yrr i if-,V rflf aaJMaWBtaMBP (\'oin California. Th' C )i forma Mail Steamer "Star of the Wot," .. :J at, New York ou Monday, t bringing,luius up Loßept. sth, and $1,300,- POU in treasure. 1 We clip the following in regard to the s plectjpu which took place on the 2nd of i £ept., by which it will bo aeeu that the t Democrats are suecesful: TO •: ('.\ i-iwitMA ELECTION—The re- 1 f urns of ih ' lection for Governor and oth- g er states oiiieers and members of the Jog- t Lslaiure wore incomplete up the sailing of the steamer fiom Sau Francisco, but suf ficient been received to render it 8 quite certain that Wellor, the Democratic v caadidate for Governor, has been elected, ] yith the entire Jternocrafjp ticket for state j ufficcrs. Partial returns from twenty coun ties to 4 up for Ifuvernor-as follows: Stan- 1 iy (Republican,) 10,344; \Velier (Demo- L i iat.) 1 8,490; Bowie, (American,) G,480. j t x no vote in Ban Francisco was as follows: ! c i'U alv, 5,537; Wellor, 4,430; Bowie, 360. i c The returns as far as received indicate " ilir.t the proposition to pay the state debt! has been earned, and that the movement t for calling a couvention to revise the state 1 £ constitution had been lost. jt Tim California of Sept. sth, says | j of the election. | s "The vote throughout fchestate, judging' froui the figures already received, as well j as iVum the elan Francisco returns, has been very light. There is safety in j 1 iug that the entire democratic state ticket ( has been successful, and the SJUWe party ( will have uu overwhelming majority in , either branch of the legislature." j £{if Jjottft Journal, |! tDERSPOHT, PA., \\ Jbu**?flay Oct. $.18,57. T. S CHASE. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. fypuMicsß s'4* ftoiipwrtoiis. TOR GOVERNOR. DAYID WILMOT, of Bradford. ?QR COMMISSIONER. WIUIAM MILLWARD, of Philadelphia. FOR JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT. JAMES VEECH. of Fayette, JOSEPH J. LEWiS. of Chester. fyplftoff CoLfQlj) FOR ASSEMBLY. ISA AC P/:NSON, of Potter Co., L. P. WILLISTON, of Tioga Co. FOR PROTHONOTARY. IIENRY J. OLilrfTEi), of Coudemport. j FOR REOISTER & RECORDER. A. 11. BUTTEUWORTH, of Coudar?port. FQR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. L. H. KINNEY, of Sffiaran. FOR COUNTY AUPITOR. JOHN C. BISHOP, of Allegany. r—■ —- re - ,— ■ ■ n To tiie Foils. Let no Hepublicau withhold his vote this fall, lest the Sjate he again madetho! nurse of Shamoeratic sucklings and vam ° pi red. arc glad to receive the Amer ican Herald, ofGroenburg, Fa., withoyir tnj friend J. 11. Hoopes, as an assistant I editor. Mr. 11. is a true and faithful ft iend of Freedom, and we trust his ac- ssion to the editorial chair of the IJcr- \ aid, will be of great advautage to the pa per aud to himself. To ASSESSORS. — Will the Assessors' of the different townships do us the fa vor to make a seperate assessment of the amount qf produce raised by each farmer, in order that we may he able to publish aa estimate of the aggregate production of each township ? Wc desire this iu ui'Jea to show the progress of our county in agricultural pursuits. We have al ready secured the cooperation of one as eesaor, and we hope all will cheerfully qid us in placing our qouqty prominently before the Agricultural interest. Republicans of Maine have again swept all before them. Buchanan Democracy has bceu repudiated in the down ess{, £>( ate, as it will be in every Free Stftte as soon fW> the people vote their own conviction, instead of the wishes of party loaders. In Maine the Republicans have elected every Senator, and to the House 113 to 40 of all others. It is said every County officer in the State is a Republican. Why not ? Why should fljpn who apologise for the extension of Slavery b e supported by Freemen, and why should mep who keep company with, expect the support of the bitter ene mies of Freedom; he supported by Re publicans? We don't believe any real friend of Freedom will be drawn ipto the support of such a map ih this County or any other. THE official returns of th vote of Ver luppt for Governor gives Fletcher, Rep., 25,075; Koyes, I)cm., 12,014 ; scatter ing, 226, To the Senate the Republicans have elected all their candidates, while the lii>u> stands 189 Republicans ; l 38 of all other parties. not i • i! the I )ctoler No. Mixjtf.nir. Me believe wc ' ■ *. upou it until December. I ltauk Failures. There is uioro trouble iu financial mat-1 ters than we have known since 1837. —' The Banks of Philadelphia, Rittsburg, j. Reading and Lancaster have suspeuded i ,sp<.pje payments, aad the Governor has called au extra Session of the Legislature to take the matter into gousideratiuu. We think last winter was the time for legislation; aud that there is more dan ger of doing harm than good by legisla- , tiqg under the pressure of a panic. It is very evident that the Buukiug • system of this Statu, jsu failure, and that! we need something similar to the free Baukiug Raw of the State of Nt?W York Under that law nearly every Bank con tinues to pay specie for all paper present ed at its counter, while under our sys tem, nearly every bank in the State has, or soon will suspend- there is a good reason for this difference, Under the fi'oc Banking systom of New York every bill is secured by a deposite of State Stock or other equally good securi ty with the Auditor General, and the bill holders, knowing that they are perfectly safe though the bank should fail, there is 0Q such run on the Banks for specie, as there is in this State, where the Banks have nothing but private property for se curity. Hence the failure of the Phila delphia Banks to weather a storm that has uot shaken the New York City Banks in the least. We hope the Legislature of ! Pennsylvania, when it assembles at Har risburg next wlntr will mature a Bank jiug system that will protect the people from another wholegftle failure, and that an amendment will bo proposed to the ! Constitution, prohibiting the Legislature from legalizing the suspension of specie payments by the Banks for a single hour. WILLIAM FEIIRY. The above named gentleman appears in our paper this week as a prominent advertiser, in which he calls us to account for a remark we took occasion to make in regard to "Independent Candidates" in our paper of last week, We do not know that we are under any particular obliga tion to reply to MR. PERRY'S arguments | iu behalf of his claims upon the voters of j | Potter County, and had desired to avoid any controversy with him whatever; but as he has taken the pains to give us a "going over" at this, the "eleventh hour" of the canvass, wc owe it not only to our self, but to our friends to reply to this direct attack of Mr. Perry, while at the sjime ti m ® we wish to define our po sition in regard to the doctrine of iude pendent candidates. To commence with, then, we are free to confess that we are not "posted" very well iu regard to the past political histo ry of our county; but we will also freely acknowledge that we wrote the article ' wlUch has called forth Mr. Perry's cen sure, with ft full knowledge of the fact, I that the JOURNAI, had always favored the ■ independent system, before it cauie into * our hands. It,, therefore, becomes n<>: cessary for us to explain why we departed from the former usual course of the pa . per, in regard to this matter, We set out, therefore, with the declaration that WC deemed such a course impolitic in the presoqt condition of the party. We re | garded it as impolitic hepapse wc deemed | it no longer necessary for the purpose it ( was then intended —namely, the over throw of the Democratic party. We do not say this beoause we have been told that it was the object in view—we have . 1 never been told so—wc say it because we .! believe it to haye been the policy adopted by the opponents of the Democratic par ty to defeat it. And we will go still fur ! : ther, and say that we rejoice in the glo -1 | rious result of the pojicy. We have been 5 educated to respect the action of pap f ty Conventions —to regard that action as 5 final in its decision. We have always * been told tha' if a parfy would h strong it s must be united —and that when ft man ' repudiates the action of a party oonven * tion, he repudiates the party represented 2 by it. It is for this reason that convene 1 tions are h®l4) namely—to harmonize the f claims of candidates—and from its simi ' larity in principle to that of onr system of government, the Convention system derives its popularity and weight. There fore, we am firm in our attachment to the 1 system, however much we may differ from 2 the former policy of the paper we control, r qr however widely we may depart from the heretofore necessary policy of the par - ty qf which we claim to be the organ in , this county —and we further desire it particularly understood that we have not, and xr'ilT nut , advocate any polipy other , than that we deem must prudent, and j which will host conserve the interests of the Republican party —which we believe , to be the truest representative of the pco iple. Is view of the fact that the major ity of our party is composed ot those who repudiated other parties on the ground that they could not swallow the principle of Slavery —not because of political am bition—we deem the Convention system beat adapted to its present condition, for the reason that there is all the more de mand for a harmonizing medium. Again, all who have witnessed the potency of the Repudiation system in overthrowing party ; organization, as evidenced in the success of the Republican party in this County, will agree with us in saying that the Con vention system is necessary to the future well-being and strength of the party. M r. Perry takes occasion to draw a com parison between himself and the entire Republican party (of which, by-the-bye, he does nof olaiin to be a conservative or even a positive member—on the other hand claiming that he only acts witb it because it comes nearest to the mark of bis ultra anti-slavery sentiment,) and cit ing its repudiation of the Dred Soott Do- I cision and the Fugitive Slave Law as similar in principle to his repudiation ol the nomination of MR. OLMSTED. There is a vast dilFerence between priuciple and interest--a comparison which it is only j uecessary for our readers to institute to see at once that Mr. Perry's claims upon 1 Republican votes are of the frailest na ture. But it i# not onr purpose, in this artiole, to combat with the history of pol itics in Potter county, as given by Mr. Perry; for we said in the outset that we are not "posted" in regard to it, and are not entirely willing to accept Mr. Perry's | version of it, though for the aforesaid rea son, we are compelled to to so. In closing his letter, Mr. Perry desires us to gee ourselves in a very perplexing j dilemma, and coolly informs us that our release is only obtainable through a pro found silence in this contest, (advice which is very easy to accept five or six days before election —particularly by the editor of a weekly newspaper, the latest number of which is published nearly a week previous to the election,) and by voting the independent ticket. This ]t- j ! ter dose of advice we cannot accept, be | oause neither our political or personal in-; tegrity will allow us to vote a ticket hav-| ing the majority of its support from a par ty with which we are battling, and which support, though perhaps not direotly so licited by Mr, Perry, he invites by his repudiation of Mr. Olmsted's nomination, And, in conclusion, wo would ask of every Republican in the county, his ap probation or disapprobation of our policy, J ! though we cannot hope to have an ex pression of that in the present contest.— Many of our readers will not see this ar ticle until after the election. If wo are not to he hound by the action of our con ventions, it is high time that conventions were entirely dispensed with—for, where in does the party derive any strength or benefit from their action, if the Repudia tion system takes precedence ? There is no half-way system in the matter. If we I have a nar-ty organization at all, it must be complete and harmonious to be suc cessful. If, cm the Other hand, we adopt I fchp policy of Mr. Perry and his friends, we at once commence the ebb of our par ty glory aad strength. We have not ' room nor time to pursue this matter fur- I ther, and we reluctantly close with the assurauce to our readers that the subject as presented in Mr, Perry's article, ad ; mits of a much wider scope of argument th>tß Que newspaper article will admit of ' —eycu >u replying to specialities. J6@rWe hope those interested iu the j cause of Education will cheerfully re ; spond to the following call of our County iSupcrinteudent. Every Teacher in the County should be jn attcodance: Teacher's Institute. On Monday the 10th day of £fov. next, i a Tiber's Institute will be opened at Coudersport and continue five days. The object QI the Institute is, to give instruc tion in the moat approved methods of teaching, and conducting the exercises of the School room. Six hours of the day will be occupied in reviewing those , branches usually taught in our Common Schools, and giving instruction upon the method of teaching. There will also be ' a Sessiou each evening, for the purpose of reading essays, and holding discussions on subjects connected with the advance ment ot the Common School interest The time has been limited tqfivc days, so that every Teacher in the County can attend. One week's board, and a small charge of three or four shillings for con tingent expenses; and it is hoped, and expected that the Teacher# throughout the County will make it to at i tend. The undersigned will use every effort to secure board ou reasonable terms. Those who design to become members of the Institute, are requested to bring a • full set of text-books, of such as are used in their school districts. The friends of education generally, are cordially invited to attend. The services of eminent, aud experienced Teachers will bo secured to give instruction, and lectures during the Session of the Institute J. UENDRICK, Co. Supt. of Totter County. COUDERSPORT, Oct. 7, -857. &otoit a itb Co until. Large Vegetables. —We wore shown, on Saturday evening last, a Cucumber grown in the garden of D. B. Brown, of this village, which measured 14 inches in circumference, 11 inches in length, aud weighed lbs. Mr. Sala Stevens of Clara, laid upon our table three Merino Potatoes, which ' averaged IS oz in weight. The potatoes; were good and souud. \\ e think our county can safely challenge oompetiuu in; vegetable growing. Fight. —The quiet and peace of our village was woefully disturbed on Satur-1 day evening last by a " free fight," in which great excitement was manifest aud some blood was spilled, one person being stabbed, though very slightly ! wounded, It was a boyish fight, iu which grown up men predumiuated as the ac tors, It is the first regular " muss" that has occurred iu our village for a long time. We are informed that a legal in vestigation of the affair is to take plage soon, and wo withbhold further oomuicnt until the result of the investigation. For the Journal, 1 Word to tlie Friends of Com mon Schools. ALLEGANY, Oct. 2d, 1857. FRIEND JOURNAL. —Allow me to sug gest to the frieuds of education, the pro priety of holding a mass Convention in Coudersport, for the purpose of disguss | ing the propriety uf petitioning the Leg- I islature for amendments to our School Law among which are the following: To reduce the number of Directors to three, and they receive a just compensation for 1 their services. Also, to require a more prompt collection of taxes, aud prohibit iting Directors from expending money I faster than it is raised. 1 for one, think that a Convention would be beneficial. — What say you, one and all? R. W. BENTON, Diseased Kidneys if neglect ed are ah most oertaiu to end fatally, sometime# the patient die# of exhaustion and obsti nate vomiting; sometimes of suppression :of urine and coma; sometimes in a sudden | tit of shivering; aud sometimes of a rap id attack of acute inflamation, In the; ! treatment, the golden rule myst be ob j served, so forcibly stated by Dr, I'rout | tb- t moderation in the quantity is of; quite as much consequence as attention to the quality of food.—Uf aleoholio j liquors sound sherry of the drier kinds, or small quantities of brandy or Hol lands and water are the best. In the medical treatment Hurley's Compound j Sarsaparilla has proved highly beneficial , from its vegetable alkali principles, which entered into the blood, possesses the pro perty of abstracting from it, a quantity of nitrogenous matter sufficient for its con version into hippuric acid, and in this very soluble form is readily excreted, and expels disease from the kidneys. It may therefore be given with the confi ! deuce that it will limit, if not cure the disease. A PRACTITIONER. CARLYLE. Friend Ayer:—ln this ago of quacks,charlatans and mere windy rctenders to heal, who blow at 7> A # 7 every corner, aud in the face and ears of ! all men, their loud, blaring Jericho trump ■ ets and other noisy boisterous wind in struments of marvelously twisted brass, in such a wofully sham ridden epoch as this, 1 say, it is comforting, nay even cheering to the earnest well wisher of bis race to know there has arrived in this world a genuine Physician —to light once more upuw ppmethipg besides mere tangrados apd Don Mercurial Jalaps, with their phlebotomies, poisons and warm water. Your Cathartic Pills and Clif.fi"y FOOT toral, carry us forward to Halcyon days —to niinellenial Pharmacopocas, when Science' d**ep diving down into the prin ciples of things, shall, with infinite cun j ning bring out the genuine Elixir Vitae; | for of a truth there Is manifestly enough ; somewhat of thiß same Life Essence in your subtile vegetable distillations and eomnoqnds. \ ou realize to p* the visions of those painfulcst smoke-dried Alehymists —boot- less seekers —dreamers among retorts and prucibles, touching the quintessen tial hidden virtue of the universe, which , should antidote diatemper, and break for man the Wheel of Time.. j IfiKThe Democratic party denicg the right of Congress to legislate in all case# for the people of the Territories and holds that they possess the same unalienable right of self-government that the inhabi tants of the respective States are endow ed with. The lories asserted and fought for Parliamentary sovereignty; the opposition to Democracy contend that Congress has sovereign power over the people of the Territories. In this re spect the opposition of to-day and the Tory or British faction of Revolutiona ry time harmonize perfectly.— Montrose. Republican. But Congress has enacted a law for| the Government of Kansas; Gov. Walk er is there holding office under that law by appointniept of the President; Walk !er condemns an attempt at Self-Govcrn mcnt by the pe pie of Kansas as rebel lion, and threatens to put it down with I federal troops 1 and the Montrose Demo crat aud its party sustain Walker : ergo they are Tories. —Montrose Republican. Independent (andidale FO R PIIOTII ON O T AR Y, • William Perry, 0 F GENESE E. Ellisburgh, October 2, 1857 T. S. CHASE, Editor of the Poller Journal; In your last issue, dated October first, I find a sentence in one of your Editorials, which, if not properly understood, will lead some honest men into an error. 41 \\ e [the Editor of the Journal] would caution our friends to beware ot bogur county tickets; as there are a couple of Independent candidates in the t eld, who will not be scrupulous as to the manner of obtaining votes, if they caa only get them " As I know of but two Independent candidates before the people of Potter County, Andrew Jam-son, for Register and Recorder, and myself for Prothonotary, I consider my ticket is one referred to as being of the u bogus sort;" and my way of canvassing as destitute of scrup es Mr. Jackson is a Democrat, and well known throughout the county, and able to defend himself. I pr pose, therefore, to leave him with the people, whose business it is to pass their verdict on the qualifications of himsell ami his riv 1, Mr. Appleton Butterworth, the nominee of the Republican convention. To avoid all misapprehension hereafter concerning the present con - st, I wish it distinctly understood, that 1 am pre cisely what I claim to be, an Independent candidate for the office of Prothonotary. As you have but recently taken up your residence in this county, it can not be presumed that you are ful y posted in our political history. I can but regret this, as you w ill be liable to fall into errors that may do great injustice to unoffending parties. It you had looked over the first six vo umes of the " People's Journal," you never would have cautioned your '* friends, against voting an Independent ticket, nor applied the term bogus to an Independent ticket For the first six years of our existence as a political party, we knew no other ticket, advocated no other ticket, and voted no other ticket. Then it was 41 the genuine ticket " We repudiated cenventions as being the culminating point of all political corrup tions; log-rolling, bargain and sale, was the mildest language ap plied to all democratic conventions. With these weapons, and Benton's arguments, which formed the staple of almost all the campaign editorials, we pitched into the Democratic party, and gave it particular fits. Very r luctantly we consented to go into con vention—and when we done so, it was with the implied under standing that when it correctly represented the people, and its transactions were in all respects fair, its decisions should be authori* tative; still we retained the right of private judgment Had you been educated in the law, I think it would be an easy task to justify uny position in yur sight, by PRECEDENT My friend, Henry J. Olmsted, after submitting his name to a Democratic convention, and getting it taste ot its truits. announced himself, as an Indep' nduit candidate, in opposition to His PARTY, and here the parallel between Mr Olmsted and myself ends—ho renounced his democracy, and we, the Free Soilers embraced him, advocated the independent candidate, voted the independent ticket, and glorified the "Inde oendent system" It was genuine orthodoxy then My friends, iohn S. Mann, Isaac Benson, O A Lewis, and Sobie>ki Ross— with whom I have acted a long time and Mr Olmsted discover at once how unpleasantly you are situated, by calling my ticket j" bogus." It the Independent system was genuine six years ago, by no logical proposition can you demonstrate that it is * bogu? ; now. If through inability you fail to .*ce the correctness of rr? j reasoning, you deserve pity. If pride deter you from acknowl edging the iruth, that even 44 can not excite my resentment " It is said the party will be distracted in consequence of my repu diating the nomination of Mr Olmsted. 1 his may be true to a certain extent. 1 have beard of distract ons that were very healthy, this may partake of that character. Official monopoly, the conceit* tration of official patronage, and the centralization of political : power, tends to d'.stract a party more than the etlorts of an humble individual like myself. We have endeavored to distribute offices independent of local or individual prejudice, and regard every por tion of the county entitled to equal respect. We have endeavored to prevent the growth of a political regency. But in the late con vention, in spite of our protestations and our efforts, those towns which have worked quietly but uniformly for the success ul the Re publican party, were disposed of in a most arbitrary manner, and j that spirit so potent from its advantageous position, developed itself by the selection of two candidates residing in the Borough ol Coudoiaport. U inadvertently, the same fatality attends the trans action, prudential motives alone would dictate a different policy. | I have been told t$ it is political death to repudiate the action of I your party assembled in convention. If death is the result o' re pudiation, the Republican party would have passed off the st.ige long while since. Thu web and tilling of its platform is repu ia- I tion. V\ e repudiate the Died Scott decision and the Fugitn& Slave Law -the one emanating in the highest brancn of our judi ciary, and the other in the sovereign Legislature of our land. VU convict by legitimate process, the Democratic party of inconsistency for advocating Congressional jurisdiction over ail territories or sixty years, and then denying it by the introduction of popular sovereignty You, sir, are involved in the same dilemma only way left to preserve your consistency is to maintain a profound siler,oe during this contest, and vote the Independent ticket ju*t far aa the nominations of the late Republican convention are unjust and impolitic , . 1 am, very truly your friend, WILLIAM PERRY. fray I n pursuance of a call published in the JOURNAL, of Sept. 17th, a Repub lican meeting convened at the Court House on Tuesday, Sept. 22d. Win. j McDougall Enq. was called tQ the Chair, Messrs. Duick Whipple and G. G. Col vin were choeen Vice Presidents, and W. B. Graves Esq. Secretary. The ob ject of the meeting was stated briefly by the Chairman, when L. P. Williston Esq. was called for, and made an eloquent and interesting speech of nearly au hour in length, and was frequently interrupted by enthusiastic applause from the audi ence. lie was followed by S. i\ John son Esq., who entertained the audience; in a few excellent remarks on the lead-'• iug issues of the day, and wheae remade elicited the frequent and hearty app' of the meeting. At the close of Mr ■J' J remarks the meeting adjourned. 1 . meeting throughout was enthusiast'®! aD . eyinped a hearty support of the State j County Tickets. THE liOuisville Democrat says tbj '"the devil might well be ashamed to outlied by Democrats." We thiak 'may well be not only be ashamed alarmed. When lie sees himself la