The POTTER JOURNAL AND NEWS ITEM. COUDERSPORT, PA., August 6,18*73 REPUBLICAN COMMITTEES. Eepresentatre Delegate. C C CORNFOKTH, of McKean County. /Senatorial Delegate. HUGH YOUNG, of Tioga County. County Committee. DAN BAKEIi, Chairman, ,T M HAMILTON, Secretary, G W Oolvin C G Gushing R L Nichols J M KUbourne R K Young Vigilance Committees. Abbott— Chas Meisner, Jos Schwartzenbach and Chas Heiisehel Allegany— David L Raymond, A G Presho aud W R Gardner Bingham —l B Carpenter, A H Cobb and L J Thompson Ulara—J L Allen, Wm Graves and W A Cole Coudersport—S F Hamilton, W K Jones and J C Davidson EnlaXin— l.eu is A Glace, C Stearns and J I Earl Gene nee—J C Cavanaugh, Wm Baker and Josiali Webster , , Harrison—.l I, Haynes, A A Swetlaud and \\ W Lawrence Hector— I) W Havens, John Skutt and Cyrus Sunderlin Hebron —Wm Greenman, L M Coy and Geo W Stillman Homer— Levi S Quiinby, Jacob Feet and W H Crosby Keating—G C Lewis, Henry Harris and Hiram Bridges I Lev>lsrUle—C E Baker, Henry C Hosley and O R Basset t Osioayo— A S Lyman, J V Brown and Wm Fes senden Pike— M V Proutv, S H Martin and Sant'l Brown Bleasant Va'Jry—E rnest Wright, Lewis Lyman and J K F Judkins Vort'MK —( 'has Young. Chas Austin and Dau'l Everett Houlet —M V Larrabee, Win Hazen and Chas Bavr Sharon —N l'armenter, A A Newton and J S PearsoU I BteuHirdson —H Andresen, James Barton and Ed Summit— Alvin RenueUs, James Reed and J L Peirce . I Siceden— R L White, Edwin Lyman and Joseph Butler Sylrani a—Dutton Stiles, A R Jordan and G C Bees Ulysses —A F Raymond, .T M Benton and B Jay j Cushing " 1 West Branch— E Crippen, S W Conable and O Wet more Wharton— J L Barclay, A R Burlingame and Shafer I>igue Republican County Convention. The Republicans of Potter County are request ed to meet at their usual place of holding their 1 General Election, on Tuesday, September 2,1 573. I between the hours of 4 and fi p. nt., to eleet Dele- ] paths to represent them in County Convention to ! T>e held at the Borough of Coudersport on Thurs- ] day, the 4th day of Seoteinber next, at 2 o'clock, I p. in., to imt iu nomination candidates to be vot- j ed for at the October election, and to transact ] suen other business as may come before the Con- ! vention. The Vigilance Committees of llie several town ships and boroughs are requested to give notice of the time and place of holding tin? primary meetings and to attend them to organize and act as Boards of Election. The number of Delegates | to be elected from the several townships and bo roughs areas follows: Harrison 6; Hebron and j Sharon, each '<; Bingham, Coudersport artd Ulys ses, each 4: Allegany, Eulalia. Genesee, Hector, | I.ewisville, Oswayo and Koulet, each 3; Abbott, i Clara, Homer, Jackson, Keating, Pike, Pleasant l Valiey. Portage. St e ward son. Summit. Sweden, I Kylv.uiia, West Branch and Wharton, each 2. j En. JorirsAi. & ITEM. —Ploase announce the name of 15. 1.. White, of Sweden township, as a candidate for the office of County Commission er—subject to the decision of Keptiblican County Convention. WE ARE in receipt of a letter from a gentleman in one of the smaller towns of this County declining to act as a member of the Republican Vigi lance Committee of his township, lie states that the evidences of cor ruption for the past year among the leaders of the party in all political centres of which he has knowledge and especially in Congress, make liini feel it a disgrace to be a member of the part}-. Of course, feeling as lie does, he does right to decline to act as a member of the Vigilance committee, but should he feel so? If he and every one like him should withdraw from the party docs not that very withdrawal allow the ras cals and corrupt men of the party a better chance to succeed with their infamous schemes? The gentleman will hardly claim that he can exempt himself from all political duty as easily as lie can decline to act as a member of a township vigilance com mittee. His duty to himself, his country and his neighbors requires him to exercise his right of suffrage; then why not use that weapon inside the ranks of the Republican party? He will scarcely turn to the Demo cratic party as a refuge from corrup tion. The remedy lies in not voting for corrupt men, no matter by whom or what party nominated, and one name scratched from a ticket by a member of the party conveys ten times more of a rebuke to the cor rupt leaders than fifty stay-at-homes. A MARRIAGE lias been contracted between the Duke of Edinburgh second soil of Queen Victoria, and the Princess Marie Alexandrowna, of Russia, as a diplomatic event, this al liance would seem to have but little significance. The policy of Russia has ever been peculiarly Russian and Is not likely to be swerved from its course by family relations, while the royal family of England has come to be little more than a figure-head in the affairs of government. But there is one incident connected with this transaction which shows something of the burden the English people carry in this same lloyal Family, and how many of them are coming to regard it. After the marriage was fully settled, the Queen sent to Parliament a message announcing the fact and asking that body to make a provision for the Duke and Princess as had IMVII • ustoinary under such circum- Htiiri' . In response to this mes - >/' ' ' iniiiistr} introduced a bill *• • i •>' Duke X 2*i,000 per an- | num and settling £ 6000 per annum on the Princess in case of the Duke's ! death. The Lords passed the bill unan ! imously without debate. Nothing j else could be expected of them. The aristocracy would of course support i all the ancient privileges of the crown ! from whence its own prerogatives ; descend. But when Mr. Gladstone called the measure up in the Com mons, it met with a different recep tion. Several members spoke in op position to the bill, expressing the opinion that the people were already too heavily taxed by the demands of the royal family, and if every mem ber of that family had got to be pro vided for on the civil list, the Queen should be required to surrender the immense private estates she held to government. On the second reading of the bill, eighteen members voted aganist it. Numerically this vote would seem to have but little weight, but taken in connection with the sentiments expressed on the floor of the Com mons, it indicates the change that is fast coming over the English people. A change that, beginuing and spreading among the more intelligent of the laboriug class, the artisans, small farmers and trades-people, is scarcely represented at all in Parlia ment, finding no advocates in the Lords and but few in the Commons. Yet it seems destined to remodel the English government. What may be called the lower stratum of English intelligence is seriously considering of what use the ro3*al family is to them or to the country, and why they are taxed to the extent of millions every year to support something that in reality is but a name and a form. The opinion has been expressed that there will never be another corona tion in England, but this is probably going too fast. But let the Prince of Wales be crowned King, and then follow theexample of his great-uncles, George IV and William IV, as he lias exhibited a tendency to do since his arrival at manhood, and the throne and crown and royal preroga tives may be tumbled off into the Thames together and not cause much disturbance either. The Anglo-Sax on race seems to be about the only one that can govern itself or keep the peace without a despotism of some kind to hold it down, and the English portion of it is coming rapid ly to the point where the experiment of self government will not only be entirely safe, but will have to be in augurated because the people demand it—and the people is King. THE counties around us that voted under the Local Option Law in fav or of no license are having the usual amount of difficulty to enforce the laws. McKean we believe had a batch of cases that were disposed of last February. We have not learned of farther indictments there. Tioga has several cases pending and the spirit in that county on both sides seems to be, to fight it out. Cameron seems to have trouble with violators ot the law and has called a con vention of all who are favorable to it to devise means for its enforce ment. The enactment of a law of that kind, instead of bringing rest to tem perance people, is simply the signal tor them to begin working. It is placing them face to face with the opposing forces, when a clinch is in evitable. If they shrink back from this, they may as well acknowledge themselves beaten and the game up, for such is the case. A law such as that when it becomes a dead letter is worse than no law at all. But let the friends of prohibition in our neighboring counties enforce this measure and they have gained a vic tory to be proud of. AGRICULTURE. One of the favorable signs of the times is the increased attention given to the culture and cultivators of the soil. It is strange and not at all light that the one great business by which only we all can live, should be comparative!}' so little considered and so illy paid. It is often remarked that boys brought up on farms usually take to some other occupation and we ob serve, or somebody does: "It is no wonder, for farm work is more con lining and less profitable than most other kinds of business." No doubt this is so, but how long can we af ford to have it so? With all the millions of mouths to feed now and the rapid increase to be calculated upon, will there not speedily come a time when more production will be so necessary that some way must be devised to make farm labor less con lining and more intelligent; more satisfying to the young and the am bitious. / Science is now offering its aid to those who seek to understand the mysteries of that wonderful change from dead earth to growing, blossom ing, odorous life. Farming need no longer be the drudgery that a wholly physical labor- is. It may be, and really ought to be, highly intellectual for there is much need of stuuy, ex periment and close investigation. But how can it be made to pay in money, as well as mechanics and manufactures do, or as well as pro fessional men are paid? A recent writer in the Philadelphia Press gives an account of the produce, value above expenses, of a farm of 300 acres in southeastern Pennsyl vania, showing that some had found the means of making the business very profitable. But what we most need is a degree of culture and intel ligence that shall make it possible for small farmers, owners of but a few acres, to turn their labor to the best account and make the profit proportional to that of larger plan tations. To this end we "want some atten tion given in the common schools to the various edible productions of the country, the components of different soils and their fitness for various products. Something that shall be a step toward the agricultural col lege, or at least give interest and im petus to any natural tendency child ren may have in this direction. Much is hoped from the efforts of our agricultural society especially if occasional meetings are held and subjects of practical value discussed, and results and conclusions published in the months between the annual fairs. The fairs held some years ago in our county were very useful in awakenin T s : .:3,170,294 passengers carried over the railroads in Pennsylvania last year, only 33 were killed—less than one in a million. The chances of death by railroad traveling are, therefore, more than a million to one against it, in this , State. j THE Lebanon Cvurirr says that Hon. G. D. Coleman, of that place, would be an acceptable candidate to many Repub licans for Treasurer, and is proposed by many papers. Objection is made to him j on the ground that he would not attend to the duties of the office personally. j HARPER'S Weekly published a bio graphical sketch of Colonel Thomas A. i Scott a few weeks ago and among other inaccuracies said he was born in Lou don county, I'a. The York True Dem ocrat corrects the error and explains that he was born sit or near the village of Loudon, in Franklin county. IT IS rumored that the Democracy of Berks contemplate disbanding the Dem ocratic organization in that county and reorganizing under the "Patrons of Husbandry." "We would consider this report mere idle rumor were it not that General Jackson's death is gaining cre dence through that county. SEVERAL parties in Reading have discovered symptoms of a new disease among their horses which may prove as 1 disastrous as did the epizootic of last year. Horses are unable to eat> are restless, impatient and feverish. They are troubled with an apparent tickling sensation in the threat and do net eat tler- \ fectly beautiful hair on the tcp of his | hcau, which is surrounded by little kinky negro wool. — Wnttliiuj (Va.) liij- j isk r. Iu the volume of Massachusetts rc ports which have just been published, there is a utvisicn which is summarized as follows: '"To cheat one out of his money for charitable purposes is just as criminal as it is to cheat one in the way of business; though the-contrary doctrine is held in New York." Ax agricultural Second Adventist in Orington, Maine, is so firmly convinced of the approaching end of the world next month, that he has mortgaged his farm for SSOOO, which he is spending as fast as possible, thinking that be has a particularly "soft thing" on the mort gagee. All of which shows that like many other New Englanders lie is much more honest in his religious be lief than in bis business transactions. A GENTLEMAN, the other day, saw his little daughter dipping her doll ba by's dress into a cup and inquired, "What are you doing, my daughter?" "I'm coloring my doll's dress red."— "What with?" "With beer!" "What put such a foolish notion into your head, child? You can't color red with beer." "Yes, I can, pa; because ma said it was beer that colored your nose so red!" And the gentieman had busi ness that required him to be down town immediately. A BURLY individual the other day rushed into the sanctum of the Hum boldt, Nevada, lixjister and pulling an enormous six-shooter, inquired anxious ly for the editor. "With the great pres ence of mind," says the fearless quill driver; "which always characterizes us when in the presence of danger, we! suddenly arose and knocked down the intruder, soia-d him by nether extremities the street. When la 5 , w ,, , S king a 2:40 gait for Win,* 0 ' the railroad singing 'I W;illt > angel,' The revolver captuj melee is on exhibition at this 030 I THE Washington Ch m>id( . Colonel Mosby. It says: - , that Colonel Moshv, " 0 f ( . 5 j lame, has publicly declared l\ ' tion for President Grant and u' jHtse to support his is in order for all the nals to denounce the man ti, f . v eulogized to the skies as a Very i, * ' as 'the Confederate robber of lj ? ; cormjribs and jierception of public virtue ha... " coincidences. When Colonel \r was lighting against the Union believed by these Democratic* . lie a brilliant officer and an t ! man. But now that he is doii • can to persuade his old followers j port the Union, he is proper object of the severest c and tiie vilest reproach.'' MR. AUSBURN Towner, of tl*J ! ra Advtrtiscr , has prepared a ture for the coming season and* ; happy to deliver it before LyeecnJ Literary Associations. Tliose uia up their programmes for tliewinu, wishing ltis services, can comtn© with him at that office. Mr. T as a literary man has but few >. and wherever he lans appear*,; drawn crowded houses and b i commended. POST AG E OX NEWSPAPH i CHANGES. —The newspapers t!:>. worth living are able to pay postip their exchanges and those that a-, able to pay this bill ought to their checks as soon as possible, franking privilege to Congressus other officials was a nuisance, ii other ground tuan the manner iis it served to encumber and del; mails, to the disadvantage of business correspondence. \\> , believe the Government will sawij lar by its abolition. The railroa&i receive just as much for earning mails and the clerical forces ui tlie !i Oilices at "Washington and elson will not be reduced by a single q Indeed, the expenses of the Depaita have been increased instead of ha lieen reduced since the rejieal we::j effect. Nevertheless, the frank fraud and its abolition is a reform S ought not to be arrested or luted* with. It was a reform in theses which Buckle defined that word: i the doing of something right, tat undoing of something wrong." Le stand. — St. Louis IJciuOCi aL THE postal card manufacture; Springfield are nnu' shipping tat? seven and eight hundred thousandfl daily and will soon increase tlienin to one million. There is an ample: ply of paper on hand to turnouts: lion and a quarter daily and of a be quality than formerly. Tiie ekia of the Postmaster-General was I about one hundred million jtostald would be purchased this year. I" this time—less than three months they were issued—over fifty nta have been ordered and the prohatz are that the consumption this yean be double the estimate. Thusfari fff the small towns have been SHIP REPEAL OF TIIE FRANKING PHI LEGE. Postmaster-General Cress is reported to believe that the al>' : of the franking privilege will so incn the revenues of the Post-Office - make it self-sustaining. .Since the! of July , the sales of stamps haveexe ed those for any other equal pent* the history of the Department. 1 new system of issuing official for public matter is liable tubes by dishonest clerks and others wh - steal them, but the Post-Office tives have been instructed to detais unofficial matter which bears oS stamps. It is believed the loss in ■ direction will not be la rev. "THE BLUE AND THEGUAY.- tender recollections which were re by Decoration Day still appear in press of the Southern States. sionally we meet with noble which should he caught rip and re l Ed, North and South. The Bid- Enquircr , for example, speakinc brave Gen. W. 11. Lytic, of Obi while attempting to reenforee iJffi- ■ mas, in 1863, uses the followin? guage: He was killed far in advance | command, while gallantly I<;< ; • assault upon our lines. 1 his corpse into our lines and ti r ' and his dead rider were both cai 1 ;- So soon as it was known that ; thor of that rare poem, as : as greatly admired South as \ ! am dying, Egypt, dying," lay ■ 'the camp, otlicers and men 'J ! around to take a last look at 1 i of the poet soldier who had ac. ;! •" j great a literary triumph. J no rejoicing over the death len enemy; but there was in tin thing on each soldier's check • ; the moment washed away the powder. Tenderly they took and when the battle wasovei aw of honor, appointed from leading Confederate otlicers. •"•1 back to his own camp, ; i truce, on a rudely constructs ; bier with his martial cloak an • . lu life he had touched that nc j man svinpathy which ~. 1 world kin—and in death itsaa j vibrations silenced all resell' •' J thrilled the hearts alike ot ' " 1 foes with a nobler passion t " or revenge. j 4 THE Press says the > r I matter passing through t.a 'J Pliiladelphia has doubled sine? I FASHION iz money investid