ME VOL. VIII. Business . Cards. F. W. IC.N 3g, firttarat2 at ?bath, CoupEnspoia, PA. WILL regularly atleuti the Courts in Potter County. ARTHUR G. OUSTED. attarm Oaltnartor at IL . COUDERSPORT, PA. WILL :Mend In all bu.inestt entrnqto(l ' •o his c tre with prontinnett and fidelity -011 me—in the Temperance Block, up stairs ISAAC BENSON' a ttornrp at aatu, CoUDERSPORT, P.A. orFICE East side of .lie squlre, , spec .irra , tge nen , profession ti ser vice- of n. e.Joivi, , o,, Esq., in ty be engage :hp-I:1,h hi n in II- c sea in which he .s no previons'y concerned. N. B.—All eiaitn: due and payab ' e to the under,gned, per-onatly - and profession to iv be foand in he hands of J4l= Benson, Esq., for ..,d,usunent. S. P. JOHNSON. MarCh d, 1:!. 1-2tf L. P. WILLISTON. nttorntß at 'Rata. We:lsbor. ,- 'flog t t u. Pa. wi:l attend the Cuur.s in Pot sr, and L. B. CONE" • %ttorutp at ?Late, Well,bnrongia, Ting-4 county. l'a, will regular ly attend toe cout - Lsol cutter county. Jour 3, ISM JOHN S. MANN,.. Ittarnt.l2 t 47 eouttortot at COUDERSPWIT, PA. itt P tz t , t e t i r , WI L 3aunt ‘ t i te K l t u 'u L e . e .. r 1, 4 5 11; O A I I r t " uu iu, trn , t , d i n ca r e ,: will receive prompt ut leution. Office on MAin-street, opposite the Couit House, Co.htorsport, Pu. COU DEIISPOItT HOTEL, Daniel ff. Glansmire P ILOPRIETOR. Corner of Main and Second streets, Cou derpork, Po:ter Co., Va. 44. sMII'II & JONES. Dea ers in Dry Goods, Grocer;es, St:alone ry. Lortig-3.. Medic.. es, I'diu.s, t.i s. Fancy za ,i c .e,, Saeet, Couderspor. Pa, JUNES, MANN, & JONES. Ge\nerai 6rocery and Provi-ion dea.ers— Also 14 Dry 00,,di. Dardware, :lows, and ~ w oes; and %vb.' ever men w.m...L0 bay. M.na Skreel, Cuuder-ina. Fa. / D. E. OLMS.TED. D■s'er in Dry Goods. Readv-mlde Groceriei, Crc;ckery, &c. CsouderJportYa J. w. SMITH. • Deafer in Stoves .„.‘. .; and inannfactuterga k , 0‘ tin, copper, and -t't).-; -heeAron Ware, 31 tin st. Coudersport Pa M. W. MAIN N Dea'er in Ban'.;:, & Sta:innery, Music, and 31. tin s.ree., op o nii e N. W corner, of -he pd 3. c si CJadcrsdort. Pa AIIOS FRENCH. rhysici.,RS: Surgeon, East side Maiu at above 4.h a- k uuderipor. Pa. AV I) B. BROWN Foundrpnan and Dea'er in Ploughs. tip per endolgs.o 4zreez, Couderspor, Pa. ABRAII. YOUNG• ••• Wa•chmiker and Jevre!:er, s's A.l work ‘V:lrr..n:ed. A • rock t C 11'atche5 and Jews ry on h .nd and for sale, Call at the store of S:n:kh & Couders,.ort Pa. JACK!,'"uN & SCHOOMAKER De tiers at Dry Goolv, Groceries, Crock ry end Re .d:-wide c o.hmg, Main street Cou AerspOr: Pa. BENJAMIN RENNELS ALLEGANY HOUSE- SnrOnel M. Mills, Proprietor, on the Went e road, seven miles North of Coudersport. a• J• CHENEY Merchant. Tailor, and dearer in ready made tho h ng, North of /he publ,c sqtilra, Couderspur, ra. - H. J•'OLMSTED• Surveyor, and DraEsman, at the offe• of I. S. Mann, Coudersport rd. Tailoring I Tailoring U /AV. fIARDING,TaiIOt. All work entrusted to ims care will be done it•ttii neatness, cotutbrt, nud durability, gar Shop over Lewis Zslanu's store. 6-37 .. • - - .. . . 3...., ~.,..2..L--..,:_., :...1: :.r: r.f:77.7.....::::.;r: A 1.,, !...-. .• • -.• .-.:-.. J ~ . -:!'• -1 '., ...,:c , . . -. .ti. , . **-•?.."... . t. :-#..,, . . . - . -. ''-... e- ,;- .1. ".., „.;,.-. ~....- : i , i . , • :I '' :. -.. .......- 1 . ' 4 ' , : '' -;.-1,7 '; 'ilk ''' ''''. ...c.,„,. l ::-: -'- ' . . .: . i _ . •.b, -, .....! ', • • • . ~, - c • . , .. • ' . .._ . : • : '.: -,, - -cr '.... - i '. i .i ... . .. . . . ... . - ' '. • . .. : ~ . --.; , . ..- ..:,.. • . 1 . i. . ...„... ... . . • - • r THE Prit)PLVS . JOURNAL PCLILISRED EVERY TiIIURSDAY-MoRSiNg One copy per =am, $l.OO Village subscribes!, 1.25 TERMS OF ADVERTISING. square, °in tines or less, I insertion, $0,50 " ' " 3 insertions, 1,50 every subsequent insertion, 25 Rule and figure work, per sq., 3 insertions, 3,00 Every subsequent insertion, 50 1 column, one year, 25,00 I column, six. month=, 15,00 Adtaini,tratora' or Executors'-Notices,- 2,00 Sheres Sales, per tract,• 1,59 Prole “ional Card, not exceeding eight lines niened for $5,00 per annum. EV"A I letters on bliiness, to secure at teution, shoulidbe addressed (postpaid) to the Publisher. For zha Joartrt;. We read in the Highland Patriot an ai tide Who shall Govern ?" and reading "nwe find it as.,erted that '•an earthly government without an estab- lished head, .w.iuld be a zidieulou3 farce." True, aad what is the &Gr.- etie ? If the established bead turns traitor to his conAkuents and violates the laws lie is sworn to admitd,ter, in that case would nut the eAaldis.ied head prove to be a ridiculous liirce. We read on farther %v - ht:re the wri ter says ..we may prate of Dcclatu- [ions and ordinancei till we are hoarse," "but they can never be intef preted to mean an unqualifed personal fillet ty.— that every man may (1;1 asite pleases regardless; ot• his neighbor'.4 . and governed only as his caprice may dictate." A.ccordingly, Declarations and Ordinances mean qualified libert y, which if I understood the writer right. is a liberty to rob negro e.s of their honest earnings. To rob tier.) Women oftheir offspring and to sell their virtue and their chastity on the auction block to the highest' bidder (a thing of al- most every dly occurrence in the southern cities,) in order that' they have the qualified liberty to live in idleness ana dist-ipation, being too zy to earn an honest living fir them selves. His talk about prating of De clarations and ordinances, strongly re minds one of the people of S nj in, wtm thou lit Lot Mated when he preached to them ; for Lot seemed as one that mocked, to his sons-inllaw." - 15 it not the peculiar trait of bigots to treat matters of fact with contempt or indir ference. Farther along he tells us " That two year ago Congress passed what s called the Kansas-Neluaska bill" : providing a Ferritu►ial government for filltisas, which provides fir the 1 usual Teri aerial officers duly aplioint ed, &c., who are now perfolMing their duties under the laws and constitution of the United States. (Partly ti ua and pat tly not.) "This act of Coovess also provided for a.Tet ritorial 6 . • lature, comp Ned of a cousel a ill ohs in-e of Representatives upon which, with the G-.wernor, we:ecoliferred all right -1111 power. 4 ofLegtslation not ft,. bidden by the Kansas act, and the Fedaral constitution." He says '-a Legisla ture %Vdr , duly elected imirorgautz.A as ceititied to and commissioned by Governor Reeder, who was made, by Cuugress. Judge of the legality and correctness of the returns." . 1s the last statement true I Did nut. Gov. .Reeder, inform the government that he hid made sonic certificates front false teturna I Tuat hip cettificates in some cases were obtained by froa:11 and consequently these cettiticateS were li legalland here I would ask whohas dered the people ofKansas from govern iogthernselve.when they Lave been pro tided for by ,Convess and the cuustt- Linn of the 'United Statesl Have they violated Label f No. The Border Ruf fians of Alissouti, aided by ihe_ PreSi - - dent . of the United States, would not let them govern thenrielve4. Here we have a specimen of qualified liberty.-- The Nilsson, jails. nut teside . atsof sas, rush in with arms aud munitions states arsenal, war taken from tue United atates arsenal, and druvethe people from the imIW, and depositeditheir own votes and retuned'the same, and demanded aneitificate of - and all for the bake of maintaining qualified . Blacksmith, all work in his line • done to ordcar and- with Dis patch. on west street, below . -- third Co'uders --- port N DEVOTED TO TEL:; Pi34.X . ,3I.PLES' 7 O2"DE,3IJeLLACY, A.ND TkIE-,DISSEMINATION co .. F.3IcIaALTY . , LITERATURE , AND NEWS, Terms-1n Advance COUDER.,SPO RI% POTTER:COUNTY ',PA., MAY _l5, .11855. liberty. "Within a few mouths past the people of Kansas, or a-portion of tberrt,.(yes and a .large pot lion . too, the writer very well knows,) - feeling themselves distia•tchised by the action oldie Territorial I.o?islature (framed by Missouri Ruffians and sanctioned by the President.) or perhaps urged 00 . and misled by .political detnii 7 gr?gues, have organized a government of their own." 16 that so? Why do, they petition . 'Congress. to organize one for them. it they have organized one of their. own? Tine they have . taken the preliminary steps ; and nothing m•rre, violet shows the above statement false. There can be nu of ticialfuociions without authority, - and teat they have .not assumed. He next tells us that " a conflict , uetwern the tw,, auttiotities seems inev,tAble". that the Presithat of - the United States 1,a3 issued a- proclama tion older iag the people of all sections to desist from every semblance of in_ sui rettio..ary tnovetnents.". "In de fiance of 'this, be sav that agitators and fanatics vu ..010 Northern Stat es are fostering and encouarging a spirit or insurt ecti()n," which il -petsi-ted in mu-t lead to terrible results:" The question may here be asked) wing are thelnolitical fanatics . in the Northern States that are enconiagingirbutrec ti in "which if persigcd in must. J e ad to ten ible results 1" a man a fanatic when staiviu t t to promote the welfare of his fellow m to, by doing to others as he would, they should do to him? The pipe of Kiusas are willing to abide by the law. 4 that Congress gave them; consequently they are not insurrectionists. The Border Ruffians are not.wi'Rit.r. that they Shall have the privilege of abiding by those laws, so they al'e insurrectionists, and all those that are acting with them are insurrectionists, whether living liortti 6r South; or whether President of elec tor. We nexttiodhinaying wrungs suffered by the people.•f Kan sas are tnagnifiA a hundred Md."— there were no wrong>, they could nut be magnified. ILI farther says, that -conti ibutions in money and Ssarp' Ridesate Made kir"thn avow ed purpo,ie of assisting what is called the Fi ee State government of Kansas" The unauth , ifized authoiities of Kan sas (he says) are thus. iuinished with aipincentive to action and armed resis- tattee to the C'H aut:torities of the United_ States." NUT. no. Money and SaarVs Milers hive thien sent to help the settlers to defeed themselves against the .Nitssuuri aid sustain the la.vs and constitutioa of the 'Uni ted S.ate, he ea.' prove taut toe toe tjaited States at alluli W,13 ,wurti to wake Ka.,loa. a ...Nark.: Jtate by tizu help 4.4 a mou, tie way 1.1116.0 llin zliitettletiL auti Hu; 114 L,iGI. do gues tairit.l,4 40..•111. zUr- charged wait aJd I.v4lca rviinati? u.le of a'tl. uld:1 whelk he Ilia apth.ts igt.a port, 11.1t , ,d,p11.1. 1 / 4 L ran ugaiii:it EMI ii ,u:taer :ads and altilougd it in.ly ue tiaLuto.cd LaLL uthicald-(11 vitudg, us;c:t Upoti t,41.: J.I. 0 1 1,4) , .21. IJI. t.s.: 1 LI I Lotiai "Vt 4, C‘..l.)LaLlaell I . IVU WI U 14 t;Voi LLIdtAJ WIC 1 1 , • 4 :IL. " • Ii kit 1.3 L.l. e.-A% tit:ed au. de- the pt;,,ibe ul IldU L a liken' WdS ; uud tileul Weru wdstout; u/ the Pat- riot: 4:444 I t1ia.1".7 it. 1/4.4C ludc.t -- tu tuu L.U.,1U...a.ht utiUlcs it/ tut: Dur patty ut nova,: i.)1.1,4(.1, it.) LI. inch' UulUj %vcru /./zul Cl: UJa dI y. %VIII al;,:, lI i,eluuks bharp; that the potpie of li.al:bas are the kaW-aettlittgpak . ty- 7 -41ai. the patty iolatiug the laws, are the nullifiers— and ow!) party are the Dur, patty with these exceptions; that,,the "W party are mohbing fur viuieece . and 1/6reSnill/i Wfl/19 the Dur party were mu bi natet freedom. He thinks " will ngltf itself, so soon as tho . wild ravings of dem- agogues go unheeded . by the masses. Pretty well said. Could he have done better bad he been talking to the mau iu the looking glass 1 He next says " the constitutional authorities of the nation,. will: be sus tained and another illustration of the capacity of the people to govern them selves, as in our bless&l•cenfederacy, will be added to Stiuth Carolina and Rhode Islaud." I hope"so, but I fear, we shall have to wait till after the fourth of Mardi 1857. After all he said about " terrible - results"'-- and "unheard-of, wrongs," - yet when nearly closing up he advises thoSe who consider the Kan sas temp3st in a tea-pot a terrible af fair to keep cool, as if it were a verb little affair after all—and then says,if " The responsibility does not rest up on your shoulders." If tine responsi bility does not rest upon the peoploin a Republican government, on. whom does it rest 1_ Would any but a polit ically blind bigot advance such a senti ment Then: with a scut of sneer, sayS " seed your money to Kansas . freely. They need it there, or will need it to buy the necessaiies of :life : " " Send it along, but hereafter don't blame any one but yourselves when you think of the old adage, —, The fool and his • money aresoon parted.' " We might say the- same to those who take the Highland Patriot. If the man wants to try his hand again at sustaining the d.iings of the present administration, I will gives him some v...traeg. which I ouce sound in an old' ballad, for a test which may help him materially.' -When I read them I supposed they . were only meant for a little comic droltery, but-when compared with the doings of the present administration, they have a marked 'shade of the sub lime : • "There was a roan in Thessaly And he was wondrous Wise— He jumped into .a thick set hedge, And tare out both, his.eyes ' But when he saw his eves were out, With .111 his might and main lie jmuried - in:o another hedge, And tore them in again. To tear them in attic& is the great straggle But the ballot boxei in November will Show how that done. A. LaxE. Frotn th . e Northttrn Christian Advocate. Died in. Coudersport, Potter Co., Feb. Ist CAnttn, youngest son, aged 19 mouths, and also '.‘larch fith, rox A., eldest son' of Dr. A. French,. after a - protracted and painful illness, in the 23d year of his'age. • Our dear departed brother found peace in_belieViug, a little more -than a year ago, while absent in one of the Western States, where be contracted the disease (liver complaint) which finally crushed him to the tomb. It. was the writer's privilege to be a fre quent visiter at his bedside, after his return :home,- and hear his repeated testimony iu favor of the religion of • the Cross. His chief delight was tir hear Christlaus,pray, and when asked front time . to time if willing. to die; be replied,."o:l.yes, I would not-live al ways. Precious - Savior, how ho loves me, soim I shall lay my head upOiiiiis bosom and be at rest." Among his last requests was, my young friends when I am gone, that Milton died a Christian." . The after-' noon - of his decease" I spent with him, and )t was a holy joy, Wren in the midst of sorrow, rto• watch the unwiscious • .sleeper while the• tiStien hand of the death-angel was' writing" own' in scription upon that "marble Calni' as evening 'zephyrs are, 'the' weary sufferer' slept orc, "While innod his dying eauch'percliance might haVe heard'thefustling of atigel-wings; Waiting to receive - their iirtMortal charge, and bear it home to God. Each' gently - ekpiring hraaih hionglit him nearer the eVerliStiiig'phitalS„the pulse was'stoliped, the beatin - glieart-'greiv . still, the mildly bearnitlieyegaer back . the" last 'Tel:6rings of 'llO exPiriri taper, and his'Onee 'eariff-hould'spirit reSted-in bowers' celestial; ii. mansions nat Made' with 4ittridi.''' Lie.xL MELTON FRENCH. CVs. H. Shaw TK CASE OP ORIONFP nazi; 'The letters tiem . Kansas, which we publish elsewhere, are from a source unfavorable. - to the Firee State party ; but they give t involuntarily, a striking testimony to themoderation and spirit of justice with which that party is ani mated. The attempt to assassinate the man who is called Sheriff' Jones, is seized'upon by the pro-slavery party with great exultation, and made the most of; Unfortunately for them, it i 4 not likely to turn net -a murder, since Jones is in a way of recovery..- It was, •however, a cowardly and brutal act, - and even those who 'charge - it upon the Free State settlers, aro obliged to ad mit that they speak of it in terms of condemnation, and are exerting them selves to brine the author of the deed to punishmer.i. The pro-slavery men call this hypocrisy. •• .If it be,hypocrisy to Itehave as they ought under such circumstances ; .if it be hypocrisy to condemn what is wrong and take measures for . punishing -it ; then are the people of Lawrence guilty of hypocrisy. We only wish that the pro-slavery - party, Mr. Pierceineluded, had shown something of this hypocrisy' when the Missourians, in martial array, invaded the Territrf, drove the resi-, dents from the polls; and installed a mock Legislature at the Shawnee Mis sion. We only Viish 9sat a little of this hypocriq' had been shown when . Dow was murdered in cold blood--a, little more of it when - Barber was way- . laid and shot dead--a Tittle more when Brown was hacked to pieces by beings 1 in human shape, with hearts of wolves. , 1 Then was - the time for that energetic condemnation oflandess'vio - lence, and that manifestation of - a resolute deter mination to repress and pu i nish it, which is now called" by the - strange _ . name of hypocrisy. Until this moment there has bean no po ORA 9 ground to taunt the free-state. party in the territory with any depar ture from the Conduct which becomes peaceable and-orderly citizens. Dar ingthe whole tinaz that they were be leagured,at Lawrence, - under arms, surrounded with sontinilo, and with the foe threatening them at a littla _ dis tance, no act of bloodshed, no deed. of v . iulence was 'committed by them. Against the slightest infraction of the peace, against the least use of force. ex cept it, the way of self-defence, those who are assembled on ,that occasion i were carefully and repeatedly admon-. ished—and they , obeyed the admoni tion religiously, and•with an exactness with which it was scarce ever obeyed under such' circumstances before. This, too, yrn suppose was hypocrisy. It was certainly avery inconvenient kind, of hypocrisy for their beleaguers who hoped - to drive them to some att of rashness and desPeration. Of course, the men who exercised this moderation did not•enter upon that mignariinaons course, and preserve it i so long and so firmly,. to abandon it new: The shot fired. at Jonoi - came from the rifle of somo desperate man who could not be controlled—perhaps from some ruffian confederate of Jones with - NVIICIm ho had had a difference. The supposition is by no means impro bable. The spirit of the free-state party in Kansas is as peaceful and friendly to order. and as adverse to vie lenee, as it. is manly and courageous in the resistance. of ,wrong. • Jones was a-ruffranlyfellovr, a swag. gerer in offree, flourishing his revolver and making a-bluster with- ten armed dragoons at his hack. He has met with a fate common to violent • men.-- He has got into some quarrel, which led las adversary to seek his •life. The affair is -between them two•; the free s:ate:party have no- more- to do• with the-murderous retaliation• upon Jones than they .had: with the offence which he gave,- There is a brute on ono side and a cowardly assassin on the .other. The community. of, Lawrence have no part the matter- but to preserve or der between them and to prevent the commission of crime.—Ere. Poss. ~ • & . From the Randolph Whig—last weld Namur* AND TEM= Butt grain OLD cerriiitairous Since Friday night of last ; w_,.., , gossip andexcitement have...rue lath e in consequence of an occurrence whieti . ' took place , in East Randolph ott night. We intend to relate - the cir.: ctin2stances carefully and as correctly , as possible. Mr. H. N. Wheeler, whose occUps , • tion is hotel keekpiug was the °tint of assault. It, is alleged that .Idr. : Wheeler, iu the sale of iutoxicating,,, liquors, uses to little discriadhatiotts ; to whom be sells. It is said * ,that tuts-„,, bands and father whose iamilies depena — I . wholly upou theii daily labor for tho necessaries of life, have congregated at . I Mr. Wheeler's hotel, spent their time, and Money, health and character, sind beggared their families, by a free :and - - beastly .use of liquor. And that the wives of these men have beenpereqp!.. ally to Mr. Wheeler and asked hiss the name of ,humanity. to desist frousz. selling their • husbands intoxicating., drinksi and notwithstanding this. he; has steadily dealt tuem out the poison, , and drained their purses. Thecomrer. Under these circumstances took the matter in 'bend. They said "if the , law will not come to, our „aid, if the tearful pleadings of destitute and bro ken-hearted wives will not . effect a change, we will destroy his liquor • - Accordingly on Friday night last. a . company of them numbering about t wenty, be the same more or less, pro ceeded to the house. And now she scene opens.. They were unexpected- • ly met at the door with boiling water.; The wife of the Rev. Me. Blinn, and Mrs. Marshall Marsh were consider.. bly scalded in the face and neck;.•rs wilat extent we hive nut heard, thous., the injury wilt probably prove nothts4 . serious. On the reception of the '• firms water,!' earnest demonstrations of 14,4 mob spiritcommenced. - Thedoor w..! forced open; the bar .was dentolishe and the hotise.thoroughty searched , l4.. , the liquor, but none, or very little-Wadi . found. Tney thou wheeled a whey:— . barrow load of stone in front of th.-. house and. the loading and firing , et these through the windows, is rep: bented as a lively scene. The gins. was nearly all destroled and. the .ski r much broken. some time before.. after this, a rope was fastened to Wheeler's person, • g aud ,ho a dragged from his house into the street, for IL* purpose of ducking him lathe creep at least such wei uuderstarulas toe talk. However, before re.4Eang this bank of the creek he severed the cu r e and made his escape.. The sign post was chimed down, split up, anu a; ben-6e kindled. One woman saris. that having had her tire-wood to cti.; # . during the winter past, she had Lew., ed the, use of the axe, and showed..., ' practical demonstrations that such w%* the case. Those and- other -scenes were kept. up until a 'late bour — at night, or- at early hoar-in the meaning, when ing from their labors they proceette4. - to Mr. Frencife hotel and orderud-a4l oyster supper. - Whether the sitti-s_ was boisterous and conducted in to spint•orthe former proceedings of•tits night,' We 'have, not learned • detiniteli We cannot learn that the men tuokt...3 uLtive 'part, but wore-around :abouii ready in case of need to give " aid ae.t cintbrt." • LITTLE-012,14.-.411010i3 sonsetht* :*. inexprestibly•sweet7, about, Lovely; .puro, Um/opera, .uususpeetinu., full of kindness to hrotkers, and babip and everything. 4 They are sweet,littio. Haman dowers; • dialnutul thaw drops, in the-breath ormolu; What, a. pi. l l:. that-they: ever -beciime ROElltiß-41trta l and heartless c.9quettes.. . • A person - silted his physican if to bacco 1 10.3' iejurioutrto the lit raio,"No'• replied he, "for uo person who tiae.soir, bruins would use it." • • •• o ve nd Life is too shilitl vend in nunne animosity, or registering virrcibt.' 2 ig WE = SI NO.- 52. - r'.• L