THE - PEOPLE'S JOURNAL.
J 31 ANN, A. AVERY; Editors
COUDERSPORT, PA.:
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 2, 1855
On the outside of this number
an amioyingerror occurred in making
up thy forms. The short story, CUM
mencing on first page, headed " Willie
Gray,." is divided, and. part of it will
be found on the fourth page, second
column, tiear the middle, commencing
he asked," &c.
Lir Dun't furget the election of
Academy Trustees on Friday next.
rirGuvernor Reeder is removed !
So, the slave drivers crack their whips,
and the Administration obeys as pli-
autly as any serf.
rirJohn Mann will deliver an ad
dress before the members of Eulalia
Division S. of T., on Saturday eveuiug
next. It i 3 hoped there will be a full
attendance.
arAll the liberal papers in West
ern Pennsylvania, are heartily in favor
of holding a Republican State Con
vention at Pittsburg on the 29th of this
month. Will the Erie Gazette say
what it thinks of this movement ?
E' We ale much gratified with the
prospect of coal lands in M'iean
county. A large number of moneyed
men from New York, Buffalo, and
other places, are examining these coal
fielde with a view of buying. 11l fact
heavy purchases have already been
made, and our townsmen, Hon.. S. Ross
and - John M. Hamilton,<have a li s beral,
offer for their coal lands on the Port-
age
rirThe Public - Works of this State
must be in poor demand. They have
twice been offered for sale, the last
time on Tuesday, the 2•lth of July, at
the Exchange in Philadelphia. Surne
three hundred persons congregated to
witness the sale. Mr. Myers, the
auctioneer stated the terms of sale,
and that nu bids would be taken less
than sewn and a half millions. No
bidii were made, and the sale was ad
journed size die.
lame Quarterly meeting of the
Stockholders- of the Coudersport Li
brary Association, will be held, at the
house, of the Librarian, on Saturday
aftern6on next, at two o'clock. 'We'
Lope to see a' full attendance, as it is
expected. the meeting will . be an in
teresting one. Let all friends of edu
cation and a pure literature, attend.
Those who are not members can easily
become so, so there is no excuse fur
staying away
Ear The. oldest inhabitant never
knew so much rain fall in fourteen
days, as; has come down since Thurs
day, the l,'Jth of July. On Sunday
evening last, we had a thunder storm
of terrific wildness, with a flood. of
rain, and. wind that sent it through the
houses, leaving. no Cr..; spot. The gar
dens in Coudersport on Monday mor
ning presented a sorry spectacle.
Every thing lay flat on the ground.
We trust the storm was more severe
than i,n other parts of the county--;
Otherwise serious damage was done
to the, crops.
'Our village has been favored,
with the presence of a largo number
of Philadelphians during the past ten
days. Last Iveek we noticed the visit
of. Dr. Keating. Saturday's stage
brought Win. Hamilten, Actuary of .
the Franklin Institute, Gco. Steward
non and family, and Mr. Anson Jewel.
There were two. others here before,
ind we hope the stage on Saturday
will bring still more. We like to see
. intelligent strangers from any section
of country, but must be pardoned for
feeling . a little partiality for Philadel
phians,
rirThare is another communication
from t' P." concerning a union of the
schools in this village. We ask the
Itt.tention of all our citizens to this
article. We are sorry to see so many
alinCilitie B in the way of this improve
ment ; but we have' faith to believe
they can all be overcome by the ener
gy and enterprise of our
. citizens.
9tlr friend P, has put the salary of the
Principal too low, we think ; but let
us give the matter a thorough discus
'6ion,and we shall'get- at the facts soon.
'The letter Of the Deputy Superintend
put ratans other obstacles ; but still we
• WWI model rehool," and we shall
It If ws, our (bit y.
TEE nmucar PARTY
Every intelligent perstin is aware
that the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise so shocked and outraged the
moral sentiments of all honest men,
that all other questions of a_ public
character gave way to this. Opposi
tion to this repeal carried: every free
- Stec at the elections which followed
the consummation of this scheme. Old
issues were forgotten, old parties were
abandoned. The people united fur
freedom without regard to former
political prejudices. This revolution
has called into existence another party.
Pro-slavery leaders. fight against it ;
pro-slavery papers call its iTiernbers a
" motley crew of agitators," " turn
coats," "renegades," "fanhtics," "trait
ors," "political imposters," agitating
hypocrites," " political gamblers,"
"braggadocio upstarts," and various
other like elegant and refined terms,
which no one not reared under the
influence of the graces, accomplish
ments, Christian candor, scholarly
acquirements, gentlemanly• deport-
merit, elevated character, disinterested
patriotism, and platonic "virtue «'hich
are only to be found on a slave planta
tion, could ever hope to uae with a
proper flow of, suitable adjectives.
But as yet this style of logic has'never
yet convinced a sensible man that the
rule of Slavery was either right or
tolerable. The people see that Slavery
is bringing the nation to ruin—that it
is degrading • and defiling every matt
who bows to its influence—they see
that it controlS the National Adininis
tration.—that it overrides all law and
decency in Kansas, and that it is. quite
time to put a stop to . these disgraceful
putrages.;_ and they are about to do it.
Hence the organization of the Repub
lican party, with principles so self-evi
dently true that all classes flock to its
banner.
We have frequently published the
objects and plans of the Republican
party, but •as every day is securing
new frierfds to the movement, we
publish at this time the following ex
tract from the National Era, which
wo believe is a faithful and exact
statement of the principles of the
new pgity of Freedom. As these
measures are just and wise, and pre
cisely what the country needs, the men
who oppose them are obliged. to do it
exclusively with epithets. Not one
argument does an old hunker ever use
in opposition to the party of Freedom;
but in the use of such epithets as we
have quoted above, they never tire.
Can men of sense be retained in the
party that is sustaining the Missouri
slaveholders in subjugating Kansas, by
such silly twaddle ?
But hero is the Era's statement of
the objects of the new party :
Its leading and distinguishing principle may
be briefly stated to be this That Slavery is a
great moral and political evil, based on prin
ciples utterly- repugnant to the Declaration of
ludependmice and the general spirit of the
.Constitution ; that the Constitution tolerated
its existence in the States, from a political
necessity, but gave it no word of approba
tion; that it is merely a local State iristitti
tiondepends upon the local law for support,
and where that is withdrawn, it falls to the
ground as a nullity. Hence, it - cannot exist
in the Territories or in the District of Colum
bia; that Slavery being against natural right,
all .clauses of the Constitution which are
supposed or claimed to be favorable to it
must be construed strictly ; that the clause
relative to fugitives from labor, if it refer at
all to slaves, institutes a compact between the
States, bin confers no power on Congress to
legislate:in the matter. Or it may be the
opinion of others who have joined the Re
publican ranks, that Congress possesses a
constructive power of legislation relative to
fugitives from labor, which must be cautiously
exercised, with a sacred reference to those
individual guaranties of personal rights which
secure "to every person the writ of habeas
corpus and trial by jury.
THE PARTY claims no
right to touch the institution of Slavery in the
States. It is eminently the State Rights party.
Every leading man in the ranks is fully com
mitted to this platform. Mr. Chase, Mr.
Sunnier, ;%Ir. Giddings, Mr. Hale, General
Wilson, have a thousand times expressed
these views; and the distinguished Senator
from New York, whom we now feel author.
ized to claim as of the same party, has been
equally explicit in placing himself on the
State Rights ground.
The etfort to ignore the existence of this
great party, or to misrepresent its principleS,
by confounding them with those of Mr. Gar-
rison on the one hand, or of Mr. Gerrit
Smith on the other, will be short-lived. It
will make itself felt. We wash the South to
understand the position of this party. We
regret to see false or exaggerated • notions
prevail, which are well calculated to excite
and irritate the public mind. It is better that
the people of the South should know the
simple truth. The people of the North pro
pose to take from them no constitutional
right—to interfere in none of their domestic
institutions; but they mean to . divorce the
Federal Government from Slavery, and to
make it what the Constitution declares its
objectio be, the conservator of Justice and
Liberty.
r2P "Mau is a sociable creature,
and a lover of glory; whence it is,
that when several pesons are united
in the same society, they are studious
to lesion the reputation of others, in
order to raise their oWn."
TEE LAW OP SLAVERY
We gave list week an account of
the liberation, in Philadelphia, of three
persons claimed as slaves by one John
H. AVleeler, who is an accredited
minister to the goi•ernment of Nicar
augua. He Was on his way with his
three servants, to embark - at New York
by passing through Pennsylvania to
that city. While on board the steam-
boat at Philadelphia. while lying_ at
the wharf, Passmore Williamson, and.
some colored. persons, partly by force
and partly by persuasion, got the
slaves on shore, and had them taken
beyond their master's reach
Now, it has been settled by various.
decisions, as well in the slave States
as in the free, that slavery is a local
institution, and cannot be extended
beyond the jurisdiction of the munici
pal power which established it.. And
hence, when a master Lripgshis . slaves
into a State wbich does not recognize
slavery, that moment they are free.
KnOwing this Passmoro Williamson
told the persons whom Wheeler claim
ed, or claims, that they were free; and
they. went in pursuit: of their own hap
pinass. Whereupon Judge Kano is
sued a writ of habeas corpus, directing
Passmoro Williamson to produce these
liberated persons .in Court; Mr. W.
returned for answer that the persons
named were not under his control,
which return Judge Kane decides is
a contempt of cow t, and Williamson
is now in prison
We shall make no comments on this
monstrous stretch of power at presents
•
but give, i nstead, the comments of the
N. Y. Ere. Post, to which we ask the
candid attention of the people. The.
Post says:
We are brought, then, to thin conclusion,.
that according to.the new chictrine, the States
have no power to abolish slavery. A law
against slavery, so far as it is meant to operate
on n title to slaves acquired in a slave State, is
unconstitutional. The master cannot, we
are told by Judge Kane, be thus divested of
his property ; the courts of the federal gov
ernment will set its provisions aside. -In other
branches of legislation the State Legislatures
may be sovereign; in that of slavery they are
limited, and must defer to the law of the slave
States. Wherever the slaveholder goes, he
carries with him the law of North Carolina or
Virginia, and if the State Legislatures and the
State courts do not respect it. they will be
compelled to respect it by the_ courts of the
United States.
If the master who brings his slaves into a
free State, does not lose his right of property,
it is clear that he may transfer it for a cousid
eration to another—for the right of sale is in
cidetit to the -right of property. We shall
soon have under this new interpretation of
the law, a slave market and slave pens in
Philadelphia, under thP grave eyes of the
Quakers themselves. Slaves from Virginia
will be sold in Arch street for the Texas mar
ket, to be taken by water to Galveston or
New Orleans. The slave-trader from Norfolk
will meet the slave-driver from Missouri at
some convenient point in Indiana or Illinois
—for the man whose right of property is ac
quired in Virginia, cannot be divested of it
because he finds it convenient to pass through
a free State—and thus the slave trade will
flourish, and gangs of slaves be collected in a
free State, to be driven to the West—per-
Imps to- Kansas—in defiance of the local
laws.
Judge Kane is faithfully doing his part-in
the great work of nationalizing slavery. It is
henceforth to he a federal institution—not a
creature of the States, but of the general gov
ernmetit. The day of strict construction and
State rights is gone by. We are .to have a
large and free construction of the constitution,
which shall extend all over the Union the
rights of the Southern slave owner—his right
to possess, to buy, to sell, to punish with the
lash, to handcuff and adorn with iron collars
men and women, his fellow-creatures. The
free States will have only to look quietly on,
while these things are done on their own soil,
without the power to interfere. The doctrine
' is so nakedly stated by Judge Kane that we
can fully understand it. There is a plan to
force slavery upon the free States as well as
upon the Territories, and we must meet and
repel it at once.
VISIT YOUR SCHOOLS
You couldn't do a better thing. Your boy
has the idea that you care scarcely. more than
a fig's value about his progress there—your
girl thinks that you are too busy about more
important matters to worry about her recite- -
lions. Grammar is dry as dust to her, Geog
raphy. is tedious, Arithmetic is a bore, Read
ing is , horrid, Writing is her special abomina
tion. If she speaks of either at the table, she
is hushed up. You talk of stocks. and the
Senatorship—of the war and free trade.
The young ones learn to think their studies
very small matters in comparison with yours.
But visit their school to-day. Hear a les
son or two recited. Learn from their teach
er what their standing what they oftenest
fail, in what they excel. See who sits next
them in* the schoolroom, See how they
compare in personal appearance—whether
they look happy and at home. If acquainted ,
with their school habits you cannot but be
interested in them, and then you cannot pox
sibly avoid talking of-,them. Making their
matter's subjects of home conversation will .
certainly stimulate them to better efforts—
make better scholars of them. By all means
then visit your schools. Go alone if no one
will go with you. You will always be wel
comed by the teacher, unless he is a fit one to
be turnecl . off.—Pittsburg Visiter.
Those are our sentiments, as .we
have often expressed them in public
and private: We are glad to repeat
them in the more emphatic language
of another, and we shall be still more
pleased to make the language still
more emphatic. We _say •visit your
schools, for without that they will not
prosper to you."
10"" The necessities of mankind
require various employments ; and
whoever excels in his province is wor
thy of praise," .
COMPLIITENT AILY—"OVER THE LEFT."
Ii - Makes us feel -considerably elevated
when we read the flattering notices about the
Balarice, but when they come to us "did up"
in such a manner as that in the Peoples Jour
nal, of Coudersport, we dont feel much
higher than before. If the editor of said
paper should think proper to give another
sheet that might happen to be Started Im this
county, a notice, we would recommend the
following form: • -
We have received the first number of the
—, but we do not think he has quite
wool enough in his inkstand to snit our ideas,'
and if the people of Tioga had but one throat
and we had hold of it, we would choke 'em
into a year's subscription for the Excruciator,
because we think the editor will chop any
one into mince meat who isn't right ou the
"goose question." . However, the pre
sents a neat typographical appearance and its
articles are will" arranged. Success,—Bal
ance.
It is simply because we do not.
follow "form" in writing upon any
subject, but speak our own sentiments
in our Qwn way, that the Journal's
notice -of the Balance was a compli
ment over the left. We stated a fact.
There was no need of starting another
Temperance - paper in Tioga county,
but having been started, we hope it
will do some good—albeit present
indications are not very favorable:
The third number of a paper LS
. rather
early to assume the airs of a veteran
in service.
01Ili VILLAGE SCHOOL.
The following letter from the Depu
ty Superintendent of Common Schools,
is published for the information of the
friends of education in this village.
Having doubts of the power of the
Board of School Directors to form a
union with the Academy, we wrote to
Mr. Hickok on the subject, who
promptly answered as folloWs :
DEPARTMENT OF COMMON SCHOOLS,
HARRISBERG, Jully 13, 1855.
PEAR Sin: If the Academy mentioned' in
your letter of the 9th inst., will place itself
under the exclusive jurisdiction and control
of the Board of Directors, the arrangement
you propose can be entered into, but not
otherwise under the existing School laws..,
The Common School system of the State, as
at present organized, while it seeks no inter
ference with other educational agencies,
owes its first and highest allegiance to itself;
and the duty of elevating it, within itself to
the highest standard of excellence and effi
ciency; as rapidly as circumstances will per
mit, rests upon every officer connected with
the system. If your . Common School "is not
what it ought to be," may I inquire whether
your
.Board cannot manage materially to im
prove its condition.
Very respectfully;
H. C. Hicxox, Dep. Supt.
J. S. MANN, Prcet. Board of Directors.
lar The Radical Abolitionist is the
title of a new monthly paper with
William Goodell for Editor, published
at 48:13eekman-st.; New York; on the
following terms per annum:
Single copies
Five copies to one person,
Eight copies " "
Fourteen copies "
Thirty copies
The. first number of the paper is
mostly taken up with the proceedings
of the Convention of "Radical Polit
ical Abolitionists;" which assembled
in Syracuse on the 26th, 27th and
28th of June last.
The editor is a man of great ability,
and although we think be would be
more useful if not quite so radical,
yet we honor the man who feaflessly
speaks the truth as ho secs it, and
therefore we hope the Radical Aboli
tionist will be widely circulated, and
handsomely sustained.
Sr. Lows, July 27, 1855.
We have received Kansas dates to the 26th
inst. The committee appointed by the Leg
islature to draw up a memorial praying Pres-.
ident Pierbe to remove Gov. Reeder, reported
yesterday. The memorial sets forth the com
plaints against Reeder from the beginning of
his administration, calls him a clog to the
wheels of government, and asks for his speedy
removal.
_ A private letter to the New York
Tribune has information of a step" on
the part of Gov. Reeder, which, if
true, will bring • matters to a focus.
This letter says :
The Legislature of Kansas adjourned an
the 6th, to meet at Shawnee Mission on the
16th. When their • committee waited on
Gov. Reeder to inform him of their determi
nation to go, he informed them in very dis
tinct terms that he would not recognize any
further action of theirs, but would consider
them dissolved by that act. A few of the
members, more intelligent than the rest,
began, before they left here, to appreciate
their position. . The first - Legislature of Kan
sas is undoubtedly dissolved, and no longer
competent to do business.
NEED Cuurivxrtoir.—rln Potter. and Tioga
counties, Pa., are.larFe bodies of very strong
land yet in the primal wilderness, ,which
would amply repay cultivation. Price of
land, three, to five dollars per' acre; no doc
tors; no bar-rooms'; soil fertile. Certainly,
great inducements to the energetic emigrant.
—Pottsville Jorinal.
True enough. There is _as good
land do be had in this county for three
dollars per acre, as a man need wish,
and no -country in the world v offers
more induaements to the man of small
means, but large resolution.
Cr A fiendish outrage was lately
perpetrated in Binghamton, N. Y.
The Standard of that place says:
. The beautiful and valuable maple trees in
theyards and in front of the private residences
of Messrs. H. E. Pratt, D. L. Brainard, C: M.
Scott, -arid Avitus Olds were girdled find
probably ruined. The treei belonging to
Mr. Pratt were set out eighteen years ago,
and Mr.
.Drainard's about the same time.
Those at Mr. Scott's were ten, years old.
Mr. Olds' were nine in number andi about the
same age of Mr. Scott's. In addition to this,
the fronts of their houses, fences,&c., to
gether with the stores of Messrs . and
Scott were disfigured by being besmeared
with a substance resembling tar, or
.boat
pitch, and black dye. •
There can be no doubt as to the worse
than criminal malice which prompted the
infamous perpetrators of this outrage. The
persons whose property has been thus sacri
heed, are prominent and uncompromising
friends of Temperance and the Maine Law,
and are active members of the Carson League.
It is this fact, and this alone, which makes
them a mark for the envenomed shafts of the
devotees of rum. Thus has it ever been.
The Rum Traffic has been a scourge and a
curse throughout the world. Every species
of 'tiffany and crime of which the heart can.
conceive, follows in its wake. Judged by its
fruit it is . evil, with no countervailing good.
It debauches and depraves humanity. It pro
-motes crime, and fills our poor-houses, hospi
tals and penitentiaries. It burdens the people
with taxation, and as the present outrage tes
tifies, exposes their property to destruction
and their persons to lawless violence.
igr We fear the late heavy and
Continued rains have done serious
damage to the wheat crop. The 2ri
bunc of July 28th says:
The continued warm weather and frequent
showers are doing more damage than was at
first anticipa:ed to the grain. From many-,
places in the interior of the State we hear
that wheat is groWing as it stands in the field,'
while that which has been cut and laying in
the swath is still worse
shocks
and in many in
stances the outside of shocks and stacks are
green as a fresh meadow. The Rochester
papers in particular speak of this state of
things, and several private letters and inter
views with persons front various places at the
interior speak very despondingly of the pros
pect; One gentleman told us that be had
seen hundreds of acres of grass in the swath
which had turned black. and the new grass
was.growing up through the hay.
HANGING WOliEN.—The Now York Cou
rier condemns the desire to save Mrs. Robin
son, the murderess, from the gallows, because
she is a "lady." For the same reason, it is
argued, should we spare a tigress. "Imag
ine," says the wrier, "a tigress fangs yet
stained -with blood of her victims, finally
brought to bay and about to fall before the
eager rifles of her pursuers, when some friend
of felinity rushed forward—" Gentlemen, stop,
for heaven's sake! How can you! Con
sider the gender of this beautiful creature!
It is feminine!"
Right! When woman is refineB,
delicate, sensitive, virtuous, and ami
able, let her be treated with the
respect, deference, admiration, and
protection due to those qualities, but
let us remember that womanhood
without thein is : no more worthy thin
manhood without them.
Deference paid to sex may certainly .
be as appropriately applied to other
animals, as to the. human species. If•
woman in past times has been so gen
erally self-sacrificing, generous and
devoted, upright, gentle and high
souled, as to command respect and
"reverence, let us never forget that she
must retain these qualities, if she
would retain the position these alone
give her. Let no claim to good treat
ment be preferred for her, tha:t can
be preferred by a tiger as well. G.
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EDITOIIS OF THE JOURNAT. :-I have ex
amined with much interest your emirnate of
the amount of tai necessary to support a
Union School in this village, which is as
Part pap of Principal of Academy, $9.00
First Assistant Teacher ($3O per tno,)
Second 12 " 144
This amount would go a good way toward
accomplishing the desired result, but there is
a difficulty : The present tax of 10 mills
yields $300; to raise - $700, would require a
tax of 18 mills !Asides the State appropria
tiOn; but 13 mills is all the law allows. -This
would give us $465, which, with the State
appropriation of $32, makes just ssoo—the
largest amount available by law, with the
present number of taxables.
It would be impracticable to pay any por
tion of this to the Principal of the Academy,
and yet employ two good teachers besides.
In fact, $3OO would not pay for the services
of two such Assistant Teachers as we need,
if we employ them by the year. $3O per
month for a good male teacher, would leave
him less than $2O per month after paying his
board; and $l2 per month for a female
teacher, would leave her not more th-n a
dollar a week for wages. Let ns make an
other calculation :
Male Teacher, $24 per mo.. 8 months, $192
His board, $-2.50 per week, 87
Female Teacher, $3:00 per week, 8 mos., 105
Her board, S2.OU 44 "
70
Contingencies, 46
This would give us eight months' fait
schooling for all our children, in the ordinary
branches. But the difficulty is, that it would
take away most of the pupils and curt
from the Academy. This brings them ut.i the
root of the matter. Our town and county dp
not furnish pupils enough at present for our
Academy proper, and although we _rend our
children there, yet it is to receive instruction
that Might for the most part be just as well
imparted in a good common school. The
consequence- is, that, the district school is
mutilated,ihorn of its interest and most of its
larger pupils, smaller and poorer children
OUR SCHOOLS
CO
hrive poorer advantages than they - ought; %4 4
the larger ones such as they need only it the
expense of both tax and tuition.
Shall we. then suffer the Academy to go
down, or turxP(nto a common-reboot? To
this it may be replied, that an sniconinteraly
good common-school;ope n to all our children,
and offering superior advantages ofinstruction,
would be better than our present division of
schools. To support a free school, however,
of this high order, by tax, is at present out of
the question. It may be requisite, therefore,
to preserve the Academical feature of4tte
school ; that is, receive pay for tuition in the
higher brandies. But as not more than ten
or twenty pupils out of the whole number in
the village would require such tuition, the
Principal of the Academy could as heretofore
take part in the elementary instruction, and
instead of tuition bills, receive a nipulated
min from the di?trict funds. Enough would
still be left to, employ anpther good teacher.
Is it not profitable, however. to so far en
large the scheme as to employ three teachers,
and make it ernirelya - free school? Cianc;
the revenue of the school be co:quite: l l4
increased by subscription 7 Cinnot the_en..
terprise tte made one that shall enlist the.
support of the whole county, by opening the,
school to advanced pupils from other dis
tricts, the directors of those districts paying
small pro rata for the cost of tuition 1 Could!
we not more 'reasonably ask in that case, and
• would not the county more readily consent,
that the present appropriation of $3OO should
be continued from the county treasury? I
make the following estimate or.the eptirs o ,
revenue the School under this plan:
District tax and State appropriation, sioo
Private subscriptions in Coudersport, .400.
Appropriation frotn.county treasury, 300
Pro rata for tuitiou front oases districts, NO
$1404
The expenditure may be estimated. u Col
-
lows:
Pt iucipal, $6OO
Assistant, 450,
Female Teacher, . . 250,
Contingencies, 100
If free tuition would not secure this amount,
let the teachers receive extra compensation
for instructing in the ornamental branches;
but let as many branches aspossible be taught
free of any extra charge..
Not to speculate 'farther, however, I leers
the matter with the Trustees and Directors,.
hoping they may be able. to 4 ive us such a
School as We need. I will only add. that
such a School as I have in mind should, be a
Model School, and a Teachers! Training
SchoJl, for the good of the•whole county.
Coudeisport, August 1, 18:55
MESSRS EDITORS : I noticed an ar
ticle
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in your paper not long since,
suggesting the propriety of increasing
the circulation of the Journal during
the coming campaign. For one, I
heartily approve the motion, and sin :
cerely hope every true friend of free.
dom and progress in the county, will
exert, his influence in so doing. I do
not know the number of copiea taken
in our town, but think it is rather
liberal. Still it might be increase - d, at
least, in the north and west portions
of the town, if wo were fairly dealt by
in regard to a post office. There are
now three post offices in this tow n
one at Millport, one at Sharon Center,.
and one on the Honcioye creek, called
East Sharon—the twglatter being four;miles each from the point known a&
the " Shingle House." - Then there is
Ceres post office *four and a half miles
distant in an opposite direction.—
The. Shingle House, as most of your
readers know, is a' central point, the
most so of any place in the north-west
part of the county ; and there . are now
living within a circuit of two and a
half miles iu each direction frobi it,
sixty families embracing an aggregate
of two hundred individuals, all of whom
would be better accommodated by a
post office at that point; than at any
other. A large share of these families
are now obliged to go five or six miles
for* their mail matter, whereas, were
there an office at the place before
named, they would be within two
miles of it.
We have petitioned again and again
for an office, (I think five or six times,)
some of the petitions being signed by
three,fourths of the voters in the town.
and vet we are without an office
This state of things is a -serious hin
drance to au increase of tbe circuit
tion of any paper coming through the
mails"; and as a friend of the Joureat
and a humble supporter of the princi
ples it advocates, 1 offer the foregoing
as au apology for apparent remissness
in its favor.
One word more. Should this meet
the eye of any friend of the Adminis
tration, I hope it will not be under
stood as a Complaint—no, not at all.
We have no tight to complain—nn
right to expect anything from it, only,
to use the language , of...another, that
infamy will preserve it from oblivion.
Yours as ever, K.
$5OO
Nothing but a good life can it men
for a better one. • -
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