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AT LAW \ Coudersport, Pa., will attend. to all businesd, vatriisted to his care, with rprc atptnes and Ileaty.. Office on Soth-west comer of Main and Fourth streets. • • IS.kle BENSON ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport, Pe., will attend to ell,business entrusted to him, with care and promptness. ,Office on Second st., near the' Allegheny Bridge. F. W. .K.NOX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., will 4 . regularly attend the Courts in Potter and - the stl'oinitig, Co• nties. 0. T. ELLISON PrtAdTICNq PHYSICIAN, Coe.dersport, respectfully informs the citizens of the vil lage-and vicinity that he prom ply re spond to nil calls for professional services. Office on Main st., in .building turmeric oc .cupied by C. W.,Ellis, Esq. C. S. S: E. A. JONES, DEALERS I\DRUGS, 31E01CINEs, Tyr,,F Oils, Fancy Articles, Stationery, Dr:: Good: , Groceries, kc., Main st., Cduderspart, D. E. OL)ISTt:D, DEALER IN DRY GOODS, READY-3fADE Clothing, Crockery, Groceries, &c., st., Condersp On, Pa. 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Address, Dr. J BITILLIN HOUGHTON, Howard Association Sloth Vitt Ifrtirset, Phitaeielphia, Pe. • 13 ty 1564. o !'■N s - • - - ' -- -__4irl ' '"- - 7.1 -_ii's :I' ••, 7 1 5 : 1 , . & , 1 .. 1. is, <: ' 1 . .. • -, ) , 44 0 _ ... , .d• t _ 9 i ~ THE EONS ARE CdHEFIG HOME, tAs`sung at the CelebrittiOn of the Fourth in this place, by the "Olmsted Drio.ade." Oh cheery rang, the church bells that told the fall of Lee, [Victory! And merry roared the cannon, that thundered But merrier now the bellS ring, the cannon lo i uder boom, [come home. For brighter now the pboTingits the boys For the cruel war is of Or, i and the boys are coming home. . Caor.us.—Yes, the boy are coming borne, For the cruel war is over and the boys are coming home ! We waited, ah ! st e waited, as the weary yet,r.3 treat ; r!twas but.u. sigh, Oar prayer, 'tIV.II3 but a roaning ; our song, No sunny* rays of glae .. nesi, our land was draped in ,gloom, [boys coming home. For we yearned to see the ending, and the Thar.k od, Oh, what a blessing! see the boYs are coming home.—Cno r ats. 12 00 30 00 17 00 10 00 0) 00 00 3 00 i, WI at Lilo our bo7s come wounded', and. many - a hastlY scar , - [of the war ; TI ese ar their marks of glory, the trophies W ...II be heir hands and feet, yes, and voices to the dumb ; 1 I [boys come home. Then let' z.. 71 out for them a welcome, as the The c; VeL. it is an hallo: to the boys corn-. I litiete C,o,c- r 0, But ah, t le dead, the absent; who will come homen6 - rnore:— [plain and shore ; The true th 4 brave who moulder, on rebel . Be hushed 3 'c cannon peal, acid disturb ye not the tomb .[ {eorne home; Of the heroes who will never with the Boy They sleep p.far in glory, while the boy cope, . a i• . I Our Flag,: our tarryS Daitne7, it speaks to uri to-do y, I [torn in tears away It 'Fpeahs from "Sumter's walls, whence 'twas Bait oh, what oiee it utters, .tho . torn with , hot.', am: bomb, [coming home; As it leads 411- gallant fellows, the boys In !_i is invp .) - happy morattri as the boys are edming Lome.—C , oars. , . Then njOy this Nanny moment no lo^g,er lake dtlaly: ~ , [day. And, lift roar 1 ands to God in; gratitude to- Wives, mother.. 'sisters join mi, fiere ale your darlings Come; [werecoruing home ! Even Yietoti - fsvhs w9rthlessT till the boy - s Till ills el-III:fir was over and the boys coffin lihomo.—Cnokus.. • i The - Li Stands' Revenge. Somewhere about the year 1535, Wll - Bradwa , a young man of five and twenty, then icing in the interior of the State of New 'ark, left his family consist . In& of a wife nd two small' children, and t o went south od a tour of speculation: He { was sbseut nearly a year, and, stated on his (return; that he bad been very success.; ful and had purchased a place on the Red ricer whither lie proposed to move his family, and there settle, perhaps for life. Ris wife - pleased with the novelty of the • change) readily- assented to the new ar `rangement, and, las soon as their Northern affairs were pr&erly settled, they set off for their new, hoine, which in due course of timed they reached in s.afet3- ; But Mrs. Bradway was sadly disap pointed il findirig the place so diffe'ient from what she 'ilia pictured in her fancy. The settlement Was new, and everything' ' was rotiqh.' The houses, many of them were built of logs, and even the best o them lieked Ithe- finish of her Northern', home, hile'jthel,furniture was generally of the piltinest and coarsest description, and scanty at that. But worse that all the rest! were the inhabitants; composed! princip Ili of rough specUlators, negro i traders, gamblers, and outlaws from dif- I t , &rant natters ' with such' females and • children as looked to them for support.- 1 Mrs. - Br decay, who had been well educa-. ted anbrought up in 'refined society,n am sought i vain them for suitable cl il associates and companions, and, being a stranger ,in n'4s,trange land, soon' became depresie !aid hemesiek. Under the peculiar ciretimstances; she unguardedly made some re4narks not complimentary to,l the Place and its inhabitants - and thesell bein* reported 1t ;with such additions audit i . exaoerations l as . scanda!-mongers generallii ustafor embelhshments, she soon found herself surrounded by open enemies, andl subj(.4cted to some petty annoyances and'' ,persecutione s.nchas little,malicions minds delight- to :nflint upon those they secretely believe Ito, he I.teir superiors, and both envy and hate for that cause . Six months had not passed away ere William Bradway felt the necessity of! rimovipg his family from thht unpleasant;and lawlesS locality, and this he was pre- paripg to do, when an awful tragedy oc eurrcd,which changed the peaceful man intd a:bloody avenger. Some business at neighboring settlemept'ealled him from home fora couple of days and on his return he found his house ashes, and learned that his wife and children had all been murdered under the Most atrocious andjaggravating circumstatees—his poor Wife, previous to her tbre6t being cut, hat}ng been subjeCted to treatment worse thiin death by the Mice ruffians concern . . edl ha the horrible, affair. To a fond husband and father this was terrible blow : and for a day and a night Dradway remained beside the ih smoking ruins of his dwelling, some the time walking slowly around them yth bis !eyes bent 'on the graund, and e a the time st-tain' and a 0 •Ii NV Eti of Debote io fftz ?i•ißoipies of Itte kJillocileg, tha kissekillpfroil of Voi.4lity, Ei/Zhittiv . QqD WADS. e L I , i i C LIME • -0 ; I • WELVESDAY IDLY 1% 1865 • them with an abstracted air, as if he were i,ecalling the past, or looking into the future. He bad shown no violent sorrow even at the first, but had received the tiwful intelligence as one mentally stupe fied—as one who could not clearly believe the facts and comprehend the -whole ex tent of his loss. It was observed that his features suddenly became deadly white, even to his lips,- and then gradually changed to a livid hue, which remained without alteration,and without* being 4fterwards tinged y ;even the slightest flush, "Who'did it ?" he inquired, in a tone of unnatural ealtanese. Three men were named—Geor g e Ear baugh, James Fawcet, and John Ellery. These men were known as gamblers and had been suspected of being robbers and murderers. They did not live in the vil lage, tut had visited it occasionally, and one of them had, some time previously, had a quarrel with Bradway, and threat ened revenge, though the latter little dreamed at the time that anything so terrible was meant as - had been mom- Plished. I It is but justice to say that,thongh the 13radways, as previously mentioned, had Made themselves very unpopular in the place,tliere were very few of the residents who opens sanctioned the horrid crimes that had been committed, and there were some who boldly expressed a hope that the vile perpetraters would yet meet with a just punishment ;, bat though the rut . - Eans had made no secret of their fiendish ;deeds, and had even boasted of them be fore they left the place, no one had made i any attempt. , to arrest or detain them,and they *d bone, no one knew whither. 1 It 4.as aout ten o'clock in the morning' 'that William Bradway first saw the ruins !ofhis !home, and heard, the awful news 1 1 ! i of his irreparable loss ; and all through ilthe remainder Of that day and the night! !which followed it he conducted himself in the manner we have described, seem ingly taking no notice of the curious , I, igroups that gathered around him, and re plying to none of the idle questions put to him.l • The neat morning he went into a neigh bor's house and asked for something to eat, which was given him. He offered to I pay for this but the man of the house de clined to:receive any money, - and, - with expressions of sympathy, invited him to make his home there for a few days.. "No," returned Bradway, "I intend to, (leave to day!' "You don't leek as if you'd got strength to go far;" said the man in a kindly tone. "I have that within which will sustain me," replied Bradway. • He then inquired into the particulars of the awful tragedy and the direction I taken by the Murderers:L.-speaking calm !ly to all the replies—his features( the while retaining their unnatural,livid hue, and displaying no signs of emotion, save perhaps now and then a preceptible quiv er of ,the bloodless lips._( As he passed I . through the villiage, aft?r taking leave of his family, he was several times stopped wanted to enter ibv different parties who . . ';into conversation with h' in and find out :what the intended to do, I: , iat he gave them Lonly evasive answers, and slipped off as quietly as possible. !It was about tiro mouths after this thatt George Ilarbaugh, 'late one night, was picking his way through the , dark streets of Nacogdoches 'from a gambling house to his loth , ings, when a man came pup to him and quietly said : "Good even ing, sir !" "Who're you,? and what ,d'ye want 7" demanded the ruffian in a gruff,snyly tone at the same time thrusting his right hand into his bosom as if to draw a pistol. . "Do not be alarmed, sir !" returned the stranger; "but permit me to ask you one or two questions. In the first place, is your name Gee. Etarbaugh ?" "Well,what of it,whether it is or nt? was the uncivil demand. "If it is, I owe you something,, which I wish to pay." returned the stranger; "and if it islnot, perhaps you can put me in the way to find the person I seek 7" "What d'O you owe me for and how much ?" inquired the gambler, taking his hand from his bosom. "I am right then, in supposing, I ad dress George Harbaugh himself ?" "Tex, that's my name. What's yours, wher'd we ever meet before Y" "If I am not mistaken," pursued the stranger, "yon with two companions,were at the 'silage of , on the Red river on the night of the sixth of September last ?" "Ho! what's this ?" cried the ruffian springing back, and again thrusting his hand into his bosom. ' , He bad not time for more, ere with a flash and a crack a ball passd throO.gh his breast. As he staggered and fell shoutin.s , murder,a sharp knife was draWn j across his throat and tbe name of Wil tam Bradray hissed into bis dying car. ,• It was the last earthly sound he ever b l ard. He was f and murdered, but his assassin was lig iscovered. ' ' Daring the winter following, James Faircet went among the Choctaws to pur chase horses. While tradint , b with -the indians he fell in with a smalldealer,who, for la trifling consideration,offeted -to assist him in taking his horses to the settlement some tvrojhundred miles distant, whore he expected' to dispose of them at a heaVy profit. The bargain was struck,and,with fifteen horses, James Favraet sot off with his assistant through a lOng stretch of wilderness. lOn the second night, as the gambler and murderer sat smoking before the campfire,{ he was suddenly startled by finding a nooSe dropped over Ibis head and shoulders l and drawn around his body, so as to pinion his arms. la.' Jess than a minute notwithstanding a vigorous re sistanca on his part, he lay stretched on the earth as b.elplos as an infant. "What's the meaning of this ? Do you intend to murder me?" he demanded in a voice made tremulous by fear. "I suppose you do not recollect ever having seen me before-yOu opt me in the Indian village)" said the man who bad been acti c' n. , as his assistant, as he now stood over his prostrate form. of course not ! where had 'I ever seen you before ?" replied Fawcett The other removed a wig of long hair and a patch from one eye,aini than quick ly said : "Do you know me noW?" "Well, it does seem as if Iliad seen you before, but I can't tell where'," said the ruffian. f"Do you remember the woman and_ children you helped to murder on the 6th of ;hat September 7" "Ha ! you're Bradway !" cried the vil• lain, in a tone of despair. William Bradway, at your service-- the same in name as when you knew me, bat not the' same nature. Then I would not have harmed you ; 'but now I would execute the vengeance of a wronged hus band and father." "Mercy 1" gasped Fa*cet. "Did you show any 7" "You will not murder mo?" "You must die; I have sworn it. I have followed you to rid the earth of a monster. Harbaugh fell by my hand ; I shall not spare you, and then to hunt down John Ellery ! Say your prayers, if you have any to say, for your minutes are numbered I" • "Mercy, mercy 1" graped the terrified raffish. The avenger made no further reply,but deliberately proceeded to fasten a rope With a noose, around the neck of Fawcet. This done, he dragged him to a sapling, bent it over, secured the other end of the !rope near its top, and let it go. With a wild unearthly yell, the second I murderer was jerked up from the earth, landdangling, swinging, and strug- I gling a f l ew feet from the ground. Brad way looked calmly on, S till the body be catrie still in death; and then, mounting; Ibis own horse, he rode swiftly away,leav-1 ling the other horses and the money onl the person of the dead man, to whoever/ might find them. It might have been six months after! the terrible death of the ruEl.4 just re corded, that two men sat in a private room of a gambling den in NatCh.ez,play-1 inc.' cards for money. l'iles of i gold and: silver and rolls of bank notes were on the; table, between the men, and each wasl staking his money freely, and aPparantlyl considering nothing but how to beggar' the other by his superior skill or knavery.' "You know,"said one of the two men. "that we arkto play till one of - us wins all." "Suppose we take'anotber drink on it!" "Agreed ?" .. A bottle and tumblers stood on the" I table just behind the first speaker, who 1 go up and turned round and poured out ; two glasses—his companion, Who bad the deal, improving the opertunity as well as he could to arrange the cards so as to give himself a winning hand. The man who poured out the liquor, now handed one to' the gambler at the table and held ,the :other himself ready for drinking. ' "To the choletja 1" he saidaaietly nod ding to the other—for the malady had at that time begun its work of. destruction. "To - the cholera be it' then, and let - it : do its work 1" I cried the gambler, With forced bravado ) turning_ somewhat . pale, and tossing off his glass at one gulp. . The 'zither drank quietly, replaCed the two tumblers, and resumed • his :seat at the ganabling‘board. For a few minutes there was not remark made, except what concerned tble_game ; and then one who had partially packed the cards,as he raked down a large sum he had just won, said, lookin& up, with an expression of alarm, "By heavens 1 I feel very strange 1" • 1"You look very pale," returned the oth er—"l thin you are going to die." "Well, - you're a pretty comforter, I must say I" "I think 3.-ciu will find me so presently." "Ah ?" gianecl the gambler, dreppinrr! the cards and clasping his itomaah with both hands, i'l. am on fire inside." "Of course' -you are.!" • , _. - How l of aurae ;What do you koovil about it ? Have I got the cholera?" de manded the gambler somewhat fiercely. "Listen to Inc a few moments, and you will know cuoi understand all. There were once thr e companions named Geo. Harbaugh, James Fawcet, and John Ellery. A little more than a year ago, they murdered an innocent woman and two children, in the village of ;while the husband and father, William Brad way, was away.. When he returned and learned all the hcirrid particulars,he swore a solemn oath that he would never rest in peace till he should have hunted them all down, and put an end to their guilty lives. George Ilarbaugh was assassinated in the streets of .Nacogdoohes, James raweet Was bung in the west, and. John Ellery was poisoned in Natchez." "But lam John Ellery !" cried the gambler the verY picture of horror. "No need to tell me that, who have hunted yon to your death !" said the oth er. lam William Bradway r' "Good Heaven 1 am I then poisoned?" shrieked the 'wicked man, as new pangs seized him. i "Yes, beyond hope in fire minutes you be a corpse." "Murder !—help !" the dying mma be gan to cry. • "None of that!". said Bradwav ;At. or I._ _ ;y,spring log upon hint like a tiger, and foreit , a hankerchief into his mouth, which he held there till the-man fell down in spasms when he turned to the table and quickly seleote,d his own money from ther gam bler's and put it in his pocket. The poison was quick and sure and in less than half an hour from his last drink of spirits the murderer was a corpse.— Waiting only to be certain of his !death, Braciway went down stairs: and told some of the people of the house that hi l s com panion either bad the cholera or bad fall en down in a fit, and they had better go up and see to bim. He then hastened down to the river, got on board the first passing steamer, and before night was may miles away from the Beene of his last act of vengeance. William B i radway subsequently went to Texas, joined a band of rangers, and was finally killed in a fight with a party of guerrillas ob the western frontier. His companions all spoke of him as a quiet determined man, sho was never known to smile. "ONE or AIB. LINCOLN'S HIRELINGS." —On Monday, while A Lancaster soldier who had just returned from a four years' campaign in the Army of the Potomac, I vas viving the result of his observations id the Peninsular campaign of 1862, ,in !which he was an actor, he incidently re-I ' marked that General Grant could do more I work in as hour than Gen. McClellan could do in months. There happened to Ibe a trio of Copperheads' present, one of whom putting in practice the teachings lof his organ, remarked, "that's one of iLineolYs hirelings/I" Although the ari -1 thor of the insult was half as big again as ithe soldier, the laaer, in less time than it takes. us to write it, administered a I severe pnniShment-to the - offender and I commenced on his companions who sought safety in a hasty exit out of the back door. In the afternoon a third, parLy undertook to revenge the punish. meat of his friend ,but was c,lisposed of about as quickly as the original offender, and was glad also to• beats hasty retreat. It is in such breaches of the peace as this that we see the fruits of ° ;the teach incrs of those tory organs which denounc ed the Union soldiers as "Lincolif i s hire ling" and stigmatised ' the i President where the soldiers so devotedly loved,as a "tyrant" "usurper," a "Caligula" and a "Nero." When their organs ;indulge in this style of infamous aspersions with impunity, their more ignorant dupes very naturally takO `up and use the offensive' language thuS put in their mouths,know. ingthat no soldier of any spirit will sub mit to such insults. Such breaches of the peace,bolvCver ought to be prevented, and every graduate of the tory school i who attempts to . befkl a soldier with such epithets, should be at once arrested and i punished by law far inciting a breach ofj the peace. It wouldle almost impossible to find a jury that Would not convict such appell in gs of Booth:—Lancaster Express.l A moveuieht is on foot, with ex-Gov. Pollock at thS head of it to provide a ' home for disabled soldiers, and their or. phans. It contemplates the purchase of several ,hundred acres of land at some suitable locality, for light agricultural putsuits, prodded with worlishops,seheol house and chttrch,where our brave &fen• des who have been disabled, can enjoy the comforts'of a home Som - rrurNG Cuttro us.—The 'acs the Icading organ of the rebellion in the North eingulariy enough advocates the bestowal of soli - rage upon the freedmen of the South. That it spealrs by authority of 60ra party or clique down there we have no doubt; yet it is perfectly well knoin that theleadin;: politicians of that see.' riot], who are getting', back into the: Union eppozc lr. ;.>avazety. TMU.--$1.50 PER mrpintk. A MAN Srior 11. WOnei m CAN ADA.—Miss Mfinson a school teacher accompanied by , another young lady &tote out from Bowmansville,C.W. en the 234 nit., and cont . :di at the house of Janice Kerr, at. Orono, l , five miles froth this vil lage. They asked Kerr to take a drive . with them, and when about two miletc from there Miss Munson shot 'Kerr frith a. revolver, mortally wounding him.. She is now;- in custody. Various rutinus per vail, but the real animus of the affair is not known. - The connt.ry is now divided into,fiVe grand military divisions. The follivsing are their names'and conimanders Military Dikision of the Atlantic.- 3lajor-General ,Meade. • - Military Division of the.Mississip*.• Major- G moral Shorman. Military Division of the Tennessee—. Major-General Thomas. 1, Milttary. Division of the Southwest-- Major-General Sheridan. Military Division of. the Pacifte--Ma. jor-Gen,eral Halleek The A,tidersonville Pr!seneiv. Gov. Curtin, in conjunction with ur geina General Philips, has procured *re liable list of the Pennsylvania soldiers who died at Andersonville, which will soon be published. Among thh aceonipa- Dying papers is a list!of Federal prisoners received at Andersonville, which totals 17,524. Of these 403 took the oath of allegiance to the , rebels, doubtless to pre serve their lives from- starvation. Six of the prisoners were tried by a court marshal and executed within the stock ade in one day. The total number of deaths were 12,884. The highest num ber of deaths in a single day, the 23d of August, were 128. The Several lists em brace only the prisoners confined:lli Andersonville from February 28th, 1864, to March 24th, 1805. 'Our Finances. As everything relating to the wealth, resources and financial ability of Mir country, are mattere_of special interest at the present time, we subjoin a few facts and figures,taken froura pamphlet issued by Messrs. Jay Cooke &Co. ' and prepared by Dr. Wm. Elder; of the Treasury De partment. - - Our national debt, at the close of the war, is estimated at three thousand mill ions of dollars? Our debt, at the eloae' of the last war with Great Britain, was one hundred and twenty seven millions of dollars, which was $14.67 per head Upon !the entire population,and 7 per cent. up. 'on the estimated value of the coanti.v.-- This debt was pa id in nineteen yearf,and was not felt by any one.. The average interest of our debt, including five hun dred and fifteen and a half millions of ligreeebaoks" and fractional currency, is 4,35 less than 4i per cent. The wealth in 1850 (exclnding slaves) was ten thous and seven hundred millions, and the Products of the year two thousand eight hundred and seventy millions, or 26.8 I per , cent. of the capital. Taking, these amounts and rates as a basis,vie now have • a result of sixteen thousand one hundred and twelve millions, and an annal product of four thousand three hundred tad eight- een millions, in which . sum the hundred ' and -twenty six millions of interest would be-2 91 per cent.- Assuming t is basis as correct, we ahall have a wealth in 1870, of twenty four thousand two hundred and eighteen millionsoand an anal pro ducina capacity of six tho and four hundred and ninety millions. In 1880 ri forty eight thousand two hun red and thirty nine millions, and a p ucing ca pacity of twelve thousand fifty ine mill ions, which gives the interest required at 1.35 per cent., or less than one and a half per cent. of the producing capacity of the county. ' Our revenue from our internal taxes fast year was two hundred and sixty millions, and is estimated at three hut'. dred and , twenty five millions this year. i slt is computed that the entire debt can Ibe paid i 5 twenty years from 1870 The !enormous debt of Great Britain, of over four thousand millions of'dollars, is only 12 per cent. of her entire, wealth, and she has carried this heavy burden and has continued to increase in wealth. And ' as she haS been able to do this, and 1301210 Will question this _fact, how much more able are ire to bear this debt, and at no distant 44y liquidate it. We have the !finest country in the world, abounding in mineral resources of the richest quality, and a climate and soil which will produce ahhost anythine that can heigrown any Where in , the world. We also' have them for a vast population; some hare set the number down at three hundred millions. We see no grounds even for despondency, for we think we can successfully elimi nate this financial problem and pay this enormous; debt. Industry,' courage, and faith, are the great trinity under nhich 'we have labored, and by thia sigu We aro able, to conquer now. _ Mil
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