The POTTER JOURNAL AND KTE WS ITEM. COUDERSPORT. PA.. Aug. 20.1813 Tepublioan Ticket. STATE TREASURER. R. \V. MACKEY, of Pittsburgh. JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT. HON*. ISAAC G. GORDON, of Jefferson County. Repfe-fntaire Delegate. C C COUNFoRTH. of MeXean County. Senatorial Ik legate. HUGH YOUNG, of Tioga County. Ojontn Committee. DAN BAKER, Chairman, J M HAMILTON, Secretary, G V Colvin C G Cashing 11L Nichols J M Kilbourne R K Young Vigilance Committees. AX>ott—ChAs Meisner, Jos Schwartzenbach and Chas Henschel , : AUegany— David L Raymond, A G Presho and ; W R Gardner ~ . T T Bingham— l B Can-enter, A H Cobb and L J j Thompson 1 Clara —J L Allen. Win Graves and W A Cole : ChV'l' r<}e:rt—> F Hamilton. W X Jones and J C Davidson „ . tnr , E.dalia- I-ewis A Glace. C Stearns and .T D Earl Oene>ee— J C Cavanaugh. Win Baker and Josiah Webster _ 1 Harrison — J I. Tlaynes, A A Swetland and W : W Lawrence _ _ Hector— D W Havens, John Skutt and < yrus j Sunderlin Hebron— Wm Greenman, L M Coy and Geo Y> , Stillman , , „ . . Homer— Levi S Quimby, Jacob Feet and V II : Keatin"— GC Lewis, Henry Harris and Iliram - BrM ges ! lencisrilie—f E Baker, Henry C Hosley and O R Basse tt Osvcayo—A S Lyman, J V Brown and W m L es sendt-n * „ „ Pike —M Protity. SII Martin and i-vim 1 Brown ! Pleasant VaVey —Ernest N\ riglit, Lewis Lyman and JK F Judkins ... , T , „ ! Portae held at the Borough of Coudersport on Thurs day, the 4th day of September next, at 2 o'clock, p. hi., to put in nomination candidates to he vot ed for at the October election, and to transact suen other business as may come before the Con vention. The Vigilance Committees of the several town ships ami boroughs are requested to give notice ; of the time and place of holding the primary | meetings and to attend them to organize and act | as Boards of Election. The number of Delegates i to l>e elected from the several townships and Ixv roughs areas follows: Harrison6; Hebron and Sharon, each 5; Bingham, Couderspm t and l lys ses, each 4: Allegany, Kulalia, Genesee, Hector, l.ewisville. Oswayo and Uoulet, each 3: Abbott, Clara, Homer, Jackson, Keating, Pike, Pleasant Valley. Portage, Stewardsoii, Summit, Sweden, Kylvaida, West Branch and Wharton, each 2. Announcements. Er>. JOURNAL & ITEM.— Please announce the nameol It. 1.. White* of Sweden township, as a candidate for the office of County Commission er—subject to the decision of Republican County Convention. Kt>. JOURNAL ft ITEM.— Please announce the name of A. A. Swetland, of Harrison town ship, as a candidate for County Cominisrioncr, subject to the decision of the Republican County Convention. liyu AJL. THE way to break up rings, and take the complete control of the se lection of candidates, is for the peo ple to attend the primary meetings, and select for delegates such men as they would confide in to atteiul to other important business. Attend faithfully to the primary meetings, and all the others will be well taken care ofyneglect them, and you have no right to expect the ac tion of the County Convention will suit you. ♦ft is the faithful performance of little duties, that marks the useful ness of men and carries the world forward. The do-nothings arc usually grum blers— grumbling being the only thing they think it wortli while to do. j THE Republican State Convention which met at Harrisburg on Thurs day* of last week, was composed of the very ablest and best men within the limits of the Commonwealth. We give elsewhere the result of their assembling and an editorial of the Philadelphia Press heartily endors ing the ticket put in nomination, and the resolutions adopted. The I'ress , as most of our readers know, made a malignant and inexcu sable fight against the ticket nomi nated last year. It is matter for great rejoicing that we are to have union and harmony in the present contest. Republican principles and the Republican party live in the hearts of the people and mean union, justice, prosperity. WHEN the Constitutional Con vention met last fall, people very generally seemed to have an idea that its work would be to revise the old constitution rather than to form an entirely new one. Whether or not this would have been wiser than the course they have pursued we are not prepared to say, but if they were influenced by the petitions, memori als and other papers that were poured in upon them during the early days of the Convention, the wonder is not that a new constitution of somewhat superfluous length is being formed, but that they have not loose material enough laid away to form sixteen more ol the same length. "We have been looking through fhe first volume of the debates of the Convention, and the number and character of the documents to which we have referred make it more amus ing reading than a book ot Mark Twain's. Everything that could be a subject of legislation is brought to their notice and they are earnestly prayed to fix them all up in the new Constitution. On the 14th day ot the Convention, the woman suffra gists aie in with their paper. Short ly after, we find the Citizens, Muni ciple Reform Association of Philadel phia presenting a long memorial in cluding six clauses of Constitution readv prepared, which cover three closely printed pages of the vol ume of debates, and so it goes on day after day. One man got excited by the doings of some enterprising reporter of the press, and in a few curt words asks the Convention to pass a law prohibiting papers from publishing the private bequests of wills, unless by the consent ot the ! parties interested. Further along on the 23d of January some association l of mechanics petition to have the ' trades unions prevented from inter fering about the number of appren tices in any art, trade or mystery, j They are going to have so much of i the labor difficulty forever put at ; rest. The right of petition is a sacred privilege of American citizenship, but its exercise sometimes makes us think the theory of Darwin is correct -what the members of the Convention thought on this subject does not ap pear. Their work as it is published we think might be somewhat con densed and trimmed of considerable detail, and we hope to see something of the kind done, but after reading the debates we find ourselves admir ing the Convention for producing so brief and concise an instrument as it now appears. AUGUST hasgotachill at its heart, has lost the light from its eye; has only an occasional sinile which ends in tears. In short August is not near so August as we could wish. Dark Days. Is that a "local" subject? If so, so much the worse for the locality, for really last week seemed like a length ened eclipse. Out of doors, away from buildings and trees, one could 1 see to read or work, but anywhere i that the least shadow fell all was dim, dull, obscure—is there any other word belonging to it? And Monday of this week is like unto it. Republican State Convention, i he duly chosen delegates of the Republican party of Pennsylvania assembled in State Convention at Ilarrisburg on Wednesday the 13th 1 inst. This County had the honor of fur nishing the permanent President, in the person of one of our ablest men, the HON. A. G. OLMSTED. We take from the Philadelphia Press the following account of his introduction into the position of pre siding officer; Gen. Campbell and Rnsell Errett. by apjointment, conducted to the chair the president-elect, who was cordially wel comed. and addressed the Convention. His brief remarks were enthusiastically applauded. He said: Gentlemen of the Convention: I thank you for the honor you have conferred upon me in making me your presiding officer on tliis occasion. Perhaps estab lished custom requires that in entering upon its duties I should discuss at some leng' h the issues involved in the coming contest. If so, then we will depart from common usage for once. I will simply remark, then, that I trust the action of this Convention will be harmonious. A full, free and uninterrupted opportuni ty will l>e accorded to every delegate to present whatever views he may enter tain of candidates or public policy. When all has been said and all lias been done, the majority must govern, and as earnest Republicans, as Republicans be cause we believe in the policy and mea sures of the Republican party, let us ac quiesce in the verdict —whatever it may be. - I need not reiterate the history of the Republican party, it has saved the country from its deepest disgrace and from all its foes. It lias written its prin ciples upon the Constitution and the laws of the country. It has stamped tliein in the hearts of the American l>eople—yea, in the very soil of the con tinent—and it will continue to govern the country it lias saved, although some wearied by the march may have fallen by the wayside. On the first ballot for State Treas urer the vote stood for R. W. Mackey, 115 votes Samuel Henry, 18 " i Mackey's nomination was boister ously applauded. .Mac has made a good ollicer and nearly everybody is in favor of his re-election. On the first ballot for a candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court the vote stood for Hon. E. M. Paxson, 38 votes " Wm. Butler, 42 " " I. G. Gordon, 40 " On the eleventh ballot Isaac G. Gordon, of Jefferson County, re ceived 77 votes and was declared nominated. After which the follow ing exhaustive and unexceptionable PLATFORM was adopted: We, Republicans of Pennsylvania, in convention assembled, renew our ex pression of confidence in and devotion to the principles of Republicanism, and declare: Ist. That we heartily endorse and re adopt the Republican National and State platforms of 1572. 2d. That the National administration commands our continued confidence, and is entitled, by its promotion of the best interests and prosperity of the na tion, to the earnest support of the people. 3d. That the administration of Gover nor Hartrauft calls for our warmest ap probation. During the short time he has been in the Executive department he has established a Suite policy which has justly endeared him to the people of this Commonwealth and lias amply just ified the confidence we have placed in him. 4th. That while earnestly in favor of constitutional reform, and of such a re vision of our State constitution as will make it an effective instrument in pre venting and punishing the corrupt abus es that have crept in under the present system, we demand emphatically and es- IK'ciallv that, whatever is done or left undone, the main purpose; for which the Constitutional Convention was called —the absolute prevention of special le gislation—shall be so placed before the people as to secure their separate and decisive expression thereon. sth. That the reduction of the State debt from $41,000,000 to $26,000,000, the repeal of all State taxes on real estate, the establishment of schools for the sup lort of soldiers' orphans, the mainte nance of our excellent and prosperous system of common schools and the es tablishment of the policy of paying off our debt at the rate of $2,000,000 a year, together with the generally flourishing condition of our prosperous old Com monwealth, are evidences that the Re publicans, during their twelve years'con trol in Pennsylvania, have faithfully ad ministered her affairs and the reins of government may lie safely left in their hands. (Ith. That there should be rigid econo my in the State and National adminis trations, and the taxes should be reduced in both JIS rapidly sis is consistent with good management, the maintenance of the public credit and certain extinguish ment of the State and National debts. 7th. That the public lands belong to the ]>eople and should VKJ sacredly re served for homes for actual settlers and we pronounce against all further grants of these lands to corporations. Bth. That adequate provision should be made by law for tire protection of persons employed in mining and other hazardous forms of labor. 9th. That retrenchment is required to lighten the burden of taxation, and to continue the reduction of the public debt, an increase of salaries is unwise, and we condemn, without reserve, vot ing for or receiving increased pay for services already rendered, whether in State or Nation, and demand that the provisions of the late act of Congress, by which the salaries were increased, should promptly and unconditionally be repealed. 10th. That we heartily denounce cor ruption wherever found and are sincere ly desirous for honest economy and po litical purity in all ollicial administra tions. To secure this is the'duty of every citizen, and to this end every good man should feel bound not only to par ticipate in politics but to labor actively to see that none but good men secure party appointments or nominations. 11th. That the practice of loading the appropriation bill, essential to the suit port of the Government, with objection able legislation in the shape of amend ments, towards the close of the session, is a prolific source of abuse and a fraud upon the people, and its reform is ur gently demanded. 12th. That, as the country and home industry have both uniformly prospered under a tariff so arranged as to afford both revenue and protection, the pres ent tariff should be left undisturbed, and as all tariffs are levied primari ly for revenue, it would be a poor gov ernment indeed which could not af ford to arrange its details so as to en courage the growth of home manufac tures and the creation of a remunera tive home market for all the products of our soil. 13th. That order and security in the States lately in rebellion must come through the stern enforcement of laws enacted to protect life, liberty and the freedom of thought, and cannot l>c se cured by rendering these just and nec essary laws inoperative through Execu tive clemency to unrepentant assassins now undergoing punishment in pursu ance of law. 14th. That as during the time the Republican party has been in power it has had to confront graver dillieulties and more new and perplexing questions of government than ever were presented to any other party to solve, and has solved them so judiciously and wisely that the country endorses its decisions and accepts the work, it is the only or ganization competent to so meet the grave issues that are now constantly arising as to secure the ju3t rights of the {icople. lotli. That we sympathize with every movement to secure for agriculture and labor, their due inthience, interest and rights, and the Republican party will be their ally in every just effort to at tain their ends. THE CONVENTION. . The Republican State Convention 1 * # I met at Ilarrisburg yesterday, with a , full representation of every county, j The proceedings were animated, but orderly, and at the close there was entire harmony and good feeling be tween the partisans of the successful and defeated candidates. As had been anticipated for months previous ly, Mr. R. W. Mackey was nominat ed for the State Treasurership, an office he has held four terms by Leg islative election. The Supreme J udge ship was the only place for which there was a struggle. The rival as pirants were a trio of distinguished and able jurists, the selection of any one of whom would have been accep table to the party at large. The nomination fell upon the Hon. Isaac Gordon, of Jefferson, formerly the presiding judge of the Venango dis trict, and a gentleman of rare legal attainments and of the purest char acter. llis competitors, Judges I'ax ! son, of Philadelphia, and Butler, of Chester, are men of equal ability and integrity, but the western part of the State was permitted to carry off the prize. He will have no firm er supporters than those two gentle men and their loyal adherents in the convention. The loyal platform adopted will I meet with the unqualified approval oi every Republican in the State. We give it our entire sanction. The resolutions, while dignified and mod erate, are fully abreast of the times, 1 and meet every new issue promptly and candidly. This part of the work ;of the convention could not have i been better done. It is seldom that I such a body is so outspoken in its utterances, and at the same time so judicious in its language. The reso , lutions embody a progressive and re | form policy worthy of a great party, 1 proud of its mission, and able to j prove its claims to popular confidence | by its record. Differences about men 1 are natural, but harmony in principle is the evidence of wholesome and successful administration.— Ph iladel : ph ia Press. Means to Ends. Much of our time has run to waste, much determined, faithful effort has been fruitless from the days of Simple Simon unto these present, for lack of finding the proper means to the ends we desire; we were listening to-day to a discussion of the difficul ties encountered by those who pro duce the necessaries of life, in win ning the substantial rewards that ought to belong to them and of the Granges and other combinations to resist the injurious requirements of those who live and work and act be tween the two kindred classes of pro ducers and consumers. Every one admitted that there was great wrong somewhere, and every one doubted whether any means yet known could set things right, and the only con clusion was that every kind of busi ness should be carried on together so that they could consume each other's products and there need be no carrying away. But this seems hard ly in accordance with nature, for one part of the county has adaptation for one branch of industry and one for another and there seems to be need of wise, well-arranged, cheap currents of transfer. Pocs it not seem plain that government should see that the ways of communication should be open and cheap. These things remind us of the ; many little gleams of brightness that ; arc llceting about in the papers— things which for a moment give eom ! fort and encouragement to feeble 1 ones looking for straws to keep themselves afloat with on the current 'of life. One tells of the profit of accruing from keeping bees, a good, easy and valuable business for a woman or a ieeble man and very re munerative. Yes, but is there sale for the wax and the honey ? I f smart enterprising farmers within thirty miles of a city can get but twenty five cents per pound for butter which brings in the city forty cents, how can people in the far interioi hope to sell effectually what they produce. There are so many who buy and sell, so many who live only by transferring and who must get rich. Then there is a story of a widow who made a good business of making raspberry jam which she sold in a neighboring city. Yet wc are told by people who are familiar with business that it is cheaper to buy jams and jellies made in great establishments in those same cities than it is to make them at home. Perhaps it is well to be prevented by wise friends from trying any of these schemes. There are many of them whose delusive brightness is set before us, but many are in such earnest need of occupation by \\ hich a living can be obtained, in spite of feeble health or care of children or invalids, that every mean must be tried; meanwhile if any one does succeed, his example is a beacon light that should be made to shine I so that all can see. "ROUGHING it? I know what that is. I roughed it up among the Adi rondacks. Why, we were three days that we did not see a newspaper nor get a letter from anybody!" INVALID. In the bright summer days when the world is all alive with growth and work and enjoyment, comes the true burden of sickness. In the autumn when Nature herself seems sick, when leaves fade and flowers are cut eft* by icy winds, when storms rage and the beauty of the summer time has passed away, it seems a litter time to be ill, to cower in close rooms away from the air and the sunlight. Pain is just as bad then, perhaps generally worse; but it seems so in keeping with everything else that we almost expect to be ill and to sec others so. Then in the early spring when everything is but just trying to grow; when the soft airs often change to fine gusts, and even the fair sunshine looks delicate and fragile, one can hardly look for robust, bounding health. We can only hope it may come with the ro bust weather. But when that comes and fever seizes us, and we burn and rave and groan through the heats of the day with a heat greater than the day's, or when a chronic ailment gets no better, and we are held prisoners alike at noon tide or night time; or a wasting debility re ts upon us, loosening our hands from all the world's activities, our minds from its companionship, our heart and hope from its sympathies, there is then a feeling of incongruity as well as pain; a sense of being more than usually ajar, that increases all our suffering. Philip Slingsbv said "It is perhaps too much to ask that any heart should go scatheless to the" grave, but in my unworthy petitions I always supplicate that my heart may be broken about Christmas. I. know an anodyne of that season.'' So, we, if permitted to choose when our trouble should come, our helpless trouble, would hope it might not lie in the summer. PEHFIELP, Clearfield Co.. Pa., Avn. P. 1573. ED. JOURNAL: Your paper is very welcome in its weekly visits, for we look with interest to the local news from the County where over seven ! teen years of my life were spent. ' My beloved mother lies buried in , ! the cemetery below Coudersport. Many very dear personal friends still live in your County, many have died before and since I left, and oth ers have gone to other places. My ; pleasant labors in tiie Coudersport ; Sunday School in 1854-55 are never to be forgotten, with their bright ' and friendly associations. The delightful christian fellowship formed at Raymond's Corners is treasured as among the dearest of my life. How many of these dear ones Have gone to their reward—l ° need not mention them—most of your Potter County readers know the Preslios, Rontons and good Col. Whipple. We are permitted to be instrumen tal in building up a Presbyterian So ciety and Church in this wilderness region. At our Fair last Christmas we received material aid through a I friend in Coudersport and we would i be very glad to receive some articles for our coming Fair, Jan. 1, IST4. Have we not friends indifferent parts of the County who can send us a ; lew articles that we can sell. A J lamp mat, a pair of socks, a good shirt, a pair of pulse-warmers, a pair of woolen leggins—any useful or fan cy article. Should there be any who will aid lis in this way, or by cash gift, they may be sent to Miss C. A. Metzger, of Coudersport. Every dollar we raise goes to pay for a church bell or for furnishing the church inside. Pried blackberries would find a ready sale. A little from a good many persons would ag gregate a good deal for us. Our R. R. is in running order, with a daily train twenty miles from Driftwood, and from the west it is four miles past Rcynoldsville and will be to the tunnel in two weeks. An engine will be run through, and track-laying will continue from the west down to the big cut at Weed ville by the time that is through, and we expect the road to be oi>on by Jan. 1, 1874, L. BIRD. HAMMEIISLET FORK, PA., Any. 9,1573. ED. JOURNAL—I saw in your pa per an article on snake-killing that is nothing to the way they do things j down in Clinton. Kib. Nelson and Ed. Fish, with others, went down the creek one night last week eeling.' and during the night they went to raise their out-lines, when a few rods from the lamp Mr. Snake sung out. They whipped him to death in his lair. On going a few steps further another one gave alarm, which meas ! ured four feet, and also the third one before reaching the creek. They caught thirty eels, three white chubs, and killed three snakes in one night. M. A. NELSON. P. S. If you choose, insert this, if not, light your cigar. [We beg to le excused not only from lighting but having a cigar. If that were to be the penalty for re jecting a contribution, we would , print almost anything.— En.] i For the Journal & Item. "When I was a child I thought as ! a child, I understood as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish tilings." Did I? Let me see. A good deal of childishness 1 clings to most men. very few put it away, very few but would be bet j ter if the} - put away less, or at least retained more of thought of. and sympathy with the trials and ditfi eulties that crowd upon and beset the little ones among whom we all stood but a little time ago. So little a time and yet we forget the keen feelings, the joys, the grief, the sting of wrong at unmerited re buke or check: the jealous loving and the nervous excitability that he long to so many of the little ones, i and so we:f away lit di and strength. A loving little heart may be a very restless and turbulent one: a very loving mother or father may speak thoughtless, harsh words that chill and pervert the best tendencies, the finest qualities, and send the blood back upon the earnest little heart, in away that, oft repeated, weakens the fountains of health—and ex hausts what strength there is. We know that for ourselves, through the mind and heart the body is af fected, with women and children the affections rule the life; yet we for get this We give bitter medicine to cure what gentle kindness would have prevented. We work ourselves into a state of exhaustion with busi ness or house keeping cares, 'the needed providing and caretaking of the little ones, and in our weariness we grow impatient and rough. Child ren are of course all the more restless and troublesome. : I remember, for one, being an ex ceedingly disagreeable child, suffer ing as such children must, innumer able crosses and restraints, and hav ing an Ishmacl feeling towards every body. After some years it came to me that 1 ought to stop teasing to go somewhere or do something all the time. J set myself to look for pleas ure at home, to find some little treat as often as possible, to keep my thoughts busy. One day it was to to hold the horse and let it feed in the front yard. Another to go to tlie orchard for the first picking of apples. Almost every day there was something that brightened my first waking, and cheered every hour of "doing chores." I was very fortu nate, too, for the tilings came. If the pony's grazing had been forgot ten or the privilege of holding him been given to another or some new resolution taken about pies that day, it would have been a grievous disap pointment, ridiculously so in older eyes; I should have fretted perhaps, and been scolded, then "answered back" and been threatened with pun ishment—a threat being always worse to me than any other punish ment. Thus 1 should have lost the great effort 1 was making. Too of ten have I seen this done—this bit ter discouragement, when a child was trying hard against a besetting sin. It is strange that we who find besetting sins so troublesome to our strongest days should not be more mindful of those who are just beginning to learn the great lesson of life. J]veil now, with all my garnered memories, and crowned with gray hair, few are the days that I do not make the burdens of the little ones more hard to bear, or chafe or fret them into some naughtiness by care less word or thoughtless act. So long it takes to learn. A good mother said to me once. "We are too apt to reprove a child for whatever gives s tr thinking whether thh„ itself. ' s: ' Brethren and sisters', be more just to dear 1-" who are given to us to p. train. ■ ——. For the Jo, SELFISHNESS is a lw avs ; —well, to say the least."i t J sidered a virtue. A man or wo*nan who i things from selfish m ' considered a good nu- K ;. ciety. Yet, Mr. Editor,! am*, that nearly all the sem U; , either appeal to our f nr 'i ishness. For instance a sermon-, either Heaven or hell Co son who dies and then t<\ ! we must do to in- saved. Now, Mr. Editor. I t i person who does these th j purpose of being saved. i> by which he will not b-. I do not think Christ wj; to him who would a. they were not afraid of \\ t do I think He will taker who come from the sdlis!.- saving themselves, not becomes of the res' oftl I heard this question a pulpit not long ego. "What is yonr great - : in this world?" and tl wered in this manner: faction of knowing that* ! are recorded in Heaven - will IK; saved." Now I do not b( lievet: j lieve that a Christian's - ' joyment in this life is i: , without thinking whet go to Heaven for doin? - I do not believe self lon [ get any person to Ifeav.r. person must l ive I'hrk neighbor as himself. Itg. WE agree with our i 6. proposition hut want t . words about the selfi-: I course only by being savei j sins, among which on,-. j[ ; greatest, is selfishness, cc'.: to the state last spoken d. When Chicago was burnt we have thought it set.'.-: man to do his utmost tosat house ? In a railroad disaster u are mangled and crushed, be christian for one to! die because he must gets before he could help otho II you say to a iuan"l that, it is poison." is lie ■ train, or "Do not go : swim, or do not invest that business for it ii' is he selfish if he wisely:: advice? It seems to u- that tin selfish which seeks ono at the expense of another ; which puts in ap< -' and benefit the world. CCtiDEBSPSf ptjifirH s!j i U ililil Jj jj iJUJI J ANNOUNCEMENT FOK 1 - OF 1-73 4. | The Directors, ha vin* -'" I CLAVA A. SIX •- s v : male College, wltli v - f . er (i 1 the Intern I HEI.KK FI.MS for th- i'nn > successful teacher- < -'; fip-l in calttr.g the no '' : • to the - <>t ih> - FALL TERM COMMENCE* " I WIN!EK I SPUING TEItM I. ni'U' ' ■ Fall an I f one week vacation r term less fur Boaril and rooms car: i- .. I rates. Those wtshii.gr -m. apply early. \ '• . K B prepare themsi HE ers who wish to post up branches. ; .H D. C. LAHUABEK. Secretary. August 6, 1873-tf ZPLACj j ornamdj .10 it PROMITIA F^'l AT THE ■ OFFICE Of • , ; JOURNAL AND