THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL JNO. S. MANN, A. AVERY, Editors COUDEIRSPORT, PA.: THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 18155 Congress adjourned on Satur day night, having done less harm than was anticipated, after the consumma tion of the Nebraska swindle, I The communication of "Agri cola" is one of interest,and appropri-. ate to the times. We trust the sub,. ject on which it treats will• receive due attention. ar Simon Cameron is defeated. There has been no election for Sena tor, and the joint Convention has ad journed to the first Tuesday of Octo ber next. See the vote in another column. • tar The Coudersport Literary As sociation maintains its interest. The attendance last Tuesday evening was aathe'r slim, but the debate was well conducted and listened to with deep interest. Rev. J. B. Pradt will lecture before the Association next Tuesday evening. hope to see the entire community out on that occasion. Ear We publish :nis week the state ment of the Commissioners showing the receipts and expenditures of the county for the past year. 'he Com, missioners seem to think the readers of the Journal are not entitledto see this statement, but as the subscribers of this paper pay more than half the taxes of the county, we think they have a tight to know what becomes of the money. So we insert the State ment, unasked by the Commissioners. We believe a free soil Board never _ withheld their statement froni the press opposed to then ; which shows . the difference between hunkerism and true democracy. I' We aro requested_ to say that the pews of.the new Methodist church will be.rented _by the Trustees, to morrow (Friday) at. one o'clock, P.M. Mr.,Eli Rees has made great sacrifices to complete this commodious place of warship, in a substantial and beautiful manner. We- hdpe the community will prove their appreciation of his services by attending to-morrow and tenting every slip in the church. Another inducement to. take •every one of these slips off the hands of the Trustees, is to be found in the char acter and influence of the officiating . minister. lie is laboring for. the good 'olthis community; let us prove to morrow our determination to sustain such laborers. rzr. We received, a few days ago, a copy of the N. Y. Herald, offering to exchange if we would.copy their pro-. spectus. We have done with that kind of business. We shall insert the prospectus occasionally, of one or two of . our, first class papers, for the cake of diffusing a better literature. cot for the sake of an exchange. As to this prospectus of the New York Herald, we: would not insert it on ' any term, for the same reason that we exclude advertisements having an immoral tendency. A paper that is a universal favorite with rumsellers, rowdies and jewelry gentlemen as a class, should find , few papers in the rural districts willing to exchange 'with it on even terms,' to say nothing about paying for so equivocal a favor. Cr We have received the prospect-. %re of the National Defender. a weekly Taper published Philadelphia, by Wm. Y. Leader, at two dollars per annum. ".This paper will be a bold and fearless advocate of AMERICAN PfIINCLPLES" as understood by the editor. But what he means by "Amer ican principles," cannot be deter mined by this prospectus. If he means that the Di:fender will be a bold advocate of the principles of that great American papet, the Declara tion of Independence, then we should like an exchange, and will be happy to recommend it to our friends ; but if this paper is to advocate such Amer . ican principles as suit the slavehold iers, and such as have a tendenpy to give the slave _power a controlling influence in this nation; then we must -decline its proffered acquaintance. We have as ;many of that kind of Na sional Defenders on our table already, as we have time or inclinatiuu to read• TEE SUNDAY LIQIIOIt LAW. • The bill introduced by Robert M. Foust, of Philadelphia, to prevent the sale of intox icaiing liquors on the Sabbath, has passed the House of Representatives bye vote of 73 to ( 6—all the members front -this county voting . for the bill except the immaculate Gross. The advocates of such a law consider this a very good one. We did not advocate its passage, and considered it iv blunder in Mr. Foust—hiiherto . one of the most prominent prohibitory men in the State—introducing and pressing such a bill in the early past of i the session. The public sentiment of Penn- I sylvania certainly demands something more than a Sunday law, and if Mr. Foust's bill was intended to supersede that something, we shall regret its passage; but if the friends of Sunday prohibition will stand up for Mr. Curntning's bill, or its equ;valent, so much the better. - We are decidedly in favor of the suppression of Sunday liquor selling, and will cordially he:p to enforce all laws on the sub ject; yet we have never been able to the exact difference in the degree of moral . guilt between killing a m:in on Sunday or Saturday. Why enact sigh severer penalties against the dealer in liquors than the dealers in dry goods Simpty because the business of the one is a benefit to the community and the other a curse.. The liquor traffic kills more people, destroys more property, ruins more families on week days than upon Sundays. Then why outlaw it one day. of the week and protect it the other six? by protect evil at all I—Lancaster Express. • • Those are our • sentiments. But the Sunday liquor bill is passed, and we can now only ask the members to go to work on some bill that will outlaw the . traffic in intoxicating drinks. Any bill that will do this will be progress, and will satisfy the people, but no License law, however stringent, will amount to anything. Balms of that kind have always failed, and .always will fail, simply because any license to. sell intoxicating drinks as a beverage is wrong. Legislation on this subject to he of any avail, must be founded , on the principle that the traffic in poison is a crime to be pro hibited. Renee Cummings' bill is the next best thing to Kirkpatrick's, and is the least that ought to be accepted by the Temperance men in the Leg , islature. Anything short of Cum ! mings' bill will be a failure and a damage to the cause. Congress has adjourned.. We breathe-freer. The men who 'defied their constituents, trampled sacred Compacts under foot, and. •did their best to extend Slavery to our Western Territories, have gOne home, where they will forever_ remain, unless taken care of by the President. The N. Y. Tribune speaks to the purpose as follows • We hazard nothing in saying that a Congress so corrupt and profligate—a Congress so prodigal and unfaithful— never before assembled in this country. It will be unenviably known to .pos- terity as that by which the Nebr:aska bill was passed, while by the present generation it will be more widely dis tinguished as the Congress which fa vored every job if It were only suf ficiently con opt, and refused no bribe, unless on the assumption that it was too small. We have not the final proceedings very lucidly before us, but we believe that, in addition to the Nebraska and Land-Graduation bills of last session, the following schemes of mischief or plunder, or both, have been sanctioned at this session!. • 1. The Military Bounty-Land bill— giving away some two hundred mil lions of acres to men who have at any time been mustered into the military service of the Uiiited States: 2. The Navy Retired-List bill; 3. The bill increasing the salaries of the. Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court; 4. Ditto, that of the U. S. District Judges. • 5_ Ditto, that of Land-Office Re ceivers and Registers; 6. The bill adding four regiments to the Army. 7. Texas Creditors' Payment bill. 8. The bill allowing Membets of Congress to receive pay from the Trea- Bury from the opening of each session, even though they stay away attending to their private business, and thus prevent the fortriatiOn of a quorum. There are - doubtless several more that have got through, but we rest. The stupendous Collins JOb was de feated by the President's veto; the' Colt Patent_ Extension bill by the mismanagement of the patentee and his agents. The reorganization of the Diplomatic and Consular service will probably add to the annual charges on the Treasury ; hut it has some good feattires, and so we will let it pass uncensured. The Tariff reduction bioke doWn, in part for want of time. An -attempt to increase the . pay of Members of Congress (the direct r -not the incidental) failed, because the Constitution forbids any Congress in crea,ing iti own pay, - and too few of the. Members are or will . be reelected to make in increase to future Con r gresies an object. . Rtim.—Judge McLean, in a , late judgment in a maritime . case, 'said: "Rum has sunk more seamen than all the tempests that ever'blew. There is a firm doing busineis at St. Louis, (M 0.,) under the name of " Grinn 'ft Barrett."' • • THE BERATQW4 citmorgog We gave two weeks ago: the-second, ballot Jot Senator. The 3d, 4th,. and sth ballots . were almost the same at the one we gave. Cameron had 55 on the 3d, 54. on the 4th, and 55 on the sth ballot; the rest were scattered aa, before. Then a motion was made to adjourn to the Ist Tuesday of October next, an& carried by one majority, as follows. We are glad to see Fe4nor•'s •name among the ayes: Yn4s—Messrs. Browne, liTmekalew, Darsie, Ferguson, Flenniken, Frick, Goodwin, Ham- ! lin, Jamison, Jordan, Avery, Baker; Baldwin, , Ball, Bergstresser, Bowman, Chamberlin, Christ, Clapp, Edinger, Fearon, Foster, Foust, Franklin, Fry; Gwinner, Harrison, Herr, Hodgson, Holcomb, Hubbs, Laporte, Lewis, Mellinger, Pratt, Price, Sellers, Sklnner, Tag gart, Wairon, Wherry, Leas, Linderman,Lott, Lowe, M'Calinont,. M'Clean, M'Combs, M'- Cullciugh, Alegi'', Morris; Orr, Page, Pedny packer, Powci, 'Simpson, Smith, (Phila. city,) Suiele,'Stewart, Thorne, Waterhouse, Wick ersham, Witmer, Wright- 7 66. NArs--Messrs: Cresswell, Frazer; Ery, Haldeman, Hendrics, Hoge, Allegood, Barry, Boat, Bush, Caldwell, Car;isle, Clover, Craig, Crawford, Criswell, Cummings, (Phila. c 0.,) Cummins, (Somerset,) Daugherty, Don aldson, Downing, Dunning, Eys:er, Fletcher, Frady,. Free, Gross, .Guy, Haines, Johmon; King, Kirkpatrick, Kreeps, Lime, Laporte, Killinger, M'Clintock, Pim!, Quiggle, Sager, Shuman; Heisler, M'Conkey, M'Conneil, Maxwell, Morrison, Muse, North, Palmer, "Reese, Ritteuhoune, Rutter, Sallade, t•lierer, Smith, (Allegheny,) Smith, (Blair,) Sien'ey, • Stockda.o, Siurdevant, Thompson, Weddell, Wood, Yorkes, Zeigler, and Strong, Speaker —765. Gr:We take peculiar. pleasure in noticing the organization at Ellisburg of another company in .the -Temper ance army. of Potter county. A Lodge of Good Ternplars was instituted at that place on Monday evening last., by D. G. W. C. T., S. E. Darrow,. assisted by a large number of the members of the Coudersport Lodge, who feel much encouraged at this accession to theft- strength. -Ellisburg Lodge starts under very favorable circumstances, and will undoubtedly exert a happy influence on Society in . that section -of the county. The officers elected are just the men and women to give. any move ment strength . and •vitality, and to command the confidence and respect of all -classes in community. _Thus does the glorious work progress, to the consolation and encouragement of all good men. The meetings of the Lodge for the present will be in: Sat urday evening.and the following are the officers for the present term: W. C. T.,•Mr. Chamberlain. \V. V., Mrs. Darrow. W. S., Mr. D. C. Bishop. W. T., Miss S. J. Cavanaugh W. M., Mr. J. C. Cavanaugh. W. D. M., Mrs. Cavanaugh. W. L S., Mrs. Chamberlain. W. C., S. E. Darrow. L. H. S., Mu. Perry. Asruosy Bunts, the fugitive whose return , to his alleged owner in Virginia cost the United States Government some fifty thou sand dollars, is now iu this city as a freeman, . having been purchased forsomelung more . than a fiftieth part of that sum, by some of the persons most actively concerned in causing i the original expenditure. Mr. Burns appeared before a public meeting at Dr. l'eunington's Church last evening, and told the simple and interesting story of his experience as a s:ave. Ile seems*to be an in.ei:igent and modest nogro, and fora new beginner, delivers him sett* in a very creditztb:e s yie of ora:ory. - Ilfs purcbase„lust-at.this time, is supposed to have some reference to The exei.emen: just now i alive in Massachusettss wish reference to 11,s • rendition to S.avery. by Mr.. Commissioner Loring. \Vhe her the buying of hint b.ck again will satisfy the poopie of iha. Common .' vveaith that siave•ca thing is a' respec ab e occupation. and that save-catchers ought to be chosen for offices of trust and honor, re mains to be seen.—Tribune, March 3. . The people will please take notice that it cost the General Government some fifty thousand dollars to return one negro. Suppose the North should ask the General Government to pay for returning runaway horses; would it be done 7 Never. It is only prop erty in men -that Government looks after. -or m. H.• Coen, Esq., Editor of the WellSo . ro' Agitator, delivered a lecture before the Literary AsSoci ation of this Borough on Thursday evening last. Subject, "To-DAY." The people of Coudersport .have sustained a course of lectures, during each winter fqr three years past, and we venture to say that, taking all the elements together which . go to make up what is called a good 'lectpre, no lecture delivered here during that time gave• more general satisfaction, than did Mr. Cobb's. We would go into a more lengthy notice of this lecture, but for the fact that a correspondent, too_late for this week's paper, will do so in our next. We will say that f9r clearness of thought, and combined beauty and force of expression, we have heard no young - man who •i 4 his equal. We trust his success as a lecturer may be as certain as his success as an editor. Or Bigotry and superstition are the greatest enemies of civilization. Pt& 6' k thO. Ma. Eurroa,—As the cause of edu cation is excitinc , considerable atten tiono at present, in this county, I prot. pose through your valuable. paper, to offer a few remarks upon the rate Teachers' Convention held in Cou dersport. There is said to. be a great deficien cy in the Tea Oilers now employed in our common :schools in the art of, teaching; in fact, .in the chaste lan guage of . a Rev speaker at the Edu cational Convention, ..4 good Teacher is n'rare animal anYwhere." This is no doubt.true to some extent, as we have no Normal or other Schools for the especial benefit of Teachers in Pennsylvania: In view of these facts, a Teachers' Convention was called . at Coudersport, when it was naturally supposed something would be done for the special benefit of this race of ignoramuses. Well, the Convention came off according to .the programme' of its authors, and now that. the bmoke ' has fairly cleared away, let us sum up the grand result. Several were badly frightened, myself among the number, at the idea of "speaking in meeting ;" farther than this, its effects at this date are not visible, the "big guns" being loaded with blank cartridges. - Seriously, however, why not, when , Teachers thirsting to become profi cient in the noblest of all arts, that of educating an immortal mind, why not improve so fav(irable an - opportunity as that, to instruct them as to the best mode of teaching? We may resolve and re-resolve that we need good school houses, "better ventilated than those we have at pres ent,". that they 'should be furnished with Globes, Therniometers, &c., yet such resolutions lack vitality, when nothing , practical is attempted by their authors. Mr. Editor, I am de cidedly opposed to this all talk and no cider. Let us have 'something real, something tangible; let us go to work. in earnest, instead of, talking; instead of abusing our teachers for something which • they cannot help,. let us generously extend the helping, band to all such as need help, and if there is no one in ,this county now capable of instructing us, let us import one immediately. I-I°mm EDITORS OF THE JOURNAL: If you think the following statistics will be interesting to your readers, you are at. liberty to publish them:, - School Schools Sehol- Average Average houses. open. ars. attendance. per Scl. Sharon, 6 6 196 - ' 154 1 25. Oswayo, • 3 3 137 91 3q Genesee, 3. 2 89 - 69 34A Binglimn, 7 7 190 ' 147 21 Harrison, • 6 6 . 200 ' 150 - 25 !lector, 6 3 60 45 15 Ulysses, 6 6 183 136 224 Altegany, 5 4 114 84 2l Hebron, 5 5 101 65 13' Clara &P.V. 2 2 52 40 20 Roulette, 3 3 114 .. 81 -27 Enlatia, ~-3, 3 86 71 234 i i Sweden, 5 4 •78 - 63 154 Jcckson, 2 Pike, 4 1 23 20 20 W. Branch, 1 1 19 17 - 17 Summit, 1 1 22 17 17 Homer, 3 2 .57 44 22 Abbott, 2 1 13 8 8 Siewardson, 1 Wharton, 4 -3 69 Portage, 1 - I Coudersport, 1 - 1 35 25 25 Districts, (.:2 Townships, 1 Borough,) 23 School Houses, 80 Schools open this winter, 64 Scholars enrolled in 64 schools, 1838 - ‘‘ . belonging to-16 closed schools, 459 ' / 80 schoOls,.. 2'297 Average No. of scholars to a school, 28 ~, attendance in 64 schools, 1384 o • • `t ." - each school, 21 " of irregular pupils to each-schl, 7 Aggregate of-irregular attendants, 454 " belonging to 16 closed schls, 459 " pupils out of sad. each day, 213 The aggregate of pupils, for the county, is put down at 2297; but judging from the estimated population of the county, and the paucity of large scholars, especially boys, there must he a much larger. number of children in the county titan the figures indicate; and the number actually out of school during the past winter, must also be much larger than I have set down. Besides the 454 irregular attendants, 1 and the 459 estimated for 16 closed chools, there must be many .more Children who-do not attend; not in eluding scores •of •young.. men and ' women, .under the age Of 21, who have I mostly ceased to attend school. Coudersport, - Murat 8. • P. No Christian Would Fell his Brother. The Christian Freeman of Boston, is, we believe, the leading Universal ist. paper of New England. .It says there is.no Universalist paper in the. South,.and proves it in this way: There is a paper published in Notasulga, Ala., called the Universalist Herald. But wo • perceive that is has vir.ually renounced Uni versalism; foci: makes it a part of i.s busi ; ness to advertise colored people as anicies of I merchandise, which it wou.d not do if it re garded them all as brethren. No man .will adver.ise his own brother'as an article of mer i chandjse. • • .That is well said. •• MAIMS. EDITOR S ; Willie some - of your correspondents are endeavoring to patch up and forward an imaginary personal s. popularity, permit me to. offer thrnigh the columns of the Jour : - nil a fewlhoughtsob a subject of great moment to' your readers. The scar : . city of provision for man, and food for animals, and the high prices they bear, renders the present a favorable time to discuss the relative value of food. For the Journal. For want of time, I shall advance what i have tasay in the briefest form possible: What articles of diet . are the most nutricieus, th© most healthy, at tl-e same time Abe easiest to obtain at this juncture, produced: by the Eastern War, the exportation of bread, sniffs, and' the great drought of the past season?—what cau we substitute fur . the costly article of wheat flour, now almost beyond the reach of many families?' Chemical analysis shows us that out of one hundred parts or 'pounds of wheat, there are eighty-five parts Bolid matter, and fifteen.of water- Beans contain: Corn meal . . Rice Potatoes - • Butchers' meat Turnips Peas We see by the above, that corn meal contains five pounds more of solid, nutritious substance out of one hundred than wheat flour. Meal is selling at $2.50 per hundred', flour at $5.50. Beans contain eighty-six lb.. solid matter, one part more than wheat fl.mr. NoW, for cheap living, corn m ?al, mixed and baked to suit the dlfferent tastes in the family, is de cidedly preferable. Bean peas, "dd otatoes are all healthy, and toss( s: a large amount, of nutritious subAta Pearls are selling from 81.50 to 81.75 yer bushel 'in different parts of the country. I know many, suppose they cannot live on corn meal, but this is nothing but a whim the experience of uur ancestors contradicts. Corn meal for culinary purposes will yet be regarded as a luxury. People of Potter county, husband your resources—it is a lung time until harvest; expend your money fin• those articles which afford at once the cl►eapest and healthimt . diet. Families who have abundance economize and bestow upon th re who ate der titnte. Our farmers should make more ample proviciou for their 'stock during the long winter months, and not rely wholly on the corn crop—study the capacity of the . soil, and study what branch of ag►i cu'.ture is adapted to the climate. I quote from the report of the Sec retary of the Board of Agriculture of Massachusetts, the relative value of bay and different roots: "From recent experiments, very carefully and - skillfully made, 'it ap re irs that two pounds of raw potatoes el - ord -as' much nourishment as one pound of good English hay. Su three acid two-fifths pounds of beets, or three and one-half pounds of ruta bagas with leaves, or three pounds of carrots; are of the same value as ons of the same hay. Thus if we sup pose an animal to require twenty-four pounds . of hay per day, the place of half thai amount of hay, or - twelve pounds; might be supplied by twenty , four pounds of raw potatoes, or thirty pounds of carrots, or forty-two pounds of rutabagas' with leaves, or by sixty pounds of turnips with. the leaves; with either of these equivalents the animal would be equally well fed. If I.we, assume eighteen tons, or about I seven hundred bushels of carrots as Ithe product of an acre, which , for a good season; with good culture, is a small yield, We have, from thiS one acre what is equivalent to six tons. of hay." 57 19 Will my farmer friends take the trouble to figure out the relative value of hay and . root crops 'on the basi4 assumed above? if so, they . ' will be convinced of the meat economy of a more extended cultivation , and use Of those l oots which, with epial pro priety,, can be appropriated to the table, as articles of diet or fond for animals. AoitteoLs. GI" It is hard to personate and act a part long . ; for When the truth is not at the bottom, nature will alivays he endeavoring to return, and will peep out _and betray herself •one time or 9thei: • Therefore if any' men.think it convenient to seem good, let him be so indeed,.and then, his goodnesS will appear to everybody's. satisfaCtion; so that upon all accounts "sincerity is true wisdom." MEssits., In compliance witlk . Journal's request for an expressi opinion upon the proceedings of Educational Meetings, recently in your village, I can say for and in behalf of others, We were appointed. Instead of the mutual sensibilities and fellow feeling, should have been manifested, logi with suitable instruction, and tions for enabling our teachers ti their seholars up the till of Sci they were set off with . "Ph a , frogs," the "lice of Egypt," greatest fault of which the Poo r tures were guilty, was, they never been to college, and di demand"s3s per month for thei vices." We don't underrate, edge, and wish our teachers wel Classics, but . surely, colleges give the faculty to govern a nor the zeal which brings into sition all the faculties of soul body, fur the progression of tir pits. A •Collegiate is as likely t o "sit down -by the stove and bleep it out," as a farmer's h(iy, who has - by his assiduity. and perseverance, mer ited from the-Inspector his cirtificate. I felt a desire, to hear a sympathising word for our female teachers, who baffle the snowdrifts, frequently build their own fires,. poorly supplied with wood, subject to all the caprices of ignorant parents, and the whims of ignoramuses. They teach for low wages, and;olten do we-see the deli. c: :e frame and slender constitution, herding and giving way under the latiaues of school teaching. We mut, every Candidate for school keeping to aim at higher attainments,—but- it it with them as with Professional men,— the community sustains eorre9poud• ing talents . . Wl-.en as a people we rise in the scale of Imorell and tore, of course we shall have Getter Teacher•, better anctors, better Law yers, and if possible better men to address usat our educational meetings. A Scuoot. DjnEcror. Sweden, Feb. 56, 1855. ”WEITE PEO?LE ALLOWED." There is one fact worth noticing. while we arc pas,ing through them) . tough times—that our colored citizens rank ,as Americans. Though hard di iven like the rest, they gi in and bear it with the best of us. You do not sec them among the applicants - for soup. By hook or by crook they keep body. arid , soul _ together - without outcry. They know as well as others that matey is giving and soup - and flour distributing, hat among the many appeals come none " from the colored Poor." . It is a brave indication, and promises much for .their future. And If we re- Bard that.maxim, "Help thUse who help themselves," they afVord us an oppor tunity•at -this, moment which-should not be neglected. They have quietly organized a society for improving their intellecttial condition, known as the New-York Library Society,—a sort of Colored "Mercantile "—where books and other mental furniture' are sup plied, and lectures un various subjects delivered, - . It has existed long enough on its own bottom to show its soundness, and now is a very good time for every one who has interest in these people w contrib -ute to its aid. Su, good people, whq have intellectual soup to spare,: send them a' dish or two. Look over your shelves, take down a half dozen books that you are almost certain not to need again, or if you are particularly warn: of heart -thi.; morning add a _treasure or two. (you will not fail of finding an equivalent after many days,) tie a string about them and send with your good wishes to the care of Rev. Dr. PENNING• TON, No. 29 Sixth avenue; or to 1 Dr. McCue S,rrTn, No. 55 West Buadway, or to. Mr. PATIVCK REASON, No. 56 Bond-street, and if yeti' have no books that you really can spare just now, look in the charitable compart ment of your porte-niouuaio for a ' for them.—N. Y. Times. WHO ARE NATIONAL MEN?—Ther e are two classes of men who claim to be National. The difference is this-- one class would make Slavery national , and the other would make Liberty national: A -hill has just pa4sed the Senate illustrating•this fact. It pro vides for paying, out of the national treasary, to certain Indian's, full com pensation for the loss of a number of slaves—thus nationalizing the doctrine of property in human flesh. The Senators who voted against this bill were, Messrs.. Brainard,' Foote, Fessenden, Seward, Sumner , Wilson, . Gillette, Chase and 'Wade' Maine, - Vermont, Massachusetts , York and -Ohio gave no votes for it.— Penn4lvania gave no votes against it, both of her Senators, Brodhead and Cooper, beitig. present and voting Aye !—Lockport Journal. • ' • For the Jou
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