THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL J.N . O. S. MANX, J. AIT IZY, Editor: , - - - COUDErtSPOR'F, PA.: `;'11 1"11S1) AV \IOP\I\G, AtiG. 23, 1E155 For President in 1.853 t HON. SALMON P. CHASE, OF OHIO. For Viso Prcoident: CASSIUS M. CLAY, 01' KENTUCKY. I -0„ fodrth page we giro the latest from the seat of war in the Ea:t. The Republican meeting on Friday evening last at the old Court House, showed a greater degree of Unity of sentiment on the shivery question, than ever before existed in Cutzdt..rsp(irr Thtlre is nothing more detesta pie in the ;,.yes of all good men, than dciiiniatary newspapers. They stir up all the worst passions of their parti sans, and create strife, discord, and penunnl hatreds, instead of peace, union, and friendly intercourse be- .tw;!en iieighhnrs L Mr. 'Ross has thresi)ed measured his wheat. He has 12S builels from five acres. This is a fine yield, being a fraction over 2:1 bushe:,, to the acre. Who will inform us of a better yield in this county ? AVe win e..teein it a favor to be in formed of the yield of every field har vested in the county. t 7 The Rev. S. C. Smith and lady request us to say that the very liberal donation made them at the visit on Thurt:day evening, last, was gratefully received,.and that they return sincere aad hearty thanks for the unexpected favor. The amount contributed on rhursthiy evening and next day, was about Feventv dollar—mostly cash. Eocouraging accounts of houn teoU, Crnpi continue to read; us from every section of our county. Wheat, and lye, are more abundant by fir than ever before in our history ; arid it ii now- said that the buckwheat crpp if it continues its present •.-ernise bread the entire county. tiu hez Lrc;2s for one grand stout of NE 1,17 - r The Harrisburg Convention w!iich. nominated .' .nia Plutomer, the. any of It endorsed rreil,lcnt. Piet ce, :and to 0 " - s:torso uvernoi- Reeder, thereby in viting the President to remove Mr. 3?., which he did—a very natural cua se:pence of this ac: on of he party in Goveraor R.ectler's own State. Now, how can a man support Plummer, without unilorsing the I'reßident and eondomning Beerier M -1 ' Oar friend Major Milh+ has Fh-,wn es a sample of new oats raised by Mr. Giassmire of Allegany, which will elinal" any ever raised in the . Mr. G. brought fifty bushels tl town on Tuesday, for which be re ceived ca.th. Thus the new crop will soon make the money flow among the farmers. There is truly a bright-prospect for this county. We hope there will be a harvest for the printer in due time. CoWAN Fir Shall the Slave Power commit other and greater outrages Y Shall the cowardly removal of Gov. Reeder go unvelMked I Shall •Atchison and Stringfellow carry the law of the - 4owle-knife and revolver over all our WeAertt Territories These questions are vow before the American people. They cannot be it nor avoided. How do you propose to answer them ? The only drectual way of making an answer in the negative, is to role against their allies and apologists wherever found, no matter fur what office they present tliemselve3. Our Iliad Bird, of Sweden, has very kindly undertaken to furnish us the local items of interest of that township. his first letter, in another column, is of interest to every farmer. We give his name in full because he has no objection to it. We shall not make the names of our correspondents public, only as their letters shall show such is their pleasure; and if we can procure regular correspondents in every township,,we shall not publish the entire letters sent us, as a general ru'e ; but will publish the news fur )iislied, in short items in our own lan guago. -Tla smilax= parry or PEN'NSYI VANIA, We published in last week's Jour nal a call for a Republican State 'Con vention to be hold in Pittsburg on the sth day of September next. We at o cheered at the favor with which this movement is received by the people of Pennsylvania. The mass are sick of fighting battles that mean nothing. They demand the organization of , a party that will give expression to the present wishes of the people. Every man of sense can see that something Must be done to resist the spread of slavery, or it. will soon be master of every foot of American soils-that the slave power must be met and over- I thrown, or it will soon have absolute control of this nation. This walk cannot be done by the pro-slavery democratic party, because that is ecn trolled in every free State by the allies of slavery. If it were not so , the Missouri Compromise would ne vet have been repealed. If the old line democratic party was mot the ally of slavery, Governor Reeder would nev er have been removed. If the party in a single free State had spoken in manly terms of self-respect against the Missouri mob, the President would not have dared to commit this out rage. llf the party in -this State . had spoken through its Foutth of July State Convention, a few earnest words in defence of Governor Reeder, it would have saved him; but the party was controlled by doughfaces, and so Governor Reeder was thrown over board at the dictation of the Missouri slaveholders. The only remedy for these humiliating outrages, is the union offreemen all clas; et, in disre gard of old party ties, into a party of freedom that shall sweep the State and the Nation. Wo say this is a self-evident proposition, a truth that every Man must see.. The people see it, and mean to act-in accordance with it. Henee the desperation of hunker leaders. Hence the abandonment of all argument, all principle—hence the intense personal warfare. It is hoped the attention of the people can be withdrawn from the misconduCt of the President, the perfidy of his party in repealing the i Missouri compromise, the danger of freedom in Kansas, and the endorsement of all this by the. Harrisburg convention. It is expect ed by our opponents that the people of this county will forget all this, in per sonal hatre.ls which pro-slavery dem ocrat.. in Coudersport are so skillful in cultivating. But we shall take c;:fe that other and more important ques tions are kept in the minds of the masses. Believing that the traffic in intoxicating drinks is productive of crime and misery wherever tolerated, we shall endeavor to strengthen the temperance sentiment of the )county by fact and argument. Believing that the rule of slavery is corrupting every lofficer of the Nation and State, who acquiesces in its unjust demands, we shall endeavor to persuade all men who think alike to act alike; and so we present the call fin. the Republi can Convention at Pittsburg„ as a plat form on which all men, who honestly desire to do something firs. freedom in Kansas, can unite - and act together in i harmony. Our townsman B. Ronnells, not relishing the idea of depending on the West for his bead, purchased some wild land last season, in Sweden. township. He went to work in the windfall, cleared off a few acres, plow ed it, and tin the kith of September last, sowed.a bushel and a half of flint wheat' procured at Dansville, N. Y., on two acres of land. On the :25th of September he sowed one bushel pro clued in Roulet, on one and a quarter acres. He has threshed and measured his wheat. From his two acres of land on- which he sowed one and a half bushels, he has fifty bushels' of as nice wheat as any man need desire. From his bushel of wheat sowed on one and a quarter acres, he has twen ty-eight bushels of nice wheat. In addition to this, he sowed, in the latter part of April last, two and three fourths bushels of spring wheat, on two and three-fourths acres of ground, and raised fifty-four bushels. In all he has 132 Imahole. of what from 51 bushels of seed, and from six acres of land, which is twenty-two bushels to the acre. Of the forty German papers in Ohio, , all Gat tiro support the Republican State Ticket. A GOOD WY GONE-HOME Wofind . the following'ir the . Bra dford Reporter: Hon. Han Act WiLmsves died at his resi dence i n Atheni, on Tuesday morning last, in. the 74th year of his age. Mr. W, was one of the oldest members of the bar of the county, and presided over the Courts of this District for some years. He occupied a high position as a lawyer, and enjoyed the respect and es teem of those who knew hint, as au upright and honest. man. We have known the Hon. Horace Williston for twenty-five years, and in all that time, never heard of his doing or saying anything that would injure society, 'or lower himself in the esti mation of the purest and best. With out wealth to give him a factitious im— portance, he was always arming, the most influential men of his neighbor hood. Great without a desire to ap pear so; learned, yetmodest asa.child; benevolent to 'the extent of his means, but shrinking from any publication of his good deeds, we feel that he was a model man. While President Judge of this District, he exerted the hap piest influence on all with whom he came in- contact. 'Were all men of iufluenee like him, there could be -no strife or discord in . society. Peace, harmony, and happiness accompanied him; for he was virtuous, wise and high-minded. The slanderer shrank from his presence, the egotist was shamed into modesty, and the proud man was humbled. He reproved without wounding, and - encouraged without exalting. He has gone.— Though dead he yet speaketh, and happy will it be for us if we treasure in honest hearts his virtuous precepts and pure example. • A WARNING FOR SMOKERS . Next to intoxicating drinks, we believe the. use of tobacco to be the Most injurious of habits. The follow ing is an extract from a letter to the . N. T. Evening Post, from a water cure establishment at Saratoga. It is not an isolated case. Just such are occurring constantly. -Read, yonag smoker, arid think what is to be the result of your datigerous and expens ive habit: • At prestint there is a gentleman here whose ease is Se peculiarly interesting that I cannot forbear re'ating it in' order that those who read may be warned thereby. John S. of Glenn, N.. 17., a wealthy farmer, has been in the habit of. smoking during the last ten years, and for the last three was a most inveterate smoker. He has alway s b een quite healthy untiflast March, when, after ex amining the cankered mouth of a horse with his hands, before washing them he accident ally rubbed oil' a pimple from the corner of his mouth. A severe sore WZII. the conse quence, extending below the external oblique ridge, causing the musc'es to become swollen and :ante. 'the' sore itself was of a deep purplo color, without pus, A physi c i a n ap. plied nitrate or silver which caused it to slough otf and heal. At' this time he had not smoked for more than a week, and being better, the temptation to renew his habit triumphed; he se,zed au old pipe vnit its stem saturated with oil, and smoked till the skin was oh his tongue larger than a shilling piece. Three days after it appeared healed, but his tongue became gran n'ated. accompanied wilt a prickly sensation extending over the entire system, and re,ull i»g in paraly , ,is. Ile 'employed an allopathic physician three weeks, and in that thus lost twenty-live pounds .in weight. Ile then put himself under the care or a homompathic doc tor who helyed him much. His limb.-; above his knees begin to feel natural, but. were ex tremely weak, as nlflo his body; his arms and lower extremities he describes as " reeling asleep." When he came to this establishment he could barely walk With a crutch and cane; now, afer taking the water treatment three weeks, he ran walk very well with a cane; and the disagreeable sensations in his limbs are gone, except very slightly in .his feet, Some physicians were of opinion that the paralysis-was caused by the poison front the horse, others by that from the tobacco; and some from botti. Dr. Bedortha was of the opinion that the blame could all be charged to the oil and fumes of the old pipe. Were it not malevolent, I could indulge in- the wish to see collected all the users of the pernicious weed, to 'count how numerous are the semi paralytic tobacco army in our cOuntay, We commend the following fa ble to the study of those disinterested Acadernyjruste"es who resigned their office to punish the people for refusing to elect the men designated by them fur associates in the Board. "A gay old woman seeing all her' wrinkles represented in a large look ing glass, threw it upon the ground in a passion, and broke it into a thousand, peices; but as she was afterwards surveying the fragments with a spite ftil kind of pleasure, she . .could not forbear uttering to herself the follow:.. ing soliloquy: 'What have I got by this revengful blow of rninel I have only multiplied my deformity, and• see a hundred ugly faces, where be : fore I saw but one.'," We think the people of this county will be glad to have either of those men answer the question, what have they • gained by their revengeful blow at the Acade my l Suppose they have ruined the Institution, as the old woman did the looking-glass, what then? • A very pooflook-o . uta jail windoiv CHASE /MD . CLAY The Wellsboro Agitator raises 'the name of Salmon - P. Chase for Presi dent and Hon. David Wilmot for Vice President. We respond most heartily to the_ nomination .of Chase, but we think the Hon. D. Wilmot .- should represent this State in the Senate of tho United States, and we trust there is wisdom an& independence -.enough in the people to seeld him there. We therefore raise the name of Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, for Vice Pros. ident. His noble vindication of free speech in Ketitucl4,- must endear him to every honest heart, and his manly virtues would give a_higher tone to the canvass than we have witnessed during late campaigns. And besides, his nomination would deprive our op ponents of any pretext to call us a sec tional party. Or Friends of your county,-there are 'greet questions at issue, and a great work to be done. The times are propitious. Providence has smiled on the labors of the husbandman, and filled his barns with plenty. In grati tude for these blessings he will now listen with attentive ear to the wants and dangers of others:. Now is the time, therefore, for -every man to do his duty. Now is the time'to rebuke the authors of the Kansas outrage, and -of the indignities heaped upon Gov. Reeder. Let _a venal and pro slavery press fill its columns with personal slanders and malicious char ges, if it will; let the friends of free dom in Kansas, and of flee speech and manly action everywhere, employ their time in disseminating light and truth upon tho•practical, living, and public questions of the day. All. the liberal papers in Western Penniyl- . vauia. are heartily , in favor of holding a Re publican State Convention at Pittsburg on she 2ilth of this. month. Will the Erie Ga zelle say what it thinks of this movement.— Putter County Journal. A civil tinestion is always entitled to a civil answer; and therefore we would inform our inquiring friend that we think right well of it. Our heart and our voice are with any ICllVC 'Tient contemplating an effectual cheek upon he incursions of the Slave Power—any t , ,,r , y desiring and. designing the interpositic..: successful obstacles to the further spre , Slavery, while disavowing. the slightest ; position to interfere with it in . jhe Sta.esin - %VI:ICI' it legally and constitutionally exists— any organized body opposed to the Kansas- Nebraska Bill, and having in. view the est4b lishaneut of Law and Freedom in the territo ries of Kansas and Nebraska. Are you satis fied, dear sir s—Eric Gaulte. Certainly; and in accordance with the above sentiments we presume the Gazette will urge the people of Erie county to see that they are well rep resented in the Pittsburg Coareution. The note of Mr. Overton, be low,.resigning his position as Vestry man of the Episcopal Church of this village, suggests some thoughts hire- . lation - to the real motives of Dent and Tyler in resigning their position as members of the Board of Academy Trustees, not very creditable to the candor or honesty of those persons. We learn from the-Secretary of the Vestrymen of this Church, that on the 30th of April last, "C. W. Ellis, Rev. John 13: Pradt, - and .li. H. Dent were appointed a committee to report the names of twelve Vestrymen," and that they reported among others Timothy Ives, C. W. Ellis, P. W. Knox, G. - B. Overton, and H. H. Dent, who were duly elected. On the 30th of April Mr. Dent had not learned that G. 13. overton could not be used. by him ; hence at that time he was entirely fit .for Vestryman ofthe Episcopal Church. But on the 4th of August. it had been discovered that Mr. 0. was not to be used, and hence he was peculiarly unfit for the position, of Trustee. Hence his note in another column. Mr. Overton does .well to, decline acting as vestryman while mon gov erned by such motives are chosen folhis associates: (Copy.) COUDERSPORT, Aug. 22, 1855. To Rev. J. B. Ptadt, Rector of Christ Chufeh, Coudersport. Eta: Being called upon by you lasttspring, at the solicitation, as you said, of H. H. Dent, to ask me to serve another year as Vestryman of Christ Church in this place, I then objected, but notwithsianding.my objection, you chose to elect me without my knowledge or consent.. I now resign my position as Vestryman. My reasons for so doing are founded ou no personal feelings against the Church, but that individ uals were elected to be my associates in the Board, who are "peculiarly unfit" to ho re garded by Christians or others as models for imitation, or as Vestrymen of a Church pro fessing pure _Christianity. -"As unfounded conjectures may be indulged iu as to the causes of this my resignation, I have deemed it due to the public to be thus explicit about my motives in the premises." with due respect, I am, eg.c.:i G. B. OVERTON. From the N. Y. Tribune TEE ISTIT Itilisnzan. Ortlecsistrno, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1855 Our - unusnally quiet neighborhood was somewhat startled on Thursday morning by the report of a suicide in our midst. A young woman natued Riker, wife of Mr. Richard Riker, committed suicide by taking arsenic. The cause is supposed,'or rather"known to be trouble of dilumestic kind. - The husband is considered a worthless, drunken loafer. lie would not support her nor live with her. About two weeks since an old Frenchman named Frank, living just over the State line in Jersey, got drunk at a Jersey rum-hole, rode home, and as he was alighting from his wagon fell and broke his neck. He leaves a family dependent upon charity. So much for rum.. These fruits are everywhere appa rent. They convince all men of com mon sense, that the traffic in intoxi cating drinks should be abolished by the strong arm of the law. There was a case Occurred in Homer last spring, not mentioned by us at the time, be cause we expected it would undergo judicial investigation: There being at present no prospect -of that, we shall mention it as another item of proof against the terrible scourge. A man on his way to Sinnamahoning with a barrel or • two of whiskey, stopped on Ayres Hill over night, we believe, at a house where both man and wife chink freely of the fire-water. They.drank on this occasion, and en couraged their children to d'rink, one of whom, a promising boy about•fivti years of ago, became beastly chunk, dead' drunk—so dead that he never came to life, and ho was buried, the, victim of the rum traffic. Lynch Law in Wisconsin Pifir.wmActr., Aug. 8, 1855, Judge Larabee held a special term of his Court yesterday at \Vest Bend, Washington County, for the trial of Debar, the murderer of the Meyer family. The Jury brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree, when the prisoner was rethauded to jail to await sentence. 'Jim Sheriff started for the jail with the prisoner surrounded by military. A rush, however, was - made by a mob, and the military gave way. Debar was struck to the ground by a stone, when the mob fell upon him and mangled hint in a dreadful -manner. They then tied a rope to his heels and dragged hail through the streets a dis tance of half a mile and hung him by the heels to a' ttee,,ivhere he remained hanging lifeless up to ti P. M. yesterday. As the President did not think the outrages of the Missouri mob called for any notice at the hands of the Gov ernment officers, lawlessness seems to be extending with a fearful rapidity at the West; Ea"-- Mrs. Barber, who left hero last week, donated ono hundred dollara towards paying off the debt of the Methodist Church of this place. We arc also•informed that she directed her agent to pay one hundred dollars to each of two other Churches in this county. This speaks well for her lib: etality, and the assistance to the Church . here is a great relief to a worthy society'. Mcssns EDIOR9 : Your call fur "lo cal news - shall be readily and cheer fully responded to, gratis, in Sweden township; for as all mankind live upon the fruits of the earth, agriculture is, of course, the most important business. We have some farmers who, I think, are not much behind the best in our county. As soon as may be I will. send you some statistics of the farms owned by Ntessrs Johnson Chase, Wm. Lyon, and H.H. Dent. In regard to wheat, I believe Lam a little ahead of the Messrs Taggart. Although I have threshed but past, I am safe in saying that I shall have twenty-seven bushels on one acre. This was on high land whore the beech - and maple were in terspersed with hemlock. It was sowed the first week in Septeinber. I sowed some as late' as the 25th, but got my labor for my pains, having about 14 _bushels to the acre, with considerable chess to boot. This ac counts for the origin . of chess ; for the seed was precisely the "same. in the town where I lived before coming here, a farmer produced from his wheat field, a straw, having on it a head of wheat and a. head of chess, both in full maturity; so that I believe chess is a species of wheat, and can be pro duced any season by late sowing, feeding off, &c. Yours truly, H. L. BIRD Sweden, Aug. 23, 1855 tgr The above communication is just what is neeaed. It contains facts about wheat growing of importance. One fact is that his late-sown wheat was nearly a failure. igr "There is a certain frivolous falsehood . that poople indulge them selves in, which ought to be had iu greater detestation than it commonly meets with." To Teachers, Directors, Parents, and all interested in our Common Schools 1- -The following extract from a Ciro calar addressed to School Directors by the State Superintendent, is taken . from the August No. of the Pennsyl vania School Journal, and is earnestly commended to public attention: ' To Di RECTORS.- Teachers' Institutes is to be "regretted that in some portions of the- State, Directors and others are indifferent, or hostile, to the formation of associations for the improvement of Teachers in the du ties of their prefpssion. The great . want of the system at this time,\ and one that is heavily felt throughout the State, 1,1 the want of a sujicient nunther of thoroughly 'trained and experienced Teachers. The State has thus far, un fortunately, neglected to make Leg islatire provision for permanent Nor.: mal Schoels,and- this neglect must be remedied, so far as possible, ky,yol untary efforts on the part of Teachers for mutual improvement, the way of Associations and InstitutCs. It is the duty of Superintendents to organize such ass'ociations curd take charge them. An& it is due to them, and to the welfare of the schools, that Di rectors and , Teachers and Parents cor dially- second their alms for this pur pose. The Department cannot too eatnestly urge the importance and necessity of this line of policy.". In accordance with these timely and ; judicious instructions, as well as with his own previous views and intentions, the undersigned proposes to call to gether the 'Teachers of this county early in October, for the purpose of reikganizing and. strengthening our Teachers' Association, and especially fur the purpose of holding. another TEACHERS' INsTITLTE. It is expected that the Superintendent and Teachers of iNl'Kean county will join us in this undertaking, which will add greatly to its interest and value. In addition to such local aid as can 1e obtained; arrangements are in progress to sertire the assistance of gentlemen from abroad of eminet,t, ability in conducting such enterprises. As soon as perfected, tlf6e arrange ments will announced. In order to subserve economy, ar t angements will ulso - be made to fur nish 'ocartl in commons, to those who desire it, at the lowest possible cost. It is proposed to continue the Insti tute four weeks, and it is hoped that the expense to each pupil who boards in commons, Will not exceed the fol- lowing amount For the Journal RE Provisions in reasonable amounts and . of good quality, will be received in part payment of the expense of board in 4mmons, Private board, including . -use of room, can probably be obtained at abotit per week ; making the whole expense say In the present season of rethrning plenty and prosperity, it is - hoped that a generous and united effort will be• Made over the county to render this enterprise one of great benefit to the schools. To this end Directors can contribute very much by holding out such oGrs %razes for well qual ified teachers as will be encourage ment to them to attend the Institute. Potter County must not fotfeit the good name she has already acquired for her activity in the educational . movement, by now lagging behind, when nearly all other. parts of tho the State are moving onward. J. B. PItADT. Cu. Su,.'t. , August 23, 185.5. - .Pursuant to public notice, a meeting of those in favor of the Republican movement, was held at the Court House in Coudersport, on Friday evening, August 17. . The meeting was organized by electing Nelson Clark President, and Hugh,Young Secretary. The object of the meeting having been briefly stated by the President, the meeting proceeded to elect a del egate to the State Republican Con vention to be held at Pittsburg on the sth day of September next. The mooting selected John S. Diann, Esq., as delegate with power -to substitute. Remarks were made by several gen tlemen present, when tho following tesalutions were offered, and unani: measly adopted Resotrcd, That 'We approre of the call TELL Is' trISTIIInE CIRCULAR. • Met i;i;,no per week $1,60 Room rent, 11:25 " 1,011 Tuition • 0;25 - " •• •L 101 REPIII3LICAN. MEETING ME
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