The Potter Journal news IT J-: ivr. COUBERSPORT, PA.. Jam 31.1873 AEOLIfcHED. —The Franking P; i\ ilege. . . .* .. f here is < rent cause for gratillation hi tlu lelease of the Postal system of this country from the burden it has borne so long of carrying immense quantities of unpaid matter, lbr which the unobtrusive correspondence of the common jeopie had to pay. But a better good than any pecuniary one comes from the wiping away of the as persion so often east upou our mem ber-' of Congress that they would not give up one of their own privileges and immunities, although they had long discussed toe question of doing' so and promised it to the country. Another great benefit to the public witl he that the mails will uot be so burdened, nor the whole people so. flooded with political documents for weeks before every ejection. One would tiiiuk voters would be le-.s in fluenced by political intriguers, think less ol speeches and more of the ir- ! sues before them, and that the whole i campaign would be more honest,man ly and pure. Here is the text of the bill: j "7 > ft V'*, That, the franking ! privilege be, and the same hereby is! abolished bom and aft-.r the first day of! July, Is7;{, au'l that thenceforth all ofli-1 cial corn spend' nee c£ whan wr nature 1 and other mailable matter scat fiom or j addresstd to any officer of the Govern-j an nt. or to any person now autlioriz.d • to lrank such matter, shall be chargeable with the same rates of postage as may be lawfully imposed upon like matter sent by or addrt sst-d toother persons; pro vided that no compensation or allowance shall now or hereafter be made to Seua lois.nienib; isand deli gausof thefliHisi of Jb presentativts on account of post age.'' THANKS are returned to Mr. Jones, 11. K.. for a lile of the Legislative Journal to the 2htb. Mr. Jones is placed on the Com mittee on Judiciary System (General) —a very important one—and al-o on ' the Committee en Federal Delations ' and on Divorces. -' 1 he time and attention of the Leg islature have been very much ceeu- ' pied wiili contests for seats. Mot a very wise way of spending the time that belongs to tne j eople. Tut hi si number of the Mans held Atl"crlmer makes its appearance this week. It is well printed, compact and lull of good matter. Price $1.50 per annum, Man-hiel !, Tioga Co., l'a. CONSTITUTION IIALI, j PUilauo.i.ula, ja.iy. _>, is 73. { DEAR JOURNAL : Very little was done last week in the Convention, and 1 am informed nut much progress was made in the Committees. As an illustration of what is being done in Committees, I ara informed by a mem ber of the Committee on Legislation that its entire -essioii U-daj was taken up in discussing a motion to amend tec tion nth of Article XI of the Con stitution by substituting the word ob ject for the word subject, as it now reads, and the guestb 21 is still open for discussion—no decision Leiug r .ached. if it takes two days to dispose of a single word, how long do you think it wid take to dispose of ike whole Constitution ? Longer, lam afraid, than the patience of the people will hold out. The event of last week was the ap peal of the women for the right t - vote, made in this llall to all the Delegates who chose, to attend—the chairman of the Committee on Suf- frage, etc., presiding. Two evenings ■were occupied from half past seven until ten. Several f the addresses were exceedingly interesting, able and convincing. The ablest and I est ; was that of Maty brew, whose wnoie life Ins been spent in the service 01' human rights. The companion of Lucretia Matt, she could not fail to be argumentative and persuasive rath-1 cr than shop and repulsive as some: of them were. (V>s7r Hai.L. ) l'hl JtiUy. hi, XbTH. { Puau JotnxAi.: The Convention has 1 assed to third reading the sec-; tions providing lor holding the Cen er.tl election in November—same day i as t e Presidential.—ami the Town ship elections or- the third Tuesday in February. .\ very lively debate, lasting for two days, was had over the spring election clause. The Con st i utio'v 1 i IVi n-ylvania, a* >f most of the States. is silent on this ques tion. and the eh etion has always been bed on dili'crent davs in d.tferent counties, to suit the convenience and an : c uiifort of the i eo. le. As no evil has ever ret,ui d fin 'h i prac® ! tice, a good many delegates could not i see the wisdom of the change. 13 ut the spicy part of the debate grew out of the desire of the Demo cratic Delegates to make a little po litical capital for their party out of this question. So they repeated the in rm ideas of the Democratic lit form speakers of the late campaign. A stranger happening in at that time woul l have supposed there was an - election close at hand, and that this w as one of M '(.lure's reform meetings.' Mr. .Mann said lie had always uncler -to< <1 that large cities were very 1 ad pl ices but never supposed Philadel phia was quite as bad as the descrip tion given by her Delegates'during this discussion. Mr. Go wen immedi ately tiied to explain away the chief point in iiis previous remarks, and 1 suspect there will be less said about I the c •eruption of Philadelphia in fu ture discussions. It is quite apparent the Conven tion is composed of men who do their own thinking and act on their own judgment. It is not under the influ- ence of two or three leading minds. Respectful attention is given to every Delegate who lifts anything to say. but there is no following when the judgment is not convinced. This was illustrated last Friday, when -nearly ; half the Delegates desired to adjourn j over till Wednesday. The motion ; failed by two votes only. The minor ity persisted. It contained many of the aidest men in the Convention, and j they (ui'- J as if liny thought tlnir : wishes ought to be" acquiesced in with- j out a question; and so they exhaust- Ed the* entire session in maneuvring to secure an adjournment for four working days. Hut the'majority stood lirtn, though such leaders as Arm strong and Ruckalew did their ut most to secure an adjournment.— Their mistake was in trying to stop all the work of the Convention for so long a period. If they had acquies ced in the first vote against adjourn ment and gone on with the regulat or Icr of business until Monday noon, I think nearly every Delegate would have voted to adjourn over till Wed nesday. The pci -islent effort to ad journ from Friday defeated any ad- j jonrnmont, an I a good many would have been ('"at to s • c- the reliant llartrsnftii auguiab lUoverr rwere J deprive 1 of that privilege. But J hail l he result of this little contest as a good sign. It seems to mean woik and firmness of purpose in the major ity .regardless of leaders. Should this j hope he justified to the end of the te- • ions of the Convention, its work will \ certainly be well done. . •. ; •-<♦. New County. Our neighbors of Tioga seem very I much excited over the attempt to di vide that county, and we have a great er interest in the matter. Tioga, with more wealth, business and population, ! would beable to bear dismemberment, j though the increase of expenses, the! watte and loss occasioned unnvoida- j bly by a change of the county site would be a hard burden. But to Pot tc-r, with its sparse popul .tion, that finds even the present expenditure j quite as much as it is desirable to pay,' that is only now growing into a lair; position among the sister counties, a ' division would be a great calamity.; To the dwellers in some of the more : distant townships it may often be very ; inconvenient to go so far to attend court to serve on juries, etc., but in the best arranged new county we can not sec how those ditliculties arc to be obviated, while on all persons of 1 narrow means the additional expen diture v. ill be sure to press heavily. We hope little I'otter will make it em phatically known to our members of Legislature that she does not desire to part with any portion of her terri tory or inhabitants, and that the will of the mass of the people may be ear ned out. With all (food wishes to those who arc scheming to further their own personal advantage by that which must be a general public loss, we heartily hope that in this matter they will signally fail. IT IS said t!mt a bill has been pre pared to repeal the Local Option law ot last wiuter, and that any necessary amount of money will be raised ly the liquor dealers to bribe or other wise influence the members of the Legislature. As this measure of local choice is plainly one that the people are anx ious to have anil test for themselves, it will be very easy to know that no honorable motive can induce mem bers to vote against it or to give op portunity, by absence or inattention, for the enemies of good order to car ry their nefarious plans. If this attempt at repeal is made, now will be a good time for the Legislature to clear itself from the charges of bribery 'and corruption which have always been too freely made, and if the liquor interest does not make the attempt it will be be cause of a better general faith in the honesty of the public servants than is i often professed. . - r.OCi.ET, Fa Jan., 13.15T3. ED. JOURXAL:— Aceoidmg to notice, J. 13. Oviatt "Thyself and son ,as ttam ster) slatted Monday morning the 6th, ; for the buir hunt. There wet em> others from lioulet uady to go. On arriving at Coudei sport found that out oi the wnole number tJiat agietd to go, not one was ready; we diove on to Lewis Lyman's; there we expected a lead; and one man was there, (Mr. Ptiree,) the lest had backed out. We drove to Brookland, had a splendid dinner, worth twice tne price they charged; drove on, arrived at 13. i . Barrows', stopped for tut night, and were ready eatly Tuesday morn for the hunt. Live men and boys volun teered whicli increased our number to ; nine men and boys, and six dogs; we surrounded the laurel patch ; and at half after eleven 1 drove the bear out. lit had a nest made of laurel; when 1 ■got within fifteen or twenty lotls lie I started out, went down by a boy within ten rods, and on by a man wituiu 12 ; rods. When he i.ad stiffly passed, the man fired a shot, the bear thought there was tioub.e ahead and turned back and I walked up the bill some twenty tods in | sight of where two men were left stand i ing. Lut repovL says that the chaps ind . in a hollow until the boir had stiff ly | passed back into the laurel; then they fired three loads and hallooid for dog.-,. J All of tlie dogs \ver£ set on but took the ; wrong track and only one overtook the ' bear and he was a scared dog. Away j went the bear, we pissed on after him ; j one man s..id he had three balks in him; j we gave up the chase that nignt a, d i went to Bariow s'. Laily next uiormng, ! the 7th, only five were ready for the hunt I witii two dogs. We followed the bear j north into U.c Boss Iloliow, left iinii : about sundown without starting him, | came in at rlvnii's, staid over night; one man d.opped off. .The 6th I hind ! one buiilli to go and help break track, thou there were live of us: Sam House, Win. Hi.sk, Win. Smith, J. 13. Oviatt and S',lt. We look a circuitous loule and went around 11.c bear, then follow td ami up and found ne laid gone into a laurel patch; we placed 111111 t >o*)ition, sent bain House around on ainw suoes; the bear winded loin and caiucoul wiinin twenty rods of me, I shot i.im through the lights; he ran dowu ' the hill, i set on tlie dogs, ti.e bear ran near Smith, he find, he had two l>ails ni his gun, they struck l.im in the shoulder; one bounded out; and the j other went in about three inches inio| the ticsh and lodged; Oviatt lived iiu inodiateiy after, and shot a ball through the top of the neck, only a llesn wound . j lie tired another and severed the bi t artery in las neck; House find without • effect; the dogs came up and attackid j tne bear, he got hold of one dog gave i uiui a hug, was m the act of biting. ! when the other dog made a desperate ; pass at tne bear's ham ; which caiioOtl ' uiui to loosen liisJ bold and go foi dog No. two. Log m lubei one crawled out : of Ins paws, and so escaped death that : lime. The dogs kept the In ar until bam ! House came up and : tabbed him with ' uis knife and ended the iigid. He meas ured over seven feet from the eaul of his nose to the iiinel feet. It was eighteen inches from tne end of bis nose to his ears. He was over three ft et high. Wt captimd him three-fourths of a mile from the bridge where the road comes out of the nine mile .woods, oil Fine Creek. Tie snow was from two to three ft et deep ami had a crust on it but not sufficient to hold a elog. LAUOY LYMAX. SAN DOMINGO. I'T.ncIIASE or SAM AX A T'.AY. NEW YORK, Jan. 15. —A few months ago several business men of the highest standing in the financial and commercial world concernd tl*e idea of purchasing : Samanu Bay and the P* ninsula for which the government attempted to lit ! gotiate in l v t;9. A correspondence took place Ix-twc* u tin in and tut* Dominican Government, and piospccts appealing favorable for real.zing the design, a eom pany was fomitd with the following of ficers: Presid -nt, Aiden B. Slock wall ; \ ice Pitsiileiit. Paul N. Spofiord; Treasurer, lit my Clews; .Seen taiy, H. K. Hazard ; Dirocto.s, Frederick Scnue luirdt, Dt< rge W. Pullman, C. K. Gar rison, 01. wr Ames, Samutl G. Howe, William G. Fargo and S. L. M. Barlow. After Be vei a 1 meetings laid by those genii* men,it was resolved to send a spe cial steamer with tl.ret Commissioners, bearing with tin in the amount of pur chase money in gold to consummate the transaction. The steamship i ,Ut was chartered for the purpose, un the l-stli of Decemher a convention was held by the Commissioners representing t*,e company witii President 13a z and ti.e Cabinet of ti.e Lciuinican Government. After a full deliberation, a satisfactory result was reached and tlie purchase ef : fee ted. The people of can Domingo rat ified the arrangement, and a treaty by the Dominican Government was conclu ded, to go into effect, January 1, 1 73. | Tlie company is g. anted uluiost all the rights of an independent govern ment ; v\ ill have its own liag, police and lvvenue officers, the right te> construct railroads, charter vessels, collect taxes, etc. Any quesliou arising between the compai y. and the Douiiucan Govern ment. it is stipulated, shall lie referred to some European Power for ai bi Gat ion. On the treaty being completed the l'j btc sailed for I'm.ao Priucjpe, from whthice the company receive d intelli gence of the satisfactory result of the negotiations. The capital of the coin pai.y is $20,000,600. j The Pacific Mail Steamship Company intend to run a regular social steamer between here and Samaua liay next i month. Division. There is said to be a good deal of feeling concerning the project for a new county among the citizens of the Eastern part of Potter County. They expect if the new county is formed to be a good deal nearer to a county seat, to have the county buildings erected by private par ties, and in various other ways to be benefitted by the new arrangement. j It sei ms to us that a little solier sec ond thought will show that the advan tages will not be all upon one side. Should the part of this county desiring it be set off, it will still be holden for its proportion of the debt already ineur nd in the erection of first class county buildings at this place; there will In* new county officials to In* paid; Courts to be held four times a year with twice as many jurymen as are requin d under the present arrangi ment, and we have not yet beard it suggested that private en terprise will pay all these bills. Taxes will undoubtedly be increased by the erection of a new county, not alone in the townships which gooff, but in what is left. And w here are tlie compensating ad vantages? Why, a few land-holders who are interest! d in the building up of t! Hi w eounly scat will be still further enriched at the t xpensecf the tax-payers who are apparently so desirous of the change. We suppose the majority will rule in tliis as in other matters, but we ask that it may tie seriously considered, and that the people will not allow thcmstlvis to be bamboozled by the specious repre sentations of interested parti, s. Look into this matter in all its hearings and do as to you sums Lest, oh ! nun of Potter. Feport of Superintendent of Sol diers' Orphans' Schools. In looking over this report, the most striking particular is tlie small number of soldiers'orphans that have been under the charge of the £>tate (ir i>~.i>..ma s nundre s of thou sands of soldiers many, of course, were young men without families and a greater number, perhaps, left their families provided for; but still the number cared for by the State seems wonderfully small. Since the system went into opera tion the whole number of the orphans received lias been C 129. Tie v are now being discharged on arriving at -ixtecu years of age more rapi tly than Li icy are r.jooived ; antl one most sat isfactory feature of this report is the account of the present it nation and occupation of . hose who have leff the ; variott - schools. In the e-tablis'iiug of new schools and the closing of some it has been! rather dii'icult at times to keep truce of our children and to know where they are now living Of Potter coun ty chili'ren we find two in this list: Levi M'Cann, fanning at Mansfield, and Albert Yauiuwegin, in charge of large saw-mill at Cony. Pa. There have been discharged u rn age '' lyl7, and from the reports all are doing well. • • From the reports of the inspectors it appears that the schools are con stantly becoming better pro\ i led and better managed, and that the children have been wonderfully exempt from contagious diseases, e.-pecially small pox. Comlbrth says: Tic it give of go<<l health n,j. y. d b\ the >rp!:ans is,gimlet d. rc markable. Ty pbO(! at.*! seal lit t< vei raged in the vi cini.y of stv ral of tin' schools but did u<t enter tin in. The Mnasl-pex prevail ed, during a large part of the year, newly all ever the Mate witli uvu e o> less ( vetity, and gnat aiixittv was felt i'oi the safily of the large numb* r of Ca ldren under your care. M< -t of the imtitutions antieipattd your instrue lins, though tim !y given, and vacci nal* d their schools before your orders coild reach tin 111. In l'i.ilad lpi.iaaud vi'inity communication with the out s'* world was cut oft during the season ofgivntc.t danger. llut not withstand ing the precautions taken, the escape of thirty-seven hundnd eiiildnn, with barely oiif fxccption, from ti.e pnvail ing pest, ret ins little less than miracu lous, and 'alls for * xprcssions of g ati tiule to 11 in w!io saves from the "pest il nee that walkith in daikness." .School libraries are furnished and periodical taken, and thus are the children kept acquainted with what is going on 111 the world outside. Most of them attend church and Sunday schools arc generally held iu the in stitutions. The reports of the princij als of the are very interesting. From tlurt of A. L. Gr.ss, Cassvilie, the following extracts are taken: The services of a very competent ar.d extensively known G. tiuan ptofessor of vocal and instrumental music, assisted by a full supply of music books and t.iree- histiumuits. l as done all that was practicable towards teaching the whole school a scientific knowl.dgeof music, and Las g*vu some twenty pu pils considerable proficiency in tlie use of the piano and organ. We feel that we may justly boast over our good music. The cost of this department for the school year has been about i'iuu, and is of course txtia. and a free will offering of the principal, and for which some will accord neither credit nor thanks. | Mural. —We cannot indulge in whole sale praises of the moral condition of the pupils—tin y are by tie) nouns saints. When first gathered, these children were as a whole, by no means up to the average of children in manners and morals; many of them indeed have never had good example nor heard good precept. A number arc often thought less, some are mischievous, and perhaps a few even malicious; wicked persons and others by unguarded remarks often put mischief in their heads, and incite the in to evil. Still, by care and kind ness there have been but few glaiing departures from our established rules, while the conduct of many has been entirely unexceptionable. Annivt rsarj ami Hi-union. —A promi nent laudinaik in the history e f the school for the year, was the •'re-union" of the '".sixteen, is" at our anniversary on the 6th of Nov; mber. at which time the school had com pit ted its sixth year under our care. Fifty-six e>f he one bundleeland forty-four sixte enors which hud then gone from these walls, returned —no longer childi.n, but wcll-ljehavcd and intelligi nt young laelie s and ge uth - nun. It was a giand social Jubike. Ouite a number of visitors nlse) gsaced the occasion, while the Broad Top brass bar.el aid d in attiacting and e utertain ing a large crowd. Mr. F. A. Allen of ManslieFl gives his labor pi in thus: Iwht*ii i<r. —Xo system of labor, here tofore : il ptul, has been satisfactory so far as our school is conct rin d. To it m uly this defect we lave pure! R.-od one hundnd aial fifty acics of land, one half of which was under a partial state of .cultivation. On this land our I toys have the fullest ai.d widist lit id for lalior. ; In t wo hours from tlie tiua o;' purchase, ever one hundred hoys were setting tins to stumps, Irtish i.taps, etc., and 1} right, Mine tine hundred blazing li es gave visible signs ol what orp.au boys t an do when opt ortunities present the ins.. Ivts. .'tine forty •- -* ■ ... .ue now stttbtl with oats, corn, potatoes, beans and lit. ktvlit a', and give good promise of a line ciop. The .Superintendent closes his re port with r. " >j eeial circular " L> t e principal t f theseviralseiiool i, wi.ich bt gins as follows: : I>KAU Sin: Under an act of the I.eg-J islatuve I propose to place, near the 11. s j j of Septembei nt xt,about fifteen soldiers' orphar.3 < f prop, r ago and tpialilications ; lithe State Normal schools witit tiiede • ign i f training tin m for teachers. FROM the I'rcxs are taken F e fol lowing- propositions let" rc the Lon-J stitutional Convention: Pi.e rt port present! d on the nr. vions I day from the CommiUet on toe L g.s a o.iie. thioughitsehaii man. Mr. \\ ayiu Mac \ eagh, t inbodii ssundry important proposed ciianges in ti.e constitution. Lite vital propositions are the following: Biennial instead of annual sessions ot tin Legislature; a carefully prepared o.iti: to ho administered to members oi the Legislature, that they have not giv n bribes to secure an el etuui, and iiavt not roe. .ved bribes to imluence their of licial action; a limitation of ti.e pay ol in mbeis to S IJ.U ft>r each period oi iwo years, and prohibiting t xtra allow- j anct s . s members of committees or pt r ! •fiusites of any kind. 1 .it report also provides that the! lec tions lor tin? Legislature shall ocem once in every two years—.Senatois t. ."hi tor four years and Itepreseiitatives j for two years; limits tiie number of Sen -; a tors from any one city to four, and d - > tails a compreiiensive scheme of appor- j tionin nt of in tube! sof the Legi.-lat ure. bastd upon toe system adoplid by ti.i Constitutional Couvcntiou of ilhuo.s. Bv M . MeConiii 11, for a board ol ■ . , I turee inspectors ot p uitt ntiaries, jails, j hous.s of refuge, and other prisons and i , ptihlii.: insane asylums o. iuii. lmu i* s, to lie elected by toe peopk-; the board .o have supervisory p* w is over such in stitutions, and to rep u t annually to tin Legislature* upon their condition, etc. Also providing lat said boa:el. with tilt Gov* i nor. .sec Ala; \ of Mat*-, and Attorn* y G* n< ral. cousiilute a Council of Pardons, with power to g ant par dons ami i\ pri. ws, to modify sentences in all ci iminal ens* s, and .>> c. ang* am sent* nee of d.atiito iiiiprisoi.im nt foi life or for a term of years; eve; y pardon, Ac., to have t..e concurrence of I<>Ul in. nib* rs of the boa.el, and in* paidon to lie grant* d l; fore sentence, nor iu a manner other limn speeili* el. Helen* *1 to tiic Committee t>n state Institution's. AN Austrian savant is said to have discovered. I \ means of a microscope, in a st< lie taken from the p\ rami i of Dash* ur, many intei eating particulars connected with the life of the ancient Egyptians, i lie brick itself is maele of the mud of the >* ile, chopped straw ami sanel, thus confirming what the bible ami Herodotus have handed down to us as the Egyptian methods of 1 rick-making. Besides these ma terials, the microscope has brought other things to light—the dvbnts of river shells, of fish and of insects; seeds of wild and cultivated tloweis, of corn and barley, the field pea and common llax, cultivated probably for both food and textile purposes, and the radish with many others known to science. itVn and t^rissors. Mu. JOHN BKEXNAN, immigration agent for the State of lowa, writes to say that many persons from Pennsyl vania and other portions of the Hast are going out to lowa with the expect;.tioii of finding honn s on vacant Government land, and that most of tlieni are miser ably disappointed, since there is scarcely a thousand acres of such laud left in all that State, which will probably be wholly taken up before spring. Parties who contemplate emigrating to that section may obtain reliable printed information by writing to Mr. Brennan, whose office is at Sioux City, lowa. We may add, for the further information of persons who are a Unit moving to the West, that all the Government land which is good for anything has been taken up in the States east of the Mis souri river, and ev. n in such distant Ti rritories as Dakota and Colorado the best lands, so far as surveyed, have already been entered.— Prtas. The 1 radical element in the story of t he fate of the ship jVWL'w'.m witlr la r hundrt ds of passengers, is intensified % the supposition tl at the steamer tluit caused the catastrophe went to the bot tom shortly uiltiwaids with all on board. If the .sii|'j>osition prove true the public rewaidsoffered for the detec tion of the st amer will read strangely ■ enough. j A young man who went \Y est from Danbui v a few montlis ago, iuis sent only one h iter home. It came Friday. Ii said: "Send me a wig." And hi.s fond parents don 'I know whether he is sculpt, d or marru tl. The lb ston newspapers re|x>rt a " giantl social asst inhly" of d-af mutt s m thai city on Nt v.-Year's Hay. It must have b. en an upioarious affair. Drni.so the late freshets in Polk 1 county, Ga., a little boy att mptctl to save ;i younger sister, by sv.uiwning —:. i. oei to a place of safety. The ijiiiVc little ft 1 low was borne down b\ the cm rt lit, and hi and the object of ids care wen fom.d, whin the wattrssub sakd, dt ad in o;:cii otia r'stmbraee. i'liEK k is fot.d for 1 liotight in the stoiy 1 at is told of a young lad who for tuc lirst time iiccomp;init tl his lather to a public d.liner. The waiter asked liim. " \\ hat Will you take to drink:'" Hesi tating foi a moment, he repli;d, "I'll < Gikt what lather takes.'' T..c answer , itaciitd Ins lather's ear, and instantly j the lull responsibility of his position i ash; d upon him. In a moment his dot isioii was mud ; and m tones tremu lous with emotion, and to the astonish ment of those who knew him, he said -"Waiter, I'll take water." IN' nw U.S. SKN ATO its. —Iloscoo C'onk • ii, it - lceud In in New Yo.k; Simon Cameron, from i*. iiiisvivaiiia ; Richard . igk sl v, elected ia Illinois; \Y. J5. Maekt n, in Kentucky; Timothy (>. ilowt, in Wisconsin; Jghn P.Jones, Nt vatkt. IN addition to the American Steani s hp Company. Pniladclp.ia is to linvt mot; cr foreign line in the Inteniation ..l, riming IK-IU t ii this port and Ant werp. The steamers are large, well built. and will compare favorably with am t:iat make New York their liuwn. i'iie line will In g,n oj nations in a little uioiv t an a month. It v. ill give a new an, t ins to tiie commerce of the city, .tiai should meet with liberal cncour .tgi nitnt. — J rtt.. Tin-: VIKXXA KM'OSTION.—Th( Uon.se Ct liuiiil It e on foreign Affairs wi.l n port a bill appropriating $li;(i,00o iowaid d- fraying toe t xpensesatb tiding tiie t xposiiion of Unitid "states produc tions at I e\ a m.a World's f air. This amount is rigauled as insuiiich nt foi lie purpose, iiaving lxtn ap piiabdiorti e i'.u is Intt i national hx- i is,in n, and taer-lore a motion to metal tiie bill in. y bt- made ill toe Sen ate. Tnere is i.o doubt t:;at two un lit li 1 s. ijs will be eietaihd to cany Am aie.til j nil net ions to \ ienna. I'IXANC IALLY. New Jersey, as wi h-arn lo in tit Controllei's reiKirt, is the iin : t pn s| e.ous i ouiiiionwi-altli ol tiie Union, with very little d lit and less taxation,and propcity assessed at bi-U .117. Not the least admiinlilt- of the many < xi ell-, nt p-revisions of the civil service n b rin bill is tl at siclion whicii came up for dist ussion yesteiday before the Civil tjeiviceC'i mmission, providing for the reorganization of tin eh rieal force of the Treasury Department, and the payment of equal salaries to male and ft male clerks |x rfoimil.g equal duties. Ti.is is a woman's rights bill of tlie proptr kind. PUOPOSITOIX in the Constitutional Ct nventicn, by Mr. Carter, abolishing capital puiiisliincnt and establishing im luisonni nt for life, with entire w.t - drawn I of the pardoning power, unless in casts where innocence may be judi cially pi oven, lieferrtd. MAJ. 11. 11- Strait, elected to Congress from the ul Minnesota district, and S. Uoss elecUd to Congress from the IStli Pa. district, were born in Coud. rsport, and were boys together when there were but ti£Ll bauihtsui the place. WINDOW GARDENING.—BURG ■ ; month of January stimulants, . J ! applied to plants to advantage. lUl ' S jean be forced into blooming i . jfl Fill an old pail half full of lioi>, 1 jure, turn warm water on it, 1, tit j a while, then pour otT and use the, I I | in tin* saucers, letting the plant si | the nourishment. Never allow an ■ ter to touch the leaves, but pa water not very cold. j cacti require no water during th ter months; but fushsias need tub., i very moist, else they will not 1)1„ 0I| " | I FXjJ^TN AND f ; ORNAMENTAL 1 .sou I'ttiNTtyJ i IT.OMPTLY KXEUTID AT TIIK OFFICE OF THE ■ ■ JOURNAL AND NEWS ITEfi ' John V. Erov.n, PilttriilETOll OF LINE OF STAGES BET W TEX | Ooudcrsport & Wellsville ( Via OS WA YO, PA.) Person; •.*. ine to Osw.vro hv rtn i ildi i:ic to rclu.n smiic day, will L* ;uv>ium . UsJ at stride rates. I'assen-e s yvMii n to reach anv of Mie n-fc'ihor H'K towns wit' tie con.eyed to Liven it reasonable rates. A K" ><l I ivery rle Vent enstant!y on bant l<r i assengers by the stage. Os w.a v o House, (JoiiN V. linows, l'roi-r.,) OSM AYO, PA. 114-tr OYSTERS. A. H. PESRCE, Wholesale and Itelail OYSTER DEALER, COU-ERSPOfiT, PA. Oysters by the Can, Quart, Gallon, Hundred d Thousand teeelved daily. Kami es, I'arties and Festivals supplied on shoit nut ice. The 'i rade furnished at reasonable ates. Give nie a tiial and I can suit you. a*-22t A- U. PliftC£-
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