VOL IX
B usiness• Cards.
F. W. KNOZ,
ttorneg at !Lain.,
Coudersport, Pa., will regularly attend the
Courts to Potter county.
. ARTHUR G. OLMSTED,
atto run St oz i o MIS dor at tabu,
Coudersport, Pa., will "attend to all business
entrasted to his care, with llxotuptness and
fidelity.
uffice—in the Temperance Siock, up stairs,
Araiu-stseet.
ISAAC BENSON
attoritry at ILatu,
COUDERSPORT, PA
Office corner of West and Third streets.
L. P. VirI.LLISTON,
lattornep at 'Eats, •
NVellsbor Tioga Co., Pa., will attend the
Courts in Potter and 31'K'eart Counties.
A. P. CONE,
sattoriitg 'Kahl,
Wellaborough, Tiotta county, will regular
/y atteud the courts of Putter county,
June 3, 1848.
JOHN S. MANN,
Ottorm Countitiou at 7Latu,
Coudersport, Ps.;' will attend the several
Ounris in Putt, r and M'Kean counties.. 911
business entrusted in his cue, will receive
prompt attention.
Office on Main-street, opposite the Conit
House. Uuwlersportja.
COUDERSPORT HOTEL,
Dania F. Glcuintnire
P 11.()PRIET017..
Corner or Main and Second streets, Cou
dersport, Potter Co., l'a.
W. K. KING,
Surinpar, Draftsman, anb
011130) anta:
Smethp3rt, Co., Pa.,
Will attend to business for non-resident land
.holders, upon relsonable terms. References
giv e u required.
P. S. Slaps of any part of the County made
to order. - 7.33
J. OLMSTED,
Surnmor ant( Draftsman,
At the office of
.1. S. Mann. Coudersport. Pa
AB it AM YOUNG,
Wattlymater anlY ItWelty.
AU work warranted. A stock or Watches
end .lewe:ry on hand and for safe. Call at the
store of Smith & Jones, Coudersport, l'a.
BENJAMIN RENNELS,
All work in his line, done to order. and
with dispa,ch. On West street, below Third,
Couderspor, Pa
SMITH s: JONES,
Dei!eri in Dry Goods, Groceries, Statione
ry, Map & Medicines, Paiute, (Aid, Fancy
artic!es, &c. Main Spool, Coudersport Pa.
JONES, MANN, & JONES,
General Grocery and Provi , ion Dealers—.
Also. in Dry Bondi. Hardware, Boots and
Shoes, and whatever tucu want to buy. Main
Street, Couder.porL, Pa.
D. E. OLMSTED,
Dealer in Dry Goods. Ready-in tde Clothing,
Grocerie3, Crockery, &c. Couderiiport, Pa.
J. W. SMITH,
Dea!er in Stow=, and manufacturer of Tin,
Copper, and Shee.-Iron IVare. Main street,
Couder.por, I'a.
M. W. MANN,
Dealer in Booki & Stationery, Music, and
Magazines. opposise N. W. corner
of the public squire, Cuuderaport, Pa.
A3IOS FRENCH,
Physichn & Surgeon. East side 31nin.st.,
abovo.4th si., Coudersport, Pa.
DAVID B: BROWN,
.Foundrinum and Dealer in Ploughs. Up
er cud of Main street, Coudersport Pa.,
6 JACKSON dc, - SCHOOMAKER.
Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery,
and"lte tdy•mada Cio.hing. Main street, Cou
dertport, Pa,
ALIEGANY HOUSE,
Samuel M. Mills, Proprietor. On the Wells
'the road, seven wiles North of Coudersport.
R• J. CHENEY,
Merchant Tuilar, and Dealer in Ready
tastte-Cn.dt.ng.
,NorLh of the public square,
Coudersport, fa.
A. B. GOODSELL,
(2.l.l.NSMlTll,Couitersport, Pa. Fire Arms
4...rinanutimmrod and repaired at his Atop, on
short no.ice.
March 3,1848.
J. VT. ELUDING,
Fashionable Tailor. All work entnisted to
big caru win be dono with neatness, comfort,
and, duraonity. Shop over Lewis Mann's
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The Cause of President Taylor's Death
A correspondent of the Cleveland
Herald was riding in the • cars a few
days since, and reports a conversation
which passed between. the Hon. Thos.
Ewing and some one else.. Rather a
trespass on private property, we think,
but what Ewing said of the death of
Gen. Taylor is very interesting, and
as it has already been in type, here it
" I was at the President's house on
the third of July;"" he said—t" Gen.
Taylor had just received an invitation
to attend the celebration on the follow-
..!:!:...m .4 %:,ancl hear a speech by Senator
Foote. Xs- route was a
member of the opposition party. he
was a gentleman, and the President
felt disposed to show him all the re
pect possible. He did not, however,.
immediately conclude to accept the
invitation
‘• Having taken leaVe, I bad not yet
reached the street on my return, when
a message overtook !nolo say that the
President would attend the celebration,
and desired that I should 'accompany
him.
" Seats were assigned us in. the
shade of the Washington Monument.
Foote made a good speech, of reason
able length, and sat down. It was
t hen announced that the ceremony of
the presentation of a block by the
District of Columbia, would take place
immediately, at the opposite side of
the Monument. The presentation
speech would be made by Walter Jones,
on the part of the District, and the re
ply would be given by Mr. Seaton, in
behalf of the Monument Association.
' The President asked if the speeches
would probably be short. As I knew
both the speakers to be 'men of few
words and many thoughts, I replied
that the exercises would certainly be
I brief. Accordingly, the President con
eluded to remain, and we repaired to
the other side of the Monument.
Jones made a speech, which
was brief, and to the. poin:, and sai
down. Mr. Seaton then arose and said
that he was gratified to be able to an- .
nounce that Mr. C. had consented to
make the speech in t eply to Mr. Jones.
1 at once concluded that we were dead
men.. I knew the proposed speaker,
and was certain that we were doomed
to hear a long speech. . I endeavored
to pursuade the President to retire,
but he was unwilling to do so. We
endured the intense heat for an hour
and a half before this speech was done.
The President went honie wearied by
the length of the exercises, and sabr
ing from long exposure to. the heat.
In the 'evening I heard that he was
violently ill. I repaired to the Mau
r siert, and urged the family to call a
physician immediately. lint the Presi
dent was unwilling that this should be
done.' 1 then induced the family '
physician to call, as a friend,- and re
quest to see Gen. Taylor. But the
sick man refused : to see him. On the
following afternoon 1 called again, and
as the President disired to see me, I
Was admitted to his room. He was.
lying on a sofa, apparently destitute
of pain, and very cheerful. He de
sired to hear the news, and I told him
of as many agreeable circamatances
DEVOTED`TO THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY,, AND THE DISSEMINATION OF MORALITY, LITERATURE, AND NEWS
GCIUDERSPORT, POTTER.cOUNTY, PA., MAY 22, 1856
'as I could. When I left
, hiS' room,
after an hour's conversation; I was
quite confident that he would soon be
Well. I very soon heard, however,
that his disease had returned with re
newed violence, and that lie was slit
fering with intense agony. I hastened
to the telegraph office, to send foC his
son-in-law, Dr. Wood, a skillful physi
cian of Baltimore. The dispatch could
not be sent that night, so that the doe
tor did not arrive
.until the next eve
ning—too .late to he of any avail. The
President failed rapidly; and expired
in a short time. I shall ever believe
that his *death may be traced to the
fang speech, which was made on the
Fourth of July. Such an effect was,
of course, nut intended by the speaker.
This is an instance of murder without
•
malice.
" I immediately I lianded in my res
ignation to Mr. Fillmore, to take effect
in a few days !"
NEW ENORMITIES IN KANSAS
A e cherne.has been devised to stop
the inquiry into the fraud practised in
the Katisas . elections, by arresting and
taking off to prison. the person who
appears in behalf of the inhabitants of
the territory. Tbe.disclosures before
die Committee of the House are as-
suming a shape quite unpleasant to
those who are concerned in that user-
pation, and Governor Reeder's pres
ence is felt to he exceedingly trouble
sbriie. He is acquainted, from, the
beginning ) , with the history of the
Ayameful proceedings by which the
residents were cheated out of the
choice of a legislature of their own,
and a meek legislature palmed upon
them, as well as with the subsequent
fraud, in the election of Whitfield to
Congress, and his assistance is material
to the full and impartial condUct of
the investigation. He is therefore to.
he got out of the way, and this is done
under color of a legal prosecution.
A charge of sum a c sort is fabricated, a
warrant has 'welt taken out, and p.
deputy marshal sent after him. to drag
him 'away from the duty to which be
was attending.
If this trick should answer the pur
pose of the inventors, the investiga
tion will be deprived of the benefit of
Governor Reeder's. familiar acquaint
ances 'with the fact 3, and ;Whitfield,
the agent of the pro-slavery party, will
be left to give it such shape, as his in
genuity may suggest. It will proba
bly be impossible to find .any person
ho can fully supply Governor Reed
er's place. His title to a seat in Con-
gross, as delegate from Kansas, de
ponds upon : the issue of this investiga
tion, and on that account be is, doubt
less, better prepared than any other
man can be, to p:•esent all the facts
which make _for his side of the ques
tion, as Whitfield is unquestionably
the fittest man to present the other
view. It is likely that the people of
the territot y 'would employ some other
person in Governor Reeder's place,
but if he shoUld be one whose talents
and knowledge of the facts made it
desirable to recieve him, he would, al
so, .or course . , be summoned before.
the Grand Jury sitting at Lecompton,
and if he disobeyed. the summons a
deputy marshal would be sent for him,
attended by a detachment of United,
States dragoons, if necessary.
In the meantithe there seems to be
a conspiracy to put in confinement
every person who is likely to take any:
conspicuous or.responsible part in be
half of the people of Kansas, in the in- ,
restigatiou which is now proceeding.
Judge Lecomlite haS charged the Grand .
Jury at Lecempton, the same body be
fore which Reeder was summoned to
get hitn out of the way, that it was
their duty:to indict for high treason all
the menaers of the new ()reefed ger
ernment,the executive and other offi
cers; and the , members of the legisla
turelisernhled under the constitution
recently tidopted by the people,: and
.the Work' has been ntready commena
ed-by the arrest of Goiernor. Robin
son. Not a man of them is to be left
at large. None of thin is' to be: al-
linved totakeGoverneißeedei"s place
• Mr. Oliver, one of the:CoMmittee of
the House, sent out to make this in
vestigation, a member. from Missouri,
favors the plot of removing Governor
Reeder . .. .The ether , members of the
committee, it. seems, hall that Gov
ernor Reeder is protected by his priv
ilege as a delegate attending on. the
.coinritittee in the proper functions of
his offil:e.. Oliver.is of opiniOn that it
was Reeder's duty to have obeyed the
summons, and to have abandoned - the
part he was taking in the investigation.
There seems to have been a perfect
understanding between • s hiai and the
creatures of the scheme at Lecompton.
Meantime in order to signifiy to the
witnesses on behalf of the people
,that
they must not tell all they know, Mt .
Mace, who has testified to the frauds
committed in.theKansas elections, has
been decoyed from his cabin, shot at,
severely • wounded, and left. as .the
ruffians whe committed the deed sup
posed, to be devoured by wolves.
We greatly misapprehend the spirit
of the American people if they sub
mit quietly to such infamousproceed
ings, or if they do not hold to a rigid
accountability the: administration by
whom they are instigated and abetted.
It is now manifest that the President
does not intend that a full investigation
of the circumstances, under which the
Shannon government in Kansas was
beg6tten, shall be:blade, or if made,
'that the result of it shall ever reach
Washington; and it would seem that
there is no crime too desperate for his
partisans to perpetrate in carrying out
1 his wicked purpme.
But, fortunately, the attempts of
these miscreants to suppress the proof
of their ruffianism is next to the best
evidence of their guilt, and the . country
will . require . nu higher evidence of the
base. origin efthe . governmeet Presi-.
dent Pierce is is trying to impose up
on the people of Kansas, than. the un
principled, the criminal efforts making
to conceal it.—Ere Post. -
•.. rroui the Examiner.
'n.A.4_OI7TLIVED HEE USEFULLNE.99."
15,it long since, a good-looking man
in middle life, came to our door ask,:
ing for. "the miniater." When- in
formed that he was out of town, he
seemed disappointed and anxious. On
being questioned as to his business, he
replied—"l have lost my mother, and
as this place used to be her home; and
my father lies here, we have come to
lay her beside him."
Our heart rose in sympathy, and
we said, "You have met with a great
loss."
"Well—yes," replied the strong
man, with hesitancy, "a mother is a
great loss in general; but our mother
had outlived tel. usefulness; she was
in her second childhood; and her mind
was grown as weak as her body, so
that sbe was no comfort to herself,
and was a burden to everybody,—
There were seven Of us, 'suns and
daughters; and as we could not find
anybody who was willing to' board
her, we agree." to keep her among us
a year about. • But I've had more
thau my share of here for she was: too
`feeble to be moved when pay time was
out; told 'that was mur s o than three
months - before her death. But then
she was a good mother in her day,
and toiled very hard to bring us . ,ail'
110."
Without looking at the face of the
heartless man, we directed him to the
house of a 'neighboring, pastor, and .
returned to our nursery. We gazed
on the zierry little faces which smiled
or grew sad in imitation of ours—those
littleoues, to whoseear no word-in our
language is. half so sweet as "Mother;'
and we wondered if that . day • could
ever come when they wouldsay of us,
!She:.has oat4ved her usefulness—she
is no comfort to herself and a.- burden .
to .everybody else!" and we 'hoped
thittliefore such. a day would dawn,
we might be taken to our:" rest. God
forbid.that., we ihould 'outlive the love
ofdur am* die
while our hearts are a • part of their said reverently . ,'From jittle /
own, that our 'grave may be' water baVt;!lienered the aged; but never till
ed with their tears, and our love g ray - hairsOov - e'red my own head, did
linked With their hopes of heaven.• I know truly how much and
Wh6n the bell tolled for the moth- sympathy this class have a right tee -
er's burial, we went to the sanctuary demand of their, fellow, creature4sese
to pay our only token of respect for Now ifeel it. Our mother,"_.--hea'ade
the aged stranger; for we felt that we ded most tenderly, "who , now lies in •
could give her memory a tear, even death before us, was a stranger to me,.
though her own children had none to at!ttre all these, her clecentlants. All I
shed. • • know of heats what her son told Meta..
"She was a good mother in her day 1 day—that she was brought to this town ,
and toiled hard to bring us all up—from afar, sixty years ago, a happy
she was no comfort to herself, and a-1 bride---that here she hasp pas:sed.):fiost
burden to everybody else!" These lof her life, toiling as only mothers
cruel, heartless words rang in our ears S ever have strength to toil, emit - she
as we saw , the coffin borne up the aisle. had reared a large f# 1y of sense ¢nl - -
The bell tolled loud and long, until daughters—that sheleft ` . her home
its iron tongue had chronicled the he+e, clad in the weeds Of Wictesilinosts •
years of the tail-worn mother. One kto dwell among her children;llodtbat
—two—three--four--five. How I till health and vigor left her, she livra
clearly and almost merrily each sti eke I for you, her descendants. 'You,' Who
told of her once peaceful slumber in together have shared her love and her.
her mother's bosom, and of her seat ! care, know how well you have-ieleuit
at nightfall on her weary father's ed her. God forbid that conscience.
knees. Six—seven--'-eight—nine should accuse any of you of ingiati
ten—rang out the tale of her sports j tittle - or murmuring on account of the
upon the green sward, in the me ad I '
, care she has been to you of- late.—.
ows and by the brook. When you go back to your homes; be-
Eleven—twelve—thirteen--four- careful of your words and youte ex
teen—fifteen, spoke more gravely of ample before your own children, for
school days. and little heuiehold' j oys . ! the fruit of your own doing yea' twill
and cares. Sixteen—seveteeu—eight- I surely reap from . them 'When larota.
teen, sounded out the enraptured vis; I yourselves totter on the brink of the
• as
ions of maidenhood,. and the dream-of I grave' 1 entreat you as a •frienit* .
early love. :Nineteen brought before one who has himself entered the' eve
us the hippy bride.' Twenty spoke ning of life,' that youmay never say,
of the young mother, whose. heart was in the presence of your faniiliesnnr
of
full to bursting with the new strong heaven,' Our mother had cutiiva her:
love which God had awakened in herl+l usefulness—she was a burden O.' us..`
bosom. And then stroke' after stroke Never, never; a mother cannot live ets
told of her early womanhood—of the ilong as that!. No; when she can iv) ,
hive and cares,. and hopes, fears and ! longer labor for her children; nor yet
! care fur herself, she can •.fall like - s
toils througlewhich she passed ddring
r
these long years, till fifty • rang out p ee.ous weighton theirbospms,'•iand
harsh and loud.. From that to, .sixty call forth by her helplessness . all .the
noble, generous feelings of their • lei,
each stroke told of the warm hearted 1
mother and grandtnolier, living over I natures.
again her own joys and sorrows in k "Adieu, then, poor,.toil-worn mother
, there•are nu more sleepless nights, nu
those ef . her children and children's
more days of pain fur thee. Uudying
children. ! livery family of 011 the I
Vigor and everlasting. usefulness nre
group wanted. grandmother then and I
as the Only strifii wwho should secure
part of the inheritance o' the redeem
the prize; but hark ! the bell tolls ed. Feeble, as thou wert ou, earth,
on! Seventy—seventy-one—twu-- - three ! thou wilt be no burden on the bosons
—four. din:lithe-Love, but there shalt thou
§liebegins to grow.feeble, requires find-thy longed-for rest, and receive
some care, is nut always perfectly pa- glorious sympathy from .Test+aii his
tieut or
. satisfied; she goes from. one V rausomed fold
child's house to another, so that no
one place seems' like' home. She
murmurs in planintivo tones, that after
all her toil and weariness, it is hard '
she cannot be allowed. a borne to die
in; that she must be sent, rather than I
, invited, from house to house. Eielity I
—eighty-one, teio, three, four—ah,
she is now a second child—now • "she 1
has outlived her usefulness, she has
now ceased to be a comfort to herself
or anybody;" that is - , she bask ceased
to be profitable to her earth-craving
and money-grasping children.
Now sounds out, reverberating
through our lovely forest, and echoing
back from our "hill of the dead,"
eighty-nine! there she lies now in the
coffin, cold and still—she makes no
trouble now, demauds no love, no soft
words, no tender little offices.. A
look of patient endtirance, we fancied
also au 'expression of grief fur 'unre
quited love, sat on. her marble fea
tures. Her childrou were there, clad
in weeds 'of woe, and in irony we
.re
menibered the strong man's words,
"She was a good mother in her day."
When the bell ceased tolling,:` the
strange minister rose in the pulpit.—
His form was very erect, and his voice
strong, but.his hair-was silvery white.
He read several passages of scripture
expressive of . God's cutrifassiou. to
feeble man;.and especially of his ten
derness when gray hairs-are on him,
.and, his• strength failetb. .:He then
made some touching remarks onehu
.men frailty, and, of !- - dependence on
God, urging all present to; make . their;
peace with:their Maker while iu health
,that theyrnight ,claim his promises
,wheitheart and flesh should.fifil
"Then,"said be," the eternal God shall
be thy, refuge, and beneath thee shall
,be.,the everlasting arms." Leaning
.9.vertbe - desk; and gazing intently on
the coffmed form beforetitn, he•' then
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dJ).,
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".h':'.ar. :
=ter
IZE
,
If you wish to kuoni iinether any
body is superior eti dip • p'rejudices- of
the world, ask him to draw i truck
fur you.
A mau ceases to be a "good fellow"
the moment he refuses to do precisely
what ether people wish
~him to
do. . . .
Whoever considers thtSeenkness
both of himself and others, 'not
long want persuasives to. forgivtizies6.
Dr. Johnron.
We should never be vain or
,any
thing w 6 possess; for all vanityis4l.6
to They who boast,of,their at
tainments, only piovo to. ,the., world
that they aro unworthy of uem.
It is alitrays btitter to trust the Pro
ductions of the pen to the de'cisioa' of
strangers, rather than that - of telatives
at/Olio:Ids. The cornier will jtidgo
impatttally; the latter. '
. A. Frenchman wishing tu • apealc of
the cream of the English.. poets, for
gotthe weed, and said "du hutted of
the poots.. A wai said,that he had
fairly churned up the' Eitglish lan
guage.
A FRIILID of Cnvior's, pace4opli. that
horns and hoofs ofattox, and approach
ing the bedsido of thegreat nouralist,
and waking bun frOnit a sleep, iirtiounc
ed hitt:wolf as the ;160; wliehiacknxie
to eat him. Ctrifer' EiB n 4es,
and glanced' at the itoiideGliti 'bon*
hoof to horns,. 'when.he:iliy ;Advil:ll4
quietly 'remarked‘ ,
gtamittiveions.::-eat grass — can t.cow
aiiay 6 .• '; ' •• II
"Sarubo, why ani
give like nbed• ".;
• " I gib.. der
" Case it runs on sleeps '.' ' ""
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