VOL ME V/11.--IVIIIABER 24.
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POTTER JOURNAL
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Principle, it will endeaver to aid in the work
of mine fully Freedomizing our Country.
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[We copy the following letter from the
, *Ntrc York IFeekly Courier. I It is from the pen
'of the gifted and eloquent C,Jugregational
_ ~,INESS I Minist -r, Rev. D. W. , Bartlett, of Brooklyn,
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---. 'N. Ti. who azzed some lime in this count-
Free and Accepted Ancient York Masons. hunting'" for
. t;o - ut.:3
17.1J1...\.L1A LODGE, \o. 3-12, F. A.. M.
.TING ALIIV ENTURgi
T..A.TED Mee t ings on the '2nd. and 4thWednes- k .4.; TR OL 1
days of each Mouth. Also Masonic adilier-,; t
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Iry on e. .. err wednes , fay Eveuit ,„ for work 1 The wo wildest aborigines on this Can•
and practice, at their 110.11, in CouderspOrt. 1 tinclut; are the red Indian and the speck-
D. C. GARRWEE: W. NI ; led,frout. You can 'find neither in their
p-it Li asa, Seer. • !perfection within the sound of the steam
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{JOHN S. MANN; i whi'stle or the reach of the sunshine. The
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LTTORNEIT AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. ' trqut are the most courted and are fonder
Coudersp rt. pa.. v. - 11l atiend . rtile several gilt ld water; hencelhe most respectable.
Courts in Plouer any_ ld'lZra.a C,rull . -irf. All Iv i,`holit being misanthropical, I was
Insiness c r trusted. in his rnr-2 :wilt re cr:re '
i- l ed i ith '' desire to put the noises of
prcimpt A.l.Lentierz. Office COrder Of 'West ''e '' w, a . -
and Thirld streets. i the buzzing world out of my ears for a
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ARTHUR G. OLMSTED, 1i
love the angle, you shall learn
KETORNEY .k. COUNSELLOR AT i LAW I
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Couder . 1 . rt, Pit., will attend to all I,u.siness wh -re this fish; is and how to get' there.
fiat-taste ato his race. with prr nipines ..?nd 'Take the. Erie Mad put yourself under
Edelity. Office on Sotit-west re:cc : r i ot' Main I the care'of the attentive host of tite Dick
ond fourth strcv.s, - leus3n Lionse, Corning, N. Y, f l or a Pight
i--Lis tabs , and beds will put you in a,
good huniOr for the trip. 31oriting finds
us escontied in the car of the i3lossburgl
H. .11, which accommodation' by the way,
is a. cross between the Erie and the old
time! stage—eminently safe, and a quiet
preparation for the horse stage which
l awaits is at the Tioga station. Stuffed
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into th.: crazy vehicle, we dragged thro'
the drizzly morning until noon found us
at Wellzboro, the quiet and picturesque
little Ehiretowe of Tioga county. This
place, I recollect, contributed one of the
most culttired and noble young preachers
to tie City of Churches, who after ex
hausting labors, sought his lost health on
both sides of the Atlantic, and could not,
find it this side the skies. The fishing'
party we had hoped to join, left the week
before with all the equipage for camping
out, and now for the pursuit. The semi
weekly stage leaves to•dayifor Pint Creek.
Lucky. An open wagon iuivites My pat
ronage, before which are planted I(they'
don't look, as if they co:old mood) two
horses, one of which is too large to be fat,
and the other too small to be lean. A
zood round dozen of passengers had
crammed the three, seats, and a large
trunk had been strapped on, to the rear,
innumerable and infinite numbers and'
varieties of packaaes of ail sizes and
shapes, had brimmed up the box, and we
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are only waiting for a lady and small
child—the owners of the trunk. The
driver finally concluded to leave them.
Before we get under much headway, an •
irate femble orders a halt, and demands a
sitting and hearing toe. She was granted
both. She offered her views of i the state
of the country. She was glad Mrs.
Surr.tt was
c lpng. She quarreled with
the driver's ife. , The boy, 'who split
'his knee pan with an axe yedrs before,
and
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who carried his leg bent under his
body,. clunr , like a monkey to the, large'
trunk, and : received quite frequent and
posttive orders not to injure it. We had
a _motley, jolly crew of Woodsmen who, in'
lieu of the sun'(wlaichl had retired on'.
account of a slight showlr) shone in jokes
and songs, grid suggestive teats for the •
female expbsitor. Passing by a slight
Casdade, she discussed waterfalls in
n'erferal.
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Houses or clearing q• were by no means
frequent, yet every ddor bailed the stage
and took it's, pound of 'sugar, or ounce of
allspice, or iluarter of 'tea from under our.
feet; furl the driver, you must know, does
the entire shoppin'a for 'the county,makcs
the change and receives his commissions.
Nightfall brought us without accident to
Vermilypa's, a celebrated tronting station
on Pine'Creek. Hero is land enough to,
the acre! The bold hills springing from'.
the water's edge, and jagged with cliff,
and hemlock (most of the pine havine ,
found its way to market) rest the eyes of
one who has long :oolted at spires and
brick bariieades. This VermilVes's l is
the country inn' par excellence. Trout
for super. A very sombre, rummy
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iSO BENSON. i
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AkTTORST. - AT LAW, Couder.-Tort. r,., 7=1:::
attend ter art busine.is er tres.tcd,.....c. , hi m w i t h
care andlpremptaass. elfiee on - Second st.,
near thelAllegheny Pride,
F. W. KNOX,
A.TTORSSir. A'r LAW, C. , ,,u , lc7Epert.
i will
regular' attc.7.l the Carts in Futter and
the (q.djo aiag Counties.
0. T. ELLISON,
rRiCTIC Condersr.l-_,•rt,
respect(' 11y infarms the citizens of the vil
lage, an. vicinity that he will praniply re
spoil& td all [Ails fui• proftssinr.al sf:rvices.
Office od Main st.. is building formerly oc
cupied Lit C. \V. Ellis. Nsq.
S. S. E. A. JONES,
I DEALErtS I IIN DRCG-S, MF;DICINgS3. PAINTS
Oils, Fa cy Etatietttry . , Dry Goods,
Groceries, Coudersport. Pa.
fD. E. OLMSTED,
LIIIA7 GOODS, It ENDY-MA DE
Crockery, Grectqes, &c., Main st.,
rort,
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DE.kLER I
ClOthitti.
Couders
COLLINS S3l TH, •
.n Dry Goods,Grocrics, Provisionf.
Queens - are, Cutlery, and all
. ..kuativ found in a country Store.-
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DEA.LNR,
Bard -A - at -l
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Goods uS.
COlidersi
COT
P. F. GLA
Main au , '
' ter Co., r
ITDERSPOET HOTEL,
S: 7 *NIIRE, Proprietor. Corner o-
Secenti Street, CoutierEport, t-
ivery Sts.bk Is al!.o kept in connect
his Fletel.
lion with t
• U. 3. OLMSTED,
IN STOVES, TIN S: SHEET . IP.ON
WARE, Aain EL, nearly opposite the Court
Viouse,_Poudersport, d'a. Tin and Sheet
f. - xlia Ware made to order, in rood style ; on
short notice.
WM. H:
MILLER Si IFIcAILARVET,
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HARRISBURG, PA.,
A GENTS for the Collection of Clod! .s
.11 agafmst the United States and State Go-f
-ernmeats, such as Pension, Bounty ; .Arreal: ,
of Pay fief Address Box 95, Harrisburz, Pa.
Pension. Bounty and War Claim
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1 Agency.
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DENSIONS procured for soldiers of the
Jl...presqn:t war who are disabled by reason of
wounds ' , received or disease contractracted
while i&ilie service of the Gaited States; and
pensions, bounty, and arrears of pay obtained
for widows or heirs of those who have died
or been killed while in service. All letter lof
inquiry promtly answered, and on receipt by
mail of a statement of the ease of clahmint I
will fortsrd the necessary paper's for their
signature Fees in Pension cases as fixed by
I#w.
_REFERS.:CES.—Ron. Isakc BENSON ' lion. A.
G. OLusitn, J. S. MANN, Esq., F. W. Elsox,
gsci. - DIN li AKER,
Claim Agent Couderport Pa:
June 8, '64.-ly. , ;
SO*` ARD ASSOCIATION,
I. nILLDELPELL,
DISEASES cf the Neyrous, Seminal, trina
ry and sexual atems—new and reliable
treatment—in reports of the HOWARD AS
SOCIA.TIbN—sent by mail in sealed letter
envelopen, free of charge. Address, Dr. J
t!.KILLINI HOUGHTO:ti, Howard Association
iNo 2. South Ninth Street, Philadeirib.la Pa.
3 is' /564.
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Remarkable
'Prediction.
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[Th - e follawing verses were published many years
ago, and were Written be an American lady at that
tinaJ residing ini Europe: The first two were Jug . in
reproof and Wafning, and the last two vividly prophe
tic. ,Now that the conflict has be en fought to its gio
riolln consummition, these lines, can not but be re
garded in tLih light of smnething wonderful}
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THE E'REETNT AND TEtE ELTERg,
You tell meof a bright land over the sea
But, ah i can you call it the Laud of the ree— v
I Where the !maze of 001) for a tiatidful of gold,
Like'albeast in the field, in a market le sold I
Where; the child from its mother's fond bosom is tot,nl
\Thera; the father Is ehained.liavi4 orphans forlorn ?
Whertithe daughter is hartered ‘ like merchandise wire
Then doomed to the lash and the groans of despal4l
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Woe ! woe to thee,.fair land I Ear ever the main I
For thp canter of Death—datiklEitAVEßY'S stnia:—
Shall ghaw at thy vitals ; while every sad sigh, I
From the, victims, who writhe,,monnt4 for .luolce op
: And It.E., the great Lord of Clip univeree wide, thilb. 1
Shall smite thee, o earth in by 'Am:
reol3;l3th:: '
I For vrhzeanc c nin,t fall for foul crueltice done I . pri . e ;
To beings redeemed by Ills own beloved Sun.
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The sound of the War drum shall fill thee with fright,
As thy sons and thy brothers are borne to the tight ;
The Slave and the cotton shall fill thee with pain,
And the North and the South be divided in twain,
A.nd.brothi - r 'ralitst, brother shall strike in the fight,
1 And battles be fongialn the dead 'of the night,
Am' the white maid and widow in sorrow shall mourn,
An ,, ,,the flag of thy freedom in tatters be tern.
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And the North in her rin.ght ties a Whirlwind shall •
And the note., of her cannon be borne to the skies:trise,
And though the warm blood of her heroes be shod,
The light of her Freedom shall never be dead ;
; The Stars stud the Stripes .an Excelsior shall be,
.rotid Liberty's banner by land and by sae i (scorn,
And the Union, thou:Ai spurned by the Slave-holder's ,
STALL BE GUALDED ti S 1 NORTLDIEN POE. AGES ENBOEN
CARDS
ICALARNI:I7
Doboteo to 'tp , ?i l illeipies of Ittle, Ddtpotleij, qq3 t e'is4,hliiptioli of YoNiitg, E. 1 .16.41411 'eDs
UDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY,
looking guest, wrapped in a seek that had
been re-colored by sleepier , in the ashes,
knows where there is a lead mine and
silver mine in the mountains, the discov
ery of a six months' search in obedience
to a dream. He will sell his information.
He is busy now parrying an unexpected
attack of chills and fever with whiskey.
if he doesn't break the bar I think he,
will succeed.
Stage lays over vight here. A lively
captain, just from the wars, monopolizes
the attention—he fought all the battles
and won all the victories. Hear of my
party. Stage waits an hour in the morn :I
ing, so as not to incommode the two
travelers who precede. Plenty of room
to-day. My fellow traveler is a clean
faced boy, with - three years honorable
'service passed to his credit—once the
favorite driver of this two horse vehicle.
He dives into each house as we pass
-the girls reward the soldier with some
thing more expressive than words from
their lips, and the matrons are ready with
fresh baked cake or fresh churned butter
milk. He fills up the interim with inci
dents of his stage drivership. He knows
the history of each house, and their oc
cupants.
The crippled boy we overtake again,
and be mounts into our midst like an old
friend. 'We pass through a tidy and well
named little place, Brookland, which is
the offshoot of a Southern refugee, who
counts his acres by the thousand. Just
at nightfall, after a day's plunging thro'
the branches of thick woods and thread
ing along the creeks, we come out into a
clearin-, where a whirlwind twenty years
ago officiated as woodsman and brushed a
huge primeval forest from a mountain's
brow and slope, as you would lint from a
coat. We cross the Allegany river—a
moderate sized brook here—and are
dropped 'at that triumph of country hotels,
which ie kept by Glassmire, in Cowders
port, Capital of Potter Co , Pa. A county
; once notorious as the resort of counter
, fetters and horse thieves, but now celti
brated as the only county in the State of
;Pennsylvania where no license is granted
for the sale of liquor. This place is as
beautiful as Nature has made it, claimin,g'
a population of five hundred, and orna
mented by a very fine court house and a ;
very dilapidated jail, which, for a very
low , time, has been Unoccupied. I never
fell in with a kinder community. The
landlord;. who is king-fisherman in all
this regino, answered all my trouting in
quiries, and offered on Saturday morning' s
to take me up the river a few miles and
introduce me to some of his cold water
conrtituents. Here, within a circuit of 1
a few miles, rise three waters that almost
divide the Republic with their ;refresh
ment. The bead waters of the 'West
Branch of the Susquehanna that in myr
iad contortions • wriggle their way to the
Chesapeake, and verify the Indian cog
nomen, Sas-que-han-ah (long, ,crooked
river), and the Allegheny that thronol
the Ohio and Mississippi helped float
Farragut into New Orleans. as it pressed
on to the Gulf, and the Genesee, that
makes its northward way to the lakes and
the ocean. Surely here is the congress
of the waters. It would do you good, if
you have an eye for high art in angling,
to behold mine best trifle with the spotted
chnaressmen. Such a fly as he throws,
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so far, so accurate, 50 sure of his game.
He whips a stream with his delicate line
and supple pole till each square foot has
quivered under the skipping of his arti
ficial fly, and many of the largest trout
been deceived to their ruin. In fishing
a half mile and an hour or two we stopped
with nearly a hundred fine fellows. Any
fisherman, who desires to be sure of his
sport, and have a first rate stopping place,
can do no better, The party I have been
so long in search of arrive, and!next week
begins our fishing and camping in the
wilderness.
THE HEALTH Metv.—Of all the know
nothing persons lc( this world, commend:
ns to the man who has "never known a;
day's illness." Ile is a moral dunce,one!
who has lost the greatest lesson in life,
who has skipped the finest lecture in that
great school of humanity, the sick cham-1
ber. Let him be versed in mathematics,
profound in metaphysibs, a ripe scholar
in the classics, bachelor of arts, or even al
doctor of divinity; yet he is one of those
gentleman whose education has been neg
lected: For all his college acquirements
how inferior is he in useful knowledge to
a mortal who has had but a quarters gout
or a half year's ague—how infinitely be
low the fellow creature who has been
soundly taught his tic douloureux, thor
oughly grounded in the rheumatics, ti!nd
deeply red in scarlet fever ! And yet •%.irit
is more common than to hear a great!
hulkiorr,florid fellow bragging of an iu•no
rance,la brutal ignorance, that he., shares;
in common with the pig . and bullock, the.
generality of whom die probably, without
ever having experienced a day's indispo
sition ! _Mod
Vote Early
PA., TITESDAY -SEPTEMBER 2
pie Frozen Well.
One °f aw most remarkable facts knotrn
in this country is the existence of a well
in Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont,
in Which ice is found all the year round.
The writer visited it in the summer of
1860 and learned that in digging for a
farm 174 in the fall of 1858, before cold
weather Jcommenced frost was found in
the gron!nd about twenty feet below the
surface, 'Find the ground was froze to the
depth of forty feet,where water was found
in suffic;ent supply. The well was stoned
or walleup in the usual way, and the
frost manifested itself immediately on the
stones from the surface of the water about
twenty f l eet upward. Very soon it was
seen that a well of ice was formed,adher
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I in g to tne stone wallall around,and from
the surfaceOf the water to the bottom of
the well, several inches thick—andll this
has rem fined frozen ever since, summer
and winter. In the coldest part of the
winter Erie water freezes over the whole
Isurface,land frequently so hard that, it is
.necessary for some one to go down and
break it' to procure water. The last Win
:ter almq l st the entire .water in the well
I froze solid, and remained so some time.
The ivriter has visited this w:ell three
different Emitters ; the last time but three
lor four weeks since, and each time saw
the ice (which is plainly seen by casting
the suntieht down the well by a mirror)
and veal. well informed of all the facts by
the leanly residing on the same premsises,
and by friends in the vicinity. The only
Ideviati ~n from the, facts as stated , is,that
sometimes, about the first of September,
the ice I has- disappeared, but for a few
weeks only.
1 It hats been found by digging several
rods from it that the same frozen •condi
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; tion of the ground exists at about the
:same d•pth, But none have yet given
any sat sfaCtory solution of the phenome
non.,
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In tie same town, and within a few
miles o - the pleasant village of Brandon,
are qua i rries of the purest white marble,
iron ore, kaolin or porcelain clay, and
large qitantities of ochre; of various shades
of coloi all of Which are worked and sent
to maret, and coal of a peculiar kind,not
in lame quantities, of a chocolate color,
solid bat i in it are found embedded the
remains of nuts of a kidd not ktiown,and
the forms of limbs and branches convert
ed into coal.
Follies of Great Men,
The "publime history of Fools is a book
which ought to be written, and which we
doubt Aot would sell greatly. Ail great
men ha l ve bad their follies, and the field
open for gleaning is almost boundless.—
For ins i tancei, we have such facts as the
following recorded in biographies and his
tories ; Brahe,lTych!o astrouomer,chaned
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color, a i nd h i s legs g
shook under him, on
meeting with a hare. Dr. Johnson would I
never dnter a room with his left foot fore-I
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most; ?f
. by mistake it did get in first, he
would tep back and place his right foot'
foremnst. Julius C,Tsar was almost con , I
vulsed by the sound of thunder, and al
ways wanted to get into a cellar,or under.;
gronnd" to escape the dreadful noise. To'
Queen 'Elizabeth the simple word !death''
was full of horror. Even Talleyrand '
tremblfd and changed color on hearing
the wid pronounced. Marshal Saxe,
who m t and overthrew opposing armies,
led an screamed in terror at the•sight'
of a ca . Peter the Great could never be
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persua ed to cross a bridge; and though
he tried to master the terror, he failed tol
do so. Whenever he set foot on' one, he
would brick out in distress and agony.•- , --
Byron would never help any one to salt'
at the able, nor would he be helped him,'
self..l - ' any of tLe article happened to be '
spilledlon table, he would jump up and
leave his meal unfinished. The story of
the Fienchman, Malebranche, is well
knowni t and is well authenticated. He •
fancied he carried a leg of mutton on the'
c l
tip of us nose. No one could convince;
him t the contrary. One - day a gentle-I
man visiting him adopted this plan to cure;
his folly: He approached him, ,;hen he
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suddely exclaimed,"Ha 1 your leg of
muttoni• ~
has struck me in the face 1" at
whichl Malehranche expressed regret.- - -- 1
The frped went on, "May 4 remove the
incumbrance with a razor ?" "Ah, my
frien'dl my friend ! I owe you more than
life. i:es, yes, by all means cut it off 1"!
In a trinklinr , the friend lightly cut the
tip of he philosopher's nose, and adroitly
taking from under his cloak a superb leg:
of mutton raised it in triumph. "Ah 1" I
cried INlalebranche, "I' live.!, I breathe !I
i amiaved I My nose is free but—but—
it waslraw and that is Cooked I" "Truly, l
but then you have been sitting near the '
fire; that must be the! reason." Maled
branehe was satisfied, and from that time I
forward ,he made no more complaints i
about any mutton leg, or any other iron- I
strousi protuberance on his nose.
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An I isl glazier was putting a pane of
glass into a window, when a
,groom who
was sta!dipg by,began joking him,telling
him to put in plenty of putty. L The Irish
• man bore the banter for some. time, but
IDiiricuLT.—The three thing; most lat last silenced the tormentor" by—
' difficult are, to keep a secret, to forget an "Arrah now, be off wid ye, or else I'll
l ibjur, and to make good use of leisure. i put a pain in yer bead wideut auy putty!"
1865
A YANKEEITRADE.
The other day we heard of a little-cir
cumstance which really occurred not a
hundred-miles from Phoenixville, that is
worth relating
A certain farmer, who in the course of!
a year, purchased several dollars worth of
goods(and alwayS paid for them) at the]
store of a village merchant, called upon
the merchant f not long since with two
dozen brooms Which he offered for sale.
The merchant (who, by the 'way is fond
of a good bargain) examined his stock,
and said : ' I
"Well, Cyrns,l will give you a shilling
a piece for those brooms."
Cyrus appearbd astonished at the offer
and quickly replied: i I
"Oh, no, John, I can't I begin to take
that for 'em, no how; but I'll let your
have vem for twenty cents apiece, and not
a cent less." . , 'l . i
"Cyrus, yott are crazy," i replied John:
"Why see here, showing a nice lot of!
brooms, "is an article a great deal better
than yours (which was true) that I am
retailing for _twelve and a' half cents, a
piece," (which was not true by seven and
a half cents.) 1
I "Don't care for that I" replied Cyrus,
"your brooms are cheap enough, but yon
can't have mine for less than twenty emits,
no how l" and pretended to be more
'than half angry, shouldered his brooms
and started for the door. i
The merchant, getting a little neurons
t
over the probable loss of a good customer
and fearing that he might go to another I
store and never return, paid s ;
"See here, Cyrus, hold on a while. If'
I give you twenty cents for your. brooms?
I suppose pod will not object to take the
price out in goods ?
"No, don't care if I do," replied Cyrus.
"Well, then," said the merchant, "as
you are lan old customer I will allow you
twenty cents apiece for this lot. LA me
see—twenty I times twenty four make's
just four hundre4i and eighty—yes, four
dollars and eighty cents., What kind of
goods' will you lave, Cyrus 7"
"Well, now, John, I reckon it don't
make any difference to you what sort of
goods I take, does it 7"
"Oh, no, not at all-=.not at all‘"
"Well, hen, as it don't make no differ
ence to you, I will take the amount in
them ere brooms of youryn at twelve and a
half cents a piece l Let me see=four dol
lars and eighty conts will get thirty eight
[ brooms and five cents over. It don't
make much difference, John, about the
five cents, but as you're a right clever
fellow I believe I will just take the change
tin terbacker."
When Gyros' went . Gut the door with
Ids brooms and "terbacker," John was
seized with a serious breaking out at the
mouth, during which he was heard to vi
olate the third commandment several
t i mos.-- Pit al 1 Ph am la%
Mr. Isaacs keeps, a store for the
pcsal of all goods it is possible fcr citizens
and soldiers in the vicinity of ; Nashville
to want. On 9 certain day ) three weeks
ago, there entered his place of business
one of Uncle Sam's' boys in blue, whose
shoes were of the government pattern,
and as he was enjoying a furlough, did
not suit his fastidious taste. He address
ed Mr. Isaacs :
"Got any shoes ?" I
"Oh, yes, real nice shoes: Sosepli
hand me down some of dem A. No 1: 1
shoes we got from New York yesterday."
The shoes Were examitied tried, andl
bought--say at only two hundred per •
cent above their value.
Mr. paaes lighted a cigat and men
tally patted hiMself upon the back for
having done his: duty by his family and
himself. In about five minutes, however,
his reflections were disturbed by the re
appearance of the soldier, his face flushed
with angcr--rindeed his indignation was i
so great that he did not even swear--his
power of language was unequal to the
occasion. H.e silently pointed to the
' shoes which had already parted from the
I uppers—a case of premature dissolution.
Isaacs ontemplated them all around
I for several minutes—but contemplation
would not mend' them. An idea'struck
I him.
"lid you valk in 'em ?"
"What did I want with 'em if not to
walk in 'em ?"
(The soldier, though, refraining from
bad language was evidently in no mood
to be trifled with.)
At this answer Isaacs looked up into
his face with an expression ea" innocent
as that os an ingenuous girl of six years
of age andi said
"Vy di'dn't you tell are yet canted
to calk in 'em; I thought you was in the
Cavalry."
The shoes were exchanged
'ERDIS.-i51.50 PER ANI.
. 1
Tuz WAR A DISGLACE. :.
The Chicago Democratic aatiorial Com ,
vention ,of 1864 gravely a'pd solemnly f
proclaimed to all the world that the war
for liberty and Union was a tfailure. The
Pennsylvania Democratic Skate Convert.'
lion of 1865, with equal deliberation "and -s
gravity, pronounced the wa a 'disgrace:
Why theeame Convention Should bare
taken the pains to nominate las its mai. -_
dates two' men whose only claims to Boob
honor were their participation in this 'die. '
grace,' might be a mystery' were it not .
that the Chicago eonventionidid the same i
thing in making a rebel Platform and •
placing on it a Union general. this arises ;
not altogether from a &Sire to' tall-:
away public attention from, the hideous'
record of the party, for if that were the
sole object it 'would be the !very height
of folly to reiterate in grave resolutions s
and speeches all that =de that.recora.:,
so offensive. But the true; explanation 1
lies in this; that the Democratic party is •
torn by kvro great factions,kUown respects._
I ively as tpperheads and war Democrats.
in s
I Each t have ionsething;to fight forma '
! .• .
its own.] Hence the Chicago coavenuott -
I gave the copperheads the Iplatform and
'the candidate for Vice.PreiidenCand ta
Ithe war Democrats the nominee-for Pres:
ident. In humble imitationlof this exam.
pie the Pennsylvania Democratic State
convention ! gives to the copperheads the - .
!platform, and to the tsar Democrats
Ithe State ticket.
We do not care to ask how any patriot
soldier of the republic can stand upon a
platform which proclaims ihis struggles
lin the war a disgrace, for as the people of. -
this nation have,by the events of the last -,
four years, showA their ability, civilians. ,
las they were, to eavo' the 'republic. from-I
, the consequences of the, treason of many
lof their educated soldiers, it will not mat. t .
I ter much hereafter how Many more-iol.
I diets desert the Unidn cause and linnet.
I pies, seduced by the temptations °fade
Iheld out by traitors. Our.basibessis not
Ito lament the wealn3ess of; mind -or 'the
'idiesyneracies of such men The people
will make short reckonin,gi with them: at ;
th polls, as they did with .tc. : Clellan andel.
m ny others who fancied that their aer.
vi es could obscure the vilaitioits:priiiel- - .
pies of the party under whose banner they
I bebame candidates for of ice. Our duty .
now is to teach the men who hold such -:
contentions and pass such resolutions
that the strength they 4dly believe to
reside in the mere Democratic name.ancl
Ito be as a consequence the itripregnable
1 fortress of the party. whieb .bears-it, las
passed away from it never! to -return.-6
The odium in which the old Federal
party perished was bat aitrifie compar
ed with the terrible infamy in which
this pernicious thing yclept the Dem.
ocratio party has wall Owed during
the past ten years. The fate of the sol
dier who now goes down amid the gloom
of defeat, under such a banner 'as the
Democratic party carries, Will he mourn.
ful to contemplate. Deserted by the corn.
radea he led in battle, scornedand-defied
as a powerless traitor to a geed cause, he
will find his name becoai a bye.word k
compared with which• that of the humblest
private in the ranks will be enviable.
These men may think the war a disc
grace, and having the nomination upon..
that platform, that is what! they emphats
ically do say' to the world.l We shah not
dispute their own Claims to disgrace when
they assume it so ,olemnly. They may
Lave thought the rebel cads° right while
they were fighting or pret4nding to fight
against it; but it :is an insult to every
soldier of the Unichi armies to attempt to
fasten upon the Coble cause for which
they fought the taint 'of disgrace. The
man who becomes the beater of a party
standard having any sneh inscription
from that moment' loses all .claims to re-
spect as a soldier.' He stands confessed'
before the world as one *126 Ought, of '-
pretended to fight , for a ca use - which; he
did not believe in, and whose heart twat
with the enemy who were 81=AI - el:in : I
his own men. If we had been :served
only by such mend then indeed wonlil the
war have been a fitilure,askrich 'patriots'
must have fondly hoped it s would bej.
'No man now should suffer himself to be
deluded by the belief tha4 all Parties so ,
cept the results of the tsar! as Co at Ids iv e )
and that therefore there are no live issue
separating us. The Democratic State
Convention itself has refitted thee idea is
such a manner as to put i 0 beyond all
2ainlY
dis
pute. It justifies the rebellion a.4pl
as language can do so,by s'aying that 'eras'
existed as a fact upon the adceot of the
successful patty in 1860 b the seat of
power.' Here the rebellicin is transmuted
into a justifiable defence 4gainst prettied
itated outrage. If this had been so,then
indeed would the war hare been a "dis
grace," ,as the Democratic Convention
pronounced it, acd the men who believe
the former naturally enoligh assert the
latter. The disgrpee is a logical _deduc
tion from the premise tilt the advent or
the successful perky to pOrer was war. .'
As thus clearly] portrayed by its wits,
band, the Democratic paity in I'ennsyl.
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