THE POTTER JOURNAL e A.ND Jno. S. Mann, item:. *■ "■ Ham,,t^ VOLUME XXV, NO. 11. He POTTER JOUMAL AND ISEWS ITEM. PRULISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AT COUDERSPORT, PA. (Office Cor. Main and Third.) TERMS, * •" PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. J,IO. S. Mann, F - "'.milton, Proprietor. Puhtixher. DEL McCI.ARY, M.D., PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. COUDERSPORT, PENXA. C. J. CURTIS, Attorney at I nn ami District Attorney, Office en ifA IX St.. (over the Post Office, COUDERSPORT, PA., Solicits all business pretaining to his profession. Special attention given to collections. „, U *V ARTHUR B. MANN •JOHS *■ M * ' JOHN S. MANN A SON, Attorneys at Law and Conveyancers, cori>Kii.sroKT, FA., fo!l(*tiuns promptly attended to. Arthur B. Maim, General lu-uraiiee Ageut & Notary Public. S. S. GREENMAN, ATTORNEY -A.T LAW, .OKMeE OVKK FORSTER'R STORK,) COl/DEKSI'OUT, FA. J A OI.MSTEP P. E. I.ARRABEK ' OLMSTED & LARRA3EE, ATTORNKYS AM) COUNSELORS AT LAW (\ eo)e' St. opposite Court IJouv.) COUDEKSPOKT, PEN X 'A. SETH LEWIS, Attorney at Law anil Insurance Agent, LEW ISVILLE, PA. A.M. REYNOLDS, DENTIST, ■ (OFFICE IS OM.STKn Blook,) I COUDERSPORT, PA. Baker House, BROWN & KELLY. Propr's, lltmier of SECOND and EAST Streets, COUDERSPORT, PENN'A. [very attention paid to the convenience and j comfort of guests. WOootl stabling attached. Lewisville Hotel, (orner of MAIN and NORTH Streets, LEWISVILLE, PA. -';iMid Stabling attached. JOHN B. PEARSALL, PAINTER, COUDERSPORT, PA. J IM' !',tinting, Glazing, Graining, Cftlciniining, 61 : i-iiiMg, Paper-hanging, etc., done with neatness, promptness and dispatch in all cases, and satisfaction gar aii 11 ed . •HIED PAINTS for sale. 2425-1 j It ..THOMPSON' J. S. MANN | THOMPSON & MANN, - DKALBRB IN cnies. Medicines, Books, Stationery, fiWICOOOS. PAINTS, OILS. WALL PAPER, SC., Cor. Jfii in onrl Third St.*., COUDERSPORT, PA. S. F. HAMILTON. ®OK AND JOB PRINTER \ ( 'orner Main and Third.) COUDERSPORT, PA. D. J. CROWELL, D. H. Bail Jointer & Bolting Machine, < ameron co., Pa. SIDE-CUT SHINGLE MACHIXKto . * "' pairing Machines aud General Custom Work *** to order. 2422-tf John Grom, BOUS©, Sl (gm ■. tonammtat, Decorative & FRESCO I 3 A INTER, COUDERSPORT, PA. ~RR MN(i and PAPER HANGING done with neatness and dispatch. faction guaranteed. *"™ S "akku house w promptly attended to. I). B. NEEFE, ARR IAGE FACTORY, <(J BDEL>SPORT, PENN'A. VL 01 Blacksmlthing, 10 Trimming and Repairing done r;, "'iiat,l(. Ut ' a,nt -'ss ami durability. Charges 24261} ■ c. BREUNLE, WORK, 00UDERSPORT, PA. ' ■ 'he Meadstones, ete., finished to order, reatontn' STYLE AND workmanship, OL tenus ,4Lt NBws , iTJ , ih!! l or left a * theofflce of JOCK M WILI receive prompt attention- 1 A White Day. The air was thick with flails of winnowing bees. The honey harvesters. A gold green shiver touched the trembling trees; The murmurous firs Spent their sad, odorous sighs for you and me. Do you remember, sweet ? The meadow-turf spread soft and fragrantly Under our feet On the gray polities surface lightly thrown Fern-shadows quivering lay, As when fern-substance settled into stone, That earlier day. We took the home path through the hazel copse. Beset with crimsoned briers. Low in the west gleamed o'er the far liill-tops The sun's l;ist fires. I put vain questions—talked of scene and sky; You answered "aye" and "no!" Witn face averted—answered randomly— Till, all aglow, T he open field lay once again in sun, And on your lashes' curve The tell-tale, happy tears stood one by one; Your sweet reserve Vanished lefore my pleading, and for aye Your hand was clasped in mine. You blushed, and mutely gave, on that white day, Love's countersign. —Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. From the Keystone Good Templar. MALT LIQUORS. —Their Nature and Effect. There is consumed annually in the United States not less than 44,572,188 gallons of the strongest alcohol that 1 can be made, of which 12,014,953 gallons are drank in the form of malt 1 iquors. It is not the alcohol alone in ale and beer that makes them hurtful, for the malt liquors of this country do not undergo perfect fermentation, so that after they are drank a slight fermentation takes place, which in jures the stomach, especially of per sons having weak digestive organs. Again, beer, ale, and particularly por ter, have their narcotic power greatly increased by the bitters, that are ne cessary to their preservation, which by long usage injures the nerves of the stomach, causing dyspepsia, etc. Malt liquor drinkers aic prone to apo plexy and palsy. In health the nervous system is! neither too active nor depressed—the circulation of the blood is in the con dition b st adapted for carrying on the process of waste and nutrition. .Malt liquors act directly upou the circulation and nervous system by un-! duly stimulating and then depressing it, which is decidedly injurious. Ev- j ery physician of much experiencei among the laboring classes, or those who drink large quantities of malt' 1 liquors, such as teamsters and other out-door workers, must have observed : that, though they may be large men. and capable of great physical exer tions while in open air, yet they arc not in a condition of real vigor, for they break before they are far ad vanced in years, even if they do not fall victims to diseases and injuries, that appeared at first of the most trifling character. The regular users of malt liquorsare themost unhealthy class of drinkers, for a very slight injury or a simple disease often proves fatal. "A conspicuous Lon don beer-drinker," says Dr. Grinrod, "is all one vital part. He wears his heart upon his sleeve bare to a death wound, even from a rusty nail or the claw of a cat " The worst patients in the Metropolitan hospital are the London draymen. Though they are apparently models of health and strength, yet if one of them receives a serious injury, it is nearly always ncce-sary to amputate in order to give him the most distant chance of life. The draymen have the unlimit ed privilege of the brewery cellar. Fir Ashley Cooper was called to a drayman. He was a powerful, fresh colored, hearty-looking man, who had suffered an injury in his finger from a small splinter of a stave. The wound, though trifling, suppur ated. He opened the small abcess with his lancet. He found, on retir ing, he had left his lancet. Return ing for it, he found the man in a dy ing condition. The man died in a short time. Dr. Gordon says, "The moment beer-drinkers are attacked with acute diseases, they are not able to bear depletion, and die." Dr. Edwards says of beer-drinkers, "Their diseases are always of a dangerous character and in case of accident they can never undergo even the most trifling operation with the security of the temperate. They most invariably die under it." Dr. Bachan says, ■ "Malt liquors render the blood sizy I and unfit for circulation; hence pro- COUDERSPORT, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1873. ceeds obstructions and inflammation jof the lungs. There are few great j beer-drinkers who are not phthisical, brought on b}- the glutinous and in digestible nature of ale and porter. • —— Scotland. MELROSB, Scotland, Ai-g. 13, 1571. Dear G : I do not know whether I have written you or not. I have intended to do it, at the least. J - rom Gal under we took stage for J the first time, riding nine miles through the Trcssachs, very celebra ted in Scotch history and song, to Lake Katrine, where we embarked on a small steamer and sailed to the other end of the lake. This, you know, is the scene of Walter Scott's Lady of-the Lake. It is but ten miles in length, and is more beauti -Inl than Seneea Lake only because of the rugged mountain upon either side. The city of Glasgow is sup plied with water from this lake, con ducted through the highlands for six ty miles. Every mountain glen and cave in its vicinity has its legends of romance or real history. From Lake Katrine we rode live miles to Lake, or, as it is called in Scotland, Loch Lomond, taking another boat at In- versnaid. A little way above is the ; celebrated cave of Rob Roy, a bandit chief, who was leader of the clan of McGregors, and ruled this part of the Highlands and defied the King's armies for years. The government outlawed the whole clan and at tempted several times their entire ex termination. Last Sunday 1 heard in Edinburgh, from the pulpit of the Tron church, a powerful and spirit ual sermon from one of these out laws, Rev. Dr. McGregor. I'resby terianism never amounts to much in valleys, but it is the church of the mountains. Loch Lomond is about i thirty miles in length. We sailed i down it for eight or ten miles and I landed at the Rowanlcnnan Hotel, at the foot of Ben Lomond, the father of the Highlands. It was a clear day, and seizing the opportunity, we started at once for the summit, with a guide, up a live-mile ascent, nearly J every foot of which is as steep, 1 judge, as the roof of your house. Neither one of 11s would have dared undertake it if we had foreseen the real difficulty of the ascent, and 1 ' suspect that before we were halfway to the top each one taxed his strate gy to get from the other the first of fer to back out. By the time we were half-way up, a storm had burst upon the highlands to the west of us, while for fifty miles to the east the magnificent landscape was reposing in sunshine. Upon the top of 011 c of the mountains below us, there was just the end (apparently straight and about two feet in length) of a rain bow, the most brilliant, by far, in color, either we or our guide had ev er seen. With Ben Lomond stand ing before, as the officiating high priest, wearing a breast-plate of, quartz-rock and flowering heather, and Ben Voirlich, Ben Cruaehan, Benmore, Ben Lawers and the Cob bler and Grampian Hills gathered behind and around as attendant priests, solemn and with uncovered heads, this piece of rainbow seemed like the flame of a praise-offering up ! on a great altar of unhewn stones. We stood in almost speechless awe till the storm overwhelmed us also. But we had seen too much to stop now and toiled on in the rain, dis covering that the rocky crests of the "Cobbler and his wife" had torn the clouds asunder and the sun was com ing to our relief. We reached the summit in about three hours and a half, wet completely through with rain and perspiration, and more dead than alive. The sotrm had passed and the sky was almost clear. The view from the summit is altogether indescribable. Any attempt to pic ture it would seem to you like high falutin. The crest of the mountain is not so large as the floor of your sitting-room. Upon one side of it there is a perpendicular rock. I should judge five or six hundred feet in height. Directly at the foot of the mountain rises the Forth, which we could follow with the eye, till it becomes navigable and widens into the Frith of Forth, and becomes a part of the German Ocean. On the | south-west we could follow the Clyde I till it reaches the Frith of Clyde and reaches the Irish Sea. We could dimly see Ireland and the Atlantic to the north. Loch Katrine seemed almost at our feet. Loch Long and several smaller lakes, the country of Rcb Roy, Arthur's Seat, the Sault bury ('rags, Dumbarton Castle, Ster ling Castle, with the fields of Sterling bridge, Falkirk and Bannockburn, the Wallace monument cn Abbey Craig were plainly in view. Glas gow and Edinburgh castles were only hidden by smoke. Cloud 3 to the north hid Ben Ne.is, which may i sometimes be seen,'but al! the other noted highlands answered to roll-call. All around them till the view was in tercepted by clouds on ths north and the sea on the west, arose a thousand loft}* craigs, some of the most beau tiful symmetry cf outline and some in most fantastic shapes, until we realized the meaning of the expres sion that Scotland was made "of the remains of a former world." Direct ly at our foot lay Loch Lomond, the most beautiful of Scottish lakes, the northern half pent up by the high lands, the southern widening into a broad expanse, with twenty-foilr isl ands of surpassing loveliness with the ivy-clad ruins of six castles upon its islands and shores. I enclose some heather from the side of Ben Lomond. I would send you some of his "top-knot" but for the fact that like other old gentlemen he parts his hair very wide in the middle. How we got down the mountain and what of fainting and cramps before morning, never ask nic. it paid nevertheless. We had a fine view of Dumbarton castle from the cars. It is like Edinburgh and Sterling Castles, upon the summit of a rock which seems inaccessible. It is said to contain the two-handed sword of William \\ allace. The Doctor has | timed our visit to Melrose to "see the Abbey, right by the pale moon light." Leaving here in the after noon we went to the keeper's lodge and arranged for admission and a guide when the moon arose, and drove to Dry burgh A LVy, about five miles distant. Southern Scot land surpasses in fertility and beauty any part of England I have seen.— Adjoining the village and in a fer tile plain reaching to the Cheviot hills there are within the distance of a mile, and in a straight row. three hills a little higher than East hill, symmetrical in shape and uniform in shape, height and intervening dis tance. They are strikingly beauti ful, owned by the Duke of Buccleuch, whose country palace is at their base. From these hills the Romans called this place Tremoutium. Dryburgli Abbey is on the Tweed, a largo river even here 30 or 40 miles from the sea. It is a noble ruin—the cathe dral and monastery, covering, I should think, more than an acre of ground, perhaps two. Some of the rooms are perfect, most of them un roofed, and in some places the walls are entirely gone. In the centre of the room, called the Abbot's room, there is a great tree, which may be four or five hundred years old. 1 send you a sprig from the celebrated Yew tree by the entrance, known to be eight hundred years old. Walter Scott, yon know, is buried within the ruins of the cathedral, near the high altar, with his mother's family. The idea prevails that these English and Scotch ruins are sadly "out of repair." The fact is quite otherwise. They all belong to noblemen, and are kept, with lawns and walks with in and without, with as much care as Eldridgo Park. What a burthen these monasteries must have been to the country (although richly endow ed) one may judge from the fact that Melrose Abbey and Dryburgli Abbey are less than five miles apart, and Dry burgh Abbey, I judge, would ac commodate one hundred monks. Its chapter house still contains stone benches for more than one hundred. A Perilous Cance Voyage. A party of six armed men arrived at this place yesterday from Fort Benton, making the trip in canoes in ten days. The simple announcement of such nn exploit conveys very little idea to the general reader of what the journey really is. The distance is! some twelve hundred miles, through an unbroken, wild and hostile couir | try, and the way is beeet with dan-' I ger3 from the outset to the close. ( Just before the party left Benton, ; news was brought to that fort that British troops had entered the I' hoop-up" country, and that trou ble with the American trap]>ers there was imminent. Old trappers here are conversant with the fact that this section lies upon what is known as the disputed country, and any en roachment upon their tramping ground by the red eoais will stir up the bad blood among the American hunters, who are men inclined to fight first and run afterwards. Fears were entertained cf serious difficul ties. The little party met a thousand Indians sixty miles below Benton, but further than following the whites clown the river for some distance and improving their lungs by yell ing, there was no disturbance. Cur informant, John McKinney, who don't look like a man cn the scare, says the affair caused a very airy sensation in the vicinity of his scalp - lock. (From the Evening Post.] A Ramble in D&uphiny. PKOVENCF, France, July 12. 1873. 1 ' I have a splendid dressmaker here," said 0 pretty young American lady to me, "and I mean to keep her so by not introducing her to Yan kees." I am tempted to apply the principle to a beautiful district of country through which I have lately passed, remarkable for fine scenery, honest landladies and reasonable ho tel charges. Jlow can such a condi tion of things be maintained except by keeping it secret? Americans with full purses, coupled with their liberal dispositions, prove so demoralizing! But I will be generous. There are some Americans, with purses not so full, who love nature for it 3 own sake; who are satisfied with a toler able degree of comfort; who are, in short, neither exacting nor extrava gant; it would be a pity not to make known to them an unhackneyed re gion like this, in which their tastes can be gratified without peril either to their pockets or their habits. Let me, however, caution ladies. Those who expect rooms with elegant cur ttbns, carpets, gas and large wash bowls, had better not visit it. It is at present conditioned only for those who are strong enough to walk, and, when fatigued, to enjoy stone floors, fair beds, ordinary bougies and a pint of water to wash with in the morning. The country I refer to is Daupliiny and the upper part of Provence, or, according to the administrative di visions of French territory, the de partments of Isere, Drome and Yau cluse. It includes the western slopes of the Alps and the intermediate pla teau between them and the river Rhone, forming the eastern division of this section of its valley. The Isei'e and the Drome, two important tributaries to the Rhone, have their sources in the Alps, and, flowing down through gorges of remarkable grandeur, irrigate and enrich the country through which they pass. Everywhere there is great beauty of landscape, snow peaks, crags and precipices, lovely mountain sides, cascades, picturesque ruins and hab itations, and extensive prospects. The country abounds with remains of antiquity and of mediaeval and re naissance life. Some of the finest of Roman ruins are found here. Its towns contain vast theatres and am phitheatres. with temples, aqueducts and triumphal arches. The great theatre at Orange, constructed against the side of a hill, conveys almost as good an idea of the archi tectural genius of the Romans as the Coliseum at Rome. Nearly every hill and crag is crowned with the ru in of a castle or fortress, some of them indicating structures as exten sive as those of Warwick and Wind sor. Occasionally a castle has es caped the devastating rage of reform ers and is still occupied. This region is the land of the fierce strife be tween Huguenot and Catholic, as well as the triumph of Richelieu, the great Unionist, the Bismarck of lis age. who, in suppressing the pow er of the nobles for the benefit of the i people and the monarchy, established centralization, which is not deemed such an objectionable political fen ture. Every square mile of its sur face bears some important monument of interest in connection with the civilization of France. In traveling through this region one sees at a glance the source of the immense wealth of France. In the Valley of the I sere, for instance, the hoyer or j Madeira-nut tree is found, and grow ing so thickly as to make the valley look like an immense forest ; no where else, I am told, does the fruit grow so large. Between the rows of trees the vine is trained on trellises, while the intermediate areas are planted with grain. In addition to these crops there 13 the mulberry tree, which is cultivated to feed silk worms. And again, farther south, the garance or madder is produced, I and likewise the olive. All these crops, nuts, wine, silk, madder aud the olive, to say nothing of grain, bring higher prices in the world's commerce than any other staple pro ducts. The income from them is probably greater, considering the la bor bestowed on them, and the ground devoted to their cultivation, than that derived from staple pro ducts in other lands. How much greater may be estimated J>y the fact of a small estate of forty acres bring ing in a revenue of fifteen or twenty thousand dollars per annum. When one considers that the soil is largely owned by peasant proprietors, and that they all raise these valuable crops, it is easy to account for the ready payment of our immense war indemnity. It is said that Bismarck, familiar as he was with French re sources, looks back upou his oppor tunity somewhat like Warren Hast ings, who, considering the chance he had to plunder the treasures of In dia, was astonished at his own mod eration. Some of the picturesque and social features of this region can be im agined through a sketch of two or tiiree pleasant excursions. The first one is a picnic. The scene a crag crowned with a medi.eval ruin, situ ated 011 an amphitheatre of mount ains, with an outlook on more level country. A village of low gray houses is built on the lower slope of the crag, while the square walls of a roofless tower grow out of the preci pice facing the mountains; various walls, arches and vaults with a green sward, once a courtyard, connect the tower with a high rock on which stands the chapel now serving as the village church. Cll our way to this place we bought a gigot and roasted it at the village cafe. As soon as it j was done it was brought up to the top of the crag, where our tabic was spread beneath the dilapidated win dows of the old banqueting hall. At this moment a boy appeared with several bottles of wine and a message from the cure conveying his compli ments. We of course accepted both and in turn invited the cure to join j us. He came in about twenty min utes. I was surprised to find him young, good-looking and wearing a full black beard, presenting such a contrast to his clean-shaved brethren of Paris. lie was very polite. He talked politics with us and discussed other topics. He told us the history J of the ruin, took us to various inter esting points of view and showed us into his chapel perched 011 the neigh boring rock and commanding an ex quisite prospect. The chateau had belonged to the Montauban family and was last besieged and taken by Lesdignieres in the wars of religion. Until the revolution of 1789 it was complete. At that time it was pur chased by two of the villagers for a mere trifle and soon afterwards burnt by the rest out of jealousy of their ownership. One cannot avoid asso ciating this historical incident with others of the same sort in our gener ation, illustrative of th