~. -_> 'R . e e , -.4 7.... =ENE ‘l_ . ,Ii- ~,,.j ; ;;; ',i. k., : i..' ;:_, VOLTME XV.- NE 113E,1 14 THE POTTER ..TOUWg4iti PUBLISHED BY -I M. W. Themarney, .nrc•prietor. $l5O ea icr.at, VARIABLY IN ADVANCE. 4. 41 * Devoted to the cause of Reiiitblicanisrai the interests of Agriculture. the advancenient of Education, and the bast good of Potter aousty. Owning no guide except that of Principle, it will eidearee - r . to ,ild An. the wotk of more fully Preeciontizingouy Cou ntry. Jarmo ;snows% inserted at -the following rates, except wit ere.,special bzp.gains are made., Squire [lO lines) I insertion, 50 1 , II 3 tt • $ 1 -so rackeubseq nett insertion less thati.l3,. 25 lifignire three montiiS,'-'-°--- 2 50 1 1.." six " ----.- 400 " nine 4 550 1 ", one year, , 600 1 Collins six months, . lO 00 10 00 /I <I 41 • I t /I 14 • , •!' 7 ---- ••• 7- 00 1 " -per fear. -' --- . - '4O 00 I/ It II 20 00 atiministrattir's or Executor's Notice, 200 Susiness Cards, 8 Hues or less, per year_ 5 00 Special and Editorial Notices, pe. line, 10 * * *All transient advertisement's must be paid in advance, and no notice will be taken of advertisements from a distance, itiless they are accompanied by the money or satisfactory reference.. • * * *Blanks, and Job Work of all kinds, at tended ,to promptly and BUSINESS CARDS. - - SULALIA LODGE. No. 342 te. A. 5L STATED Mee4lngs on the and and dth Wednes days _of each month, Also Nlasditic,gather , ings an every Wednesday Eveuing. fdr work sad practice, at their Hall in Coadersport. . TIMOTHY IVES, Hevas, Sec'y. JOHN S. MANN, ATTORNEY ANt) COUNSELLOR 'AT LAW. Coudersport, Pa., will attend the several Courts in Potter and 'Kean Counties. All busineas entrusted in his care will receive prompt attention. Office corner of West and Thirti streets. • -AllTliUlt a OLMSTED, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, CvAdefs_port, Pa., will attend to all business iutrUsted to' his care, With promptnes anti fidt. ity Office on Soth-west corner of Maiti tsad Fouith streets:. iSA.IC BENSON. ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport Pa., will attend to all business' entrusted to him, with care and promptness. Office on Second st l' l ttear the Allegheny : Bridge. F. 'KNOX, AITORNVY AT LAW, Coudersport', Pa., will regularly' attend the Courts in. Potter and the adjoining. Counties. -... 0. T. ELLISON, PHYSICIA.N, Coudersport, Pa., respectfully informs the citizens of the vil lage and vlcinitn . that he will promply re .spond .to all calls for professional services. Office onlain st., in building formerly oe supled by C. W. Ellis, Esq. C. S 1& E. A. JONES, DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS Oils, Fancy Articles, Stationery, Dry Gooci: Groceries, kc., Cmidersport.-Pa. D. E. OLNSTP.D DEALER IN 1)11.17 GOODS. READV-)MA[)?. Clothing, Crockery, Groccric , , ‘ll. Coudersport, Pa. COLLINS SDIITfL DEALER iu Dr; Goods.Groreries..Provisinns. Hardware, (iacensware, .Cutlery. and all Goods usually found in n country Store.—' Coudersport, Nov. 27. lii6l. OU DEit,S POUT HOTEL, A F. GLASS:MIME. Proprietor. 'Corner o- Main and Sec.,pi Streets, Coudersport, Pot ter Co., I'a. • . A Livery .S"Nthle i.; Aso kept in cpnnect Mon'iritli this Hotel. ARK G LLLON, TAlLOR—nearly opposite the Codrt House— will make all clothes intrusted to iu the latest and -best styles -Prices to suit the times.—pive him a call. 13.41 ANDUEW SAN 13E11,Q & BRO'S. TIINNEft AND. CURRIERS.—Hides tanned ,on the shares, in the best manner. Tan „nory on the east side of Allegany river. Coudersport, Potter .county, Pa.--Jyr 11,'431 •. F. OtMSTED OLMSTED' & KELLY; )EALER IN STOVES, TIN .At SHEET' IRON WARE, Main st., , nearly opposite thei Court Hotise, Coudersport, - Pa. Tin and Sheet Iron Ware made . to ordet. in good style, on short notie.l... rilysst?s iloadealy Still retains as Pri nci r pal, Mr.B.R.CAMPBELL, Precepiress, Mrs:. Berth: JONES Ganner ; As. sistant, Miss A: E'• CAl42lltit.te expenses per Terneare : Tuition, from $5 to $6 ; Board, freniisl.s6 to $1.75, per week; Rooms for self boarding from $2 to $4. Bach term commences !pan Wednesday and continues Fourteen weeks:: Fall'term;Aug.27th,lB62;Winter term. tOth, 1862 ; and spring term, March 25th, 1116.14 . ' O. R. BASSETT, President. W. W.:GRIDLEY, Sec t 'y Lewisville, July 9, 1862.. , Er.A.N/lATTAN MOTEL: 1 • NEW:YORK. MEM Popular Hotel is situated near the comely of, Mow.; Street and Hroad vay,, opposite , the ~ Park • . xi- One: block pf o the Hudson. RlTer Rail Road and near the Erie lisil Iload'Depot,. one of the most pleaeani, and.convenientlocations in the city. Board & Itiminito $1.50 per day. I 4 HUGGINS , Privrietor.' • 111%.11,bw is the time t 9 iittheetihe fot _4 ur foonirr Paper—THE JOURNAL, - . , - ~..;, ~,, ~... ....:3. 43, ~,;..- I . ..,' - - ..,, „L',..... 2... ; ~.."."..,:.. ... - ',.:".!.',.;' . ...1,' .., ' , " -- ..... - - . 1•_.,..:. i , . 4, - ,' ' ... . . .. 4:.• -4 4.. - ~" •- , . i .- . . ,:.. • '. ~.,:. ~,.. ... . ... • ..., - • '*- - . 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' , ln„the clover .orilie snow,: „ Whatcares he? he cannot know: Ley-hinsloril ' 'As Mari may, he fought'his fight; - 'Proved tiv truth by his eudeavort Let'hitu sleep in solemn night, Sleep forever and forever. Lay him low, lay him low,- In the clover or the.snow : What cares he?. he cannot Imo*: La.) , him low I Fold 'hint in his country's stare; Roll the drum and fire the volley; I What' to bim are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly Lay him low, lay him low, . In the clover or the snow : What cares be The cannot know Lay him low l • , Leave him to. God's watching eye; • Trust him to the hand that,made him Mortal love weeps idly . _ God alone has power to aid him. Lriy him low, lay him low, • Inlthe clover or the snow: What cares he ? he cannot knout: Lay him lOw I IE 18 ai mystery to - me—why Bob Ly ons should feel so shy of Nellie Water man, tht prettieit girl in the, place, I couldu t!for my life imagine 1: He had beep barfly hit at Predrieksburg, and was home . on sick leave; arid every day her carriage 'stopped at Mr. Lyons' door (by the way,itt was worth the waiting for, to see the fuut and ankle that she showed iu get; log out) with a basket of hot-house fruit, or tloivers that she bad arranged herself (and she did these things like a French woman,) or the last fuilleten for Lieutenant Lyons. But ,though Ikb could hear her well enough from the little room at the head of the stairs that he called his den, he never took the smallest notion, except to growl out something very like an, oath from under his mous tache, ur, if in the parlors, to hobble away as fast as possible for fear of meeting her. The cowers he wouldn't let into his room, but left them to wither in the outerlall ; the fruit he ga.e to the ,children ; the Woks he tessed over to hiS sisters with a contemptuous grunt. In short, if .Nellie Waterman; bail been the cholera, instead of a handsome, stylish girl, he could have hardly avqided her more persistently-, ob stinately refusing-to give any other reason fur his unaccountable conduct than that it was hie whim Nothing; however, is quite so hard to prison as secrets. Relax 'your vigilance ever so little, and the things will be on the house top in spite of you. And so one day out popped - 13ob's .skeleton, like a Jack•in the•bux, and he told we all that was in his heart. It was in answer to some remark of mine about Nellie Waterman, who had just pa. sed. Bob turned his' back squarely to the window, and sent his cigar savage ly in to the fire. "I had aalief see a toad," he said— "rather, for it wouldn't be • necessary to be civil to the spotted 'animal. Do you remember what Jule was reading the oth. er night—something of .Ruskin's, I think, about girls with spots of blood on their ball dresses, qed grave.weeds twined in their wieathS, Well, I. swear I never see this one l Without thinking than her dainty bandsare wet with blood, and that her beautiful bright heir is thickly twisted with the willow that shades Phil. Seldon's graie. Poor, dear old Phil Ihe wore her fills; face over his heart when he went dojo. Worthless as he had proved her to be, he could never quite give her up. T. had known her from a child, and waived him of his danger, and the only shadow that ever fell 'on on. friendship oafue upon us then.. There never was a Win more thoroughly infat uated. He thought her pink and white face the incarnation 'of purity; hqr down mist looks he 'took fur modesty;.and it was useless token him that i besides her pretty faceiqiiq was simply tight lacing. flounces and Freuch novels. "She was, ln his idea, womanly per. faction—physical, merital, and moral. And she tlireir him' over, of course— flirted with bun till she was tired, then dropped him. .;When he insisted on some reason for this - Wrecking of his Lopes, she closed =her doors against him by way of answer: He came' back lookiog, like a ghost. Could :you have 'seen him, 'you could seireely; haie dreamqd that this was our old sunshiny Phil. *. "I hate Wotnan 'when .think of it. Leave' out inymother and sisters, and all the erinoline and, giimaoing in the world Ore not worth his dears Old face, tho Ugh he never looketrolieerfal, after that, un less he was ohrtsorne specially dangerous IME3M Debotea to thi i'hill4pies of ihte QelpoelleD, 40, ifte VS 011; 1 14/ 4 )0 Of Noillag, gitetattirnD "Yews. POOR PHIL. COUDER§PORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA.,; WEDNESti.AY, 57.A.Rd i a 25, 1863 service-e.-some; risky reconnoitering: picket duty,. affording hint an excellent chance of ,being killed. Then he used to light up.with•aeort of grim satisfaCtion, because, he told me once, the exciteinent left himixto time, to think ; adding, teOurn fullyi than . shouk4 be dubbed: the greatest coward in the ,reginieut could,ii be known with what dread he looked 'for 'ward m r ,his,,lung, ..sleepless, nights,! and those Hitless days wiled onlythe , ordknari routine- :teas:going . We were Were ;.IFrailtirtekSburg+Or reib'tr, the ihatFieliarated • it (Inch di. Phil hedjitS.'te.oine'frotti where he had beer) :sent on a secret having also:improved his Short forkiugh to conic on here, and. get himself to the heart afresh:. He bad seen - she bad - reoeited him coldly' at first scarcely spoken •to hint in feet; .but re lenting by degmei, eafl'exed him to 'plead his cause .again, and rainedlds hopes only to dash them wore fatally to the ground '. "He 'came back utterly desperate. IVI4 were getting ready for the bombardment; and he threw himself into the •preparii4 ! none with the zee'. and spirit 'of.twenty tyerythiug• was. as .peaceful asif !Nature was holding her breath. to•watch' us. The sky looked • down on us so sol emnly that, s.liough,.l don't know schat ever put it' in m y head at such a time, I could think of n•Alting but that other' winter's night when it was bright' with• angels :praising • God, a,nd proclaiming peace on earth. =The water seemed to hush itself, as if afraid to ripple. In the stillness we could Lear die barking ! of dugs, lied the Melench . oly chiming of the town-olock sounding:out the hour; while on our side the only noise was the rum bling of artillery, as we get the batteries into-position, and the heavy, roll of the , pontoon trains going .down to the river 'bank. It sounded like thunder in our ears ; but they ker. as dead silence as if t hey were all ins enchanted steep, till our men had pushed Offind fairly gotten. the bridge under way. Then--- ' "I don't know whether .they suspected what we were at or not, or whether it was part of their eutsed strategy to get as many targets tt!4 possible under fire; but When they did at last cornumuce the'y made sharp work of it, as !well they might,_ since, comfortably stimed away in cellarsand :houses on the bank, they had only to•cut ti.s down at their leisure. Shoat and shell flues our batteries proved una vailing ; the city indeed was fired, but the foxes were nut unearthed, and three times our brave,fellows were beaten hack, and brought their dead and wouuded up the bank to All the floors of, the Lacy House. , "By this . time it was morning, and we had procured a train wtth solid shot froni. Aquitt ; the rebels, who had stopped 'commenced again, and the light strug cling up ; showed us, as the sulphurious cloud cleared away, Fredericksbutg was, buruirig like a second Moscow. The solid . shot plunged through brick and stone, but a fresh effort to lay the bridge proved also unavailing, the rebel sharp-shooters dropping our men like so . many nive-, pins. "Then it was that Burnside called tor v o lunteers, and the Seventh Michigan and our regiment, (tire, Nineteeth Massa. ehusetts) responded. As we marched out. Phil came quickly up to Mark 'Gif ford, his brotber-in-law, 'wba was at my side. "'You have a wife P,,nd little child to leave,' he said. have none, and never shall. Let me go in your place. Wait (as Mark was going, to' refuse) and hear we. If you are obstinate I will still go; I swear it, even if I swim after the boats; so.- there will be simply two to mourn for in the old homestead if you persist.' was in such desperate earnest, and the time ,9 so short, for the regi ment wits already moving on, and Mark, never so resolute a man as Phil, was so taken by surprise that he stepped back, and Phil took. the place by my side and rushed on with us; As said Captain Ward at Bucker Hill; when we went down that bank r no more dreamed of coming alive out of that rain of fire than of going to heaven in Elijall'a fiery char iot. • As we crouched behind the boats and the piles of lutuber, the balls came in among us like hailstones. Phil got a slight scratch, and a ball carried off my cap as if it - Fad come expressly for it. Not that we left all of, the firing to the rebels.' We dul•a little sharp-shooting on our own account, quite respectable in its way, and keeping them about as buil , as they kept us, till our guns ,began to speak again; then we pushed ter the Wat s , g ai n fijoiu ) poll-melt, and made off. Suo a crossing ! It wasn't exactly a sail by moonlight, I can tell you. I never imagined such a din possible, un less at the day of jndgwont. Crack I crack ! from those deadly rifles, and our poor lelloirs dropitingnt every shot, tho' lying atOow . as possible in the, boats, our batteries, thundering away, waking= up the eehoes, - tbafrolled back on us es if they were having a-battle of 'their own.- 1 don't believe I ever shall eel!' One• rietioe quite auth Honest astooishment as I felt on landing 'with my head still ou my Shoulders. - I - "I panted mit something of (this sort to Phil, who answered with a stern land something about the idee Of March, 'wily half heard; as wo rushed up. the bank end after the rebels aeampering put . of every rifle pit, mid from behind every tstono,Wall, springitig_ws if _they, had [ been isort fungus growtt l a, .ica's war= ranted to make good time before; Yankee bayonets. ' , • f:l,l.but sr ~ "Most of 'perm escaped, ',but _ (Wier couldn't or wouldn't run. One of these fellows Phil started, a surly brute, just shuwing his - grizzly head Out of a Allar door, and evidently meaning to die 6ame I called out as I saw the man taking deliberate aim at just turning straight to him ; but he, just turning his his head in answer, and showing" me the same strained, reckless look thatlhe hed worn all that day, went on one step far ther—got the ball in his heart for he was dead' when I reached him: "I 'was on his murderer beforelhe bad time to load again, and I think Ijshould have beaten hint doWn as I did then bad he been Sampson; rage and grief made a giant of me. But, after ail, what was his worthless life? It. Can never comfort those who weep for'Phil in the'idd home stead, where he lies buried, doun to death --poor, loving, generous heart that woman, whom I long,, every time I meet her, to call MurdereSs!" , • . , TUB RACIIELO.Ri AND uosscer.ToN.— The new lionscription bill tirnposce iii two drafts to take the able-iniclied men between twenty and forty-tive years old. I There are to be two classes—firt,i those I-Married, between twenty and thirty five, l i ty‘ tetli the untnirried • between twenty and forty•five— , -second the' married. between thirty-five and forty-fiVe—but the s'econd I class is not to be called out till the first is exhausted. This acts the bachelors between, thirty-five and forty-five all ago for getting married. We agree vVith a contemporary that thig,is a wise provision I of-the law, if there is 'any wiadom in it.. IWe wish it had taken all-the beclielore between twenty and '.ninety,.befCre it touches married men. What are these old bachelors good for but to die,fbritheir cetnary ? if they wilt not raiseaoldiern to fight battles,let thew 'go and fight them selves;and die,ifsobe,writhout wife orehild to mourn them when they fall. lEfewev cr, if any of those who would fall into the second class if married, will repent!of this singularity, the war bits alreadi inade widows enough who will not refuse. tO as sist them in shirking the cartridge box, if they' will only buckle 'On the harness of matrimony. Let them walk up mid show themselves. men at once. Fight or 'marry: Take your choice quick I • 1 I . A SmILE.—On a certain occasion attended a ehurch in a seaport tji!nj . to hear an . evening lecture =by a visiting preacher from the country. •To • persons ! at tall acquainted with the southernconn , try, it is quite unnecessary) to deSci,the the man or detail his liberal qualificatiOns. &thee it to say, he was .a lair spediMen abaut three-fourths of; his cotempqra ries of the back woods. The house was full, and our preacher seemed bent i on mating an impression. 1. His text I•st-as, "Faith without works is dead." Finding himself, probably, for the,first time is his life in a nautical atospliere r be laboredassi tn duously to sink the bushman, atAlto appear in the borrowed garb of one- f iatii mately acquainted with sea-faring phrases and pursuits. At length:after an arqul pause, and scanning his audience with look hat seemed to say, 'Teller mortals, faith without works ar dead.' .Now %Pose oneof you wur in , a boat, I reckon yourd look about for oars. IlLis you can't Add one. And with -that' you row,:add and'row, and your boat goes round, end round; and I reckon , you wituldn4l reach shore.nowhere nobusi. Wal,lfeller modals, that oar am faith without work S.. And I reckon you couldd't go nowere with one oar." Pausing again and looking around with a triumphant air to trine, the itnpred- Sion he had !made, he seemed entirely absoriied in -the contemplation of the mighty. effort he had put! forth. &it!, alas 1 for, pulpit dtgnity 1 'A sailor pres.l, eat, who hati , drank inlrevery word, .dnd longed for an . opportunity 60 let his own light Shine on the, audience, broke the silence and.exclainied— "Hlasted fresh water lubber 1 Catil; go nowhere with one oar 1, Guess ! the! fool, don't know bow to scull !" Any one must lta;ge been present to realize the effect of this appeal to tho•itt: dial* There were not many'dry eyes in the house after that, though the tears were not , thoielof penitence:', , Those who - would,make us feel must feel themselves. • e - ••';lle.vrho ever - 'nets. as conSeievee ies abaft Ike theugli dead.. • .! • „ .; MOII ...A FIEET RATE uOE NTNO . BATH.-A gr Latdeal is 'Said about bathing, and hou'ees are generally preferred for having baths lied in them, supplted with hot water and 'Cold; but the simplest bath, and onelin which all may indulge with. out trouble or "expenie, is that of a sponge or 1 towel bath; and if repeated every Moraingi -bummer and ,Wintor, is such a renovator .'of the systera • that you: will, hale little ,firtibasion -either for: salt water{ batbing Or any othericind of bathing, and I mai 'fairly promise' your doctor a long holiday, 'se far its 'yea are. concerned. Just do as we - tell you in this article, and. if you do not feel better, throw the blame, upOn our advice. I Before going to bed, fill your wash- , basin with water, say two-thirds full; 1 then put into h a large soft sponge or, towel —jest which .is handiest. Provide I 'something to stand on—either a piece "of old carpet or a shaliftv tin—to keep the , floor, from . being wet; and also a gentile 'of coarse; good-sized towels. Then. 'all being 'ready, immediately upon rising in'. the 1 morning, having, thrown off your' night-dress, first wet your head, and then takethe sponge or-towel full of water and - squeeze h upon your Shoulders, the water running down to year feet. The body having dins git a good wetting, you need not, as some suggest, sponge the body any further, but take the towels and give yourself a 'good rubbing for about 6ne or two minutes, 'till the ekin begins to react ; then idressi as quickly as possible, and, if convenient and the weath'er suitable, take a ehOrt walk. Bathing -end dressing should not take you more thin ten min• utes4 Practice will render less rubbing sufficient, and the walk in time may be dispensed %with. This is, a "bath that 'everybody should take,, and will be found an infallible source of * vigor and good health, if properly done and followed up. MYSTERY OF TUE HUMAN HAND.— Issuiti; -from the wrist is that wonderful organs the hand. "In ;a French book," says Sir Charles Bell, "intended to teach young people, philosophy, the pupil asks why the fingers are net of - equal length. The master makes; the scholar grasp a bdll of ivory, to show' him that the points of the fingers are then equal. It wculd have been better had he closed the fingers upon ilie pales, and then, have asked , !whether or riot they '"correspond. This difference in theilength of the fingers serves a thousand purposes, as in holding a rod, a switch, a sword, a hammer, a pen; pencil, or engraving tool in all Of which secure hold ,aid freedoie of action are admiral:4y combined." On the length, strength,' and perfectly free movements of the t thum - ,bs depends, 'moreover, the,, power of the human han , To the thumb, indeed ; ; has been given the special name Polfeic,iironi a Latin verb, meaning to be able, ,g,trong, mighty, because of its 1 strength—a strength that is necessary' to, the power of the band, being equal to, 1 that of all the fiegers. - 1, Without the I ti e sh*all of the thumb the power of they fingers'Would be of no avail; and accord : l ingly the large ball formed by the mni. cies of the thumb is thelyeeial mark of the human hand, and particularly that of a clever workman. Toe lois of the thumb almost ailments' to the losS of the band. A HUMAN BODY AND THE HOER OF HAY.—Seat yourself at a table. Attaeh a piece of imetal (say a shillhi g) to a thread. Having placed your elbow de a table, hold the thread between the* thumb and fore ' finger, and allow the shill ng to hang in the center of a glass tomb er, the pulse will immediately cause the shilling to Vi brate nhe a pendulum, and ,the vibrations will iticrezie until the shilling strke.s the, side of the glass • and suppOs&the timed the experiment ha the hour of seven, or half-past' seven, the pendulum will strike the' glass seven times, andl then lose its momentutennd retnrp to the center; if you hOldl the thread , a-eufficient length Of time theeeffect will be repeatad; 'but not until a sufficient length of time has' elapsed te convince you the l exeperiment is complete. We need not add that the thread must be held with a steady' hand; otherwise the vibrating motion -would be counteracted. At whateverhour of the day or night the experiment .'s made, the coincidence will be the serael ' . etfili - A Brooklyn doctor voncbee-for the facts intilie. following :, An tirixious father notlong, since discovered. his "only Son and heir,' aged five, engaged in pitch. ing pennieS vitth a number ,of 'ragged urchins, wile bad just initiated him in the tnysteriea-of the all-absorbing game. He gave the little gamester a longlecturenn the sin , of &Tabling, etc., and finithed by telling him that if he ever eaqght him-in the naughty ; work. or piichitg` pennies again, or, gambling in any way -he would give, him, ''a ' severe whippi ... • The, youngster Stood with his lids in. his 11 pockete,ietielly jingling the ialf dozen' coppers , he had wont and at t e cenclu. skin of his' father's remarks ittle Bob ;hew a cent.from has Tionket,and'bifanc. ing It 00 the thumb and 'index' finger of his right band, said, "Dail,: 11l go you . ' I heed' or tail for two licking' er I nane I' TERDIS.--$.1.50 PER ANNUM Aft intereiting • 'A lady of Bridgeporti Connecticut; married a citizen 'et Georgia, some twenty Odd years ago, and accompanied him his home in thetiitate. 'HO w 6 Panter. Not succeeding there to. his mind; bete moved to Askanias and'bought load _and' negrocs and resunied hcisinescai 1t Planter: He had butfairly ; started in Inisinettaibeii ' he sickenedif fever and died. His 'estate ottneisting of thtrtY ounce` and a plantation, th e size. 'of which int intortnant did'not state, was invilved in debt to. the amounts of ten thousand dolt lass. The widow judged it'best to aell e' portion of the land and negroos 'to pay the debt, but the 'foreman on the estate', himself a negro and a slave, advised her to another course.. "I Wouldn i t do dat; Min ' us " said be, syde boys item like it to go .doWn Sotif, and -if Milieus give ni the chapati we'll raise a bigirop and pat off the debt, and have it all clear in twee ar tree year." He informed "'Maids" that he, had "talked to 4e bop 'bent it; and dey all. say dey stick by and work of de debt, if ,hisses please not sell 'ern." She fol. lowed the counsel of thie . hiimine it'd hew roic negro, and "de . boye" worked with ai will, They raised 'a splendid crop of cot- ton, the entire labor being done—,-,eves the sale of the cotton and the delivery of the money into the hand 'of the mistress . —without the adVice, help or loterfer ence,of any white man. The debt 4 . 4 reduced sixthousand dollars the first year. A brother of tihe lady, an. 'undid clergyman of Connecticut, spent the firsi winter after the planter's decease on the plantation. Gratefiil, as anj man wallet be, these ignorant but faithful and kind? ' hearted fellows, for their generous devo t tion to his sister's interest, he impro4eof the leisure time in teaching the eon of the foreman and a few others of the young negroes, and before spring, some of then; • Could not only read tolerably well, but could write a legible hand: spring came, and. the , lady with IfOr children accompanied her brother to COW neoticut, and there, spent the summl leaving her negroes to make a seeen crop under the leadership and mailege; meat of her negro foreman, without White man on the premises. She held a regular correspondenocreith the foressair through the educated bUt dtoikY lingerti. of his son, and was kept well informed of the state •of things on the plantation. ! Late in the autumn he returned, acceitw I panied now by a sister who spent thi winter with her, and followed up the _work 'of her brother,l in the eettieationat line, without, however any public proc: latnation of the fact, fo robvious reasons. The second Crop swept off tire remaimi of the debt and left a surplus. Thee the , work has. gone formard for tiefirli tied years. The , working force' of the plantai tion baring increased,.by the natural-in: crease Of the negro families, and so; dons having been made to-the plantati o n from time to time by, purchase, at the supestion aristby the advice, of the negrol overseer, with a succession of splendid! crops produced by willing hands tender the etimulons of kindness and eneot4ige: ment, instead of the lash, 'the property; was estimated, when the war eximmenced; to be, worth over $lOO,OOO. When iii. terconse stopped between iirkansas anigt the North, the lady with her eldeit son was' on the plantation, and. her Othei , ehildren in ConneCti4it.. There he* been, when my informant teft tridge: port, no commanieition between the par-. ties for six months: The members of the family at the east are execeitingti anxious to hear from the mother, and' fear lest their 'elder brother may hare have gone into or been forced into the army. 'While many are asking, just now: , IR negroes in a state of freedom: can any be tniesid6; or take care 4 thepi selves, such facts ,as those- ahoti . stated may afford the anxious some suppoii. • Printers sometimes . make- souse crous blunilers. Tit a plea.' of man-iila,:•tpV handed to the "devir•toset in a Western. office, there occurred the following {hinge; ‘‘Titere stead ( the martyr with his- ;twat . of fire." The editor was- astunisii:za in/ inciting' over his next: the 4;11,4:- ing "There stood the martyr sirrit Lir shirt on. fire." . Oh, viliat a tadgia webt'wc sveale,Vr.ftert first'we practice to doceivEi L Some men are . certain etu bean tired' en one side, hideous on`tilie other. Te reward of work well done:, is rhs' having dons it.' 17othina 'abridges life like fatipe ster„i words and vain thonglits. , , . , No raan'*as ever so totidg'dee'v ,: ,- ti another as ty Deep riieri flow - with' silent' ui apt, r _ aballoW brooks are noisy., Believe tot 4111 piu bear, and not all you believe, We Tice (Teek1 1 4: - do iu . - mot breaths. lII=MISM =EI N
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