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Also Masonic gather ings on every Wednesday Evening, for work and practice, at their Hall in Couderspor'. C. H. WARRINER, W. M. A. SIDNEY LYMAN, Sec'y. JOHN S. MANX, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Coudersport, Pa., will attend the several Courts in Potter and M'Kean Counties. All business entrusted in his care will receive prompt attention. Office corner of West and Third streets. " ARTHUR G. OLMSTED, ATTORNEY x COUNSELLOR AT DAW Coudersport. Pa., will attend to all business trusted to his care, with prcmptnes and uitlity. Office on Soth-west corner of Main and Fourth streets. ISAAC BENSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business entrusted to him, with care and promptness. Office on Second St.. near the Allegheny Bridge. * F W. KNOX, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Coudersport. Pa., will regular!v attend the Courts in Potter and the adjoining Counties. • O. T. ELLISON. PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. Coudersport. Pa.. respectfully informs the citizens of the vil lage and vicinity that he will promply re spond to all calls for professional services. Office m Main su. in building formerly oc cupied by C. W. Ellis. Esq. c. S. & E. A. JONES, DEALERS IN DRUGS. MEDICINES. PAINTS Oils. Fancy Articles. Stationery, Dry Good:. Groceries, Ac., Main sr., Coudersport. Pa. TL ETOLMSTED, DEALER "IN DRY GOODS, READY-MADE Clothing, Crockery Groceries, Ac., Main St., Coudersport, Pa. ~~COLLINS SMITH, in Dry Goods.Groceries, Provisions. Hardware, Queensware, "Cutlery, and all Goods usually foand in a country Store.— Coudersport, Nov. 27, 18€1. " COUDERSPORT HOTEL, 9. F. GLASSMIRE, Proprietor. Corner o- Main and Second Streets, Coudersport, Pot ter Co., Pa. A Livery Stable is also kept in connect tion with this Hotel. H. J. OLMSTED, DEALER IN STOVES. TIN A SHEET IRON WARE. Main St., nearly opposite the Court House, Coudersport, Pa. Tin and Sheet Iron Ware made to order, ia good style, on short notice. VH. H. MILLER J. C. JL'ALAOLFBY. MILLER & McALIRXEY, ATTORN E YS- AT-L A W. HARRISBURG, PA., A GENTS for the Collection of Claii g J\_ against the United States and State Gov ernments, such as Pension, Bounty. Arreai of Pay Ac. Address Box 95. Harrisburg, Pa. Pension Bounty and War Claim Agency. PENSIONS procured for soldiers of the present war who are disabled by reason of •wounds received or disease contractracted while in the service of the United States : and pensions, bounty, and arrears of par obtained for widows or heirs of those who have died or been kil'ed while in service. All lette of inquiry promtiy answered, and on receipt bv mail of a statement of the case of claimant I will forward the necessary papers for their signature. Fees in Pension cases as fixed bv law. REFERENCES. —Hon. ISAAC BENSON, Hon. A. G. OLMSTED, J. S. MANN, Esq.. F. W. Rxox, | Esq. DAN BAKER, Claim Agent Couderport Pa. Jane 8, '64.-ly. HOWARD ASSOCIATION, PHILADELPHIA, PA. DISEASES of the N ervous, Seminal, Urina ry and sexual systems—new and reliable • treatment—in reports of the HOWARD AS SOCIATION— sent by mail in sealed let er Qt-Y,'?P es ' free charge. Address, Dr. I. 1. , , I - N ROUGHTON, Associatici, *o. 2 bouth Ninth Street, Philadelphia. Pa J7 1i1864.fl 1 ' 1 YOUR DUTY. Beware of Fraudulent Tickets. • There will be all kinds of fraud r ulent tickets circulated on Elec k tion Day. Beware of them !! We print below the correct list • of Union Electors to be voted u for. Get your Tickets from re liable Union men, compare them, and see if they are correct. ELECTORS. o; Morton McMichael Thomas Cunningham Robert P. King > G. Morrison Coates Henry Bumm William H. Kern Barton H. Jenks Charles M. Runk Robert Parke , William Taylor John A. Heistand Richard H. Coryell Edward Haliday Charles F. Read Elias W. Hale Charles H, f Shriner John Wister David McConaughy David W Woods Isaac Benson John Patton Samuel B. Dick Everard Bierer John P. Penney Ebenezer McJunkin John W. Blanchard U I Go to the Polls early and stay there until they are closed and j the last vote in. See to it that the old and the feeble are taken to the polls. Let every Loyal 1 Man work as the Cause demands; The question is not who shall Jor who shall not be President! [ but whether the GOVERNMENT • SHALL EE MAINTAINED, whether the rebellion shall be CRUSHED out by the iron heel of war; or. whether, by up'noldir.g the Chi cago Platform, give life to the fast , dying body of secession, encour age the rebels in their expecta tions of 4i holy light" from the workings of eopperheadisra, and ; by effecting a "cessation of hos tilities" give treason time to re-' caperate, reorganize, and re-com mence the war with increased en ergy. An armistice can only re sult in evil to the Country : grant an armistice and England will re cognize the independence of Jeff Davis 5 government; grant an armistice and Napoleon and Max imiilian become the allies of the southern traitors. The only cure : for treason is to crush it out! — 1 Do not be deceived bv any side- j issues ! Decide FOR or AGAINST ; your Country! One or the other ] you must do, you cannot avoid it, £ and whether you like it or not, it 1 • ' c stares you in the face and will be ; answered. War Democrats ! If you elect McClellan and Pen- J dleton, and McClellan'DlES, what I will become of the country with \ George H. Pendleton as its Chief j Magistrate 1 Presidents HAVE A died—and if McCllelan stood in c the way of the Traitors by whom s he would be surrounded it would J be an easy thing for him to DIE ! V Perjury, Treason, and Murder, 3 go irtind in hand, Don t for- f get your duty as an American cit- c izen on election day. Vote early J and sec that vour neighbors vote. I C k 2)eb L>. Morehead built thirty-nine miles of the road, between Sunbury and Williams port. twice crossing the Susquehanna by long bridges,for (he sum of $1,981,260 21, and completed their contract with the close of 1855. In that year the line from Erie to Warren was let. In 1858 the corporation purchased the State canals, | and in December of the ensuing year the road was opened from Erie to Warren, fifty-five miles. In IS6I the road was re-named the Philadelphia and Erie, in j stead of the Suobury and Erie, and per manently leased to the Pennsylvania Cen tral Company for thirty per cent, of the revenue, alter the completion of the road. The last rail was laid in August of this year, and the great project, after so many vicissitudes and perplexities, is an accom plished fact to adorn the annals of the great civil war. That it has been com pleted at all, considering the natural dif ficulties to be overcome, increased by the troubles of '4l and '46, is cue evidence of the steady growth in power and wealth of the State, and a durable tribute to the power of those who have had its manage ment. Now that it is completed, and added to the long list of iron bands with which the good eld commonwealth is be ing girded, we may all indulge in a feel iDg of justifiable State pride, and look forward to brighter days ia every depart ment of business. The contest of Atlantic cities is for the commerce of the great though undevel oped west. For more thaa fifty years it has been teen that the sceptre would fall to whatever port controlled it. With a foresight and energy which does infinite credit to her citizens, New York has struggled to approppiatc the bulk of this business by canals, railways and telegraph lines. But no cunning can shorten de grees of longitude, nor no Ekill overcome natural advantages fitly improved. Bos ton is boriDg endless mountain? to attain some share. New York is turning erery corner for the whole. Baltimore has done nobly. Butjthe shortest route from New York to Erie, via Bethlehem and Mauch Chunk, is four hundred Jand eighty-five miles, while Philadelphia is nearer by forty-oue miles. Each city communicates with Erie by five several roads, and Bal timore connects by two. Many of these : are common in some parts, bat they arc ; necessary rivals. Philadelphia having • the most natural advantages, now improv ed to the utmost, must CDjcy an increas , ing share of the business which comes by water and rail to Erie. I J THE FORMAL OPENING. , Tuesday, Oct. 4, A. P. 1564, a special , train of seven cars left Phila. at an early ; hour, and tarried that night a: Lock Ha ) ven. There they were joined by Gov. Curtin, and on Wednesday reached Erie, [ about 6, P. M., where they were formally welcomed and entertained. Thursday, they took au excursion beyond the harbor, and duly returned to Phila. without ae -1 cideDt. This was the first of the regular excursion train on this thoroughfare. At "Kane." (or Lamont,) between Wilcox and Sheffield, is the summit be tween the Ciarion and Tionesta, and is i the highest point on the road, being 2004 feet above tide water. At this point the Company intend erecting works Eimilar to those at Renova. —Had this road been pushed through when first projected, Erie would ere this have outstripped Buffalo, and Phila. ri valled New York. The numerous towns and cities along the line of the X. Y. & Erie, would have been on the line .cf the Philadelphia and Erie, and the wilderness part of our State would have been com paratively populous and wealthy. The drain upon cur State to build up another | would have been reversed, and Pennsyl- ] vania might now be the equal of New > York State. The work is now done, and ; although New York has 15 to 20 years t the start, it is ours cow to make amends { for past neglect. Our trade and travel [ byway cf Eimira can now mostly seek a j a shorter route, saving both time and mon- ] cy. The lumber, coal, iroD, aod oil re- < sources of the region will be developed, i and in return Central Pennsylvania pro- ] duce will find t market, and our surplus j population a place for business nearer ; home. Our Lewisburg schools will find j DC w students, and our manufactories near er fields for ail honorable efforts Success, then, to the Phila. & Erie a Railway ' Honorably and liberally eon- i ducted, it can hardly fail o: being good c stock and a great public blessing. ; The road is divided into three divisions, t as follows : 1 j EASTERN —Scalury to Rctrova, 02 miles- 1 MIDDLE —Renova to Lament, 101 44 c WESTERN —La Mont to Erie, 04 44 ? DITSANCES AND STATIONS. t MILES. MILES. ] Suntury Emporium 138 a Northumberland 2 West Creek 141 \ Lewisburg 8 Beech Wood 147 \ Milton 12 Rathbun 150 3 Watsoctown 16 Hemlock 153 Dewart fD St. Marys 150 Montgomery 23 Eidg-.wav 170, i Muncy 27 Wilcox 183 Montourswille 84 Lament 193 Wiliiamsport 39 Wetmore 197 Elmira JuDCtioa 40 Sheffield 208 Newberrry 41 Tioncsta 212 Linden 44 Tattonia 215 Susquehanna 45 Otts 219 Jersey Shore 51 Warren 222 Pine 57 Irvine 227 : Wayne 59 Youngsviile 230 Lock Haven 65 Pittsfield 233 Queen's Run 6S Garland 237 Farrandsviile 70 Spring Creek 243 Forney 75 Columbus 284 Wheatham 80 Corry 250 Wyuer 85 Loveils 254 North Point 89 Concord 450 Renevo 92 Union 201 West port 93 Le Boeoff 204 Keating 104 Waterford 269 Round Island 109 Jacksons 275 Grove 114 Langdons 278 Sincemahoaing 115 Belle Valley 281 Driftwood 119 Onter I>epot 285 Sterling 129 Eri9 287 Cameron 132 (Save this table for future reference.) George 12. Peadleton. There have been a great many truthful and tharp things said respecting this ••familiar fricnjl" of the Great Apostle of Peace, but nothing more forcible and pungent than has fallen from his former colleague iu the House, that gallant sol dier and distinguished Democret, the de -1 voted friend of Judge Douglas, Major General John H. Lcgan. In a powerful and characteristic speech of his at Car bendaie, 111., marked by the blnntness of the soldier aad the familiar knowledge of current events of the skilful politician, General Logan says : '•They ask me to vcte for George B. McClellan on such a platform as this!— I say I won't do it. [Applause.] Tb£y ask me to vote for George H. Pendleton, and I say I would not vote for him on that or any other platform, for Vice Pres ident or any other cffice, if the devil were a candidate against him. Why do 'I say so? I served with hi in in Congress, and I have been forced and compelled to denounce him as a traitor; and I have a gcod right to do so to-day. I have heard from his lips, in the halb cf Congress, before be was even thought of as a can didate, words of treason and disloyalty, lie has denounced this war from the time it commenced. He has never voted a solitary dollar, nor a cent, in favor of prosecuting this war, no matter bow the money was to be expended—whether for grub for the soldiers, or anything else — not one dollar has he voted that could be spent in any rras against the rebellion and in favor cf the Government. I defy his friends to-day to point me to cnc line, or one syllable, ever written or uttered by him in favor of restoring this Govern ment by putting down the rebellion—not a word. But if you will read his speeches you will find that he has iastrffed Seces sion. You will find that he has adve ted State Rights,and said that he believed that the people of the South had a right to secede, and the Government had no riiiht to coerce them back into the Union. That is the doclrine he has advocated, and upon that record peopie ask me to vote for him. Again, I defy any man to show me his letter accepting his nomina tion cn the Chicago platform. Where is it? Why is it that no man can find it: He has never accepted lhat nomination except by simple acquiescence, and by being put on the ticket. Why is this, 7. say ? Because the Chicago Convention knew, when they adopted that platform, that MeClellan would write a soft letter, sort of for war, saying that be knew the.' Convention was for war, bat they fcrgct to say so, and all that kind of thing. 1 [Laughter.] They have prevented George H. Pendleton from writing a letter, and ' I venture to scy that he will never writs 1 one. Because, if they wanted a letter : from him, unless they wrote it themselves, 1 he has been EO much in the habit of 1 speaking treason that he could not write ! anything else. It would damn him before - the country, and they knew it." CONVERTED. —A copperhead up North, ( after days aad nights of great tribulation, got religion. The first thing he did, as evidence of the roundness of his coover sien, was to order the discontinuance of \ the Dubuque Herald. He then paid for J a load of wood which he deposited in : front of a house occupied by the family 1 of a soldier. After which he wa3 met by ( a copperhead with whom he had been on ' intimate terms, and who informed him 1 that "he was ad—d abolition scoundrel " In less than two and a half seconds the 1 author cf the abusive language* was so thoroughly thrashed by the young eon vert that he howled for mercy. That's a 1 sound conversion. 1 He that telis his wife the news is but " newly married. k TERMS.--$1,50 PER ANNUM. Tlic Rebels Actively at worlv For Mcl'lellan. Wo have on several occasions shown that the candidate of the Copperhead party for the Ptesidency has the sympathy of the rncst active spirits of the rebellion, and that they are malting great calcula tions on his election. It is known that after the meeting of the Chicago Conven tion, when the news of the little hero's nomination reached the Rebel army at Richmond, it was received with vocifer ous cheering; and ws have to add. to-day, an evidence of the fact that Rebel officers are actually active at work for him. A returned soldier at Norristown makes the following statement under oath : Montgomery County, ss. Personlly appeared before me, a Jus tice of the Peace iu and for said countv, Franklin Schwenk, of Upper Providence township, Montgomery county, aud State of Pennsylvania, a private of Combany if, loth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry, who, en his solemn oath, deposetb and says, that, on the ninth day of March, 186-1, he was taken prisoner near Bristow Station, Virginia, and conveyed to Belle Isle Prison, and from thence to General Hospital No. 21, in Richmond ; that oa the first day of August, 1804, the Direr* tor of said hospital waited on him ami proposed to parol him and tc permit Ai'vt to return home if he would promise t'j vote for George B. McClellan at the ap proaching .election : that he, the, sat'i I'ranklen Schwenk, in order to escape from starvation and Rebel atrocity, did make said promise, end therefore was pa roled. The said Franklin Schwenk fur ther says, under his solemn oath that ell prisoners of said hospital who frank'y and positively said that they would i*'o for Abraham L incoln were not parefail, but retained in said hospital. Fit AN KLIN SCHWENK TTftnesses Present: Dr Warren Royer, ) Samuel Pennypaekar. } Sworn and subscribed to before me this tenth day of Oc.ober, 1564. IIENRY W KRATZ, Justice of the Peace. 2>csperation of the Rebels. A Richmond papea says, their whit s being nearly exhausted, they will next arm their slaves. The Confederato Congress, in Decem ber last, passed an act, the first section of which is in these words ; "The Congress of the Confedeate States do enact that all white residents of the Confederate States between the ages of seventeen and fifty are in the service of the Confederate States ' The act then provides how far mers, mechanics and others may be de tailed by military authority It) raise the provisions and do the work fur the army in the field. Jeff. Davis in his Georgia speech, say*: , I 'We must do our duty, aud that duty is this : Every man able tc pear'arms must go to the front, and all others must devoto themselves to the cause at home. There must be no pleading for exembtion. Wo are fighting for existence." In the same speech, Davis paid twe thirds of their army were absent—that is they are Union men at heart, and eoutrivo to keep out of the service, or they are ut terly disheartened. Truly did Gen. Grant say of the-Reb els, "They have robbed alike the crad'e aud the grave,!' to keep up the hope u success by means of a divided North. Sherman, Sheridan, and Grant are each too struct: to be driven out of the three strongholds of Rebeidom, ana Wilming ton and Charleston are the cn J y port* where their ships can steal in and out ! —lt is while they are thus on thfcr last legs as a nation, that M'Clellan conn* iu to gives them an "armistice," aud "ei baust tbe resources of diplomacy" to sire them a chance to recover 1 An armmu-e would be claimed as an acknowiedx'u.cut of their Independence—they woukl be eagerly recognized by foreign power*— and disunion accomplished, further fene ration would follow, until our State* would pecome ruined like unhappy Mexi co—far worse than we were uncle; the -civ et knife, and deliberately cut Mr. E. u>- tcriiae's throat. lie died in less :h;.n Mv.- tfeioates. This dasia dly act ereaud great excitement,[and Grove was aireu4- couiinitted to jail to await Lis trial. If the guilty man in this east w.-se a Republican, the Copperhead paper- wou' i have cried it cut throughout !?n asGnotherof Lincoln's Hireling's uotragi a' VOTE EARLY.