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F. W. KNOB,
IN-tto . rnek at 'Rata, •
Coudersport, Pa., will regularly attend the
Courts iu Potter county.
ARTHUR G. OLMSTED,
attortteg s;eottittitior at 'Lath,
,Condersport, Pa., will attend to all business
.entrmsted to his care, with promptness and
fidelity.
Office—in the Temperance'Block, up stairs,
Main•stieet.
ISAAC BENSON
attornt2 at iLato,
COUDERSPORT is PA
Office corner of We atid Third street.
P. wa l tasToN,
Xttortfeg at Rain,
SY.llsbor.✓, Tioga Cu., Pa., will uttend the
Courts zu Potter and _lPK.e.tu L ounties.
A. P. CONE,
21“orneg at Eatu,
W.llaborongh, Tina county, Pa, will regular
1y 'Lucid the Courts, of Potter county.
June 3, 1843.
JOHN S. MANN,
attorney $.7 eounotior at Rain,
.Coudersport, Pa., will attend the several
Courts in Tout r mid M'Kenn counties. All
business entrusted in his care, will receive
prompt *Mention.
Office on Ilain•street, opposite the Coutt
Mouse, Coudersport. l'a.
COUDERSPORT HOTEL,
Dani:t Maw:mire
PROPRIETOR.
Corner of Main and Second streets, Cou
dersport, Potter Co., Pa. 44.
W. K. KING,
Sittringor,-EiraftEiman, ant
OonUojanctr,
Sniet'iport, ilr Kcal: Co., Pa., -
Will attend to business for non-res,dmit land
hoiden, upon rt3dsonab:e terms. References
given tf required.
P. S. Maps of and• part of the County made
to order.
H. J. OLIYISTED,
sSurbrgor anti Drafttiman,
At the office of J. S. Matto, Coudersport. Pa
ABRAM YOUNG,
Matorimritrr - .@tiurtcr.
All work ;vat - mired, A cock of Watche3
and Jewo‘ry ou h Lod and for 5t e. Call af..ho
inure of Smith & Jones, Coudersport, l'a.
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BENJAIIHN REINNELS,
lIL•CESItITLI.
All work in hiq line, done to order and
with dapthch. On %Vest &reel, below Thad
Coudersport, Pa.
slum & JONES.
Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Statione
.Iy. Drugs & (ins, Pane)
anion's, &c. Couthrsport Pa.
JONES, - MANN. & JONES.
General Grocery and i revision Demem—
Also in Dry Goods, liard xare, BUMS and
Shoes, and whamver men want to buy. Main
Street, Coudersport ra.
D. E. OLMSTE D
Deaier in Dry Goods, Ready-made Clothing
Groceries, Crockery, &c. Coudersport, l'a.
J. W. SMITH,
Dealer in Stove!, and manufacture of Tin,
Copper, and Sheet-Iron Ware. Alain street,
Coudersport, l'a.
DI. W. MA-AA,
Dealer in Books & Scationery, Music. and
Mai:adios. Mam•at., opposi.e N. W. corner
?lam public square, Coudersport, Pa•
A31.0.i FRENCH,
f>hysici,n & Surgeon. Las:. bide Main -ht.,
!iloove Louue,seur, Pa.
DAVID B. BROWN,
Foundry - man and Dee:er Plough. -
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JACKSON st SeIIuOMAKER,
Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery,
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A. B. GOODSELL,
ciUNS3llTH,Coudersport, Pa. .Fire Arms
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I've been out in the " grand old wood;" to-day,
Where the earlier plant-B:0mi the damp earth
part,
As their long chilled pulso3 begin to play,
And their le•tvo toward the genial eunlight
•
Spring's first birds chirped on each budding
tree, . .
Aud merrily swung on cult wind-stirred bough,
Aud I never woo younger, it seems to me,
Or more of it cilia' than I am just now.
The frogs that we: piping so shrill in the flood,
Told the stories so oft in my hearing erst told,
And strangers were with me , the kind ones and
good,
Who sung me the songs I had loved of old. -
These spells have been breaking the chain
links of years,
And sweeping, me back to life's gone : by day,
Tin my soul hasswelled with its old time fears,
Its loves and its joys that have passed. away.
The fountains ()fiord in my heart have gushed
o'er,
In tears of warm tenderness, spite of my
And I long for some dear one, familiar of yore,
To catch its outpourings—its throbbing to still.
The kindness ofstrangers is touchingand sweet,
Aud gentle new friends for toy gratitude call;
But I'Llgive all the world, ibis bright eve, but,
to owe:,
Soma old friend I love—'twould be worth
more than aIL
From The Evening Post
SOUTH CAROLINA TO HER SONS.
To arms my children, up and do!
By nor,hern speakers shamed
Your oravors are weak and few, .
Your courage is untamed. .
Too lung the brave Palmetto state -
Has had its feelings wrung,
Too long unanswered in debate:
Das Sumner "switched hi, tongue."
The land that brings forth.one Calhoun,
Eallausls its crop of brains;
But "on hare buoiie•linivei instead,
And gutta-percha cane's.
If I have made your skulls too thick,
I've given you ready hands,
And there is virtue in a stick—
Your colliery understands.
The p!amer, ignorant as a lord,- -
The field hand, dull and low,
All comprehend, with one accord,
•
The logic•-jof a blow.
Then grasp your gutta-percha clubs,
Approach with quiet tread.
Dont argue with the caitiff wreteh,
But—knock him on the head ! •
JAMES BUCHANAN ON THE MISSOURI COM
PROMISE IN 1847.
When the freemur. of the North
were neatly unanimous in demanding
that the Jell'e;• ,,, r•i:lo•olan of excluding
Slavery' froM the Not thern Territory,
should be applied td California and
New Mexico; Mr. Buchanan' threw
the weight of his influence on the side
of the South, and to make his influence
the mote effectual, advocated the exi
tension of the Missouri. Compromise
line to the Pacific ocean in a letter
-which we• herewith publish.—En.
JOURINIA . L :
WASHINGTON, August 25, 1547.
GENTLEMEN : I have been honored
by the receipt of your kind invitation
to unite with the democracy of old
Berks in their Harvest Home celebra
tion, to be held at Reading, on Satur
day, the 28E11 instant. I should esteem
it both a pleasure and a privilege to
be present on that interesting-occasion;
but it is, therefore, with regret I. have
to inform you that my public duties
during the present week Will render it
impossible.
[We omit a portion of the letter ro
pEvOTED TO TUE PRINMPLF,S OF l'ltNEOCatiCk,.'i:X.D. TiiE . Df33EIIiNATION OF::SIORALIT.i,
Terms—ln Advance
."*elgtt• Votirg.
For the Journal
ONE APRIL EVE.
.~a - +.:.:er: ^i-.-a.swura ~ rcz _:- -< ;:... ~_....- ...aw_._.v
COVDEESPORT; POTT.ER:COUNTY, PA."; JULY-' 1856.
(erring exclusively to local politics
The queStion of slavery, in one of its.
ancient aspects, has been recently re
vived, and threatens to convulse- the
country. The democratic party of the
Union ought : to preparelhemselves in
time for the approaching storm. Their
best security, in the-hour of danger, is
to cling fast to their time-honored prin
ciples. A sacred regard for the fed
eral constitution, and for the reserved
rights of the States, is the immovable
basis on which the party, can alone .
safely rest.• This has saved- as froM
the -inroads . .of abolition, Northern
Democrats are not expected to approve
of slavery in the abstract; but they
owe it to themselves, as they value-the
Union, and all political blessings which
bountifully flow from it, to abide•by the
compromises of the Constitution, and
leave the question wherethat instrument
has ltft it—To THE'.STATES WHEREIN
SLAVERY EXISTS. Our fathers. hare
made this agreement with their breth
ren- of the south ; and it is not for the
descendants of either party, in the pres
ent generation; to cancel this solemn
compact. The ABOLITIONISTS, by their
efforts to annul it, have arrested the
natural progress of emnacipation, and
done great injury to the slaves them
selves. .
- After Louisiana was acquired from
France by Mr. Jefferson, and when
the State of Missouri, which constitu
ted a part of it, was about to be admit
ted-into the Union, the Missouri ques
tion arose, and its progress threatened
the dissolution of the Union:- This
was settled by the men of the last gen
et ation, as otherirriportant and dauger-
Ls questions have been settled, in a
spirit of mutual concession. Under
the Missouri Compromise, Slavery was
"forever prohibited" north of the
parallel of 36 deg. 30Min.; and south
of this parallel the question was lea
to.bo dicided by the people. Con
gress, in the admission of Texas, fol
lowing in the footsteps of their pre
decessors, adopted the same rule; and,
in, my opinion, the' hat molly- Of the
States, and even the security of the
Union- itself, require that the line of
the Missouri Compromise should be
extended - to any new Territory which
we may acquire from Mekico.
I should entertain the same opinion,
even if it were certain that this wourd
become a serious practical question;
but that it never can be thus consider
ed, must bo evident to all who have
attentively examined the subject.
Neither the soil, the climate, nor the
productions of that portion of Califur:
nia south of 36 deg. 30—nor, indeed,
of any portion of it, north or south—is
adapted to slave labor; besides every
facility would be there afforded to the .
slave to escape from his master. Such
property would-be utterly insecure in
any part ofCalifornia. It is mmally
impossible, therefore, that a majority
of the emigrants to that portion of the
territory g south of 36 deg. 30 min.—
which will he chiefly composed of our
fellow citizens front the eastern, middle
and western States—will ever re-estab
lish slavery within its limits. In re
gard to Now Alexico; east of the Rio
Grande, the question has been already
settieu uy ti.e 4;1: - .213;:ion of Texas into
the Union.
.Should we acquiro territory beyond
the Rio Grande, and east of the Rocky
mountains, it is still More improbable
that a majority of the people of that
region would consent to re-establish
slavery. They are themselves in a
large proportion, a colored popula
tion; and among theni, the negro does
not, socially, belong to a degraded race.
The question is, therefore, not one
of practical importance. Its agitation.
Whoever honestly intended, can pro
dace uo effect but to alienate the, peo
ple of different portions of the Union
from each other; to excite sectional
divisions and jealouSies; and to
die
tract and possibly destroy the . deem
crude party; oti the ascendency of whose
principles and measures depends, as I
firmly "believe, the success of our grand
experiment of selfgovernment. •
Such have been my individual. Op,
'mons, openly an fieely 'expressed,
ever since the - cornmrneenrenr of the
present unfortnnate agitation ; and 'of
. all places in 'the worhl, I - prefer to pin
them inn ree6rd' befloe the incorrupti
ble democracy of Old .Bork'S. I there
fore beg leave . tq.offer you thp follow.;
ing sentiment,: - .• *.; •
The Missouri Compromise—l 6 adopt
tion in MN saved • the Uni‘in . from
threatened convulsion. ItS extension
in 1848 to any new terriior'Ys - vhich we
may acquire, will secure the like hap
py results.
Yours, very respectfully.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Clias. Kessler, Esq., Pres't, aiidothors.
ARE THE . EOWEL3 M)IAL A2ENT3
The Sprin.aeld fLepcblican, one of
the ablest paperss - in New England,
comments upon an idea adv.anced by a
physiaogicat writer, in the following
graphic style:
But he advanced one doctrine which,
with certain illustrations and rather es
sential qualifications, the feel dispOSed
to adopt. 'As nearly as we could get
at his idea, it was.that nothing stands
in the way of a man being guml\ but
indigestion—that the hope of mankind
lies in the stomach and bowels—that
salvation. exists only in assimilation—
that man's highest relations are those
which be Sustains toward his dinner
table, and that the toad to Heaven
passes through the alimentary canal.
Now we will go so *far With the gentle
man as to admit that the bowels: really
deserve a place among the great mural
agents. We have nu 'doubt that many
of the gloomiest passages of religious,
experience originate iii the liver, that
conscience is harassed by the passage
'of calculi through the biliary duct,
that coolness between friends is be- -
quently:not only coincident with, but
dependent upon, constipation, that love
wanes with a relaxed habit ut the mu
cous membrane, that augur and irrita
bility are the direct result of mince-pie
and lobster salad, and-that couj ugal in
fidelity may be produced by over-ieed
ing, perhaps Inure readily than. by
spiritualism. Wu believe that the
care-worn and haggard condition of
the American people result from dys-,
pepsia, rather than from any 'other
cause, and that the - natut al bowels need
only- to • be kept Well and regularly
opera to lighten the general load ulcare
•
fifty per cent.
We have seen cases in this poor
won Id that would suai'iclomfy idestrate
the basis of our belief: We could lay
our hand upon the arm of many a
fi icud whe•would nut only - be startled,
but offended, by the insinuation .it
would convey. We know a calm and
patient woman whose religious exer
cises are one co./tinned trial. Her
heMtis hard, her sensitive conscience
is her persisteritaccuser,toe Leavens are
brass above her, a cloud- rests upon
her worldly circumstances, she looks
out uprin the future with fearful fore
bodings, friends are fickle or cold,
death stands always knocking at her
dour, and everything goes against here
She thinks that all is meant to wean her
from a world of sorrow, and yet she
cannot perceive that she is becoming
better fitted for that laud
"Where the wicked cease from troubling,
And the weary are at rest."
Now, a little judicious , bydropathic
eatinent would do this wGittait a
world of good.. - It would lift a load
from her conscience, open t'ie way for
her heart's liitOest cininunion, fill )i - er
future with rosy light, and make her
mercurial, in a sense that would not
calf for the corrective agency of the
electro . -chemical bath.. This . woman
is the type of, a large class; aud, - ifany
of them read.this article, we hope that
their:m:lkt periol of self-ekami nation
may be devoted 'to a careful 'considera
tign of-their digestive. organs... We
know a man . who has the reputation
of being; high-tempered and irritable,
crabbed and cross.' The man's moth,
her'oath that he, was the
best.babY and, the. pleasantest cbild,
she over had. But'ho eats too much !
His stomach is sour, titei,tid e s of 'life'
floW Motif:3oly; his alimentary passa
, `geS arblrritated by pepper and mus..
Paid; and the consequence, is that he
acts as if he were possessed withtlie
devil. This man cannot he peaceable
aril 4001e:with his stnitiachln - U Per-
Petualgrewl. hire, by accident,
get into a .good physical condition; and
he will, greet ..you as pleasantly'as a
,summer morning. :He wants'oxercie
on a hard-trotting horse, a - farinaceous
diet, coarse, bread,, and .a limited num
bey of Carter potatoes, with mithing
stronger for drink than cocoa and cold
water No" , essential amelioration Of
his moral condition ! can be achieved
until these things are attended to. The
preacher will preach, the: friend li:t
-utor, and, the wife caress in vain. We
remember once • seeing a very thick . -
headed. little - urchin struggling to keep
his eyes open before the -school' mis
tt eSS,
,and tell tile name of the letter a.
At last in the very abandon of despair;
be exclaimed : " 1 can't read with thii
darn great apple in my pocket." Com
ment is unnecessary. It is utterly im
possible, •it seems to us, for the •real
millennium to come until a healthy di
gestive apparatus beComes a univer.sal
possession. We say this in no spirit
of levity or irreverence. It is inpessi
ble to feel good when one cannot help
feeling cross, to be happy when one is'
miserable, to be amiable with a - carmen ..
ball in. ono's stomach. Therelbre let
us all do i what we can to advatice•the.
great : cause of human progress and
Sound and healthy morality, by fie-'
(pent bathing,: daily out-of•:door exer
cise, simple and whelosoMe diet, and
regularity of habits. Under this regi
men, crime will become utifashionable,
pauperism go out of date, and
. the .
great religious agencies the world
have a fair chance and a clear field....
Water -Cure Journal.
From the Angelica Reporter
THE RADICAL DEMOCRACY..
In obedience to the dictate's of hon
est convictions, after due deliberationi
and calm reflection: we no loqer dis:
guise the fact, if indeed it has at all
been- disguised_ to our readers, that
our preferences and feelings for Pres
idential candidates are decidedly in
favor of Freiriont and Dayton. Wo
do not josire to occupy the unenviable
position of sustaining a candidata and
repudiating his principles, although
we 'might quote high ;authority for
ptirsuing such a course.
enlisted under tho Free
Soil banner of that campaign ; we
then honestly entertained the princi
ples inscribed un that banner,and sup
ported them-to the best of our ability.
Since. that time, onr opinions 'have
undergone no_ change—we have not
seen; heard or read any tint]
tended in the least to shake
convictions. We then beli,
those principles were tle.m
tht.t they were the princip!
by the great apoStle of d!
and handed down from him, through
the demotratie party, to the degener
ate sons of'the present day—and as
such we :have loved, and cherished
them as the apple of our eye. If t!:oy
were good and right in the days of the
father of democracy, and. reiterated
and enunciated,in, and made the cor
ner stone of the democratic creed at
arions times 'since, and made the is
. Sue ie the canvass of 164 S when they
were 'needed, hew much . morofs it nec
essary to sustain them - nod; when a
more important crisis has arrived, for
their application. , Duty .bids us, as
well as every-other man who loves
freedom; rather than slavery andits
extension, to- reassert them, and sus.,
tain those'Only. who will endeavor to - .
carry them' out. There is no man who
honestly voted fez. Martin , Van.Buren.
in 1843-and advocated the principles
then put forth,who can now de other-,
wise than support
,Fremont and Day
ton, and bcr consistent. There is no
sacrificing party irrpursuing such a
course. If. party organiationS turn
t.heir backs upon avowed. Principles,
I •
and yield them up.on the score of
ex
pediency-.—for 'the sake .of- securing a
"Sectional vote—it loses its identity i and
BRIE
IMIE
traltags.'slgn4Y.. nniiiingzs.'•StinrcHThracy
codsists-in sustapingdgtyacratic
ciples; when IL, ce j ases•to do - this .is
no longersitititledtoAkifiip . mllitionsms
it sail's-under false colors, and
,beccrspitti
• a
piratical craft. . I •Such noW is . thesTat:B
Of tiie "On co , glorious : dern t ecratic party.
4,..has , .dissolv:ol.-itaelt by -.refusior
tb
. •
plaCe 'bead i.he principles
.of.its founder, :and become a', serf of
." Buchanier". craft, in the slave titithig;
and aisuch.will be repudiated !silt&
honest,intelligent•pertion: of those Who
have always been proud of _the tibia
of democrat..: We. propose. therefolip
'to know it only hereafter tlio '‘!Bacita
way- party"- However mach . OA*
ficians may seek scktli row fog nth:ludo/
around the true issue in the presea
election, it •cannot be concealed or dial
gaissd, I.4at that issue is the slavery
goestion, reopened, by the.senth-rtisis
south acting in.a s body- in forcing i the
issue of slavery exteusion,
peal of the Missouri compronaise,intcp
the present canvass, Tilero is no sift
mocracy, in sustaiuing slavery exten
sion,. In supporting. Froniout
Dayton, we do not relingoish.auy.daip
ocratic doctrine, nor - fidelity to any
democratic party. Mr. Freniont .bas
never been considered anything . ,butiss
democrat, and dell •one-hall of the:del.....
egates which placed him in nonsiuse;.
I Lieu. wore.. Juffersonian den:luau:A:
LlZee platform upon which he is! placed,:
is the'-platforni- of Jeffurson.-
therefore yield to our convictions er.
right antl.juAice,anti frankly avow our.?
hearty support to -the caudidltas
the people—believing that in: doing is.v.
we' only render that 'service's to, our ,
. -
country which its menanced liberty mg:
freedom demanded at the hatlds of our:
revolutionary fathers on - a similar oc-C.
• casiou. . We cannot . do otherwise an-I:
he consitent. This frank avowal is ,
duo as well to our readers, as hi justice
to ourself. And now, in conclasionV
there
. be any .. among our readers wli..
take exceptions to the courlie we. have
masked out - for ourself, we can only.
say, that .we have not taken the ste;..
without duo consideration and refin
Jl e
tion, and that the act is promptel. ,
froni a high sense of himor. - and tilts
i:::trlotism. We claim only .the-privi
lege that. belongs to every Americas
citizen, to act in- accordance with.tlus s
honest dictates of his own conscieucs
in regard to such matters : ,and the s
Wile do not like our views and- ti):
course I.ve have adopted, aro not obli
ged to continue their support to our ,
I. paper, or even read it ; it can be di.-
Continued •by complying with • our
I terms. •
Axecnotz.—Old Parson B—w).4
presided over alittle flock its core of LI.,
k towns in the State—, w.s
.st any exception, the most Geer.,
Lvints we over 'knew. His es:-
sitie's were carrietilas far in the
as out of it. An instance we W.::
one who invariably mad a practice oi
leaving the cifurch or the parsou w
two-thirds through Ms sermon, Tni,
was practiced so long; that'afbir a will
it became a matter acourse, and II •
one, save:the divine, seemed to tulta
notice of it.. And he at length 'netlli :41
brother P. that such a thing twist, tle .
felt assured, be needless ;' but P. said
that at that hour his family needed
services at homo, and he must 'do it;
neverthelesS, on leaving the_c` hurch.ba:
always, took a round-about: course r .
which by some mysterious- maana
ways brought hiM to cloie proximity t..) .
the village tavern, which he would
en
tor, "and thereby. hangs a tale?!
• Parson B, ascertained from, semi,
source that P's object in leaving churco
was to, obtain.a "drat," and he-deter
mined:to stop his` leaVing' and disturb
inn- the congregation in'futare, - if such
a thing' were possible. -•- •
-Tile next
.Sab.batlii. brother - E, - left
his seat at the usual time, s and" starte4
fur the doer,whoU'Parsori B:exclaitat 7
"Brother P!"
.P. , on 'being thusaddresed,. stopped
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