The POTTER JOITRRAL
A \* I)
NEV/S ITEM.
COUDSRSPORT. PA.. Aug. 13. 1813
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEES.
R?prv**ntitre /v.'fvzafe.
C C CORN FORTH, "f MeKean County.
Senatorial Delerrate.
Hl'OH YOUNG, of Tioga County.
(Xntttfy Cbmniittee.
D\\ BAKER,
.1 M HAMILTON, Secretarr,
G W Colvin C G rushing
KI. Nichols I Ktlbourne
R K Young
rfrilanct Oymmittce.*.
A'Siott—Cha* Meisner, Jos Behwartzenbach and
('has Henseliel , .„ „ , .
—David I. Raymond, A (, Pnsho and
\VK Gardner
liingham—l B Carpenter, A II Cobb and L J
Thompson . , _ . - .
, ■:nr<i—.l I. Allen. W m Graves and W A Cole
o.ll,?er*>rt —S F Hamilton. \V K Jones and J
C Davidson „ . - nr..,
f ■ lii o—Lewis A Glare, C Steam* an IJ I> Earl
~ ,j., ,—.l < ■ ('av.inuugh, \\ m Baker and Josiah
Wetater . ' . . „.
TTirrison— J I. Haynes, A A hwetlaud and w
W lawreiM'P . , _
II , —ll W Havens, John SUutt and < yrus
Sunderlin , ...
ltabroi I—Win Greennuui, L M Coy and Geo \\
Stißman „ .... . u
jl-.fnv <•— l.e\i s yuiinby, Jacob leet and \v H
Crosbv „ . . ...
K'.'ntinii —G C I.ewis. Henry Harris and Hiram
1, ic/sC i: Baker, Henry C Hosley and O R
as Lyman, J V Brown and Win Fes
/•, _L,V v Proiitv, S II Martin and Sam'l Brown
Vorinu— Ernest Wright, Lewis Lyman
and J KFJudkins
Portti.i. —('his Young, Clias Austin and Dan 1
Kverntt
j{. n ,: r t— M V Lurabee, Wlll Hazen and Cbas
IVirr
iS 'fmrtm—S Parmenter, A A Newton and J S
irofrf&rti —11 Aiulresen, James Rirton nihl Etl
Xlvin Rennells, James Reed and J L
Peircc
fitircd-n—K L White, Edwin Lyman and Joseph
Butler , „ „
A"•/'mni< I —Dutton stiles, A R Jordan and G C
Koch
f/j/.ws—A F Raymond, J M Benton and B Jay
Gushing „ ~ , _
IPwf r.rntrh— E Crippen. S W Conable and O
Wet more
IHitrton— .1 L Barclay, A R Burlingaroe and
Shafer I.ogue
Republican County Convention.
The Republicans of Potter County are request
ed to inert at their usual place of holding their
<Jetu ral Election, on Tuesday. September 2,1873.
between the hours of 4 ami '< p. m-, to eleet lele
rates to represent them in Cmintv Convention to
he held at the Borough of Cnudersjmrt on Thurs
day, the 4tli day of September next, at 2 o'clock,
j>. 111., to put in nomination candidates to be vot
ed for at the October election, and to transact
Mien other business as may conic before Hie Con
vention.
The Vigilance Committees of the several town
ships and iioroughs are requested to give notice
of the lime and place of holding the primary
meetings and to attend them to organize and act
as Boards of Election. Tiie number of Delegates
to be elected from the several townships and bo
loughs areas follows: Harrison(i; llcbron and
Sharon, each 5: Bingham. Couders)Hvt and 1 lys
no.s, each 4: Allegany, Eulalia, Genesee, Hector,
Lowisvlllo. Gswayo and Knulet, each 3; Abbott,
Uiara, Homer, Jackson. Keating, Pike, Pleasant
Yaliey. Poriage. Slewirdson, Summit, Sweden,
Sylvania, West Branch and Wharton, eaeli 2.
Announcements.
I"I. .ToniNAi. ITEM. — announce the
name ■>{ ft. 1.. White, of Sweden township, as
a •• imlhlate for the office of Cwnnty Commission
ci I —subject to the decision of Kcpubiicuii County
Convention.
K:>. Jot'BSAL & ITEM.—l'lease üßonaee the
nai f > etlaml. of Harrison town
ship, as a candidate for County Commissioner,
- tide •: to the d:ision of the KepuMifan County
Convention. E^IAI
WE HE under obligations to M.
E.Olmsted,a s;>eciiiien brick of l*ot
ter comity production now at llar
visbiirg, for a copy of the "Auditor-
Heneral's Report on Railroads," for
1X72. It is next in interest and
value to the School Report of all the
public documents of the State. We
are very glad to receive it and grati
fied at being remembered by our
young friend.
WE ARE always glad to receive
communications for publication in
the JOURNAL. We are especially
j(leased to receive items of local
news. But we mn.-t adhere to the
rule of requiring the name of (he
writer to be sent to us with the com
munications. The name of the writ
er will never be made public unless
intended to be, but we must know
whose words we publish. "C. IV'
will learn from tLis item why the
communication on Refinement is not
pulil i Si k' d, and so will the writers of
some other articles that rest quietly
in one of the pigeon-hole 3 of our
sanctum. One of them is very spicy
—it w;;s sent from Raymond last
February—The writer seemed to
think the proprietor of the JOURNAL
didn't know there were any Temper
ance Democrats—and was quite
severe—we rather liked the article
and should have been pleased to see
it in the JOURNAL, but we never
print an article if the writer is un
willing to be known.
THE POSITION of political parties
in this country at the present time is
certainly a remarkable one, and may,
if carefully considered, furnish some
lessons to the politician and the
statesman.
Democracy has come to be almost
a name without a substance. Con
tinual defeats have demoralized it so
that it seems to lack the nerve to
make a steady determined fight, while
the progress of events under the
management of the opposing party
has forced it reluctantly of!' from its
old positions, until to-da) it does
not know where nor on what it
stands. Neither the leaders nor the
rank and file seem to know what are
its principles, nor what its line of
policy. The glamour of its name
and obi traditions holds millions of
voters to its service, but the name
and traditions are all that serve to
centralize it into one homogeneous
mass.
Acting as it does, with no steady
purpose and 110 fixed line of policy,
it catches at every expedient and
adopts every dodge that promises to
give it a temporary success, and
place its tarnished leaders again in
otliee. Thus last year it meekly fol
ded its own banner and arrayed
itself to do battle under the Liberal
da<r- But as an evidence that it had
nothing but the plunder of victory
in view, it deserted its allies as soon
as the October elections showed that
victory was not to be won that way;
caviling for reform and retrenchment
and purity of government, its mem
bers and representatives are found
deepest in every scheme of plunder
or hot-bed of corruption wherever
the opportunity is offered them. It
is a party without a principle, a body
without a spirit. However long it
may maintain this abnormal life it
can never, under such conditions
load itself on the country as a guid
ing power unless by the criminal fol
ly of the opposing party.
The Liberal party, as by courtesy
it might be called, is stranded high
and dry on the rooks of the political
ocean; it can't make land in any
direction. Powerless to work alone
and disgusted with the Democracy,
there seems to be but one late left it,
to fall to pieces and let the tide wash
it ashore.
Various local interests and issues
iu connection with people's natural
tendency to lie thrown otl' at a tan
gent by the centrifugal force of events
are continually starting local parties
and making local fights, but they arc
invariably short lived; the better
element of them going back to their
old allegiance, and the remainder
becoming political stragglers and
bushwhackers.
Thus we find the elements that
composed the opposition to the lie
publican party at the present time
to be Democrats, Liberals and strag
glers. They are not in harmony, are
not working together, and will not
be, unless time so changes the course
of events as to give them some prin
ciple that appeals to the good sense
|or conscience of the nation, and
which by its own vital force can
draw them together and give them
life.
This brings us to the position of
the Republican party. Firmly seated
in oower. there eem to be no op
posing force that can hope to unseat
it. Its place is certainly an enviable
one, and its responsibilities are cor
respond ingly heavy and imperative.
The welfare of the country is irrevo
cably in its keeping, and mankind
the world ove * will hold it account
able for the manner in which it dis
charges the trust. Honesty and
purity in all the departments of gov
ernment will alone satisfy the people
and secure to it its present proud
pre-eminence. It has done some
grand things in the past, but the
shadow of the past will not cover
Credit-Mobillier speculations and
back pay steals.
But the real responsibility for the
future of the Republican party rests
witli the masses of that party. Let
them do their duty in conventions
and at the polls, and all will go well.
NUISANCE.
It is difficult to separate, some
times, the things which annoy from
those that injure us. Indeed if we
were at liberty to rid ourselves of
whatever we would I fear we should
often "abate'' the nuisance that is
merely disagreeable. Most people
would have the whole creation of in
sects abolished and thus deprive
scientific jjeoplc of a very large field
of observation and research. Wheth
er this would be a serious evil we
cannot tell. Probably there would
still be material enough for science
to expend itself upon for many thou
sand years without the insect world, j
Hut the birds, many of them beauti
ful and charming, depend so much
on insects for food that we might
thus lose many of them. We can
hardly tell whether we would not
rather be bitten by mosquitoes, gnats,
or fleas, or crawled over by flies,
spiders and worms; have our food
infested by ants or flies or fight these
with what power of patience we can
and regale ourselves with flight and
songs of birds, even were it at our
option to do otherwise. But there
:: re some that we cannot see subserve
any good purpose; and the question
will arise whether there are other
forms of existence of which we are
unconscious, to whom those creations
that to us are only repulsive and dis
tressing may be useful and neces
sary.
We cannot see the use and need of
venomous serpents and ferocious
boasts, unless it be to furnish the
animal type of venom and ferocity
which we should exhibit if we suf
fered ourselves to follow the low and
bad tendencies of our nature instead
of tiie kindly and human ones.
Whether the students of nature hare
found any we cannot tell. They have
found enough that is curious and in
teresting to make their study absorb
ing and its result* valuable; but
hardly enough to make us feel glad |
that there are dangerous reptiles and
ravenous beasts or irritating insects.
But perhaps to some orders of being
higher than ourselves and which we
do not perceive for want of a higher
and liner sense than any we possess,
we may be as dangerous, as raven
ous, as irritating as anything in the
world is to us; and yet we see, or
think we do, reason enough for our
being. But with all external troubles
it seems natural that all should feel
that the greatest nuisances as well as
the worst evil, come from within us.
Why they are there is the deepest
mystery; why, being there, we can
be blinded to their badness so that
they make themselves appear to us
good and fair, we never can see.
For if we saw our bad habits as they
are we would instantly abandon
them. If we knew how annoying
our hasty temper, our harsh words,
our jealousy, our narrow judging,
our selfishness, we would put the n
away. It is because these tilings
deceive us and make us believe they
are fair and right that we let the
nuisances remain.
The Mayor advertises that if he can
find out who throws refuse matter
into the water, he will abate the nui
sance. So will we all if we can only
find out what it is that makes trouble
for ourselves and others, producing
sometimes more than bodily disease,
lie must watch by the waterside, we
must watch—where?
TIIE proposed new Constitution of
Pennsylvania covers sixty large
printed pages, being five times as
large as the old one. This unlimited
devotion to trivial details, resulting
from an inability to grasp and em
body great principles, is tlie worst of
vices in a constitution-maker. A
constitution ought to be like a cate
chism—something that can be read,
understood and learned by heart by
every person of ordinary intelli
gence.—l> uffalo Express.
There is much force in this criti
cism and as it is not too late to
remedy the defect here pointed out,
wo trust, the press of the State will in
sist oil its being done.
Great and important reforms are
embodied in the work of the Conven
tion, but there is very much of trivi
al detail in it that ought to be elimi
nated from it on third reading, which
it is next to undergo.
Let the press of the State criticise
freely; for a large number of the
Delegates seem to think the Conven
tion ought to form a Code of Laws.
Struck by Lightning.
Peatfi comes with awful sudden
ness! So say we all, but are we sure
that it is not a blessed suddenness as
well ?
We stop with a shock as we hear
of a life taken away in an instant;
and we cateli our breath and feel that
it is awful, that it may come to us
any day, or to those nearest to us.
Suppose it should. Suppose rather
it should not, and that the next
moment, or hour, comes to 11s fraught
with a temptation we cannot, or do
not resist, that a little seed of evil
finds its lodgment in our heart, a
little turning from the right way that
shall lead us by scarce perceptible
degrees into terrible ways of sin and
wrong.
All this might bo and yet neither
we nor our daily companions be able
to perceive that that day or hour
was different from another. The
earth seems the same before as after
it holds the seed that shall become
a great tree. And the time may
come to us as it came to the Psalm
ist when we shall wish that the day
had not risen upon us. And look
ing back from the other side of the
great change which we may have
made, with what seemed to those
around us a fearful shock, we may
be able to see that it was a most
merciful lifting us out of troubles
present or to come. And as we can
not tell the evil thus escaped, neither
can we know the good that may have
been working in the soul; the silent
struggles against temptation within
and without, the Teachings toward
the holy and true, the breathings of
a longing hope, the unexpressed
yearnings, the silent aspiration of a
faith striving to grow from the tiny
seed to the great tree.
As one said long ago, "We all sin
sometimes. There is no one who is
always ready to be called, but our
Father knows the moment that is
best for us and for His own glory."
So, in the instant as well as the
lingering death, 11 is hand comes to
us in mercy. Only our own want of
love and trust can make it terrible
or to be deplored for ourselves. For
the friends that are bereaved, for
those that mourn as though the sun
light of joy had forever passed away
—for them, too. there is but tlie'one
healing: in a holy faith and trust.
WHEN I have time I will do it.
When 1 have nothing else to do, 1
will take this trip, or this rest, or
that needed recreation. So we say,
but would we? It seems to be the j
experience of those who have come J
to their leisure, that the zest of liv- j
ing has departed. Only that is rest j
that is caught or taken in the inter-,
vals of labor. That only is amuse
ment or recreation that is brief re
lease from the monotony of care or
employment. Those onl}* are the
graces and adornments of life which
spring from the solid foundation of
true, honest, manly work.
If we had nothing else to do, nei
ther would we have this to do, that
our souls desire and long for. The
high branches grow from the rough
trunk and the humble root.
WHERE THE LAUGH COMES IN.
The New York Evening Post has a
very funny article about Philadelphia's
ocean-steamer fleet, which, at present.'
is composed of two vessels, the Pcnn-'
sylvan in and the Ohio. Some weeks ago.
it remarks in its sly way, there was but !
one American steamship plying between
the United States and Europe and now
two American flags crowd each other
on the three thousand miles of water
between the old and new worlds and the
maritime nations of Etiropeare pausing
and reflecting and gravely asking them
selves what the end of all this will be.
And it adds satirioallv:
"We venture to say that history can
not furnish a parallel to this case. Ilere
is a country stretching across a conti
nent from ocean to ocean, its extendi d
seacoast abounding in harltors, itsnat u
ral proihicts furnishing ample materials
for ship-building, its people instinctive
ly commercial and by birth and practice
enterprising. On tlie instant, as it
were, tiiis vast country, with all its va
ried resources, doubles its ocean steam
commerce. Could England, mistress
of the sea. as she lias liecn fondly called,
do this? Even Noah, who appears to
have been an historical rival of ours, is
surpassed here, for he built one s'.ip
and 110 more. Yit this asertion is in
dubitably true. The simplest mathe
matics demonstrate it. Last week
there was one American steamship
afloat —this week there are two. Twice
one is two."
This biting sarcasm Is leveled at our
"admirable high tariff system," of
course, which makes the appearance of
two American steamships a matter of
congratulation. But in another column
will be found a slant statement of the
foreign commerce of Philadelphia for
this year which furnishes a pleasant
commentary on the Post's smart chaf
fing. During the seven months ending
July 31st, the exports from that city
amounted to sl-5,443,863 as against $lO.-
336,607 during the same period of 1*7:2.
an increase of forty-six per cent. When
it is remembered that the Philadelphia
steamship enterprise is but just inaugu
rated our leaders will admit that the
prospect is decidedly encouraging. [Sev
eral more vessels are in process of con
struction for tliis line and the indica
tions are that they will have a lucrative
business.
Now we submit that those "Pennsvl
j vania Protectionists" are doing a deal
■ more honest work towards restoring
American commerce and towards ad
vancing American interests generally,
than the superfine theorists of the Eve
ning Post breed, who are content to sit
back and sneer at every exhibition of
Pennsylvania enterprise. We believe
j that New York will find out sooner or
later that it has made a mistake as to
the place where the laugh conies in in
this matter.— Buffalo Express.
Increased Railroad Facilities.
Possibly the demand of the West
ern farmers for increased railroad
facilities and cheaper freights will be !
met by the development of the rail- j
road system of the country, which is .
now progressing at an extraordinary
rate. The four great trunk Hues—
the New York Central, the Erie, the
Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and
Ohio, are each at work or contem
plate largely increasing their carry
ing capacity. Both the New York
Central and the Pennsylvania road
have adopted the policy of a four
track road from New York to Chica
go, by which a double track will be
secured to passengers and freight
each. The latter is now the impor
tant consideration in calculating the
business of railroads. In 1841 the
receipts of all the railroads in the
United States were about equal from
freight and passengers, amounting in
round numbers to twenty millions of
dollars from each. In 1871 the earn
ings had grown to $ 455,000,000, of;
which two-thirds came from the
transportation of freight. This ex
plains the necessity for increased ac
commodations tor the freight traffic,
which will be secured by two tracks
devoted to that business. They can
not be completed to Chicago or St.
Louis in less than four or five years,
and by that time their necessity will
be absolute and imperative.
We get some interesting details of
the laying of the quadruple tracks of
the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad, now in progress at
a rapid rate. Tim total cost from
New York to Buffalo and Rochester,
via Albany, is estimated at $20,000,-
000. The company has bought 60,-
000 tons of English steel rails for
tracking purposes, which are now
being delivered. None but steel
rails are to be used in any part ot
the work. As it requires from 2500
to 3000 ties per mile, full 2,000,000
wilJ. be used for the whole, in
cluding the sidings. About 70 miles
are already graded and ready to lav
the track. It is expected that 250 !
miles will be graded this full and
that the whole will be completed in
two years. It is designed that the
two north tracks shall be used for j
passenger trains and the two south
tracks for freight. In laying the
new track, the effort is made to
straighten out the line as far as pos
sible and take out the curves and.
with this view, the new tracks are
not placed throughout on the same
side of the old. but adjusted so as j
best to accomplish this end. The,
Central road, it is computed, has
over I U,O(J<) freight cars, runs over j
16 miles of freight trains every day
and has more than 500 locomotives.
Beside the freight trains, the Compa
-1 113' runs a large number of fast pas
senger trains every day. These, of j
course, have the right of way. Fif
teen minutes before the former are
due the latter must be off on a side
track and, to guard against accident,
! it is not permitted to niovq until ten
minutes after the passenger train
i has passed. Thus there is a loss of
twenty-five minutes in ever}' case.
The economy in railroading consists
in keeping the rolling stock moving
j and this loss of twenty-five minutes
j several times repeated every day
with the whole sixteen miles of
freight trains is a heavy expense and
tax. It is stated that if it could be
; avoided, freight could be ■ carried
from 10 to 20 per cent, cheaper and
that saving would be enough to make
it pay to build two additional tracks.
Of course thisjexperience of the New
Ycrk Central applies with equal if
not greater force to the larger busi
ness of tiie Pennsylvania road. The
i quadruple track, therefore, is not a
bit of braggadocio, as many suppose,
but an act of sound policy and a
good investment.— Pittsburgh Tele*
graph.
Ridiculously Rural.
At Buokhanuon, Vn.,one P..an en
terprising local druggist lately awed
the innocent rustics by setting up
that terrible engine, a soda fountain,
and the Jfelta thus amusingly de
scribes the first exhibition:
-it. had unpacked and set up his
fountain and it was something new
here; a large number collected to
examine it and see the working of
the machine, and perhaps to imbibe
a portion of its contents. The foun
tain was carefully charged according
to directions, but the mistake was
made by turning the handle until
the gauge indicated one hundred and
fifty; there was a pause on t'ae part
of the operator, but none on that of
the indicator which rapidly ran up to
three hundred, and then, with a loud
roar, out rushed the contents through
I the valves provided for that purpose
and with a roar ten times louder, out
rushed the spectators. Those near
the front door escaped easily, but all
in the rear part of tiie room were
cut olf from es ape by the howling,
buzzing monster. It was clear sonie
! thing must be done. There was a
general move towards a window; the
first to reach it was an energetic
youth, who, after a vrin attempt to
hoist it, dived headforemost through
the lower sash, breaking all the glass
and receiving severe cuts on the
I arms. Half in anrl half out he hung,
pinned there by the frantic crowd in
his rear, some of whom were making
vigorous but vain efforts to escape
over the unfortunate young man's
body; others crouching low on the
floor; one spectator declares they
were piled at least three deep in the
I corner farthest from the supposed
danger. One medical gentleman
near the door loudly proclaimed,
"110 danger!" but at the same time
| made rapid tracks from that vicinity.
! All was over in a few seconds and
all were somewhat astonished to find
themselves safe and unhurt, with the
exception of the ardent one who went
through the window.
THE LIQUOR INTEREST.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are
marching: how many of them? Sixty
thousand! Sixty full regiments, every
man of which will, before twelve months
1 shall have completed their course, lie
J down in the grave of a drunkard! Eve
ry year during the past decade has wit
nessed the same sacrifice; and sixty reg
iments stand behind this army ready to
take its place. It is to be recruited from
our children and our children's children.
"Tramp, tramp, tramp"—the sounds
come to us in the echoes of the footsteps
of the army just expired; tramp, tramp,
tnunp —the earth shakes with the tread
of the host now passing; tramp, tramp,
tramp comes to us from the camp of the
recruits. A great tide of life flows re
sistlessly to its death. What in God's
name are they fighting for? The privilege
' of pleasing an apjietite, of conforming to
a social usage, of filling sixty thousand
homes with shame and sorrow, of load
ing the public with the burden of pau
l>erisin, of crowding our prison houses
with felons, of detracting from tiie pro
ductive industries of tiie country, of
ruining fortunes ami breaking hopes, of
breeding disease and wretchedness, of
destroying both body and soul in hell
before their time.
The prosperity of the liquor interest,
covering every department of it, de
jiends entirely on the maintenance of
this army. It cannot live without it.
So long a c the liquor interest maintains
its present prosperous conditionit will
cost Amerfca the sacrifice of sixty thou
sand men every year. The effect is in
separable from the cause. The cost to
the country of the liquor traffic is a sum
so stupendous that any figures we should
dare to give would convict us of trifling.
The amount of life absolutely destroyed,
the amount of industry sacrificed, the
amount of bread transformed into poi
son, the shame, the poverty, the pauper
ism. the brutality, the wild waste of vi
tal and financial resources make an ag
gregate so vast—so incalculably vast that
that the only wonder is that the Ameri
can people do not rise as one man and
declare that this great curse shall exist
no longer. Dilettante conventions are
held 011 the subject of peace by men and
women who find it necessary to fiddle
to keep themselves awake. A hue-and
cry is raised about woman suffrage, as
if any wrong which may be involved in
woman's lack of the suffrage could be
compared to the wrongs attached to the
liquor interest! #
Does any sane woman doubt that wo
men are suffering a thousand times
more from rum than from any political
disability?
The truth is that there is no question
before the American people to-day that
begins to match in importance the tem
perance question. The question of
American slavery was never anything
but a baby by the side of this; and we
prophesy that within ten years, if not
, within live, the country will be awake
to it and divided upon it. The organ
izations of the liquor interest the vast
funds at its command, the universal
feeling among those whose business is
flitted against the national prosjierity
and the public morals—these are enough
to show {hat upon one side of this mat
ter, at least, the present condition of
things and the social and political ques
tions that lie in the immediate future
are a#piWtended. The liquor interest
know? thcrs is to be a great struggle,
and is preparing to meet it. l'eople,
: both in this country and Great H.itnn.
are liegining to see the enormity of this
! business —are lreginning to realize that
christian civilKzation is actually poi
soned at its fountain, and that there
can lie no purification <>f it until the
source of the jioisoii i.s dried up.
The country is to he sincerely con
gratulated 011 the fact that the wine in
terest of the United States dots not
promise much. Little native wine,
after all our painstaking, finds i*s way
Ito a gentleman's table. The <lifornia
wines are a disap|K>iiitment and a fail
, ure, awl the Western wines are the
same. Neither the dry nor the spark
ling Catawba takes the place of any -
I thing imported. Tin y are not popular
I wines, and we congratulate the country
that they never can l>e. The lager bo< r
1 interest is endeavoring, in convent ion,
to separate itself from the w hiskey iu
terest, claiming to he holier and more
j respectable tlian that. They are all to
lie lump* d together. They are all op
(>osed to sobriety and, in the end, we
shall find them fighting side by side for
existence against the determined indig
' nation of a long-suffering iieople.
A respectable English magazine re
ports. as a fact of encouraging interest,
that of the fifty thousand clergymen ol
1 the church of England as many as foui
thousand actually abstain from the lis*
lof spirits 1 So, eleven-twelfths of the
clergymen of the English church con
: sent to be dumb dogs on the teinjier
ance question! How huge the propor
tion of wine-drinking clergymen may lit
! in this country we do not know, but w*
! do know that a wine-glass stops tin
mouth on the subject of temperance,
whoever may hold it. A\\ ine-di inking
clergyman is a soldier disarmed. He b
not only not worth a straw to fight, lit
is a part of the imjmlinn nUt of the tem
perance army. We have a good many
such to carry who ought to IK- ushameil
of themselves, and who very soon will
lie. Temperance laws are lieing passed
by the various Legislatures, which they
must sustain or g< over, soul and lxxly.
'to the liquor interest and influence.
Steps are bring taken on behalf of the
public health, morals and prosjierity
which they must approve to lie voire
! and act, or they must consent to be left
behind and left out. There can lie no
; compromise on the part of temperance
men, and no quarter to the foe. The
great curse of our country and our race
: must lie destroyed.
Meantime the tramp, tramp, tramp
sounds on—the tramp of sixty thousand
yearly victims. Some are besotted and
stupid, some are wild with hilarity and
dance along the dusty way, some reej
along in pit if ul weakness, some wreak
their mad and murderous imjiulses on
one another or on the helpless woman
; and children whose destinies are united
with their's, some stoji in wayside de
-1 baucheries and infamies for a moment,
some go bound in chains from which
they seek in vain to wrench their bleed
ing wrists —and all are poisened in body
and soul, and all are doomed to death.
Wherever they move crime, poverty,
shame, wretchedness and despair hover
in awful shadows. There is 110 bright
side to the picture. We forget: there
is just one. The men who make this
army get rich. Their children are robed
in purple and fine linen and live ujion
dainties. Some of them are regarded
as respectable members of society, and
they hold conventions to protect their
interests! Still the tramp, tramp, tramp
goes on, and before this article can see
the light five thousand more of our j>oi
soned army will have hidden their shame
and disgrace in the grave.—S'< -rihnrr■$
Monthly.
A CONTEMPORARY, speaking of the
difficulty of a newspaper editor pleas
ing everybody, says: "Even if one
sounded the praises of his Maker the
devil would be offended."
Si and •rcisocro.
PRINCE I>F. JOTNVILLE- T.
• banquet at Langres,
I de .Joinville made the f..ik\ V:
I marks: "Hut, gentlemen, it jg 'H
this prudent and lutxiriou . ~j, .
, that I l;ave occasion to >j-c;i
• No one lias anything to rej',
- self with on that score, not
■ .deputies, if you will permit u
- so, although the definition of t
- bors would be difficult if r !""*
• 1 11 1 .• ' llV
would make use of an expression .
- scribe them which I heard from
1 American citizen, whose frj,
t proud to have l*een, the ilhistn, u ,'
• | ident Lincoln. One day at tin !.
I of that terrible crisis of •••,. s .
' i the existence of the American [{■'
- was most in peril, I asked ;
■> was his jxdicy: T have none" lit
-1 'I pass my life in preventing the -
• from blowing down the tent
i drive in the jx-gs as fast it ,
pulled up.' Well, gentlemen. l;k
- ident Lincoln we are'driving
i I legs' without ceasing, turuii g
1 forts to the points at which the,
most required and summon in,' t
1 aid men and laws. Lately our
L JJUI supjMirt was M. Tiiiei-. wh -
- services are in every one's rec
f, At present an imperious n, t...
t security has ranged us round to
" alrous warrior who was wounded
t dan and whose eourag. and honor
• spires all with equal eoutid MK-*-. L
- fore, gentlemen, let us ad. nice
1 grws, dres.-iug one by one ti * •.<
1 of our dear country, i'-je<-ting
J same time the saviours and *i:
•' whom we owe so many ruins i-n.! V.
1 ing that thecure, to be radical, .v
- lie the work of time and the u;
I good sense."
- i
THE custom of throwing 1 ict
bride is Chinese. The custom of
. iug the bout-jack after her isAiue:
A COUNTY editor, receiving
taliun to take tea with a lad*
I accepted. While at the table i
observed that he had no spoon.-
, cup. "Is it possible," said she,.
forgot to give you a sjxxin? I. .
have made such a mistake." "I
_ I no spoon, madam," said the edit
ing from his seat; "and il'\\>ud
t iieve it, you may search me."
A SEA captain, trading regal -
the African coast, was invited to::
a committee of a society fur ti. ,
g* liz.it ion of Africa. An.
questions touching the lc.l.it
gion of the African races.
'asked:
"Do the subjects of King I)..
' keep Sunday?"
"Keeji Sunday?" lierejilied: a -
every other darned thing tla;. cat
1 their hands on."
' PII IT. ATIF, r. PII I A AFTER En
Tin set. —The Philadelphia !'■■■
*' announcing that Mr. .htm. - K
-1 Wilkinsliurg, Pa., offered to .i -
>"' tract of thirty acres of laud.
sl(tfl, nop. near Edge wood, f. r t
jxise of the proposed Iml t -
says the "institution .shun; 1'
" at Philadelphia, the great 111a 1
1 , ing centre of the State and ■
• and the city which, above all '
' needs the services of well-tra - i
'"J practical mechanics." ('• "
should goto Philadelphia and'
" adelphia should go to the I.eg
f for half a million or so. M.K
thirty acre tract might also IN- r J
1 to Philadelphia; in fact ev. :* ' -
• Pennsylvania worth anything
~ put inside that city of hretln"
j and agile fingers—"pinchers n<!
' j ers" as Hamlet says. In kie W
1 . the Press, Pennsylvania is an
• N of the existence of Philad"ln! i...
d
" DOTING WIFE.— Ilow SIM'
'' that railroad men will 1 • t mi'
y own business! If they only
• so, how much tinhappii.t-- tl •
'•1 prevent! A man while .
e platform of theOgdeiHc.'/v:nul
Point car. looked to s>— what t*
1 train was approaching, '•* '
' blew off and he was about
0 after it, when the brak* man -
| jirevented him from earn s -
e rash intention. Tliswif. wiin--
e whole affair and said she v. i
men would mind their wi
'' It is thought she doted on her
a „
d
1 COUDERSPORT
! GRADED SEHDI
.
'ANNOUNCEMENT FOR TIN:
1 1 OK IST a a.
1 - ' .
■ TheWreetors,havlngwcar - ~,.C
1 :•• VA . S-T... K*'l ' • . I
male Co. II-I;.-, with MRII. NKITN .EE I
,|er of the fnterntnlla!-' I)e|-.-. r et ' I
HKLKN ELLIS lor th It
' >IU <-essf.il teachers of I >njf <-\|" 11 ■' . I
j Me.l in callini; the attention F PUC'I -
to the A.LVANTAIREII of this School.
! PAI.L TERM commences MNM'*'- ' I
S WIN !ERri RM lomm* nces
1 BPRING TERM conunences : ■
1 Fall ant! winter tenns THR. I H
i • one week vacation dutlm: A' e 1
1 SPRIUK TERM continues two inoßiu--
TUITION, per term
> HIGH SCHOOL
; ; INTERMEDIATE
PRIMARY f
, : F1 no per term less for the -J ,RI
H..ar.l ami rooms can he - I
5 rates. 1 hose wLsiung ROOMS: W
apply early.
A teachers' class ill be ,
I attention given to TLIUSE fro ; 3 ,',O. - H
prepare theiu.-elves for tea . I
ers who wish to !>! tip 11
; branches. ~ .JBJ
, D. C. LARRABEE,
Secretary.
August C, IST3 tf