its
old positions, until to-day it does
not know where nor on what it
stands. Neither the leaders nor the
rank and file seem to know what are
its principles, nor what its line OF
policy. The glamour Of its name
and old traditions holds millions of
voters to its service, but the name
and traditions are all that serve to
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-13
WHERE THE LAUGH COMES IN

The New York Ereniag Post has
very funny article about Philadelphia 5
ocean-steamer fleet, which, at present.
is composed of two vessels, the Penn
Sylraniu and the Ohio. Some weeks ago.
it remarks in its sly way, there was but
one American steamship plying between
the United States and Europe and now
two American flags crowd each other
on the three thousand miles of water
( between the old and new worlds and the
maritime nations of Europe are pausing
and rejecting and gravely asking them
selves what the end Of all this viii be-
And it adds satirically:
I'VE venture to say that history can
not furnish a parallel to this case. Here
| is a country stretching across a c0nti-
nent from ocean to ocean, its extended
seacoast abounding i'll harbors, its naJu-
raj products furnishing ample materials
/ for Ship-bulldng, its people instructive
I IN commercial and by birth and practice
enteTpriSing. On the instant. as ii
were. this vast country. with all its va
.
! commerce. Could England, mistress
/ of the sea. rs she has been fondly called.
/ do this? Even Noah. who appears to
/ have been an historical rival Of ours, is
surpassed here. for he built one S;ip
and no more. Yet this assertion is in
dubitably true. The simplest mathe-
maticS demonstrate it. Last week
there was one American steamship
I aflOat-thiS week there are two. Twice
/ one is two"
This biting sarcasm is Ieveled at our
admirable high tariff SYSTEM" Of
course, which makes the appearance Of
two American steamships matter of
/ COngratulatiOn. But in another column
will be found a short statement of the
foreign commerce of Philadelphia for
this year which furnishes a pleasant
commentary on the Posts smart chat
| fling. During the seven months ending
July 3lst, the exports from that city
amounted to SIS, ,443, ,863 as against SI0.-
556, ,667 during the same period of 1872,
an increase Of tOrty-siE per cent. When
it is remembered that the Philadelphia
steamship enterprise is but just inaugu-
rated our readers will admit that the
prospect is decidedly encouraging. Sew
eral more vessels are in process of con-
struction for this line and the indica-
tions are that they will have lucrative
/ business.
Now we submit that those ''Pennsyl-
vania Protectionists" are doing a deal
more honest work towards restoring
American commerce and towards ad-
vancing American interests generally,
than the superfne theorists Of the Ere
nng Post breed, who are content to sit
back and sneer at every exhibition of
Pennsylvania enterprise. We believe
that New York will find out sooner or
later that it has made a mistake as to
the place where the laugh comes in III
this matter.-BufaI0 EcpreSS.
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THE LIQUOR INTEREST.

Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are
marching: how many of them? Sixty
thousand! Sixty full regiments, every
man Of which will, before twelve months
shall have completed their course, lie
down in the grave Of a drunkard Eve
ry year during the past decade has wit
messed the same sacrifice; and sixty reg
iments stand behind this army ready to
take its place. 1t is to be recruited from
our children and our children S children.
" Tramp, tramp, tramp ''-the sounds
come to us in the echoes of the footsteps
of the army just expired; tramp, tramp,
tramp-the earth shakes with the tread
of the host now passing; tramp, tramp,
tramp comes to us from the camp of the
recruits. A great tide Of life flows re-
sistlessly to its death. What in Gods
name are they fighting for? Thepriyilege
Of pleasing an appetite, of conforming to
a social usage, of filling sixty thousand
homes with shame and sorrow, of load
ing the public with the burden of pau
perism, of crowding our prison houses
with felons, of detracting from the pro-
ductiye industries of the country, of
running fortunes and breaking hopes, of
breeding disease and wretchedness. of
destroying both body and soul in hell
before their time.
The prosperity of the liquor interest,
covering every department of it, de-
pends entirely on the maintenance of
this army. 1t cannot live without it.
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REPUBLICAN COMMITTEES.


4It9tt-Cha~ NeiSner, Jos Schwartzenoach ana
ChaS HenSchel -
IuegaRy-David L Raymond, \ G Presho and
BpgbHmII !. Thu. Carpenter, \ II Cobb and L J
,rr,aH.I Z Allen VIM Graves and W \ Cole.
C,5fferSport-S + Hamilton, W h Jones and }
tr;,EI Jl tyi% gi.' Glace. c stearns and J D Earl
CssneSee-I c Cayanaugh, VIM Baker ana josiah
Jrr-r;>on@j L Haynes, \ \ Swetland and W
Hacto,1D d " Havens, John slutt and Cyrus
JIslro7,mWm li,n Greenman, L NJ Coy and Geo W
yf,nsr-Ieyi lev Quimby, Jacob Peet and w H
Keatiag@G NC Lewis, Henry Harris and Hiram
La7ctSrfHe2C 5l-- E Baker. Henry Hosley and R
Oe,raIo~A 90 5 Lyman, J Y Brown and Wm Fes-
pjt,4EM ! iPProuty. II Martin and Saml Brown
pleasant I1Uop-ErneSt Wright, Lewis Lyman
and J X F JudkinS -,
PortdGe-Chas Young, Chas Austin and DAM
R,u,e,|M ! Larrabee, VIM Hazen and Chas
gharda~N Parmenter, \ \ Newton and J
SisrarSS55,mH S,s5a Andersen, James Barton and Ed
S,,,nn,fIAlyin Rennells, James Reed and J l
Slrea5n-R L White, Edwin Lyman and Joseph
.ggiraniaNDutton stiles, A h Jordan and G {
T7ysa@s-A Raymond, J NJ Benton and Jay
Irsst RtaRef7-E :5iif7 Crippen, W Conable and c
Ir7tarton-J / Barclay, A r Burlingame and
Shafer Logue
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Announcements.

Ed. Journal & ITEN.-PleaSe announce the
name of 3. T.. white, Of Sweden township, as
a candidate for the Office of County Commission
cr-suhect to the decision Of Republican County
Convention.
ID. JO-RNAL & ITENL-PleaSe announce the
name of 4. 3. SWctiand. Of Harrison town
snip. as a candidate for County Commissioner,
~Ihiec; To the decision Of the Republican County
Convention. EQUAL
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-13

WE ARE under obligations to NJ,
+. Olmsted, specimen brick Of Pot
ter county production now at Har-
risburg, for a copy of the "Auditor-
Generals Report on Railroads." )" for
1872. 1t is next in interest and
value to the School Report Of all the
public documents of the State. We
are very glad to receive it and graft
fed at being remembered by our
young friend.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-13

So, in the instant as well as the
lingering death, His hand comes to
US in mercy. Only our own want Of
love and trust can make it terrible
or to be deplored for ourselves. For
the friends that are bcreaved, for
those that mourn rs though the sun
light of JOY had forever passed away
for them, too, there is but the one
healing: in holy faith and trust. =
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-13

centralize it into one homogeneous
mass.
Acting as it does, with no steady
purpose and no fixed line of policy,
/ il catches at every expedient and
adopts every dodge that promises to
give it a temporary success, and
place its tamished leaders again in
office. Thus last year it meekly fol-
! ded its own banner and arrayed
itself to do battle under the Liberal
flag. But as an evidence that it had
nothing but the plumber of victory
! in view, it deserted its allies as soon
as the October elections showed that
victory was not to be won that way !;
caviling for reform and retrenchment
and purity of government, its mem
bers and representatives are found
deepest in every scheme of plunder
or hot-bed of corruption wherever
the opportunity is offered them. 1t
is party without principle, a body
without spirit. However long 1t
NAV maintain this abnormal life it
can never, under such conditions
load itself on the country as a guild
ing power unless by the criminal fol-
ly of the opposing party.
The Liberal party, as by courtesy
it might be called, is stranded high
and dry on the rocks Of the political
ocean; it can't make land in any
direction. Powerless to work alone
and disgusted with the Democracy.
there seems to be but one tate left it,
to fall to pieces and let the tide wash
it ashore.
Various local interests and issues
in connection with peoples natural
tendency to be thrown off at tan
gent by the centrifugal force of events
are continually starting local parties
and making local fights, but they are
invariably short lived; the better
element of them going back to their
old allegiance, and the remainder
becoming political stragglers and
bushwhackers.
Thus we find the elements that
composed the opposition to the Re,
publican party at the present time
to be Democrats, Liberals and strag.
glers. They are not in harmony, are
not working together, and will not
be, unless time so changes the course
of events as to give them some prin
ciple that appeals to the good sense
or conscience of the nation, and
which by its own vital force car
draw them together and give then
life.
This brings us to the position o
the Republican party. Firmly seated
i'm power. there seems tO he no np
posing force that can hope to unsea
it. It's place is certainly an enviablc
one, and its responsibilities are cor
respondingly heavy and imperative
The welfare of the country is irrevo
cably in it's keeping, and mankind
the world over will hold it account
able for the manner in which it dis
charges the trust. Honesty anC
purity in all the departments of gov
ernment will alone satisfy the peopl,
and secure to it its present prouC
pre-eminence. 1t has done some
grand things in the past, but the
shadow Of the past will not covel
Credit-Mobillier speculations ant
backpay steals.
But the real responsibility for tn,
future Of the Republican party rests
with the masses of that party. lie
them do their duty in convention.
and at the polls, and all will 90 well
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3en and Stissprs

''-NNNJe
PRINCE DE JoINyIITF
banquet at Langres, France tban a,
de Joinville made the follow. ! ",
marks: But, gentlemen. it i
this prudent and Iaborious Ja,.
that | have occasion to srea, '~.-- g.I
No one has anything to repro,.l
self with On that score. not nv.r
deputies, if you viii pcrmi. m.
50, although the definition Of a-
bors would be difficult. fill
would make use of an eyprpssio,
scribe them which I heard from
American citizen, whose friend
proud to have been. the irustron.-
ident Lincoln. One day at uat..7
of that terrible crisis of sacr,,f,.
the existence of the American P..
was most in peril, | asked him.
was his policy: I hayenone'ba r...
I pass my life in preventing tbs.
from blowing down the tent III
drive III the pegs as fast as th.-
pulled up Wen, gentlemen Esap
ilent Lincoln we are driving IN +
peers without ceasiug, turning n
forts to the points at which tbav.
most required and summouiur n
aid men and laws. Lately our r
pal support was VI. Tuirrs. who's
services are in every ones recaua.
At present an imperious Htc,s,,-
/ security has ranged us round ta4a
alrOus warrior who was wounded ~,
dan and whose courage ard h1nr
spires all with equal confidence. N
fore, gentlemen. let us advance fr
grees, dressing one by one tlew
of our dear country, rejecting n
same time the saviourS and emr--
whom we owe so many ruins auJh
ing that the cure, to be radical. can
he the Woih ol time ana The Aa.
good sense.
NE CUSTOM u III Throwing II'g @'
pIluG - ol'I'l.Se 'e "S'oii' VI I.
'n7 'Ile Ooo'-J'eN "l'er neI Is -''"s-
ro,.>,,.,- oditor ,.ooo;,.,,,,, D..
t,I;on - TAXA tea VIM, aI.2,'-
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~ - ) ~ -'l'' ~ - '''1'
4 sFA cap+ain t,gJipr racr,.,
tho African co,.t v.o. i,,,.,t.d ..
/ q committee of = society far r.. .-
geIizatiou of africa AInHrv.l.-
questions touching the baIirsa3
zion of the African race, n. Il
asked:
DO the subjects of King Dtm
keep Sunday?"
Keep Sunday?" herpplied: yves
every other dalned thing the, ca
their hands on"
I PHILADELPHIA AFTER Evi
THING.-Ihe Philadelphia Pn~
announcing that MI. James ke-
tract Of thirty acres Of land. A
/ S1O0. eco. near Fdgewood. for the I
+ pose of the proposed Industrial 5
saws the ..institutfon ,bonlI lpmE
at pbiIadaInbia tba ora,t nsrnf
ipq captra of tba St,+a and rim
ond +ho ci+,. v.hioh ,boro nm Il.
moods tho services of ,,-a11--rssn4.
n,,.ctical mechanics . Certain
should ITO phiIadaInbis and -lra
,daI,hia ebou1d oo - tRa + 4r.,
for half million. or so Mr. X
thirty nero +,,.cf ,,ic,bt also ba Pc
r. I,I,i1a5oI,,hia. IN f,ot avarr
pennsyIvaI,ia worth anvrbipc sha
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-13
COUDERSP0RT
GRADED SCHO0
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR TIE SCHE-
OF ls124

The Directors. having seCuTa. las
CLARA A. STOCKwELL. a graduate u- u--,..
male CCHege, with Mrs. NETTIE ''hl...- n
er Of the Intermediate DcDar. r--
HELEN ELLIS for the PTnnaH ug. ~
successful teachers Of long eNprneI..., 's.s
fed in calling the attention ~ pa1'"-
To the advantages Of this School
FALL TERN commences M0NpA'' GO
WINTER TERN commences Dh'n
SPRING TERN commences NAM
Fall and winter terms three ,ag..-s,
one week vacation during the Nlt
Spring term continues two m2A,H>'
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A CONTEMPORARY, speaking of the
difficulty of newspaper editor pleas
ing everybody, says; Even if one
sounded the praises of his Maker the
devil would be offended. Z"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-15

THE storm last evening and the
electric condition of the atmosphere
last night played the mischief With our
telegraphic reports. We have no doubt
that news OF great importance and zen.
,erprises of great pith and moment
have thus had their currents turned
svry" end been dissipated among the
moisture bearing clouds, and that in
the rain that descended last evening
the ,elegraphic dispatches that should
have been read this morning were held
in weak solution. But we doubt whether
any trace of the news can be gathered
from the rsin tubs and cisterns this
morning.
After all, in accordance with the
comfortable doctrine of compensation
it seems not improbable that the fields
are laughing this morning over the DIS
comfiture of our readers, and that what
is wanting in dispatches will be made
ND in potatoes from the home patch
and ears OF corn from the bottom field
And, as the electricity which sometimes
carries the news, at others puirtes the
air, it requires no stretch OF fancy to
show that we are all healthier and in
less danger from the pestileuce that
walketh in darkness than we
would have been had telegraphic dis
patches been served out to US inste ad
of the thunder storm OF last nigh t
From all which it appears that we
ought to be very well satisfied with the
absence of the greater portion ofthls
mornings telegraphic report.
Nevertheless we wish we had the
dispatches
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-15
ALBANY.
The Greenbush FIRE.

ALBANY July 14.-The buildings
destroyed by fire at Greenbush were
twenty>eight in number, besides Col
lenders wood yard and a few sheds.
Forty families were burned out losing
nearly all their household goods. This
is the largest fire that has occurred in
Greenbush since 1886. The hest su.
thorities estimate the loss at $4,000
insurance $4,000. 1t was undoubtedly
the work of an incendiary. The Albany
fire department was delayed thirty
minutes by the ferry boat refusing to
carry our machines and claimed that
their boat was crowded and could take
on no more. Public opinion, however,
is strongly against the ferry officials
and it is thought an investigation will
be had. Fully three-fourths of Il Q
loss is attributed to the delay OF the
engines.
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BALTIMORE.
General EOward's Case.

BALTIMORE, July l5.-The American
to-day, editorially, under the heading
More Whitewash," says: "Will the
agent OF the Associated Press at WASH
ington content himself with fitness. lie
was placed there to report facts, ex-
plain remarks, and eulogistic comments
are not part of his duty. The admin
ietration and its special organs are quite
capable of screening or whitewashing
an unworthy official without his assist
ance. 1t would seem as if
be had lent himself to belittle
the case of General Howard.
Attorney General Williams has stated
officially that the treasury has been
defrauded OF various sums ofmoney.
In the very face OF the acknowledgment
the agent of the Associated Press is used
as the MEDIUM for hoodwinking the
public in regard to their action. The
information he imparts he says is de-
rived from official source. He terms II
a conspiracy 10 ruin the reputation o.
General Howard. The trifling crime
they cast on Howard, is that he con-
Quoted business rather loosely. Singu-
larly enough, the agent OF the Assocl-
ated Press speaking for the head Of 1t,
says all agree that there has been de-
falcations On the part OF some subordl
mates, although it is not believed the
defalcations will amount to much.
1t is generally supposed to be some-
where about S50,000. We have just
been told that the real deficit is 81 ,l4O,r
Gil and that the greater part OF this !;
susceptible of explanations. When i,
comes to summing up, great frauds are
admitted in q sort Of way but qualified
by doubt as to whether they will amount
to much. Really we think the Wash
ington agent Of the Associated Pres:
could be better employed than in giving
currency to such subjects aud contra
dic,ions as these.
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FINANCE AND TRADE.
Money Market.

NEW YORK, July IL.
The affairs in Wall street were gener-
ally extremely quiet, owing to the heat
and the absence Of many brokers and
specuIators from the street. Money
easy at 3 to 4 per cent on call. Prime
discounts are quoted at 6@7 per cent.
Loans cold at 6 per cent, good 90 days
TO 6 months. Foreign exchange dull
today az usual; the Monday asking
rate Of bankers is unchanged; actual
business is at a concession from nom
inal quotations; GO days sterling l09:
for good bankers and lO9i9l093, less
brokerage for prime. Sight bills were
firm with business at ll0i TO ll0s; the
latter less brokerage. Gold is quiet and
alternately weak and firm Gales at llj.
to ll6, closing with business at the
higher quotation. The Assistant Treas.
urer paid to-day 5000 on account
of interest and $4l, 900 in redemption O.
$50 bonds.